[QUOTE=-AJ-;20284130]The only good thing that came out of Alien Resurrection was a handicapped midget with an assembling shotgun.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I thought that call was a fairly interesting character. but beyond that it was shit.
[QUOTE=Membrain;20298642]they mostly come out at night. mostly.[/QUOTE]
See, that's why I don't like Aliens... as much as Alien, at least. James Cameron didn't get what makes the Alien cool at all.
He made it into a bug, when it's supposed to be a human. Which is what Alien 4 totally lost, with the whole "human reproduction system" bullshit.
Heads up assholes, the Aliens already had a human reproductive system! The whole life cycle is a metaphor for rape. The facehugger rapes you, impregnates you, you give birth to a monster, killing you, it's all rape. And by connection, human reproduction.
Making it a an evil ant thing removes what makes the design so good.
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[QUOTE=limulus54;20299676]I don't know, I thought that call was a fairly interesting character. but beyond that it was shit.[/QUOTE]
What character?
He was a fucking angry midget, that's not a character. That's a bad Carlos Mencia bit.
[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20299778]See, that's why I don't like Aliens... as much as Alien, at least. James Cameron didn't get what makes the Alien cool at all.
He made it into a bug, when it's supposed to be a human. Which is what Alien 4 totally lost, with the whole "human reproduction system" bullshit.
Heads up assholes, the Aliens already had a human reproductive system! The whole life cycle is a metaphor for rape. The facehugger rapes you, impregnates you, you give birth to a monster, killing you, it's all rape. And by connection, human reproduction.
Making it a an evil ant thing removes what makes the design so good.
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What character?
He was a fucking angry midget, that's not a character. That's a bad Carlos Mencia bit.[/QUOTE]
no, this:
[url]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5MTQwMjM0MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDU1ODU3._V1._SX485_SY337_.jpg[/url] (imdb doesn't like [img] for some reason)
is call.
[QUOTE=limulus54;20299979]no, this:
[url]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5MTQwMjM0MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDU1ODU3._V1._SX485_SY337_.jpg[/url] (imdb doesn't like [img] for some reason)
is call.[/QUOTE]
Referral denied.
fuck yeah alien is one of my favorite series. i've got all the movies on collectors disk + burnt discs (for taking over to people's houses)
[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20299778]See, that's why I don't like Aliens... as much as Alien, at least. James Cameron didn't get what makes the Alien cool at all.
He made it into a bug, when it's supposed to be a human. Which is what Alien 4 totally lost, with the whole "human reproduction system" bullshit.
Heads up assholes, the Aliens already had a human reproductive system! The whole life cycle is a metaphor for rape. The facehugger rapes you, impregnates you, you give birth to a monster, killing you, it's all rape. And by connection, human reproduction.
Making it a an evil ant thing removes what makes the design so good.
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What character?
He was a fucking angry midget, that's not a character. That's a bad Carlos Mencia bit.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about you, but rape metaphors aren't my favorite thing of all time. I'll stick to what James Cameron turned it into.
Aliens are cute, wait until you play the AvP2010 game, the Alien you play as is so cute and smart :3
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;20300538]Aliens are cute, wait until you play the AvP2010 game, the Alien you play as is so cute and smart :3[/QUOTE]
Number 6 isn't cute, he's viscous, you never see him anyway, what are you speaking of.
She*
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20300438]I don't know about you, but rape metaphors aren't my favorite thing of all time. I'll stick to what James Cameron turned it into.[/QUOTE]
That's kind of the point of [B]horror[/B].
If I want an action movie I'll watch Starship Troopers.
[QUOTE=KaIibos;20300600]She*[/QUOTE]
If you're referring to 6, sure, at the end it become a she, but during the entire game it was a male.
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[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20300709]That's kind of the point of [B]horror[/B].
If I want an action movie I'll watch Starship Troopers.[/QUOTE]
What's not terrifying about a creature that grabs you, takes you to their hive, and implants you with another alien that violently rips out of your chest?
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20300735]If you're referring to 6, sure, at the end it become a she, but during the entire game it was a male.
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What's not terrifying about a creature that grabs you, takes you to their hive, and implants you with another alien that violently rips out of your chest?[/QUOTE]
It was always a she.
The fact that they're about as sneaky as a troupe of clowns and their bodies are pressurized so they burst under gunfire like water balloons.
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;20284869]One thing I've always wondered; how the fuck does the aliens navigate? Like, they have no visible eyes.[/QUOTE]
Pheromones, they basically smell them, and there's also a theory that they hiss all the time because they also use sonar
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[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20300757]It was always a she.
The fact that they're about as sneaky as a troupe of clowns and their bodies are pressurized so they burst under gunfire like water balloons.[/QUOTE]
When was 6 established as woman? And how? The queen is supposed to be the only female in a hive.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20300764]When was 6 established as woman? And how? The queen is supposed to be the only female in a hive.[/QUOTE]
Uh, no. Drones are all female.
Groves even specifically calls 6 a she in the very first scene.
[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20300786]Uh, no. Drones are all female.
Groves even specifically calls 6 a she in the very first scene.[/QUOTE]
Since fucking when, the wiki says that females are generally much larger than the rest, which would point towards them being queens.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20300908]Since fucking when, the wiki says that females are generally much larger than the rest, which would point towards them being queens.[/QUOTE]
Dude, the xenomorphs are basically ants. Ants are practically all female, and the drones are all female.
6 is a drone, and therefor a female.
AND GROVES SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO SIX AS A FEMALE. HELLO.
[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;20301067]Dude, the xenomorphs are basically ants. Ants are practically all female, and the drones are all female.
6 is a drone, and therefor a female.
AND GROVES SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO SIX AS A FEMALE. HELLO.[/QUOTE]
the fuck, no, all the aliens are men, the queen is the only female.
you'd think Groves calling 6 a "she" is just what they do with animals, like what they do with ships, as 6 is property of weyland yutani anyway
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According to the wiki, they're all males, with the female being the queen...6 is probably just the basic human thing of calling objects she
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20301120]the fuck, no, all the aliens are men, the queen is the only female.
you'd think Groves calling 6 a "she" is just what they do with animals, like what they do with ships, as 6 is property of weyland yutani anyway
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According to the wiki, they're all males, with the female being the queen...6 is probably just the basic human thing of calling objects she[/QUOTE]
I don't see anything about that on any wiki.
And that's not how that works, why would the drones be male? They don't have sex with anything. If anything, the Facehuggers are the males.
And I don't know why a scientist would refer to a male specimen as a she. I mean, a military officer, maybe, but not a science team leader.
The alien was my childhood horror.
...And now I love the series.
They're making a prequel now. [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/[/url]
I hope it's good, but I doubt it will be.
I really enjoyed this thread.
gummylamb all the drones are female
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the wiki is wrong (I'm shocked :O)
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;20293901]In Aliens it was given the name Xenomorph (right?). They probably figured calling it a Xenomorph is much more exciting than just saying "alien"[/QUOTE]
In the post you quoted I explained exactly why that was not the case and how you'd have to be an inattentive moron in order to think that was the case. But apparantly you didn't bother reading that.
[QUOTE=KaIibos;20301924]gummylamb all the drones are female
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the wiki is wrong (I'm shocked :O)[/QUOTE]
I found this on wikianswers "every ant in the colony is female, the only male ants are the flying ones called "drones""
And if the xenomorphs infrastructure is based upon ant's...I don't even know anymore
Nevermind, wrong thread.
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Alien and Aliens' good though, never watched 3 and 4.
Gummy, Either you're extremely Naive, Or you're trolling, It's been based on that usually every damn movie that every alien is a female, And Drone doesn't mean it's a term forced for male ants, It's used as a worker type.
Does it really matter, afterall they're pretty androgynos to begin with. It's not like the aliens have tits to differentiate between male and females.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;20305228]Does it really matter, afterall they're pretty androgynos to begin with. It's not like the aliens have tits to differentiate between male and females.[/QUOTE]
Really, they're asexual.
In the awesome version of the original film, the corpses of the Alien's victims are turned into eggs. The whole life cycle is just a sick mockery of the human reproductive system. If you really could classify the Alien as any sort of gender, I suppose it would be male, but only in a metaphorical sense.
OP add this. Sums up Aliens with an awesome song.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLTaMpRl2o[/media]
My fucking favorite movies ever.
Saw Alien thinking it was going to be the average film, but I loved it so much that I saw every other movie in the Alien series in a week.
It's a shame people don't remember the film that started it all. Instead they always think of Aliens.
[QUOTE=LetsGroove;20307745]My fucking favorite movies ever.
Saw Alien thinking it was going to be the average film, but I loved it so much that I saw every other movie in the Alien series in a week.
It's a shame people don't remember the film that started it all. Instead they always think of Aliens.[/QUOTE]
People liking dumb action more than well crafted cinema? [I]No![/I]
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