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I have the same Alien queen!! I should post up all my ALIEN figures.

OMG love the ring!!

I really do love that ring.....

@Keefus...."If anything, Prometheus has the potential to completely destroy everything that has been written".........I really....REALLY kind of hope it does......

Thanks danrald :D your the coolest man!

Ripley Clone 8, That's the coolest avatar yet! lol

hahaha cypher I think the PR is designed so we feel as if we can solve a few things, but not the hour of story of which no images have been released and is the real reason for this masterful misdirection...I keep coming back to the description of this being an epic film...that planet/moon/outhouse or whatever that the ship lands on is not the final destination for the crew who continue on....wherever they go, whenever it is..is the true secret now tightly hidden from the public. What we see, or are allowed to see, together with all the press and statements....is the tip of an iceberg. This kind of campaign has a shelf life and can only be used once.

I'm guessing it is a Jockey.....that's one of those scenes I can't wait to see like it's something they slipped in and wish they hadn't....Katie Dickie looks totally and completely out of her senses with fear....

Oh Martin Scorsese here btw ;-P

Damn Lindelof has an account. I'm nearly 100 per cent certain of that ;-)

Could be some cloning going on in this movie. Could be stunt doubles caught in the early trailers. Who knows...

I believe he is. Looks like the Space Jockey is about to crush him though with that giant hand.

Thanks Cypher ;) LOL.

If you look really closely - there is an Alien lurking in the pod. Also, Weyland Industries built the space suit.

@hicksandhudson......."What were they going to do, make 4 movies about 1 Alien hiding in a corner hunting everyone down?" ...Obviously not or else we wouldn't be anticipating 'Prometheus' which Scott always seems to have had some bits and pieces of rattling around in his brain. For example: This is Ridley in Filmophobia about how he's always looked back at 'Alien'... "Yeah, so there you have that. I was always amazed that, I mean, I’ve only done two science-fictions, but I was always amazed that no one asked who the hell the Space Jockey was. He wasn’t even called the Space Jockey. During the film they started to call it the Space Jockey. I don’t know who started that one off. I always thought it was amazing that no one ever asked who he was, and why was he there? What was all that about? I sat thinking about this for a while and thought, well, there’s a story! And the other four [films] missed it! So, here it is....I think one of the reasons why I’ve never gone back to science-fiction, even though I’ve often noodled around, thought about it, looked for story, looked for material, is that there’s a nice purity to the original Alien. It’s fairly pure. And this one does actually raise all kinds of other questions, because if someone could, a being, could be as monstrously clever to create something like we experienced in the very first one – I always figured it’s a weapon, and I always figured that [the ship in the first Alien] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?" The recent article in EMPIRE: "[I've wanted to revisit it for] years! Years, years, years," he stresses, of Alien's space traveller subplot. "I always wondered when they did [Aliens] 2,3 and 4 why they hadn't touched upon that, instead of evolving into some other fantastic story. They missed the biggest question of them all: who's the big guy? And where were they going? And with what? Why that cargo? There's all kinds of questions." There are always other possibilities for a good storyteller to take things in a direction no one expects....and like so many have said....Cameron's film comes off as an OBVIOUS next step as opposed to what it could have been and is likely to be in June. Well...we had one alien in 'Alien', so.....let's just throw a couple dozen more at the audience and call it 'Aliens'......and considering that 'Aliens' follows the same basic plot structure as 'Alien', RIGHT DOWN TO ITS CLIMAX. then maybe we can all step back and accept that maybe...MAYBE...Cameron could have approached it differently......

Hahahahahahaha!! Suckers. Soon as I saw that I knew what was going on :-P nice one RC8 ;-)

I always liked the second more too, but I went back and watched them both a few weeks ago and actually found the first to be the better of the two. The first feels a little closer to the original series. I think inhad high expectations for the first one going into the theater to see it. I think that's why they get a lot of hate more so because most people were expecting a whole lot more out if it and it fell short of those expectations.

Just about that ;-) It's well over 100 at least :-P

First time posting... I hated the first AVP but actually liked the second. I laughed my ass off. It was the perfect bad movie you watch with your friends while getting drunk. I think it was harmless fun. The first tried too hard.

No need to nuke anything, they're not as bad as everyone here makes them out to be. Could they have been better? Sure, but they have a bad rep that they don't deserve on the forums. And why bring Predator 2 into it? Do you really think Predators was better than Predator 2? Predators is good but it didnt really expand on the mythology rather than haut mirror a lot of scenes from the first. All of the Alien, Predator and AVP movies are good. Some are classics and the rest are a good watch regardless of their flaws. Just my opinion though.

I think the first film that ever shocked me to the core was soldier blue because i wasn't expecting the violence and the part where the cavalry sliced off an indian squaws breasts to make a tobacco pouch out of it was really shocking for a 10 year old. The scenes where they slaughtered and butchered children were also horrific and they were piled up in a huge heap at the end and was really graphic for its day. This was a film Without question, in its unedited form, SOLDIER BLUE is one of the most upsetting and violent films of all times, perhaps even THE most violent. This remains so, even though the film was released way back in 1970. And up until late 2006, you could only see an uncut version of this film via imports. Lionsgate Video, however, has rectified this. Basically a fictional re-enactment of the infamous 1864 Sand Creek massacre in Colorado by the U.S. Cavalry on a Cheyenne Indian village and the events that lead up to it, but actually based on Theodore V. Olsen's novel "Arrow In The Sun", SOLDIER BLUE, directed by Ralph Nelson (of CHARLY and LILIES OF THE FIELD fame), stars Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss as, respectively, a Cheyenne-raised white woman and a disenfranchised U.S. Cavalry officer who have survived a savage attack by Cheyenne Indians on an Army payroll wagon train and are forced to be together to survive, even as they disagree starkly on who is right in the white man-versus-Indian conflict. Eventually, of course, they start to fall in love. This gives a story that otherwise might be interpreted as an arguably pretentious attempt to link the Cavalry's atrocities of the past to the modern Army's behavior in Vietnam a certain amount of emotional validity. But it also leaves the viewer heavily unprepared for the incredibly horrific massacre that climaxes the film. Even today, this massacre, a sequence of unbelievably extreme violence that involves hacked body parts, rape, and infinite bloodshed, makes SOLDIER BLUE very difficult for viewers to watch. In fact, when the film was re-released in 1974, much of that bloodshed was chopped off so the film could somehow get a 'PG' rating; it is that version that American viewers have had to put up with on video until late 2006. Apart from the brutal nature of that final sequence, the film's depiction of the Army as a bunch of bloodthirsty savages does not make SOLDIER BLUE an easy film to agree with--and contrary to what a previous reviewer said, I don't think it even comes close to being a politically correct movie. It may not be a masterpiece, the way THE WILD BUNCH or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN were (and they too were incredibly ferocious in terms of violence). But it's good that SOLDIER BLUE has finally made it to DVD in its original uncut form so that people can now judge its validity in whole, regardless of its politics or, even more, its enormously graphic finale. It is a film that HAS to be seen today. Here in the uk you could buy this film in its full uncut version on cine film projection and that's how i first saw it its one of those films that stay with you for years long after the credits have rolled.

It will likely be both and Im fine with that. Obviously Id like more of B though.

for me it was when CBS aired "The Exorcist in 1979, although it was heavily edited, and broken up into a "2 Night Event" (pffft) that film pretty much scared me for life. i only saw the Sunday night broadcast of "Part 1", but that was ENOUGH to keep me up for well over a week(s), and has had a lasting affect on my psyche cut to 2012, i now respect that film, i watch it now, still makes the hair on the back of my thick neck stand up in some parts, but i find the secondary plot of Ft. Karras and his elderly mother far more sad / frightening than i do Ragan's transformation. funny how time can change ones perspective on what one finds scary really superb writing / acting / directing, it's one of those iconic films from the 1970's era of unforgettable films ironically, Ridley Scott said in the ALIEN Laserdisc Box Set, that during pre-production on ALIEN, Scott said he "watched, and re-watched The Exorcist over and over, and over again" to study the stark tone of that film, which is what he wanted / needed for ALIEN to have um...i'd say it worked. yikes...

I agree with the anti-Cameron's here!! Aliens is a well made & entertaining action movie but it's no "Alien". If there's a Pt2, let Scott do it!!

No need to do that...Leave the 4 Alien movies as is. But GET rid of... Predator 2 (the Danny Glover abortion) AVP AVP2: Requiem Then you would just have Predator & Predators (w. Adrian Brody which is really a proper sequel to Arnie's movie) Then you once again have 2 separate franchises with their own mythos that doesnt interfere with the other.

Geez.. Is there some wierd auto correcting that goes on in this forum.. sometimes I look up and I see words changed in my post.. then I try to go back in to edit and all I see is code... anyway... Here is a still of the scan of the Joceky vessel.... [img]http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/2001/3302012122930pm.png[/img] I speculated in another topic (cant find it right now) that there are 5 separate Silo's containing 5 different DNA strains or "life building blocks" that the Engineers mix in whatever recipe is required to create a specific life form. The interior of the Jockey Vessel seems to contain 5 large open areas (in addition to the central chamber). The scan seems to indicate they are roughly the same size and shape as the central chamber. And if we use the image of David on the telescope turntable when he first activates the Holo-Chart, the scale shows that the height of these chambers is probably at least 60 to 75 feet. If you recall 79's Alien, Kane after looking at the seated jockey, leaves Dallas for a moment to walk over to the very next chamber. He sort of drops over a hump in the passageway/floor and finds himself in the huge chamber full of eggs.

I thought of that too! But looks like Giger re-purposed that design for Alien or art that Alien used for inspiration. There's a doco about the unmade Jodorowsky "Dune" in the works!

AVP:2 Requiem

You got me Ridley! Happy April 1st to you too. Very well written. Well done! Scared the s**t out of me... well done!!!

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I was going to sort of echo what Gem said. Could it be that that is NOT a chamber in a Temple but the actual adjoining areas to the central command are with the Holo-chart/telescope/"gun" on the Jockey Vessel?? The still the Jockey vessel shows that in addition the central "command bridge", there appear to be 5 additional large rounded areas within the Vessel on either side. This also made me think again of the 5 different Silos.. If they are different.. (Some have stated that they see 5 unique Silos in the released clips)

You remember that too ???? That seriously messed me up for like a week. Couldnt sleep. Geez the CBC used to run that show within an hour of The Wonderful World of Disney!!! Hahahaha

I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.

The trailer makes it clear that we'll see a continuation of the themes of psychosexual violation portrayed in the original movie. The tiny thing wriggling while it penetrates Holloway's eye, looks like nothing so much as an enlarged spermatozoa, and within her uterus, Shaw apparently gestates the same thing, or something quite similar, except for the fact now it's grown so much larger that it also resembles male genitalia. This movie is going to make us squirm in our seats while we cringe in disgust. No doubt.

you people crack me up

good one

i might fly to the UK from NY just because of this. Im capable of such craziness i think

David Lynch did not have his name removed from Dune. He had his name removed from the "extended version" back years ago when it only existed as a bootleg VHS that was being passed around at sci-fi conventions. Lynch did not approve of the version and no one officially involved with the production of Dune had any involvement with making it. Much of the footage used in the extended version wasn't even finished processing (the Fremen don't have blue eyes, for example). Lynch eventually relented and allowed the extended version to be published side-by-side with the theatrical cut on the last DVD release of Dune and approved of the cut being present and legally signed off on allowing the version to "exist", but he does not want his name on it since he didn't cut it. The Dune conceptual design H.R. Giger did was not used in the Lynch version of the film. Giger had been asked (along with artist Salvador Dali) to collaborate on a Dune project under director Alejandro Jodorowsky. The project ultimately never went anywhere as there was a lack of funding and a lot of disagreement over the artistic direction the film was taking.

@Svanya ... What the penis? ... you betcha ... :) ...