A Few questions About The "Aliens" Movies

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Alien 3 sucks more. Lots more. Joss Whedon wrote Resurrection so just imagine the dialogue. It’s not going to be a stinker, just for that alone.

Earth, man. What a shithole.

As for the water in the dumpster in Star Wars, it looks like they squeeze it shut, maybe they’re getting the water out and sending it off to be purified, smashing the rest into a cube, and then dumping it into space.

The seemingly needless dripping water scene in Alien is supposed to be part of the engine’s cooling system, I’m told.

And yeah, they DID know about the chest burster. You can’t set up a scene like that without cutting and letting the actors see precisely what is going to happen, setting up cameras, putting Hurt under the table and replacing his torso with the fake one, etc. But as others said, they weren’t expecting QUITE the bursting they got.

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ohhhhh, whippey fuckin do! I’m impressed.

Going by memory but that implies there are aliens.

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I might say the same thing if someone told me they saw Bigfoot.

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Hmm. I would say “get the fuck outta here”, not "hey, I’m impressed :rolleyes: ".

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I got the impression that they just thought it was made up. Hudson (the “hey, I’m impressed” guy) also said WTF is a xenomorph when it was brought up in the briefing, IIRC.

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Nope. That was Pvt. Frost.

Hudson asked if it was a bug hunt.

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Was there any explanation into the life cycle of the xenomorphs? It seems so unusual and (yeah I know) alien. In some ways it seems like an overly complicated way to sustain a species, but on the other it may also give them an edge as they have more than one way to reproduce.

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It’s never stated in the films, but I got the impression that the aliens are genetically engineered bio-weapons by the Space Jockeys. They’re designed to wipe out a population by breeding off them until there’s nothing left. That’s why the aliens don’t make sense from a sustainability viewpoint. Haven’t seen Prometheus yet so I don’t know if there’s any reveal of the alien’s origin.

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We have plenty of species of insects here on Earth that cannot reproduce without the aid of another species. i.e. Wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of spiders.

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Ah! That makes sense.

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Honestly, there are weirder and creepier reproductive cycles currently in existence.

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There are also plenty of species that use alternation of generations, where every other generation is completely different, and usually uses different reproductive techniques.

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Anything that messes with killifish is Evile.

Chronos: I do not doubt you, Sir, but cites or links would be interesting. :slight_smile:

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Cordyceps fungus is way up the list. It makes the xenomorphs’ approach look almost wholesome.

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But the first one was pretty good. A lot better than Alien 3 and Alien 4. Well, paint drying is better than Alien 3.

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This is what happens when you give corporations the ability to make unlimited campaign donations. Your great great great grandchildren wind up on filthy rustbuckets doing errands for rich corporate types who consider all of you “expendable.”