If memory serves, it’s Ripley’s alien “baby”. I could be wrong, though, as I loathe this movie with the passion of a thousand something something, etc.
At the end of Aliens 3, Ripley, who has been implanted with a chest burster, commits suicide rather than let the evil space corporation get its hands on it. But over the course of the movie, she’d managed to bleed all over various parts of the station she was on, so the corporation took genetic samples from her, which was mixed with alien DNA, and attempted to clone her multiple times. The protagonist of the film is the most human of the clones. The white maggoty thing is the least human of them.
The main reason is that it was the first full-length feature films. It ran nearly three hours when no film went over a half hour. It showed that people would sit for a two-hour (or more) film. Every feature film owes a debt to this, at least.
Also, politics aside, it’s still a textbook for filmmakers. Griffith showed them what sort of effects and storytelling methods would work. It developed deep focus, jump cuts, cross-cutting, close-ups of faces and the basic vocabulary of film used today.
The Niland brothers– the real event is mentioned in passing in Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers” as one the brothers was a friend of a couple of the Easy company men.
No, I don’t even think he’s shirtless. Honestly… I find him so unattractive, if I had seen him in a state of undress in it I would have blocked it from my mind. 
There was some movie Bringing Down the House where Steve Martin went to a dating service and got Queen Latifah. During the trailer, I was thinking “whoa, this could be interesting”.
I mean a white guy hooking up with a “real” black woman in a Hollywood film. I guess I’m racist, but I tend to think Queen Latifah says “black woman” than say, Halle Barry, Zoe Saldana, or Beyonce Knowles. It seemed a daring opposites attract that other interracial movies.
Then halfway through the trailer “I’m going to help you get your (white) wife back”. It almost felt like the director chickened out.
How did the movie play? Was it misdirection? Romantic chemistry between Steve Martin and Queen Latifa’s characters and end up together?
This is incorrect. In the third act Ripley mates with an alien queen. The white alien is the offspring of that coupling. Rather than the queen laying the standard batch of facehugger eggs, mating with the mostly human Ripley enabled a live birth of that white hybrid.
Hmm, my mistake. But let’s be honest - we’re all probably a lot happier with my answer than with the correct answer.
No, but it wasn’t quite a cop out. There wasn’t much romantic chemistry between Martin and Latifah – once they met, it turned out that she was just using this as a sneaky way of getting a lawyer to clear her name. Martin got back with his wife, but Latifah ended up with Eugene Levy. So it did have an interracial couple.
IIRC, they do open up the door to the plane near the end of the film when it’s relatively low to the ground and let all the snakes fly out.
Was The Exorcist really that scary? 70s audiences, I guess
If it is possible, I am more grateful to this thread for ensuring that I never see Alien Resurrection (Sigourney Weaver MATES with an alien queen??) than I was for whoever started the thread several years ago which spoiled the big secret of The Village, thus saving the many clumps of hair which undoubted I would have torn clean out my head if I’d had to sit through that.
Okay, in “Jason X” how does he come back to life? In the previous film “Jason Goes to Hell” it was pretty firmly established that, well, he went to hell, and he didn’t even leave a corpse behind.
As far as horror movies go, The Exorcist still holds its own in terms of story, creepiness and scare factor. It’s awesome. And I would imagine it was definitely terrifying to people in the '70s, since they wouldn’t have been desensitized to that sort of thing the way we have.
Well, in Friday the 13th Part 8, he was left down in the sewers with a million ton gallons of hazardous waste flying over his body (to which he then revered back to child form)..so you could ask the same question that connects that one to 9 (which was Jason Goes to Hell–where he shows up fully alive and adult again with no explanation as to why).
But to answer your question…
Much LIKE 8 to 9…he just shows up alive again at the start of Jason X (with no explanation as to why). He’s then crynogenically-frozen for a ton of years (like 1000) and then thawed out by future morons who have no idea he’s dangerous (although, in their defense, they thought he was dead).
He then dies midway through the film (as “old” Jason) and is then brought to life AGAIN by a futuristic cell regenerator-type thingie (which also makes him about 10x stronger, bigger, and more badass looking),…thus the start of “new” Jason.
And here I thought he was just this drowned kid in a lake.
RealityChuck writes (in reference to Birth of a Nation):
> The main reason is that it was the first full-length feature films.
Not true:
At three hours and ten minutes, it was certainly one of the longest films ever when it was released in 1915, but it wasn’t the first feature-length film.
Just on the last bit: Gibson’s character is a minister who’s lost his faith after his wife got squished in a car accident. The ordeal with the aliens restores that faith (don’t ask me why).
Oh, thanks for asking this, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Queen Latifah but my god is she in some awful movies and I always want to know if there’s any worth seeing. (Beautyshop was not a good movie but at least tolerable.)
My mother was a teaching nun at the time it came out and her students convinced her to see it - as far as I know it was the last horror movie she ever saw. It scared the living crap out of her.