Before Alien there was...

[Incognito]

Ooh yes - what was the plot again?

Old washed up Jugger star guides young jugger trainee to fame and fortune and smashes up an old enemy on the way. Class.

[Doggy Styles]

The atmosphere of 1st was great, that wierd ship before anything even happened. At risk of sounding arty farty, a lot to do with Geiger's set.

A lot of films concentrate too much on fancy effects and lose the atmosphere. Dunno if anyone here saw the original of The Mummy, far scarier than the latest remakes, that computer-generated mummy was so unconvincing they couldn't really do it as anything but an adventure comedy. Same with The Haunting, you never saw anything really in the first version but it was much scarier than the Liam Neeson one with statues coming to life and kids' faces popping up in curtains.

I agree with that, about all of those films. The original Haunting is my favourite scary movie.

[xoggoth]

Although the second one did have Catherine Zeta Jones. Chewy.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Do you accept that Deckard was a replicant or are you in denial?

Definately a replicant.

My vote for Aliens 2 as best of series. Fox screwed up David Finchers version of 3 and 4 was pants.

Sadly I think the Aliens franchise has been ruined by Fox (they hate scifi. 'Firefly' anyone?). Best to let it lie.

p.s. saw District 9 last night - now THAT is how to do an alien encounter movie!

[eliquant]

hey Stan Goodvibes where did you see District 9 ? did you stream it down from the web ? or are you in the USA ?

[ThomasSoerensen]

hey Stan Goodvibes where did you see District 9 ? did you stream it down from the web ? or are you in the USA ?

nice rephrasing