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ThomasSoerensen replied

14 August 2009, 07:11
Originally posted by eliquant View Post

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
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eliquant replied

14 August 2009, 06:16
hey Stan Goodvibes where did you see District 9 ? did you stream it down from the web ? or are you in the USA ?
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Stan.goodvibes replied

14 August 2009, 00:45
Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post

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!
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xoggoth replied

11 August 2009, 18:46
Although the second one did have Catherine Zeta Jones. Chewy.
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Doggy Styles replied

11 August 2009, 16:33
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

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.
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Incognito replied

11 August 2009, 13:56
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

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.
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Zippy replied

11 August 2009, 13:53
Originally posted by Incognito View Post

Watch 'Salute of the Jugger'. Top Rutger film.

Ooh yes - what was the plot again?
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Incognito replied

11 August 2009, 13:49
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

Worth the wait. Beautiful movie, Rutger Hauer - what's not to like?

Watch 'Salute of the Jugger'. Top Rutger film.
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Zippy replied

11 August 2009, 10:49
In the book Deckard is human
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gingerjedi replied

11 August 2009, 10:36
Originally posted by zeitghost

Depends what his incept date was... (and which version of the film you watch).

HTH.

I read an interview with Ridley Scott where he said that Deckard was a Nexus 7 with an indeterminate life span.
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Churchill replied

11 August 2009, 10:30
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

I have long suspected that Brownstuff is being guided by a tiny alien or perhaps a Scottish built nanobot living in his false eye. It is consumed by hatred for the English.

Fixed that for you!

Hth.
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xoggoth replied

11 August 2009, 10:27
I have long suspected that Brownstuff is being guided by a tiny alien or perhaps an Iranian built nanobot living in his false eye. It is consumed by hatred for the British.
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gingerjedi replied

10 August 2009, 21:03
Originally posted by zeitghost

I have a financially distressing number of editions of Blade Runner.

I'm waiting for the definitive final director's cut of cuts of versions to come out.

Sometime around 2019.

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

10 August 2009, 20:32
Looks like there's a new Alien film much sooner than you think:

http://www.aliensintheatticmovie.co.uk
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VectraMan replied

10 August 2009, 19:39
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

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.

That was the problem with the underwater aliens. They were there on the screen right in front of you looking crap and unconvincing. In Alien (1), for most of the film you never got a good look at the alien, and that's what made it good. Only at the end did you get to see a hilariously bad man in a rubber suit alien, hanging out the airlock.
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