The last movie I saw in the theater with my father.


"...twenty-nine, twenty-eight, twenty-seven..."

I love this scene. So damn good. Solid gold suspense.

My favorite movie! I recently read an interview with Ridley Scott, he made the comment when they were making Alien, they approached it as a B movie LOL

One of my earliest memories is watching this in the theatre with my mom. I'd have been 4. Be nice. She was a single mom in the 70's. Times were different then. I've loved Alien my entire life. Great film, and I mean that seriously. It's a really good bit of filmmaking from every regard.

Shame they only made one sequel...

(everything after Aliens is merely a bad dream. I reject your reality and replace it with my own.)

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Originally posted by trickedtrix:
My favorite movie! I recently read an interview with Ridley Scott, he made the comment when they were making Alien, they approached it as a B movie LOL

Fox did some amazing documentaries on the making of the four Alien films. Before Ridley Scott was hired, the budget was set around $4.5 million. After he was hired and he storyboarded the entire film like he still does, Fox doubled the budget.

I saw it in theaters when Fox originally made the "Alien Quadrilogy" DVD box set and showed the Alien Director's Cut for one week only, and the film still holds up and is still my favorite Ridley Scott film.

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Shame they only made one sequel...

(everything after Aliens is merely a bad dream. I reject your reality and replace it with my own.)

I think if Fox had left David Fincher alone, Alien 3 could have been interesting. There's enough promise in the Workprint version that could have been refined into a B- film, but the real killer of the film was the original producers getting behind Vincent Ward's "Wooden planet full of monks" bullshit that led us to what we got.

Right up there for me too, it was exhilarating. "Alien" changed the genre forever.

We got a cat at that time, he was unlike any cat I'd known. So different we called him The Alien, aka Ali. A small homage but yes, "Alien" was just great.

Saw it at the theater. The only film I've seen where the entire audience gasped and squeaked (including me) when they saw the jump cuts with the cat in the locker, and Dallas in the air vent.


Great, great film and superb tension building directing.


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I’m honestly surprised this franchise hasn’t been redone/rebooted.

The tie in with the predator franchise and fan fiction/fan theories that tie this universe to the blade runner universe is an absolute gold mine of material (even just keeping the alien/predator material)

Too bad everything after alien/aliens and predator 1 & 2 have been absolute garbage.

Pick up where Aliens left off, lose the stupid engineer plot line and make some sci-fi mayhem with aliens predators and space marines.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
Pick up where Aliens left off, lose the stupid engineer plot line and make some sci-fi mayhem with aliens predators and space marines.

Neill Blompkamp tried and was shut down by Fox.

watched it on the big screen when it came out, and several years go , a local theater played it and the wife and I went (she had never seen it on the big screen)

a great horror film in the Sci Fi world,



as far as movies with my Father, my first I was amybe 6,, the Jungle Book on the big screen,

the last I remember was Tora Tora Tora

This thread led me down the rabbit hole of putting the Alien universe together. I've seen all the movies but not close enough together to have a picture of the timeline.

Anyhow, there is a movie in post production. It was originally going to be on Hulu, but now is slated for theater August 2024.

Everything I read said this new movie (Alien: Romulus) will be a standalone movie. But based on this trailer I found, it looks like some more shit may have happened to Ripley between Alien and Aliens. It's Disney, so I'm not super optimistic but I will go see it.

I think it's a fake since that trailer doesn't appear anywhere else and it says at the beginning "Foxstar Media Presents" which is the channel name. If it was real, it would have been reposted somewhere else like 20th Century Studios.

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Originally posted by DanH:
I think it's a fake since that trailer doesn't appear anywhere else and it says at the beginning "Foxstar Media Presents" which is the channel name. If it was real, it would have been reposted somewhere else like 20th Century Studios.

Well crap, I've been duped! Nice catch. In any case the movie is listed as post production on IMDB. But based on what they say it will be stand alone and not give any more of the story.

I still like the Alien/Prometheus movies but I wasn't happy when they had to make humans indirectly responsible for the xenomorphs. I just don't think we are that important in the universe and I liked the idea that if we explore there may be some shit out there we don't want to find.

I watched these out of order. I was only eight when Alien came out and I had 70's Christian parents. No fun for me .

Anyway, I was 'sorta' sick and stayed home. I rode my bike to the corner store to rent a few movies. I would always rent a movie that was allowed, and then one I that was not. Mom was not home that day so I rented Aliens. I would then return them the next day on the way to school. My ability to slip that tape into the return slot without my Mom seeing it was a unique type of 'slight of hand' born of necessity.

I was hooked, I think I watched it several times that day. years later it was broadcast on TV, and it had the drone machine gun scene. I made the comment to my Dad, "that wasn't in the original movie." "wait, when have you seen the original movie?"

I was busted. My world did not end. My dad and I had an understanding. They didn't want me watching porn etc. But a good war movie, western and sci-fi? That was ok. I mention this because Aliens became a kind of connection for my dad and I. Later, I watched the original and they are listed as two of my favorite movies.