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Favorite Sci-Fi movies - Darunia - 14th March 2005
Did you even watch Aliens?? (yes)You just described like.. the complete opposite of what happened in the movie. (nope.
The marines got THEIR asses fucking kicked, by a lot less than a millions aliens, and they had planned on nuking the 'small space base' but did not eventually need to, as it blew up by itself. regardless--it got nuked by a nuclear reaction.
Aliens is my favourite Sci-Fi, btw. But you're being far too harsh on such an amazing movie as Alien. If you prefer the action of #2 (I'm guessing you're the type of person to skip through the first 1.5 hours to get to the aliens..) then it shows you have a severe lack of patience in regards to cinema.
Don't presume to tell me what kind of person I am or what kind of movies I like, and I won't presume to call you an asshole based on the insulting feedback I receive here.
And I don't think the two movies are completely different. The second movie uses all the techniques of the original, but on a much larger scale. It simply expands every component of the original.
Granted. I said I liked it better. For making known my preference, I apologize to you, and all those who were hurt by it. If I had known that telling you which movie I prefered would have caused so much pain and suffering, I surely wouldn't have don it. Again, I apologize, and will in the future refrain from such selfish actions.
Blade Runner and 2001 are close seconds. Though, the book for 2001 is superior.
I never saw Blad Runner; and 2001 is in a category of excellence all by itself.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - Great Rumbler - 14th March 2005
Alien and Aliens are both cool movies.
Quote:I never saw Blade Runner
It's a good movie, not my favorite scifi movie, though. The design and the music awesome, especially in the opening shot of the movie.
Quote:2001 is in a category of excellence all by itself.
Definitely. Everything about it is simply amazing, so that I can easily place it as my all time favorite movie of any kind ever. Granted there are a number of excellent classics that I haven't seen, but until then...
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - A Black Falcon - 14th March 2005
Blade Runner was pretty good... I haven't seen Alien, Aliens, or 2001, but Blade Runner was good. Not the best sci-fi film ever, but good.
Other good sci-fi films... that haven't been mentioned, that is. :) Hmm, how about Gattica? That was good.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - Great Rumbler - 14th March 2005
Yeah, Gattica is pretty good, but not having watched Alien, Aliens, or 2001? That's just sad.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - A Black Falcon - 14th March 2005
I've thought of the Aliens films as more horror than sci-fi and our family has never exactly been big on watching horror films.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - Great Rumbler - 14th March 2005
So you can't watch those movies because your family won't let you?
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Yes, I do know what you meant, but anyway, Alien would probably fall under scifi/horror, but Aliens is more scifi/action/horror, with a lower amount of horror elements than the first, though both have it to an extent. You should still see them anyway.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - A Black Falcon - 14th March 2005
Probably, yeah.
Favorite Sci-Fi movies - Darunia - 15th March 2005
Yea Gattica was good; but if Aliens is horroer, than that was more drama than Sci-Fi. At any rate, it was good... other not-mentioned good sci-fi movies include:
-Forbidden Planet (see Leslie Nielsen in a serious role!)
-Battlestar Galactica
-The Running Man
-Demolition Man (yea I know it barely counts.)
-Silent Running (a real little-known classic.)
-Original Planet of the Apes