14th March 2005, 8:33 AM
Darunia Wrote:Eh Alien is all right; but AlienS is much, much better. Why watch 5 hapless space truckers get killed when you can watch 20 marines kick fucking ass and kill a million aliens and nuke a small space base? Hmmm??
Did you even watch Aliens?? You just described like.. the complete opposite of what happened in the movie.
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.
The plants reactor, which put them all into a life threatening situation was, ironically, the thing that saved their lives (Rebecca and Ellen's, that is). As before that emergency arose, they were only contemplating staying on the planet before being rescued, which would have resulted in them being killed.
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.
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.
Blade Runner and 2001 are close seconds. Though, the book for 2001 is superior.
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!