The Alien series

[colinlindsay]

Can anyone explain to me , when in the first film a few grams of Alien blood/acid cut through numerous decks and almost depressurised the ship and how in the last film the hybrid was sucked out a hole caused by an equally small amount flung out at a window, there have been numerous scenes of creatures being shot, flamed, exploded, sliced and dismembered, with buckets of nasty green sulphurous stuff splashing everywhere, why all those spaceships aren't comprehensively holed like a sieve?

 

[JCFantasy23]

Ha not sure. I'm a HUGE Alien series fan. I only consider it a trilogy though. The fourth was an abomination, so far away from the first three that it's almost criminal. Nearly everything about that movie was changed. As for their acid damage, I suppose just inconsistencies in movies.

 

[Isambard]

I pretend the 3rd and 4th movies dont exist. The unofficial story that followed events after Aliens in the Alien Comics, was much much better imho

 

[justanobserver]

I guess I am just easily entertained! I love all 4 Alien movies (I have all of them) AND the first AVP (part 1 was good - part 2 sucked).

As far as acid and its varying effects, I dont have a clue. I just smile a happy happy joy joy grin, eat my microwave buttered popcorn and watch the movie!

 

[angrySCORCH62]

I'm not quite sure what you mean mate, but all of the acid bloob in all four films appear to have the same high damage. In Alien it cuts through about 3 or four decks, in Aliens it burns of Drakes face so we can see his skull, also when the Aliens start bleeding because of whatever we don't see the effects, in Alien 3 i don't remember seeing any acid blood, and in the last one we see the 2 Aliens escape their prision by using the blood form another Alien, we see lots of holes in lots of decks.

 

[baiguai]

Haha! I've never realized this. You make a good point. If one little drop of their blood makes its way through the ship like that - when they are shooting up aliens like they are in 2 and 3, the architecture should be completely mush-ified.

2 is my favorite, and unlike some folk, I love 3 as well (the language grates on me) - then again, I saw 3 before I saw 2 so I wasn't attached to the characters that were suddenly 'no more' at the start of the movie.

I just recently went through, watching the first three films - I'll have to see the fourth again, just because.

The first three are amazing movies.

 

[colinlindsay]

Haha! I've never realized this. You make a good point. If one little drop of their blood makes its way through the ship like that - when they are shooting up aliens like they are in 2 and 3, the architecture should be completely mush-ified.

2 is my favorite, and unlike some folk, I love 3 as well (the language grates on me) - then again, I saw 3 before I saw 2 so I wasn't attached to the characters that were suddenly 'no more' at the start of the movie.

I just recently went through, watching the first three films - I'll have to see the fourth again, just because.

The first three are amazing movies.

That's the point - with that hybrid there was a bucket-load of stuff - it should have dissolved the entire cargo bay!

 

[MrZoom]

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[religious&reasonable]

Most of us Alien fans prefer to pretend like the 3rd and 4th never happened. We like to think that ater "Aliens" they all just went home and lived happily ever after (including Bishop).

Alien 3 was okay I guess... but killing off the survivors from "Aliens" right off the bat was unacceptable. Some of the minor characters were interesting and entertaining, but a majority end up just being Alien food for he dissapointing climax. Couple that with unsuspenseful atmostphere and inbetwen scenes and uninteresting death scenes, and you force thousands of true Alien fans to disown this movie from the franchise in their own minds in order to protect the awesomeness and perfection of the first two.

And what can I say about Aliens: Resurrection? Well, Ron Perlman was awesome in it (and the best and most enjoyable thing about it). Actually the best thing about this movie is it's characters, who are all suprisingly interesting and entertaining. everyone is unique and I was actually sad when one of them died.Truth be told, it's an okay "Sci-fi/thriller/action movie" as I do enjoy several scenes (underwater chase and the "chestburster through head" scene), but some of it is just unbearable, and goes out of it's way to cut-off everything that made the previous aliens cool, and basically milk whatever they could out of the franchise.

And my gosh, I have never felt such pain while watching a movie as I did during the "Newbown" scenes. never mind the whole clone thing, forget the "Ripley has alien powers", when the Newborn enters the picture is it really what finally doomed this movie into not only being a failur ein itself, but also to partially ruining the Franchise as a whole. that is what put the nail in the coffin. It's a very, very, very, very, poor excuse for an "Alien" movie, so I just pretend that it's not, or better yet, that it doesn't exist at all.

I mean if you guys enjoyed the last two movies than good for you, but I'm gonna stick with my pals Dallas and Hudson until it's Game Over for me, man.