Skladunk wrote:
Pollyphoniac wrote:
Skladunk wrote:
Aliens (that's the second episode...) - I bought the whole set, seeing them with my 15-year-old son... We get a kick out of commenting on everything from storyline, special effect to references... and it's still a bit creepy after 30 years
Ocean's Eleven - again, we have the set. But this is with the my wife and daughter - get's nought but a shruk from the boy
- I love the music here - it goes right in your whole body.
(Cinemas? I think it's just sooooo expensive...)
no big need for them if you have a good home-cinema audio system (which for me feels so essential that I could no longer stand to watch movies with less than optimal sound quality - though this in no way prevents me from watching old movies with intrinsically inferior audio tracks).
by the way, I wonder which "Aliens" you're referring to.
a search by title on imdb.com renders me a list of several different series/movies called "Aliens" (and none of them 30 years old).
Sorry, I meant the "picture series" of which the first was Alien and directed by Ridley Scott in 1979
- while Aliens (1986) was directed by James Cameron. But in a broader perspective it's technically a series (including Sigourney Weaver and 'the alien' in every 'episode'
I'm not into lenghty tv-series (save Friends (theOneAndOnlyTrulyFunnySitcom)) mainly because I find them boring (at length) and I could never see enough episodes to follow the story line (which isn't a problem in aforementioned show).
PS: we saw the fourth episode Alien Resurrection the other day - what a bummer
I was seriously expecting a 5th Alien movie to be made, thought they wouldn't resist the temptation of continuing the series with a final showdown on Earth (after that spacecraft with the remaining Aliens on board crashed onto our planet toward the end of the 4th movie), but so far no 5th episode has ever been produced.
but it's very remarkable that, even though the 4th movie is supposed to depict events taking place two centuries after those of the 3rd episode, there doesn't seem to have been much technological development from one period to the next.
and it always surprised me that the makers of those Alien movies never saw fit to allow for some futuristic weapons development. why those people (supposedly centuries into the future) are still using heavy-duty hand-held grenade launchers and flame-throwers (practically 20th-century style). truly unbelievable.