Just got back from watching this gem at the cinemas. I hadn't seen it in ages. Twas awesome. My only gripe would be the lightning/electrical effects. Everything else top notch. Good attendance too. At least 20 people were there. Good because they've been doing multiple screenings a day for the past week.
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I had to stop at the ten minute mark but thank you for posting.
shareI once lived in an apartment next door to some guy who worked the evening shift at his job. He slept from morning to early afternoon, when I was at work. He worked until about midnight. Midnight to around 5 AM was his time to relax after work. Sometimes he'd have his evening shift buddies over and they'd hang out, have a few beers, etc. They tried to keep the noise down but sometimes they'd get carried away. All sorts of noise while I was trying to sleep.
One night they got especially noisy. To retaliate, the following morning I found the most annoying song I could from my music collection, and I set my CD player to repeat just that tune. I left the stereo running all day like that, at full volume, while I was at work and he was trying to sleep. He was much better at keeping the noise down after that.
Pity that video hadn't yet been made; I would have used that instead.
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No, I don't. This was either in late 1986 or early 1987. I do remember now that the song I chose wasn't actually *the* most annoying; I briefly considered using "Kiss Kiss Kiss," one of Yoko Ono's contribution to the Double Fantasy album she and John Lennon did just before his death. But I decided that would be unnecessarily cruel -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aasdAIhGOv8. I don't remember which tune I did end up using, though.
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For raw weirdness, you can't beat Yoko Ono. Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMHl7bmlzw&fbclid=IwAR1hqNDO14SHf10-X8URXcgqMdQDe6g8DZYr2QdQlWKQJV2RVDb8kcdsC3E
I grew up in farm country. Her antics at 0:37 remind me of certain chickens I have known.
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> Macarena is catchy. It would be stuck in my head for days or maybe weeks after you turned it off. Yoko shrieking isn't catchy. It would be iterating while it's on, but once you turned it off the torture would end.
Wow .... I hadn’t considered this aspect of it at all.
I am speechless, lost in admiration, sir!
I hope it wasn't the extended version. I absolutely love this movie, but I'm sorry, the non-extended version is way better.
shareI'm not sure. But I thought it could have been trimmed.
shareThe most important difference is that the extended version starts with a boring 10 minutes introduction where we see a family of colonists (Newt's family) exploring the planet and finding an Alien egg. That part wasn't included in the original theatrical cut, and I think that was the right choice. When I re-watch the movie (it's one of my favorite ones), I skip that part.
shareWell I must have watched the extended cut. I remember that scene. It was pointless.
shareThere's other minor changes during the movie. In general, it makes it worse. The original theatrical cut was perfect: nothing needs to be added, nothing needs to be removed. The extended cut just adds pointless shots and scenes.
shareYeah. If anything it detracts from the movie. Takes away some of the mystery of what happened when the space marines show up.
shareI agree Newt´s family is pointless, but Ripley having a kid adds emotional weight to the story plus the sentry gun scene is badass.
shareI don't like how they added Newt's family in the extended cut.
shareOne of my most vivid memories of going to the movies as a kid is seeing Aliens with my Aunt (RIP).
It's considered more of an action movie, but some of those scenes scared the crap out of my 11 year old self!