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101 Things I Learned From Alien:resurrection


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1. Earth is a *beep*
2. You can hang with Johner for a while and you'll find out he`s not the man with whom to *beep*
3. Johner puts battery acid in his drink... just for color.
4. Burning mutant clones must be a chick thing!
5. Synthetics were supposed to be all logical and sht but now they are big ol' psycho girls
6. To make any decent time, they should ditch the cripple!
7. Never ever keep 3 aliens in the same cell!

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8)Hot space pirate chicks who get their toes sucked on will soon be grabbed by those same toes and drowned.

9)Never bet against #8 in a basketball game.

10) When falling asleep in hypersleep, make sure The Betty is nowhere close.

Come with me if you want to live.

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11) Aliens are good swimmers

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12) Grenades can be remotely detonated .

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I don't think that one counts. This takes place far into the future. In previous films, they've shown the ability to have stabilize life on other planets, so I think by the time this movie takes place, they could have grenades that are remotely detonated.

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You could have "grenades" today, or even many decades ago, that are remotely detonated, but that isn't the point. A remotely detonated bomb doesn't fit the definition of a grenade.

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1) Aliens often take offense when a Crazy Space Scientist makes out with them through plexiglass.

2) Said Crazy Space Scientist's head makes a great teething ring for mutant alien newborns.

3) This is a really great show, man...

4) Ripley 8 knows how respond to compliments. Except that in her dictionary, 'respond' means 'to choke someone'.

5) Watching Grima Wormtounge babble deliriously about alien reproduction is surprisingly entertaining.

6) NEVER eat Ramen soup during the Newborn's death scene, you WILL feel the urge to puke.




"You are...a beautiful, beautiful, butterfly." -Dr.Gediman

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One alien is far too scary to be taken on by 6 armed people.

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15. Burning your eyebrows will make you commit suicide.

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16. Dr. Gediman easily confuses mutant alien-human hybrids with butterflies.

17. Oh boy is General Perez thinking termination!



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18. If you give birth to a fully mature baby, expect to have your head blown off moments later by your lil' darling's tantrums.
19. The only difference between a Mad Scientist and a Military Scientist is Ethics. Either way, if you are so lucky as to run across a Mad Military Scientist, you will die.
20. Never use your tongue for intimacy with your mother/grandmother. She may respond with lethal force. It's a Freudian thing.
21. Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of Starship Alien Entrails. Its billion year mission to seek out new life and civilizations. To infect them with human enhanced DNA. They will die.
22. If your newborn prodigal offspring attempts oral contact with your body, it's probably not a request for feeding. You must immediately perform a retroactive abortion. Preferably by pushing the baby out through a small orifice under pressure. Let the ungrateful wretch experience labor pains from your perspective. It doesn't matter you underwent a cesarean. It's the thought that counts.
23. If a special glass is the only material you possess that can withstand molecular acid, you will not build your entire Alien experimental facility with it. Doing so violates Mad Military Engineer's Building Code.
24. Mad Military Scientists do not understand the finer points of alien sibling rivalry. So they die.
25. If it looks human and talks human its trustworthy. Even if you know there is alien DNA inside, you should never consider the possibility that a pimple faced teenager with Sequence-A-Gene kit will probably hack an alien out of it eventually. Thinking such thoughts is above your paygrade. You will die.

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26. Keep away from broken windows in space.

27. Grima wormtounge is also a spacescientist.

28. You should do anything you can to keep the aliens away from planet earth, but it's ok to crash a big spaceship right into the same planet.

29. Weyland-yutani is no more.

30. Johner can get you off, well, not the ship.

31. Cherries = fruit (almost).



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32. 200 years into the future, Weyland-Yutani isn't still around, but Wal-Mart is.

33. 200 years into the future, androids are still full of milk.



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34. Despite his best efforts, even David Fincher couldn't kill off the franchise.

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35. Your gun will jam at the time you need it the most.
36. A small man can cling to a ladder while also carrying the weight of a full-grown man and an alien.
37. Weapons checkpoints are very lax on military spaceships. If the detector goes off, just make some smart-alecky comment and the security guard will let you pass.
38. Crashing a giant spaceship into a populated area of Earth is ok in that observes the "zeroth" Law of Robotics: "A robot cannot harm humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." So kill a few million to save a few billion.
39. Paper money will still exist hundreds of years in the future.
40. Cocky scientists are destined for failure.
41. The easist way to continue a franchise wherein a hero died is to clone said hero for the new movie.


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42. A thermos can be made into bazooka.
43. They should have checked the chair.
44. Call is the new "a$$hole" model android.
45. Ron Perlman can kill eight-foot tall aliens with acid for blood but not baboons (Primal Force).

Nervous?
Yes.
First time?
No, I've been nervous lots of times.

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The projected crash site on earth was a barren wasteland (Paris actually) in which no humans lived in the area anymore.

Don't read this! Too late, you're cursed...

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The army is full of pussies

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"22. If your newborn prodigal offspring..."

What in the heck does careless spending (prodigal) have to do with the alien offspring?

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LOL. =)

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Victims, aren't we all?

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Except that being armed does no good if you run the risk of misses punching holes in the hull, or worse yet, blowing acid slime all over said hull, and depressurizing the ship, or at least the part that you're in...

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I noticed that Joss Whedon (Serenity & Firefly) wrote the screenplay to Alien: Resurrection. The crew of the Betty almost resembled the crew to the Serenity. Ron Perlman played a character similiar to Jayne from the tv show Firefly, played by Adam Baldwin. Other characters were similar too, like having Winona playing a mechanic.

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You are quite incorrect. The crew of the serenity resembles the crew from the betty, since alien resurrection came first. Were I to speculate, i'd say that whedon had already written, or started writing, firefly, but thought it would never get made, so he rewrote the main characters to fit into a different setting.
Btw, I thought firefly sucked, for one simple reason: somebody in a major producorial position heard 'wild west in space' and took it literally... hence, long underwear, lever-action rifles, etc... what could have been awesome was made anachronistically corny.

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46. Having a hole put in the back of your head by an Alien doesn't instantly kill you. It gives you enough time to still be fully conscious and aware, for long enough for you to feel the back of your head and pull a bit of your brain out and then stare at it before dying.

Stupidness. Ruined the movie that bit.

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47. It thinks you're its mother.
48. We'll have to lose the chair.
49. Just pull back on the sticks.
50. It's us that's burning.
51. You can go from "it's us that's burning" temperature to normal room temperature in less than one second while hurtling through earth's atmosphere.
52. Aliens have two "mommys". The uglier ones love their children, but the kids hate their ugly mommy and immediately try to kill them upon sight.
53. Space ships are cooled by dribbling water down a "ripple-ly" wall at the bottom of the ship.
54. The most humane way to euthanise your mutant sisters is to set them alight with a flamethrower.
55. Earth is surrounded by a force field that makes some ships blow up when they hit it, but other ships can passs right through.
56. Nobody has yet tried Alka Seltzer on the alien in their stomach.
57. You can still get revenge and bash in the skull of the doctor responsible, while an alien is bursting its way through your ribcage.
58. Robots are lactose tolerant.
59. Tongues make excellent souvenirs.
60. Aliens are quick learners.

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68. Plywood is antique.

69. If bitches can't handle $#!t, then they should stay away from $#!t.

70. All Call can offer you is an end to your nightmare, but only if you let her.

71. Ellen Ripley died 200 years ago, and Number 8 Ripley isn't her... wait, what?

72. Number 8 can also make it stop.

73. Number 8 was grown in a *beep* lab.

74. Christie knows what double-crosses smell like.

75. Code 8 is concealed weapons, and Code 12 is murder!!!

76. According to Gediman, what happened in the mess hall substantiated a serious problem.

77. Aliens make the Lacerta plague look like a *beep* square dance, but Christie will always deny this.

78. Opening of any of the cages in unauthorized, whether it be cage 3, 5, 7, 8, or even 10.

79. The evacuation of the Auriga was not a drill.

80. If you are a nonhuman on level 21, 23, 27, 14, 38, or 39, Father can and probably will detect you.

81. Proceeding to the lifeboats during an evacuation makes Father extremely grateful.

82. If you are a slimy bastard, Vriess will give you holes.

83. If you stand around saluting for too long, an alien will eat your brains. You can hold them if you want.

84. Given a breadth of possibilities, Elgyn will always choose picking up mysteriously abandoned guns over moving, even if a scary gas tube erupts at a moment of extreme tension, or if said guns are covered in goo.

85. Hillard can find Elgyn just by screaming his name a lot. This technique is known by Hillardologists as Elgolocation.

86. You shouldn't shoot aliens with acid for blood when they're by the hull.

87. You shouldn't eat dead bodies with guns sticking out of them.

88. If you are getting the Hell out of here, Christie will confirm that you should continue getting the Hell out, even if it's the same thing you're already doing.

89. If there are twelve aliens, therefore there are twelve aliens... THEREFORE, we can conclude that there are indeed twelve aliens.

90. Johnner can get you off... but maybe not off the boat.

91. Ripley comes because Christie doesn't trust anyone and he wants everyone to stick together... wh?... at???

92. Tongues make nice souvenirs.

93. Ripley 8 will kill her own kind, but only if they're in her way.

94. Vriess is neither certainly toast nor Santa Claus.

95. If you want to find meat, follow some aliens. But then again, maybe you're meat.

96. Johnner prefers aliens to $#!tholes.

97. Running into aliens before resulted in death, and there's no reason to believe that might change anytime soon.

98. There's a traveling Ripley's Believe It or Not exhibit on the Auriga.

99. Call is always around to provide firearms if you need to destroy your older clone sisters.

100. If you ask Ripley not to do something, you had better be specific.

101. Wasting ammo is a chick thing.

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68. Plywood is antique.

69. If bitches can't handle $#!t, then they should stay away from $#!t.

70. All Call can offer you is an end to your nightmare, but only if you let her.

71. Ellen Ripley died 200 years ago, and Number 8 Ripley isn't her... wait, what?

72. Number 8 can also make it stop.

73. Number 8 was grown in a *beep* lab.

74. Christie knows what double-crosses smell like.

75. Code 8 is concealed weapons, and Code 12 is murder!!!

76. According to Gediman, what happened in the mess hall substantiated a serious problem.

77. Aliens make the Lacerta plague look like a *beep* square dance, but Christie will always deny this.

78. Opening of any of the cages in unauthorized, whether it be cage 3, 5, 7, 8, or even 10.

79. The evacuation of the Auriga was not a drill.

80. If you are a nonhuman on level 21, 23, 27, 14, 38, or 39, Father can and probably will detect you.

81. Proceeding to the lifeboats during an evacuation makes Father extremely grateful.

82. If you are a slimy bastard, Vriess will give you holes.

83. If you stand around saluting for too long, an alien will eat your brains. You can hold them if you want.

84. Given a breadth of possibilities, Elgyn will always choose picking up mysteriously abandoned guns over moving, even if a scary gas tube erupts at a moment of extreme tension, or if said guns are covered in goo.

85. Hillard can find Elgyn just by screaming his name a lot. This technique is known by Hillardologists as Elgolocation.

86. You shouldn't shoot aliens with acid for blood when they're by the hull.

87. You shouldn't eat dead bodies with guns sticking out of them.

88. If you are getting the Hell out of here, Christie will confirm that you should continue getting the Hell out, even if it's the same thing you're already doing.

89. If there are twelve aliens, therefore there are twelve aliens... THEREFORE, we can conclude that there are indeed twelve aliens.

90. Johnner can get you off... but maybe not off the boat.

91. Ripley comes because Christie doesn't trust anyone and he wants everyone to stick together... wh?... at???

92. Tongues make nice souvenirs.

93. Ripley 8 will kill her own kind, but only if they're in her way.

94. Vriess is neither certainly toast nor Santa Claus.

95. If you want to find meat, follow some aliens. But then again, maybe you're meat.

96. Johnner prefers aliens to $#!tholes.

97. Running into aliens before resulted in death, and there's no reason to believe that might change anytime soon.

98. There's a traveling Ripley's Believe It or Not exhibit on the Auriga.

99. Call is always around to provide firearms if you need to destroy your older clone sisters.

100. If you ask Ripley not to do something, you had better be specific.

101. Wasting ammo is a chick thing.

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It might. There's a guy who survived being shot with a harpoon in the head. Went straight through his brain yet he lived

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46. Having a hole put in the back of your head by an Alien doesn't instantly kill you. It gives you enough time to still be fully conscious and aware, for long enough for you to feel the back of your head and pull a bit of your brain out and then stare at it before dying.

Not only that, but the alien that just shoved it's mouth through your skull will just stand and watch. It knows you're already going to die. There's no point in straining itself.

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Forty-two heavily armed and well disciplined Human military personnel are still no match for a few (maybe no more than fifteen) overgrown cockroaches.

Two "mothers" that "do it" together will be able to make babies in the future.

Military scientists are corrupt and evil.

Some people are still able to walk and fight even if aliens are busting out of their ribcages and hatching out of their chests, supposedly killing their Human hosts.


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love this thread

102. you can apparently scream underwater and still not drown even if you are underwater for 5 straight minutes

103. dont ignore Purvis!

104. when the newborn (aka a killing machine) is focused on something else call it a butterfly so youll get your *beep* head ripped off

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55. Earth is surrounded by a force field that makes some ships blow up when they hit it, but other ships can passs right through.

i think it hit the ground not the force field...

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105. You are screwed if you try to open a door, after eating a curry.

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106 They always kill off the hot chick. Always.

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107. Basketballs are dangerous weapons
108. The best way to show mercy and empathy towards your misdeveloped sisters is to burn them slowly
109. They will thank you by not making any distracting sounds
110. Popeye is still well known in the far future
111. Drinking with boxing gloves will p/ss Ron Perlman off
112. In the far future, paper money will become extremely valuable
113. Bashing your head in won't affect your ability to move your hand behind your head, remove the rest of your brain tisse and make a stupid face
114. DNA also contains memories of your past life

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115. Alien:Resurrection should have never been green-lighted

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116. You can train cloned humans.
117. Blowing up spaceships in an arcade won't feel weird.
118. Thongs exist in the future.
119. Army guys prefer to abandon ship, rather than protect it.
120. I wouldn't have wanted to know what was inside me.
121. Newborn aliens can stand inside of their moms wombs and have the nerve to kill her.
122. Ripley didn't call the queen a b***h this time.
123. Always showcase failed clones like a gallery.
124. Ripley obviously survided the alien orgy when she fell through the floor.
125. Being paralyzed, assumingly, from the waist down, doesn't prevent you from having sex with an android.
126. Vreiss steals shutgun shells.
127. Basketball looks the same 200 years from now.
128. Father won't respond, even after yelling his name.
129. Christie will commit suicide because he got spit on.
130. Destephano is a futristic name.
131. Whiskey cubes are brown, vodka cubes are presumably white.
132. The ship will say "thankyou" before detonation.
133. There were 4 survivors.

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134. It's a beautiful, beautiful butterfly.
135. Johner is NOT the man with whom to fvck.
136. Winona Ryder most likely auditioned for "Boys Don't Cry".
137. If you're about to grow a monster out your chest, be sure to hump the bad guy's head as it happens.
138. Johner sucks at basketball.


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this thread was awfully bad in the beginning but got better later on.
Best one so far: #52.

139) If you are pursued by aliens underwater, try to outswim rather than shoot them, even if the latter just *proved* to work like a charm (because Alien got killed)

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Probably the sole funny post in here. The "Things I Learned" topics used to be much wittier.

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140. Flame throwers are common weapons, especially on spaceships where they are ideal for many purposes.

141. Used once you may become bored with your flame thrower and hence wish to discard it.

142. Top secret bio-weapons spaceships welcome guests as long as they keep out of the restricted zones.

143. It's really long and hard to find your way out of a spaceship. Narrow service passages are preferable to the way you came in.

144. Spacepeople of the future can all swim and hold their breath AMAZINGLY well. This is normal and aliens can do it too.

145. Guns fire under water but the bullets go just as far, only slowly.

146. Unarmed aliens are the most deadly force in the universe because they are sneaky.

147. When it is your group versus the alien monsters it is still preferable to shoot one of your own group if it means you can go it alone....

148. While raising a dozen aliens to maturity you shouldn't clean up the corpses you made while creating them.

149. Alien mothers can achieve the work of weeks in no time. They can lay clutches of eggs, develop a womb, create a nest, gestate a baby and give birth all in less time than you take to find your way out of a spaceship....there is nothing remarkable about this because they are alien.

150. Sensitive new age androids don't trigger metal detectors. Do carry guns but hand them over when asked. Function normally with bullet holes. Have self esteem issues. Have finally been designed as hot chicks instead of wrinkly old men but didn't catch on...

151. Alien hybrid women cannot use normal sanitary products.

152. Unlike normal weapons it should be noted that really well hidden weapons are invisible to metal detectors.

153. Floors in spaceships are always false floors with enough space underneath to accommodate the wiring, plumbing and aliens.

154. Typically in the future spaceships while having limited personnel should be fantastically enormous in size. They don't contain cleaners or domestic staff though. Your generously spacious cell will not contain a bed, toilet, shower or actually, anything.







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155. When getting sucked into space backwards trough a tiny hole, your guts flubber out first in front you, before they go out to space.

156. Apparently in the alien universe its space that does the sucking and not the loss of pressure, the hole got completly covered up with the "beautiful butterfly" and still there is presureloss.

157. When Johner is target practicing with a knife he sounds like a monkey.

158. Johner doesnt scare easily, aliens, psh, blood and guts allover the place, psh, huge zapguns pointed in the back of his skull, psh. But spiders ! Spiders really are a nightmare for Johner.

159. Ron Perlman has one HUUUGE mouth, Sigourney can stick her fist in it and there is still space for a finger or two.

160. Keep in mind when shooting grenadelaunchers, the nades will only blow up on impact on aliens, when they impact on the sealing they just bounce back.

161. Ripley could make it barely to Betty, yet the "beautiful butterfly" who was way slower made it too. If there was enuf time for it to get there too, whats all the drama for ...

162. We have a spaceship inhabbited with the most deadliest creatures roaming in the universe bound for earth who could easily kill a few million people ... and not enough juice to blow it up, I know, lets crash it into earth make a nice nuclear explosion ten times the size of Hiroshima and kill a few million people, thats waaaaaay better.

163. Aliens really know how to time there eggs. They always there perfect on time.

164. Talking about those eggs ... the queen obviously is psychic: she had a second cycle, passed the egglaying thing to make room for a womb (?), yet still manages to lay dozens of eggs as a trap, so she mustve had those in her first cycle knowing the Betty crew would get trapped there.

165. The entire crew of the space ship got either evacuated or killed off in a few minutes flat, except for the Bettycrew of course, they mustve been somewhere way in the back of the ship while the entire shipscrew was in the front with the shuttles.
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168: THE ACTORS IN IT OBVIOUSLY HATED THE ALIEN FRANCHISE AND WANTED TO DAMAGE IT WITH THEIR GOD AWFUL ACTING

169: NEVER TO WATCH IT AGAIN

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170: Spacecraft 200 years after Alien3 either have extremely incredible warp engines or Federation Space is extremely small as it only took 3 hours for a ship operating illegally "outside of Federation space" to make it back to Earth.

171: To rid yourself of a dead Alien hanging on your shoe; it is far easier to unfasten buckles on your clothes, pull out a knife, and cut your harness than it is to simply shake your foot.

172: Falls from about 20 feet up a ladder, directly into water (where no more Aliens are) instantly kill you.

173: Christie can't drop his guns. They are attached to him.

174: Christie sounds like he has balls down his throat and can barely speak.

175: Call was not sent to kill the Alien in Ripley's chest. She was instead sent to steal the Alien and put it her purse. Even if she could afford to buy one.

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176 Even 300 years in the future Ironside is Well Known

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177 Crippled Midgets can hang on for 5 minutes on a pole ladder with a 220 Pound Black Man hanging on their back

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178. Ron Perlman is afraid of spiders
179. 300 years into the future Brad Dourif is still one scary *beep*
180. Cloned aliens roar like lions
181. If you happen to direct a crappy Alien sequel don't worry, your next feature film will be a critically acclaimed one (and part of IMDb Top 250)

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182. H.R. Giger Starring in this movie as a mad scientist would have been boss, Ya know as the 'inventor'.

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183. We should not have been expecting the "Eastern" Bunny. :lol:

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175: Call was not sent to kill the Alien in Ripley's chest. She was instead sent to steal the Alien and put it her purse. Even if she could afford to buy one.


LOL. Subtle.

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175: Ripley has no problem with watching another chick die though she totally knows how to fight the aliens and has defeated many before. She sits as if passive entertainment trying to see if the chick will make it through the water. Oop, nope. NOt today.
176: You can sit around and drink a special brew that really should kill you or make you brain dead
177: They never watched Spaceballs to know you can evacuate the ship and take an alien, monkey, or military man with you?
178: Aliens can massively reproduce into nest size in a few hours after escaping to freedom. Scary creatures
179: 200 years later the robot comes seeking Ripley. The only person who knows who Ripley is. Why is that?

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^ awesome!

-> 154 but they definitely contain secret service-panels where a human-sized organism can get through. oh and the wiring is such that when you destroy it, it will unlock and open the panel.

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Oh God, this aweful movie ?
I guess I learned:

Earth is a *beep* hole, man.

Brown Aliens can spit acid.

They must have been expecting the Eastern Bunny when vriess came up that elevator shaft. (oh wait, they changed that line so it was Santa claus).

Vriess thinks that people would want to kill santa claus if HE were in that elevator shaft.

If you spend enough time with Johner, you will learn he is NOT the man with whom to *beep*.

An Alien queen's fatal weakness is her mouth, the upper jaw, it can be pushed off quite easily and this will result in her dying. (what *beep*

In the future, people can hold their breath underwater for MUCH longer than you could hold yours.

From Alien Resurection, I also learned there is no point in making a sequel unless you know you have a good script, that's right, I'm Joss Whedon. No, not really, but you get what I mean.

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In the future, people can hold their breath underwater for MUCH longer than you could hold yours.
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Ridiculously expensive and ridiculous scene, alright. We're also talking chain-smoking punks, not Olympic swimmers.

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Here's one, but I don't know if it's been mentioned yet.

- If an alien falls through the floor down multiple floors, kneel down to look down the hole rather than stand up, so that something can grab your head.

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That part was so cliched.

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Once you have an alien inside your body, you must repeat your question 5 times to get an answer and if you still don't get an answer use the F word!

"What's inside of me? x5 ... What's *beep* inside me?!"

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