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CGI remake of Aliens

posted 11 years ago by MAC-16
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Entertaining but I hope James Cameron, Walter Hill et al get paid for the basis of the story.

Why so?

James Cameron, Walter Hill probably read the original Starship Troopers novel by Robert A. Heinlein and thats how Cameron did Aliens in the first place. By turning the Aliens into bugs instead of Xenomorphs and shooting them up with gung-ho soldiers, this ring any bells?

James Cameron might be a great action movies director, but he isn't original though. Aliens is done off the back of Ridley Scott's original movie and is basically a continuation of the first Alien movie, while his Terminator movies that kickstarted a franchise was taken from Harlon Ellison's; Outer Limits episodes ("Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand") script concepts which Cameron actually said in an interview prior to making the first Terminator movie back in 1984, that he took the idea from those shows.

And as such was faced with the major possibility of being sued unless he credited Harlon Ellison in his Terminator movies as; "acknowledged the works of Harlon Ellison".

The idea of James Cameron, Walter Hill getting paid for outright plagiarism for most of their careers is extremely laughable to say the least.

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[–] rgcustomer 11 years ago

It's hard to cry "first" decades after the copycat releases their (superior) film.

Say what you want about Cameron, but when he releases something, it's top notch.

This film isn't fit for the bargain bin.

If he can do that to my home or car, he can have them.

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[–] cosmonautcowboy 11 years ago

I'd hardly say SST:Invasion is a ripoff of Aliens. Sure, there's the similarities of a military unit fighting "bugs," but that's about as far as it goes.

You could also point to the fact that there's a queen bug that they destroy in the end, but the majority of action movies have some large final confrontation. It just seems easy to compare these two because of the genre and setting.

Regarding James Cameron, he's clearly been inspired by other sources, but that's hardly something I'd hold against him. There aren't too many film makers out there that haven't used someone's ideas and made them their own.

I've never read the Harlan Ellison stories that allegedly inspired Terminator, (mostly because I think Harlan Ellison is a huge jerk), but I always wondered if Cameron read Phillip K. Dick's story "Second Variety."

[–] Fedorevsky 10 years ago

Entertaining but I hope James Cameron, Walter Hill et al get paid for the basis of the story.

FYI James Cameron had all the actors who played marines in Aliens read Starship Troopers before they started filming.

Hidyho!