[IWE] "pop!" goes the chest

[Jack Troughton]

Well, that's one of the nice things about the original Alien. It's not
like that.. gore for gore's sake. It's a good movie... but it's true
that it's fundamentally a haunted house movie.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Carl Forde <carl.forde@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Ashton Brown <ashton@vom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought similarly re 'Alien' and passed ... and then stumbled into a
>> viewing of 'Aliens 2'; I was wrong, so had to see origin, natch.
>> Look, youse guys do science, are immersed in techno -- surely have read
>> some sci-fi (a label I find condescending; the best of that is simply, good
>> /fiction/ IMO,) maybe not in yours.  As always, it's the story that works,
>> enthralls ... or it's pap, but special effects done Right and timed-righter
>> ... well, what can one say about SHOCK! ?? when it's not just gratuitous
>> (see: 'pap'.)
>
> I have read science fiction and seen science fiction movies. But I'm not
> interested in shock and awe. Just for the same of jerking me around.
>
> Carl
> --
> Start by doing what's necessary;
> then do what's possible;
> and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
> -- Saint Francis of Assisi
>