[IWE] "pop!" goes the chest

[laura]

I love horror flicks, but have only seen bits of Alien.  It never caught 
my interest.  It was too sweaty.

Now The Exorcist.  That is the mother of all horror flicks.  I plan to 
watch it again sometime before Halloween, which is my yearly ritual. And 
then I  will sleep with the lights on for the next month, hoping my bed 
doesnt levitate. :-)



Wade Bowmer wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Nightowl <lightspeedowl@yahoo.com 
> <mailto:lightspeedowl@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>     I had nightmares for weeks. Then years later some friends managed
>     to drag me to Alien II, despite my protests. I had been reading
>     Alien II, because I was curious about the storyline, but avoiding
>     seeing the movie...but friend begged just enough... I figured ok,
>     I know what to expect this time.
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> I saw Aliens (aka Alien 2) only on TV. In fact, I saw it several times 
> before I saw any of the others. I've always regarded it as a really 
> really good action/monster movie. But I'd only see it in a cinema now 
> I know what happens!
> Alien (1) -- again only on TV -- I found to be a much more studied 
> movie: I knew what a whole heap of these things could do, so it was in 
> interesting intellectual exercise to see what just one would be like. 
> :-) That the first was so minimalist probably gave the second so much 
> room to be as good as it was.
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>     Not so. I screamed again, this time in a real movie theater, and
>     up in the air went my soda and my friend's popcorn. And what goes
>     up, definitely comes down. They never dragged me to another Alien
>     movie again, trust me.
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> I've seen only brief parts of Aliens 3 and 4 -- and was not impressed. 
> OTOH. I saw Alien versus Predator on TV the other week and I thought 
> it was a pretty good romp through both franchises, although there were 
> a few places where they 'bent the rules'. It was clearly targeted at 
> those who knew both creatures already.
>  
> Wade.