[IWE] "pop!" goes the chest
laura
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:13:12 -0400
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.
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> Wade.