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Post by chronotigger65 on May 11, 2016 16:41:45 GMT -5
I love the Alien franchise (except maybe Alien Resurrection) and I think the chestbuster seen in the original movie is one of the scariest moments in film history. But over the years I notice that the form of the xenomorph in that scene is either call a chestbuster or chestburster. There's a difference in opinion was to what to call it but now a days I see others calling it chestburster even though I perfer calling it chestbuster. I'm curious as to what others here like to call it.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on May 11, 2016 17:07:12 GMT -5
I have personally never seen it referred to as "chestbuster", always "chestburster", but I don't think that Ridley Scott and co. ever gave official names to any of these beasts anyway. They burst forth (pun intended) from the fandom.
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Post by moran on May 11, 2016 18:11:04 GMT -5
I've always known it as a chestburster.
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Post by GamerL on May 11, 2016 18:58:45 GMT -5
It's always been chestburster and anyone that spells it differently is getting it wrong, I mean come on, it doesn't "bust" your chest, it bursts out of your chest!
Also Alien and Aliens rule so fucking hard, I saw those movies as a kid and Aliens flat out knocked me on my ass with it's awesomeness, I remember literally being in disbelief at how cool a movie it is, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are not terrible movies, though they are all flawed and nowhere near approaching the quality of the first two.
To be honest I've always liked the fan theory that 3 and Resurrection are just dreams Ripley is having while in cryosleep.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on May 11, 2016 20:26:44 GMT -5
I've decided that Alien 3 is my least favorite. Resurrection feels more like a blockbuster to me, and the practical creature effects are amazing and gross. I do enjoy parts of these movies, but I totally understand why others consider them non-canon because they erase Ripley's achievements in the first two films
I wonder how the next Alien movie will pan out.
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Post by chronotigger65 on May 11, 2016 20:33:37 GMT -5
To be honest I've always liked the fan theory that 3 and Resurrection are just dreams Ripley is having while in cryosleep. That would be an excellent way to get Ripley back into the series.
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Post by GamerL on May 11, 2016 20:42:59 GMT -5
I've decided that Alien 3 is my least favorite. Resurrection feels more like a blockbuster to me, and the practical creature effects are amazing and gross. I do enjoy parts of these movies, but I totally understand why others consider them non-canon because they erase Ripley's achievements in the first two films Agreed, the big problem with Alien 3 is it's just kind of....boring, Resurrection is a lot more entertaining even if it also gets a little too goofy at parts.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 13, 2016 3:32:47 GMT -5
I still haven't seen Resurrection; I was turned off by how bad Alien 3 was.
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Post by GamerL on May 13, 2016 6:06:22 GMT -5
I still haven't seen Resurrection; I was turned off by how bad Alien 3 was. Alien 3 suffered from a troubled production where by the time they actually started filming they had run out of most of the budget due to so many false starts. Alien Resurrection didn't go through that so it's an overall more well rounded movie than 3 was.
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Post by moran on May 13, 2016 6:44:14 GMT -5
Resurrection is worth a watch as it has its moments, basketball scene notwithstanding. Michael Winslow and Ron Pearlman are always entertaining. However, I never like Ripley as a superhero type though. I really like her as an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on May 13, 2016 17:33:14 GMT -5
Ripley-8 is pretty much a totally different character from Ripley. Ripley-8 is pretty inscrutable. A lot of her behavior seems kind of contradictory, most likely due to her being part Alien and having conflicting motivations.
Ugh, summing it up like that makes Resurrection sound like a fanfic gone rampant.
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Post by chronotigger65 on May 13, 2016 17:58:52 GMT -5
The main reason I dislike Alien Resurrection is the death scene of the so called Newborn alien at the end of the movie. Pretty much was sucked out into space thru a small hole in a rather gory way. That's like the equivalent of going feet first into a wood chipper which to me is the worst way to die in real life aside from being burned alive. But then again, dying by chestbuster(burster) is not so great either.
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Post by bakudon on May 14, 2016 18:13:44 GMT -5
Alien^3 is not really emotionally fulfilling, as it near-completely nullifies everything Ripley fought for in Aliens. I don't really hate it as such, but I always try to pretend it doesn't exist when re-watching Aliens.
I've watched the "Director's Cut" version with some extra scenes, but I think it's one of those things where the scenes were cut for a reason. The viewer is told Ripley had a daughter, but it doesn't really bring any extra value to the stroy, nor do the autoguns.
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Post by GamerL on May 14, 2016 21:04:02 GMT -5
Alien^3 is not really emotionally fulfilling, as it near-completely nullifies everything Ripley fought for in Aliens. I don't really hate it as such, but I always try to pretend it doesn't exist when re-watching Aliens. I've watched the "Director's Cut" version with some extra scenes, but I think it's one of those things where the scenes were cut for a reason. The viewer is told Ripley had a daughter, but it doesn't really bring any extra value to the stroy, nor do the autoguns. There's one thing that really sucks about the director's cut and that's the scene where they establish early on what happened to the colony and Newt's family, while you can probably guess the Aliens got them it's nevertheless SO creepy when the marines first arrive at the abandoned colony and you have no idea what to expect, that added scene takes all of that suspense out, it's lame. But at least the scene establishing Ripley's daughter eventually led to Alien: Isolation.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on May 16, 2016 2:32:54 GMT -5
I think that Ripley's long-lost daughter adds to Aliens' story. I didn't see the director's cut when I was younger, do I had no idea that was even a part of Ripley's backstory.
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