Be Excellent To Each Other

She wrote the novelisations of Aliens: Labyrinth and The Female War, that's a decent pedigree IMO.

This new book is supposedly similar to the fap-worthy Colonial Marines Technical Manual.

Co-wrote them, with Steve Perry, but yeah, The Female War is easily the best book.

PRORDERED!

Hey Vasquez ever been mistaken for a man ?

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/04/18/ ... and-lv-426

Quick lurker post...

Audible have a new audio dramatisation of an Alien based novel(la)

http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-Fant ... B01D0FHRQQ

"As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man. When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating and waiting for suitable prey."

....with Rutger Hauer, so it must be good right ? seems pretty good 1hr in.

it appears there may be versions available at your [local library]

Ooh! Also, hello lurker.

Have not found any stream of the actual panel yet

Didn't see this post. I bought a copy of this book a few months ago when I saw it in Waterstones but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Never really got into audiobooks though, for me they're like video tutorials - unnecessarily annoying, as I can't go at my own pace.

Note to self: email gazchap anecdotes in future

No , email Gaz a youtube link to you reading out the anecdote ;-)

It's not an audiobook, it's an "audio drama".

I might give it a go, even though the book was shit.

Oh, OK - that might be worth a listen, then. Although if the book was shit that doesn't fill me with hope.

Wot no one know about this, happening at an Albert Hall near you this weekend?

http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/ ... iens-live/

Balls. That looks awesome and I'm on holiday so can't go.

I was going to say there's a remarkable lack of Covenant talk around here. I rewatched Prometheus the other day and it was better than I remember. Still some annoying things, but not terrible.

Yeah, that poster's pretty encouraging.

I felt much the same way about it. At the cinema, it all looked great, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, but watching it a second time, it's not bad at all. Although that Scottish woman's acting still grated

https://www.facebook.com/imdb/videos/10155005142768949/

Merry Christmas, time for a trailer.

More opportunities for kittens...

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/3/141553 ... dley-scott

A new trailer has dropped. Looking promising, if a little redolent of the original Alien. But that's no bad thing. It's on all the usual sites...

Does seem much better than the earlier trailer

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Reminder: Promethearse had a good trailer.

I think we will all be let down by the new Aliens film.

I rewatched Prometheus recently (after only seeing it at the cinema) and was very surprised to find that I enjoyed it a lot the second time around.

I'm not entirely sure why that is.

Lower expectations.

Maybe. There's plenty of sweet-ass bits, though. The whole thing with the two engineers being cut off and having to spend the night in the structure was superb.

It always seemed to me that they took a great explicitly 'Alien' film and cut and chopped it until they had a confusingly mediocre 'not-Alien, honest' film. There are some really good ideas in there. And Charlize in tight clothes.

Read the original script, before they buggered about with it. It'll fully restore your disappointment with the film, and add 25% FFS! on top.

Prometheus was great fewl

Silliness of the characters aside, what makes Prometheus great is the spectacle. Scott is one of those directors who builds sets and tries to direct as much of the action in camera as opposed to green screen and cgi. I've watched Prometheus about three times now, I know it has many shonky moments, but I've always enjoyed it. One of the criticisms of it that never made any sense to me was how Charline Theron dies at the end, as that engineer ship (at least according to Alien and the shot when they first enter it), is at least 100 feet wide if not more (it looks about 10 storeys high in Alien) and she'd need to be pretty fucking quick to get out of it's way.

Is this new?

https://imgur.com/gallery/OnLNF

this is out soon. Who wants to see it at imax? Either Sarfbank or Leicester Sq?

I think DoccyG has a couple of hours of unpaid overtime pending, so I'll count him out

FUCK YEAH

Sarfbank is slightly better for me (and it's bigger, right?), but I can do either.

It's out on the 12th May, date fans.

It is indeed. I've signed up to their mailing list as tickets aren't bookable yet.

Hmm. It's apparently Alien day, if you do American configuration on the date, then it makes sense. I've read that Fox are going to stream the first 15 mins of Alien: Covenant at 6pm on the official website.
Alienuniverse.com

Don't bother entering any of the competitions as they're US residents only.

Indeed, and some cinemas are celebrating by showing the old movies: https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Pi ... alien-70mm

Surprised you recognise the date, Grim...

http://www.blastr.com/2017-4-24/sigourn ... n-covenant

FUCK YOU

Apparently there's a 3min VR experience coming out on May 10 for the PSVR where you play a chestburster! Any takers?

Apparently already out for the Rift:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/27/15451 ... t-bursting

Reviews are starting to drop. I'm more optimistic this is going to be a good Scott film, i.e. It's going to be thought provoking as well as exciting. I'm definitely seeing this next week. Robbie Collin who is the Telegraph's reviewer who I know mainly for when he sits in for Mark Kermode on the Kermode and Mayo podcast, and who I like a lot, loves it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/alie ... es-terror/

I was watching Aliens last night, in preparation of seeing Covenant sometime soon, and I was increasingly annoyed that Hudson didn't put his chin-strap on. His bloody helmet was wobbling all over the place. Then I noticed that hardly any of the other colonial marines used their chin-straps either.

Load of rubbish. 0 out of 10.

Is anyone going to see this today? We had planned to but I'm still waiting for Joans to get home (to be fair, I'm still cleaning up after the Plasterer anyway, but still).

Gaz and I are going later

Whoop!

I like Aliens but:-

*that sentary gun section was better left out in the first cut.
*the willingness of newt to call Ripley "mummy" after she blows the queen out the airlock doesn't sit right with me.
*I'm not happy with Ripley shouting "she's alive" when newt initially gets taken. Oh course she's bloody alive.
*I really enjoyed the miniatures. CGI can suck a dick.
*I really hate Hudson's death sequence. Such a great character gets a lacklustre ending.
*Cor blimey governor I bloody love that the opening bars of that music as the credits roll. I reckon Ripley needed to say something equally sober though before they get in the sleep pods. "Can we dream?" "Yes we can" they say. She should have said "yes we can. There's no monsters anymore".
*Spindly legs queen looked silly.
*Spindly legs queen using the lift was daft. Also, why did the lift go back up after Ripley got out? There's no one else there. Tch.

Anyway, just some things I mentally noted.

I haven't seen Aliens 3 in yonkos but really fancy it now. Wasn't there some kind of ultra cut somewhere that's loads better than the original!? Can someone (probably Hearty) tell me how it's identified so I can [legally pick it up at a lovely retail store]?