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Sulaco's the marine ship, right? I can't say I've ever noticed the sound effect, will have to pay attention next time I watch it, but I dunno, I'd imagine it's more likely that the facehugger was shoehorned into Alien 3 in one of the million hasty rewrites. The queen's egg sac was knackered to buggery, surely (which always annoyed me about Aliens, actually - don't waste all your grenades on the egg sac! The whole place will be vapour in five minutes anyway! You crazy fool)?

Although at least they're consistent with her character in Alien 4, when she wastes fuckloads of scarce ammunition on blowing up corpses. On a ship that's crashing. Also, what the hell possessed her to put the woman out of her suffering with a fucking flamethrower? RAarrfgh caffeine needed.

It's right at the end of the credits. Jim Cameron said it was meant to be a face hugger at a T2 q&a session. There must have been two though, one for Spike and a (nngh) ' queen' one for Ripley.

I liked Mark & Lard called the band "B-asterisk-witched"

As far as I know there is no "official" explanation for how the eggs got onto the Sulaco, it was just bad writing.

Time for a record, this one starts a bit quietly...

Huzzah!

Yeah that was always a bit of an odd choice.

This sound effect at the end of Aliens. I've watched that movie so many times - too many times probably - and never got onto that.

Also, this thread is amazing. Well done, chaps.

How could the queen have laid eggs on Sulaco? Where was she keeping them? Her spindly body would barely contain one egg if you scooped out all the yellow glop that she would otherwise have in there pretending to be organs.



Without the big egg-maturing egg sac she's laying nothing, surely?

We shall fetch Cameron and give him a Chinese burn until he tells us.

The eggs rolled in. Downhill.

Keep Craster out of this.

Egg basket?

Was it easter?

We see one egg in Alien3 and one facehugger but that doesn't mean there was only one egg - after all that'd kill the twist of the film (although one of the taglines for Cubed was 'This time it's in the most terrifying place of all').

So assuming two eggs. The queen would have had to bring them with her from her chamber - after all we don't know that Ripley destroyed them all.

Getting them to the cryo chamber would be kind of impossible given that queenie doesn't leave the dock area. So here's an odd question...

Could the sound effect facehugger have carried an egg to the cryo chamber? It's certainly strong enough but it'd be awkward! And you'd notice an egg scurrying off I guess.

Either way I'm still amazed that I didn't know about that sound effect. Fucking hell.

I got my Alien geek points in at the expense of any kind of cool last week. Fridays are dress down here at work. I was wearing a t-shirt with the sentry gun on in. Got asked about it and had to say 'you know the movie Alien? Well did you ever see the sequel Aliens? This is from that. But it's only from the special edition that came out after with 18 extra minutes.'

Xenonerdlinger.

One factoid I like about the Alien series... Weyland-Yutani was originally supposed to be Leyland-Toyota. As a joint British-Japanese alliance. Kinda dates the whole thing.

Surely you mean Vincent Ward? Cameron didn't write Alien 3

He put a facehugger on Suloco first, though.

When? (or do you mean that sound effect?)

HC was Picture Editor on Empire when Alien Cubed was released and the entire editorial department referred to it as such, as did most of the movie reviewers at the time. Don't know whether it ever made it into the mag' as such, but I've always referred to it as Alien Cubed.

Aye.
Here he is chatting about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQn8E3iWlLo&t=6m13s

"Alien" cubed would just be "Alien", surely?

I've not watched Aliens in hi-def. How does it look? Cameron filmed it to look gritty, like a documentary. Does hi-def enhance it?

Embarrassingly I've not even seen the Alienses on DVD yet. I do plan to correct this.

I've got the Stronghold one, somewhere around here. All I remember about it is that it features a talking alien called Charlie or something, who is forced to smoke cigars by a fat scientist to whom the sight is a great source of amusement.

He's too busy increasing VAT.

Yay, my Sulaco T-shirt, Nostromo hoodie and WY baseball cap have just arrived! Thanks, Last Exit to Nowhere!

That's the outfit sorted for your next date then.

Oh, for a woman who is as much of a fan as myself.

Zio Trufax: Zioette was conceived shortly after watching Aliens with the ex.

Oh, the romance!

Trufax: The Grimlet was conceived on the sofa. If he was a girl, we were going to call him/her Sophie.

Fuck. I've slept on that sofa.

Did you push your hand on to her face and wrap your fingers around her head at any point during coitus?

If so, you are my new hero.

No you haven't.

Although I doubt any sofa in our house is entirely innocent.

Or work surface, for that matter.

Alas, I cannot be your hero today.

Was it the inflatable sofa? Points if it was.

Ha! No, it was one in our old flat, before me moved up a floor in the Tower.

Ah. I think I've probably sat on all your sofas of the last 5 years, disappointingly.

Sofa conception? Done that.

During an England game, no less.

That's only cool if you actually bellowed "INGERLUND!" as you climaxed.

"They think it's all over.... It is now!"

Something like that


Oh, it's only just begun...

Sliding tackle then back of the net.

Must try harder Zardberg.

ALIENS thread people!

Well, my missus has a life form growing inside her waiting to burst out...

*flashbacks to antenatal class DVD*

THEORY: While "piloting" the drop ship, Bishop was in fact raiding the nest (or even the crashed ship), having pressed the "land" button and let the 200-or-whatever-years-in-the-future autopilot do the rest. Dun dun dun.

THEORY DISPROVED: You see Bishop piloting the ship

For about 5 seconds! He could be super-fast for all we know - his hands are certainly quick enough; why wouldn't his legs be?

It's a good point. I'd pay money to see a scene of Bishop speed-running from the colony to the derelict and back, just so that I could overlay Yakety Sax on top of it.