In later script revisions, the creature was changed into a "more believable" hybrid of human and alien.
This must be some strange usage of the word "believable" that I was not previously aware of.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Jessica - Jul 17, 2004 7:10:40 am PDT #772 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Sean K - Jul 17, 2004 7:11:07 am PDT #773 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I wasn't a big Alien3 fan. I should give it another shot; I've only seen it the once. I really hated the ending.
It does have it's problems. It's definitely one of those movies that had too many people (read "studio executives") trying to make it at the same time, and it suffered through multiple director changes.
Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2004 7:12:25 am PDT #774 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Fincher is a man with many, many issues and devils, and I kind of enjoy how he tries to work them out onscreen.
Really? I just like his visual style. And I've liked every one of his movies quite a bit. I know nothing of the man's issues and/or devils.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2004 7:15:22 am PDT #775 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Other than Se7en (which has a fantastic last 20 minutes, pity about the hour and a half preceding it), I am a Fincher fan. (Fight Club being one of my desert island movies, after all.)
But I can't hear his name without thinking of the Editing Room's Panic Room script parody, especially this line:
DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER
Think I can fit the camera through
the handle of this coffee pot? Think
I can? Huh? Huh?
(he does it)
FUCK YEAH I CAN! WHOO!
Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2004 7:20:16 am PDT #776 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Other than Se7en (which has a fantastic last 20 minutes, pity about the hour and a half preceding it)
I haven't seen it in a long time. I ought to. It does get major points for using a remix of "Closer" for the opening credits.
(Fight Club being one of my desert island movies, after all.)
I own the DVD. I've seen it at least four times now, probably. I need to listen to all the commentaries on that disc. I wish I had the two-disc version, though.
But I can't hear his name without thinking of the Editing Room's Panic Room script parody, especially this line:
Hee hee hee. On the money. Panic Room was all right, a decent thriller. Not exceptional.
The Game is one hell of a mindfuck. Loved it.
ETA: Appropriate post number.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2004 7:24:05 am PDT #777 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The Game is one hell of a mindfuck. Loved it.
Ohhhhh, I'd forgotten he did that one. I may have to amend my "Fincher fan" status to "think he's an interesting enough director that I'll see his films in theatres in spite of how much I hated The Game."
There are at least twelve points in that movie where it should have ended. None of them occur at the end of the film.
Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2004 7:26:14 am PDT #778 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica, you hated Donnie Darko, too. Probably something else I liked. I take your hate with a grain of salt. ;-}
And because it's always fun to make fun of people on the IMDb boards, here's someone's opinion on Alien: Resurrection :
Some scenes with no realism:
-The scene under water, they are under water for about 5 min. after 200 years tecnology has changed but humans haven`t evolved to be more like fish.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2004 7:27:16 am PDT #779 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
With Jessica, despised The Game. In fact, Panic Room is the Fincher I remember most fondly.
Sean K - Jul 17, 2004 7:30:16 am PDT #780 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I actually liked Se7en, myself, but I haven't seen the Game yet. I liked Panic Room.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2004 7:49:20 am PDT #781 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I take your hate with a grain of salt.
What you must remember is that you are a wrongheaded crackpot about such things, and I am not. I am always right.
The first time I saw Se7en, I walked in late and only saw the last 20 minutes (in which we get not only supercrazycalm Kevin Spacey, but also Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box). And I thought it was fucking brilliant.
Then I saw the whole thing, and I realized how completely mundane the movie is. (And since it doesn't realize it's mundane, it's doubly pretentious.) Very disappointing.