MicShazam

The face hugger is a great design. I watched Alien at way too young an age (8-9 years. Very permissive parents.), and that creepy little bastard had quite an effect on my young mind. It seemed so otherworldly, so fascinating, scary and lifelike. I think the way it doesn't just lob your head off, but insead sends you into a peaceful coma while pretty much impregnating you... it's all very Freudian and ****ed up. The grown aliens are more like aggressive tigers or something. Scary - but the facehugger has more dimensions to it.

And yeah, I agree that it's probably for the best that it didn't become all trendy to have H.R. Giger monster designs - even though one has to imagine he must have turned down a request or two.

The Batlord

Yeah, but that scene when *spoiler* the black guy whose name I can't remember dies and then the alien kills the woman with its tail by presumably going up through her torso was so much a rape scene. Even that part where Ripley is going down the corridor with the woman screaming over the intercom for way too ****ing long to not make you feel uncomfortable was def supposed to feel like a rape scene. So physical violation was very much a theme of that movie even beyond just the facehugger.

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MicShazam

That's a good observation. I agree that the movie points in a certain direction in more than one way. It's very sexual, in a way. Just like most of H.R. Giger's artwork is. And who hasn't realized what the under side of the face hugger looks like at this point?

The Batlord

Lulz yeah. The xenomorph was far too sadistic in a way that isn't just mindlessly murderous for it to not be seen as a sexual sadist. The best ways to encourage a lifeform to do something from an evolutionary standpoint, whether it be eating, mating, or killing is to make it pleasurable, and that alien clearly derived pleasure from killing. Totally a sexual sadist.

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Chula Vista

Yaphet Kotto. Check out the 1978 flick 'Blue Collar' with him, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor. A little bit dated but ****ing intense ****. And all too real even today.



Re: Alien, vaginas, and sex innuendo

This says it all. Ridley was 100% going "there".

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The Batlord

TFW you're reminded of that movie The Ghost and the Darkness and want to watch a horror movie about actual wild animals (lions in the case of that movie) that is legit and not stupid but that movie wasn't that good from what you remember anyway but it was at least based on real events and had Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer and wasn't a CGI ****fest so good enough I guess?

Also tfw you see the tagline for the movie, "Prey for the hunters". God damn it. It can't be THAT bad, right?

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bulbasaur

can't say i've ever had those very particular feelings

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The Batlord

TFW you want to play Fire Emblem while taking a ****.

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Akai

After the long wait, finally seen the Miike adaptation of the BoTI manga, met every expectation I had and then some

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Cuthbert

I watched The Green Mile.

Probably in my top ten films. Really enjoyed it.