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Old 11-16-2017, 09:23 AM   #20491 (permalink)
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Our city's MST3K group hosted a screening of MST3K The Movie last night at a local indie theater and cafe.

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I was trying to save all the MST episodes off Comet TV on my DVR, but they show the same @#$%^ fifteen episodes and only two of them with Joel Hodgson. What a rip!
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Old 11-16-2017, 09:39 AM   #20492 (permalink)
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Almost 40 years old and still hasn't aged a bit.



Did ya know that in this scene (which was a single take), Scott purposely didn't tell the actors about the massive explosion of blood from Kane's chest? He wanted the actors' reactions to be genuine. Veronica Cartwright was so freaked out (she got really splashed in the face) that she stumbled back and fell.

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I watched that again for the first time in years last weekend. It is indeed timeless as ****.
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Old 11-16-2017, 10:38 AM   #20494 (permalink)
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It just looks so lifelike. Stunning effects and not least the sets and lighting. There are high-budget movies from just 10 years ago that haven't aged a 100th as well. A lot of not-quite-there-yet CGI especially.
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I was trying to save all the MST episodes off Comet TV on my DVR, but they show the same @#$%^ fifteen episodes and only two of them with Joel Hodgson. What a rip!
That stinks. I had a similar problem, (in that I don't own a TV) Thankfully the complete series including the KTMA eps is out there free to download if you look around.
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Honestly, though I love Alien the **** to death, I think the rubber suit can be a bit not-so-great at times whenever you see more than just the head (the head is quite possibly the high watermark of all horror though). That jumpscare in the vents honestly looks kinda goofy even if the entire rest of the scene was ace. A CGI alien would have been far worse, but the rubber suit still wasn't perfect.

And while the second half is slasher movie nirvana most of the time, it's still a bit more generic than the first half of the movie up till the chestburster scene. From second one till after that thing runs off screen is like the best sci-fi movie ever though, with the ultimate, can never be topped expression of what can happen when unsuspecting explorers encounter secretly hostile alien life on an uncharted planet. But if I didn't have the first half to compare the second half to I probably wouldn't have the slightest problem with it beyond that suit kinda sorta.
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Honestly, though I love Alien the **** to death, I think the rubber suit can be a bit not-so-great at times whenever you see more than just the head (the head is quite possibly the high watermark of all horror though). That jumpscare in the vents honestly looks kinda goofy even if the entire rest of the scene was ace. A CGI alien would have been far worse, but the rubber suit still wasn't perfect.

And while the second half is slasher movie nirvana most of the time, it's still a bit more generic than the first half of the movie up till the chestburster scene. From second one till after that thing runs off screen is like the best sci-fi movie ever though, with the ultimate, can never be topped expression of what can happen when unsuspecting explorers encounter secretly hostile alien life on an uncharted planet. But if I didn't have the first half to compare the second half to I probably wouldn't have the slightest problem with it beyond that suit kinda sorta.
I guess I agree, but at least they had the good judgment of limiting what you see of the alien most of the time. Think of that scene where Dallas is crawling around inside the ventilation system. You see it for like 1½ seconds. Probably way less.

What really makes me love the first half is the atmosphere and believeability of it all. I'm not joking when I'm saying that my favorite part of the movie is at the very beginning before anyone has woken up. That whole stretch from when the credits begin, to the first person wakes up from cryo. Audiovisual porn.

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What really makes me love the first half is the atmosphere and believeability of it all. I'm not joking when I'm saying that my favorite part of the movie is at the very beginning before anyone has woken up. That whole stretch from the credits begin, to the first person wakes up from cryo. Audiovisual porn.
I'm not sure if that's my fav, but as an intro it's brilliant. I love just how you can always hear a low hum throughout the movie when on the ship, and you obviously notice it the most at the beginning, and it makes just about every second of the movie tense in a way that seeps into your subconscious. But srsly it's hard to beat the chestburster scene. Plenty of horror movies and sci-fi horror movies have gore, but how many of them feel that ****ing real? That looked halfway between a horror movie kill and a future National Geographic special and I can't think of anything that's ever felt the same. When I pick Alien over The Thing it's **** like that that looks so realistic and immersive that helps put it over the edge.
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I'm not sure if that's my fav, but as an intro it's brilliant. I love just how you can always hear a low hum throughout the movie when on the ship, and you obviously notice it the most at the beginning, and it makes just about every second of the movie tense in a way that seeps into your subconscious. But srsly it's hard to beat the chestburster scene. Plenty of horror movies and sci-fi horror movies have gore, but how many of them feel that ****ing real? That looked halfway between a horror movie kill and a future National Geographic special and I can't think of anything that's ever felt the same. When I pick Alien over The Thing it's **** like that that looks so realistic and immersive that helps put it over the edge.
I completely admit that I still involuntarily clutch my chest when I watch that scene
The movie just has this groundedness to it that no other movie in the same genre has had for me. I've mentioned before how I don't even like horror movies. Alien just has this incredible sort of flair to it that makes it something very special. Even as a Ridley Scott fanboy, I'll admit he hasn't come close to replicating that in any other movie. Like it's halfway some happy accident.
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I completely admit that I still involuntarily clutch my chest when I watch that scene
The movie just has this groundedness to it that no other movie in the same genre has had for me. I've mentioned before how I don't even like horror movies. Alien just has this incredible sort of flair to it that makes it something very special. Even as a Ridley Scott fanboy, I'll admit he hasn't come close to replicating that in any other movie. Like it's halfway some happy accident.
Might actually be both my fav horror and sci-fi movie. And Jesus Christ everyone talks about the Xenomorph, but how ****ing cool, nightmarish, and ****ing real does the facehugger look? Doesn't even look like a horror movie monster, and it isn't even something that goes RARGH DIE!!! The scene in the medbay when this hate**** lifeform is just lying on the peacefully unconscious dude's face without moving is like a dark mirror version of Star Trek and it's amazing. I'm glad HR Giger never did any more horror movie designs (that I know of) or else it might have become old hat rather than being the greatest anomaly in horror monster design.
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