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Unfortunately they never made a sequel to Aliens.

I’ve heard people talk about it, but they are just suffering from delusions, waking bad dreams -- horrible nightmares that they thought were real film!  

I only pity them.  They keep talking about a….  Just staggeringly dog s**t movie in which Hicks and Newt die during the opening credits, Ripley runs around hairless and dies in this awfully bad-cheesy crucifixion image….   They rant about bad editing, like a 2 hour music video made movie…. No compelling characters.    I think they said Bishop bites it in the opening credits too.

Some of them (during their delusional film-watching)  literally flipped the bird at the screen and said OH GO f**k YOURSELF !!!!  during those opening credits as Newt and Hicks died, and they realized that instead of getting a worthy successor to Cameron's Aliens, they were getting multiply re-written absolute dog s**t.   These same people say that Alien:  Resurrection was in ways even worse-written, though.   I have no idea what their basis for comparison is.

Don't know what's wrong with these people, I wish I could help them.

Thank goodness no such movie exists!!

[April 25:]

April 25:

1991: Read that Lord Byron’s proto-Victorian wife made their daughter, future mathematical genius Ada Lovelace, lie awake and completely still in bed for hours at a time, not even blinking, so decided to see what that’d be like. It was messed up, that’s what it was like.

1995: When I was lying in bed with Brian, I asked him purely hypothetically if he was going to kill himself, how would he do it. He said he wouldn’t answer something like that, so I told him he had no courage in his imagination, an accusation he found charmingly amusing. (Me, I said “lawnmower.”)

1997: Asked a teacher why if we’re all accepted into college anyway, they were still making us take exams. I concluded they had no idea.

1998: Didn’t like drinking, so I was designated driver at a kegger. My thanks? Someone hurled in my back seat, and no one gave me gas money.

2001: The nicest boy I ever knew asked me to marry him, and I said something horribly flip back, which I have always felt bad about.

2002: Finished working an assignment that had me away from family and friends for many weeks, and I was giddy with relief to be done with it.

2003: Fed sushi to three-year-old Tyler, who sprayed it back out of his mouth the instant he tasted it.

2010: Found out my agent sold rights to my short stories, meaning others could claim them as their own: and did. It was in the fine print, but I’d thought he was only going to market first North American serial rights. He acted surprised when I got mad about that, saying, “But I made you money.” There was almost one less nerdy Jewish guy in the world.

2014: My friend made me laugh by saying when we team up, my husband and I are a “velvet steamroller.”

2016: My husband sent me flowers because he stood me up on movie night to play Dark Souls III.

2019: My daughter and I laughed ourselves silly because she found this package of toilet paper with the cheerful claim on the outside that promised: “You’ll Love It!”

2020: Made violet jelly and ginger beer (which is non-alcoholic).

2023: Drove my ailing father in law around to get him out of the house, and he told me stories about his life. It was a sweet, brief undertaking I miss now, just as I miss him.

No idea if it was remastered, but I saw Alien in 1992 on the big screen when Alien 3 was released. Either way, it is worth watching on the big screen, remastered or not.

Did you manage to catch one of the screenings of all three movies?

No idea if it was remastered, but I saw Alien in 1992 on the big screen when Alien 3 was released. Either way, it is worth watching on the big screen, remastered or not.

I just uploaded a video of it!  I only used my phone camera but I got some cool shots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMpmKrgGUQ

That's good to hear! 

I saw it on the big screen (supposedly) remastered during the 25th anniversary tour. I don't know how many times they can remaster it or how much better it can look, but I'm not complaining about more people getting a chance to see it in a theater. Truly a classic and a masterpiece... only improves with age.

5/5 I think there is an uncut version?

It's a little bit of sex and violence that was cut for an "R" rating. I only saw the uncut version, can't really say how impactful the changes were.