Comments on: Interesting Aliens

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:47:23 +0000

Whoa, that sounds awesome and potentially embarrassing. You’ll definitely have to post it.

By: chanson

chanson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:49 +0000

Cute, but you’re making me feel old. ;)

As a kid, I watched re-runs of the original generation with my brother. I got into the Next Generation and DS9 in college! Then I starred as “Captain Thelev” in a fifteen-episode community-cable Star Trek parody.

The DVD is sitting here in the table with me — I’ve totally got to figure out how to post it on YouTube…

By: jacob Wayne

jacob Wayne — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:29 +0000

The Thing is incredible, “Aliens”s Xinomorphs are sweet was well.

By: blood_and_ashes

blood_and_ashes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:47:25 +0000

Dogger, the xenomorphs are what the aliens from that series are called, truly amazing, brilliant work by HR Giger who designed them and the ship from the first movie.

Ash: You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

By: Dogger Dog

Dogger Dog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:18:21 +0000

Favorite alien race is the one from “Aliens.” So creepy and cool.

And what that other guy said about that “thing” near Kolob.

By: blood_and_ashes

blood_and_ashes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:26 +0000

Jon (this is to Jon),
Agreed about the humanoid bit, though I’d say the first Thing from Outer Space, while humanoid, was neat because it killed the wishy washy “lets understand it!” guy, which I liked.

Also, the floating Brains from Planet Aros.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:33:10 +0000

Oh…alien alien. I thought that was just a typo on your part, at first. So let me revise my answer.

The “wholly other” God of Catholicism. ;)

Nah, I don’t have any good answers. All I know is that really humanoid aliens ruin sci-fi movies for me–even decent ones like District 9.

By: Source

Source — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:37:36 +0000

The most alien alien I’ve even seen in a movie is Solaris. The Andrei Tarkovsky version is amazing; I haven’t seen the George Clooney version, but since it’s about half as long it might be a good idea for a SHAFT movie night.

By: blood_and_ashes

blood_and_ashes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:25:34 +0000

Huh huh-huh…exposed….

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:10:20 +0000

C’mon Jon, you can do better than that. God isn’t a weird unthinkable alien. He’s just another of those advanced god-like humanoid aliens that trick less-advanced cultures that Kirk was always exposing.

By: blood_and_ashes

blood_and_ashes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:30 +0000

I’ve heard some scientists (I think) make this claim and I’ll sorta stick by it. The Blob was probably the greatest alien invasion idea because it wasn’t human or bipedal or anything. It was just a sorta amoebalike whatever that just devoured shit (though it did hunt and attack things like the trailer near the end and the projector room guy). I loved it too for that reason, there was no “connection” with its feelings or something, it was totally unknown and more interesting/frightening that way. The second Thing movie (Carpenter’s version) was also like this, it took the form of whatever it found and made strange things from it, such as a flower like thing that was basically dog tongues and canines.
Agreed about the humanoid issue. I’m glad that at least around the 80s or so people were starting to use more advanced puppeting/camera technology to get around this and be more creative in designs (it was tried sometimes before but looked ridiculous. Posters kicked ass.) I still like the Xenomorphs even though the first was essentially a guy in a suit. No humanity, no hope for connection, just unknown, unknowable, unbeatable.

My two cents.

By: Mike L.

Mike L. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000

At least they acknowledge what it looks like… TERRIFYING.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:48 +0000

Favorite alien?

The god in the Book of Mormon who resides near the planet Kolob. ;)

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:53:13 +0000

Umm. It's a second head. According to this page, it's the digestive head used to swallow plants or prey. The top head is used to catch things, and houses the actual genitals. Or something. Like I said, it's weird.

By: Mike L.

Mike L. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:59:17 +0000

Ok, call me juvenile, but can somebody tell me WHAT THE HELL is the thing coming out of the chest of the animal from this page? http://www.nemoramjet.com/sndmakingof.html