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Alien, is there a story behind it?

  • 27-12-2010 02:01AM
    #1
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭


    Watching Alien, is there any history behind the film, especially the dead alien (the one sitting on the big gun) on the crashed ship on the planet that they land on?


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  • #2
    jaybee747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭jaybee747


    No don't recall one, although there is a prequel planned which should explain all.


  • #3
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    A series of Comic books written about the Aliens. Not sure what they cover in terms of backstory.

    Also some novels and novelizations written.


  • #4
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Great question that, to me it looks like that alien landed there the same as the crew from the nostromo and had his face hugged without even leaving his control console.

    Looks like it was a very long time before the nostromo crew arrived too.


  • #5
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Doom wrote: »
    (the one sitting on the big gun)

    Was it a gun, now that i think of it your probably right, i had to drink myself to oblivion tonight because a tooth is drivin me mad


  • #6
    BigBenRoeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭BigBenRoeth


    robbie7730 wrote: »
    i had to drink myself to oblivion tonight because a tooth is drivin me mad

    Sorry to barge in here,but that must be the best quote ever to be commited to boards.


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  • #7
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    BigBenRoeth wrote: »
    Sorry to barge in here,but that must be the best quote ever to be commited to boards.

    Its true as well. Cant feel a thing now.


  • #8
    jugger0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    The Prequel deals with who those big dudes are, well thats what ive heard. Maybe they created the aliens as some some sort of bio weapon... we'll have to wait and see!


  • #9
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    The big thing is known as a 'Space Jockey'.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jockey_(Alien)


  • #10
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Galvasean wrote: »
    The big thing is known as a 'Space Jockey'.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jockey_(Alien)

    Thats right, sounds familiar alright, its one of best films ever i think.


  • #11
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Ya, great film. I remember been about 9yrs old, ****ting myself and running out of the room when the alien started to burst out of john hurt. I think this film got me hooked on sci-fi


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  • #12
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,867 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    yeah i remember watching on telly as a kid but i had bought the graphic novel of the film off a lad in school so i knew when the scary bits were coming and switched over :)
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  • #13
    tallaghtmick
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    in the avp series the predators created the aliens to hunt......but the avp series sucks so we will put that behind us


  • #14
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,685 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    tallaghtmick wrote: »
    in the avp series the predators created the aliens to hunt......but the avp series sucks so we will put that behind us

    I don't think they created them just saw them as the ultimate prey so they bred them on game reserves for hunting. AvP movies were ****e, but there's some good stuff in the games and comics, fits pretty well with the Aliens universe as a whole. In the movies they just ****e all over the Alien franchise by having aliens in the present day.


  • #15
    jugger0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I don't think they created them just saw them as the ultimate prey so they bred them on game reserves for hunting. AvP movies were ****e, but there's some good stuff in the games and comics, fits pretty well with the Aliens universe as a whole. In the movies they just ****e all over the Alien franchise by having aliens in the present day.

    If they based the movies on the game it would be the greatest movie ever... AVP 1 and 2 are unbelivable.


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