Alien 5: WhatwhatWHAT?!?

[BanzaiCat]

I might have been surprised that a thread can go from the horrors of the Alien franchise to "sparklenipples" in but a few pages, when I first came on board here, but now I'd be disappointed if someone didn't bring up ghey, Hillary Clinton, sparking battery cable clamps attached to fat nipples, or hooching Sammy Hagar up the ol' poopchute within that frame.

Actually this kind of thing should appear on the front page, so maybe you old dudes are losing your edge.

[mirth]

It's hard to maintain the level of excellence we've established as the norm. Sometimes I think we set the bar too high.

[BanzaiCat]

That is true. Once you broach the anal, fleshlight, and Red Rocker diddling jokes, everyone expects you to up the ante the next thread around.

[undercovergeek]

It really is like a school trip of all the naughtiest kids - anywhere else I read breaks down into rational arguments, cogent thought and sage theories - fk that, I'm here for the beers, boobs, and beans

[Sir Slash]

I've often felt that nipples should sparkle. Or light-up anyway, in the dark it would make it easier to find them. Now the other stuff doesn't need any more light on it, Thank You.

[mirth]

If you have a hard time finding nipples in the dark, I don't know what to tell you.

[BanzaiCat]

I quizzed my daughter on Alien, and found out she bailed out when the chestburster came out. I had to explain to her that was really the only bloody/gory scene in the whole movie (at least that I remember...need to watch it again I think), and that Alien was a LOT more about tension and shite you can't see but knew was there, than action and/or bloody stuff. Though that one scene is more than enough to make up for a lack of gore otherwise...

[mirth]

Ridley Scott didn't fully reveal to the cast what was going to happen in that scene, so he could capture their natural reactions. I imagine there were some soiled shorts.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/13/making-of-alien-chestburster

[Gusington]

Ridley Scott fucking rocks.

[BanzaiCat]

Ridley Scott fucking rocks.

I still don't know if I like Prometheus or not, though.  :-\

[mirth]

I know.  >:(

[JasonPratt]

Re other gory Alien scenes: the first time the grown Alien attacks can be pretty traumatic, though not to the same degree. The next 'goriest' part is probably Ash's death. I can't recall any other actually gory parts -- Captain Dallas just disappears from the theatrical cut never to be seen again, and... I don't recall when or how Yaphet Kotto dies, though I remember he's bleeding from the mouth. But it can't be on the same level as Ash, much less the chestburster.

[Huw the Poo]

No, you've covered it all, Jason.  Chestburster and death of Ash are the only scenes that could be called gory as far as I'm concerned.

I'm dying to show the Alien series to my kids, but at 9 and 5, it ain't happening any time soon. :(

[BanzaiCat]

I didn't think of Ash's death scene. It didn't bother me when I was a kid. I remember thinking how weird it was. The only thing somewhat disturbing about it was the body thrashing around.

[JasonPratt]

Well, that and his attempt to kill Ripley by, in effect, orally raping her with a rolled up magazine. {shudder}