Episodes
Monday Oct 17, 2016
Ep. 13 - A Look at the Alien Movie Franchise
Monday Oct 17, 2016
Monday Oct 17, 2016
Where we discuss the five major flicks in the Alien movie franchise: Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien3 (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997), and Prometheus (2012). The AvP movies get the occasional mention, but we decline to discuss them in-depth. We start out the show covering some upcoming and imminent genre stuff, such as Marvel's Doctor Strange, and TV shows like the new season of Supergirl.
Show Notes:
First, the Nerdly News
01:10 - The upcoming Dr. Strange Marvel movie, and the need for the character to be American.
05:20 - The new golden age of television continues.
06:34 - Bill and Ross give a report of their viewing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on the big screen at TIFF, accompanied by a lecture by effects master Douglas Trumbull.
10:28 - A look towards Blade Runner: 2049.
13:21 - The big DC TV show 3-episode Supergirl, Flash, Legends of Tomorrow musical crossover.
17:04 - Alien franchise talk starts.
19:40 - How the first Alien movie came to be.
23:45 - Alien screenwriters’ Dan O’Bannon's and Ron Shusett’s work on the animated film Heavy Metal.
26:50 - Bill: Alien is a sexual movie without any sex in it.
28:24 - The influential grotesqueness of H.R. Giger
30:11 - How smart really is The Monster of Alien.
36:12 - The challenged expectations of the original Alien.
37:18 - More on the sexual allegory of the Alien movies.
39:36 - The shocking Chestburster scene.
44:12 - The iconic “Space Jockey” imagery.
47:18 - A huge, breakout role for the great Sigourney Weaver.
49:48 - Aliens talk starts.
56:05 - Medical Bay scene, Ripley and Newt.
57:44 - James Cameron and how the Alien sequel came about.
1:00:53 - Bill Paxton and Fishheads.
1:02:15 - Cameron’s great difficulties filming in England.
1:03:29 - The mother/daughter dynamic of Aliens.
1:04:12 - Why Aliens is one of the perfect movies.
1:08:40 - Random Aliens trivia time.
1:15:50 - Alien3 talk starts.
1:17:50 - Poor David Fincher.
1:23:44 - Alien Resurrection talk starts.
1:30:08 - The merchandising of the Alien films.
1:38:20 - Prometheus talk starts.
1:41:45 - An example of the incredibly stupid things that characters do in this film.
1:45:45 - Run to the side, morons!
1:47:58 - Prometheus does have the best gross-out scene next to the original’s chestburster.
1:51:22 - The movie also does some interesting fill-in of the mythology of the alien race.
1:55:35 - Alien v Predator v Highlander?
Your Nerdstalkers:
Bill Hunter - writer, and creator of video game history website The Dot Eaters
Chad Wick - writer, musician and creator of the Canadian Culture Thing
with Special Geekspeaker Duh Boss
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