always been a little embarrassed by this
I'm one of those kids that went to Summer Camp. That kind where your parents basically get rid of you for about a month and there's other girls and boys there and horses and a swimming pool and a whole ranch sort of theme. It's all very involved. Now, while I'm not sure how old I was at the time, it was at Summer Camp that I first saw Alien...on a betamax no less. One of those, fancy at the time, units that had the three lenses (blue, red, green) that projected the film on a screen that was about 5 feet across and about the same distance from the unit.
This is how I saw Alien...
...doesn't sound all that embarassing, does it?
Hang on.
So, if you've seen the movie this will all kinda make sense: the lifecycle of the thing is very interesting. It starts as an egg, turns into this hand with too many fingers and this odd little thing (facehuggers have been referred to as an ambulatory penis for years) that it stuffs down a persopn's throat. Then it incubates in there for a bit until it comes bursting out of your chest. Not as long as you'd think, it grows into this 8 foot tall/long beastie that is just all sorts of mean and nasty and not the kinda thing you wanna meet in a big dark ship.
Great fun!
I was...definitely older than 10 but not quite a teenager yet I believe; born in 1970. This film scared the bejeebus outta me back then and it still gives me cold chills to this day. However, I was always the kid that loved nightmares so it worked out nicely.
Near the end of the movie when there's only one survivor left, two if you count her cat, and she's going to blow up the ship and get out in an escape pod. She's dragging Jonesy, the cat, around in this little box and is blocked by the alien...so she drops the box and makes a quick retreat. The last we see of the box, as she's running away, is the cat inside looking up at this massive metal toothed face leaning down and checking it out.
Okay, Ripley, the survivor, gets back and finds the alien gone. She scoops up the box with Jonesy inside, hops into the escape pod, flies rapidly away, the ship that she left blows up in a massive explosion (really quite pretty) and she strips down into tiny panties and a t·shirt sorta deal and lets her cat out and starts clicking buttons here and there when she finds the massive big alien is on the escape pod with her.
This would be it.
For the longest time I thought the alien got on the escape pod because it somehow managed to cram itself down into the cat box and when she let the cat out it slid out too...
...hence my embarassment.
This is how I saw Alien...
...doesn't sound all that embarassing, does it?
Hang on.
So, if you've seen the movie this will all kinda make sense: the lifecycle of the thing is very interesting. It starts as an egg, turns into this hand with too many fingers and this odd little thing (facehuggers have been referred to as an ambulatory penis for years) that it stuffs down a persopn's throat. Then it incubates in there for a bit until it comes bursting out of your chest. Not as long as you'd think, it grows into this 8 foot tall/long beastie that is just all sorts of mean and nasty and not the kinda thing you wanna meet in a big dark ship.
Great fun!
I was...definitely older than 10 but not quite a teenager yet I believe; born in 1970. This film scared the bejeebus outta me back then and it still gives me cold chills to this day. However, I was always the kid that loved nightmares so it worked out nicely.
Near the end of the movie when there's only one survivor left, two if you count her cat, and she's going to blow up the ship and get out in an escape pod. She's dragging Jonesy, the cat, around in this little box and is blocked by the alien...so she drops the box and makes a quick retreat. The last we see of the box, as she's running away, is the cat inside looking up at this massive metal toothed face leaning down and checking it out.
Okay, Ripley, the survivor, gets back and finds the alien gone. She scoops up the box with Jonesy inside, hops into the escape pod, flies rapidly away, the ship that she left blows up in a massive explosion (really quite pretty) and she strips down into tiny panties and a t·shirt sorta deal and lets her cat out and starts clicking buttons here and there when she finds the massive big alien is on the escape pod with her.
This would be it.
For the longest time I thought the alien got on the escape pod because it somehow managed to cram itself down into the cat box and when she let the cat out it slid out too...
...hence my embarassment.