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  • The greatest DVD box set ever released comes out an not a peep from any of you. Is ANYONE here getting the Alien Quadrilogy?

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #57049  by Zeus
 Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:23 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The greatest DVD box set ever released comes out an not a peep from any of you. Is ANYONE here getting the Alien Quadrilogy?</div>

 #57050  by G-man Joe
 Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:25 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Alien and Aliens were the only ones worth it. And the greatest box set was Indiana Jones. GREATEST EVAR!</div>

 #57053  by Manshoon
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:06 am
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Picked it up today, though I'm not sure when I'll find the time to watch it.</div>

 #57055  by Julius Seeker
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:03 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The greatest box set of all time is the 007 three volume box set, which I have already bought. I didn't like the Alien movies at all, not my style of movie.</div>

 #57058  by Imakeholesinu
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:41 am
<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Oh come on, Ressurrection was pretty good, had good actors just a shitty story.</div>

 #57059  by Eric
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:52 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Basically, it was one of those movies that just acted as a filler as an explanation to why Ripley came back. God only knows why there's never been a 5th movie, Mrs. Sigourney Weaver is bout it.</div>

 #57069  by Zeus
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:38 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I meant in terms of features as much as the films. In the Alien one, there's 2 separate cuts from each film on top of a ridiculous amount of extras.</div>

 #57070  by Zeus
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:38 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yes, but you're crazy...the first two are among the most popular sci-fi films of all time</div>

 #57071  by Zeus
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:39 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I actually liked the 3rd more than the 4th. I didn't think the 3rd was the disaster everyone said it was</div>

 #57073  by Julius Seeker
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:46 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The Matrix series was about 10 times more popular, and I didn't like that either, your point?</div>

 #57075  by Zeus
 Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:50 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Matrix is new, that's why it's more popular now. In the long run, you'll see that Alien 1 and 2 will far surpass the Matrix films, although #1 will be popular</div>

 #57081  by SineSwiper
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:45 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Now you're not even making sense.</div>

 #57086  by Lox
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 9:23 am
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think he's saying that the Alien movies have staying power and aren't just the current movie fad.</div>

 #57087  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:05 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Who or what says the Alien movies have more staying power than the Matrix ones? It's not a logical assumption at all, obviously the Matrix movies appeal to WAY more people or else they wouldn't be so popular.</div>

 #57088  by Eric
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:24 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Comparing The Matrix to Aliens, is like comparing Mario to Crash Bandicoot. Shit's popular for a while, then it dies down big time, and the classic still reigns surpreme.</div>

 #57089  by Lox
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:25 am
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm not commenting on whether the Aliens movies are better than The Matrix ones. I was just interpreting for Sine. The only way we'll know for sure is to wait a few years and see which has the highest longevity.</div>

 #57090  by Lox
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:26 am
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's my prediction, but who knows how popular the Matrix movies will stay.</div>

 #57092  by Manshoon
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:55 am
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>You've got to be kidding. Killing off everyone from Aliens was a terrible mistake if you ask me.</div>

 #57093  by G-man Joe
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 12:43 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>They should have followed the comic book version that took off from teh 2nd movie. Newt was grown up and the one hunting down the creatures. She basically took Ridley's place.</div>

 #57094  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:46 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I got that, I was just replying more to Zeus than anything, I debated which post to reply to and your interpretation was actually intelligible, so I replied here instead of above =)</div>

 #57095  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:13 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Crash is hardly a classic. Mario was probably even more than 10 times as popular as Crash, and which game is it that everyone remembers?</div>

 #57101  by Eric
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 8:12 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm saying when Crash came out, people were serious dick riding the 3D graphics, sound and gameplay, but it died down, Mario is still a classic.</div>

 #57104  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:26 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Mario is much better known than Crash Bandicoot because Mario was always WAY more popular. Mario 64 absolutely destroyed the Crash Bandicoot games in sales.</div>

 #57113  by Zeus
 Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:54 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Not at all. The series has always been about the intertwined destiny's of Ripley and the Alien, right from the beginning of the second film. It was a theme they followed through right to the fourth. There are no other recurring characters other than Bishop for a reason</div>

 #57114  by Zeus
 Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:56 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Nah, I much preferred the tragic, intertwined destiny thing. The third took the film back to its roots (pure suspense instead of action/suspense). I loved the 2nd (my fav), but the series just isn't an action series</div>

 #57116  by Blotus
 Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:42 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Fuck! He's agreeing with you!</div>

 #57117  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Dec 06, 2003 5:01 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>He is? What I'm saying is that Matrix is 10 times more popular than Alien ever was, and Mario was 10 times more popular than crash ever was, it goes back up to my first message in the thread and Zeus saying I'm crazy for not liking the Alien movies or something =P</div>

 #57118  by Manshoon
 Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:14 pm
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>I think that's more dependent on the director's vision than anything else. I know if Cameron had his way Newt, Bishop and that other guy wouldn't have died in the first 5 minutes. That just seems like a waste when you consider how Aliens ended, with all of them journeying together.</div>

 #57122  by Zeus
 Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:17 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think you're overestimating the lasting power of the Matrix (popularity is already starting to come down) and underestimating the popularity of the Alien movies. Fox has made INSANE amounts of money off the series. The Quadrilogy came out for a reason</div>

 #57123  by Zeus
 Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:18 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's exactly why it was so tragic and worked so well with the series' direction of the tragic destiny of Ripley and the alien</div>

 #57124  by Eric
 Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:37 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I was actually comparing Crash Bandicoot to Mario Bros 1 2 & 3.</div>