Some of you might have noticed through Twitter/Facebook that I recently saw Aliens on the big screen at BAM. My girlfriend and I went to see it and we were so very entertained. Not to mention the spectacular visual effects (way better than CGI), we also noticed the awesome sound design. She pointed me in the direction of this alien egg hatching sound (I don’t think this is actually from the movie, though…it sounds like a gunshot at the end?):
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Something about the Aliens storyline hooks me in and had me thinking about it for days afterward. My girlfriend had never seen Alien 3 (I told her she wasn’t missing much), but I did tell her the basic plot of the movie and where the story goes. I dug up some info from wikipedia that some folks might find interesting:
A number of cast and crew associated with the series, including actor Michael Biehn, previous director James Cameron, and novelist Alan Dean Foster expressed their frustration and disappointment with the film’s story. Cameron, in particular, regarded the decision to kill off the characters of Bishop, Newt, and Hicks “a slap in the face” to him and to fans of the previous film. Biehn, upon learning of Corporal Hicks’ demise, demanded and received almost as much money for the use of his likeness in one scene as he had been paid for his role in Aliens Alan Dean Foster called the death of Newt “an obscenity.”
Anyway, enough geekiness. Until next time…