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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i haven't seen "the thing" (i think) but ALIEN was indeed epoch-making
proletarians in outer space! and riddley scott's breakout movie if i'm not mistaken. an h.r. giger monster after a female hero with more huevos than han solo. fuck!
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last night watched IT FOLLOWS
i thought it was great! i haven't seen a scary movie about sex since FATAL ATTRACTION. long overdue. this one is probably about HPV or something (it walks slowly...).
now when i say great it's because it looked awesome and was creepy and scary and it was made in detroit which was a great setting for it.
on the weak side it looked a bit like a genre movie-- the genre being "young adult". teenagers go around doing whatever, no parents or adults around, a bit like charlie brown, but you do see a couple of parent's faces briefly. so it felt a little artificial that way, the kids dealing with megaproblems without asking for help and being stupid.
but okay, who cares, let's chalk it to whatever, it was great, and it's pretty new and it's out on bluray.
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I agree. It was really good. Saw it about a year ago and it made an impression.
Re: Alien, you're right of course. Epoch-making. Classic suspense and horror qualities that actually WORKED in a space/sci-fi setting (unlike, say, Event Horizon). Maybe it was wrong of me to even suggest that The Thing was better. Maybe I just should have said I think The Thing is on a similar level of greatness. Plus, it was muddied by a series of sequels of varying quality.
I actually really liked Prometheus. Looking forward to the sequel to that.
Why did Scott have to hand over ALIENS to Cameron? I know a lot of folks think it's better than the original, but it's not. Cameron < Scott.