Aliens.......

[M-5]

Ass a side note..... i was wondering if anyone has watched the 1965 movie Planet of the Vampires. I saw this movie many times as a kid ...Saturday morning B sci fi, anyhow i noticed that there are parallels to the first Alien movie. They land on a stormy rocky world and come upon a ship which kinda looks like the one  in Aliens ( steam-punk looking) Also they discover a rather huge Alien skeleton outside the craft just like Tom Skerritt  did inside the alien craft in the 1978 Movie.

Marko

Like you, I've seen it a lot as a kid.  Yes, it's very similar to Alien.

[Bryancd]

Ass a side note..... i was wondering if anyone has watched the 1965 movie Planet of the Vampires. I saw this movie many times as a kid ...Saturday morning B sci fi, anyhow i noticed that there are parallels to the first Alien movie. They land on a stormy rocky world and come upon a ship which kinda looks like the one  in Aliens ( steam-punk looking) Also they discover a rather huge Alien skeleton outside the craft just like Tom Skerritt  did inside the alien craft in the 1978 Movie.

Marko

..heheh, Marko said ass... :)
No doubt Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon were influenced by a lot of things. Another interesting look at ALIEN would be to compare the book to the film. There are some interesting differences. Marko could do an audio segment!

[MARKO]

OOOPS....... i did sorry,   :) 

[Bryancd]

Here's an interesting bit about O'Bannon's original story and the first 29 pages which sound very much like what you are suggesting, Marko.

"O'Bannon had written twenty-nine pages of a script entitled Memory comprising what would become the film's opening scenes: a crew of astronauts awaken to find that their voyage has been interrupted because they are receiving a signal from a mysterious planetoid. They investigate and their ship breaks down on the surface.[15][16] He did not yet, however, have a clear idea as to what the alien antagonist of the story would be.[14]"

[Bryancd]

Oh, here we go! Marko is spot on!

In writing the script, O'Bannon drew inspiration from many previous works of science fiction and horror. He later stated that "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody!"[19] The Thing from Another World (1951) inspired the idea of professional men being pursued by a deadly alien creature through a claustrophobic environment.[19] Forbidden Planet (1956) gave O'Bannon the idea of a ship being warned not to land, and then the crew being killed one by one by a mysterious creature when they defy the warning.[19] Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.[19] O'Bannon has also noted the influence of "Junkyard" (1953), a short story by Clifford D. Simak in which a crew lands on an asteroid and discovers a chamber full of eggs.[15] He has also cited as influences Strange Relations by Philip José Farmer (1960), which covers alien reproduction, and various EC Comics horror titles carrying stories in which monsters eat their way out of people.[15]

[QuadShot]

Hmm, awesome catch Marko. I'm thinking....YOU and Bryan do the episode!!

[MARKO]

I have never done a podcast before........ yikes.

[moyer777]

..heheh, Marko said ass... :)

:roflmao

[MARKO]

ok..... what do we have to do to make this happen, after all Rick already has a song for it!

[moyer777]

I watched Aliens last night.  Not as good as the first one, but kind of cool.  I DVR'd it from the other day.

[MARKO]

Rick  ... i agree not as spooky or good as the first one, i am temted to buy it from Amazon on blu ray.

[Dangelus]

It's been a LONG time since I watched these. It's about due a rewatch.

My watch list just keeps getting longer!

[MARKO]

Today is a good day to watch them both go for it!

[Dangelus]

No it's not I've got to be at work in 1.5 hours! Lol

[Bryancd]

Rick  ... i agree not as spooky or good as the first one, i am temted to buy it from Amazon on blu ray.

The extended Cameron director cut is really good. Long, but good, builds the tension even more.