regardless, As long as you skip AVP 1 and 2, i'll keep listening.

I love the way Ripley says "Well, we saved the world" at the end, regardless of the pretty massive nuclear explosion they caused by crashing the ship into the planet.

"We saved the world. Well...  except for that one bit we turned to glass...  but the rest of it is totally saved!"

I distinctly remember seeing this flick in the theaters during a pretty massive all-day theater-hopping session with some buddies. We caught this, Star Ship Troopers, Mortal Kombat and The Jackal. The Jackal was the last one we saw, and I'm so glad we saw that one, cause otherwise it would have been a waste of money. No, I didn't like Star Ship Troopers. Sorry.

I also remember someone in the audience loudly asking "Is she fucking the alien!?" and the whole theater laughed for like five minutes. Good times...

I watched this one during a spurt of Alien watching a few months back. I enjoyed bits of it, but certainly it's a mess. I think, though, that I have lower expectations for an Alien film than most people, especially those alive in the 80's. By the time I started watching the films, I knew that there were going to be diminishing returns, and watched them accordingly. As someone said, A4 is just fine if you think of it as a cheap SyFy Sunday movie.

I kinda have highish hopes for the prequels, though. CG has finally gotten to the point that the Aliens can be rendered without doing a lot of distracting puppet work.

I can't imagine at all that that story is true. I bet Scott just wasn't asked back because the second movie was so much more successful, and they wanted directors who would be willing to remake it with as small a budget as possible. Scott and Cameron both weren't going to want to do that. Hence grabbing a nobody from obscurity, and then a French art film director who didn't know any better,

Mal's line was actually, "They say never to hit a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.".

Anyway, this film hurt me. Not so much as a fan of the franchise, but as a Whedon fan. I can't count the number of people who have scoffed at my love for Firefly by saying, "Oh, yeah, the guy who wrote 'Alien: Resurrection' made something good. Riiiight." I hope that The Avengers is good, for that sake.

Well, remember, more people saw Alien 4 in theaters then probably ever saw Buffy on TV (minor hit on a minor network). Reminds me of when what most people would have known Frank Miller from was his writing Robocop 2.

Whoaaa, there, calm your horses, buddy. Maul's post was in response to DoctorSubmarine's, not your podcast.

#eddiejustaboutwentkungfukaratethaionyourass

You should check out 'Incident At Loch Ness.' Sadly, I don't think Herzog's 'Enigma of Loch Ness' is ever going to make it out of the cutting room, but the documentary about the making of it is rather insightful.

At Comic Con, Joss was on a panel with JJ Abrams and they were talking about the nerdiest fan interactions they had ever had. JJ started, telling a story of how he used to write letters to FX guys, and the guy from Exorcist actually mailed him the tongue from the movie.

Joss followed, saying "well, I do have an Alien egg...but I had to bury the franchise in order to get it."

How can you stay mad at a guy like that, huh?

My problem with this movie has always been that it just isn't very good. It's not bad, it's just not good. It's stuck in the middle, not unsuccessful enough to get het up about, while not having really much of anything going for it.

It invokes absolutely no emotion in me at all. Which is about the worst thing I can say about a movie.

Just noticed Eddie's wonderfully exuberant overreaction....

Well done sir.