Hi there bloggies, I’ve been seeing some post warning me of an A – Z Challenge and I was curious. I’ve seen this around before but have never participated, for some mad reason I thought I would give it a go.
So here I am.
My theme is the A-Z of Scifi moves, I’ve not given this a great deal of thought and I know of a number but I won’t lie there’s some I will struggle with. But anyway, here goes starting strangely enough with Z. Ha! Joking A!
A is for… Alien(s)
Alien, the film where a lone crew pick up a rather unpleasant alien visitor that stuck itself to one their crew’s faces. It all started when they followed a message to it’s source and found an alien spaceship filled with eggs…
Spaceship in Alien – No credit claimed on image
The alien quickly grows and starts becoming a bit annoying by eating the crew’s brains and taking away their bodies. One by one each of the crew are picked off until only one remains and they blow it’s alien bottom into space.
This is a typical scifi horror flick with all the gripping why the hell are you doing that stuff going on and yet it’s somehow unique. I think the Alien bursting out of a man’s chest is responsible for that, nothing as nightmarish had been dreamed of before and it was something I couldn’t watch.
The following and genre created from this is huge and it still going today. It’s generally a thumbs up for this and the sequel Aliens which is similar except there’s lots of aliens being blown away by hard ass marines.
That makes for letter A – B should follow tomorrow!
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30 thoughts on “A – Z Challenge – Sci-Fi Films A is for Alien(s)”
I just recently started re-watching the Alien(s) franchise on Netflix. The first is still the most eerie, IMHO.
Best of luck with this Simon. Good choice for A. My favourite snippet: after Ripley has blown the alien out into space, and instead of exploding or just dying straight off it drifts back in, we assume it is still alive
I’m not a fan of horrors, but I don’t mind some of sci-fi horrors (mostly for the sci-fi part, of course). I’ve seen all 4 Alien movies, and I think my favorite is still the second one. Back when I was a kid, there was even a board game using Aliens’ setting, and I loved it.
When I was a kid, this was one of those cool movies I wasn’t allowed to watch. So I only saw bits and pieces of it. When I was older and got to see the whole thing… it’s a beautiful movie, in its own way. Well deserving of its status as a classic!
I just recently started re-watching the Alien(s) franchise on Netflix. The first is still the most eerie, IMHO.
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It is isn’t it? It has that feel
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I think the latest prequels of the Alien franchise tried to emulate that eerieness, which worked sometimes, but not so, at other times.
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I’m not sure. I’ve only seen Prometheus.
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Best of luck with this Simon. Good choice for A. My favourite snippet: after Ripley has blown the alien out into space, and instead of exploding or just dying straight off it drifts back in, we assume it is still alive
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Such a great franchise, although the Alien drool always makes me a bit queasy!
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I don’t like the chest bursting aliens
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Yeah, that’s gross too!
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LOVE these films! Well, the first two, anyway. Your A-Z is off to a great start! 😁
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I think this a-z could be fun… good to see you’ve got an interest 🙂
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Oh yes! Especially if there’s a horror element creeping in…
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You like a bit of horror do you?
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Heck yes! 😁
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You learn something everyday… I guess then the beasties are a cute manifestation of that
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I’m not a fan of horrors, but I don’t mind some of sci-fi horrors (mostly for the sci-fi part, of course). I’ve seen all 4 Alien movies, and I think my favorite is still the second one. Back when I was a kid, there was even a board game using Aliens’ setting, and I loved it.
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I’m with you, the second was more digestible I think as I’m not a fan of horror either.
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I’m not a huge fan of the Alien franchise, but Ellen Ripley is amazing!!
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Oh yes you can’t help but admire her
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When I was a kid, this was one of those cool movies I wasn’t allowed to watch. So I only saw bits and pieces of it. When I was older and got to see the whole thing… it’s a beautiful movie, in its own way. Well deserving of its status as a classic!
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I agree, there’s something about it that can’t be explained that gives it that special feel.
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Awesome film!
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You liked it? Did you cope with the gore?
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I loved it! That sort of gore is fine for me! I have them all in a boxset
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Ah the good old box set 🙂
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Oh yes!! Love it 😂
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Just watched Alien vs Predator last night. I couldn’t remember who won, so I watched till the end and remembered how I was disappointed,lol
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Yeah, it could have been so good and it just… wasn’t.
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So glad you decided to take part!!! Xx
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Thanks it was something I just felt I had to try 😀
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