No it doesn't. D9 actually had depth. Elysium could have used more of it and a longer running time. It's still style over substance but nowhere near D9 in anything. Chappie is closer to D9, actually.

Hardly. D9 strung some allegories into a paper thin plot (one that doesn't make much sense if you think about it too much) and then simply devolves into a third person shooter for the final act.

Fair enough.

And now for something completely different...but pertaining to this thread:

A cogent argument for Alien 3 being the best Alien movie. (I'm not sure I'd agree, but it's a well put together bit of food for thought)

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Looks like Biehn is in:

http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2015/0...en-sequel.html

Nice.

Sold!

Well, that pretty much locks up the fact that they're throwing Alien 3 and Resurrection out the window.

Thank god.

Unless... This ends with Ripley, Hicks, and Newt going back into hyper sleep, leading into the beginning of Alien 3. They might even explain why there's an egg aboard the ship and how did it go active with no one awake.

You shut your evil mouth!

Well this has my money already just cuz of Biehn. The last time he was badass was in Planet Terror. I hope he's badass here.

you son of a bitch!

I hope the upper half of Lance Henriksen tweets it is returning next.

No Paul Reiser, no sale.

See, what happens is, the Sulaco's sister ship, the Dumb Ass Hoe, was following a couple days behind. The new corporate meanies and marine squad wake up Rip, Tewt and Dicks, smack them around a bit for info. Nuts and bolts Bishop tries to cut Tewt's throat out with his knife trick when she starts blabbering about the derelict, but he is so beat to shit that he looks like a Franks n' Beans having a seizure while attempting to do so.

Moving along. Of course it is decided they must go to the derelict. The corporate meanies make the wise decision to leave Tewt up in orbit since she would be useless down there, and Rip is left behind since she would get in the way of the corporations goal. All 3 drop ships are taken down and the Suloco and Dumb Ass Hoe are disarmed by corporate password to keep Rip from nuking the derelict from orbit, altering coarse to crash into the derilict, etc.

So, they force scarred up Dicks to suit up and be their intel down there. Here is where it becomes the same old boring yadda yadda, gun shots, explosions, zzzzzzzzzzzz. King alien, zzzzzzzzzz.

So finally, Dicks, the corporate meanie, and the super Dragonball Z Tetsuo Bishop are the sole survivors of the drop to the derelict. They arrive with a sealed egg in stasis. At this point Rip breaks down and tells Dicks that she doesn't want to cook blueberry pancakes for him. She would rather cook blueberry pancakes for Tewt and The Rock. The Rock was left on board to guard Tewt and Rip. She continues confessing that she had a serving of The Rock's strudel that was so magical that it made her look like she had a shapely ass while filled with it. Her dream of having a shapely ass has finally come true. Dicks is emotionally torn apart.

In an unbelievable twist, a King alien appears and kills the corporate meanie. Dragonball Z Tetsuo Bishop becomes entwined with the king alien, after a few minutes of hentai, Dicks decides he has had enough of the spectacle and shoots them out of the air lock.

Rip, Tewt, The Rock, and Franks 'n Beans go their own way in the Suloco after making Dicks swear on his pinkie that he will destroy the egg. Of coarse Dicks doesn't keep his promise, he is a man scorned. He re-docks with the Suloco, does a half ass job of memory wiping Franks 'n Beans, since he is only a grunt. He then opens the Rock's cryo tube, quickly using chloroform on The Rock so he doesn't awaken, slips off his dog tags and puts them on The Rock and reseals the cryo tube. Dicks, then sets the egg up, rigs up an electrical fire to coincide with their crossing of Fiorina 161. Back on the dumb Ass Hoe, he sets coarse for the closest back water pub he can find, gets in his own cryo tube confident of his plan to kill the cheating hoe, a bunch of convicts, and wipe himself from the grid.

The post credit scene will show that Dicks programed the nav computer on the Dumb Ass Hoe incorrectly, being that he is just a grunt. Resulting in him drifting way, way, way past the core systems. Deep salvage team found him. Damn lucky to be alive, one in a million, could've been floating out there forever. While eating the blueberry pancakes the deep salvage team cooked him and reading blogs, he comes across a story of a human-xeno halfbreed named Ripley. This time it's really war.

Seriously?

You're the girl who writes Hark A Vagrant, aren't you?

Biehn was supposed to be at a convention I attended last Sunday, but I heard he was in his hotel room and not feeling well. I wasn't going to pay $40 for his autograph, so I wouldn't have had the opputunity to ask him about this movie anyway. Luckily, some guy on another forum met him there on Saturday and posted this:

http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1117150-3/#post19557362

Want to know what happens in ALIENSSSSSS: This time it's really war?

Dicks has to make drunken piss stop. Sets down in Antarctica. Finds two fellows preserved in an ice cube. Puts them in his ship and sets out to finish the war on the human-xeno halfbreed. Just as he catches up to Rip, MacReady and Childs finish defrosting. Mac wakes up and asks "What happened?"

Well, one thing leads to another and a xeno is infected by the Thing.

Now there are Xings running around. The possibilities are endless.

Being an alcoholic can do that to you. A shame that he drank away the past couple decades of his career.

Wow! You really are her! Or you know how to be just as excruciatingly unfunny.