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“Alien 3 is not that bad”

I’m writing this post in my best Carlos Adama-ish mindset. Here it goes:

Aliens

  • 100s of aliens including the alien queen
  • a colourful, top-notch cast of memorable characters
  • an absurd amount of firepower
  • a plethora of scenarios, including: space stations, an alien hive, the surface of another planet and the Sulaco
  • androids
  • Power Armor
  • explosions
  • James Cameron, at the peak of his career

Alien III

  • exactly one (CGI) alien, crossbred from a DOG
  • three main characters just die at the beginning, for the sake of it
  • …to be substituted by 15 inexpressive bald men
  • zero horror. Religious imagery instead.
  • no weapons or explosions
  • one scenario: a big fucking factory that always looks the same
  • videogame-style alien POV chase. Cinematic dignity out of the window.
  • Ripley dies at the end
  • Fincher’s first feature is still Fincher’s first feature

So basically fuck everything about it.

I somehow needed to let off some steam. Yep, I know it’s been 18 years. Yep, it still hurts.

Edit: a single, 90 minute take of Corporal Hicks just looking into the camera would’ve been BETTER than Alien 3 and Resurrection combined.

This week I came up with this, and I’m not entirely sure what to do with it. Would you like to see this printed as a poster, adapted into a t-shirt or any other kind of memorabilia? If the answer is yes, or if it just pleases your eyes, express yourself clicking the ‘like’ button :) (Yep, I did all the vector art myself. Industrious!!)

This week I came up with this, and I’m not entirely sure what to do with it. Would you like to see this printed as a poster, adapted into a t-shirt or any other kind of memorabilia? If the answer is yes, or if it just pleases your eyes, express yourself clicking the ‘like’ button :)

(Yep, I did all the vector art myself. Industrious!!)

Install order

For the sake of making a list. Everybody follows some kind of pattern when filling a new computer with useful stuff. Mine has been as follows:

  • Windows 7 x64 - the thing that came from the pen drive
  • Google Chrome - unmatched speed
  • JDownloader - mass downloading made easy
  • Dropbox - the most useful thing ever invented
  • Starcraft 2 - the real reason for buying another machine
  • Every hardware update - i’m a professional!
  • Spotify - mp3 what?
  • Winamp - well… just in case
  • Adobe Reader
  • Real Temp - temperature monitor, fine-tuned for multicore Intel’s
  • Winrar
  • Adobe Master Collection CS5 x64 - pixel grinding machine
  • Avast! Antivirus - take care of the machine and it’ll take care of you
  • CCleaner - keeps the lawn malware-free
  • Microsoft Security Essentials - an extra layer of poison
  • The KMPlayer - best media player ever
  • µTorrent - tiny and powerful
  • Quicktime Alternative - quicktime minus Apple’s anal fist
  • Mozbackup - imports Mozilla profiles from other computers
  • Mozilla Firefox - still necessary
  • Mozilla Thunderbird -for that 5% that doesn’t involve Gmail
  • Notepad++ - really good code/text editor
  • FileZilla - fast, robust FTP client

Thanks, Microsoft. I can (finally) erase from this list the useful and mandatory Leave Me Alone.