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8 (16%)

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8 (16%)

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Total Members Voted: 49

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Die Hard is the Christmas-est of Christmas movies.

[hector13]

Die Hard is the Christmas-est of Christmas movies.

It's A Wonderful Die Hard Life.

[Twinwolf]

I have not watched Die Hard, I don't think, but I've heard it's a wonderful movie to watch with small children

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Not even kidding, Aliens is an R-rated film and it definitely could be shown to ten year olds. Maybe not younger than that, but I think if it were rated today Aliens could possibly swing a PG-13.

Not Alien, though. Christ, not Alien.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Alien is a lot darker than Aliens.

[Culise]

It's been years since I saw it, so I'd need to review, but Alien, you might get away with on the grounds that most of the Giger symbolism would probably fly right over their heads.  I wouldn't count on it, though; some kids can be pretty perceptive, and I don't know where they get half of what they talk about nowadays.  That might just be a matter of me being old, though.

[Max™]

Not even kidding, Aliens is an R-rated film and it definitely could be shown to ten year olds. Maybe not younger than that, but I think if it were rated today Aliens could possibly swing a PG-13.

Not Alien, though. Christ, not Alien.

Being trapped in a closed environment with a monster you can't defeat as it attacks those around you is my childhood, so Alien is still hard as shit to watch. Aliens is fun for the whole family.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The issue with Alien isn't the Giger symbolism or the perverse sexuality theme, it's that it's the abject terror. There's a reason why Alien is a famous, if not maybe the most famous horror film. I'm no moral guardian, but I think it's just plain too intense for someone not at least teenager. Much like alcohol, they'd consume it without being able to appreciate it in any complete way.

[Max™]

Not even kidding, Aliens is an R-rated film and it definitely could be shown to ten year olds. Maybe not younger than that, but I think if it were rated today Aliens could possibly swing a PG-13.

Not Alien, though. Christ, not Alien.

Being trapped in a closed environment with a monster you can't defeat as it attacks those around you is my childhood, so Alien is still hard as shit to watch. Aliens is fun for the whole family.

Goddamn, man, how bad were your sisters?

They were fine, if they were psychopaths like my dad was it would have been more like The Thing I guess, which was mostly just a matter of the animatronics being so goddamn unsettling.

[itisnotlogical]

Aliens didn't scare me that much, it just seemed like an action movie with a really high body count. It was tense, but I don't think I would come away with nightmares from Aliens. Alien OTOH was creepy and unsettling as shit. The only flaw with that movie is the fact that the twist and the monster have been permanently spoiled for decades by cultural osmosis.

[Dorsidwarf]

Aliens didn't scare me that much, it just seemed like an action movie with a really high body count. It was tense, but I don't think I would come away with nightmares from Aliens. Alien OTOH was creepy and unsettling as shit. The only flaw with that movie is the fact that the twist and the monster have been permanently spoiled for decades by cultural osmosis.

Also that the final confrontation with the alien where Ripley

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spaces it

its very obviously fake. Like, painfully, painfully so, and that contrasts so massively with every other portrayal throughout the film

[hops]

Yeah, prior to that I thought they were using a real xenomorph.

[Tiruin]

Yeah, prior to that I thought they were using a real xenomorph.

This, pretty much.
The terrifying about it (Yeah I saw it as a kid) was the more gory parts (not that detailed anyway), and the scariest bit to me wasn't how intimidating the alien was (it was intimidating because it was predatory, so yeah), but the bloody chunks that happened when it got spaced ._.

Because blood is scary when presented in a way that is totally unfamiliar but without any other guidance to understanding it.

The scary bits are when the characters you can relate with or the scene you can relate with is presented and portrayed. And a lot of thought under all that sensing is very important to note.

[itisnotlogical]

The two scenes that scared me the most were

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the chestburster, and Ripley confronting the android.

I actually remember very little of the xenomorph in the first film. They waited until the very end to even begin showing it.

Also, I'm watching Alien 3. At about the 20-minute mark I can safely say this movie is stupid. I'm pretty open-minded about awful movies but this is just a dumb, dumb film.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I recall watching the first movie.
Maybe I'm just spoiled (Buuuuut) but most of the acting seemed pretty wooden, especially Ripley, and there were a lot of weird pauses? That could just be an aspect of older movies that I've never seen before.