I think part of the reason people reacted so badly to Alien 3 (quite apart from the fact the final release got mangled by the studio) was because the tone of the film was so dramatically different to the other two movies. A penal planet populated by rapists, murderers and thieves is a tough sell.
But before Fincher came in, Alien 3 was set on ‘a religious colony that had escaped the earth and inhabited an abandoned commercial facility deep in space’ who ‘had adopted a Medieval way of life, without electricity or modern technology’.
Now, that would have been a much tougher sell.
Regardless of how you feel about Alien 3 it’s hard to look at these concept drawings and not feel sad about what could have been.
There’s a technique to a good car chase. A craft. When it’s done right, you’re watching people working on the edge of control. Regardless of whether the baby-carriage shot is real or staged, the shot immediately after – of Gene Hackman’s car ploughing through the garbage and almost hitting the camera – is real.
For me, this is the destruction of the only online space I truly give a shit about. (Sorry Twitter, Facebook, etc.) I’m actually really upset about this, as it’s eliminating a social space I’ve been participating in for several years.
He also does a terrific job of explaining why “plus” isn’t a great replacement for the functionality.
I don’t care if Google wants Plus to get bigger, I care about me and my friends who seek to read and discuss the entire internet every day. Is there really no space for different kinds of people to form different kinds of social spaces in Google products? Are they really that fucking stupid about how communities work?
Or, as I suspect, is it just that Buzz and gReader aren’t nearly as effective as Plus at collecting data about my internet use?
“It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn’t figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going,” said Dennis Yeager. “But we were like, he isn’t breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that’s because they were holding hands and it’s going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up.”
“They were still getting her heartbeat through him,” said Donna Sheets.
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“They just loved being together,” said Dennis Yeager.
I had been obliged to watch two hours of literally senseless violence being perpetrated on something I loved dearly. In fact, the sense of violation was so strong that it felt as though I had witnessed a rape.
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