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H.R. Giger Dead at 74

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday May 13 2014, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
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Angry Jesus writes:

Swiss Public Television reports that the surrealist painter and Science Fiction Hall of Fame honoree H.R. Giger, creator of the Alien design used in Ridley Scott's 1980 movie as well as numerous other works of art and design, has died at the age of 74 due to injuries sustained in a fall.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Covalent on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:46PM

    by Covalent (43) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:46PM (#42745) Journal

    I'll give you Aliens. The subsequent movies were awful, though (imho).

    I do laugh at the gratuitous panties scene in the original, though. I understand why they did it, but looking back it's so preposterous for her to be wearing those after what has just transpired that I can't help but laugh.

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  • (Score: 1) by Lazarus on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:58PM

    by Lazarus (2769) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:58PM (#42753)

    The later movies got weirder, but on re-watching recently I found things to like in all of them.

  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday May 13 2014, @10:29PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday May 13 2014, @10:29PM (#42948) Journal

    I personally thought Aliens was scarier than the first, because the first had a "spook house" feel to it. There is the "campers" in the crew and the "woogie boogie" in the monster, the latter hunts the former and picks 'em off one by one in a standard slasher style. With the second one you have a platoon of bad ass armed to the teeth marines...who get their asses handed to them within 10 minutes of engaging and after that its strictly kill or be killed survival. That scene where the marines are counting down the sentry guns ammo counters, knowing that when its gone they are gonna have to fight them? That was tense as hell.

    Full disclosure...I liked Alien III and thought it made a good capstone to the previous movies. Sure the special effects aren't as good but you can't blame the director for wanting to catch the inhuman way the xenos moved and the only way to really do that would be CGI, and I thought the cast was good and the plot logical, unlike the layers of stupid that was Alien 4.

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