Sentences with phrase «original alien is»

If this seems to be recapitulating the original Alien it's no accident, although the agenda is quite different.

The original Alien was, after all, a horror film first and foremost.

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Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

It is not for people who don't seem to have even looked at the Hebrew text to take out these words and then to repunctuate what is left to give a meaning which is quite alien to what the original text could possibly have meant.

Those who say the Bible does not teach homosexual practice is wrong are simply engaging in hermeneutical gymnastics, in which they embrace a revisionist interpretation which is completely alien to the original meaning of the text.

Indeed (to turn to the second question) it has been proposed that the story of Ruth came into existence chiefly as a genealogical narrative — to preserve or comment upon the ancestry of King David: Ruth is David's great - grandmother (4:17; it is the fuller genealogical table of 4:18 - 22 that appears alien and secondary to the original story).

At no other point is there a deeper continuity between the modern world and an original Christianity, even if this is a continuity which is alien to our theology, and above all alien to all non-apocalyptic theology, which is to say to every theology which we have known as either an orthodox or a liberal theology.

In the original screenplay by Edmund H. North, an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in Washington, D.C., in his saucer - shaped spaceship (à la UFO convention of the time) with an eight - foot (2.4 - meter) humanoid robot named Gort (played by the 7 - foot, 7 - inch Lock Martin, who was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when discovered).

Derrickson also skillfully provides an explanation for why Klaatu would be a bipedal hominid (an unlikely product of independent evolution on another planet)-- genetic engineering of placental tissue surrounding his original alien body, with embryological development sped up hundreds of times to transform him into a being recognizably human.

Just yesterday I too took the «pink plunge» and bought a light pink linen cropped jacket that was half off the original price; figured like you that I should play it safe before committing to this alien color that looks so weird hanging next to all my somber - colored clothing.

(Ahem, Ghostbusters we're looking at you...) With the return of original director, Ridley Scott, Aliens: Covenant looks to redefine the claustrophobic sci - fi genre that it created.

In her time away, LV - 426, the planetoid where the Nostromo crew encountered the vicious alien in the original film, has been colonized by a group of terraformers.

As on the bonus discs afforded Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, and Shrek Forever After, the title attraction of Disc 2 is an all - new spin - off short retaining the film's original voice cast (well, two members of it).

It is a fascinating contrast to the politics of alien invasion films such as Independence Day and War of the Worlds (original and remake).

Building upon the success of the original, Conduit 2 will take players to the far reaches of the world to stop an alien invasion that can be fought in single - player, online multi-player battles, and all - new off and online co-op modes.

Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel (though it departs from the original story in quite a few places), Ender's Game is set in a future where a bug - like alien race has attacked the Earth, and talented children are selected at an early age to train for battle through a series of war games.

It manages to introduce a lot of new features that greatly enhance the gameplay experience, but retain enough of the original DNA to make sure it doesn't feel totally alien to players who have been Pokémon trainers since 1996.

Aliens finish off the trio, and are fun, especially with being able to run on the walls and ceiling - a feature from the original series which is pretty disorienting!

The Strangers» pared - down style makes it particularly unsuited for the sequel treatment: Absent some Aliens - style conceptual twist, the best a 10 - years - later follow - up could hope to do is ably copy the original, and it doesn't take long for the new film to indicate it's incapable of doing even that.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

A cool prologue involving trillionaire CEO Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) and the synthetic from Prometheus, David (Fassbender), gave me hope at the very beginning that Ridley Scott was going to pull off an Alien trifecta (Covenant is the third film he's directed after the original two).

A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those alien invasion movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.

With regards to musical style, I want the music remain true to its origins and retain its alien spirit, but taking on an orchestral / electronic hybrid approach could be a suitable enhancement over the original trilogy.

At a press conference in Sydney, Australia where Scott is in pre-production on Alien: Covenant, he revealed that this will actually be the first in a new trilogy that will lead us all the way back to the original Alien from 1979.

Not only that: He's an alien from Dog Star sent to investigate why canines strayed from their original mission and instead became man's best friend.

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Ridley Scott, who directed «Prometheus» also directed the first film, «Alien,» argues that «Prometheus» «carries the DNA of «Alien,» but is an original piece of science fiction» (imdb.com/news).

One of the best things about Treasure Planet is that it puts several twists on the original story, such as changing the parrot to being an alien called Morph; the crazy Ben Gunn becomes a robot who lost his memory banks; and the alien characteristics imbedded into the familiar characters also loosened its ties to Treasure Island.

While we're ecstatic that Avatar's loathsome original song didn't warble it's way into an Oscar nomination, those blue aliens and a few others did squeeze out a few of our favorites.

Released three years after the original, this film proved to be a critical and box office failure and it would be another fourteen years before the Predator would appear on screen again in Alien vs. Predator.

Released: May 22 Cast: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride Director: Ridley Scott (Alien) Why it's great: Scott, who unknowingly kicked off a franchise with his original 1979 space horror, is not on this planet to service fans.

Classic startle effects can be found in Brian De Palma's «Carrie,» when Carrie White's hand shoots up from the grave, and the original «Alien,» when John Hurt develops serious tummy trouble.

30 days later the shuttle is due to arrive back on earth, but when they hear no radio communication, another shuttle is dispatched to dock up with them and find out what went wrong, the entire crew of the original shuttle is found to be burnt to a crisp and the three alien figures are brought back to earth.

Covenant is very much an amalgamation of Scott's own original and James Cameron's Aliens (1986) with a hint of its direct predecessor, Prometheus, and the result is not original and very predictable.

I had lost hope for original studio horror masterpieces on the level of The Exorcist, Alien and a few others, but in following its own unique path, A Quiet Place is one for the ages.

Go behind the scenes of Aliens: Colonial Marines to see how the developers are trying to stay true to the original films.

Original report: Aliens: Colonial Marines, the first - person shooter that was panned by critics and triggered a class action lawsuit over allegedly false advertising, has been delisted from Steam.

Moving in the same orbit as the original film, Men in Black 2 is splattered with alien innards, sexual content and violent action scenes.

Chief among these being the deliberate parallels set up between Covenant and the original Alien.

At times it does seem to take itself too seriously, something the original Alien (1979) could not be accused of.

Like with the original Alien, we're not given much backstory for our crew members, but their interpersonal relationships are enough to make us understand them.

King discovers the truth when he picks a fight in a pub bathroom with a few robot teens; the revelation drives Andy to drink and the friends to struggle with sobriety and an alien invasion, in a journey that, in Wright's characteristically clever fashion, is echoed not only by the pubs» names but closely resembles the original 1990 night.

Jeff is also proprietor of Jeff Schmidt Productions & Alien Imaging Sound Design where his original Sound Design elements are in use at hundreds of Radio Stations and Production Houses all over the world.

 Conduit 2 is the sequel to the award winning Wii shooter, The Conduit, and builds upon the success of the original, taking players to the far reaches of the world to stop an alien invasion that can be fought in single player, online multi-player battles, and all new off and online co-op modes.

This installment is, itself, filling a gap between its immediate predecessor from 2012 and the original Alien.

It's cool to see the return of two iconic sci - fi / action franchises such as Alien: Covenant and now Predators which both can hopefully bring back and add the things we loved from the original films.

WHY: There aren't many great sequels, and even fewer that rival the original movie, but James Cameron's «Aliens» is one of the rare films that ticks both those boxes.

Scott seems to be taking the franchise back to the horror of the original Alien film and looks to bridge the gap between Prometheus and 1979's Alien.

Films such as the first two Terminator movies, Aliens and, yes, even the flawed original theatrical cut of The Abyss, which was a one - of - a-kind experience.