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We have just uploaded the 98th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! Our penultimate episode of 2019 sees Corporal Hicks, RidgeTop and Xenomorphine reconvene to discuss the recently released documentary, Memory: The Origins of Alien!

We discuss whether or not we learnt anything new from the documentary, the academic commentary on Alien, and as experts at tangents we discuss the documentaries own guilt in that regard, and plenty more! Please bare with some echo on Xenomorphine’s comments for the first 5 or 10 minutes or so.

If you haven’t already, you can check out RidgeTop’s written review of Memory here, and his interview with the documentary director Alexandre O. Philippe is available to read or listen to in our interviews section!

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Nice podcast gentlemen. I was on the fence ordering a copy weeks ago, but ultimately decided to hold back. After listening to the Podcast I'm glad I did. The same things I was cautious about like the interpretationsal stuff was reaffirmed so thank you much! I'll eventually get around to streaming it but now I suspect it would have just gathered dust on my home video shelf after its initial viewing.

And as always, it's good to listen to Aaron and his two tools!  :D

Eric's words, not mine!

Quality discussion about the documentary. If the opportunity presents itself, I'll watch it. RidgeTop, good luck with your art history classes. If they're rigorous, you should have plenty to read and write.  ;D

I'll give it a listen, but apparently my copy isn't arriving until the 30th so, it's going to be a minute.

Thanks to everyone who has commented so far! I'm curious to hear from people who have also seen the documentary.

I just watched it, despite the resuse, repeating and the artsy guy being naff in places, otherwise I enjoyed it, felt like a reunion of sorts.

I thought it was good. I own the Blu-ray version of it and also sit in the SDCC 2019 Panel for Memory The Origins of Alien. Got the poster they passed out to everyone and actually had it autographed by all the panel members before they left the stage. Was really excited about that!
Will try to post a pic of the autographed poster for all of you.

That's genuinely cool.

Haven't seen the documentary - but enjoyed podcast a lot. Just for the fact it wasn't completely bashing it like PO guys did .

I think parts warranted but parts not so much.

I finally got to see it. I liked a lot of it, but it seemed to me that it spent far too much time on the chestburster. If opportunity permits, I may watch again some time.

It makes sense - the chestbursting was the real innovation of the story. Outside of that it was a fairly standard monster on a spaceship movie.

Quote from: SiL on Apr 27, 2020, 01:58:06 AM
It makes sense - the chestbursting was the real innovation of the story. Outside of that it was a fairly standard monster on a spaceship movie.

Don't you dare say that !

Spoiler

I'm kidding

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For anyone in Australia this is streaming on Stan.

Watched it last night.  It was okay.  Needed more Roger Christian, Ivor Powell, Terry Rawlings (did he even say anything?), Diane O'Bannon, Carmen Giger, and less commentators (some of the stuff they said was interesting but there was too much).  Also less of that Furies stuff and seemed to go off on tangents about Bacon for too long.

The complete lack of anything from David Giler or anyone from Brandywine, even archival, was glaring.  Though I suspect Diane O'Bannon had a hand in that.

Did anyone mispronounce Giger's name?

Yeah some guy did.

The Geegermeister.

About ten years ago, I worked with this know-it-all goth kid who was the "world's biggest H.R. Geiger fan."  He was going to get all tatted up with "Geiger's artwork" because he's such a HUGE fan.  He was even kind enough to tell me all about "H.R. Geiger" and that he was "the German guy" who "designed the alien and the predator." 

And then I turned into this guy...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FYOcdhBm.jpg&hash=4ac7e7fea24bc9628f5059d3776e277e286655fb)

Did his father dual wield 1911's against Saddam during the invasion of Grenada?

Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 08, 2020, 05:04:43 AM
About ten years ago, I worked with this know-it-all goth kid who was the "world's biggest H.R. Geiger fan."  He was going to get all tatted up with "Geiger's artwork" because he's such a HUGE fan.  He was even kind enough to tell me all about "H.R. Geiger" and that he was "the German guy" who "designed the alien and the predator." 

And then I turned into this guy...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FYOcdhBm.jpg&hash=4ac7e7fea24bc9628f5059d3776e277e286655fb)

Brings a tear to the eye.

If only you could be such a huge fan as he was.

But did he qualify as a "true" fan?

Keep in mind, he was a goth kid.  He didn't cop to being an Alien fan.  He thought that sort of thing was only for geeks and he was too cool for that.  He was in a band too.  No, he was specifically an "H.R. Geiger" fan because he admired the art.

He remains the greatest of the unknown German masters.

Quarantine fun: Have a conversation with a die-hard Giger fan about your love of Geiger and see how long you can hold the conversation before they realise you're talking about Hans Geiger the physicist (or stab you)

True Fans (TM) call him The Count.

I know he wasn't there personally in '86 but I think it's obvious his work greatly influenced the way things were done.