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You may remember the Alien Makers documentaries put together by Dennis Lowe. His newest documentary is about the fans and he’s interviewed various members in the online Alien community. The interview includes Mike Lynch, Julian Bloom, Michael Seigler, Philippe Carini, Marc  Caro, Aaron Percival, Fred Blanchard, Graham Langridge, Bijan Aalam,  John Milas, and Dominic Kulcsar.

Some of those people you may know from the community. Mike Lynch runs Anchorpoint  Essays; Aaron Percival is our very own Corporal Hicks; Michael  Seigler, you may better know as Mr. Domino and Dominic Kulcsar is also known as wmmvrrvrrmm. They basically talk about what they thought of the Alien series and how it’s affected them in their lives. It’s quite interesting.  The interview runs for about an hour and half. You can stream it over on Alien Experience or you can download it directly here. (344MB)

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Was a great experience. Glad it came out so well.  :) The variety of stories and people in the documentary is great. Really shows just how broad the appeal is.

This Sounds pretty cool streaming it now  :D

i can't hear it :'(

It isn't playing for me in IE or firefox.  ???

*EDIT* ohhh I'll just download it.

Wonderful film. More or less just repeating what I've said elsewhere, but this and the Makers films before them are a real blessing to our community.

Other franchises have documentaries that are controlled by the studio that focus on only the director, and some of the stars usually. We've got that now, plus some that focus on the other guys, the guys that worked and toiled doing all the amazing things that made Alien seem so real to us, both then and now, and they weren't controlled by the studio, so there was no censorship as to what was said (I'm looking at you, David Fincher...)

And a documentary about the fans? I mean, sure, there was Trekkies, but that was more of an exercise in "look how weird these people are" rather than a celebration of why they were fans. Alien Fans is a truly unique film, in that it manages to take all these people from radically different backgrounds and situations, and boil it down in 90 minutes to just what makes Alien such a special and enduring film, and what makes everyone here love it so.

Also, that ending was fantastic.

Tnx for this Dark.

When did I miss this? would have loved to talk about the Alien series, could have gone on for days, oh well.

Nice film. Worth watching.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 24, 2010, 11:40:14 PM
Was a great experience. Glad it came out so well.  :) The variety of stories and people in the documentary is great. Really shows just how broad the appeal is.

congratulations Hicks (aaron).

If this is about big alien fans then why is Sil not in this?

He's in Australia for starters. I think he had a video camera and he was going to do it over the internet at one point. I guess there's a lot of people who wanted to do this but couldn't for various reasons.

And what about you?

I was going to do it, but then I got busy at work, then it slipped my mind completely, and then it was too late.

OMFG I need those Nostromo blueprints

Well, you're in luck. Graham's got prints of them for sale right now.

http://www.alienexperience.com/forum/index.php/topic,7220.0.html

Awesome stuff.

Loved that floating tailless Alien.

Quote from: Spaghetti on Jan 26, 2010, 02:01:41 AM
Awesome stuff.

Loved that floating tailless Alien.

He was a bit distracting when I was trying to finish up... :D

Mr. Domino totally reminds me of a young Tarantino.
Kind of interesting how the stories are somewhat similar.  I started with the movies, then got into the comics, but spent alot of time comic hunting over the 90's.  To be young and carefree.



So far its been interesting. 

Quote from: Mr. Domino on Jan 26, 2010, 02:12:04 AM
He was a bit distracting when I was trying to finish up... :D

How you survived his vicious onslaught is beyond my comprehension.

Quote66:25-66:37

Im trippin' ballz here.

Also, NEVER WIN.

NEVER WIN.

NEVER WIN.

NEEEVEEERR WIIIIIIIIIN.

Quote from: Kimarhi on Jan 26, 2010, 02:38:16 AM
Mr. Domino totally reminds me of a young Tarantino.

That's it, thank you.

why has dominic got that thing on his head?

Keeping his mental powers contained.

oh right.

Actually, he did it as a reference to Dali IIRC.

I like to keep my mental powers contained indeed



Dominic

Been getting these Alien Makers/Fans DVDS in the post for ages and only just got around to watching them. Really great stuff, loved getting to see how the film was actually put together from the people who did it, instead of just the stars.

Also, congratulations to everyone who appeared on the Alien fans DVD, it was a great watch. I want your Alien merchandise.

I wasn't aware Dennis had finished up the DVDs yet. Glad to know someone's got it, though.

I didn't realise either. I'll have to go ask for one. I'd like a copy of this.  :)

No he hasn't sorry, I watched the DVDs of Alien Makers and streamed Alien Fans.

Sorry bout that

Nice to see Corporal Hicks there   :)  

whats with the flying alien in the beginning lol

Cool.

Yeah the flying alien reminds me of bananaman.

Awesome stuff !

I have to agree. It lost all seriousness, when an alien floated across the screen.  what was the design decision for that??  lol

  ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      ;D      :)      :)      :)      :P      >:D      >:D      >:D      >:D      ::)      ::)      ::)    AWESOME! Cool!

cool and very f**kin awesome   :)      :)      :)  

That man with the triangel on head was funny :)