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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Alien II coming soon
Message-ID: <987@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 15:35:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 15:35:20 1985
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Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

>I'm a SF/Horror fan and this movie failed on both. the stupid
>characters made the movie almost a comedy rather then a Horror
>film.
>
>My favorite part was the gas comming out of the midevel space
>suits.  Sounds like fun in zero gee :-).

Get a clue, Doug. If you were on a planet with GRAVITY and a METHANE
atmosphere, the exhaust (what you exhale) from your space suit would
probably mist too (considering the temperature of frozen methane).
The science in this movie is actually very well done.


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Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX

"I'm looking for the joke with a microscope."
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