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 Post subject: So Where Did You First See The Various Alien(s) Films?
PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:06 pm 
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Hi guys,
was thinking about this during one of my long driving trips with work earlier this week so where did we all see various Aliens Franchise films? Sorry if this has been done before I did do a quick search but didn't find anything.

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Alien on TV (To young for Big Screen)
Aliens on the Big Screen :delta: @ time of release (Plaza Cinema Bangor it's not there any more it's a Domino's now :roll: )
Alien 3 on TV
Alien Resurrection on video I think (The Mind Bleach ALMOST Worked!)

Prometheus on the Big Screen :mrgreen:

Covering the other popular franchise.

Predator on VHS
Predator 2 on VHS
Predators on the Big Screen first day of release.

And just for screams and giggles.
AVP on DVD.
AVP:Reqiuem on DVD.

So come on how about you guys?

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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 9:34 pm 
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Alien - on TV (Too young for cinema)
Aliens - Cinema @ time of release
Alien 3 - on TV/DVD
Alien Resurrection - on DVD

Predator - Cinema @ time of release
Predator 2 - Cinema @ time of release
Predators - In HD on Xbox 360

AVP - Cinema @ time of release
AVP:Requiem - Cinema @ time of release

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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:34 pm 
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Alien - Drive-In Theater (week of release + 3)
Aliens - Theater (opening day & weekly until movie was out of theater)
Alien3 - Theater (OD + twice more)
Alien Resur-erection (OD - once was enough :roll: )
Predator - Theater (OD + 6)
Predator 2 - Theater (OD + 3)
Predators - Bought Blu Ray
AVP - Theater (OD)
AVP Craprium - TV (knew it was going to be bad - Had to FF through most of it)

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 6:37 am 
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Alien - VHS ( But i did see the Directors cut at Cinema )
Aliens - Cinema , time of release ( saw it twice in the first week of release )
Alien 3 -Cinema , time of release
Alien Resurrection - Cinema , time of release

Predator - Cinema, time of release
Predator 2 - Cinema , time of release
Predators - Cinema , time of release ( with PVB )

AVP - Cinema , time of release
AVP:Requiem - Cinema ,time of release

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ALIEN:- Home with my Father.
ALIENS: Cinema (3times first day of release) several times over, at time of release.
ALIEN 3: Cinema at time of release.
ALIEN Resurrection: Cinema at time of release.

PREDATOR: Cinema (twice day of release) several times over, at time of release.
PREDATOR 2: Cinema several times over, at time of release.
PREDATORS: Cinema.

AVP: Cinema several times over, at time of release ( I like it :p ).
AVP: Requiem: Cinema TWICE, at time of release (again I like it :D ).

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:33 pm 
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Alien- Home on tv (waaaay too young to see an R rated film as I was 9 in '79). Probably in 1981 or 82 as it took a couple of years for films to run on tv back then.

Aliens- Again home on a vhs rental around 1987. Funny thing- in 1988 I was able to watch it on the big screen when it played in the theater of the Canadian Forces Base (Borden) I happened to be staying at one weekend while I was an Air Cadet.

A3- Theater: 1992.

A:Res- Theater: 1997 (unfortunately)

AvP- Theater: 2004 (VERY unfortunately)

AvP:R- haven't watched it to this day.

Predator- Theater: 1987.

Predator 2- Theater: 1990.

Predators- dvd rental: last year :wink: .


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Alien at home on VHS 2 weeks after my parents went to see it i was 10 but got to see it at the cinema for the directors cut
Aliens at the cinema
Alien 3 cinema
Alien resurrection what is that?

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Alien: Had the part just before Kane explodes on VHS taped off the TV...never saw the first hour or so until much later

Aliens: Sneaked the VHS copy out of my brothers collectors pack (one with the facehugger case) but upo0n seeing the queen on the cover I was too scared to actually watch it. Not sure where I did see it first off.

Alien 3: VHS from that same collectors pack much later....I think.

Resurrection: Borrowed a friends DVD to watch it.

AvP: Theater
AvP-R: Theater

Predator: I don't recall
Predator 2: On TV I think
Predators: Theater

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Alien - Taped off telly by my mum
Aliens - Taped off telly by my mum
Alien 3 - Taped off telly by my mum
Alien Resurrection - Rented the VHS

Predator - TV
Predator 2 - Taped off telly
Predators - Blu-Ray (Was totally drunk though, had to watch it again the day after)

AVP - Bought the DVD
AVP:Requiem - Rented DVD

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 6:03 pm 
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All of the Alien films via DVD (rented). Location (2 days), my sofa, sick with food poisoning. Always fun.

Predator & Pred 2 - TV; Predators, laptop with Paul via skype.

AVP & AVP: Requiem - TV


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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 6:45 pm 

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Alien- Rental

Aliens- Rental

A3- Rental

A:Res- Theatre

AvP- Theatre

AvP:R- Theatre

Predator- VHS Purchase

Predator 2- VHS Purchase

Predators- Theatre (took my kids)

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Alien and Aliens on the Big Screen, on Opening Night!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :delta: :delta: :delta: :delta:

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Lets see

Alien VHS- After seeing Aliens and falling in love
Aliens VHS-(Born in 84 so was to young to see it in theaters) However finally saw it in theaters at the new beverly 25th anniversary thanks to randy for the info on this
Alien 3- Northridge, CA 1 dollar ticket theater. Then again on VHS
Alien Res- Winketa CA Theater

Pred 1- VHS
Pred 2- VHS

AVP- Sherman Oaks CA, Arclight(Opening night)
AVPR- Same

Predators- Same

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Alien - VHS
Aliens - VHS
Alien3 - VHS
Alien Resurrection - VHS
Predator - TV
Predator 2 - VHS

AVP - DVD
AVP:R - DVD

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Alien - drive-in theater, Miracle Mile in Pontiac, MI. Followed "Empire Strikes Back" as the second feature film that evening. It was raining, and my folks decided to leave 1/2 way through the movie.

Aliens - VHS. Tried to get in the theater with my brother and cousins, but it was rated R, and we ended up seeing "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" instead.

Alien3 - second year at the Academy, can't remember if I saw it on tape in one of the dayrooms or in the Theater on liberty.

Alien Resurrection - in the theater. Girlfriend at the time hated it.

Predator - on tape. Blown away! I had no idea it had to do with an alien.

Predator 2 - on VHS tape

AVP - DVD

AVP:R - only saw snippets on cable

Predators - in the theater.


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Alien - Taped on TV (saw Director's Cut in the Cinema)
Aliens - Special Edition on VHS (which I had to keep when I bought the VHS box set as it only had the normal edition)
Alien 3 - VHS
Alien Resurrection - Cinema

Predator - Taped off telly
Predator - Taped off telly
Predators - Cinema (bought on dvd last year but not watched it yet)

AvP - Dvd
Avp:R - Dvd (although I wouldn't have minded seeing it at the cinema - i kind og like it)

Trying to organise Prometheus with friends at the moment. If it's any good I will be seeing it a couple of times. :D

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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 12:32 pm 
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Alien - Video
Aliens - TV
Alien 3 - Cinema
Alien Resurrection - Cinema
Predator - Video
Predator 2 - Cinema, I think
AvP - Cinema
Avp:R - DVD
Predators - Download (I wasn't gonna pay for that shit!)

Prometheus will probably be at the ol' kino house, though.


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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:16 pm 
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Alien - Probably on TV, though I can't remember. I saw it a year or two after I saw Aliens. I saw the Director's Cut at the cinema.
Aliens - On a friends portable TV a couple of years after it came out. I was 15 when it came out, and with it being an 18 there was no way I could see it at the cinema.
Alien 3 - Cinema
Alien Resurrection - Cinema
Predator - At that same friends house where I saw Aliens (and also The Terminator, though I saw T2 at the cinema)
Predator 2 - I think I might have seen it at the cinema, but I can't remember. It might have been the TV.
AvP - Cinema
Avp:R - Cinema
Predators - Download. I was about to go to the cinema to see it, but the one I go to must have just stopped the cheaper "Early Bird" tickets for "before 12:00" showings, so I downloaded it instead.
Prometheus - 10 days to go, though I will now have to wait an extra day until Saturday, as I'm not on holiday on the Friday any more (visiting my first Nephew - 3 weeks old now, so he took priority).

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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:20 pm 
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My parents ceremoniously sat me down to watch Alien when I was ten years old. I was hooked. My Dad and I took off to see Aliens during my mom's baby shower for my brother. All the films have pretty much become a family favorite, but especially the first two.

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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2012 1:15 am 
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Alien - VHS
Aliens - VHS
Alien 3 - You guessed it--VHS
Alien Resurrection - VHS

Predator - VHS
Predator 2 - VHS
Predator - Blue Ray

Alien vs Predator - In theater
Alien vs Predator: Requiem - In theater

All those VHS copies I saw all before the age of 8, with the exception of Resurrection.

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Alien - TV
Aliens - TV
Alien 3 - VHS
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:58 am 
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Alien and Aliens on the Big Screen, on Opening Night!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :delta: :delta: :delta: :delta:

Same, same. Caught Alien at the Cinema 1 in Marin Co. (home of Lucas's ILM) on widescreen, which was the only theater in the area that had it back then, after months of anticipation. Fox managed to keep a pretty tight lid on the media so no pics the creature were leaked in any of the popular fanzines I was constantly reading back then. Only a handful of movies had ever creeped me out like that before, but I sure didn't sleep too well that night! I saw Aliens when it opened in Japan. Made the mistake of taking a girl to see it and still bear the scars from her fingernails digging into my arm all through the last half of the movie! (THAT was our last date, btw!) LOL :mrgreen:

I read Foster's novelization of Aliens around the same time and wondered why the sentry guns and other cool stuff weren't in the original release, then was blown away when I found the extended edition at a video rental shop here in Japan a year or so later. Tried to find a copy of it in the states but nobody had even heard of it, so it was a couple of more years before I was finally able to buy a copy of it without Japanese subtitles on it. Those missing twenty minutes were pure gold!

I saw Alien 3 and Resurrection on the big screen as well, but don't remember as vividly as the first two, which are at the top of the list of my most favorite movies of all time.

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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2012 6:22 pm 
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I'll be honest, I don't really know. I think I probably saw them originally on tv at one point or another, then had to see them on dvd or video to see the whole thing. I've yet to see any of them in the theater.

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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:35 pm 
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ALIEN:- VHS at my brother's home... and then I could not get it out of my head ;-)... had to see it again and again...
ALIENS: TV, then VHS recorded (again and again), then Director's Cut on Laser Disc, finally bought Boxed set.
ALIEN 3: DVD (was not interested and I always delayed due to bad scores).
ALIEN Resurrection: Cinema at time of release.

PREDATOR: Laser Disc.
PREDATOR 2: DVD.
PREDATORS: Cinema.

AVP: Cinema.
AVP: Cinema but unsure.


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