Christien Murawski's memorial & celebration of life 2/22/20

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@ineffablebob, Christien talking about watching the Alien movie franchise with his son.

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

I watched Alien for the first time with my son tonight. He’s fourteen. He’s been asking for a while but I’ve put it off because I thought it was too intense for him. “It’s from 1979? Does it look like 1979?” “Apart from a series of explosions at the end, not really. It’s just really good.” The reason I thought it was too intense for him was because him mom recently showed him this “Criminal Minds” TV show and he couldn’t sleep at night. It terrified him. So I was leery. And I told him that. “…

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

“Wait. Wait! So that’s where that comes from?!?” “Yep.” “Cool.” I watched Aliens last night with my son. I had reluctantly shown him the first movie about a week ago, and he was keen to see the second last night. I needed to do some podcast prep as we were going to record the Hellboy podcast at midnight, but I figured, “What the hell.” Now I’ve seen Aliens more times than I can count, but watching it with someone who has never seen it, someone you love and are raising, was wonderful. I’m tr…

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

Apparently my seriously cool friend, @marquac, read this post, and then made this for me. It basically made my day. [image] -xtien “Not bad…for a human.”

I miss making gifs for my friend.

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

“Why does that look like a green stamp?” I realize these pseudo live-diaries of us watching the “Alien” movies might be getting tedious. But oh well. My son insisted we watch Alien3 this morning. I warned him. I did. But he insisted. So we watched the thing. The amount of crappy this movie is cannot be explained. And I have to say up front, that the guy who adapted The Hunt for Red October, Larry Ferguson, was one of the screenwriters. Face palm. What’s great though is that we had a blast wa…

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

“No. Alien: Resurrection is far worse.” “You’re kidding me. The third one is worse than the fourth one.” “I don’t think so.” This is a somewhat reduced (I did not use the word ‘redacted’ I’ll have you know) version of a conversation I had with Tom after my son and I watched Alien3. His contention was that the fourth movie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is worse than the third movie, directed by David Fincher. He makes a good point, in that with David Fincher, you can see where he is headed.…

Qt3 Movie Podcast: Alien

Here’s a simple breakdown from the end of this side of the “Alien” franchise: Prometheus is better than I first thought. Alien: Covenant is worse. So that balances it out, right? Negative, Ghost Rider. Prometheus is better by a hair. I’m talking microfiber. Alien: Covenant is worse by a light year. It was interesting to see my son respond to Prometheus. The scientists act like dopes with accelerating consistency. My objections from the podcast stand. The movie strives to answer questions we…