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- BerateBirthers, on 11/02/2009, -0/+46Hollywood always screws the people with the real talent: the writers, the special effects people, the scenery guys. But of course the lead needs $25 million to be late for rehearsals and read lines written by a guy who made $30k for the entire idea.
- fluidfoundation, on 11/02/2009, -0/+24Thank you Giger for ***** up all my dreams as a kid.
- consterXnation, on 11/02/2009, -0/+19FTA: "...it's pure Bacon."
Exactly why it's so awesome. - MercenarySlick, on 11/02/2009, -1/+18His artwork is so incredibly dark, disturbing, and soul-crushing. I love it. One of the prevailing themes is some sort of biological abomination mixed with technology, sex, and masochism... it just makes you feel dirty and wrong. Just pure horror. His art affects people pretty deeply because of it, he's a genius.
http://www.golivewire.com/forums/img.cgi?s=32986 - fragomatik, on 11/02/2009, -1/+17The irony is that Geiger literally created the alien from his dreams. In his book "Necronomicon" he describes how he painted the ghoulish and disturbing visions he encountered in his nightmares in an attempt to exorcise them from his mind. All-in-all, a very talented and unconventional artist with a unique ability to tap into the archetypal denizens of his subconscious.
- inactive, on 11/01/2009, -2/+15If you've ever seen this guy, he is every bit as unsettling as his artwork.
- ChocChunkOaties, on 11/02/2009, -0/+12I watched 1 & 4 again at the weekend. His artwork didn't stop at just the Alien though, his input in the original film included the whole landscape and Alien spacecraft that crashlanded on LV426, & without any of this other work on the original it would not have been as dark and disturbing as it was. I don't think apart from the Alien he had any new input into the fourth film so i can understand why they didn't want to credit him but yes he should be getting royalties.
Also anyone hear similar that Ridley Scott was thinking of remaking the original? - pimpofpixels, on 11/02/2009, -0/+11H.R Giger, David Fincher, John Cormack, and Hideo Kojima need to make something.
- tykjen, on 11/02/2009, -0/+11and with Alien 0 on the way, by Ridley Scott..he better approach Giger for collaboration.
- zip000, on 11/02/2009, -0/+11Dead Kennedys album cover mentioned:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/gigercollector/imag ...
NSFW BTW - Azuvector, on 11/02/2009, -1/+10Granted. And frankly in a way I'd rather not have him redesigning creatures constantly for film series'. You don't need that kind of randomness in a creature's biology; you take a base design and change it as needed, you don't reinvent it from scratch every movie.
Giger really should be getting royalties for all the Alien stuff, regardless of further involvement in the series, though. - robinthehood, on 11/02/2009, -0/+7I'm splitting hairs here, but it's artwork so I'm going to say SFW. If my boss wants to fire me for looking at art that doesn't gel with his "personal values" he can suck it.
- Mujokan, on 11/02/2009, -0/+7Dune was weird enough as it was -- can't imagine how it would have been if Giger had done the art direction.
- ArchetypeRyan, on 11/02/2009, -0/+7So Giger created the creature that made the film series famous and he's getting no money for his contributions to the sequels. I wonder if the MPAA will let produce copies of Their merchandise without paying them...
- JQP123, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6"Alien" is still the *only* movie I have ever purchased a copy of.
The move was actually scary and I'm sure Giger had something to do with it. At that time, I found most scary movies to just be kinda stupid and more laughable than scary. But this one was different. - Azathothh, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6he also did Celtic Frost "To Mega Therion" cover:
http://www.ugo.com/music/metal-album-covers/images ... - tattertech, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6He's not remaking - he's making a prequel supposedly set well before the events of the first one.
- Snottlebocket, on 11/02/2009, -0/+6It's not just male anatomy really. Check out some of his birthmachine paintings.
- RealmDown, on 11/02/2009, -1/+6How do you like your eggs ?
- 1ofMany, on 11/02/2009, -0/+5I just finished watching "The Alien Saga", a nicely informative documentary on the making of all 4 movies. Half the documentary deals with the 1st movie and the rest covers the remainder. Well worth the watch if you ask me.
- itc518, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4Thats how it looks from the other side, the different angles and things,lol.
- zip000, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4I basically agree, but thought since it does depict what it depicts, that a NSFW warning might be appreciated by some.
I think of "NSFW" as being a courtesy that should be broadly. - shadowspawn, on 11/02/2009, -2/+6I have a Penthouse that has his artwork in it. Never realized it was the same guy until years later.
- monodelasno, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4If I were Ridley, I'd want to distance myself from the epic turds that were Alien 3 and 4
- robinthehood, on 11/02/2009, -1/+5Alien 3 was not that bad... It's definitely aged better than expected. Yes, it has serious flaws, but at the core the story is solid.
FYI - biggest flaw is the 1990's special effects. sigh. - itc518, on 11/01/2009, -1/+5Agreed, I hear he has an Opium prob too. His artwork is sick though, I love it all.
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4Xenomorph porn?
- eanbowman, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3I agree - but I could see my boss' frustration if a client happened to be looking in my direction at the time.
I guess it depends on where you work. - Pasaris, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Brain Salad Surgery. My favourite album cover.
- AngryDeuce, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Giger rocks, I've got prints of his work all over my house...
- AngryDeuce, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2Why? It goes well with my Dali and Escher prints...
- dullnation, on 11/02/2009, -3/+5Random makes comment sense none all at.....
- DAC1138, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2The quadrilogy? Best DVD set I ever purchased. Second up is the Star Wars set.
- Cyclist110, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Splitting more hairs here. It wasn't the cover actually, it was a poster insert. I still have it. For a great album cover he did see Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson Lake and Palmer.
- dtele, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I think Francis Bacon was actually the father of the alien, as Giger himself admits.
FTA: Giger readily admits he was influenced by another artist. "It was Francis Bacon's work that gave me the inspiration," Giger said, "Of how this thing would come tearing out of the man's flesh with its gaping mouth, grasping and with an explosion of teeth ... it's pure Bacon." - eanbowman, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2It and Full Throttle scared me as a kid for some reason. Most horror seemed hokey and not very scary at all to me. Somehow King knew how to just be... creepy.
Alien was creepy but I didn't get to see it until I was older so it didn't have the full effect I guess. - pushmouse, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Brain Salad Surgery (ELP)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oofIZRPDL. ... - Mujokan, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2He had some popularity as an artist in the sci-fi boom of the mid-Seventies, before Alien. Epic paintings of space ships and strange worlds had quite a following back then. Angus McKie, Chris Moore, Tony Roberts, Chris Foss, Fred Gambino, Peter Elson, Jim Burns, etc.
- etx313, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2A modern day genius and one of my favorite artists.
- fluidfoundation, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Yes, what you said.
- folkish, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I can understand his hatred for Aliens 4, or whatever that trash was called.
- DAC1138, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Watch some of the documentaries on the Alien quadrilogy DVDs. I don't think it's the Giger was treated unfairly or badly, he just didn't agree with or get along with the Hollywood system. Giger didn't like flying, so he tried to do all his work remotely. He also wasn't an actor, so he can't compare his pay to Weaver's pay. He did do amazing work and I think he deserves more money from the franchise. But Hollywood isn't in the giving business and they're not going to just "be nice" and give him more money. Not without a lawsuit.
- Rudegar, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1would like to go to one of the giger bar's around the world
- mstachiw, on 11/02/2009, -3/+4generally speaking if you are 'annoyed at' how you were 'treated by' any person, place, or thing--in this case Hollywood--that probably won't change especially on the heels of an anniversary associated with the whole experience. Next time I wake up and feel good about an experience that annoyed me years ago I'll come back to this thread and remove this comment.
- diggdong, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Runny with a side of rubber boot.
- Hellahulla, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Hopefully with no humans. Or humans dressed as space jockeys :)
- Amadeus2490, on 11/27/2009, -0/+1 Scriptwriters will usually shop their script around for 7-10 years or more before it gets sold, and 30 thousand dollars is about the union minimum, last i've heard.
Producers, directors and distributors - the people who manage their own ideas, or someone else's - make a lot more money. Think of them as the managers at McDonald's compared to the cashier workers, who are purposely paid minimum wage because there are so many of them. . .even though the business wouldn't be able to operate without them. - kestermatsumoto, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1I really like alien 3. 4 was a bag of arses though.
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2And do you have a bookshelf dedicated solely to your one movie?
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