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@craigamore: I am not attacking 20thcenturybuick personally, I am attacking his ideas. Ideas are not people and they should be challenged when they are presented in a public forum like this.

@GreatBoosUp, I think people have a problem with the accusatory tone you took when you replied to 20thcenturybuick, and the fact that the idea you were "attacking" as being speculation is real and present in the trailers. All 20thcenturybuick did was "litter" the forum with a quality thread that got people talking.

funny, that in the original Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler, fire has no effect on the alien : [i]The Alien drops Lambert. Parker lands a blow with the flamethrower. No effect. The Alien strikes him once. Killing him instantly. He now moves to Lambert.[/i]

@ Kane77 - The original Alien script was written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shussett. Hill, Gordon and Carroll are evil and deserve to be burned alive IMO

@Kane77..."struck" int hat context refers to Parker using the flamethrower as a club, because he can't use it properly knowing Lambert is in the way.

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_shooting.html ´´ "ALIEN" by Walter Hill and David Giler Based on screenplay by Dan O'Bannon Story by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett REVISED FINAL JUNE, 1978 ´´

I bought the new issue of EMPIRE magazine; awesome holographic cover and great coverage of Prometheus. The cast give their perspective on the movie and Sir Ridley Scott answers all the questions you could ever ask! Definitely worth the cash: http://www.empireonline.com/magazine/