And what the hell is Arcturian poontang?

Sex with Arcturians.  It's kinda like Thai lady boys in space.

The sex part i got.I take it Arcturians are some sort of transgender alien?

Very little is known about them but at some point the colonists of Arcturus, effectively cut off contact with Earth in favour of living with the indigenous Arcturians.  The ones the marines talk about may be indigenous or colonists.

I always thought it was an interesting piece of world building.Is this covered in The Weyland Yutani report?

Perhaps also a little nod to the 'love' scene from the Dan O'Bannon-Moebius illustrated The Long Tomorrow......

All That I Love: Jean Giraud-MOEBIUS

The Moebius Influence.

That's pretty graphic Lone lol.

@Lone xD 

NINXENO426 - Oh, gosh! This will be a most interesting topic! I happen to remember a very brief article within a Science Fiction magazine that detailed the Arcturians within the film, Aliens. According to James Cameron, the Arcturians were never fully detailed in order to build mystery. However, he did state, if my memory still serves me well, the Arcturians were very "pretty" - men and women alike. As such, it could be easy for a lonely space marine to mistake one of the more feminine-looking men for a woman! :)

LONE - O'Bannon is a genius in his representations of satire and dark comedy. We need more creative intellects such as his! :: 

"Except the one you had was a male!" "It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian!" It does make a lot of sense when you start putting things together.I've been wondering what the hell they were talking about for years.

I would love to see Dark Star.Total Recall is great.

NINXENO426 - Hahaha! Well, now we have a frame of reference - more or less - from which to work while discussing the, um, more intimate portions of colonial marine endeavors abroad! ;)

@Something Real- O'Bannon, Giger, Moebius, they all live on through the Sci-fi of Ridley Scott.

Prometheus riffed all of them and pretty sure AC will too! ;) 

For anyone else who was as clueless as I was for years. Poontang is an English bastardization of the French slang for sex/vagina.  It was ten years after I saw the movie that I finally found out what they were talking about.

^Hah better late than never!^

ninXENO the Bishop-Hudson knife trick evolved from Dark Star

Dark Star is bargain basement low rent weird. I personally didn't care for it, but it's a cult classic.

Hi Lone!

I'm already getting a strong Moebius vibe from the AC trailer, as strong as Prometheus if not stronger. The more you consider it, the more you see it. Speaking of which, nice choice of LT frame, you naughty girl.

I wish people would quit fretting over the shower scene and relax, this movie is gonna rock on all levels I think.