Yeah, me too. It's so teensy.

Good call about the 17-day trip. The suspended animation was to conserve resources, not to keep the crew from dying of old age.

Right, but her hypersleep was abnormally long because the life-craft drifted off course. The Nostromo voyage would not have taken 57 years. Ripley was expecting her child to still be a child when she got back, according to some of the extended cuts of Aliens. The Sullaco clearly had some sort of FTL, and there was…

23 is the new 50.

"Corpsegoddess" is pretty damned good, too.

"Also, we have no qualms about setting off nuclear weapons in OUR OWN ATMOSPHERE! [insert footage of 1940s nuclear tests] We'll blow up beautiful tropical islands FOR THE HELL OF IT! Now get the hell off our planet before we release our atomic circus-warriors."

Poor old Yutani. Always playing Davidson to Weyland's Harley.

Poor old Yutani. Always playing Harley to Weyland's Davidson.

Maybe they were hoping to lure in unsuspecting "E.R" fans.

So, Mitt Romney might not make it this time, but if he's patient he can get elected in 2076?

It really does look like Rankin-Bass Moorcock. Man, that would have been weird.

It's not like he was cut in half on the steps of the Naboo Trauma Center, either. He gets CUT IN HALF and then the cut pieces FALL FOR MILES.

FATHER! THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED!

I think on your moon vacation it's probably going to be all spicy Schezuan.

Brazaville is the town in Africa Humphrey Bogart and Claude Raines are heading to at the end of Casablanca. I think you mean Brasilia.

So they can fold space. The spice is the worm. The worm is the spice.

True.

I think guys who've won Best Director Oscars probably have the credentials to tell Lucas some things. Especially guys who have directed a lot more movies than Lucas.

Look, Rotten Tomatoes didn't exist in 1980. Empire has consistently had a higher rating than TPM on Rotten Tomatoes for as long as Rotten Tomatoes has existed. First, that 1980 comparison is based on some flawed methodology—the newspapers from 1980 that were available at one library in the 90s.

cool.