Good catch on the “bad dreams again” angle, and that would certainly be workable. The only reasons I favor the “coma” angle are:

Not necessarily an “alternate timeline”. I’ve always thought it would make perfect sense for the last two sequels to merely be Ripley’s nightmares while in a coma after a hypersleep mishap. She wakes up 30 years older. Everything fits seamlessly.

My casual observation has been that litters of young animals typically have a “most curious” member, who is the first one to investigate new things, and last to flee (I most specifically noticed this watching pigs). I don’t think that’s necessarily a future “alpha”, in that case of canines, as it’s not especially…

Regarding its bombing at the box office:

Flannery’s Restaurant in Penndel, PA opened built around a retired Super Constellation airliner in 1967:

Now that’s an interesting conspiracy theory...

In addition to her head not fitting inside 3PO’s, Rosie could kick his ass.

Definitely impressive, though there’s a “tilt-shiftiness” to some of it that looks almost like a miniature scene (and I suspect might be fixable — if that effect can be artificially created, it should be able to be neutralized). I do particularly like the bit of “bounce” he gave to the carriages and cars.

On the other hand, bears offer an important line of defense against alien invasion.

Get Dennis Moore working on this at once!

I still occasionally use that line, intoning it in the same way as the messenger zombie, when delivering bad news.

Sounds like someone left the vacuum cleaner running all through that clip. I hope that sounded louder in the recording than it did live in the capsule, or those poor guys were lucky to come back sane.

Another interesting point here — That Rylo fears that he can’t be as strong as his grandfather, even though, in terms of the Force, he seems significantly stronger.

And more likely to be commercially available for hoarding by zeppelin-treking scientists in the early ‘60s.

I don’t see much point to renaming stars with constellation-based names that already have a certain ring to them — epsilon Eridani, or even 47 Ursae Majoris, are perfectly good star names. I’m all in favor of renaming PSR 1257+12, though.

Back in the late ‘80s, a friend of mine was a big fan of Catherine Mary Stewart (sparked by her role in the great Night of the Comet) and made it his mission to see her entire filmography, tracked this down. When it aired at, like, 2:00AM as a CBS Late Movie circa 1989, I taped it for him, and we were all suitably…

This is exactly the sort of film that should be remade today — films with promising premises, and even scripts, that are just too primitively made and/or hobbled by mid-20th century cinematic conventions to be accepted by modern audiences.

“Combination guns” were pretty common back in the early days of firearms — the benefits of guns were apparent, but the problem of what to do once you’d fired your single shot was also obvious. Not only did gun/crossbows exist, but gun/maces, gun/axes, and gun/swords. Bayonets are arguably a related concept (“My gun’s…

I always find it puzzling when Hollywood gets the rights to an existing story and characters rather than doing something original, but then proceeds to use the title for an “original” (albeit cliched and derivative) story, rather than trying to make some use of the thing they actually bought the rights to.

I found the swordfighting especially egregious in Gladiator and 300, in that the Roman and Greek styles of warfare were more-or-less defined by fighting in disciplined fashion from behind walls of overlapping shields, with stabbing swords and spears, respectively, and both films ignored that utterly in favor of wild,…