Happy Alien Day

So John called yesterday to tell me that the local multiplex was showing Alien and did I want to see it.  Alien on the big screen?  Hell yes!

When he got home later, he asked, "Do you know why they're showing it tonight?"
Me, "Because Alien Covenant is coming out next month?"
John, "Well, that but there's another reason.?"
Me, "uuuuhhh?"
John, "Do you know the name of the moon that they land on?"
Me, "LV426"
John, Oh, you knew that. I guess I should have know that."
Me, "Yeah, the commercial towing vessel, Nostromo, and it's crew of 7, were prematurely awakened on their return to Earth because Mother detected an acoustical beacon of unknown origin."
John, "riiiiight. And?"
Me, "Huh?"
John, "What day is it?"
Me, "April.....uhhh....OH, 26!"

Get it? April 26? 4-26?

John, "Yeah! that's the alien planet"
Me, "It's not the alien planet! Did i.q.'s just drop sharply while I was away? I already said it was not indigenous It was a derelict spacecraft.....we honed in on it's beacon."
John, "fabulous. We're leaving at 6:30."

Armed with my Face Hugger, we headed out to the movie theater.

Sam forgot the Chest Burster, bummer. I left my Xenomorph at home because I didn't want to look weird carrying two alien plushies, I mean, c'mon.

When you press on his tummy, his little jaws come out!  So precious!

Before the movie started, there was a clip from Ridley Scott thanking us from coming. "Don't be silly, Ridley, really, it was no problem." And he let us know that after the showing there would be a special clip from the upcoming Alien Covenant. YEA!!

Alien on the big screen was amazing! There were lots of little things I'd never noticed before having only seen it on a small screen.  Like in the scene where Ash is trying to kill Ripley (oops, spoiler, Ash is a robot. And the A2's always were a bit twitchy.) there were torn-out pages from a porno mag taped to the walls.  Interesting.  And, regardless of the number of times you've seen it, Kane is still an idiot.

And the clips from Alien Covenant were AWESOME.  We were expecting 2-3 minutes of footage but there was close to 10.  I'm already on line trying to find the new zenomorph.  

John, "could you, maybe, just, not?" 

But he's got little spikes on his back. Oh my god!

So, happy belated Alien day. Next year, I'm going to keep the kids out of school so we can binge watch all of them.  As Einstein said, school should never get in the way of an education.