well, the hardest part is just going to be DOING it. I've seen what Ady is capable of, and like he said, if he can learn how to do all of those things from the ground up anyone else can too - its just a matter of time, which I have...... but I'm also a professional procrastinator.
there's me.. laziness versus imagination! Who will win?
There are things that DEFINITELY need a fix, like the coffee mug and the control arm on the Nostromo model when it is making its landing... and just as with the EMPIRE:R list I will include links to pictures and youtube videos to help describe what I'm referring to.
In regards to the COCOON SCENE and RIPLEY/DALLAS LOVE AFFAIR:
as mentioned before, Ripley and Dallas were supposed to be lovers (roughly about a few weeks into the relationship). While I can take it or leave it, I think that IF the Cocoon sequence is to be put back in, there should also be some relevance to it.
The original scene (seen for the most part here) has a much more emotional Sigourney Weaver, which is what I wanted to play on: the idea that it is bad enough to see your fellow co-workers mutilated (some of whom you may have actually liked, or at least didn't want to see get killed in a horrible fashion) but to end it off with having to kill someone you are just beginning to become attached to (especially to kill them by burning them alive) is pretty creepy. And if there is one thing ALIEN has in spades it is creepiness.
Now the problem with the link above is that someone edited together the DC version of the scene with the version on the first dvd release. I'm going to see if I can't find the dvd version unmolested and post a comparison link...
I've also noted that there will have to be some editing to make this work:
(1) it will begin with Ripley finding Parker and Lambert's bodies (and her horrified expression), BUT rather than immediately cut to her running down the corridors, I plan on doing some tricky editing: I want to show someone on the floor with their head on their knees in a crouched position and maybe see if I can find some Sigourney Weaver dialogue to the effect of "what do I do?" (the idea that at least for that one moment, she's exhausted and at a loss). "She" would be out of focus, with the focus being on an intercom on the right foreground (probably would only be able to see the edge of it) - which is where we begin to hear the moaning...
(2) taking close-up scenes of Weaver looking up from the stair well and activating the self-destruct device later on, she goes to the intercom. Playing with some of her "hand shots" with said S-D device or on the shuttle, I can alter the metal plate to have a number pad, speaker and small viewscreen with a vector map of the Nostromo. Creating some FX similar to the 3-D photo machine in BLADE RUNNER (the effect when Deckard moved in to different areas on the photo), you see the square and four lines converge on the location of the moaning, which tells her where its coming from.
(3) taking some corridor shots either from ALIEN or other sci-fi movies that may fit, have the camera do a slow pan as we can hear her running down the corridors (say start the sounds close and have them run away from us and get more distant)
(4) "reverse" the opening "ladder shot" so it appears she is going down into it, which then leads to the cocoon scene.
(5) this would further explain why Ripley is freaking out and cursing when running to the S-D device, since now she knows she is completely alone. It would also keep the tension from the ship counting down to self-destruct from being broken, as it would place the cocoon scene BEFORE the process is started as opposed to directly in the middle of it - which DOES slow the movie down.
The problem here is I will have to lift out the wailing siren in the background of the cocoon scene, which could be a pain.
I will try to whip up some story boards and images to help further explain what I intend to do...