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It's not a good sign when I truly want everyone to die based off of the prologue. and I'm a Prometheus apologist.
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Prometheus already brought in the weed humor, and the franchise is already a hilarious dick joke, so Franco and McBride are inspired casting choices.
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Feb 23, 2017 23:54
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Neo Rasa posted:I think part of it is just Ridley Scott's production company (what was his and his brother's RSA seems to do a lot of just straight "fun" projects. Like, most years they do short film anthologies with a bunch of their directors that have some really sizable budgets with lots of vfx work and nice sets and poo poo. It helps with publicity for the group to a degree, I'm sure. But it also just lets them experiment. A couple of Neil Blomkamp's early shorts that later went viral when he did Alive in Joburg were part of that mentality as well.
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Feb 23, 2017 23:56
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) and his connections make something like that more feasible to schedule and actually make that happen for anything its even loosely involved in. Like there's this infamously bad video game, Driv3r, it's awful, total trash, EXCEPT Tony Scott directed like a ten minute short film about it in the same style as Domino to introduce people to the game's world. Like I think Scott just has the $$$ and passionate people to work with that it's not a huge deal, otherwise you'd think every movie not set in the present day would have some kind of thing like this as part of its marketing to drop on YouTube.
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General Battuta posted:I just love the blue-collar space trucking stuff. I could watch people mumble and flip switches on a Ridley Scott spaceship all day. It's not Ridley Scott but they added The Expanse to Amazon Prime and oh my GOOOOOOOD this show is awesome if you like both future noir and blue collar space truckers shooting the poo poo about crappy corporate mining jobs.
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Feb 24, 2017 06:29
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Basebf555 posted:Its also probably nice to be able to shoot an extended scene like that without having to worry about where to drop it in the movie where it won't gently caress up the overall pacing. chances are there'll be plenty of scenes in the film to do that on its own!
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Feb 24, 2017 06:34
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Neo Rasa posted:It's not Ridley Scott but they added The Expanse to Amazon Prime and oh my GOOOOOOOD this show is awesome if you like both future noir and blue collar space truckers shooting the poo poo about crappy corporate mining jobs. So much this.
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Feb 24, 2017 06:56
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Neo Rasa posted:I like that we now have a solid chronology of food in the setting being not that bad early on and then progressively getting worse to the point of Alien Resurrection where even the coffee is said to be terrible. Though it's probably like the company gives you a limited set of Good Food, that you burn through and then have to settle for GruelCo Meal-and-Protein Suppliment #46 for the remainder of the trip.
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Feb 24, 2017 20:59
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I dunno, man. MRE tech just keeps getting better. Maybe they'd benefit from screening for foodies before choosing their crew.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:27
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alf_pogs posted:chances are there'll be plenty of scenes in the film to do that on its own! Edit: edited because your joke flew right over my head.I blame my undying love of Prometheus
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Feb 24, 2017 21:33
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FilthyImp posted:It's not hard to imagine space-coffee being terrible. Unless the aeroponics bay has a coffee tree, there's a limit to how long the cryofreeze can protect those sweet oils. Ironically, the Auriga in Alien Resurrection canonically has a full hydroponics garden and farm on it with a ton of fresh beans/plants/etc. but they didn't have the budget/time to actually film the scene they wanted to in it. It would have been a running retreat from a bunch of the remaining aliens through the garden that would have happened between the underwater scene and right before Ripley got captured.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:36
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Neo Rasa posted:Ironically, the Auriga in Alien Resurrection canonically has a full hydroponics garden and farm on it with a ton of fresh beans/plants/etc. but they didn't have the budget/time to actually film the scene they wanted to in it. It would have been a running retreat from a bunch of the remaining aliens through the garden that would have happened between the underwater scene and right before Ripley got captured.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:03
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Why would they even need that. It took them like 2 hours to go from wherever the hell they were in "unrestricted space" past Jupiter to Earth. Just resupply whenever you want. Plus theres omly like 20 people on that huge rear end ship.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:46
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Earth? What a poo poo hole.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Why would they even need that. It took them like 2 hours to go from wherever the hell they were in "unrestricted space" past Jupiter to Earth. Just resupply whenever you want. Plus theres omly like 20 people on that huge rear end ship. In resurrection? Aren't they on a fully packed military vessel? I remember all the soldier dudes getting in escape pods so we could get that sick shot of the guy rolling a grenade into one of the pods with a xeno
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Feb 25, 2017 00:21
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Payndz posted:Eh, The Black Hole did it first. Is the Black Hole a good movie? I saw it when I was still a young goon and remember it being scary but when I looked up screenshots it looks kinda goofy.
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Feb 25, 2017 01:59
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It's goofy and not great but looks awesome.
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MacheteZombie posted:In resurrection? Aren't they on a fully packed military vessel?
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UmOk posted:Is the Black Hole a good movie? I saw it when I was still a young goon and remember it being scary but when I looked up screenshots it looks kinda goofy. It's... okay, but it has amazing design and miniatures. I love that ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCw67CtIOYM
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Feb 25, 2017 02:55
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If Black Hole was a movie for adults it could have been a creepy scifi horror classic. Making it a sort of randomly goofy kids movie though.. ehhhhh I remember I loved it as a kid because it felt dark and creepy and more "serious" than other kid-targeted science fiction poo poo
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Basebf555 posted:Edit: edited because your joke flew right over my head.I blame my undying love of Prometheus i also love prometheus. just a great monster flick
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Feb 25, 2017 03:36
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Shneak posted:It's not a good sign when I truly want everyone to die based off of the prologue. Why would you want them to die? They come off as normal, natural people?
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They come off like self-eugeniciding techies.
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Feb 25, 2017 03:50
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Oh yeah, the prologue also solidifies that colonists knew of (other) alien life (bugs) so we can finally stop that whole derail from here to eternity, hopefully 
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Neo Rasa posted:It's not Ridley Scott but they added The Expanse to Amazon Prime and oh my GOOOOOOOD this show is awesome if you like both future noir and blue collar space truckers shooting the poo poo about crappy corporate mining jobs. I couldn't take The Expanse seriously once I realized that every time Thomas Jane gets beat up in the show he metamorphosizes into an aging my chemical romance roadie
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Feb 25, 2017 04:28
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The Black Hole had a FANTASTIC score, too.And Maximillian the robot was awesome.
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HELL YEAH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJaypC51Dds i defy you to be a child and not get loving amped up by this
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Darko posted:Why would you want them to die? They come off as normal, natural people? They certainly don't come across as full on retards, which is the impression I quickly got from Prometheus. (I get it, they were, because it was intentionally a farce).
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Darko posted:Oh yeah, the prologue also solidifies that colonists knew of (other) alien life (bugs) so we can finally stop that whole derail from here to eternity, hopefully I bet you believe rats as big as cats are aliens too.
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Feb 25, 2017 06:06
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I couldn't take The Expanse seriously once I realized that every time Thomas Jane gets beat up in the show he metamorphosizes into an aging my chemical romance roadie He says he wears the hat to keep his head dry when it rains but even before the first episode's over you know it's to cover that haircut.
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Feb 25, 2017 06:16
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wyoming posted:I bet you believe rats as big as cats are aliens too. I also believe Private Frost in Aliens hosed a Arcturian poo-tang, I have no idea what a Arcturian is.
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I always got the impression they were just, like, humans living in a colony on Arcturus. IIRC there is some semi-official source that say they are straight up sentient humanoid aliens or whatever.
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Arcturus is a sun, the poontang is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CJzce-hU5s
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MacheteZombie posted:In resurrection? Aren't they on a fully packed military vessel? I think the start of the movie says theres 26ish people. 20 military 6 scientists. Hardly enough to need to grow your own food on a ship that big if its that fast with that big of a dock for resupply ships.
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SirDrone posted:I also believe Private Frost in Aliens hosed a Arcturian poo-tang, I have no idea what a Arcturian is. This has come up several times and I never know if you guys are joking or seriously have never heard the term poontang before. He hosed a girl in the Arcturian system.
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Bugblatter posted:This has come up several times and I never know if you guys are joking or seriously have never heard the term poontang before. Well one of them says "the one you had was a male" and Frost replies that it doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, which is why people think that they're some kind of aliens.
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Bugblatter posted:This has come up several times and I never know if you guys are joking or seriously have never heard the term poontang before. BUT IS IT CANON????
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Queering Wheel posted:Well one of them says "the one you had was a male" and Frost replies that it doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, which is why people think that they're some kind of aliens. maybe they're like thai lady-boys
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HannibalBarca posted:maybe they're like thai lady-boys Well yeah, that's the cultural reference it's making, since the whole movie is a Space-Vietnam allegory. But the official "canon" explanation right now is that Arcturians are extraterrestrials. Magic Hate Ball posted:HELL YEAH I'm an adult and this is rad as gently caress.
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Black Hole is a surprisingly dark movie that has a terrible juxtaposition with kiddie sequences in it. The tonal whiplash is real. It has great visuals and a great score with some pure ham acting and... well, it was 1979 and the formula for this kind of movie just wasn't there yet. Points given for the ending though, I know it gave me the creeps as a kid.
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