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Blood Boils posted:How do they see without eyes Well, where they're going...
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Davros1 posted:Random question: If the xenomorph's blood is an acid, does that make them invulnerable to other types of acid? I guess it would depend on what their skin/carapace is made of (commonly cited as being silicon-based) and how well their acid blood plays with other acids. Their acid blood is usually cited as some kind of mix of hydrochloric/hydrofluoric acid that’s always exactly as potent as the script needs it to be at a given moment. Blood Boils posted:How do they see without eyes I’ve always thought the “no eyes” conceit was one of the most interesting and unnerving aspects of the Alien design. I think the idea behind it with the original movie was that it was scarier if you couldn’t tell what the Alien was looking at or if it could see you. One of the comics that approached the Alien from a religious angle rolls with the “no eyes” thing as it relates to the “eyes as the window to the soul”, implying that if the Alien has no eyes, it has no soul.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:14
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NarkyBark posted:The only scene in Resurrection that really worked for me was the discovery of the clone lab. Wonderfully creepy. The rest of it misfires in so many ways. Left: You're gonna die Right: Now you're playing Simon! Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Aug 22, 2018 |
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Aug 22, 2018 16:19
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Both Prometheus and Covenant are some drat win imo
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Aug 22, 2018 16:20
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I'm 76kg which is about 7,600,000 ants, assuming they average 10mg each which google suggests as being reasonable... I'd bet on the ants.
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Aug 22, 2018 17:07
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Blood Boils posted:How do they see without eyes I used to think the bulbous protrusions on the side of the head were the eyes when I was a lil' ruddiger.
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Aug 22, 2018 17:34
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jiggerypokery posted:I'm 76kg which is about 7,600,000 ants, assuming they average 10mg each which google suggests as being reasonable... I'd bet on the ants. I saw this video recently about fire ants swarming and murdering live prey, and I thought to myself, “what if these things were 8 feet tall, had acid for blood, and were generally unpleasant” https://youtu.be/0qF5_P2e_T0
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Aug 22, 2018 17:59
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Xenomrph posted:I saw this video recently about fire ants swarming and murdering live prey, and I thought to myself, “what if these things were 8 feet tall, had acid for blood, and were generally unpleasant” Imagine no more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPw4U_IhWV4
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Aug 22, 2018 19:40
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Xenomrph posted:I saw this video recently about fire ants swarming and murdering live prey, and I thought to myself, “what if these things were 8 feet tall, had acid for blood, and were generally unpleasant” I love that dude's youtube channel. I've never heard someone so jazzed about ant farms and ant colonies.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:32
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ruddiger posted:I love that dude's youtube channel. I've never heard someone so jazzed about ant farms and ant colonies. I liked his videos until I watched a string of them in a row and he really tries to run his channel like a reality show and it gets old fast. Click-bait titles (“I think all my ants are dead!!”, “Did one of my colonies escape overnight??”), goofy cliffhangers at the ends of his videos, poo poo like that. And the way he uses the proper name “ACFamily” to address the audience in every third sentence got old real quick. Like, ants are cool and fun to watch, just show us ants doing cool stuff rather than trying to frame it like Deadliest Catch: Ants Edition with faux drama and poo poo.
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Aug 24, 2018 03:06
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Mute it, and load up some Ennio Morricone on spotify.
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Aug 24, 2018 10:12
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The Predator is apparently on track to earn $30 million on its opening weekend. https://variety.com/2018/film/news/predator-box-office-shane-black-reboot-opening-tracking-1202915431/ Not bad, but competition from The Nun will probably affect The Predator's BO take, especially if the latter sucks. Hopefully Shane Black delivers.
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Aug 26, 2018 05:18
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I finally got around to watching Covenant. It was ok but I've seen that intro plotline many times before. The parts with David were great but otherwise not so good. I've seen enough slasher movies and I expected more from Ridley Scott. I heard this did badly at box offices. Is Ridley Scott going to get to make a sequel? I would really like everything to be wrapped up in one final movie. Let's first give Micheal Fassbender his final performance as David and wrap that up. I'd also like to finally learn about the true origins of the black goo which is basically the Alien. Why was it created and who created it. I'm really doubting it was the "engineers" at this point. Really the only frightening aspect left in the series is that we know there is an omnipotent force in the universe that created this terrible thing and we can only guess why it was created or what the purpose is.
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Sep 1, 2018 02:25
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DropsySufferer posted:I finally got around to watching Covenant. It was ok but I've seen that intro plotline many times before. The parts with David were great but otherwise not so good. I've seen enough slasher movies and I expected more from Ridley Scott. Covenant underperforming their expectations cut the series from two more films + Blomkamp's film to one last film to wrap it up and lead into Alien. Scott has said that it will also focus on David, which is good because it would probably be worth watching if the edited out all the sets and other actors and just released an hour and a half of so of David. There are other things I like about the new films, mind. David just sits in the center of those things like an impossibly charming spider who is also making giant rape spiders for everyone.
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Sep 1, 2018 06:21
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I hope the end for Davey isnt looking longingly into his deathspawn's skull-lined eyesockets just to get stabbed/eviscerated, cute inversion on Weiland's death as it would be. Maybe, like, stitched into an egg or something bodygross.
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Sep 1, 2018 07:22
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Hodgepodge posted:Covenant underperforming their expectations cut the series from two more films + Blomkamp's film to one last film to wrap it up and lead into Alien. Scott has said that it will also focus on David, which is good because it would probably be worth watching if the edited out all the sets and other actors and just released an hour and a half of so of David. There's also Disney taking operational control of Fox sometime in late 2019 or early 2020, so we have no real idea what the hell is going to happen with the series at this point.
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Sep 1, 2018 08:36
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Wish they would have spent more time with the engineers instead of killing them offscreen.
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Sep 1, 2018 14:30
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If Scott’s final film ever gets made, it suggests they aren’t all dead, and there’s enough of them left to seek revenge on David for one all out final war. Which leads to the crashed ship on LV426
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Sep 1, 2018 16:38
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Invalid Validation posted:Wish they would have spent more time with the engineers instead of killing them offscreen. Hey a ton of them got killed onscreen in Covenant
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Invalid Validation posted:Wish they would have spent more time with the engineers instead of killing them offscreen. They did. They just called them humans
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Sep 1, 2018 17:19
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CelticPredator posted:If Scott’s final film ever gets made, it suggests they aren’t all dead, and there’s enough of them left to seek revenge on David for one all out final war. Which leads to the crashed ship on LV426 Doesn't that ship predate anything in these movies or did they retcon that out?
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Sep 1, 2018 18:12
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CelticPredator posted:If Scott’s final film ever gets made, it suggests they aren’t all dead, and there’s enough of them left to seek revenge on David for one all out final war. Which leads to the crashed ship on LV426  If the third Alien prequel ever gets made it'll absolutely have David getting done by Shaw-Queen by the end
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Sep 1, 2018 18:43
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banned from Starbucks posted:Doesn't that ship predate anything in these movies or did they retcon that out? The corpse of the space jockey was old enough to have been fossilized, so probably? Who even knows that this point.
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Sep 1, 2018 18:56
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I think they need to get back to basics with this franchise. The entire canon is getting really convoluted and not much of it is helping from the standpoint of making good films. Also, I need another video game. Isolation 2 or something. Anything.
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Sep 1, 2018 19:52
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Those lame monk engineers did not create the aliens. That planet has just one city. I’m sure the actual homeworld would be ultra developed with hundreds of ships coming and going. But I do believe the engineer species wiped itself out with its own creation and what’s left and what we get to see are the pathetic remnants.
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Sep 1, 2018 20:14
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DropsySufferer posted:Those lame monk engineers did not create the aliens. That planet has just one city. I’m sure the actual homeworld would be ultra developed with hundreds of ships coming and going. It's almost as if they found the Ancient Aliens, and they were just people 
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BiggerBoat posted:I think they need to get back to basics with this franchise. The entire canon is getting really convoluted and not much of it is helping from the standpoint of making good films. Also, I need another video game. Isolation 2 or something. Anything. Just ignore the canon and enjoy the films as separate entities
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Sep 1, 2018 21:15
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Hodgepodge posted:It's almost as if they found the Ancient Aliens, and they were just people Prometheus explicitly says that they are
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Sep 1, 2018 21:39
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banned from Starbucks posted:Doesn't that ship predate anything in these movies or did they retcon that out? I mean the people who stated this were underplayed space truckers. But the ship could’ve been old where’s the jockey could’ve been fresh.
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Sep 1, 2018 21:56
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BiggerBoat posted:I think they need to get back to basics with this franchise. The entire canon is getting really convoluted and not much of it is helping from the standpoint of making good films. Also, I need another video game. Isolation 2 or something. Anything. You know what? I honestly have to agree with this. I think that's where my beef with the new Scott movies is, despite thinking they're very good in and of themselves; the convolution of them doesn't really fit the Alien series. Like, part of why I love the first two movies is their simplicity. They're absolute Swiss watches that have a goal from the first frame that they single-mindedly push towards. Prometheus and Covenant are both great, but they're comparatively scatter-brained, constantly dropping new revelations and threads to pull on the viewer, and that makes them feel outright bizarre in the series.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:03
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BiggerBoat posted:I think they need to get back to basics with this franchise. The entire canon is getting really convoluted and not much of it is helping from the standpoint of making good films. Also, I need another video game. Isolation 2 or something. Anything. While we’re not getting an Isolation 2, an Alien Isolation novel just got announced today. No word on if it’s an adaptation of the game or if it’s a sequel, but I hope it’s the latter. There is at least one video game in the pipeline, I can’t remember who the developer is offhand but as long as it’s not Gearbox I’ll give anyone a crack at the license. Obligatory Konami “Aliens Pachinko” joke
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CelticPredator posted:I mean the people who stated this were underplayed space truckers. But the ship could’ve been old where’s the jockey could’ve been fresh. If you look carefully, Scott has put at least one obvious scientific inaccuracy in each film, perhaps as a way of letting the audience know that the information being provided is not objective fact. In Covenant, it was the disaster at the start being caused by a "neutrino burst." Neutrinos barely interact with matter. Although they can technically cause a nuclear reaction through the weak force, chancing one nucleus to another, it would have to be a very unstable element which decays quickly anyhow. Meanwhile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino posted:Each second, about 65 billion (6.5×10^10) solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter on the part of the Earth orthogonal to the direction of the Sun.[12] Since neutrinos are insignificantly absorbed by the mass of the Earth, the surface area on the side of the Earth opposite the Sun receives about the same number of neutrinos as the side facing the Sun.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:31
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The average movie goer is way too stupid to know that so I dont think it's that obvious
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Sep 1, 2018 22:45
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banned from Starbucks posted:The average movie goer is way too stupid to know that so I dont think it's that obvious They're aimed as the sort of person who looks for inaccuracies in scientific trivia (like "millions of miles" in Prometheus). This one seems to have went over most of their heads, though, since I haven't seen anyone complain about it. Or through their heads without interacting, I guess.
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Sep 1, 2018 23:58
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I'm a semi intelligent person and have no idea what a neutrino is or does or how it could damage solar sails
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Hodgepodge posted:They're aimed as the sort of person who looks for inaccuracies in scientific trivia (like "millions of miles" in Prometheus). Or maybe nobody cares
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Hodgepodge posted:They're aimed as the sort of person who looks for inaccuracies in scientific trivia (like "millions of miles" in Prometheus). That one is funny, because it's obvious hyperbole from two characters flirting: JANEK: You know, if you wanna get laid, you really don't have to pretend to be interested in the pyramid scanner. I mean you could just say: "Hey, I'm trying to get laid". VICKERS: I could say that, right? But then, it wouldn't make sense why I'd find myself half a billion miles from every man on Earth, if I wanted to get laid, would it? The wildest part of the Prometheus thread were goons just not understanding that the characters could possibly be attracted to eachother. Goes for the best bros Fifeld and Millburn as well. Also as nerdy pendants like Neil deGrasse Tyson have pointed out, "half a billion miles" would put them around Jupiter. This however ties the the film into 2001: A Space Odyssey, you know the movie where only the AI questions why they're following an ancient alien message into space.  (can't remember if this was goon made or not) wyoming fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Sep 2, 2018 |
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Yeah I just saw 2001 for the first time and Prometheus is the more horror filled remake of it. Straight up all around. Makes me love both films more.
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Leave it up to nerds to pick apart a throwaway line that some robot chick says while trying to get laid with one of the sexiest men to have ever lived. And THAT'S why Prometheus was a bad movie!!1
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CelticPredator posted:Yeah I just saw 2001 for the first time and Prometheus is the more horror filled remake of it. Straight up all around. Makes me love both films more.
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