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evobatman posted:The best synopsis for Alien (1979): A cat avoids trouble aboard a space ship. Sadly I would like to read a novella on what happened with Jonsey the cat.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Sadly I would like to read a novella on what happened with Jonsey the cat. Ask and ye shall receive. 
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Dienes posted:Ask and ye shall receive. so wait, is this a children's book or a short story collection or yes?
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:so wait, is this a children's book or a short story collection or yes? Speaking of children's books, there was an Aliens comic series in the early 90s called 'Aliens: Hive' (or Harvest, depending on which reprint you're reading). It follows a roboticist who initially developed a robotic ant that could interact with ant hives, and then uses that knowledge to make a robotic Alien that could infiltrate Alien hives. In the character's backstory, you learn that he published a children's book about his robotic ant having an adventure in an ant hive. So Dark Horse decided to actually make the children's book, Cyberantics. It's a genuine children's book, with illustrations and child-level text and everything. It also happens to have a bunch of footnotes and marginalia about the life and work of the (fictional) author, and the book itself doesn't reference Aliens in any way. If you weren't familiar with the Aliens comic it spawned from, you wouldn't realize it's a tie-in book. The footnotes are pretty neat, too - about half of the bibliography is real texts and science journals, and the rest are references to books that haven't been published yet. 
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Just saw the new predator movie, don't, it's loving awful. It would of made a good graphic novel split up into about 8 different issues.
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willie_dee posted:Just saw the new predator movie, don't, it's loving awful. It would of made a good graphic novel split up into about 8 different issues. Can you confirm how magical the child with autism is portrayed as? On a scale of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to Stephen King?
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He was a legit badass. I think he was the first black NCO? He loved the Corps, every meal was a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade.
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brocked posted:He was a legit badass. I think he was the first black NCO? Him and Biehn are the only ones who play believable Marines, and that's because Biehn was the only decent actor of the bunch and Matthews was actually a Marine.
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Basebf555 posted:Him and Biehn are the only ones who play believable Marines, and that's because Biehn was the only decent actor of the bunch and Matthews was actually a Marine. Whoa whoa, are you saying Bill “Ultimate Badass” Paxton isn’t a decent actor? Also about half the marines are given nothing to work with. Weirzbowski has 2 seconds of screen time and no dialogue, Crowe has 1 line of off-screen dialogue and is only even visible on-camera when the Marines are suiting up before boarding the APC.
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Xenomrph posted:Whoa whoa, are you saying Bill “Ultimate Badass” Paxton isn’t a decent actor? Of course not, that was obviously an oversight on my part. I was too caught up in remembering Apone I guess. Anyway, I do stand by my statement that Matthews and Biehn are the only two who feel like they could be real Marines. Paxton is obviously going for a more over the top character but that fills a different role in the movie. You need a few guys who feel legitimately competent.
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I dunno, you could drop any of them into Generation Kill and they’d fit right in. I’d love to hear Bill Paxton’s response to schoolkid letters.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Yeah, I dunno if I can buy legitimately competent guys as marines. I swear I seem to recall some people in the behind the scenes stuff for Aliens talking about they felt like they were being unrealistic having the marines be so undisciplined and others saying "man it was really realistic how screwball those guys are"  . Granted part of the distinction seemed to be the people going off Vietnam era military memories vs. present day (at the time), to which... yeah, little different service experience there.
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Xenomrph posted:Whoa whoa, are you saying Bill “Ultimate Badass” Paxton isn’t a decent actor? Wait, Weirz Bowski's 2 seconds of screen time?
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I can totally buy Ferro as a pilot though with her 2cool4school aviators, lingo and general disdain for any type of manual work.
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Neo Rasa posted:Wait, Weirz Bowski's 2 seconds of screen time? Hicks pulls him away from the flaming ammo bag just before it goes off.
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Dienes posted:Can you confirm how magical the child with autism is portrayed as? On a scale of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to Stephen King? The kids not even played with autism to any degree, it's just such a poo poo movie they just throw it in as a way to move the plot forward, because the plots so terrible that sometimes they need an excuse for why no one can do something but the kid can.
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Neo Rasa posted:Wait, Weirz Bowski's 2 seconds of screen time?
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Fart City posted:Until this exact moment I legit thought that the character's name was Bowski and that Hick was frantically yelling "Where's Bowski?!" amidst the chaos. Haha yeah I thought that for ages until on one of my zillionth rewatches as a kid, I saw the name on one of the monitor's Gorman's looking at. At least, I think that is what it was that clued me in.
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Fun fact: unless stated in the film or in some other ancillary material, the first name of pretty much every character across all the Alien movies is presumed to be the same as the actor portraying them. The “trend” started because when the Sulaco’s computer is listing off the Marine names before they wake up, everyone’s first initial matches the actor’s first initial, except for D. Hicks and S. Gorman, if I remember right. Even Bishop has a first name, according to the terminal.
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I was shocked when Ricco Ross revealed in the I Was There Too podcast that R. Frost's first name is Robert.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I was shocked when Ricco Ross revealed in the I Was There Too podcast that R. Frost's first name is Robert.
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Just got David's drawing book. This thing owns it's like the Voynich Manuscript: Alien Edition.
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It’s one of the best things I’ve ever bought. I do wish there was more “story” in it. I want to know what happened. But I think it’s also neat to let it be ambiguous and open ended. Either way it’s a fun thing to pour through.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Just got David's drawing book. This thing owns it's like the Voynich Manuscript: Alien Edition. Oh, I had a look through that the other day in a bookstore. Horrifyingly weird.
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It owns that David is just Blood Meridian's Judge but an android, and he loves xenomorphs instead of war
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banned from Starbucks posted:Voynich Manuscript The Wiki article on this is just 
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Fart City posted:Until this exact moment I legit thought that the character's name was Bowski and that Hick was frantically yelling "Where's Bowski?!" amidst the chaos. A lot of people understandably think this because of how the movie plays out and that was the intention of the spacing in my earlier post. 
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If y'all have Prime Video, 80s anime LILY C.A.T. is on the service. It's basically Alien + The Thing + a crime mystery.
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Prometheus is really good and Covenant is ok.
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Prometheus is really bad and Covenant was ok.
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Alien 3 is really good and Alien Resurrection is ok.
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Speaking of Alien3, play Spot the Prisoner: https://youtu.be/CEJgRvkhp10
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Xenomrph posted:Speaking of Alien3, play Spot the Prisoner:
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