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Oh man, I remember one of the Alien comics I read where there was a squad of alien hunters and they all wore Power-Loader suits. Just power-loader suits. They weren't modified into war-machines or anything like that, they just wore them because Ripley wore one and everyone loves that final fight... and maybe because it was a power-up in the kickin'-rad ALIENS arcade game where Ripley and Hicks blast the piss out of a million aliens.  Imagine going to war in fork-lift trucks. That's what they were doing in this comic. Hahaha. Julius CSAR posted:Man there’s a video I’m trying to find of a guy who does old movie reviews and he talks about how Titanic was actually an action movie that got re-edited to be a romance after that Celine Dion song dropped and it’s one of the reasons the movie feels really conflicted. Pages ago, but was it Red Letter Media's Titanic video? Mr. Plinkett gets into the marketing and delays and the Celine Dion song pretty extensively.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Just looking at the covers I picture Herk Mondo as a character who exists as fiction in the Aliens universe. Like Hudson has a few issues in his foot locker and likes to read about Herk's wild adventures bedding aucturians and fighting UPP SPETZNAZ. That's UPP Kosmospetsnaz. Honestly, I love that the Gibson Alien 3 script is getting the love it's getting because I love me the concept of the Space Warsaw Pact as a counter to Weyland-Yutani exocapitalism.
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Good thread. I watched Aliens last night cause of this. My personal opinion is that only the first two are good movies but Resurrection, Prometheus, and the first Alien vs Predator are the better bad ones. Alien 3 is garbage and yes I've seen the assembly cut, it's still garbage just like the director's cut of Daredevil that everyone swears fixes the movie. I haven't seen covenant yet
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Julius CSAR posted:I know we're talking (mostly) about Aliens here, but there's been some other chat about 80's action movies in general, so I'm gonna talk about why "The Hunt For Red October" is one my favorite movies. We watched that movie on the flight over to Saudi Arabia for the first Gulf War.
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Young Freud posted:That's UPP Kosmospetsnaz. Out of curiosity, I scrubbed through a longplay of that DS game with the incredible soundtrack from a couple pages back and the UPP gets namechecked during the obligatory building tension initial phase (like "Hey this must be the space commies who done this") while they're investigating the derelict Sulaco. There's also a cat scare.  I'm fixing to run an Aliens/Predator universe tabletop RPG using the Mothership rules soon and I plan to salvage that bit of world-building to flesh things out. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Lord Ludikrous posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqzYjWLqgNA This reminds me of a music video I saw forever ago that's just the band reciting the entire plot of Starship Troopers over some incredibly generic metal lol.
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purple death ray posted:Alien 3 is garbage and yes I've seen the assembly cut, it's still garbage just like the director's cut of Daredevil that everyone swears fixes the movie. There are precisely two good bits in Alien 3: 1- Charles Dance can read a phone book and still emotionally grip you. 2- This 120x120px gif of Michael Beihn earnt him almost much as he earnt for his entire work in Aliens 
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Owlbear Camus posted:I'm fixing to run an Aliens/Predator universe tabletop RPG using the Mothership rules soon and I plan to salvage that bit of world-building to flesh things out. I'm going to amend Rick Gubble's backstory then. He saw a predator once.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:23
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I'm going to amend Rick Gubble's backstory then. He saw a predator once. Well whoopdie-fuckin'-doo. Hey I'm impressed.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:27
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I'm going to amend Rick Gubble's backstory then. He saw a predator once. Well? Did he want some candy or not?
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Owlbear Camus posted:Well whoopdie-fuckin'-doo. Hey I'm impressed. Yeah well I hope you like hearing about it, cause its a story Gubble likes telling.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:31
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There is an excellent Aliens game for the Nintendo DS. I own it but it's somewhere in storage after I moved. That's the most recent good Aliens game. Isolation notwithstanding.
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Did anyone play the Aliens vs Predator game for Atari Jaguar? I remember I was at a friend of a friend's house who had it way back when and it looked so loving awesome.
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Drunken Baker posted:Imagine going to war in fork-lift trucks. That's what they were doing in this comic. Hahaha. that would be sick though
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Vargs posted:I can't speak for the Aliens version, but SS13 is super unique and cool if you can stomach the awful visuals, lag, and controls not fit for human use. There's nothing else like it. Well, if you can imagine all this but everyone is issued extremely deadly weaponry at round start, you can extrapolate how CM typically goes. SS13 is an anomaly on all counts. I'm the most impatient gamer in the world yet I'll gladly tool around in SS13 for hours as a botanist, doing little more than growing space weed or starting a cult of pumpkin -headed assistants who pry up floor tiles and lay down a slow, creeping wave of sod across the station. It's the sheer unpredictability of the human element, I guess. Which leads me right back to CM. I love it because even when you can call it for the aliens 5 minutes in, you never quite know where and how you're going to die and what you're going to accomplish along the way. It's a story generator of the highest quality.
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Durzel posted:There used to be an Alien experience thing at an arcade in London back around 2010 where you were dropped in with some people playing as Marines, who get ambushed by Aliens, etc. Naturally it was poo poo your pants terrifying. Alien Wars.... it actually first opened back when Alien:3 was released on VHS as there was a trailer for it on my copy, it was re-opened in 2010 but had lost the license to use actual Xenomorph's I beleive it also opened in Glasgow for a while prior to the london re-opening. I never went to it which I regret to this day
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If anyone wants the SS13 experience but at a slightly more, uh, manageable level try out Rimworld, it's great. You can harvest organs and make space crack
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VikingSkull posted:If anyone wants the SS13 experience but at a slightly more, uh, manageable level try out Rimworld, it's great. You can harvest organs and make space crack
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Splicer posted:I'd kill a man for an SS13 engine remake with Rimworld graphics and decent controls, If I had a dollar for every failed SS13 remake I'd have enough to fund a professional SS13 remake. That's 15 years of collaborative spaghetti code made by developers who who coded without communicating with one another then hosed off to a remote mountain monastery to never be seen again.
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I think I'm going to watch AvP Requiem tonight. In the last week I've seen Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, AvP, about 5 minutes of Covenant which I need to revisit. So let's try this one tonight.
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I've been showing my girlfriend the aliens franchise because of this thread and so we watched Alien first. She'd never seen it before and she guessed most of what was going to happen next. It kind of made me realize how different pacing in movies was back then compared to more recent films. Aliens later this week. I can't wait.
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frogge posted:I've been showing my girlfriend the aliens franchise because of this thread and so we watched Alien first. She'd never seen it before and she guessed most of what was going to happen next. It kind of made me realize how different pacing in movies was back then compared to more recent films. Aliens later this week. I can't wait. Did she like it? This is important for the future of your relationship.
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drat those graphics still hold up. Apparently Steam doesn't have it though. They have the original AvP though.
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I’ve never seen the AvP movies, are they as bad as they look?
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The AvP 2 (2002) PC game is still a great game and I suggest everyone play it at least once. The multiplayer was amazing, there were mods for full alien life cycle. Sneaking up on a marine or a predator and face hugging them in a dark corner was a blast. Trying to survive as a newborn alien for like 2 mins before you were full grown was hectic as hell. Sadly the multiplayer doesn't work anymore (gamespy), I've read you can still play it somehow but it looked like a pain to do.
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Julius CSAR posted:I’ve never seen the AvP movies, are they as bad as they look? Pretty much. The first one establishes the relationship between the two which is fine but there are some... interesting plot decisions that I don't quite like. I've only seen the second one one time but I think I remember liking it more than the first. I might watch it tonight to see if that still stands.
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Julius CSAR posted:I’ve never seen the AvP movies, are they as bad as they look? The first one is bad but fun, I don't like the second but a lot of people prefer it. It's also bad.
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I watched Aliens with my wife last weekend. It was her first time seeing it. I only jumped at her to scare her once, which I thought was quite restrained. She liked it, so I'm keeping her. I told her that at some point we should watch the director's cut because it adds some cool scenes & background, but it ruins the intro and the pacing is way off. Also, never watch another alien movie
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Rickety Cricket is in AvP 2 lol. The pizza place manager.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Rickety Cricket is in AvP 2 lol. The pizza place manager. Hahaha. Picturing him with those burns he gets now and imagining an alien did it.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:drat those graphics still hold up. i think it's in licensing hell so don't count on ever seeing it
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Hopefully people who like Aliens know about Natural Selection, a Half Life mod which had a commercial sequel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91EqzvEItM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-4iaKXP68
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feelix posted:The same people that dislike the Starship Troopers movie for not being a faithful representation of the Starship Troopers book, which is an actual fascist manifesto It was required reading at the military academy.
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xenomorph/arachnid baby. Imagine it!
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Speaking of game mods, did anyone play the Quake 2 mid called Gloom? I spent hours facehugging grunts and getting one shotted.
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Wizchine posted:Aliens needs to be seen in the theater with a crowd. I remember the audience cheering at least a couple of times: when Vasquez finally cuts loose ("Let's rock!") and when the doors open to reveal Ripley in the power loader. When I saw Aliens in the theater on release weekend the audience went loving NUTS when Ripley came out of the hanger with the power armor. Philthy fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 12, 2019 |
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TheMostFrench posted:Hopefully people who like Aliens know about Natural Selection, a Half Life mod which had a commercial sequel. I used to play the heck out of NS1 when I was a teenager. I apparently own NS2, is it still an active game?
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In an amazing coincidence, I adopted a dog and named her Ripley on the same day this thread was posted.
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