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I bet Aliens slays on big screen. I’ve seen Alien that way (on a planetarium dome no less) but never Aliens
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Keith Atherton posted:Aliens is the only movie I saw in the theater two nights in a row (opening night and and the next night) Oh that would have been so fun to be at.
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Apr 27, 2019 02:21
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Oh that would have been so fun to be at. It was. I mean being a teenager in the 80s ruled because you only saw trailers at the theater. Went into Blade Runner, Poltergeist, the Thing, and Aliens not knowing anything but what at most the trailer showed The Thing and Blade Runner opened the same day in the summer of 1982 and I saw Blade Runner Friday and the Thing Saturday. That was a fun weekend.
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Apr 27, 2019 02:41
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I've just been reminded of "Marine Doom" and its use of audio clips from Aliens. Don't bother getting the mod, it's dogshit and the Doom engine, while a brilliant example of how to make a simple yet practical fast-paced action-horror arcade FPS, is an unbelievably terrible example of even the most basic methods of training flesh-and-blood soldiers to work together, especially when you can't even look up or down.
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Apr 27, 2019 02:46
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Let’s do this poo poo. I took a shitload of photos of random Alien merchandise to include with this post and then the Awful app crashed and ate my post, so I’ll retake them after the movie or something.
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Apr 27, 2019 03:59
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skasion posted:I bet Aliens slays on big screen. I’ve seen Alien that way (on a planetarium dome no less) but never Aliens Saw both at the Ontario Cinesphere (massive screen, I think it might be the world's first IMAX theatre) and the audience was surprisingly tame up until the loader fight - barring a few outliers, like me, who hollered at just about everything Hudson said. "WHY DON'T YOU PUT HER IN CHARGE?!?!" It's not Aliens-related but I have a story that would probably fit well here. A couple of years ago, I went to see T2: Judgment Day at a local repertoire theatre, the Royal, on judgment day. The Royal is one of Toronto's better repertoire cinemas, and doubles as an audio mixdown studio during the day - this makes this story all the more frustrating. First off, after a cringeworthy performance by theatre employees acting as resistance and a T800, the movie started up... from a Blu-Ray menu screen. This was unexpected but ultimately OK. What was not OK was the complete lack of sound. This went on for the entire intro, to the point that the dozens of nerds in the audience began making their own SFX - "pew pew" sounds for the lasers, etc. Admittedly it was kind of endearing in a ridiculous way. So the staff finally stop the movie well into the credit sequence, and go back to the Blu-Ray menu. Great, issue resolved. Except when it started up again, I noticed a lack of Sarah Connor's voice-over. The center channel was missing. No VO, no dialog. This went on for some time as well; when future John Connor appeared on screen someone was like "WHO'S THAT?" We all got refunds, and in the moment it was kind of hilarious but it blows my mind that a Dolby-certified theatre hosed up the audio track on a goddamn Blu-Ray.
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Alright, Im watching Alien 3 this weekend, the theatrical for the first time. Was thinkin about Aliens quite some time after including it in my annual monsterfest last Oct. It is super good. The dialogue feels fresh and real unlike that lowest common denominator crap later on in Camerons career. Its a cinematic movie kind of movie and I wouldnt hesitate to see it on big screen, it earned that treatment Too bad the Aien franchise is, according to my calculations, 80% bad, worse than Star Wars. I never sat through AvP in one sitting, I barely remember Prometheus other than characters being idiots .like kneeling down at a weird alien thing
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Apr 27, 2019 04:13
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 Still thinking about those Aliens.
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Keith Atherton posted:
Yep. That's how it was way back when I saw it on it's original run. The tension has been ratcheting up, the audience is keyed up to see these marines blast the poo poo out of these aliens that we hate and fear - especially using those big loving guns Vasquez and Drake wear - and instead we see the marines get massacred quickly. When Vasquez finally cuts loose its so drat cathartic.
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Alien Aliens Predator Predator 2 Alien3 That's all there is. Nothing else exists. Laterite fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Apr 27, 2019 |
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Apr 27, 2019 07:37
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Watching Aliens for the first time in several years because of this thread and realized the guy who plays Drake was also in the Shawshank Redemption
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Laterite posted:Alien, Aliens, Predator, Predator 2, Alien3. That's all there is. Nothing else exists. 
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:I don't know what to ask in that case! That being said, open question; other than Newt's family finding the derelict and Ripley learning of Amanda's life & death in the last 57 years, what extra scenes does the extended version have over the theatrical? It's been such a long time now since I've watched that version that I'd probably (incorrectly) scream blue murder about missing scenes if Aliens was showing the theatrical cut on TV without me knowing. quote:“We’re focusing more on certain aspects of the universe than others. I think the key thing there is we’ve set our game in the year 2183, that’s a very conscious choice,” he said. “The more recent prequel movies, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, those are part of the canon, part of the story and universe. But as they take place in a much earlier era, that era is not where our focus lies.”
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Resurrection is like Batman Returns, or Batman & Robin, it's not actually a good movie or good followup but it takes a familiar setting and mangles it in an extremely bizarre and interesting way. Its often grotesque and bafflingly cartoony but there are some great performances in it and you just can't look away. Alien 3 is like Batman Forever in that it's just a bad movie that makes me unhappy about everything when I see it.
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Apr 27, 2019 12:29
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purple death ray posted:Resurrection is like Batman Returns, or Batman & Robin, it's not actually a good movie or good followup but it takes a familiar setting and mangles it in an extremely bizarre and interesting way. Its often grotesque and bafflingly cartoony but there are some great performances in it and you just can't look away. Have you seen the Assembly Cut of 'Alien3'? Because it's loving awesome.
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I have, it's not Sorry I'm being unnecessarily aggro I just really hate alien 3 purple death ray fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Apr 27, 2019 |
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Apr 27, 2019 13:00
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Beet Wagon posted:state of the badass art 
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Apr 27, 2019 13:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNTB4tDDtU Ellen Ripley showed up at the encore of the high school play
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Apr 27, 2019 14:02
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Just on the subject of Newt and Hicks. How exactly would they fit into an Alien 3 anyway? A surrogate child and love interest in essentially a rape movie. I honestly cant see how they could develop Ripley's character with those two characters around without some cheesy lovey-dovey ending. Newt can't be hanging around Ripley forever while there's xenomorphs running around. She just wouldn't fit into any sequel. and maybe killing Newt off via alien penetration would be a worse way to go. And I don't see Hicks, or anyone, as being a good supporting character to Ripley. After Alien Ripley is on her own, alone, and her world has just been hosed up. We've only known Ripley to be hardy and independent, and I think a partner would just cheapen her character.
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Apr 27, 2019 14:14
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purple death ray posted:I have, it's not
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Ka0 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNTB4tDDtU Anyone know if they are selling videos of the play, or theres a full version of it online? So loving amazing still.
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Apr 27, 2019 14:18
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happyhippy posted:Anyone know if they are selling videos of the play, or theres a full version of it online? It was a feel good story especially how Ridley Scott donated to allow the play to put on a few more shows.
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Apr 27, 2019 14:48
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happyhippy posted:Anyone know if they are selling videos of the play, or theres a full version of it online? Word is "mid-May", one of the teachers is editing videos. Alien somehow made it all the way out to rural Northern California to a town only 4 miles up the river in first run. A bunch of us kids saw it, it was awesome, I was 11 at the time and thought it was amazing. Then a few months later, the second-run/rep house theater in my town got it. Word of mouth had been huge, so the place was packed. Whole families turned up, including kids as young as 5 or 6. And that proved to be even more unfortunate than you'd expect. See, it was a theater that showed cult classics and second run films. Alien was top bill and the second film of the night. First up ? Cronenberg's "They Came From Within". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-wkbUL814 The voiceover in the trailer isn't hyperbole, that's a seriously disturbing film. The manager came out afterwards and made an abject apology, he always screens the films before putting them on the schedule. Except for this, of all nightmares to go into cold. I'm sure there are some people who still have bad dreams because of it and they were to young to remember the trauma that was They Came From Within. After that he put Alien on and nobody got scared by a drat thing in the whole film, we were all too numb. Oh, and I saw Close Encounters at the same theater. During the saucer chase sequence towards the beginning of the movie... some poor SOB ran their car into a utility pole, so the lights went out while spaceships were zooming about.
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Xenomrph posted:Have you seen the Assembly Cut of 'Alien3'? Because it's loving awesome. It’s okay and no where near awesome
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I remember ages ago reading some of the pulpy Aliens books as a kid. I'd check out like 3 of them at a time and blaze through them before the weekend was up.Taintrunner posted:A:CM even with the overhaul mod is godawful. Probably, but for less than a single beer at a pub- my standards are pretty low.
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frogge posted:Probably, but for less than a single beer at a pub- my standards are pretty low. That's a good way to put it. Just have to turn up at the pub a bit later than usual to even the cost.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:39
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Phobos Anomaly posted:Just on the subject of Newt and Hicks. How exactly would they fit into an Alien 3 anyway? A surrogate child and love interest in essentially a rape movie. I honestly cant see how they could develop Ripley's character with those two characters around without some cheesy lovey-dovey ending. Newt can't be hanging around Ripley forever while there's xenomorphs running around. She just wouldn't fit into any sequel. and maybe killing Newt off via alien penetration would be a worse way to go. And I don't see Hicks, or anyone, as being a good supporting character to Ripley. After Alien Ripley is on her own, alone, and her world has just been hosed up. We've only known Ripley to be hardy and independent, and I think a partner would just cheapen her character. I would have been fine with Ripley becoming separated during hyper sleep so she wakes up alone or with Bishop. then by the end of Alien 3 Ripleys death would be tragic but at least she saved Newt and gave her a chance. Murdering them off-screen just felt needlessly sadistic and basically made the entire 2nd movie meaningless.
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Class Warcraft posted:I would have been fine with Ripley becoming separated during hyper sleep so she wakes up alone or with Bishop. then by the end of Alien 3 Ripleys death would be tragic but at least she saved Newt and gave her a chance. Murdering them off-screen just felt needlessly sadistic and basically made the entire 2nd movie meaningless. They did stop the aliens. E: I remember thinking yesterday, how odd it is that the queen went out of her way to get revenge in Aliens. They're supposed to be these perfect creatures, free of morality, the ultimate survivors, all that junk. Yet she's incredibly thirsty for Ripley's blood, after torching just a few eggs. It's not like she couldn't just lay more, and she obviously didn't know about their plan to nuke it all. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Apr 27, 2019 |
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Apr 27, 2019 19:39
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Stop them from what? Aside from Newt they'd already killed everyone on that planet.
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Ka0 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNTB4tDDtU Everything about that play just makes me happy.
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Class Warcraft posted:Stop them from what? Aside from Newt they'd already killed everyone on that planet. Someone else would show up eventually!
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THE BAR posted:They did stop the aliens. Well, Ripley did send multiple grenades into her baby-maker. I'm not sure how many eggs she was prepared to lay after that.
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THE BAR posted:They did stop the aliens. There's a couple ways to look at it. The first being that Ripley and Newt represented the last chances for more progeny, the second being that a starship represents an opportunity to spread to a new world. Queens are portrayed as being like wicked smart in all the other media, so it could be that she chased after them out of a desire to catch them, then took advantage of the starship. Her egg-maker was destroyed so she didn't have a lot of investment left in that particular nest site. Also, played a bunch of the 2010 AvP tonight with friends, the multiplayer is still good if you have like ~6 or so people. Didn't try the co-op 4 player mode. I'll be playing tomorrow for folks who wanna jump in. I think the sale's over though.
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I honestly took it as the queen just being straight up pissed and going "OH HELL NO YOU FUCKERS ARE NOT GETTING AWAY" e: Like, note how the queen screams when the eggs are being torched. She's not being hurt, herself- that's a scream of emotional agony. From that point the queen is just straight up nuclear loving angry.
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Oh poo poo, of course the bit with Simpson & Lydecker was in the extended cut too. It's funny because I remember, when the Special Edition became available, everyone had already seen his brief appearance on Red Dwarf as Captain Hollister and were taken back when he shows up at Hadley's Hope, basically playing the same character.
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THE BAR posted:I remember thinking yesterday, how odd it is that the queen went out of her way to get revenge in Aliens. They're supposed to be these perfect creatures, free of morality, the ultimate survivors, all that junk. Yet she's incredibly thirsty for Ripley's blood, after torching just a few eggs. It's not like she couldn't just lay more, and she obviously didn't know about their plan to nuke it all. anyway in the ultimate killer sense as far as she knew ripley was gonna do again what she did just a minute ago. go on that ship and come back loaded with weapons and ammo to kill aliens. with a new interest in eggs and the egg maker
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Also that whole thing about them being perfect organisms with no morality or emotion or whatever is 100% assumptions from a robot who has no morality or emotion himself and saw the creature as something to emulate, it's not like anyone had ever even seen a xeno at that point much less actually knew anything about them to make that kind of statement
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I like how the monster concept was inspired the horrifying wasp life cycle  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcgjKdq8yQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySwuQhruBo etalian fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Something hilarious has happened to the Alien: Colonial Marines steam page One of those is literally just a shotgun
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