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While we’re talking books... If you don’t already have it, the Colonial Marines Technical Manual is a must-read (especially since it’s finally been reprinted): Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual https://www.amazon.com/dp/1781161313/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_TASIDb4MGTZJ1 This is real good if you want an incredibly comprehensive deep dive into ‘Alien’: The Making of Alien https://www.amazon.com/dp/1789090555/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4nSIDbS8X2KR If you liked Alien: Isolation or like the retro-future aesthetic from ‘Alien’ and other movies of the era, the Alien: Isolation concept art book is pure art-porn: The Art of Alien: Isolation https://www.amazon.com/dp/1781169314/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yDSIDb89HBWJA Regardless of your opinions on Alien Covenant, David’s hosed up artwork in his bestiary is worth your time: Alien Covenant: David's Drawings https://www.amazon.com/dp/1785659243/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_jESIDb5KPEM55 The Weyland Yutani Report is a neat companion to the Tech Manual, although it has some errors and squanders its premise a bit by being a little less “comprehensive reference book” and more “lowest common denominator fanservice coffee table book”: Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report https://www.amazon.com/dp/160887866X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_iISIDb3686F7B The Book of Alien is an oddity, it’s almost like the USCM version of the Weyland-Yutani Report. It’s absolutely littered with grammatical errors and really, really needed an editor’s touch, but its got some wild references to super-obscure stuff and it’s got a place on my bookshelf just because it’s so strange. It’s got really good production values and artwork, but the text content is just.... something else: The Book of Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062695363/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kKSIDb774W1EY
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Xenomrph posted:book learnin' This post is excellent, thank you.
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Amazon just got a bump in sales. So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation.
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Mister Speaker posted:This post is excellent, thank you. 
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Code Jockey posted:e. Also was browsing Etsy the other day and found these, which are amazing and I'm thinking about buying them to put on everything I own: https://www.etsy.com/listing/735386257/alien-weyland-yutani-asset-tag-sticker?ref=hp_rv-5&frs=1 Picked up 3 of these. Thanks for the link!
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Xenomrph posted:I just got this in the mail and holy loving poo poo is it good. It’s WAY more comprehensive than I expected it to be. I would hear about this the day I drop some serious coin on dental work.
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Get your priorities in order, dental health is for loser idiot suckers who don’t love Aliens.
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If you are a real Xenomorph you know your dental bill is easily double that of the regular guy.
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Android Apocalypse posted:If you are a real Xenomorph you know your dental bill is easily double that of the regular guy. 
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Code Jockey posted:e. Also was browsing Etsy the other day and found these, which are amazing and I'm thinking about buying them to put on everything I own: https://www.etsy.com/listing/735386257/alien-weyland-yutani-asset-tag-sticker?ref=hp_rv-5&frs=1 Any kind US goon willing to act as a a middleman as they don't ship to the UK 
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Devol_Tettran posted:Any kind US goon willing to act as a a middleman as they don't ship to the UK If nothing else you can use Reship. A bit pricy but it works really well
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Xenomrph posted:Regardless of your opinions on Alien Covenant, David’s hosed up artwork in his bestiary is worth your time: It really is.
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Just watched the theatrical Alien 3. Had no attachement to any of the characters, including Ripley Did feel rorted that hicks and newt die. Action/suspense is building up and we then find out the alien wont kill ripley, making the entire finale pointless and boring. Im going to say it was ok. And thats because ive seen covenent.
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If you were seeing Alien 3 for the first time then yeah, it's a bit of a surprise how different it is and the whole Newt and Hicks death thing. It was a big let down but I've watched it a lot more and sort of learned to like it.
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Meskhenet posted:Just watched the theatrical Alien 3.
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This thread inspired me to go grab the comics about Newt and Hicks. Of course I had to go and get the ones where everyone's names are different by mistake. 2 things. It looks like 9/11 happened in this continuity in the 2020s. And also the art is really dodgy so far, though I know by the middle 3rd it's a lot better.
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You don't remember hardened Cpl. Darth Wilks and plucky survivor Roseanne 'Billie' Jeppesen from the movie? They were the whole reason Potomac was yelling about needing more quarters after their bus crashed
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I like that changing Hick's and Newt's names and calling Hadley's Hope "Rim" was enough. Like they went to rescue the survivors of a different colony with Vasquez and Apone and Frost but not the ones you're thinking of, some other marines. And an un-named civilian woman. Also I didn't know before I started that this is the first Aliens comic Dark Horse put out which is nuts. Like your first shot at a sequel to Aliens and you have Xenomorph death cults, an outbreak on Earth, the Xenomorph homeworld, Hicks being teen-Newt's alcoholic dad? You think you'd build to these things but they just throw them all in right at the start
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Oh, dude, no-- the first one was just called 'Aliens' (later Aliens:Book One) and it's a classic. It's an explicitly in-universe follow up about Aliens getting to Earth, and set a decade or so after the movie. (It's the first graphic novel I ever bought and I can't count the number of lovely 6th-grader tracings I tried to do of this one huge beautiful hero panel of a xeno crouching outside a shuttle window.) It came out in... '88ish? E: This pretty bastard  Earth Hive was the one Sam Keith illustrated and all the women look like Precious Moments figurines, right? Pissed Ape Sexist fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Oh, dude, no-- the first one was just called 'Aliens' (later Aliens:Book One) and it's a classic. It's an explicitly in-universe follow up about Aliens getting to Earth, and set a decade or so after the movie. (It's the first graphic novel I ever bought and I can't count the number of lovely 6th-grader tracings I tried to do of this one huge beautiful hero panel of a xeno crouching outside a shuttle window.) It came out in... '88ish? Yeah I'm reading the colorized version right now. Though I'm on to Nightmare Asylum which is the follow up to what you posted.
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Holy poo poo, I googled and just learned that they retconned names and dialogue to eliminate explicit Hicks/Newt references along with colorizing everything due to Alien3 coming out-- I thought that was another comic entirely but it's due to being tied to a novel. Dumb switches/colorization aside ( and maybe it's just nostalgia talking) I still think the original b/w series rules despite being a bit quaint. My memories of the related comics are extremely hazy and I thought you were talking about the Sam Keith comics, which were ridiculous! (E: it was Earth War, not Earth Hive. 100% my bad.) Ugh  Dude what  2 spoopy gently caress you Sam 
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Holy poo poo, I googled and just learned that they retconned names and dialogue to eliminate explicit Hicks/Newt references along with colorizing everything due to Alien3 coming out-- I thought that was another comic entirely but it's due to being tied to a novel. Dumb switches/colorization aside ( and maybe it's just nostalgia talking) I still think the original b/w series rules despite being a bit quaint. My memories of the related comics are extremely hazy and I thought you were talking about the Sam Keith comics, which were ridiculous! (E: it was Earth War, not Earth Hive. 100% my bad.) It's like it was drawn by someone who hasn't seen the body of the Alien
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Xenomrph posted:I'd say go back and watch the assembly cut. Not that you wasted your time with the theatrical cut or anything, it's got some elements that I prefer, but just for the sake of comparing the two and seeing what was changed. Im running through all the theatricals first. 1 more to go, then ill go back and do all the directors cuts and what not. 3 was an ok movie, but not really a good aliens film.
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Meskhenet posted:Had no attachement to any of the characters, including Ripley Always had a soft spot for Brian Glover, who was a UK wrestler. Check out this totally realistic sport of sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMh--WcGhiU
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happyhippy posted:Always had a soft spot for Brian Glover, who was a UK wrestler. Lol no loving way.
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its always nice to go back and watch good movies now and again like alien/aliens and predator , especially with mostly crappy movies coming out as of late.
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Aliens is just the best goddamn movie ever. I saw it twice on the big screen when it was released in '86, and I've probably never gone a year since without rewatching it. In '86 I was in high school and we lived out in the sticks. My best bud at the time was also into sci-fi stuff, so for my third viewing I invited him to see it. I didn't have a car but he did; we're talking as we drive into town and I learn that he's NEVER been to a movie in his life. I'd met his parents a few times and they seemed like good country folk, but this was an eye-opener. We had time before the movie to grab a bite, so we went through a McDonald's drive-thru and I learned that he'd never used a drive-thru in his life. I had to explain how it worked, "You talk to them through this mic and they talk back, etc." I was like WTF dude, are you safe at home? The movie blew his loving mind, of course. We talked about it afterward for ages, but high school eventually ended and we drifted apart. I thought about him from time to time over the years, kinda patting myself on the back for taking his movie virginity with the best movie ever, until about a decade later when I tried to track him down and was only able to reach his parents. Apparently he'd joined the Marines, seen some combat, and had some sort of psychological breakdown. I eventually reached him and he didn't sound too good. So now I'm left to wonder if maybe taking him to Aliens wasn't the best idea. But it's still the best movie ever.
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The kid that showed me Aliens also ended up joining the USMC right out of highschool too (and we're Canadian). But I couldn't say for sure that it was just the depiction of the USCM in the movie; he was into a lot of other war stuff and also not very mentally stable as a teenager.
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Mister Speaker posted:The kid that showed me Aliens also ended up joining the USMC right out of highschool too (and we're Canadian). But I couldn't say for sure that it was just the depiction of the USCM in the movie; he was into a lot of other war stuff and also not very mentally stable as a teenager.  on all accounts.
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Xenomrph posted:I just got this in the mail and holy loving poo poo is it good. It’s WAY more comprehensive than I expected it to be. Thank you for this. Purchased. The Sulaco foldout is loving awesome.
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Meskhenet posted:Just watched the theatrical Alien 3.
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Theres a particular whining sound in this gun effect that I have always kind of thought was made by the aliens attacking/being shot, a kind of screeching or elephant trumpeting violently sound Reminds me of the horns(?) in this song (should start at the right location): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPNOZVFeSaM&t=57s
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If you took someone to see a movie where space marines have a near 100% attrition rate, dying fangoriously every few minutes, and their take away is "I will join the Marines," that's not on you dude.
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Dangit! I just rewatched Alien a few days ago and now I find out that a local theater is playing it on the big screen this week. It's just too soon! If it were Aliens, I'd watch that thing on a loop, but Alien just doesn't work that way.
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immortalyawn posted:Theres a particular whining sound in this gun effect that I have always kind of thought was made by the aliens attacking/being shot, a kind of screeching or elephant trumpeting violently sound The pitched sound of the full-auto fire in Aliens is one of my favourite little details. I heard a rumour a while ago that that's actually what blanks sound like under cyclic fire, because they're not topped up with exactly the same amount of powder every round so the pitch varies; Cameron just made a creative decision to not overdub with 'real live fire' sounds. But I asked about it in TFR and they said it's probably not true - more likely it's just gunfire run through a guitar flanger pedal or something.
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