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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It's great when they try this trick in Predator 2 (I want to say in a meat packing warehouse?) and the Predator just changes the settings on his thermal vision to compensate. As I remember it, Gary Busey and his government guys are wearing shiny tinfoil outfits that are supposed to reflect the heat, so it cannot be seen by the Predator. It does not end well for them.
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Predator 2 gets a bad rap for some reason, but I've always really liked it.
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Beachcomber posted:Predator 2 gets a bad rap for some reason, but I've always really liked it. the third act stuff is hella good I think the beginning features just about every 80s racial stereotype around
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Nov 10, 2019 12:10
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Yea it's extremely racist even for its time.
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Memento posted:What about Sneakers, when they increase the temperature in the room to 38°C so that Robert Redford can Sneak in and steal Cosmo's box? Would that defeat the thermal sensors of 1992? Years ago I saw a show that tested this (I think it was testing a similar sequence in the Thomas Crown Affair, but same basic premise). Presented by Robert Llewellyn, google tells me it was an open university programme and I've not been able to find clips from it. They tested various things, mainly from the movies, like a sort of proto-mythbusters (Another one I remember is them seeing if "standing on a wetsuit" was enough to protect you from an electric shock as in Deep Blue Sea). Anyway, they built a (fairly small) room, put a thermal sensor in it and turned up the heat. They spent ages failing repeatedly at this method, before finally saying (I think) something like "This is technically possible, but REALLY precise, and unlikely to work in practice". Not to mention how much energy it takes to heat a large room to human body temperature. The last thing they tried was, instead of faffing with the heat, just throwing a double duvet over the presenters head and having him just walk into the room, shuffle over to the painting and take it off the wall, then shuffle out backwards. That worked first time. Basically because of the insulating layers the outside layer of the duvet take too long to heat up enough for thermal sensors of 1992 to react to.
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I would very much like to see Kryten playing proto-mythbusters if anyone can find a copy of these videos.
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Memento posted:I would very much like to see Kryten playing proto-mythbusters if anyone can find a copy of these videos. Looks like the show was 'Hollywood Science': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Science I can't find much on youtube but that is the only place I looked.
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SiKboy posted:The last thing they tried was, instead of faffing with the heat, just throwing a double duvet over the presenters head and having him just walk into the room, shuffle over to the painting and take it off the wall, then shuffle out backwards. That worked first time. Basically because of the insulating layers the outside layer of the duvet take too long to heat up enough for thermal sensors of 1992 to react to. Would like to see the next Mission Impossible feature this method of incursion.
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Krankenstyle posted:Would like to see the next Mission Impossible feature this method of incursion. Mission Possible breaking into the Scientology archives to steal their platinum texts of L Ron Hubbard's insane loving ramblings using bic pens and whatever amateur hour poo poo gleaned from a lockpicking lawyer youtube vid
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Alan Smithee posted:Mission Possible That title sounds like a Kim Possible movie.
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Krankenstyle posted:Would like to see the next Mission Impossible feature this method of incursion. And then the duvet takes off it's mask and surprise, its a comforter.
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Krispy Wafer posted:And then the duvet takes off it's mask and surprise, its a comforter. The real comforter was busy exfiltrating a mattress
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I posted this in the actual Alien thread, but this is a weird thing that I just thought of about the Alien series of films. Now given what we know of their life-cycle, (Queen lays egg, somebody/something pokes their face in the egg, that somebody something gets "infected", may or may not be gooed into a wall, xenomorph bursts out of chest to start the cycle anew), I was wondering how self sustainable an isolated hive would be. What happens when the xenomorphs have killed/cocooned all the suitable life in the area, (as happened in Aliens before the marines showed up), and therefore the eggs have no creatures to infect and keep creating more xenomorphs? Wouldn't the hive just wither out and die with no new hosts around? Or is it forced to expand and expand, until the only living things are xenomorphs. I know the egg in Alien, (and also the ones in the first Aliens vs Predator) had been sitting there for years and years, lying dormant waiting for a host, so that is possible. But the hive around that crashed spaceship was long dead.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I posted this in the actual Alien thread, but this is a weird thing that I just thought of about the Alien series of films. The queen in the first AvP was the same one the predators used thousands of years ago too right?
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I always thought they were deliberately designed to NOT be self-sustainable. So you can use them to obliterate a population and then move in yourself after the planet's dead. But I might have made that up.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I posted this in the actual Alien thread, but this is a weird thing that I just thought of about the Alien series of films. This is the problem any parasite/infection is going to have. Spread too vioently and you kill off your host population. Look at ebola - you don't get the same global pandemics that you get with flu or other respiratory poo poo, because it kills you too fast. Alternate answer: it's a metaphor for imperialim/capitalist expansion
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I vaguely recall something about facehuggers latching onto alien drones when no other prey is found nearby and sometimes you get twin or triplet chestbursters. Pretty sure thats from AvP books in the 90's.
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Beachcomber posted:Predator 2 gets a bad rap for some reason, but I've always really liked it. It also has my favorite tag line of all time
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While Xenomorphs were best left unexplained, a lot makes sense about them being bioweapons. Presumably the eggs have ridiculously long shelf lives and won't hatch until they detect some movement/heat nearby that could be a new host.
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The eggs and facehuggers are able to sit in stasis until something triggers a reaction. Maybe xenomorphs are actually horrifying parasitic tardigrades.Len posted:The queen in the first AvP was the same one the predators used thousands of years ago too right? Unless the predators would come by to replace the dead queens every hundred or so years, yes.
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Beachcomber posted:Predator 2 gets a bad rap for some reason, but I've always really liked it. It's awesome. Predator is a better movie but the second one is more fun. Krankenstyle posted:Yea it's extremely racist even for its time. So it's an accurate portrayal of the future
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Mom and Dad was a surprisingly funny Nic Cage movie. The only real IMM was the son, who was smart enough to steal his dad's gun and hide with it and even shoot his mom, but still kept setting his parents off by crying Mom or Dad at the worst times. That and the maternity ward scene: since it's somewhat known parents are going to try and kill their kids, WHY are those dads allowed to stare at the window like that, clearly ready to snap?
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's awesome. Predator is a better movie but the second one is more fun. 1992 was the high water mark for violent crime in the US. That's why so many 80s and 90s films portray the future as incredibly crime ridden.
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Wrong thread! e; content Alita Battle Angel, I can't get through the movie, the eyes. MariusLecter has a new favorite as of 23:40 on Nov 10, 2019 |
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Beachcomber posted:1992 was the high water mark for violent crime in the US. That's why so many 80s and 90s films portray the future as incredibly crime ridden. Really I just meant more the future would be super racist, not that the stereotypes are true.
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I don't watch Superstore but do they have an episode an where they talk about how the store uses a brown paper bag test to hire employees?
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Gaunab posted:I don't watch Superstore but do they have an episode an where they talk about how the store uses a brown paper bag test to hire employees? Not so far but they're pretty good about the retail stuff and they're currently going through a storyline about the employees trying to unionize and corporate office calling ICE on them as a punishment.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Really I just meant more the future would be super racist, not that the stereotypes are true. No, I was just sort of throwing it out there about movies that assumed we'd be having gang warfare in the streets by 1997.
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Parasite: how did the Kims’ cellphones survive that flood?
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There's a part in El Camino where a character is lighting his way through a darkened room with a cigarette lighter. Then he finds a flashlight, and shuts off the cigarette lighter by blowing out the flame. Instead of just taking his thumb off the button. In Glass, why is the part where there's a movie so incredibly loving boring all the time? Phanatic has a new favorite as of 17:15 on Nov 11, 2019 |
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Phanatic posted:In Glass, why is the part where there's a movie so incredibly loving boring all the time? you forgot to turn the TV on
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Beachcomber posted:No, I was just sort of throwing it out there about movies that assumed we'd be having gang warfare in the streets by 1997. My favorite example of this is the Double Dragon movie, which is an extremely good movie.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:My favorite example of this is the Double Dragon movie, which is an extremely good movie. Woops, sorry folks, this poster has broken, we'll have to get a new one in.
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Memento posted:Woops, sorry folks, this poster has broken, we'll have to get a new one in. Forums are full actually
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In midsommar yes they have an orgy and show full frontal male nudity which is rare but they really missed the boat by not showing actual penetration I mean I paid my money don’t cheat me here fellas
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oldpainless posted:In midsommar yes they have an orgy and show full frontal male nudity which is rare but they really missed the boat by not showing actual penetration I mean I paid my money don’t cheat me here fellas The 7 hour long directors cut basically just adds all the penetration that was left on the cutting room floor back in and little else.
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Out to the fields, back to the church, full penetration.
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...until it just sort of....ends..
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Is it really what you thought it was though Just cuz someone else touched him during
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