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mind the walrus posted:Common things to watch out for/avoid or things to make sure you do? In order to win, you have to avoid losing.
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Watching Aliens and reading Alien 3
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mind the walrus posted:Common things to watch out for/avoid or things to make sure you do? They mostly come at night. Mostly.
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Phi230 posted:Watching Aliens and reading Alien 3
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Jan 5, 2020 23:36
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Voting Floater posted:They mostly come at night. Mostly. gently caress you. I said that many pages ago. We’re in the pipe; five by five. What ever happened to Newt? E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDeW92lK4k8
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Owlbear Camus posted:To kill the alien, you must take its life. 
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LOL in the Aliens RPG group where I shared my Predator stats, a couple people thought I was being a random ableist dick mentioning the autism thing, rather than relating a completely accurate major plot point from The Predator.
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Owlbear Camus posted:LOL in the Aliens RPG group where I shared my Predator stats, a couple people thought I was being a random ableist dick mentioning the autism thing, rather than relating a completely accurate major plot point from The Predator. I thought that, too, but then I remembered that movie had a plot point that hung on that notion.
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As an Autistic that stuff is stupid and lovely and lord knows I'm removing it from my game, but you are lore accurate, so
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You can spin any Predator trait/behavior/belief you don’t like as “only some tribes do/believe [x]” and you’re still being lore-accurate.
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Xenomrph posted:You can spin any Predator trait/behavior/belief you don’t like as “only some tribes do/believe [x]” and you’re still being lore-accurate. Now I'm picturing a group of Orthodox Predators fighting against a smaller group of Reform Predators. Everything started after one Predator nailed a skull & spine to the door of the main Predator church. Android Apocalypse fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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It's either really good or really bad to hunt on the space sabbath, and there's a lot of disagreement about it.
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it occurs to me that the xenos being Space Mormons kinda works they're all just missionaries, traveling the galaxy as best they can, spreading their beliefs (primarily that they should kill the poo poo out of you)
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skasion posted:Aliens is a good movie, but I don’t like all of the director’s cut changes. The early scenes on LV426 are decent scenes (I really enjoy the bit with the hassled colony bureaucrats bantering) but they gently caress up the pacing and blow the reveal too early. The pre-infestation scenes should be a separate featurette on the DVD. But the scene of Ripley breaking down after finding out her daughter was dead need to be in the regular version of the movie because it's the whole driver for Ripley's actions after Newt gets captured
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I have the old Special Edition Aliens DVD and I kind of wish it had an option to play the theatrical cut, like my Alien DVD has. I really like the added scenes as someone who had seen the theatrical cut several times first and wanted more but I think that the theatrical cut is a better movie and is what I'd rather show people who have never seen it before. The colony, Newt's parents, and sentry gun scenes break break up the tension too much on a first watch and show too much. Regarding the latter, I think that the aliens being complete no-shows between the hive escape and battle in the command center is creepier because the effectiveness of the defenses is a total mystery right up until they crawl right in through the one route that was overlooked. Also the speculation about what's laying the eggs telegraphs the queen's reveal a bit too much. There are a bunch of scenes like the reveal of Ripley's daughter, and Ripley hesitating before going into the colony after the marines sweep it, and Hudson the Ultimate Badass, that are nice character bits that I'd keep in. But if the choice was between theatrical and special, I guess I could live without them. (IMO leaving the Ripley's daughter scene out of the theatrical cut was a dumb and bad mistake that only save a few seconds of run time)
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Hillary 2020 posted:The pre-infestation scenes should be a separate featurette on the DVD. But the scene of Ripley breaking down after finding out her daughter was dead need to be in the regular version of the movie because it's the whole driver for Ripley's actions after Newt gets captured I also think the little scene before they drop onto 426 where Hudson is talking about how they're ultimate badasses should be in the the normal cut
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I finally got around to finishing William Gibson's Alien 3 I liked the UPP B plot. I felt like the pacing was off and the story was rushed. I don't like that Newt and Ripley are just removed from the story. The idea of people exploding into Xenomorphs was cool but ultimately didn't work for me in the context of the story and universe. Bio-weapon gone wrong is one thing but making people explode into xenomorphs? The whole "xenomorph taking over human DNA" thing is another massive rule change with regard to the xeno's and its one I don't personally like. They didn't make clear why the "natural" xenomorph attacked the red-eyed xenomorph. I interpret the red-eyed xeno as some kind of man-made variation that the natural ones don't like but its still super vague and unexplored. I think its a good foundation for a good director. I would've loved to see James Cameron working on this screenplay rather than the Alien 3 we got.
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A while back in the thread, someone posted about the T-800 being a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. After that, I learned that in Mortal Kombat X, you can play as the Alien and as the Predator. (You can also play as Jason Voorhees and Leatherface too)
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The Zombie Guy posted:A while back in the thread, someone posted about the T-800 being a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. Is.... is that Xenomorph.... flexing?
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Jay_Zombie posted:Is.... is that Xenomorph.... flexing? The story is that a facehugger got to one of Baraka's people and this xeno is the result. Which is why it has armblades too
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The Alien’s unique physiology makes some of the fatalities a little awkward. Such as when Kotal Kahn rips his opponent’s heart out of their chest and squeezes it over his head, letting their blood rain down on his face. 
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Maybe molecular acid is like vitamins to the Osh-Tekk people.
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Phi230 posted:I finally got around to finishing William Gibson's Alien 3 Yeah, that's my overriding impression of it as well. Like Ripley is out of commission and it feels like it's building towards her making a late arrival into the story, but nope, she literally gets rocketed out of the plot. Definitely a draft or two away from being a fully satisfying story.
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The Zombie Guy posted:A while back in the thread, someone posted about the T-800 being a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t5T-qkXHV8
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Phi230 posted:The story is that a facehugger got to one of Baraka's people and this xeno is the result. Which is why it has armblades too I would have figured that the posturing and flexing was a result of a facehugger attaching to a kangaroo.
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This is about a hundred times better than a dialogue-free fan made gimmick crossover comic done by posing dolls Marwelcol style and sequencing the images in a Facebook album has any right to be. The icing on the cake is just absolutely nailing the TOS-style episode title. https://www.facebook.com/pg/bantambellatorum/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2545328135737616
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)#Futurequote:After the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company, it was officially confirmed at the 2019 CinemaCon that future Alien films are in development. Can't. Fucken. Wait.
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Hillary 2020 posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)#Future Cursed Blessed Monkey Paw: they’re directed by Ridley Scott
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ruddiger posted:Cursed Blessed Monkey Paw: they’re directed by Ridley Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Covenant#Sequel quote:In September 2015, Ridley Scott said he was planning two sequels to Prometheus, which would lead into the first Alien film, adding, "Maybe [there will] even [be] a fourth film before we get back into the Alien franchise" (which means there would be not two but three sequels to Prometheus). In November 2015, Scott confirmed that Alien: Covenant would be the first of three additional films in the Alien prequel series, before linking up with the original Alien and stated that the Prometheus sequels would reveal who created the xenomorph aliens. The screenplay for the third prequel film was written during production of Alien: Covenant and finished in 2017, with production scheduled to begin in 2018. In March 2017, Scott said, "If you really want a franchise, I can keep cranking it for another six. I'm not going to close it down again. No way." In May, Scott announced that Neill Blomkamp's sequel to James Cameron's film Aliens had been cancelled. In a later interview, he said he would have participated as a producer but that 20th Century Fox had decided not to pursue the project. Drake shot first.
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Revive Blokkamp's Aliens sequel you cowards.
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Hillary 2020 posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Covenant#Sequel 
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gently caress it, why not?
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Owlbear Camus posted:Revive Blokkamp's Aliens sequel you cowards.
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Lol people are happy that Disney is going to be eternally reenacting Weekend at Bernie's with every media franchise in the history of time? Do you actually like good movies or do you just like being marketed to? Personally I can't wait for Aliens vs Jedi vs Predator, rated pg, directed by jj abrams
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Owlbear Camus posted:Revive Blokkamp's Aliens sequel you cowards. Only if Sharlto Copley is cast as the lead.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Revive Blokkamp's Aliens sequel you cowards. If you need to go younger with Hicks, just cast  Jasper Paakkonen Edit: Apparently I had this idea 6 months ago too.
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Disney, huh? glossy looking PG-13 Alien movies with a cast of non-stop quip-spewing characters no
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