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# ? May 12, 2020 21:38 |
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Arzakon posted:My 6 and 7 year old daughters watched Alien and Aliens with me. Chest bursting scene was definitely peak terror She's way into Alien, Predator, Terminator franchises, but Alien is her fave.
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# ? May 13, 2020 05:17 |
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Come watch ALIENS with Goons!! Or alone!! Starting in about 30 minutes after Miami Connection!!! https://windowsmoviehouse.com/ https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3920085&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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# ? May 13, 2020 21:31 |
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It was my birthday on the 11th and I just got a job offer yesterday, so let's celebrate with photos of random Aliens/Predator merchandise in my collection because I'm a corporate shill and media whore who spends adult money on children's things related to a media franchise! Here's a pair of old Kenner figures (Gorilla and Mantis Alien), and a pair of Eaglemoss figurines based on the Kenner line. The Gorilla and Mantis Alien toys share the same torso (and arm gimmick) but their arms, legs, tail, and head are different. Likewise, the Bull and Rhino Aliens also share the same torso and gimmick. These are the NECA remakes of the Kenner Gorilla Alien, Scorpion Alien, and Snake Alien, and the original Kenner Snake Alien. The Snake Alien was the first Alien toy I ever got back when I was 9, and I specifically got it because my mom was afraid of snakes. This is an Alien in a specimen tank from Bradford Exchange. It's actually filled with water and it's pretty heavy, and it also lights up with lights inside the tank. NECA Space Jockey miniature, I think it's pretty sweet. I think they did one that's actually in-scale with their figures but it was like several hundred dollars and made of foam (wtf). Alien, on the Atari 2600. A bunch of ships, including the scout ship from 'Predator', the Derelict from 'Alien', and my Narcissus collection. Kenner Spiked Tail, Lasershot, and Stalker Predator toys, and their associated NECA remakes. A bunch of NECA Alien figures Two shelves of Predator figures - there's a mix of stuff from the movies, the comics, video games, the Batman: Dead End fan-film, all kinds of random stuff. I can take close-up pics if there's interest. A bunch of random Aliens - I like to collect different versions of the OG "Big Chap" Alien from the first movie when possible. NECA's Queen Alien. I also have the McFarlane one from circa 2003 but it's in a box somewhere. Three Aliens from the AvP Arcade Game Dutch and Linn from the arcade game. They also made figures of the two Predators, but I passed on them because they're basically repaints of the figures for the Predators from the first two movies. An Alien and the Newborn from 'Alien Resurrection' The Alien from 'Alien Isolation', the Neomorph from 'Alien: Covenant', the Deacon from 'Prometheus', and a random Alien from 'Aliens'. Random Kenner stuff (the rest are in boxes somewhere). Yes, the Scorpion Alien still explodes. Micro Machines Action Fleet APC; this thing is pretty rare as it didn't see a retail release. Note the splattered Alien on the undercarriage, and the miniature Hudson and Alien inside. The Alien is actually the smallest Alien figure any company has made to date. Action Fleet Predator Dropship, based on the design from the original AvP comic series. The Predator 2 trophy wall from the end of the movie. I need to repair it and it's missing a couple human skulls, otherwise it would match the way it looked in the movie. There's also a couple bonus skulls: a Predator skull, a Super-Predator skull, and an Engineer skull and spine. NECA remake of the Kenner Mantis Alien NECA Power Loader, please excuse the dust Whole lotta Aliens/Predator/AvP novels Art books, RPG books, stuff like that. Not pictured: the blueprints book, which doesn't fit on the shelf. Aliens/Predator/AvP comics. I used to have them all as single issues but I condensed them down into collections and trade paperbacks NECA's Kenner Rhino Alien remake, next to the original The Crusher, Raven, and a basic Alien from 'Aliens: Colonial Marines'. For a poo poo game, it actually got some pretty sweet merchandise.
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# ? May 14, 2020 21:05 |
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God drat that's a whole lot of concentrated awesome.
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# ? May 14, 2020 21:41 |
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Xenomrph posted:Alien stuff You might want to get your hands on this https://www.wetanz.com/shop/vinyl-figures/mini-epics-xenomorph?currency=USD
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# ? May 14, 2020 21:50 |
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Xenomrph wins the thread. Hands down.
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# ? May 14, 2020 22:40 |
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Are you an Aliens fan? I can't tell. Jay_Zombie posted:Xenomrph wins the thread. Hands down.
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# ? May 14, 2020 22:41 |
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Dead. Jealous. Though going to be a nightmare trying to direct someone to get you a book you want. "The one that says Alien on it." happyhippy fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 14, 2020 |
# ? May 14, 2020 23:38 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Are you an Aliens fan? I can't tell. happyhippy posted:Dead. Jealous. I’m really, really hard to shop for, because everything I want I either - already have the moment it comes out - is really obscure and I had to source it from ebay - I know how/where to buy it to get it cheapest - some combination thereof Speaking of books, this just got announced: https://bloody-disgusting.com/books/3615851/alien-official-cookbook-will-feature-50-recipes-inspired-franchise-exclusive/
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# ? May 15, 2020 00:09 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC3-jb2m1c
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# ? May 15, 2020 03:15 |
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Xeno defeats my collection hands down and I'm ok with that. Makes me feel like I don't have a problem in comparison!
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# ? May 15, 2020 07:03 |
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Captain Rufus posted:Xeno defeats my collection hands down and I'm ok with that. Makes me feel like I don't have a problem in comparison! I don't have a problem you have a problem!!
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# ? May 15, 2020 07:34 |
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I really enjoyed this
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# ? May 15, 2020 07:49 |
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Xenomrph posted:I don't have a problem you have a problem!! Hmph, I go with quality over quantity.
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# ? May 15, 2020 08:01 |
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So it turns out my wife wasn’t that freaked out by Alien! In fact she only jumped at the two cat scares. Random quotes: as Brett leaves to find Jonesy “Don’t split up the party! You never split up the party.” “Whoever did the production design on this had a really clear idea of what the future was going to look like”.
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# ? May 15, 2020 11:46 |
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Watchin Terminator 2 again. Still fuckin rules.
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# ? May 16, 2020 07:34 |
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Lil Peeler posted:Watchin Terminator 2 again. Still fuckin rules. Word. That part where he throws the biker on to the hot grill makes me cringe every fuckin time.
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# ? May 16, 2020 07:36 |
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My 26-year-old roommate has trouble watching movies made before 2010. I got her to watch up to the end of the viaduct Chase so I think this is a small victory. Maybe if I can get her to finish this I can get her to watch alien
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# ? May 16, 2020 07:42 |
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Lil Peeler posted:My 26-year-old roommate has trouble watching movies made before 2010. I got her to watch up to the end of the viaduct Chase so I think this is a small victory. Maybe if I can get her to finish this I can get her to watch alien Thats... uh... weird?
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# ? May 16, 2020 07:59 |
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Yeah she says it's because she can't focus on "old movies" but I have a feeling it's because she needs to be spoon fed the plot to anything she watches
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# ? May 16, 2020 08:32 |
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I've seen it before, but with high school kids.
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# ? May 16, 2020 08:46 |
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If I could pick anything out of xeno's collection it would probably be the alien in the tank with water or the engineer. As good as your collection is you're missing something: 16 ft tall queen
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# ? May 16, 2020 11:22 |
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Lil Peeler posted:Yeah she says it's because she can't focus on "old movies" but I have a feeling it's because she needs to be spoon fed the plot to anything she watches I think big blockbusters needing to be giant international hits is what really killed films. Like, I'm not some CHUD making GBS threads on other countries, but if you have to write a film that will both appeal to, make sense to, and appease everyone from flat-brim hat Avengers fans to Chinese workers to Chinese censors to UAE audiences etc etc everything has to become such flattened-down pap that all that's left is colorful spectacle.
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# ? May 16, 2020 15:40 |
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MarcusSA posted:Word. Same. I think it's the slight delay between when he lands on the grill and when he realizes "oh poo poo, I'm burning!".
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# ? May 16, 2020 20:33 |
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DropsySufferer posted:If I could pick anything out of xeno's collection it would probably be the alien in the tank with water or the engineer. She's only 15' 2' without those heels.
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# ? May 16, 2020 20:34 |
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DropsySufferer posted:If I could pick anything out of xeno's collection it would probably be the alien in the tank with water or the engineer. Oh my collection has nothing on Harry Harris, who has a bunch of original movie props including the full size Alien Queen puppet from ‘Aliens’. Fun fact: the Queen puppet used in ‘Alien Resurrection’ was on-loan from Harris’ personal collection, meaning they used the exact puppet from the second movie when making Resurrection. They painted it brown for Resurrection, but after filming they repainted it to match how it looked for ‘Aliens’ before returning it.
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# ? May 16, 2020 20:35 |
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mind the walrus posted:The Friday the 13th game isn't anywhere near as scary as Alien: Isolation but it's easily the ultimate game that franchise will ever get, even if bullshit rights issues forced the devs to stop DLC and the Jason X content. Kane Hodder does the mocap, Tom Savini designed a "Jason from Hell" design. A few of the old actors consented to give their likeness. The maps are varied and filled with fanservice. Even in its neutered state it's worth a bargain buy: The game is buggy as gently caress. The Predator is a glass cannon, the team of 4 commandos is more than a match for the predator and the NPC guerillas they face do dumb poo poo like shot walls rather than at the commandos. Don't buy it.
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# ? May 16, 2020 20:52 |
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Xenomrph posted:Oh my collection has nothing on Harry Harris, who has a bunch of original movie props including the full size Alien Queen puppet from ‘Aliens’. Didn’t he also lend the Sulaco prop he owned for Alien 3 as well?
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# ? May 16, 2020 21:04 |
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Rewatching Aliens now with my wife who's never seen it before. Think she's going to leave me for Vasquez. Can't say I disagree with her judgement
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# ? May 16, 2020 22:52 |
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Vagabundo posted:Didn’t he also lend the Sulaco prop he owned for Alien 3 as well? I have t heard that one but I wouldn’t doubt it.
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# ? May 16, 2020 23:05 |
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mind the walrus posted:The Friday the 13th game isn't anywhere near as scary as Alien: Isolation but it's easily the ultimate game that franchise will ever get, even if bullshit rights issues forced the devs to stop DLC and the Jason X content. Kane Hodder does the mocap, Tom Savini designed a "Jason from Hell" design. A few of the old actors consented to give their likeness. The maps are varied and filled with fanservice. Even in its neutered state it's worth a bargain buy: i picked up F13 recently on a whim cause it was $5. I feel like it has been worth the few hours of play I've put in so far. The main downside is the people who--I wish I was kidding--still think slurs and verbal abuse are cool in 2020. Got lucky the first few games with some cool players/teammates, then next few matches were just "r***ard" "f*****t" "n*****" everywhere with "you suck" no matter what anyone would be doing. And sadly the muting function doesn't seem to work (), I had to block them on Steam to stop being subjected to hearing it constantly. I really did like the "Virtual Cabin" which is like a tour of Friday the 13th movie memorabilia. I'm not super familiar with the movies so I probably missed the bulk of the fanservice but even I still picked up on a bit of it.
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# ? May 16, 2020 23:24 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:I think big blockbusters needing to be giant international hits is what really killed films. Like, I'm not some CHUD making GBS threads on other countries, but if you have to write a film that will both appeal to, make sense to, and appease everyone from flat-brim hat Avengers fans to Chinese workers to Chinese censors to UAE audiences etc etc everything has to become such flattened-down pap that all that's left is colorful spectacle. It's really frustrating because you can definitely point to very tangible differences in the way movies were made before they had to have worldwide universal appeal. Those movies tend to be better and more engaging, but they do expect more of their audience. There are small subtleties in the storytelling and writing that just don't translate across the world. And that's okay. The problem is that people raised on those movies haven't learned how to enjoy anything else.
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# ? May 17, 2020 08:27 |
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Lil Peeler posted:My 26-year-old roommate has trouble watching movies made before 2010. I got her to watch up to the end of the viaduct Chase so I think this is a small victory. Maybe if I can get her to finish this I can get her to watch alien I'd be hard-pressed to describe any difference between movies from the 2000s and movies from the 2010s, and I usually tend to notice such things (this was more evident before everything got remastered, but I've always sworn there was this seismic shift in how movies generally looked pre- and post 1987, for instance). SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 10:23 on May 17, 2020 |
# ? May 17, 2020 10:21 |
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Chiming in to confirm that T1 and T2 are awesome and both hold up remarkably well. Watched them with my son recently and he'd never seen them before. He loved them both.
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# ? May 17, 2020 14:16 |
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Lil Peeler posted:It's really frustrating because you can definitely point to very tangible differences in the way movies were made before they had to have worldwide universal appeal. Those movies tend to be better and more engaging, but they do expect more of their audience. There are small subtleties in the storytelling and writing that just don't translate across the world. And that's okay. The problem is that people raised on those movies haven't learned how to enjoy anything else. The funniest part of "generic" american films is how much extremely american stuff is left in because the people making it don't realise that it's american stuff.
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# ? May 17, 2020 14:29 |
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Anyone else completely forget that Sigourney Weaver was in Avatar?
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:42 |
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Aside from enjoying it at the time, I've forgotten every loving thing about Avatar.
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:54 |
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Splicer posted:Anyone else completely forget that Sigourney Weaver was in Avatar? All the time, but more in the sense that I forgot basically everything about Avatar, despite seeing it three times. That movie is teflon coated as far as my brain is concerned.
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# ? May 17, 2020 16:54 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 09:08 |
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Splicer posted:Anyone else completely forget that Sigourney Weaver was in Avatar? Forget about that, remember she's in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQ2t_yNHQs
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# ? May 17, 2020 18:01 |