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Just watched The Predator (2018). It had its funny moments (Keegan Michael-Key and Thomas Jane were the best part), but it was pretty Meh, given the source material that they had to work with. What's the consensus on Predators? Any better?
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The Zombie Guy posted:Just watched The Predator (2018). It had its funny moments (Keegan Michael-Key and Thomas Jane were the best part), but it was pretty Meh, given the source material that they had to work with. I feel like it is better yeah. It isn't amazing but it's a good watch.
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Jul 18, 2020 17:55
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Yeah I definitely like Predators. I mean, don't expect much but that makes it better if you go in not expecting much. I think it's a really fun movie and my favorite part is all of the different individuals having their own characteristics. The Predator was bad, but yeah. Thomas Jane and Key are the best part.
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Jul 18, 2020 18:07
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Predators is a lot better than The Predator without being as good as Predator 1 or 2. It’s kind of derivative and not trying to be funny. But it’s okay.
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Jul 18, 2020 18:17
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Xenomrph posted:Might as well not waste everyone’s time and just give it to me. Well shieeeeeeeeeeeeet.
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Jul 18, 2020 20:59
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Wowshawk posted:Al Matthews is a badass and I hate that I haven't seen him in other stuff. Yeah it was a brilliant casting choice similar to r lee ermey in full metal jacket based on being able to use their previous military NCO experience to make their characters memorable.
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Jul 19, 2020 02:18
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etalian posted:Yeah it was a brilliant casting choice similar to r lee ermey in full metal jacket based on being able to use their previous military NCO experience to make their characters memorable. It's all academic now but I'd have loved a version of the move where Apone lives longer/survives. How can you not love a character who immediately munches on a cigar within five loving seconds of waking from hypersleep?!
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Jul 19, 2020 04:05
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Pennywise the Frown, Splicer, etc. we should do more of that thing that makes one of you take anxiolytics sometime soon
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Jul 19, 2020 04:15
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Wowshawk posted:I've been thinking too much about aliens lately, def have to fire it up again and watch that docu again. It's never too wrong think about Aliens.
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Jul 19, 2020 14:39
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Jul 19, 2020 19:19
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On YouTube, Oliver Harper posted a review/retrospective of Predators yesterday. His r/r vids are always good, I especially enjoy his Alien 3 one.
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Jul 19, 2020 21:38
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The Zombie Guy posted:Just watched The Predator (2018). It had its funny moments (Keegan Michael-Key and Thomas Jane were the best part), but it was pretty Meh, given the source material that they had to work with. Predators was like a fun RPG session. The Predator was just incoherent.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:12
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PhotoKirk posted:Predators was like a fun RPG session.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:21
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ProperCoochie posted:On YouTube, Oliver Harper posted a review/retrospective of Predators yesterday. His r/r vids are always good, I especially enjoy his Alien 3 one. The man does great work, love his vids.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:23
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I still love this image Jonesy is not having that poo poo at all
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Jul 20, 2020 04:28
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There is an even shorter version where Ripley stops them opening the airlock door and only the three outside die.
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Jul 20, 2020 04:57
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Keltar posted:The man does great work, love his vids. He's a great editor, but dropped two of his friends for a sniff of fame (and money?) as soon as his Action Heroes doc picked up traction, so less of a good person. (Richard Jackson and Duncan Casey do stuff on Youtube/Twitch as ValVerde Broadcasting if anyone wonders where they went)
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Jul 20, 2020 10:14
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Devol_Tettran posted:He's a great editor, but dropped two of his friends for a sniff of fame (and money?) as soon as his Action Heroes doc picked up traction, so less of a good person. Oh what's the story here, you got me very curious.
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Jul 20, 2020 21:46
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Xenomrph posted:Which book was it? Rinzler's The Making of Aliens
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Jul 20, 2020 23:28
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happyhippy posted:There is an even shorter version where Ripley stops them opening the airlock door and only the three outside die. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think the resultant Alien wouldn’t have found a way inside the ship anyway.
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Jul 21, 2020 00:11
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Xenomrph posted:You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think the resultant Alien wouldn’t have found a way inside the ship anyway. They have No Trespassing signs on the outside doors. lol nice try genius
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Jul 21, 2020 01:05
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happyhippy posted:There is an even shorter version where Ripley stops them opening the airlock door and only the three outside die. I still want to see the version where they ignore the distress beacon and make it home to get their bonuses.
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Jul 21, 2020 01:32
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I still want to know what would happen if a facehugger implanted an embryo on a person with severe health issues. Like paralysis. Would the resulting xeno be paralyzed too?
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Jul 21, 2020 02:50
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Cowslips Warren posted:I still want to know what would happen if a facehugger implanted an embryo on a person with severe health issues. Like paralysis. Would the resulting xeno be paralyzed too?
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Jul 21, 2020 03:24
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Genetic issues might get passed to the Alien parasite, but they might filter for the worst of those effects.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:35
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pooch516 posted:I still want to see the version where they ignore the distress beacon and make it home to get their bonuses. Right? Dallas: What's that? Ripley: Looks like a distress beacon. Ash: That's LV-426. No indigenous life. Definitely nothing dangerous or interesting there. Nope. We should go investigate Lambert: Maybe we should call a rescue ship. Ash: We could be the rescue ship. Brett: Oh hell no. Its 2122. I've seen every horror movie made in the last 200 years. You do not go investigating mysterious signals from desolate planetoids. You might as well just say "I'll be right back" and go down into the basement of the abandoned mental asylum to see what that scary noise was with nothing but a book of matches after having sex and smoking a joint. You're just asking to get serial murdered by some big monster. Dallas and Ripley: *glance at each other nervously* Ash: Wouldn't that be fun? Like a haunted hayride. All the more reason to go have a look. Parker: Yeah! Plus it's always the brother that dies first. gently caress that poo poo! Kane: The black guy doesn't always die first. Parker: Name ONE time! Brett: Parker is right. We go down there, he's screwed. Ash: Perhaps there's something that the company will want us to violate quarantine to bring back, not that I would think that for any reason. Parker: Man you've got a few screws loose in your head man. Ash: *twitches* What? Parker: What? Ash... I .... must use the biological relief facilities to...relieve myself. My.... human bladder is full. Yes. Brett: Well that was odd. Kane: I know... *whispers* I never see him drink anything. Ash: *shouting from down the hall* Are you sure you don't want to go check it out? All crew: No! Ash: *to self* Goddammit. Ripley: Dallas, I need to get the hell off this ship. Dallas: You and me both. We are not stopping. Lambert, call it in. Tell the company to send a Colonial Marine detachment or something. That's their job anyway isn't it? Ripley: Anyone seen my cat? Brett: Last time I saw him he was pissing on Ash's bed again. Jonesy: *hops onto the navigation panel, initiating the auxiliary thrusters, carrying them away from LV-426 at an accelerated rate* Ash: *from down the hallway* Who urinated in my sleeping cot, AGAIN?? Ripley: You silly cat. All Crew except Ash: *laughs* Jonsey: *mews and looks knowingly at the camera.* Fade to black. Roll credits.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:46
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I’d watch it
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Jul 21, 2020 04:11
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Alien, but it’s Groundhog Day. Ripley tries everything to change the outcome at every step, but until she accepts its only her and Jonesy making it out, she’s stuck in a time loop.
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Jul 21, 2020 04:41
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wuffles posted:Alien, but it’s Groundhog Day. Ripley tries everything to change the outcome at every step, but until she accepts its only her and Jonesy making it out, she’s stuck in a time loop. If we have to have incessant reboots and re-imagings and whatever, can someone please make this, oh my loving God poo poo, make it a miniseries, I would watch all of that
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Jul 21, 2020 11:59
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Aliens, but it’s Groundhog Day for Gorman, who is desperate to save his squad from being annihilated, and ends up becoming an amazing lieutenant.
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Jul 21, 2020 12:19
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Vagabundo posted:Aliens, but it’s Groundhog Day for Gorman, who is desperate to save his squad from being annihilated, and ends up becoming an amazing lieutenant.
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Jul 21, 2020 12:31
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Jay_Zombie posted:
That's my favorite part, reminds me of the line from Galaxy Quest. "Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"
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Jul 21, 2020 12:34
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Splicer posted:At first he starts getting better results through trial and error and rote memorisation. Then his existing speedrun tactics stop working because one of the aliens is also groundhog dayed and is adapting, so he has to learn to be good for real. I will only accept this if the final confrontation ends with Hope quipping "I always was an rear end in a top hat."
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Jul 21, 2020 12:47
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Splicer posted:At first he starts getting better results through trial and error and rote memorisation. Then his existing speedrun tactics stop working because one of the aliens is also groundhog dayed and is adapting, so he has to learn to be good for real. Great, now I'm thinking about Edge of Tomorrow (the movie).
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Jul 21, 2020 13:46
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Keltar posted:Oh what's the story here, you got me very curious. Richard and Duncan used to guest on Olly's channel on film commentaries (Dunc did most of the Bond films, for example) and the review show Fix it in Post - Richard did all of the lighting and camera work as his day job is as a videographer - Fix it in Post was also originally filmed in Richard's living room. Richard also did a a lot of Let's Plays with Olly on the 2nd channel. It seems like the idea for the "In Search of the Last Action Heroes" doc was a joint one, as I think both of them were in the original launch video for Olly's Kickstarter to fund it (Rich was for sure) and it seemed like it was going to be a team collab effort, as well as a bit of fun. However at some point after the Kickstarter being launched and late 2018, a producer came in, something happened and they disappeared from Olly''s channel overnight, with most of the content with them in being scrubbed off both channels. They've not said (or been able to say) what happened directly, but it seems financially driven from the occasional comment in livestreams. Seems a real shame, as both are very talented guys working in the industry - for example, Richard did some the DP work for Dead Mouse Productions (the Robodoc guys) in the US last year for another of their documentaries and Duncan was the lead actor in Erica on PS4. To bring it back to the thread, they're done plenty of Alien/Predator/Terminator stuff on the new channel, in the same irreverent style as on Olly's channel, if that's your bag.
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Jul 21, 2020 14:46
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Jay_Zombie posted:Brett: Oh hell no. Its 2122. I've seen every horror movie made in the last 200 years. You do not go investigating mysterious signals from desolate planetoids. You might as well just say "I'll be right back" and go down into the basement of the abandoned mental asylum to see what that scary noise was with nothing but a book of matches after having sex and smoking a joint. You're just asking to get serial murdered by some big monster. Event Horizon is absolutely sublime for the scene where the Space Captain realizes what kind of film they're in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFd8aWT7Io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5KI8zSeVs
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Jul 21, 2020 16:08
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Owlbear Camus posted:Event Horizon is absolutely sublime for the scene where the Space Captain realizes what kind of film they're in. Those clips rank up there with Palmer's "You gotta be loving kidding me" in "The Thing" as my favorite horror movie reactions.
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Jul 21, 2020 16:16
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Splicer posted:At first he starts getting better results through trial and error and rote memorisation. Then his existing speedrun tactics stop working because one of the aliens is also groundhog dayed and is adapting, so he has to learn to be good for real. Ripley : How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant? Gorman : Thirty eight... simulated. Vasquez : How many combat drops? Lieutenant Gorman : Uh, I lost count a while ago. Private Drake : poo poo. Private Hudson : Oh, man... "Can you set up a few of the sentry guns at the end of the hallway? Oh, and there's a girl somewhere around here. Have a look on the motion trackers. You'll need to find her, pronto. Sweet, thanks. The area's somewhat secured, so we're coming in. Oh, and Ferro and Spunkmeyer? Make sure you lock yourselves into the ship. Seriously. Trust me on this one."
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Jul 21, 2020 19:59
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Vagabundo posted:Ripley : How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant? "Yup, those are the PLBs. They're all stationary and judging from that secreted resin, they're cocooned and dead already. Roll in those canisters of CN-20 and nerve gas the whole loving nest, then get back here." Edit: As a commissioned officer, I can authorize it. Take off and nuke the site from orbit, just to be sure.
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Believe it or Not they put a Ripley skin pack in Modern Warfare/Warzone. 
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