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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Alien's costuming is 100% perfect. Agreed.
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Everything about Alien is perfect. Their computer sounds are pure devine though. From a time when dot matrix printers and hard drives were noisy rear end as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPMG0PLmh9s
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:They're dressed like what what they are; truckers. In space. Space truckers! The green and black computer screens has its charm. The Nostromo wasn't meant to be a top-of-the-line vessel, anyway.
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PhotoKirk posted:100% perfect costuming. ...right! Look, I just think we should discuss the bonus situation.
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happyhippy posted:Their computer sounds are pure devine though.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:The green and black computer screens has its charm. The Nostromo wasn't meant to be a top-of-the-line vessel, anyway. Is this how they explain the crazy tech in prometheus?
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zenguitarman posted:Is this how they explain the crazy tech in prometheus? It’s the fan head-canon explanation, there is no “official” explanation. The real reason is that Ridley Scott makes the movies he wants to make, and he does not care about continuity or “canon”.
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Jan 8, 2021 05:46
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What if the aliens hosed lol
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GAYIDS posted:What if the aliens hosed lol
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GAYIDS posted:What if the aliens hosed lol The aliens were created by a vengeful android who wanted to orally rape humanity to death.
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Jan 8, 2021 22:10
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Well, some Aliens were, not necessarily all of them. 
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Found a thing on Imgur, showing how a Thompson SMG and pump action shotgun were fused together to form the bones of the pulse rifle.
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^ I think they used two shotguns as the grenade launcher, or rather, it's the cool SPAS-12 heatshield over top of a different gun's action.Mutant Headcrab posted:Bishop being the only human actor would be hilarious. Just the irony that the only non-muppet in the movie is an artificial person. This would make the scene where they seal him in the pipe particularly hilarious.
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This guy reckons that Alien is the best of the series, followed by Aliens, but if you prefer Aliens to Alien, there's nothing wrong with that, because Aliens is a bona fide classic in its own right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPyjD5mf8KU In the comments, he adds that after seeing Covenant, he puts it in 4th place ahead of Prometheus, AvP, Alien Resurrection and AvP:R. Alien is my all-time favourite film, and I'd say I'd rank the series in a similar way. He does video essays on action films, and he did a video on Aliens as an exemplar of an excellent action film, and really takes issue with the criticism of its pacing - the film benefits from such a long drive to the fireworks factory, because that time is maximised in developing the characters just enough that we, as an audience, develop an emotional attachment to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmoPg1-Qhjs Ferro is a great example of this - we see her like maybe 3 or 4 times, but you still get a good idea of what she's all about in that time.
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Vagabundo posted:He does video essays on action films, and he did a video on Aliens as an exemplar of an excellent action film, and really takes issue with the criticism of its pacing - the film benefits from such a long drive to the fireworks factory, because that time is maximised in developing the characters just enough that we, as an audience, develop an emotional attachment to them. Aliens with the colony scene kind of falls to the journey fireworks issue.
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alien and aliens have different proportions of sci-fi:action so preference is to taste and mood not a matter of either movie being less than perfect
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Last weekend Alien was #10 at the box office with $60,000Splicer posted:A whole lot of people trying not make eye contact during the airlock quarantine scene. Lambert: "Will you open the goddamn hatch, we gotta get inside and see Alien." Ripley: "Listen to me, if we break quarantine we could all die."
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/656372103/weyland-yutani-lanyard-card?ref=hp_opfy-1&sca=1 So tempting for when I have to start going back to the office
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Vagabundo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPyjD5mf8KU Two videos well worth a watch, thanks for posting these.
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Code Jockey posted:https://www.etsy.com/listing/656372103/weyland-yutani-lanyard-card?ref=hp_opfy-1&sca=1 I haven't wanted something as hard as this for a long time
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Mister Speaker posted:^ I think they used two shotguns as the grenade launcher, or rather, it's the cool SPAS-12 heatshield over top of a different gun's action. You're correct! The rifles were made from Thompson submachine guns (which is why the 'caseless' rifles clearly eject .45ACP brass in several scenes). The grenade launchers were cutdown Remington 870s with the SPAS furniture on top because they looked cooler. The 'grenades' themselves were 12 gauge snap caps (inert training and practice cartridges with no primer/propellant) with some extra stuff molded on to look cool, that way they could be fed into the shotgun magazine when she's loading up in the elevator. The real funny part is how the skinny Thompson mags they used in the reload were supposed to hold 95 10mm rounds. The Smartguns were cooler, someone just made a German MG42, a Steadicam harness and a motorcycle have a threesome and stole their baby.
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Wild T posted:You're correct! The rifles were made from Thompson submachine guns (which is why the 'caseless' rifles clearly eject .45ACP brass in several scenes). The grenade launchers were cutdown Remington 870s with the SPAS furniture on top because they looked cooler. The 'grenades' themselves were 12 gauge snap caps (inert training and practice cartridges with no primer/propellant) with some extra stuff molded on to look cool, that way they could be fed into the shotgun magazine when she's loading up in the elevator. The real funny part is how the skinny Thompson mags they used in the reload were supposed to hold 95 10mm rounds.  Like the pulse rifles are probably the most iconic space gun, but goddamn the smartguns are way cooler IMHO, and they also have a cooler sound too
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Teenage me had big cosplay ambitions until I discovered how expensive SteadiCam parts were.
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Splicer posted:A whole lot of people trying not make eye contact during the airlock quarantine scene. SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Ripley: "Listen to me, if we break quarantine we could all die." https://twitter.com/AdamShaftoe/status/1123389416532213760?s=20
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Iron Crowned posted:
I absolutely love the sound of the smart gun. Well all of the gun sounds are really good.
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Iron Crowned posted:
Agreed on both, but that Ithaca 37 shotgun was sweet. "EAT THIS!"
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I had the DooM (original) .wad with Aliens replacement sounds installed for so long that hearing the originals years later (maybe Doom64 at a neighbor's?) was weird to me. The door sound especially. I can still hear them and the original I have no clue about.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I had the DooM (original) .wad with Aliens replacement sounds installed for so long that hearing the originals years later (maybe Doom64 at a neighbor's?) was weird to me. I downloaded a couple of Aliens mods for Half Life, way back when. The MP5 was changed into the Pulse Rifle (complete with proper firing sound), and the Snarks became Facehuggers.
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Iron Crowned posted:
I swear the smartgun gear spinup noise mixed with alien screeching in so many scenes convinced me that xenos sounded like elephants until more recently than I'm willing to admit. Smh
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Saw this on r/MovieDetails: "In Aliens (1986), it is revealed that Lambert, from the first Alien (1979), was transgender, during a quick recalling of the crewmember deaths from the first movie"
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Android Apocalypse posted:Saw this on r/MovieDetails: Captain Dallas is also transgender, but his dossier is obscured or otherwise unreadable so we have to go off filmmaker notes to confirm that detail. The idea was that being trans was NBD in the Alien future and fairly commonplace and trans people were indistinguishable from cis people in societal acceptance and sexual function.
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That's cool. I remember that the original script didn't mention gender at all so actors were cast on their actual skill & how they'd fit in different roles. Did the actors do screen tests for each role?
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That's pretty drat progressive for the 80s. I'd also like some of that Arcturian poontang.
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One criticism of Predator that I never understood was the idea that it was a ripoff of Aliens. Gene Siskel spouts this opinion in his review of the movie. I just don't see it, other than there are military men against an alien. The monsters aren't similar, they way they kill aren't really comparable and there isn't the body horror element present in Predator. It's such a weird complaint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXN0MeZKw88
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PeterCat posted:One criticism of Predator that I never understood was the idea that it was a ripoff of Aliens. Gene Siskel spouts this opinion in his review of the movie. I just don't see it, other than there are military men against an alien. The monsters aren't similar, they way they kill aren't really comparable and there isn't the body horror element present in Predator. It's such a weird complaint. The funny thing is that Gene also gave a thumbs down to Aliens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1y6QhZaUG4 I watched a bunch of S&E reviews at Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews and it's interesting to see their respective weak spots on what are now classic movies through the years. Gene seemed to buy into the emotional aspects of a given movie more while disliking pure action, where Ebert seemed more aloof overall but also could be won over by simpler themes as long as they paid off for the audience.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Saw this on r/MovieDetails: well bugger me! I thought it was fake! Went back and watched Aliens special edition and there it was on the screen "blurry (male to female)" 
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One of the blurays has an Easter egg video of all those Nostromo crew dossiers set to the somber opening music. It's legit one of the saddest things I've ever seen and it should play on an endless loop in a museum somewhere.
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