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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. They're using "ripoff" in that loose sense that of course one year after they had a big hit with a "military vs. aliens" action/horror hybrid the same studio was only all too happy to promote another one. The same way nobody would call 'The Thing' a ripoff of 'Alien' nowadays but at the time everybody knew what money the studio was chasing. Probably 'bandwagon jumper' would be a better term for it.
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Young Freud posted: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. It also raises the question of why they're going around changing people's sex at birth, with some potentially horrific implications if, say, Lambert's parents simply wanted a girl and decided to have their baby physically customized. For most trans folks their experience is something akin to a birth defect, that you have an innate sense of your gender and can tell when your body doesn't match; the idea that parents would put their children into this type of dysmorphia on purpose for vanity reasons is both appalling and befitting the corporate dystopia the 'Alien' movies present. On the other hand, it could be that they'd found a way to detect when an infant is born trans and the operation is meant as a benefit to the child, which at the very least has good intentions, but the way the profile speaks of potential "trauma" they have to be on the look out for makes me skeptical of that.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:They're using "ripoff" in that loose sense that of course one year after they had a big hit with a "military vs. aliens" action/horror hybrid the same studio was only all too happy to promote another one. The same way nobody would call 'The Thing' a ripoff of 'Alien' nowadays but at the time everybody knew what money the studio was chasing. Probably 'bandwagon jumper' would be a better term for it. Sounds like these Siskel and Ebert clowns are kind of stupid.
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What’s weird about Ebert is he is generally a really great reviewer, but he has these weird fixed views on things and really digs in on them Most famously he flat out refused to engage with the idea that video games can be art. games and gamers suck poo poo to be sure but to say there’s no art in them and just not budge on that at all is kinda weird for someone who could be so sensitive and thoughtful otherwise another one i noticed in his review of A.I. (the spielberg movie), he just starts from the premise that there’s no way a machine/ai could think or feel, and then proceeds to rip on the film for being inconsistent or whatever because all the obviously emotional scenes were bullshit. like sure ok, maybe you believe thought and emotion is strictly human, but at least suspend your disbelief for 2 hours, it is your loving job after all. he doesn’t engage with the idea that it’s maybe interesting to think about motivation, emotion, intelligence from a different perspective https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ai-artificial-intelligence-2001 e. looks like he went back to it and reevaluated https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence-2001 I used to be quite a fan of his until I read this review and it cooled me off on him. thanks for reading my ebert care post tapped out on my phone in bed
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:It also raises the question of why they're going around changing people's sex at birth, with some potentially horrific implications if, say, Lambert's parents simply wanted a girl and decided to have their baby physically customized. For most trans folks their experience is something akin to a birth defect, that you have an innate sense of your gender and can tell when your body doesn't match; the idea that parents would put their children into this type of dysmorphia on purpose for vanity reasons is both appalling and befitting the corporate dystopia the 'Alien' movies present.
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Jan 24, 2021 11:46
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You all are just no fun sometimes, I swear!
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Gentle Autist posted:What’s weird about Ebert is he is generally a really great reviewer, but he has these weird fixed views on things and really digs in on them Another thing to add to the "Ebert was cool and good" column
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:You all are just no fun sometimes, I swear! You get way too deep into things that don't matter and we can't possibly know. It's 100% insane speculation.
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Jan 24, 2021 18:29
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I'm sure it's been done to death but I picked up this bad boy today and one for my son's 10th birthday in the coolest covid 19 mask contest 
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Gentle Autist posted:maybe skimp on the mask budget a bit and get a better camera Smart rear end. Sorry for having my phone on low settings. It's to further help obscure my ugly old face BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Feb 11, 2021 03:14
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That's an awesome mask. And yeah, looks like that picture was taken from my 2004 Kyocera flip phone.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:And yeah, looks like that picture was taken from my 2004 Kyocera flip phone. I'll post a better one if anyone gives a poo poo. I just had my phone on low settings somehow. They were only nine bucks on Amazon so I consider it money well spent. My 10 year old is having an Alien themed Nerf Gun party for his birthday so I grabbed him one also so that's going to own.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll post a better one if anyone gives a poo poo. I just had my phone on low settings somehow. They were only nine bucks on Amazon so I consider it money well spent. My 10 year old is having an Alien themed Nerf Gun party for his birthday so I grabbed him one also so that's going to own. You'd better tell them that you want rifles slung, flame units only. Have your kid collect all the Nerf guns, and hand out lighters and cans of hair spray.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll post a better one if anyone gives a poo poo. I just had my phone on low settings somehow. They were only nine bucks on Amazon so I consider it money well spent. My 10 year old is having an Alien themed Nerf Gun party for his birthday so I grabbed him one also so that's going to own. Yeah, that looks like a photo taken on a $9 phone.
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All right now you fuckers are making feel bad about my lovely images instead of super cool with my bitchin mask.
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BiggerBoat posted:All right now you fuckers are making feel bad about my lovely images instead of super cool with my bitchin mask. I thought your mask was cool as hell and I don't care that it's not pictured in 8k.
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BiggerBoat was just staying in character with the type of low-resolution difficult to make out images you'd see on a big chunky CRT monitor in the original aliens films.
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Owlbear Camus posted:BiggerBoat was just staying in character with the type of low-resolution difficult to make out images you'd see on a big chunky CRT monitor in the original aliens films. 
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Owlbear Camus posted:BiggerBoat was just staying in character with the type of low-resolution difficult to make out images you'd see on a big chunky CRT monitor in the original aliens films. I can respect this
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Owlbear Camus posted:BiggerBoat was just staying in character with the type of low-resolution difficult to make out images you'd see on a big chunky CRT monitor in the original aliens films. See this guy here gets it and all of you failed to get my style. I wanted to write my post with green text on a black CRT monitor too but couldn't figure out how. But really I just took some lovely pix but wasn't too worried about it since the thumbnails looked OK and I don't honestly mind getting made fun of over it I've actually been crying in shame since yesterday and can't sleep
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BiggerBoat, where did you buy that mask?
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I miss your old AV biggerboat.
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Biplane posted:BiggerBoat, where did you buy that mask? Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Facehugger-B...13151240&sr=8-1 Price went up though. I got 2 of them for $18 plus shipping. Pennywise the Frown posted:I miss your old AV biggerboat. Me too. I'll get it back. I angered some folks in the Schadenfreude thread I think and someone changed it.
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BiggerBoat posted:I wanted to write my post with green text on a black CRT monitor too but couldn't figure out how.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960070 We have competition guys we need to step up our game
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I've been low-key shitposting there but all the  wanna talk about probability & the vast emptiness of space.
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Thank you for your service have this tweet as reward https://mobile.twitter.com/lynnbixenspan/status/1364303812031361025
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Splicer posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960070 Seems to be more about aliens and not so much Aliens.
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Splicer posted:Thank you for your service have this tweet as reward Yeah the empty spookiness of space is bad but it would be much worse without Jonesy. Watching Independence Day--why doesn't that lady just close the door the explosion is coming up pretty fast?
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BiggerBoat posted:I'm sure it's been done to death but I picked up this bad boy today and one for my son's 10th birthday in the coolest covid 19 mask contest Now that we’re done complaining about your image quality allow me to be the dick that says that’s not a mask that’s a bandana, which are often made to allow lots of airflow in and are not designed to stop particles of any kind. And if it gets moist it’s probably helping you catch diseases 
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For all you Fortnite players out there, Ripley and the Alien are coming to Fortnite soon. No, I’m not kidding.
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Xenomrph posted:For all you Fortnite players out there, Ripley and the Alien are coming to Fortnite soon. missed the easy dad joke lay up "Ripley is coming to Fortnite, believe it or not."
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Xenomrph posted:For all you Fortnite players out there, Ripley and the Alien are coming to Fortnite soon. On the one hand, I guess this means we’ll have a whole new generation who can discover and appreciate Alien and Aliens. On the other hand, ugh, gently caress off.
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Nuts and Gum posted:Now that we’re done complaining about your image quality allow me to be the dick that says that’s not a mask that’s a bandana, which are often made to allow lots of airflow in and are not designed to stop particles of any kind. And if it gets moist it’s probably helping you catch diseases LOL I'm increasingly sorry I ever posted the god damned thing. Jesus. Let's run down the checklist here: 1. Apparently not even a mask 2. Relatively useless against Covid particles 3. Poorly photographed 4. Can't get it damp at all 5. Is cool and looks baller as gently caress
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FRT best use for it is as a cool-looking cover to an N/KN95 if you're going into an enclosed space. Otherwise I can't lie to you about your chances.
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Does he have your sympathies? ( )
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