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Clip-On Fedora posted:Kind of reminds me of a ecoterrorist villain in the comic who wipes out Las Vegas because he thinks its a dangerous and arrogant waste of natural resources to build a city like that in the middle of a desert. He then builds a fully automated, futuristic solar plant over the ruins that provides free, ecologically friendly power to the entire planet. this is something thats bugging the hell out of me with the stand is darkman keeping las vegas functional using literal magic powers because if so hes automatically a much better leader than whoopi goldberg whose powers just seem to be less useful versions of his
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i want one of these people to explain sometime what they think infinite jest is about a metanarrative critique of american culture and also tennis
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Some Guy TT posted:this is something thats bugging the hell out of me with the stand is darkman keeping las vegas functional using literal magic powers But the people are having SEX! And wearing gaudy outfits! I seriously want to know who's truly behind the 2020 adaption because it's filmed like an honest to god PureFlix production. that and they literally skipped over the "virus wipes out mankind" part of a story that's about when a virus wipes out mankind.
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As a teen I was a big fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Hahaha.
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i saw Alien 3 in the theater as a child because my friend convinced his mom to chaperone us. at the time it made me really mad because right at the start they killed my best friends from Aliens, which at the time i considered to be the most badass movie in existence. as i got older i got over it. Resurrection is garbage. even Prometheus and Covenant are superior.
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Mar 29, 2021 16:06
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I wish we had Brendon Frasier star lord
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uber_stoat posted:i saw Alien 3 in the theater as a child because my friend convinced his mom to chaperone us. at the time it made me really mad because right at the start they killed my best friends from Aliens, which at the time i considered to be the most badass movie in existence. as i got older i got over it. Yeah a lot of people get mad that Newt and Hix are killed (off screen none the less) at the beginning of 3. I think 3 (especially the directors cut) is a good Alien movie, but a bad sequel to Aliens. Covenant was pretty good, till the 3rd act where it completely poo poo the bed. Get these movies away from Ridley Scott. The shorts that were done in 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alien I thought were all pretty good and captured what an Alien movie should feel like for God knows whatever shoestring budget they were made on
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KomradeX posted:Yeah a lot of people get mad that Newt and Hix are killed (off screen none the less) at the beginning of 3. I think 3 (especially the directors cut) is a good Alien movie, but a bad sequel to Aliens. Covenant was pretty good, till the 3rd act where it completely poo poo the bed. Get these movies away from Ridley Scott. speaking of shorts I remember thinking this was really good and getting excited about Prometheus.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJs7uluwlU
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Mr Hootington posted:I wish we had Brendon Frasier star lord I'll take any excuse to say I feel like George of the Jungle and Kung Pow are very similar movies, as someone who loves both.
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Mar 29, 2021 17:53
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Killing Newt and Hicks was the right move.
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uber_stoat posted:speaking of shorts I remember thinking this was really good and getting excited about Prometheus. The promotional stuff around Prometheus was great. And I still think that movie isn't bad. Ridley Scott just isn't into the themes of what makes the Xeno appealing and wanted to make movies about robots and God. Covenant showing a baby Xeno looking like a smaller Xeno was insane, that whole third act made me dislike a movie that had begrudgingly won me over
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KomradeX posted:I said it before, I'll say it again, Resurrection is easily the worst movie in the Aliens series and it's entirely on Joss Whedon"s writing oh you're absolutely right. But it is garishly ugly and stupid in a way that kind of appeals to me. and I like Winona Ryder
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Mar 29, 2021 18:30
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Mr Hootington posted:I wish we had Brendon Frasier star lord Chris Pratt should have to pay Frasier a significant amount of money for copying
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Low Desert Punk posted:oh you're absolutely right. But it is garishly ugly and stupid in a way that kind of appeals to me. The cast does the best they can with what they were given (even if the crew of the Betty are the Alpha versions of the Firefly crew) but Whedon's lovely dialogue and 90s End of History poo poo just bleed through to much. Like I went and rewatched Scream back im October and I found the dialogue in that cringe inducing
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Mar 29, 2021 18:42
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The crea of the Betty are a bunch of unsynpathetic sociopatchs and Call gets treated in a really creepy way by every male character.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'll take any excuse to say I feel like George of the Jungle and Kung Pow are very similar movies, as someone who loves both. Woah, that mental connection makes a lot of sense
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Mar 29, 2021 18:48
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Mr Hootington posted:I wish we had Brendon Frasier star lord He's a lot of fun in "Doom Patrol." Also Timothy Dalton fucks a monkey-woman.
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The Cinematographer for Alien had never shot a feature before (but a ton of TV commercials). It’s easily one of the best shot films of the 70s. I’ve seen an anamorphic print and it’s a masterpiece of lighting and camera alone imo
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KomradeX posted:Like I went and rewatched Scream back im October and I found the dialogue in that cringe inducing i personally adore scream but I can understand that. it's definitely a product of its time it is Example #1 though in my thesis that Matthew Lillard is one of the most underappreciated and underutilized actors of the last thirty years. David Lynch tapping him for The Return was genius
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Mar 29, 2021 19:11
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MonsieurChoc posted:As a teen I was a big fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley. the scifi fandom convention scene in the 20th century had an almost Epstein level amount of sexual assault
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Mar 29, 2021 19:12
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Low Desert Punk posted:i personally adore scream but I can understand that. it's definitely a product of its time my college roommates and I watched "The Curve" featuring him and that movie was a goddamn hoot. maybe it's not good when you're not stoned off your rear end but you know
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MonsieurChoc posted:The crea of the Betty are a bunch of unsynpathetic sociopatchs and Call gets treated in a really creepy way by every male character. Yeah, the Betty are pirates who kidnapped people to be murdered in a secret government experiment (lol that WalMart is bigger than Weyland-Yutani now)
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Mar 29, 2021 20:20
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Low Desert Punk posted:i personally adore scream but I can understand that. it's definitely a product of its time I will say it's still like 90% great, but the consent talk in movie metaphor drove me crazy that humans don't talk like that, but besides that it holds up
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Mar 29, 2021 20:23
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MonsieurChoc posted:Killing Newt and Hicks was the right move. It would be kinda hard to explain how Newt had suddenly become a teenager despite it at best being months between what happened in Aliens and Alien 3.
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World War Mammories posted:my college roommates and I watched "The Curve" featuring him and that movie was a goddamn hoot. maybe it's not good when you're not stoned off your rear end but you know the curve is great! I actually forgot about that one. if anyone else is a poo poo movie connoisseur Dish Dogs with Lillard, Sean Astin and Brian Dennehy is a great watch. it's about two homeless dudes that travel the US working dishwashing jobs and coming up with really bad philosophy. intensely C-SPAM film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePKGzJItJB8
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The best way to not piss people off for killing Newt and Hicks is to just not make more Alien movies. It's abundantly clear now that 1 and 2 told everything the premise had to tell. Every film after has just been a pointless retread, sometimes of 1 sometimes of 2 but always a retread.
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galagazombie posted:The best way to not piss people off for killing Newt and Hicks is to just not make more Alien movies. It's abundantly clear now that 1 and 2 told everything the premise had to tell. Every film after has just been a pointless retread, sometimes of 1 sometimes of 2 but always a retread. i get what you're saying about the overall plot structure but i think each film is saying something really different. Prometheus is saying something different from Alien 3 which says something different from Alien. They all do something unique with the premise imo, even the AvP films like, (most) Friday the 13th are retreads of Part 2 & 3. all the Hellraiser films are retreads. I wouldn't describe Alien that way
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the whole Newt being Ripley's surrogate daughter (to replace the dead one) subplot was kinda hamfisted anyway
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Tricky D posted:the whole Newt being Ripley's surrogate daughter (to replace the dead one) subplot was kinda hamfisted anyway it was pretty funny how alien isolation revealed that ripley's daughter independently discovered xenomorphs on a space station totally separately from ripley
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that sounds some JJ Abrams film school style of ~*everything is connected*~
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Low Desert Punk posted:i get what you're saying about the overall plot structure but i think each film is saying something really different. Prometheus is saying something different from Alien 3 which says something different from Alien. They all do something unique with the premise imo, even the AvP films prometheus is just alien but all the characters are dumbasses who say the themes of the movie out loud to eachother in every scene
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coathat posted:Chris Pratt should have to pay Frasier a significant amount of money for copying Now that's a crossover I wanna see
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Farm Frenzy posted:prometheus is just alien but all the characters are dumbasses who say the themes of the movie out loud to eachother in every scene incorrect, prometheus is blade runner but all the characters are dumbasses who say the themes of the movie out loud to each other in every scene
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Saying all the themes out loud is just how movies are made now grandpa.
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Prometheus is good
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MacheteZombie posted:Prometheus is good yes but Covenant is better edit: it owns that Ridley Scott never got to make his Blood Meridian movie so he just made David into Judge Holden in Covenant
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prison breaks on korean cable for some reason and man i miss when tv shows were sincere and just let the fans do the snarking in regards to the sillier plot points im gonna give the second season a try i only watched the first when it was new since i figured I should quit while i was ahead my cspammy observation is that its genuinely impossible to tell whether the evil vice president is supposed to be a democrat or a republican and today this reads less like a deliberate attempt to avoid antagonizing half the audience and more an accidental commentary on how hilary clinton is basically a republican wearing the wrong colored hat
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Even Veep doesn't say which party Selina Meyer belongs to.
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josh04 posted:incorrect, prometheus is blade runner but all the characters are dumbasses who say the themes of the movie out loud to each other in every scene the difference is, in Blade Runner only Roy Batty says the themes out loud
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