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Iron Crowned posted:Did anyone say Rise/Dawn/War of/for The Planet of the Apes yet? Nothing about that trilogy should be good on paper but instead all three are kinda excellent
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I think what helps is that the protagonists in the Planet of the Apes remakes are the actual apes.
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Xenomrph posted:Fun moviemaking fact: those weren’t her legs the tail was going between, that shot was snipped from one of the edited bits of Brett’s death. Oh drat. I was already impressed with the editing, but moving that clip to Lambert's death scene moves it from 'hosed up and sad' to 'oh God no, wtf is it even...' I've seen some people have very visceral reactions to that. Amazing how putting a 4 second clip in one place versus another elevates a film.
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Finally got around to reading Aliens Omnibus Vol. 1 and... wow just like every other attempt to continue the story after "Aliens" with
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mind the walrus posted:And yes yes I know "preparation/common sense" being actually quite rare and undercut by soulless capitalist overlords is like the overriding theme
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Android Apocalypse posted:The term you're looking for is "retired." Rascar Capac posted:Have you ever violently powered off a human by mistake?  I love this thread.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I think what helps is that the protagonists in the Planet of the Apes remakes are the actual apes. For sure. It also helps that really none of the characters in the original are in them. The movies could have easily went with Dr. Zaius - The College Years.
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Joe Chill posted:Dr. Zaius - The College Years. *college dean goes out to get paper, only find the facade of his house splattered with poop* Ape hooooooouuuuuuse!
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Red Dwarf seasons 1-3 are the real Alien3. Fight me.
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Mister Speaker posted:Lance Henriksen also got food poisoning because the milk/yogurt combination they used in the film curdled under the studio lighting and he presumably swallowed a bunch of it. Could be worse: the pig guts used in the "choke on em" scene in Day of the Dead had been left in a freezer that someone accidentally unplugged several months before filming
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Neo Rasa posted:I really am impressed with how much stuff they packed into that RPG lol Alienators, not to be confused with the Alienator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDlD1u3qR5A Or Alien Terminator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfvMi-bhuv0
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I never realized until recently that the actor who plays Vasquez is also John Conners' foster mom in T2.
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BiggerBoat posted:I never realized until recently that the actor who plays Vasquez is also John Conners' foster mom in T2.  Legit makes me laugh every time.
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BiggerBoat posted:I never realized until recently that the actor who plays Vasquez is also John Conners' foster mom in T2. She also plays the hotel maid in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And an Irish woman in third class in Titanic.
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madeintaipei posted:Red Dwarf seasons 1-3 are the real Alien3. Fight me. just bbqing this quaagar warrior in a lead foundry, what do you want with it?
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Has anyone read Aliens: Phalanx? I watched a YouTube man give a plot synopsis and ordered a copy. Medieval planet where towns are all forts to protect from the black demons outside. Main character is a runner whose job is to deliver messages between towns. Sounds awesome.
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So I just finished the short story book "Bug Hunt ". Skipped over a few chapters because the writing was pretty bad but overall it was a good book. The story from the alien's perspective was pretty goofy and fun. It sounds like a one-off idea but is there anything else from the Alien's POV?
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The four AvP FPS games have you play from the Alien perspective if that counts.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Has anyone read Aliens: Phalanx? I watched a YouTube man give a plot synopsis and ordered a copy. Medieval planet where towns are all forts to protect from the black demons outside. Main character is a runner whose job is to deliver messages between towns. Sounds awesome. That does sound awesome. :O Dirt5o8 posted:So I just finished the short story book "Bug Hunt ". Skipped over a few chapters because the writing was pretty bad but overall it was a good book. The story from the alien's perspective was pretty goofy and fun. Not an alien per se but there's 1991 novel, Gojiro, you may enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojiro Anyway, been thinking about Aliens (the movie) and the android/ship naming conventions. People noticed how the names of the androids in each movie go A B C D until Walter in Covenant Ash Bishop Call David I forget was this intentional when they named David (I always took it as a fun coincidence for the first three instances)? Like Call is a Whedon character and her one major act in the movie is to serve as a modem so lol The ships: Nostromo - named for the title/titular character of the Conrad novel Narcissus - The guy who stared at his reflection for too drat long and turned into a flower, unintentional, but I liked Dillon's inversion of this in Alien 3 to reflect on a hopeful future/beyond during the funeral scene but how it's intercut with the alien burstin' Sulaco - The fictional town in from which Nostromo hails in the Conrad novel Auriga - A constellation, also an old timey word for a chariot rider Prometheus - Give fire get guts eaten/etc. We see our Prometheus in the film's intro as he brings "fire" to a planet but also gets ripped apart in the process. it was cool how they made an opening scene that could be read as that or as Norse mythology simultaneously with Ymir's poison blood spilling into the river Covenant - Promise from God and such, is there more lore about this particular colonization effort? Like were the colonists all super-Christian like Oram was?
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The Narcissus is also an indirect Conrad reference. There have been other Conrad references, though largely in the EU. The Sulaco-like ship that WY arrives in at the end of Alien3 is the Patna, according to the novelization. There was also the Melville from the Colonial Marines comic, the Sephora from the Colonial Marines video game, the Marlow from the AvP2010 game, and the Verloc from the AvP2 PC game. There are probably others I’m forgetting. Edit— the Torrens from Alien Isolation. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Xenomrph posted:The Narcissus is also an indirect Conrad reference. I didn't realize they rolled with it so extensively in the EU stuff
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Neo Rasa posted:Anyway, been thinking about Aliens (the movie) and the android/ship naming conventions. People noticed how the names of the androids in each movie go A B C D until Walter in Covenant I've been listening on and off of the Aliens: Bug Hunt audiobook and there was one about the origins of Bishop. There was a part where he meets a bunch of the same model androids that all looked like him and there were named things like Rook, Knight, and other chess pieces.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I've been listening on and off of the Aliens: Bug Hunt audiobook and there was one about the origins of Bishop. There was a part where he meets a bunch of the same model androids that all looked like him and there were named things like Rook, Knight, and other chess pieces. That's pretty neat.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I've been listening on and off of the Aliens: Bug Hunt audiobook and there was one about the origins of Bishop. There was a part where he meets a bunch of the same model androids that all looked like him and there were named things like Rook, Knight, and other chess pieces. That's really cool and explains how he was so easily ripped apart by the queen. 
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Neo Rasa posted:That's really cool and explains how he was so easily ripped apart by the queen. 
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Neo Rasa posted:Anyway, been thinking about Aliens (the movie) and the android/ship naming conventions. People noticed how the names of the androids in each movie go A B C D until Walter in Covenant D (David) is the fourth letter of the alphabet and W (Walter) is the fourth last letter.
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Neo Rasa posted:That's really cool and explains how he was so easily ripped apart by the queen. 
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Neo Rasa posted:I really am impressed with how much stuff they packed into that RPG lol What I love most about Contamination is how nowhere along the line does any of the exploding gore result in new aliens being born. The eggs exist solely to make people blow up, it's great.
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Neo Rasa posted:That's really cool and explains how he was so easily ripped apart by the queen. That reminds me of the Alien 3 novelisation where (iirc) Ripley thinks "Bishop takes Queen" and she's like "gently caress that!"
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Neo Rasa posted:That's really cool and explains how he was so easily ripped apart by the queen. 
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https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1421658671633903622
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Can't remember who, but someone earlier said that the first Predator film was a regular action flick, then the Predator turns up. Predator 2 is a buddy cop movie, then the Predator turns up. I've been racking my brains trying to figure out what the next genre the Predator should invade is, and now I know: martial arts tournament. You could even have Van Damme in the lead role to bring it full circle. gently caress it, have him play Frank Dux from Bloodsport. The real Dux probably claims he fought an alien at some point.
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Sunswipe posted:Can't remember who, but someone earlier said that the first Predator film was a regular action flick, then the Predator turns up. Predator 2 is a buddy cop movie, then the Predator turns up. I've been racking my brains trying to figure out what the next genre the Predator should invade is, and now I know: martial arts tournament. You could even have Van Damme in the lead role to bring it full circle. gently caress it, have him play Frank Dux from Bloodsport. The real Dux probably claims he fought an alien at some point. That opens up so many possibilities. The Hunger Games... and then the Predator shows up. Twilight... and then the Predator shows up. The Bachelorette... and then the Predator shows up. Dumb and Dumber... and then the Predator shows up. Borat... and then the Predator shows up. Titanic... and then the Predator shows up. Soo many possibilities.
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Jay_Zombie posted:That opens up so many possibilities. Isn't this more or less Predators?
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Android Apocalypse posted:Isn't this more or less Predators? Fair point.
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Sunswipe posted:Can't remember who, but someone earlier said that the first Predator film was a regular action flick, then the Predator turns up. Predator 2 is a buddy cop movie, then the Predator turns up. I've been racking my brains trying to figure out what the next genre the Predator should invade is, and now I know: martial arts tournament. You could even have Van Damme in the lead role to bring it full circle. gently caress it, have him play Frank Dux from Bloodsport. The real Dux probably claims he fought an alien at some point. Fast and the Furious: LV426
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Sense and Sensibility... and then the Predator shows up Kindergarten Cop... and then the Predator shows up Fried Green Tomatoes... and then the Predator shows up iCarly... and then the Predator shows up
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Predator...and then the Predator shows up
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this is also exactly how vandamme lost the role of abraham lincoln to daniel day lewis
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Binary Badger posted:iCarly... and then the Predator shows up Makes sense he'd be a foot guy
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