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mind the walrus posted:I always got more of a "What if Blade Runner took place at the Mall of America?" vibe. Lol, Claire's Boutique and Captain Eo present: Kindergarten Cop
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On that note, was the TR remake any good? I never really got into the first one so it wasn't high on my list fan-wise.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:On that note, was the TR remake any good? I never really got into the first one so it wasn't high on my list fan-wise. gently caress no. Its so bland and forgettable that its not even mentioned in bad remake lists as its so low down in collective memory. It's also Lens Flare the movie.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:On that note, was the TR remake any good? I never really got into the first one so it wasn't high on my list fan-wise. Ehhhhhhh… it felt incredibly video/gamey. The scene when Quaid is running from Lori is almost like a side-scrolling platformer. Any callbacks also had the effect of "I remember that in the original. I should watch the original movie right now…" The OG Total Recall has a cool look as it was shot in Mexico City & the Brutalist architecture of the area lent itself to the aesthetic we enjoy. Come to think of it, Robocop was shot in Houston, TX & Veerhoven was also all about the Brutalist architecture there too (see: the OCP building).
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happyhippy posted:gently caress no. Its so bland and forgettable that its not even mentioned in bad remake lists as its so low down in collective memory. gently caress you just reminded me that the Robocop remake exists lmao admit it you forgot it existed too
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Thanks for the input all, was gonna mention the Robocop remake! It was fun as a standalone but the satirical Verhoeven touch on the spirit of the original can't be duplicated.
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mind the walrus posted:gently caress you just reminded me that the Robocop remake exists lmao admit it you forgot it existed too loving hell, true. May I present the greatest film of all time: 
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I don't recall (hurr) anything particularly memorable about the design in Total Recall. Seemed to take place in like a big gray airport on Mars? I'm sure that's exactly what they were going for and all, but it surprises me to hear it described as influential.
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I liked the body horror in the Robocop remake. There was a moment where the plot of Robocop rooting out police corruption was going to happen, but then it's shifted to going after OCP in general. Also the movie was PG-13 so  the movie was neutered from the beginning.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:the satirical Verhoeven touch on the spirit of the original can't be duplicated.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I liked the body horror in the Robocop remake. There was a moment where the plot of Robocop rooting out police corruption was going to happen, but then it's shifted to going after OCP in general. Yeah it was ultimately doomed BUT it did have some really good moments like the shootout set to Hocus Pocus by Focus and the body horror scene that's the only thing people remember about it
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The thing I remember the most of the Robocop remake was that the cast was way too talented to be stuck doing that movie.
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happyhippy posted:loving hell, true. Cast: Robocop - played by the Chad Meme Guy
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mind the walrus posted:There is a better universe where Spielberg looked at the screenplay for "Ready Player One," called Verhoeven, and we got a loving masterpiece of mean-spiritedness. Verhoeven is never actually mean spirited. I will die on the hill that he is simply the modern day Jonathan Swift.
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What's the blue thing eating a USMC grunt's pulse rifle? It's between the T-X and Murphy.
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edogawa rando posted:What's the blue thing eating a USMC grunt's pulse rifle? Looks like a liquid metal terminator since it's doing a hand spike across into the whatever that short-headed alien is supposed to be.
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happyhippy posted:Link please. Here you go, old bean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v215KSbeuBU Be warned - it is far from polished, dodgy animations, really quite janky and rough in spots, oh and all the dialogue is in Russian. Yet it still manages to do a decent job of delivering the atmosphere regardless. It doesn't look like there's a tracker so you're just pootling about the sub-level maintenance tunnels making GBS threads yourself waiting for the inevitable. Before viewing this, I always thought I wanted a Newt's Tale type game. Now I'm firmly in the gently caress THAT camp, Isolation was bad enough for my nerves. Give me a Modern Warfare C-130 style game where I can just nuke all the bastards from orbit, yo, I'll fracture my thumb spamming the Fire button.
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BattleMaster posted:Looks like a liquid metal terminator since it's doing a hand spike across into the whatever that short-headed alien is supposed to be. Thats an Engineer I think. Has the nose helmet look Sentinel Red posted:Here you go, old bean. Much appreciated.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Ehhhhhhh… it felt incredibly video/gamey. The scene when Quaid is running from Lori is almost like a side-scrolling platformer. Any callbacks also had the effect of "I remember that in the original. I should watch the original movie right now…" It's Dallas.  You can go to downtown Dallas and see pretty much most of the shooting locations. Very little has changed: outside of a parking structure across the street from the Municipal Courts Bldg (i.e. Detroit City Hall) getting turned into a park and the Dallas High School (the Precinct building) getting renovated by an architectural firm, everything looks like it was back in 1987. For example: this place...  
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Thinking about Aliens... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/697652937446391831/875945964995760139/ALIEN2021001-Preview-3.webp
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Neo Rasa posted:Thinking about Aliens... I'd really rather not think about Marvel's Aliens. I'll instead think about that Fireteam game coming out soon.
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Aug 14, 2021 16:49
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Neo Rasa posted:Thinking about Aliens...
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Mom can we stop and get aliens Mom: we have aliens at home the aliens at home: Neo Rasa posted:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/697652937446391831/875945964995760139/ALIEN2021001-Preview-3.webp
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Aug 14, 2021 19:40
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Aug 14, 2021 19:50
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zenguitarman posted:The one in the middle looks extra top-heavy. It's because the heads and bodies are all composited together traces (and in some cases just cut and pasted) from peoples' fanarts/some art from the oldest Aliens comics it wasn't just Greg Land tracing someone's xenomorph art for the cover. Just an insanely disgustingly bad product in every way.
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Biplane posted:Mom can we stop and get aliens 
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The worst part of the Marvel series is having to look at Larocca's gross potatohead traced over in different poses as the main character. Ugh.
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Neo Rasa posted:It's because the heads and bodies are all composited together traces (and in some cases just cut and pasted) from peoples' fanarts/some art from the oldest Aliens comics it wasn't just Greg Land tracing someone's xenomorph art for the cover. Not just other art, but straight up tracing those NECA action figures. I've still been reading Marvel's take on Aliens. It started to get a little better, but not enough to make up for the ugly art and just awful beginning. I'm starting to think they should have just thrown Xenos into the superhero comics. Let some b-lister villains or heroes get Facehugged. Hell, mutants can now be respawned upon death so you could get into some shenanigans with the X-Men.
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LOL, X-Men already had The Brood when they did their crazy Claremont Shi'ar space adventures. Featuring such highlights (going off of my comics-addled memory...) as Wolverine's healing factor rejecting the Brood totally not a facehugger and Psylocke (before she was a ninja) mentally fighting the Brood Queen via her implant (that one I am a bit more vague on, but sounds 'right' in terms of how that character was treated). Can't wait to find the wiki entry on that storyline to see how close/way the gently caress off I was on that. Y'know, since I can't be bothered to get the comics out of the garage and go down that rabbit hole...
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Mutant Headcrab posted:Not just other art, but straight up tracing those NECA action figures. would a xeno that incubated and sprang forth from storm be able to control the weather? rly makes u think. about aliens.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:LOL, X-Men already had The Brood when they did their crazy Claremont Shi'ar space adventures. Featuring such highlights (going off of my comics-addled memory...) as Wolverine's healing factor rejecting the Brood totally not a facehugger and Psylocke (before she was a ninja) mentally fighting the Brood Queen via her implant (that one I am a bit more vague on, but sounds 'right' in terms of how that character was treated). Can't wait to find the wiki entry on that storyline to see how close/way the gently caress off I was on that. Y'know, since I can't be bothered to get the comics out of the garage and go down that rabbit hole... Holy poo poo, this just set off a huge nostalgia bomb! As a little tyke the very first issue of an X-Men title I ever got was in a box of random comics from a garage sale in probably 1989. I remember it perfectly-- it was a christmas special issue in which Kitty Pryde was left alone in the mansion for the holidays while everyone else went to get festive. Logan had a japanese girlfriend that Nightcrawler kissed under mistletoe and Logan tried to kill him. Kitty somehow had to contend with an extremely Xenomorph-ish monster/demon thing that killed people cutting down a christmas tree and then found its way to the mansion. It contained a number of references to Alien (which was already by far my favorite movie despite being like 9) and Kitty even killed it by luring it in front of the Blackbird's engines and igniting them. Anybody remember this? I assume it was a Claremont-era issue. I'm gonna start googling but had to get this off my chest first.
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Prof. Crocodile posted:would a xeno that incubated and sprang forth from storm be able to control the weather? rly makes u think. about aliens. Would a Nightcrawler xeno be able to teleport? Now I'm thinking (about Aliens).
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Oh hell yeah, Uncanny X-Men 143, March 1981   
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I would say that a xenomorph with Kitty Pryde's ability to walk through walls is a pretty terrifying premise to build off of
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Why is she freaking out? "Oh no a Xenomorph what will I do oh wait *sinks into the floor and chills there until Wolverine deals with it*"
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Splicer posted:Why is she freaking out? "Oh no a Xenomorph what will I do oh wait *sinks into the floor and chills there until Wolverine deals with it*" I think you will find that the creature's spoopy jitsu is far too advanced for 1981 landline tech 
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happyhippy posted:Link please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v215KSbeuBU Sorry. Couldn't find one without a narrator Also, wow, Terry Austin is a great inker.
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I just watched Predetor (1987) with my son. I can sort of see the stupid 'elite in their class' that Alien Covenent had, or at least its roots. So many times they just had to shoot at what was moving even though they didnt see it (im talking when it gets caught in the trap!!) I honestly dont think Alien or even Aliens has a single moment where ive gone, wow these people really havent had any training in what they are meant to be the best at. They really are good movies. (Predator was fun to watch, and i found out my son knows the look and name of every friggen gun that appeared in the movie, so everytime a gun came on screen i was treated to - thats a .............. And, why dont they just use a sniper rifle... Is the 2nd and 3rd movie fun to watch too?
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Yes and yes.
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Meskhenet posted:I just watched Predetor (1987) with my son. The second one owns and is even better than the original in some ways. The third one (Predators) is bad imo but not like horrible or whatever it's just sort of there, will definitely be enjoyable to watch once. Then the fourth one is just irredeemable poo poo.
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