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I don't have anything to say about the rest since I've not seen it but I've worked in government for a decade now and literally every single drill I've ever been in started with an announcement of "this is not a drill". But it was. It was a drill.
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The movie sucked, but the disaster porn spectrum of it was amazingly done.
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Imagined posted:I don't have anything to say about the rest since I've not seen it but I've worked in government for a decade now and literally every single drill I've ever been in started with an announcement of "this is not a drill". But it was. It was a drill. I mean okay fair enough but the guy wasn’t military and had no reason to think it might have been a test, especially since the alert specifically named him and his family, there was a follow up call saying he’s been selected and please stand by for a further call, then that call comes, names his family again and then tells them to pack a bag and go to Robins AFB, and the second call was also transmitted through their TV/cable. I’m pretty sure it was after the second call that the convo happened.
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Okay anime goons, help me with this Attack on Titan thing that my niece is super into. Historia Reiss is the bastard kid of the royal family's patriarch. But after the rest of the family is wiped out, leaving only him, and her left on some farm not knowing her royal status, the dude runs to get her and her mom/his ex and flee the city with them. They're stopped by goons with guns, who kill the mom, but why, why the gently caress doesn't the dad/royal dude say a loving word about how this girl is literally the only person, other than him, who can use the Coordinate power poo poo? So she should be spared? Instead he sends her off to die. I mean, yes the family has lost the power but was the dude just thinking to start another family to keep the bloodline going? Was he counting on her somehow surviving to get her later?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay anime goons, help me with this Attack on Titan thing that my niece is super into. Historia Reiss is the bastard kid of the royal family's patriarch. But after the rest of the family is wiped out, leaving only him, and her left on some farm not knowing her royal status, the dude runs to get her and her mom/his ex and flee the city with them. They're stopped by goons with guns, who kill the mom, but why, why the gently caress doesn't the dad/royal dude say a loving word about how this girl is literally the only person, other than him, who can use the Coordinate power poo poo? So she should be spared? Instead he sends her off to die. I mean, yes the family has lost the power but was the dude just thinking to start another family to keep the bloodline going? Was he counting on her somehow surviving to get her later? I think the timeline was in a different order. 1. Reiss has illegitimate daughter. 2. Political rivals force him to kill his bastard family but Historia is spared. 3. Legitimate heirs are killed during the wall attack 4. Reiss begins searching for her, but Historia has changed her name and vanished into the Scouts.
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My IIMM about Greenland was how they hyped up comets as worse than asteroids because they're bigger and faster Maybe they thought asteroids were too 90s
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Stillwater: I don't get why the girl waited so long to ask her lawyer to look into the guy she actually arranged the whole thing with. The only thing I can come up with is she didn't know who he was when she paid him to do it, but who arranges something like that with a stranger? I probably missed something, the beginning of the movie is very slow. Also, it seems unlikely he'd be able to get a work permit just for manual labor stuff - in my experience, you have to have a specialized skill they couldn't hire a local for in the EU...but I'm not an immigration lawyer so I could be wrong I think she did tell them to investigate a guy named Akim and gave a rough description but not a full name or anything about her paying him (which makes sense to me, she was feeling hella guilty and scared) but they decided she just made him up because they couldn't find much. Like there was no last name, no place of residence or anything Also I saw the Green Knight yesterday and it was good but why the gently caress did both the kids who stole it from Gawain and Gawain leave the sword in the woods after he breaks free? Increadibly irritating And also irritating that he's told the rules of the game in the beginning and lobs the thing's head off. Just give it a little nick, wth. That movie would've sucked though
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Man with Hat posted:I think she did tell them to investigate a guy named Akim and gave a rough description but not a full name or anything about her paying him (which makes sense to me, she was feeling hella guilty and scared) but they decided she just made him up because they couldn't find much. Like there was no last name, no place of residence or anything Yeah the writer of the green knight sucks poo poo imo
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Dude tried to abuse a loophole, it didn't work.
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I really enjoyed The Green Knight as it hewed pretty close to the original Arthurian legend & had a nice dream-like quality to it (some of the shots… ). The lopping off of the Green Knight's head & Gawain's adventure is part of the original legend, so it didn't bother me.My IIMM was it ripping off The Last Temptation of Christ with its vision of an alternate future Gawain experiences. I was definitely  when he fled and he lived his whole life as king, until it cut back to him with the Green Knight.
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In JAWS, when they go out at night and find Ben Gardner, we're shown that Hooper owns a boat outfitted with a bunch of modern high tech poo poo. Sonar, underwater lights and all kinds of state of the art equipment. Why didn't they take that vessel along with them to go sharkin' instead of all piling on board the old, rickety Orca?
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BiggerBoat posted:In JAWS, when they go out at night and find Ben Gardner, we're shown that Hooper owns a boat outfitted with a bunch of modern high tech poo poo. Sonar, underwater lights and all kinds of state of the art equipment. The really bad B&G Beaujolais they drank that night at dinner damaged their brains irreparably
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BiggerBoat posted:In JAWS, when they go out at night and find Ben Gardner, we're shown that Hooper owns a boat outfitted with a bunch of modern high tech poo poo. Sonar, underwater lights and all kinds of state of the art equipment. Because all the computers in the world can't spear a great white, and there's no sensor that can haul that mass of flesh and teeth up on the deck. That's a fine boat, sure, made for all kinds of monitoring and tracking and oceanographic research. The Orca's made for one thing: killing sharks.
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flavor.flv posted:Because all the computers in the world can't spear a great white, and there's no sensor that can haul that mass of flesh and teeth up on the deck. That's a fine boat, sure, made for all kinds of monitoring and tracking and oceanographic research. The Orca's made for one thing: killing sharks. Also there's no loving way Quint would go out on that college boy's boat. He's in charge, it's gonna be his loving boat.
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BiggerBoat posted:In JAWS, when they go out at night and find Ben Gardner, we're shown that Hooper owns a boat outfitted with a bunch of modern high tech poo poo. Sonar, underwater lights and all kinds of state of the art equipment. They needed a bigger boat.
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The power move should've been to have both boats out: Hooper scouting for the shark in his decked-out rig while Brody & Quint hunt in the Orca.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I really enjoyed The Green Knight That's the second time they do that kind of scene, though, so it's kind of thematic. Earlier, when he's tied up by the thieves and abandoned, it shows him decay into a skeleton as he gives up. Then he snaps out of it and devices to push on, freeing himself.
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I'm actually thinking of getting some version of "What else ought there be?" as a tattoo. I can't remember if I posted that earlier in the thread, but I really liked The Green Knight.
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Green Knight: Gawain owed that dude a hand shandy as per their agreement and really should have been called out for it
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Phanatic posted:Also there's no loving way Quint would go out on that college boy's boat. He's in charge, it's gonna be his loving boat. Right, but they could have taken BOTH boats, BiggerBoats or otherwise. My in movie explanation is that Quint didn't want to give up a larger share if Hooper contributed his equipment and was making money off the charter. Except that Matt brings all his expensive poo poo off his boat with him anyway so....? Android Apocalypse posted:The power move should've been to have both boats out: Hooper scouting for the shark in his decked-out rig while Brody & Quint hunt in the Orca. THIS. Why not bring both boats? It doesn't cost anything extra, keeps them safer, widens their range and gives them more muscle as well as an escape valve. The real answer is that the Ben Gardner scene was added in post production by Spielberg who wanted One More Scare and in the main script the idea of Matt having his own vessel was never even brought up. Also, that it's more tense and dramatic to use the old school Orca in ways that can showcase Quint. But what might have been funnier is to use Hooper's Expensive College Boy Boat in tandem where he insists on bringing it and then have it get hosed up almost immediately by a fish he's not in any way prepared for.
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Kind of tangential to the Alien discussion of the past few pages, I saw Pitch Black for the first time recently, and actually quite liked most of it! Great use of lighting/color/darkness (how appropriate), pacing, character development, and a constant sense of tension. It reminded me a lot of Alien, and it probably could have been just as good with some tweaks and also a non-shoestring budget. I also laughed when I realized Claudia Black was in it, because I couldn't not think of her as Vala from Stargate who somehow got on the wrong ship. I went in knowing essentially nothing about it as well, so the twist halfway through (the eclipse and what happens after) was really unexpected. Up to that point, I figured something would happen because of the orrery teaser, but not horrible murder monsters with free reign of the entire planet. Oh no, this scifi movie is actually also a survival horror flick! (unsure if I really need spoilers on a 20 year old movie, but w/e). Overall it was surprisingly good, but about 2/3 of the way through, things started to bug me, which is why I brought it up in this thread: - A forever present IIMM is whenever powers are inconsistent. The monsters can't stand the barest hint of light, but this doesn't apply to their tails after a while I guess? - Also how did this species evolve exactly? I didn't care before now, but now that you've got me questioning things... - Turns into too much of an action movie towards the end and loses the suspense. - Absolutely does not stick the landing. - Radha Mitchell was fantastic and deserved to have as big a career breakout as Vin Diesel. Some minor editing and a rework of the last 30-45 minutes, and you go from "cult classic" to just "classic".
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There aren't nearly enough sci-fi horror movies. Not by half.
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Imagined posted:There aren't nearly enough sci-fi horror movies. Not by half. My theory is that horror & sci-fi are on the opposite ends of movie budgets. Not saying you can't go cheap on sci-fi & still be good, but world building & effects are somewhat expected. A high-budget horror movie would be pretty cool.
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Pitch Black is great but I also always wondered what do the aliens eat usually. They find all these giant bones around, so maybe they are not native to the planet/are some kind of invading pests that have eaten everything already and then I guss hybernated or something? Speaking of IIMM, Riddick is more or less restrained in this movie compared to the following ones, but I always laugh/cringe super hard when he brags "it didn't know who it was loving with" after killing that one alien.
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His name is Dick Riddick
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That Italian Guy posted:Pitch Black is great but I also always wondered what do the aliens eat usually. They find all these giant bones around, so maybe they are not native to the planet/are some kind of invading pests that have eaten everything already and then I guss hybernated or something? because it should have been "with whom it was loving"?
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It bugs me when characters say that, because even the people who do know who they are and what they're capable of gently caress with them. Like all the time
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Thanks for reminding me that Pitch Black is a movie that exists since my son digs Alien and Predator and I was trying to come up with a new movie in that vein. I haven't seen it since it came out but recall liking it.
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SiKboy posted:because it should have been "with whom it was loving"? In the distant future, we've stopped pretending English is Latin. E: no sorry, I'm thinking of a different rule i think
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Pretty much the only thing I know about Riddick is the Open Palm Slam a VHS copypasta, but everything I've heard makes it sound pretty good. Wasn't the video game also really good for a movie game?
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BiggerBoat posted:Thanks for reminding me that Pitch Black is a movie that exists since my son digs Alien and Predator and I was trying to come up with a new movie in that vein. I haven't seen it since it came out but recall liking it. Event Horizon is fun and gives me Alien vibes, not quite sure why, think it's mostly just the industrial look of everything and the fact that they apparently could only afford half as many bulbs as the space ships could do with. No scary alien though, just sam neill, who tbf is real and thus more scary than the alien. In a movie with quite a few silly things in it though I do appreciate that their immediate reaction upon finding out what happened to the crew is to just go NOPE and try to leave right then and there.
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Imagined posted:There aren't nearly enough sci-fi horror movies. Not by half. https://twitter.com/elle_hunt/status/1379343097251962884?t=UOSlp4QokxAI7q20_whmHw&s=19
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I think it's possible, but not when it's just "previously existing horror character, but killing in space".
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It's a bad tweet because not only are there many horror movies set in space, several of them are considered high points of the genre hth
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I'm guessing this person defines 'horror" in an extremely pedantic way but I don't see why we should give a poo poo
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BiggerBoat posted:Thanks for reminding me that Pitch Black is a movie that exists since my son digs Alien and Predator and I was trying to come up with a new movie in that vein. I haven't seen it since it came out but recall liking it. Also, Chronicles of Riddick is completely different in every aspect (but still a lot of fun and a guilty pleasure I'll watch every time it pops up on tv). The third movie in the series, Riddick, tries to return to the roots of Pitch Black, but doesn't hit the same notes, and isn't really all that great. It does have Starbuck from BSG as a fun random cameo though!
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Neito posted:Pretty much the only thing I know about Riddick is the Open Palm Slam a VHS copypasta, but everything I've heard makes it sound pretty good. I thought the video game was really good full stop, let alone as a movie tie-in.
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