|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2021 23:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 20:23 |
|
|
madeintaipei posted:Restoration of flight status was Burke's sweetener for Ripley. Why would she settle for WO, with little prospect for promotion, if LT is right there? Also, 60-odd years is a long time to accrue promotion points. Makes some sense, but to me doesn't really gel with stating that as a military mission, Cpl Hicks is now in charge. What's the point of an officer commission without any authority? Ah well, I guess I'm reading in to it too much. Also completed watching The Third Film in the Alien/Aliens franchise and still found it thoroughly enjoyable despite being the theatrical cut. Would have loved to see some of the opportunities if Hicks had survived the crash and was around to clash with the CO, win the begrudging respect of the inmates and rally a defence/hold out etc.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 02:27
|
|
|
Capt.Whorebags posted:Makes some sense, but to me doesn't really gel with stating that as a military mission, Cpl Hicks is now in charge. It's super common when a civilian is working for/with mil to give them a rank like Lt or Cpt just to kind of show that they have a level of authority, but they would never take over in any actual military scenario. I always just assumed that was how Ripley got made an Lt, but tbh I never actually put any thought into it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 02:43
|
|
|
Also a civilian given a military ranking helps denote their pay grade. When my dad finished his medical residency the USAF offered him a job with the rank of Captain. It's not like he would've been commanding airmen but more along the lines "your pay would be equal to that we pay captains."
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 05:11
|
|
|
Iron Crowned posted:UHD really shines for movies that were made before the mid 90's, and the Alien UHD is beautiful. Absolutely agree. Alien, Ghostbusters, 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. all look absolutely amazing on a good HDR TV with 24 frames per second playback. Newer movies with tons of computer graphics are rendered in 2K and then upscaled to 4K, which is why John Wick is true UHD, but John Wick 2 and 3 are 2K, upscaled to UHD.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 05:30
|
|
|
I pirate all of my movies so I have no idea what you guys are talking about. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 05:33
|
|
|
Android Apocalypse posted:Also a civilian given a military ranking helps denote their gay pride. This is how I read this and had to take a second to check what thread I clicked into.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 07:02
|
|
|
Oh man the rocket launcher in Fireteam is fun but it's such a massive liability
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 08:35
|
|
|
Android Apocalypse posted:Also a civilian given a military ranking helps denote their pay grade. When my dad finished his medical residency the USAF offered him a job with the rank of Captain. It's not like he would've been commanding airmen but more along the lines "your pay would be equal to that we pay captains." Yeah, the Navy made a similar offer to my late mother, back just after the first Gulf War had ended. They were looking for nurses and by that point she had almost 20 years of experience as a nurse, so they offered her a pretty good signing bonus and the rank of Lt. Commander (equivalent to Major in the other branches). She wasn't able to take them up on it, though, as she'd just had a knee replacement operation and wouldn't have been able to pass the physical.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 14:39
|
|
|
SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Well, it's only fair...
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 15:29
|
|
|
I wish Lily C.A.T had been better
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 16:20
|
|
|
MacheteZombie posted:I wish Lily C.A.T had been better Same, all the elements are there.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 17:04
|
|
|
 From the unrequited Alien 3 space monastery script pitch art. No, it's not a 'shop. Assface sheep xeno.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 18:29
|
|
|
Lore question: Can a face hugger attack your butt instead.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 18:32
|
|
|
A bit late to Aliens extended cut chat- I feel like for the first time seeing it those extras were right to be cut from the theatrical release but for further watches stuff like the colony pre-collapse and what leads up to it is a nice lil' easter egg. Pretty great that the colony administrator is also the actor who later played the captain of the Red Dwarf, basically the same role- leader of a failed community/vessel. What are folks' thoughts on the Aliens TTRPG by Free League Publishing? I have a few buddies interested in giving it a shot over zoom, but I'm curious about this thread's thoughts on it before pulling the trigger on it next time I hit up the local games/comics shop. ikanreed posted:Lore question: Can a face hugger attack your butt instead. IIRC they will use any orifice they can find.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 18:59
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:Lore question: Can a face hugger attack your butt instead. Yeah about that…. this came up in the most recent issue of the Marvel comics being published right now. https://twitter.com/phillipkjohnson/status/1434286055201574914?s=21
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 19:28
|
|
|
Capt.Whorebags posted:Makes some sense, but to me doesn't really gel with stating that as a military mission, Cpl Hicks is now in charge. Burke/W-Y wanted her to accompany them and the Marines in an advisory capacity as they weren't entirely sure what they were getting into. She doesn't have any authority over the military but she is a commercial flight officer and getting her flight status back and a promotion makes sense. Same way that the captain of a civilian aircraft is a captain but not necessarily a military one. In an ideal world, they'd get out there, everything would be fine, she'd go back to Earth and get a new job on a freighter as XO or something.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2021 19:36
|
|
|
I'm friggin annoyed because I'm going for the "complete all campaigns on Intense" achievement, but I missed one and there's no way I can find to tell which. So I'm playing through all the campaigns on Intense again. Also I really want a quick-matching option. I keep gravitating to the same missions and having a random selector would help mix it up.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 00:10
|
|
|
Sentinel Red posted:Burke/W-Y wanted her to accompany them and the Marines in an advisory capacity as they weren't entirely sure what they were getting into. She doesn't have any authority over the military but she is a commercial flight officer and getting her flight status back and a promotion makes sense. Same way that the captain of a civilian aircraft is a captain but not necessarily a military one. Right, she's a Lieutenant in the future equivalent of the Merchant Marine. Same terminology, entirely separate command structure.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 03:13
|
|
|
Parkingtigers posted:Another thing that I didn't like about Alien 3 (and I honestly can't remember it being specific to the assembly cut or not), is that the company lets that one random prisoner survive. They abandon Fury 151, taking that one remaining prisoner with them (presumably to a different prison elsewhere), and even just his story about the existence of a deadly and hostile alien is going to be bad for WY at some point for a bunch of reasons. I never imagined a very good end for him. I doubt he'll be able to tell his story to the public, but they probably want him alive for interrogation just because he's a rare witness to the creature and could maybe provide some valuable intel on it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 05:38
|
|
|
Mr. Grapes! posted:I never imagined a very good end for him. I doubt he'll be able to tell his story to the public, but they probably want him alive for interrogation just because he's a rare witness to the creature and could maybe provide some valuable intel on it. In the alien RPG lore he smuggles out a super convoluted account of what happened called “SPACE BEAST” (or something), and it goes viral inspiring tons of conspiracy theories and also alien worshipping cults. So basically he becomes q-anon.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 06:13
|
|
|
 Tag yourself, I'm Killer Crab Alien. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 12:09
|
|
|
Oh poo poo I had the snake alien and the weird flying one (top left corner) when I was a kid 
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 12:16
|
|
|
Radical 90s Wizard posted:Oh poo poo I had the snake alien and the weird flying one (top left corner) when I was a kid I still have all of mine from when I was a kid. The first one I ever got was the Snake Alien when I was 9, I specifically chose it because my mom is afraid of snakes. 
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 13:23
|
|
|
Kaiju Cage Match posted:
I thought I had all the Aliens toys (I sadly forgot to pack them when I moved out of Kansas 10 years ago), but there are a bunch I don't recognize here 
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 13:25
|
|
|
Xenomrph posted:I still have all of mine from when I was a kid. The first one I ever got was the Snake Alien when I was 9, I specifically chose it because my mom is afraid of snakes.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 13:36
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 15:48
|
|
|
mllaneza posted:Right, she's a Lieutenant in the future equivalent of the Merchant Marine. Same terminology, entirely separate command structure. Merchant Marine. Hmmm. Has there ever been a Filipino character in the Alien franchise? Alien4, Chief MAKOi edition. Like Alien3, but the crew dispatches and eats the Xeno within the first four minutes, spends an hour and a half invading the Xeno homeworld for more, while still delivering their cargo on time.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 17:21
|
|
|
I’ll say this for Apple, I really like how if you buy a film from The iTunes that over time it gets upgraded to whatever fancier version comes along at no extra cost. Back when I bought Aliens: Special Edition, the original and inferior theatrical cut was sold separately. Then that all got folded in together as the 30th Anniversary edition so you own both. And now it’s a 4K movie, which is new since last time I looked, and there’s a bunch of extras that I don’t remember being there before. Currently looking at: a 2003 audio commentary That 3 hour Superior Firepower making of Another hour long Superio Firepower on the extended edition A 31 minute 30th anniversary James Cameron doc on design inspiration Obviously I’ve been thinking about Aliens (the movie), but hadn’t been checking my digital film collection for magically appearing new stuff. But new stuff has been magically appearing, it seems.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 19:28
|
|
|
Oh man, this 30th Anniversary doc is great. James Cameron showing off his original design drawings he did himself. On the alien queen: “And I wanted it more decisively feminine, and if you look at the leg it’s actually kind of sexy” Welp, hornyposting is true canon after all.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 19:55
|
|
|
James Cameron and Ridley Scott are both really talented artists who commonly draw a lot of their own storyboards for their movies.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:02
|
|
|
Kaiju Cage Match posted:
My first Aliens toy was the Gorilla Alien. I wish I still had all my old Kenner toys, but the majority got sold in a yard sale. I still have the Alien Queen playset in storage. I should see if I can find it at some point.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:02
|
|
|
friend shaped
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:06
|
|
|
Xenomrph posted:James Cameron and Ridley Scott are both really talented artists who commonly draw a lot of their own storyboards for their movies. James Cameron did a storyboard of Lance Henriksen as the Terminator 
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:07
|
|
|
Yeah, reading the big Making of Aliens book I was amazed at how much he actually had a hand in making himself, from miniatures to the pulse rifle sounds.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:16
|
|
|
My favourite fun movie fact is that it’s James Cameron’s hands that we see sketching nude Kate Winslet in that scene in Titanic. The man is just so good at what he does. Also, with Hudson and Vasquez, and James Cameron and James Horner all involved, petitioning to make Titanic an official part of the Aliens (the movie) thread.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 20:25
|
|
|
poo poo, I’d be okay with it. I like Titanic quite a bit. FUN FACT: the sinking of the Titanic took place in the Alien movie timeline.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 23:51
|
|
|
Parkingtigers posted:Oh man, this 30th Anniversary doc is great. James Cameron showing off his original design drawings he did himself. The motherfucker has built in stiletto heels y'know.
|
|
#
?
Sep 6, 2021 23:55
|
|
|
Xenomrph posted:poo poo, I’d be okay with it. I like Titanic quite a bit. The titanic didn't only hit an iceberg. It hit an iceberg full of xenomorphs.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2021 00:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 20:23 |
|
|
Titanic but the predator shows up.
|
|
#
?
Sep 7, 2021 00:42
|
|