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Saw a large pipe with a smaller pipe sticking out it by the side of the road today and it made me think of Aliens.
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how in the hell do some people still not understand that Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is satire?
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Mar 29, 2023 00:51
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A lot of people don't understand satire in general. See: all of the people who freak out at onion articles all the time edit: ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaahah https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/332189/ quote:Congressman Falls for The Onion's Planned Parenthood 'Abortionplex' Story edit 2: If you're unaware of the article.... you'd have to be completely insane/stupid to believe it https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640 Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 29, 2023 |
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Mar 29, 2023 00:53
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satire died a long time ago, this is just the logical conclusion of a predictable arc.
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Mar 29, 2023 02:14
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tango alpha delta posted:how in the hell do some people still not understand that Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is satire? Because its form is one of action film, which are pretty much fascist propaganda.
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Mar 29, 2023 05:26
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^^basically echoing you Verhoeven is a goddamn genius, it totally works as a solid action movie if ur dumn
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Mar 29, 2023 07:14
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SilvergunSuperman posted:^^basically echoing you "would you like to know more?"
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Mar 29, 2023 08:29
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Fish of hemp posted:Because its form is one of action film, which are pretty much fascist propaganda. Aliens would be called extremely subversive by today's standards, a movie which was basically James Cameron at the very top of his A game.
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Mar 29, 2023 08:35
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tango alpha delta posted:how in the hell do some people still not understand that Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is satire? I said this in another thread, but I can forgive people who saw it when it came out but haven't seen it since. The satire was made astoundingly obvious after the US response to 9/11, but people who saw it in 97 just saw a dumb awesome action movie with boobies and aliens.
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Mar 29, 2023 11:51
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Found on Instagram this morning…
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Mar 29, 2023 14:48
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tango alpha delta posted:how in the hell do some people still not understand that Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is satire? I'm just bitter that I walked into the theatre expecting a movie that was true to the book. WHERE'S MY drat POWER ARMOR AND MINI NUKES?????
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Mar 29, 2023 15:19
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PhotoKirk posted:I'm just bitter that I walked into the theatre expecting a movie that was true to the book. They had mini nukes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrXCbV4RoA&t=69s
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Mar 29, 2023 15:19
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Android Apocalypse posted:Found on Instagram this morning… That's crazy good.
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Mar 29, 2023 17:24
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Android Apocalypse posted:Found on Instagram this morning… rules
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Mar 29, 2023 19:39
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Forget FWAAA Get GWAAA
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Mar 30, 2023 13:08
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Cowslips Warren posted:After watching both Prometheus and covenant and dealing with covid since 2020, I have to change my mind about the unforgivable stupidity these future human show when it comes to wearing a helmet on an alien planet. I’ve whined about this before and I’ll whine about it again. The only reason people think the characters are stupid for not wearing helmets is because WE know they are in an alien movie. No one makes this statement about any other space movie. People say they are stupid because they aren’t prepared for something they don’t know exists. Also it was shown all the way back in the first movie that wearing a space helmet won't save you from a facehugger. Extra row of tits fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 13:29
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Extra row of tits posted:I’ve whined about this before and I’ll whine about it again. It's only not stupid in the Alien movies because it was shown all the way back in the first movie that wearing a space helmet won't save you from a facehugger
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Mar 30, 2023 13:44
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 I wonder what Jean Claude Van Damme is thinking of. I bet it's aliens.
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Mar 30, 2023 15:04
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Android Apocalypse posted:
NECA made a Predator figure that used that design as his armor/mask, it’s super rad. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/130006
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Mar 30, 2023 15:26
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Jean Claude Van Damme is in a constant state of readiness. He doesn't even sit down like a normal person. Watch TimeCop to see what I mean; he's not really sitting in that chair at all.
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Mar 30, 2023 19:14
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Xenomrph posted:NECA made a Predator figure that used that design as his armor/mask, it’s super rad. We need a Predator RPG from the Alien RPG people just to see how Andrew Gaska is able to work in this other species of interplanetary hunters that beats their prey with gracedul kickboxibg moves into the setting
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Mar 30, 2023 21:46
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Neo Rasa posted:We need a Predator RPG from the Alien RPG people just to see how Andrew Gaska is able to work in this other species of interplanetary hunters that beats their prey with gracedul kickboxibg moves into the setting I asked him about a Predator RPG and he said there isn’t one. I don’t know if that means it’ll never happen, he doesn’t want to do it, or what. He did write the Predator “lore Bible” for Fox and curated that stuff up until the Disney buyout though. Also the Alpha Predator figure packaging has a lore blurb explaining him - short version is that the Yautja were once oppressed by some other race called the Amengi (the “original” Van Damne design) and the Alpha Predator led the first uprising where he learned how to hunt them, and as a sign of his prowess he wore their skin as his armor. 
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Mar 30, 2023 22:36
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Sydney Bottocks posted:It's only not stupid in the Alien movies because it was shown all the way back in the first movie that wearing a space helmet won't save you from a facehugger "Hey, my kajigger says it's air! Imma take off my helmet!" "Uh, you sure about that? There might be airborne pathogens, toxins, microbes, spores, any number of potentially deadly thi-" [Clunk thunk] "Yeehaw, AAAAIIIRRRRRR!"
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Mar 30, 2023 23:27
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Extra row of tits posted:I’ve whined about this before and I’ll whine about it again. The default assumption is not wearing a helmet is stupid. Kirk gets away with not wearing a helmet because he is in a Star Trek episode, not because he is /not/ in an Alien movie. Or in other words it's not: code:code:Splicer fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 23:43
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Someone pointed out that, after how we saw people behave when COVID hit, the idea that someone might be so cavalier in removing their helmet and breathing alien air isn't all that far-fetched anymore.
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Mar 30, 2023 23:48
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Mister Speaker posted:Someone pointed out that, after how we saw people behave when COVID hit, the idea that someone might be so cavalier in removing their helmet and breathing alien air isn't all that far-fetched anymore. e: ERoT is specifically complaining about how people say the characters are stupid. Drawing comparisons to real-life stupid people is not exactly supporting his argument! Splicer fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 23:52
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Splicer posted:Yes, but they were also stupid. That's what we're saying. The characters in Prometheus are incompetent buffoons. When the characters in Alien died I was sad. I knew it was going to happen but I still wanted them to escape, because they were relatable characters doing their best in a situation they were completely unprepared for. When the characters in Prometheus died I pointed and laughed at the clowns doing pratfalls. What’s funny is the book The Weyland Yutani Report lampshades this by explaining that when recruiting for the Prometheus mission, Vickers went out of her way to get the dumbest, least-competent motherfuckers she could find to try and indirectly sabotage her father’s mission.
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Mar 30, 2023 23:57
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Xenomrph posted:I asked him about a Predator RPG and he said there isn’t one. I don’t know if that means it’ll never happen, he doesn’t want to do it, or what. He did write the Predator “lore Bible” for Fox and curated that stuff up until the Disney buyout though. Gaska has also said that Ridley Scott hates the AvP movies so as long as he's attached to Alien projects the AvP movies aren't canon. Ridley is 85 now so presumably as soon as he pops his clogs the Disney execs will weld the two franchises together again with a big Jurassic World/Force Awakens style soft reboot to harvest as much fanboy cash as they can while gen-x still lives.
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Xenomrph posted:What’s funny is the book The Weyland Yutani Report lampshades this by explaining that when recruiting for the Prometheus mission, Vickers went out of her way to get the dumbest, least-competent motherfuckers she could find to try and indirectly sabotage her father’s mission. I think if then being handpicked incompetents had been a meaningful part of the film I'd have enjoyed it more. It would have reframed them as patsies set up to fail. Follow one character being hired, Vickers tells them they'll be the least experienced person on the team but everyone else is top of their field, there's plenty of skills overlap, and their unique energy more than makes up for their lack of real world experience. How could they turn it down? Then there's a bunch of... dubious... decisions made by the captain but why would they speak up? The other experts just nodded along and they're basically an intern so they nod along too. Then there's the slow group realisation that half the team got the same speech and also thought the captain's orders were stupid and also didn't speak up because they also thought they were the intern. Give them each a "Thirty eight... simulated." scene, but more sympathetic. So they go to confront the captain, who says "Well you guys are the experts why didn't you contradict me? My unique energy can only compensate so much for my why are you all looking at me like that. Also where the hell is Vickers?" Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mar 31, 2023 00:49
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Splicer posted:That begs the question of why did she get on the ship? I agree, I think it would have been brilliant if it was outright text. I think the logic of "why did she want to get on the ship" could be she wanted to see her father fail first-hand.
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Hillary 2024 posted:Gaska has also said that Ridley Scott hates the AvP movies so as long as he's attached to Alien projects the AvP movies aren't canon.
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Social media's been noting that I've been thinking about Aliens lately & this popped up on my FB feed: Bolaji Badejo next to his costume.
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Splicer posted:e: ERoT is specifically complaining about how people say the characters are stupid. Drawing comparisons to real-life stupid people is not exactly supporting his argument! Yeah, but  never mind.
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Mar 31, 2023 07:58
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Android Apocalypse posted:
Where is that from?
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Noam Chomsky posted:Where is that from? JCVD was originally cast to play the Predator, but left (or got fired from - I can't remember which) the film. The titular creature got a significant redesign, and that lad who played the sasquatch from Harry and the Hendersons landed the role, and the rest is history.
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Mar 31, 2023 09:46
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I’m stuck wondering how different Star Wars would’ve been if Yaphet Kotto had been cast as Lando, instead of Billy Dee.
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edogawa rando posted:and that lad who played the sasquatch from Harry and the Hendersons landed the role,
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Noam Chomsky posted:Where is that from? edogawa rando posted:JCVD was originally cast to play the Predator, but left (or got fired from - I can't remember which) the film. The titular creature got a significant redesign, and that lad who played the sasquatch from Harry and the Hendersons landed the role, and the rest is history. This has some of the test footage and some stills from it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GfUoB0kog
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Latest targeted ad I saw on Instagram:    Alien Xenomorph 9.5 Inch Zippermouth Plush. Yup, my phone is definitely eavesdropping on me.
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edogawa rando posted:JCVD was originally cast to play the Predator, but left (or got fired from - I can't remember which) the film. The titular creature got a significant redesign, and that lad who played the sasquatch from Harry and the Hendersons landed the role, and the rest is history. Fun fact: the helicopter pilot at the end of the movie is played by Kevin Peter Hall (the guy who played the Predator).
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