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Yeah, I remember thinking something like "bloody hell, is there at least one marine that has their poo poo together?" Still not as annoying as "Otay-go."
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Red Rox posted:I really wanted some marines with robotic limbs but it’s way too risky to try and get a couple dismembered - they’d probably just die instead. 
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Dial A For Awesome posted:Am enjoying Dark Descent. Currently my medic has developed a fear of blood, another marine has paranoia and becomes stressed when deployed with other marines (i.e. every mission) and my sergeant becomes very upset when he sees aliens. I also chuckled on the very first mission when I saw the negative traits my marines started with, including cowardice, bad luck and being clumsy. Clearly the marine corps is not sending their best. I remember seeing a reviewer remark that these Marines must've been tricked into joining by a recruiter in a high school cafeteria somewhere. William Bear fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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William Bear posted:I remember seeing a reviewer remark that these Marines must've been tricked into joining by a recruiter in a high school cafeteria somewhere. Despite being in the future, some things never change 
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Oh dammit am I gonna have to buy thisSentinel Red posted:Saw Alien on the big screen tonight, a 35mm print of the Director’s Cut. Was great to finally do so, and with a full house too, which I wasn’t expecting at all. A woman sitting behind me must have been seeing it for the first time as she let out a hushed ”..oh. gently caress.” at the Special Order 937 reveal, followed by panicky yelping to Milky Boi a few minutes later. Lol this owns
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Dial A For Awesome posted:Am enjoying Dark Descent. Currently my medic has developed a fear of blood, another marine has paranoia and becomes stressed when deployed with other marines (i.e. every mission) and my sergeant becomes very upset when he sees aliens. I also chuckled on the very first mission when I saw the negative traits my marines started with, including cowardice, bad luck and being clumsy. Clearly the marine corps is not sending their best. To be fair, I think most of us would become very upset if we saw aliens.
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Aug 14, 2023 12:47
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Mad Hamish posted:To be fair, I think most of us would become very upset if we saw aliens. The one I find amusing is the one where the stress level rises regularly whenever there's more than three marines in your squad, like how did they even make to the point where they're being deployed lol
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Dial A For Awesome posted:Am enjoying Dark Descent. Currently my medic has developed a fear of blood, another marine has paranoia and becomes stressed when deployed with other marines (i.e. every mission) and my sergeant becomes very upset when he sees aliens. I also chuckled on the very first mission when I saw the negative traits my marines started with, including cowardice, bad luck and being clumsy. Clearly the marine corps is not sending their best. I have bad news for you about the real Marine Corps.
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Neo Rasa posted:The one I find amusing is the one where the stress level rises regularly whenever there's more than three marines in your squad, like how did they even make to the point where they're being deployed lol He REALLY likes the cornbread
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Neo Rasa posted:The one I find amusing is the one where the stress level rises regularly whenever there's more than three marines in your squad, like how did they even make to the point where they're being deployed lol Given how mentally messed up all these Marines are even before they start fighting nightmares from Hell, the guy who’s leery of standing next to the rest of these people while they’re packing heavy weaponry is probably the one sane person of the bunch.
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Mild spoilers for "The Expanse" In the big attack scene at the end of Season 6, there's a screen that shows the people involved and it's a ton of names from Aliens
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All the talk about RICO today got me thinking of Starship Troopers.
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redshirt posted:Mild spoilers for "The Expanse" It's not just character names from Aliens, it's a whole bunch of sci-fi references.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:All the talk about RICO today got me thinking of Starship Troopers. You ordered a bunch of shirts from Redbubble a while back. What did you think of the quality? I ordered a Fury 161 shirt and was eyeing off a Nostromo design. I was trying to find inexpensive screen printed/non-transfer printed shirts but didn't have much luck. I think someone might have bought some recently on Amazon Merch?
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Mister Speaker posted:It's not just character names from Aliens, it's a whole bunch of sci-fi references. Great link, thank you. I just wish there was a Weirzbowski.
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Hey, they did a J. Rico in that list! Speak of the devil.
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I just watched Alien Resurrection for the first time in 20 years or so as part of a marathon with my wife, and I was wondering beforehand if it had gotten better with age. It has not. If anything it’s gotten worse. It is a rotten abomination of a film and feels like the whole thing was written by a teenage edgelord. Who the gently caress thought it was a good idea to let Joss Whedon anywhere near the Alien franchise.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I just watched Alien Resurrection for the first time in 20 years or so as part of a marathon with my wife, and I was wondering beforehand if it had gotten better with age. Brad Dourif is pretty good in A:R, in a stupid, over-the-top way. I kinda liked Leland Orser as Purvis, too. It has a bunch of actors that I like, just put together into a weird stinker of a movie.
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Yeah it's bizarre. The cast is pretty good. Brad Dourif is great in anything he's in and gives it his all so yeah that's easy. Ron Perlman, Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder....  It was just a straight up bad movie. imo The weird director had some strange shots that I absolutely did not like. It made it off-putting. And the writing was trash. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah it's bizarre. The cast is pretty good. Bizarre. That's a really good word for it! I think confused is another. The humor wants to make the movie something it's not, but it works by itself. The "edginess" (maybe?) is what the movie wants to be, and falls flat. Like, just go all out if you want to. Make The Fifth Element with xenos. Pennywise, are you familiar with The Incal series of comics? If not, I think you might like it. Story by Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) and art by famed bandes dessinnées comics artist Moebius (loving... a lot of poo poo, including Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, The Abyss). It's a loving trip. It touches on corruption of the soul in a more philosophical way than the all-consuming xeno plague and how their very being feeds into our existing problems, but the themes are roughly similar. Fifth Element, if you enjoy that, borrows heavily from The Incal.
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Maybe I've asked that before? Fuckin' guys sitting at the bar, telling each other the same stories back and forth. Deja-poo.
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Ever wonder what they used to make the APC in aliens? The APC M577 (Armored Personnel Carrier) from Alien (1986) was built over an actual vehicle, the airplane towing tractor Hunslet ATT77.
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The Last Call posted:Ever wonder what they used to make the APC in aliens? The 
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madeintaipei posted:Brad Dourif is pretty good in A:R, in a stupid, over-the-top way. I kinda liked Leland Orser as Purvis, too
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Slugworth posted:Orser is a joy any time he shows up to play "guy in over his head and just absolutely not holding it together". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1xtiuqWFCc
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The Last Call posted:Ever wonder what they used to make the APC in aliens? The airplane towing tractor in Grand Theft Auto 5 is named the “Ripley” for this exact reason. The APC in ‘Aliens’ is also bigger on the inside than it is on the outside - when the Marines line up to get in it, they have to duck their heads to get inside, but once they’re in they can stand at full height. This is because the airplane towing tractor has no interior aside from a small cockpit (it’s all drive motor so it can, you know, tow airplanes) so James Cameron had to fake it and then use a separate “APC interior” set for the actors.
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The Last Call posted:Ever wonder what they used to make the APC in aliens? So the pilot’s name in Dark Descent was Hunslet, that’s a nice little nod towards the base vehicle 
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Who the gently caress thought it was a good idea to let Joss Whedon anywhere near the Alien franchise. And that tosser blamed everyone but specifically Joss Whedon for why that movie sucked such a gently caress. No, your script had a lot to do with why it was poo poo, Joss, you loving boy.
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Resurrection gets a lot better* once you realize it's an edgy 90s Dark Horse Comic book put in motion. Some of the weird camera angles mentioned would work just fine as still pictures or drawings on a page. *Well, not "better", but more enjoyable at least.
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evobatman posted:Resurrection gets a lot better* once you realize it's an edgy 90s Dark Horse Comic book put in motion. Some of the weird camera angles mentioned would work just fine as still pictures or drawings on a page. Was there even a comic they were drawing inspiration from? Or was it all Whedon’s twisted fever dream that we all watched by accident?
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The most charitable thing I can say is it wouldn't have been an easy movie for anyone to write, assuming "Sigourney's back" is non-negotiable. Once you kill off Ripley you've kind of written yourself into a corner. Of course you don't need to make that corner an open-air toilet and compound the issue.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Was there even a comic they were drawing inspiration from? Or was it all Whedon’s twisted fever dream that we all watched by accident? Not that I am aware of, it's just the style it resembles the most, after reading many Aliens vs [Blank] crossovers in my earlier years.
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I've said it before ITT but Resurrection was almost complete dogshit except for the aforementioned Brad Dourif and Leland Orser, AND the body horror scene with all the failed Ripley clones is one of the most unsettling moments in the series.
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Rappaport posted:I thought the scene where the xenos have a swim was cool Yeah that part was cool and something new. Underwater scenes are always tense for me cause I end up holding my breath the whole time haha.
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Aquatic xenomorphs? Cool! Call, as the sole survivor of the The Newborn getting history’s worst hickey ever?  As stated earlier, the body horror of Ripley’s failed clones?  And despite all these things that sound cool, Whedon managed to gently caress it all up by being himself at the script (and probably the cast too). e: seriously, the aliens realizing that their blood will destroy the cage they’re held in could’ve been a cool moment too, to show the creatures are capable of visual learning and as a callback to the Queen using the elevator in Aliens.
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