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just saw this about a fargo season 5......... gator and ole munch —— good names https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1692179231810240732
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the xenomorph feels like very well worn territory, idk how much left there is to say about how good at killing stuff it is if it's a true prequel they could totally omit the alien and just have it be about hosed up poo poo the company does
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Aug 17, 2023 18:40
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there already is an alien prequel without a xenomorph that's about how stupid humans are!!!
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Aug 17, 2023 18:46
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I will go to bat for promeetee/covenant but it was baffling they set up the "who are the engineers?" plot in promeetee and then fast forwarded to "the engineers all died off screen" in covenant It's the same fatal poo poo they did in the star wars sequel "oh yeah, luke had a new jedi academy but it burned down before the events of the movie" like that isn't the much better premise (& those stupid dork cosplayers they forgot about and had to cram into the third one)
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Aug 17, 2023 18:49
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:just saw this about a fargo season 5......... gator and ole munch —— good names although fargo s4 was really pretty drat bad so i've kinda lost interest now
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the xenomorph feels like very well worn territory, idk how much left there is to say about how good at killing stuff it is what of it killed like 3000 predators.
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Aug 17, 2023 18:52
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what if people are the real xenomorphs
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Aug 17, 2023 19:00
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gently caress, man. poo poo
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Aug 17, 2023 19:01
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the littler mouth is a metaphor for our conscience
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Aug 17, 2023 19:15
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indigi posted:what if people are the real xenomorphs Yknow Burke I don't know which species is worse- you don't see them loving each other over for a Goddamn percentage
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we don't need to make new alien movies, we just need to finish convincing everyone that Alien3 is as good as Alien 1 & 2.
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if you think about it Ripley was the real alien
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StashAugustine posted:Yknow Burke I don't know which species is worse- you don't see them loving each other over for a Goddamn percentage what if it was a percentage of juicy human flesh. they'd gently caress each other over for that you loving idiot
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Aug 17, 2023 19:26
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the mystery in Afterparty season 2 isn't nearly as good as season 1 but it does have a character say "I would kill myself in public to have sex with him" which made me laugh a lot
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indigi posted:what if people are the real xenomorphs Nah they’re the Chinese needle snakes the Engineers are using to get rid of all the Bolivian tree lizards
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Some Guy TT posted:so im on the final season of man in the high castle and this show has officially reached peak grossness with a plot about violent armed black liberation against the japanese occupation because japanese racism against black people is so unprecedented they dont even let black people work in food service i was done by the end of season 3. "jahr null" was such a complete misapprehension of american history and culture. the very assertion that american culture is inherently anti-fascist paves the way to fascism.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:we don't need to make new alien movies, we just need to finish convincing everyone that Alien3 is as good as Alien 1 & 2. i was surprised when I heard alien 3 is considered bad. I think it's pretty good and the director's cut is excellent. it's literally just an alien movie but the alien is a dog and the space truckers are rapist monks. it seems like a rad way to do a sequel it's also visually as good as alien 1, which is to say, one of the best of its decade
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both alien 1 and alien 3 prove that taking a guy who makes top tier TV commercials and giving him a phallic space monster slasher just works and is the best way to transition into being one of top studio directors
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didnt they like almost drown the actors in those cool underwater scenes
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indigi posted:I you are very right, oof
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the Affront seems like a pretty cool civilization to vacation in tbh but I think Genar is doing chauvinism
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click thru for cropped pic
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Welp, gonna be doing a Culture series reread when I'm finally finished with the Hyperion Cantos series.
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flying into kens rear end and piloting him like a robot was the best part of the Barbie movie
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Welp, gonna be doing a Culture series reread when I'm finally finished with the Hyperion Cantos series. for a sec i was hoping Dune would lead to a Hyperion movie but the world's not actually ready
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:for a sec i was hoping Dune would lead to a Hyperion movie but the world's not actually ready Maybe a I read the first two Hyperion books in 2013 or something. Didn't realise there were two more books in the series until this year, lol. I recall Banks had treatments done for a couple of Culture books, but nothing came of it. I think there was a BBC radio play of The State of the Art.
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Welp, gonna be doing a Culture series reread when I'm finally finished with the Hyperion Cantos series. Hyperion itself was fantastic, one of the best books I've ever read tbh, but it got weird in the later books Endymion in particular was kinda groomery
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loquacius posted:Hyperion itself was fantastic, one of the best books I've ever read tbh, but it got weird in the later books Look, this 12-year-old time travelling child is destined to be Raul's wifey, so who are we to argue with the Technocore gods? Read the first book in a week. Endymion has been on and off for months now. I just aren't as into it the same way, alas.
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i've talked about it before but dan simmons was also a big-time creep when it came to teenage inuit girls in The Terror
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I rewatched Aliens a few nights ago and the way the Colonial Marines talk and act in the first half of the movie is so ridiculous that I had to downgrade it. Paul Reiser as Burke is one of cinemas all-time amazing sleazoids tho e: also the last fifteen minutes or so is bananas as everything keeps getting worse and worse while they try to escape
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loquacius posted:Trying to pick my next book (almost done with my current Discworld book, Going Postal, which I am absolutely gonna do a post on ITT when I'm done bc it owns). People like the Culture series, right? I've been stuck on book four, Excession, for a while bc life stuff keeps pulling me away but it's maybe my favorite Culture book so far. I've just been reading them in publication order. I already have my paperback copy of Inversions which is the one I've been really eager to get to I think Consider Phlebas was actually the second or third Culture novel that Banks wrote. Use of Weapons was written first but published third.
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Hyping up the Alien (I hate the stupid “Xenomorph” term) as some kind of transcendental ultimate being that cannot be defeated in all the post-Aliens sequels, spin offs, tie-ins, etc was always the dumbest thing since the literal second movie showed you can easily gun them down en-masse with a single rifle burst. Even sidearms are shown to work. The first movie got it’s scares from the fact the cast was like eight unarmed truckers in the Titan Submersible. The second got it from the marines being so macho and arrogant they, not the Aliens , killed their own entire squad and lost all their ammo in a friendly fire accident. The Aliens are less evolved and dangerous than the bugs from Starship Troopers.
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the colonial marines rule cause it starts with them being acting all badass and poo poo, but they end up getting hosed up so bad.
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they are colonial marines not xeno hunting marines of course they are gonna suck against anything that isn't an unarmed worker
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Aglet56 posted:i've talked about it before but dan simmons was also a big-time creep when it came to teenage inuit girls in The Terror i'm a tremendous nerd who recently got into the x-mens and has decided to go into some of their older storylines so i know multiple man and layla miller as "a married couple of x-men" but then i go back to messiah complex and i find out that layla was actually a magical twelve year old who insisted she would marry multiple man for some time before she got aged up and they were put together and it's like what's the point? why put this poo poo in there? you're not chris claremont but i know it's still to jerk off to
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Aliens good because James Cameron not because aliens.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the xenomorph feels like very well worn territory, idk how much left there is to say about how good at killing stuff it is No we need more Xenomorphs and Terminators. Preferably in the form of endless soft reboots
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Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were both pretty fun TBH. The alien abortion scene was metal as gently caress, and if you wanted to read it politically it's certainly unambiguous about "people shouldn't have to carry things in their bodies that they don't want". I think you can still make a pretty good thriller with xenomorphs. Covenant is the first film that really sold me on the apex predator aspects of the things - it has some of the clearest CGI action scenes featuring a horrible murder beast I've ever seen. If nothing else, I'd pay for some well-storyboarded alien murder.
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yeah the alien abortion scene was just terrific cinema although those staples would not have held the rest of the movie with how much she was working
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