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Meskhenet posted:Isnt the main plot dudes in a forest getting hunted by invisible creature? No, that's Predator. We're talking about The Predator. The past decade or two has made it very difficult to differentiate between the names of movies and when they were made due to just straight up having the same names or something very similar.
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lol, that explains why stuff hasnt been making sense 
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Oct 9, 2023 09:33
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Just putting a roman numeral or number after the title may have been a little artless before it fell out of fashion, but at least it created very little ambiguity. Now they'll just release a sequel or remake and call it the same thing. Or just put the definite article before the title as with the good predator (predator) vs the really bad arguably worst predator (the predator) Even worse with video games that do it on a tighter cycle.
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Meskhenet posted:Isnt the main plot dudes in a forest getting hunted by invisible creature? He’s talking about ‘The Predator’, the 2017 sequel by Shane Black. Edit, beaten
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Vampire Panties posted:Ya know what was surprisingly good? Prey. I only watched it recently and expected nothing ( I couldn't finish Prey, despite the awesome idea and setting. The pacing was awful, the acting was wooden af, the cg looked like wet rear end, and I couldn't find a single character to actively give a poo poo about. Had way more fun with The Predator, likely because this thread set an exceptionally low bar for me whereas everyone everywhere has been hyping Prey since it released. The Predator felt like a schlocky (but vaguely self-aware) B-Movie and despite its many, many flaws it at least had an interesting cast of characters (Thomas Jane was really fun, Trevante Rhodes did way more with his role than he needed to, and I even enjoyed Keegan Michael Key chewing the scenery) and an atmosphere of fun, low-stakes popcorn-y action. While Prey objectively has a better setting, better cinematography, and a more coherent plot, it just wasn't any fun for me to watch.
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) but I was pleasantly surprised. I’d watch more predator historical stuff
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Get loving ready, Aliens 4K (possibly) coming soon. Oh yeah and True Lies and The Abyss.
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Xenomrph posted:Get loving ready, Aliens 4K (possibly) coming soon. gently caress YES!!!! I know it won't happen, but it would be interesting to see how it would look in 4K but with the super 35 grain. I do think the flick looks better* the way Cameron did it without the grain for the anthology release but I'm curious. *When Ripley is driving the APC through the complex to rescue everyone, I feel like this is the only part of the movie that kind of doesn't look good and the extra clarity exacerbates that imo. Like it makes it very obvious that the APC is moving pretty slowly and there's like nothing really going on with the set it's in. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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I’m playing Dark Decent at the endorsement of someone in this thread and damned if Makio can’t aim for poo poo, but she can sure snatch a facehugger out of mid air!
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Owlbear Camus posted:Just putting a roman numeral or number after the title may have been a little artless before it fell out of fashion, but at least it created very little ambiguity. Now they'll just release a sequel or remake and call it the same thing. Or just put the definite article before the title as with the good predator (predator) vs the really bad arguably worst predator (the predator)
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Oct 12, 2023 18:42
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watched this for the first time a few nights ago after having watched alien 1 as well for the first time a month prior. what great movies, can't wait to see Aliens 3 in nov!
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cumpantry posted:watched this for the first time a few nights ago after having watched alien 1 as well for the first time a month prior. what great movies, can't wait to see Aliens 3 in nov!  I'm glad you enjoyed them! If you can get your hands on the Assembly cut of Alien 3, consensus here is that it's superior.
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Not really news, just something that might be interesting to people. It’s the books the director of the upcoming Alien film was reading when he was developing the movie. quote:…books on the art of the video game Alien: Isolation, Aliens set photography, the work designer H.R. Giger did on Alien, the work of concept artist Ron Cobb, the making of Alien, the vehicles and technology of the Alien franchise, David’s drawings from Alien: Covenant, and the Colonial Marines tech, as well as a collection of Aliens comic books. https://www.joblo.com/alien-alvarez-books/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2edS2FlrK4
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Awe gently caress…
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Oh cock, another Alien movie? Leave it alone, for God's sake!
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edogawa rando posted:Oh cock, another Alien movie? Leave it alone, for God's sake! It's a streaming only thing.
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Finish the David storyline and then leave it alone. Or have them invade pandora so we can get Avatar 3: Aliens 2: The only illegals on this planet are the humans (and the xenomorphs)
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edogawa rando posted:Oh cock, another Alien movie? Leave it alone, for God's sake! If making Aliens movies culminates in a faithful adaptation of Aliens: Labyrinth, then I say make as many Aliens movies as we need to for that to happen.
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Xenomrph posted:If making Aliens movies culminates in a faithful adaptation of Aliens: Labyrinth, then I say make as many Aliens movies as we need to for that to happen. sadly it never will, the level of practical effect body horror needed to pull it off died. i wish it didn’t.
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Xenomrph posted:If making Aliens movies culminates in a faithful adaptation of Aliens: Labyrinth, then I say make as many Aliens movies as we need to for that to happen. After Resurrections, Prometheus and Covenant, I'm sorry to say that I don't have a whole lot of faith at this stage. Too many consecutive Ls. It would be nice if they could capture the same lightning in the bottle that the folks who did Alien and Aliens did, but I'm not sure that's going to happen.
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edogawa rando posted:After Resurrections, Prometheus and Covenant, I'm sorry to say that I don't have a whole lot of faith at this stage. Too many consecutive Ls. Yep. I have zero faith in any new Alien movie at this moment. Although keeping my expectations low helps... well, with life in general I suppose.
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edogawa rando posted:After Resurrections, Prometheus and Covenant, I'm sorry to say that I don't have a whole lot of faith at this stage. Too many consecutive Ls. Yeah I think that's how most people see it. I'm happy for people who liked them, but it doesn't seem like those movies were very popular.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Whenever I see a sentence that begins with "True," I hear it in Rue Mclanahan's voice from starship troopers. Holy poo poo, I didn't realize that was Blanche!
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Aliens: Dark Descent was awesome. By the end, I was laying down walls of sentry guns, silenced sniping whole rooms of baddies, chain-castong explosives. It wasn't just a great Aliens adaptation: it was a superb real-time XCOM, which I didn't even know I wanted. It put me in such a good mood, I watched Prometheus and Alien: Covenant for the first time. Eh. At least Michael Fassbender's performance was interesting. And I liked the last 5 minutes of Covenant, which were genuinely creepy. I give myself credit for apparently calling it in Prometheus: when they said the Engineers got the order to destroy humanity 2000 years ago, I thought to myself "because of Jesus, right? The Engineers heard about it, and somehow their conclusion was, 'Holy poo poo, this species killed God? Even by their own myths, they don't deserve to exist!'" I then read that in an early draft of the script, it was explicitly stated that Jesus was an Engineer who came to Earth to make its people less violent and got crucified for it. It's discouraging that my immediate reaction made more sense than something that was actually considered.
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William Bear posted:It put me in such a good mood, I watched Prometheus and Alien: Covenant for the first time. Eh. At least Michael Fassbender's performance was interesting. And I liked the last 5 minutes of Covenant, which were genuinely creepy. There's plenty wrong with Covenant, but everything about David, especially Fassbender's performance, was superb. And oh gently caress, that ending. They were setting up some dark poo poo for the sequel. I don't blame anyone for sleeping on Covenant based on its overall rep, but parts of it are as good as anything in the whole franchise.
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If anything, I at least had fun watching Alien: Covenant. Prometheus kind of rubbed me the wrong way as it seemed to have airs about it thinking it was all deep & philosophical regarding creation & where we came from. Alien: Covenant is just a silly space romp with a xenomorph that shows up.
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Whatever you think about those films the David performance was captivating. Fassbender Fassbent the poo poo out of it. It's little wonder they cast him as two characters for the second one knowing what was firing on all cylinders in the first.
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I was so disappointed with Prometheus (I really wanted to love it, and I do love certain aspects of it) that I have not yet seen Covenant. I agree though, the David character was great.
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It's frustrating they hosed it up, there's a solid story somewhere in there and David was great
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redshirt posted:I was so disappointed with Prometheus (I really wanted to love it, and I do love certain aspects of it) that I have not yet seen Covenant. Covenant is wholly unremarkable but still worth the price of admission for Fass. It comes together enough in the third act that it doesn't feel like a total waste of time, IMO. Currently firing up the assembly cut of A3 to make my sick day more tolerable. Haven't seen this cut before, and I haven't seen the original since shortly after it came out. Big thanks to this thread for filling out my Plex server, love you guys.
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redshirt posted:I was so disappointed with Prometheus (I really wanted to love it, and I do love certain aspects of it) that I have not yet seen Covenant. The characters in Alien and Aliens may have made decisions that led to their deaths, but it was usually out of ignorance or panic rather than incompetence. (Well, except maybe Gorman.)
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Small Strange Bird posted:The characters in Alien and Aliens may have made decisions that led to their deaths, but it was usually out of ignorance or panic rather than incompetence. (Well, except maybe Gorman.) I think the marines still would’ve gotten pretty mauled in the processor, but not nearly as badly as they did due to his orders. Dietrich still gets dragged up and flames Frost, but maybe Wierzbowski and Crowe don’t get wrecked? If either of them got injured the time delay still lets the hive wake up though, and losing Apone to a surprise drop-xeno would’ve been a catastrophe regardless. The marines were probably pretty hosed no matter what, but I think more than 3 would’ve come out of the atmospheric processor if they had had their normal rounds/those hadn’t blown up. I know we’ve had this conversation before in this thread, but William Hope played an incompetent/in-over-his-head LT to absolute perfection. Probably in part to Al Matthews’ Vietnam experience with the exact same, but he did real good.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I think the marines still would’ve gotten pretty mauled in the processor, but not nearly as badly as they did due to his orders. Dietrich still gets dragged up and flames Frost, but maybe Wierzbowski and Crowe don’t get wrecked? If either of them got injured the time delay still lets the hive wake up though, and losing Apone to a surprise drop-xeno would’ve been a catastrophe regardless. I love Gorman as a character because he's not a bad guy. He's not a villain. He's just in over his head and inexperienced. He legit tries to do what he thinks is best for his squad, but he's just not up to the task. Later, after the poo poo hits the fan, he's fully on board helping Ripley and Hicks out. And of course, his heroic death.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I know we’ve had this conversation before in this thread, but William Hope played an incompetent/in-over-his-head LT to absolute perfection. Probably in part to Al Matthews’ Vietnam experience with the exact same, but he did real good. Gotta agree here, they were perfect.
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Small Strange Bird posted:Same for me. It looked gorgeous, and it had some undeniably tense and creepy moments, but every character apart from David and (maybe) Vickers being a moron to make the story move forward was so frustrating and annoying it spoiled the whole thing. Sure, it's possible Vickers deliberately hired morons out of spite to ruin her father's plan, but that's fan justification to excuse it. I've argued this before, even the dumbest of experts wouldn't do the poo poo that they did. Its just really really really REALLY lovely written. Take Alien. They had a proper quarantine rule you would expect to have with new first contact with anything unknown. Ripley as science officer denying them back in saying its 24 hours they'd have to spend in some assumed quarantine room. Then Ash overrid it and got Kane onto the ship with the hugger. We find out Ash's reasons why later. Perfectly loving written. Now take Prometheus. They are on a foreign planet, some are stuck in a foreign building they haven't fully explored. There is no one monitoring them on the bridge. Should be rule loving one of sending out expeditions. Then some of the crew are in a pretend medical room where two of them are dressed like doctors, while the rest are standing a few feet away. gently caress contamination. Then when they gently caress around with the head, allow it to spread its funk around the room, they THEN decide to put it in the QUARANTINE chamber just beside them where it should have been in the first loving place. Prometheus is a clown show.
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happyhippy posted:I've argued this before, even the dumbest of experts wouldn't do the poo poo that they did. Minor quibble but it wasn't Ripley as the science officer (which was Ash's job), but rather the warrant officer/third in command (after Dallas, the ship's captain, and Kane, the ship's XO). 
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Minor quibble but it wasn't Ripley as the science officer (which was Ash's job), but rather the warrant officer/third in command (after Dallas, the ship's captain, and Kane, the ship's XO). Fair enough, my bad. Just rewatching the exploding head scene again, Shaw is an Archeology expert. How come she was the 'lead' to the proper doctor? The Doc and David should be examining it, they are the qualified ones. Shaw should be over in the corner drinking with Michael(?). The Doctor ends up being the nervous one not sure what to do, while Shaw is ordering everyone about and knowing more than the Doc.
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happyhippy posted:Fair enough, my bad. It really is shocking how Ridley Scott went from making a very believable science fiction/horror film in Alien, to just constant  with Prometheus and Covenant. It's like if the first Stephen King book you read was 'salem's Lot, and then you followed it up by reading Dreamcatcher.
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