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Xenomrph posted:You know you could say that doing the class’s assigned reading will “make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me”. It's a girls' school so I am fairly sure I'll get yelled at.
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edogawa rando posted:It's a girls' school so I am fairly sure I'll get yelled at. Worth it. 
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AlienTheory on YouTube is running a poll on which do you prefer: Alien: Resurrection, or Prometheus? Last I saw, it was about 2:1 for Prometheus (kind of what I expected), but if it were Alien 3 vs Prometheus…idk. Hard decision on which one I dislike more.
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Icon Of Sin posted:AlienTheory on YouTube is running a poll on which do you prefer: Alien: Resurrection, or Prometheus? Prometheus, if only because I saw that one in theaters. That might be different if I'd seen Resurrection on the big screen. Hell, A:Re(eeeeeee) might be a fun watch at an independent theater if the audience was in on the joke. Not quite Rocky Horror, but there's some opportunity for props and more than a few badass, quotable moments. drat, there's another idea for movie night with my daughter! A:Re before Alien and Aliens. Goes well with my plan for a Death to Smoochy/American History X double header.
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Nov 3, 2023 05:12
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Slugworth posted:Hulu has a Halloween section where they've partitioned movies into Scary, Very Scary, and Very Very Scary. Alien is under Scary. Maybe if Ridley Scott wasn't such a bozo he could've made something Very Very Scary, like Anabelle. Oh you can definitely go scarier than Alien. I first saw Alien when I was 10, at the theater in the bigger town just upriver. It was awesome. Some months later, the rep theater in our town got Alien in. Everyone was excited, there was a ton of buzz around town. On the day, whole families turned out. There were a lot of kids younger than me, but the really bad stuff either happens just off camera or is obvious and over fairly quickly. But Alien was the second feature of a double bill. And we had a problem. The first movie was Cronenberg's Shivers. That's an incredibly hosed up movie. Terrible things happen and happen often. Kids were upset. Families with little kids started leaving early in the movie. At intermission the theater manager came out and apologized. This was the one time he hadn't screened something himself before showing it. Massive fuckup, lots of kids left crying. Me and my friends? drat right we stayed for Alien. It wasn't as scary as the first time. It can't be. But after watching Shivers, very little would be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxcOJ0yEoY If anything, the trailer undersells it.
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Nov 3, 2023 05:35
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Event Horizon is just as creepy as Alien, just a different kind of creepy. Both movies are good
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mllaneza posted:Oh you can definitely go scarier than Alien. My introduction to Alien was reading my mom's copy of the large format Alien comic at maybe 8 yo. I seem to remember Mom telling me that her first husband and her were hyped for the movie, but the comic was available first, so they got that. She said reading the comic didn't prepare them for what the movie felt like. Hooked, instantly. The next week we got the movie on VHS at the library. Of course, my parents had already seen it and loved it. They did tell me it would be scary, but I was more into the moving pictures than the tension and horror. As I've mentioned before, we got Aliens from the library later. Caused me nightmares half-way through. Jumped over the couch during the scene where Hicks pushes up the ceiling tiles, peed a little, couldn't even think about watching it for years after. Never let it be said that my parents don't have a sense of humor. "You good?" "Yeah. I love the first one... AHHHHHH!!!!" "Hahahahaaaaaa! Oh. We shouldn't have done that. Are you ok? Yeah, that was bad. Time for bed [lol]." Payback for all the poo poo I gave them as a little one.
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tango alpha delta posted:Event Horizon is just as creepy as Alien, just a different kind of creepy. Both movies are good Hell yes, loved that movie too! Extradimensional terror is always appreciated 
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Nov 3, 2023 06:02
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Gonna hard disagree EH is Alien's equal on any level, but it is underrated imo
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Yep. Event Horizon is fine and that's about it. Alien, on the other hand, is a loving masterpiece. There's nothing wrong with being "fine." Lots of people watch and enjoy movies that are "fine," including me. But it's not at the level of a masterpiece.
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I love alien. I must watch it at least once a year. But every time I do, I just wish they edited it just a little more tightly. Like when the chest burster pops out, they linger on the shot of the puppet just a little too long, just long enough for me to go hey that’s a puppet. Then when Dallas gets got, if they made the cut while the alien hands were still opening, that would be a lot better than making the cut after the jazz hands come to a stop, just cut like a millisecond sooner. And of course the Ash head jumpcut, they should’ve done like a quick cut to Ripley‘s face between the switch.
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I think Alien is a better, more realistic movie, so incredibly grounded. Event Horizon is a much scarier film though. Alien is just a slasher film in space, a monster who will hurt you. Event Horizon is about the threat of eternal extra-dimensional torment, preceded by horrific events you end up doing to yourself and those around you. I love them both, but Xenomorphs are a problem you can ultimately solve with bullets. The stuff in Event Horizon is horrifying on an existential level, and we're forever only a razor's edge away from that hell dimension.
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Nov 3, 2023 09:37
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Icon Of Sin posted:AlienTheory on YouTube is running a poll on which do you prefer: Alien: Resurrection, or Prometheus? Prometheus, because it doesn't have the stench of Wheedon floating around it,
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Nov 3, 2023 15:24
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Film is a primarily a visual medium (duh). Prometheus looks gorgeous throughout, Alien 3 has some nice sets but the boring costume design and offensively dogshit FX work drag it down ergo I cannot sanction its buffoonery. As for versus Resurrection...take me to the Prom, baby.
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Nov 3, 2023 15:41
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Event Horizon will always have a special place in my heart for the scene where Cowboy Curtis realizes he's on a Hell Demon Movie Ship and makes the objectively correct call (thwarted for movie reasons, but still). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5KI8zSeVs
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Nov 3, 2023 15:56
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My favorite Larry Fishburne scene was when they were all listening/watching to the horrible recordings from literal hell and he turns it off and says "We're leaving." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YObV6i_Yc
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Pennywise the Frown posted:My favorite Larry Fishburne scene was when they were all listening/watching to the horrible recordings from literal hell and he turns it off and says "We're leaving." The description of this scene in the novelization was  You’re not getting clipped scenes of various crew members driven to madness, oh no. You’re getting descriptions that I don’t really want to remember or write down. Brief description: in Warhammer 40k terms, it’d be a Slaaneshi blood orgy going right I think it’s the one by Steven E McDonald. It’s been ages since I read it, but I remember that scene and the corresponding part of the novelization being not a fun read. The part with Baby Bear going through the portal was weird in a way I didn’t expect, but it’s been so long that I don’t remember details (just the feeling that it was different to what I was expecting).
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Sentinel Red posted:Film is a primarily a visual medium (duh). Prometheus looks gorgeous throughout, Alien 3 has some nice sets but the boring costume design and offensively dogshit FX work drag it down ergo I cannot sanction its buffoonery. As for versus Resurrection...take me to the Prom, baby. Emphasis on "could"
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Pennywise the Frown posted:My favorite Larry Fishburne scene was when they were all listening/watching to the horrible recordings from literal hell and he turns it off and says "We're leaving." I wish I could find the version of this that had Spanish Fly music dubbed over as if it was coming from the monitor. And I think it had Cowboy Curtis footage on the screen too, Not sure.
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If you were to self insert yourself into the movie Aliens, where do you die during the film? Or, do you somehow live? I'd like to think I'd bite it during the second attack, but most likely I got snatched during the initial encounter and bide my time till my chest bursts open....
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Pennywise the Frown posted:My favorite Larry Fishburne scene was when they were all listening/watching to the horrible recordings from literal hell and he turns it off and says "We're leaving." Yup, that's the immediate lead-in to the "gently caress this ship" scene. Dude thought he was just a smart, capable astronaut in a man-vs-nature space movie and once he realized it was a horror movie made the absolutely correct call in the snap of a finger. Step 1 leave, step 2 physically destroy the demonic haunted house ship with space missiles.
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redshirt posted:If you were to self insert yourself into the movie Aliens, where do you die during the film? i'm the guy that escaped the colony by the skin of my teeth, desperately trying to survive in a hidden crevasse cut into the blasted terrain a few kilometers away, succeeding against all odds, and now i'm just trying to figure out why that marine dropship is hauling rear end out of here Android Apocalypse posted:
Alien is a fuckin gorgeous movie and there's nothing quite like it to this day. Just utterly timeless
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redshirt posted:If you were to self insert yourself into the movie Aliens, where do you die during the film? I'm a colonist who was caught so early I'm not even a visible host when the marines arrive; I'm already hived over. If I'm a marine I absolutely die in the initial hive reconnoiter, I remember the kind of rule-follower  nerve-stapled dipshit I was when I did my Air Force stint as a kid, I'd snap to attention for Apone give him all my mags and tell on any troopers who didn't.
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Owlbear Camus posted:I'm a colonist who was caught so early I'm not even a visible host when the marines arrive; I'm already hived over. Rat gently caress bastard
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Biplane posted:Rat gently caress bastard if you had paid attention to the mission brief you'd know that any damage to the coolant system could cause a cascade failure and furthermore... what's that a blanket party? i thought you guys didn't like me i'd be delighted to come
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Owlbear Camus posted:if you had paid attention to the mission brief you'd know that any damage to the coolant system could cause a cascade failure and furthermore... what's that a blanket party? i thought you guys didn't like me i'd be delighted to come *muffled screams
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redshirt posted:If you were to self insert yourself into the movie Aliens, where do you die during the film?
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Changing the litter at Gateway Station Home for Little Shithead Cats.
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I would survive just like Hudson did in Aliens: Colonial Marines - oh wait they scrapped that plot lin-URK*
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Starved to death after being underbid by two assholes willing to take half shares.
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ChickenHeart posted:I would survive just like Hudson did in Aliens: Colonial Marines - Hicks, sir. He’s Hudson.
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ChickenHeart posted:I would survive just like Hudson did in Aliens: Colonial Marines - dumbass is carrying a sword but slung a spear, behind his rucksack no less, so that if he tries to pull it out in a fight he's going to cut his own back up. that dude is DOA.
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Killed instantly in a boiler explosion at a fuel plant.
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Dove out an airlock to protest in any way contributing toward the film Alien: Resurrection
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Accidentally choked to death on my own foot shortly after leaving an interview where I'd been deemed "marginally too competent" for the Prometheus project.
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redshirt posted:If you were to self insert yourself into the movie Aliens, where do you die during the film? I'd be bobbed lady in the bad suit at the inquiry, I go home to my fancy apartment and count my money, I forgot all about this poo poo the second I step out that door while Ripley's mouthing off to Van Luen.
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The Covenant, a sleeper ship transporting 2,000 colonists in stasis and 1,140 human embryos in cold storage, is traveling from Earth to the planet Origae-6, a 120-year journey as part of a mass exodus of Earth's population due to ecocide and the collapse of the biosphere. After only 7 years, a neutrino burst damages the ship despite its defense systems, causing a malfunction that awakens passenger James "Splicer" Preston, a mechanical engineer, 113 years too early. After a year of isolation, with only an android flutist named David for company, Splicer grows despondent and contemplates suicide until he notices Katherine Daniels, a beautiful young woman inside a pod. He views her video profile and is smitten. He considers reviving her for companionship, but struggles doing so, knowing it is morally wrong and will circumvent her intended life of no longer being forced to participate in the film Alien: Covenant. He eventually dies when David "invents" werewolves or gremlins or something gently caress I hate both of these films.
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I like the prequels as sci-fi horror movies, I think they have neat things to say and I think they’re well-made. I just don’t care for them as Alien movies, I think their connections to Alien are unnecessary and exist as a detriment to both themselves and ‘Alien’.
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Yeah that sounds about right. As far as I'm concerned, the canon films ended at 3, and the rest are like What If? and Elseworld stories you get in comics being adapted.
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