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Thesaurus posted:I just watched the first two alien movies for the first time in like 25 years. AMA What stood out now that you don't recall from 25 years ago?
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Thesaurus posted:What about Prometheus? I'm just relying on GBS threads for my life decisions I left the theater after seeing Prometheus thinking "this would've been a better Blade Runner spinoff about replicants being off-world than an Alien prequel."
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Feb 8, 2024 13:55
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I don't think I'll ever recover from that idiotic crew in Prometheus.
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Feb 8, 2024 13:56
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MrMojok posted:Just realized how badly I need a Starship Troopers Mobile Infantry crossover with aliens/predator. GW had you covered: 
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Feb 8, 2024 16:37
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Thesaurus posted:Yes. What movie, if any, should I watch next? If reviews are to be believed, the 3rd sucks? I'm not sure I want to ruin the good vibes I've got The thread consensus seems to be that Alien 3 Assembly Cut is a decent movie (I like it quite a bit) after you get over the initial shock in the beginning. I don't care for Resurrection, or actually anything else after. I have developed a bias against prequels and origin stories over the past 30 years where almost all of them suck.
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Feb 8, 2024 19:43
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:This is a perfectly healthy decision, too, I'm just saying no one has to approach Alien3 and beyond all like If it wasn't an aliens movie it would've been good, but because of the shadow it resides under it's hard to be anything but a failed attempt at capturing the greatness of the two previous installations
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Feb 8, 2024 23:01
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"b-b-but what if they're bad, my precious regard for the first two Aliens(es) might be shattered!"
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Pennywise the Frown posted:The thread consensus seems to be that Alien 3 Assembly Cut is a decent movie I think it would be fairer to say that thread consensus is that the Alien 3 Assembly Cut is superior to the regular theatrical cut. (It is, if you must watch it watch this version only.) As to whether it makes the film decent is still very much a matter for spirited debate.
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Feb 9, 2024 01:41
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Whatever version you watch, Alien 3 is just so unrelentingly miserable why even bother?
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Feb 9, 2024 01:47
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Whatever version you watch, Alien 3 is just so unrelentingly miserable why even bother? There’s a really sick speech right before they hunt the alien https://youtu.be/p8rb3VoxIpI?si=SQdNJXQkshzaQXAq
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Parkingtigers posted:I think it would be fairer to say that thread consensus is that the Alien 3 Assembly Cut is superior to the regular theatrical cut. (It is, if you must watch it watch this version only.) Yeah, I'll give you that. I think it's a decent movie. But it took quite a few watchings of it and discussion in here to make me appreciate it more. I'm quite certain that a whole lot more people would like Alien 3 if it didn't start off with oh btw, the only other main characters who survived the last movie are dead immediately! Toodles!
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Feb 9, 2024 01:52
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skasion posted:There’s a really sick speech right before they hunt the alien Best line and delivery of said line in the movie right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocU86emy-Bw
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Feb 9, 2024 01:53
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Xenomrph posted:Goddamn they didn’t even bother filing the serial numbers off, those are straight up capital-A Aliens. Back in the day I sold my older brother on Aliens (at that point his main point of familiarity with the series was Alien3) by describing it to him as "Contra: The Movie." It worked! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7pdsHCDZs&t=86s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DlFtzMd_-Y
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Feb 9, 2024 01:57
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I find Alien 3 unforgiveable because a couple of days after the traumatic events of Aliens, and the day after the death of Hicks and Newt, Ripley gets horny and dewy eyed for Charles Dance after bonding over the autopsy of Newt's mangled corpse they conducted together. Also the movie passes over sexual assault metaphors for an actual literal attempted sexual assault. (Spoilering because it looks like we might have someone active in the thread who hasn't yet seen it yet.)
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Feb 9, 2024 01:58
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HBO 2 is showing Aliens. My thoughts are now relevant to this thread.
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Feb 9, 2024 03:10
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Aliens is such a great movie to hop in at any point
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Aliens is such a great movie to hop in at any point 
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Whatever version you watch, Alien 3 is just so unrelentingly miserable why even bother? I used to watch Alien3 and listen to Nine Inch Nails and Alice In Chains during the 90s. No, it was not a happy time for me.
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redshirt posted:I don't think I'll ever recover from that idiotic crew in Prometheus. Have you watched Scavengers Reign?
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Feb 9, 2024 04:09
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Alien 3 is ok, I enjoyed it, but it should have escalated things like Aliens did compared to Alien. It should have been a full scale natural disaster type movie. Alien 3 was a small scale slasher a bit too similar to Alien. The name is dumb too.
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I thought this thread was cooler with Alien3. I quite enjoyed it even though it's way more flawed than the first two masterpieces. I love Fincher's aesthetic. Maybe it's just the prevalence of bald British guys and Holt McCallany but I get a real punk-rock feel from his work around that time. The beginning (killing off Hicks and Newt) sucked and the ending was a mess but I felt it did a somewhat faithful nod to the horror of the first film updated for the 90s, and I totally disagree that it was trying to be both movies. It's Resurrection that's irredeemable dogshit IMO.
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Feb 9, 2024 04:34
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Holy poo poo HBO 2 is on a tear. Right after Aliens they're showing Robocop.
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redshirt posted:What stood out now that you don't recall from 25 years ago? I only retained a blurred memory of random scenes from both movies mixed together. Like dude getting impaled by the queen and the loader battle, and the marine saying game over man, things jumping onto people's faces... I also thought I remembered stuff that wasn't even in the movies? I appreciated the slow building pace of Alien, which probably would have been lost on me as a young kid just wanting a battle. I also enjoyed the corporate background for the whole thing. Definitely didn't notice that at the time. Thank you thread for keeping the dream of alien(s) alive!
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Feb 9, 2024 05:09
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I remember seeing the Sentry Gun tunnel scene in Aliens as a wee lad, and then not seeing it again for a loooooong time. Seriously thought I dreamed it or something.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Holy poo poo HBO 2 is on a tear. Right after Aliens they're showing Robocop. Jackpot. edit: drat, wide awake and playing a game. Gonna turn on Alien 3 (assembly cut) in the background for a while. edit2: or maybe Aliens (director's cut) Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Having watched Alien on tv in 1981 or so, and Aliens as a teenager in the cinema, Alien 3 made me feel like when all your equipment gets taken away in a video game.
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Thanks thread, learning that Aliens is on Max, I watched the first 10 minutes last night, late. Planning on watching the rest this weekend. Amusingly, I own the movie on DVD, but for some reason its so much easier to watch anything if it's streaming or on TV.
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Feb 9, 2024 14:13
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At least you have a physical copy for when whatever streaming service inexplicably pulls it from their catalog later in the future.
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Prey director is directing a new, standalone Predator film called Badlands https://deadline.com/2024/02/dan-trachtenberg-predator-movie-badlands-1235820417/amp/ YES! YES! YES!
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You know it's gonna be a Wild West setting
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Cessna posted:GW had you covered: I would watch the everloving poo poo out of a Space Hulk movie made by James Cameron MrMojok posted:Prey director is directing a new, standalone Predator film called Badlands  I didnt know that I desperately needed to see cowboys fight Predators until right now
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ChickenHeart posted:You know it's gonna be a Wild West setting What if it's based on that kung fu tv show of into the badlands? Wu shu fights against predators.
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It actually take place in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. There's not much there so the movie will mostly be an internal journey and coming of age story for the predator who finds himself among the loneliness.
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ChickenHeart posted:You know it's gonna be a Wild West setting Hollywood Reporter is saying it’s set “sometime in the future”.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It actually take place in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I think they've found lots of dinosaur fossils there. I'm picturing the opening scene now: EXT. Excavation site in Badlands - Day PALEONTOLOGIST Goodness gracious, we've hit the motherload! Look at this... this Triceratops head! ASSISTANT Yes! And this looks like a Parasauralophus! PALEONTOLOGIST Good catch! And I think this one might be a femur for perhaps a Stegosaurus. ASSISTANT Say, what do you suppose this is... PALEONTOLOGIST That looks like... er.... WE SEE the assistant slowly turn a skull over. The face of it APPEARS to have... ...MANDABLES? PALEONTOLOGIST One UGLY motherfucker. SMASH CUT. Title Card: BADLANDS. Cue Alan Silvestri theme.
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Vampire Panties posted:
The Good, the Bad, and the One Ugly Motherfucker
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Android Apocalypse posted:At least you have a physical copy for when whatever streaming service inexplicably pulls it from their catalog later in the future. This reminds me, there's a raw amateur 1080p scan of a dirty 35mm film print of Aliens making the rounds. Of course it's  so no linky but it's not too hard to find.   Admittedly there's a sense of redundancy to it considering Aliens is already a famously grainy, gritty looking movie, but it's great to see regardless. And of course it has the original optical stereo track! Maybe I'm just subconsciously imagining it being projected on a theater wall but the image just comes off "bigger" than the 1080p Bluray somehow.   (^ Oh, who'd a thunk, this shot was always teal and orange  )         More screencaps
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Dammit my favorite threads are merging again. TBH it happens every couple months.
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redshirt posted:I don't think I'll ever recover from that idiotic crew in Prometheus. Theres a lot to like in Prometheus (imo) but the characters in that movie being just the dumbest motherfuckers ever is just a fridge too far. i even like Covenant a fair bit but also suffers from the dumb motherfucker effect a few times. Your characters having IQ's barely above room temperature is not a plot device!
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Well on the other hand, they’ve never seen Alien or its various sequels and spinoffs.
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