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david_a posted:What's also amazing is every other idea they had for the movie was actually far worse than the final product. I think William Gibson's script is the one mentioned earlier with Space Russians. The aliens become an airborne infection in that one. And they can infect androids. Because reasons. They should just see if Jim Cameron's got any more unmade scripts lying around that he could reskin into Alien movies, like he did with Mother. That turned out okay.
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Baronjutter posted:Anyways, surprised to hear defense of AvP:R in this thread!
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Hodgepodge posted:Then the two people in charge go off to gently caress each other instead of staying in contact with the scientists (who smoke some weed).
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The DVD of AVPR was hosed up to the point of unwatchability, whatever your opinion of the movie itself. Even the daytime scenes look like day-for-night, and once it gets dark there are entire scenes that are just black with faint moving highlights. As someone said above, even cranking up your TV's brightness doesn't really help because there's hardly anything there to work with in the first place. It's one of the most botched pieces of encoding I've ever seen. AVP was hardly a great movie, but at least you could see what was going on (even if that was bullet-time facehuggers).
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Alhazred posted:Harlan Ellison would disagree with that.
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Ships today can be scuttled if necessary (the Nostromo's destruct system is even labelled 'Scuttle' somewhere). Having a way to do the same thing in a spaceship isn't really a stretch (although blowing it up in a megaton nuclear explosion is slight overkill).
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Maybe the crew's there to fend off space pirates. Tom
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It's stated on screen that there's a standard procedure that any possible alien transmissions have to be investigated (the "no money" scene), and that Mother changed course to make the crew do so. That Ash replaced the Nostromo's previous science officer before departure and was given Special Order 937 to obtain an alien at any cost (they're not interested in the Derelict, only the life form) makes it pretty clear that the Company had some idea of what was out there and how dangerous - and valuable to them - it was. As to how "complicit" Mother is, she lets Ripley see the Ash's-eyes-only SO937 and identifies the signal as a warning once Ripley takes over the analysis from Ash, so who knows, maybe she was still trying to help as best she could...
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I think the idea that some people think the Company randomly replaces crew members with amoral androids as an HR exercise and has secret standing orders to pick up any alien life form they happen to find (what, including protozoa?), even if this means sacrificing crew and incredibly expensive starships and their cargo, is the true existential horror.
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The big problem with Prometheus was that on the one hand you had Scott tossing out random crazy ideas (remember "Jesus was an Engineer"?), and on the other a hack like Damon Lindelof was assigned to put them all together in something acceptable to the studio. Lindelof is one of JJ Abrams' acolytes, and Abrams' loving "Mystery Box" schtick is a cancer that's infected way too many movies. Something doesn't make sense? Where's your sense of wonder, square, it's meant to be a mystery! 
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:CHALLENGE: Edit: wait, it's a meme that Lindelof is a lovely writer? Dammit, I was actually in on the ground floor of this one and didn't even know it. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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The whole theme of hubris in Prometheus would have been a lot more effective if the crew had been written as the best in their field and still brought about their own doom because of their all-too-human arrogance, rather than a bunch of hopeless bumblefucks with the survival instincts of toddlers.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm hoping there won't ever be a scene where we literally see the derelict from Alien land on LV-426, but I guess that's what the fans want so we probably will get just that.
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oldpainless posted:I hope David finds a book by the engineers and spends most of the movie decoding t Then when he finally turns the page again, it says "Quadrilogy isn't even a real word!" and his next sulk is even longer.
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SUNKOS posted:Trailer just passed classification and clocks in at just over two minutes. Couple new images released as well.
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MacheteZombie posted:would you even know?
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Tenzarin posted:So the spores are from the unused Alien 3 script.
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Baronjutter posted:I always wondered in the alien universe if they've encountered other life before. Is the alien a huge deal because it's the first time they've encountered aliens of any sort, the first time they encountered an alien civiliation?
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Ferro's sarcastic "Apparently, she saw an alien once" (and Hudson's dismissive rejoinder) could be taken to mean that discovering extraterrestrial life became commonplace in the past 57 years. Finding alien life in the Nostromo's era was a big loving deal; after dozens of planets had been explored and even colonised, much less so. Kind of like Fry going to "the Moon Moon?!?"
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How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?)
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Lord Krangdar posted:In the actual movie can you see the human skull in its head at all?
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married but discreet posted:That line of thinking leads down the dark path towards the 2000AD cinematic universe. Y'know, I could cope with that. (Also, the short story Shok! - which was set in Dredd's universe - being ripped off for the movie Hardware, resulting in a lawsuit and later acknowledgement of its origins, sort of adds that film too.)
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The Art and Making of A L I E N Covenant
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"You have the right to remain silent... forever" is the best tagline. Predator 2's is still up there, though.
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alf_pogs posted:can't we come together in love for the film Congo
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Neo Rasa posted:Ironically, the Auriga in Alien Resurrection canonically has a full hydroponics garden and farm on it with a ton of fresh beans/plants/etc. but they didn't have the budget/time to actually film the scene they wanted to in it. It would have been a running retreat from a bunch of the remaining aliens through the garden that would have happened between the underwater scene and right before Ripley got captured.
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At the time, critics complained about the robots in The Black Hole being too 'cute', but considering the way that robot design has gone in the past four decades, Vincent and Bob are probably on the low end of the scale. For all its faults, the film's got some great visuals, and the bit with Perkins and the 'robot' absolutely terrified me as a kid.
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There's also a Wrath Of Khan reference tossed in there too.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Does it have a lot of vehicular homicide in it?
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Blazing Ownager posted:ED: Am I the only one saddened by how batshit insane over the top the Riddick universe is, if only because Pitch Black was so grounded it could have easily been in the same universe as a rival corporation?
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Xenomrph posted:You're 20 years too late. 
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The moment one review was oddly specific about the number of frozen colonists and human embryos on the Covenant, it made me go "Oh god, they're going to say that they get turned into the eggs Kane finds in the first film, aren't they?" Yay or nay?
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well why not posted:It's pretty funny that David discovers a planet full of intelligent life, an entirely new culture and (I believe) one of the only non-human races in the universe (please don't start arguing about Arcturians) and he bio-nukes it instantly. 
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nexus6 posted:Parts I liked "Nah, just go straight down into the clouds and fly around at random, I'm sure something'll turn up. It's only fuel we're burning, after all."
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Neo Rasa posted:"Micro-changes in air density."
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K. Waste posted:the alien was always just one element of an entire film that was released 38 years ago.
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Clipperton posted:Why does the UPP boarding vessel look exactly like a Colonial Marines dropship? Spitting mad already 
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I was shocked when Ricco Ross revealed in the I Was There Too podcast that R. Frost's first name is Robert.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I always have to wonder how exactly these writers get these jobs? I mean, I don't think Fox puts out fuckin' job postings for Alien book writers, do they?
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SimonCat posted:Also has Sean Connery paired with a woman his own age.
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