Thinking About Aliens (the movie): You have to admire its purrity

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Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

haljordan posted:

I like the deleted scene where Ripley comes across Burke after he runs off and he's all cocooned up. He tells her he can feel the alien in his stomach and Ripley just hands him a grenade and moves on lol

"Just let me get clear before you use that thi-"
[pop *click*]
"Burke, you son of a biiiiitch!" [legs it]

# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 15:48

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 21:54

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Neo Rasa posted:

I really like that dynamic of it, the ship proper is so big for the crew size but also the massive part is the automated refinery that gets hauled from planet to planet.

There's one shot of the inside of the Nostromo's hyperdrive or whatever where you can see Ripley running around engineering through a window, and the room is absolutely tiny compared to the 10-storey machinery it controls. The ship is huge, but the habitable part of it is about 1% of the total volume - and the Nostromo itself is like a bug compared to the refinery.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 15:46

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Neo Rasa posted:

I'm not sure of the reasoning I'm sure Xenomrph knows maybe what they had at the time was too poor quality for 2003 or they didn't where the original was, but I can see the reasoning in the movie itself since it's more mysterious sounding than the more "wtf is this poo poo gently caress no" reaction I'd think the original would have.

There's a bit in the novelisation that stuck with me, and I was always disappointed it wasn't in even the cut scene: after listening to the transmission someone says "Maybe it's a voice," and the response from the others is basically "Haha... actually, poo poo, nope."

Imagine having the Engineers 'talk' with this terrifying screaming. :stare:

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 19:50

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Sydney Bottocks posted:

It's only not stupid in the Alien movies because it was shown all the way back in the first movie that wearing a space helmet won't save you from a facehugger

Prometheus and Covenant are Alien movies, right?

"Hey, my kajigger says it's air! Imma take off my helmet!"
"Uh, you sure about that? There might be airborne pathogens, toxins, microbes, spores, any number of potentially deadly thi-"
[Clunk thunk] "Yeehaw, AAAAIIIRRRRRR!"

# ¿ Mar 30, 2023 23:27

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

I want to see a sci-fi horror movie where the astronauts are smart, work as a team of professionals, do everything right and aren't being deliberately sabotaged, but still one by one end up as monster food because the creature is just that nasty. Helmet-removers and egg-looker-intoers need not apply.

(I'd forgotten about Inseminoid, but now I remember my reaction to the foot scene being "Wh- what are you doing? Why would you even think to do that? Why is nobody helping you? Who the hell wrote this, and have they ever met a human before?" Also IIRC it was less chainsaw and more electric breadknife, which made it even funnier/more inexplicable.)

# ¿ Mar 31, 2023 17:51

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I've probably mentioned it in here before but I used to love this 90s program on Discovery called Movie Magic. It was all about the behind the scenes stuff like this. I LOVED seeing the miniatures and matte paintings and the insanely detailed poo poo that they built.

I'm pretty sure they had a Starship Troopers segment. Also Alien Resurrection. Unless those were other shows. Discovery used to have cool stuff.
edit: it ran from 1994-1997. It was SOOOOOO good. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108865/

Reading old issues of Cinefex was so great for showing the insane lengths the artists used to have to go to in order to made the VFX work in the pre-CG days. I do wonder if a contributing factor to the magazine closing a few years ago was that so many articles became "We used the FWOOMF and SPLURJ plugins in ZAPP to simulate fire and water, then waited ten hours for our GPU farm to render each frame" with gripping behind-the-scenes photos of people pointing at a monitor.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2023 14:11

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

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.

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.

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.)

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 16:07

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Arson Daily posted:

I'm curious about the economy in aliens since they say the Nostromo is worth 42 million in adjusted dollars. Does that include the refinery it was towing too? And how is a 68,000 ton interstellar spacecraft from 150 years in the future worth less than a 10 year old narrow body airliner from today. Was there some major deflationary event at some point?

I always took that as there having been a North Korea-style revaluation of currency following massive inflation, so 100 old dollars is one adjusted dollar, or something.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 09:22

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

MrMojok posted:

Yeah, I think we discussed that in here a few months back. Even with caseless ammo, you aren�t getting anywhere near a hundred of them in that mag.

The smartgun, which canonically uses a round slightly bigger than that of the M41A, is supposed to have a 500-round drum which you can see on the left side of the gun. And there is no way it holds that much either.

But rule of cool, and all!

There are shots where you can see the 50-round MG42 ammo belt for the smartgun dangling out of its side.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 14:31

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Android Apocalypse posted:

The pulse rifle & smartgun sound effects are iconic in their own right, and when watching Alien 3 where they just sound like regular guns is such a .

Distinctive gun sounds can make such a difference to action movies, and it's kind of shocking that some directors don't realize that. Done well you get pulse rifles, Robocop's Auto-9, Harry Callahan's .44 Magnum and (on the bad guy side) Karl's AUG in Die Hard, which compared to the higher-pitched rattle of the MP5s McClane and the other villains have been exchanging fire with sounds like a helicopter gunship sent by Satan. But then you can get :effort:

jobs like the Alien 3 pulse rifles or the Lawgivers from both Judge Dredd movies, which just sound like scifigunshot.mp3 from a stock library.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2023 00:50

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

git apologist posted:

definitely george

I abused Bing Image Creator to make these a few days ago. (It's all pasta sauce and calamari, that's what I put in the prompt!)
:nws:

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 12:11

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

redshirt posted:

I just want to say I love your AV. It makes me smile.

Thank you! (It makes me smile too, which is why I picked it as my av. :blush:

)

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 16:43

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

So the main cast of the Alien prequel series is Kirsh, Wendy, CJ, Boy Kavelier, Dame Silvia, Slightly and Tootles.

[rubs glasses, looks again]

So the main cast of the Alien prequel series is Kirsh, Wendy, CJ... Boy Kavelier... Dame Silvia... Slightly... and [rubs glasses again] ah, Tootles?

(Now having visions of a cat driving an APC over a cliff. "Tootles, look ouuuuuuuuut!")

Edit:

Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 29, 2023

# ¿ Nov 29, 2023 15:37

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

CJ: Ah poo poo, here we go again.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2023 17:06

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Xenomrph posted:

In space, no one can hear you pspspspspsps/ekekekekekekekek

Kitty crap. Jones!

# ¿ Jan 11, 2024 23:32

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Same here, I wish there was a mod or something that let you just wander around and check the place out.

I really want to play Isolation again (I never finished it), but it's the only game that's ever given me an honest-to-god nightmare, so... :smith:

(I couldn't finish RE2make either because having that guy relentlessly clomping after me was too tense for me to handle.)

# ¿ Jan 20, 2024 20:40

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Xenomrph posted:

And then there�s oddball indigenous life that Marines get called in to shoot at sometimes (�bug hunts�).

I always took the dismissive way Hudson and Hicks said "bug hunt" to mean it was the equivalent of a snipe hunt; someone thought they saw scary monsters on a colony world, so the Marines get called in to deal with them and end up wasting their time trudging around some horrible planet looking for something that isn't there.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2024 10:25

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

The Last Call posted:

Test screenings for Aliens Romulus is coming out, you knew there was a new Aliens movie right?

Here's the deets according to https://www.avpgalaxy.net

While it�s been public for a while thanks to the Perfect Organism Podcast�s previous teases about the film having connections to the prequel films, Mike�s Monsters has recently confirmed that neither David or the Covenant are featured in the film at all. So what is the connection?

Rather, Alien vs. Predator Galaxy can exclusively confirm that the black goo (or accelerant as it is known in the expanded universe) is making a return in the film. A Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 model android was able to discover and reverse engineer the genetic makeup of the black goo contained within the DNA of the Aliens that had been captive aboard the spacestation. Known in Alien: Romulus as the Prometheus Strain, the scientists had been experimenting with the black goo as a miracle cure for all diseases.

Alien: Romulus will also feature another huge connection to the original Alien film in the way of the inclusion of the previously mentioned Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2. Named Rook, this new synthetic character features the likeness and voice of the late Sir Ian Holm which Alien vs. Predator Galaxy understands is augmented by AI.

Following some general details that they posted yesterday, Scified has shared more specific details provided by V Scooper about Alien: Romulus. First is that the film will include a new weapon that looks similar to the iconic Pulse Rifle. This is another detail that Alien vs. Predator Galaxy can corroborate. White in colour, the new weapon shares many design elements with the M41A Pulse Rifle including the carry handle, and an underslung pump action.

The second upload that Scified shared today is something related to what we posted in our own intel about the connections between Alien: Romulus and the prequel films and the original Alien. This has been speculation that we�ve seen and enjoyed being posted on our message boards for some time, and we can now confirm the truth behind it. Big Chap�s remains are recovered at the start of Alien: Romulus.

Are you not entertained?

No, I'm not. :haw:

This doesn't sound like a movie for a general audience, more like one for the kind of ubernerds who get excited that "Holy crap, we finally get to find out why the A2s were a bit twitchy!" Everything must be explained, everything must be connected. Is it going to be scary? Is it going to be exciting? Who knows, but there's a new white pulse rifle in it!

And yes, the idea of a digital Ian Holm leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. Why do that? Why not just cast whoever the modern equivalent of Ian Holm is (Martin Freeman?) and say he's a different model of the same kind of synthetic?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2024 00:45

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Well, that sure looks like an Alien movie with aliens and alien accessories.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2024 18:03

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Bing usually won't let you create AI images using real people, but it was for a while perfectly happy to let you inflict any indignity you liked upon George Costanza.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2024 13:19

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Cessna posted:

In movies, books, and comics, because writers want exciting things to happen.

But an rpg is not a movie, and players have a tendency to do smart things that movie characters do not do.

Imagine Aliens as an rpg. "Let's take off and nuke the site from orbit." "Okay." "So what are we playing next?"

The GM tries to hide a smirk. "Remember the dropship's co-pilot?"
Player 1: "No?"
Player 2: "Me neither."
Player 3: "Oh, wait, the NPC with the funny name? Jerkmayo or something?"
GM: "Spunkmeyer. Yeah, him. Anyway, he left the dropship's ramp down while he was helping bring in Bishop's equipment, and, let's see..." [rolls die; smirk widens] "The approaching dropship suddenly veers out of control - towards you. What do you do?"

# ¿ Apr 9, 2024 15:51

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Something for Alien Day on Friday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpHhBc_xAM

# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 12:07

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 21:54

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

ImpAtom posted:

(Also basically the entire plot doesn't happen if they leave exactly one person on the Sulaco.)

Bishop would seem the ideal (artificial) person to leave on the Sulaco. Surely one of the marines could drive the APC?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 08:35

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