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Colette Hiller as Corporal Ferro, the dropship pilot, is probably the best character of all the Marines and no one remembers her we're in the pipe, 5 by 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vESxCZe0HA
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I'm weird though, I like Alien more because it's a slow burn same reason I like the first Mad Max the best, too
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skasion posted:Alien is better than Aliens, but no way is Mad Max better than Road Warrior that is not an argument I can make in good faith road warrior is real good but Bubba Zanetti and the Toecutter are the best villains in the whole franchise
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Kuato posted:Aliens is easily the best film of all time. Glad to see an aliens thread in ol gibbis that's actually Predator Grape posted:So poorly remembered that they only based an entire Starcraft unit around her. I never played Starcraft
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Predator is so good because they had the second unit director shoot the first action scene so it looks like a typical Arnie action flick and then BOOM you're in the best loving slasher movie of the 80's with skinned people hanging from trees, CONTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACT and Billy standing on a log carving his chest with what's basically a sword it's really good e- and it has the best score, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnAxydhZ8M
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah I mean the main antagonist being a corporation who wants to somehow harness the power of the alien as a weapon is kind of strange if you really focus on it. Like, of course their hubris in trying to control the uncontrollable gets their representatives killed but also causes a lot of havoc for innocent people to make sure we know they're evil. they wanted them for biowarfare
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Pennywise the Frown posted:This was a huge thing that bothered me with Prometheus and Covenant. Visually, it looks like they have more advanced technology that in all of the other movies. I mean, come on we're on a timeline here. It would have made it much more gritty and less clean if they used CRT and other older poo poo. Make the movie what it is. A prequel. Back in time. Before the other movies were made with their advanced technology. Ugh. I think the CRT stuff in the original movies still works because of course that's what a space bulldozer would have seriously, get in a bulldozer or big truck today and it's still all analog gauges and levers, so space CRT's make a certain kind of sense even if we have smart phones it actually enhances the vibe because of the industrial look
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Mar 9, 2019 18:26
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yeah it's one of those things, like maybe it's easier to make lcd's on Earth and it's expensive to get them to an orbital shipyard, so only smaller craft and high end stuff has them, meanwhile you can make vacuum tubes out of poo poo in the asteroid belt really cheap
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yeah I mean the Nostromo is literally a space tractor like it gets said alot in regards to the roles the characters play but for real they are on a gigantic space tractor
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Julius CSAR posted:One of favorite things about Alien, even from when I was a little kid that didn't know much about the world, was that the crew on the ship were just average schlubbs. Basically truckers in outer space, and I could never shake the feeling of how loving screwed over by their company these dudes on the lowest rung of the totem pole get. Like, they don't know what's on the planet, they don't know that the ship's computer has been programmed to not give a poo poo about them. They don't know that their on board physician, the man they rely on for their very health and well being, is also a computer that does not give a gently caress about them, and actually quite the opposite really. As crazy as the chestburster scene is, Yaphet Kotto yelling "ASH IS A GODDAMNED ROBOT!" is almost more unnerving, espc considering it follows hotly on the footsteps of Ash shoving that magazine down Ripley's throat, which stuck with me for a very long time. like, I gotta go back to my point, it's not even a space truck, it's a space tractor they are towing a giant refinery, not cargo, and calling it a truck gives a certain feeling of the open road and with it a sense of freedom these people are all heavy equipment operators at an industrial site that just happens to move on its own, and it conveys a very different feeling to them. they don't just travel from point a to point b, which is why the detour is so meaningful e- like, a truck has a cargo, and the driver of the truck may, over a lifetime, be worth more than the cargo, so they are worth saving..... that refinery is worth more than the crew on just that one trip, which sets up the fact that the thing most important to the story is what's on the ship and also why the crew is expendable VikingSkull fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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If anyone wants the SS13 experience but at a slightly more, uh, manageable level try out Rimworld, it's great. You can harvest organs and make space crack
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frogge posted:I've been showing my girlfriend the aliens franchise because of this thread and so we watched Alien first. She'd never seen it before and she guessed most of what was going to happen next. It kind of made me realize how different pacing in movies was back then compared to more recent films. Aliens later this week. I can't wait. I trust that you explained to her that the reason she recognized the pacing is because the movies that informed her of it were ripping off Alien
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Earth as a planetwise quarantine zone/prison, full of dangerous monsters and scattered tribes of humanty would be a cool predator premise. that's literally what we are in that universe you know how rich fucks go and shoot elk in Africa? that's us, we're the elk
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Fish of hemp posted:Rich people. Money buys you everything. the wizard person was right they dont have elk in africa really i was thinking of antelope
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Splicer posted:Which is what the predators did with the aliens in avp so it really was a good analogy oh poo poo that's right didn't the lead lady in that book have a katana
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Splicer posted:At some point in the past 30 years people forgot how to make horror or action films with coherent storylines. A series of unconnected action sequences showing off your sub-par CGI is not the same as a plot. Dredd and Fury Road at least keep the hope alive Fury Road is like a fever dream of an 80's action movie and Dredd straight up could have been a Kurt Russel movie in 1984
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Dredd was loving amazing. I just watched it again a few days ago in fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJH-zUYOoc
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Xenomrph posted:Literally every scene in the movie makes it a cool movie. Predator 2 only looks bad because it's the sequel to the best action movie ever
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A Strange Aeon posted:I haven't seen them recently enough but would love this thread's take on the RoboCop trilogy. I had a RoboCop vs the Terminator comic by Frank Miller I think as a kid and it was really awesome. robocop is like mad max the first two own and the third is the disney adaption
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gary oldmans diary posted:to an alien he might look and smell more like an inanimate object or just the landscape than something to hunt. but if he made a bunch of noise that would be different yeah it's this they don't have eyes, remember
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