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

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etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8BUOMhaWk

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 02:44

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 02:05

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

sandwiches_and_ham posted:

ah yes, thrilling scenes of someone... typing... slowly on a... keyboard

But it had tywin lannister in space!

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 12:36

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

VikingSkull posted:

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

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 12:54

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Aliens 3 was decent since it had Tywin in Space and was able to maintain the visual consistency of the previous movies.

I guess it was sort the failure at going in a new direction while the previous movies did this much better.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 15:08

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Pennywise the Frown posted:

The first AvP game that came out was loving amazing to my teenage self. My friend and I were playing it for the first time. Well it was me and him standing over my shoulder. You start out in an APC. Once you take a step outside.... beep.............. beep.............. beep........ uh oh, I'm getting scared. Beep....... beep........ beep..... poo poo. Beep.... beep.... beep..... ok what do I do now where are they? beep beep beep beep beep.....

I remember playing the marine demo back in the day again and again. Was pretty replayable since the game uses random enemy placement which made the encounter somewhat unpredictable.

Remember the facehugger insta-kill animation?

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 16:08

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Pennywise the Frown posted:

gently caress.... facehuggers.... forever.

They're super tiny, fast, and can jump anywhere. If there was one in the room you just start emptying mags left and right while holding the back button down. Fire was the best way to deal with them. Just fill the whole god drat room with fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkpyWWI8TY

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 16:14

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Avp (2010) was also somewhat decent.

Colonial Marines on PC was greatly improved by the mod scene which fixed the graphic issues and many of the AI problems.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 16:25

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I'm still trying to work up the balls to play Isolation. I might have to get really drunk or something, but I doubt that would help. I heard the game is fantastic.

Well it's more a survival horror type game similar to Soma especially since you have limited weapons and the gadgets only serve to drive off/distract the Alien.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 16:57

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:

You might really like it. I didn't get spooked by the alien though, and it just seemed really tedious. I just wanted to explore but : climbs into cupboard again for two minutes :

People usually really like it though.

It's one of those games in which i could appreciate things like visual/sound design but never actually finished since playing hide&seek for the nth level got pretty annoying.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 17:03

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Snow Cone Capone posted:

The AvP side-scrolling beat-em-up arcade game is one of the few that I ever actually beat in the arcade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh379aH2mFw

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 20:17

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I believe the set/alien designs were all based after H R Giger's original Alien poo poo and it was just so organic and awesome. Right when they enter the "nest" it turns into Giger world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koxkg7C216c

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 23:10

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Elderbean posted:

Pretty sure the dropship pilot in Starcraft has tons of lines takem directly from Aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHekZp2yx0

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 23:20

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2DkmScR_U8

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 02:09

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Welp, I'm in.

It's the closest thing you could get to a Aliens cast reunion.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 02:33

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Glenn Quebec posted:

The worst part about 3 was unceremoniously killing off newt and Hicks. It was really unforgivable. Resurrection stinks because it has JOSS WHEDONS stink rubbed all over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vgl6eopOy8

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 14:00

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

skasion posted:

3 is an okay sequel to Alien, but a terrible sequel to Aliens

Alien 4 has a great cast that it wastes on dreck. Like, how do you get Ron Perlman, Michael Wincott and Brad Dourif in the same movie and still have it suck rear end.

Wrong director perhaps?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 14:07

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

skasion posted:

Jeunet is a great director. Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Amelie are all awesome movies. You could argue that it�s a bit of a mismatch but like with Fincher on Alien 3, I think that the movie would be terrible without him in charge. Also he wanted to give the newborn horrifying inflamed hermaphroditic genitals, which sounds like a great idea by me (studio shot this down, alas). Unfortunately it�s kind of terrible even with him in charge. Whedon�s script is more at fault for me. It�s too Whedony. Some premises lend themselves naturally to twee meta comedy, Alien isn�t one. Alien and even more so Aliens are funny movies, but in a much less artificial way.

The basketball single take story did own.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 15:25

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

At least basketball still exists in the future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M27DfmNbTPA

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 17:11

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

BaconCopter posted:

This dude knows what's up. The extended and additional scenes really change the movie from blah to pretty good.

charles dance in space

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

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 17:31

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

I liked how the basic premise of the series was rape monsters

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 21:53

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF44YvDVP8Y

# ¿ Mar 6, 2019 01:47

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9fG82E24o

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 16:21

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

VikingSkull posted:

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

Alien- Space blue collar workers vs Alien
Alien- Space Marines vs Alien
Alien 3- Charles Dance vs Alien

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 00:48

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

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.

Probably also why I enjoy Ripley's line in Aliens to Burke "You don't see them loving each other over for a goddamn percentage" so much.

loving hell Ash creeps me out. Loved the guy in the office chair in isolation with the rolled up magazine in his throat you can randomly find, which confirmed for me beyond a doubt that the robots were for sure evil.

At the fundamental level Alien is actually about blue collar workers being hosed over by distant upper management.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 01:42

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Sjs00 posted:

I post this Everytime this movie comes up and I used to have a sick Hudson avatar
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/408816

owns

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 14:32

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTDU5F0yW_w

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 15:30

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

bird with big dick posted:

They should do a reboot of Aliens where all the characters are women except for the alien which is a man and looks kinda like Harvey Weinstein

alien stops chasing after its women victims to jack off in a flower pot.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 18:36

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Lord Ludikrous posted:

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

This is so bad it wraps around to being good.

This is like Nickelback in space

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 18:59

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

I'm the plot point in Alien: Covenant where all the crew are married couples for some reason

In space no one can hear your wife remind you of the bad thing you did 10 years ago.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 19:05

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Riatsala posted:

Just played a round of SS13 Colonial Marines that felt like the authentic Aliens experience. For the uninitiated (and note that this game is strictly for broke-brains like me), CM on a good day is a 150 marines and support staff answering a terrestrial distress call from a colony that has been, unbeknownst to them, overrun by about 40 xenomorphs with strong respawn potential (via abducting and facehugging marines, colonists, and lab monkeys). All marines and xenos are played by actual humans in low level roleplay.

Anyway. I got picked as a squad smartgunner for the squad assigned to scout the creepy caves covered in gross biomaterial. We get in, find a weird egg, squad leader pokes it and gets facehugged. Then xenos start pouring out of every direction, pouncing, grabbing, and dragging away helpless victims to an overwhelming din of gunfire that slowly fades as more and more guys get picked off. I'm one of the last to get grabbed, and chose to go out by priming a grenade and dropping it at my feet.

If that all sounds cool to you, remember this is all in 90s flash game level graphics. But still. Was cooler than any other Aliens video game experience I've had outside of Isolation and AVP 2.

lmao the game has exciting computer janitor jobs.

https://cm-ss13.com/wiki/Marines

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 02:13

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5EfOWFF1E

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 01:58

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hioTx0XCaEc

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 02:42

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

A movie franchise based around oral rape monsters.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 22:58

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

SilvergunSuperman posted:

The sexual imagery is potent, powerful, provocative.

~~and hooooot!~~

Hiring H.R Giger with his hordes of penis monster art just wasn't enough

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 23:47

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahkT5htQjE

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 23:51

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Elderbean posted:

I loved that Dredd didnt force a dumb romance between the two leads. They just kick rear end together.

olivia thirlby was really good in her role as well.

The production being the scenes are really great if you are into practical effects for how they did things like slow-mo drug scenes or the miniatures practical effects.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 03:12

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Im the guy with the fabulous wig

I know when the movie came out everyone seemed to famous wig henchman the most for season.

Only was sort of random how it had Domhnall Gleeson in a small side role before he started to score more lead type roles in movies like Ex Machina.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 13:01

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Blistex posted:

First time I saw Aliens special edition with the sentry gun scene, I instantly felt a lot of the tension disappear. They had just killed a shitload of aliens, and right or not, I thought, "things are going to be easier for them now that they have only a few aliens left to deal with". It's a cool scene, but if you're watching for the first time I can see it being a bit of a tension deflater. Maybe Cameron picked up on that with test audiences? Or maybe I'm an outlier with my opinion.

I assume the maximum warrior count would be 100 or so for the colony assume every colonist got grabbed for face rape?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 16:54

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Beet Wagon posted:

Probably a little less than 150, given that the colonists killed at least a couple.

I wonder if a movie nerd did the math on how many aliens got killed in combat.

I imagine they were at least 100 or so warriors left giving the alien team a pretty good K/D ratio.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 18:12

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 02:05

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

The best Alien/Aliens movie knockoff was Galaxy of Terror.

Also ironically enough it was also a training camp for James Cameron for getting experience in film production and practical effects.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 18:15

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