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So we poured the equivalent of a civilization's resources into producing spacecraft capable of interstellar flight? Going to establish a new colony off-world? Better staff it with absolute morons with apparently zero protocol training for encountering exobiology. The old Alien movies at least had the excuse that space travel was old hat and they were flying on craft like space tugs, so it makes sense they would be staffed by idiots.
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don't say ret*rded; it's an ableist slur
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Jun 13, 2018 19:11
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Because the best and brightest were smart enough to let fodder go first?
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Jun 13, 2018 19:18
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Jun 13, 2018 19:25
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givepatajob posted:Ridley Scott Its this
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Jun 13, 2018 19:26
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At least the movies are pretty looking.
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Aging director Ridley Scottquote:IGN: At what point while making the original film did you decide that Deckard would be a Replicant?
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Jun 13, 2018 19:27
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it's because every subsequent movie after the first one thinks the characters get killed because they're stupid instead of being hopelessly outmatched by something they don't understand
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Jun 13, 2018 19:27
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Ein cooler Typ posted:don't say ret*rded; it's an ableist slur
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Jun 13, 2018 19:28
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It assumes earth's gravity is universal in deep space or on an alien planet. So yes, extremely retarded.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:29
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People want to see movies about people getting eaten by aloems and not people taking 8 days to go through rigorous protocols. Ridley Scott was actually making films for entertainment, you see, and not for pedantic nerds to nod solemnly at in approval of their decontamination processes and lab sterilization methods.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:30
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I dunno but it's a sad world when Alien Resurrection is legitimately better than Ridley Scott doing an Alien prequel and actually trying to make it good and "art"
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Jun 13, 2018 19:30
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they should've made ridley scott make some kids' movies in the interim like george miller so when he finally does circle back around to his old IP it doesnt suck dicks
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Jun 13, 2018 19:31
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:it's because every subsequent movie after the first one thinks the characters get killed because they're stupid instead of being hopelessly outmatched by something they don't understand 
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Jun 13, 2018 19:31
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i think its a metaphor for mans hubris. but its not really a metaphor because its just mans having hubris.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:32
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:they should've made ridley scott make some kids' movies in the interim like george miller so when he finally does circle back around to his old IP it doesnt suck dicks babe pig in the city is george miller's best movie
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Jun 13, 2018 19:32
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Explaining the cool poo poo in a good movie doesn't make another good movie.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:33
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I don't care how stupid they are, I will keep watching them as long as Michael Fassbender is evil in them.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:33
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Michael fassbender is the best part of those movies but the novelty is quickly wearing off. Covenant was really bad.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:34
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Drones would of solved every problem in Aliens. They could of scanned the planet, located the colonists, extracted the company's facehuggers, and set the nukes. But I like my future primitive aesthetic (otherwise known as made in the 1980s). I like my future people smoking in board rooms and using dot matrix printers. Sorry, I know this discussion is about the dumb rear end later movies.
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Love Rat posted:Drones would of solved every problem in Aliens. They could of scanned the planet, located the colonists, extracted the company's facehuggers, and set the nukes. But I like my future primitive aesthetic (otherwise known as made in the 1980s). my dad works for jpl and relishes telling people mars will be fully explored and documented by robots before a human ever sets foot there
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Jun 13, 2018 19:35
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Love Rat posted:Drones would of solved every problem in Aliens. They could of scanned the planet, located the colonists, extracted the company's facehuggers, and set the nukes. But I like my future primitive aesthetic (otherwise known as made in the 1980s). would of could of Drones could of nuked it from orbit; it's the only way to be sure
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:my dad works for jpl and relishes telling people mars will be fully explored and documented by robots before a human ever sets foot there Yup. It really doesn't make sense doing it any other way.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:36
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Look at how stupid we are as a society right now. Pretty loving stupid. Hundreds of years from now, we're going to be even dumber. The Earth that exists in the world of Alien probably elected a dog as President, or made taking a dump illegal.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:37
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Remember when the retard from arrested development reprised her role in Prometheus and got smeared into paste because she didn't run laterally from a rolling object.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:37
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Ridley Scott should have been executed in 82.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:39
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Just make them really loving smart and careful but get rammed up the rear end anyway. That's the way to demonstrate hubris, not brain-dead imbeciles doing every possible thing to let the aliens spread.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:39
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Prometheus and Covenant are doing a weird thing where all of the human characters are supposed to be careless and filled with hubris, but it's so exaggerated that you end up disliking the characters and not caring about them, and eventually hoping that the alien kills them and they die and the movie can just be about David.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:40
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Ein cooler Typ posted:would of Would have. Could have. Retard.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:40
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well. to me it seems as if the new movies are little more than poorly thought out rushed cash ins attempting to exploit the prestige of the original two movies, but i could be wrong
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Jun 13, 2018 19:42
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The crew are dumb because anyone with brains knows what happened in the first couple of films and didn't volunteer. I mean would you?
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John DiFool posted:Just make them really loving smart and careful but get rammed up the rear end anyway. That's the way to demonstrate hubris, not brain-dead imbeciles doing every possible thing to let the aliens spread. yeah i'd love to see the characters do everything right and still get hosed up because they couldn't have possibly anticipated how different the alien life would be
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Jun 13, 2018 19:43
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Ridley Scott is as dumb as his characters
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Jun 13, 2018 19:44
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alien is such a xenophobic slur it should be undocumented space immigrant
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Jun 13, 2018 19:45
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What are you complaining about? The last one had an alien sneaking around a spaceship all scary like. That's literally the same as the first movie and what all the nerds cried for after the other movie. It might not be the movie you wanted but its the movie you deserved.
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Napoleon Bonaparty posted:Ridley Scott is as dumb as his characters He never got over being an advertiser. Good at pretty pictures, but nary an idea in his head. Sometimes he gets paired with a decent screenwriter and everything works out. I'd say he has the terminal brain rot of just being old as poo poo now.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:47
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Tiberius Christ posted:alien is such a xenophobic slur it should be undocumented space immigrant She thought they said ILLEGAL alien and signed up.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:47
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It's kind of sad how Prometheus is actually one of the least-bad Alien movies.
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Jun 13, 2018 19:49
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Love Rat posted:She thought they said ILLEGAL alien and signed up. Then the movie goes on to show the white man kill them all including a pregnant mother and all her children.
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Arguing with my dad about how bad Prometheus was is how I found out he buys into some of the ancient aliens theories. So it'll always have that going for it. Covenant was just dull.
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