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Riatsala posted:I used to play the heck out of NS1 when I was a teenager. I apparently own NS2, is it still an active game?
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It's still around and there's still a lot of active servers and it's still pretty fun to play but my god did they botch that launch hard.
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Mar 12, 2019 20:28
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Aliens is on right now, on Sundance lol
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Haven't checked out NS in a while but it always makes me wish I could still play Gloom, the quake2 mod
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Durzel posted:There used to be an Alien experience thing at an arcade in London back around 2010 where you were dropped in with some people playing as Marines, who get ambushed by Aliens, etc. Naturally it was poo poo your pants terrifying. That looks so cheezy but also amazing. I would love to work there, but I also wouldn't be able to stop my self from laghing at stuff like the long skinny wibbly-wobbly-bendy Alien fingers. I also like the part where the reporter sexually assaults the two actors playing marines. Really fits in with the whole "alien is a rape monster" theme.
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Philthy posted:When I saw Aliens in the theater on release weekend the audience went loving NUTS when Ripley came out of the hanger with the power armor. I loving love stories like this, I wish there was more recordings of it like this one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRveOGMflo
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I saw both Alien and Aliens in large-format at the Toronto Cinesphere a few months back, and the audience was animated as gently caress, hollering after "get away from her you bitch!" and a handful of people were reciting Hudson's lines as they happened. The best moment of audience reaction I've experienced in a theatre though, was for The Matrix: Reloaded on opening night. Remember that cliffhanger ending right before RATM kicks in and the credits roll? Imagine a theatre packed with 300 nerds, many in hilarious cosplay, simultaneously groaning and yelling in something between anger and appreciation. It was palpable.
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Mister Speaker posted:I saw both Alien and Aliens in large-format at the Toronto Cinesphere a few months back, and the audience was animated as gently caress, hollering after "get away from her you bitch!" and a handful of people were reciting Hudson's lines as they happened. I should clarify, first screenings only, although I guess it was on topic so what can I say... I appreciated your 2nd story, good stuff.
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Mister Speaker posted:I saw both Alien and Aliens in large-format at the Toronto Cinesphere a few months back, and the audience was animated as gently caress, hollering after "get away from her you bitch!" and a handful of people were reciting Hudson's lines as they happened. Good audience reactions have been making a comeback. A Quiet Place, Get Out, and 10 Cloverfield Lane all benefitted from having a great crowd.
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A movie franchise based around oral rape monsters.
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etalian posted:A movie franchise based around oral rape monsters. The sexual imagery is potent, powerful, provocative.
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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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SilvergunSuperman posted:The sexual imagery is potent, powerful, provocative. Hiring H.R Giger with his hordes of penis monster art just wasn't enough
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Did she like it? This is important for the future of your relationship. VikingSkull posted: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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Caf posted:In an amazing coincidence, I adopted a dog and named her Ripley on the same day this thread was posted.  If you have a child and the dog is bother them you can say "Get away from her/him you BITCH!" Tertius Oculum posted:Aliens is on right now, on Sundance lol I'm watching it. And Predator is on next! SilvergunSuperman posted:I loving love stories like this, I wish there was more recordings of it like this one, I LOVE midnight showings of movies (grand openings). I did it for all of the LOTR movies and A Phantom Menace. Even the Phantom Menace was fun with a crowd that's all into it. I was maybe 13-14 and had a lightsaber fight with my friend in the theater before it started. The LOTR was awesome. Like in the Two Towers where Legolas kills a bunch of orcs and then slides down the stairs at Helm's Deep to save Gimli. The crowd goes nuts. Even if the movie isn't that great, the crowd makes it great. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Mar 13, 2019 |
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Easily makes my top 10 (ish) movies list. James Cameron being the sequel master. I still wonder what he has in store for the next 3 Avatar sequels.
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fcc compliant bob posted:Easily makes my top 10 (ish) movies list. James Cameron being the sequel master. I still wonder what he has in store for the next 3 Avatar sequels. Alien vs Avatar when
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I watched most of AvP 2 last night. Again I always watch these movies late at night so I get tired sometimes and pass out. Spoilers because the movie is over a decade old. AvP and AvP 2 are two totally different movies in my opinion. AvP was more of an adventure film. The main hero is the one you know from the very beginning of the movie. It's a big mystery for half the movie and you discover why the Predators hunt the aliens. The ending is... interesting with the hero with the alien armor/weapons and teaming up with a Predator so the predator ends up being the GOOD guy. Not so much in AvP 2. Holy poo poo is it dark. It goes back to more of a horror/action. Predators are evil right off the bat. The whole movie is very dark as in lighting. Rickety Cricket is in it but he was looking well so probably before he moved to Philly. There is some action in it but it's so pitiful and everyone dies. Like the end when a whole town gets daisy cutter dropped on it. They have some really dark poo poo in it. Like the Predalien going into the maternity ward and impregnating pregnant women and they burst out of their wombs.  It's hard to compare the two to be honest. Requiem is not a terrible movie and I think a lot of why I liked it was just because of the shock of the horrible stuff they were doing in the movie. It was pretty uh... ballsy.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Rickety Cricket is in it but he was looking well so probably before he moved to Philly. This might be my favorite thing I've ever read on these forums Also you jerks got me to try Isolation last night with all my lights off, I think I might've seen the Alien once before I turned it off. Will try again tonight, probably.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Not so much in AvP 2. Holy poo poo is it dark. It goes back to more of a horror/action. Predators are evil right off the bat. The whole movie is very dark as in lighting. Rickety Cricket is in it but he was looking well so probably before he moved to Philly. There is some action in it but it's so pitiful and everyone dies. Like the end when a whole town gets daisy cutter dropped on it. They have some really dark poo poo in it. Like the Predalien going into the maternity ward and impregnating pregnant women and they burst out of their wombs. Also I saw AI in the cinema and hooboy, talk about your audience reactions.
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Splicer posted:The Predator in AvP 2 is the protagonist. He's Space Plisskin on a volunteer mission to clean up after a bunch of idiots accidentally release a potential extinction event on a populated planet L, while also keeping a bunch of primitives from getting hold of space tech they're not ready for. Earth as a planetwise quarantine zone/prison, full of dangerous monsters and scattered tribes of humanty would be a cool predator premise.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Good audience reactions have been making a comeback. A Quiet Place, Get Out, and 10 Cloverfield Lane all benefitted from having a great crowd. I think horror movies always benefit from crowds, except maybe super serious ones like Hereditary*. Most of my best moviegoing experiences have been seeing horror movies on opening weekend in packed theaters. Even mediocre movies can be super fun if the crowd is into it. Some particularly memorable ones for me were Get Out, Drag Me to Hell, and the Evil Dead remake. *I first saw Hereditary on a weekday afternoon so there was almost no one there, but when the movie ended the ~10 people in the theater all kind of stood up and looked at each other like "holy poo poo", so that was a good experience too
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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. I've actually want a Predator movie as if it's Deliverance for Predators.
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Young Freud posted:I've actually want a Predator movie as if it's Deliverance for Predators. I think the world is ready for this.
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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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who the gently caress hunts elk in Africa
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Rich people. Money buys you everything.
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Fish of hemp posted:Rich people. Money buys you everything. Especially guillotines
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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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gey muckle mowser posted:I think horror movies always benefit from crowds, except maybe super serious ones like Hereditary*. I think I saw a news article about A Quiet Place. Lots of people were very annoyed because they could hear other movie goers chewing popcorn and stuff lol. That'd have driven me insane.
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VikingSkull posted:the wizard person was right they dont have elk in africa really Fish of hemp posted:Rich people. Money buys you everything. I'm guessing this guy here is insinuating that you can be so rich to buy elk and ship them to Africa for you to hunt! gently caress the antelope. They're too fast anyway.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I think I saw a news article about A Quiet Place. Lots of people were very annoyed because they could hear other movie goers chewing popcorn and stuff lol. That'd have driven me insane. I want the guy who's whisper-explaining everything that's happening on the screen into his wife's ear
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I want the guy who's whisper-explaining everything that's happening on the screen into his wife's ear That's me. But it's not my wife. It's a stranger. And I put my hand on his/her leg while whispering. I'm not allowed back at that theater.
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I watched Aliens in ode to this thread and yeah it's rad.
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i like hudson's arc from braggart to humbled coward to redemption in battle
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Owlbear Camus posted:i like hudson's arc from braggart to humbled coward to redemption in battle Classic IT guy arc.
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Owlbear Camus posted:i like hudson's arc from braggart to humbled coward to redemption in battle Yep. One of my favorite aspects of the movie. He finally pulls it together (with the help of Ripely) and completely redeems himself and truly becomes The Ultimate Badass. 
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it was cute stunt casting to make him the sgt apone expy in edge of tomorrow rip twister guy, dude from the framing device story in titanic, sidekick cop in predator 2, punk #2 in the terminator, and most of all the private hudson of our hearts e: lol i just looked at everyone's expression in that screen grab. this is clearly like the 50th time they've heard hudsons "knives and sharp sticks" material.
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speaking of tiny beats that happen right on the edge of the frame and give the movie so much life, i love how in the meeting with the wy execs and galactic transportation safety board suits when she grabs someone's report from the desk to illustrate how "if just one of those things gets down here, all this bullshit you think is so important you can kiss it goodbye"-- there's a hand reaching into frame desperately trying to grab it back in that shot. i love that the background actor made that choice and they kept that take. it's so great. like "please ma'am that is an important document i am using in a presentation i booked after this with the senior vp of space tug boat concepts"
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