Vagabundo posted:

Uhhh... including this one.

Jay_Zombie posted:

Yeah, sorry, I thought that was implied. I mean in addition to the Aliens novelization.

Millions of Crows posted:

Anyone else pick up the William Gibson Alien 3 comic adaptation?

Xenomrph posted:

I finished reading the comic adaptation of William Gibson's 'Alien3' script draft and... it sure was a comic book, I guess.

Maybe reading the script and listening to the audio drama will salvage it, but I didn't think the comic was that hot. Ripley (and to a lesser degree, Newt) gets written out of the plot in the laziest way possible, Hicks (and to a lesser degree, Bishop) is a non-character who is given nothing to do and feels flat and lifeless, poo poo just kind of.... happens, it's all very inferior to the Alien3 we got.

There was some stuff that just didn't make sense.

On a visual level, giving the UPP soldiers a USCM dropship was lazy and didn't make a whole lot of sense. They're an independent and potentially hostile military, what are they doing with USCM tech? Like I could come up with explanations, but that doesn't make it less stupid.
It took me a good while to figure out of the weapons division people were from the military or from W-Y and I'm not quite sure why.
Speaking of, the corporate woman mutating out of nowhere caught me totally off-guard, I had to flip back and make sure I hadn't skipped a page somewhere. Like, she gets sucker-punched and the very next panel is her mutating like something out of 'The Thing'.
The Sulaco gets intentionally diverted through UPP space to get to Anchorpoint because it's the shortest route.... but the Sulaco had apparently been out in space for four years since 'Aliens'? Wait, what? Like, the four year gap not only doesn't make sense, it's totally inconsequential to the story so why include it?

I mean, I'm glad this exists - it's kind of an oddity and seeing a rejected script get visually adapted is a novel idea. I'd like it if they took a crack at adapting other script drafts like the Ward or Twohy scripts.
But yeah this story was not good, or at least it wasn't executed well. I'll see if the actual script or the audio drama change my mind.

Xenomrph posted:

The audio drama is a lot better.

Xenomrph posted:

He was making a movie dialogue joke.

Vagabundo posted:

In all fairness, it was a pretty lovely joke.

Xenomrph posted:

He was making a movie dialogue joke.

Owlbear Camus posted:

Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?

Owlbear Camus posted:

Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?

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The film had an ace visual effects coordinator in Phil Tippett, who also worked on the original Star Wars films and RoboCop. But on set, the computer-generated bugs had to be simulated using some rather unconventional methods. Verhoeven used everything from brooms to poles and even himself as a stand-in. As Clancy Brown (Sgt. Zim) recalled, Verhoeven would be "jumping up and down with a bullhorn going, 'I'm a big f**ing bug! I'll kill you!'”

SilvergunSuperman posted:

I love Paul Verhoeven so much.

Vagabundo posted:

Oh man, now I wish Paul Verhoeven had directed an Alien film.

Linux Pirate posted:

I like Alien and Aliens a bit more than Robocop and SST, and I feel like Alien movies should have a more serious tone, but I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see that movie.

Vagabundo posted:

Oh man, now I wish Paul Verhoeven had directed Alien 4

Linux Pirate posted:

I like Alien and Aliens a bit more than Robocop and SST

QuarkJets posted:

Seems like apples and oranges to me anyway; how does one even begin comparing Robocop or SST to Alien? May as well be arguing over ice cream flavors

Linux Pirate posted:

More about Paul Verhoeven as a director and his over the top style, and how well that would/wouldn't fit in the Alien universe. Not a comparison of Robocop, SST, and Alien as films

Xenomrph posted:

Woop woop got some more Aliens merchandise in the mail today

Xenomrph posted:

skasion posted:

For me the problem with T2 is the lack of tension. Everyone knows that Edward Furlong is not gonna get torn apart by an evil robot. Terminator is at heart a slasher movie where a woman alone is menaced by sinister, armed vagrants. It’s inspired by this post-Watergate stuff like Halloween or Assault on Precinct 13 where American society is collapsing and the murder of women and children by these chaotic forces is completely within the realm of possibility. It’s easy to envision a version of the movie where Sarah just ends up dead. T2 has a completely different worldview.

basically what im saying is, John Carpenter should have made T2

Drunken Baker posted:

Is there a good Alien Isolation LP anyone can recommend? Ideally someone who knows what they're doing and is showing off the story and the game and not a shrieking dickhead going in blind.

Drunken Baker posted:

Is the hive reveal and the multiple alien reveal done in game or with cutscenes?

Drunken Baker posted:

Have I completely made this up or is there a part where the hive has entombed the ship and you look out a window and turn the lights on only to see a resin wall where space should be and there are hundreds of aliens all climbing over one another out there and... whoops, they know where you are now because of the light.

Or am I remembering part of System Shock 2 and just adding aliens?

Drunken Baker posted:

Is the hive reveal and the multiple alien reveal done in game or with cutscenes? Those are the parts that really pique my interest. (I'll look them up on youtube after I post this)

edit: jesus, just the Youtube thumbnails for people playing that game is enough to make my skin craw. You just know they're going to be screaming almost the entirety of the video. Urgh.

Xenomrph's AvP lps were so good. Hey, Xenomrph, have you done a LP of Isolation by any chance?