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Pennywise the Frown posted:My Spectrum guide now shows Rotten Tomatoes scores. It's on TV right now on BBC America and saw the score. That single negative review was from gene siskel. 100% of critics who didn’t like Aliens died of brain cancer. makes you think...
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Weird Science is on & seeing Bill Paxton as Chet is still gold.
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Oct 31, 2019 05:40
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Class Warcraft posted:That single negative review was from gene siskel. I liked him a lot, but goddamn he could be a twonk. I just watched their review of The Terminator, he didn't like that either! 
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Oct 31, 2019 08:22
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Android Apocalypse posted:Weird Science is on & seeing Bill Paxton as Chet is still gold. That's not a joke, that's a severe behavioral disorder. I mean, the next thing you know, you'll be wearing a bra on your head!
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Nov 3, 2019 02:30
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Class Warcraft posted:That single negative review was from gene siskel. What was his issue with aliens? Just being contrarian, perhaps?
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Nov 3, 2019 18:02
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Kuato posted:What was his issue with aliens? Just being contrarian, perhaps? He probably just got pissed off because Aliens ruined every other movie for him. He'd be sitting there watching some Oscar bait artsy thing, and think to himself 'goddamn, there's no power loaders, no Vasquez, and no sentry guns in this garbage. How do I get out of this chicken-poo poo outfit?'
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Nov 3, 2019 18:34
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Kuato posted:What was his issue with aliens? Just being contrarian, perhaps? 'It was too strong'. Here's his review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1y6QhZaUG4 Man, I know the US loves these two, but holy poo poo they are pompous as gently caress. Never really watched a full review with these two before.
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Nov 3, 2019 18:47
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happyhippy posted:'It was too strong'. Here's his review: Ebert: This movie was well made, great action, Weaver was excellent and had a great performance, my stomach was knotted up towards the end. That was too much for me. Siskel: nom mmm soo good *shoveling poo poo into his mouth* oh god, so great mmmmm
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Nov 3, 2019 18:57
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happyhippy posted:'It was too strong'. Here's his review: I love how hard they're clutching their pearls over how intense the most kickin' rad action movie of all time is. Goodness me! *fans self* I am kind of surprised the critic appreciation for Aliens is higher than the audience appreciation though. I'd have thought there'd have been more highfalutin critics who'd have been dismissive of it for being more action-orientated and not as cerebral as the original.
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Nov 3, 2019 20:55
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Their review of Terminator is a must see too. Siskel talks about how the future scenes take place on "another planet."  I was better at watching movies when I was 8.Ebert was always the better reviewer though because he in one of his books he articulate a good ethos of evaluating movies on what they're setting out to do that boiled down to, paraphrasing: If someone wants to know if Lethal Weapon 2 is good, they don't want to know if it's good compared to Remains of the Day or Chariots of Fire or w/e, they are asking if it's good compared to Die Hard or Commando. At least they both had the good sense to like RoboCop.
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Nov 4, 2019 00:11
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happyhippy posted:'It was too strong'. Here's his review: This makes me feel old. I used watch em back in the day. If they both agreed on a movie chances are it would be good. These were the days before the internet so that show was useful just to get a general idea about what movies were out.
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Nov 4, 2019 06:00
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Class Warcraft posted:That single negative review was from gene siskel. If you don't like Aliens, I can't lie to you about your chances, but... You have my sympathies.
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Nov 6, 2019 14:53
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I watched aliens directors cut (best one gently caress all the haters) on acid and it was great. Highly recommend
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Nov 6, 2019 15:38
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Biplane posted:I watched aliens directors cut (best one gently caress all the haters) on acid and it was great. Highly recommend Hopefully not Alien acid 
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Nov 6, 2019 16:32
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Trippin balls on that concentrated royal jelly 
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Nov 6, 2019 16:41
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I really want them to release a UHD of Aliens 
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Nov 6, 2019 17:36
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Xenomrph posted:Hopefully not Alien acid Tripped balls then melted. Two thumbs up.
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Nov 6, 2019 18:41
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Two thumbs up! \ 
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Nov 6, 2019 18:45
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Biplane posted:I watched aliens directors cut (best one gently caress all the haters) on acid and it was great. Highly recommend Oooo that sounds fun. I tried to do acid once in a microdose solution (I took it all) and it didn't work. Looked it up and antidepressants can counter it. 
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Nov 6, 2019 18:49
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Got my PDF copies of the new RPG in the mail, haven't dug in yet, looking froward to the physical copy in the mail heck yeah. Weirdly the first scenario I'm inspired to do is actually a switcharoo with a Predator.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:02
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Biplane posted:I watched aliens directors cut (best one gently caress all the haters)  Do people actually hate the DC? I thought some just felt it hurt the pacing or didn't like Newt's parents that much. I love every extra second, especially the exasperated beauracracy.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:09
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Yeah some people say it screws up the pacing and you should watch the theatrical cut first. I don't care. I like the DC more. Don't try to change my mind. 
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Nov 6, 2019 19:13
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SilvergunSuperman posted:
Eh, the added Hadley's Hope/Newt scenes kill pacing. They're neat, but unnecessary to the story. On the other hand sentry guns
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Nov 6, 2019 19:13
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Some things in the DC are cool (sentry guns, seeing Ripley's daughter), some not so much (seeing Newt's parents). I get why the cut it but it's still fun to see the extended version every now & then. Is there a director's cut of Alien: Resurrection?
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Nov 6, 2019 19:20
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Even with the Hadley's Hope scene at the beginning, the DC owns.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:28
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Android Apocalypse posted:Some things in the DC are cool (sentry guns, seeing Ripley's daughter), some not so much (seeing Newt's parents). I get why the cut it but it's still fun to see the extended version every now & then. There’s an extended edition on Blu-ray that has some additional stuff and an alternate opening and ending, but even though it’s listed on the Blu-ray as the “director’s cut”, there’s an intro by the director saying that his true directors cut is the one we got in 1997.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:31
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Wishing there was a "Just gimmie all the stuff you filmed" cut.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:35
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Android Apocalypse posted:Is there a director's cut of Alien: Resurrection? 
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Nov 6, 2019 19:38
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Oooo that sounds fun. man, that sucks. Acid is for The People and everyone should do it. also lolling hard at the directors cut ruining the pacing  with the hadleys hope scenes, its like 5 minutes at the start of the film
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Nov 6, 2019 19:55
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Iron Crowned posted:Eh, the added Hadley's Hope/Newt scenes kill pacing. They're neat, but unnecessary to the story. On the other hand sentry guns I think foreshadowing Newt hiding in air ducts is pretty goofy and unnecessary but "kills" pacing? Really? The movie has barely gotten started at that point and everything else about the DC is an improvement.
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Nov 6, 2019 20:15
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purple death ray posted:I think foreshadowing Newt hiding in air ducts is pretty goofy and unnecessary but "kills" pacing? Really? The movie has barely gotten started at that point and everything else about the DC is an improvement. I don't know man, I think the theatrical cut is perfect from beginning until the marines arrive. It keeps the story with Ripley and the whole mystery of what happened to the colony. You really don't need the foreshadowing because you got that by watching Alien.
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Nov 6, 2019 20:37
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There's mystery about what happened to the colony?
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Nov 6, 2019 20:40
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ID argue its not «foreshadowing» as much as its just world building. This is the first we see of the civilian colonist side of things, and its established that the Company sucks and everyone knows it. It’s a good and cool scene.
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Nov 6, 2019 20:44
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Biplane posted:ID argue its not «foreshadowing» as much as its just world building. This is the first we see of the civilian colonist side of things, and its established that the Company sucks and everyone knows it. It’s a good and cool scene. Nah I mean specifically the line about how she hides in places the other kids can't get to. Foreshadowing how she manages to survive when the xenos start hatching. The world building with the colonists is fine imo.
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Nov 6, 2019 20:52
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purple death ray posted:Nah I mean specifically the line about how she hides in places the other kids can't get to. Foreshadowing how she manages to survive when the xenos start hatching. The world building with the colonists is fine imo. Yeah I watched the first half of the Director's Cut on Halloween and I think it kind of seems unnecessary. The part where Newt's dad has the facehugger on is very, "Here we go again!" Kind of like off-camera deaths, I think it's kind of cooler to leave how it happened up to your imagination. However, the DC has the turret scene and the backstory on Ripley's daughter, so I would take that version anyday.
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Nov 6, 2019 20:57
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I liked that they showed the colony. In the regular cut they just say that there's a colony and they lost contact. Kinda didn't have much of an impact on me since I didn't know what it was or who was there. I think showing the workers and kids and families there made it feel more real. You get to see the people who are about to get royally hosed. I don't understand the pacing argument. It's like <5 minutes.
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Nov 6, 2019 21:13
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Yeah, an ideal cut would retain the stuff cut from after the Marines are introduced. The "life on the outpost" stuff, while fine in a vacuum, seems superfluous and Ripley's daughter, I won't miss too much if it were excised.
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Nov 6, 2019 21:17
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The colony scenes are neat, and I like them, but I do not like them in the movie 
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Nov 6, 2019 21:19
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't know man, I think the theatrical cut is perfect from beginning until the marines arrive. It keeps the story with Ripley and the whole mystery of what happened to the colony. You really don't need the foreshadowing because you got that by watching Alien. Sunswipe posted:There's mystery about what happened to the colony? Exactly. The moment you bought your ticket you knew what was up when the colony was non responsive. Like, it’s right there in the movie’s title. Although it would have been a pretty goddamn hilarious fake-out if the Marines went to the colony, found it was a downed transmitter, and then the entire rest of the movie is a deep meditation about illegal immigrants in space or something.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I liked that they showed the colony. In the regular cut they just say that there's a colony and they lost contact. Kinda didn't have much of an impact on me since I didn't know what it was or who was there. I think showing the workers and kids and families there made it feel more real. You get to see the people who are about to get royally hosed. Yeah, I actually watched it for the first time in a while and totally forgot that they showed other families, rich I thought was neat. My memory of it was that it just showed Newt and her parents driving to the alien ship.
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