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Rightly panned at the time of release in 2017, but since 2020 could we now consider it ahead of its time? A group of idiots clinging to their ARs spread a parasitic disease because they don't wear PPE. Their incompetent leader makes it worse.
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Nah still bad
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Aug 30, 2020 22:33
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Amarcarts posted:A group of idiots clinging to their ARs spread a parasitic disease because they don't wear PPE. Their incompetent leader makes it worse. lol
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Aug 30, 2020 22:33
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Dude I gently caress with covenant and prometheus honestly but mostly for the sfx and sick visuals
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Aug 30, 2020 22:37
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No it's fantastic now. Because of this vague connection to current events I'm seeing everything in a new light. What I once perceived as terrible acting I now see as people struggling to cope with reading their lines. What once looked like hackneyed editing now looks like the deranged art of a man who hasn't seen daylight for weeks.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:42
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Amarcarts posted:Rightly panned at the time of release in 2017, but since 2020 could we now consider it ahead of its time? If you want a good movie about violating quarantine and not following safety protocols watch the original Alien, which happens to not suck.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:55
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I don't think masking up would help a xenomorph, the 2nd mouth will go right thru if it yawns
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Aug 30, 2020 22:56
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I saw it with high expectations based on what I'd heard but found it kind of disappointing.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:17
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the bad guy's last line is "don't let the bed bugs bite" as he puts the survivors in cryostasis.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:49
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people always criticized the scene from prometheus where she runs straight away from the falling thing, but as many youtube videos of falling trees have shown us, this is exactly what people do
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Aug 30, 2020 23:55
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I actually forgot that piece of poo poo existed
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Aug 31, 2020 00:29
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I feel like the trick to liking the new Alien movies is realizing that they're basically a weird synthesis of the ideas of Alien and the ideas of Blade Runner. Like, everyone shits on the whole angle where the humans are all kinda dumb, but... that's kind of the point. It's a story about creations surpassing their creator; the Engineers were a race of psychotic assholes that somehow managed to crap out humanity, and humanity in turn is a flawed, stupid species that created its own successor in synthetics. David is fundamentally no different from Roy Batty except that he doesn't have the time limit.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:17
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It was a huge let down because of some plot stuff that was cut in the theatrical release and because I was hyped for it.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:29
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I liked the part where the robot taught the other robot how to masterbate (play the flute)
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Aug 31, 2020 01:31
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Goreld posted:If you want a good movie about violating quarantine and not following safety protocols watch the original Alien, which happens to not suck. It does carry the message that the working class should not trust scientists as they are in the pocket of the industrial-military complex and you should ignore their advice. Which is a little unfortunate in today's times.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:32
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It was cool and good, in a world of endless remakes and reboots actually doing new things with a franchise is admirable even if it makes the nerds mad because they just want the same familiar product regurgitated into their waiting maws. Compared Prometheus and Covenant to the Terminator sequels or the Predator sequels and its night and day in terms of trying new things versus endlessly chasing the dragon of your first two hits and always coming up short while drowning in more and more Canon and Lore.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:39
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I like the part where James Franco dies before you even realise its James Franco.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:47
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Fatty posted:I like the part where James Franco dies before you even realise its James Franco. To quote the director, he goes "off into infinity for infinity. forever in infinity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDBr3xbgu0o
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Amarcarts posted:Rightly panned at the time of release in 2017, but since 2020 could we now consider it ahead of its time? Unfortunately not.I wish the film just needed time, but holy poo poo everyone on that ship was beyond stupid and useless. They had no business going out into space, much less being allowed to leave a padded room. Promethus thankfully got better with time, even if it does suffer some of the same issues.
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Aug 31, 2020 03:00
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Why is Ridley Scott making a Gladiator 2??????
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Aug 31, 2020 03:02
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Fatty posted:I like the part where James Franco dies before you even realise its James Franco. I like James Franco. 
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Aug 31, 2020 03:02
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It's fine, OP, and it always was.
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Aug 31, 2020 03:03
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Just so you all remember, there is a super good thread in GBS made by some loving genius dude who obviously hangs magnum dong. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3883563 I even got Michael Biehn's drunk rear end to say the words Something Awful (I had to trick him). Just a head's up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAhg2JvwrU
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Aug 31, 2020 03:20
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he tried to make the prometheus sequel appease prometheus haters, by stapling on a bit where the xeno is Jason.
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Aug 31, 2020 03:27
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Humans spread out like bugs. Space aliens spread out like bugs. When they meet, they fight really hard. There can be no answer because the writers derived no answers from thinking about it. It's just a plot device to make you think about 'eternal struggle' and feel the emotional response of 'angst', most especially when viewing the series as a sum total of its work. You'll always want for an answer because the goal of the creators of the fiction is for you to always want for that feeling of completion. You'll never get it because the writers and creators are as human as you are, plus, they want to make money making you feel that way. There is no deeper meaning. Thanks.
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Aug 31, 2020 03:30
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A good modern Alien adaptation sort of is Pandorum
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Prometheus was disappointing but in a good way. Covenant was disappointing but in a bad way. I hope this helps.
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I saw some YouTubers doing hot takes about how everyone missed the point with Covenant and it's actually a brilliant mad scientist movie disguised as an Alien retread. It felt really forced and fart-smelling. What is it with losers and thinking that clarifying the intent will make bad execution palatable?
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Aug 31, 2020 03:58
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I think covenant is the one where they land on the wrong planet and find that their predecessors genocided the locals with the aliens right? That was pretty dumb especially with that dumbass twist in the end
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Colonel Cancer posted:I don't think masking up would help a xenomorph, the 2nd mouth will go right thru if it yawns Go on...
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I watched a synopsis of the aliens franchise video on youtube that sums the whole thing up in less than 8 minutes and it concludes: "It's a circular story that the writers can't finish because they boxed themselves into not knowing if humans, androids, or the aliens were/are the predominant species so we can keep writing this poo poo as a circular loop forever."
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Colonel Cancer posted:I don't think masking up would help a xenomorph, the 2nd mouth will go right thru if it yawns Yeah if it’s just a surgical mask. But what about an n95
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does anyone care actually? like does anyone care what happened to the montegues after the fact? is there a shakespear expanded universe???
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which sounds neat until you realize that "No actually you can just say they won. Period." And have waaay less traction in the sci fi world than star wars or whatever.
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Aug 31, 2020 04:22
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numberoneposter posted:does anyone care actually? That's what I'm saying Almost no one asked for a sequel to this. Let alone ... this.
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Big Beef City posted:That's what I'm saying just end it cowards also blade runner 2049 is better than the original
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numberoneposter posted:does anyone care actually? I'd watch Romeo and Juliet 2: this time it's personal
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mind the walrus posted:I saw some YouTubers doing hot takes about how everyone missed the point with Covenant and it's actually a brilliant mad scientist movie disguised as an Alien retread. It felt really forced and fart-smelling. What is it with losers and thinking that clarifying the intent will make bad execution palatable? Basically, "fan" anything is going to be incredibly weird, pedantic, and extreme and overemotional bullshit. Yeah.
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Ok cards on the table. I don't actually remember which one this is and nothing anyone posted in this thread is giving me any clues.
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