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Funky See Funky Do posted: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. It's the one with the dude who has a mullet and was in Tropic Thunder. That's basically what I remember it as.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It's the one with the dude who has a mullet and was in Tropic Thunder.
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Aug 31, 2020 04:50
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It's the one with the dude who has a mullet and was in Tropic Thunder. Oh right right and it's got that english guy and he's a robot or two robots?
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Aug 31, 2020 04:52
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Oh right right and it's got that english guy and he's a robot or two robots? Exactly.
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Aug 31, 2020 05:25
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Which is the one where there is a typo in the AI script that someone discovered like 5 years later??
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Aug 31, 2020 06:44
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Charles posted:Which is the one where there is a typo in the AI script that someone discovered like 5 years later?? 2001?
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Aug 31, 2020 08:01
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I never disliked Prometheus and I thought Covenant was mostly mediocre Never got the goon hate for em
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Aug 31, 2020 08:03
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Moo the cow posted:2001? Oh it was Aliens: Colonial Marines. https://www.engadget.com/2018-07-13-aliens-colonial-marines-typo-ai.html I thought we were talking about video games. lol A one letter typo crippled the game and nobody figured it out for four years
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Aug 31, 2020 08:38
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Randy pitchford is the alien covenant of video game developers
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Aug 31, 2020 08:44
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i found myself disappointed but also i gotta say it didn't disappoint with the action and horror. it definitely was better than prometheus in having more believable motivations for its characters
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Aug 31, 2020 08:55
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Watch that new Alien documentary if you want to watch a bunch of navel gazing millennial academics discuss the chest burster scene's sexual and religious undertones for an hour and a half.
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Aug 31, 2020 09:07
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No dude, you just need to watch the assembly cut. I swear it's good.
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Aug 31, 2020 09:26
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Alien: Covenant was never terrible.
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Aug 31, 2020 09:32
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Zzulu posted:I never disliked Prometheus and I thought Covenant was mostly mediocre They aren't bad movies necessarily, just in the context of what came before. Caring about if the continuity makes any sense, why the scientist loves the snake, etc. is not important. So, it was ok. Lots of worse movies around.
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Aug 31, 2020 09:35
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Zzulu posted:I never disliked Prometheus and I thought Covenant was mostly mediocre I don't think there was ever deep hate as much as real disappointment and some bafflement that a lot of  types were always trolling about how wrong everyone was to find mediocre movies mediocre. Like these movies came a decade after AvP and two decades after Alien 3 and Resurrection. We're all pretty used to that franchise being poo poo "with a few bright spots" by now.
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Aug 31, 2020 11:31
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What is the black goo? It's never explained. Huge plothole in the series imo, but the biggest one is the science team in Prometheus being dumb. It's never explained why they are that stupid. The crew not caring about Shaw or the squid is also a plot hole.
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Aug 31, 2020 11:38
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End of Shoelace posted:What is the black goo? It's a bio weapon the engineers made for ???? reasons.
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Aug 31, 2020 11:42
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doverhog posted:It's a bio weapon the engineers made for ???? reasons. Yeah, but what IS it?
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Aug 31, 2020 11:43
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Aug 31, 2020 11:44
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"When God gives you lemons, YOU KILL GOD" -Alien: Covenant
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Aug 31, 2020 11:45
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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? Lol this owns but no it still sucks. Imagine during a trump rant about "china virus" a robot that looks like a homeless veteran walks out and goes "gently caress that lunatic, come this way" Omg that's Jesus, it's going to happen.
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Aug 31, 2020 11:48
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doverhog posted:???? They never clearly explain what it is. It's a big problem for the series canon. It's also disappointing that the origin of the most iconic sci-fi slasher villain ever is never explained. I was extremely disappointed after seeing Prometheus in the theater. It would have been better if, like, Weyland genetically engineered the aliens out of greed, and the movie was about stopping him. Think of a baby between Alien and Avengers, and you have a good movie. I mean, the black goo can't just be all there is to it. There's nothing.
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Aug 31, 2020 11:53
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doverhog posted:They aren't bad movies necessarily, just in the context of what came before. Caring about if the continuity makes any sense, why the scientist loves the snake, etc. is not important. So, it was ok. Lots of worse movies around. Nah, they just can't articulate that the third acts in both movies are absolute garage. These movies are from Ridley Scott, whose last scifi movies were Alien and Bladerunner. That's a tall pedestal to fall...
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Aug 31, 2020 12:11
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i read or saw somewhere that the writer of the original alien screenplay hated the fact that they added the 'corporation is trying to capture the alien' plot point - his idea was just the simple 'terrifying mysterious alien attacks crew' stuff. and even though the rest of the movies were all enabled by that choice i agree with him also alien is the best, aliens is just ok and prometheus is frustrating
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Aug 31, 2020 12:29
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Joe Chill posted:Nah, they just can't articulate that the third acts in both movies are absolute garage. What makes Alien and Blade Runner good movies?
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Aug 31, 2020 12:32
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atmosphere? vvv i didn't like promethus because all the characters were so stupid and it felt like they were trying to answer questions but it kind of fell apart and got dumb. i don't need to know the backstory of where the aliens came from or whatever, the mysteriousness is what made them scary! Mozi fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Aug 31, 2020 12:33
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Alien fans be like "the first movie was the best because they didn't explain anything and things are cooler and more scary without explanations" and then complain that Prometheus sucked because they never explained what the black goo was.
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Aug 31, 2020 12:34
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Both Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 killed mine and my friends' will to go to the cinema for rest of the year, amazingly pretty and mortifyingly boring movies which look like animated wallpapers for those with huge rear end displays at home
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Aug 31, 2020 12:35
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Every Alien movie besides Aliens is a remake of the first one
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Aug 31, 2020 12:36
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laserghost posted:Both Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 killed mine and my friends' will to go to the cinema for rest of the year, amazingly pretty and mortifyingly boring movies which look like animated wallpapers for those with huge rear end displays at home but remember that big blue lady? mamma mia!
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Aug 31, 2020 12:44
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The fact that people treat this banal, on-the-nose scene as iconic is the most damning evidence how badly written that movie was Alien Covenant also has the dumbest cast of all the Alien movies, yo, take a look at this weird alien thing, will you, it's pretty cool lmao sucker
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Aug 31, 2020 12:50
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Mozi posted:atmosphere? What qualities make the atmosphere of the movie "Alien" so good that it, in turn, makes "Alien" a very good movie?
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Aug 31, 2020 12:59
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End of Shoelace posted:They never clearly explain what it is. It's a big problem for the series canon. It's also disappointing that the origin of the most iconic sci-fi slasher villain ever is never explained. I was extremely disappointed after seeing Prometheus in the theater. It would have been better if, like, Weyland genetically engineered the aliens out of greed, and the movie was about stopping him. Think of a baby between Alien and Avengers, and you have a good movie. What is there to explain? It’s like demanding to know what the mutagen that makes the Ninja Turtles, or the T/G-virus in Resident Evil is. It’s a lethal, mutagenic substance, the life that is death, the very essence of the Alien, no further explanation necessary.
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Aug 31, 2020 13:06
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Mozi posted:but remember that big blue lady? mamma mia! You mean the sexy lady named JOI? Go onto pornhub and type "JOI" It's "jackoff instructions" So the lead character of Bladrunner is a pornhub limp dicked robot who needs a disembodied voice to tell him to cum. That's a "good movie" now.
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End of Shoelace posted:What makes Alien and Blade Runner good movies? What doth film? Ok, I will bite. Besides atmosphere, sets, acting, story, etc. things that happen in these movies have WEIGHT to them. Now with Prometheus, everything that happens is so weightless and unengaging. Two dudes get attacked by a giant worm. Cool, I like to see where this is going- Oh none of the other characters mention them again. Wait, one of them turns into a zombie and attacks ... a bunch of nameless and faceless crew members we never seen before. I'm on the edge of my seat!
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Sentinel Red posted:What is there to explain? It’s like demanding to know what the mutagen that makes the Ninja Turtles, or the T/G-virus in Resident Evil is. It’s a lethal, mutagenic substance, the life that is death, the very essence of the Alien, no further explanation necessary. The same nerds that were mad that the explanation for the magic island on Lost was that it was a magic island are also made that the explanation for the evil mutagen in Prometheus is that it was an evil mutagen. It's why whenever someone accuses something of having bad writing with zero elaboration or explanation you can pretty much always safely discard their opinions because it usually boils down to their own hang-ups and an inability to form them into words.
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If you look closely at 22:44:57 you will notice black goo's yearbook with their photograph and description, "most likely to cause a genocide on an alien planet". Wow!
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Aug 31, 2020 14:24
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Sleeveless posted:The same nerds that were mad that the explanation for the magic island on Lost was that it was a magic island are also made that the explanation for the evil mutagen in Prometheus is that it was an evil mutagen. It's why whenever someone accuses something of having bad writing with zero elaboration or explanation you can pretty much always safely discard their opinions because it usually boils down to their own hang-ups and an inability to form them into words. Lol it wasn't evil. Talk about "adding your own hangups". The mutagen is life, neither good nor bad, simply a propagation. Look at you, applying human standards like "good and bad". Lol
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Aug 31, 2020 14:33
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doverhog posted:It's a bio weapon the engineers made for ???? reasons. Religious purification. They are self fart huffers of the highest kind, only they should exist, no one else.
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