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Android Apocalypse posted:I like to think CineD is all "No you see, the alien is asexual and implying there's rape allusions is just projecting. It’s definitely this, with additional commentary from SMG about how the whole movie is an analogy for the struggle of the proletariat against the predatory rapaciousness of the corporate future.
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Mister Speaker posted:my god it's full of prometheus defenders What’s wrong with Prometheus? 
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Android Apocalypse posted:Of all the things SMG to shitpost on, they're kind of right about the theme of corporations being evil and Yeah but that’s like Themes 101 when it comes to the Alien movies, that was flat out text from the first movie, nevermind subtext.
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Aliens is about capitalism putting it's workers at risk for even the slightest increase and profits and about sex. In short, it's about capitalism loving you over.
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You don’t see them loving each other over for a goddamn percentage.
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Tell that to the front line xenos soaking up the sentry gun bullets
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Mister Speaker posted:my god it's full of prometheus defenders The horror. The horror.
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Torquemada posted:It’s definitely this, with additional commentary from SMG about how the whole movie is an analogy for the struggle of the proletariat against the predatory rapaciousness of the corporate future. SMG think Aliens is too pro-capitalist and doesn't think Ripley does enough to try to communicate with the aliens so they can team up to fight the company.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:SMG think Aliens is too pro-capitalist and doesn't think Ripley does enough to try to communicate with the aliens so they can team up to fight the company. On the contrary, SMG genuinely believes that Ripley is pro-Company.
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ruddiger posted:Tell that to the front line xenos soaking up the sentry gun bullets I wonder if you could create what happened in the corridor with the sentry guns. Like would you have a build up of bodies, allowing them to slowly creep over their downed brethren. Or would the acid blood be so quick creating the massive hole that the aliens just dodge weave up and down getting closer and closer.
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In 2179, LV-426 seemed like Just another foreign war But it wasn't, it was Different in many ways As so were those Who did the fighting In the Nostromo The average age of the Combat drone was twenty-six hours In LV-426, he was nineteen In LV-426, he was nineteen In LV-426, he was nineteen In LV-426, he was nineteen N-n-n-n-nineteen
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Xenomrph posted:On the contrary, SMG genuinely believes that Ripley is pro-Company. Holy poo poo.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Of all the things SMG to shitpost on, they're kind of right about the theme of corporations being evil. Wow. How loving original. I haven't read a SMG post in 5 years (yay ignore button) but Jesus Christ this hardly qualifies as insight. What, are corporations greedy and place their bottom line above human life or something? Do they value profit above all else and sometimes try to weaponize things and sell stuff to the military even if it puts ordinary working people in danger? Do tell. Might make for some fascinating subtext. Next you'll be telling me the mayor in JAWS placed profit above the safety of his town's residents. I might have to think on this.
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But like Xenomrph said, it's not even subtext in the Alien films, it's loving text. Aliens is one of the most famous "slimeball corporation fucks everyone over" movies in all of modern sci-fi.
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happyhippy posted:I wonder if you could create what happened in the corridor with the sentry guns. That last idea sounds cool as hell and people need to play in the "acid blood" idea pool more.
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BiggerBoat posted:Wow. How loving original. The aliens are communists.
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The one with the acid spits! One out of two gets acid. The one without follows him! When the one with the acid gets killed, the one who is following picks up the acid and spits!
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Xenomrph posted:You don’t see them loving each other over for a goddamn percentage. My issue with how the aliens escape in Resurrection is that it kind of undermines this. I'd have liked it better if the one xeno willingly offered himself to be gutted.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:My issue with how the aliens escape in Resurrection is that it kind of undermines this. I'd have liked it better if the one xeno willingly offered himself to be gutted. The novelization of the movie shows that scene go down from the POV of the Aliens, and it kinda sorta goes down like that. The murdered Alien recognizes that its death is for the good of the whole and accepts its fate.
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Torquemada posted:with additional commentary from SMG about how the whole movie is an analogy for the struggle of the proletariat against the predatory rapaciousness of the corporate future. I don’t know I’d you were joking or if you’ve seen it, but that has literally played out several times for years now
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Vagabundo posted:In 2179, LV-426 seemed like  Oh that';s good, take a bow.
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BiggerBoat posted:Wow. How loving original. Don't mock. We are still witnessing 500 million people screaming about the economy during a global pandemic because companies told or paid them to.
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ruddiger posted:Tell that to the front line xenos soaking up the sentry gun bullets They were just trying to unionize. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:They were just trying to unionize. I’m just picturing the hopping xenos from the arcade game with little picket signs on their shoulders as Ellen “Pinkerton” Ripley mows them down.
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Finnish store I sometimes buy stuff from is clearly thinking about something
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:The aliens are communists. Personally I love that Aliens is just James Cameron's gleeful retelling of how communists hosed our poo poo up in Vietnam
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Beet Wagon posted:Her justification is so dumb lmao. I ran across that post in the wild two days ago and this was the one that got me If you want horror in a big empty void then she’s still wrong because ‘Gravity’ has some pretty goddamn scary scenarios for multiple reasons and it is literally set in the void of space.
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I wouldn't call Gravity a horror in the least sense of the word. It's an excellent movie, but it's a thriller. I guess you could argue what those terms mean, but I absolutely wouldn't consider them the same. Horrifying instances for a character doesn't make a horror movie. I just don't agree with that comparison. I mean, she's a moron, that is painfully clear. But using Gravity as an example of possible horror in context of what she was talking about, I don't understand. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I wouldn't call Gravity a horror in the least sense of the word. It's an excellent movie, but it's a thriller. I guess you could argue what those terms mean, but I absolutely wouldn't consider them the same. Horrifying instances for a character doesn't make a horror movie. I do agree, although there are real scary existential implications that the movie doesn’t touch on.  It’s one of those movies that isn’t scary on its surface, but gets horrifying if you start thinking about its implications, like Avengers Endgame and everyone returning from “the snap”.
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Sorry I edited my post a few times. I can normally pull that off before people reply.  But scary doesn't mean horror. Saving Private Ryan isn't a horror movie, but I can't think of much more horror than someone going through that.
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Two thoughts: By her rubric, Dracula is ceases to be horror if you're unfamiliar with victorian europe. Alien creates a VERY familiar bond with the crew of blue collar cargo haulers before introducing the horror element. It would take the most trivial of rewrites to make it the story of a ship full of wish.com dildos stopping at an uncharted island in the pacific.
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