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i was not a very sophisticated film viewer when i watched alien resurrection but i distinctly remember rolling my eyes at ripley throwing the basketball up out of the frame and some stage hand dropping a second basketball into the net behind her
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:there is also a very bad basketball scene that is very jossy the basketball scene is cool because signourney weaver actually nailed a no-look three pointer on the first try but no one will ever believe it because the ball briefly leaves the frame
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uh oh. now we gotta fight
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Truman Peyote posted:i was not a very sophisticated film viewer when i watched alien resurrection but i distinctly remember rolling my eyes at ripley throwing the basketball up out of the frame and some stage hand dropping a second basketball into the net behind her haveblue posted:the basketball scene is cool because signourney weaver actually nailed a no-look three pointer on the first try but no one will ever believe it because the ball briefly leaves the frame lmao
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Truman Peyote posted:uh oh. now we gotta fight keep it above the belt and no eye gouging
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what is this marques de queensberry poo poo?
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i never watched alien covenant but the trailer made me think they basically just gave up and made a slasher movie from that one bit of the couple getting killed during sexy shower time
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infernal machines posted:what is this marques de queensberry poo poo? rotor probably helped the marques develop those rules
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i never watched alien covenant but the trailer made me think they basically just gave up and made a slasher movie from that one bit of the couple getting killed during sexy shower time hmm... this friendly robot sure seems to be fascinated with vivisection and weird alien trophies. oh well, no reason not to trust him completely.
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infernal machines posted:what is this marques de queensberry poo poo? its ok to gouge out this guys eyes
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that's what the visor's for, old man
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Alien3 is deffo better in the extended cut
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Chris Knight posted:Alien3 is deffo better in the extended cut yeah, I think that movie gets a not-entirely-deserved bad rap due to how it was forced out. some good performances imo, just tonally very different and very much not 'fun' like the sequels it's wedged between. anyway please enjoy this miniature ya nerds https://twitter.com/aliensexpanded/status/1759669262442955089
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my favorite part of alien 3 is why it's in a prison that's also some kind of monastery for some reason. at one point in production, there were two competing scripts: one where the alien is in a prison colony so there are locked doors everywhere and violent criminals with their own agendas, and one where the alien is in a low-tech monastery so nobody knows how to fight and there aren't any weapons. *snorts gigantic rail* GUYS
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there’s also the gibson script with space communists [most reports point to this being a spec script and there was no intent to actually produce it]
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FMguru posted:afaict there are only two stories you can tell with xenomorphs (ordinary people encounter them and are plunged into a horror scenario, and professionals encounter them and get their asses kicked and are plunged into a horror scenario) and they did as good a job as possible telling those stories in the first two movies nice people encounter them and they all have a nice time. but then the xenomorph accidentally cuts itself and the human thinks the acid blood is an attack, so they part ways. montage of both pining for the other. eventually they run into each other in the crawlspace and love is rekindled. there are some shenanigans but it all ends happily ever after
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Sagebrush posted:my favorite part of alien 3 is why it's in a prison that's also some kind of monastery for some reason. the monastery was also supposed to be a spaceship made out of wood
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Truman Peyote posted:uh oh. now we gotta fight lol wikipedia mentions that bit but its citation is a special feature from the alien quadrilogy box set. maybe it's online somewhere
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haveblue posted:lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3u4uDwLzNI
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https://twitter.com/thekatyo/status/1514331221102276610?s=46&t=aXw7W5TiwDaOVtqp-9FOLA
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ah hell I missed news Vernor Vinge passed yesterday; I'm going to go back through some of his work, it's been a while.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:ah hell I missed news Vernor Vinge passed yesterday; I'm going to go back through some of his work, it's been a while. drat, RIP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky was my favorite of his, especially viewed in the context of him being a professor and “focus” being a snarky joke about it being a trait of some students or admins
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bump_fn posted:https://twitter.com/thekatyo/status/1514331221102276610?s=46&t=aXw7W5TiwDaOVtqp-9FOLA she got the part https://twitter.com/loveliesmovie/status/1737110823406023157
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halfway through heretics of dune: really this isn’t bad, i can understand it being a bit of a let down but there’s some interesting enough stuff going on 2/3 through heretics of dune: oh no, is this where 4 books of mandatory terrible 60s/70s male scifi author sex stuff went?
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which one introduces the honored matres, is that 5
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quiggy posted:which one introduces the honored matres, is that 5 yup it’s abstract enough until duncan is escaping with lucilla (the imprinter)
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lol is that where frank talks about her precise control over her vaginal muscles and whatnot
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I’d watch it if Dennis was still in charge, too
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quiggy posted:good stuff the next chapter includes “Taraza lifted her gaze to Bellonda waiting in the doorway. She is too fat! She flaunts that before us!” — Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6 by Frank Herbert quality seems to be going full 737 max here
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quiggy posted:good stuff and then in a universe where todays national identities, religions, beliefs etc have eroded, merged, blended, died etc, he introduces a people called The Jews who are just straight up the same as they are today because they are so clannish etc.
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postin my favorite emmet walsh bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRu0OCub5m0
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it's been a few days since I watched dune 2 but I can't stop thinking about the visuals. everything was so on point and satisfying. so menacing. even small things like how their laser weapons were continuous beams of light rather than the typical PEW PEW projectiles you see in sci-fi. I remember thinking the same thing in the first part, when the bombs were slowly penetrating the ship's shields. just a delight to watch.
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Honestly the whole "projectiles that slowly push their way through shields before exploding on the inside" thing is just incredible filmmaking. Visually spectacular, but still makes perfect sense as the sort of weapon you'd design to beat that particular defense.
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and then the explosion is contained within the shield for a moment before it fails 
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going to see DUNC2 tonight hellll yeah dunc2nite
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villeneuve has a great eye for sci-fi visuals, i was blown away when i first watched arrival
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quiggy posted:villeneuve has a great eye for sci-fi visuals https://i.imgur.com/XtV5IuB.mp4
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