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banned from Starbucks posted:I hope the movie opens with big chap having a nightmare that
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The What If comic is incredibly silly, worth a look.
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Mar 18, 2024 18:12
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Baronjutter posted:The What If comic is incredibly silly, worth a look. i was like "where the heck is this going???" and then it efficiently set up where it wanted to go 
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Mar 19, 2024 15:44
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Crosspost from the other Alien thread:Icon Of Sin posted:Y’all he put a loving xenomorph in this pic. Play with the brightness/exposure settings and it pops up.
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Mar 20, 2024 12:52
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Production values look solid, at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTNMt84KT0k
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Mar 20, 2024 17:39
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Okay a swarm of facehuggers is actually really freaky but maybe that's just playing off my arachnophobia. Kinda surprised an Alien film hasn't featured something like that before though come to think of it. Anyways teaser looks good and they definitely nailed the visuals. I'm excited 
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Mar 20, 2024 19:01
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There’s a swarm of facehuggers in avp
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Alvarez's Evil Dead remake had some fun parts but overall was only ok Never saw don't breathe
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ruddiger posted:There’s a swarm of facehuggers in avp How can you forget those bullet-time facehuggers? 
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Zadok Allen posted:Production values look solid, at least. There's a fuckin' pulse rifle in the trailer. I'm in.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:33
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Not reading any spoilers but I hope it's connected to Covenant somehow......it's me, I'm the latter day Ridley liker
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Mar 21, 2024 03:48
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ruddiger posted:There’s a swarm of facehuggers in avp All I remember from that is a Predator swinging an alien around by its tail which was hilarious and also another alien having a comically long tail just so they could do a shot of it impaling and lifting a predator up to its face. Oh and that flashback scene of the huge alien swarm attacking the predators on top of the pyramid which was a fun clip but also kinda annoying in a "This is what you were hoping the film would be, isn't it?" type of way.
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General Battuta posted:Not reading any spoilers but I hope it's connected to Covenant somehow......it's me, I'm the latter day Ridley liker  comrade, but we shouldn't get our hopes up.The teaser is giving me 'contemporary Alien/Aliens remake' vibes but it's too early to tell tbf
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Mar 21, 2024 04:31
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It's can often be obvious from a trailer if something is going to be horrible, but its almost impossible to ever tell from a trailer if something will be good. The trailer looks fine, lot of potential. But we really won't know a thing until the movie is actually out. It's kind of amazing the amount of content mill and rage bait that gets generated just from trailers where people just make up entire things from whole cloth to declare something a total trash failure or obviously the film event of the year. It seems especially bad with anything related to nerd media.
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Mar 22, 2024 01:43
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Seems like it at least doesn't completely ignore the Ridleyquels? "That’s not correct, but it does take place between the two movies [Alien and Aliens]. The way we crafted it is if you haven’t seen any of them, I’m jealous because you’ll have an incredible experience. You’ll have all these worlds of Alien coming at you, and you’ve never experienced any of this. You don’t know how the creature is born, and you don’t know any of these things. That’s fantastic. You’ll have a blast. [...] So it is crafted in that way, and hopefully it works that way for everybody, but it is connected to all of them. I love all of those movies. I didn’t want to omit or ignore any of them when it comes to connections at a story level, character level, technology level and creature level. There’s always connections from Alien to Alien: Covenant. " https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/alien-romulus-trailer-ridley-scott-1235856321/
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Mar 22, 2024 12:43
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That sounds to me like "I don't want to get in a scrapfight with the fandom about canon, it's a film about people on a space station getting attacked by an alien and nobody is going to stop to drop any one liners about the fate of the Covenant"
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Mar 22, 2024 18:52
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Takes place between alien and aliens, is about a crew investigating an abandoned space station, I think i've seen this one!
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So basically the entire plot leaked a little while ago and the trailer matched it perfect. For anyone that cares about its relationship to Covenant... The Black Goo features heavily and David is directly referenced. More details... The space station was experimenting on The Black Goo, which they call the Prometheus Strain, before everything went to poo poo. David is mentioned as having successfully reverse enginered the Prometheus Strain which naturally occurs in Xenomorphs. David's ultimate fate isnt clarified, but his work is back in the hands of WY.
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That sounds pretty cool. It almost sounds like a mix between Alien Isolation and that draft Alien 3 script with the back-bursters and the soviet station tryig to do alien DNA (goo) research. I'm actually pretty optimistic about the movie. I mean the general plot of a movie is never the measure of it being good or bad, a lot of things sound great on paper but the execution is dogshit. I'd be happy with a solid lore-friendly universe-respecting well written alien romp that brings some new ideas to the table.
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Baronjutter posted:It's can often be obvious from a trailer if something is going to be horrible, but its almost impossible to ever tell from a trailer if something will be good. The trailer looks fine, lot of potential. But we really won't know a thing until the movie is actually out. All true. I'm optimistic about what I saw though since it seems to get back to what I want and like about an Alien movie. I'm all in for a back to the basics approach with this franchise. Reminds me in that way of the trailer for Prey, which I still haven't seen yet but heard was good. The best trailers set a tone and make you want to see more without giving the whole film away. Also worth noting I think that 9 out of 10 times when a trailer looks like complete poo poo, it usually is complete poo poo. But the ratio of good trailer to good movie ratio is far higher.
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It doesn’t actually matter if they reference plot points from other films or not; namedropping Shaw or Engineers or whatever is basic fan reference poo poo, while the point of the movie would be to advance the narrative. A common complaint about Alien Covenant is that its ending resembled Alien too much, but the point of Covenant is that - after 3-6 movies - we’re looking at those kind of events from an entirely different perspective. So the protagonists kill the alien, just like in Aliens - “yay!” - but we know that the alien isn’t the actual threat. The company’s not doing the ‘bioweapon conspiracy’ thing from the comics either, and that doesn’t matter because Covenant highlights the fact that Ash and Mother were fuckin’ crazy. David isn’t acting as an agent of the corporation. He doesn’t have a profit motive. The ‘danger’ of Alien 7/Prometheus 3: Romulans is that it could mark a thematic regression back to Alien 4. “Walmart wants to turn people into dinosaurs” poo poo, y’know? Because this appears to be the first time that they’re depicting “the science division” in a medium that anyone cares about. That’s very dicey.
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Xenomrph posted:Shh, shhhhhhhhhhhhh, we don’t talk about that. Nah, Skynet is a closed loop that creates itself by sending a robot back in time, but also destroys itself by preparing Sarah & John Connor to fight back. The Predator must crush the Terminator somehow in a way that allows it to collect the outstretched hand as a trophy but not the head.
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My local theatre is showing ‘Alien’ for Alien Day for the 45th anniversary and you’d better believe I’ll be there for it.
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BiggerBoat posted:Reminds me in that way of the trailer for Prey, which I still haven't seen yet You should remedy this immediately!
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Got in an argument with the CreatorVC CEO on their discord about the novelty (or lack thereof) of making the minimum price for the Blu-ray release of their “Aliens: Expanded” documentary be $100 and justifying it by throwing in a bunch of extra bullshit like posters and patches to jack up the price. I argued for a less expensive version that didn’t come with a bunch of extra nonsense. Here’s some choice quotes I got as a reply: quote:Then your going to miss out unfortunately. Our work is for superfans who recognise the value of what we’re creating with them and for them. Our physical media is personalised, highly collectable and a limited run. Backers get to have their names in the credits alongside the cast of Aliens and James Cameron. The value is immeasurable quote:They way I look at it, is you either see the value in what we’re offering or you don't. Our target audience shows up because they understand and appreciate what we deliver. quote:For you, I'd recommend thinking of the posters etc as extras. The price we put on our limited edition, personalised Blu-Rays won't change. It'll be a timeless connection to the Aliens universe that you can always point to and know you will have been part of. The way I look at it is that it's a manifestation of your fandom - and a little bit special because of it 💫 Worth pointing out that a “connection to the Alien universe” might have more weight if the project wasn’t a fan project. Like, my name is in the Alien RPG. That’s a connection to the Alien universe.
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What do they have that hasnt already been covered by any of the making of docs on the box set?
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Well, stickers, for one.
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Xenomrph posted:I argued for a less expensive version that didn’t come with a bunch of extra nonsense. That’s absolutely valid, they’re just gatekeeping their documentary at that point. gently caress ‘em, pirate it.
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banned from Starbucks posted:What do they have that hasnt already been covered by any of the making of docs on the box set? A bunch of all new interviews, off the top of my head. The_Doctor posted:That’s absolutely valid, they’re just gatekeeping their documentary at that point. gently caress ‘em, pirate it. I liked the insinuation that I wasn’t a super fan if I didn’t want the extra merch.
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You're not a true fan unless you shell out for the stickers. Their high-end blend of proprietary adhesives is only appreciated by superfans.
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That's hilarious. Wonder how many potential sales they're throwing away with that bullshit price. Ooh wow my name in the credits in size 3 font at the bottom of a page. Who gives a gently caress lol.
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Is the $100 blue ray the only method they're selling it, or there will be cheaper options to like just download it or something?
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Pfffh BluRay  true superfans have the alien legacy VHS ina shoebox somewhere
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Baronjutter posted:Is the $100 blue ray the only method they're selling it, or there will be cheaper options to like just download it or something? Digital only for....$50
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Blood Boils posted:Pfffh BluRay laser disc bitch
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Baronjutter posted:Is the $100 blue ray the only method they're selling it, or there will be cheaper options to like just download it or something? You can download it for like $50. Otherwise $100 is the lowest physical release. But hey if you’re willing to spend $40 more, you can get a T-shirt! Blood Boils posted:Pfffh BluRay I have this. And the Legacy DVD. 16-bit Butt-Head posted:laser disc bitch And this. Hell, I bought the laserdisc and didn’t even get a player for it until over a decade later. 
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quote:The value is immeasurable Okay this is funny but real talk I hope their highly collectible and limited run doesn't sell out and they're left with boxes of junk they can't get rid of because they were greedy and anyone wanting it just gets it elsewhere like The_Doctor implied. The way they talk about their target audience screams that they just wanna milk hardcore fans because they think they can but it's a freakin' Blu-Ray lol even $50 is absurd. They're not Sideshow Collectibles who actually put out some cool stuff. And on that note holy poo poo do I regret selling some of the cool stuff I had from there 
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