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Just read issue 2 of the Marvel Alien comic. I don't like it. The characters are awful, the art continues to be bad, and part of the plot makes no sense to me. Spoilers for Issue 2: So the artist's self-insert is chewed out for letting his son steal his (still active despite being retired) security card. He's told to go up and retrieve a sample before they scuttle the station as it's gone to poo poo. He asks for a team of synthetics, but the corporate dude is like, "Nah, you hosed up and you're getting just two "operatives." Even if the mission is mostly punitive, if this sample is important enough to be retrieved in the midst of an infestation, why aren't they committing more than just three people? Also the protagonist is made fun of for being old, despite being built like a brick shithouse. This comic is bad.
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Mutant Headcrab posted:Just read issue 2 of the Marvel Alien comic. I don't like it. The characters are awful, the art continues to be bad, and part of the plot makes no sense to me. I found it inoffensive, it's a typical Alien comic. I do agree with your spoiler stuff. That is pretty dumb.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Biehn deserved way more work than I feel like he ended up getting. He's so good in everything. Michael Biehn is supposed to be a guest at a comic con in my area this summer. I'm not interested in autographs or any of that fan stuff, but I kind of feel like waiting in line just to tell him how great I think some of his roles have been, and how much enjoyment I've gotten out of them over the years. Whatever new media format comes out next, you'd better believe that some of the first movies that I buy / download/ ingest/ whatever will be Aliens, Tombstone, Abyss, and Terminator.
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Apr 22, 2021 00:56
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Inject those Aliens straight into my eyeballs, ‘Pitch Black’ style. Also Alien Day is coming up in a few days, April 26th.
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Apr 22, 2021 01:26
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Been sitting on this for a while, but my mom walked into Ripley losing Newt and then confronting the queen before narrowly escaping. It is literally the only time I''ve seen her being edge of your seat fully engaged with a movie. She hates action films. I started with my Dad watching the first film. The chest bursting scene was somehow a complete surprise to him.
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Playing Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun for the first time and I didn't realize Michael Biehn was in it. Now I feel like watching Aliens.Yvershek posted:Been sitting on this for a while, but my mom walked into Ripley losing Newt and then confronting the queen before narrowly escaping. It is literally the only time I''ve seen her being edge of your seat fully engaged with a movie. She hates action films. This is great!
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Apr 22, 2021 02:50
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Joe Chill posted:Now I feel like watching Aliens. You should always feel like watching Aliens. Joe Chill posted:This is great! it really is.
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Apr 22, 2021 05:41
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He was pretty good in that guest shot as Lang in the Mandalorian episode "the Jedi" as yet another world weary mercenary for hire..
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Apr 23, 2021 00:36
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Binary Badger posted:He was pretty good in that guest shot as Lang in the Mandalorian episode "the Jedi" as yet another world weary mercenary for hire.. Yeah he seemed pretty tired from all those star wars. But he is great. I mostly remember him as Corporal Hicks with Real Battle Damage, and he was pretty weary there. In the Abyss he played a better bomb than the actual bomb though. Lots of range.
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Apr 23, 2021 00:51
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his quiet mental break in The Abyss is scarier than anything in that movie.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:18
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Agreed. He was fantastic and scary as poo poo.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:20
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I can't remember where I saw this but as far as genre description, I've heard of the series described as such: Alien: horror Aliens: action/adventure Alien 3: thriller Alien 4: fantasy Largely attributed to the directors and what they generally produce.
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Apr 23, 2021 01:39
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Floodixor posted:I can't remember where I saw this but as far as genre description, I've heard of the series described as such: Alien: existential horror dread Aliens: same + action Alien3: psychological thriller Alien 4: French
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Both of those are correct.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Alien: existential horror dread Alien: existential horror, specifically "your sexual anxieties and hang-ups are coming to kill you. And also sex you, but in a really icky and unpleasant way." Aliens: War Alein3: existential horror, namely "your loved ones are always a hair's breadth away from dying horrible deaths and there's gently caress-all you can do about it. Also, you're going to die sooner or later. Have fun with that." Alien 4: Merde
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Alien: porn Aliens: porn Alien 3: porn Alien resurrection: french
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Biplane posted:Alien: porn
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Alien: donut Aliens: box of Timbits Alien 3: brookie Alien Resurrection: croissant
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Splicer posted:Please do not summon the horny xenomorph posting You do not need to summon them. They are always near
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Splicer posted:Please do not summon the horny xenomorph posting 
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Alien: donut Aliens: Big flashy outside, surprisingly nuanced flavour. Alien 3: Bitter coating, unpleasant filling, possibly toxic. Alien 3 revised: Bitter coating, mostly pleasant filling, contaminants slightly above FDA limits. Alien 4: Monster Energy and Doritos flavoured with creamy filling "personally manufactured and injected" by Joss Whedon.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Alien: donut I don't know what a brookie is but now I kind of want to try it. Well, even that is dependent on whether it's original or assembly cut brookie. EDIT: I have made a Mountain Dew flavored cake with Doritos crumbled topping for a friend's birthday and it was not as horrible as we expected. Honestly the analogy to Alien: Resurrection still tracks. Android Apocalypse fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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An original cut brookie is made with dog milk
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zenguitarman posted:On this thread's recommendation I bought The Making Of Aliens book and it's really great and revealed a lot of things I didn't know/realize about the movie, even from watching the DVD extras and the Alien Theory YouTube. Absolutely check out the author's book for Alien while you're at it. The bits from HR Giger's diary are worth it on their own. Edit: VVVVVV Exactly hahaha SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Absolutely check out the author's book for Alien while you're at it. The bits from HR Giger's diary are worth it on their own. quote:August 5, 1976
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Alien Isolation is free for the next week on Epic Games, just in case you weren't thinking about Aliens....
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August 6, 1976 Vulvas on the face
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I've been thinking about Aliens since I was nine years old and I watched the original film with my grandpa, and was immediately hooked. There were no action figure lines available at that time and, by the time there were (even though I was right in their target market), I was old enough to recognize that they were cheesy as hell. Today I have realized a dream long dormant. Today I am a man. S/He came with an egg which doubles as a wonderful pencil holder. Cheers, Big Chap.
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Apr 26, 2021 01:39
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Whoa whoa did you just call the old Kenner toys “cheesy as hell”? 
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Sorry, man, I know. I wanted Alien toys to help keep the vibe of the first movie as I remember feeling it-- not to expand outward into something else. The xeno for me was emblematic of the environment/feel of the whole larger experience instead of being a label slapped on a rhino/snake/gorilla/flying thing. And that just wasn't there when I was a pup.
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Alien toychat reminded me of the first time I saw Predator. Can't have been more than 8 or 9 years old, but the neighbor kid had a vhs copy of it, and it blew our minds. Spent the rest of the day making grenade launchers and machine guns out of empty toilet paper rolls and ducttape. Good times.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Sorry, man, I know. I wanted Alien toys to help keep the vibe of the first movie as I remember feeling it-- not to expand outward into something else. The xeno for me was emblematic of the environment/feel of the whole larger experience instead of being a label slapped on a rhino/snake/gorilla/flying thing. And that just wasn't there when I was a pup. I will not stand for someone slandering the fantastic Kenner toys, those things were my childhood. 
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OK so I had the date wrong for seeing The Abyss in the theatre but I did go see it. Honestly I feel the same I did the first time. It works as a fantastic hard sci-fi story (aside from the small appearance of the aliens) until the submarine/nuke chase scene. I adore the movie up until Brigman drowns. The cast is perfect, there's that classic Cameron feel of everything being real- catching the Making Of feature and seeing them actually invent new technology for underwater filming, plus all the sets they built and training the actors had to go through made me want to see it again. Michael Biehn slowly losing his mind is great, and Ed Harris pulls off a calm sincerity that anchors all the otherworldly concepts with a deep empathy that makes them easier for the audience to process. Cameron's still got a great balance of realistic characters, snappy dialogue and tense situations. The last act of the film just drags though. The slow descent into the trench, then the movie suddenly turning into a Star Trek episode about aliens weighing in on the violent nature of humanity. The Mutually Assured Destruction thing takes such a backseat for so much of the movie that hanging the aliens and the entire conclusion of the film on it, after all the character tension has already been resolved, just feels so forced and out of place. I do appreciate Cameron's absolute hatred of the military. Although in hindsight it's kind of hilarious that the heroes are trying to drill for oil given the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the current existential crisis the earth is facing. The version I saw I think was the directors cut? It had the scenes with the huge waves, which I don't remember seeing the first time. Its such a weird upping of the stakes going from our scrappy team of divers taking on the MIC and the unknown on the edge of the world to... Aliens solving the cold war and threatening the world with tidal waves.
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Happy Alien Day, friends!
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Thinking about Aliens on Alien Day.
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Animal Friend posted:OK so I had the date wrong for seeing The Abyss in the theatre but I did go see it. If you saw the version where there's tidal waves that freeze mid-air, you saw the director's cut.
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The trouble with having an Aliens day so close to May the Fourth is people just get you one generic sci-fi gift and say it's for both.
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It's like being born in December & your parents combining your birthday and Christmas presents into one event.
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Android Apocalypse posted:It's like being born in December & your parents combining your birthday and Christmas presents into one event. 
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