Julius CSAR posted:

She's also in "Near Dark" which is a movie about a family vampires in Oklahoma that also stars Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

The Aliens tabletop game is infamous for having a ridiculous amount of calculations for a simple rifle shot. Zack Parsons wrote up an enjoyable adventure where Hudson and crew battle a wizard: http://www.thebadguyswin.com/2017/03/aliens-adventure-game-1991-the-hunt-for-elminster/

When I first watched I had no idea Paul Reiser was going to be evil. When he turns off the camera feed, so great

Mutant Headcrab posted:

Aliens: Newt's Tale is the closest I can think of. It's a two-part comic entirely from Newt's perspective. Part 1 is all prequel events depicting the colony's downfall. Part 2 is the events of the movie.

Donovan Trip posted:

Similarly, T2 played off audience expectations about which Terminator is the good one in the first act. If you saw T1 the scene in the mall is a big twist.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

There's scary badguy music whenever the Robert Patrick Terminator is onscreen and Arnie gets rock n roll, it's a bullshit idea nerds made up

Shut up Meg posted:

I thought that was deliberate: at the beginning, they are utterly confident in their skills and badassery and pretty much as soon as they hit the planet's surface, they are shown to be utterly incompetent soliders and get their poo poo completely pushed in.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I love that too. Apone's realization and him cracking up is sort of endearing.

skasion posted:

lmao

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

also the full alien 3 newt autopsy scene was so gross and over the top that it made people sick during test screenings and wasn't restored as part of the assembly cut.

Beet Wagon posted:

Donovan Trip posted:

Settle down Paul Reiser

Pennywise the Frown posted:

This might have been due to budget/technology issues. In the vent when Dallas gets caught you can see an old fashioned "Vampire/mummy/bad guy reaches out arms and cut to next scene."

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

i thought AvP: requiem was bad because the characters were killed off too quickly. what makes aliens good is you get invested into the dynamics of the marines and then they get killed, not just randomly introducing them and killing them off within minutes. also none of the characters in requiem react appropriately to literally hundreds of people being ripped apart around them.

Beet Wagon posted:

I mean, the first AvP was way closer to what the AvP comics were like than Requiem. It’s not exactly a bad take, considering both movies were pretty bad.

I only like Requiem cause it has that dope scene where the dad gets loving wrecked as he’s peering through the sliding glass door.

skasion posted:

This isn’t a dumb opinion at all. AVP is clumsy in execution (PG13 Alien movie? PG13 Predator movie? Lmao) on top of the whole idea being dumb, but it’s a fun dumb. It’s essentially one big crackpot pastiche of “At the Mountains of Madness” and it’s hard to go all the way wrong with that premise. Requiem is a terrible movie with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, there’s really nothing worse to say about it than that it looks like complete poo poo despite being conceived and directed by two special effects guys.

Mister Speaker posted:

Oh gently caress yeah I remember this one too. Definitely had a hard copy... As a huge fan of MAD magazine this was a delight.

Riatsala posted:

Just played a round of SS13 Colonial Marines that felt like the authentic Aliens experience. For the uninitiated (and note that this game is strictly for broke-brains like me), CM on a good day is a 150 marines and support staff answering a terrestrial distress call from a colony that has been, unbeknownst to them, overrun by about 40 xenomorphs with strong respawn potential (via abducting and facehugging marines, colonists, and lab monkeys). All marines and xenos are played by actual humans in low level roleplay.

Anyway. I got picked as a squad smartgunner for the squad assigned to scout the creepy caves covered in gross biomaterial. We get in, find a weird egg, squad leader pokes it and gets facehugged. Then xenos start pouring out of every direction, pouncing, grabbing, and dragging away helpless victims to an overwhelming din of gunfire that slowly fades as more and more guys get picked off. I'm one of the last to get grabbed, and chose to go out by priming a grenade and dropping it at my feet.

If that all sounds cool to you, remember this is all in 90s flash game level graphics. But still. Was cooler than any other Aliens video game experience I've had outside of Isolation and AVP 2.


Another round I joined late and got assigned to sit at a barricade in the forward operating base with another hapless marine and a squad engineer. We're shooting the poo poo for nearly an hour at our posts inside a barricaded research lab, no xenos to be seen while the other squads are locked in a very exciting guerrilla war all the way across the map.

The whole time there's this cigarette machine just outside of the barricade that's chirping obnoxious sales slogans every 10 seconds. I mention that I'm about ready to shoot it to shut it up when the engineer offers to go out and clip the power. He trundles out and almost immediately gets grabbed by a xeno that must have been waiting there for ages. Nothing we could do but I laughed so hard I nearly cried.