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End of Shoelace
Apr 5, 2016

Joe Chill posted:

What doth film?

Ok, I will bite. Besides atmosphere, sets, acting, story, etc. things that happen in these movies have WEIGHT to them.

Now with Prometheus, everything that happens is so weightless and unengaging. Two dudes get attacked by a giant worm. Cool, I like to see where this is going- Oh none of the other characters mention them again. Wait, one of them turns into a zombie and attacks ... a bunch of nameless and faceless crew members we never seen before. I'm on the edge of my seat!

How much does the atmosphere of the movie "Alien" weigh?

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Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
the only thing that would have made Alien better is if the xenomorph took the form of a spooky clown like in It

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
And it's gotta say something cool! No more hissing and spitting, today's clown alien has to be a cunning linguist. How about "why so serieous"

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
*facehugger looks up from kane's face* uh a little privacy please?!?

End of Shoelace
Apr 5, 2016
Personally, I would have liked if it was discovered that the Aliens have a fully translatable language, but it turns out communicating with them is hard and they tend to be violent, so it becomes more OK to kill them than ever before.

End of Shoelace fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Aug 31, 2020

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Johnny Alien wakes up in cold acidic sweat, on the floor. Enough of it pooled to erode the cinfortable cot down to nothing. He swore. It was another one of these dreams - no, a nightmare. A pink human cub chasing after him through the endless corridors. He shivered.

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
Prometheus had incredible atmosphere and was all around good. I liked it better than Aliens. Covenant sucked butts just like James Franco (more like James Stanko).

Joe Chill
Mar 21, 2013

"What's this dance called?"

"'Radioactive Flesh.' It's the latest - and the last!"

End of Shoelace posted:

How much does the atmosphere of the movie "Alien" weigh?

Ten urns of black goo.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
I love how an enjoyable slasher in space franchise turned into some kind of navel gazing about the clock maker argument.

Who gives a gently caress who made the aliens, gently caress the architects, they are useless and boring. Give me a 2 hour movie about a lavish space cruise that accidentally takes up some unwanted passengers and then everyone gets et by aliens.

Vakal
May 11, 2008
The best part of Covenant was when the two young and attractive crew members who had maybe 3 lines of dialogue between them the entire movie decided to gently caress each other in the shower in the third-act, but oops, the fully grown alien is also in the shower with them and runs its tail between their legs before killing them.

It really makes you think...

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Colonel Cancer posted:

I love how an enjoyable slasher in space franchise turned into some kind of navel gazing about the clock maker argument.

Who gives a gently caress who made the aliens, gently caress the architects, they are useless and boring. Give me a 2 hour movie about a lavish space cruise that accidentally takes up some unwanted passengers and then everyone gets et by aliens.

Just watch Deep Rising.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Sunswipe posted:

Just watch Deep Rising.

I think I've seen it. It's not in space though.

Really the whole subgenre of horror... In space! is basically non-existent outside of maybe two dozen movies, most from 20+ years ago.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
I'd even settle for the bad part of Sunshine set on the first Mars or Moon colony.

Xaintrailles
Aug 14, 2015

:hellyeah::histdowns:

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

You mean the sexy lady named JOI?

Go onto pornhub and type "JOI"

It's "jackoff instructions"

So the lead character of Bladrunner is a pornhub limp dicked robot who needs a disembodied voice to tell him to cum. That's a "good movie" now.

I'm sorry that the film hurt your feelings.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Xaintrailles posted:

I'm sorry that the film hurt your feelings.

Look, everyone knows the quality of a film is directly related to what comes up when you search for its plot relevant terms in pornhub. pop fly to McGillicutty also thinks Citizen Kane is a stupid movie because he searched for "rosebud" once.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
My feelings? Y'all are the one that can't take a joke about a jackoff robot. I loved Bladerunner 2069 or whatever it was called. It was the second worst Bladerunner movie ever.


Lol Bladerunner and Citizen Kane in the same sentence

pop fly to McGillicutty fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 31, 2020

Fornax Disaster
Apr 11, 2005

If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.
In his second appearance Data’s brother Lore claims he was rescued by a Pakled trading ship and is wearing a Pakled uniform. I always wished I could have seen him take over that Pakled ship and presumably slaughter its crew.

Now that I have seen Alien Covenant I think I have.

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦
JOI is both a product to help lonely poors jerk off, and (with the emanator) a "sentient" AI that is no different from the replicants, just as the replicants are no different from humans. Everyone is just a machine, consciousness does not actually exist, it's all fake.

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.
"Sexy Xenomorph" is an interesting GIS

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

doverhog posted:

JOI is both a product to help lonely poors jerk off, and (with the emanator) a "sentient" AI that is no different from the replicants, just as the replicants are no different from humans. Everyone is just a machine, consciousness does not actually exist, it's all fake.

Are you saying that space, time, and thought are not as distinct concepts as we may believe?

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

doverhog posted:

JOI is both a product to help lonely poors jerk off, and (with the emanator) a "sentient" AI that is no different from the replicants, just as the replicants are no different from humans. Everyone is just a machine, consciousness does not actually exist, it's all fake.
He is the pride and she is the joy makes u think huh

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

It really made me reevaluate alien after I saw my son immediately after childbirth. Holy poo poo did Scott have some hosed up issues with birth.

Having only seen Prometheus as the first alien movie I have ever seen, I thought it held up as a meh horror flick with no strong impressions. Given everyone else I saw it with's reaction I think it's best that I never watch it again having seen the original one.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

sure okay posted:

I liked the part where the robot taught the other robot how to masterbate (play the flute)

This and watching James Franco get burned alive make the movie Very Good

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

End of Shoelace posted:

Yeah, but what IS it?

it’s weaponized space cum

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

1redflag posted:

Are you saying that space, time, and thought are not as distinct concepts as we may believe?

I'm saying it's ok to love your waifu and you should jerk off a lot.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

End of Shoelace posted:

How much does the atmosphere of the movie "Alien" weigh?

very carefully

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

i like the part where the buff alien goes ape poo poo and rips the guys head off

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

Sleeveless posted:

It was cool and good, in a world of endless remakes and reboots actually doing new things with a franchise is admirable even if it makes the nerds mad because they just want the same familiar product regurgitated into their waiting maws. Compared Prometheus and Covenant to the Terminator sequels or the Predator sequels and its night and day in terms of trying new things versus endlessly chasing the dragon of your first two hits and always coming up short while drowning in more and more Canon and Lore.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
I wonder if there were any drafts that did a good job of visiting the engineers and interacting with their world before deciding to just nuke them.

Console Role Player
Sep 15, 2007

Snooch to the Gooch
The most disappointing thing about Alien Covenant is that the director's commentary is nothing but Ridley Scott artlessly explaining what's happening on the screen. No insights in to the production or the writing process. No anecdotes about the cast or shooting. Just Ridley acting like the world's most aloof and boring grandpa, reading his grandchildren a bedtime story not even he is interested in.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Bladerunner is a bad movie because it teaches children to run around with blades ie see the name and it's not a very good idea! Remember little Johnny who liked to run with scissors from your childhood? That's right.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Colonel Cancer posted:

I think I've seen it. It's not in space though.

Really the whole subgenre of horror... In space! is basically non-existent outside of maybe two dozen movies, most from 20+ years ago.

It's on a ship, and the characters have pulse rifles. But really, I love that film and think you should watch it again.

Console Role Player posted:

The most disappointing thing about Alien Covenant is that the director's commentary is nothing but Ridley Scott artlessly explaining what's happening on the screen. No insights in to the production or the writing process. No anecdotes about the cast or shooting. Just Ridley acting like the world's most aloof and boring grandpa, reading his grandchildren a bedtime story not even he is interested in.

John McTiernan's commentary on Predator was like that as well. Really disappointing compared to the other special features they put together for the Predator DVD. They've should've done a Dog Soldiers and sat the cast down in front of the movie with a case of beer and recorded the resulting conversations.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
My favorite cool trick in Prometheus is that for old man Weyland they had a younger actor in old man makeup so your basic film literacy would make you think that his plan was going to work and he would be restored to his youth, so his death is even more surprising in its abruptness. It's up there with adding CGI birds flying out of the giant statues in Lord of the Rings as if they were startled by an actual helicopter doing an aerial shot in terms of tricking people by using their knowledge of filmmaking against them.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Sunswipe posted:

It's on a ship, and the characters have pulse rifles. But really, I love that film and think you should watch it again.


John McTiernan's commentary on Predator was like that as well. Really disappointing compared to the other special features they put together for the Predator DVD. They've should've done a Dog Soldiers and sat the cast down in front of the movie with a case of beer and recorded the resulting conversations.

I think I just might take you up on that offer. Last time I've seen it I don't think I was even a teenager but then again same goes for Alien.

Definitely see Pandorum if you're into scifi horror, it's amazing.

Waterfall Watcher
Dec 17, 2018

How to ruin improve game sessions & family ties with one simple question.

-Would this be better if I used poison?
looks pretty.
Why does Fast bender have next to ugly friend complex where he's a decent actor but it's like he chooses to only be in lovely movies.

Console Role Player
Sep 15, 2007

Snooch to the Gooch
Say what you want about Steve Jobs the person, but Steve Jobs the movie isn't lovely, my friend.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

Waterfall Watcher posted:

looks pretty.
Why does Fast bender have next to ugly friend complex where he's a decent actor but it's like he chooses to only be in lovely movies.

nah

oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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I looked up his movies and in The Snowman he plays a guy named Harry Hole lmao

Waterfall Watcher
Dec 17, 2018

How to ruin improve game sessions & family ties with one simple question.

-Would this be better if I used poison?

oldpainless posted:

I looked up his movies and in The Snowman he plays a guy named Harry Hole lmao

That's hilarious.
His first movie was 300, I didn't know that it was possible to debut in 300 and still have an acting career.

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El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
Yes, I’m sure the breakaway commercial success of that year really tanked a lot of careers

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