Alien: Covenant/Alien Series thoughts.

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TheHarbinger said:
Ash is an example of someone lying from the start and being well written. Ash is even lying about being human and it fools the characters and audience. And there are lots of instances foreshadowing or revealing Ash being some type of traitor or purposefully bringing the alien onto the ship. The first Predator film had Dillon who was also lying to the other men about their real purpose and mission.
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Ash's betrayal works on so many levels. As a shock horror moment, as a way to implicitly convey the corporate evil of the Company thus enriching the setting without ever having to show Earth or the current society, as an elegant plot device to paper over any forced errors on the crew's part ("but why would they let it on the ship?") and one more nuance to add to the lovely crew dynamics in the early parts of the movie as you can see Parker instinctively doesn't like him for example.
 
TheHarbinger said:
Ash is an example of someone lying from the start and being well written. Ash is even lying about being human and it fools the characters and audience. And there are lots of instances foreshadowing or revealing Ash being some type of traitor or purposefully bringing the alien onto the ship. The first Predator film had Dillon who was also lying to the other men about their real purpose and mission.
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And the sequel follow up by Bishop about how an early model synthetic would have had a AI-breakdown when forced to lie and endanger a crew.
"Oh yeah ChatGPT 78 would probably give you advice that would kill you. I would never do that."
 
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Alien Romulus is kind of... okay. It really felt like some higher-ups changed or added some scenes and lines for 'memberberries, especially that one line on the climax. Andy, sound effects, set design, and the atmosphere carried this movie. That said, it was okay in general. Probably slightly better than Prometheus/Covenant, I'm still mad where the plot kicked off because they have to make everyone's stupid. For this one, they're smart for teenagers, just happened to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. But being better than Prometheus (and Covenant) is not a high bar to overcome anyway.

I have no anticipation for Alien: Earth, but at the same time I'm surprised that nobody ever thought "what if one of the popular ways to defeat an Alien made it crash-land on Earth" until that show's existence, especially with how the Queen was beaten in Aliens.
It serves as a prequel and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien.
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lol nevermind
 
Aib Ld said:
I'm still mad where the plot kicked off because they have to make everyone's stupid. For this one, they're smart for teenagers, just happened to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. But being better than Prometheus (and Covenant) is not a high bar to overcome anyway.
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I'm not surprised the director made them stupid. His last film I'm aware of had the stupid premise of young thugs busting into a blind veteran's house and he murks them since he has Daredevil hearing and memorized his house. Even something as simple as moving furniture, or making things in the house make noise like faucets would defeat this, but they're too retarded to come up with it.

Director can't write anyone but stupid people, so it's not shocking the people in Romulus are turkey level stupid.
 
Adamska said:
he has Daredevil hearing
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To be fair, that exaggeration came from Don't Breathe 2. Dude has superpowered senses like the one scene where he magically oneshots a member each from a gang just because they stepped on water and he would feel the waves from their footsteps, knowing where they are. Fucking echolocation shit.
Don't Breathe 1 had somewhat exaggerated senses too for a blind guy but it wasn't so absurdly overthetop like the sequel. I had no idea how I even finished Don't Breathe 2.


Adamska said:
Even something as simple as moving furniture, or making things in the house make noise like faucets would defeat this, but they're too retarded to come up with it.
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It has been a while but they did. I remember them setting off a fire alarm which threw him into confusion but they forgot about the guide attack dog that later chased them down.

I do agree with your point though, I feel like it ever so slightly slightly makes sense since they were blind (lol) about the threat. Don't Breathe? yeah theyre dumb on staying and still wanting to rob his house after him proving he was a veteran right in the first act.
 
new Predator teaser has Weyland-Yutani logos all over the place (Elle Fanning's eyes, shoulders. random construction vehicle.)
 
I can't get over the look of this Predator. Sheeee-it :lit:
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CervixHammer said:
new Predator teaser has Weyland-Yutani logos all over the place (Elle Fanning's eyes, shoulders. random construction vehicle.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8NjxYdU7JlM
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Yeah, I already don't give much of a shit for Prey due to how it botches culture for a stupid message, it's made by that same director, and having it try to hint at a stupid slop fight AvP series completely takes me out of this one.

Hard pass.
 
BrunoMattei said:
It could be a Jurassic Park thing and the Preds cloned dinosaurs.
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And if we go by the 'The Predator' movie, they were specifically seeking out dinosaurs with autism. Which is an amusing thought.

"Actually Kevin, it's not a meteorite coming towards us, it's a metor." <bang>
 
TheHarbinger said:
Alien Romulus made $350 million in theaters. This movie has Weyland Yutani in it and will likely set up for Alien vs Predator 3.
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Specifically for those wondering, the film cost 80 million to make allegedly, so it made a hair over double its budget, give or take a tax write-off used to deduct actual cost. Not shabby, but not impressive other than them actually being cheaper than 100 mil. It's probably because for once they didn't do heavy CG fixes besides the initial vision.

Slop is going to be the meta, and they're beelining towards this IP slap fight for the same reason the Monsterverse exists; they want pants shitting retards to justify why hiring fucking horrible actors and minimizing what they actually want in a film, ie the CGI monster slapfights, is good.
 
CervixHammer said:
new Predator teaser has Weyland-Yutani logos all over the place (Elle Fanning's eyes, shoulders. random construction vehicle.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8NjxYdU7JlM
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Why are we able to see the predator why isn't it masked up? another superpowered girlboss.
Retards fail understand the most retarded easy-to-grasp franchise in scifi.
 
I think you guys are making too much of the prosthetic or lack therof. It's obviously CGI because this Predator is going to be flipping around and doing shit. Stuntman can barely see with the mask on and Kevin Peter Hall needed to memorize his blocking without accidentally bitch-slapping Arnie.

It still looks better than the prosthetic in the first AVP.

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You guys are not going to ruin my hype for this movie.

Ghostse said:
Why are we able to see the predator why isn't it masked up? another superpowered girlboss.
Retards fail understand the most retarded easy-to-grasp franchise in scifi.
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1: it's a male.

2: it could be on a planet where it doesn't need a mask to assist with breathing.

Let's give it a chance. That's all I'm saying. It's the first time we're getting a Predator movie that tries something radically different that doesn't have fucking autism as part of the plot.
 
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