Alien: Covenant/Alien Series thoughts.

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CaptainAutism69 said:
I loved the series, except for the fact it ended on a cliffhanger :(
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They did the best they could given they weren't told whether or not they'd get another season until the very last minute. Even then, I have to give them that this wasn't your regular sort of cliff-hanger. It really felt like a monumental change in the state of things. Less cliffhanger and more "new world opens up".

At least, for me. In a few ways it was even better because some of the things that would be standard in a TV show were avoided. Derek is still dead and always will be dead. They'd planned his death to be a temporary thing, bringing him back through time travel shenanigans. Which would have undermined the shock of when he's killed and the re-emphasizing of just how merciless the terminators are. But now, that moment always remains. Cameron always sacrifices herself to save John Henry. The last farewell to his mother really is a last farewell.

I don't know - I kind of liked it in a weird way. Though still - fuck the people who cancelled it.
 
So Predator Badlands is apparently an action comedy essentially... I don't get it.
Making this close to a decade after The Predator, an action comedy that everyone hated, is like if almost a decade after Batman & Robin, instead of Batman Begins, we got Batman Forever.
This shit will flop hard.
 
I skim watched JesterBell's review on the Predator movie whilst cooking.

She said it was like someone had done a movie where Godzilla talks about how his parents divorced and that's why he wants to smash up Tokyo; or you learn Freddy Krueger was bullied and maybe we should just help him make a new friend and then he'll stop molesting children.

Apparently, Predator gets cute animal side-kicks in this movie and Elle Fanning helps him get in touch with his feelings.

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As much shit we'll give The Predator and literally weaponized autism, at least it got the no-nonsense aliens right.
Theres no fucking way "lets talk about our feelings" will work on the warrior culture trophy hunting aliens. What the fuck is this traumadumping/MY FEELINGS media era?
 
Just curious anyone pirated or found a free version of badlands? I am curious to see how they changed the predator but know it’s bad enough to not pay for it.
 
Overly Serious said:
Predator gets cute animal side-kicks in this movie and Elle Fanning helps him
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Sasmate said:
Just curious anyone pirated or found a free version of badlands? I am curious to see how they changed the predator but know it’s bad enough to not pay for it.
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Of course not, nobody on Kiwi Farms would ever do a copyright infringement.
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Overly Serious said:
She said it was like someone had done a movie where Godzilla talks about how his parents divorced and that's why he wants to smash up Tokyo; or you learn Freddy Krueger was bullied and maybe we should just help him make a new friend and then he'll stop molesting children.
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Huh, guess she never read any of the comics.
 
Here's a fun little review from the #Comicsgate thread:
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I went to hate/laugh watch.

Disney put in a quirky sitcom android and a Stitch clone pet to destroy what was left of the Predator air of mystique and turn him into a cleft palate Klingon with fwends in a sloppy fusion of Enemy Mine, Star Trek, Aliens and Arnie's final ambush tropes. Sci-Fi is a joke and full of 40-50 year old reheated hash browns.

It only really had one decent action piece at the end, but it's not enough to make it a good action sci-fi in my opinion.
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BlackDragoons said:
Huh, guess she never read any of the comics.
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I love the comics, warts and all. I think like Marvel they should've taken bits and pieces from several different comics and created a cohesive story. I say bits and pieces because there was plenty of goofy stuff going on.
 
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Overly Serious said:
I'm going to make a guess, completely uninformed here, that the cute little creature turns out to be super dangerous / tough in some 'unexpected' surprise moment. I know nothing about it but I know Hollywood writers. Am I correct?
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it's the baby of the allegedly unkillable ultramegasuperdeadly beast the manlet predator goes to kill. to show his predator dad that being a manlet doesnt mean he's worthless, and should be murdered or should kill himself because his manlet existence shames the family. based predator society no manlets allowed
 
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draggs said:
it's the baby of the allegedly unkillable ultramegasuperdeadly beast the manlet predator goes to kill. to show his predator dad that being a manlet doesnt mean he's worthless, and should be murdered or should kill himself because his manlet existence shames the family. based predator society no manlets allowed
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FUCK! That was actually my original idea but I changed it to this one following other people's comments.

Now I can't say "called it" even though I did.
 
Overly Serious said:
FUCK! That was actually my original idea but I changed it to this one following other people's comments.

Now I can't say "called it" even though I did.
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Also it
bites the midget Predator's dad's head off at the end, having grown larger but still having the big Baby Yoda eyes (kind of looks like Falkor from The Neverending Story). Then Elle Fanning scratches under its chin like it's a big heckinpupper.
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and... sequel hook with bonus "how big is Glup Shitto now?" size comparison:
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(Elle Fanning is 5'9", can't find an exact height real quick but Dimitrius Longname-Hyphenated is supposedly around 6'0-6'3")
 
CervixHammer said:
Also it
bites the midget Predator's dad's head off at the end, having grown larger but still having the big Baby Yoda eyes (kind of looks like Falkor from The Neverending Story). Then Elle Fanning scratches under its chin like it's a big heckinpupper.
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and... sequel hook with bonus "how big is Glup Shitto now?" size comparison:
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(Elle Fanning is 5'9", can't find an exact height real quick but Dimitrius Longname-Hyphenated is supposedly around 6'0-6'3")
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setting up that animu-fied coomerbait sequel: MY DOG KILLED MY DAD. NOW MY MOM WANTS TO SLEEP WITH ME?! coming to crunchyroll 2028!
 
I pirated it and it was meh. I liked it better than Prey but a little too goofy for me. I liked the part where Dek made armor and weapons from the animals and plants.
 
I liked Badlands a lot, but it ticks a lot of my guilty-pleasure boxes. It was like candy to me, my type of sloppa. Of course nothing ever compares to Predator 1 and 2, but Badlands gave me more of the AvP vibes that I've been craving and felt like what 2018 SHOULD have been (in terms of being an action comedy). If all Predator movies from here on out are Disneyfied without horror, violence, gore, and killing humans, that will be very disappointing though. Prey was pretty serious and dark, so maybe that means we will get more like that. But I've always wanted a movie where the Preddy survives in the end, so I'm happy. I like Dek, he definitely won me over. Silly little retard Yautja.

Also sorry to all the Alien fans, I know this probably further fucks up your lore. The "NO WE HAVEN'T DISCOVERED FTL YET" line made me laugh out loud.
 
So they are doubling down on the idea that there isn't FTL because these fucking tards think these ships are generation types and have ignored the dozens of sources and things from the movies themselves that show they HAVE IT. Nice; that makes nothing they make canon then.

Also nice to see they're turning this into mascot cgi shitslop garbage so tards can gurgle it was fun as their circular and only argument for why this isn't visual miscarriage. Because fuck character writing; just use IP monsters to carry your fucking garbage.
 
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Arbiter said:
Also sorry to all the Alien fans, I know this probably further fucks up your lore. The "NO WE HAVEN'T DISCOVERED FTL YET" line made me laugh out loud.
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At some point, there will be an Alien and/or Predator movie where somebody folds a piece of paper and sticks a pen through it to explain how "jumps" aren't technically FTL.
 
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