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BrunoMattei said:
And you know this by consulting the Species Technical Manual or something?
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They had a species roleplaying game believe it or not. Had a bunch of stuff that never made it into the movies. Like injecting alien DNA into regular people to make them bloodhounds and seek out escaped hybrids.
 
Michael Wade said:
They had a species roleplaying game believe it or not. Had a bunch of stuff that never made it into the movies. Like injecting alien DNA into regular people to make them bloodhounds and seek out escaped hybrids.
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Then tell us how to play this game, sir. If you pick the alien side do you win just by raping everyone? The public must know.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Then tell us how to play this game, sir. If you pick the alien side do you win just by raping everyone? The public must know
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Honestly that is an excellent question. Fortunately or unfortunately my eyes have only seen the movies, but I was listening to a podcast about it and it sounded awesomely stupid.

Basically it assumes sil and her kid survived 1 and are continuing to crank buns in the oven. ( Dont ask for details they didn't linger on the sex parts. I think it's safe to say they didn't stat the act) there's a whole vampire the masquerade tier system that goes up to 6 generations. Lower you go the more related to sil you are and the higher you go the less alien DNA and abilities you have. To the point where the highest tiers are borderline human and can't transform.

So the agency(that's what it's called) has to go and hunt them down but are kinda fucked with just regular humans. So they have the wonderful idea to make more alien hybrids. Hey Lets take some 18 year olds, inject some alien DNA and use them as glorified bloodhounds. What could possibly go wrong? They were smart enough have a fail safe with 24 hour injections they need to live but yeah. Did I mention it has a high failure rate and a chance to make you a bald super soldier? Also if that fails there's a psychic forest whitaker class.

But it's not just the aliens and the hunted as factions!

We got the cia and the FBI who are more then a little jealous and pissed off at the alien agency and will actively work to fuck them over. Because why not.

We've got insane hippie environmentalists who were abducted and probed, maybe. Assuming they are not just crazy guys in the woods.

And we have other aliens! We got two factions of grays that either want to save humanity or destroy it and help or hinder the agency at their leisure

Also Russian competitors! In Soviet Russia aliens fuck you!

This sounds great, so what's the problem? The alien abilities suck ass.

Somebody confused Anamorphs for ALIENS and made it so sil and progeny can turn into dogs, worms bears. And other far out shit instead of actually turning into aliens. It's hilariously lame and the bloodhounds can do it too, they just need to eat a shit ton of carbs before hand. So.. yeah.

It's s roleplaying game so use your imagination and try (and fail) not to be too awkward around the table. lol
 

Just watched this one tonight. A lot of words like white privilege, safe space, triggered and cancelled thrown around which irked me until I realised they came from the main character who is shown to be full of shit and the ugly annoying gay guy. Once it gets going it's a good time with lots of nice practical effects which I will forever simp for.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Late but I'd say Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers and Stagefright (1987) are the definitive meta slashers.
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Michael Wade said:
Or rape aliens. That's untapped potential.
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On those notes

There's Nothing Out There (1991) is a meta movie about rape aliens that apparently finally got a disc release and made it to streaming. It has a similar premise to Scream, with the main character realizing that he's in a horror movie and acting according to "the rules" to live. Like 90% of other such cases of "rip offs", I would bet the guys behind Scream never heard of this movie. It's a little more of a spoof than Scream, sometimes at least -- it's not that sure of its tone. The main character is an excruciatingly annoying snarky douche, but nearly every single female that shows up onscreen has a nude scene, if that's worth anything. It feels very Troma-like imo.
 
Anybody knows some realllllyyy good asian horror movies? I heard they're the scariest and I want to watch some this friday. thanks in advance :^)
 
nonnita said:
Anybody knows some realllllyyy good asian horror movies? I heard they're the scariest and I want to watch some this friday. thanks in advance :^)
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Start out with a couple J-Horror such as Ringu or Ju-On
 
Apparently Alien: Romulus is going to be set between Alien and Aliens. Personally I find that choice to be somewhat bold and maybe shows that they might actually be doing something as least different with it. Will remain cautiously optimistic.
 
Love Machine said:
Apparently Alien: Romulus is going to be set between Alien and Aliens. Personally I find that choice to be somewhat bold and maybe shows that they might actually be doing something as least different with it. Will remain cautiously optimistic.
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I am fully prepared for the movie to suck dick. I liked Covenant. Fite me IRL. If Ridley Scott isn't given a chance to complete his prequel trilogy then -holy fuck- Alien Covenant will have the darkest ending of the entire franchise.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I am fully prepared for the movie to suck dick. I liked Covenant. Fite me IRL. If Ridley Scott isn't given a chance to complete his prequel trilogy then -holy fuck- Alien Covenant will have the darkest ending of the entire franchise.
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Him getting another movie probably hinges on whether Romulus does well or not. Scott himself has seen a few cuts of it and has been pretty positive about it, which might be a good sign seeing as he is usually pretty tough on other people's takes on franchises he has worked on.
 
Love Machine said:
Him getting another movie probably hinges on whether Romulus does well or not. Scott himself has seen a few cuts of it and has been pretty positive about it, which might be a good sign seeing as he is usually pretty tough on other people's takes on franchises he has worked on.
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You poor naïve simpleton. You can't believe anything marketing tells you. Example:


Next movie, NEXT. FUCKING. MOVIE. Cameron declares that Dark Fate is "the real sequel." Never fucking trust marketing.
 
BrunoMattei said:
You poor naïve simpleton. You can't believe anything marketing tells you. Example:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fAGS0G2i7UY
Next movie, NEXT. FUCKING. MOVIE. Cameron declares that Dark Fate is "the real sequel." Never fucking trust marketing.
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James Cameron is not Ridley Scott. While Ridley Scott may have questionable opinions on certain things, He is usually honest regardless of marketing, hence him shitting on the last blade runner movie when he was asked about that years ago.
 
Love Machine said:
James Cameron is not Ridley Scott. While Ridley Scott may have questionable opinions on certain things, He is usually honest regardless of marketing, hence him shitting on the last blade runner movie when he was asked about that years ago.
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Dude, Ridley Scott isn't going to shit on it pre-release. He knows how this game works. No one in Hollywood will do that not unless they're at William Friedkin levels of not giving a fuck which is almost unheard of now.
 
Love Machine said:
Apparently Alien: Romulus is going to be set between Alien and Aliens. Personally I find that choice to be somewhat bold and maybe shows that they might actually be doing something as least different with it. Will remain cautiously optimistic.
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Seems like standard studio drone logic, to remind viewers of the two movies everybody likes and ignore the others, and without having to retcon anything. If it's not a catastrophe, that would be a pleasant surprise. Like Prey-tier, doesn't make me angry every second, about that level.
 
Calandrino said:
to remind viewers of the two movies everybody likes and ignore the others, and without having to retcon anything.
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That's essentially what the Dark Horse Aliens and Predator comics were. They existed as side stories that 99% of the time ignored the movies. A lot of those comics were good too but I don't have much faith in the director and this feels like something rushed out as a cash grab.
 
Love Machine said:
James Cameron is not Ridley Scott. While Ridley Scott may have questionable opinions on certain things, He is usually honest regardless of marketing, hence him shitting on the last blade runner movie when he was asked about that years ago.
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I was surprised to see that he legit did shit on that movie a bit:

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Ridley Scott seems like a genuine kook though

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I like how he temporarily turns into Borat during this interview:

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