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Who gives a shit? I just want something not gay from the Alien franchise for once. Plasma rifles aren't gonna save the franchise, you fucking nerd. 
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Don't play this retarded High School game of spin the bottle with me, nigger.
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Stop hitting on me homo.
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I think I missed out on Herk Mondo
I do recall Shitkicker, and that synth Xeno/Dog team
something like The Tacticool Death Squad Missions Of Shitkicker And The Gang would be pretty great
I do recall Shitkicker, and that synth Xeno/Dog team
something like The Tacticool Death Squad Missions Of Shitkicker And The Gang would be pretty great
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Then there was Aliens: Pig where mercs find an Alien hive and decide to wire a pig with a mini nuke and let it get captured and then press the button to wipe out the bugs. Plan backfires and the hog goes missing. So the mercs throw one of their buddies in as a sacrificial lamb and to the victor goes the spoils untill... Whoops, the fucking pig is still alive and has a back up proximeter detonator on the nuke and it goes off the instant it goes up to the guys to say hello.
Fun comic.
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So 4k blu ray of Aliens is out, it is a poorly AI upscale of the 1080p blu ray with DNR all over it. They were so lazy they didn't even rescan the movie at 4k. The HDR is also fake, with it being put in a HDR container which gives it a 200 nit brightness for the whole movie.
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True Lies got it even worse. It's like Cameron didn't give a single fuck about restoring his movies.
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I know he hated the grain in Aliens, so not shocked he removed all that. But him just using old 1080p masters for these 4k discs is not something I expected, as the only reason these 4k happened is because he asked Disney, if it was up to Disney wouldn't have happened. I just wonder why he asked to do it if he was going to be so lazy about it.
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My guess is that he just does not care because he sees himself as a marine biologist scientist whose Avatar movies are somehow going to save planet Earth as Cameron makes enough cash to own a small non-shithole island nation.
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The Aliens film franchise is dead, murdered by forcing the overexposed xenomorph front and center again and again and the studio's solution is more of what killed it: endless redos of the first and second films but with a cast of less talented actors working under pliable directors who will happily take every studio note sent to them, the preferred sort of director for IP revamps.
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How is The Abyss? That's honestly the only one I really care about. I own it on DVD and Laser because the DVD is in that shitty early 2000s fake widescreen. (Even if it's covered in DVNR I'll probably still pick up a copy anyway since it's bound to at least be a moderate improvement).
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same thing, it's not as bad True Lies, but still not worth buying. best hope for that movie is some fan scans the 35mm print much like what happened with Star Wars.
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Couple recent trailers:
All You Need is Death
The writer/director has been around for quite a while, but hasn't done anything interesting really (I think his biggest gig was a hired writer for the TV show Diary of a Call Girl, then he did some well regarded drama/romance also about folk music. So this looks to be the first time he got to make something he wrote in a horror vein with a legit budget. Seems original if nothing else, and the Irish have made some decent low budget horrors in the last decade (although generally they are more horror-comedies). I'll take anything that bags on folk music though.
In a Violent Nature
From another guy who's been around for quite a while, but gets to first time direct. They're calling it an ambient slasher, and from what I can tell it's essentially a guy that comes back from the dead for revenge or whatever. Not sure if he's just going after the people that wronged him or just everyone that gets in his way. My hopes aren't too great for this one, looks very fart-huffy to be honest (what if we told the story from the Killer's POV!? Which might work, if your killer wasn't an unstoppable, supernatural killing machine, going after hateable, throw-away idiots). But, considering the guy worked on Psycho Goreman, and did one of the better (albeit also somewhat fart-huffy) segments from ABCs of Death 2, I'm willing to give it a chance. If anything, the kills should be good, seeing as he comes from an effects background.
All You Need is Death
The writer/director has been around for quite a while, but hasn't done anything interesting really (I think his biggest gig was a hired writer for the TV show Diary of a Call Girl, then he did some well regarded drama/romance also about folk music. So this looks to be the first time he got to make something he wrote in a horror vein with a legit budget. Seems original if nothing else, and the Irish have made some decent low budget horrors in the last decade (although generally they are more horror-comedies). I'll take anything that bags on folk music though.
In a Violent Nature
From another guy who's been around for quite a while, but gets to first time direct. They're calling it an ambient slasher, and from what I can tell it's essentially a guy that comes back from the dead for revenge or whatever. Not sure if he's just going after the people that wronged him or just everyone that gets in his way. My hopes aren't too great for this one, looks very fart-huffy to be honest (what if we told the story from the Killer's POV!? Which might work, if your killer wasn't an unstoppable, supernatural killing machine, going after hateable, throw-away idiots). But, considering the guy worked on Psycho Goreman, and did one of the better (albeit also somewhat fart-huffy) segments from ABCs of Death 2, I'm willing to give it a chance. If anything, the kills should be good, seeing as he comes from an effects background.
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According to what I have heard about the leaks of Alien Romulus, apparently the xeno-fuckness begins this time because, and Im not kidding here (oh yeah, spoilers if you give a shit), the alien from the very first movie. Apparently this is suppose to be set between Alien and Aliens (probably before even Alien Isolation) and they legit find that MF floating in the void and bring him inside and the results are very much predictable. Seems like pointless nostalgia baiting to connect this with the very original film, even when it doesnt make any sense why the OG xeno is alive as they cant survive in the vaccum of space for very long.
Apparently there will be connections to the prequel movies too (I swear to fuck, if David appears, Im going to fucking flip. Im not watching Fassbender being far too good for another movie again...besides, after David made it clear he wanted to fuck himself, literally, I cant take the character seriously again).
Feels like a pointless entry all things considered. If anything, you can describe most alien movies after 3 to be this, "pointless". Say whatever you want about Alien 3 but it did close the door on further entries by having the alien race supposedly going extinct thanks to Ripley's sacrifice, thus the company would never be able to use it for their retarded experiments. Alien Resurrection cheaply brought them back through cloning fuckery that makes absolutely no sense and a problem with these prequels is that it really really makes you wonder how everywhere they are and its crazy Wayland havent been able to get a single one out of all of them, to the point they had to beg Ripley to let them have it in 3. Just breaks your sense of immersion.
It does at least looks closer to the OGs so Im reserving judgement.
Apparently there will be connections to the prequel movies too (I swear to fuck, if David appears, Im going to fucking flip. Im not watching Fassbender being far too good for another movie again...besides, after David made it clear he wanted to fuck himself, literally, I cant take the character seriously again).
Feels like a pointless entry all things considered. If anything, you can describe most alien movies after 3 to be this, "pointless". Say whatever you want about Alien 3 but it did close the door on further entries by having the alien race supposedly going extinct thanks to Ripley's sacrifice, thus the company would never be able to use it for their retarded experiments. Alien Resurrection cheaply brought them back through cloning fuckery that makes absolutely no sense and a problem with these prequels is that it really really makes you wonder how everywhere they are and its crazy Wayland havent been able to get a single one out of all of them, to the point they had to beg Ripley to let them have it in 3. Just breaks your sense of immersion.
It does at least looks closer to the OGs so Im reserving judgement.
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it did?
I was into the Dark Horse comics before Alien 3 was a gleam in Fincher's eye, so I never really thought about the idea that they were limited in any way, shape, or form.
but seriously that is like perfect stupid Current Year Sequel shit that the Alien is THE alien from Alien
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Im ONLY taking the movies in consideration here. If we count comic, books and video games, then they were everywhere before and after Ripley's death.
Aliens had them blowing everything within the colony and the nearby alien ship so its to be assumed that all eggs and the queen were destroyed.
Then alien 3 had the drone protecting what we can assume is the last queen, gestating inside Ripley. Wayland came all the way to Fury 161 to retrieve it from her, alive or dead, because it was their last shot at having it. Bishop 2 was literally pleading Ripley to let him have it with "think of the things we can learn from it!" and he literally screamed a desperate and long "NOOO" once she dropped to the fire below, supposedly wiping out the whole species with her.
Supposedly the xenomorphs remained extinct for over 200 years until the events of A.R where they cloned Ripley and (somehow) the alien queen within her. I mean, if they were still around after her death (again, not counting expanded universe stuff here), then why they got so desperate as to try to clone her in the hopes of somehow the alien queen being cloned inside her too ? (seriously, this is some "The Fly 2" levels of understanding of how genes work).
It works better to me if the aliens are extremely rare and thus explains why the company really wants to get their hands on them, if they went extinct, their "perfection" will be gone forever.
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yeah I never really thought about that, but yeah that makes sense
I always just figured it was corps being dumb and doubling, tripling, then quadrupling down on THAT ONE BATCH OF BUGS not being willing to consider that there might be another million bugs under the seven million rocks nearby despite there being obvious evidence to the contrary.
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It does become that way if you consider the expanded material stuff, but then again, most of them almost seem to become their own continuity, usually ignoring Alien 3 and Resurrections.
Usually the company's obssession results in Earth being overrun with aliens in the "Earth war" but hey, Hicks and Newt are usually alive so thats a plus.
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it's easier to ignore them when you're written before them
didn't Resurrection sorta imply that was the end result there too?
I recall Earth ended up some sort of shithole, despite The Company's best efforts to recreate those dank clone lab scenes from Humanoid Woman and give work to the gang from City Of Lost Children