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To be honest, the idea that the Xenomorphs were a biologically engineered weapon kind of makes them less interesting. It's a cliche that makes it a bit mundane.

Nature has no shortage of horrifying things just because the world, and presumably the universe, can be terrifying places.

 Manchu wrote:


Makes him seem incredibly arrogant and out-of-touch.

That's been my accusation since I walked out of the theater having seen Covenant

It's a movie monster. I don't give a gak as to why I just want to see the how. As in "how is this going to turn out." "How high is body pile going to be." "How will the writer contrive a resolution to this monster than hinges on one person reacting intelligently for the first time in at least 60 minutes."

 Ouze wrote:
To be honest, the idea that the Xenomorphs were a biologically engineered weapon kind of makes them less interesting. It's a cliche that makes it a bit mundane.

Nature has no shortage of horrifying things just because the world, and presumably the universe, can be terrifying places.

Quite. There's basically nothing in the xenomorph that can't be found here in earth in some form*, I am quite content to consider it a spectacular case of convergent evolution turned up to 11 and move on.

*except the silicon based acid for blood bit, and even then they're not biological impossibilities, just not on Earth.

Was talking with a few friends lately, would love to see a movie where an innocent, bright eyed alien explorer comes down to earth, cautiously creeps into someone's house with a sense of wonder and awe, only to have a human pop out and face feth him to death, and whoops, as it turns out the alien is trying to get the human guy off of him and scratches him - oh gak, burns right through the aliens skin!

 Manchu wrote:
Was talking with a few friends lately, would love to see a movie where an innocent, bright eyed alien explorer comes down to earth, cautiously creeps into someone's house with a sense of wonder and awe, only to have a human pop out and face feth him to death, and whoops, as it turns out the alien is trying to get the human guy off of him and scratches him - oh gak, burns right through the aliens skin!

Humans could be terrifying to aliens. I'd love to watch that.

I guess it's called 40k

Finally saw it. The spoof video is right on point. It was a bad movie, just bad. I won't be watching any more of them from Scott, thats for damn sure.

 Ouze wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
Was talking with a few friends lately, would love to see a movie where an innocent, bright eyed alien explorer comes down to earth, cautiously creeps into someone's house with a sense of wonder and awe, only to have a human pop out and face feth him to death, and whoops, as it turns out the alien is trying to get the human guy off of him and scratches him - oh gak, burns right through the aliens skin!

Humans could be terrifying to aliens. I'd love to watch that.

Allan Dean Foster' sThe Damned trilogy; two groups of alien civilisations have been at war for millennia, but only one or two species in each group actually has the mental fortitude to actually fight. Then one side discovers Earth. They're terrified by what they find; a species of huge bipeds with superior vision, strength and stamina, and they're all willing to fight just about anything for the flimsiest of reasons. They end up recruiting humanity as soldiers, and turn the tide of the war. But a few of them wonder, what will these terrifying warrior aliens do when the war is over?

I saw a long commentary on a reddit somewhere once about how humans are the real "monsters of nature" talking about how compared to other mammals and relative to size humans are very durable, recover from injuries more quickly, can operate without food and water far longer, and can endure exhaustion to a greater extent. On top of that we're functionally crazy intelligent and champions of problem solving. He used the example of ancient human hunting practices, which were less about chasing and stabbing our pray as constantly stalking them until they couldn't go on anymore and then killing them. Basically an entire species of It Follows that just keeps coming until whatever we're tracking ends up in a corner or simply falls over because our stamina was better.

Damn nature, you scary

 LordofHats wrote:
I saw a long commentary on a reddit somewhere once about how humans are the real "monsters of nature" talking about how compared to other mammals and relative to size humans are very durable, recover from injuries more quickly, can operate without food and water far longer, and can endure exhaustion to a greater extent. On top of that we're functionally crazy intelligent and champions of problem solving. He used the example of ancient human hunting practices, which were less about chasing and stabbing our pray as constantly stalking them until they couldn't go on anymore and then killing them. Basically an entire species of It Follows that just keeps coming until whatever we're tracking ends up in a corner or simply falls over because our stamina was better.

Damn nature, you scary

I know what you're talking about.


Here is is.

Post is kind of NSFW, the occasional swear word does pop up.

 LordofHats wrote:
I saw a long commentary on a reddit somewhere once about how humans are the real "monsters of nature" talking about how compared to other mammals and relative to size humans are very durable, recover from injuries more quickly, can operate without food and water far longer, and can endure exhaustion to a greater extent. On top of that we're functionally crazy intelligent and champions of problem solving. He used the example of ancient human hunting practices, which were less about chasing and stabbing our pray as constantly stalking them until they couldn't go on anymore and then killing them. Basically an entire species of It Follows that just keeps coming until whatever we're tracking ends up in a corner or simply falls over because our stamina was better.

Damn nature, you scary

Lol, combine that with the idiocy of modern life, as in, there are select bat gak crazy people who will run 100 miles in one go, for fun

scary indeed.

Of course, that is really the whole point of the scary story/horror movie. Humans are apex predators. We kill (and usually devour) anything that remotely challenges us. We enslave other species to our will and use them for labor, slaughter them for food, or keep them for our own entertainment. We have engineered tools of destruction beyond imagination and slaughter on an industrial level. We are skilled stalkers and hunters, able to move silently, efficiently, and relentlessly after prey. And as dangerous as one is, we rarely act alone, preferring packs, tribes, or even whole nations. Our only real threat is other humans, and it has been this way for a million years.

So we make stories about our fears. We create fictional monsters that stalk *us*, kill *us*, and eat *us*. We depict manifestations of our uncertainties and concerns.

But to any other living creature, we are (or should be) one of the scariest things that can possibly exist.

This thread just became so metal