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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
I dont really expect much from these films anymore, so wont be disappointed either way. Something to watch while I eat, as usual.. I dont know why I only watch TV when eating these days, is it just me?
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
tauist wrote: Finally the bugs get to eat terra. Excited!
I dont really expect much from these films anymore, so wont be disappointed either way. Something to watch while I eat, as usual.. I dont know why I only watch TV when eating these days, is it just me?
I mean technically Aliens have already gone rampant on earth if we assume the Alien vs Predator movie duology remains canon.
That's what we (and I assume most people) were calling Alien3 before we heard it was going to be called that.
Didn't William Gibson (or some other well known Sci-fi author get his script talked about a lot) write for Aliens, set on or near an Earth? [It was on a station, and a sequel to Aliens. So, probably not relevant.]
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kyrtuck wrote: What was so bad about Alien vs Predator? I thought it was an enjoyable action romp. The 2nd one was kinda meh.
For me it was mainly setting it in modern times. I think it would have been better transposing the predator into the future, rather than transposing the alien back to now. Also the idea that ther was a secret overly complex hunting ground on earth that somehow hadn't leaked an Alien to wipe us all out was a premise too far for me.
The Dark Horse (i think) comic did a much better job, and I had read that first. The original FPS game also did a much better job, and I had also played that first.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
even better then! Its not going to top "Raised by Wolves" by any means, but at least there will be more of it.. because, lets face it, the Aliens franchise isnt know for its "difficulty", so I bet it wont get canceled just when it starts to really take off
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
kyrtuck wrote: What was so bad about Alien vs Predator? I thought it was an enjoyable action romp. The 2nd one was kinda meh.
For me it was mainly setting it in modern times. I think it would have been better transposing the predator into the future, rather than transposing the alien back to now. Also the idea that ther was a secret overly complex hunting ground on earth that somehow hadn't leaked an Alien to wipe us all out was a premise too far for me.
The Dark Horse (i think) comic did a much better job, and I had read that first. The original FPS game also did a much better job, and I had also played that first.
Not to mention staggeringly incompetent Predators.
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Incompetence and teen tend to meld together very well usually. There's a reason one of them giant swung an alien through stone pillars rather than going for a practical kill.
Eh, gotta agree with MDG, considering they were equipped with proper Predator tech (and not just being left with primitive weapons/bare hands) in their hunt, they should have accomplished a lot more in their showing in AVP. There's a better way to show inexperience than being borderline useless in killing aliens, especially when hunting dangerous species is a big part of their culture and presumably they've had some form of training before completing this rite of passage.
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So this looks pretty good, but so did Romulus and I didn't much care for that. I'm baffled by how much people seem to like that movie, it tries so hard to ape iconic moments from the rest of the franchise that it forgets to do anything novel of its own.
Well, you can just about flipping well get out, can’t you! (This Is A Joke. You do you and enjoy what you enjoy )
Also….I don’t think we’ve been explicit about the trailer, but it’s not just me…..that was a Predator ship, yeah? And I’m sure I heard that signature throaty gravelly crackle?
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creeping-deth87 wrote: So this looks pretty good, but so did Romulus and I didn't much care for that. I'm baffled by how much people seem to like that movie, it tries so hard to ape iconic moments from the rest of the franchise that it forgets to do anything novel of its own.
Romulus was a safe movie. Didn’t do anything to out of line. Fleshed out the universe, had some cool scenes. I do think it punched the nostalgia button a little too hard and a little too often.
I don’t think it had enough high points to warrant making it anyones’s favorite entry in the franchise, but it was a solid addition.
That's what we (and I assume most people) were calling Alien3 before we heard it was going to be called that.
Didn't William Gibson (or some other well known Sci-fi author get his script talked about a lot) write for Aliens, set on or near an Earth? [It was on a station, and a sequel to Aliens. So, probably not relevant.]
Gibson did a treatment for Alien³ that was set on a quarantine/research station near earth (various earth power struggle things between some sort of "Communist China" style block and the capitalist corporation-states we already knew form the B-plot). It has been turned into a novel, and more interestingly, a comic (the next-best thing to a movie) - it's also profoundly weird, and i mean Prometheus-level weird:
That's what we (and I assume most people) were calling Alien3 before we heard it was going to be called that.
Didn't William Gibson (or some other well known Sci-fi author get his script talked about a lot) write for Aliens, set on or near an Earth? [It was on a station, and a sequel to Aliens. So, probably not relevant.]
Gibson did a treatment for Alien³ that was set on a quarantine/research station near earth (various earth power struggle things between some sort of "Communist China" style block and the capitalist corporation-states we already knew form the B-plot). It has been turned into a novel, and more interestingly, a comic (the next-best thing to a movie) - it's also profoundly weird, and i mean Prometheus-level weird:
Flinty wrote: And coming after the utter drivel that was Covenant and Prometheus, Romulus gains so much more from the comparison.
Honestly, I don't agree, but I'll concede I'm in the minority of alien fans here. For all that's wrong with Prometheus and Covenant, they at least tried to do something new with the franchise. Romulus is just creatively bankrupt nostalgia berries, exactly the sort of 'safe' filmmaking that gave us the sequel trilogy. If Hollywood insists on continuously dragging these venerable franchises back to theaters, I would rather they gave us fresh takes instead of a reskinned highlight reel of everything that made those older movies good.
I don’t think they did anything new. They followed the typical themes of landing unexpectedly on an alien planet, getting attacked, birthing monsters and then blasting the monster apart with the ship exhaust. It’s just that Prometheus and Covenant did it with the biggest sets of utter morons this side of Orion. The only thing really new they did was expand on the Engineer race a bit, but then ended up genociding them before it mattered at all. Fire Team Elite did a better job of exploring the Engineers than either film.
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