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Recreational Area / Re: The Alien Dialogue Thread ...

Last post by Immortan Jonesy - Today at 07:51:22 PM

This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.

#2

Alien Films / Re: Favourite Alien Movie?

Last post by gold - Today at 07:48:00 PM

I always loved Resurrection's weapons. I would have loved fot the movie to developped it a bit more.

You liked this:



More than this?:



There is a reason the M41A (lower picture) is an icon of SciFi history and the upper picture from Resurrection was forgotten.

In terms of aesthetics the M41's design is based on phi or the Golden Ratio, 0.618. The horizontal position of the mag in relation to the shroud (Golden Ratio), the 60 degree angles of the shroud and mag, the height of the mag in relation to the upper receiver and shroud handle (Golden Ratio), the length of the carry handle shroud in relation to the overall length of the whole weapon (Golden Ratio). How the front of the shroud ends at the rear of the pump handle. Many more examples.

It was a literal work of art. The bright red digital display being icing on the cake adding a third dimension to the weapon. I appreciate these things because design and ratios is my work.

People gravitated towards the M41-A because of this natural aesthetic. There is a reason it has been manufactured in mass produced items you can buy (HCG, Snow Wolf, Matrix Airsoft), while bar you me and a handful of others people have never even heard of the gun in the upper picture, which doesn't even look like it has a usable handle.

We can't deny that there is a natural very very well thought out aesthetic to the M41-A and the other weapons are forgotten. Certainly not adored enough to be mass produced by third party companies.

#3

Alien 5 / Re: Alien V - Facts and Rumors...

Last post by Acid_Reign161 - Today at 07:46:55 PM

A movie bringing back Newt and Hicks brings nothing to the table. It either 1; lets them all live and gives them a happy ending (which is dumb; the likelihood of all three surviving another encounter is exceptionally unlikely given the nature of the organism; nobody wants invincible characters, the movie would have no stakes), or 2; the movie kills one or more of them, and the whiners will then complain and ask what the point of bringing them back to kill them again was. It was a stupid idea whichever way you look at it.

#4

Alien: Romulus / Re: Alien: Romulus Catch-All T...

Last post by cucuchu - Today at 07:46:11 PM

I fear the official trailer's gonna go crazy and show a lot.

Seems like Fede is doing everything in his power to not overexpose the film, based on what he has said in the interviews. I remember the covenant footage with the backburster that was able to find online many weeks before the film's release and how I really, really would of rather experienced that first in theatres. Seeing as how I can't hold back from viewing and over-analyzing every morsel of Romulus footage that finds its way to the net, I hope he is successful in protecting us from ourselves.

#5

Alien 5 / Re: Alien V - Facts and Rumors...

Last post by Nightmare Asylum - Today at 07:41:19 PM

Thanks Mike! 👍

I've been waiting a looooong time for a viable alternative to "Ripley dreams of expendable bald guys", and was hopeful that this would be it, but apart from retconning what came after Aliens, I don't think I've liked anything I've seen or heard about it.

Guess I'll be sticking to the Gibson version or the Dark Horse trilogy.

I still think that the Alien 3 we got is by far the best of the many stabs at an Aliens followup across any medium that we've gotten over the years – especially in its Assembly Cut form – so I'm very ok with that remaining intact as the Aliens sequel. I love the movie.

That being said... I really want to see Vincent Ward's ideas and concepts used in some capacity, somewhere.

@Mike's Monsters can I ask what's the source suggesting t the third entry of Ridley's Prequel was going to be called Alien: Destiny?

That name came to us publicly from a podcast from some of the producers involved in "Aliens vs Predator: Annihilation," the AVP anime that was canceled after completion over at Netflix.

#6

Alien Films / Re: Favourite Alien Movie?

Last post by Slutty Badger - Today at 07:34:09 PM

I always loved Resurrection's weapons. I would have loved fot the movie to developped it a bit more.

Well, hopefully we'll get that in Alien: Uncivil War.

#7

Alien 5 / Re: Alien V - Facts and Rumors...

Last post by XENOMORPHOSIS - Today at 07:19:41 PM

@Mike's Monsters can I ask what's the source suggesting t the third entry of Ridley's Prequel was going to be called Alien: Destiny?

#8

General Alien-Predator Merchandise / Re: NECA - Alien Romulus

Last post by aliens13 - Today at 07:17:56 PM

I'm so excited for this film and of course this new Neca line for the movie, I think that we all knew that this would happen but it's cool seeing it officially announced

#9

Alien Films / Re: Favourite Alien Movie?

Last post by aliens13 - Today at 07:14:22 PM

You ought to watch this gold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mskxKtU0ZHQ

@SiL: Yes, casting actual Ellen Ripley as opposed to a brunette Hollywood clone.


@BlueMarsalis79: Thank you so much for that link. What an awesome video.

Neil Blomkamp is me.

It's hard to explain the cognitive dissonance that I sometimes feel when discussing the franchise with people. But for people like me (of my age) who saw these movies as they were released to cinemas there was a -tremendous- let down that happened in 1992. Alien (Scott) was 1 Alien, Aliens (Cameron) was multiple Aliens. We all had such great hopes for A3.

It was going to be all out war on Earth? A venture to the Aliens home planet? More lore? Was the Xenomorph a manifestation of a realm beyond the universe where raw emotions with no logic reigned? Was that why the sexual Giger shapes were so repulsive and attractive at the same time? Why humans couldn't really "place" them?

No, Hicks dead, little Newt dead, all in the opening minute. Ripley comitting suicide at the end.

What a let down.

I know for a fact that this is what we all felt back in 1992.

Blompkamp felt exactly the same thing (there were so many of us). It seems like he really understood where this franchise had needed to go after Aliens. Where it wanted to go.

Say what you like but Blomkamps Alien 5 would haven been an EVENT. The entire fanbase would have looked foreward to it years in advance (and we did).

All we have now of that parallel timeline sequel to Aliens is the 2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines game. Which (at least on PC with TemplarGFX) scratches the itch somewhat.

But man would Blomkamps Alien have been special.

Think about it, it would have been different but- a true sequel to Aliens. Alien 3 was different (way different to what we expected) and has its fans. Blomkamps A5 would have had its fans for decades to come.

In all honesty I think in that parallel dimension, internet polls would be divided between Aliens 1986 and Blomkamps A5 being the single best movie in the franchise.

In all honesty I think that the better that could ever happen is this Blomkamp dumb crap getting cancelled. Alien 3 did the best to finish the trilogy, I don't buy the Ripley-Hicks-Newt happy family BS. This is the Alien franchise, it's brutal, unfair, doesn't forgive anyone

#10

Alien 5 / Re: Alien V - Facts and Rumors...

Last post by Rankles75 - Today at 07:07:00 PM

Thanks Mike! 👍

I've been waiting a looooong time for a viable alternative to "Ripley dreams of expendable bald guys", and was hopeful that this would be it, but apart from retconning what came after Aliens, I don't think I've liked anything I've seen or heard about it.

Guess I'll be sticking to the Gibson version or the Dark Horse trilogy.