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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1335 on: March 20, 2024, 03:41:53 PM »
Teaser for Alien: Romulus.



The CGI facehuggers seem a little off for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, but I dig the rest.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1336 on: March 22, 2024, 06:36:57 PM »
The CGI facehuggers seem a little off for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, but I dig the rest.
Their motion appears to defy physics.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1337 on: March 24, 2024, 02:23:42 AM »
It's like a video game.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1338 on: March 25, 2024, 04:29:12 AM »
Meh. More regurgitated Alien leftovers. At least Prometheus tried something different.
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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1339 on: March 25, 2024, 06:09:51 AM »
I'll watch it when it streaming like I did the last one.
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« Reply #1340 on: March 25, 2024, 11:29:15 PM »
One problem with this movie is that it creates more complications for the second one. That is, between the first two movies presumably nothing is known about the aliens, which is why no one believed Ripley. And yet this movie plus the game _Isolation_ show that many company and government personnel encountered the creatures.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1341 on: March 26, 2024, 12:40:46 AM »
Teaser for Alien: Romulus.
The CGI facehuggers seem a little off for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, but I dig the rest.

The CGI in general looks off. I thought it was a video game commercial.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1342 on: March 26, 2024, 12:42:46 AM »
One problem with this movie is that it creates more complications for the second one. That is, between the first two movies presumably nothing is known about the aliens, which is why no one believed Ripley. And yet this movie plus the game _Isolation_ show that many company and government personnel encountered the creatures.

That suggests no one in the movie actually survives long enough. Or are silenced if they do. The Aliens setting is made if stupid

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« Reply #1343 on: March 27, 2024, 03:00:03 AM »
One problem with this movie is that it creates more complications for the second one. That is, between the first two movies presumably nothing is known about the aliens, which is why no one believed Ripley. And yet this movie plus the game _Isolation_ show that many company and government personnel encountered the creatures.

That suggests no one in the movie actually survives long enough. Or are silenced if they do. The Aliens setting is made if stupid

I was thinking the same thing, but it sounds too crazy.

In the first movie, Dallas tells Ripley that the company replaced their science officer with Ash before they left. After that, Mother diverts the Nostromo to LV-426 without permission from Dallas, which can only mean that it was ordered by the ship owners to do so. Later, Ripley discovers that Ash is following transmission from Mother, and from the company, to get the alien at all costs, even if it means sacrificing the crew. Ripley reports this to the others, stating that the company probably wants to use the alien for its bio-weapons division.

After that, nothing happens for almost 60 years until they find Ripley in the second, and they tell her that they've not encountered any aliens or things that she reported. Even though the company may have known the location of the derelict craft (which is why they replaced the science officer with Ash, knowing that the Nostromo would be flying closest to LV-426), for some reason they don't bother sending more ships to investigate it, or even a crew on the ground when they built a colony on the same rock.

When the prequels were made, many personnel were found to have known about the creatures, and some argue that the reason why they had a special order and a bio-weapons division is because of that. Later, the Isolation game was made, and it reveals that even more people knew more about the derelict ship, the aliens, or both. And then came licensed media like the company report and Colonial Marines manual which details several ships visiting the derelict craft, Burke meeting with other company officials, the colonists reporting their finds to the company before they're overwhelmed, and so on.

These mean that the company and more knew about the creatures for several decades. It gets worse when you tie that up with the AvP franchise.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1344 on: March 27, 2024, 03:49:42 AM »
YouTube has Runaway up for free.

1984 neo-Cyberpunk movie that predicts the rise of robotics intruding into everything. Tom Sellek gives a good performance as a cop on the robotics division who deals with haywire robots and robotics assisted crimes and crime fighting. Gene Simmons, Yes THAT Gene Simmons plays a ruthless criminal who specializes in crimes with robotics and a prototype gyrojet gun with guided bullets.

Fun movie with all practical effects and FX and the road chase is actually pretty good with how these little robotic road torpedoes handle and weave through traffic.

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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1345 on: March 27, 2024, 03:26:52 PM »
YouTube has Runaway up for free.

1984 neo-Cyberpunk movie that predicts the rise of robotics intruding into everything. Tom Sellek gives a good performance as a cop on the robotics division who deals with haywire robots and robotics assisted crimes and crime fighting. Gene Simmons, Yes THAT Gene Simmons plays a ruthless criminal who specializes in crimes with robotics and a prototype gyrojet gun with guided bullets.

Fun movie with all practical effects and FX and the road chase is actually pretty good with how these little robotic road torpedoes handle and weave through traffic.

15 year old me appreciated seeing a young Kirstie Alley strip down to her bra. Man she was a hottie.

Anywho. Great movie. Probably deserves to be in the How to GM Cyberpunk thread.
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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1346 on: March 27, 2024, 08:43:54 PM »
YouTube has Runaway up for free.

1984 neo-Cyberpunk movie that predicts the rise of robotics intruding into everything. Tom Sellek gives a good performance as a cop on the robotics division who deals with haywire robots and robotics assisted crimes and crime fighting. Gene Simmons, Yes THAT Gene Simmons plays a ruthless criminal who specializes in crimes with robotics and a prototype gyrojet gun with guided bullets.

Fun movie with all practical effects and FX and the road chase is actually pretty good with how these little robotic road torpedoes handle and weave through traffic.

15 year old me appreciated seeing a young Kirstie Alley strip down to her bra. Man she was a hottie.

Anywho. Great movie. Probably deserves to be in the How to GM Cyberpunk thread.

I totally agree!  I had a major crush on her since STII:TWoK.

Speaking of Gene Simmons, I thought he made a great bad guy in "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1987).
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Re: The Movie Thread Reloaded
« Reply #1347 on: Today at 03:04:30 AM »
The crossdressing psycho that Gene Simmons played in Never Too Young to Die was entertainingly bizarre.
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