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[Alien] Isolation : Walk, but don't run.. never, ever run.. and buy this game now
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I realize that. That's why I'm surprised Cameron stuck it back in for that edition, since it starts off with him saying it's his version and stuff.
The Ripley-daughter scene was great, though. That shoulda been in the actual movie, it certainly would have made her Mama Bear protection of Newt work better for me.
See, the thing is Terminator 1 is totally better than T2. Less thumbs-up and more "I'll be back".
Alien 3 was a bad movie because it was boring. There was nothing to care about other than Ripley herself, and she seemed to basically be catatonic, her personality vanished and I had no reason to like her. Going for the "Alien" style movie doesn't really work again because we already have Alien itself, which was better. The entire setting was pretty poor, though, a deserted prison planet. That just isn't a place I care what happens in.
I did like when the real Weyland showed up at the end to claim his obsession, then got his face busted.
Had no idea what was going on, thought it was scary and cool, and then some lady jumped into a lake of fire while an alien burst out of her chest.
I'm on board, tell me about these other Alien movies.
I do. It was one of the best things about the whole movie.
I love the whole Aliens universe, AvP is cool too, but I want to be the monster that creeps around at night and eats peoples.
I'll probably buy the game, regardless, as you can stamp Aliens onto things and I will shamelessly buy them. I am a consumer whore.
But I can understand some people preferring it
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I'd like to still have this thread when E3 is said and done :P
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100x better than the movie. The only thing I didn't like is the aliens being able to reproduce by people inhaling spores and turning into aliens. But, at its core its a big shooty movie like Aliens. The few weird details could have been changed. Too bad they never made it.
I have read it, and it's pretty awesome.
And to be fair, if you read about the original treatment/precursors to the script we ended up with, Aliens had some significant differences lined up as well. I imagine many of the rough edges would've been worked out between being green lit and hitting screens.
... ahem, and it would make an awesome game. Very Dead Space'ish, as I recall.
I wouldn't be surprised if they took inspiration directly from the script. Especially the sections where you move down the hull of the ship.
Also to MrPsycohed the script also adds a sort of Space communists faction to the Aliens universe. Which could theoretically have been expanded into a non-xenomorph Alien movie.
Where are the aliens would be a definite issue, yeah, but aside from that they are one of the better fleshed out space militaries. Anyone else read the tech manual? Interesting stuff.
Little bit cyberpunk in a few bits.us
Why I fear the ocean.
Because nothing else sounds as cool as a pulse rifle.
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There are apparently other, at least, "alienish" races kicking around in the movie canon.
I mean, one of the Aliens movies makes mention of "Arcturians" as an easter egg. And we know from the novels and comics that there's at least two other big races kicking around the galaxy. Hell, the Pilot's were pretty much set up as a cosmic horror tier series big bad before the novels got kicked to the curb.
If I recall correctly, they pretty much sicced the Aliens on humanity in order to wipe them both out, so they could clean up the remnants. So there are angles they could explore there.
Alternatively, they could do another god damned "stop the aliens from getting to Earth and killing everything!" plot. Even though that's been done at least three times now, and has been shown that that ends up really pissing humanity off, if it succeeds (To the point that they end up committing galaxy-wide genocide on of any aliens they can find.).
This makes me wish the aliens novels got a proper conclusion. They were really building up to an awesome setting toward's the end. The grimness of it made Warhammer 40K look nice, sometimes.
Guess you haven't seen Resurrection :P
Eh... basically happened in Resurrection. Though I prefer not to think about it, because that entire sequence (after they state that they have 100 yards to the hangar that they'll have to fight for every inch of) could have made the movie something less than the shit it was, but then they just went off in a weird-ass french direction (all that happens is Ripley getting pulled through the floor, groping an alien, then using yet another variation on the same method she took out aliens in the first two movies to kill the hybrid). If they'd just had a badass fight sequence there, I could've forgiven a lot.
I have, but I try not to think about it. I try not to.
Also there were two whole stargate series without an Goa'uld and even the original had guys like the replicators.
It touches on more themes, brings back characters and situations and has them react in believable ways based on past experiences, and manages to please crowds without ever catering to the lowest common denominator
It's a summer blockbuster before Roland Emmerich invented the summer blockbuster and made it way dumber
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But I can totally see why some people like Terminator 1 more. It's definitely a darker film, with less levity... of course, the Terminator actually kills people in it. He massacres an entire police station in a cold merciless rampage and it feels more serious then T2, where John orders the Terminator not to kill anyone, so he just wounds all the cops at the Cyberdyne building. You get all the kinda cheesy one liners like "hasta la vista baby" and the thumbs up at the end, which seems comical. I get it, it's a lighter film, and that just doesn't sit right with some folks who enjoyed the grim nightmarish qualities of the first.
Spielberg and Jaws would have a word with you.
The modern summer blockbuster was pioneered by Spielberg, yes, but that film contains all of one explosion
Independence Day perfected the formula for the modern day
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Jaws is widely recognized as the first Blockbuster Summer Movie. It was then followed by Star Wars, which is THE template by which all other blockbusters were built upon. Independence Day doesn't even factor - it was simply distilled formula at that point, marketed brilliantly. Burton's "Batman" did more to realign the meaning of "Summer Blockbuster" than Independence Day did, but that too had more to do with the marketing aspect than it did the filmmaking. ALIENS was not a Blockbuster. It made a lot of money but it didn't even crack 100 mil domestic.
also, this:
Is fuckin crazy. That thumbs-up at the end? Arnie standing on one leg like a flamingo? Arnie being a good guy, period? Terminator 2 is the film where Cameron laid bare his ability to pander with surgical precision. It's also a hell of a lot dumber than the first film. T2 is a better action movie, yes, in that the action in it is bombastic and beautiful. But it is not written very well, and it definitely rounds off the edges for the sake of grabbing up that lowest common denominator.
So far as this game goes - I'm intrigued, but considering ALIENS is responsible for roughly 95% of most FPS gaming aesthetic over the past 20 years, I'm afraid its' going to come off as warmed over at best. That people simply won't spark to it like they normally would because there's been over 20 years of people soaking in the atmosphere and the mechanics of that universe via Halo, Gears, Doom, AvP, etc..
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Ripley...! You know, I... I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.
Why I fear the ocean.
ALSO - From way earlier in the thread: Prometheus IS an ALIEN prequel. I read that the classic xenomorph suits were spotted on-set.
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I dunno. I don't get the sense the Xenomorphs play that big a role. I think there's a lot of potential there to get back to what made ALIEN so scary, which was really, undefinably WRONG things onscreen, constantly lurking just around a corner, but with completely new, and newly different sorts of WRONG moving about looking to do something to you. In ALIEN, part of the dread came from the weaponizing of slimy, biomechanoid sexual imagery. You didn't know if the slimy penis-monster wanted to eat you, fuck you, or perform some slow, squicky combination of the two. Add the discarded element of body-horror/transformation... I think there's a lot of shit Ridley could get up to with a prequel that would justify this entry.
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Oh come on, pretty much every scene with Sarah Conner in the hospital is great, and her first meeting with Arnold is great, and the deleted scene with her arguing with John about whether to just smash his CPU chip is great
The scene where she goes off to ice Dyson is fantastic, and it's especially fantastic how they don't telegraph the reveal of Arnold as the good guy. He gets Bad to the Bone, but after that all his music is evil music, and the T-1000 is never shown actively killing anyone until after the reveal
There's some comedy, sure, but it's at worst only corny, and the little crowd pleasers like the thumbs up and the two one-liners in the film are delivered well enough that it doesn't matter
It's pandery, but it's smart pandering that doesn't feel like you're being pandered at, and never to the level of an Independence Day or an X-Men 3 or an Avatar
It is fucking mind blowing for me every time I realize that the same person who wrote and directed Terminator 2 also wrote and directed Avatar
BUT HEY HOW ABOUT THAT ALIENS GAME RIGHT? I HOPE WE GET A RELEASE DATE AT E3 AND THAT IT'S SOON BECAUSE GOD DAMN IT GEARBOX HAS TAKEN THEIR SWEET TIME
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