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The predators also used to capture queens and use them to seed a planet for a hunt in the comics as established in the very first AVP series. Think I still have all 5 of those, and the follow-up series.
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
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Just got back from seeing it and I did not read this thread beforehand. I was absolutely coming to post:
It was ok, I rank it behind the first three aliens (yes I'm a big alien 3 fan). They went WAY overboard with the throwbacks, they got old real quick.
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David essentially reverse-engineered a newer strain of the Xenomorph, which is what I took away from Prometheus/Covenant. It's a prequel to Alien, with Covenant as a side-story parallel to the original Alien. It is possible they can tie back to Covenant later, but I doubt it. Romulus and Isolation happen parallel to each other, if only by years. Amanda Ripley goes off to find her mom shortly after word of the Nostromo goes boom, and Romulus is well after the events of Alien (sans spoilers) but not long before Aliens given the technology available.
The primary timeline is at the very bottom (ASCII sux)
The primary timeline is at the very bottom (ASCII sux)
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Prey (Prequel) > Predators (side-quest w/ Adrien Brody)
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80s Predator > Predator 2
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Aliens vs Predator & Requiem (based on Weyland-Yutani & Yautja stinger)
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Or you just read the comics. It's like people talking about the Star Wars extended universe, never read any of those novels, I don't know much about it other than what one of my goofy friends told me. To my understanding was Star Wars novels were really awesome.
Same thing with the aliens and Predator comics but extended that whole mythos or universe. To me that's canon, and Ridley Scott coming in to rewrite everything is fake and gay.
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People discussing the lore and here I am all like, “dudes, those movies sucked. The lore doesn’t make any sense because the movies were bad and the movies were bad, in part, because nothing really made any sense.” Alien 1,2, and 3 excepted.
Someone should make Aliens 2 just to fuck with people.
Someone should make Aliens 2 just to fuck with people.
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Well that's what Neil Blomkampff was going to try to do, but then old man Ridley decided to say hey I want to make some gay movie with Damon Lindelof.
Things could have been great. Looking at his original storyboards and stuff it was probably much closer to what the comics covered would imagine they were inspired by them to a degree, but instead you got alien Covenant, and a giant donut spaceship rolling over somebody.
I guess a real question is who owns the rights, and how exactly does that work if somebody's writing a comic book or a novel or something?
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If that's is that's actually from the movie, what the hell.
Jesus, when I have to watch this movie Just because it looks so goddamn horrible. Seriously what the hell. It's like the retards of writing it said let's do all of the stuff from all of the other films. We're going to have the original alien from the first film, then we're going to have people trapped on a space station or whatever and I have some stupid pulse rifles, and then we're going to include the black jizz, on top of that we're going to make a weird engineer alien baby hybrid as a call back to stupid Alien Resurrection.
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The movie's good, and retelling all those elements of the others was an interesting choice. Each act is essentially a different movie. Too bad you got the third act spoiled because it's actually pretty unnerving in action.
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This little movie did ok for what it set out to do. No real risks, just very safe stuff. Pretty much a greatest hits of the first 4 movies while still building upon Prometheus and Covenant.
I wouldn't be too surprised if we got another Ridley Scott movie next to close out the David story.
I appreciate that it was low budget and still used so many practical effects. I'm down for a practical effects renaissance!
I wouldn't be too surprised if we got another Ridley Scott movie next to close out the David story.
I appreciate that it was low budget and still used so many practical effects. I'm down for a practical effects renaissance!
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So we're operating under a "I haven't seen Romulus yet but it sucks lol" paradigm in this thread, I see.
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Yes, each act is a referemce to a different movie in the series, and the overall movie (sum of its parts) is good.
In other news, during my Alien rewatch I spotted this. It flies by in a blur, but you can clearly see the Xenomorph sleeping in the escape pod before Ripley even boards it, when she's going back for the cat.
Continuity-wise the Xeno knocks the cat box out of the way (it's quite hostile to anything that moves) and then disappears for the next five minutes of the movie. You can see where it just waltzed right into the escape shuttle and took a nap (for some reason). I like when movies do such a good job with the spacial elements of their setting that you can tell where in the setting the characters are at any given time. The Thing is like this too (at the end they do a pan that shows that the door to the basement (where Blair was lurking) is right behind where Childs was guarding an exterior door before he goes missing, which is IMO a large hint).
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Yes, each act is a referemce to a different movie in the series, and the overall movie (sum of its parts) is good.In other news, during my Alien rewatch I spotted this. It flies by in a blur, but you can clearly see the Xenomorph sleeping in the escape pod before Ripley even boards it, when she's going back for the cat.
Continuity-wise the Xeno knocks the cat box out of the way (it's quite hostile to anything that moves) and then disappears for the next five minutes of the movie. You can see where it just waltzed right into the escape shuttle and took a nap (for some reason). I like when movies do such a good job with the spacial elements of their setting that you can tell where in the setting the characters are at any given time. The Thing is like this too (at the end they do a pan that shows that the door to the basement (where Blair was lurking) is right behind where Childs was guarding an exterior door before he goes missing, which is IMO a large hint).
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I've read about the original script mentioning the xenomorphs drawing energy from their surroundings, to boost their incredbile metabolism, so it is possible the Big Chap went to nap in the shuttle amidst cables and tubing to "feed" on the energy of the ship. That's also why in Romulus the chestburster makes its chrysalis on a wall with tubes and pipes and cables. It was written as a way to explain why the creature's design is bio-mechanical.
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I don't remember that in any of the comics or anything but it's not a retarded idea. Aren't they silicone based? That would kind of make sense.
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Saw this on RPX last night and really enjoyed it. Had some good suspense and jumps. It was close to being in my top 2 but the third act kinda killed it for me. Was an interesting twist and was also a jump the shark moment. The actor who played Andy did an awesome job.
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