Alien: Romulus (2024)
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Big Phoenix
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Oh god that and AVP2 where awesome. Spent countless hours playing the horde ai mode in AVP1 and the alien zombie mode in AVP2.
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I don't remember the zombie mode in 2, what was that? I used to play multiplayer and back in the day with CDs, we'd install it on everybody's computers at a LAN party. Was always a favorite .
When you ran the alien life cycle that was shit. Face hugger insta kill some fucker, but then running around is the baby alien trying to hide was intense. God such a great game.
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We will say
"Please make something cool with colonial Marines again"
and it will remind them to ruin that too after Little Mermaid/Diablo
This with small edit and what I think you meant
"Please make something cool with colonial Marines again"
and it will remind them to ruin that too after Little Mermaid/Diablo
This with small edit and what I think you meant
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This got me thinking about the Thing remake by John Carpenter, which was panned on release by a bunch of worthless critics, despite being a superb movie, better perhaps than Scott Ridley’s Alien.
Cameron’s Aliens, I’d probably place higher but also that was an entirely different move (less horror, more action).
Of course they did the 2011 “prequel”, which was more or less just a remake with a female lead, fairly mediocre.
Outside of the 1982 movie, there’s the short story the Things, by Watts, which is the only material to come out of the “franchise”, that is comparably as brilliant, being written from the perspective of the “Thing” it seems like every 20 years or so, you get a solid action movie and maybe every 30 years a good to great horror movie. I wonder if we see that cycle continue, as the media has become sputal garbage, run by sputal garbage
Cameron’s Aliens, I’d probably place higher but also that was an entirely different move (less horror, more action).
Of course they did the 2011 “prequel”, which was more or less just a remake with a female lead, fairly mediocre.
Outside of the 1982 movie, there’s the short story the Things, by Watts, which is the only material to come out of the “franchise”, that is comparably as brilliant, being written from the perspective of the “Thing” it seems like every 20 years or so, you get a solid action movie and maybe every 30 years a good to great horror movie. I wonder if we see that cycle continue, as the media has become sputal garbage, run by sputal garbage
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That's a pretty fantastic short story. You could probably turn it into a phenomenal short film if done right.
I would say there's been some pretty good horror movies out in the past decade that will probably stand the test of time. The Witch and Hereditary both come to mind. Trying to think of something with a little bit more of a science fiction element to it, and can't come up with anything off the top of my head.
Can you think of anything more similar or along the same vein as the thing or alien? Just wondering.
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Can't over emphasize how well crafted it is, a movie translated from it would be probably really hard. Very hard to make it a horror movie for example, given the Thing is alien to us, primarily what makes it scary, thus hard to relate to its fear, granting it is alive in the same sense that we are.
One caveat, despite how well written The Things is, the Thing's intelligence, in both Short Story and movie is considerably high, for even a human. At some point, the Thing perhaps, could probably have tried to talk to, or broker some sort of peace, even if only temporary, which would be stronger self preservation technique than just trying to...well, the end sentence of The Things....
Nothing that nears in comparison, Life (2017) was "ok", or even good by Today's standards, which is not high praise. However, back to the Caveat of The Things, there's an argument to be made around the Alien in Life, which if you haven't seen
The Alien doesn't act with communication skill, despite being able to seemingly understand and calculate, if as a species it evolved intelligence in a non- social, non-altruistic fashion (re: Octupuses semelparous life cycle) , it could both view the only solution to its survival as to attack, while being able to interpret behaviors, understand language to a certain degree, abuse weaknesses, and similar to the Thing, adapt biologically rapidly. Where as in The Things, the Thing finally does understand, but decides on the same destructive path, instead of some level of negotiation, despite seemingly finally at some point coming to understand human morphology and behaviors. Yes, it didn't consider what it was doing, to be "death" or destructive at first, but it did near the end, and instead of calming the fuck down, it just wants to fucking assimilate/consume/absorb everything, and do so in a brute force sort of fashion even.
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Loser Araysar
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Yeah but you haven't seen a ton of facehuggers chasing after the crew of a spaceship or a team of Marines. I mean did you see all those facehuggers, it was a lot! I mean I don't think I've ever seen that many in one place before, I'm not sure to be frightening.
Plus it looks like there was a new pulse rifle, you haven't seen that before!
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I remember when Guillermo del Toro was trying to get that off the ground, and I want to say even Tom Cruise was trying to do something with Steven Spielberg to adapt The novella. I'd really like a good well done six part miniseries or even four episodes or something.
Maybe get a guy like Mike Flanagan to do it, but I don't know how much of a Lovecraft fan he is.
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Ackshually this film is set in-between Alien and Aliens, therefore it's likely to be a similar m41a pulse rifle
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