This. That thing is day-glo orange with stripes and it will sneak up on a Poo every time.
Half of Indian civilization has been striving to remove these fricking things from the designated streets.
This. That thing is day-glo orange with stripes and it will sneak up on a Poo every time.
Half of Indian civilization has been striving to remove these fricking things from the designated streets.
stick a tiger in a metal paneled room, with metal floors and junk from lazy soldiers strewn about, it's gonna be loud.
An alien that has an exoskeleton, like some super heavy bug, walking on metal floors in a metal a room/corridor? Even louder.
You can't be 500lb in a human made room, inside a hollow aircraft designed to be as light as possible, and not making a shit ton of noise. Animals are also dumb shits, so they're going to bump into random shit along the way. You're going to hear their clumsy lumbering a mile away.
Movies lie and create dumbshit characters to make your viewing experience exciting and suspenseful. Real life is boring, and the aliens would be wiped out within a month of just waiting for the bugs to come to them. They'd also devise traps to capture a few alive, without anyone dying, because even the smartest non-human animal is stupider than the stupidest marine.
An animal is going to be waaaaaaay different than a human, especially since it's a 180lb rubber soled boot vs clinky clanky clawed chitinous feet supporting 500lb
i once had a dog come into my house by pushing a door open and hearing it walk through my tiled living room made the hairs on my neck stand on end. Fricking frightening hearing a heavy SOMETHING just walking around, while I'm in my office wondering what the frick was out there (neighbor's lonely hound dog seeking a friend)
Hell, way long ago we used to have a rabbit and we let it roam around the house most of the day, and when it'd go upstairs i could hear the clinking of its claws on the wood and then the swoofing sound when it hopped along the carpetted parts. 8lb minirabbit., whose feet are padded and furred to avoid detection from predators.
Whats her name was listening to Space Taylor swift on her headphones instead of securing her ship.
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I listen to music too while i work, and i still heard that 80lb dog walking through my front door and into my house. The claws clinking and heavy padded feet stood out, and it's 4 legged gait made my primal monkey brain realize i was in danger.
500lb clacky footed monster walking on metal in a hollow metal transport jet? i'd be locking the hatch that leads to the wienerpit as soon as it stood on the metal ramp. Fricking nothing would be going through that hatch without speaking English or at least 4 bullets.
Little known fact: the slime is actually a special Engineer chemical that turns Spunkmeyer into a xenomorph and it's him who is seen attacking Ferro a few seconds later.
Because seeing a production still a bunch of times on the internet doesn't magically retcon it into any cut of the completed film with which it is associated. There's this process called "editing" which involves including and excluding various pieces of material.
It's much more poetic without such an "oh noes!" medium shot. All we need is the mouth close-up, the reaction, the gun-reach, the blood spatter on the glass.
For years I legit thought that hicks was screaming "WHERE'S BOWSKI" and he just wanted to know where a guy named Bowski was, it wasn't until it was like 30 and rewatched it for the 400th time I realized the name was actually just "Wierzbowski" or however you spell it.
I thought this until last year. I thought it was nice he was screaming where his pal was using his nickname. It was a let down to realise he was just yelling his name.
As a kid I always thought he was asking where Vasquez was. Vaskie. Weirzbowski is barely in the film, you can easily miss him. He and Crowe were severely underutilized.
I refuse to believe this, this is some Mandela effect bullshit
I did not spend 34 years of my life obsessed with Aliens to only learn it had a THIRD female marine now
this isn't real. This motherfricking shit isn't real.
You watched this whole scene where she looks over Newt and talks with a female voice and didn't pick up on it? She just has short hair, doesn't mean she's a dude.
doesn't matter when she sounds very clearly like a woman
>They intentionally send surveyors out to the specific place where the ship is once the colony is fully set up so the colonists can start getting infected
That scene was originally cut and wasn't added back in until the Special Editions of the movies with deleted scenes were re-released decades later, so it's reasonable to assume that a lot of people who watched the movie around the time it came out would have missed this.
I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I'm pretty sure the original movie never outright stated that Wayland-Yutani set up the colony as an Alien honeypot. But there were a couple scenes that gave subtle undertones that the Company was trying to acquire the species. The scene at the beginning with Burke and Ripley where the company was accusing her of corporate sabatoge had some implications that the Company may have known about them, and Burke's death scene is compelling evidence that the company was trying to acquire them, but it could also be that Burke was a greedy opportunist that saw the Aliens as a means to climb the corporate ladder.
No, they very clearly in the entire movie said they did not at any point know about the creatures nor believe that they existed. It was literally entirely only Burke who wanted to look into it further and wanted to acquire it with exclusive rights for himself. Even in the theatrical cut, Ripley checks the logs, sees that it was Burke and yells at him that she will get him imprisoned when they get back. Because the Company did NOT know nor sanction such a thing. Any honeypot nonsense is literally fan fiction headcanon.
she has 1 line:
"some kind of secreted resin"
and you see her face like twice. not hard to miss
>Private Hudson : Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker's off scale, man. They're all around us, man. Jesus! >Corporal Dietrich : Maybe they don't show up on infrared at all...
I bet you remember her now
It was a British production with a Canadian director. James Cameron has been a self-actualized director for decades now and his greatest joy is to work long hours on his productions. So when he had to manage the lazy union fricks in the British film industry, he really bristled at that aspect of the production. But he and his Girl Friday at the moment Gale Anne Hurd wrangled those lazy bastards and they turned out a decent Oscar-nominated picture.
James Cameron is actually high on the list of most self-actualized human beings when you really think about it. He's not stuck managing some stupid country, he's not into shady shit or sittiing atop some garbage computer company which should never have existed in the first place (Amazon, Google, etc), or if he is he's had the good sense to keep it very quiet. He's not into Scientology garbage. He's just an old white guy with bad teeth who gets to make fun action movies that people genuinely like and indulge his water fetish.
>Spunkmeyer, open the hanger bay doors for a few hours, leave all the external flood lights on, no marine protection around the ship and get my lipstick I'm about to get fricked
They really needed a line of dialogue to explain why they is so few marines , if they had 10 more men they would have won easy.
Cameroon went out of his way to show them as poorly led (gorman 2nd drop) arrogant , poorly motivated , ill-disciplined, inexperienced.
But never explained why there is so few of them and why teh mothership is left unattended
just a couple of extra lines dialogue would have gone a long way.
There were plenty of lines explaining that. They didn't believe Ripley. They thought the colonists were dumb and made some stupid mistake as usual. The marines indicated they had been sent out previously, and it was almost always a big nothingburger and waste of time. They didn't expect to find anything worthwhile and say that over and over.
The actions of THE COMPANY basically never make sense.
Alien- they know about the xenomorph, they want one brought back. Why send the crew on a suicide mission when they could easily just have them come back and report the location so a trained team can go get it?
Also, once a guy got facehugged, why not just freeze him and bring him back? They could’ve maybe even surgically removed it from his body. No deaths and the company gets their alien. Everybody wins.
In Aliens, it’s this small crew of soldiers who don’t care about bringing back specimens. Why? If you’re this massive corporation and you really want an alien, just send a legion of mercenaries who know they’re supposed to bring one back. Easy.
Alien- The didn't know about the alien, just that there is an alien-like signal. Ash's orders were to ensure that any lifeform found was brought back alive. He definitely should have frozen the guy while it was still inside. It didn't know about it bursting out, but still better to be safe. Then once it was out in the ship, he was working against the rest to keep it alive.
Aliens- it's half a century later and completely new company and executives. None of them know about any aliens and nothing else has been discovered yet. They have never had a problem with any colony and even LV426 has been doing just fine. It was only Burke who sent a signal to check out Ripley's story and didn't tell them what they might find because he wanted to get any kind of rewards or bonuses from it himself. It was a VERY bad call.
Ash definitely seems to know more. The company wants it for the weapons division, which means they must have some idea of its capabilities. But even if they didn’t, why send space truckers to make first contact? Just have them report the location.
From the Aliens viewpoint it's one moronic exec (Burke) making the decision without Company sanction.
Even after many years, I have trouble believing they’d just forget. Burke knows his superiors want the alien; that makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is how he goes about getting it.
They didn't forget. They knew exactly what was there, which is why they had the colony set up in the first place. It was a testing ground to see what would happen when they came upon the xenos. They literally put the colonists in harms way, intentionally. Burke is basically doing a final evaluation. The Marines unknowingly are there to get him and a sample out. Its proof of concept that the things are a viable product to research and generate further. They're acting like they known nothing
this is dumb headcanon contradictory to everything in the movie.
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They literally say they did surveys and never found the frickhuge ship full of eggs. Then they set up a colony right next to where it is. Did you think that was a mistake? Did you really think they sent back the only witness to what happened for shit and giggles and not to get rid of her?
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Burke gives the Order to investigate the sector with the ship only after Ripleys report.
Ash definitely seems to know more. The company wants it for the weapons division, which means they must have some idea of its capabilities. But even if they didn’t, why send space truckers to make first contact? Just have them report the location.
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Even after many years, I have trouble believing they’d just forget. Burke knows his superiors want the alien; that makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is how he goes about getting it.
they mention Ash being a first timer with the Crew, so i was wondering if the company knew before hand, plus the corp orders via mother to capture the alien, where they live feed or instructed on lift off ?
He didn't know anything about it. He was studying it the whole time and fascinated by it but had to keep hiding what he was doing such as when Ripley walked in on him looking at some organism inside Cain.
They did forget, or they literally had DECADES they could have sent hundreds of troops/scientists/armies of androids, whatever, to go to the derelict that was sitting right there. They wouldn't have needed Ripley to go back, they wouldn't have had a civilian colony sitting there nor would they send them out to get destroyed, and they wouldn't have sent just a handful of troops with no information. The Xeno eggs and ship were there for them to collect and easily control anytime they wanted if they still knew.
The story of the original simply doesn’t make sense without assuming that the company has some knowledge about the capabilities of the alien.
Ash talks about it as though he’s been briefed.
Yeah, that’s why Aliens doesn’t make sense. It’s possible the colonists settled there by chance and never found the derelict ship, but the minute Ripley shows up telling her tale of the xenomorph, a fricking fleet would be on its way.
And in Alien 3, the remain obsessed with getting a specimen.
Most horror movies depend on the characters being moronic to move the plot. Alien depends on corporations being moronic.
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The company is fully aware of the xenos. They set up a colony there intentionally. They intentionally send surveyors out to the specific place where the ship is once the colony is fully set up so the colonists can start getting infected
Did you people not watch the movie?
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Did YOU not watch the fricking movie? BURKE sends the damn colonists there intentionally and AFTER Ripley tells her story. They were supposed to take a look, then report back, not go inside and get infected. She fricking yells at him when she finds out it was him who sent the order and that he didn't fricking warn them what they may find. And he did it only because he wanted to be the one to get the most profit from it.
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Does she mean burke specifically though or does she mean you as in the company? They mention the colony had been there for...years was it? The problem is we have no sense of the time gap between her return to earth and burke contacting her. The movie makes it seem like a few weeks at most.
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Yes, she mentions him specifically, and that's why he decides to try and impregnate her and Newt. She asked the WeYu executives why they didn't just go check out her story, and they said they didn't have to since there were colonists there and they'd never had a problem or found anything. They didn't believe her. Burke decided to do it on his own.
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Paul Reiser played such a good sleazebag villain.
This whole shit was his fault throughout the whole film.
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>such a good sleazebag villain
comes naturally to a israelite
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Cameron had to know with the casting.
Reiser is very very israelitey. see
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Well then other anon is right and Aliens is moronic, because the ship should still have been broadcasting the warning beacon that diverted the nostromo there in the first place. I don't recall them ever finding the source and shutting it down. Plus it would've been pretty hard to miss by the survey team initially let alone in the _20 years_ the colony had been there..
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Well, it stopped broadcasting. Doesn't matter how or why, it stopped. No, there doesn't need to be a hundred scenes explaining every possible thing you demand answered. The fact is it wasn't broadcasting. They didn't see the ship as it was very far from the colony site and they have no reason to just drive around a dead planet. That doesn't make anything moronic just because everything didn't line up exactly with what you wanted, people made decisions you didn't like, and people made mistakes and miss things.
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>send them middle of nowhere on company order
That doesn't prove that they knew. Also not canon since it's not the theatrical version but nice try.
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>no no this isn't real, stop owning me with facts!
Grow up, kiddo
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>They intentionally send surveyors out to the specific place where the ship is once the colony is fully set up so the colonists can start getting infected
That scene was originally cut and wasn't added back in until the Special Editions of the movies with deleted scenes were re-released decades later, so it's reasonable to assume that a lot of people who watched the movie around the time it came out would have missed this.
I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I'm pretty sure the original movie never outright stated that Wayland-Yutani set up the colony as an Alien honeypot. But there were a couple scenes that gave subtle undertones that the Company was trying to acquire the species. The scene at the beginning with Burke and Ripley where the company was accusing her of corporate sabatoge had some implications that the Company may have known about them, and Burke's death scene is compelling evidence that the company was trying to acquire them, but it could also be that Burke was a greedy opportunist that saw the Aliens as a means to climb the corporate ladder.
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Well, Alien 3 isn't canon. It was clear at the end of Aliens that there was ZERO alien material still on board and that they'd get home just fine. Alien 3 made up some magical eggs to justify its existence.
And Aliens works just fine. The executives back then scrambled to cover up the incident since a whole crew died and their expensive refinery was destroyed. They still had the planet in the database though and it was eventually picked for terraforming. That's what they do, send out colonists for decades to make planets livable. No reason to think LV426 is any different from any of their other lifeless rocks. Ripley just sounded like a crazy person who had been involved in destroying her own ship. Then when they received the order from Burke to investigate, the colonists said that the coordinates were very far away and would take a while to drive to. The company wasn't jumping to send a fleet when one ship really should have been plenty to handle the situation then send back a report that more scientists should be sent.
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Aliens takes place a half century + after the events of Alien
It's not hard to imagine that the Company kept this stuff secret, the ship exploded and was never heard of again, and after 50+ years it was just lost to time
Like the alternative is that someone programs some AI so that if someone from that exploded ship comes back and talks about how there's a monster, and the ship crash landed on a planet, definitely don't settle people there, make sure to inform the settlers not to go there, block them
The idea is actually absurd when you think about it.
Ash was probably going on a general directive, which is to find alien life that's useful to the company. Prometheus retcons it to something slightly more specific, ie "there's some dangerous shit out there, it's probably worth money" rather than "there could be alien shit out there, may be worth assessing and so send robots low-key in case something comes up".
In Aliens, Burke specifically says he wants to keep whatever he finds hush-hush and thus come out on top. The previous corporate people only knew some shit went down, the new corporate people are skeptical about Ripley's explanation, and it's Burke who has a hunch and directs the colony to LV-426. Turns out his hunch was right, and he tries to orchestrate things so he gets all the glory. Then shit doesn't turn out as expected because he underestimated the threat.
Alien 3 shows that the company now considers Ripley to be right and thus worthy of looking into on an official capacity, and Alien 4 expands upon that by showing WY as working on how to get the xenos viable. But they frick up by making hybrids (Jurassic World does the same). AVP1 is an alternate take on explaining Ashe's motives, and that movie shows that WY knew that xenos were out there and so that just clarifies things.
it makes sense because its not the entire company or even a large group.
In Alien it's clearly supposed to be very secretive and small scale, lots of plausible deniability. It was probably unclear to the conspirator(s) what exactly was on that planet, so the computer and android just sort of winged it (poorly).
In Aliens it's obviously the brainchild of a small group of conspirators, with Burke as the frontman. Using the rescue operation as cover - which quickly gets out of hand as they either didn't fully believe Ripley or underestimated just how incompetent Gorman was.
In both cases they either didn't want to bring too much attention to the find, and/or lacked the resources to do more.
In Cameron's initial treatment, Bishop is left on the Sulaco but is out-of-contact with the Marines due to the rotation of LV-426. In the movie they cover for it by having the dropship have a remote-piloting ability, so technically they don't need anyone on the Sulaco.
The remote-pilot is way better. Having Bishop have to crawl through that tiny claustrophobic tunnel, which takes a lot of time, added to the tension and was a good choice. Plus it was a funny scene when Ripley finally shows up and he says there's plenty of time to lift off, and she says they aren't leaving.
The team was sent as a precaution as everyone thought Ripley was crazy and full of shit.
The only one who believed her was Burke, and a smaller team benefited him to be sneaky and he was also planning on killing the marines to sneak back any organisms.
The planet was a terraforming candidate that was surveyed and determined to be a dead rock. So on one hand you have a legit company survey saying there was no life on the planet and on the other you have a nutso space trucker that self-destructed her own ship. You would not believe her either.
It was deliberate. Ripley finds out that Burke was the one who told the colonists to investigate the wrecked ship which is what precipitated the events of the movie. Burke and/or the company also engineered it so that an inexperienced commander led the colonial marines who themselves didn't take the mission seriously until it was too late. Burke was the one who locked Ripley and Newt in the room with the facehuggers.
Once you realize that Burke's only goal was to bring back an alien safe and sound everything fits into place.
its earned
the NTIs were about to extinguish humanity but held off because one human knowingly scrificed itself to prevent harm to the NTIs
Aliens has a happy ending too
It definitely appeared that way. They found nothing in the area, no colonists or hostiles. Everything was over at the processing station. And the dropship stayed pretty far away after the dropping them off. Still, Spunkmeyer messed up everything by leaving the ramp open.
The real moronic move was when they realized they couldn’t use their primary weapons, but continued with the mission anyway. By that point, there was ample evidence that Ripley’s account was legit, and with all those missing colonists there MUST be a tuck load of aliens. Why the frick would you keep going?
was there any more background info to attend the "just another bug hunt" line one of the marines said? maybe it was just a sarcastic one off, etc, aka "fricking colonists think they saw ET"?
I want all personnel on this ship, including the autonomous android, to come down into the combat zone with us. >But sir-
Just do it Sergeant. And no grenades.
Reminder that the cast of Aliens works perfectly as a chess set:
-A unit of 12 marines, Burke, Ripley, Newt, and a robot named fricking Bishop. A total of 16, same as the pieces for one side.
-Newt is the king, the most important piece. The whole point of the game is to protect her and prevent the enemy from capturing her.
-Ripley is the queen, natch.
-Bishop is of course a bishop, and so is Gorman. Officially Gorman is supposed to be powerful, but it doesn't really work out that way.
-The smart gunners Drake and Vasquez are the knights, typically point for starting any invasion (but also not exceptionally strong pieces).
-Apone and Hicks are the rooks, starting at a1 and h1. They're the real brains and muscle of the outfit.
This leads us to the pawns. There's an imperfect but PRETTY GOOD alphabetical correspondence to the a-h files, by the characters' first names. This also corresponds roughly to the characters' roles in the story:
Spunkmeyer (a-pawn in this case)
Burke the b-pawn
Crowe the c-pawn
Dietrich the d-pawn, typically one of the first to be captured in a game
Wierzbowski the e-pawn, hey he has an e in his name, a meme bit part, see above
Frost the f-pawn, moving him early leads to (very bad) explosive results
Ferro
Hudson the h-pawn, stays on the edge of the board because he's a FRICKING COWARD
You could play around with the above suggestions. Apone and Gorman could be switched to take up the a-and-g-pawn slots if you like. Also Burke isn't really a "pawn" in the story, he's the suit butthole who sets the whole thing in motion.
>turns around to chew Spunkmeyer's ass >sees horrific xeno that should scare the crap out of her >instead doesn't hesitate to pull gun and try to blast it
That's not hesitation, that's trying to comprehend what you're even seeing since it doesn't make sense. Hesitation would be continuing to stare and scream uselessly at it, or try to get out of your chair, etc.
Its the definition of hesitation. She knows what they're facing, Ripley briefed them on it. It makes perfect sense what is standing there behind her. She hesitates
By your logic literally everything we are thinking about going to do is hesitation. You need to understand what you are seeing before you can react to it. If I am recollecting a definition for a test, am I hesitating while thinking of the answer? No because I don't know of it yet. If I see a fire and stare at it for 2 seconds am I hesitating? No, i am assessing the situation very quickly and finding a way to run away or put it out. This is like grade school level of nervous system physiology. Not that hard to understand
She hesitates. They call her up to come evacuate them because they just got wrecked in the hive. They just lost men and they are leaving to nuke the entire colony from orbit. She is aware of what is presently owning them. She turns around and waits two seconds before acting. She hesitated
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Why did she hesitate? Because she didn't comprehend what she she saw?
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You might be on the spectrum if you fail to understand the reasons behind "hesitation".
>Ripley briefed them on it
Ripley held a quick seminar that everyone blew off because the report was on a DVD, which nobody watched because Gorman set them to work with a ridiculous deadline
The Alan Dean Foster novelization is excellent, also gives lines to Crowe and Wierzbowski. Ripley is saddened by Wierzbowski's death and she mentions that he liked him
You'd lose all the effect. At that scale the cameras wouldn't even pick up the walls of the giant room. That ship holds thousands of people a movie camera would be like a pixel.
Are people really arguing that taking 5 seconds to stare at scary monster and dying because they didn't take out their gun immediately isn't hesitation?
I had all of the Alien species except for the flying queen. I'd say my favorite was either the Queen or the Snake, since it had the wire spine to adjust the tail. My favorite comic was the Bull Alien one.
Yeah, that's right. I think there was a fire during the filming of the movie and he reflexively went into action and shouted orders for people to get to safety.
Absolutely. They make plenty of mistakes that are worth mocking. But characters making mistakes are really the only way to have a movie. Still, their mistakes are more believable than ones like from Prometheus and Covenant.
Yeah, as much as I love Aliens to have the aliens be scary the humans really have to act like morons and do stupid shit like the marines blundering straight into a nest where there's poor visibility and the xenomorphs can lunge at them from hiding spots in order to rescue civilians that they should know from basic knowledge of the xenomorph life cycle are already dead and/or hosts.
But at least no-one goes "hey look a sketchy looking alien penis I'm gonna stick my face in it" like Prometheus.
>But at least no-one goes "hey look a sketchy looking alien penis I'm gonna stick my face in it" like Prometheus.
And then in Covenet we got "hey this sketchy android told me to look into this gross looking, clearly alive egg-like thing, let's go". BRAVO SCOTT
It would get a tide of shitposting from osmosis lurkers, but given it justifies the frick ups, there'd also be a war between the shitposters and people who actually watched it.
Would playing dead work on the aliens? They need living hosts to plant their eggs inside so if they thought you were dead surely they would leave you be.
What do the Xenomorphs eat (or if they eat at all) is a bit of a controversial issue among the fandom. The movies never touch that subject, and the related materials (books, comics) give contradictory answers.
I suppose if they perceived you as a dead, they might consume you. We see an alien eating in Alien 3. I always got the vibe that the aliens have some kind of strange preceptory ability. The queen understands Ripley's intent to burn her eggs in Aliens and issues a hiss and her workers stand down. Maybe it's just me, but seems like there was some other silent communication going on. Like a psychic sense. It's why I get the impression that they would probably tell if you're playing possum.
Could somebody explain to me why the company didn't just send a ship of their own to find and retrieve whatever was in lv-426? Why go into the contrivance of planting Ash in the Nostromo and send the unsuspecting space truckers to do that job?
I guess they might have a lot of synths tagging along here and there are corporate moles. There was an opportunity to seize an asset and a find of that nature meant they didn't want to waste time in letting anyone find it I suppose.
Why didn't they return shuttle to spaceship in orbit, and instead stayed on the base with hatches open after learning about hostile creatures infesting the place?
Yeah so in an emergency they had to 15 mins for help to arrive, it was the right move, thing is they didn't know about the aliens and how dangerous they were until all went to shit.
>i didnt hear a 500 pound alien life form crawling with its claws and hisses until it was inches from my face!
ooof get off it cameron
>500 pound predators can’t just sneak up on prey
This. That thing is day-glo orange with stripes and it will sneak up on a Poo every time.
Half of Indian civilization has been striving to remove these fricking things from the designated streets.
stick a tiger in a metal paneled room, with metal floors and junk from lazy soldiers strewn about, it's gonna be loud.
An alien that has an exoskeleton, like some super heavy bug, walking on metal floors in a metal a room/corridor? Even louder.
You can't be 500lb in a human made room, inside a hollow aircraft designed to be as light as possible, and not making a shit ton of noise. Animals are also dumb shits, so they're going to bump into random shit along the way. You're going to hear their clumsy lumbering a mile away.
Movies lie and create dumbshit characters to make your viewing experience exciting and suspenseful. Real life is boring, and the aliens would be wiped out within a month of just waiting for the bugs to come to them. They'd also devise traps to capture a few alive, without anyone dying, because even the smartest non-human animal is stupider than the stupidest marine.
It’s not even trying to be sneaky there, it casually walks through as the door opens. She turns around thinking it’s Spunk finally arriving.
An animal is going to be waaaaaaay different than a human, especially since it's a 180lb rubber soled boot vs clinky clanky clawed chitinous feet supporting 500lb
i once had a dog come into my house by pushing a door open and hearing it walk through my tiled living room made the hairs on my neck stand on end. Fricking frightening hearing a heavy SOMETHING just walking around, while I'm in my office wondering what the frick was out there (neighbor's lonely hound dog seeking a friend)
Hell, way long ago we used to have a rabbit and we let it roam around the house most of the day, and when it'd go upstairs i could hear the clinking of its claws on the wood and then the swoofing sound when it hopped along the carpetted parts. 8lb minirabbit., whose feet are padded and furred to avoid detection from predators.
Whats her name was listening to Space Taylor swift on her headphones instead of securing her ship.
I listen to music too while i work, and i still heard that 80lb dog walking through my front door and into my house. The claws clinking and heavy padded feet stood out, and it's 4 legged gait made my primal monkey brain realize i was in danger.
500lb clacky footed monster walking on metal in a hollow metal transport jet? i'd be locking the hatch that leads to the wienerpit as soon as it stood on the metal ramp. Fricking nothing would be going through that hatch without speaking English or at least 4 bullets.
>make sure you leave the entry unsupervised
>In the pipe, five by fi-ACK
>named Spunkmeyer
>only thing he does is run up a ramp and put his hand in alien spunk
Little known fact: the slime is actually a special Engineer chemical that turns Spunkmeyer into a xenomorph and it's him who is seen attacking Ferro a few seconds later.
I'd spunk in her meyer if you know what I am saying.
I’s put my Spunkmeyer in her her hangar bay doors, if you catch my drift
Shag it!
Spunkmeyer?! I barely know her!
What the hell are you guys talking about? Your verbiage is completely opaque.
Me above
bump
>shhhhhh it's raping time
Me on the right
why wasn't this frame in the version of Aliens I saw?
Because seeing a production still a bunch of times on the internet doesn't magically retcon it into any cut of the completed film with which it is associated. There's this process called "editing" which involves including and excluding various pieces of material.
It's much more poetic without such an "oh noes!" medium shot. All we need is the mouth close-up, the reaction, the gun-reach, the blood spatter on the glass.
because it looks like a guy in a rubber suit
Me in the back, looking for my rape goggles
whered the rape goggles meme originate anyway?
>he’s in my pipe 5x5
The weak must fear the strong
For me it was the carnosaur knock off of this scene that highlighted the director’s obvious amputation fetish
Guess I'll have to reinstall alien quest eve
For years I legit thought that hicks was screaming "WHERE'S BOWSKI" and he just wanted to know where a guy named Bowski was, it wasn't until it was like 30 and rewatched it for the 400th time I realized the name was actually just "Wierzbowski" or however you spell it.
I thought this until last year. I thought it was nice he was screaming where his pal was using his nickname. It was a let down to realise he was just yelling his name.
As a kid I always thought he was asking where Vasquez was. Vaskie. Weirzbowski is barely in the film, you can easily miss him. He and Crowe were severely underutilized.
>hanger
I know you’re not an ESL but you sure look like one
>hanger
That's a very EFL mistake.
Like mixing up their/they're, which is harder to do as ESL because of a differnt way the language is learned.
The dropship didn't house flying vehicles as far as I recall, so even the correctly spelled hangar is still the wrong word.
>EFL
That means “English as a foreign language”, moron.
I need to facefrick pilot lady gaga so much it's unreal
>be troony
>frick up
Wow cameron is racist
I would spunk in her meyer if you understand what I'm saying at all
Spunkmeyerbros, I don't feel so good...
Dietrich is a woman?!
yup
is there more of these?
40 years ago and they were already in their later 20s presumably.
Black don't crack though, christ. Lucky bastards.
Ferro is sexier now.
You ever get mistaken for being young women?
>these two suzie from curb stand-ins were in aliens
they really can shapeshift
Wolfies just fine
>I'm Putting Together a Team
>Norf FC
>Cat lady
>Black don't crack
>Troon
>Merchant
Fyi that gun is just a modified Thompson
Spunkmeyer is THAT guy from many other movies and tv shows??? What the frick.
I dont even know who Diet Rich is.
>LEFT5DEAD TOO: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
>Spunkmeyer
wipe-wipe-wipe-WIPE-WIPE!
I refuse to believe this, this is some Mandela effect bullshit
I did not spend 34 years of my life obsessed with Aliens to only learn it had a THIRD female marine now
this isn't real. This motherfricking shit isn't real.
You watched this whole scene where she looks over Newt and talks with a female voice and didn't pick up on it? She just has short hair, doesn't mean she's a dude.
NO THIS IS FRICKING CHANGED DUDE
MICHAEL BIEHN IS THE ONE WHO TALKS TO HER THERE
I KNOW THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY
THIS IS ACTUAL BULLSHIT
Bet your easy to convince in to any conspiracy
You're
kek I don't blame anon, she looks like a dude
doesn't matter when she sounds very clearly like a woman
No, they very clearly in the entire movie said they did not at any point know about the creatures nor believe that they existed. It was literally entirely only Burke who wanted to look into it further and wanted to acquire it with exclusive rights for himself. Even in the theatrical cut, Ripley checks the logs, sees that it was Burke and yells at him that she will get him imprisoned when they get back. Because the Company did NOT know nor sanction such a thing. Any honeypot nonsense is literally fan fiction headcanon.
she has 1 line:
"some kind of secreted resin"
and you see her face like twice. not hard to miss
>Private Hudson : Look, I'm telling ya, there's somethin' movin' and it ain't us! Tracker's off scale, man. They're all around us, man. Jesus!
>Corporal Dietrich : Maybe they don't show up on infrared at all...
I bet you remember her now
She is the one who looks over Newt when they first find her, and she has lines there. She's the medic.
Weirzbowski is kind of a unit.
it's Wierzbowski
Wasn't Spunkmeyer the Dresden guy in The Expanse?
yup, looks like he's been in a lot of things. He was in Robocop 2014 too
Poor Crowe
that crowe didn't fly so good
That's what I call a murder of crowes.
yjk
They should have called him Stone.
>americans so obsessed with tipping culture they name their children after it
It was a British production with a Canadian director. James Cameron has been a self-actualized director for decades now and his greatest joy is to work long hours on his productions. So when he had to manage the lazy union fricks in the British film industry, he really bristled at that aspect of the production. But he and his Girl Friday at the moment Gale Anne Hurd wrangled those lazy bastards and they turned out a decent Oscar-nominated picture.
James Cameron is actually high on the list of most self-actualized human beings when you really think about it. He's not stuck managing some stupid country, he's not into shady shit or sittiing atop some garbage computer company which should never have existed in the first place (Amazon, Google, etc), or if he is he's had the good sense to keep it very quiet. He's not into Scientology garbage. He's just an old white guy with bad teeth who gets to make fun action movies that people genuinely like and indulge his water fetish.
Was Crowe the only one who didn't have a single line?
"The area is secure "
Lt Gorman
>In the pie
>bye bye bye
>Spunkmeyer, open the hanger bay doors for a few hours, leave all the external flood lights on, no marine protection around the ship and get my lipstick I'm about to get fricked
my mind is so fricking broken that for some reason I immediately thought she was leaving the doors open so black men could come in and frick her
I need to leave this place, you homosexuals are destroying my mind
We all think it. Not all of us type it.
They really needed a line of dialogue to explain why they is so few marines , if they had 10 more men they would have won easy.
Cameroon went out of his way to show them as poorly led (gorman 2nd drop) arrogant , poorly motivated , ill-disciplined, inexperienced.
But never explained why there is so few of them and why teh mothership is left unattended
just a couple of extra lines dialogue would have gone a long way.
There were plenty of lines explaining that. They didn't believe Ripley. They thought the colonists were dumb and made some stupid mistake as usual. The marines indicated they had been sent out previously, and it was almost always a big nothingburger and waste of time. They didn't expect to find anything worthwhile and say that over and over.
>another bug hunt
Over confidence.
Just like Vietnam sweetie
The actions of THE COMPANY basically never make sense.
Alien- they know about the xenomorph, they want one brought back. Why send the crew on a suicide mission when they could easily just have them come back and report the location so a trained team can go get it?
Also, once a guy got facehugged, why not just freeze him and bring him back? They could’ve maybe even surgically removed it from his body. No deaths and the company gets their alien. Everybody wins.
In Aliens, it’s this small crew of soldiers who don’t care about bringing back specimens. Why? If you’re this massive corporation and you really want an alien, just send a legion of mercenaries who know they’re supposed to bring one back. Easy.
Alien- The didn't know about the alien, just that there is an alien-like signal. Ash's orders were to ensure that any lifeform found was brought back alive. He definitely should have frozen the guy while it was still inside. It didn't know about it bursting out, but still better to be safe. Then once it was out in the ship, he was working against the rest to keep it alive.
Aliens- it's half a century later and completely new company and executives. None of them know about any aliens and nothing else has been discovered yet. They have never had a problem with any colony and even LV426 has been doing just fine. It was only Burke who sent a signal to check out Ripley's story and didn't tell them what they might find because he wanted to get any kind of rewards or bonuses from it himself. It was a VERY bad call.
Ash definitely seems to know more. The company wants it for the weapons division, which means they must have some idea of its capabilities. But even if they didn’t, why send space truckers to make first contact? Just have them report the location.
Even after many years, I have trouble believing they’d just forget. Burke knows his superiors want the alien; that makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is how he goes about getting it.
They didn't forget. They knew exactly what was there, which is why they had the colony set up in the first place. It was a testing ground to see what would happen when they came upon the xenos. They literally put the colonists in harms way, intentionally. Burke is basically doing a final evaluation. The Marines unknowingly are there to get him and a sample out. Its proof of concept that the things are a viable product to research and generate further. They're acting like they known nothing
this is dumb headcanon contradictory to everything in the movie.
They literally say they did surveys and never found the frickhuge ship full of eggs. Then they set up a colony right next to where it is. Did you think that was a mistake? Did you really think they sent back the only witness to what happened for shit and giggles and not to get rid of her?
Burke gives the Order to investigate the sector with the ship only after Ripleys report.
they mention Ash being a first timer with the Crew, so i was wondering if the company knew before hand, plus the corp orders via mother to capture the alien, where they live feed or instructed on lift off ?
He didn't know anything about it. He was studying it the whole time and fascinated by it but had to keep hiding what he was doing such as when Ripley walked in on him looking at some organism inside Cain.
They did forget, or they literally had DECADES they could have sent hundreds of troops/scientists/armies of androids, whatever, to go to the derelict that was sitting right there. They wouldn't have needed Ripley to go back, they wouldn't have had a civilian colony sitting there nor would they send them out to get destroyed, and they wouldn't have sent just a handful of troops with no information. The Xeno eggs and ship were there for them to collect and easily control anytime they wanted if they still knew.
The story of the original simply doesn’t make sense without assuming that the company has some knowledge about the capabilities of the alien.
Ash talks about it as though he’s been briefed.
Yeah, that’s why Aliens doesn’t make sense. It’s possible the colonists settled there by chance and never found the derelict ship, but the minute Ripley shows up telling her tale of the xenomorph, a fricking fleet would be on its way.
And in Alien 3, the remain obsessed with getting a specimen.
Most horror movies depend on the characters being moronic to move the plot. Alien depends on corporations being moronic.
The company is fully aware of the xenos. They set up a colony there intentionally. They intentionally send surveyors out to the specific place where the ship is once the colony is fully set up so the colonists can start getting infected
Did you people not watch the movie?
Did YOU not watch the fricking movie? BURKE sends the damn colonists there intentionally and AFTER Ripley tells her story. They were supposed to take a look, then report back, not go inside and get infected. She fricking yells at him when she finds out it was him who sent the order and that he didn't fricking warn them what they may find. And he did it only because he wanted to be the one to get the most profit from it.
Does she mean burke specifically though or does she mean you as in the company? They mention the colony had been there for...years was it? The problem is we have no sense of the time gap between her return to earth and burke contacting her. The movie makes it seem like a few weeks at most.
Yes, she mentions him specifically, and that's why he decides to try and impregnate her and Newt. She asked the WeYu executives why they didn't just go check out her story, and they said they didn't have to since there were colonists there and they'd never had a problem or found anything. They didn't believe her. Burke decided to do it on his own.
Paul Reiser played such a good sleazebag villain.
This whole shit was his fault throughout the whole film.
>such a good sleazebag villain
comes naturally to a israelite
Cameron had to know with the casting.
Reiser is very very israelitey. see
Well then other anon is right and Aliens is moronic, because the ship should still have been broadcasting the warning beacon that diverted the nostromo there in the first place. I don't recall them ever finding the source and shutting it down. Plus it would've been pretty hard to miss by the survey team initially let alone in the _20 years_ the colony had been there..
Well, it stopped broadcasting. Doesn't matter how or why, it stopped. No, there doesn't need to be a hundred scenes explaining every possible thing you demand answered. The fact is it wasn't broadcasting. They didn't see the ship as it was very far from the colony site and they have no reason to just drive around a dead planet. That doesn't make anything moronic just because everything didn't line up exactly with what you wanted, people made decisions you didn't like, and people made mistakes and miss things.
>send them middle of nowhere on company order
That doesn't prove that they knew. Also not canon since it's not the theatrical version but nice try.
>no no this isn't real, stop owning me with facts!
Grow up, kiddo
>They intentionally send surveyors out to the specific place where the ship is once the colony is fully set up so the colonists can start getting infected
That scene was originally cut and wasn't added back in until the Special Editions of the movies with deleted scenes were re-released decades later, so it's reasonable to assume that a lot of people who watched the movie around the time it came out would have missed this.
I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I'm pretty sure the original movie never outright stated that Wayland-Yutani set up the colony as an Alien honeypot. But there were a couple scenes that gave subtle undertones that the Company was trying to acquire the species. The scene at the beginning with Burke and Ripley where the company was accusing her of corporate sabatoge had some implications that the Company may have known about them, and Burke's death scene is compelling evidence that the company was trying to acquire them, but it could also be that Burke was a greedy opportunist that saw the Aliens as a means to climb the corporate ladder.
Well, Alien 3 isn't canon. It was clear at the end of Aliens that there was ZERO alien material still on board and that they'd get home just fine. Alien 3 made up some magical eggs to justify its existence.
And Aliens works just fine. The executives back then scrambled to cover up the incident since a whole crew died and their expensive refinery was destroyed. They still had the planet in the database though and it was eventually picked for terraforming. That's what they do, send out colonists for decades to make planets livable. No reason to think LV426 is any different from any of their other lifeless rocks. Ripley just sounded like a crazy person who had been involved in destroying her own ship. Then when they received the order from Burke to investigate, the colonists said that the coordinates were very far away and would take a while to drive to. The company wasn't jumping to send a fleet when one ship really should have been plenty to handle the situation then send back a report that more scientists should be sent.
Aliens takes place a half century + after the events of Alien
It's not hard to imagine that the Company kept this stuff secret, the ship exploded and was never heard of again, and after 50+ years it was just lost to time
Like the alternative is that someone programs some AI so that if someone from that exploded ship comes back and talks about how there's a monster, and the ship crash landed on a planet, definitely don't settle people there, make sure to inform the settlers not to go there, block them
The idea is actually absurd when you think about it.
Ash was probably going on a general directive, which is to find alien life that's useful to the company. Prometheus retcons it to something slightly more specific, ie "there's some dangerous shit out there, it's probably worth money" rather than "there could be alien shit out there, may be worth assessing and so send robots low-key in case something comes up".
In Aliens, Burke specifically says he wants to keep whatever he finds hush-hush and thus come out on top. The previous corporate people only knew some shit went down, the new corporate people are skeptical about Ripley's explanation, and it's Burke who has a hunch and directs the colony to LV-426. Turns out his hunch was right, and he tries to orchestrate things so he gets all the glory. Then shit doesn't turn out as expected because he underestimated the threat.
Alien 3 shows that the company now considers Ripley to be right and thus worthy of looking into on an official capacity, and Alien 4 expands upon that by showing WY as working on how to get the xenos viable. But they frick up by making hybrids (Jurassic World does the same). AVP1 is an alternate take on explaining Ashe's motives, and that movie shows that WY knew that xenos were out there and so that just clarifies things.
From the Aliens viewpoint it's one moronic exec (Burke) making the decision without Company sanction.
it makes sense because its not the entire company or even a large group.
In Alien it's clearly supposed to be very secretive and small scale, lots of plausible deniability. It was probably unclear to the conspirator(s) what exactly was on that planet, so the computer and android just sort of winged it (poorly).
In Aliens it's obviously the brainchild of a small group of conspirators, with Burke as the frontman. Using the rescue operation as cover - which quickly gets out of hand as they either didn't fully believe Ripley or underestimated just how incompetent Gorman was.
In both cases they either didn't want to bring too much attention to the find, and/or lacked the resources to do more.
In Cameron's initial treatment, Bishop is left on the Sulaco but is out-of-contact with the Marines due to the rotation of LV-426. In the movie they cover for it by having the dropship have a remote-piloting ability, so technically they don't need anyone on the Sulaco.
The remote-pilot is way better. Having Bishop have to crawl through that tiny claustrophobic tunnel, which takes a lot of time, added to the tension and was a good choice. Plus it was a funny scene when Ripley finally shows up and he says there's plenty of time to lift off, and she says they aren't leaving.
The team was sent as a precaution as everyone thought Ripley was crazy and full of shit.
The only one who believed her was Burke, and a smaller team benefited him to be sneaky and he was also planning on killing the marines to sneak back any organisms.
The planet was a terraforming candidate that was surveyed and determined to be a dead rock. So on one hand you have a legit company survey saying there was no life on the planet and on the other you have a nutso space trucker that self-destructed her own ship. You would not believe her either.
The marine squad was for recon not a full battle.
It's what they call a shake and bake colony
It was deliberate. Ripley finds out that Burke was the one who told the colonists to investigate the wrecked ship which is what precipitated the events of the movie. Burke and/or the company also engineered it so that an inexperienced commander led the colonial marines who themselves didn't take the mission seriously until it was too late. Burke was the one who locked Ripley and Newt in the room with the facehuggers.
Once you realize that Burke's only goal was to bring back an alien safe and sound everything fits into place.
Burke was also a stereotypical israelite character
Hi everyone, James Cameron here
I hope to see you all at the 4K rerelease of The Abyss, only on Dec 6
trust fund band
Abyss is kino and the last good film Jimbo made
True Lies is pretty good
Avatar 2 was good as well, dont deny it
Agreed except for True Lies, Terminator 2, Titanic and both Avatars.
too bad about the happy ending
its earned
the NTIs were about to extinguish humanity but held off because one human knowingly scrificed itself to prevent harm to the NTIs
Aliens has a happy ending too
Everything at the end is pretty lame.
Gorman declared the area secure, everything stems from that.
It definitely appeared that way. They found nothing in the area, no colonists or hostiles. Everything was over at the processing station. And the dropship stayed pretty far away after the dropping them off. Still, Spunkmeyer messed up everything by leaving the ramp open.
I think he was helping offload some things for Bishop in operations when Ferro called him back
The real moronic move was when they realized they couldn’t use their primary weapons, but continued with the mission anyway. By that point, there was ample evidence that Ripley’s account was legit, and with all those missing colonists there MUST be a tuck load of aliens. Why the frick would you keep going?
Why not just have a squad of bishops with pulse rifles go in
The aliums would laugh at his hairline
was there any more background info to attend the "just another bug hunt" line one of the marines said? maybe it was just a sarcastic one off, etc, aka "fricking colonists think they saw ET"?
It means a wild goose chase. They're not actually chasing wild geese. They're wasting their time.
wasting their time instead of doing what exactly?
I want all personnel on this ship, including the autonomous android, to come down into the combat zone with us.
>But sir-
Just do it Sergeant. And no grenades.
There was probably more staff in cryo on the ship. Plus all AI managed to stop the ship from falling out of orbit etc
Baffling that they kept this same ludicrous plot point from the first movie, and have it make even less sense in the sequel.
Reminder that the cast of Aliens works perfectly as a chess set:
-A unit of 12 marines, Burke, Ripley, Newt, and a robot named fricking Bishop. A total of 16, same as the pieces for one side.
-Newt is the king, the most important piece. The whole point of the game is to protect her and prevent the enemy from capturing her.
-Ripley is the queen, natch.
-Bishop is of course a bishop, and so is Gorman. Officially Gorman is supposed to be powerful, but it doesn't really work out that way.
-The smart gunners Drake and Vasquez are the knights, typically point for starting any invasion (but also not exceptionally strong pieces).
-Apone and Hicks are the rooks, starting at a1 and h1. They're the real brains and muscle of the outfit.
This leads us to the pawns. There's an imperfect but PRETTY GOOD alphabetical correspondence to the a-h files, by the characters' first names. This also corresponds roughly to the characters' roles in the story:
Spunkmeyer (a-pawn in this case)
Burke the b-pawn
Crowe the c-pawn
Dietrich the d-pawn, typically one of the first to be captured in a game
Wierzbowski the e-pawn, hey he has an e in his name, a meme bit part, see above
Frost the f-pawn, moving him early leads to (very bad) explosive results
Ferro
Hudson the h-pawn, stays on the edge of the board because he's a FRICKING COWARD
You could play around with the above suggestions. Apone and Gorman could be switched to take up the a-and-g-pawn slots if you like. Also Burke isn't really a "pawn" in the story, he's the suit butthole who sets the whole thing in motion.
Jonesy is the King
It's called "starcraft broodwar" anon, look it up
your brilliant
>turns around to chew Spunkmeyer's ass
>sees horrific xeno that should scare the crap out of her
>instead doesn't hesitate to pull gun and try to blast it
>doesn't hesitate
She literally stares at it for 2 seconds before she tries to pull the gun
That's not hesitation, that's trying to comprehend what you're even seeing since it doesn't make sense. Hesitation would be continuing to stare and scream uselessly at it, or try to get out of your chair, etc.
Its the definition of hesitation. She knows what they're facing, Ripley briefed them on it. It makes perfect sense what is standing there behind her. She hesitates
By your logic literally everything we are thinking about going to do is hesitation. You need to understand what you are seeing before you can react to it. If I am recollecting a definition for a test, am I hesitating while thinking of the answer? No because I don't know of it yet. If I see a fire and stare at it for 2 seconds am I hesitating? No, i am assessing the situation very quickly and finding a way to run away or put it out. This is like grade school level of nervous system physiology. Not that hard to understand
She hesitates. They call her up to come evacuate them because they just got wrecked in the hive. They just lost men and they are leaving to nuke the entire colony from orbit. She is aware of what is presently owning them. She turns around and waits two seconds before acting. She hesitated
Why did she hesitate? Because she didn't comprehend what she she saw?
You might be on the spectrum if you fail to understand the reasons behind "hesitation".
massive moronation
>Ripley briefed them on it
Ripley held a quick seminar that everyone blew off because the report was on a DVD, which nobody watched because Gorman set them to work with a ridiculous deadline
...are you ESL by chance?
are you?
The Alan Dean Foster novelization is excellent, also gives lines to Crowe and Wierzbowski. Ripley is saddened by Wierzbowski's death and she mentions that he liked him
to air out the smell in the dropship from all the sex they were having, obviously
Little minx
why didn't the movie go into detail about the giants that built all the spaceships
You'd lose all the effect. At that scale the cameras wouldn't even pick up the walls of the giant room. That ship holds thousands of people a movie camera would be like a pixel.
We need to go back to model kits in movies
LOL
Are people really arguing that taking 5 seconds to stare at scary monster and dying because they didn't take out their gun immediately isn't hesitation?
test
Built for hot glue
Pretty sure I had literally all of those xenomorph toys. Lost the pieces of the exploding one almost immediately.
I had all of the Alien species except for the flying queen. I'd say my favorite was either the Queen or the Snake, since it had the wire spine to adjust the tail. My favorite comic was the Bull Alien one.
I still have these in a box somewhere in storage. I want to go back to those stupid carefree days.
Frick I'm dying over that Apone with the yellow "NO BUGS" tanktop.
Fits in with the Bug Stomper motif
The 80s was a simpler time to be alive
It looks like a repurposed Hulk Hogan action figure.
my friend had that flying one and i was so jelly
>tfw Blomkamp was going to bring ATAX to the big screen
>tfw no queen face hugger crushing with monstrous legs and tail
anon it's a baby
still funny to me that a creature design that was inspired by rape found its way into a kids toy set
>scorpion alien
>explodes when hit
WE'RE IN THE PIPE FIVE FIVE FIVE
555 for greenspring
reminder this character and her catchphrase were based on the video game StarCraft
STARCRAFT CAME OUT IN THE 80S???
"You always were an butthole, Gorman"
How do you respond without sounding mad?
Before this thread continues, we ought to discuss the bonus situation.
These are quite funny - where’re they from?
https://www.top10films.co.uk/9424-top-10-marines-in-aliens/
>No Wierzbowski
post da eggs
all these alien threads. is it cause of the free alien game on playstation ?
shits rad af
Alien is more fun to talk about than more Marvelslop of which there's usually a dozen or more threads full of endless seething
>Wakes up from hypersleep
>lights up cigar within 1.5 seconds
Absolute chad
This man was absolutely authentic in everything he said and did.
he was an actual drill sergeant.
Yeah, that's right. I think there was a fire during the filming of the movie and he reflexively went into action and shouted orders for people to get to safety.
This guy was so based. Legit wish he was in at least 20 minutes more of the movie before checking out.
Imagine how good a cigarette would feel after hypersleep
I wonder if it was released today would it be torn apart on-line ?
>The marines are idiots
Absolutely. They make plenty of mistakes that are worth mocking. But characters making mistakes are really the only way to have a movie. Still, their mistakes are more believable than ones like from Prometheus and Covenant.
Yeah, as much as I love Aliens to have the aliens be scary the humans really have to act like morons and do stupid shit like the marines blundering straight into a nest where there's poor visibility and the xenomorphs can lunge at them from hiding spots in order to rescue civilians that they should know from basic knowledge of the xenomorph life cycle are already dead and/or hosts.
But at least no-one goes "hey look a sketchy looking alien penis I'm gonna stick my face in it" like Prometheus.
>But at least no-one goes "hey look a sketchy looking alien penis I'm gonna stick my face in it" like Prometheus.
And then in Covenet we got "hey this sketchy android told me to look into this gross looking, clearly alive egg-like thing, let's go". BRAVO SCOTT
It would get a tide of shitposting from osmosis lurkers, but given it justifies the frick ups, there'd also be a war between the shitposters and people who actually watched it.
Would playing dead work on the aliens? They need living hosts to plant their eggs inside so if they thought you were dead surely they would leave you be.
They probably would know and just drag you off for implantation.
Wouldn't they just eat you if they thought you were dead?
What do the Xenomorphs eat (or if they eat at all) is a bit of a controversial issue among the fandom. The movies never touch that subject, and the related materials (books, comics) give contradictory answers.
I suppose if they perceived you as a dead, they might consume you. We see an alien eating in Alien 3. I always got the vibe that the aliens have some kind of strange preceptory ability. The queen understands Ripley's intent to burn her eggs in Aliens and issues a hiss and her workers stand down. Maybe it's just me, but seems like there was some other silent communication going on. Like a psychic sense. It's why I get the impression that they would probably tell if you're playing possum.
Could somebody explain to me why the company didn't just send a ship of their own to find and retrieve whatever was in lv-426? Why go into the contrivance of planting Ash in the Nostromo and send the unsuspecting space truckers to do that job?
please respond
I guess they might have a lot of synths tagging along here and there are corporate moles. There was an opportunity to seize an asset and a find of that nature meant they didn't want to waste time in letting anyone find it I suppose.
Why didn't they return shuttle to spaceship in orbit, and instead stayed on the base with hatches open after learning about hostile creatures infesting the place?
Yeah so in an emergency they had to 15 mins for help to arrive, it was the right move, thing is they didn't know about the aliens and how dangerous they were until all went to shit.