The Movie Thread Reloaded

[Thornhammer]

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.

[DocJones]

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.

[ralfy]

It's like a video game.

[Ratman_tf]

Meh. More regurgitated Alien leftovers. At least Prometheus tried something different.
Skip.

[yosemitemike]

I'll watch it when it streaming like I did the last one.

[ralfy]

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.

[Omega]

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.

[Omega]

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

[ralfy]

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.

[Omega]

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.

[Ratman_tf]

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.

[Vanadium Angel]

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).

[yosemitemike]

The crossdressing psycho that Gene Simmons played in Never Too Young to Die was entertainingly bizarre.

[Omega]

Was rewatching my old copy of Legend and recently saw a video on the differences between the US and European versions and what struck me is that what I saw in theaters was not the US version. Weird.

Its a great D&D style movie though. A ranger an elf and some gnomes battling goblins and the forces of darkness. And it is beautifully done with all practical effects and FX. Hard to believe the swamp hag is played by Robert Picardo who would later be the Doctor on Voyager. And Tim Curry as the Darkness.

[Bedrockbrendan]

Watching The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires again. Fun blend of Shaw Brothers and Hammer Films style. Plus you get to see Peter Cushing and David Chiang share scenes together. Great fodder for the game table