The Alien and Predator Discussion Thread
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C. The Queen is still a marvel to behold thirty years ,and change later. I still get chills during her unveiling in Cameron's flick.
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I'm gonna go with D followed extremely closely by A.tbeasley wrote:Well. Anyway.
Something more fun - who's your favorite?
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A. Nothing tops the original. The design and the direction and editing of the movie create an uncanny aspect that none of the sequels come close to matching.tbeasley wrote:Well. Anyway.
Something more fun - who's your favorite?
D. and F. get high marks as well, revising the basic design but maintaining its elegant simplicity and its slightly goopy physicality.
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The One and Only wrote:C. The Queen is still a marvel to behold thirty years ,and change later. I still get chills during her unveiling in Cameron's flick.
Agreed. C is my favorite. And for the looks of the Xenomorph itself, D based on these pics- but with a better camera angle, I feel like B and A would both surpass it.
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Except when it's a skinny guy in a black leotard getting hosed by water jets at the end. I always felt like that final sequence somewhat ruins the mystique for me; it shows too much, and from a not-great angle, on a background that is far too contrasty. It's the one thing I feel like is a legitimate flaw in the film; the one thing I wish they'd maybe reshot after viewing the rough cut.eabaker wrote:A. Nothing tops the original. The design and the direction and editing of the movie create an uncanny aspect that none of the sequels come close to matching.tbeasley wrote:Well. Anyway.
Something more fun - who's your favorite?
D. and F. get high marks as well, revising the basic design but maintaining its elegant simplicity and its slightly goopy physicality.
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The original Big Chap is my favorite, but I will say the main xeno design in the 2010 AVP game is a close second. The Queen deserves her own category, but I don't feel like getting real picky with all the castes and variations
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A is my favorite. I actually like AR's xenos too.
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I really liked the Hag Queen's design in that game.MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote:The original Big Chap is my favorite, but I will say the main xeno design in the 2010 AVP game is a close second. The Queen deserves her own category, but I don't feel like getting real picky with all the castes and variations
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My thoughts, or rather a ramble -
Big Chap - Giger's masterpiece, no doubt
Aliens Warrior - These have grown on me a lot more over time - yeah they changed the head and hands but it still the remains the most faithful to Giger's beast - the way Cameron was able to make a few suits seem like a horde is remarkable
Aliens Queen - Winston's other masterpiece, tied with the JP T. rex
Dog Alien - The only design from ADI that really works for me considering how much it refers to Giger's own redesign, which I like quite a bit, even with the Wolverine claws and meat cleaver tail
This goes on more of a tangent, but from the moment I saw the Covenant Neo and Xeno designs they seemed like better, more elegant versions of the designs seen in Resurrection - the Neo is eerily human in ways the Newborn is not and the Xeno suggests human anatomy in a way the Res warriors should have considering they are partial human clones - instead they are rubbery, floppy dumbasses. And the less said about the AVP films the better.
Oh, and as for the Deacon - I can buy into it as a small, diminutive imp-like Alien but basically everything done with the younger Neo forms improved on this idea bigtime.
Big Chap - Giger's masterpiece, no doubt
Aliens Warrior - These have grown on me a lot more over time - yeah they changed the head and hands but it still the remains the most faithful to Giger's beast - the way Cameron was able to make a few suits seem like a horde is remarkable
Aliens Queen - Winston's other masterpiece, tied with the JP T. rex
Dog Alien - The only design from ADI that really works for me considering how much it refers to Giger's own redesign, which I like quite a bit, even with the Wolverine claws and meat cleaver tail
This goes on more of a tangent, but from the moment I saw the Covenant Neo and Xeno designs they seemed like better, more elegant versions of the designs seen in Resurrection - the Neo is eerily human in ways the Newborn is not and the Xeno suggests human anatomy in a way the Res warriors should have considering they are partial human clones - instead they are rubbery, floppy dumbasses. And the less said about the AVP films the better.
Oh, and as for the Deacon - I can buy into it as a small, diminutive imp-like Alien but basically everything done with the younger Neo forms improved on this idea bigtime.
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Me too, I loved how she had an old, wise look.2004Zilla wrote:I really liked the Hag Queen's design in that game.MechaGoji Bro7503 wrote:The original Big Chap is my favorite, but I will say the main xeno design in the 2010 AVP game is a close second. The Queen deserves her own category, but I don't feel like getting real picky with all the castes and variations
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What is it with the outright refusal to make a sequel to Isolation?
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because Fox knows they're never gonna be able to compete with it and dont want to touch it?Birdman wrote:What is it with the outright refusal to make a sequel to Isolation?
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Allegedly Fox is considering a sequel to Isolation.
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Good. Games and comics they can continue but please just no more movies at this point...gvamp wrote:Allegedly Fox is considering a sequel to Isolation.
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Don't get your hopes up. Alien belongs to Disney now. All video game licenses will be given exclusively to EA.
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Crap how did I even forget.Kaiju-King42 wrote:Don't get your hopes up. Alien belongs to Disney now. All video game licenses will be given exclusively to EA.
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Cold Iron Studios is still developing that online Aliens game so I don't think that's the case right now.Kaiju-King42 wrote:Don't get your hopes up. Alien belongs to Disney now. All video game licenses will be given exclusively to EA.
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Can't wait for my loot-box Alien game.Kaiju-King42 wrote:Don't get your hopes up. Alien belongs to Disney now. All video game licenses will be given exclusively to EA.
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