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Because Blockbuster has become the go-to term for all dead video rental stores. If I were say that I miss Major Video or 5-Star Video, it would take a few seconds for most people to realize what the hell I'm talking about, but if I said Blockbuster, they'd know right away.
I never had a Blockbuster near where I live, when I was a kid there was a video rental store but its long gone and these days its a mobile phone shop for EE, we use to rent videos from there and that's how I got to see TFM86 and some G1 eps by renting VHS tapes, it was only years later that I got DVD copies of G1 to see all of the show including the ep I fondly remember as it was my first real exposure to TF and that was Fire in the Sky, its ending always struck me hard, I never cried, yet that ending, just stuck with me, even today, thou I didn't really know what the heck was going on as I came in part of the way through the ep the first time, yet the ending is what just stayed with me and then there was a copy of one of the UK comics I had, where Megatron kills Cyclonus and crushes his partner target master!
People like to jive on people who collect action figures sometimes but 1/6 scale collectors are literally buying very expensive dolls.
Well, yes. The original "action figures", the 12" GI Joes, were designed to be in-scale with Barbie dolls.
It’s a somewhat arbitrary distinction but if they have removable soft goods, I consider them dolls.
This makes DOTM Megatron a doll.
This makes DOTM Megatron a doll.
I’d take AVP bad over the incomprehensible side quests Prometheus and Covenant were TBH.
This was...okay. There were some beats that were a bit too similar to previous movies and a few lines that were ripped wholesale.
I enjoyed watching it...mostly. But after writing that spoiler section, I get the sinking feeling the more I think about it, the more I'm going to wind up hating it and just be done with the Alien franchise altogether.
They were still trying to do that whole genetic modification thing that really got it's start in Resurrection. I don't why they have to keep doing the whole hybrid thing. This makes me more afraid that they going more with the Prometheus lifecycle and mov more and more away from what was established with Aliens and beyond. Queen -> egg -> facehugger -> xenomorph seems to be loosing more and more ground to....whatever the hell this life cycle is Prometheus has rammed down our throats. It's like they still haven't realized fans didn't like Prometheus.
And the way the scientists made an entire space station full of aliens from that one alien from the Nostromo...yeah!
And the way the scientists made an entire space station full of aliens from that one alien from the Nostromo...yeah!
I enjoyed watching it...mostly. But after writing that spoiler section, I get the sinking feeling the more I think about it, the more I'm going to wind up hating it and just be done with the Alien franchise altogether.
I'll just stick to rewatching Aliens forever. Aside from a couple matte shots it holds up just fine today. Creature effects have not evolved past Stan Winston's work. Scifi guns have not evolved past James Cameron's work. Cameras have evolved a lot but I think better picture clarity would be actively harmful in this case.
What are you talking about? The franchise stopped after Aliens.
3 was okay if you ignore Sigourney Weaver's character was supposed to be Ripley.
3 was three or four half-finished scripts shuffled together and trying to pretend there was a single story in there.
It's okay as a movie. But it always bugged me that it made the last 10 minutes of the previous movie completely pointless and decannonized all of the Dark Horse comics to that point.
And everything Prometheus and after flies in the face of the alien life cycle set up in Aliens because Ridley Scott had a "a queen wasn't my original intent" tantrum even though the only scene that eludes to his original intention was left on the cutting room floor.
Sorry, but if a sequel comes out that goes against something that was edited out of the original movie, put your big boy pants on and suck it up. A movie that actually came out matters more than something that was left on the cutting room floor.
The whole Alien lifecycle from Prometheus on may be interesting and horrifying...but it totally flies in the face of what has been established and I just...hugging hate it!
And everything Prometheus and after flies in the face of the alien life cycle set up in Aliens because Ridley Scott had a "a queen wasn't my original intent" tantrum even though the only scene that eludes to his original intention was left on the cutting room floor.
Sorry, but if a sequel comes out that goes against something that was edited out of the original movie, put your big boy pants on and suck it up. A movie that actually came out matters more than something that was left on the cutting room floor.
The whole Alien lifecycle from Prometheus on may be interesting and horrifying...but it totally flies in the face of what has been established and I just...hugging hate it!
i don’t mind retconning the alien life cycle per se just we spend two movies faffing around with Temu Aliens when they could have just said the black goo did it.
Weirdly enough, William Gibson's second-draft Alien 3 script (which he suspects the producers intended to "high-grade" for cyberpunk trappings) works a bit better than it might have if we accept the Prometheus origin.
At script's end, Bishop describes the xenomorph genetic structure as analogous to antimatter in relation to carbon-based life/regular matter. Which describes, if imperfectly, the Engineer ampules' effect as seen in Prometheus and Covenant.
As well, a scientist for the Union of Progressive Peoples (a Neo-Stalinist colony bloc opposing corporatized space such as seen in American or Anglo-Japanese off-Earth expansion) suggests that the xenomorph may be "the end product of someone else's genetic arms race", rather than a naturally developed organism from some hellworld (as was suggested by the tentatively accepted theory derived from what research Weyland -Yutani could retain).
No-one could have known at the time, of course....
At script's end, Bishop describes the xenomorph genetic structure as analogous to antimatter in relation to carbon-based life/regular matter. Which describes, if imperfectly, the Engineer ampules' effect as seen in Prometheus and Covenant.
As well, a scientist for the Union of Progressive Peoples (a Neo-Stalinist colony bloc opposing corporatized space such as seen in American or Anglo-Japanese off-Earth expansion) suggests that the xenomorph may be "the end product of someone else's genetic arms race", rather than a naturally developed organism from some hellworld (as was suggested by the tentatively accepted theory derived from what research Weyland -Yutani could retain).
No-one could have known at the time, of course....
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I get why Ridley Scott would be bitter that someone else's vision ended up dominating something he started. But having to watch his creation develop a lifecycle he never envisioned is kinda the most appropriate way this could have turned out.
Retconning comic books should just be expected with movies that have comic book adaptations/continuations.
Like even if they insist 'THESE ARE CANON, THESE ARE THE ACTUAL CONTINUATION OF THE STORY' understand that they're only canon until an actual film sequel gets made because only the most hardcore fans of the franchise are going to even buy and read them and filmmakers are not going to hold themselves to maintaining canon with comic books that probably 99% of the audience going to see the film has never even read in their life.
Like even if they insist 'THESE ARE CANON, THESE ARE THE ACTUAL CONTINUATION OF THE STORY' understand that they're only canon until an actual film sequel gets made because only the most hardcore fans of the franchise are going to even buy and read them and filmmakers are not going to hold themselves to maintaining canon with comic books that probably 99% of the audience going to see the film has never even read in their life.