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Alien: A great horror film and a great scifi film. Along with Aliens, Star Wars, 2001: ASO, Blade Runner & Star Trek, Alien is a corner stone of scifi art. 90% of scifi design is derivative of the films I just mentioned.
Aliens: Another truly great scifi film and one of my favorites of James Cameron. While not as refined and cohesive as Terminator 2 (IMO, James' most matured and polished work, but not my favorite) it boasts great story, pacing and set pieces and shows us Cameron's great eye for composition and practical effects. Alien 3: I wouldn't say it's "terrible", but it's not exactly good either. It's flaws are more subtle than, say, Alien Resurrection. The film had a difficult production, things happen. The idea of Aliens coming from non-human hosts was neat. However, going back to the single alien, mysterious horror route is a hard road after the hardcore alien porn that is Aliens. Alien Resurrection: Terrible. Some neat ideas, but very poorly executed. This is the first time the alien franchise had a "movie", the previous installments are "films". AVP: Fuck you. Get out of my house. Prometheus was another film that's allegorical of modern society: insipid and pretty.
As the Alien blog linked in that imgur gallery reveals, a lot of the ideas that went into Prometheus were envisioned and cut for Alien/s/3. The big pyramid, the heiroglyphs, the mixing of DNA, etc.
Trouble is they were all kind of thrown into Prometheus at the same time, and "integrated" by the master of throwing shit at the wall and hoping you won't notice what sticks, Damon Lindelof. The crew in Prometheus is also incredibly stupid, even the space truckers on board of the Nostromo are way smarter than these idiots.
My wife and I laugh about that crew all the time.
"Oooh, an alien creature! Touch it, quick!" I mean, ZERO scientific discipline. Not a single ounce of self preservation instinct That said, I don't hate that movie as much as my nerdy peers do but I think that's mainly because I really liked getting some background on the space jockeys and what they were about.
I thought mind reading and clarvoyance, I donno. It just works.
I use VMware. I wrote all 130,000 lines inside the operating system. It has all tools -- editor, profiler, grep, merge, compiler, assembler, unassembler, shitty partial debugger, graphic sprite creator.q BMP-movie-maker. BMP support. Boot loader. ISO9660 ISO file creator. My BMP movie creator is kinda banned. I want no multimedia, but I use it personally. I'm not serious on a ban -- orther prolly want to make movies, but it's a step down the road to hell. I generate my website natively. I have a html creator. That's kinda just for me and doesn't belong. What if other want to do it? I'm chagrinned -- I'm not thinking of any uses. Oh! I normally do hymns, but VMware killed music. Hymns are a legitimate thing I do. Video animations with music melodies and bouncy ball words. At the time of the Commodore 64, it was not used for COBOL applications. There were mainframes that banks and businesses used. This is not what my operating system is for. I made 100 applications and demos that show what it is for. Does yours have sprites in source code? The RedSea filesystem will do only whole-file reads and writes of contiguous block chunks (or just let you do raw block access). I demand that Linux and Microsoft and VMWare support RedSea on hard drive and CDROM, so I can remove support for ISO9660 and FAT32. God's temple must be perfect. http://www.davidstubbsphotography.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Peckforton_castle_wedding_david_stubbs_photography0001.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/05/81/2058191_d8f5dc8e.jpg http://i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article620441.ece/alternates/s615/C_71_article_1424202_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg http://crismatthews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DM-Wedding-0426.jpg And inside - http://www.guidesforbrides.co.uk/clientmedia/gallery/14620/peckforton-castle.jpg http://www.dobegephotography.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/230808-145(pp_w900_h622).jpg If you like slopes and cliffs...
http://cruisingoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IAT-Europe-Faroe-Islands.jpg http://collectingwonderdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lake-sorvagsvatn-faroe-islands-1.jpg?w=630&h=945 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Beinisvord,_westcoast_of_suduroy,_faroe_islands.JPG http://i.imgur.com/0McDmqF.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uPxJ6cfR4Lg/TF8AaqeaZAI/AAAAAAAAAaA/AUDzW3X8AQg/s1600/Nature+-+Faroe+Islands.JPG http://www.jonathanandrewphotography.com/data/photos/232_1mulafossur__gasadalur_scaler.jpg http://cdn.surf.transworld.net/files/2011/10/faroe-islands.jpg http://www.jonathanandrewphotography.com/data/photos/233_1big_view__vagar_scaler.jpg cute iglo architecture: http://unusual-architecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/kvivik-igloo-kvivik-faroe-islands-main.jpg grassy roofs: http://www.yukiba.com/upl/server/uploads/1282932194-saksun-Faroe-Islands-Europe-Saksun.jpg http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2013/08/Faroe-Islands-thinkstock-152174017-617x416.jpg pyramids: http://www.utaot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/faroe_island_pyramids.jpg dear esther,
i have burnt my belongings, my books. my letters to you are scattered across this island... looks good now but clearly Mr Simmons has been abusing the carve tool... and we all know how bad that is.
Recently Lun(?) talked about how adding tracers to the shotgun makes it feel much more powerful even if it isn't, this is an awesome video in the same direction. I highly recommend watching it if you have any interest in creating anything animated yourself (not just games): Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
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