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Talaminiatures => General Discussions => Topic started by: Archer on September 02, 2008, 01:40:34 PM
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My turn to post a subject.
The best sci-fi war movie among many gamers and some movie critics is generally considered to be "Aliens".
Do you agree and how has it affected some of your choices in games?
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I disagree. While I truly loved Aliens and the whole series, the one movie that I thought REALLY felt like a war game was Starship Troopers.
Just my opinion of course. 8)
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For a pure action/adventure sci-fi war movie - Aliens is the winner. Perfect combination of one-liners, tense action, big freakin' guns and explosions.
Honorable mentions go to Chronicles of Riddik and Star Wars.
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Chronicles of Riddick has been seriously underrated.
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:D :D :D HAHAHAHA! Whew, you guys had me going there for a while. For a second I thought you actually said Aliens was a better sci-fi war movie then the first and second Star Wars....which only chnaged the face of sci-fi movies and the world....Whew, my sides hurt...oh, you GUYZ!
However in a very close, close, close, second I would say Aliens. ;)
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Damn I love that movie.
Makes me what to blow up some alien bugs.
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Well true, but in retrospect, Sigorney Weaver is a much better actor/actress, and it isn't a bunch of teenages with an aluminum falcon blowing up the death star because someone forgot to put screens on the windows.
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okay, there's that ;)
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Well true, but in retrospect, Sigorney Weaver is a much better actor/actress, and it isn't a bunch of teenages with an aluminum falcon blowing up the death star because someone forgot to put screens on the windows.
Why don't you put her in charge?
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Watching Aliens with my buds in the theater on Offutt AFB is memory that will never go away. Offutt AFB is right outside of Omaha. I cannot describe the raucous cheer that went throughout the theater when the line, "In nineteen minutes, this area's gonna be a cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska." It was beautiful, man. Of course, there's always;
Gorman: Hicks, meet me at the south lock. We're coming in.
Hicks: Roger.
Hudson: [to Vasquez] He's comin' in. I feel safer already.
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For Veez...
Apone: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!
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Chronicles of Riddick has been seriously underrated.
So true... I had heard when it came out they were going to try and make it a franchise... I know about the game and the anime... I was just hoping for another film... Like just what is he going to do now that he "kept what he killed"
Mel
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Yes, Star Wars changed a generation, but going back to watch them now and they aren't what I'd term a 'sci-fi war movie'. Sci-fi, you bet. War, in parts, but on a grand, epic scale often used as a backdrop. Yes, Jedi had a lot of war in it, but as a whole, I wouldn't term the series as war-based.
Aliens was all war (skirmish-level). Starship Troopers was, while not Heinlein's book, a good tongue-in-cheek sci-fi war flick. Parts of Dune would qualify. Transformers (the cartoon movie) was a good war movie, for a cartoon.
What about TV series? Space: Above & Beyond, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers: Roughnecks (another cartoon) all ring true.
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Does any one remember way back when? There was a movie called "Hawk the Slayer". Was a great inspiration for some D&D. How can you argue with Jack Palance being and evil warlord?
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game over man. game Over.
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Does any one remember way back when? There was a movie called "Hawk the Slayer". Was a great inspiration for some D&D. How can you argue with Jack Palance being and evil warlord?
Heard much about it but never saw it.
For Veez...
Apone: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!
Sniff! I live by that every day!
Chronicles of Riddick has been seriously underrated.
So true... I had heard when it came out they were going to try and make it a franchise... I know about the game and the anime... I was just hoping for another film... Like just what is he going to do now that he "kept what he killed"
Mel
There is definitely room for more story there!
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Good Lord. Hawk the Slayer. I can still remember the elf saying "You are wasting your time and mine" in that cheesy robotic voice. That was my best man's groomsman's gift, as he loves that movie.
Conan the Barbarian is still the benchmark for all sword and sorcery. I hear that Rose McGowan is starring in a new Red Sonja movie. God help us all...
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Rose McGowan?! I didn't know Red Sonja was THAT pastey white! :-\