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This week in geekdom 9/2
« on: September 02, 2008, 01:40:34 PM »
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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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2008, 02:28:54 PM »
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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 03:02:26 PM »
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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2008, 04:02:21 PM »
Chronicles of Riddick has been seriously underrated. 

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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2008, 04:40:40 PM »
 :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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2008, 05:57:04 PM »
Damn I love that movie.

Makes me what to blow up some alien bugs.

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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2008, 06:46:43 PM »
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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 07:15:00 PM »
okay, there's that ;)

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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2008, 11:43:22 AM »
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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2008, 12:26:42 PM »
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;

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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2008, 12:42:38 PM »
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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2008, 12:42:47 PM »
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"

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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2008, 12:50:01 PM »
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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2008, 01:21:32 PM »
     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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Re: This week in geekdom 9/2
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2008, 02:26:58 PM »
game over man. game Over.