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Originally Posted by Withcheese
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Quality.....both a youz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Withcheese
Man are you daft? The film shows aliens fucking up the whole world in the beginning using landmarks ffs and at the end, shows huge ships crashing around, you guessed it, landmarks...and all you see is "they did that just to show America saving world." :lol: :lol: :lol: Forget that those locations are simply recognizable..I guess New Yorkers should be up in arms 'cause The Day After Tomorrow really just shows New York getting fucked up. But wait how come the rest of the world wasn't shown...like the other countries didn't have problems that need spotlighting. :snooty:Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
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I think there are 2 speeches in the movie. One after the alien flashed the President's mind at Area 51 (where all-of-a-sudden knew their plans) and once when they go into that final battle where they saved the whole world when they destroyed that one ship. :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by SnnY
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I was joshin' but in any area there may be a group of folk that have an accent that is hard to make out. Many British males have a high-pitched bouncy accent and most times I understand it but one time I saw a video with Lamsey talking in front of a kitchen sink and was like :blink: .
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Originally Posted by SnnY
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SnnY...it was the United States Marine Corps. Mmk?
Uh yeah whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
They are United States Marines. Sgt. Apone (teh black guy, he died during the first encounter) says it when they wake up on the dropship. He's one of the first one's up and says how good it is to be in the Corps and spouting all this Marine Corps shit.
They were not corporate troops at all or else they would have been trying to bring back eggs. That's why Burke almost got fragged..he was the only company man sent there and had his own agenda. The Marines were sent to help the people; Burke was sent to help the comapny.
In the first alien movie, it was a Weyland Corporation ship and the android was programmed to bring back new life forms if encountered (it seemed like a priority). In the the third alien film you find out that Bishop's likeness was that of Weyland himself (that movie kinda sucked). Don't ask me how/why Weyland was in Alien vs. Predator :blink: .
Thanks for the tidbit about the British Marines.
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It's not an effort.
It's just not as enjoyable, likable, or preferable.
Well it does make a difference to me. The point of subtitles is to translate the words. I don't prefer it or like it just like I don't like movies in B&W. I like seeing the audio match the mouth movement of the folks on-screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
If you like it, prefer it, or it simply makes no difference, then great.
I don't. :dry:
See, from where I'm reading you are the daft one. Seeing as the story was about the protagonist(s), as stories usually are, everything that happens in there is their story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
And seeing as the people the story was about were (markedly) identified as being american (goes with the entire patriotic theme) americans saved the world, and the events of the story are in there to show the effects of their action and the circumstances that propt them to act.
The particular events you have a problem with (it would appear) are part of a chain of casuality (it's how plots work). The (american) protagonists solve everything, so the rest of the world is saved.
Without that context the scenes hadn't mattered, and nor had they been in there. No matter how nice they looked, a reason to put them in was necessary, and I've given you that reason.
They are there to show the effects of their actions, to show how the heroic americans saved the planet.
Get with the program, ffs.
If you only want to see the surface of things, that's up to you, tho'. But don't pretend it's me that isn't thinking.
I think you are wrong.Quote:
Uh yeah whatever.
They are United States Marines. Sgt. Apone (teh black guy, he died during the first encounter) says it when they wake up on the dropship. He says one of first one up and says how good it is to be in the Corps and spouting all this Marine Corps shit.
They were not corporate troops at all or else they would have been trying to bring back eggs. That's why Burke almost got fragged..he was the only company sent there and had his own agenda. The Marine were sent to help the people; he was sent to help the comapny.
See, Weyland-Yutani are the ones trying to bring back eggs, but the colonial marines are a collaboration, as far as I know (from what people say in the movies, from the comics, from the games, and from t'interweb) the United States Marines, in the second Alien movie are employed by an alliance of Corporations/States (it seems one is pretty much the same as the other in the Alien universe) including W-Y (the united states could be the colonies tho'), they are employed to protect the Colonists (as you say) from whatever, whereas the W-Y people are trying to get the aliens instead.
Supposedly there aren't any nations left, as we know them.
In the fourth movie it appears to have shifted, I think they are saying something about W-Y being gone, and I dunno' if the army there are even corporate troops, or if the corporations have merged or something to one big government/state.
(Of course, this may be something that has grown out of the merchandise over the years, I dunno' how much of the background was established at the time of the second movie. But what I wrote above is supposedly the story today.)
WRT subtitles, I just don't think it detracts something from the experience, rather they let you see it the way it was meant to be, without you missing out 'cos you aren't good enough at the original language.
Remakes and such distorts them, especially so in the US as they, as you indicate, make movies "fit" for american audiences. Which removes elements unique to the originating culture and vision.
Didn't the aliens attack earth? How else do you show places on earth? You show places people recognize. A movie like Signs only showed in a news broadcast to give the feel of a global scale. ID4 showed worldly landmarks (including America's ffs). I doubt anyone in the states thought, "Wtf did they show a ship crashing in the desert for?"Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
Your reason "Is was to show America was everyone's savior."
Mine "It's to show ships going down all over the world." Who the fuck cares that a trailertrashedburntoutnutjob flew a crop duster up the aliens ass and happened to destroy the ship...and he was American.
After he did that we advised the other countries of the ship's weak spot. They still had to blow the ships up ffs. It's not like we sent our forces over to other countries and said. "Stand back we've got this". We kinda had our hands full.
If you haven't noticed filmmakers do this ALL THE TIME in disaster films. They cut to other recogizable places in other countries to give what's happening locally a global scale.
I guess if they eliminated the 2 speeches and just showed the aliens attacking America and only show our country, it would have been a great movie to you. :dry:
I didn't like 'cause of the plot holes...the Windows virus, the President's flash knowledge, and the crop duster blowing up the ship. The filmmakers could easily fixed that shit.
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Uh yeah whatever.
They are United States Marines. Sgt. Apone (teh black guy, he died during the first encounter) says it when they wake up on the dropship. He says one of first one up and says how good it is to be in the Corps and spouting all this Marine Corps shit.
They were not corporate troops at all or else they would have been trying to bring back eggs. That's why Burke almost got fragged..he was the only company sent there and had his own agenda. The Marine were sent to help the people; he was sent to help the comapny.
I have the movie dude. Jeez. :dry: You can think I'm wrong or whatever. It doesn't change facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
I think The United States Marines were put in there to give it the sense of what our soldiers would be like in the future but still be the same in a sense.
(there's probably some nutjob that has problem with that too)
Apone sounded like the sargent from every war movie the US movie was in.
Regarding what the Marines were there for (their mission)...I already said that. :dry:
All remakes do that, subtitled or not. Sequels can also.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
As far making stuff fit. We have a different culture and the fact is some movies don't work here as some of our movies don't work abroad. Even our comedy is different and may not work elsewhere. However, the basic story might be sound enough to warrant a movie. If a person doesn't like a remake then you probably liked the original better and/or you weren't the target audience for the remake to begin with. Usually the first anything (including books and comics) sticks out as being the best and any redoing of it is downhill.
The second part of Aliens is the best one though. :01:
Again, our opinions will just have to differ on this.
Yes, they put those initial bits with the rest of the planet being attacked in there as background to, that's not what I'm disagreeing on.
But, the bits where people got the calls were there specifically to show that they were saved by the americans. It would have been entirely doable to leave that out, and still make the movie. And the bits after that were there to show that the solution the protagonists came up with worked.
As I said, the plot is about a specific set of characters, everything revolves around them, whether it's to motivate their actions (showing the scope of the attack- the initial bits) or to show the scope of their heroism/the effects of their actions.
While I'm sure the makers of the film thought it was a lovely effect showing the ships in the desert, plotwise it was to show what the characters, the americans accomplished.
It is an extremely patriotic movie, and it does revolve around a bunch of americans saving the world. that's just how it is, and I'm amazed you can keep arguing about it.
I've seen the movie quite a few times :huh:Quote:
I have the movie dude. Jeez. :dry: You can think I'm wrong or whatever. It doesn't change facts.
I think The United States Marines were put in there to give it the sense of what our soldiers would be like in the future but still be the same in a sense.
(there's probably some nutjob that has problem with that too)
Apone sounded like the sargent from every war movie the US movie was in.
Regarding what the Marines were there for (their mission)...I already said that. :dry:
I know they aren't Americans as you know them, and the united states they are working for aren't what you think they are. It's just a union of states, that's all I know.
That's how the story goes.
They would sound like americans as the actors were americans, that doesn't make them american. They certainly don't call themselves american. And for that matter weren't you the one arguing, in another thread about Galactica, that accents doesn't make people american?
Maybe they are called USCMs so you can identify with them and think they are american, I dunno' about what the screenwriter has intended, it's very possible. But that doesn't make it a fact as the story goes.
Instead, as the story actually goes, the world and the colonies are run by corprations, possibly regulated by some ind of authority.
But then again maybe he just thought it sounded nice.
And I know you said why they were there, what I was saying, (apart from saying that you had said what they were there for :huh: ) was that they were employed by an alliance or union of corporations (not bloody america) to do what you said they were supposed to do.
Yeah see, that's what I'm saying.Quote:
All remakes do that, subtitled or not. Sequels can also.
As far making stuff fit. We have a different culture and the fact is some movies don't work here as some of our movies don't work abroad. Even our comedy is different and may not work elsewhere. However, the basic story might be sound enough to warrant a movie. If a person doesn't like a remake then you probably liked the original better and/or you weren't the target audience for the remake to begin with. Usually the first anything (including books and comics) sticks out as being the best and any redoing of it is downhill.
I prefer my movies unfucked by some exec who thinks he knows what I want, based on my nationality or age group. Stuff shouldn't be made to fit, if it is then you get some bland crap tailor made so every muppet and his mother gets it.
Subtitles are needed, and indeed preferable, to ensure we get to see what the person who wrote the story intended, or at least something more like it, as even original screenplays based on books can suck first time round.
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The second part of Aliens is the best one though. :01:
I like all of them tho'.
The first one is really more creepy, as you don't get to see the alien as much. The second is a splatterfest of sorts (good tho'). The third is a bit like the first, but with fancier effects. And the fourth is a little bit of everything, with an extra order of them fancy effects.
As sci-fi goes the Alien series is really a milestone.
Be amazed then. It's an alien war movie. As far as what the American's accomplished, it wasn't just them it was what the world accomplished. The nutjob in the crop duster actually accomplished fucking the ship up. The thing is the fact that you look at it the way that you do when we don't speaks volumes.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
No shit it ain't the United States like I know it. It's in the fucking future. :ermm:Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
I never it's America. You brought that up.
I'll just say that part of the American armed forces today is the United States Marine Corps and in the movie Aliens it's The United States Marine Corps. If it makes you feel better that although the character Apone spewed some patriotic stuff about being in the United States Marine Corps, that it's NOT America, so be it. It is the United States. :dry:
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All remakes do that, subtitled or not. Sequels can also.
As far making stuff fit. We have a different culture and the fact is some movies don't work here as some of our movies don't work abroad. Even our comedy is different and may not work elsewhere. However, the basic story might be sound enough to warrant a movie. If a person doesn't like a remake then you probably liked the original better and/or you weren't the target audience for the remake to begin with. Usually the first anything (including books and comics) sticks out as being the best and any redoing of it is downhill.
Guess what? The original will still be around for all to see. Some type exec decides what type of movie gets put out in the first place, whether it's foreign or domestic. If the movie sucks it sucks. In Japanese anime, I definitely like dubbed (but aren't all cartoons :lol: ) better (unless it's badly done. However, there are some that prefer subtitled. I'm guessing they like the sound of Japanese. Whatever floats your boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
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The second part of Aliens is the best one though. :01:
Yeah I wasn't too keen on part 3. I normally don't "go with the crowd" on things but that one was a low point for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
I was also dissappointed with AVP.
I liked the comics ( I collect them) and they could have done a better job with movie.
I hope James Cameron really comes back to do Alien 5. He's one of few directors that I have faith in to make a great movie.
Btw do you think the Returner is better than Aliens?
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Aliens = action.
Alien 3, 4 & AVP = who gives a crap? :P
I'm thinking the it's the fact that you don't see it that speaks volumes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
I reckon that movie was (metaphorically) wrapped in the American flag from start to finish, and that it was constructed as some kind of celebration of America. Which made for an inane plot.
But like I said, if you wanna' take it on face value and not think about why things happen, then that's up to you.
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No shit it ain't the United States like I know it. It's in the fucking future. :ermm:
I never it's America. You brought that up.
I'll just say that part of the American armed forces today is the United States Marine Corps and in the movie Aliens it's The United States Marine Corps. If it makes you feel better that although the character Apone spewed some patriotic stuff about being in the United States Marine Corps, that it's NOT America, so be it. It is the United States. :dry:
Bunch of Gung-Ho soldiers, the talk went with what they were supposed to be. Patriotism to a nation or similar entity that doesn't exist is just part of a story, it's not a message or anything. They were really nice cannon fodder too, all things considered.
Yeah, the original is still around, but in doing a remake you get lots of people that never see the original, 'cos the networks and whatnot decide that that isn't mainstream enough. Instead a lot of people only get to see to the messed up version.Quote:
Guess what? The original will still be around for all to see. Some type exec decides what type of movie gets put out in the first place, whether it's foreign or domestic. If the movie sucks it sucks. In Japanese anime, I definitely like dubbed (but aren't all cartoons :lol: ) better (unless it's badly done. However, there are some that prefer subtitled. I'm guessing they like the sound of Japanese. Whatever floats your boat.
And that's doing the maker of the original movie a disfavour.Yeah, he does all right. I like the Abyss too.Quote:
Yeah I wasn't too keen on part 3. I normally don't "go with the crowd" on things but that one was a low point for me.
I was also dissappointed with AVP.
I liked the comics ( I collect them) and they could have done a better job with movie.
I hope James Cameron really comes back to do Alien 5. He's one of few directors that I have faith in to make a great movie.
I didn't even think about AvP. I don't really consider it the same as the others. Also, when the stuff on her arms shifted arms between cuts near the end of the movie, that kinda' annoyed the feck out of me.
ATM, I think I'd say Aliens was better. Don't think either of them would be on my top ten tho'.Quote:
Btw do you think the Returner is better than Aliens?
Like I said, that list changes depending on my mood, and so forth.
I know how it was marketed. Everyone in America knows....Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
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It came out on Independence Day (we fought for the independence from the British and won it), the 4th of July.
The movie was dubbed ID4.
It's a war movie but transfer this patriotism in a fight against aliens.
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...so of course patriotism in it. This inane plot, the focus, though was the fight against aliens, not that America is better than anybody, or America saves the world with a phone call ffs. It's fucking marketing.
Film execs love to transfer some real shit to this time period. I wonder if they'll a movie called The 6-Year War or The Civil War and it be about aliens.
You see other countries weren't the focus in this movie. just a backdrop to show it globally
The TV show CSI, when cutting in from commercial, shows a moving helicopter view cityscape of the Las Vegas Strip...yet I've seen maybe 3 episodes all these years of the team actually on the Strip. In almost all cases they are in the lab or at a crime scene elsewhere. The audience is given this view to give the feeling and reminder that this is Bright Lights, Big City Vegas....and it works.Quote:
No shit it ain't the United States like I know it. It's in the fucking future. :ermm:
I never it's America. You brought that up.
I'll just say that part of the American armed forces today is the United States Marine Corps and in the movie Aliens it's The United States Marine Corps. If it makes you feel better that although the character Apone spewed some patriotic stuff about being in the United States Marine Corps, that it's NOT America, so be it. It is the United States. :dry:
Exactly, and that nation is The United States and they are the Marine Corps of The United States and a speech is given to that effect.Quote:
Yep.
Bunch of Gung-Ho soldiers, the talk went with what they were supposed to be. Patriotism to a nation or similar entity that doesn't exist is just part of a story, it's not a message or anything. They were really nice cannon fodder too, all things considered.
Exactly. I agree.
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Guess what? The original will still be around for all to see. Some type exec decides what type of movie gets put out in the first place, whether it's foreign or domestic. If the movie sucks it sucks. In Japanese anime, I definitely like dubbed (but aren't all cartoons :lol: ) better (unless it's badly done. However, there are some that prefer subtitled. I'm guessing they like the sound of Japanese. Whatever floats your boat.
Really? Many times the writer of the original movie signs off on the remake. Sometimes they even get the same director and I really don't see an original made 5 years-ago being released in the movie theater. Also the networks kinda hafta decide what to show....it's there job. :blink: People can see any version they want. It's available for rental annnnd cable TV. It's how I saw the original of Vanilla Sky which I kinda liked better (probably because it was simply different) but either way they both sucked.Quote:
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Yeah I wasn't too keen on part 3. I normally don't "go with the crowd" on things but that one was a low point for me.
I was also dissappointed with AVP.
I liked the comics ( I collect them) and they could have done a better job with movie.
I hope James Cameron really comes back to do Alien 5. He's one of few directors that I have faith in to make a great movie.
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Btw do you think the Returner is better than Aliens?
I can honestly say that Aliens is one of my top ten movies of all time. Imo the Returner doesn't come close although it was refreshing for Japanese movie. It's action and story don't compare and loved the twist at the end of Aliens with the Queen and the redemption (in Ripley's eyes) of the android since the first movie.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Withcheese
When you say "matter" you actually say "matta".
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