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  2. Swann

    My Macross collection. What I have

    Images added to a gallery album owned by Swann in Macross Collections

  3. TehPW
    i watched Trekyard's YT post about this episode and i asked if the USA flag could or would be changed edited based on the country or region the episode is aired in?
  4. Swoosh

    Hi-Metal R

    Swoosh replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    oops, sorry, wrong post, just found that it is begin reposted to the correct forum by Admin....
  5. Swoosh
    No, it is Tamashii "Smoke" effect in white color.
  6. jvmacross
  7. Today
  8. sh9000
    RIP Terence Stamp.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Which serves to illustrate how thoroughly the studio missed the point back then. Asking how the military would deal with a (non-supernatural) horror movie monster is a fundamentally tension-destroying premise. Would the likes of Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, or Leatherface be able to generate any real tension or fear if they were up against a platoon of heavily armed infantry instead of a bunch of teenagers and camp counselors? No, they wouldn't. If everyone's got guns and your monster ain't bulletproof, then your monster's not scary anymore. If you try to make it scary again by having a ton of them, all you've done is make your monster into just a dangerous animal and that's just not as scary. 😆 My friend, note that I'm holding Isolation up as the exception that tests the rule there... as the one time the people working on it understood the assignment instead of mindlessly indulging in fanservice like Alien: Earth, Alien: Romulus, etc.
  10. Mog
    I am today years old in realizing that General Zod also played Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace.
  11. renegadeleader1
    Aliens looked at the original film and did the logical thing by asking "How would actual trained military people handle an Alien and how would we make them an even bigger threat?" Then ran with it. After that every attempt since has tried to rehash the original film's horror aspect or done a stupid creature feature VS mashup and has been terrible. I do find it amusing though that you whine once again one of your spoilers about putting fans in charge of franchises and then heap praise on Alien: Isolation which was 100% a product of putting fans in charge of the franchise.😆
  12. Thom
    Rest in peace, General. All of Krypton shall remember you!
  13. Yesterday
  14. Swann
    Mari Iijima
  15. JB0
    "Hey guys! What if Space Seed but also Doomsday Machine!"
  16. Test_Pilot_2
    Look what I found!!! The Ultimate Warrior was my favorite!
  17. 505thAirborne
    Watched episode 1, not impressed with the story & plot so far. I might watch more of it later but I'm in no hurry. I would much rather finish up Wednesday, The Bear, King of the Hill and Strange New Worlds. For me there is only ALIEN & ALIENS, both masterpieces in their own ways, just like there is only The Terminator & T2.
  18. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I am watching the 2nd season of Aharen-san is indecipherable, I am enjoying it. Again My Dress Up darling was great yesterday.
  19. Duke Togo
    DAN DA DAN S2: this show is hit or miss with me. I want to like it more than I do. Clevatess S1: not caught up with this quite yet, but I am digging it so far. Gachiakatu S1: don't love the character designs, but Bones and Katsuyuki Konishi got me to check it out. Interesting so far. Kaiju No.8 S2: another show I want to like more than I do. I kinda want it to be more ridiculous than it is.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Honestly, I'd even skip Aliens. It was a pretty good or even great action movie but it was a pretty miserable follow-up to the excellent horror movie that was the original Alien. IMO, the only writing team thus far to actually understand the assignment when it came to writing an Alien sequel was Dan Abnett, Dion Lay, and Will Porter. What they understood that James Cameron and every other writer working on sequels failed to grasp is that what makes the Xenomorph work as a horror movie monster is the paranoia it evokes. Like the shark in Jaws, what makes the Xenomorph in Alien scary is NOT being able to see it. They know it's out there. They know it's hunting them. They know that It Can Think. But they don't know where it is until it's too late and the monster is ready to strike. Having the audience know where the monster is because it's constantly mugging for the camera robs it of most of its ability to scare. Combine that with being able to Just Shoot It and the threat it represents is diminished all the way to the level of "just a dangerous animal" like a tiger or bear that escaped from the zoo. Can you honestly say the Xenomorph's scariness and ability to intimidate didn't take another gigantic L when we saw a single guy tase it unconscious and bag it like a ten point buck in deer season? Throw Expanded Universe material into the works and pretty much anything is on the table due to wildly inconsistent presentation over decades of material of varying quality.
  21. sh9000
    It's alright. The cheaper price is worth it for me. I haven't shipped my Roller's Stash anyway.
  22. sh9000
    1/10 Deadpool.
  23. sh9000
    1988 Remastered 6 Pack.
  24. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Gamerverse War Machine vs Omega Red x2.
  25. Raikkonen
    This is one of those franchise's where the cannon keeps on reinventing itself with each release.
  26. Papa Rat
    Thanks so much. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Hahaha. 🪄
  27. Big s
    I do think they were better shown as hunting from the shadows, but reflecting on the second movie, they didn’t seem to shy away from frontal attacks. I don’t know if different types are really canon or not anymore or at all, but but I think the original type stayed hidden, while in the sequel it was a warrior type that fought without regard to personal safety. But that may or may not be an actual thing. Alien has shifting rules
  28. Big s
    You definitely did an awesome job with that old Imai kit. The paint job makes it look so modern despite its age.
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