GobotFool

Giger is such a sicko

Hikaru is that the kit straight from the box? no paint?

part of me thinks that the over sized toes may have something to do with the alpha beta link up mechanism.

what? i dont rmeber that? which movie was it in? perhaps it was a director's cut of one of the alien(s) movies? It's in the 1st movie. In all truth it's only implied and is never directly stated. How you choose the read the scene is entirely up to how sick your mind is. however if you want a really good explanation for the under the surface sexuality in aliens look no further than here... http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=108 *warning, if you've never heard this interpretation before it will change how you look at alien face huggers forever*

It's not the continuity it's the pacing and the content. Not every kill will be a blood spurting death and not every shot will hit... but the "high points", the memorable stuff from the movies is not the "off camera implied" death it is the in your face oh my freaking god did you see that head come apart death. In Alien you have the chestburster, then you have Brett getting his skull munched in and finally you have the gooey mini hive sequence. Then in Aliens you have yet another chestburster, all the gooey people glued into the hive and several other mini maulings topping off with Ash getting ripped in two. Predator is the chief offender of the blood and guts sprayings as almost all of the members of Dutch's team get splattered in nice gooey ways. The green berets are skinned and strung up, the shootout with the guerillas is nice and bloody, the guy with the glasses gets ripped to pieces then dangled from a tree, Jesse the body gets his chest blown into cat food, Carl Weathers gets his darn arm blown off and the bald guy gets his brains blown out. There is more gore in Predator and Alien/Aliens than there has been in almost all the movies released this year. The concept of "what you don't see bothers you more" is only appropriate in certain situations but in order to sell the monster, sell the murder or sell the action you actually do have to see the bad stuff happen. Not showing something and calling it "artful" is a cop out. People need to see the true horror of things to know the true horror. People needed to see Brett get his head torn up and lifed away by the alien to feel real fear for it. I'm not scared when someone gets killed off camera but when you see that Predator knife take off someone's head or that Alien mouth cleave a skull you silently say "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn" to yourself. I don't know about the need for visual pay off. The scene where the alien, ummmmm violated that gal with its tail was really disturbing and that all took place off screen. (thank god!) Perhaps its just me but most of the memorable scenes in Alien were not the gore, it was the anticipation for the strike that was worse. Like when Captain Dallas was in the dark tunnel with the little motion sensor beeping. Maybe its the claustraphobic in me that makes that scene so scary. The two mentioned scenes still send shivers up my back and I've watched Aliens more times than I can count. I will partially agree though, a good director will know when to imply violence, and when to show violence. PS. It has been a long time since I have seen either predator movie but I don't remember the predator ever decapitating anyone on screen.

well, at 140, it's still a better price than I initially expected.

I'll be seeing it. I don't expect it to be a masterpiece, but I do expect it to be marginally entertaining with some decent eye candy.

Anyone here seen all of GXP? Is it worth the time?

Who was the guy a while back who was sculpting a pair of DYRL style hands?

Godzilla, with the massive number of expensive valks you buy, I gotta ask, whatcha do for a livng

Anyone have any idea how many have been released so far? I've seen up to the 3rd episode. Have they produced any beyond this?

Yes, alphas are teeeeeeeny little guys. Place a duel changer alpha next to a 1/55 Chunky Monkey, as they are about in scale and you'll really be blown away by how small they are.

well, as for the 19 being a dead project, remember how we recieved no news on the votom for ages and suddenly voila, a few weeks ago we get pictures of a completed toy. I hope in a few months we'll see a almost completed 19 proto out of the blue as well.

Do you really think those actors can pull those films up without a director guiding them? I can agree with you completely disliking MKS - the screenwriter - and that's basically what you're saying. You didn't like the story. I think he's pretty overrated in the script dept. as well. But I'll give the guy his props where he's due. He's very good with cameras and actors - two skills 90% of directors never get right. I've seen Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson turn in some of the worst performances ever in other films with directors who don't know what they're doing. I'm not taking anything away from the actors' abilities - but trust me when I say that the best actors can be terrible or vice versa, with proper/improper direction. What MKS does better than quite a few other filmmakers is that he knows exactly what kind of movie he's trying to make before they start. So many flicks lose focus, suffer endless rewrites, and change in front of test audiences a million times because the director is trying to find his focus. I think the dude is overrated in terms of "the greatest" - but he still has talent and it shows in the performances. More than anything the guy needs to lose the "trick ending" shtick and try something different. Not to be another me too voice but I wholely agree. His script writing has only gotten weaker but his ability to direct the cameras and the actors is fantastic. He should try working with someone else's script at least once.

one second, don't diaclones date back to the 70s?

I think it does have a visor, remember on the proto types it was removable?

I've seen this thing in person at the recent HK Toy Fare........Trust me you don't want pictures Actually, it's not too bad. Transformer fans will probably like it, as the design principal, quality etc seems similar, but it can't compare to a Macross Variable Fighter. Graham Oooh! Burn! I think Graham just stabbed us TF fans in the gut or gave us a good jab, cross, and right hook when we weren't looking. You think that VF-17 ripoff has the same quality as this??? I half agree with Graham. The standard energon and armada toys are total crap. But the BT and MPC toys have more than made up for these toys failures.

looks nice and dark. Lets hope the ball is not droped.

why do we still have no pictures

cause SW was changed once before and we got SE :-p

I've never done a paper craft model before, what kind of paper should I use?

So is the front, that rim they added to front and sides really helps give his car mode a sharper feel. Also the black with silver color scheme really helps.

My DeadEnd arrived today. Very nice. Viper looks so much better in black and with a roof.

I'm the same way with the OT. That's all I watched when I was a kid. I can play the whole OT back in my head so I don't need a DVD release for SW. The pictures in my head are so much better