Aliens - 1986 movie (was Dog Soldiers)

[natehale1971]

i use to have the official Aliens RPG book that was done, we ran it with our group back in the day. The company went to the LV426 and found the wrecked starship full of eggs since the processor going nova had only destroyed the colony centre. Our characters were mostly US Army Rangers and a couple US Space Force (space navy) personnel who had been assigned to a colony planet where the company set up a topsecret lab that ended up becoming a hive. the entire game was our characters trying to protect the colonists until they could be evacuated from the planet, and the planet could be sterlized with nuking from orbit.

The planet was an agricultural colony full of genetically bred cattle, sheep and other live stock that became perfect for use as incubators by the Aliens...

[DCausey]

I got to play a couple sessions of the Aliens RPG about 10 years ago. Four USCM fireteams from the Draknor boarding a derelict ship. Just to tell you what kind of players these were, we suffered casualties *before* we met the aliens!

Due to clumsiness and conflicting orders, mostly. It was fun though, I wished we could have finished it.

[Targan]

Anyone else here a fan of the Badass of the Week website Here is the Badass look at Ellen Ripley: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ripley.html

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Alien 3 gets a lot of flak (not unjustifiably) because it is a flawed movie. Unfortunately there was constant 'creative' interference from the studio during filming and the movie that director David Fincher actually filmed was, in the end, butchered during the editing and final production to make the movie you all know and loathe.

The original concept for Fincher's movie was that the prisoners on the planet had basically formed a monastic society to cope with their life imprisonment. They had become religious and devout in their obedience to their faith and the feel of the movie was supposed to convey a sense of monasticism, the mythic qualities of gothic cathedrals and the organization of an ordered lifestyle that is upset by the arrival the 'outsider' and the chaos she brings.

Ripley's arrival brought with her the fear of the serpent being released into the "monks" Garden of Eden (note that in the pre-Christian beliefs of Europe, the serpent and dragon were one and the same, although not specifically associated with evil, so the references in the movie to the dragon can be explained - unfortunately this is lost in the theatrical release). Ripley brings with her the Alien, i.e. the dragon, the evil that will bring chaos and destroy the life the prisoners have been leading.
If you can see the 'Assembly Cut', a lot of the removed footage is restored and more of what Fincher wanted to achieve can be seen, it does bring a different feel to the movie.

[Raellus]

So who else is excited for Prometheus (opening here in the U.S. next Friday)

I get goose bumps just watching the TV trailer. I'm preparing myself by watching Alien today. It's been a while.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

So who else is excited for Prometheus (opening here in the U.S. next Friday)

I get goose bumps just watching the TV trailer. I'm preparing myself by watching Alien today. It's been a while.

I am PUMPED.

Also: http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Colonia...pr_product_top

IF YOU DON'T OWN A COPY BUY ONE RIGHT NOW.

[Rainbow Six]

The trailer looks brilliant but the missus doesn't like sci fi films or horror films so the chances of getting her to go and see a film that combines the two are fairly remote. I'll probably wait for the DVD...

Interesting that it's not released in the US until next week. It's released here today. I always thought films (especially big Hollywood blockbusters) were generally released over there first.

[Webstral]

I'm anxious. Sequels and spin-offs often are written, directed, and/or produced by people who don't understand why previous work worked.

[Raellus]

I'm anxious. Sequels and spin-offs often are written, directed, and/or produced by people who don't understand why previous work worked.

True. But this one is directed and I think produced by Ridley Scott, the guy who directed the original Alien.

I am PUMPED.

Also: http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Colonia...pr_product_top

IF YOU DON'T OWN A COPY BUY ONE RIGHT NOW.

God bless you. I thought it was out of print. Just placed my order.

[boogiedowndonovan]

So who else is excited for Prometheus (opening here in the U.S. next Friday)

I get goose bumps just watching the TV trailer. I'm preparing myself by watching Alien today. It's been a while.

oh yeah! I am!

Charlize Theron!!!!!!!!

(but I probably won't watch it until much later)

[Tegyrius]

God bless you. I thought it was out of print. Just placed my order.

It was. I'm amazed to see it available again. Time was, you couldn't find a copy for less than $100.

- C.

[DigTw0Grav3s]

A couple thoughts from a relative newcomer of the board. I apologize for the timing, considering that things seem to have calmed down, but now seems to be the time to do so.

First, a little bit about me. I never played the T2k product line. I was brought aboard through Twilight 2013. Accordingly, I don't have a lot of the same mores regarding canon vs non-canon, unit dispositions throughout the timeline, and the like. I don't expect this to carry any weight - in fact, I would bet that it reduces my "authenticity" - but it illustrates my background.

The tone on this forum is truly bizarre. People seem to be more interested in debating the nature of canon rather than simply cooking up their own versions and sharing them with others. I find the confrontational nature of the board absurd.

I am twenty-four years old. I seem to gather that the crowd here is much older than I am, given the date of the original T2k and some of the life experiences that I've seen related to one another in posts. Why, then, can't we all get along Is this anyone's first forum This is a board about an exchange of ideas and creation of new material. Calling one another out about the canon status of various material is simply stupid. This is a work of fiction about a war that never occurred.

If people need to be removed from the boards because of confrontational behavior, then I would submit that it be done immediately. I've spent a great deal of time on forums during my life. In my experience, people's personalities (perhaps "personas" is more accurate) do not change. Their troublesome personalities simply ebb and flow like a sine wave until something breaks. Given the tone, I would say that we are pretty close to something breaking.

Also, someone please get Eddie to come back. He was one of the principle reasons that I perused this board, as he was on the 93 Games board. I enjoyed his no bullshit attitude and his experience in a field directly relevant to our alternate history pursuits.

Thanks,
DigTw0Grav3s
(Earlydawn)

[raketenjagdpanzer]

man what

[DigTw0Grav3s]

Apologies; didn't see the older dates earlier in the thread. Thought that this thread was more recent, and that the arguments had spilled over into this one.

Nevertheless, I still feel like it's a pretty accurate reflection on a new guy's thoughts with regard to what's been going on lately.

On the positive side, does this mean that Eddie has since come back

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I don't know but can we maybe discuss Aliens and so forth in this thread And not site acrimony