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Sanya V. Juutilainen

Sanya V. Juutilainen
Mole HD said:
As for almost unique Sci-fi movie alien types, one of my favourites was from a 2014 Tom Cruise film...Live, die, repeat (Edge of tomorrow). A surprisingly good film too, I really enjoyed it. Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
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It's based off of very good light novel, with great ABe's paintings.

EDIT: Just sad they altered it so much for the movie. Japanese guy? Tom Cruise as US soldier. US female soldier? Let's make her British so that they don't share nationality like in original. Native American girl mechanic? Let's make it a US guy. Brazil-Japanese guy? US male again! ...sigh.
 
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MTBFritz

MTBFritz
Tom Cruise makes surprisingly good films along with all the sucky ones. His Mission Impossible series is pretty much trash IMO but the occasional novel movies like Oblivian, Jack reacher or Edge of Tomorrow are pretty good ones if not really outstanding at least the plot is enjoyable
 

Tippis

Tippis
sovapid said:
common belief that it is not possible to have fun playing star citizen. or more hilariously, that "fun" is not a good way to judge a leisure activity.
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Actually, neither of those are common beliefs around here. Those are just some nonsensical strawmen that are commonly employed when a poster is called out for being unable to articulate a good argument if favour of SC's lacklustre, shallow, incoherent, and generally broken gameplay.

What is actually said, and long-standing fact about entertainment in general, is that “fun” is meaningless as a description of… oh… anything. It can sometimes tell you something about the person having fun, but next to nothing about the thing they're having fun with. Two planks of wood are great fun. Winning the lottery is fun. Debugging Lua in DCS is fun. Vegetating on a couch is fun. What does this tell us about how lumber, gambling, trial-and-error, and upholstery relate to each other? Apparently, SC is fun too. That tells us nothing about SC other than maybe that it's a bit like two planks of wood.
 
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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
WhiteHaulerMan said:
Tbf to him, I havent seen a race that differentiates from tired tropes for a oong time in any sci-fi, with the exception of the Vorlon in B5... and how long ago was that?

Man, I feel old.
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One might argue that Hollywood is also creatively bankrupt, anthorpmorphic aliens are usualy a lot cheaper to make than something radically different.

But you don't have to look too hard for stuff that is different:

Starship Troopers
The Hutts from Star Wars
Daleks
Dune's Sandworms... oh, best not go there :D
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
MTBFritz said:
Tom Cruise makes surprisingly good films along with all the sucky ones. His Mission Impossible series is pretty much trash IMO but the occasional novel movies like Oblivian, Jack reacher or Edge of Tomorrow are pretty good ones if not really outstanding at least the plot is enjoyable
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Vanilla Sky is often overlooked.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
BulletTrev said:
I am loving Star Citizen, even with the bugs n crashes.
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sovapid

sovapid
Agony_Aunt said:
One might argue that Hollywood is also creatively bankrupt, anthorpmorphic aliens are usualy a lot cheaper to make than something radically different.

But you don't have to look too hard for stuff that is different:

Starship Troopers
The Hutts from Star Wars
Daleks
Dune's Sandworms... oh, best not go there :D
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Yes. I've been on a Star Trek kick lately rewatching a bunch of Star Trek properties. Constantly thinking about how creatively and morally bankrupt Gene Roddenberry must have been due to all the anthropomorphic aliens. :ROFLMAO:
 

Tippis

Tippis
sovapid said:
Yes. I've been on a Star Trek kick lately rewatching a bunch of Star Trek properties. Constantly thinking about how creatively and morally bankrupt Gene Roddenberry must have been due to all the anthropomorphic aliens. :ROFLMAO:
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There's a difference between working within constraints to tell a story about humans, not aliens, and having no constraints to work within and coming up with absolutely nothing.

There's also the issue that constraints breed creativity whereas total freedom cripples it, but as CRobber's history has shown, that only applies if there's anything there to breed or cripple to begin with.

In fact, let's just post this old gem here and let's count how many of the rules Chris has failed to follow be even remotely aware of:
 
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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
sovapid said:
Yes. I've been on a Star Trek kick lately rewatching a bunch of Star Trek properties. Constantly thinking about how creatively and morally bankrupt Gene Roddenberry must have been due to all the anthropomorphic aliens. :ROFLMAO:
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Come on, Star Trek was done back in the day when anything other than anthroporphic aliens would have been very expensive.... unless they were just gooey blobs.

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Gregstrom

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Agony_Aunt said:
Come on, Star Trek was done back in the day when anything other than anthroporphic aliens would have been very expensive.... unless they were just gooey blobs.

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I’m not sure that’s entirely fair. Doctor Who had a reasonable quota of non-humanoid aliens. I don’t think the BBC stretched to a high budget for it... but on the other hand they probably had issues with bits falling off.
 
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