Israelisuziq wrote:
yeah but what sort of person writes movie reviews for the major publications?
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I will be going to see Odyssey
If I'd known Aliens was socialist propaganda I would never have watched it 11 times.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/aliens-came … king-class
Currently part way watching it again to see if the article is right or not.
If I'd known Aliens was socialist propaganda I would never have watched it 11 times.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/aliens-came … king-class
Currently part way watching it again to see if the article is right or not.
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dilbert reading jacobin? i thought that was exclusively for pink-haired columbia undergrads.
I do all kinds of weird stuffuziq wrote:
dilbert reading?
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lol well it's one of the most explicitly left-wing publications on the web, in a very 'student activist, fight-the-power' kind of way.
but isn't the alien fictional universe all about grunts and miners being sent to far-off rocks with bugs on them to die for shadowy megacorporations?
but isn't the alien fictional universe all about grunts and miners being sent to far-off rocks with bugs on them to die for shadowy megacorporations?
How do you not know this stuff?uziq wrote:
but isn't the alien fictional universe all about grunts and miners being sent to far-off rocks with bugs on them to die for shadowy megacorporations?
Exactly the point, its subversive socialist propaganda, if I'd known I'd never have watched it.
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i actually dimly remember reading several alien franchise novels when i was in my early teens. sort of thing you pick up at a library and read in an afternoon. i was nothing if not a voracious reader then. so i can dimly remember some of it. very noir'ish and cyberpunk, kind of sub-william gibson, a genre version thereof. probably couldn't abide the hacky prose now but it was immersive at 13.
more to the point: how are you still so keenly knowing this stuff at, what, 55?
more to the point: how are you still so keenly knowing this stuff at, what, 55?
Its written into every fibre of my being.
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was just looking at said franchise novels, to see if it stirred any memories and i could figure out which ones i'd read. genuinely hilarious, almost quaint in a way. the hacky authors who get enlisted to write these things. it's a vanished world even as recently as the late '90s. these anoraks who came up writing short stories and fanfic for pulpy magazines. i bet they made good bank off that career, too. that entire ecosystem is gone.
the equivalent money/activity today is almost entirely in ghost-writing celebrity or political memoirs.
the equivalent money/activity today is almost entirely in ghost-writing celebrity or political memoirs.
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lolRobert Pattinson Thought Matt Damon Was a 'Complete Psycho' When He Heard Him 'Screaming' to Prepare for The Odyssey
"He's such a nice guy, and I thought he was on the phone..."
https://www.ign.com/articles/robert-pat … he-odysseyThe actor, who plays Antinous in this week's new Christopher Nolan movie, spoke about the incident during a recent video for MTV UK. He said he was worried that Damon, who plays Odysseus, was having a "really bad toilet experience" in his trailer before learning the actor had a legitimate reason for cranking up the volume."I thought he was having a really bad toilet experience," Pattinson added with a laugh. As it turns out, Damon's screaming, which could also be heard by co-star Tom Holland, was the actor's attempt to rough up his voice.
i had only the vaguest idea that there was controversy around this movie. skimmed over a bit of the drama. should have predicted.
dang i remember reading a couple of those aliens novels. avp on a lark. file with star trek, star wars, franchises with some reaaaal stinkers. i think the ecosystem still exists by the way, but they're all writing Very Serious warhammer 40k novels. hopefully nobody's reading this stuff to expand their minds. i think that isn't the point.
no idea in 2026. barnes and noble is dying (a shame, really), and supermarkets only have like four feet of shelf-space for this stuff. there isn't really a store i can go to now and see employee opinions and recommendations scribbled down on the shelves in excited handwriting. commercial wasteland.
no idea in 2026. barnes and noble is dying (a shame, really), and supermarkets only have like four feet of shelf-space for this stuff. there isn't really a store i can go to now and see employee opinions and recommendations scribbled down on the shelves in excited handwriting. commercial wasteland.
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i genuinely can't remember anything about them except for a noir'ish establishing chapter on earth (maybe?) and then a lengthy descriptive sequence of the crew taking off and leaving the planet. kind of crazy the things you remember considering i've read several thousand books since then (at a very conservative estimate). you can't get that sort of memory-recall from an LLM!!!
i imagine they mostly started with a samey, hopeful, self-insert protagonist, a mix of pessimistic and obnoxious space marines, the hot scientist, The Captain, and a nihilistic, pyromaniacal android (whose job it is to ensure evil space company's bug-pregnancy mission goes off with a hitch). then the predator shows up and skins a bunch of dudes and there's some reference to starship troopers and a scene where everyone's all wide-eyed at the interior of the giger-textured ant nest.
mix in some commentary on the catholic church and it's a 40k novel. urgh.
i did appreciate the briefness of what aliens i've read. you could polish one off in an afternoon, guilt-free. i was more into original IP with at least a smidgen of self-awareness.
aliens did it for me more when i watched the first movie. it was probably a rite of passage for a lot of kids. what's even going on with the franchise now? a disfigured goblin of its former self. alien: the search for more money.
mix in some commentary on the catholic church and it's a 40k novel. urgh.
i did appreciate the briefness of what aliens i've read. you could polish one off in an afternoon, guilt-free. i was more into original IP with at least a smidgen of self-awareness.
aliens did it for me more when i watched the first movie. it was probably a rite of passage for a lot of kids. what's even going on with the franchise now? a disfigured goblin of its former self. alien: the search for more money.
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