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I remember Aliens coming out and people shitting kittens, "There's going to be more than one of them?!"
Was that their response to the movie, or the kittens?
Response before watching. Response during was when kittens were shat.
There was a cat in the movie. I didn't watch the sequel, did it reproduce?
Made me think of Scott Pilgrim. "Break out the L word." "Lesbian?" "The other L word." "Lesbians?"
Is that really more accurate than you would expect though?
while not a showy response... yes
I wouldn't expect the plurality of the title to accurately reflect the number of aliens in the movie, tbh
I understand the point that there are more Aliens in Aliens than in alien, but there is more than one Alien in Alien.
So it's not super accurate.
I guess my memory is off. I thought the first movie was just the one. been a while since I watched it
Well theres the dead pilot (space jockey), and the collection of eggs, then theres the offending face hugger and then the resulting adult Xenomorph.
...so it is just one adult Alien? (not counting facehuggers) lol
now I'm just curious
Singular of the second-mouth, skull-punchy sort, yeah.
The engineer is already long dead, so it's arguably switched from alien to corpse. There are a bunch of other eggs/ovomorphs on the derelict, but only one hatches and attacks John Hurt, so without sequel media (Aliens/Alien Isolation) showing that other eggs were still viable, they could be argued to be maybe-dead, too. Even accepting that they're viable eggs, counting them as aliens is counting your chickens before they've hatched, which is inadvisable enough that there's an idiom about it.
If you're saying the facehugger and the adult xenomorph are different creatures, then that's ridiculous, as it's clearly closer to being a larva, and plenty of real creatures have a child stage that doesn't resemble the adult stage at all and where a big mass of tissue is discarded when transitioning into adulthood.
Ridiculous might be a strong word for a fictional creature, but if we found the corpse of a bipedal extraterrestrial on the surface of Mars, would you be unwilling to call that thing an alien?
"This isn't an alien. It's dead."
Perhaps not, but I'd not give it equal prominance in a news report or a movie adaptation if it was next to a living one, and I wouldn't do anything else silly like claim a billion aliens had been found because it had gut flora.
Equal prominence is a bit of a side step, and i never mentioned a living one next to it.
Also I'm fairly sure any biologist would be claiming each distinct species found within the alien as being new discoveries also.
If it's a side step, then so was your question. You took away the one obviously-much-more-alive-and-capable-of-interacting-with-the-plot alien. This is a semantic argument, and you're using a different sense of the word than the titles of the films were using, so it's not even a valid semantic argument. A reasonable person wouldn't expect to be able to drive a herse in a carpool lane just because there was an occupied coffin in the back and a sign said vehicles could only use the lane if they contained two people because they'd have to use a definition of person other than the one the sign obviously meant, just like how they couldn't claim that the sign was talking about a nearby swimming pool or running track and therefore irrelevant to drivers because lanes separate competitors in races.
Yours is a side step because saying equal prominence has nothing to do with whether something a corpse of an alien is an alien.
I just made up separate example to focus on that aspect. But it will clearly be quicker if I just say you're right. Have a nice day.
Snakes on a Plane was pretty self-explanatory.
Ah yes. A movie so bad it was good.
"Time to get these mother fuckin snakes off this mother fuckin plane!" I enjoy dropping that line with no context occasionally.
"I'm tired of these mother-father snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!" ~TV edit
I thought it was monkey fighting snakes in the TV edit.
It might've been. Been a long time since I've heard it.
I remember watching the credits roll on my first viewing of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and thinking, "It really was."
I hardly remember the movie but I do remember having a very similar moment afterwards.
The joy of painting
Bloodborne (there is much blood and multiple plot-centric babies. Surprisingly few pathogens)
The player character is in yharnam because their village needs a cure for a blood infection. It's never brought up again, but it's there
Ooh, I missed that part. Is it an actual infection or an imagined one like the rest of Yarnham though? There are multiple that are being misdiagnosed, like how the confederates are imagining "Vermin"
Wait how did you find out about the foreigner?
And such a good game. First FromSoft game that I ever played and I fell in love.
If only they would release it on PC and up the frame rate.
I really hope it happens at some point because I've lusted for that game for a while and I'm not buying a whole ass console for one damn game.
Lego Star Wars.
The Lego movie even more so.
Dark City
On the opposite end of the scale, I enjoy that Steven Seagal manages to make films with extremely generic names that still manage to be incorrect. Contract to Kill contained no contracts whatsoever. A Good Man didn't feature a single positive male role model. Nobody was pistol whipped in Pistol Whipped. Submerged technically did have a submarine segment but it was only about 5% of the film.
I guess Shitty Action Film Starring Out-Of-Shape Psychopathic Pedo doesn't market too well
Couldn't "The Thing" describe most movies?
But The Thing had The Thing in it.
In my experience, most movies have things in them. Admittedly horrifying mutating dogs are less common.
Big booty Latinas. Very on brand
12 Angry Men
But the plot point was that one was never angry. Or was the twelfth one supposed to be the accused?
Raw, the movie, seemed pretty undercooked when it came to the ending.
Journey to the centre of the earth
Around the world in 80 days
12,000 leagues under the sea
Pretty much all of Jules Verne ( I think. I only know 3)
I only read them as a child but I don't think the Centre of the Earth expedition reached its namesake. Also, it's 20,000 leagues (50,000 miles) under the sea.
Truman's Show
~~Truman's Show~~ The Truman Show
It didn't belong to Truman at all, that was part of the point.
I blame title localization :P
Run Lola Run