• shalafi@lemmy.world
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      I remember Aliens coming out and people shitting kittens, “There’s going to be more than one of them?!”

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        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

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          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.

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            I guess my memory is off. I thought the first movie was just the one. been a while since I watched it

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              Well theres the dead pilot (space jockey), and the collection of eggs, then theres the offending face hugger and then the resulting adult Xenomorph.

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            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.

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              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.”

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                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.

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                  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.

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    I remember watching the credits roll on my first viewing of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and thinking, “It really was.”

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      I hardly remember the movie but I do remember having a very similar moment afterwards.

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    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

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      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

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        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?

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          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.

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    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)

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      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.