A great film and it’s a shame a sequel never materialised. We did however get this reunion for a charity auction in 2017.

Hooray, more pop culture references!

I watched the original but during the big end battle, because it was all underwater, I wasn’t sure who was doing what. After that, didn’t take need to see the sequel.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek. GAME took over EB in the UK. I don’t think they’re any dedicated gaming shops anymore, just independents.

Then basically there’s no point in this shop existing anymore. They’re basically toy stores now.

I occasionally look in Game but can’t remember the last time I actually bought anything. It would’ve been a pre-owned title anyway.

Is Electronics Boutique still going? 😁

Some of the voters are a bit scary too. I keep hearing a clip from LBC where some asks Starmer if he would’ve been in Corbyn’s cabinet.

Starmer kicked Corbyn out. That’s years ago. Why are you still trying to link the two people still now.

Finally, who are the 20% that would still vote Tory? Rich business people with no ethics?

I’m not sure where to implement it, but something featuring Kryten.

“Go to alert!” “Are you absolutely sure, sir? It does mean changing the bulb!”

Or failing that, maybe an error that is contained in a quoted Space Core Directive?

1989, the gold and black Batman logo was everywhere. It was the film that made me a Batman fan as well. Also, my grandfather misread the poster and thought it was a mouth with weird gold teeth. 😁

If you want to go really in depth, check out the podcast, “BEST MOVIES NEVER MADE” by Stephen Scarlata & Josh Miller. In particular this episode which is the first part of four where they run through all the scripts they could find which lead up to the 1989 final film.

With regard to breaking even, I was just recalling what I found on a small article about the film. So who knows what it would really need to break even? Double sounds more realistic though.

Del Toro was incredibly close to shooting an adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness in 2011, when Universal shut the project down. They decided they weren’t going to risk a $150m budget on an R rated for film which would probably need about $500m to break even.

A couple of years ago Del Toro shared a thirty second clip of pre-viz by Industrial Light and Magic. Another film to add to list of what couldn’t been.

Production companies must hate drones! 😆

I remember the first DVDs extras where items such as “interactive menu” which always bugged me because surely a non interactive menu is just a picture of some buttons?

Anyway, the extras got better and better over the years and the quality on some titles has been astounding.

The Frighteners has a 4½ hour “making of” for example. The Alien Quadrilogy and Blade Runner are two more examples of amazing DVD extras as well.

Sadly, it seems to be just the boutique labels putting in the work these days. It’s frustrating when studio releases list several intriguing sounding extras and then it turns out they only last five minutes each.

Industrial Light & Magic kept their original locations a secret, as they didn’t want Star Wars fans rummaging through their trash for bits of models.

Thank you! I was worried for a second as to why it was down.

Apparently my area will get a lean Labour win. I bloody hope so, my Tory MP is useless. Aren’t they all?

I had to log in into the default web UI to see what it was on my PC, but it’s great. Perfect for the sub. By default, I use phtn.app to browse lemmy on my laptop, and the icons are on the small side.

However, on my phone using Thunder, it looks great too.

I love sci-fi and Alien doesn’t feel like a gory horror film. There’s flashes of gore but it doesn’t bother me.

The director’s first film was The Evil Dead remake. I love the original three films but I couldn’t even make it through the red band trailer of that remake. 🤢

I’m excited for a new Alien film but worried that it’s hard core horror as I don’t like those kinds of films.

Not sure wether to watch in the cinema through the gaps in my fingers or watch it on streaming later on a bright sunny day with curtains open etc. 😆

Agreed. I saw an interview with him where he explained that he appreciated Dredd Day (many years ago) where fans got the film to the number 1 spot on Amazon’s chart in order to promote interest in a sequel.

But as he further explained, all of the investors lost money on the original film, so getting anyone to invest in a sequel was an impossibility.

As a fan of the franchise, I’m definitely interested, but as a mature gamer, I’m always weary of film tie-ins…