the Most hilarious fanboy message board debate of all time

"revisionist history"

Someone even said 'Good Day To You Sir'!

this is great. thanks!

PREDTARE WAAS NOT MADE TYET URA LL GAYEEHRFHB!11!!!!1!!11!!!!1

He showed some restraint. He was being obtuse as all get out though.

This is like the Star Wars debate over Midichlorians. Revisionist!

What a bunch of geex!

It is accomplished! Go forth to I Love Comics, my son.

awwwww, how cute! Like little baby ILXors.

It'll make your eyes bleed.

IT WAS NOT A PREDATOR SHIP IN 1979 AND IT IS STILL NOT A PREDATOR SHIP TODAY.

Next thing you know, they'll be saying that Bob Duvall didn't deserve that Oscar for Tender Mercies.

This argument would never have happened on a comic book board because comic books (much like soap operas) are defined by retroactive continuity.

"Mouth-breathing"???

If you ever heard one of these guys call in to a talk radio show, you'd understand.

("actual" used to deflect GWB jokes)

"we have Hubble and probes and stuff, but I can't help but to feel that we are going nowhere fast. SO THAT MEANS THAT THOSE POOR ALIENS WILL BE STUCK ON THAT DREARY PLANET FOREVER!!!"

My brother suggests that the Teletubbies did exist before 1979, but he says at that point they weren't creepily gay yet.

Don't they actually show an ancient corpse of the non-Alien aliens that sent out the distress signal in the first place? Or did I imagine that? I sort of recall that they were, like, giants or something?

Please do, that would be awesome!

don't know who here did that but it's fuckin funny. We should all get IGN accounts and go stir up massive fanboy fatwas and jihads and shit.

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Re: biggest plot hole i can think of.

by - maledoro (Thu Jan 19 2006 15:24:27 )

As long as you're going to limit yourself to what is in the movies and not look below the surface of them, you never will.

Ignorance is not justification. Most people think that in the mid-19th Century that the United States had a civil war, when it hadn't.
History is fact, Aliens are fiction. There is a huge difference. People know that if they want more information about a period or historical event they know information is available. In terms of a film most people watch it and consider it the end of the matter. To expect people to go and research the backstory from a film to discover that people in the film are making what you consider incorrect statements, especially as there is nothing in the film to suggest they are incorrect, is just plain ridiculous.

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I was bored and watching Star Wars episode 3 when it hit me, Pred goes to Kashyyyk to hunt some Wookiee with the very basic weapons like from Predator 1. Do you think he would succeed or have a gang of the dreaded fuzz balls tear him limb from limb and feast on his dishonored corpse? Personally I think the pred would have one hell of a challenge taking on a whole pack of wooks but whats other peoples opinion?

I got a working l/p there! Anyway, most of it is nested, but there's some discussion about the backstory of the crashed ship in the first Alien and if the Predator Director's Cut commentary is canon!

It's not particularly the jet bit that I like, it's the alien bit. From the sound of it, Megatron is keeping his Cybertronian alt mode which I think really suits his character; he's not going to lower himself to a human based alt mode, he is Cybertronian, he is 'pure'. I'd like to see him get really damaged at the end of this film and is forced to take an Earth based alt mode; he's become the one thing he hates the most and I really think that's an interesting idea, pushing him over the edge and adding to his maddness.

Bumblebee is named Bumblebee because he was a "beetlebug", if he's not a Beetlebug anymore, why name him Bumblebee ? Where's the connection between a bee and a Camaro ?
And as a kid, "personality" in a cartoon-character was strongly linked up to the apperance of the character, therefore Bumblees character was a bulgy, yellow WV.
It seems one of the things Hollywood often forgets when making movies based on cartoons, is that it's that the visuals is a major factor in making fans.
But they always try to change the visual apperance when they make a movie out of cartoon, and they usually fail miserably.

- NightRaven

MEGATRON IS A GUN FFS. *cough*

I knew that you were going to say that it had come from Ridley Scott, but you've seem to overlook something. Everytime that he had made a reference to the Jockeys, he would pepper his phrases with "I think..." and "I would like to believe that...", as if he was trying to convince himself.

Being someone who reads court documents and prepares witnesses for testimony, if I had heard any of those phrases come from someone's mouth, I wouldn't let them take the stand.

I never saw that.

Btw, why wasn't this thread nominated in the Best ILX Thread poll?

"What you need to wrap your minds around is that anyone who even insinuates that the derelict spacecraft could be anything other than exactly what it was originally intended to be -- a derelict spacecraft -- is...well, I think you both know by now exactly what a person who entertains that notion is: I'll give you a clue; quick! say "Ook! Ook! Eek! Eek!" Good boy. Now, have a banana."

It's a pity we never managed to lure Le Brainboy to ILX, he would've made some wonderful contributions here.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Rod Blagojevich to thread.

http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/sikh/TPMF9GHATMDNL4SLH

Now that Ridley Scott is making an Alien prequel, he should retcon things so that it was an Predator ship. Just to piss off Le Brainboy.

wtf ridley scott is a busy man:

In development:
Red Riding (details only on IMDbPro)
Untitled Reagan/Gorbachev Project (details only on IMDbPro)
The Killing Sea (details only on IMDbPro)
Untitled Tony Scott Project (details only on IMDbPro)
Brave New World (details only on IMDbPro)
In Vitro (details only on IMDbPro)
The Forever War (details only on IMDbPro)
Town House (details only on IMDbPro)
Untitled Monopoly Project (details only on IMDbPro)
Untitled Gucci Biopic (details only on IMDbPro)
The Passage (details only on IMDbPro)
Stones (details only on IMDbPro)
Child 44 (details only on IMDbPro)
Factor X (details only on IMDbPro)
"Purefold" (details only on IMDbPro)

In Production:
The Kind One (2012) (in production) (producer)
Emma's War (2011) (in production) (producer)
Untitled Alien Prequel (2011) (announced) (producer)
The Low Dweller (2011) (pre-production) (producer)
Sidney Hall (2010) (pre-production) (executive producer)
The A-Team (2010) (post-production) (producer)
Robin Hood (2010) (post-production) (producer)
"The Pillars of the Earth" (2009) TV mini-series (post-production) (executive producer) (unknown episodes, 2009)
Welcome to the Rileys (2010) (completed) (producer)

a little embarrassing how so much of his work of late has just been ransacking various franchises and properties and giving them facelifts. i suppose that's how he gets to make movies with big budgets, and he seems to like big budgets.

The Matchstick Men was pretty good, I thought it managed to find an interesting angle to the sort of con man movie that's been done over and over again since The House of Games. But other than that, has he done good film

But other than that, has he done any good films ever since Thelma & Louise?

TBH though, I've always thought Scott is kinda like David Fincher: they're both visually and technically very gifted, but the quality of their movies pretty much depends on the quality of scripts they're given.

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The link in the original post is dead now, but the thread can still be found in the IGN archives:

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/ship-in-alien.47582986

For your sake and the sake of the people you are exposed to every day, I hope that post was a joke, because if it wasn't, the astonishing ignorance of that post says something really scary about you.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/neill-blomkamp-reveals-concept-art-761079

Please my man this is science fiction not real life you do the math!

Hmm, so the film was made in 1979, so it can't be the future.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-many-days-are-in-a-week-internet-steakheads-go-to-1677492703