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Lumos (380 KP) rated Galaxy Trucker in Tabletop Games

Mar 14, 2018  
Galaxy Trucker
Galaxy Trucker
2007 | Humor, Real-time, Science Fiction, Space, Transportation
6
7.8 (4 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
I like this game. Or rather, I want to like this game. It is such a fun concept and plays hilariously, but I can't get my brain to wrap around the helter skelter of this game. My ship explodes pretty quickly, or is overrun by aliens, and I spend the rest of the game floating through space watching my friends speed through. Guess I just need more practice here.
  
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Casper Van Dien recommended Aliens (1986) in Movies (curated)

 
Aliens (1986)
Aliens (1986)
1986 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
9.0 (90 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"And my all-time favorite number one science fiction movie would be…Starship Troopers! Because I’m vain! And full of myself! No, actually I’m excluding me from this, but I would put that on the list. But I can’t do myself, because it just isn’t right. I would say Aliens. Because, as Jim Cameron himself said, “Why are they making Starship Troopers? I already did!” He was wrong, by the way!"

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David McK (3649 KP) rated Spectral (2016) in Movies

Aug 4, 2020  
Spectral (2016)
Spectral (2016)
2016 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
6
6.8 (8 Ratings)
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Straight-to-Netflix actioner, that is probably best described as Aliens meets Gears of War meets Black Hawk Down meets Ghostbusters, with a team of spec-ops soldiers in a war-torn city and being (mostly) picked off one by one by a foe that they cannot see or hear, and that can kill with a touch.

It's one of those 'watch and forget' type of films, basically.
  
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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Aliens (1986) in Movies

Oct 23, 2018  
Aliens (1986)
Aliens (1986)
1986 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
10
9.0 (90 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Sci fi action at its finest
Alien and Aliens have to be up there with The Godfather I and II and Raiders/Temple of Doom and one of the greatest one-two punches in movie history.

"They mostly come at night...mostly"

Make sure if you are watching after not seeing for awhile or never seen you watch the 1990 "Director's Cut". As with several Cameron epics, the story and characters get flushed out a lot more and the extra scenes are very good. With Aliens, though, I would have omitted the scene near the beginning where we meet Next and her family when they discover the chestbursters. I think Newt's reveal works better if we were to first meet her while crawling around underneath the decks of the colony.

The only thing that ever bothered me was the extremely bad timing of Ripley being floating in space for 57 years, then she gets found, then they lose contact with the colony on LV426 right after that? Talk about a horrible coincidence!

Another remarkable item of the film;s slow progression is we don't even see an alien until well over a hour into the film and it doesn't matter. The tension built and anticipation Cameron delivers are amazing!

Nonetheless, Aliens is a masterpiece of sci fi cinema which has rarely been equaled. Now if only they wold quit trying!.

  
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Andy K (10823 KP) Oct 27, 2018

Thanks!
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Derek Mcfarland (4 KP) Dec 19, 2018

Best movie ever
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Madbatdan82 (341 KP) rated Rim of the World (2019) in Movies

Jun 1, 2019  
Rim of the World (2019)
Rim of the World (2019)
2019 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
4
6.1 (11 Ratings)
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....I'm thinking....that 1 funny camp counsellor (0 more)
Cheesy script & story, generic monster and awful TV movie ending. (0 more)
Stranger things this aint
Stranger Things is great and its brought a resurgence of the 80s style kids adventure films. Unfortunately for every Stranger Things & Scouts Guide to the apocalypse theres also one of these disasters...starts abruptly in space where the space station is attacked by a massive spaceship. Then it starts to introduce the stereotypical kids who all end up going to the same summer camp just as aliens attack Earth. The script is shoddy and the acting is pretty poor. It feels like a poor after school daytime TV movie - the fate of the Earth lies in these 4 kids hands blah blah. The aliens are pretty generic and unscary and it all leads to a pointless climax and ridiculous credits scenes. I was hoping for some mindless fun - i got half!!!
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) in Movies

Feb 22, 2018  
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
1965 | Sci-Fi
6
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Planet X marks the Spot
Sixth Godzilla movie, third for Rodan, second for Ghidorah, if anyone's counting. Not really a proper monster movie, if we're honest, more a sort of Japanese take on a flying-saucer B-picture. Aliens from Planet X ask to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to help deal with their local monster problem (King Ghidorah); evil plans are naturally afoot.

Almost wholly mad; still quite entertaining, but the lack of actual monster action (the three big beasts get very little screen-time) is inevitably quite disappointing. Rattling pace makes up for a lot of the film's flaws, and the basic idea - aliens try to conquer the world using monsters - would be endlessly recycled in future proper Godzilla films. Easy to dismiss this movie as quaintly dated 60s tosh, but surely a film where the forces of evil are driven off by the power of rape alarms has something to say to the #time's up generation.