Ha, yeah, right after I posted what I did, it occurred to me that that may very well be canon when it comes to Spiderman. It’s been awhile since I saw the movies, and a looong time since I read the comic books. the comic snippet you posted reads almost like my parody post, verbatim
When it comes to Iron Man, the way I see it is, a lot can be fan-wanked away by Tony Stark’s inventive genius-- maybe the suit locks into flight position so Tony can relax within it, like auto-pilot. As for bathroom break issues, depends…
What I wonder about Iron Man is, is it canon that some sort of super-sciency inertial dampeners are built into the suit? Because if not, when he slams into the ground at terminal velocity, or is thrown into a building, ain’t no amount of super duper advanced armor is going to prevent Tony’s brain from sloshing against the inside of his skull and being pulverized like Jello in shaken Tupperware.
Actually, Bolaji Badejo played the original xenomorph in many scenes in Alien. Aliens made them a bit less humanoid, but there were still a lot of stunt people in costumes. The queen was the only one that was much less humanoid, and she was a combination of CGI and puppetry.
The suit has all that stuff. Tony Stark is physically useless, just some guy with a bad heart kept alive by his suit. IIRC the suit could operate on it’s own without him and other people also lacking any super powers have used the suit.
Definitely the case in Iron Man 3 and Spider-Man:Homecoming. In IM3, he had dozens of suits flying around at the end, all controlled by Jarvis. And in SM:H, there’s a scene where we see he’s actually controlling the suit in New York while he’s physically in India.
Maybe Parker became much more competent at mending his suit after pricking his finger, because he inherited the proportional powers of a super-seamstress or tailor
According to Wikipedia, principle photography for Aliens started in September 1985 and concluded in January of 1986 and it was released later that year in July. The queen was a puppet, one of the largest ever created for a movie at time of filming. As far as I know, all those effects were practical not CGI. It’s probably one of the reasons why Aliens still looks pretty good compared to most early efforts at CGI which look like garbage today.
I do recall those now. I was thinking back to the comic books in the 70s and 80s where I believe that was done also. There were explanations for a lot of the suit improvements, and his heart condition often was more of a factor.
So as I mention above (having rewatched Robocop recently) I give OCP a pass on this one as the movie does have quite a bit of exposition on how OCP got to be so powerful and what they hope to achieve with cartoonishly evil plan. Also while it is pretty dumb to develop not one but two robotic police replacements that are completely incapable of doing any of the duties of a police officer except the ones that involve shooting lots of people, that’s THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MOVIE! It’s not a poorly thought out sci-fi trope, its biting social commentary on American society.
The only thing that doesn’t pass the test of time in the movie (which I really enjoyed. having rewatched for the first time in a couple of decades) is the idea that, in future dystopian corporate run America, the cops will be downtrodden and put down upon by the powers that be, heroically struggling to maintain order and protect society, despite being poor, impoverished, and under funded. Lets just say that does not come across as particularly prophetic almost four decades later
And in the case of ED-209, they even explained that: It was actually a back-door to developing weapons for military applications, that would produce a secondary market for replacement parts and maintenance for years to come. “Who cares if it worked or not?” So, evil, but not stupid evil.
“Priority one
Insure return of organism for analysis.
All other considerations secondary.
Crew expendable.”
Oh they knew. They knew.
That’s why Ash let Kane in with the facehugger attached. it wasn’t some bad decision, poor writing, a “stupid plot”, it was his primary mission. “Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded.”
“The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?”
They knew something. They did replace Dallas’ regular science officer with Ash at the last minute and gave him his mission. I think the company even knew there was a good chance it was something dangerous. After all, if the crew of Nostromo could figure out it wasn’t a distress beacon the Company must have as well. But how much did they know? Did Ash understand anything about the organism before they brought Kane back with the facehugger? It’s certainly possible, but we really don’t know one way or the other. We can’t even be sure why the Company decided to send a bunch of space truckers for what was potentially a first contact situation with an intelligent alien lifeform. And that’s probably one of the reasons the movie is so much fun to talk about, the ambiguity is good for discussion. Your interpretation is valid even if it differs from mine.
I still class this as pretty dumb. Sure they probably didn’t know that what was on that planet was just a big scary monster with big teeth, easily killed by any modern military force that wasn’t clownishly incompetent (I’m looking at you colonial Marines) and absolutely no use as a weapon.
But regardless of that, what did they hope to achieve by sending a bunch on truckers to check it out? Surely the most likely outcome was either they all get eaten, or survive and spread whatever it is to the rest of the human race (its not like they had a flawless plan in place to catch any survivors and stop them from spreading some alien lurgy to everyone in the Galaxy, as demonstrated by the beginning of Aliens). Possibly there was some element of speed at play (as the Nostromo is heading to the region where the signal originated) but what the rush? Surely it would have been smarter to take a few months to put together an actual scientific expedition, that understood about dealing with dangerous organisms (microbes or giant slobering monsters) and might stand a chance of safely bringing whatever was there back to HQ for monetization.
I can’t argue that it wasn’t stupid but there’s stupid writing and then there’s stupid behavior. People frequently make stupid choices for ideological reasons or naked greed. Why the Company chose to send some space truckers instead of scientists is a question we can’t answer owing to the dearth of definitive evidence. The Company is a faceless, inscrutible entity. Even their representative, Ash, is a cold, calculating machine.
There are lots of things in superhero movies that don’t bother me: Spider-Man’s webbing, Iron Man’s armor, superstrong heroes picking up a huge object from a teeny-tiny corner (without just snapping off the corner), the list goes on and on.
But for some reason, scenes with super-speed just drive me crazy. Particularly when the super-speed guy is running many times faster than a bullet and he repositions an ordinary human’s arm at Mach 10 (say) without snapping it in two. I don’t know what that particularly bothers me, but it does.
