RyzenRaider

RyzenRaider t1_iy3aa0n wrote

Reply to What movie universes are connected that would surprise most people by pm_meyourlegs

I've got a big universe... And I will die on this hill, they are canon! MCU ain't got shit on this!

Predator 2 features a xenomorph skull. So even before the AvP movies, these two alien species were in the same universe.

Spaceballs features a xenomorph jumping out of John Hurt ("Oh no! Not again!"). This happens in a diner near the end of the movie, and Lone Star's Winnebago is parked outside, next to the Millennium Falcon. So Star Wars is connected.

Star Wars prequels feature ET creatures in the senate. And ET seems to recognize Yoda (Halloween costume) while walking on the street.

Going back to Aliens, the marines use a USMC Smartgun. In Soldier, Todd's certifications include this weapon. So they exist in the same universe. Soldier also features a spinner from Blade Runner in the junk on the planet. The writer David Webb Peoples confirmed that the films exist in the same universe. I believe Todd's combat history include references to the Shoulder of Orion and Tanhauser Gate, which Roy mentions before he dies.

Todd's history also connects to Star Trek, with references to the Nibian Moons, Antares Maelstrom War and War of Perdition's Flames. So that captures Star Trek.

If you want to start stretching it further, Todd was also credited with Plisken Patch, O'Neil Ring Award, Captain Ron Trophy, Macready Cross, Cash Medal of Honour, and the McCaffrey Fire Award. If you squint through this, then technically you could consider those Kurt Russell movies to be canon. Squinting a bit further, the SG-1 shows are considered canon from the Stargate film, so now you're getting into TV.

So Predator, Aliens, Spaceballs, ET, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Soldier - and maybe even a bunch of Kurt Russell's filmography - all exist in the same universe.

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RyzenRaider t1_ixfgexf wrote

Reply to Why it is not a crime to make movies like "Human Centipede"? by Birchtree16

If we're gonna criminalize content because we don't like the content when no other law has been broken, then what's a fair sentence for your post? Ok that's a bit too sarcastic even for my taste, but it makes my point.

People probably ought to get arrested if they're actually killing animals on set (not familiar with that allegation, doesn't matter)... They didn't literally perform oral-anal surgery on the actors in Human Centipede.

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RyzenRaider t1_iucrvus wrote

Reply to Movie star salaries by Sea_Presentation_314

Bear in mind, $20m in 1996 is worth about $37m today. So $50m to secure your very likeable lead actor for a $250-300m movie that's gonna sell like gangbusters internationally is actually not that bad.

You gotta remember, Jim Carrey got literally a few hundred thousand for the first movie he made in 1994. Between Dumb & Dumber, The Mask and Ace Ventura, he went from TV comic to movie superstar, and 2 years later, his salary was on par with Tom Cruse. That's why his paycheck was noteworthy... The rate of increase was insane and he had jumped into the A-list so quickly.

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RyzenRaider t1_ituhov2 wrote

Reply to Why don't we make movies about the victims instead of the serial killers? by [deleted]

Victims of serial killers aren't interesting people. Serial killers are interesting, because how they think and see the world is a mystery to us.

Additionally, when you watch a character that you know is a serial killer, you often feel a sense of dread because you know he's luring a victim into a situation where he can subdue them. Our mind goes to into our fears to fill in the blanks about what horrors may follow.

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