SᐳᐳDJan 15
Tried to watch that new Aliens Expanded doc, I fell asleep and woke up thinking I’d missed about 15 mins cause it was still on. Fuckin thing is near 5 hours long
Show threadSDEMJan 15
@gulffire1 i'm checking it in 15 min chunks over morning coffees , should keep me going for a bit
Show threadSᐳᐳDJan 16
@sdem yeah doing it in chunks seems reasonable, esp after a pasta coma. I think I did do the RoboDoc in one sitting, it’s class if you haven’t checked it
Show threadSDEMJan 16
@gulffire1 yeh I had to go to Bristol and back in 1 day in November and robodoc got me thru that minor ordeal nicely
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Show threadSDEMJan 17
@gulffire1 I gave up on that aliens thing , started doing my head in . the doc from that alien dvd box set is miles better
Show threadSᐳᐳDJan 17
@sdem is that the Superior Firepower one? Yeah it is. I’m gonna finish it but yeah there’s not a lot of variety in it for it to be 5 hours
Show threadSDEMJan 17
@gulffire1 can’t remember what it’s called , just remember it being much better made and having way less cheeseball talking head filler shite
Show threadSᐳᐳDFeb 25
@sdem they’ve done one for The Thing!, already looks 100 times better: https://youtu.be/sDIaL9Begao?si=s1GMKpzuOWoFsyRY
The Thing Expanded Trailer feat. Kurt Russell & John Carpenter (2026)

YouTube
Show threadSDEMFeb 25
@gulffire1 I’ve watched that making of the thing thing prob too many times but yeh I’ll have to check this . No rob bottin tho, is he still on earth? He wasn’t in that other one either tho so maybe just cba
Show threadSᐳᐳDFeb 26
@sdem yeah I noticed that too, you need him in there, he’s funny as fuck
Show threadSDEMFeb 26
@gulffire1 that bit in the old documentary where he’s on about the spider head thing setting on fire cos it was full of melted plastic etc is proper comedy “thank you very much , mr Bo Teen”
Show threadoscillikFeb 26
@sdem @gulffire1 Yeah I went through the new Aliens one the other week. The vast majority of the content was stuff we already knew about from the previous well known doc, except this time it was padded out to four hours with over–zealous chipping–in from current nobodies. I'm glad I didn't pay anything to watch it!
Show threadSᐳᐳDFeb 26
@oscillik @sdem yeah agree. Wish a lot of them were like those 90s Kermode docs. They did have Friedkin in them though which ups the entertainment factor, you need more shit talkers like him
Show threadSDEMFeb 26
@oscillik @gulffire1 pretty much my opinion of it too , didn’t get thru to the end tho maybe it got better but I bailed around hour 2.5
Show threadoscillikFeb 26
@sdem @gulffire1 It definitely didn't get any better, trust me!