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    Quote Originally Posted by JusticeM4 View Post
    Interesting preview.

    On a side note (for the thinking type movie-viewer), if this crew is technologically advanced since they're in the future, can travel light years away, have billions in funding, have technology to create AI humanoids and cryofreeze humans for long term-- why not create like an Ironman suit for the crew instead of standard space suits. You know, for protection from nasty aliens and such. Instead of walking around like idiots and get killed. It would make too much sense, I guess, and ruin the fun.
    Quote Originally Posted by JusticeM4 View Post
    Presently it is too expensive and the tech really doesn't exist yet to deploy such suits to our military.

    But a privately-funded outfit such as in the Alien movies with billions of dollars and decades into the future, shouldn't be an issue. I would actually invest in that tech as a primary safety measure and more efficient movement e.g. fly from the main ship to a remote location, have built in weapons, makes equipment carrying much easier.

    But I digress. I'm still waiting for actual flying cars we were promised 50yrs ago (not some helicopter/drone)
    Technically at the point of Prometheus humans didn't know about alien life as far as we know and had no reason to suspect they would need more protection than usual.

    You can't assume the future means a more Utopian and relatively smart society. Or that the Weyland Corporation and industry in general would have a driving want or need to engineer better safety gear. This is a rich and greedy corporation after all. There's no telling how many man hours and how much money they exhausted making androids instead of making humans safer.

    In Prometheus, the humans were glad for the chance to go on the mission or were just getting paid to do a job without said safety gear. They were only useful for what information they could provide about the host planets, moons, susceptibility, etc. up until the point they were expendable. Even after alien life was discovered in Prometheus, Weyland Corporation later showed they were willing to sacrifice the human crew just to have Ash bring back a Xenomorph.

    It really isn't a stretch considering what technology has brought us since the 20th century. Are we any safer than we were in the 1900's? You could argue we have longer life spans but that's mostly due to drugs that prolong death from conditions we largely inflict on ourselves. As technology progresses so do the dangers it presents in civilian life or otherwise.
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    I found it interesting that until the lates 90s I was using kit essentially the same as grunts had been using since three or more decades previously.

    Then there was an explosion of various types of kit, pretty much settling into plate hangers, plus a battle belt or stuff on your rigger belt.

    How many decades until the next big evolution that settles into something?

    Weight seems to have remained constant or increasing.

    Light weight items seem to evolve slower than everyone having a radio, NODs, more stuff on their guns, etc.

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    anyone seen it yet?

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    Yes, they are still rocking m4s and pump 12ga shotguns 100 years from now.

    Movie was ok....not good not bad...but I'm watching alien tonight to get my fix and saw this movie last night

    Looks like BCM the jack carbine and the tavor were futuristic enough....oh, and I think I saw a Beretta 92fs in there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by militarymoron View Post
    anyone seen it yet?
    For me this is a wait until DVD film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    For me this is a wait until DVD film.
    A solid choice.

    Watch the original and you will be more pleased.

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    Hmm...DVD it is then. I had higher hopes for this. OK, not all is lost. We still have 'bladerunner' and '6 days' left.

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    Saw it today. Don't regret seeing it in the theater and wouldn't steer anybody away from it necessarily. At the same time, it's not likely to be a movie I watch again. Once was enough type deal.

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    Saw it this morning. OK, not great. The origins of certain things are revealed, as well as what happened to Elizabeth Shaw (from "Prometheus").

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    In alien they discover the derilict space ship full of eggs with face huggers which is some 100 years after the events of covenant but crash landed thousands of years ago. This movie makes it seem like David created the face hugger and ergo the xenomorph....

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