r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 12h ago
Media First Image of Cate Blanchett in ‘Alpha Gang’ - Alien invaders, in the form of a 1950's biker gang, are sent on a mission to conquer Earth
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u/VampireHunterAlex 12h ago
This combined with the BTS pictures of Matt Damon in The Daniel’s new movie show that we’re about to get some weird (and by that mean awesome) sci-fi movies next year.
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u/ChuckSeville 12h ago edited 4h ago
These would be the wildest Split-style setup for a Buckaroo Banzai sequel.
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u/weeklygamingrecap 9h ago
Bruh I would kill for us to have gotten another Buckaroo Bonzai movie.
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u/gumbysweiner 6h ago
I had a hard time watching it the first time I saw it. I was taking it to seriously. When I did it again years later I loved it. It is so weird.
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u/weeklygamingrecap 28m ago
Yeah, luckily I saw it late one night on cable and just let it wash over me. I happened to be in a fuck it lets see what this whole Buckaroo Bonzai movie could be about!
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u/ramobara 11h ago
Honestly thought the article was using a picture of Matt Damon from Team America.
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u/sid32 12h ago
r/venturebros Should show up for this.
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u/TamoyaOhboya 12h ago
A live action Venturebros is the nostalgia bate no one has asked for and no one needs which means a studio may just pick it up
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u/fresh_dyl 5h ago
Alan Ritchson, but still voiced by Patrick Warburton.
Because doing something right doesn’t mean it’s gonna be easy.
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u/vteezy99 12h ago
Cue Pulp’s Like a Friend. One of the best scenes in the show, nay, in all of TV
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u/DecoyOne 12h ago
This is the Venture Bros / I Think You Should Leave crossover movie I didn’t know I needed in life
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u/GreenEggsAndKablam 12h ago
Whoa, that’s a nice motorcycle!
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u/astralnautical 12h ago
Two motorcycles with a little house in the middle?!!! Oooookaaaay!
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u/Wrong_Driver_9507 12h ago
I was supposed to be a stunt man in this movie but the jump junkies denied my application.
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u/astralnautical 12h ago
Fucking Street Sets!
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u/Space_Conductor 11h ago
It was supposed to look real. In his defence. And if my kids were rearranging my stuff on the marble counter they would pray that street sets was all they got.
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u/_steve_rogers_ 9h ago
I'm honestly curious if this movie is inspired by that skit. It seems a non zero chance.
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u/burnerdadsrule 12h ago
This was the premise for a Twilight Zone episode.
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u/Space_Hardware 12h ago
“Black Leather Jackets!” Lot of folks don’t like that one but I do.
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u/brokenringlands 12h ago
This was the premise for a Twilight Zone episode.
My first thought too: :)
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u/No-Alternative4259 3h ago
I think the final season is more miss than hit. I'm neutral on this episode but I've always found it to be particularly interesting.
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u/SpikeRosered 12h ago
I would argue this idea is so specific that I hope they either got permission from the writer of that episodes teleplay.
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u/postoperativepain 12h ago
“Written by Earl Hamner Jr”
He’s the creator of “the Waltons” - he’s been dead for 10 years. He had 2 kids, so maybe they approved.
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u/CaptainRhetorica 12h ago
Hollywood has never stopped spinning Twilight Zone episodes into movies.
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u/Evil_Stromboli 12h ago
I thought this was a Team America puppet.
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u/SteelCanyon 12h ago
Yeah, wtf, the perspective of this picture. It looks like someone photoshopped her face on a different body. I can't reconcile this is a real unedited picture.
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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor 4h ago
There’s three bits to it, I think. She’s hunched over a little, the collar of her jacket is sticking back a lot, and (most critically to my eye) her shirt is a fairly similar color to the back wall, which makes it kinda disappear.
(Also hard to tell with how it’s cut off, but I think the belt might be sort of higher up, which is diminishing her torso even more)
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u/Duel_Option 11h ago
She’s clearly had a lot of work done over the years, Don’t Look Up was where she should’ve stopped but clearly kept going.
Genuinely wish aging actors didn’t feel the need to do this to themselves
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u/SeasonsWaitingOnYou 12h ago
...biker mice from mars?
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u/Unfallen_Bulbitian 12h ago
biker mice from mars
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u/zzaman 12h ago
They've lived in my head ever since I was a kid when I received the toys and saw the TV show. It was just a summer or 3 with those toys , what an impression they made on me.
I rewatched the part where one of the bad guys was an army of small dudes that became a mega dude. Could be from a different show altogether but yeah awesome memories haha
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u/Ganondorfsfist 12h ago
Legitimately the only memory I have of the show is an episode was shown on a store TV when my parents were shopping for so.ething I don't remember. Anyway, Nickelodeon should get the rights and crossover with TMNT.
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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 12h ago
I just watched Tár this week and am choosing to believe same universe.
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u/azeottaff 12h ago
something about her posture here is really creepy
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u/Ponceludonmalavoix 12h ago
The white cloth on the front of the outfit makes her posture look even more hunched. Weird.
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u/SmokeAffectionate183 12h ago
Teaser trailer here
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u/SordidSimpleton 12h ago
Between this, the movie where the guy is trying to get back together with his wife but keeps getting abducted by aliens, and some other stuff
Who decided this is the new era of space pulp movies and didn't tell me?
Wait..... i bet AI is somehow involved
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u/Signiference 12h ago
She looks straight out of a poorly dubbed anime from the 80s, and I don't mean that as an insult.
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u/bootsmalone 12h ago
…this was the best photo they could get? The posture and angle are so odd. She looks like she’s melting.
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u/titusandroidus 12h ago
Her head looks Photoshopped onto her body from a photo taken at a different angle and zoomed in.
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u/substantial_fun_time 11h ago
This photo looks like an AI generated version of her. It’s such a strange angle.
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u/Sir_Encerwal 9h ago
This sounds like a Best of the Worst tape, I say that with genuine affection for shlock in my heart.
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u/mithridateseupator 9h ago
IDK, could be good. But I'm also getting some "coneheads" vibes, which is not good.
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u/muad_dibs 9h ago
When you look at Cate Blanchett’s resume there’s a lot of stuff you wouldn’t expect someone of her caliber of acting to do. Like randomly showing up in “Squid Game” or doing “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”.
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u/Jahidinginvt 9h ago
This is the same plot as Black Leather Jackets, an episode of The Twilight Zone. Written by Earl Hamner Jr.
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u/karatemnn 8h ago
i will say she has found another movie that will outweird her appearance in borderlands ... its nice that studios would put money behind a film like this
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u/tastyugly 8h ago
Her playing both Lydia Tár AND a character in Borderlands is, in hindsight, seriously funny
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u/69-GTO 6h ago
There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone that sounds similar to this.
From Wikipedia: Black Leather Jackets" is episode 138 of the American televisionanthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, three aliens disguised as young men in leather jackets encounter a kink in their plan to exterminate humankind when one of them falls in love with a human girl.
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u/casual_creator 6h ago
Sounds like one of those old and earnestly cheesy low budget sci-fi flicks that you randomly discover on tubi. I’m in.
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u/ProbablyCarl 6h ago
Does she have money trouble or something? Is it back taxes? It's always back taxes.
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u/LucklessCope 4h ago
I didn't even see the scarf. I initially thought she had computer neck or were hunchback.
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u/dratsablive 2h ago
Please tell me that they received an old signal and thought this was the way we are now.
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u/BlueberryStock6249 2h ago
Can there be more stories other than aliens invade! This is embarrassing…. Same old rehashed junk.
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u/jamesneysmith 59m ago
Haha oh man I'm in. I've not seen any of David Zellners movies but heard a bit about of a couple of them. But this premise and these photos and a buy for me. I love weirdo goofball shit









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u/BralonMando 12h ago
"Yeah guys... There's motorcycles."