Rico Ross

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Aliens (1986).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alien (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel / genre shift) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read). Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up.
    “some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Alien 3 (1992): 2 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens.
    “Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills.
    “you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien: Covenant (2017): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens.
    “which the Marines all have in aliens”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Avatar (2009): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Making Aliens (a voiceless monster) is what let Cameron individualize the humans there and flip that in Avatar.
    “I wonder if he hadn't made aliens if he could have arrived at that.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Neill Blomkamp's unmade Aliens sequel: 1 line

  1. lineage (unmade sequel) · through Aliens (1986), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Neill Blomkamp's unmade Aliens sequel (the host's read). Blomkamp's unmade film would have followed Aliens directly.
    “an alien sequel that was a direct aliens sequel and ignoring everything that came after it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:32:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (1) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

None.