Aliens vs. Predator New Pix

[Floyd-the-k]

by the way, just how bad was AVP? Will I regret watching it? Is it worse or better than Alien 4?

[the shutdown man]

A lot worse, but I suppose that's like saying being kicked in the balls is worse than being punched in the face. You may choose being punched in the face, but you still won't enjoy it.

Alien Resurrection is pretty crap, but I find it's bad in a kinda enoyable way. Kind of a so-bad-it's-good-almost, way. It does have it's cool moments, like the underwater bit, or the Newborn alien, which I still think is creepy as hell, or Ripley finding her other failed clones.

AVP on the other hand has no redeeming features that I can recall. Not one. And it's just stupid. Number 2 though looks quite cool, I must admit.

On a related note, what's with this current trend of releasing the first five minutes of a film on the internet? I love trailers and all, and I know people say they show you a lot of the film, but I don't really like the idea of actually seeing 5-7 minutes of the opening of the film and then paying to sit down in the cinema to watch the same 5-7 minutes again before seeing anything new. Kinda takes the thrill out of it to me.  

[Goaty]

They did same by shows first five minutes of remake Dawn Of the Dead on Channel 4. it good way....

[Buddy]

I enjoyed AVP (it's not brilliant, but it's no Plan 9), more than alien4.

Watch it, enjoy it, don't dwell on it too much..

[Dark Jimbo]

At least Alien 4, however unessecary, has some ties into the whole ongoing Ripley/Alien story. AVP doesn't even have that to recommend it. It ain't the worst film inthe world, but I can't imagine I'll ever bother watching it again.

[dweezil2]

AVP was unadulterated shit! And what's this? A rastafarian alien-for fucks sake! Come back Jar Jar Binks, all is forgiven!

[TordelBack]

Come back Jar Jar Binks, all is forgiven!

Take that back this instant.

[dweezil2]

I'm sorry! That was very below the belt. Tee Hee.

[Mardroid]

Ok small spoilers to AvP and the first five minute section:

Having the signal to the Predator homeworld was a poor idea I think (although the scene looked good).  I'd have preferred it if they'd just had more predators survive the ship wreck, and have them as pratagonists throughout the film (against the aliens anyway. There were a few guys on the ship at the end of AvP and I can't believe this one Alien was able to wipe out all the Predators so quickly even if it took them by surprise.

Also, the face huggers look much browner than their predecessors don't you think? (But that might just be poor  memory on my part. I remember them beining pinkish.) I'm also wondering why that particular ship would have face huggers on board since the pyramid from the first film had eggs deposited there already, and this ship presumably came to pick the 'youngsters' from the previous film up.

Anyway, here's me nitpicking before I've even watched the whole thing. I still look forward to it though. As for the first film, I rather enjoyed it, and it is no worse that Alien Resurrection in my opinion.

[Bico]

There's a ton of plotholes in AVP, sure, but if you just sit down and watch it on its own terms as a dumb action movie, you'll find it isn't the worst film ever made - it's just a really bad one.

How shit are those Predators?  They're just lumbering lummoxes, shooting wildly at any and everything and blowing up their own ship.  I suspect the dumb-down pixie has been casting his magic dust across the script.  Actually dumbing down from the Predator movies must take some doing.

[Peter Wolf]

  It looks good.The scene with the Predators tracking device that traced the crashed spacecraft and replayed the incidents that caused it to happen.A bit like a black box flight recorder.


 I was thinking that at the end of the last film that the dead predator should have been scanned for infection and quarantined just in case but there you go.


 The Predalien seems to have inherited the Predators hunting and stealth tactics which makes it twice as deadly.

 "Lets show this to the Sherrif"   What else are they supposed to do call Mulder and Scully ?


 You could find fault with a lot of that but i dont really care as i just want to enjoy it.

[Rex Banner]

It would interesting to see what the outcome would be if one of the stray facehuggers got hold of a deer or a wascally wabbit...

[TordelBack]

What else are they supposed to do call Mulder and Scully ?

Well, yes!  The FBI or NASA or Homeland Security or Fox News or Ghostbusters or somebody, but not Cletus or Linus or whatever hobo-botherer is on duty.  I'm pretty sure that crashed spaceships fall outside the jurisdiction of county-level law-enforcement.

[Goaty]

and this 5 mins shows one fact, the Predator helmet does got camera so other Predators does watched any of others hunts!

[Mardroid]

It would interesting to see what the outcome would be if one of the stray facehuggers got hold of a deer or a wascally wabbit...


A rabbit based alien. A lapinalien. Why does that provide such a ghastly image?