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"Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 09:09post reply


Hey Dudes and Dudettes,

Just need your feedback on the movie. Gonna see it in 2 hours, but I hope it is good, for a PG-13 movie. I hope it doesn't suck.

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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 09:32post reply


it was pretty good i guess

but i don't like how the Predators fell for that cheap trick at the end. the humans just swooped in and finished the rest of them off after they [Predators] were already weak. made it one of those "hero" movies. boring!





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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 10:59:post reply


http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_vs_predator /

Average score: 3,5 (out of 10)...

In a movie where alien acid (which cuts through steel) is applied to human skin, humans in plain clothes can fight in a temperature of 50 degrees below zero, and huggers fly in bullet-time... I would say 3,5 is generous.





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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 11:02post reply


I was actually very disappointed in this movie. I didn't know it was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (of Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat fame) until the ending credits, which instantly explained a lot about the movie. The storyline is pretty dumb, which I sort of expected out of a "VS" movie, and I forgave them for it. A lot of the stuff about the Aliens is inconsistent with the other movies (not expected, not forgiven).

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The aliens are born too fast and grow up way too fast, for example.

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There are not nearly enough action scenes, and the ones they have aren't very good. The camera jerks around like in a bad TV action series. Seems like a pointless tactic when you have two special effects fighting each other anyway.

Oh, and the absolute worst thing about the movie:

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The Predator becomes friends with one of the humans. All the scenes where they interact are just painful to watch. Not cool.

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Overall it's just not a satisfying movie. It definitely doesn't do either series justice. Go see Harold and Kumar instead, it's way better (seriously).





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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 11:21post reply


Don't waste your money on AVP...

watch Collateral!!!





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"Re(2):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Fri 13 Aug 12:03post reply


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Don't waste your money on AVP...

watch Collateral!!!




horrible movie, go watch versus(ultimate edition) instead





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"See Harold and Kumar instead" , posted Fri 13 Aug 12:03post reply


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Oh, and the absolute worst thing about the movie: Overall it's just not a satisfying movie. It definitely doesn't do either series justice. Go see Harold and Kumar instead, it's way better (seriously).



I haven't seen AvP yet, and I count myself lucky nobody is dragging me to see it. With luck, I won't see it unless it's airing on television and I'm retired with nothing better to do than watch it. Screw the director and everyone involved, really. Except the people who worked on it only because they had to eat.

I can vouch for Harold and Kumar though, and IS really funny.





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"Re(1):See Harold and Kumar instead" , posted Fri 13 Aug 12:13:post reply


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Oh, and the absolute worst thing about the movie: Overall it's just not a satisfying movie. It definitely doesn't do either series justice. Go see Harold and Kumar instead, it's way better (seriously).


I haven't seen AvP yet, and I count myself lucky nobody is dragging me to see it. With luck, I won't see it unless it's airing on television and I'm retired with nothing better to do than watch it. Screw the director and everyone involved, really. Except the people who worked on it only because they had to eat.

I can vouch for Harold and Kumar though, and IS really funny.




or better yet go rent event horizon(same director as avp i think)




avp isnt even rated R, how good can it be?





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"Re(2):See Harold and Kumar instead" , posted Fri 13 Aug 12:25post reply


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Oh, and the absolute worst thing about the movie: Overall it's just not a satisfying movie. It definitely doesn't do either series justice. Go see Harold and Kumar instead, it's way better (seriously).


I haven't seen AvP yet, and I count myself lucky nobody is dragging me to see it. With luck, I won't see it unless it's airing on television and I'm retired with nothing better to do than watch it. Screw the director and everyone involved, really. Except the people who worked on it only because they had to eat.

I can vouch for Harold and Kumar though, and IS really funny.



or better yet go rent event horizon(same director as avp i think)




avp isnt even rated R, how good can it be?



The reason it's not rated R is because the horrible violence is happening to the fictional monsters and not the humans so much. Anyway, I will go see it to watch the Aliens and Predators fight. After all, that's the only thing I'm interested in seeing it for anyway. If I waste my money it can't be as bad as the fact I paid 7 and a half dollars to watch Van Helsing at the theatre.







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"YO HOMIES" , posted Fri 13 Aug 12:52post reply


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"Re(1):YO HOMIES" , posted Fri 13 Aug 13:03:post reply


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<IS THAT MY BRIEFCASE?

Hey, we both have the exact same briefcase...

The studio should have really stepped back and listened to themselves if they were seriously pushing a PG-13 rating for a movie with Aliens and Predators in it. That's like demanding a PG-13 on Seven or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. "We want a violent, bloody movie, but without violence and blood. And no boobs or swearing, either."

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"Collateral- without the damage" , posted Fri 13 Aug 13:28post reply


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Collateral was okay. Would I recommend it? No. I was really excited about this movie, the trailers made it seem cool (and I usually don't fall for trailers mind you). But... eh, it just didn't do anything for me. There was no tension. There were no real fun scenes. Its basically Cruise dragging Fox around and making him do things he didn't like doing. Cruise played his character EXCELLENTLY. Fox did a good job but you can tell he still needs work on his serious acting but it was a damn good job anyway. Fox's transformation mid through the movie wasn't totally credible but it was cool how he ended up in the end.

Overall, it was all right. The movie had a lot of potential but it just didn't catch the right notes. Maybe watch it as a matinee or for free if you can see it on cable 12 months from now.

I really wanted to like this movie. Oh well.





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"Pretty Good, but not Excellent ." , posted Fri 13 Aug 16:47post reply


Hey Guys,

Saw the movie, I thought it was pretty good, but not excellent. The Queen part at the end made me jumpy. I think maybe when it comes out on DVD they will have an "unrated version" or something. it's kind of funny watching Predators tackle down Aliens like football players.

I still yet to see this movie R rated, and hopefully Lynn Kurosawa will be in the next one which I highly doubt (he he ^^)

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"Re(1):Pretty Good, but not Excellent ." , posted Fri 13 Aug 19:23post reply


It served it's purpose.. I guess...


Not enough massive swarm on swarm action!


More comedy than action, But the queen was pretty nifty,

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and the very very final post ending shot of the film was pathetic.

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"Re(2):Pretty Good, but not Excellent ." , posted Sat 14 Aug 00:05post reply


Wasted potential to the extreme. The PC games felt like better movies than the actual movie did. :P





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"Re(3):Pretty Good, but not Excellent ." , posted Sat 14 Aug 11:37post reply


It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I thought it was going to be REALLY bad. Movie was ok up til the Predator and the human became friends. It was like some weird children's book with the name "My friend, the Predator". After that, the movie was a comedy in all aspects. To me, the movie felt as if it were some comical fanfic of the series. It made me laugh, and I got to see aliens kill predators and predators kill aliens. Also, it got me in the mood to play the old AvP2 PC game I have around here for at least a few days. I hope I can find a facehugger server, those are always fun :)

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One part that pissed me off a bit was did you notice how the first two predators were killed by ONE alien (and there were only 3 Predators). I thought Aliens were more about the hive tactics and fairly easily killed. I mean, Alien the movie, it is forgiveable since it was humans vs unknown enemy. Plus most of the humans weren't military, but in this movie, come on. They're PREDATORS!

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"Spoiler! Don't read unless u see the movie.." , posted Sat 14 Aug 12:28post reply


"Movie was ok up til the Predator and the human became friends. It was like some weird children's book with the name "My friend, the Predator". After that, the movie was a comedy in all aspects. To me, the movie felt as if it were some comical fanfic of the series. It made me laugh, and I got to see aliens kill predators and predators kill aliens."

**I thought that was a good summary EN, because this morning I thought, what if he still survived, and then the woman grew dreadlocks in Jamaica, smoking ganja? How would she make breakfast for him, with eggs, then growl because they remind him of alien eggs?

The predators really care about NOBODY and don't really give a shit about anyone because they're savages!

I agree about the part of seeing both beating the crap out of each other, because I have been waiting to see a movie about the both for the past two years ever since I was reading Starlog in waldenbooks in the late 80's.

I don't think it was all THAT bad, but the costumes of the Predators were really beautiful. I especially liked the one with the long - ass knives.

I didn't like the fact they killed Weyland. That didn't make sense to me at ALL. That was pretty weak sauce. I thought he may of survived everything, so that was the reason of the manufacturing of bishop, so that they can keep the aliens for weapons. Well, maybe unless Weyland's brain is cybernetically linked and can see a live camera feed to the androids or something, like Ash in the first Alien, or makes a clone of himself.

The big Daddy Supreme King Predator was cool, I hope they have new Predators released by Mcfarlane.

Yes, I agree that the last part was stupid. Why did it have to be a warrior alien? It SHOULD HAVE BEEN A QUEEN ALIEN WITH PREDATOR MANDIBLES. Otherwise, they would just find the little one and snap it's body like a matchstick.

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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sat 14 Aug 16:33post reply


I like how a movie promising "Alien Vs Predator" it delievered surprisingly little of such.

There had to be no more then 12 minutes of actual fighting between Aliens and Predators, and at best 17 minutes of the creatures killing people... the rest was just boring humans running around.

Freddy Vs Jason wasn't a great movie by any strech of the imagination, but Freddy AND Jason appeared within the first few minutes of the movie, and they fought at least twice... and both fights were exciting and easy to see. AvP took everything right about FvJ and did the opposite.

Also the "shock" ending made no sense... so there's one alien on a ship with 8 Elder Predators? are we supposed to think it's going to case them shit? It's one Alien... it's not even a Queen! BULLSHIT ENDING!

the only part of the movie I enjoyed was the trailer for "Shawn of the Dead"... which was made even better because it was shown right after the RE:Apocolypse trailer, nice to see someone ruin the zombie genre so you lose all hope THEN see someone have fun with the genre to let you see all is not lost.

I still want to see Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash... and Batman Vs Superman would have been fun if it didn't get canned.






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"Re(2):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sat 14 Aug 18:21post reply


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I still want to see Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash...



Ash would win.







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"Protoss Versus Zergs" , posted Sat 14 Aug 20:42:post reply


I went to see the movie (dragged...but for free) with low expectations and came out laughing with friends so it wasn't too bad. But if I had seen it by myself with hyped up expectations...I would've been dissappointed to say the least. I really liked the black lady's shield though. And near the end I expected Predator to



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say "Who will help me carry this man?" before the stretcher scene and I wanted a kiss scene before they part ways. At least she gets the nifty spear thingy.

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Protoss VS Zergs...Now that I think about it I want a Starcraft movie. Anyway movie sucked.





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"Re(1):Protoss Versus Zergs" , posted Sat 14 Aug 23:40post reply


We´ve been discussing on CHUD about the completelly stupid "it wasn´t so bad" comments on every frigging forum the movie is mentioned.

Just because something "was bad, but not as bad" as you expected, doesn´t mean it will stop being bad.





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"Re(2):Protoss Versus Zergs" , posted Sat 14 Aug 23:52post reply


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Just because something "was bad, but not as bad" as you expected, doesn´t mean it will stop being bad.



Link Here

this Onion article, although I'm sure most people here already read it, seems to relate to that quote.






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"Re(2):Protoss Versus Zergs" , posted Sat 14 Aug 23:59post reply


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Just because something "was bad, but not as bad" as you expected, doesn´t mean it will stop being bad.



It was far worse than I expected. I've been disappointed by many terrible movies, but this one actually made me angry. So much wasted potential. At least Freddy vs. Jason was fun. This... I don't even know how this got released.

Two things I liked:

1. Weyland does the thing with the pen around his fingers like Bishop did in Aliens. Silly.

2. After this and Predator 2, I'm convinced: Predators love black people. Both Danny Glover and the AvP chick got the red carpet treatment at the end of the movie.

Other than that, it was a crushing disappointment and I think I'm going to go play the AvP arcade game until my eyes bleed.

Oh, and putting the predator mandibles on the hatchling at the end? How does that even work? Does that mean every alien born from a person was supposed to have a human face tacked on like the one from Alien Resurrection? I don't get it.





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Oh, and putting the predator mandibles on the hatchling at the end? How does that even work? Does that mean every alien born from a person was supposed to have a human face tacked on like the one from Alien Resurrection? I don't get it.

Sort of. In Alien 3, the Alien came from a dog, which explained why it looked (a little) different and ran on all fours. We are led to believe that the traditional, black, bipedal Alien that we usually see is the human form of the Aliens. So it does make sense to have a Predator-Alien with madibles at the end.

Although if you consider the differences between a human and a dog and the differences between a human and a Predator, the mandibles are probably a bit of a stretch. The dog-Alien didn't have a long snout, floppy ears, or even a distinct difference in size. But if they didn't give it the mandibles, I guess it'd be hard to tell any difference at a glance.

As for the fleshy pink Alien with eyes in Resurrection, it doesn't make too much sense if you consider this whole gain-the-features-of-the-host aspect of the Aliens. I suppose it's just an even more human-like Alien than the others.

On a side note, this aspect of the Aliens is consistent with the series of action figures that came out a long time ago (around the time of Alien 3's release, if I remember correctly) that had a bunch of different animal-Aliens. Again, they were kind of over the top compared to the subtle dog-Alien, but they were still cool.





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"Re(1):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 00:29post reply


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On a side note, this aspect of the aliens is consistent with the series of action figures that came out a long time ago (around the time of Alien 3's release, if I remember correctly) that had a bunch of different animal-Aliens. Again, they were kind of over the top compared to the subtle dog-Alien, but they were still cool.



I always thought those were just for ease of marketing and fun new product ideas. "Gorilla Alien" and "Scorpion Alien" seem to work better than "blue alien that spits water when you squeeze it" and "alien that explodes", but yeah, it seems like it's in line with that.

I still hate it though.





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"Re(2):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 01:24post reply


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On a side note, this aspect of the aliens is consistent with the series of action figures that came out a long time ago (around the time of Alien 3's release, if I remember correctly) that had a bunch of different animal-Aliens. Again, they were kind of over the top compared to the subtle dog-Alien, but they were still cool.


I always thought those were just for ease of marketing and fun new product ideas. "Gorilla Alien" and "Scorpion Alien" seem to work better than "blue alien that spits water when you squeeze it" and "alien that explodes", but yeah, it seems like it's in line with that.

I still hate it though.


Wow, does that bring back memories. Those toys were cool, I loved playing with those as a kid. Well, by play, meaning use the gorilla alien to shoot water at my friends and run. Kinda like an alien shaped water gun, with one shot... But yeah, I remember those things. They had like the bendable snake alien, water shooting gorilla alien, blow-up-able scorpion alien, alien queen, flying alien queen, and queen face hugger. Now, I never got the idea behind a queen face hugger. I mean, I could maybe see the fact it would lay queen eggs in subjects, but it was supposed to be the size of a person almost. With a retrable long tail. And a mouth... never did understand that thing... Also, the AvP arcade game was pretty good and AvP2 for the PC was pretty good. At least Alien Versus Predator has had its moments in gaming, if not the area it should have shined, movies. Oh yeah, on the subject of Alien chemistry, you kinda have that also in the AvP2 game on face hugger servers. On those fun servers, alien players start off as a face hugger, find a player/host, get your alien groove on in its face, bust out after a few seconds as a chestburster, and 10 to 20 seconds later, mature. If you used a human as your host, you become a drone. If you used a corporate/mercanary as your host, you become a dog alien. Finally, if you used a predator, you become a predalien (weird guys, they have no tail, but are physically stronger than most aliens). On some servers, enough kills let you molt into a queen. Also, they have one more alien class for regular servers that are like royal guards. Ok, enough off track stuff for me. Verdict is Aliens are cool, Predators it depends (personally I like), humans are squishy fleshy things, and AvP the movie is a waste of something that could have been good. At least there are other good things with the AvP name. End of story.






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"Re(3):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 01:31post reply


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But yeah, I remember those things. They had like the bendable snake alien, water shooting gorilla alien, blow-up-able scorpion alien, alien queen, flying alien queen, and queen face hugger.



What's sad is that I own all of the ones you listed there. I grew up in the middle of that shit. Wish I knew where they were now. My prized alien queen probably doesn't look anywhere near as cool as I remember. If I had the desk space I'd buy the huge McFarlane alien queen, but... yeah, it's huge.

Anyway, that AvP2 stuff sounds like a lot of fun. I think I need to be checking this out.





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But yeah, I remember those things. They had like the bendable snake alien, water shooting gorilla alien, blow-up-able scorpion alien, alien queen, flying alien queen, and queen face hugger.


What's sad is that I own all of the ones you listed there. I grew up in the middle of that shit. Wish I knew where they were now. My prized alien queen probably doesn't look anywhere near as cool as I remember. If I had the desk space I'd buy the huge McFarlane alien queen, but... yeah, it's huge.

Anyway, that AvP2 stuff sounds like a lot of fun. I think I need to be checking this out.


Yeah, personally I really enjoyed AvP2. Its a pretty good FPS, and great for fans of Aliens or Predators. The game takes place in the Aliens time era, and the single player game is ok. The multi-player tends to be lots of fun though. Each side has its own feel to it, but the humans originally were really weak. The main problems back then were that the predator cloaked was death incarnate to humans playing. However, if humans turned on their night goggles, they could faintly make out predators, but even then. However, to balance stuff out, when the patch that gave the aliens queens came out, humans got exo-suits on multi-player maps. Oh, and in multiplayer, aliens could always see everyone from far away since when playing as an alien, all players give off different colored auras which are supposed to be pheromones or some shit. Predators have their hunting masks and can cycle through different visions (plain, heat for humans, alien seeing vision, and pred seeing vision) for easier hunting. However, masks can be knocked off from enough damage or close range fighting. You can pick it back up though if you, assuming you're alive. Be warned though, the AvP2 expansion pack is pretty crappy. Only thing it adds is better stuff for the humans/corprates, and by better stuff I just mean dual weilding pistols and sentry guns. In multi-player, corporates are humans, but with different "classes". So, in general, humans are fairly well rounded with lots of ammunition and explosion stuff. Aliens are lethal in close range (but close range only) and are good hunters. Predators are very powerful with lots of almost-one hit kill weapons and tracking skills (but only one at a time, meaning alien vision on mask cannot make out humans well, even when they are close, same for all other combos), but have long downtime between attacks thanks to energy consumption on some weapons and no rapid fire weapons (meaning you should be accurate). One final note, I actually have the old queen alien toy on my desk here. Not as cool as the actual queen, and only remotely looks like it, but hey, still pretty cool and brings back memories of seeing Aliens (the 2nd movie).






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"Re(2):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 05:17post reply


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On a side note, this aspect of the aliens is consistent with the series of action figures that came out a long time ago (around the time of Alien 3's release, if I remember correctly) that had a bunch of different animal-Aliens. Again, they were kind of over the top compared to the subtle dog-Alien, but they were still cool.


I always thought those were just for ease of marketing and fun new product ideas. "Gorilla Alien" and "Scorpion Alien" seem to work better than "blue alien that spits water when you squeeze it" and "alien that explodes", but yeah, it seems like it's in line with that.

I still hate it though.



I forget where it was stated in the Alien movies (this may have just been from the AvP comics and such), but my understanding was that the proper name of the Aliens was "Xenomorph" (Alien + Morphic), so the whole "taking on the aspects of the host" thing is inferred right there in their name. And it also controls their behavior, just like in the AvP movie. Alien + Human = weak little drone, but Alien + Predator = big-ass predalien, so when presented with a mixed group of humans and Predators, they'd prefer to focus entirely on infesting the Predators.

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The Predator becomes friends with one of the humans. All the scenes where they interact are just painful to watch. Not cool.


I'm not as much of an AvP fan as some people, so I'm a little lost on this one. Did the Predators only join up with the humans in the arcade game? I figured that the Predators joining up with the strongest humans treating them like comrades (or at least hunting dogs) was pretty standard for AvP stories, especially since the Predators seem to have a special hatred for the Aliens.

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One part that pissed me off a bit was did you notice how the first two predators were killed by ONE alien (and there were only 3 Predators). I thought Aliens were more about the hive tactics and fairly easily killed. I mean, Alien the movie, it is forgiveable since it was humans vs unknown enemy. Plus most of the humans weren't military, but in this movie, come on. They're PREDATORS!


As someone that actually liked this movie, I really thought that this was where it started to fail. About mid-way through, they've set up a fairly entertaining idea. On the one side, we've got a wounded Predator and a human woman with Alien armor and weapons. On the other, we've got the Alien drones, which are lead by Gridhead, a single Alien drone that's taken out two Predators and come away with a very identifiable mark (which reminded me a lot of Spike from Gremlins, BTW). I expected the human woman and the Predator to go beat the shit out of Gridhead, but instead she drops the Alien weapons as soon as she gets them, sets a bomb, and they get the Hell out of there, leaving Gridhead to die pointlessly in a big explosion. It's like they suddenly decided to cut a half hour out of the movie and cut straight to the lame-ass explosions. And it especially felt that way because I was in a drive-in theater and could just look across the field and see that AvP was the first movie to end. I think it was actually shorter than The Princess Diaries.

Anyway, I'm not that big of an AvP fan, but I thought it was pretty good up until the end. If it had gone with more Predator vs. Alien action instead of the escape from the Alien Queen that looked like outtakes from Jurassic Park, it would've been a better movie.





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"Re(1):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 06:27:post reply


Okay before I go into my feedback about this movie, I'd just like to say that I'm happy they even made it! I'm a BIG darkhorse comic fan.... LOL! (I love Predators!! they rock)

Okay, I knew the story was crap from when I read the script. The whole PG-13 rating was also crap, they could have gone with a R rating and added more gore (Blood, guts, huggers doing their thing).
Can we just take the whole human factor out, please it was a waste of time to see them get killed (Tho, I know they needed it for the aliens...blah!).

FX, were really nice. This is one of the better movies that I've seen, that had good use of CG. The real model Alien was just seamless, the facehuggers as well. See not all movies need CG stars!

The one thing that really pissed me off was the predator keep'n that chic alive, sad thing is that came out of one of the very early AVP comics. He should've just killed her off.

Let hope they have a unrated or Director's cut please!!!

If you watch it get in before 5 and save some money other wise....eh? *shrug* it's alright. But that won't stop me from getting a Predator plushie!!!!

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"Re(2):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 09:07post reply


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Let hope they have a unrated or Director's cut please!!!

Hopefully from a different director...





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"Re(3):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 12:56post reply


Here is my take, completely spoilers



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First of all, the Bishop thing. It explained NOTHING. The only thing we discovered is he is from the current era. I feel they just needed an excuse to put Lance Henriksen in. Second, the satellite, it didn't look very realistic, too sci-fi. For our current time, they could have at least made it look modern and not something from the future

Second, it is the little things that ruined it. I mean in one scene, acid from a dead alien gets splashed on the main chick and it doesn't even eat thru her pants or jacket, yet it does later in the film when she throws her jacket off?

Also, a pyramid built 2,000 feet below ice in antarctica, unless the pyramid has heating capabilities from the generator, wouldn't it be too cold for them to survive?

Again, as pointed out, the aliens grew too fast

Why did everyone have guns? I know they wanted weapons instead of them say, throwing rocks, but really, archeologists wouldn't bring guns with them. And the condom argument? Yea, I really compare having a gun to having a condon on me @_@

Also, the thing just reeked of cliches. I "ughed" everytime I heard the main woman having her little fits about, "I have a bad feeling about this, we shouldn't go in there".

Finally, the ending. All the humans except her are dead, who is going to operate the friggin' ice breaker and get her back to civilization? I couldn't help but laugh in my head at the thought of her asking the predators for a ride or something which they didn't give her.


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"Re(3):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 13:26post reply


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Ash would win.



Of course he would, he's the king.

I've got nothing else useful to add to this topic, so here's a list of "Vs" movies I'd like to see! (plots suggested made as shitty as possible, since if any of these stupid ideas are made, they're going to be the shittiest plotline possible)

Bill and Ted VS Doc and Marty:
When traveling back in time the phone booth crashes into the Dolorien. So know Bill, Ted, Doc, and Marty are stranded in (insert time period where the most hijinx could insue) all leading up to what everyone's been waiting for: a Wyld Stalyons cover of Johnny Be Good with lead vocals and guest guitar by Marty McFly!!!
Bonus: Since B&T:EA and BttF use very different theories on time travel (B&T has it so as long as everything is returned later everything is peachy and time travel is harmless, but BttF has it so ANY changes to the past radically change the future making time travel potentially harmful) so fanboys would argue for years over which theory this movie used.

Hellboy Vs the Tick:
It would be funny to see a guy in a giant red foam rubber suit fight a guy in a giant blue foam rubber suit.

Robocop Vs Terminator:
There was a Robocop Vs Terminator game right? that seems like a good enough reason to make a movie based on it.

Freddy Vs Jason Vs Alien Vs Predator:
Which I won't be surprised if it's already a comicbook... A and P fight EVERYONE in comicbooks...

Alien Vs Predator Vs Terminator:
In which Arnold repraises THREE of his oscar winning roles: the T-800, Dutch, and one of his many space man characters (who this time is trapped on a ship that Dutch happened to be on as well then an Alien, a Predator, and the Terminator find there way on board)

Modern Horror version of VanHelsing (aka Freddy Vs Jason Vs Leatherface Vs Chucky Vs Pinhead Vs Micheal Myers Vs Hannibal Lektor Vs Ash):
so see, the FBI right, they want to translate the Necronomicon, so they ask the only man smart enough to do so to help! And he happens to be Hannibal Lektor!! But when reading from the book he summons the souls of the deadliest dead murderers who ever passed through his prison (yeah I know not in the cannon of any of the other movies, but it's not like AvP was anyway) so then Ash shows up and he, with Lektors help has to fight them all!!!.... really it's just an excuse to force all the modern horror monsters into one movie like VanHelsing forced all the classic ones into one movie.

Kill Bill Vs the Last Samurai:
White People with Japanese Swords was a successful genre in late 2003, it's only a matter of time before someone tries to cash in on such with a crossover

Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter:
See so Guile's elite force of 'street fighters' is sent in to help the Earth Warriors, while Bison makes an Allience with the Outworld forces!! it's the battle you breifly thought would be interesting when Capcom started VSing everyone in videogames, then decided would be stupid since the two don't play anything a like.

Street Fighter Vs Resident Evil:
(insert Stefans extremely retarded idea for a Cammy Resident Evil game here) also at some point someone takes a dump on a picture of Megaman to ensure all 3 of Capcom's big series are defamed properly.

Catwoman Vs the Green Lantern:
Halle Berry does "sexy" things that aren't sexy in the least, while Jack Black does "funny" things that aren't funny in the least... fans of either actor and/or character avoid the movie like the plague, only people who go see it are people claiming to support the 'art' and who want to send a message to Hollywood to cast more non-white actresses and over-weight actors in lead roles.
(note: it seems Jack Black isn't going to be the GL after all, but play along)

Invader Zim Vs the Fairly Odd Parents:
I think they have similar art styles -__- and with all the other Nickeolodon crossovers it's not UNreasonable to want such.






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"Re(3):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 15:07post reply


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my understanding was that the proper name of the Aliens was "Xenomorph" (Alien + Morphic), so the whole "taking on the aspects of the host" thing is inferred right there in their name.

Er... No, it isn't.





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"Re(4):Alien Science" , posted Sun 15 Aug 15:38post reply


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Er... No, it isn't.


Your evil oneliners have erased your account. There is a justice, after all.
And I'm sure you didn't even installed the MOK-KOS screensaver, philistine.





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"Re(2):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 16:28post reply


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the only part of the movie I enjoyed was the trailer for "Shawn of the Dead"... which was made even better because it was shown right after the RE:Apocolypse trailer, nice to see someone ruin the zombie genre so you lose all hope THEN see someone have fun with the genre to let you see all is not lost.

I found a trailer for that movie, for those who haven't seen it- SHAUN OF THE DEAD It looks great, and I'm dying to see it now. I've been in need of a good, new, true zombie movie for a long, long time. I loved 28 Days Later, but those weren't zombies. The Dawn of the Dead remake was horrible (it was all right as a stand-alone, but not a remake at all). I didn't like the RE movie, and I'm not looking forward to the RE2 movie. At least Shaun looks promising. It looks funny, and it looks like the zombie attack will be cool (and no stupid running, talking zombies that aren't really dead or anything like that).

Okay, now I'll get back on-topic. As for the VS movies, I'm hoping this doesn't get out of control, but I'm sure it will. It's not like we really have any new-ish movies coming out anymore. I liked Freddy VS. Jason, but I'm kind of hoping they don't over-do the idea until we're sick of it. "Okay, let's do Freddy VS Batman VS Predator VS the Simpsons. That'll bring in so much money! We'll have horror fans, comic book fans, sci-fi fans AND cartoon fans in the same theater!"





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"Re(3):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 16:32post reply


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I found a trailer for that movie, for those who haven't seen it- SHAUN OF THE DEAD It looks great, and I'm dying to see it now.

If only for the first half an hour without any zombie actually on the screen, and for the surprise 30 secondes at the end, Shawn worth your 2 hours of time. It is neither as funny or frightenning as it could have been, but it is definitely an entertaining movie.





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"Re(4):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 16:35post reply


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If only for the first half an hour without any zombie actually on the screen, and for the surprise 30 secondes at the end, Shawn worth your 2 hours of time. It is neither as funny or frightenning as it could have been, but it is definitely an entertaining movie.

I can deal with 30 minutes of setup. I'd prefer maximum zombie time, but it's all right. As long as the movie's entertaining, and there are some decent zombie stuff, then I'm fine with it.





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"Re(5):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 16:37post reply


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I can deal with 30 minutes of setup. I'd prefer maximum zombie time, but it's all right.

No, it's not just 30 minutes of set up, there's at the same time quite a lot of tention, an interesting vision (for a zombie movie)... If it wasn't for the end, it would be the best part of the movie.





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"Re(6):Alien vs. Predator movie feedback" , posted Sun 15 Aug 16:57post reply


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I can deal with 30 minutes of setup. I'd prefer maximum zombie time, but it's all right.
No, it's not just 30 minutes of set up, there's at the same time quite a lot of tention, an interesting vision (for a zombie movie)... If it wasn't for the end, it would be the best part of the movie.

Ah, okay. I'm not sure who else recognized it, but they used a clip from the original Dawn of the Dead's music at the end of the preview. So, is this coming to theaters, or just getting released on DVD or something?





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"A winner is you!" , posted Sun 15 Aug 17:06post reply


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Bill and Ted VS Doc and Marty:
When traveling back in time the phone booth crashes into the Dolorien. So know Bill, Ted, Doc, and Marty are stranded in (insert time period where the most hijinx could insue) all leading up to what everyone's been waiting for: a Wyld Stalyons cover of Johnny Be Good with lead vocals and guest guitar by Marty McFly!!!
Bonus: Since B&T:EA and BttF use very different theories on time travel (B&T has it so as long as everything is returned later everything is peachy and time travel is harmless, but BttF has it so ANY changes to the past radically change the future making time travel potentially harmful) so fanboys would argue for years over which theory this movie used.


Ok, there is really no winner here, since there would have to be a team up between Doc, Marty, Bill, and Ted. However it would be George Carlin as Rufus who saves them all in the end.

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Hellboy Vs the Tick:
It would be funny to see a guy in a giant red foam rubber suit fight a guy in a giant blue foam rubber suit.


Hmm, I'm pretty sure Hellboy would win. That reminds me that I need to buy the live action Tick series on DVD tomorrow.

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Robocop Vs Terminator:
There was a Robocop Vs Terminator game right? that seems like a good enough reason to make a movie based on it.


Terminator wins.

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Freddy Vs Jason Vs Alien Vs Predator:
Which I won't be surprised if it's already a comicbook... A and P fight EVERYONE in comicbooks...


My bet is on Jason or the Predator.

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Alien Vs Predator Vs Terminator:
In which Arnold repraises THREE of his oscar winning roles: the T-800, Dutch, and one of his many space man characters (who this time is trapped on a ship that Dutch happened to be on as well then an Alien, a Predator, and the Terminator find there way on board)


Terminator kills everyone.

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Modern Horror version of VanHelsing (aka Freddy Vs Jason Vs Leatherface Vs Chucky Vs Pinhead Vs Micheal Myers Vs Hannibal Lektor Vs Ash):
so see, the FBI right, they want to translate the Necronomicon, so they ask the only man smart enough to do so to help! And he happens to be Hannibal Lektor!! But when reading from the book he summons the souls of the deadliest dead murderers who ever passed through his prison (yeah I know not in the cannon of any of the other movies, but it's not like AvP was anyway) so then Ash shows up and he, with Lektors help has to fight them all!!!.... really it's just an excuse to force all the modern horror monsters into one movie like VanHelsing forced all the classic ones into one movie.


Ash wins. I mean, come on, he's Bruce Campbell. As an extra treat he would kill Hannibal too.

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Kill Bill Vs the Last Samurai:
White People with Japanese Swords was a successful genre in late 2003, it's only a matter of time before someone tries to cash in on such with a crossover


The Last Samurai wins.

quote:
Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter:
See so Guile's elite force of 'street fighters' is sent in to help the Earth Warriors, while Bison makes an Allience with the Outworld forces!! it's the battle you breifly thought would be interesting when Capcom started VSing everyone in videogames, then decided would be stupid since the two don't play anything a like.


Actually in this movie, Terry Bogard shows up at the end and beats them all.

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Street Fighter Vs Resident Evil:
(insert Stefans extremely retarded idea for a Cammy Resident Evil game here) also at some point someone takes a dump on a picture of Megaman to ensure all 3 of Capcom's big series are defamed properly.


Jill Valentine, who'd probably get left out though because the people in charge decide it'd be smarter to make up their own character for the movie.

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Catwoman Vs the Green Lantern:
Halle Berry does "sexy" things that aren't sexy in the least, while Jack Black does "funny" things that aren't funny in the least... fans of either actor and/or character avoid the movie like the plague, only people who go see it are people claiming to support the 'art' and who want to send a message to Hollywood to cast more non-white actresses and over-weight actors in lead roles.
(note: it seems Jack Black isn't going to be the GL after all, but play along)


I don't know who wins, but whoever watches this horrible film loses.

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Invader Zim Vs the Fairly Odd Parents:
I think they have similar art styles -__- and with all the other Nickeolodon crossovers it's not UNreasonable to want such.



I have no opinion on this.







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"I Can't Believe I'm Discussing This Seriously" , posted Sun 15 Aug 19:02post reply


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Bill and Ted VS Doc and Marty:
When traveling back in time the phone booth crashes into the Dolorien. So know Bill, Ted, Doc, and Marty are stranded in (insert time period where the most hijinx could insue) all leading up to what everyone's been waiting for: a Wyld Stalyons cover of Johnny Be Good with lead vocals and guest guitar by Marty McFly!!!
Bonus: Since B&T:EA and BttF use very different theories on time travel (B&T has it so as long as everything is returned later everything is peachy and time travel is harmless, but BttF has it so ANY changes to the past radically change the future making time travel potentially harmful) so fanboys would argue for years over which theory this movie used.

Ok, there is really no winner here, since there would have to be a team up between Doc, Marty, Bill, and Ted. However it would be George Carlin as Rufus who saves them all in the end.


No, it'd be George Carlin as Rufus as Carmen Electra as some rocker chick. OLOLOLO SPOILARZ

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Hellboy Vs the Tick:
It would be funny to see a guy in a giant red foam rubber suit fight a guy in a giant blue foam rubber suit.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure Hellboy would win. That reminds me that I need to buy the live action Tick series on DVD tomorrow.


I'd agree, but only if the Tick got to show off his nigh-invulnerability before having his head beaten down into his chest cavity.

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Robocop Vs Terminator:
There was a Robocop Vs Terminator game right? that seems like a good enough reason to make a movie based on it.

Terminator wins.


...Frank Miller already wrote this duel (a comic, not a videogame, obviously). There's a scan somewhere; go read that and reconsider.

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Freddy Vs Jason Vs Alien Vs Predator:
Which I won't be surprised if it's already a comicbook... A and P fight EVERYONE in comicbooks...

My bet is on Jason or the Predator.


I'd take Jason, at least if it were the Jason X Jason, which would just kill everything easily, I should think. Nothing else to add, other than that Freddy wouldn't have a chance against either alien. They don't seem to have dreams or fears.

quote:
Alien Vs Predator Vs Terminator:
In which Arnold repraises THREE of his oscar winning roles: the T-800, Dutch, and one of his many space man characters (who this time is trapped on a ship that Dutch happened to be on as well then an Alien, a Predator, and the Terminator find there way on board)

Terminator kills everyone.


Doubt it, if only because of acid blood and advanced Predator weapons. Terminators mostly just look good against modern guns, I think.

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Kill Bill Vs the Last Samurai:
White People with Japanese Swords was a successful genre in late 2003, it's only a matter of time before someone tries to cash in on such with a crossover

The Last Samurai wins.


Balls. Uma Thurman wins because she's not a fucking Scientologist. KILL TOM CRUISE, NOT BILL!

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Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter:
See so Guile's elite force of 'street fighters' is sent in to help the Earth Warriors, while Bison makes an Allience with the Outworld forces!! it's the battle you breifly thought would be interesting when Capcom started VSing everyone in videogames, then decided would be stupid since the two don't play anything a like.

Actually in this movie, Terry Bogard shows up at the end and beats them all.


And then, Raul Julia descends from heaven and banishes Bogard to hell, after first inquiring as to whether or not Mr. Bogard is okay.

quote:
Catwoman Vs the Green Lantern:
Halle Berry does "sexy" things that aren't sexy in the least, while Jack Black does "funny" things that aren't funny in the least... fans of either actor and/or character avoid the movie like the plague, only people who go see it are people claiming to support the 'art' and who want to send a message to Hollywood to cast more non-white actresses and over-weight actors in lead roles.
(note: it seems Jack Black isn't going to be the GL after all, but play along)

I don't know who wins, but whoever watches this horrible film loses.


All of the above is true, except:

1:Jack Black is funny, goddammit.
2:Halle Berry is sexy. Billy Bob Thornton, no, but he's of no importance.





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"Re(1):I Can't Believe I'm Discussing This Ser" , posted Sun 15 Aug 19:25post reply


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All of the above is true, except:

1:Jack Black is funny, goddammit.
2:Halle Berry is sexy. Billy Bob Thornton, no, but he's of no importance.



I meant in the context of those roles they're not sexy/funny respectively

Berry as Catwoman was totally unsexy, more comical really

and even though Jack Black is one funny guy there's a 99.9% certainity if that movie does come to being it's going to fall flat on it's face and be him making an ass of himself for 90 minutes.






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