Alien vs. Predator 2 Scheduled for 2007

[Mentok]

Box Office Mojo reports that 20th Century Fox has scheduled an August 10, 2007 release date for Alien vs. Predator 2.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Mentok]

Box Office Mojo reports that 20th Century Fox has scheduled an August 10, 2007 release date for Alien vs. Predator 2.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Mr. Credible]

i liked alien ressurection better than any of the other alien movies. i don't get why everyone keeps calling them classics when they (especially 'Aliens') were nothing more than your standard (or maybe above average) brainless monster movies. Predator, too, those were just reasons to show off a new monster and some decent gore.

 

[TheBlueWolf]

You guys should wait till the trailer to judge this film.

Guess you shouldn't judge a President before he's elected ehh??? Or a woman before you get her into the bedroom??? Whatever man!

If this is to be good, it needs to be RATED R...and it needs to have COLONIAL MARINES in it!!! They are the only two important ingredients this needs to be a HUGE HIT!!!

 

[Dr. Fate]

I didn't know the first AVP did well enough to garner a sequel.

 

[ZER0C00L]

Guess you shouldn't judge a President before he's elected ehh??? Or a woman before you get her into the bedroom??? Whatever man!

If this is to be good, it needs to be RATED R...and it needs to have COLONIAL MARINES in it!!! They are the only two important ingredients this needs to be a HUGE HIT!!!

and one more thing STAN WINSTON! with out him you dont have this

 

[GoblinScrier]

It does need to be Rated R but as much as this could be good, I want to see FREDDY VS. JASON 2 more than anything....besides Fantastic 4: 2 with the REAL DOCTOR DOOM...

 

[Galactus]

Wow, in just a couple of days there have been news about Scary Movie 5, Tomb Raider 3 and now AVP 2. Depressing.

 

[Octoberist]

The Death of Hollywood I tell ya!

Tomb Raider 3? Didn't the second one bombed? And it sucked too!

 

[TwilightPro101]

It's just Hollywood milking their audiences for all their worth. They seriously need to at least think this one through and do us fans right this time around.

 

[XwolverineX]

YAYYYY!! Screw all you games forum *******s!!

 

[DarKush]

I hate this idea. But if it goes forward, I hope it is a hard R-rated film. To make up for the PG-13 crap of the second one. And please bring back the Marines.

 

[blind_fury]

Yeah the space marines vs predators vs aliens would be cool.

I hope Paul W.S. Anderson dies of painful ball cancer. He's the anti-christ.

 

[green]

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23106

Script review if anybody needs a good laugh.

 

[Bat Attack]

I hope Paul W.S. Anderson dies of painful ball cancer. He's the anti-christ.

I agree with every part of that except the Anti-Christ part. If I believed in "God" I would agree though.

 

[blind_fury]

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23106

Script review if anybody needs a good laugh.

It's not funny.

 

[skorponok]

Oh how do I ever hope that his review is based on a FAKE script or a script that has been completely trashed by the studio...but something tells me...

 

[BEER]

No, please no. No no no no.

 

[Bishop2]

Yeah the space marines vs predators vs aliens would be cool.

It basically can't be done because of budget constraints. People complain about the first AVP not having enough predators or aliens... budget constraints. People complain that it was set on earth in the modern day... budget constraints. People complain that too many practical effects were used, reducing the fights to extreme close-ups... BUDGET CONSTRAINTS. The movie was pretty awesome, I thought, especially considering what they had to work with.

Seriously guys, it's going to take something HUGE for them to ever be willing to shell out for a futuristic AVP rife with special effects.

As for the script review...

Now, it may sound like, on the face of it, this thing is pissing on continuity. After all, how can you have the aliens and predators reach Earth, and not have it **** your continuity up the ass? The four movies of the Alien franchise are all about the danger of the alien getting to Earth — the fact that, as soon as it sets foot on our soil, we're ****ed. The first AVP took the fight to Earth, but kept it isolated millions of miles from civilization and deep underground, so that the same theme could be maintained — as soon as these things reach the surface, we're ****ed. Again, it's all about containment.

So now containment has failed, which wouldn't be such a big deal if it was all taking place after the Alien movies, but since it's before all of them... well, I guess we weren't as ****ed as Ripley thought. In fact, I guess nobody ever even found out about it! I'm sure they can explain that away in this script. I'm not worried about the continuity, I'm just worried about the implications. There's a very real danger of giving a shaft to the drama that fuels the Alien franchise. That concerns me somewhat.

What scares me a lot more, though, is that for the first time ever, somebody is treating these two series like they're "just another monster movie." There's high school drama with bullies and girlfriends and ****, like the kind you might find in any given B-grade horror flick. There's family drama, like the strained relationship between Dallas and his ex. These films have never been "just another monster movie." They've never fallen into these traps. They're above all that ****, but perhaps not anymore.

The good news in all this? Well, it's something new. It's definitely not territory we've covered in either series before, and the reviewer seems to believe that the action is good and original (and if nothing else, one of the locations he mentions gets me pretty damn psyched about the possibilities). Plus we get to see a Predalien in full form right from the get-go, which is something a lot of us, myself included, really expected the first time out anyway.

Maybe we'll get a really flawed entry, though. And if we do... well, even Alien 3 has some very good elements (with great dialogue, actors and visuals) that keep me from writing it off in spite of very bad plotting. Even a bad Alien movie is a good movie by most other standards.

So I'm going to remain optimistic.

 

[Movies205]

and you all know what happened right? Fox said to cameron...."forget it. the fans want aliens versus predator" and of course he,scott and sigorney weaver wanted nothing to do with the franchise anymore. and whilst cameron later said that he thought avp was "ok" I still think he was just being polite.

I love how deluded fanboys are, they'll come up with the most ******ed **** ever to make themselves feel better. You do realize that James CAmeron has gone on record and still says to this day that he hates Alien 3, right? If the guy didn't like it, he say it. Also what's funny is, he didn't say it was just "okay", he said he liked it A LOT. And had you bother to read what he said perhaps you might understand, and I actually agreed with him. AVP was just a fun popcorn flick it isn't hardcore cinema like Alien or Aliens, and it's enjoyable, that's the poitn of movies to be entertainment. Man I loev fanboys, providing tons of free hilarity because there so stupid...

Here's the actual JC interview

JAMES CAMERON: Milking it. So, I stopped work. Then I saw ALIEN VS PREDATOR and it was actually pretty good. (laughs) I think of the 5 ALIEN films, I'd rate it 3rd.
QUINT: Ummm...
JAMES CAMERON: I actually liked it. I actually liked it a lot.
QUINT: You know, I hate it when movies don't abide by the continuity of their series...
JAMES CAMERON: When they make up their own rules.
QUINT: Exactly. They did that a lot with the alien incubation time, where from egg to chestbuster it happened...
JAMES CAMERON: In minutes, yeah...
QUINT: That kind of stuff really pissed me off with the movie...
JAMES CAMERON: Well, it starts to become a video game. It's like, "Okay, that can be in him and that can show up over here..." It becomes more metaphorical or more comic book. I don't mean comic book in a negative way, I just mean that it's working at a kind of mythic, metaphoric level as opposed to really trying to immerse you in reality.
I mean, I felt when I was making ALIENS I think the same thing Ridley was doing with ALIEN, which is... "I'm going to make you think this is real." Even though it is completely ridiculous deep space adventure. We were going to make you feel like it's real. It's a question of does the film take itself seriously or not.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong I thought the movie was simply decent, like 6/10 on the scale, maybe a little less but it had some memorable and entertaining parts.

 

[BEER]

Sadly, I will probably still go and see this.

But I won't enjoy it dammit!

 

[Bishop2]

The stuff with like how fast the aliens hatch? If that alone kills your ability to enjoy a movie, seriously, I don't think I even want to know you. Besides, the aliens hatch at different speeds in all the movies. Quint's a tool.

 

[Danger Mouse]

This is excellent news indeed. I'm a big fan of AvP and I can't wait for the sequel.

I kinda enjoyed Anderson's works, actually.

 

[Bishop2]

I kinda enjoyed Anderson's works, actually.

Word. I've enjoyed almost all of his stuff. Soldier was kinda lame though.

 

[BEER]

The isolating it to one Predator vs. Aliens is the only problem I have with the first... and the second it appears. Needs more pack-hunting action dammit!