Aliens Vs Predator

[DoomRulz]

Except Resurrection was totally campy and missed out on what made Cameron's film so great.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

Alien is one of the foremost horror films. Aliens is the pinnacle sci-fi film. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are the attempts to do good by both. Personally, I think Resurrection was successful at that only because it took a sardonic look at Cameron's formula.

yeah
i can see what yer saying with RES. ... i felt it was good becuz yknow ron perlaman, ryder and weaver were good, but it was kind of satirical i thought of the series which was odd, but it worked

 

[GhostPoet]

I honestly liked ressurrection better than A3. I liked the idea of Ripley being cloned.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

I honestly liked ressurrection better than A3. I liked the idea of Ripley being cloned.

ditto

 

[Warhammer]

I actually enjoyed Alien: Ressurection when I watched it for the first time in a long time last summer. I mean, if I could critique it, I'd deem it a crappy ass movie, but I did enjoy some of the action, and the one dimensional "badass" character.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I hate Alien Ressurection. It is just crap in almost everyway (maybe two or three things I like about the movie, period).

 

[Nightmare]

Wow, i need to see alien 3 and 4 now.

 

[co2]

Wow, i need to see alien 3 and 4 now.

Well, neither one is Alien or Aliens so don't have those kind of expectations going in or you will come back to this thread wanting to hang someone.

Everyone has opinions on these movies. Typically, the people that dislike Alien 3 tend to like Ressurection and then vice versa. They are very different movies. A3 is more downbeat and deadly serious, but some people think it was too slow and plodding.
Ressurection conversly is much more action packed but some people (yours truly included) think it had moments of extreme sillyness not in keeping with an Alien movie.

Check them out and see what you think. Only question is...have you seen Alien? Before you go any further, you need to see it. If you watch the others first, Alien wll loose quite a bit of impact as it relies on you not knowing much about the creature to drive the story. If you have already seen the AVP films...it may be too late anyway.

 

[PimpDaddyDOC-OCK]

Was the AVP game supposed to be on the Blu-Ray disc or is it an online extra that you need to update your player to access?

 

[Nightmare]

lol, first i saw was AVP then AVP:R, Then Alien Then ALiens.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Any word on a part three? I really hope they take it to outer space, Aliens just look so out of place on Earth. And they better have space marines.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

Any word on a part three? I really hope they take it to outer space, Aliens just look so out of place on Earth. And they better have space marines.

yeah
its in the works and a "guarentee" is the word we've heard... they're also waiting on DVD sales for AVP-R and yes itll be in space (finally)

 

[Untilteld]

Wow the DVD is out already? Never saw any advertisements or anything until this morning in the Best Buy ad. I'll wait for the price to go down, it wasn't that good of a movie.

 

[Iron_Stark]

yeah
its in the works and a "guarentee" is the word we've heard... they're also waiting on DVD sales for AVP-R and yes itll be in space (finally)

It's in the works? nice.

I hope the Strauss Brothers come back, from seeing thier interviews on the extras on the DVD, they really know thier AVP stuff and really seemed passionate about the movie.

A hot alien planet not the Xenomophs home planet per say, but a hot 3 sunned planet where the Pedators hunted the aliens and few human inhabitants lived would be cool, or a space station with Space Marines would be awesome.

 

[Space Moose]

Just finished reading Alien vs Predator vs Terminator. Cool premise and art. Crappy execution. They didn't even use the Terminators. They were some crappy replica alien ones. And the the xenamorphs didn't show up right until the end. What a crapfest!

 

[Cagefighterkip]

It's in the works? nice.

I hope the Strauss Brothers come back, from seeing thier interviews on the extras on the DVD, they really know thier AVP stuff and really seemed passionate about the movie.

A hot alien planet not the Xenomophs home planet per say, but a hot 3 sunned planet where the Pedators hunted the aliens and few human inhabitants lived would be cool, or a space station with Space Marines would be awesome.

theyre pretty hardcore fans alright; and i want the in space w/colonial marines in a space station OVER any other premise for AVP3

 

[WorthyStevens]

6/10.

Crappy movie redeemed by an entertaining final half hour.

Otherwise it would've been a 3/10.

 

[co2]

Honestly, the thing that hurt AVP-R was probably AVP. I think the stink on that film made fox even less anxious to sink any money into a sequel. Going back and watching the two...it's clear that AVP had more money to spend, particularly where the Aliens were concerned. If AVP-R had been give the shot at the budget AVP had, it would have made A LOT of improvements in terms of not only effects, but cast and many other aspects.

 

[DoomRulz]

The film needs to lose John Davis. Lose him, we lose the Predator bias.

 

[bullets]

Any word on a part three? I really hope they take it to outer space, Aliens just look so out of place on Earth. And they better have space marines.

definately a must.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

The film needs to lose John Davis. Lose him, we lose the Predator bias.

whats wrong with a predator bias?

 

[Spade]

Predator bias wouldn't be a problem if there was something the Predator could contribute (besides the promise of gore) to the film. Seeing as the opposite is true, it's not worth weighing down the film with preconceived notions of how one side should be better than the other. Case in point- the studio design of the PredAlien and the Wolf Predator.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

Predator bias wouldn't be a problem if there was something the Predator could contribute (besides the promise of gore) to the film. Seeing as the opposite is true, it's not worth weighing down the film with preconceived notions of how one side should be better than the other. Case in point- the studio design of the PredAlien and the Wolf Predator.

if a good AVP movie is made (that isnt just good cuz of action or gore, like good in the ALIEN, ALIENS and PRED1 sense)... write a PREDATOR 3... and once its done, replace all the human characters with ALIENS... that way it should shape up well imo

 

[Spade]

How would it "shape up well?" You're basically suggesting that they do the exact thing they did in AVP: Requiem without the human cast. Y'know, the same essential human cast these movies have required to avoid becoming one long SFX reel.

 

[Cagefighterkip]

How would it "shape up well?" You're basically suggesting that they do the exact thing they did in AVP: Requiem without the human cast. Y'know, the same essential human cast these movies have required to avoid becoming one long SFX reel.

no, what im saying is (essentially) NO HUMANS... period... just two hours of predators and aliens tearing the crap into each other and colonial soldiers (with very little dialog, no names, no scenes between each soldier)... remember how great the first 5mins or so with the surreal fx were in AVPR? and all the human-less scenes in AVP1 were fantastic... im just saying, no humans could equal a great AVP film