08-15-2004, 09:12 AM | #1 |
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Alien vs. Predator
Here's my short review of AVP: It sucks.
Don't pay $10 to see it. It starts off weak, and eventually goes downhill to become unitentionally funny. The characters are about as deep as the characters in an episode of Jackass, and a lot of them only say 2 or 3 lines before they're killed in a tame, PG-13 way. This happens for the first 60 minutes of the movie, and actually, this is the better part of the movie. The last 20 minutes are unbelievably bad. I'll use spoilers in case you haven't seen it. Spoiler: Paul Anderson, who also made Resident Evil and Soldier, should be stopped after this. AVP is such a good idea, but he completely butchers it and makes a movie that probably wouldn't even be released direct-to-video if it didn't have the Aliens or Predators in it.
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08-16-2004, 06:45 AM | #2 |
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I wasn't planning on seeing this one, mainly because I have not seen any of the Alien movies nor a single Predator movie in its entirety. (I saw bits of Predator and Predator 2 on cable, but not the whole movie.) Now I know I can take my time because I don't want to see this new one in the theatres. Thanks.
P.S. Come on, man, Resident Evil was a good movie! Mindless zombie-bashing in all its glory! In my personal movie reviews, if a movie has zombies in it, it earns an additional star. So the worst zombie movie possible is still one star.
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08-16-2004, 11:56 AM | #3 |
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Oh well. Maybe one day someone with some writing and directing talent will come up with a film that does this idea justice.
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08-16-2004, 02:41 PM | #4 |
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Well, Alien 2 is my favourite horror movie of all time. I've seen it over 10 times.
Alien vs. Predator though, I won't go see it. I don't think it was a good idea to begin with (Freddy vs Jason anyone) and it gives PC Games a bad name. Now, Deus Ex and Max Payne, that I'd pay to see. Unfortunately, seems like Deus Ex : The Movie won't be made after all, even if the script is done. It's a shame that crappy games get movies, but the real innovative ones (and I'm mainly talking about the story) don't.
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08-16-2004, 09:17 PM | #6 |
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A bunch of my friends went to see this, and they had nothing but bad things to say.
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08-16-2004, 11:48 PM | #7 | |
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Alien vs. Predator sure looks like a crap movie, I've seen all the trailers and other features and it does not look good. Only interesting thing about it is Lance Henriksen. On the other hand, Deus Ex the movie might get done, if a certain saviour called Uwe Boll would buy the rights for it
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08-17-2004, 01:11 PM | #9 |
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I already hate Boll for butchering AitD.
The movie should've been about the first game, set in a Lovecraft themed mansion and the hero should've been a 50 years old Edward Carnby with the god damn trademark mustache. And Boll should've stayed away from the franchise.
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08-18-2004, 02:21 PM | #11 | |
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08-18-2004, 04:49 PM | #12 |
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$5? Hmmmm, that would probably fetch me a sem-decent game from the bargain bin at EB. Or a very decent martini. Decisions, decisions......
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08-21-2004, 08:55 PM | #14 |
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Oh, I did see it at EB a couple weeks ago. $13, man! Just that it was jewel case only. Didn't feel like spending the money at the time, though. The demo's a lot of fun in the meanwhile (you get to play all three creatures).
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12-13-2007, 09:25 AM | #15 |
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The first five minutes of the sequel are up. Mind you, the only reason I'm vaguely interested in this is that I've been an Alien fan all along. I think this crossover bullshit is a cheap way of cashing in on things that don't deserve to be treated as a cash cow. Liked Monolith's AvP vid game, though!
http://www.canmag.com/nw/9880-aliens...g-five-minutes It's apparently heavily edited and recycles both from the Resurrection and Predator soundtrack (maybe it'll stay that way though?), but it looks like this film might at least have a little bit of what the first film lacked completely: Tempo and action. Anderson tried to go "go back to the roots™" and thought he had found some kind of cookie cutter formula of what made the first films of each franchise work, like: "A-HAH! It's got to be because they held back on the creatures for so long!" So he tried to paste© suspense, build-up (and oh my god: characters), and I've yet so see a movie of his that can do anything else than halfway decent live action sequences galore. AvP didn't have those either, quick cuts are no replacement for decent coreography. First positive reactions to this and a prior trailer seem to come from the fact that "OMG there's real blood now!". AvP was a PG13.
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12-14-2007, 10:03 PM | #16 |
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Wow, I have no recollection of making this thread. But as much as I hated Alien vs. Predator (which as you can tell was a lot) I'm going to give the second one a chance, there's the smallest sliver of chance that they can actually pull it off and make a decent movie. It'd be nice to be pleasantly surprised by it.
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12-14-2007, 10:46 PM | #17 |
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You were prolly fubar from too much cough syrup.
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12-26-2007, 02:28 PM | #19 |
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A vile, joyless, moronic, amateurish, numbing, unintentionally hilarious , and thorougly deseased motion picture... a middle-finger to the paying crowd. (Efilmcritic.com)
A perfect example of how studio stupidity and fanboy obsession can ruin cinema. (Filmcritic.com) Despite what the harsher R-rating recommends, it's not really advisable that anyone OVER the age of 17 see this movie. (Metromix.com) We can only hope that the sub-title means that this money making farce is finally over. (Shocktillyoudrop.com) Oh the horror!
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12-26-2007, 02:38 PM | #20 |
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What a surprise.
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