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Posted By: seras_integra at 10:35pm, August 22, 2008
God, what a disappointment. There was a great deal of potential wasted in the making of this movie. The only thing worse was the piece of crap that followed it.
Although, not as good as the original Alien and Predator movies (call me nastolgic), this was actually a great film. The music and the locations for this film are outstanding. The storline, although original, was great. The Predator in this one looked a little bulgy if you ask me. The battle at the end between the Predator and the Alien Queen was great. I recommend this film to anyone who likes the Alien and Predator franchises.
Some of the reviews of this movie make me laugh. It's like people are so mindless lately that no matter how amazing a movie is (and no, I'm not saying this is amazing AT ALL) people will agree with the majority of critical reviews. Look at Pan's Labyrinth. The movie is easily the most unoriginal, boring, and just downright pointless movies I've ever seen in my life---BUT---it got a lot of perfect reviews and people follow the crowd and rate it the same. In opposite, this movie a lot of terrible critical reviews and people followed suit.
Our generation is mindless.
This movie is far from perfect, but the reasons people have for hating this movie are even more retarded:
- "PG-13!! OMG!! IT SUCKS!!" Yet they fail to see that Alien and Aliens, if they were released in modern time, would have gotten a PG-13 rating. There was more violence/blood in the PG-13 rated Cloverfeild than Alien and Aliens combined. The level of violence in this movie is about the same as the original Alien, sorry to break it to you.
- "THE WORLD ENDED!!! A PREDATOR AND HUMAN TEAMED UP!! AHHHH!!!" It's no worse than the cheesy laughing scene at the end of the original Predator. Oh, wait. I forgot. People want a carbon copy of things they've seen a million times to make them like something. I forgot.
I'm a huge Alien fan. The original Alien is one of my favorite movies of all time. As for Predator . . . eh.
But Alien vs Predator was far from bad. It had enough action to keep me interested, which takes a lot. And the ending scene with the water tower was pretty cool, as well as seeing the Alien queen up and fighting. The minor plot twist in the very end was nifty as well.
There is nothing here that should offend fans of either series, because it's more of the same, but with a twist. Perfect? No. Deserving of the mindless "OH MY GOD IT SUXXXSS!!" it's getting? No.
Posted By: StrangeJorge at 12:31am, August 4, 2008
While Director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers more than what ALIEN RESURRECTION has to offer (mainly because there are two different creatures vs. humans), ALIEN VS. PREDATOR fell short in too many ways ..... Most of the blame goes to Fox (for wanting a PG-13 when this franchise exists as a graphic R-rating) but the rest goes for not following the "existing" storyline available from the graphic novels (by Dark Horse Publishing) ..... Lance Henriksen talents are wasted in this film ! :-(
I wasn't heavily into Batman growing up, but this must be what hardcore fans of the Dark Knight must have felt when they saw the disaster "Batman & Robin".
My precious childhood memories where raped in one single, 101 minute experience. If you thing I'm exaggerating, don't worry, Paul W.S. Anderson makes sure that even non-fans will walk out of the theater with a headache and a bad taste in their mouths.
Acting, writing, even the design of the Predators are ridiculous and outlandish to the cartoon-like extreme. Skip this one and rest easy at night. Otherwise, don't say I didn't warn you.
A PG13 movie with aliens and predators give me a break this was a big pile of crap and PLEASE a human teaming up with a predator to beat a stupid alien DAMN i didnt believed it til i saw the movie.(Am giving it a 5 just because of the special effects and good acting)
Its a crying shame, seeing as how good the Alien and Predator movies are. Even Alien 3 wasn't as bad as this drivel. Mindless violence, and there weren't any decent fight scenes.
the first preadator and most of the alien movies were genious but anyone can tell you that putting them together with a PG13 rating could never work, this movie pretty much takes 2 of the biggest alien icons and ruins them. Its funny how the alien and predator movies were made about in the early 1980's and here in 2004 this is the best we can do to compete. Oh well better luck next time I guess.
Ok. I know this is a terrible movie on all fronts. But for the true nerds it is loosely based on the AVP book. Which is neat, they just really screw it up.
And PG13 AVP is like a slap in the face.
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