Alien vs Predator [merged]

Originally posted by Kontraz
I'm a HUGE pred fan, but knowing that anderson was already alien biased (read his interviews, he brags about how strong and how much he likes the aliens, never mentions the preds), but i never would have IMAGINED that he would have killed off 2/3 of the pred team by ONE alien!!!!!

So am I, but keep in mind, the Predators in the temple were all rookies. Furthurmore, if a singular Predator can take on a multitude of Aliens, why is it that one couldn't take out Danny Glover in "Predator 2", circuming to his own weapon?

Because, Danny Glover is one tough SOB. I don't think anyone can take out Danny Glover.

IF Anderson would have allowed the predators to live longer than they did and aquire their weapons. The movie would have been very one sided and showed the aliens to be not much of the ruthless killing machines that they are. Yeah the aliens beat the ass of the predator in the begininng, but one predator took out the entire brood. I dont know what you complaining about when it comes to the preadtors dieing so early. The aliens are ass kicking machines and have the ability to kill the predators as fast as they did in the movie. sorry if the predators arent as bad ass as you want them to be, but in a one on one match eith no weapons the alien always kicks the shit out of the predator in the comics and books.
I used to have the same problem with glover taking down the Pred, and arnold not even being able to effect one, but then again when glover took down the pred, it was severly wounded and was missing an arm, besides that predator was a youth.

this movie seemed appropriately balanced.

most people I talked too wanted to see the Predator's rip threw aliens like butter. I was rooting for the Predator's but crimminy, I was completley aware that rookie Predator's are not nerly as dangerous as experiancied Pred's, not to mention they never got to their plasma cannon's.

People are referenccing the game.....I used a Pretorian in muiltiplayer and Predator's were NOTHING compared to Aliens as far as melee combat was concerned.

and How did the two Predator's fair? just how I would have expected them too.

now when the obviously more cool headed Predator came into play he alone kicked serious ass, just like the first Predator did(just got the special edition DVD too I might add)

Good accurate flick concerning how differnt the two species are IMO, should have been rated R tho

sure they are rookie preds.... but i mean, Hell, the celtic one kicked the alien's ass, then because of being a retard, got his skull eaten out... i mean really, just very poor writing and looking for a way to make the preds on the loosing side from the get-go.

MY lord they have destroyed a clasic 😠 grrrrrrrr

I seriously think that a cardborad cut out can pull off a better performance than the cast of the film.

i haven't seen it yet...

Originally posted by HockeyHorror
i haven't seen it yet...

I wouldn't advise you seeing it either or at least not wasting your money on it.

Yeah, it was pretty shitty. Here's how the movie went...

-First Half: "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH, I have kids, do you? BLah blah blah blah blah".

-Second Half: *poor action sequences with poor camera work and silly, cheesy team ups and a Predator that actually looks worse then he did back in the original film. All wrapped up with an ending that makes little difference to how shitty the film actually is*.

Bottom line, don't bother. You can make a more entertaining sequences of events in your mind.

Originally posted by BackFire
Bottom line, don't bother. You can make a more entertaining sequences of events in your mind.

I believe a small child with some Predator and Alien toys can make better action sequences than the film did. 😛

iv seen a peace of cr@p come out of my a$$ that was cooler than that movie

oh ew did i just say that 😑

Yeah, Orlando Bloom's presence was sorely missed in this one.

*looks for Evil Dead's jackin' smilie*

I like all the negative backlash, coming from a bunch of people who actually expected something from this movie.

I expected to be entertained, it even failed that simple expectation. I guess I WAS expecting to much, though. My bad.

They were outnumbered to begin with, so, so much for them ever standing a chance in the first place.

Anyone read the graphic novel, or the actual initial comic release of the franchise? I'm curious as to how the two actually measure up.

A friend of mine is an avid reader of the comic books. I guess it was a lot better then the film. I don't know what's different exactly, but he was extremely disapointed in the film, and he loves both Alien and Predator films.

I thought it was? I think A LOT (see: damn near everyone) didn't bother doing their homework.

The first flag would have been thrown up when Anderson's name was tagged onto the movie. The second, when the cast was headed up the co-star of "Love and Basketball". The third, although almost totally irrelevant, was the PG-13 rating.

Nobody can't say that the warning signs weren't there.

After all the setup was taken care of, I was throughly entertained, and got about what I expected from a cast of no names, a hit and miss director, a PG-13 rated summer "blockbuster", and a franchise spawned from a comic book.

Yes, I saw all those warning signs, but I still managed to think, after being in development for nearly 10 years, that they would have managed to make a plausable and more dark, eerie setting that would have fit both of the icons better then the silly under ground pyramid with moving walls and blocks.

Also, this movie was SLOOOOOOOW. The first half went on forever. No one wanted a storyline in this movie, people wanted hardcore fight scenes, not some poor dialogue and pointless characters in an attempt to make us forget that we went to see this film for Alien vs Predator action, not character. They tried way way too hard to have both in this movie, and they failed.

Now, when the film finally did pick up, it felt rushed and forced. Everything happened way to fast, and felt like it went from a 45 minute long opening, introduction scene, straight to the climax without much in between. It would have been sooooo easy to please fans with a film like this.... Here's how...

-An R rating: Come on, when you combine two series of films that have had R ratings for all of their instalments, this is just simple logic.

-Kill off ALL humans in the first 30 minutes, and have major fights between the Aliens vs Predators. Also, some nudity would have helped.

-Needed A LOT more Aliens and Predators. It's a bad sign when the best scene in the film is a flash back scene that lasts 10 seconds. It's no surprise that this is the scene they slammed down our throats in the previews, it made it seem like this is what most of the film would be like - A shit load of Aliens fighting against super powerful predators. They KNEW this is what people wanted, and rather then giving us that, they tricked us into thinking it would be that way, but not living up to it.

-Show predators have sex with female Predators: Dude, this just would have been for comic relief, something the film sorely needed.

They needed to take a note from FvJ, that had all the right attributes, it was funny, action packed, gory, had nudity, and ultimately satisfying because of all of this. AvP had nothing going for it, except some misleading previews and two icons that seemed near impossible to screw up in a vs movie. But they managed to somehow do it.

It's not out in my country yet, but my older brother's doing his Big OE in the US and went to go see it, he said he was extremly dissappointed, he said it was boring, slow, and the fight scenes were crappy. We're both fans of Freddy and Jason, when we saw FvsJ we were not disappointed, we got what we expected from FvsJ, good fight scenes, a fast moving but not rushed story-line, and it stayed faithful to it's prequels (e.g: Lori having her dream infront of 1428 and the skipping girls, the boiler room and more) and he said that the fight scenes in AvP sucked and that the storyline for them both fighting was pathetic, I think AvP should take a leaf out of FvJ's book........