Bought it last night, and watched it!
LOVED IT! Yeah, granted, it's not the greatest movie of the year, but I thought they really tried with the story! The mythology (if you have an open mind) can somewhat make sense if you think about it!
I wish the aliens would have won against the predators, but then the world would be dead, so I guess I'm ok with it! 🤘
Originally posted by RavenNightstarAlien Kicked Predators ass through the whole movie.
Bought it last night, and watched it!LOVED IT! Yeah, granted, it's not the greatest movie of the year, but I thought they really tried with the story! The mythology (if you have an open mind) can somewhat make sense if you think about it!
I wish the aliens would have won against the predators, but then the world would be dead, so I guess I'm ok with it! 🤘
The crappyness of AVP
This guy on amazon.com 'Gregory Bartz' did a review about AVP and brought up some good points. Personally, I think 2 things could have saved this movie immensly. 1) Not set on Earth, that was a really gay idea. 2) Should have been more gory, hence not being PG-13.
Anyway this what that guy said:
1) Lance Henriksen, who played Bishop in Aliens, plays a human in this movie. What Paul Anderson forgot was that Lance also played Bishop's creator (a Human character) in Alien 3, at least 300 years into the future. Whoopsie! Oh sure, there are those who say Lance's character in Alien 3 was an android, but androids don't bleed red. Next.
2) During the mission briefing, there is talk of the pyramid containing elements from 3 different cultures. The premise is that the Egyptians, Cambodians, etc. learned things like written language from the predators. However, if this is the case, then why does the predator pyramid use 3 different Human languages instead of Humans using the predator language?
3) If a hunt gone awry is what wiped out the Aztecs, then presumably the Antarctic pyramid wouldn't have been the only one used for hunts, yet the Egyptian and Cambodian pyramids don't have any depictions of aliens or predators like the Antarctic one does.
4) Though the pyramid is buried under 2,000 feet of ice, it was apparently built on dirt, back when Antarctica was much warmer. But continents don't move thousands of miles in just a few thousand years. The last time that pyramid saw sky would have been millions of years before humans inhabited the planet.
5) The predators only come to Earth every 100 years? Well then, what the heck were Danny Glover and the Governator fighting against?
6) The predators come to Earth to hunt Aliens, and we're just chow for the critters? That also contradicts the past two Predator movies, in which the preds come to Earth to hunt Humans, not Aliens.
7) The Predators store their shoulder cannons inside the pyramid, but they bring all their other weapons with them from the ship. Not only does this not make sense, but it again contradicts the Predator films in which the Preds bring all of their weapons - shoulder cannons included - with them from their ships.
8) Sebastian says the Aztec calendar was metric, based on powers of ten. This is a big steaming cow patty. The Aztec calendar was actually based on 13 and 20. Of course, the bigger question is why you'd have to input the date at all to retrieve your weapons, when it would be much easier to just push a button.
9) The Queen lays egg after egg after egg. Where's all this bio-mass coming from? The Nostromo had food stores, Hadley's Hope and Fury 161 were certainly abundant feeding grounds, and the bugs on the Auriga were deliberately fed, but what are the pyramid aliens eating? Is there a giant tank of alien kibble inside the pyramid somewhere? If so, why do the Aliens bother venturing anywhere else?
10) There are more Aliens in this movie than there are hosts... heh heh...
11) The predators are supposed to bring hosts to the Sacrificial Chamber before the hunt can begin. Instead, they just enter the pyramid without bringing hosts. Paul Anderson tries to explain this contradiction away by saying that the heatplume was bait for the human expedition, but that contradicts the whole Sacrificial Chamber concept, and doesn't make sense because we wouldn't be able to detect said bait until today.
12) The Pyramid shifts every ten minutes. Except for the part where it shifts twice in the span of 3 minutes and doesn't shift at all for the second half of the movie.
13) The Queen, in order to get free from her restraints, has the warrior aliens bite lots of holes in her so her acid blood dissolves her restraints. But why doesn't she have the aliens impale themselves? And why does she wait so long to do this instead of doing it ASAP? And as soon as the Queen is set free, she decides to run out of and away from the pyramid, without any real reason. I dunno about you, but it seemed to me that she had a pretty cozy spot right where she was. The pyramid made a perfect hive and there was no shortage of food, so why would she leave?
14) The Preds' masks can see aliens inside the hosts. So why didn't they see the alien inside the surviving Pred that they brought aboard their ship? Seriously, if you were a pred and you wanted to bring a fellow pred on board your ship after he'd just spent a day in an alien hive, wouldn't you check him for implanted aliens first?
15) Speaking of the masks... if they can't stop an alien's inner jaw from ramming through your skull, why bother with masks at all? I can understand goggles for the vision modes, but you don't wear a full-blown helmet except for protection.
16) The time required for an Alien to grow into the next stage of its lifecycle is determined by whatever is most convenient from a storytelling perspective, rather than by any sort of precedent set by the other 4 Alien movies. For example, in Alien 1-4, there was at least a day in between implantation and "birth". In AvP, that time is anywhere from a day to 3 minutes. Another example: the fact that the eggs were all laid at least a few second apart from each other doesn't stop them from hatching all at the same time (Resurrection also had this problem, but at least in that movie it wasn't scripted).
you know, there wasnt much money to get this movie made. That is about the only exscuse that i can see given for it's shittiness. For a movie titled aliens versus predator i was left asking were was all the figthing. The entire movie basically consisted of trying to explain a simple and uninspired story. When we werent being sponn fed the story, we were being forced to endulge the atmosphere. In the alien and predator movies, the atmosphere was apart of the horror and fun, but you diddnt even realize it because it was done so perfectly and subtle.
After we were intorduced to the idiotic story, and rammed with the atmophere we were left with about thirty minutes of film left. This is when i thought that we were going to get to see some action, but no... we just got sparse momments of seeing an alien's tail or a predator observing things. the movie was bad on all accounts. the only thing i liked was the single battle against the alien and predator. that was okay, but diddnt last very long, and we diddnt really get to see what was going on.
you have countless aliens vs predator story concepts at your disposal, that have been well liked by the fans, yet you choose some completely radical story that limits alien and predator film time. seems like a certain director needs to go back to film school or just needs to die.