On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:16:02 +0200, "Sentinel" <darth.vader@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"StainlessSteelRat" <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Not too sure what to make of the former. In in two minds, one being
>> "switch off your brain action", the other being enormously derivative
film
>> in the franchise. It's almost like aliens, predators, and US soap
opera.
>> Also the gore is pretty brutal, and I can't help think it oversteps the
>> mark.
>>
>I watched a rough "screener" version of AvP: Requiem some while ago.
Didn't
>like it all that much, and mind you I DID like AvP 1. Placing a movie
like
>this in suburbia with teenagers running around - it just feels cheap to
me.
>What's next - Freddy vs. Alien?
>
AVPR was a wasted op****tunity for me; my g/f is a Pred fan (mostly based
upon Pred 2, although I made her watch Pred 1 as well) and I'm an Alien
fan. We watched both AVPs back to back and right off the bat my g/f made
comments about how crap the Pred was in AVPR (she liked AVP1).
AVPR was heralded as the movie AVP1 should have been (many comments on
IMDB seem to think the Preds were given a rough ride in AVP1), but it so
wasn't in my mind.
In AVP1 the Preds were caught off guard, humans got in and started up
'the games' too early, they had to try to recover their weapons from
armed humans whilst avoiding the Aliens, but they were sensible and had
a small army ready to descend if things got out of hand.
In contrast, in AVPR the Pred (Wolf) is noisy, un-subtle, takes easy
kills (plasma cannon abuse against un-armed humans), and vastly
over-estimates his own abilities...often. The Aliens seem too
intelligent (yes, the Pred-Alien is supposed to be organising them, yet
he kills a few off himself early on), they use all of the abilities of
the 4 Alien films almost in set pieces designed to show them off, and
are generally painted as better than Alien/Aliens shows them. Trying to
explain the Navigator from Alien was also a bum note.
AVPR played on the gore factor, more than was really necessary. I think
they need a re-boot, starting with the director/writer brothers, booting
right out of Hollywood and into the sea.
Why, oh why, the movie industry doesn't borrow more from the Black Horse
comic versions who at least have consistent, i.e. canon, views on
capabilities, lifestyles, lifecycles, etc, and much more interesting
match-ups that pit 'humans vs aliens vs predators' against each other or
'enemy of my enemy is my friend' scenarios I'll never know.
--
Alfie [UK]
<http://www.delphia.co.uk/>
Sorry if I look interested. I'm not.
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