Alien Vs Predator - News Update Thread + New Photos + New Trailer

[YellerDog]

Fixed for joo.

[Dyne]

"cribbed"

[YellerDog]

"cribbed"

a. To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).
b. To steal.

i.e., "Dyne attempted to crib Diffusion X's posting style, but failed horribly. Also, wangs."

[Despair]

Hmm, aside from the complaint about stupid human characters I dont see anything that much worse to whine about

I wont be able to see it until Friday though.

[YellerDog]

Hmm, aside from the complaint about stupid human characters I dont see anything that much worse to whine about

Then you misunderstand the extent of the problem.

They're so. fucking. bad. And this is coming from a big fan of "Godzilla" movies.

The monsters are great, though. Just have someone with you to prevent you from killing yourself during the dialogue.

Colin and Greg Strause should back off and let someone else do the directing next time. Their production company does great work, but they themselves have no idea how to direct human beings. There's a ton of really awkward pauses throughout the movie, a really bizarre "OMG I beat you up for talking to that girl" scene, and lots of very strange family interactions. The entire movie just drops dead after the Predator leaves for Earth, and doesn't pick up until you see him again.

Things are constantly jumping at him from blind spots/other vision modes, which gives a slight 'inept' impression about him, but other than that, massive improvement over AvP 1. Apparently the FX crew nicknamed it "The Wolf", after Harvey Keitel's cleaner character in Pulp Fiction.

[mollipen]

Like I said somewhere else, my opinion of the movie was basically this: dark monster thing fought (at least I think they were fighting) dark monster thing in the dark while the camera shook and cut a thousand times a second.

Maybe we were just too close to the screen or something, but half of the time I couldn't tell what the hell was going on. And yeah, the humans in this movie are completely worthless.

[Grave]

dark monster thing fought (at least I think they were fighting) dark monster thing in the dark while the camera shook and cut a thousand times a second.

God fucking dammit. Please tell me you made a mistake and you're describing the first AvP again. I was hoping this wouldn't happen a second time.

[YellerDog]

It's not as bad as all that. As long as you can tell an Alien from a Predator, and there will be a quiz, you should be alright.

Try not to sit closer than the center row, it's a monster movie.

[Despair]

why the hell would you sit that close to the movie screen that you cant make up whats going on, on it? A

[Dolemite]

I'll probably go see this tonight. I was too tied up with family stuff to go yesterday.

+The Ending. There's a nice "Return of the Living Dead" homage going on

I'm assuming that you mean that the military nukes the whole town at the end (the commercial completely spoils that- it shows a shot of a bomber flying towards the camera with a huge explosion behind it. Right away I knew they blew the town).