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

[SpoDaddy]

Saw AVP:R a couple nights ago. It wasn't as awful as I anticipated but it was close. It had R-rated violence, which is a must for an Alien or Predator movie, but it forgot the most important ingredient; cool characters. We've gone from Dutch, Mac, Billy, Blaine, Badass Chaingun, Danny Glover, Ripley, Bishop, Vasquez, Hicks, Apone, and Hudson to...Dallas? This movie could have been decent, even with it's silly script, if it had great actors and characters. The Predator as detective/fixer was awesome, as were the dual plasma cannons and the blatantly un-PC slaughter of children and pregnant women. Unfortunately the PredAlien gobbled more cock than Baby Huey from Alien 4 (at least Baby Huey hungered for Ripley's tits and knew how to die properly) and there weren't any cool scenes of Alien carnage (just music video quickcut bullshit). It was clear that the script was written by a guy that helped write Armageddon.

[Rumpy]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the other thing that bugged me. They needed to redesign the predaliens head, it was way too big. It looked like he found a buffalo head mounted on a cabin wall and decided to wear it around town.

[Dolemite]

The DVD is out today. Someone gave me a free copy of the "EXTREME UNRATED SPECIAL EDITION." I took it because it wasn't a horrible movie. They also game me a copy of the original AvP. I almost didn't take it, but for free it'll at least be useful as a coaster.

[Despair]

I got unrated bd of APR in my Netflix queue.

[jyoung]

I saw Alien last weekend for the first time since the '90s.

Now I know why I remembered the soundtrack as being so awesome:

They used a lot of stuff from Gustav Holst's "The Planets."

<3 whoever was responsible for that decision; the film is so much better off for it.

[The_Meach]

Yeah, that movie does a great job of using the soundtrack to heighten the suspense. Last time I saw it was during the re-release in theaters (98?). Un-fucking-believably awesome on the big screen.

[gir]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the other thing that bugged me. They needed to redesign the predaliens head, it was way too big. It looked like he found a buffalo head mounted on a cabin wall and decided to wear it around town.

the big problem is that giger did the original alien design and, other than alien 3, he hasn't been brought back to work on the designs. stupid on fox's part. but that's why the predator-alien hybrid design sucks. if giger had worked on it, he would've utilized its potential and made it awesome.

it's too bad, too, 'cause i really enjoyed the film, but i agree with you: the predalien design was just laughable. it's unfortunate.

and i kind of liked the dallas character. he wasn't as awesome as hicks or hudson, but i did really like his "you're too stupid to talk" line. plus it was amusing to see the actor who plays a total moron in rescue me suddenly being the smart one.

[Grave]

I dunno... they can do good work without Giger. He had no involvement with the design of the queen alien or the other designs in the second movie, right?

The predalien is lame (though I think it looked okay if not underwhelming in some of those early stills), yeah, but I think the newborn is still my least favorite design in the series.

[Dolemite]

the big problem is that giger did the original alien design and, other than alien 3, he hasn't been brought back to work on the designs. stupid on fox's part. but that's why the predator-alien hybrid design sucks. if giger had worked on it, he would've utilized its potential and made it awesome.

Not so. James Cameron designed the Alien Queen in Aliens and that thing was pretty fucking awesome. Meanwhile, Giger designed tha monster in Species and I thought that one looked pretty stupid.

[The_Meach]

Giger is not a must for this.

Any word on an AVP3?