The betrayal aspect in the first two Alien movies was far more personal than the betrayal in Alien 3, AvP-R, and did not appear to exist in AvP and Alien 4. Not that it is necessary, but it helps to be internal betrayal rather than external. (one of the main characters instead of an unknown Colonel or company)

I think the AvP concept is good, but there is not enough background for the predator and the void is filled with plotless human characters leaving both without sufficient influence to achieve a meaningful part. There needs to be sufficient scenes to introduce the viewer to the protagonist or there is no connection with the plot.

The maternity ward scene truly was a work of art for horror. I can not think of a more emotion clutching scene, this portion of the movie was perfectly written to inspire hate for the alien. I believe this is the single best written horror clip I have ever seen. It practically included pregnant woman rape in with baby mutilation, fetus mutilation, and plain old people mutilation. I don’t think it could get any worse.

AvP-R also lacked the fear leading up to the appearance of an alien. Previous movies allow anticipation of the alien appearance; here we saw the camera quickly move to a number of alien scenes until the alien became repetitious and boring. The Predator was obviously tough, but his weaponry was inadequate and there was too much hand to hand fighting between the predator and the aliens to make the alien appear scary any more. They were simply too easy to kill with the predator’s bare hands to make them seem scary. It could have been balanced by introducing more soldiers and a battle scene that was more than a radio transmission and a few seconds of muzzle flashes. The movie should have encompassed three days instead of a single day. The fear of sleep is part of the horror this movie lacked.

I am glad that the authors did not fire up a joint at the end of this one like in Alien3 and 4. Those two really killed the brand equity of the Alien title. This one was well written for a realistic approach to the classic Alien theme, but truly lacked proper plot development. Most importantly, this is supposed to be a SciFi flick. Why was this not based on a future earth? Better yet, why not show a clip of aliens on the Preadator home world taking over? That would explain why Predators are not seen in the earlier Alien movies…

[...] According to THR, Bold Films wants to make Psy-Ops something of a Predators-meets-Black Hawk Down type movie. I guess that means having combat soldiers stranded in a war zone facing overwhelming (otherworldly?) odds, but I’m not sure how the whole “psychological operative” twist is going to be employed. Here’s hoping the final product isn’t some kind of AVPR clone… [...]

Vic

I’m about ready to lock this sucker down because honestly, I’ve pretty much had it.

Vic

Next time you decide to correct someone on their grammar you should check your own first. And you obviously can not tell an idiot to “get over themselves.” They obviously wouldn’t understand the complexity of so many words.

On the note of what this is actually about, I liked this movie well enough. Considering what passes for quality entertainment these days I’ve seen worse, much, much worse

I miss the good old days when movies were actually good even without all the special effects.

Great now I feel old.

Just being Cheeky Vic..there is no need to be rude to anyone because of their opinion not agreeing with what you believe..you can say anything you want if you find the right words instead of just sending insulting barbs at those you disagree with…when I say you, I don’t mean “you”specifically. I am talking about opinions in general…

Cheers

Although you mis-typed something in your statement, I found myself agreeing with you until you had to go and blow it with this:

“Get over yourself.”

Get over MYSELF? You obviously missed my point, which is while I express my point of view in a logical, intelligent manner, most (not all) of those who disagree regarding this film have arguments that amount to “You suck! This movie rocked you idiot!”

Why don’t you tell those immature and rude idiots to get over THEMSELVES, eh?

Best regards and perhaps you should get over yourself as well.

Vic

I am really quite sick of the attitude were people assume that their opinions are allowed to be unjustly judged by others just because its THEIR opinion.

Get over yourself.

I’m really quite sick of that attitude.

Vic

At times I was reminded of Benny Hill.
(Everyone running in fast forward with that stupid circus song playing in the backgorund).

After the predators unwittingly take onboard there ship of what they beleive is a dead predator, slayed and hosted from the previous Alien Versus Predator movie, a new born cross breed is hatched, this the cross between an Alien and a Predator, most deadly, smarter and wiser than the current Alien species we have come to know.

This cross breed is responsible for the devestation that occurs on the Predators ship, which is closely orbiting mother Earth.

The aliens and at a latter stage the master predator on an alternative ship invades earth, the aliens in this case escape on what seems to be a pod of some type from the Predators ship progressively leading the aliens to stumble across the natural habitat of humans, perfect for there natural killing instincts and abilities.

Close to home strikes the reality of vicious, intelligent and highly gory killer out of this world alien and off spree aliens, with forcus on a main Predator character in revenge of the newly slaughtered Predators.

After missing parties of humans, and in some instances found bodies, mutilated and generally sevred in some instances alerts the local quiet community of unknown attacks by unknown entities, this occuring at a little town in collorado where a surviving team of humans band together for the fight for survival.

The Military also known as the National Guard (NG) get involved in a confrontation with the at-our-door-step vicious deadly killing machines (the aliens), but ill prepared and not knowingly these soldiers step into the killing grounds which is the centre of the town.

A Predator hell bent on taking down the aliens responsible for this invasion takes the role of a lead character attempting to secure the threat to the Predator race and to stop an invasion that would lead ultimately to the expansion of a new alien inhabited world.

Serious fighting takes place in a local community where damages on a devastating scale commences in some appropriate and not so appropriate locations, for example the hospital, ultimately leading to the death of all in this local community bar the survivors who escaped on what seems to be an evac-come helicopter, only to crash land at a later date due to an army commander firing a missile on the designated contamited area.

This movie overall gives the viewer a distinct feel that some how as a human race we neglect to realise the potential harm of what is as some refer to as ‘out there’. The realisation of how humans are insufficiently matched against multiple hostiles with killer abilities and unknown technology are rapidly taking over our planet earth at a rate not known as human to human conflicts.

Although in parts, the movie seems to lack quite the story line detailed as out given above, the movie was steadily involving the viewer with a more generalized over view of what is happening.

Albeit multiple viewers comments on this movie about budgeting and role play, personally I thought this movie was worth watching, with an anticipated arrival of a new movie, as indicated by the ending of this movie.

It’s NOT worth the price of an admission ticket that is for sure, but as far as ‘action’ films go…it wasn’t too bad. The gore was cool. There were some ace moments, especially when the teen hottie got nailed *cough* to the wall (SOB!, she really was cuuuutte…but it ain’t like she’s gonna seduce any of the Aliens right?). The rest of it was hmm…pretty obvious.

We all saw the nuke coming, we all knew the pe0ns in the city center were dead one way or another. We also knew that there was going to be a chopper escaping the bomb scene. Correct me if I’m wrong though – I would *think* that a 200k-ton bomb would ‘have’? to be a nuke? In which case, shouldn’t the EMP have killed them? No matter whatever mad skills you may have, a chopper with no power == bye bye!

I also found Michelle Desler’s (LOL) initial shock to that brother with the gun rather odd. She almost screamed! Is that the kind of reaction an army (or what have you) seasoned vet would have to a guy in a gun? If she wasn’t half decent what’s with her toting NV goggles back home?

Also, what’s with Ms. Utani…that bit made no sense apart from..”We’ll be back…” – let’s just hope that this time around they get it right and PLEASE get someone else to direct it this time!

Cheers,
Mike

:¤ :¤ :¤

- Calling me a “hypocrit”[sic]
- Having a “worthless exsistence”[sic]
- Being a “loser”

or for saying that I should “get a REAL JOB”?

Or was it an apology for the fact that you can’t spell correctly?

Fine, you liked it. Did I call anyone names because they liked this stupid movie? If it’s so freaking AWESOME, why did it only gross $41MM in the U.S.? People don’t listen to critics, right? So word of mouth should have made this movie a lot more money.

Freaking “NORBIT” made TWICE as much money as AVP-R and that got crap reviews too. So what does that tell you?

Or do I have to spell it out for you?

Best regards,

Vic