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MooKids
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Posted - 2004.10.26 19:31:00 -
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AvP should have been a combination of the movie Aliens (Marines with awesome firepower vs. the horde) and the first Predator movie (bunch of large commandos with awesome firepower vs. one predator).
Of course at this rate of crappy movies trying to appeal to the masses, if there ever is a sequel, it will probably involve Alien and Predator babies search for the end of the rainbow in an animated movie!
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MooKids
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Posted - 2004.10.26 19:31:00 -
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AvP should have been a combination of the movie Aliens (Marines with awesome firepower vs. the horde) and the first Predator movie (bunch of large commandos with awesome firepower vs. one predator).
Of course at this rate of crappy movies trying to appeal to the masses, if there ever is a sequel, it will probably involve Alien and Predator babies search for the end of the rainbow in an animated movie!
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CCP can patch away bugs, but they can't patch away stupidity. |
Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 00:41:00 -
[33]
 Originally by: Asharee Intrefer
Just add one for every sequel and in the end we get something like Alien vs Predator vs Jason vs Godzilla vs Sauron vs Agent Smith vs Sil vs Dr Evil vs Borg Queen...
Hmmm, Well, actually that one right there might kick ass actually. 
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Jael Markinsen
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Posted - 2004.10.27 00:41:00 -
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Originally by: Asharee Intrefer
Just add one for every sequel and in the end we get something like Alien vs Predator vs Jason vs Godzilla vs Sauron vs Agent Smith vs Sil vs Dr Evil vs Borg Queen...
Hmmm, Well, actually that one right there might kick ass actually.
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F'nog
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Posted - 2004.10.27 06:03:00 -
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You people have a freaky ratings system. Our letters make much more sense. 
Anyway, I heard it's planned as a trilogy, so...
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F'nog
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Posted - 2004.10.27 06:03:00 -
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You people have a freaky ratings system. Our letters make much more sense.
Anyway, I heard it's planned as a trilogy, so...
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Whitestar1
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Posted - 2004.10.27 09:51:00 -
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Edited by: Whitestar1 on 27/10/2004 09:54:56
When I first heard about the film I was excited and was looking forward to seeing it until I heard that in the US it had een released as a 13 then I read some reviews and started t worry that it was not going to be a very good film.
I saw it last thursday at an advanced preview and thought it was good ( it's better than ok but not great) the fight scenes between the predators and aliens were very good but the film could have been better:
1, make it an 18
2, more gore
3, Marines running around with big guns (think blaine with old painless)
4, More predators
5, another Hudson
Reason I say there should have been another hudson was that when he freaked out it was funny and his one liners were some of the best that I have heard in films.
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Whitestar1
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Posted - 2004.10.27 09:51:00 -
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Edited by: Whitestar1 on 27/10/2004 09:54:56
When I first heard about the film I was excited and was looking forward to seeing it until I heard that in the US it had een released as a 13 then I read some reviews and started t worry that it was not going to be a very good film.
I saw it last thursday at an advanced preview and thought it was good ( it's better than ok but not great) the fight scenes between the predators and aliens were very good but the film could have been better:
1, make it an 18
2, more gore
3, Marines running around with big guns (think blaine with old painless)
4, More predators
5, another Hudson
Reason I say there should have been another hudson was that when he freaked out it was funny and his one liners were some of the best that I have heard in films.
We live for the one we die for the one |
Neon Genesis
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Posted - 2004.10.27 17:11:00 -
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Edited by: Neon Genesis on 27/10/2004 17:16:26
Could have been worse. The story was almost directly pulled out of the comics,,, and that wasnt 2 bad.
The action was pretty sweet tbh, and im not easily satisfied. Neither the predators or this film have ever been a patch on the original alien films tho, they were rly good sci fi horrors.
Some awful crap is put on the market these days, Van Hellsing was a film that truly made me feel pain 
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There, i just contributed nothing to your thread
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Neon Genesis
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Posted - 2004.10.27 17:11:00 -
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Edited by: Neon Genesis on 27/10/2004 17:16:26
Could have been worse. The story was almost directly pulled out of the comics,,, and that wasnt 2 bad.
The action was pretty sweet tbh, and im not easily satisfied. Neither the predators or this film have ever been a patch on the original alien films tho, they were rly good sci fi horrors.
Some awful crap is put on the market these days, Van Hellsing was a film that truly made me feel pain
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There, i just contributed nothing to your thread
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.27 22:58:00 -
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Sentient beings vs instinctual feedingvessels, hmm, which ones will the humans end up siding with? The suspense alone was killing me.
It was a computergame re-written to be a movie, expect nothing and you'll get it.
Had they expanded the thing more and added an hour of drama with different groups encountering the predators all over the globe collecting keys or whatnot to be able to enter the arena and following them there with guns then you might have had yourself a movie.
As it stood I merely watched for the artwork. As with most sci-fi, then I blanked out the story and made my own in my head.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.10.27 22:58:00 -
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Sentient beings vs instinctual feedingvessels, hmm, which ones will the humans end up siding with? The suspense alone was killing me.
It was a computergame re-written to be a movie, expect nothing and you'll get it.
Had they expanded the thing more and added an hour of drama with different groups encountering the predators all over the globe collecting keys or whatnot to be able to enter the arena and following them there with guns then you might have had yourself a movie.
As it stood I merely watched for the artwork. As with most sci-fi, then I blanked out the story and made my own in my head.
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EVENFLOW
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Posted - 2004.10.29 00:45:00 -
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Originally by: darth solo
look at the pattern
alien (18)
aliens(15)
predator (18)
predator 2 (15), =hope im rite with that one.
terminator (18)
terminator 2 (15)
terminator 3 (12 )...
UK ratings? all was 18+(R) except Terminator 3 in USA.
<3 The Thing <3>
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EVENFLOW
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Posted - 2004.10.29 00:45:00 -
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Originally by: darth solo
look at the pattern
alien (18)
aliens(15)
predator (18)
predator 2 (15), =hope im rite with that one.
terminator (18)
terminator 2 (15)
terminator 3 (12)...
UK ratings? all was 18+(R) except Terminator 3 in USA.
<3 The Thing <3>
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RALPH RODRIGUEZ
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Posted - 2004.10.30 03:11:00 -
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They should of made the preds CAMP 
Imagine a rather cheesed off pred taking off his apron and going after a nasty alien with a blonde wig on with red lippy.
That to me is a film !
Why does no1 pick up on my scripts ?
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RALPH RODRIGUEZ
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Posted - 2004.10.30 03:11:00 -
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They should of made the preds CAMP
Imagine a rather cheesed off pred taking off his apron and going after a nasty alien with a blonde wig on with red lippy.
That to me is a film !
Why does no1 pick up on my scripts ?
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Dalmont Delantee
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Posted - 2004.10.31 13:59:00 -
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Personally I felt the film felt like it was only 15 mins long, not sure if it was due to the total lack of substance or the fact that 2 of the 3 preds got killed off in seconds...
Also the 2004 setting wasn't that great either, I would have liked to have seen more in the future, on another planet, with the preds raiding a scientific base and have a robot/cyber alien do all the human's dirty work :P
Take comfort in knowing that its probably some pimply faced twit, or 40 year old virgin, who gleens everytime mommy offfers to take them to needle point lessons |
Dalmont Delantee
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Posted - 2004.10.31 13:59:00 -
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Personally I felt the film felt like it was only 15 mins long, not sure if it was due to the total lack of substance or the fact that 2 of the 3 preds got killed off in seconds...
Also the 2004 setting wasn't that great either, I would have liked to have seen more in the future, on another planet, with the preds raiding a scientific base and have a robot/cyber alien do all the human's dirty work :P
Take comfort in knowing that its probably some pimply faced twit, or 40 year old virgin, who gleens everytime mommy offfers to take them to needle point lessons |
Vegeta
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Posted - 2004.10.31 22:04:00 -
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Edited by: Vegeta on 31/10/2004 22:08:45
I saw it last night, here's my analysis on it.
The movie started off like a lot of science fictions do, some strange happening and a team is sent to check it out. The action started a bit late into the film for my taste, they could have made the beginning more fast paced and had some more action going on.
It wasn't really anything like I expected. I was expecting mass murder, cities being blown up and billions of people dying, more actions and explosions. Instead of that they gave us smaller fights, and not a lot of them either. The ending was all right but nothing fantastic.
The story was a bit surpising, not like a lot of films where you can just see what's about to happen beforehand. We needed something a bit more Starship Troopers-style where marines get slaughtered without ever standing a chance against their enemies.
In the end I gotta say that the movie was all right, it surpised me a bit (didn't have very high hopes for it) and for that it gets ***/*****
2005.04.25 16:40:42 combat Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes LawrenceNewton [WARAG], wrecking for 2706.9 damage.
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Vegeta
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Posted - 2004.10.31 22:04:00 -
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Edited by: Vegeta on 31/10/2004 22:08:45
I saw it last night, here's my analysis on it.
The movie started off like a lot of science fictions do, some strange happening and a team is sent to check it out. The action started a bit late into the film for my taste, they could have made the beginning more fast paced and had some more action going on.
It wasn't really anything like I expected. I was expecting mass murder, cities being blown up and billions of people dying, more actions and explosions. Instead of that they gave us smaller fights, and not a lot of them either. The ending was all right but nothing fantastic.
The story was a bit surpising, not like a lot of films where you can just see what's about to happen beforehand. We needed something a bit more Starship Troopers-style where marines get slaughtered without ever standing a chance against their enemies.
In the end I gotta say that the movie was all right, it surpised me a bit (didn't have very high hopes for it) and for that it gets ***/*****
2005.04.25 16:40:42 combat Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes LawrenceNewton [WARAG], wrecking for 2706.9 damage.
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Shadowsword
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Posted - 2004.11.01 10:42:00 -
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I saw the movie, and it was what I expected it to be: not bad, but not very good either.
Action scenes were good, but the scenario was completely previsible, the actors below the average...
That could have been a very good movie, if humans and predators hadn't ended allied in the middle of the movie, removing the "fear" ambiance...
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Shadowsword
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Posted - 2004.11.01 10:42:00 -
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I saw the movie, and it was what I expected it to be: not bad, but not very good either.
Action scenes were good, but the scenario was completely previsible, the actors below the average...
That could have been a very good movie, if humans and predators hadn't ended allied in the middle of the movie, removing the "fear" ambiance...
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IZON
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Posted - 2004.11.02 22:21:00 -
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I've just seen this film and it's one of the biggest disappointments in cinema history. What should have been a fantastic sci-fi action horror film turned out to be an hour and a half of dire monotonous action. They should have left the comics alone and built the script from Predator 2 and/or Aliens 3.
AVP suggests the Aliens had already arrived on Earth hundreds of years previously, long before 'Mother' brought the crew of the Nostromo out of stasis in original Alien. It's lack of historical continuity (and respect for the audience's memory of that) also lets it down terribly. Having the Aliens 'on Earth' should have placed the story well in to the future, setting the scene for a vicious & bloody high tech battle classic.
Resurrecting Lance Henriksen as 'Bishop' Weyland was so pitiful and desperate, it's obvious the producers knew they had a damp squid in production. The only way having 'Bishop' in AVP could have made sense was once again to set the film way in to the future and have him return as an 'improved' android mk2. Any ways, definitely one to wait for the dvd if you haven't seen it already.
"...master! there's a guy in the south village called IZON, he is a Ninja!" |
IZON
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Posted - 2004.11.02 22:21:00 -
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I've just seen this film and it's one of the biggest disappointments in cinema history. What should have been a fantastic sci-fi action horror film turned out to be an hour and a half of dire monotonous action. They should have left the comics alone and built the script from Predator 2 and/or Aliens 3.
AVP suggests the Aliens had already arrived on Earth hundreds of years previously, long before 'Mother' brought the crew of the Nostromo out of stasis in original Alien. It's lack of historical continuity (and respect for the audience's memory of that) also lets it down terribly. Having the Aliens 'on Earth' should have placed the story well in to the future, setting the scene for a vicious & bloody high tech battle classic.
Resurrecting Lance Henriksen as 'Bishop' Weyland was so pitiful and desperate, it's obvious the producers knew they had a damp squid in production. The only way having 'Bishop' in AVP could have made sense was once again to set the film way in to the future and have him return as an 'improved' android mk2. Any ways, definitely one to wait for the dvd if you haven't seen it already.
"...master! there's a guy in the south village called IZON, he is a Ninja!" |
Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.11.03 01:36:00 -
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Come again!? 
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2004.11.03 01:36:00 -
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Come again!?
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cranky
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Posted - 2004.11.03 01:47:00 -
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I saw this a while ago and I went in with no expectations and came out thoroughly enjoying it. 4 stars
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cranky
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Posted - 2004.11.03 01:47:00 -
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I saw this a while ago and I went in with no expectations and came out thoroughly enjoying it. 4 stars
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.11.07 13:17:00 -
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Edited by: Joshua Calvert on 07/11/2004 13:21:35
I saw it last night and, having read this thread and other reviews, I went with very low expectations.
I was very surprised at how good it was - nothing as awesome as Aliens but a lot better than I expected. The fights scenes were short but very satisfying - how cool was that final Predator when he leapt up and speared the Queen Alien through the head?
Some continuity problems though - the 3rd Predator was infected by a facehugger but the Aliens still attacked him? I clearly remember Ripley being ignored when she was infected.
Also, the alien birth happened really quickly.
There will definitely be an AVP 2 and I hope, now that the first film has laid the groundwork of the story, AVP 2 can get straight into some meaty AVP action.
I've heard rumours that the 5th Alien film will tell the story of Aliens infesting Earth - that will be worth watching if it's a decent cross between Starship Troopers and Aliens.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.11.07 13:17:00 -
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Edited by: Joshua Calvert on 07/11/2004 13:21:35
I saw it last night and, having read this thread and other reviews, I went with very low expectations.
I was very surprised at how good it was - nothing as awesome as Aliens but a lot better than I expected. The fights scenes were short but very satisfying - how cool was that final Predator when he leapt up and speared the Queen Alien through the head?
Some continuity problems though - the 3rd Predator was infected by a facehugger but the Aliens still attacked him? I clearly remember Ripley being ignored when she was infected.
Also, the alien birth happened really quickly.
There will definitely be an AVP 2 and I hope, now that the first film has laid the groundwork of the story, AVP 2 can get straight into some meaty AVP action.
I've heard rumours that the 5th Alien film will tell the story of Aliens infesting Earth - that will be worth watching if it's a decent cross between Starship Troopers and Aliens.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
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