Well I was looking forward to AvP just like I was with Terminator 3. Now that I’ve seen it I’m gonna give you guys another review…like I did with Terminator 3.
Things I liked: Overall and generally speaking the story line fits in pretty well with the Alien and Predator movies, especially the relationship between the two species: In Alien and Aliens, we see that the eggs are in some sort of large non-manmade spaceship. I always found it extremely doubtful that the xenomorph aliens built it themselves so the only better explanation is that there is another, more intelligent and technologically advanced extraterrestrial life-form involved: the Predators. Also the idea of the Predators being worshiped as gods is not so bad either. And it was nice to see the Aliens battling the Predators. But, as always, I expected more from the movie that just this. Sadly that’s all the movie has to offer. Now the things I hated:
The aspect that I really dislike, which seems to be happening in a lot of newer movies, is the fact that everything has to be explained to the viewer to the smallest detail. The Italian archeologist just takes one look at some hieroglyphics on a stone and spills out the entire history of the pyramids, the predators and so on. Yes I know, it could make sense since he’s an archeologist and everything (even though I doubt he’d be able to get that whole story from looking at a single stone tablet in 10 seconds), but why just spell everything out for the viewer? This wasn’t occurring that much in the previous movies of the series. Here’s an example: In Alien3 Ripley says that this alien moves differently and that was it. She didn’t spew out every little detail like “Oh you see, the facehugger impregnated a dog and therefore the creature that developed from it moves faster, and runs more like…a dog.” The viewer can figure this out simply by paying a little attention and thinking. With AvP, this type of interaction between the viewer and the movie is just lost.
Almost all of the human characters were just used as bait for the aliens and predators; there was no attempt at any character development. Literally everyone dies in the movie, which also happens in the previous movies of the series. But in Aliens and in Predator (where we also saw a large group of people wasted) you had a chance to get to know the characters, even though some of them died pretty early in the movie. With AvP the only deeper sort of development was when that scrfaced guy and Spud from Trainspotting said that they had kids...and that was crappy as hell. Oh and the main actress, hehe, well in an interview she went on how Sigourney inspired her but that she develops a different sort of heroin role in the movie and blah blah. There’s no way you can compare her to the powerful role of Ripley in all of the alien movies. The whole movie was just weak in terms of acting.
PG-13! Yeah, just so they can get more money from a bigger audience. Did anyone see any blood at all aside from the squirt of blood on the snow in one scene? When the hell are we gonna get some real violence back in the movies. And I don’t mean real like in Kill Bill where apparently the human body has 50 liters of blood. I mean real like in, uh I don’t know maybe, every good action movie made in the 90s. Also all the elements of a good horror/suspenseful movie are missing in AvP (and other newer movies). You know what makes a movie a horror movie these days? Loud noises and nothing else. Seriously this movie is filled with the same scheme over and over again. Extreme silence, and then LOUD NOISE. Just repeat the same formula and there’s AvP. And it’s so easy to predict when and how it is going to happen. Now think about the previous Alien and Predator movies. There are very little scenes where you are startled by a loud noise. You get the feeling of suspense and horror by the atmosphere in the movie and by good visual details.
And I’ll just quickly list some of the other things I hated:
- The predators face with the changing emotions
- They use a stretcher to carry the predator into the ship
- The predator’s vision was too clean in comparison from the previous movies,
- The predator just blows up the entire pyramid? Isn’t it an important thing to their species?
- Since when is the predator a ninja (referring to the scene where he leaps at the queen)
- What was the worry about the aliens getting to the surface? How the hell are they going to survive in Antarctica!?!
- The “heroin” runs around in Antarctica in just a sweater,
- The aliens develop too quickly. What the hell, now it takes them 10 minutes to go from facehugger seed, to the snake-like stage, to fully grown.
So basically the movie was just good for a few action sequences…and all of them were used for the previews. For a better developed story line, I would suggest playing the game Aliens versus Predator 2, much more fulfilling.
Things I liked: Overall and generally speaking the story line fits in pretty well with the Alien and Predator movies, especially the relationship between the two species: In Alien and Aliens, we see that the eggs are in some sort of large non-manmade spaceship. I always found it extremely doubtful that the xenomorph aliens built it themselves so the only better explanation is that there is another, more intelligent and technologically advanced extraterrestrial life-form involved: the Predators. Also the idea of the Predators being worshiped as gods is not so bad either. And it was nice to see the Aliens battling the Predators. But, as always, I expected more from the movie that just this. Sadly that’s all the movie has to offer. Now the things I hated:
The aspect that I really dislike, which seems to be happening in a lot of newer movies, is the fact that everything has to be explained to the viewer to the smallest detail. The Italian archeologist just takes one look at some hieroglyphics on a stone and spills out the entire history of the pyramids, the predators and so on. Yes I know, it could make sense since he’s an archeologist and everything (even though I doubt he’d be able to get that whole story from looking at a single stone tablet in 10 seconds), but why just spell everything out for the viewer? This wasn’t occurring that much in the previous movies of the series. Here’s an example: In Alien3 Ripley says that this alien moves differently and that was it. She didn’t spew out every little detail like “Oh you see, the facehugger impregnated a dog and therefore the creature that developed from it moves faster, and runs more like…a dog.” The viewer can figure this out simply by paying a little attention and thinking. With AvP, this type of interaction between the viewer and the movie is just lost.
Almost all of the human characters were just used as bait for the aliens and predators; there was no attempt at any character development. Literally everyone dies in the movie, which also happens in the previous movies of the series. But in Aliens and in Predator (where we also saw a large group of people wasted) you had a chance to get to know the characters, even though some of them died pretty early in the movie. With AvP the only deeper sort of development was when that scrfaced guy and Spud from Trainspotting said that they had kids...and that was crappy as hell. Oh and the main actress, hehe, well in an interview she went on how Sigourney inspired her but that she develops a different sort of heroin role in the movie and blah blah. There’s no way you can compare her to the powerful role of Ripley in all of the alien movies. The whole movie was just weak in terms of acting.
PG-13! Yeah, just so they can get more money from a bigger audience. Did anyone see any blood at all aside from the squirt of blood on the snow in one scene? When the hell are we gonna get some real violence back in the movies. And I don’t mean real like in Kill Bill where apparently the human body has 50 liters of blood. I mean real like in, uh I don’t know maybe, every good action movie made in the 90s. Also all the elements of a good horror/suspenseful movie are missing in AvP (and other newer movies). You know what makes a movie a horror movie these days? Loud noises and nothing else. Seriously this movie is filled with the same scheme over and over again. Extreme silence, and then LOUD NOISE. Just repeat the same formula and there’s AvP. And it’s so easy to predict when and how it is going to happen. Now think about the previous Alien and Predator movies. There are very little scenes where you are startled by a loud noise. You get the feeling of suspense and horror by the atmosphere in the movie and by good visual details.
And I’ll just quickly list some of the other things I hated:
- The predators face with the changing emotions
- They use a stretcher to carry the predator into the ship
- The predator’s vision was too clean in comparison from the previous movies,
- The predator just blows up the entire pyramid? Isn’t it an important thing to their species?
- Since when is the predator a ninja (referring to the scene where he leaps at the queen)
- What was the worry about the aliens getting to the surface? How the hell are they going to survive in Antarctica!?!
- The “heroin” runs around in Antarctica in just a sweater,
- The aliens develop too quickly. What the hell, now it takes them 10 minutes to go from facehugger seed, to the snake-like stage, to fully grown.
So basically the movie was just good for a few action sequences…and all of them were used for the previews. For a better developed story line, I would suggest playing the game Aliens versus Predator 2, much more fulfilling.
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