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Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available
downix writes "Coming to a theatre next summer is one of the most often delayed movie titles known to sci-fi fans, Alien vs. Predator. The movie's official website is pretty bare, but a teaser trailer can be found on Apple's trailers page. I don't know how many hours I wasted playing the AvP game on the Atari Jaguar, but I do know that this is something that will have to be seen to be believed. This gives hope to everyone that even Duke Nukem Forever can arrive one day."
Trailer won't be available, because Slashdot wins.
This gives hope to everyone that even Duke Nukem Forever can arrive one day.
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Still waiting for Pong-The Movie myself
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Did anyone else read the Dark Horse AVsP comic?
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
Oh and this was the teaser they showed before the directors cut last night as well
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Any word on the script? I always thought some of the old A v P comic series could have been turned into interesting movies.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
Is this something about Microsoft verses SCO?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
If you don't feel like downloading it, it takes place in 2004 in Antarctica, where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.
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I don't know how many hours I wasted playing AvP on the Atari Jaguar
So you're the guy that bought the Jaguar...
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Alaska? WTF?
I thought the predators only came down in super hot weather like in a heat wave in the desert or out in some rain forest jungle...
Even Alaska in summer ain't hot enough for that man...
If I wanted to watch a trailer from the perspective of a louse crawling around on their skin I would say this trailer is cool.
But I don't!
I guess the casting process will be difficult. For instance, a *lot* of food consumption in the auditions, not to forget actor-wannabees asking the crew for the WLAN SSID.
I wonder who'll play CowboyNeil?
I remember hearing about this 8 years ago, but then they put out that piece of shit that was Alien Resurrection. Somehow that movie sucked despite being done by one of my favorite directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of the Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie) and the presence of Winona. Glad to see this is finally being made. Hopefully it'll be as good as Alien and Aliens or Predator and Predator II and not suck like Alien or Alien Resurrection.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The Governator Vs. Al Gore -- The REAL Rise of the Machines.
What more do you want? You've got the inventor of the Inter...er, skynet, a state in political turmoil, a sex (groping) scandal, a huge firestorm, earthquakes, and Ahnuld. I've seen movies with less material get off the ground faster than this stuff!
At least a made-for-TV movie. This can't be any worse than Saving Pvt. Lynch.
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You're pretty much guaranteed to get shit. Tinseltown already knows anyone that would get excited about such a concept is due for a good Hollywood ass reaming. And they will surely get it. Might show up for Hannibal Lector vs. Erin Brockovich though.
Hey, I bought one too, and it was this game that made it worth it.
An absolutely terrifying and wonderous game. Possibly the most brilliant game I've ever played.
FWIW
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Slashdot, as usual, is wayyyyyy behind the times.
Alien was believable, that's what made it so fun to watch.
However, they stretch things pretty far with Alien vs. Predator. It may become so abstract and irrelevant that it has no effect.
Similar to Matrix Reloaded I guess. Neo was a god, and risks nothing, so who cares?
Just have to wait and see.
I'm willing to bet the script will be identical to that of "Freddie vs Jason". Hapless humans try to survive as the two nasties battle it out almost on top of them.
I wonder if there will be a day where people actually create a fan base behind good script writers, like they do for moviestars and directors. Then there might be some pressure on the studios to focus on nurturing the good writers and DEVELOPING BETTER SCRIPTS!
Sigh.
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subject says it all doesn't it :)
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Okay. I loved the Alien movies (well, the first two).
Predator was way cool.
When you take the bad guys from one movie and the bad guys from another, what's the attraction? I'm going to want to see a stalemate, where the Predator guys blow up the planet to keep anybody from winning. I can't imagine any kind of script writing where I'm going to want to see one side win. Is this just going to be an actionfest slaughterhouse?
There's not much to this trailer, but it should be an interesting movie! If you can't wait until this movie, check out this. :)
On a related note, the teaser (ie. no content from the movie but a little snippet from the last one) of Resident Evil: Apocalypse is out!
To store it locally and view later or without jitter:Mind the slashdot spaces.
Two of the greatest movies ever combined. Let's just hope they don't make them as cheezy as Jason vs. Freddy.
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Black cat, searing pain, flames...? I must be in Heaven! - Homer Simpson
...NOT directed by my favourite Quentin Tarantino.
Seriously, after Kill Bill cinema will never be the same again. How can I enjoy a normal movie anymore?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avp/featurette/
"Whoever wins...we lose."
...use initials, as if they where some kind of open-source project or something?
"Yes, the new AVP system can completely increase the likelyhood of blood, guts, and gore; thus guarenteeing people will pack into theaters to see it."
We all know how well LXG did. Ever since ID4 was so popular...*sigh* AVP isn't even that good of an abbriviation. Ashcroft Vs. Powell? Anti-Virus Protection? Always Verify Postings? Avril laVigne's Poontang? It's like they're trying to market to the Internet hype crowd by "giving" us an official acronym/abbrivitation/initial-shortened spelling, whatever they want to call it. Hey guys if your movie is worth a shit after the 8 years you spent pretending it was comming out, we'll dub it what we feel worthy. Perhaps less on marketing and more on "movie" and you wont' have to worry about us giving it some other name like FPC - Festering Pile of Crap.
Erm, perhaps i should see it first before I call it crap. But marketing ploys like this sure make it look like they have something to hide.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
and you seem to be enjoying it, i guess stupid execs were not content with killing TV/Music so the movies are next
if they have run out of ideas now, wtf are they going to do in 100years time ?
my kids are going to be so let down by this generation its embarrasing
Over two years ago I was reading the .plans that they post and one of them was talking about his nice new car and all the hot new games he was playing. I emailed him that maybe, just maybe, if he'd spend a little more time actually doing his job, his company might one day release the game. He sent back that he was "sick of that sh*t" from people that didn't know any better and that they worked plenty hard trying to create a quality product.
"When it's done" just doesn't cut it anymore.
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
Paul Anderson seems to be living out his childhood/early adulthood fantasy of combining two big alien creatures into a real brawl. He honestly looks pretty damn excited in the "Making of" second movie which combines stock footages from Alien and Predator movies with him describing various pieces of concept art. Hopefully he is managing to take that vision in his head and properly direct it out....otherwise we'll have another Freddy versus Jason.
if there is any dialogue in the final version of the script. I mean, it's great to see Hollywood films becoming more Hollywood film, not bothering human elements or cheesy *drama* in a movie, allowing audience with no language skills or hearing impediment to appreciate their art. They don't even need subtitles when they release this sorta films in foreign countries. I guess this is all because today's Hollywood --unlike some years ago-- can't make any movie with real drama in it. "Let's put more special effects and get rid of all human characters." Oh yeah, that sells. Smart move...
What part of the 3 H's don't the director/writers understand? The Predator hunts when it is very very hot -- that was the underlying theme of the first 2 movies. They need heat, possibly because they are reptilian/cold blooded. Put them in the arctic, and you take them out of their natural hunting environmental conditions, and quite possibly kill them like a Vampire in the desert at high noon.
That problem aside, I think everyone should watch the featurette. It's pretty cool.
"To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic." Cicero
(Watch The Fuckin' Teaser)
This movie (at least some of it) takes place on Earth. Now, I'm not certain, but I'm guessing there just might be a human or two running around in sight of the camera at some point during the length of this flick.
Moron.
Mr. Jekyll (played by the Pretator) conducts some strange experiments on himself which turn him into the ugly character Hyde (played by the Alien), who sucks blood from vigins. He continues his blood sucking business until Gozilla arrives in the city and destroys, among other things, the laboratories of Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Frankenstein and Rabbi Loew, who was busy playing with clay at this time. In a great finale, the three realize that they have a common enemy and they release their respective creatures upon Gozilla, who first bites the dust (the Golem turns out to be really crumbly), but can be defeated by the Alien and Dr. Frankenstein's creature in the end. They find out that they really like each other and decide to move to the planet Ebola 9 to have some hot sex (great special effects!).
More interesting than the teaser itself is the "Behind the scenes footage", also available at the oficial site, which contains suprisingly detailed information about the movie plot and some nice storyboard illustrations.
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Will we see a Schwarzenegger or Ventura cameo?
hint: both Governors were in the original Predator film.
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There was NO Alien 3.
There was NO Alien 3.
There was NO Alien 3.
First read about it on Shuga Shack when I was ...When it's finished indeed.
16, since then I've finished college, have 2
kids and have worked at Citibank for 3 years.
In the comic book series that started all the alien v. predator hoo ha, doesn't it suggest that the predators bred/engineered the "alien" to seed planets for hunting?
"Alien and Predator skinflicks."
Are these Buttman, Girls gone wild, Alien Predator Virgin 38, or just what in particular?
At any rate, woohoo!
what the fuck was so damn good about kill bill?
moronic, incredulous fucking comic book.
tarintino is a fucking idiot.
Predator 1: Everybody Dies... DRAW: Humans 0, Predator: 0.
Predator 2: Um, Isn't Daddy Glover getting too hold for this crap? And where is Riggs? Humans win, but end up living is glass houses. Humans 1, Predator: 0.
Alien: Lots of dead humans, but the game ends with Riply deep spaces the Alien. Humans are victorious!. Humans 2, Predator: 0, Alien 0.
Aliens: Lots of dead humans, lots of dead aliens, humans seem to have won in the end: Humans 3, Predator: 0 Alien 0.
Alien^3: Everybody (well mostly) dies... Another Draw. Humans 3, Predator: 0 Alien 0
Alien Resurrection: Heros die, but they can be reborn.... Um, I seem to me repressing this movie, did we win? I any cases Humans have more then enough insurance runs.
I wated the teaser (it's really not a trailer) and said to myself "Is that it?"
Maybe if we learned more about it in the ad that would be cool, but until then I'm going to place my hype machine on low simmer mode.
If you think an Alien vs. Predator film is a good idea, watch the movie at
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(not off-topic if you watch the whole movie)
I bought into the Alien vs. Predator hype right from the pre-release Jaguar blurb... so this is great news (two months ago it would have been brilliant news but then I saw the above movie. Now I can only say the big screen version has been truely pipped at the post and unless it has a great story line(unlikely) then it already been surpassed by a three way tie-in actioner)
Concrete analysis...
Kill Bill was a total adolescent teen fantasy peice of shit.
Maybe if I was 15 I would think it total rocks.
But as a "Grown-up" I found it rather lame...no highly lame...
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Proof that fan boys should not be allowed anywhere near the film making process.
All the geeks like me won't be wasting their bandwidth 'cause we can't be bothered to get Quicktime codecs, recompile mplayer, get flamed by the mplayer groupies for running Red Hat, get an mplayer-mozilla plugin, etc, etc...
Instead of drooling over Q.T. films, why not check out the Asia films he rips off? Don't get me wrong, I love Quentin Tarantino. Thanks to him popularizing the genre I'm able to get all sorts of cool Kung-Fu movies I'd never get to see otherwise. Now when the heck are we gonna get Shaolin Soccer and God of Cookery?
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btw, the blatant anti-smoking message in that movie was almost as annoying as the bad acting and fake tits. If they want to make smoking look uncool, they should at least try to be a bit more subtle. (I wonder who paid for it.)
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Back in 1994, Capcom came out with a Double Dragon / Final fight style Alien Vs. Predator arcade game. Featuring 3 player simulateneous play, tons of weapons, intense action, and fantastic graphics and sound, this version only came out in the arcades on Capcoms' CPS2 arcade sytem with no home console port. It remains to this day one of the best of its genre and somewhat forgotten. And no, I don't work for Capcom. Check it.
I don't know which is worse, that you email that crap out or that you openly admit to being such a dick on this forum.
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Robocop vs Terminator. If the Terminator loses, I will shoelace IRL.
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Sigourney Weaver vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Scene: Aliens have taken over Sigourney's body. Arnold has been sent back in time by Predators to try to find and stop Sigourney from blowing up their hidden spaceship. Arnie is a Predator morphed into a human, while Sigourney is just a really evil bitch with the soul of an alien.
The Action: Takes place in an half-abandoned inner city ghetto, in between gang drug wars and robotised police who use massive firepower to try to outgun the local crooks. The crooks have just robbed an army depot, so they are well armed.
Siggy and Arnie stumble into the midst of this three-way battle and add their own style of inferno.
Now... this could be fun. Of course Siggy wins, after hacking Arnie and turning him into a good guy. They blow away the robotized cops (maybe we could call them 'robotcops' or something), blow up the gang headquarters, and then find the Predator spaceship, which is actually the old Pentagon. They take a handy nuke left behind by one of the drug lords, and blow it up.
Escaping, at the last minute, in a hidden underground subway car, Siggy turns to Arnie and bares her teeth, out comes an alien set of jaws, and the film closes with the sight of Arnie's bug-eyed face with the sound of his heart being ripped out.
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I don't know which is worse, that you email that crap out or that you openly admit to being such a dick on this forum.
The parent post has a point... Duke Nukem Forever will never be released. 3D Realms has probably stopped working on it completely and doesn't have the balls to admit it. Other games have been announced, developed and released in less time... Halo 2 will be out soon and Duke Nukem Forever was announced before Bungie even existed.
Duke Nukem Forever is just one big joke and anyone that believes it will ever be finished is kidding themselves. 3D Realms either needs to provide some proof other than screenshots that this game really exists or admit to everyone that development has been scrapped. The programmers are a bunch of fuckheads who should stop acting like little children claiming their dog ate their homework and fess up to the fact they've been jerking off instead of producing Duke Nukem Forever.
Ahh, damn slashdot, i did mean the third one, but i had it as Alien^3, which it deleted from my post.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"Hi I'm Paul Anderson.
You may remember me as the director of Stellar Hit Movies like Resident Evil
[imdb.com] and Event Horizon."
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
*goes through the crap on his desk looking for spare mod points*
Grandparent's right, those marketing ploys to dumb down a movie even more by just calling it initials so it will appeal to an even "wider" (i.e. more morons) audience is atrocious, and parent's right, Fox is always the type of company that goes for those cheap ploys.
Lumping "Resident Evil" in with "Mortal Combat" is a little harsh, IMO. While much of it was highly derivative of previous zombie movies, I found that it didn't set off my crap detector so many times as to be un-entertaining. And it was actually scary.
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It's a movie featuring two of the goriest movie monsters in history, and the trailer gets approved for everyone? Now that's what I call a crappy trailer.
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Disclaimer: I am an avid aliens fan and predator fan, and a semi-avid avp fan (despite the mediocre quality of the games outside of their value as homages to the original works). On their own, each of them are interesting science fiction movies that deal with unfriendly alien life forms that kill people on sight and are generally unpleasant.
Ok here are the cliff notes for the downloadable trailers:
The "teaser" is just a bunch of very short clips from aliens and predator spliced together to demonstrate that the "alien" is the one from the movies with sigourney weaver, and the "predator" is the one type that Ahnold fought. Duh.
The longer preview film consists of a bunch of clips spliced together from the movies (mostly predator 1 and aliens) to make it seem like they have already started fliming. This trailer reveals several disappointing things:
The directors/screenwriter's only prior moviemaking experience is "resident evil." Danger Will Robinson! Alert alert! I didnt pay money to see Resident Evil and I thought it was mediocre. The only thing it did well was demonstrate why making movies out of console games is still a stupid idea (even after the blockbuster performance of Super Mario Brothers). Note that AvP builds on this shameful history.
They are focusing on giving the predators a million new flashy toys and seeing lots of aliens and predators kill each other- rather than actually telling an interesting story. Somethign either series hasnt seen since, oh, 1986 (AL|ENS).
The movie will take a steaming shit upon loads of separate Aliens and Predator canon. Why? One of the central flaws in combining the two genres is that the predator movies all take place in the present, and the alien movies all take place in the distant future. Combination movies that take place in the near future violate the aliens timeline in numerous obvious ways. Combination movies that take place in the distant future assume that the Predator species simply stopped interacting with the human species for a few centuries after meeting Danny Glover. It also means that you have to have a bigger budget in order to make everythign look like its in the future (vs the "near future" where everyone still drives GM products and has 80s hair).
Having watched the glacial process of licensing, I can say with great confidence that the reason this movie was so "oft-delayed" is because there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING slower than two bureaucracies negotiating with each other over licensing.
Given the fact that Alien and Predator are individually multi-million dollar licenses, I can imagine the licensing negotiations must have been excruciatingly slow and given to long inexplicable intervals of total inaction. Anyone who has ever watched this process will recognize the description. It is without competition: truly the most expensive, exasperating, pointless exercise in business.
Here's my favorite:
"So we're agreed."
(four months later)
"What agreement? I thought you were going to call."
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
While certainly watching two monsters battle it out on the silver screen can be a lot of fun, it can only be fun for so long -- 20 minutes tops. I bet the movie will be an hour and a half or so, and i'm wondering what kind of stupid filler the rest of it is going to be.
Clearly they can't talk to each other (they don't speak the same language probably, and there's no universal translator), and they can't talk to anyone else in an intelligible language. So what's it gonna be? grunts?
-S
all that trailer made me want to do was turn on a light so i could see. If that was supposed to make me want to see the movie, they missed their mark.
Tis better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt --Abraham Lincoln
And only hunted in the heat?
That was clearly stated in the second Predator movie and was consistent in just about most of the outstanding literature.
Don't tell me we've found plot holes before it's even begun!
Really?
In order on the wayback machine: Chicago, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, Titanic, The English Patient, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Unforgiven.
Since when is Gladiator an indie film? Since when are any of these indie films?
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
maybe it sucked BECAUSE of the presence of wynona
No, no... she really stole the show!
No, really, she did!
Carthago delenda est!
Exactly! The TLA namespace needs to be reserves for things and people who will actually count next year. Like GNU, or dmr, or ken, or rms, or esr, or jms.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Who is the good guy?
:-)
Which one do I have to support?
The slimy Alien or the highly sophisticated Predator?
But I assume, the Governor of California will come and save us all
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it was a perfetc trailer. Nice tease that gave away nothing. I hat sitting in a movie theater thinking "That part would of been really cool, if they didn't give it away in the trailer."
Doesn't mean it will be good, or bad.
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Absolutely nothing to that trailer.
In an age where all the best scenes of action movies are shown in the trailer, this is truly sad. Granted, they're still a year out, so they may not have cast the second rate actors that will have to provide the dialog that goes between the dark and barely visible effects, but still. Sad. It reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica ads that Sci-Fi Channel has been running for months now.
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From I have read around the net, people are not expecting great things from this movie. It's set on Earth, near the present day, in Antarctica, where an alien queen is supposed to be lying dormant beneath the ice. Great!
But I will still see it in theatres anyway, just like I will watch Resident Evil 2 when it comes out. I sat through Gozilla, Event Horizon and Battlefield Earth, so I don't think one more fucking bad movie can hurt.
It should be set in a Hypercube!!!
"Is not a sentence" is not a sentence. Well damn.
I consider the original Alien trailer one of the best ever made. It did not have voice-overs (which is part of its charm), not a single word said, it gave very few glimpses of the story and it just ended with the text In space, nobody can hear you. It kept you on the edge of your seat.
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Trailers today suck! They tell you the story, they are narrated because the directors can't find a way to tease you otherwise.
The new version of the alien trailer is an example of this "new" era of trailers. Watch both
and compare them. Make your own judgement.
You can find them all here
Whatever you want to say about the books, the structure was right. You need a human protagonist. Integrating the woman into the predator clan was the proper setup to subsequent bug hunts. And would have made a mindblowing couple movies.
And the perfect actress would have been.....?
Ok, I guess I shouldn't reply to trolls, but what the heck. Point is there's something silly about a preview for a sure to be 'R' rated movie that's approved for all audiences. It means they didn't show anything good in the preview, otherwise it couldn't be approved for all audiences. Just wanted to make my point clear incase this troll confuses people.
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I still think that the Jaguar version of "AvP" is the best of all the games based on that concept. It introduced the three-mode first-person gameplay that the subsequent computer games were based upon, and the space station with the Alien and Predator ships docked at opposite ends kept the game cohesive and gave it a claustrophobic, menacing feel. Infiltrating the Predator ship was scary as hell, and the moment where you first found the smart gun in the belly of that ship and 4 or 5 Predators immediately decloaked was one of the greatest moments in gaming history, IMO. The Jaguar obviously wasn't a successful platform, but the Jaguar versions of "AvP" and "Tempest 2000" are all-time classic video games, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply out of their gourd. ("Battlemorph" on the Jaguar CD was cool beans, too...)
this looks to cheapen the fine acting, watertight plots and sensitive, deep characterization of both franchises.
When are they going to realize that this type of genre-miscegenation dilutes and fades the work of
Predator I was the only action movie I know of that featured not one but two, TWO future state governors. How can they possibly top that?
I'm bet this doesn't even have any gatling guns in it. Ho hum. Exeunt art, enter the committee.
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i think the subject of this post speaks for itself. I was hoping for a bit more... oh well, I hope the movie has more to it
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Is that it gives us great screen captures like this one which you could never have gotten people to believe when the movie came out.
Has it been over a year since you last donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
I don't even have a windoze/mac machine here, and even if I did, I hate having plugins for this kind of thing. Your trick for grabbing the source works great. Thanks!
After watching the featurette on the AvP web site, I can't help but think how cool a movie version of that book would be - and, conversely, the stupidity for which this movie is destined.
Anyone notice the name of this character, and the fact the original company running the Nostromo in Alien was called Weyland-Yutani? Add to the fact that he's played by the same guy who played the Bishop android in the second and third films, I'd say that's at least one or two nods to the alien universe, even though it's set in the current day.
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Who's up for it?!?
Do you remember the anticipation before "Godzilla vs. King Kong"?
No?
Neither do I.
It's been done before, and it wasn't a very good idea then.
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Sugestions please...
So when is it released?
I see some form of date, but is it 2008, 2006 or 2004? Is it the 8th of June or the 8th of April, is it the 6th of August or the 6th of April? Perhaps it's the 4th of August or the 4th of June?
Oh well, humanity is a lost cause regardless.
Sensor indicating north!
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
So how could this not be terrible?
Still the concept art in the featurette is pretty cool looking.
He also directed Event Horizon, which I thought was pretty terrifying but seemed to get pretty poor reviews. I really hope this movie is more like Event Horizon than MK, anyway.
Read Pynchon.
Not sure if I'm hyped about seeing this movie, but there is a concept about it I get a kick out of. Niether the Predator nor the Alien is really a good guy. So the actual ending might actually be a surprise. It's hard to watch a movie like The Matrix, for example, because the good guys are so 'good' and the bad guys are so 'bad'. Who's gonna win? Duh. Suspense goes bye bye. At least here, the potential exists for surprise. That'd be cool.
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Recipe for Life is Beautiful
Take:
1 Super genius with no social skills and some sort of severe mental condition
1 Arrogant intellectual rival who starts of being jerk but eventually comes around
1 Beautiful woman who can see through the lack of social skills to the man inside
1 Imaginary friend to give inspiration a la Tyler Durden (optional)
1. Place all of the ingredients in a stuffy establishment where noone recognises the genius's inherent genius - this will help the plot ferment.
2. Stir gently until the arrogant rival stops being a jerk and becomes the genius's friend.
3. Slowly add the beautiful woman until her patience is expired. At this point the genius should undergo a serious mental breakdown and inner crisis - this is the sign that your dish has been in its 'down' cooking phase for long enough.
4. Finally, cook for half an hour with plenty of saccharine until the super genius recognises that the only thing that is important is the people we love. If the movie is done right through then everyone should learn some important lessons about living and loving at this stage.
5. Serve with lame moralising and an overwhelming sense of peace late in life for best effect.
6. ???
7. Profit!!!
Handy Hint - For a touch of spice, why not make it seem kind of cool to have a serious mental illness? This will help loser misfits the world over relate better to the dish and give depressed teenagers something to strive for. One way of doing this is to make the imaginary friend(s) all have snappy personalities resulting in excellent dialogue. This will be more entertaining for your guests than run of the mill brain tumours or epilepsy.
Read Pynchon.
While AvP is good, the Batman flick linked above is what I can't wait to see. And the way that short was done was nothing less than brilliant! If another Batman film is ever going to be made, I can only pray its as good as this was.
"On a scale from 1 to 10, people are stupid"
"That's our explanation for why some ancient civilisations disappeared without a trace."
O....k.
This guy seems like a complete fool. "I doubt there's anyone who has seen those movies [Alien and Predator] more times than me."
Read Pynchon.
Why not throw Data in the mix? He could probably kick both their asses, without all the drama. Or have the Borg assimilate their ass. "The greatest battle the universe has ever known," they say? I think not, and Q would probably agree. Heck, even the T1000 (not Cali's Governor-elect) could one-handedly beat the living crap out of them. You say acid blood, I say photon torpedo, or teleporting them into the sun (once we get that darn Heisenberg compensator working).
Must-not-watch TV!
Despite the obvious (Paul Andersen "directing" it), there are a plethora of reasons why this movie will be retarded. And most of it has to do with the actual idea of an Alien vs a Predator.
1) Aliens have ACID BLOOD. ACID BLOOD. Did you forget? I'll remind you. ACID BLOOD.
2) Well-armed, heavily-trained MARINES had enough trouble taking out an Alien; what makes you think a Predator can take one out via HAND TO HAND combat?
3) The Predator's cloaking won't work on an Alien. Self-explanatory. Try and hide now, sucker!
4) One Predator... One alien... who do you REALLY think will win the fight? Here's a hint: The Alien.
5) Don't even get me started on that horrible comic and the totally stupid concept of Alien hybrids (eg. Dog Alien, Pig Alien, Christina Aguilera Alien, et al). Remember the Predalien? Ughhh.... how lame.
Why didn't we have a Humalien? Easy. BECAUSE ALIEN HYBRIDS ARE BS.
Fact is, you me and yo momma know If you take a room, fill it with 10 Aliens, and then invite some Predators over, there's gonna be a Predator BBQ at the end of the evening and everybody's invited.
Although the meat will be a bit... messy.
Stupid movie, stupid director, stupid script stupid hollywood.
Where's Jim Cameron when you need him? Only he could do it any justice.
And god forbid they base it off the damn comics...
Saddle up!
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A zombie baby going for a stroll in the park. That and a lawnmower.
But aside from that, I'm glad that the otherwise unassailable paragon of sophisticated film-making, that is Peter Jackson, dismounted his high horse for a moment to make a movie for me, and the other members of the great unwashed.
So, it's coming out next summer? About time! I need to upgrade my machine soon, Duke Nukem Forever can't be that far off... right?
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read BEFORE posting... sorry
"73% of quotes on the Internet are made up" -Ben Franklin
At least I have the balls not to post as an AC, coward.
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
How does the makeup crew on a movie like this stop from getting the different types of slime all mixed up?
The Alien slime is classic. Super viscous. Whereas the Predator slime is more saliva like.
I'm looking forward to seeing some awesome slimework whatever happens.
Can you explain how exactly those original Predators hunted in the Jungle? I mean, everything *else* in the Jungle gives off heat, why was it just the humans who showed up?
Maybe you're wrong, and they had human detectors that couldn't see through mud.
The reviewer shows his ignorance numerous times in the script. He doesn't know shit about either fucking one of these franchises, and it's pretty damn obvious when he says stuff like "There's no sign of the Company!" and then starts to talk about the corporation Weyland Industries that's in the script. Apparently he failed to make the connection between "Weyland Industries" and "Weyland-Yutani, Inc." which is the company from the Ailen films. What a moron.
Also, there's no footage in the teaser because shooting just started this week.
Also, the movie takes place in ANTARCTICA.
Also? AICN is the worst movie news site in the history of the world. Harry will publish anything you send him. Don't believe me? Try it. Make up a review of a movie that's coming out in a couple of months. Go ahead, write a review of, say, Return of the King. He'll print that piece of shit, guaran-fucking-teed.
That had to be about the most useless trailer I've ever seen.
That now is:
Julian 2003-11-02T13:01:23 GMT
Whovever wrote the release date is an idiot intent on ambiguity and total disregard for standards.
Impeach Bush
So you're telling me that with 2 models, 3 laser pointers, a digital camcorder and some stock NASA footage I can make teasers for big budget hollywood movies?
I'll get started right away.
God that sucked.
This movie is going to be relly good or relly bad...or its going to be ok
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and it's all done, set up nicely.
Did anybody noticing this code in the trailer page?
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(Couldn't play it inline, tried to download it, hence the source view)
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Sneaky, loading javascript via https from a different host - bypasses my procy (privoxy seems not be able to filter https). (OTOH, I didn't get a popup like "you have requested a secure page" like when I load the js URL directly, so it probably didn't get loaded or the wwarning doesn't even appear! Argl...
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...has already covered it here.
Enjoy.
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It also means that you have to have a bigger budget in order to make everythign look like its in the future (vs the "near future" where everyone still drives GM products and has 80s hair).
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! Even though I couldn't put my finger on it, I knew something was wrong.
Please, god, let this fall through! Freddy vs. Jason was bad enough -- now we have to have "Alien vs. Predator"? What kind of childish teenaged crap is this? What's next? Jaws vs. Jurassic Park?
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The only one I figured some people wouldn't catch was jms, J Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, beloved of geeks everywhere.
--grendelkhan
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Thank you.
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