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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."
Did anyone else read the Dark Horse AVsP comic?
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Oh and this was the teaser they showed before the directors cut last night as well
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subject says it all doesn't it :)
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http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/67b9aacd822d4
To store it locally and view later or without jitter:Mind the slashdot spaces.
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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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...
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avp-teaser_m480.mov [10MB]
avp-featurette_m320 [20MB]
FYI: The "trick" to getting direct links to Apple's movie trailers is to view the html source, find the .mov link, then put the letter 'm' before the resolution in the URL.
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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?
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
But it's not a trailer.
It's a teaser...a teaser is something that doesn't deal with any part of the plot, merely tells us that the movie will be coming out. It does exactly that: tease.
As long as dumb-of-the-mill average people thing teasers are trailers, I assume they will think that the trailers are in fact, the movies.
Jason Lotito
They are both hydroxymethylcellulose. IIRC that stuff is also used in diet drinks, treatments for irritable bowel syndrome (?), McDonalds milkshakes (allegedly) and hair conditioner. It's just treated/preserved dietary fibre used as a thickener, and ethylcellulose (Natrasol) works just as well.
You just mix the methylcellulose powder and dyes with different amounts of water for different consistencies, although it's a pain to mix - only warm water will split the powder and stop it from going chunky, but then you have to keep stirring as it will only dissolve in cold water. And then you have to wait a while for the air bubbles to go.
Mixing with PVA glue gives interesting modelling results.
Hope that helps.