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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."
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.
Murray Todd Williams
there was a book Predator: Cold War, in which a predator ship crash lands and the predators find heat in an oil refinery (or boiler room)...
good book. also, Concrete Jungle was excellent, would make a great predator 3. only the comics of AvP would make a good avp movie, anything else is crap.
I hated Resurrection the first time I watched it, and didn't watch it again for several months. I looked closer at a lot of the subtle points in the movie the next time around. Now I love it - it's about as dark and morbid as they could make it and seems a fitting climax to the series in my opinion.
Uh, first off that's being way to generous to either SCO or Microsoft. As for them being enemies, let me clue you in.
#1 Darl McBride speaks with a very weird lisp that was previously only heard from the likes of Billyboy.
#2 Billyboy's lips are moving when Darl speaks, and Billy's arm is stained all the way to the elbow... it has a bad smell even by Redmond standards.
I'll let your imagination take over from there.
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...
If I were going to be logical about it, though, a cold area makes alot of sense for a critter that sees with IR - no background radiation.
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).
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.
"Derp de derp."