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."

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What a lousy trailer...

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

However, there is a two-video set at Fileplanet that does more than show close-ups of Alien and Predator skin. In it, there's an interview with the creator, as well as some concept art, detailing the story.

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.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132403.shtm l

Bout damn time...

[Cyno01]

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.

Re:Bout damn time...

[Daniel Dvorkin]

I wonder if I'm the only person on the planet who liked Alien Resurrection. Yeah, Winona Ryder was uncharacteristically boring, but the rest of the cast was quite good, IMO; Sigourney Weaver did a brilliant job at showing the monster under the skin, scary and sexy and empathetic all at once, and the rest did a good job as the expected cannon fodder. And there were some scenes -- the underwater chase and the "don't kill me, mommy" bit at the end -- that struck me as some of the best pure horror ever put on film.

(Then again, if you thought Alien, the original, sucked ... huh?)

Alien^3 was the only one I disliked out of the series so far. I'm not sure how it managed to take the setup it was given and commit the cardinal sin for any action or horror movie of being boring from start to finish. IMO, Alien was a great horror movie, Aliens was a great war movie, and Alien Resurrection was a great French movie. ;) Alien^3 just should never have happened. (And for the record, I wasn't as wild about Fight Club as everyone else seems to have been, either.)

All that being said, I'll no doubt see AVP, but I don't have any great expectations for it. Basically, a bloody romp with great FX is about all I'm looking forward to. If it happens to be more than that (as both Alien and Aliens certainly were) I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I bought one too

[corebreech]

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

Hot, Heat, Humid

[shatfield]

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.

Re:Hot, Heat, Humid

[James Lanfear]

There's a Predator (or AvP, or something -- I can't remember) FAQ out there that had a more plausible (IMO) explanation. Predators don't seem especially well adapted to warm climates: specifically, they're damn near blind without their helmets because of the IR vision. So, the explanation goes, they actually evolved in a cold climate, but prefer hunting where it's warm because it's difficult. Same reason they carry spears instead of rifles, and run around in their underwear instead of wearing power armor. The skimpy clothing also supports the cold climate theory, as does the fact that their atmosphere (seen mostly coming out of tubes connected to their helmets) seems to be a fog every time you see it (movie sign for 'cold').

This may contradict Dark Horse, but I think it makes more sense than the alternative.

Re:First post for once????

[PReDiToR]

Actually, in predator 2, the predator feeds in a cold storage warehouse.

Remember the place with the radiation dust and predator changes his vision mode to UV?

Re:First post for once????

[AJWM]

What's with this "predators like warmth" crap everyone is spouting? Predators are a technological species, for cryin' out loud, if it's cold out they just turn up the heat on their clothing.

Sheesh. Humans like warmth too, and they're all over Antarctica.

Re:Let's hope more movies are made

[eidolons]

Bleaugh. I'm getting sick of remakes, director's cuts, re-issues, re-sequalizations, re-this and-re-that and "x versus y" algorithms in movies that mask the simple fact that no new ideas are surfacing in Hollywood. I mean alien vs. predator makes for an okay comic book but seriously, could we please get some new ideas off the ground? How about a new monster franchiese, or science-fiction franchise, or even a new slasher movie cult icon.

Pretty soon we'll have a movie version of every damn superhero ever sketched up. We'll soon have a "freedy vs. jason vs. mike meyers" in all probablity. Hollywood will cough out a few more Dr. Seuss movie-versions before that horse is beaten to death.

Every movie that soaks up its production costs with revenue gets a sequel. I want something new. No more sequels. No more director's cut or cgi effects thrown in for good measure and then re-issued (like "Alien" and "ET".)

Is rehashes of old material the only safe bet anymore in Hollywood?

Re:Alaska?

[blincoln]

I doubt if this guy really ever played "Resident Evil".

Actually, if you watch the featurette on the DVD, the director played the first game and was in the middle of the second when he wrote the film.

I hadn't played the games when I saw the movie, and I thought the movie was all right. It was no masterpiece, but it was visually well done, like Event Horizon which he also directed. The plot was certainly better than Soldier (another Anderson film).

Anyhow, I figured I'd check out the Gamecube remake of the original after watching it, since it was available for cheap on eBay. Seriously, I prefer the film. The controls are terrible, and the save system is lame. If I have to go do something else, I shouldn't be penalized by using up a limited save.

I do agree that he's probably going to butcher AvP though. Setting it in the present sounds like a bad idea, and I can't figure out why they aren't using the awesome script that was written for the project something like a decade ago. I don't know if it's still online, but it was very much in the spirit of Aliens, the best of both series.

Original Alian trailer

[dgerman]

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.

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 .

loading JS from another host via HTTPS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anybody noticing this code in the trailer page?

(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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