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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
Oh and this was the teaser they showed before the directors cut last night as well
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Is this something about Microsoft verses SCO?
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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
I don't know how many hours I wasted playing AvP on the Atari Jaguar
So you're the guy that bought the Jaguar...
Karma: Excellent (In Soviet Russia, karma pimps YOU)
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.
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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?
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.
To store it locally and view later or without jitter:Mind the slashdot spaces.
...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?
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.
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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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There was NO Alien 3.
There was NO Alien 3.
There was NO Alien 3.
If you think an Alien vs. Predator film is a good idea, watch the movie at
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http://www.theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/batman
(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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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...
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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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.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
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).
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?
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
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
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...)
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."
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.