ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Went to see Alien vs Predator Requiem tonight.

My advice to each and every All Sci-Fi member is to not go see Alien vs Predator Requiem tomorrow night or any other night.

Yes, this is an All Sci-Fi "Turkey Alert"!

I realize that some of the "Alien" movies have not been great, and the previous "Alien vs Predator" didn't exactly thrill 100% of the AvP fans. I bought that movie and then wondered why, because it doesn't hold a candle to "Aliens", that great film from the master filmmaker, James Cameron.

However, after seeing Alien vs Predator Requiem, I think maybe it's predecessor is a pretty good movie.

What do you guys think?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bongopete]

Talk about a movie that killed two movie franchises . . . well, ok, it had been dead for a while already . . . but then they had to go and hack them to pieces.

People should fall on their knees to Ridley Scott for recreating the alien in Prometheus.

[The Spike]

Remember when chest busters were scary?

This stinks, it really does, and this coming from a man who owns and loves many a cheese filled B/Z movie. Although I would in no way say that AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) was a good movie, I have a tiny soft spot and found it watchable at least, this hack job makes that film seem like the pinnacle of creature feature nirvana.

A Predator ship encounters problems on board by way of a newly born predator/alien hybrid, it crash lands on Earth (America) and thus Requiem is born as face huggers go crazy, aliens run amok, predator fights back, and the cast of genre stereotypes kill or be killed, the end!

All the makers have done here (apart from attempting to kill off the franchise it seems) is splice together various staples from the other films in the series. Be it the settings or confrontations, they have just upped the blood quota, so the film has no substance what so ever.

Characters so dense and unlikable you root for the monsters by way of having no choice. Dumb teens in angst, Rambo mom, ex-convict trying to do good, you name it and chances are you have seen it in other rubbish murder death kill movies.

There is gore galore which I'm sure will appease the easily pleased, and in one particularly monstrous scene involving a pregnant woman, a sequence for the squeamish to chat on the playground about come Monday morning.

But you honestly would be better off watching some cheap no-budget slasher film from the 70s, because unlike the money-backed hack directors here, they had an excuse back then. Drek 1/10
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The quality of mercy is not strnen.

[Bud Brewster]

[tmlindsey]

I've tried to watch this pile of garbage three times and never could make it through to the end.

At least the first AvP was big, dumb fun. This thing is just awful and seems to throw things in just to "push the envelope" of bad taste.
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"Have you never wondered what it would be like to walk between the ticks and tocks of Time?"

[Bud Brewster]

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Tim, we obviously share the same nagative opinion of this retched movie.

However, me seem to differ on the merits of Alien vs Predator (2004). I really like it, and I bought the DVD.

It honors the original by pitting a strong female lead against the Aliens, including the Mother Alien. And it gives her the ally which we'd least expect — an alpha Predator who acknowledges her as a fellow hunter!

The final battle between the human/Predator team and the Mother Alien is terrific.

And the scene at the end aboard the Predator ship when the dead Predator's chest burst open suggests an incredible sequel which pits the Predators against an Alien/Predator hybrid aboard the spacecraft!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[tmlindsey]