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Aliens vs Predator vs Bill Paxton vs Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Hotlead Junkie
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There is quite a lenghtly discussion thread about the Aliens vs Predator series of games over in G+T. I thought we needed a thread dedicated to just the movies, what include
- Alien
- Aliens
- Alien 3
- Alien Ressurection
- Predator
- Predator 2
- Aliens vs Predator
- Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Discussion of the games can be found here http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=106090
Sorry for the breif opening post but I'm sure this thread will be filled with discussion soon. So, get on it :P
- Alien
- Aliens
- Alien 3
- Alien Ressurection
- Predator
- Predator 2
- Aliens vs Predator
- Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Discussion of the games can be found here http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=106090
Sorry for the breif opening post but I'm sure this thread will be filled with discussion soon. So, get on it :P
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This one is mainly for the discussion of this perticular series. Sure a few are bad but a majority are great. Plus if no-one is interested in this thread it will simply drop off the first page anyway.
AvP has grown on me, but I went into AvP:R expecting nothing and was still dissapointed. I really can't think of any redeeming features of that movie aside from the kid dying.
The rest of the films are good except for Alien: Resurrection.
I watched Resurrection a few days ago, it's just too crammed with squick to be enjoyable viewing. Arguably the best part of the movie was Ron Pearlman shooting the spider. Cracks me up every time
Aliens -> Alien -> Predator -> Alien 3 -> Predator II -> and then the rest and they're all bad.
I pray to the movie gods that Alien 5 will be directed by Ridley Scott and will finally turn the downwards slope of the franchise around. I heard something about a prequel in the works?
Oh, and I just realized we have not had a proper Alien movie in over 13 years. (the AvP shit does not count here) And we haven't got a good Alien movie in something like 23 years.
What the hell, movie industry, what the hell
Fixed.
I'm assuming Weaver won't be interested after doing 4 movies, but I could be wrong, and there wern't any reports of xenomorph activity aside from the times Ripley got involved, but there obviously could be coverups.
The company obviously knew about the boneship on LV426 after it was revealed in Aliens that Burke sent newt's family to those exact grid co-ordinates to investigate. Most likley LV426 was set up specifically to be a research station for the xenomorphs unbeknownst to the colonists.
As far as the movies go, the only evidence of the xenomorphs was the boneship, but was the boneship destroyed along with the colony? It doesn't make much sense that the company was so desperate to get ahold of Ripley in Alien 3 and Resurrection if there were still eggs/aliens on LV426. They could of probably gone down in the time Ripley was in cryosleep/dead and got some specimins, but maybe prefered to get ahold of Ripley as to avoid the whole horrible death factor that would most likley come to pass if they went to LV426 themselves. But then again she DID have a queen inside her, but they probably didn't know that.
So, if the boneship was not destroyed (I forget how big the explosion was), there is a chance they could of gotten some eggs in Ripley's down-time and there could be a 'prequel' set inbetween the movies I guess.
A sequel would most likley involve earth, maybe another situation like in AvP where the predator activates the temple since there were apparentley aliens on earth anyway, so I'm imagining a sequel, set maybe a century after Ressurection where a temple gets activated and a team of badass marines gets sent in to take a look. Maybe a cross between Aliens and AvP?
I'm sure all the Predators are pretty uniqe since they seem to wear different armours and have different trophies and weapons. Maybe that mask wasn't the same model as the other masks.
Most likley it was just lazy writing.
Ah, that is a good point, I did forget that the android did know about the aliens before the ship landed on LV426. There is a good chance that there were other attempts to get eggs before they sent the Nostromo down there.
The suggestion by the team was to nuke the colony, but shortly thereafter it was discovered that the place was going to go critical anyway. It was still a huge explosion but it wasn't the 'nuke it from orbit' they intended.
The "canon" reason for that is that apparently the Predators in AvP have shitty armour as they're basically kids.
So there is definitely room for a prequel, I just wish that they keep it in line with Alien, dark and suspenseful, with space flight being comparatively primitive. Alien is still one of my favorites when it comes to portraying space - it's huge, harsh, empty and hostile.
Edit: argh, too late, point already made
but then, they are quite different in tone
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The sentry guns, and when they first discover the facility
and the beeping radars are the best
I'd say the cocoon nursery was pretty horrific.
i first saw it when i was like 10 or something and i had nightmares for weeks from the part where they found the lady or whatever right before the chestburster pops out.
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directed by who
Geek: Remixed - A Decade's worth of ruined pop culture memories
Xbox Live - Fatboy PDX
And Danny Trejo?
I am confused already.
At least the plot seems basic enough and to the point;
robert rodriguez
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Geek: Remixed - A Decade's worth of ruined pop culture memories
Xbox Live - Fatboy PDX
I'll see if I can find the stills that were released too.
i stand corrected
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