Avp Movie Is Horrifying...
<div class="IPBDescription">but for all the wrong reasons</div> <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>*ahem* spolier alert.</span>
Wow. The real laughter started when she picked up the alien head sheild and tail-spear. Oh oh, and when the Predator makes his hand go "boom".. yeah, that was good too. Then they're like... pals.. or something. When they were both silloetted by the explosion, I suddenly had the lyrics of a song go through my head.. something like ... "imagine me and you, and you and me".......
So what was your favorite part?
Wow. The real laughter started when she picked up the alien head sheild and tail-spear. Oh oh, and when the Predator makes his hand go "boom".. yeah, that was good too. Then they're like... pals.. or something. When they were both silloetted by the explosion, I suddenly had the lyrics of a song go through my head.. something like ... "imagine me and you, and you and me".......
So what was your favorite part?
Comments
Yeah I never expected it to be any good. Someone try naming a good movie based on a game. Mm yeah baby. At least we can count on <span style='color:red'>Alone in the dark</span>
*cue crappy sellout theme song*
Doom is getting one. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It's a comic! A COMIC! ahhhhhh That's like saying the SpiderMan movie is based on a game (because there's easily 20 SpiderMan games out there).
First Mortal Kombat was ok. I liked Resident Evil (even though I hate the games).
MORTAL KOMBAT
Yeah I never expected it to be any good. Someone try naming a good movie based on a game. Mm yeah baby. At least we can count on <span style='color:red'>Alone in the dark</span>
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AVP wasn't 100% based on the game. At the end of Predator 2, in the spaceshape you see the head of an alien being shown off.
it still could of been sooo much darker (evil) if only the atmosphere from the game was injected into the movie it would of been alot better even amazing.
Like when you first get thrown into the deapths of Racoon city you've got all those zombies walking towards you and a few scenes l<span style='color:white'>at</span>er you come across those zombies eating that person but you feel so alone like your the only one alive.
<span style='color:white'>I</span>f that type of atmosphere was in the movie it w<span style='color:white'>oul</span>d <span style='color:white'>have</span> been amazing.
IF you seen the trailer for the Second one its looks ok, but some parts like the bit where they somehow have this huge door that closes the zombies in like they have been expecting it was kinda hmmmmm shudda been more of an outbreak y<span style='color:white'>o</span>u know.
<span style='color:white'>B</span>ut we shall see
<span style='color:red'>ok, ok nem i get the hint. You gramma Nazi</span>
DOOM has been getting a movie since 1993. yes, with DOOM 3 out now people are interested again, but I have no doubt it'll never happen. id has voiced many, many times they won't let this sort of BS happen to their liscenses and would rather see no DOOM movie at all than this sort of crap.
1.) Predator on Human action? Yeah, seriously, at the end I thought they were going to make out right there on the ice, although I'm pretty sure though mandibles on the P's mouth would've left the wierdest hickey ever.
2.) Too short. They needed more action, for longer periods. It seemed like the writers decided that killing everyone else but the girl and the Predator was a top priority, and should be done ASAP. It really seemed like they compressed a lengthy storyline into an under 90 minute movie, and it moves choppily through the middle and end.
3.) The alien mother at the end looked like pure and total cheese. I've seen some pregnant women waddle before, but the way this alien ran, I don't think that anyone could take the end in a serious manner. The people sitting near my friend and I couldn't, and neither could we.
I'd say it is a 7.3/10, and worth the $7.75 I paid for my ticket. The fight scenes in there were pretty damn good, and very well choreographed.
Like when you first get thrown into the deapths of Racoon city you've got all those zombies walking towards you and a few scenes l<span style='color:white'>at</span>er you come across those zombies eating that person but you feel so alone like your the only one alive.
<span style='color:white'>I</span>f that type of atmosphere was in the movie it w<span style='color:white'>oul</span>d <span style='color:white'>have</span> been amazing.
IF you seen the trailer for the Second one its looks ok, but some parts like the bit where they somehow have this huge door that closes the zombies in like they have been expecting it was kinda hmmmmm shudda been more of an outbreak y<span style='color:white'>o</span>u know.
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Get bored, Nem?
Actually, this is a basic retelling of the story with problems and good points included. So it's basically one giant bunch of <span style='color:red'>SPOILERS</span> .
The beginning of the movie begins with a black guy working for Weyland is searching for a bunch of scientists, including: our rock-climbing main character and some archeologists who conviently find a product placement pepsi-cola bottle cap on their aztec dig site.
They're then flied to a boat in antarctica and the rock-climbing scientist (throughout the whole movie I never really learned ANYONE'S name, they were said just about once and forgotten. The only one you'll remember is Weyland, because it's the only fairly memorable one). She doesn't want to bring anyone out on the ice, because it's miles for civilization and everyone's untrained...on walking.
Convienently for us, the following 3 things happen: She takes them anyway, no one has any trouble on the ice, and there's apparently an abandoned whaling site that the rock-climbing girl knew about but didn't bother telling anybody about. Well abandoning that...interesting plot hole, the acting for the next few minutes is okay (mostly because it's Lance Hendrikson's speech and some guy with a goatee), the Predators shoot down a laser that digs down to the temple that's under the ice, and the scientists prepare to dig, and then they're surprised by the big hole that goes right to the temple.
So they procede into the temple and the archeologists are able to read (apparently) Aztec, Egyptian and Cambodian perfectly between the two of them. Then they walk through the temple to the 'sacrifical chamber' featured oh-so-often in every single trailer. Well, now comes, in my mind, one of the greater flaws in the movie: The Predator thermal vision doesn't look like thermal vision. It looks like someone went nuts with photoshop in an attempt to make it look more visible than old thermal vision (that nad it only features orange and red as heat signatures, none of the 'full spectrum of various temperatures' stuff.
So, the team splits up; the team that goes on below find some Predator shoulder cannons and some eggs are sent up to the room above. Obviously all the people in the sacrifical chamber die (and everyone's favorite trailer part happens... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> ). The PG-13 rating everyone was worried about is fairly okay. They do show it in a decent amount. Not quite as much as the old movies, but the chest burster does burst through her chest.
So, all the doors close before anyone can get out. By this time the Predators have killed everyone above (which is actually some decent action - except the messed up Predator vision). So the Predators come down to the temple.
With the Predators in the temple, they want their shoulder cannons back so they use their (mightily screwed from the old Predator movies) cloaking devices and begin to kill of some humans before they start getting seperated and there's a big alien vs Predator fight scene. It's done fairly well and the 'wrestling moves' mentioned in another review didn't really seem to be there. The Predator acting is fairly good so far, but the humans is sub-par, including the fact one of the archeolgists happens to know everything about the pyrmaid and what's going on based on reading....I guess 1 hieroglyphic.
So the team gets seperated more, and whoever's not with the main character dies.
Well, eventually the people get chased by the Predators and Weyland (who has Asthma...I guess) has to stop. There's a decent part here - except I didn't know Asthma inhalers could be used as flamethrowers and I don't know where he got the lighter.
So, a Predator kills some aliens off and marks himself in an attempt to create plot, and the two humans 'barricade' themselves in a room (temple rearranges, convienently they find themselves in a nice room with a window ot the Predator). So the archeologist hand feeds you the story, since the Predators lured the humans into a trap - which isn't the story I was getting through the rest of the movie. I don't know how the Predators are luring humans to this temple with giant heat plumes that can only be seen through space - when it's for ancient Aztecs, Egyptians and Cambodians who specifically write on the wall in the sacrifical chamber "Hey, we want to be the chosen ones - people who choose to get sacrificed so Predators can hunt!"
So, maybe that guys on the wrong script or something...
So the two of them run off to befriend the lone remaining Predator (...of 3, I suppose). The archeologist gets killed by an alien who convienently leaves the girl alive. She meets the Predator who acts rightfully **** (probably because he has to be in the movie, and because she has his shoulder cannon), so he begins to blow up aliens right and left with it, while she spears one of the aliens that dropped down on him. So he figures they're all buddy-buddy now and makes here a shield and spear out of an alien.
So they run around to the egg room (...somehow), the Predator throws his self-destruct in the room and they run out the the exit of the temple (which seems a bit strange, being as the bomb takes about 30 seconds to count down in the other movies but they know where the exit is perfectly - I guess. An alien drops on the Predator and she finds a rail gun lieing on the floor to shoot it with (no, I'm not kidding). And she drops her stuff and the Predator and her jump on a sled that pulls them to the surface followed by a big fireball.
Barring some continutiy errors, we get to the service where he decides to make her part of his clan and then the Queen comes (which, even by today's possibility to seamlessly integrate CG characters - looks terrible). Eventually she spears the Predator before being knocked into the ocean. The the girl is given a spear like Danny Glover gets the pistol in Predator 2. The Predators fly off leaving her in a T-shirt and pants in the middle of antarctica. Which I think is a good ending - as it means she dies.
There we go, <span style='color:blue'>END SPOILERS</span> .
Overall the action scenes - which are a bit few and far between for an action movie, I give a 83/100, mostly because of the horrendous queen fight.
The Predators I give 80/100 - only because at one point the girl manages to run faster than the Predator, and their thermal vision is screwed up.
The Aliens get 90/100 - mostly because the queen looks like a silvery glowy blob that runs funny. Otherwise they're pretty good.
The Acting and Plot get about 24/100 - with 20 points going to Lance Hendrikson and the rest going to the Predators - who shouldn't really be doing acting anyway.
The movie overall gets about a 76/100 if you're willing to sever your ties with many of your fond memories of the old movies and just go with the action; however
The movie overall gets about 31/100 if you want to base it off continuity of the first 6 movies. Considering numerous facets - like they're on a pyramid...in Antarctica. The thermal vision is screwed up <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> ; the Predator 'shurikens' basically replace the disc and aren't as cool and they're overused a little (they're not that bad)...bah, I'll stop there.
It's worth watching, and the Predator action is probably something you'd want to add to your memory (banning a couple things); while the aliens are forgettable. The action scenes between the Predators and Aliens (while there's only about 5 of them, and 3 are rather short) are fairly good, so what you go in expecting, you'll basically get. People killing and dieing. Although, the plot is overly complicated for an action movie like this (which is probably why it has so many holes). Someone I was with said, "There's way to much talking in this movie." While he's basically a moron and doesn't know what he's talking about - there isn't enough action in the movie and lots of trite, thrown in crap that shouldn't be in there.
One thing for people: learn what clich? means. A pyramid under the ice in Antarctica is not a clich?. You find me one more movie with the same premise and you can say it's clich? (actually you'd need to find a lot more than one - but just try to find one to start).
thats grammatically impossible
Like when you first get thrown into the deapths of Racoon city you've got all those zombies walking towards you and a few scenes l<span style='color:white'>at</span>er you come across those zombies eating that person but you feel so alone like your the only one alive.
<span style='color:white'>I</span>f that type of atmosphere was in the movie it w<span style='color:white'>oul</span>d <span style='color:white'>have</span> been amazing.
IF you seen the trailer for the Second one its looks ok, but some parts like the bit where they somehow have this huge door that closes the zombies in like they have been expecting it was kinda hmmmmm shudda been more of an outbreak y<span style='color:white'>o</span>u know.
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yeah he did!
Dammmm yoou sweden!!!
and i'm suprised you didn't pick up on this UltimaGecko, but Weyland [ the main character i assume] is the same weyland from Weyland-Utani (can't remember the spelling) "the company" ring any bells? so she most likely didnt' die, unless... well, im not much for the timeline... but yeah... whatever. sounds like a good blockbuster rental then.
The only truely redeeming qualities of the movie were some of the acting sequences. Other than that, nothing else worth going to see it. You would expect that with a title such as AVP, they would be somewhat smart and try and make like 1/4 of the film a big fight between the Aliens and Predators. Just turns out to be a few moments plus lots of running. And there is too much talking in that movie, since every line they spoke was like driving a railroad tie into my brain, a millimeter at a time.
The only truely redeeming qualities of the movie were some of the acting sequences. Other than that, nothing else worth going to see it. You would expect that with a title such as AVP, they would be somewhat smart and try and make like 1/4 of the film a big fight between the Aliens and Predators. Just turns out to be a few moments plus lots of running. And there is too much talking in that movie, since every line they spoke was like driving a railroad tie into my brain, a millimeter at a time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Are you trying to catch nems attention or are you from sweden too?