Anyone see AVP?

I just saw this. Save your money. It's a kid movie.
It's really not that bad, for a formula. The action doesn't save it from the lack of story.
 
I just watched it last night, and I wasn't dissapointed. Of course I was expecting it to be absolute @#$% intentionally, but that's another story. It wasn't awful or terrible or all those other bad adjectives, but it wasn't good either.

Spoilers below

My biggest problem is that in the Predator movies, the whole point is the character development as the human chars learn about the threat they face. That and the suspense of never seeing the damn thing until the very end. AVP just didn't bother with suspense and anybody watching already new all about the predator's lifestyle and stuff.

Ditto with the Aliens. Part of the brilliance of the first 2 movies (the latter two never happened) was the mystery. The director very carefully didn't show anything until he absolutely had to, and the movies were better for it. And for god's sake, the best part of the Alien movies is the military aspect. There needs to be grunts and sgts and bigass guns and future tech and all that.

Biggest problem with the movie is that it took place in present-day earth. Damn thing should have taken place in the Aliens storyline, which had a much deeper mythos and depth than the Predator storyline which was just South America and then LA. Bleh

Also (last one, I promise) the story didn't even adhere to itself. In addition to the idiotic archeological ramblings about Egyptians, Cambodians and Mexicans somehow being all derived from the same original race that lived on Antartica...(which was habitable a few hundred years ago, really!), they insisted that this Predator event happened every 100 years...so in 1904 it was a whaler's base. But what happened in 1804? or 1704? All of the cultures that they named kept written records or at least oral traditions. Somebody would have noticed something. I don't mind suspending my disbelief for some things, but if you're going to rationalize it, do it well.

Bottom line: Would have been @#$% angry if I had spent $9.50 on it. My score: 3/10. Couple of scenes were excellent (the pred ship flying overhead unnoticed, and the Pred giving the chick the alien head as a shield, but then were ruined by no follow-through. She didn't use the sheild. Not Once. ) but those scenes were more than offset by the idiot direction, too-fast character killoff, bland characters in the first place, and etc. It was almost a 5 until the last scene, too.
 
skorgu
...good review.

I must agree strongly with all you have said...

I watched the movie and walked out feeling a bit bad that the movie seemed to lack a person who loved the other movies. The "P" movies are good...they are kinda funny, but they do present the "P" in such a way as being an interesting thing to learn about. (Remember in "P2" the part where the "P" is in the bathroom and the old lady has the broom?...very funny)


I liked the first 2 "A" movies and had the writer and director of this AVP movie shown a bit more interest in them movies we could have really had a great movie here...BUT this movie seems like a rip-off of the AVP video game. as if it were just aimed at making the video game more interesting to play?

I too share your ideas about how this movie could have been fixed. It needed to be re-worked,,,if not from the whole start, then even a little set of changes could have helped it...like the skull shield,,,like the use of more interesting things for people to do becides run and die...l


There is one part of the movie that shows what this movie could have reached for.....the part where we watch a few "P" guys standing on the top of the pile with hundreds and hundreds of "A" going up after them,,,,This could have been GREAT!,,,,this is the type of battle we came to see!!!!

But this part of the movie lasted a whole 4 seconds, and was filmed too darkly to see clearly anyway.....too bad...could have based more of the movie on that one part and had a killer movie...
 
Didn't get to see the movie yet, but I played the game (both AvP 1 and 2). The game is decent, you can play either the role of a Predator, on Alien or an unfortunate Marine that happens to be caught in the middle of events. The Marine is the most difficult to play, while the Predator is piece of cake (strong, good weapons, cloak, what could you possibly ask for more) ?
Anyway, the movie is on the list. Good or bad, never mind, I watched all Terminators too ;)
 
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