Just watched the new Alien Versus Predator film

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I can honestly say that I was pleseantly suprised, it wasn't great but it was alot better than I had feared. As a straight up action flick it worked very well.
 

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Just got back from the cinema watching it as well and i can honestly say i would not be too bothered if i never watched that again. Wasnt so bad but defo not one for the collection.
 

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How did it fare compared to "Alien" or "Predator"? I know those are classics but was it even close to being as good?
 

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ya i have to agree with pikeh...it thought it played like a shit horror film....also i took itself way to seriously...its a film made from two other alien films merged together to fight so i really dont think it should try to come up with some plotline and insted see itself as what it is... a chance for cool special effects and good action while we watch these 2 beasties kick seven shades out of each other...in the end it was very poor in my opinion
 

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How did it fare compared to "Alien" or "Predator"? I know those are classics but was it even close to being as good?

Not even remotely close. As i said would never ever think to watch that again if it was on tv unlike the first two predator movies or Aliens for that matter.
 

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I thought it was okay but nothing more than that, doubt i'll see it again.

What pisses me off the most is that Hollywood keeps pushing teenage love stories into every single movie. It's getting boring, the actors mostly suck and it doesn't belong in action movies(examples are f.ex Transformers).
 

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It wasn't as good as the first (which I actually quite liked)
 

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i thought it was funny:p especially the first deaths...and more the incident in the hospital rofl story line was a bit dog shit but still it was funny gore and fighting
 

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But without spoiling anything, is it what it sayes on the tin? As in, how ti's "hyped" as?

Meaning, is it two races fighting eachother and a couple of dozen people getting splattered in the crossfire?

And as such, as it is meant to be, old style horror splatter movie, is it good?
 

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theres more aliens fighting predator which the first one lacked imo, but as always the human spoil the film they should just leave them out tbh
 

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It was a good movie I thought. Trying not to compare it with the originals is easy as its not even in the same league. But its much more like Aliens, as AVP 1 was to Alien. Many more guns larger environment etc. Ended with a Nuke........
 

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How did it fare compared to "Alien" or "Predator"? I know those are classics but was it even close to being as good?

Even those two movies named are not in the same league. Alien is a classic even won an oscar for set design. Predator was just another Arnie gun film, although probably in his top 3 films it was no classic.

Alien was an immense character driven film with virtually no gore. It just used a Hitchcock style thrill ride to keep you on the edge of your seats. Unlike all the other Alien movies which have been nothing more than a gun and gore show. Of those Aliens was the best.

Often imitated but never in my opinion equaled. It was filmed in 1979 before CGI really existed. Which is why you never really get full views of the Alien. It would probably have looked silly and too fake. But it all added to mystery and the tension. Still remember being scared shitless when the first Alien popped out of John Hurts chest.

Seen the new one and won't be buying the DVD. OK, entertaining but no classic.
 

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But without spoiling anything, is it what it sayes on the tin? As in, how ti's "hyped" as?

Meaning, is it two races fighting eachother and a couple of dozen people getting splattered in the crossfire?

And as such, as it is meant to be, old style horror splatter movie, is it good?

Yes, that is exactly what it is.
 

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This movie is a cash cow wich end shows they are planning another followup to earn some more! Crap movie anyhow.
 

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Yes, that is exactly what it is.

Excellent.

If i want to see "horror"(never understood the scary part of aliens), i'll go watch aliens. If i want to see a jamaican bodybuilder smash epolpe around, i'll watch predator. If i want total carnage and senseless violence, i'll watch AVSP, as it is, the games are too.
 

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I thought it was better than i expected, (which wasnt hard considering the first avp was dire) if you try to forget about the humans its not so bad and the predator in it is awesome i thought :)

Not sure if it was deliberate but i saw a comparison to aliens with the ripley style female, hicks style male and newt style little kid. made me laugh when the guy said "get to the chopper!" since arnies lines in predator are freakin awesome, regardless of what anyone says predator is an almighty classic :p
 

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i saw the trailer and tbh it made me feel a bit queezy, i liked the old style horror/scifi's where the gore was great but not enough to traumatize me :(
 

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How come only one predator went to kill the aliens, i was expecting a hundred :p. Good action, but the hospital scene was pretty sick though.
 

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How *snip*ough.

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The worst film i've seen in the last 12 months
 

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Thought it was rather shit tbh.

That Jesse bird is stupidly hot tho, gezz... Like the "hospital" bit with her ;)
 

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I thought it was pretty good, but I was confused as to how one predator can kill a load of aliens but in the first film the predators got annihilated.
 

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Thought it was rather shit tbh.

That Jesse bird is stupidly hot tho, gezz... Like the "hospital" bit with her ;)

I preferred the swimming pool bit personally :) You must be into some goreporn.
 

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I thought it was pretty good, but I was confused as to how one predator can kill a load of aliens but in the first film the predators got annihilated.

apparently in the 1st avp film the 3 predators were noob teenagers on thier right of passage to man?hood
 

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worst movie I've seen in a long long time ... I want my £10 and wasted time back :twak: seriously, every character who died in the movie deserved it because of the worst acting ever performed by mankind.

if you want senseless gore fun and action, watch Planet Terror and/or Death Proof and avoid A vs. P: Requiem at any cost :puke:
 

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