I caught this movie on HBO last night. I enjoyed it. Everybody told me not to bother in the theater cause it sucked, but I disagree.
They didn’t go into the typical horror movie crap, they just made a pretty good ass-kickin movie. There wern’t an overload of cliches I have come to expect from the series. In fact the ‘chick who walks out alive’ was done better than most, and didn’t really bother me . She didn’t suddenly turn into a super-warrior out of the blue, she just got lucky and happened to make it while the rest of the whiny, arrogant, puss-bags got messed up like they deserved.
The death of the main predator hit me sadder than most movie human deaths. That was one hard core, bad-ass, skull-spittin’ mofo. He had his super bomb, and eventually got his gun back, but he was rocking and crushing through slimy alien ass with a couple knives and a Krull thingy. Dude deserved to live, but died like a hero.
…oddly enough, I’d have to agree. I was warned off the movie, and only saw it on DVD a few months ago. What I liked was that most of the characters were pretty realistic and the story cliche-lite. Take Lance Henriksen’s character for instance: I was expecting to find out that he was part of some deeper conspiracy, one of the bad guys, only to find out that what we saw was what we got… a rich dude on an exploration.
At the risk of being screamed at, I have to agree with both of you. I, too, had heard the same bad reviews, but went to the theater when it came out anyway.
I was in no way disappointed. It was pretty darn good, IMHO.
One of the things I really, REALLY liked was what Banquet Bear said: the Lance Henriksen character was really just what he appeared to be. Nothing more, nothing less. There are so many of these type movies that are so full of cliches that you want to slit your wrists just to end the pain…
Sanaa Lathan’s character getting her “warrior mark” at the end was very powerful.
I also enjoyed it, but of course I didn’t go into it expecting Citizen Kane. I expected lots of fighting between Predators and Aliens, and it delivered that in a satisfying manner.
I would have preferred it take place in the future, the plot point about that early human civilization and the pyramid with all those culture’s features was kinda dumb. Without that crap it would been a better film.
But still, thumbs up. I particularly like the bit where the predator slices off half the alien’s head with its spinning blade thing. Good time, good times.
How odd! We were watching this same movie last night. Synchronicity. My boyfriend wanted to watch it and then fell asleep halfway through, so I slogged through it and survived, mostly intact.
I thought it was entertaining but predictable. Better than I thought, but I expected it to be abyssmal, so that’s damning with faint praise. Seriously, a temple in Antarctica? With ample evidence of alien intelligence, just left there? Sloppy ending. Not my cuppa.
Decent movie but the Predators sure seem like high-tech pu…wimps. Without their shoulder guns, the predators tore them up. Arnie and Ripley would have made short work of all of them with a butcher knife some dental floss.
If it was a completely stand-alone film… maybe. But AvP was billed as the big dramatic merger between two successful franchises and ended up doing a disservice to both. The elements stolen from theDarkhorse comic books worked reasonably well. Too bad they didn’t just adapt them completely.
I thought it was decent enough. Not as good as the Alien or Predator movies but it was short, fast paced and reasonably entertaining. Would I buy it? No. Would I netflix it again? maybe.
I think the movie was a 6.5 on a 1-10. It was decent. If they would have completely got rid of the humans all together and just made it about the AvP it would have been much better.
I was disappointed that the Pred and the chick bonded. Very unrealistic. He should have skulled her at the end. Because thats what Preds do.
No, Preds respect and honour prey that defeat them or their members in fair combat. Since the woman, saved his life, it would have been dishonourable to skull her.
I’ve managed to see most of this. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be.
The Galactic Dumbass Award goes to Lance Henrikson’s character when, after getting let go by the Predator (who, I think, sees that Lance has cancer (?)), decides to be Mr. Bad-Ass and attack the Predator anyway. He deserved getting ginsu-ed.
Do you think there’ll be a sequel? I did like the Alien/Predator hybrid at the end.
Mrs. Evil Captor loves this move, and I like it, too. The fanboys who dissed it when it came out are all persons of the sort I can’t describe properly outside the Pit.
It almost sated my cravings for some Predator vs. Alien action.
It could have been a bit longer, and the Predators could have kicked a bit more butt, but then, the Predators we see are usually the youngun’s out to earn their stripes, right?
It leaves the franchise open to lots more movies if they want. I hope they do. It was all good fun. I own it, and re-watch it occasionally.
Since I didn’t have high expectations for the movie, I wasn’t disappointed. All-in-all, decent A-v-P knife/gun-fu fight movie.
But I didn’t care for the discontinuity in the development of larval Aliens from the original Alien/s movies (Evil Captor, does this make me a “fanboy?”)
Oddly enough, I didnt like this movie in the theater. I thought it just came up short. But I also caught it on HBO the other nite, and I actually liked it the second time. Not to shabby really.
Sounds like you’re nitpicking, not dissing. I’m just tired of all the fanboys who’ve never liked a fantasy/SF flick other than LOTR and Star Wars I. Maybe that identifies you, I dunno.
Meh . . . didn’t much care for it. Some of the action scenes were OK, but I had to wonder why they spent so much time fleshing out characters and then just kill them off. After a while, it just got to be like
Weyland: I’m interested in leaving my mark on history, which is why I have put together a team to go out in the middle of nowhere, braving elements, and my own sickness as I mastermind this expedition and – (dies suddenly).
Scottish dude: I’m a loving father of two sons, see here they are, and I love them, and I hope they love me, and I’m trapped in this pyramid with a tough tunnel driller who also has a son, and that’s why quitting is not an op–(dies suddenly).
Archaelogist dude: I have my own passions for my own field. Let me tell you about the mysteries of the ancient world and the folklore of my native Italy while – (dies suddenly).
I mean, the movie just built them up like a stack of blocks and knocked them down. One instance of this, I could understand, but all the supporting cast going out like that without any closure? It’s like the director was halfway through the shoot when he suddenly remembered an urgent appointment and had to wrap the whole thing up that afternoon.
The temple looked pretty cheesy, too. Frank Capra could have come up with creepier-looking hieroglyphics.
And count me in with the people who felt that the predators would have nailed that poor guide’s skull to the nearest wall, no matter how much she’d helped their fallen comrade. These things are a different species which hunts us for sport. I don’t think empathy really enters into it.
This movie should have been soooo much better, and this director should have stuck to bringing martial arts video games to life.
