# "Alien vs Predator" is a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863 "2004-07-26T00:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/41 "2004-07-29T19:29:25Z")
> [@1010011010](#): > > What I think is a great question is how this temple escaped being ground into fine dust by however many years of glaciers cruising around on top of it. With the tech the Predators have, this was probably a trivial matter for them. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/42 "2004-07-29T19:52:05Z")
> [@maniondl](#): > > And if you accept the AvP comic book as canon, the predators themselves aren’t immune to the acid. Hunt leaders use it to burn Marks of Adulthood™ into young predators after a successful hunt. Not just the comic book(s), but the [Aliens vs Predator: Prey](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553565559/103-0724831-5547848) book features this as well. The main character is also marked in this manner once she demonstrates her hunting prowess to the Predators and is accepted into their society. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/43 "2004-08-04T00:33:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I am all FOR this movie, so long as there’s plenty messy, violent, Alien vs. Predator action… [It’s rated PG-13.](http://www.avp-movie.com) 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/44 "2004-08-04T00:49:16Z")
> [@Attrayant](#): > > [It’s rated PG-13.](http://www.avp-movie.com) 'Nuff said. _ **What?!** _ Oh, that is just so fucking lame! I’d been holding out hope up 'til now, but… forget it, man. Aliens v. Predators, and it’s PG-13? Assholes. Idiot assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/45 "2004-08-04T01:07:59Z")
I bet they can show Aliens and Predators being torn to pieces and still be PG-13. Probably, they just can’t show humans being ripped up. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/46 "2004-08-04T01:37:52Z")
I don’t recall Predator being all that gory and it still got an R rating. They’ll have to cut out any pig-stabbing in AVP. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/47 "2004-08-04T01:41:54Z")
Actually, now that I think about it, this might not be such a big deal. The MPAA is so institutionally fucked that I think most of the earlier Alien/Predator movies probably would have gotten PG-13s in todays movie market, because the MPAA doesn’t give a shit about violence, so long as there’s no nudity or bad language. So we can still get the ultraviolence, but we will be deprived of seeing the aliens and predators cursing each other out while having sex. I can live with that. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/48 "2004-08-04T01:45:24Z")
> [@Attrayant](#): > > I don’t recall Predator being all that gory and it still got an R rating. • Blain getting hit in the chest with the Predator’s laser weapon-thing • Mac getting shot in the head at close range; blood spills out of his head onto the camera • Dillon’s arm getting shot off and continuing to shoot laying on the ground. • Some standard R-rated fare during the raid on the base. (“Stick around.”) Probably not enough for an R today, certainly enough in 1987. So maybe there’s hope yet. Plus, I don’t think the Aliens and Predators will be dropping F-bombs and pussy jokes on each other… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/49 "2004-08-04T01:47:00Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > we will be deprived of seeing the aliens and predators cursing each other out while having sex. > > I can live with that. … I’m sending you a bill for the brain bleach to remove the image you’ve just planted in my brain… ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/50 "2004-08-04T01:47:08Z")
Okay, okay you didn’t have to say it twice! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/51 "2004-08-04T02:08:57Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Probably not enough for an R today, certainly enough in 1987. So maybe there’s hope yet. Plus, I don’t think the Aliens and Predators will be dropping F-bombs and pussy jokes on each other… Predator 2 - “Ok pussy-face…it’s your move…” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/52 "2004-08-11T22:57:35Z")
Bump: The movie’s premiere has been cancelled, as have its advance critics’ screenings. _Not_ a good sign. Actually, the first-and-worst sign was hiring Paul W.S. Anderson to write and direct the thing, but this is just the latest echoing bang of the hammer on the coffin lid. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/53 "2004-08-11T23:23:33Z")
There’s a fight scene posted on [www.apple.com/trailers](http://www.apple.com/trailers). It… doesn’t look good. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/54 "2004-08-12T02:45:17Z")
Paul W.S. Anderson could admit that the released clips and trailers are all he’s managed to film and the rest of it is a puppetshow with an alien whapping a predator Punch-and-Judy style, and I’d still go see it. I will, however, buy a jumbo bucket of popcorn so I can throw handfuls at the screen during the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/55 "2004-08-12T03:24:18Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s a fight scene posted on [www.apple.com/trailers](http://www.apple.com/trailers). It… doesn’t look good. Ok, what am I missing? I just watched both clips and they were great! Better than I expected. 1000 times better than **anything** in Alien 4 or Predator 1 and 2! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/56 "2004-08-12T04:05:47Z")
In fact, in regards to the ‘fight’ clip- Watching that huge, merciless lizard-man thrash that alien against the walls, for the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for the things! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/57 "2004-08-12T06:41:00Z")
I like all of the Alien films (though felt the first two were the best of the bunch, obviously), but seeing the trailers for this movie…I am not enthused. Frankly, if nothing else, because we know that the aliens are going to lose! If it’s on earth in the 21st century, there’s no other way it can come out. And the trailers just seem a bit…Hokey. There’s something about them that just screams “This movie is going to suck”. I hope I’m wrong. I’d personally love to see an Alien movie where the Aliens manage to make it to Earth and completely take it over. Kind of like the Aliens comic book series a while back. I believe the issue in question was “Earth Hive”(though Nightmare Asylum was quite good too…too bad the conclusion just went way over the top) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/58 "2004-08-12T06:42:08Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > Wow! Aliens-TC for Doom! Glad to see another _old timer!_ 😉 > > I had more fun playing that conversion than I ever had playing Rebellion’s official PC game. Basically because, hate to admit it, the PC game was too damn scary and too damn hard! Even with the (limited) in game save patch I could never get very far, and was so worn out that I didn’t want to play anymore! It was like a real, future, Aliens vs a Marine military simulator. It wasn’t fun, it was work. I’d finally finish a level and say, “God, I do not want to go back to that any time soon!” I tried to play AVP and lost my nerve long before I got too far. Though AVP2 is a favorite of mine and is quite creepy at some parts. At least in the early parts of the game. The interlocking plotline for the three species was quite cool as well, where you actually have to play the game from all three viewpoints to get the entire plot. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/59 "2004-08-12T17:40:41Z")
My husband has announced that he wants to see this movie. I just checked it on RottenTomatoes, AND THERE IS NO RATING! It’s coming out **tomorrow** and they don’t have enough reviews for a rating! I am scared. Very, very scared. But not in the way the director wants me to be, I think. It looks like hubby’s going to the movies by himself tomorrow 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863/60 "2004-08-12T20:07:14Z")
I’ll go to this movie;but only if it includes some sexy women stripping down to their underwear! Unfortunatey, Sigourney Weaver is a bit too old to be doing this! ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-is-a-movie/256863.md?page=4)