I’ve been hoping for this movie to get made for years. Now it is!
Anyone have any gossip about it? I heard from a friend that Sigourney Weaver was against the movie because it would screw up the Aliens timeline. Anyone agree with that?
Think it’ll be a good movie? Or a flop like Aliens 3?
Only eight months to go.
This is going to be crap. Pure crap.
Well, maybe some of the eye-candy will be cool, but that is it.
I expect this to be added to a future “things that never happened” thread.
Oh my gosh. I just heard about this. It sounds like it will be doomed.
It’ll be nice to see Lance Henrikson in it, though.
What are you talking about? There were no alien movies after Aliens.
There were no alien movies after Aliens.
There were no alien movies after Aliens.
There were no alien movies after Aliens.
Om mani padme hum…
Add the total writers plus the total directors involved, divide by five. The closer to one your get the worse it will be. If 1< …run away.
Oh, for Christ sakes people, go watch Alien 3 again, get over the fact they killed all your favorites off, and enjoy it for the good movie that it is.
Alien Ressurrection, on the other hand…yeesh!
And yes, Aliens v Predator is going to be crap. Crap, crap, crap. it could have been cool because there have been plenty of comic books and video games on the subject that have great storylines. But this is being put together by the same guy who took the fantastic Resident Evil story and made a big ball of crap with it. And, yes, he is fucking up the Alien timeline, because he’s setting the fucking movie on Earth DURING THE PRESENT DAY!!!.
If it took place after Alien Ressurrection, being on Earth wouldn’t be a bit deal. Even if it took place after any of the other Alien movies, on a far off planet, that’d be fine. But no, this joke is trying to make it out so that every pyramid on earth was created by the Predators to house xenomorphs so they could come and go threw their rights of manhood. Those that won left no aliens around and left ruins…those that failed, blew themselves up, destroying all the aliens, and leaving the history books to wonder “what happened to the indigeonous people of this area that suddenly dissappeared.”
It may have some pretty cool looking moments, but a lot of the archeological team are going to need to die in order to create a decent enough swarm to fight off the predators, which will leave, well, maybe two humans alive to get caught in the crossfire, and even then…a research team won’t have that many people, so I don’t know where they’re going to get enough fodder to create a good enough hive.
That, and the fact that humanity’s first contact with the xenomorph doesn’t happen until Alien some couple hundred years in the future…not several hundred years in our past.
It may have some cool visuals, but it’s going to be a fucking joke.
I agree. It’s gonna be a real shitfest.
(But I’ll still cough up my $7.00 to see it.)
NO.
This is gonna be a truely crappy downlo…er, movie going experience compared to the other movies it will premier with. Mostly because of the director.
But if the story is right it might not screw up the timeline of the Alien movies. Becuase since it happens in Antartica and if almost everybody dies off (which they probably will) then nobody will say what they saw and therefore the crew of the Nostromo will still get a big surprise during dinner. Maybe even give more reason to The Company’s desire for a live specimen.
My guess is it will be a good B movie but a bad summer blockbuster, sorta like Tremors.
I read a couple of the comic books which took place in the future, on some colony world and that seemed to fit perfectly with the Alien story line. Why they felt the need to make this new movie take place on present day earth I have no idea. Except maybe, it will enable them to create some backstory to make it all fit.
Like if the Corporation gets wind of the existence of Aliens, that’d explain why they’re willing to invest all the time & money setting up off-world colonies to begin with.
Plus, by making the movie take place in the present day, it leaves room for lots of sequels.
They don’t need humans though. Maybe they round up a bunch of sea lions or something as incubators. Also, I seem to remember in the comics that Predators purposely seed planets with Aliens, so they could bring a bunch of eggs with them, no?
I didn’t think Resident Evil was that bad for a video game adaptation. Maybe the director has a bigger budget and more experience under his belt now. I hope so, because the whole aliens running amok on some remote arctic research base has pretty much been overdone by now.
I thought Resident Evil was wretched for a video game adaptation. I mean, it wasn’t a bad movie… it just wasn’t very much like the video game it claimed to be based on. Aside from a very few scenes, I found myself wondering why the hell they’d bothered renting the license and trademark at all.
Aliens vs. Predator, now… yeah, I’m nervous. The director has a track record ranging from mediocrity to “agonizing crapfest”, which is not good when one is making an effects-laden blockbuster full of people in alien suits. The reports cropping up occasionally on Ain’t It Cool News are not encouraging… and if anyone wants this flick to succeed, it’s the geek squad at Ain’t It Cool News…
You ever want something really really badly? You hear about it wait paitently for it finally give up on it then suddendly out of the blue someone says “hey here you got exactly what you wanted!!!..only it’s been pissed on and covered with monkey feces.”
That sums up my feelings about this. Yeah I kinda still want it but I don’t want to have to hose it off to look for the good parts.
Ooo! Ooo! Darkhold I get it now! Some fanboy got his hands on one of those monkey paws and has doomed us all!
DOOM I SAY!!! DOOOOOOOM!!!
I’d rather see an Alien vs Predator that had no humans in it, no recognisable dialogue, no subtitles either, and just full on war. Then the audience could choose a side.
They’d never greenlight such an idea, I suppose. But I think it’d be cool anyway.
heh I wish I would have thought of the monkey paw connection before this. That’s EXACTLY what happened here.
I wish for a movie with two alien badasses.
wish granted but it will have the director of one of the crappiest movies you’ve ever seen and he’ll pick the worst backstory he possibly can. HAW HAW HAW
NOOOoooooooooooooo
Well, of course. The Company obviously diverted the Nostromo to LV-426 and put an android aboard with specific instructions to ensure the retrieval of a live alien specimen at any cost including the lives of the crew because they’d never encountered a xenomorph before and had no idea what was on that totally desolate rock. That makes sense.
For fuck’s sake, Elvis - if you’re going to pedant on film continuity, at least make sure it’s a film you know something about.
It’s been a long time since I saw Alien all the way through but I always assumed that the company put androids on all their ships secretly to protect company interests without letting people know they were being watched. The ship was diverted to the warning beacon to investigate (but wasn’t really equipped to bring any of that Tech back) but the android saw the alien as a HUGE potential asset for the company and acted accordingly.
But like I said it’s been awhile so I maybe 100% wrong on this interpretation.
Its hard to imagine this will be anything other than a special effects fiasco of the same quality as Independence Day or Alien Resurrection.
Well yeah, but Independence Day & Alien Resurrection were both kinda fun to watch at least. I’ll be happy if it’s at least as “not bad” as they were.
Hey! I liked Independence Day.