# Alien vs Predator trailer is up **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903 "2003-11-01T23:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/1 "2003-11-01T23:07:04Z")
[Here it is](http://www.avp-movie.com/). Hopefully, the movie won’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/2 "2003-11-01T23:44:44Z")
But where’s Batman?! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/3 "2003-11-01T23:45:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*But where’s Batman?! \*\* Getting prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/4 "2003-11-01T23:57:21Z")
Ah, touché. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/5 "2003-11-01T23:57:53Z")
Glad to hear its finally being made. I first heard of this back in 1993. Nearly 10years in the making. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/6 "2003-11-02T00:11:21Z")
Yeah too bad there’s just about zero footage up. Why bother putting up a trailer if you’re only in pre production? Anyone else think the story so far is eye rollingly stupid? I liked the script I heard years ago a lot better (I think that was the basis of the comic a colony was overrun by aliens and in the end a female human was invited to come along with the predators) and the maker of that terrible resident evil is involved? Bad sign. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/7 "2003-11-02T00:21:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darkhold \* > \*\*Yeah too bad there’s just about zero footage up. > > Why bother putting up a trailer if you’re only in pre production? > \*\* Well, this is clearly more of a teaser than a trailer - just close-ups of the masks and a lot of daramtic sound effects. To me it only becomes a “trailer” when actual footage from the film is included. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/8 "2003-11-02T01:53:04Z")
Correct, it’s just a teaser to get people interested (or to let non-obsessive folks not on the 'net aware it exists). Principal photography started only within the last week or two so there isn’t anything to put in a trailer anyway. Word of warning, the director is Paul W.S. Anderson, the talentless hack who made _Soldier_ (with Kurt Russell) and _Resident Evil._ He also made _Event Horizon_, which some people apparently enjoyed for reasons unfathomable to me. Bottom line, don’t get your hopes up for _AvP._ I know I keep saying that about stuff (e.g., _Underworld_ a few weeks ago), but I don’t say it lightly. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/9 "2003-11-02T02:43:00Z")
I never saw Soldier, but RE was a crime against man. Event Horizon was ok but it made me wonder if the guy had just watched Hellraiser and made a crappy space version of it. Don’t open the box! I mean Don’t Fold space time! ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/10 "2003-11-02T03:22:56Z")
I rather enjoyed the Resident Evil movie. Sure, I wouldn’t give it any awards and as a horror movie it stinks, but as a piece of entertainment it’s quite alright. So, from where I’m standing, Aliens vs Predator has a chance of being enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/11 "2003-11-02T04:34:39Z")
YESSS! There is an Invisible Pink Unicorn! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/12 "2003-11-02T04:53:34Z")
No matter how bad the director is, how do you _screw up_ an _Aliens vs. Predator_ movie? You have space monsters thrashing each other for two hours! At the very _least_, you’d break even. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/13 "2003-11-02T06:53:54Z")
That’s right **Ranchoth**. Some folks also wondered how you could screw up a sequel to highlander… Oh, this movie is gonna suck. I just know it! Damn it all to hell but this is going to suck and I so desperatly want it not to! ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/14 "2003-11-02T06:59:25Z")
How can you screw up an alien movie? You have face huggers chest bursters and huge aliens with fangs claws and deadly tails. I submit Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/15 "2003-11-02T07:04:56Z")
I actually kinda liked _Alien[sup]3[/sup]._ It was not a bad movie, just very different from the first two. Ressurection, however, was garbage. _shudders at the memory of that stupid pink monster_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/16 "2003-11-02T07:25:46Z")
I notice they’re going to call it AVP, so that they remove three of the coolest and most informative words in the title. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/17 "2003-11-02T08:03:58Z")
Feh, if it’s not like the original [Atari Jaguar video game,](http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/atari/jaguar/Alien-vs-Predator.html) it won’t be half as cool… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/18 "2003-11-02T13:49:55Z")
The Dark Horse comic was really cool, but I don’t have high hopes for the storyline they are going with on the movie. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-trailer-is-up/210903/19 "2003-11-02T13:54:04Z")
Lance Henriksen is in this, so I’m keeping some hope. I just have one huge and overriding wish– No buckets of alien goo. In some ‘making of’ documentary for Alien Resurrection, there was a scene of multiple gofers slogging buckets of alien goo and dumping it all over, and the director calling for more. More goo, he says! The alien needs to be gooier! No, it doesn’t! The alien doesn’t leave a trail of slime behind it everywhere it goes! Yeah, it drools like a faucet in closeups, but it’s not a goddamn slug! You could outrun a goddamn slug!