[QUOTE=shijinn]
i loved Aliens, and Predator was nice. the sequel for Predator wasn’t so hot and it is too bad Aliens stopped at two movies. the movie AvP was bad too. now AvP2 is out and i plan to get advance tickets for it. what can i say? it has Aliens. it has Predators. i’'ll be watching Aliens 3 too if they ever make it.
[/QUOTE]
They did make an Alien 3, it was called Alien: Resurrection. I guess they never rescused Ripley or Hicks or Newt after that pod and the evil company only resurrected Ripley. It’s the only thing that makes any sense for not having Newt and Hicks in the third Alien movie.
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] ralph, do the Aliens eat people?
[/QUOTE]
We never see them using humans for anything other than hosts. Actually, I don’t think we ever find out what, if anything, they actually eat (they don’t seem to eat their host). All we know is they get fucking big very quickly.
[QUOTE=enigm4tic]
2hrs of nonstop action, who cares what titles they put on the opposing sides if the effects are cool, the cinematography is good (for the purpose), and the stunts are well planned?
[/QUOTE]
Like that awesome stunt in the first one consisting of Lance Henrikson, a can of Lysol, and a lighter?
the first avp flick was a crime against humanity far greater than anything the aliens or predators could have ever done to us on their own…but this one looks like…like…people and aliens and predators are gonna die all bloody and eaten and nasty.
unlike that last one, didnt the first avp get a “G” rating?
At least this movie is R rated. So, if all these movies are supposed to be part of the same imaginary future history, then, since this one is set in a modern rural American town, I guess that means everybody dies? Otherwise we’d already know about them big-headed acid-blooded critters before Sigourney Weaver has to fight one in her panties. (I mean, while she’s in her panties.)
Speaking of secondary jaws, check this out: Concealed Weapon: Eels’ Second Set of Teeth Jesus!
[QUOTE=NPR article]
Having a jaw in your throat that has long, recurved, canine teeth — and can actually shoot out of your throat into your mouth, grab a fish or something, and pull it down the throat — is highly unusual," he says.
[/quote]
The AvP comics were outstanding. I really liked most of the Dark Horse vs. series. Tarzan vs. Predator was quite good too. I think I tune out of the DH vs. series when it was Terminator vs. Alien vs. PRedator. It was pretty dumb. The first AvP video game was outstanding too. Great great game.
The first AvP movie sucked. This one will suck too. If they make one that is just the Preds hunting the Aliens on their home world or driving them off the Predplanet that would be badass.
Christ, if you are going to throw humans in at least give us some space marines or some shit. Not just regular joes. Can’t go back to regular joes after Aliens.
Also, does anyone think that the commericials are giving away what I can only assume is a major spoiler??? They show the Predaliens. I would figure those would be some big reveal.
[QUOTE=Cubsfan]
The AvP comics were outstanding. I really liked most of the Dark Horse vs. series. Tarzan vs. Predator was quite good too. I think I tune out of the DH vs. series when it was Terminator vs. Alien vs. PRedator. It was pretty dumb. The first AvP video game was outstanding too. Great great game.
The first AvP movie sucked. This one will suck too. If they make one that is just the Preds hunting the Aliens on their home world or driving them off the Predplanet that would be badass.
Christ, if you are going to throw humans in at least give us some space marines or some shit. Not just regular joes. Can’t go back to regular joes after Aliens.
Also, does anyone think that the commericials are giving away what I can only assume is a major spoiler??? They show the Predaliens. I would figure those would be some big reveal.
[/QUOTE]
I’m not going to bother spoiler coding it. The predalien is the first thing we see in the movie, picking up from where AvP left off. So not so much of a big reveal.
I disagree with… everyone it seems. I think this movie is going to rock and will end up being one of the mostly highly regarded films in both franchises.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
Arte the aliens carbon-based /DNA based life forms? They enjoy eating humans (and using us to act as hosts for their larvae). how come our human antibodies don’t kill them? I seriously doubt that they could find us all that tasty-since they thrived in the chlorine-based atmosphere (of that horrible planet where they were found).
[/QUOTE]
Actually Ralph124c, based on the back-story of the aliens, in a book I can’t seem to locate right now, they were not from the planet upon which the Nostromo’s computer first detected them, but their hosts, a different group of aliens, supposedly crash-landed there.
The Company, knowing the aliens were there, sacrificed the settlers under the guise of terraforming the planet.
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia]
The Company, knowing the aliens were there, sacrificed the settlers under the guise of terraforming the planet.
[/QUOTE]
Well, actually, terraforming had been underway for decades when Ripley’s shuttle was discovered. The implication is that Carter Burke researched her case and uncovered some long-forgotten log reference to the alien shipwreck and on his own initiative sent an order for a survey team to check it out. The extended version of Aliens has greater detail on this, but even the theatrical release features a scene of Ripley angrily confronting Burke when she finds the order “signed Burke, Carter J. [He] sent them out there, and [he] didn’t even warn them.”
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia]
Actually Ralph124c, based on the back-story of the aliens, in a book I can’t seem to locate right now, they were not from the planet upon which the Nostromo’s computer first detected them, but their hosts, a different group of aliens, supposedly crash-landed there.
[/QUOTE]
It was in the movie too;
Ripley: Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? Ma’am, I already said
that it was not indigenous. It was on a derelict spacecraft. We
homed in on its signal.
Also it’s not totally out of continuity that by the time Alien came around that (some of) humanity already knew about the Xenomorphs, they set down on LV426 on company orders and Ash was programmed to preserve the Xenomorph over the crew which implies that someone knew about them, or at least the possibility of them.
Also by the time that Predator 2 came around we know that the government has a super secret department designed specifically to hunt them AND they imply that they’ve been to multiple Pred landing sites (ie mentioning the first movie and a few other sites) and also Danny Glover saw the Pred trophy wall and might’ve told them about the other trophies there, one of which was a Xenomorph skull which I believe is what started Dark horse with it’s idea of Alien v Predator.