“Troopers v. Space Marines” Now that’d be one helluva short movie. I can see it now:
On the bridge of the Roger Young: Sir, we’ve found an enemy prescence on a lifeless planet with no natural resources. Recommend we land all our marines on it have them build a fort.
On the bridge of the Sulaco: Sir, we’ve found an enemy prescense on a lifeless planet with no natural resources. Recommend we nuke it from orbit and move on.
No, no, no. You’re forgetting the big royal rumble alll the SF ubergeeks want to see: three-way adamantium cage deathmatch between Aliens, Predator, and Terminator.
How about an army of terminators riding on dinosaurs against 10 T1000-liquid metal guys from Terminator 2 ?
Wait I’m way off topic!
(Rob starts to run out of the room, trips, falls, stands up, dusts himself off, and continues running away)
TERMINATORS? Let’s get THEM involved!
I have to go back to the power rankings, guys.
Opponents Defeated
ALIENS: Killed Tom Skerritt.
PREDATORS: Killed Apollo Creed.
TERMINATORS: Killed Michael Biehn.
ADVANTAGE: Predators. Duh.
Opponents Lost To
ALIENS: Can be killed by Sigourney Weaver.
TERMINATORS: Can be killed by Linda Hamilton.
PREDATORS: Can be killed by Danny Glover.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens by a friggin’ mile. You don’t think Weaver could kick Danny Glover’s ass?
Service To The Human Race
ALIENS: Killed Bill Paxton.
TERMINATORS: Coincidentally, killed Bill Paxton, too.
PREDATORS: I think he killed Bill Paxton, too. (Yes, he was in one movie in every series.)
APOLLO 13: Failed to kill Bill Paxton despite a golden opportunity to do so.
ADVANTAGE: None.
Strength of Schedule
ALIENS: Did battle with Colonial Marines.
PREDATORS: Did battle with professional wrestlers and L.A. cops.
TERMINATORS: Did battle with a waitress.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens.
Weaknesses
ALIENS: The only way you can kill them is to blow them into space.
PREDATORS: Can be killed by dropping logs onto them.
TERMINATORS: Can only be killed in conveniently located factories.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens, but just barely.
Roster Composition
ALIENS: Armed with acidic blood, claws, teeth, superhuman strength.
PREDATORS: Armed with guns, blades, cloaking device.
TERMINATORS: Armed with a shotgun and a big Harley.
ADVANTAGE: Predators, but Terminators have style.
Roster Depth
ALIENS: Attack in the hundreds.
PREDATORS: Like to work alone, but can team up.
TERMINATORS: Ditto.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens.
Win-Loss Record
ALIENS: Killed most people they encountered.
PREDATORS: Ditto, but haven’t killed as many.
TERMINATORS: Slightly fewer kills than the Predators.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens.
Cheerleaders
ALIENS: Got a thing for Winona Ryder.
PREDATORS: Got a thing for Maria Conchita Alonzo.
TERMINATORS: Got a thing for the director’s wife.
ADVANTAGE: Tie.
Head Coach
ALIENS: Ridley Scott and James Cameron.
PREDATORS: John McTiernan and someone named “Stephen Hawkins.”
TERMINATORS: James Cameron and his biggest fan, James Cameron.
ADVANTAGE: Aliens.
WINNER: Aliens.
NEXT WEEK’S MATCHUP: Aliens vs. John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
I know.
And I swear that this is true, the film is…
Batman vs. Superman. 
RickJay your present analysis is absurd and smacks of bias.
FACT: Predators are the Ninjas of space.
Oooooh! I forgot that!:eek:
The one thing that is absolutely required for this to be a great movie versus a merely good movie. They must hire three separate art directors for each of the species and never allow them to talk to each other. Spend what ever it takes to get Giger, and them give him some more. He is worth it. Every alien movie has gotten progressively farther from H.R. Giger’s original vision, and has been getting progressively worse because of it.
I hope the take the idea from the first novel “Aliens vs. Predator” which had the Preds using aliens to train for hunting, but the crash on a human colony planet and they get loose.
The book had a great scene involving a cattle stampede in the middle of an Alien/Predator fight.
Didn’t the Terminators wipe out most of humanity?
nope, predator was created by some make-up guy in la (i think)
and after Giger saw “species II,” he demanded his name be taken off the project…
Personaly i want to see a truly epic battle of the Titans!.. Jaws VS. that killer whale from “Orca” or
A Raptor Vs. one of thoes stupid things from “Carnasore”
Oooooh! I forgot that!:eek:
The one thing that is absolutely required for this to be a great movie versus a merely good movie. They must hire three separate art directors for each of the species and never allow them to talk to each other. Spend what ever it takes to get Giger, and them give him some more. He is worth it. Every alien movie has gotten progressively farther from H.R. Giger’s original vision, and has been getting progressively worse because of it.
Unfortunately Ahnold is having his own problems making cool movies these days. I fear that long gone are the days of “Ahl be bach!” and “Ghet your ahss to Mhas!”
Muad’Dib - I also heard about a Batman vs Superman movie but according to IMDB,the new Batman movie is a prequil to the others. Not that it makes it right.
Speaking of prequils, I just saw a trailer for ‘Red Dragon’ a prequil to the Hanibal Lechter movies. Looks the same as the others, just replace Clarise Starling with an Ed Norton caracter.
msmith – Don’t take the IMDb’s word for anything. It’s a user-supported system; regular people send in additions and corrections, and then the IMDb staff vets the info as best they can and either allow or disallow the contribution. The database isn’t “official” in any sense of the word, and they’ve got lots of incorrect information sprinkled throughout their system. If they say a movie is coming up – for example, Batman: Year One, to be directed by Darren Aronofsky – all that means is that it’s been semi-officially discussed and the talent is potentially interested in doing it. Doesn’t mean at all that the movie is really going to get made.
The Batman vs. Superman movie is more likely to get made, at least in the near term. It’s got a confirmed director (Wolfgang Petersen: In the Line of Fire, Das Boot, Air Force One, and Perfect Storm, plus being attached to the still-stuck-in-development Ender’s Game project), but no completed script and no confirmed cast.
The Red Dragon movie is indeed another Hannibal Lecter flick, based on Thomas Harris’s first novel, which was previously filmed by Michael Mann as Manhunter with Brian Cox as Lecter. The new movie is directed by Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour movies, and Nic Cage’s Family Man), with Edward Norton as Will Graham. Don’t get your hopes up.
I hate to be the naysayer in this thread, but I wouldn’t want anybody to get excited about any of these projects based on inaccurate assumptions (e.g., that the suits in Hollywood give two shits about making a “cool” movie).