Well they finally did it.

[Atrocities]

They made the Alien Vs Preditor movie.

http://www.avp-movie.com/

Saw the previews on TNT.

[Atrocities]

I went to the web site and watched the trailers. Looks very good. I will hold my opinion until after I see the movie, but I am hopeful it is better than Aliens 3 & 4, and Predator 2 were.

The Jaguar 64 game Alien Vs Predator was the only game in my life that made me literally jump and get off the floor. That sound the predator made as you walked around level two was just fricking eary.

[Randallw]

I have been following AvP for months and eagerly await my chance to see it. If its bad I will still have had a chance to see Aliens fight Predators, albeit with no chance in the future to see it again. If its good there might be more.
While reading an interview about it there was mention of the advance in effects. Not sure of the details but I think it was comparing the old cloaking field while the Predator stood still to a shot where a pred cloaks or de-cloaks while jumping a chasm.

Edit: Just realised some people may talk of it shamelessly mixing two franchises. There is a precedent. In Predator 2 while Danny Glover is in the Predator ship he sees a trophy rack. One of the skulls is obviously an Alien. I'm not talking of an alien skull similar to an ALiens, this is 100% and described even by the films makers as an Aliens skull.

[ August 01, 2004, 05:55: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Ragnarok-X]

yeah, i watched a "trailer" two days ago. Then again it wasnt really a trailer, just a few minor scenes where you saw an alien and a predator, maybe for a total of 15 seconds...you cant really judge a movie by that short time..

[Slynky]

I'm usually pretty easy when it comes to sci-fi flicks. Looks pretty interesting.

But, you're right, AT, it HAD to happen...

[Puke]

are you kidding? it looks awful! a giant pyramid under antartic ice WHY? aliens on earth before the first movie WHY? archeologists with guns WHY?

There are so many good AvP story ideas from the computer games and comic books that they could have used, and they come up with this non-sense? and no colonial marines?

lame.

[Loser]

It's probably going to be as bad as the Last Alien movie.

I'll still go see it, but the trailer only encouraged my skepticism.

[Atrocities]

I hate movies that put all the action into the trailer to make it look good, then when you finally do go and see it, you realize that the trailer HAD all the actions and was a far better movie than the one you just paid $9.50 to see.

[Loser]

$9.50!?!?

And I though seven dollars was bad. Sometimes, depending on my financial situation and the movie in question, I'll wait until it gets to the 'second hand' theater. It can be as cheap as $0.50 to see it there, on the right day.

Of course, the film is usually pretty beat up then. And sometimes the sound track is completely hosed. But for $0.50 you don't have much room to complain.

I doubt that theater makes much money, and they'll probably go under soon. Not that I'll be buying their overpriced consessions to support them.

[Caduceus]

You have to love the taglines if nothing else:

Our world.
Their war.
Whoever wins...
We lose.

/me speaks in low-whisper announcer voice.

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