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Oh no P. T. Anderson OH NO

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, Paul WS Anderson OH NO.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

P W S Anderson, actually. The guy who did Resident Evil, not the chap who did Magnolia.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too shook up to get names right, obv.

Alien vs Predator by P.T. Anderson would be classic beyond believe.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Beat to the punch

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I was excited up till then

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't THIS Paul Anderson the guy who did Event Horizon tho? (meaning Alien vs Predator could at least turn out as good as that i.e. quite good)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You LIKED Event Horizon?
(I did too, but found myself in the minority)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Well the AvP story reads like a Resident Evil remake so it'll probably be just as good as that one.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

do they just scrap - is it one against one or a shed load versus a shed load - i reckon alien would batter the predators if it is many but one on one the predator would romp it - he has that cool boomerang thing and homing missiles so aliens scary acid blood would have no effect on him

still the head would look great on a plaque in the lounge, with the lil alien hanging out

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope the Alien is this dude:
http://www.rctv.net/programs/series/alf/imagenes/alf.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

and the opredator was now a little kitten, FITE

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

opredator = predator

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the O'Predator:
http://www.circling.org/images/article_images/03.2001_images/lucky.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Alien Vs operator!
Can the perfect killing machine outwit tech services?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:MeS79eDAdhYC:tbssuperstation.com/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i1/malcolm_jamal_warner.jpg

theo predator

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

No need to ask, he's a smooth Opredator... smoooth Opredator...

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This has been mooted for so long - Dark Horse even did a comic book back in the '80s (if any UK people have the British repackaging, check the 'editor'!).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 July 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

but Martin, it's not a FITE thread, it's that the movie has been officially scheduled for release.
the comics spawned dozens of similar stuff, even Batman has fought Predators and I think Supes took on Aliens.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I mean there was an Aliens vs Predator comic back then, and it was the first tie-in other than straight stuff with one or the other lot - and I'm sure there was talk of a movie then too, it wasn't just a comic crossover. I've no idea if the story from that will have any connection with that in the movie.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 July 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the original comic would've made an interesting movie, at least in that there were no leading male characters and the two main characters were Asian, if i recall correctly.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, there's a good two hour movie in there. And the first six issues of the comic were drawn by Phillip Norwood who works as a storyboard artist, of all things. Maybe the rights were too expensive or something.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes but Alien vs Mrs Doubtfire

or possibly Predator vs Popeye.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 5 July 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Mrs Doubtfire vs Popeye

or Robin Williams vs EVERYONE

http://www.geocities.com/wintermute_v031/scarface.txt

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 5 July 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The AvP comic was really really good. Usually crossovers involving Aliens or Predators are, surprisingly. One that sucked though was Aliens Vs Predators Vs Terminators. Not good at all.

― Dan I., Saturday, 5 July 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in a comic book store recently & saw a "Superman vs. Aliens" title, so I had to look at it. It was kind of hilarious--I flipped to some pages at random & they all seemed to be full of Supe & pals punching out aliens & simultaneously chatting with each other.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

slightly off the vs topic, but did anybody here enjoy Alien Res.? i thought the visuals were superb, take away winona and ripley's spawn, and you have a worthy film. the critical mauling was misplaced, i feel. thoughts?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno. Jeunet's style didn't really jibe with the Alien aesthetic, I found.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"take away Winona"?? oh the agony.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I say bang her up. And throw away the key.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, a throwaway bang is key

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

look at yourselves guys, you are the real "aliens" and "predators"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.hetnet.nl/~legendarisch/bang.jpg

― Dada, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

what hospital is that?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kramer Vs Kramer Vs Godzilla"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously though, I'm really looking forward to it. I saw the new Terminator movie the other day, if it's as good as that I'll be happy.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

REVIVE

plenty of cool screenshots here

also, Lance Henriksen is in this!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370263/

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i know!! the henriksen news actually got me excited

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe off-topic, but Henriksen played Charles Bronson in the Jill Ireland story! Has anybody seen this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102764/

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

also, from this cast shot here, i worry that this flick with be critically short of character actors.

also, note that one of the guys has a proto-Weyland/Yutani logo on the bicep of his jumpsuit.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

excietd@@!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, it's set in Antarctica! This can only be good.

Alien vs. Predator vs. The Thing!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That cast shot looks like it's from a UPN series.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does this film need to have humans in it?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Humans ruin everything!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that would be pretty bold (and awesome) if there were no humans and no intelligible dialog for the whole movie.

I do kind of like the old AvP comics storyline of the human joining the Predator tribe though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

WHERE ARE THE COLONIAL MARINES?!

thank god there's at least one shot of someone using a makeshift flamethrower. Certain things cannot be fucked with.

also, yeah, it would be fun to have the one lead chick team up with a 1981-era Kurt Russell.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/j/mje151/images/russellthing.jpg
"Dig my Loggins & Messina get-up, yo."

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Alien vs. Predator vs. The Thing VS. GODZILLA

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...on ice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The world is an evil place.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's set inbetween Predator and Aliens, hence Lance plays Charles Bishop Weyland.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the comic that inspired this made its way into the movies: There's an Alien's skull in the Predator lair in P2.

Andrew

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But will there be a Predator skull in the Batcave in the new movie?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Lance Henriksen plays the man who made the androids he played in the earlier Alien movies.

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

so is it like a prequel then?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, like I said. It's after the Predators and before the Aliens.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you never said that.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes he did.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Lance Henriksen plays the man who made the androids he played in the earlier Alien movies.

laaaaaaaaaaame.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

MORE PULSE RIFLES!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I've totally changed my mind. This does not look good.

Adam

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, if they're gonna set a movie in Antartica they should so film At The Mountains Of Madness

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, they kinda sorta did with The Thing, if you squint.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the kinda film that needs Will Smith

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think adam is right, but there could always be some sort of miracle. i guess alien is now just another shitty sci-fi franchise!

(rends garments)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what the franchise really needs:

http://www.borntoride.com/btrfp3.gif vs http://planetavp.com/images/avpmovie/avpmovie29.jpg

Tag-teamin' time!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

you guys never told me thr ws going to be an alien Vs. predator movie!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanna see robocop vs predator

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

starring ewen bremner?!

robocop Vs. aliens

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

robocop should team up with helen mirren from prime suspect

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

aliens backed up by norm.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

from cheers?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

norm enters the alien hive: "NOAOOAOORGHGHJHJDNJAKJAKAAMMMM!!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

norm from cheers.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I love you, alien."

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I do!"

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm Mad About You, Alien"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a good thing that they bumped this up from the holidays to the end of summer.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been planned for this release date for over a year.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

really? i thought it wasn't supposed to hit until december. hmm.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, sadly i've been following the film's progress since it was announced last year.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

then obviously you've read the novelization, and the gratuitous flamethrower scene contained within

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sigh......yeah.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

pyramids, dude! pyramids!

i wonder if they got the idea from the original script/production work on the first one.

still, they could have at least worked in a "Mountains of Madness" ref...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"i wonder if they got the idea from the original script/production work on the first one"

anderson said in an interview that he was indeed influenced by ron cobb's early production designs for alien.

in an unrelated note, the movie has just been confirmed to be rated PG-13. which doesn't bother me much as the MPAA (rather hypocritically) lets violence get by in movies more than sex and profanity. violence/gore won't be what makes or breaks the movie anyway.

all the fanboys are bitchin' about it on all the movie message boards, it's hilarious:

"well it's official now and its gay. Any hope I had left for this movie was just thrown out the window"

"WTF PG-13 my ass what is it made by fuckin Disney or what...??!!?!!?!"

"aaaaaaaaahhhhhh
why o why would u do this to us ratings ppl fuck u ratings pl!!!!"

"O crap then that means if AVP is pg-13 no chestbursting!!! Now i know why everyones worried!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! nOT PG-13 PLEASE LET IT BE R!!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still disappointed that the weapons level for the humans is only about "Counterstrike" level. Desert Eagles, MP5s, etc. At least in the comix/games, humans had much better weapons which helped to balance out their third of the triumvirate.

still, only a pg13? that disappoints me most in that they won't curse as much as they need to.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe they'll say "argh" and "blast it!" a lot

by the way, this:

"O crap then that means if AVP is pg-13 no chestbursting!!! Now i know why everyones worried!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! nOT PG-13 PLEASE LET IT BE R!!"

really cracked me up

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

so was it a predator ship or what?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've covered this film.

I think it will be rubbish. But I'll pay to see it.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

this is from the planetavp (an alien vs predator site) messageboards:

Guest 1874156
Guys! SHUT THE HELL UP!

ALL YOU PUNKS CARE ABOUT IS THE R RATING! ALL THE BLOOD AND GORE IN THE WORLD DOESN'T MAKE A QUALITY FILM! IF ANDERSON CAN (AND I BELIVE WILL) DELIVER A QUALITY FILM WITH A HARD PG-13 ALMOST R MOVIE THAN HIS MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED.

Everybody was saying a few weeks ago that it would be a fantastic film then "OH MY GOD! IT'S GONNA BE A WIMPY PG-13 WHAT THE F*** WHERE THEY THINKING? IT NEEDS TO BE R!"

Look at some horror films of the past, they were great because they didn't show the direct violence, you saw the shadows of it happening, you heard the screams, you saw everything execpt for the acutal act. I belive makes the film better, it lets you imagine the act in your mind.Guest
Posts: 3 #34 Jul 28, 04 - 2:10 PM

In Reply To #30

What in blue fuck are you on?

All you little dipshits don't know shit from a hole in the ground. Positive thinking can only get you so far, shit for brains. Your all 'assuming' that it's still going to be good with this little pussy 13 rating? Ha!

Name one Series that went from R to PG goddamn 13 and retained all that was good in the series or franchise? Yeah, that's fucking right you CANT.

Time to become a realist! Pull your heads from your asses and embrace the fact this movie will be complete and utter ASS - thanks to it being geared towards you little punk-ass teenagers.

Fuck. Teenagers. And screw all you PG-13 supporting asshats. End yourselves.

More fanboy goodness here.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

jeez, haven't seen that much self-loathing since my own livejournal.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think all the associations with 'Predator' really cheapen the Alien franchise (even more than Alien4 - which I sorta liked anyway). 'Predator' has an interesting premise and is fun, but really shouldn't inhabit the same universe/continuum as the much graver Alien which I've always thought had one of the most believable futures ever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

avp = overscored, overlihgted, badly choreographed. REALLY badly. and the lion vs elephant suond efects are a laf riot. evidence here. im crying as i wriet this.

― :|, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure it sucks but I may enjoy it regardless

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe blade trinity will save the yaer.

― :|, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

that clip looks cut down from a longer clip.

there's a new one out as well it looks a bit more polished:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avp/clips/clips_faceoff.html

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i got free tickets to see this on thursday (the day before it comes out!). in all likelihood it's prolly gonna suck but i'm excited nonetheless.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't they just make a '2001' vs. 'The Black Hole'? That would make about as much sense. Bob could fight Hal etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

well, there've been alien vs predator comics and video games for 15 years so they actually have enough of a fanbase for the idea to exploit it.

they should do coke vs pepsi: the movie. seriously.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That one does look better, thankfully. They've really got a 1-on-1 fighter video game vibe, which I suppose is to be expected (I suppose the originals would be first-person shooters?).

I always liked the idea from the comics that the Predators purposely release the aliens on a given planet in order to hunt them for sport.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't they just make a '2001' vs. 'The Black Hole'? That would make about as much sense. Bob could fight Hal etc.

This reminds me of the fanfic I started when I was still, like, 10 years old, where I had the Space:1999 universe cross over with Stat Trek (original series). The writing was exceptionally dire but I bet it'll outperform AvP.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm seeing this thursday night too. expect some wild action on this thread shortly thereafter ilxors!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Excellent - I knew ilx would come through for me on this one before the official release date. I've been dampening my enthusiasm for this for, like, three years. Somehow knowing that it sucks one day in advance takes the edge off.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stat Trek"

there is divine inspiration in this typo

― Bumfluff, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

they should do coke vs pepsi: the movie. seriously.

haha, see "The Coka-Cola Kid", sortov

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stat Trek"

Kirk: Mr. Spock, how often have we beamed down to a planet with a violet-coloured sky and pastel-coloured sand?

Spock: According to my records, Captain, it's been 38.9 percent of the time. Additionally, 63 percent of the time we've been on such a planet, you've gotten into a fistfight with the leader of the world, and 73.92 percent of the time you've slept with his wife or daughter.

Kirk: Spock, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were a nerd 100% of the time.

Spock: Fascinating.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mac and Me vs. ET

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The aliens in Mac and Me freaked me out more than the Predator. Wasn't it just a big McDonald's or Coke commerical? I can't remember.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

McDonald's

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha oh my god that movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"mysterious alien creature"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Mac and Me the one where Mac, I guess, gets sucked into a hoover? That grossed me out every time I saw the trailer.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It was an ad for a number of products, including McDonalds AND Coke.

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And aliens!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked how the surface of Mars was filled with Coke.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Mac and Me vs. ET

Mac looked like a doped up elf who is constantly whistling:
http://kino.br.by/descrpics/61.jpg

how about Batteries Not Included vs. Short Circuit?

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks Mac was based on Paul Mc Cartney?

― Black Arkestra, Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mac(Cartney) LOL
http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/pictures/paul.jpg

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, that's uncanny...MACartney and Me!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

omfg.
alien vs. predator vs. mac vs. me.
I remember really hating Mac as a kid/pre-teen. He's got a "slappin' face", as a Scot once said to me re: Gail from Coronation Street. So, yeah, Mac is ET, Paul and Gail. Eck, slap.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

just saw Alien vs Predator last night, sneak preview at local theater.

it was actually really entertaining, in a b-movie, comic book sort of way.

the ign message board/aint-it-cool news/"was it a pred ship" crowd are going to HATE this movie though.

but it really isn't the disaster i was halfway expecting. my only real problem with it was the fact that they obviously chopped out a bunch of scenes to make this movie move faster. it moves almost way too fast in the beginning.

the film looks great. the set design, creature effects, even the cgi shots are well done.

the film has a real over-the-top comic book sort of sensibility to it. there's also a lot of humor in it. alien resurrection tried a similar approach but it works much better in this film, probably because it's not a "pure" alien film.

the acting is fair for what the material is. the dialogue is pretty bad, but not overly so. it's very much a big-budget b-movie.

but the main thing is that it's fun. that's what i liked about it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Those clips look monumentally stupid.

I'd like to see a film of the chick from "species" vs the weather from "the day after tomorrow".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, twister vs leprechaun

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Troll vs Leprechaun
Gremlins vs Ghoulies
Child's Play vs Problem Child

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Con Air Vs Air Bud
Toy Story 2 vs Tokyo Story

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice T. vs. Everyone

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Predator vs. the Volcano

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

leprechaun vs lucky the lucky charms leprechaun

tony the tiger vs toucan sam

critters vs herpes simplex

x-post

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer, who wins? I got a bet on this.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Lance Henriksen always wins.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Not in Hard Target! Lesson 1: BRING A GUN WHICH HOLDS MORE THAN ONE BULLET!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

no telling who won! no spoilage.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer I will be forever indebted to you (meaningless I know) if you just email me quicklike and tell me who won

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Total x-post, but the "weather" as star: there's an article in the latest issue of The Walrus (annoying, boring Cdn mag modeled on Harper's) wherein the author constructs an access-hollywood-type interview between Ben Mulroney and Global Warming. Pretty funny. Ben Mulroney vs. The Weather vs. Canadian Cultural Identity Crisis.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And thank you, latebloomer, for the AvP review - it sounds almost exactly as I'd hoped (via lowered expectations) it would be.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still hoping against hope that The Thing is involved and playing all parties against each other in Alaska.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

And thank you, latebloomer, for the AvP review - it sounds almost exactly as I'd hoped (via lowered expectations) it would be.
-- rrrobyn (apoemabouteverythin...), August 13th, 2004.

no problem. it's just my opinion though, i can't promise you'll like it yourself. hope ya do though:-)

latebloomer I will be forever indebted to you (meaningless I know) if you just email me quicklike and tell me who won
-- Scott CE (sceldre...), August 13th, 2004.

i just emailed the answer, hope you get what you wanted out of it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

cool thanks!

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Just so I know - we still lose, right?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"The only one losing this battle is the person payin $8 for a ticket to this piece of crap. 0 stars."

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome! I'm gonna be a loser tonight!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, i just found this 'review':

"The tagline for this movie is right
whoever wins...we lose, because we are the ones who are losing $9 seeing this piece of crap."

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

do I hear $10? any more bids please?

(I think I'm gonna love this movie btw)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it's gotta be better than Alien Res which left a really nasty taste in my mouth (not in the way it was perhaps supposed to)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

saw it this morning. it's not nearly as bad as the plethora of bad reviews suggest it is, just totally brainless. nice and short, too.

my favorite part is the badass scientist who says "they use metric time, so the pyramid reconfigures itself every ten minutes." then cut to a shot of his wristwatch counting down seconds... base 60 seconds. oops.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Badass??!?! The GUY was Italian! The only badass was the ALIEN who lived even though steel netting was cutting into his skull! FIGHT THE PAIN!

All in all it was pretty fun (if you like this sort of goofy nonsensical stuff.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the science was a little suspect. i thought the movie was fun but the sequel will be better cause maybe there won't be any humans around at all? this will hold me over til the underworld sequel. there wust have been an accent quota.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

in the sequel they go to white castle.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"the science was a little suspect"

that's an understatement. but realism aint't this type of flick's strong suit, obviously.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

how come when they're running around antarctica we couldn't see their breath? they looked like they were dressed for an autumn stroll in chicago.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/Eilonwe/misc/AvP.jpg

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

why didn't they take off and nuke the entire site from space? it's the only way to be sure.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

fuckin ey!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha:
Take a wretched premise. Imagine the worst picture that could be made from it. Then imagine something even worse. That's "Alien vs. Predator." Don't think of it as a movie. Think of it under the more general category of something unfortunate on film. And don't think of this as a review, but as testimony from someone who greeted the closing credits like a cell door swinging open.
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

I think at this point we should scour the internet for the meanest possible review. Can anyone top this? On the bright side, it currently has a higher metacritic score than Catwoman!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I want Predator to become the governor of New Jersey.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Filthy has a great, rather singular review of the flick:

Instead ThePrincess Diaries 2, she partakes in bloodsport. This is a horrific, unnecessary sequel about a battle for supremacy between aliens in a long-lost pyramid 2000 feet below Antarctica. Young Hathaway plays an alien from another planet seeking out an enemy comatant, while Julie Andrews plays pretty much the same character she did in The Sound of Music: a screeching, slimy monster imprisoned and forced to procreate in the bowels of a pyramid.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That was pretty funny.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

this movie WAS kind of dumb fun, though it's a bit of a shame to see the aliens movies reduced to this

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Very true. I also just read an interesting post on one of the imdb message boards.

if this is to be believed the movie was hacked to death by the studio to make its running time shorter and to get it a PG-13 rating (indeed as i noted above in my review the film felt 'chopped up'). apparently there's an 'R'-rated director's cut coming to DVD.

of course that won't make the film less dumb (albeit entertaining), but at least it would fill in some of the logical gaps.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve, I will not tolerate any bad-mouthing of Alien Resurrection. Recant! Recant!

― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah I just realized that Alien4 has a scene EXACTLY like the "I can't drop them they're attached to my arms!" scene w/Wolverine in X2 except with guns! I hadn't remembered that.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

New York toddler chokes to death on popcorn at moving theater
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2184152

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

want to read this later

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha joss whedon re: alien resurrection:

I don't remember writing, "A withered, granny-lookin' Pumkinhead-kinda-thing makes out with Ripley." Pretty sure that stage direction never existed in any of my drafts.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This film is really, really stupid.

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

No one expects intellectual dazzlement from it (except for subtext-craving media academics maybe), but a film with so little pretense in its title should deliver on that premise with unaashed pyrotechnics. But AVP was criminally boring. An utter disappointment (now Freddy vs. Jason on the other hand..)

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

*unabashed

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

Why bother with all the antactic Aztec temple crap when all anyone wants to see is Aliens fighting Predators?

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

antarctic!

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

my point exactly (xpost). If you name your film Alien vs. Predator, all I wanna see is a pay-per-view style intergalactic deathmatch with huge explosions. Why insult your target audience with exposition?

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

I don't buy the Predator teaming up with the lead woman either. Are they about to make out or someting?

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

lol - hybrid children, watch the sea..

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://akramsrazor.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/13/cthulhu4prezpreview5.png

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

they don't even give the lead woman a lift home at the end

― Thematically it's like a queer-Pipecock (blueski), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

She had to do the cross-coninental walk of shame home, then?

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

omg A PREDATOR ALIEN!!! Do you see what they did there?

― Neil S, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

So who came out on top, Mike or Markus?

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

Also, note that all the games(including the console, PC, and arcade versions) are better than both movies.

― Brotherhood of Stealing Shit to Sell to Trader Caravans (kingfish), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

First comic series was pretty decent as I recall.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

yes the AvP first comic was pretty cool, the movies on the other hand were one of the biggest missed opportunities ever.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

I speculated on the AvP comic #1 back in the 90s. I probably have 7 copies left if anyone is interested...

― Nate Carson, Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

the movies *should* be sci-fi nerdzone paradise, and they blow. :(

― hyperspace situation (gbx), Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

Dis maght bee de furst peerahmeed ehver beelt.

― Kerm, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

the second one is realllly bad

― balloon in a sack (latebloomer), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

but i liked the critters

― balloon in a sack (latebloomer), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

I've not seen the second one; don't they take it to suburbia?

How Paul WS Anderson is still making movies I do not know.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 17 November 2008 10:03 (seventeen years ago)

don't they take it to suburbia

kinda, but they just remain underground and it's always night time. such a copout.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 17 November 2008 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/skyswingball.preview.jpg

― unban dictionary (blueski), Monday, 17 August 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrqSCn0sBPw

― ledge, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

This film is really, really stupid.

― Neil S, Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:09 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

― Sealegs Tetrazzini (Eisbaer), Monday, 28 September 2009 01:32 (sixteen years ago)

the most pointless series of films ever ... who in 2004 really WANTED either of these played-out, tired-ass franchises to be revived?!?

― Sealegs Tetrazzini (Eisbaer), Monday, 28 September 2009 01:33 (sixteen years ago)

I have to admit if you gave me a choice of Alien vs Predator or Saw vs Hostel, I'm going with predalien.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 28 September 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I'm watching Aliens vs Predator Requiem at the moment and this is one ridiculously dark film. I mean, literally. I can't see what's happening. What's up with that.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 18 September 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

I can't see what's happening.

probably best if you don't tbh

― pissky in the jar (onimo), Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

this is true. Can't help but feel it'd have been cheaper if they'd recorded only the sound, though.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 19 September 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

So wait...was talk about Prey over on one of the streaming media threads? Anyway, Trachtenberg and crew basically leaning full-on into the reshared universe with the new one (was already clear with the previous trailer, admittedly):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R9l7EkJwE

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 July 2025 21:12 (five months ago)

Elle Fanning is really hitting it out of the park with getting cast in some sci-fi nerd shit (both loving and derogatory). I finish Death Stranding 2 where she's acting as a video game character, and now she's an android in a Predator movie.

Anything I hear anything about new Predator franchise media, my first thought is still going to "was that a pred ship?"

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 22 July 2025 14:21 (five months ago)

three months pass...

So repeating myself from Facebook about Predator: Badlands:

Okay so what a fucking relief to have a back to front great pulpy sf film I have zero problems with, best one since _Godzilla Minus One_ easy. Dan Trachtenberg is totally in the zone here in terms of delivering on this front, and to follow up _10 Cloverfield Lane_, which on balance really is the best of all that grouping of films, with a trifecta of _Prey_, _Predator: Killer of Killers_ and now this is pure chef's kiss. The more so because _Prey_ having done one great counterintuitive riff on the _Predator_ universe thanks to him and Patrick Aison, now they did it again with a totally different setup and managed the perfect trick of hitting familiar enough beats, plot points and the like with all of it feeling totally earned and just so. Plus, given the explicit _Alien_ universe tie-in/crossover thanks to Elle Fanning as a Weyland-Yutani synth and more besides, it's absolutely better than _Alien: Romulus_ and lands better in the end than the way _Alien: Earth_ wrapped up. Absolutely go see it. (No end credits scene or anything but there is a fun final beat after the end titles show first.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 November 2025 04:55 (two months ago)

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