oh for fucks sake : Alien vs Predator 2 has been announced

there were rumors about AVP2 being set in Texas or some bullshit like that with the climax set in a K-mart or something...sounded phoney

they should've gone with the peter briggs screenplay that was floating around for years before fox found someone (anderson)to come up with a more "feasible" (i.e. cheaper) premise.

the briggs screenplay was based more-or-less directly on the original AVP comic, set on a far away outer space colony.

Leave Death Race alone. You can't touch Corman.

That said, AVP sucked three-headed goats in hell, so AVP2 can only be better.

How about Alien vs. Predator in a Death Race on the Event Horizon. That works for me.

AVP1 was terrible, a complete plane crash of a movie. But as someone mentioned above it was so bad that the second one can only be better, can't it ??

Can it really be the daftest thing about a movie involving beings from other worlds knocking the shit out of each other?

The daftest thing is how the heroine just gets stranded at the end without a big coat on. Do you think she managed to catch the last bus out of Antarctica?

Event Horizon is actually great fun.

ALIENS FIGHTING PREDATORS AGAIN sounds okay to me. Especially if there's an ALIATOR/PREDALIEN hybrid involved.

Praline?

Resident Evil was a poor film, but that was never the point: it is fantastic good fun. I have seen the first minutes of RE2, up to the point where Milla flies through the stained glass window on a motorbike, which frankly is everything I wanted from the film. It can only get better, I imagine.

AvP was pretty shit, but in an enourmously enjoyable way. I will likely see AvP2.

Mortal Kombat I have never seen.

huh!

bullshit movie really, unless you love Aliens and Predators (i do), and want to see them pwn one another (i do). as anything else, it's shite though.

1. No humans in the movie. Long Tarkovsky-style takes.

2. It's 5 min long and uploaded to youtube.

ROFLLLLE!!

the 2nd one was friggin' great.

Dude, I saw Ghost on TV while I was tripping and thought it was great. It is not an objective response.

Totally. I remember someone posting about how the first one should have been a National Geographic-style documentary, possibly w/voiceover.

I loved some of those Dark Horse AvP comics when they came out, so I was actually really happy that the movie jacked a lot of those story elements. The teenybopper predators having their pred-Bar Mitzvah by hunting aliens on some planet, the human woman joining the tribe, etc. And Sanaa Lathan was bad as fuck.

http://aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=23544

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator:_Survival_of_the_Fittest

It's either going to be "AvP: Requiem" or "AvP: Survival of the Fittest" or even "Aliens vs Predator"

http://imdb.com/title/tt0758730/

And some leaked/unconfirmed test bits of what the predalien will look like: http://www.worstpreviews.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1784

http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/35/4035/gal2659/01.php

I'm still stuck on how angry I am about this "Death Race 2000" remake idea.

trailer for avp2 supposed to be out very soon

When did the movies become 1990s Dark Horse Comics?

trailer:

http://avp-r.com/

remaking Death Race 2000 AND Logan's Run

Haha it asked for my age twice. I kept thinking it would say WTF YOU ARE WAY TOO OLD TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS CRAP and stop me from watching.

Looks terrible btw.

And I sorta like the first one a little.

bahaha, i love how ridiculously gorey the trailer is, like the one for "John Rambo." It's like they had to prove himselves to all the disappointed fanboys who hated the fact that they made the last one with a PG13 rating...

looks like Slither with aliens and predators in it

was Slither any good?

It was okay. Better than this will be probably.

yeah it was fun. not as much as i was hoping, but it definitely had its moments.

this won't be a good movie but i'm hoping at least for something like a Predator 2-style guilty pleasure. no gary busey though:-/

THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK!

Predator 2's actually better than the first Predator. That said I'm not sure why anyone at the studio thought that the non-Mel Gibson half of the Lethal Weapon team was going to be box office gold.

glover was a total badass

He was, but no one went to see that movie because it was an action movie STARRING only Danny Glover and a motely crew of b-list character actors!

yeah. but thanks to millions of airings on TBS and HBO everyone's seen it by now. when i think of lazy saturday afternoons watching flicks on tv, i think of james bond marathons, road house and predator 2.

the unholy triumvirate

by unholy i mean awesome

Reinstalled Aliens vs Predator 2 today. Still fun.

Freddy vs Jason vs Ash is still rumored to be planned

-- kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, June 7, 2006 10:44 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

brother, are you talking about Ash from Army of Darkness? Because that would kind of rule. Or is this an Ashton Kutcher reference?

Alien 4 vs "alien vs predator" I would see

AvP directors talk gore, burgers

TS:

http://www.alienexperience.com/images/news/avprposter.jpg vs. http://www.christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/hollander/jesus-wept.jpg

aliens and predators stay dead.

It really bothers me that somehow I do not surf enough internet to know this was already being made, and that the trailer has been out for a month..

ha ha ditto

"alien vs predator... R?"

The fanboiz never get old: "The Predalien shouldn't have dreads, it should have long hear.
The dreads on the predator head is the first ritual a yautja gets. But they are born with wire hair."

lol seriously

alien vs predator... R?

the final title is "aliens vs predator: requiem"

it would be way better if they just called it requiem for a xenomorph

"At [an early] point in the movie, [the Wolf] takes a gun off of a dead Predator, and so he has double shoulder cannons,"

haha, say hello to fan service

It really bothers me that somehow I do not surf enough internet to know this was already being made, and that the trailer has been out for a month..

-- Kerm, Sunday, September 23, 2007 9:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i have had this feeling about a lot of stuff lately :-/

you know, like current events

it would be way better if they just called it requiem for a xenomorph

-- s1ocki, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:35 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/requiemtears.jpg

haha! that makes it look like they're about to kiss.

"looks like"

see what you want to see

trailer is eeh - nice woodland!

Coming soon from The Asylum (makers of such blockbusters as HG Wells' War of the Worlds starring C. Thomas Howell, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Transmorphers):

http://www.alienexperience.com/images/news/avh.jpg

an interesting article about this company:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07wwln-essay-t.html?pagewanted=print

The New B Movie
By ROLF POTTS

Early this past summer, around the time Hollywood’s 2007 blockbusters were set to make their debut on the big screen, movie junkies could find a film that might, at first glance, have been confused with the box office hit “Transformers.” Set in a dystopian future that looks suspiciously like an abandoned parking lot, “Transmorphers” tells the story of a war between humans and an evil race of extraterrestrial machines. Unlike its namesake, “Transmorphers” has no recognizable actors, no merchandising tie-ins and a garbled sound mix. Also unlike “Transformers,” it has cheap special effects and a subplot involving lesbians. In short, though “Transmorphers” features the occasional shape-shifting robot, it bears little resemblance to Michael Bay’s big-screen phenomenon.

Yet “Transmorphers” had its own kind of success, earning back its meager production costs in less than three months. Created by a company called the Asylum, “Transmorphers” was only the latest in a string of cheaply made straight-to-DVD “mockbusters.” In 2006, the Asylum released “The Da Vinci Treasure” and “Snakes on a Train” on DVD just as “The Da Vinci Code” and “Snakes on a Plane” were hitting theaters. Those films, Asylum says, turned a profit, too. At a time when digital cameras, computer editing and online video enable D.I.Y. auteurs to compete with B-movie studios, the Asylum has nonetheless become a self-sustaining success story.

The Asylum office occupies both floors of a small brick building in Hollywood, across the street from a cement factory. On the day I visited, the office was doubling as a set for “Alien v. Hunter,” which was being rushed into production to correspond with the Christmas release of 20th Century Fox’s “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.” Upstairs, I met David Michael Latt, who founded the company with partner David Rimawi in 1997. He told me that the Asylum discovered mockbusters by accident, in 2005, when Latt’s own adaptation of H. G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds” hit video stores around the time Steven Spielberg’s big-screen version hit cinemas. Until then, the Asylum concentrated mainly on straight-to-DVD low-budget horror movies — a market that was rapidly being taken over by bigger, savvier companies like Lionsgate. So when Blockbuster ordered 100,000 copies of Latt’s “War of the Worlds” (seven to eight times the typical order for the Asylum’s horror movies), he and Rimawi reconsidered their business model. “We saw that Peter Jackson’s ‘King Kong’ was coming out, so we made ‘King of the Lost World,’ ” Latt told me. “It wasn’t as successful as ‘War of the Worlds,’ but it made money, and that’s what our buyers want. We’ve gotten to where we can now produce tie-in films in three to four months. And just so long as we don’t mimic the promotional artwork too closely, the big studios don’t seem to mind.”

Latt, who prefers the term “tie-ins” to “mockbusters,” points out that his movies are themselves original stories, even as they tap into the publicity created by their blockbuster namesakes. “I’m not trying to dupe anybody,” he says. “I’m just trying to get my films watched. Other people do tie-ins all the time; they’re just better at being subtle about it. Another studio might make a giant robot movie that ties into the ‘Transformers’ release and call it ‘Robot Wars.’ We’ll call ours ‘Transmorphers.’ ”

Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure and sci-fi films; others rent the movie thinking it is something else (Web sites are rife with the scornful entries of duped film fans). Chasing diverse audiences in America and abroad, the studio largely forsakes the winking comedy of B-movie classics. “Transmorphers,” for example, takes itself decidedly seriously even as it features mad scientists with robot girlfriends, cheap plastic ray guns, girl-on-girl bunk-room catfights and random T. S. Eliot references.

This earnestness is central to the Asylum’s other big success this year, “The Apocalypse” — a “Deep Impact”-style disaster flick that features religious end-times elements familiar to readers of the “Left Behind” series. “We were planning on making ‘The Apocalypse’ as a straightforward doomsday movie,” Latt says, “but certain buyers told us they wanted a religious film. So we consulted priests and rabbis and made it into a faith-based film about the end of the world. We’ve created a Faith Films label to distribute religious-themed films, and this fall we’re releasing a new faith-based movie, ‘2012: Doomsday.’ Whether it’s giant robots attacking the Earth or something from the Bible, we’re just happy to be making movies.”

Whether it’s giant robots attacking the Earth or something from the Bible, we’re just happy to be making movies.”

^^^ :D

"ROLF POTTS"

WILLIAM FUCKING KATT PEOPLE!!!! THIS IS EPIC!!

i would like to see a movies of alien vs predator vs MASTIFFS from the PLANET OF THE MASTIFFS

This is new? Has this guy ever heard of Roger Corman?

Coming in summer 2008: Snakes on a Predator Ship!

This is new? Has this guy ever heard of Roger Corman?

-- kingfish, Monday, October 15, 2007 4:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

key difference:

"Another studio might make a giant robot movie that ties into the ‘Transformers’ release and call it ‘Robot Wars.’ We’ll call ours ‘Transmorphers.’ ”

now that's thinking outside of the box!

Jesus vs Predator - when?

Next season of South Park?

omg i had this exact same idea. my sample title: "you've got email"

Arachnodude

dudes, michelle dessler! i will see this film

ladies and gentleman, the "predalien":

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5640/21464054uh6.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/156/38379737xk0.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/108/76994411kv0.jpg

Ridiculous.

awesome

This should really be either the Prailine or the Aleator

predators are not bord with dreads. GOD.

*born

borg

bjorg

To be honest I kind of dig the "biomechanical Sheneneh Jenkins" look that the critter's rockin'.

lol:

http://movies.foxjapan.com/avp2/trailer/

watch the one that says "New Species"

Japanese poster is petty rad:

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7826/poster2ot0.jpg

captures the true b-movie spirit of this well!

calling them Mike and Markus is a masterstroke

lol

the "first 5 minutes" (obviously truncated):

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/a/Aliens-Vs-Predator-Requiem/index-3687454.html

oh no way

i feel like this is someone's really high concept dv home movie and it makes me kind of sad about current/future democratic ideals

and movie ideals

OH GOD THIS MOVIE IS HORRIBLE!!!

The xenomorphs have a very particular reproduction cycle, and this movie willfully ignores it. Agh.

yeah, it was pretty bad.

i enjoyed it though!

**SPOILER**the life cycle wasn't technically changed; according to an interview with the filmmakers they were establishing the pred-alien thing as a young queen before it sets up a nest and produces eggs.**END SPOILER**

it's a really brainless flick. the alien-predator carnage is good though.

there's a part early in the film where the hybrid beast bitchslaps one of her alien minions. i rofl'd (not sure that's what they were going fo though...).

**SPOILER**the life cycle wasn't technically changed; according to an interview with the filmmakers they were establishing the pred-alien thing as a young queen before it sets up a nest and produces eggs.**END SPOILER**

But the queen makes eggs, not soldier xenomorphs!!!

this movie was no fun at all.

well i don't agree that it was "no fun", but i'm not going to spend any time defending it, lol. it was not a good movie.

this was not nearly as terrible as i'd been lead to believe! it might have been the rum & coke i smuggled in, but i had a great time.

the alienator was sort of dumb though. i mean, they incubate in their hosts, not make sweet love with them, right?

i liked that (as far as horror movie conventions go) they didn't go easy on the pregnant women, babies, and love interests.

i don't ask much of alien vs predator movies. :/

me neither, which is why i enjoyed it despite it being really stupid.

my faith in there being another actual good Alien film died with Alien Resurrection 10 years ago, so i get what i can from these films.

My cousins and I just kept saying "I hear there's a predalien!" repeatedly over Christmas, but we didn't go see this.

The most important question is whether either the Predator, Alien, or PredAlien was ever referred to as Mike or Markus onscreen.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Alienvspredator-2-d-1.jpg

it was a missed opportunity not to have the little alien mouth come out w/extra mandibles.

hahaha tooo tru

I thought the predalien was ok. Not too much really to distinguish it from other aliens other than the look.

I did like the main predator character in this though. He was pretty cool. Easily my favorite thing about the movie.

rip main predator :(

wasnt there a predalien in the last one

at the very end

giger wept

Why is this movie so stupid?

I'm trying to imagine other franchises tanking this deliberately: in the 7th Hulk movie, Bruce Banner is gonna eat a can of spinach so he can fight Rhino at Wrestlemania. Tibor Takács will direct.

oh is this out on dvd yet? checking netflix

Bruce Banner is gonna eat a can of spinach so he can fight Rhino at Wrestlemania. Tibor Takács will direct.

^^^would watch

I've got a bad feeling about watching this movie over and over just to identify all the franchise references. GET TO THE CHOPPER.

the inevitable Alien 'reboot' is sure to come soon

this is now on dvd!

i moved it to the top of my netflix queue earlier! i will have to finally send back that tarkovsky film we've had for like 2 months and never watched :/ DON'T JUDGE ME

I've done that for tarkovsky, AvP 2 is gonna get top priority though.

According to Netflix I currently have:
NewsRadio: Seasons 1 and 2: Disc 1
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning
General Idi Amin Dada

AvP2 has prioritaaaaah

this was a great drunken theater experience but i probably won't watch it again (as opposed to AvP1, which i've seen more times than i'm going to admit).

heh so i rented the "unrated" version...it's actually a tad better than the theatrical release. or at least there's a couple of scenes added back in that it make it less choppy. still very gory and totally brainless.

It still goes nowhere nearer explaining the beginning of Alien 3 DAMMIT

the inevitable Alien 'reboot' is sure to come soon

-- latebloomer, Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

alien begins! with alien training sequences

an Alien reboot movie would have been excellent about 10 years or so ago. Not now, not now that all alien movies these days are made by fecking idiots.

make that at least 15 years ago

alien begins! with alien training sequences

-- s1ocki, Friday, April 18, 2008 12:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

"Your parents death was your father's fault."

"Rooaurwrrrrrr hisssss rahhhh"

this still makes me lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nrqSCn0sBPw

I like how, in the first movie, the choice of the human characters to (eventually) side with the Preds ends up suggesting that humanity is more able to reconcile its own cruelty and pointless sport-hunting than its own ceaseless, insect-like procreation. See also hierarchical immigration rhetoric. "Those Predators, they're not so unlike us after all, and their well-developed hunting technology must require solid, stable family life and good education! But Aliens! There goes the neighbourhood!"

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i think in real life batman would have pwned both alien and predator since they're not real.

air-tight logic!

i still think they should make archie vs predator

I have archive vs punisher comic

Who wins?

The archive is sufficiently punished.

this unfortunately really sucked.

yes, the aliens franchise is now sadly lost to the nerd boys who think that video game cuts scenes make 'great movies'

i liked the first av:p one a lot. this was just lousy. not to mention it was so dark that it was impossible to watch on a small screen and i couldn't tell the aliens from the predaliens from the predators half the time.

everyone looks the same in the dark.

blood, on the other hand, is still bright red in the dark, and underwater to boot.
too many people, not enough predaliens.