Alien vs Predator

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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)

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"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 (one month ago)

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