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Tom*

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Just watched that scene again to make sure and he says "I am not a droid" to ripley. Thing is though, the way he says it imo sounds a lot like denial and disbelief and I dont know about you but most humans which are smacked so hard round the back of their head that their ear is hanging off I would think would be knocked out. Also in the ending credits he is listed as Bishop II, if he was not a droid wouldnt it be better to use his whole name or list him as bishop's creator?

but was he always meant to be the original bishop? isn't the guy in AvP the very first one, and by the time of Alien3 he's just cloned/made a droid of himself to carry on in charge of the company? how did Cameron and Fincher plan that out?

also: when is AvP out here?

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I just saw it now and me and my Aliens-loving friend had to laugh at all the stupidness of this movie. For a start, there wasn't anything scary in there at all. Not a thing. The Aliens aren't even that scary either. So it's not a movie for people who enjoy being scared then - bits in Alien and Aliens still scare me in that Doom3-kind of way.

The only redeeming feature in this movie was the little nuance of seeing Weyland mess about with a knife as he's looking at his laptop. Me in fanboy mode - "Whoa! You see that?".

Some rather bad points -

The Pepsi Cola bottletop. I don't remember seeing no Pepsi logo in Alien or Aliens. Fucktards.

"You're one ugly motherfucker". JESUSCHRISTNO.

My friend tells me the Predator burns the emblem into the forehead in the graphic novels, not the cheek. Why the cheek?!

The reconfiguring pyramid which reconfigures every 10 minutes (How did that gimpy bloke know!??) and then some.

The fact that whaling stations in the Antarctic don't actually have a fucking huge sign saying "Whaling Station" as none of them are run by English-speakers.

The WWF move.

Bullet-time facehugger action.

That gimp from Trainspotting which I really, really wanted to die.

The Alien Queen at the end looked cool, but I then thought how it reminded me of the T Rex in Jurassic Park.

The thing is, it isn't as bad a train wreck as the Aliens Resurrection movie, but it still has a huge dose of studio exec all over it. I heard three weeks from release they had to cut out all the gore and stuff to make the PG13 rating.

No wonder there's so much fan fiction and fan films out there - people are obviously fed up of their cherished movie memories get strangled slowly.

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I've just watched AvP.

Imagine a script that has no original ideas, but despite having 12 hours + of them from other movies, fails to delivery any of them right, and reuses several anyway.

Imagine direction that has no original ideas, fails to deilvery any of them right, and still reuses several anyway.

Imagine acting so lifeless it makes The Matrix look like Schindler's List.

That is the good stuff from AvP.

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Major Britten

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"You're one ugly motherfucker". JESUSCHRISTNO.

Arnie says that in the first predator movie though. One of those reviews that was listed made me laugh though. Apparentley in the press screening (which had the fox execs and Paul "Wank Stain" Anderson present) one of them shouted "Gimme some sugar baby" when the predator takes his mask off. Oh how I wish I was there to witness that :D

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Spunky Monkey

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Just saw the trailer and it does look okay from it, certainly not scary and reminds me of resident evil in a lot of ways (group of people go deep under ground, get picked off one by one, token black guy leader, and the setting and scenes dont really make any sense to anything, they are just there for no reason)

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Major Britten

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To be fair to Anderson though he has always been a shit film maker and writer, he was never going to make a jump to a Scott/Cameron level of film making overnight. Most of the blame has to be pointed at FOX and all of the people that let him write and direct it. And (I have not had the pleasure to see the film myself) it is meant to be his best film so far, so he HAS tried his best to make the best film he could (even though it is still shit compared to the films in the Alien/Predator franchise). Everything went wrong with the project as soon as they stuck "VS Predator" in the title. They should have made it Alien 5 or Predator 3.

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Space Renegade Ulala

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Philistines, you're all philistines. With a bit of troglodyte thrown in, too. Anyway, for your reading pleasure, I present the total US box office [b]to date[/b] for the films in the [i]Alien[/i] series:

1. [i]Aliens[/i] Fox $85,160,248
2. [i]Alien[/i] Fox $78,944,891
3. [i]Alien vs. Predator[/i] Fox $73,477,919
4. [i]Alien 3[/i] - Fox - $55,473,545
5. [i]Alien Resurrection[/i] - Fox $47,795,658

Does this mean we can look forward to another shitfest then, given most other countries haven't gotten it yet..?

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Gorf King

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People are really appalling sometimes, aren't they?

If there was to be a sequel at all (a debatable artistic decision, but obviously a sound financial one), the series should clearly have stopped at the trilogy. As derided as the third instalment was (unfairly, I think), it at least provided closure. The downtrodden, desperate nature of the proceedings, and especially that Joan of Arc / inverted mother imagery at the end, was quite powerful, and a fitting end to the theme: inevitable, and even slightly poetic - and certainly conclusive. To Resurrect the series after that has turned it into a farce of post-Bobby's death Dallas-style proportions.

I don't care much about the value of 'franchises'. As a series of films, though, Alien whatever is a valueless joke, whatever happens next.

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either it ends now, or Ridley Scott makes a proper Alien5 and simply does not acknowledge AvP exists. The more people begin to see this film as part of either trilogy, the worse the original films will become.

I had the 'pleasure' of seeing this tonight and it was exactly how I thought it would be. Shite. <_<

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I mean, if this does well because of idiot 13-year olds, and they make AvP2 or even AvP3, to some people the whole alien saga and predator films will lose their iconic status.

as in diluting the quality of the story, much like a diluted drink tastes weaker and not as good. you see?

I know the films are not physically changed by AvP, but some of the 'mythology' that makes the series is effectively washed over with crappy cgi and bad acting.

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Lots of bandwagon jumping going on in this thread. I saw it on Saturday. It wasn't as good as, say, Aliens but it wasn't completely terrible either. I'm quite sure it would have contradicted a lot of the background information on both Alien and Predator (from comics, books, the films) but I don't see most people caring about that. Some of the action sequences were quite spiffy and the end was alright if totally predictable. This film is mediocre, sure, but not the worst ever.

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