10 reasons why Anderson rips 2 of my favorite franchises apart with AVP

Rating: 3/10 (13 May 2005)

I LOVE Predator, Alien, and Aliens. I thought Predator 2 was a decent film, same with Alien 3 (although I'm hearing the Quadrilogy version is amazing), and Alien Resurrection wasn't too bad... until the end... ANYWAY, Paul W.S. Anderson completely annihilated both franchises in the making of this movie In my opinion. 1st off, Most of the actors were terrible, as opposed to Predator and the 1st two Aliens which in those cases that was some of the best acting I've seen on film. 2nd, Anderson Fails to develop the actors, we know nothing of what they act like, their personality, all the characters just seem to be there getting killed (I don't even think I can name one person's name in the movie besides Sabastian, Alexa, and Mr. Weyland). 3rd, THERE IS NO SUSPENSE! In two Predator movies, there is a lot of suspense, especially during the scenes when the Predator kind of "mimicks" the actors voices. Stuff like that didn't happen at all. No scary moments to keep you on the edge of your seat, nothing of that matter. There's just senseless fighting. 4th, Anderson really messed up with the Alien lifecycle (dont understand what I'm saying? then listen) In the old Alien movies, it took DAYS (or long hours) for the chestbuster bust out of the chest. When it happens in AVP, it takes several minutes, in fact, the manly woman wakes up and gets chest busted in like 20 seconds. Also, it takes some time for the Aliens to grow too, which in the movie seemed to fly by... I kept a count on how many Alien's were killed and whatnot, and well it seems that more aliens are killed than there were humans (if you've seen the past Alien movies, you'd know this is impossible because there needs to be human hosts for the facehuggers to grow into Aliens). 5th, as said in the past Predator movies and I quote from Predator "It happens during the hottest summers" and I can't remember how many times in Predator 2 I've heard people say "its hot" or "heat wave" etc. Meaning the Predators usually stay around the hottest of places, well.... ANTARTICA! 6th, Also I'm sorry but, I think there should have been a little more gore and violence for a Alien and Predator movie, I mean, all the Aliens and Predators were rated R. 7th, The Predator THROWS his self destruct armbar into the hive... well, isn't this a crock of sh*t. Predator is supposed to go down when he knows he's lost, if he uses the self destruct, he's supposed to explode with it, which leads me on to 8. In Predator, the self destruct only took about what? a minute to destruct? two tops? yeah, it's the same here, but... Alexa and the Predator are deep in the hive beneath the pyramid also, under Antarctican(word?) soil. Somehow, it takes them 2 minutes to run out of the hive, escape from the pyramid, run down the many steps, run through the underground, and back to the motorized cart that takes them up to the top of Antarctica. 9th, When the movie ends, Alexa is left on Antarctica with NO ONE around... 10th, During a lot of the action scenes, the camera moves around way too much, so therefore I can't see what is going on. It looks like one big blur. Basically an overview, Anderson should have done more studying up no the film before he decided to make it or write the screenplay. once again, the characters are underdeveloped, the movie contrasts the past movies, there is no suspense which leaves you bored at times, the actors aren't the greatest... And I think they would have done a much better job if fox went with Peter Briggs script(Hellboy), which was WAY better. Also I'm hearing of an AVP2 now, I hope they get someone like Ridley Scott(Alien), James Cameron(Aliens), David Fincher(Alien3), John McTiernnan(Predator), or even Stephen Hopkins(Predator 2) to write the script or direct. Because Paul W.S. Anderson rushed into it, and didn't know what he was doing.
PS I cant go out without saying at least SOMETHING good about it can I? Well, some of the few fight scenes were pretty cool, and most people complain that the Predator teams up with Alexa, which I'm not saying is good, but it didn't bother me (however in the comic, Predator does team up with a chick, AND, if you notice in both Predator movies, the Predator not once kills a female...) And that's really all I have to say.