Overall a wonderful film

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2004)

I don't despise Paul Anderson. In fact I rather favor him.
I don't know why he was given AVP, but I did not complain...
I did not like the PG-13 rating, but it didn't ruin the movie...and I've long since gotten over it.
I am going to say one thing though, the fight scenes ruled. Some say they were too fast, I thought they were just great.
****!!!!SPOILERS!!!!****
I think it was cheap how they killed off Sebastian and Weyland. Weyland did not come off to me as the corporate ass that his company ends up becoming in the Aliens series when it merges with Yutani corp.
I did not think of Sanaa Lathan proper to play the part that she did...she just didn't seem to fill it properly...she seemed to be there...but she did it alright I suppose.
As for Bishop, Henrikson brought on an astounding display of immense talent in his acting.
The predators seemed a bit bulky to me...and the facial structures just didn't seem right, and also the mandibles didn't seem to have the 'life' that they did in the first one...for instance when Arnold is looking at the Predator in the original Predator when it takes off his mask...you see his mandibles clicking, anticipating the fight to come...and then one twitches...it is so lifelike! I guess that is what happens when we lose the talented Mr Kevin Peter Hall who played a predator like no one else can, not to forget Stan (something or other) who came up with the predator design in the first place...and god bless him for creating one of the most kick ass creatures in the world.
All I can say is WHEN WILL A DAMN PREDATOR ACTUALLY WIN?!
Every time the predator gets his S!!t messed up and the human walks away without a scratch...it's getting old and tired...I say make Predator 3 and every humans dies, and the Predator walks away, having made a successful hunt.
The elder predator kicked ass, though he had the same messed up mouth like the rest of them did.
Aliens...could not have been done better...Congratulations to Anderson for relying more on animatronics than CGI...cause CGI sucks...it can be done very poorly...It wasn't all that great supporting the queen either when she busted out of the pit created by the predator's bomb. It almost looked like a T-Rex from Jurassic Park...but then again all we have to compare it to is the Queen in 2 which was so docile due to what cameron had to work with...not to mention the one that was killed so cheaply and never moved in Alien Resurrection, the money dump that it was.
Ah, well, I will say that I am not disappointed that I paid to see this flick. Boycotting it won't do crap unless you can get the younger crowd to do so as well, and you never will...Perhaps it is good that we have had the franchise opened to younger people now...I mean there seriously were no little screaming brats...as I think even 13 year olds are capable of shutting the hell up during a movie on screen...it's obnoxious jocks and their boyfriends that drive me up a wall with their stupid comments and ill placed obnoxious laughing...oh and their constant insistence to make out all the time...Last midnight showing of a movie I'll ever see.