Wait for the rental ... or free cable release

Rating: 6/10 (23 August 2004)

My scale for rating movies is very simple, ranging from "I'd pay to see it again in the theater" (as I did with "Dances with Wolves") to "That's two hours of my life I'll never get back."
I'm enough of a fan to have "Aliens" (the 2nd one) in my VHS collection in wide-screen format, and I'm thinking of replacing my VHS copy of "Predator 2" with a DVD ... my homey and I had been looking forward to it for months (one of those testosterone bonding things that guys do), but waited a week for the lines to diminish before we caught a matinee, so that we wouldn't be surrounded by kids.
For "Alien Vs. Predator", I have to say, "I would have enjoyed it more if it had cost less." My advice is that it's worth seeing once, but you'll probably enjoy it more as a rental for half the price of theater tickets and popcorn ... I mean, a DVD rental will cost *LESS* than the theater popcorn! If you *must* have the theater experience, do like we did and catch a matinee.
So put it on your "Maybe Someday" list, but save the gas and the thirteen bucks ($25 if it's a date) for something better. OTOH, it's the Sigourney Weaver wannabe who survives, so it's not a bad date movie, as an alternative to a chick flick. :-)