AvP:R

[Rett Mikhal]

AvP:R is hard to describe. My friend Greg and I were both struggling to decide if we liked it or not, even after blasting through two levels with our Fisher Price MP5s in the arcade.

It's not that the film is bad, nor good. It's just sorta there. One thing I liked is how little respect the film makers had for humanity. No one is safe! NO ONE. You've seen the "kid sees something happen to parent, cut away" scene like a million times, especially after the 80s and into the STUPID 90s. Not this film. If you think someone should die in this scene, most likely they are going to die and also someone is going to walk in looking for a cup of sweet sugar and instead get a cup of sour death. Also, any people they hang out with, or co-workers, also going to die.

Oh and family. Their families will probably also show up for a nice family reunion only to get terraformed chestburster style.

But yeah, overall, it's kinda meh. Playing Ghost Squad in the arcade was a little bit more entertaining even if the front grip was broken off my gun by hooligans.

Of course, there's also a blonde chick who ends up wearing less clothes than the male blonde people by the end of the movie. So if you're 13, good for you. I hate you so grow up and stop putting sex in movies that aren't about sex.

[eatmyshorts]

I thought it was very entertaining, and it was a hilarious movie to watch with friends. I do agree the whole blonde girl/angry boyfriend plotline was very cliche, but the girl was damn sexy, so I can let it slide.

[Al]

Yeah, it was pretty mediocre. But, for all of you in Hollywood out there, I'm a-okay with clothesless blondes. Or brunettes or reheads or or any color you wanna make their hair. I'm not picky.

[Rett Mikhal]

Actually if you read my post, I'm against just putting hot people in for the sake of being hot. It's a sign of lazy writers and uninspired directors.

At least special effects fluff takes some skill to write and create. Hot, useless actors/actresses are a cop-out. They're too easy to get, what's the point? They probably found that blonde in five minutes by walking around Hollywood blindfolded and speaking Vietnamese obscenities.

[Hucklebubba]

rettmikhal said:

I'm against just putting hot people in for the sake of being hot.

What other possible purpose could they serve?

rettmikhal said:

They're too easy to get, what's the point?

The question answers itself, methinks.

rettmikhal said:

At least special effects fluff takes some skill to write and create. Hot, useless actors/actresses are a cop-out.

Ah, but see, this statement is going to bite you on the bum in the near future, because technology will have reached the point where filmmakers will be able to use digitally-rendered useless hot people facsimiles that will be indiscernable from the genuine article. The useless hot people will have become the special effects fluff.

I actually agree with you more or less, but being argumentative is fun.

gunslingeral said:

But, for all of you in Hollywood out there, I'm a-okay with clothesless blondes. Or brunettes or reheads or or any color you wanna make their hair. I'm not picky.

I am partial to redheads, myself.

[Rett Mikhal]

hucklebubba said:

Ah, but see, this statement is going to bite you on the bum in the near future, because technology will have reached the point where filmmakers will be able to use digitally-rendered useless hot people facsimiles that will be indiscernable from the genuine article. The useless hot people will have become the special effects fluff.

The irony in that is they'll spend so much time getting depth her computer animated bazookas... and STILL at the same time... give her character NO DEPTH... whatsoever.

I actually agree with you more or less, but being argumentative is fun.

gunslingeral said:

But, for all of you in Hollywood out there, I'm a-okay with clothesless blondes. Or brunettes or reheads or or any color you wanna make their hair. I'm not picky.

I like the bluenettes myself.

[tommutate]

A complaint my friend had, was that it was more of an alien movie than a predator movie. There was not enough distinctive scenes about the predators behavior, not enough competitve honor type scenes. You could have replaced the predators with highly trained marines that know how to deal with aliens, and the plot would have been the same, as all they did was hunt them down. With the exception of the scenes with the pred-alien (which again had no honor, eating babies and killing women).