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10-30-2003, 01:59 AM
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Let me be the first to say WTF?! I never thought this would go through.
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10-30-2003, 05:09 AM
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Any truth to the rumors that this will be rated PG-13?
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10-30-2003, 05:27 AM
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I don't know...I am still not convinced. I sure hope it won't PG 13!! That would suck.
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10-30-2003, 08:52 AM
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| Any truth to the rumors that this will be rated PG-13? |
WHo knows. It's not even being filmed yet!! |
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10-30-2003, 11:04 AM
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I was comin' to post the links, and Kami beat me to it! 
Though I'm still a bit skeptical, I must admit that the concept sounds like it could be a LOT of fun. Granted, I'm one of the few movie freaks in the universe who does not despise the work of Paul Anderson, so that certainly helps.
That shot he describes of the Aliens swarming up the pyramid to kill the Predators sounds quite cool indeed. Obviously I'm gonna follow the production of this one quite carefully. So far they got Lance Henriksen on board...so there's ONE good move at least. 
Plus screenwriter Shane Salerno did some work on Armageddon...and we all know how I feel about THAT movie.  |
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10-30-2003, 11:30 AM
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As long as Anderson can contain himself and keep from scoring the film with totally inappropriate techno and industrial metal music (like he did EVENT HORIZON and RESIDENT EVIL) it might not suck.
The storyboards look intriguing anyway...
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10-30-2003, 11:47 AM
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I'm just hoping whatever is cursing Superman over at the WB is somehow contagious and it infects this project.
ESPECIALLY after seeing ALIEN in theaters the other day--it reminds me what CAN be done with these creatures--a big rubber-suit-a-thon just doesn't do it justice.
And while I have my reservations about Paul Anderson (Big reservations) what really irritates the hell out of me isn't the basic story they're using, the unimaginative cliched "mysteries" (ooh. Pyramids. inside pyramids. ooh) to hang the set pieces on, but that this is going to essentially be the PREQUEL to Alien. This is going to set the backstory--and the backstory is that the head of "The Company" looks exactly like Bishop and found the Aliens ON EARTH.
This is the "ALIENS ON EARTH" movie we're finally getting after all these years? this is the Alien backstory that Ridley Scott has been talking about doing for so long now? Pyramids in present day Antarctica, written and directed by Paul Anderson with help from Shane Salerno?
that's what's most disappointing to me. Maybe I wouldn't be so "blah" about it if they did actually set this thing as far out of continuity as possible, but this Weyland addition pretty much makes this thing Alien 5--with Predators involved.
And, on top of that, both Scott AND Cameron had both talked to Fox at one point about this (or at least Cameron had) and straight up told them they'd work on another Alien movie, as LONG as "Alien vs Predator" was NOT MADE before they got a crack at it.
And this is what we get instead.
ugh.
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10-30-2003, 11:56 AM
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| It's not even being filmed yet!! |
Well they'd better get busy. It's due at my theater in 9 months! |
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10-30-2003, 12:16 PM
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My only expectations for this movie right now is good action. Add in some good story or characters and its icing on the cake for me. I'm sorry but Aliens and Predators just get me excited. Put them in the same movie and there's no other way to describe it other than "fucking awesome."
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10-30-2003, 12:31 PM
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but that's the thing--I'm not even sure Anderson knows how to shoot action all that well. Mortal Kombat was decently shot as far as the cuts and angles and editing goes--but I think that was the movie he had the least input on creatively. The action sequences in Soldier and Resident Evil are pretty blah.
he IS decent at setting a mood. Which might be why his movies are often so disappointing--he can set up scenes and mood to where you're anticipating something good happens--but then nothing good really happens. If he wasn't so decent at establishing that mood, I think I'd actually think a little more of his movies. Weird to say, but it's how I feel: If he didn't look like he was halfway competent, I wouldn't get my hopes up inside his movies. But he does get my hopes up, and then the follow through is often just so mediocre and boring that all the atmosphere he just created is utterly wasted. I'd almost rather not be teased with the idea of something cool happen and just wallow in the crap if it's just going to end up being crap. Don't put frosting on the top of it and tell me it's Devils Food cake.
My thing is that I think Anderson is just in the wrong genre--he's somehow got himself entrenched in the sci-fi horror field, and I don't think he's suited to it. Maybe if he had more character driven drama type stuff, he'd be able to make better movies. but the studios are paying him to make these flicks, and he needs the work, apparently--so there we go. he's stranded in a genre he's never really learned how to make work for him. Event Horizon was probably his closest thing to a success in the genre.
I just don't think, cinematically, there's all that much that will be done with this film, given the story they're running with and the setting they have, that you can't already get just simply playing the Alien Vs Predator computer games. And probably enjoy more thoroughly.
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10-30-2003, 02:53 PM
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I've been waiting a long time for this movie...glad to see it finally reaching the light of day. I think Anderson will do fine with this. I don't think it will be the same caliber as Alien or Aliens, but it certainly won't be any worse than Alien3, Resurrection, or Predator 2, IMO.
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10-30-2003, 03:09 PM
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I bet this will be a lot worse than Predator 2, which is a decent movie that's faithful to the Predator mythos and the tone of the first movie. It even has a real score by Alan Silvestri which AvP, as Kenneth pointed out, probably won't have given Anderson's track record.
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