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12-29-2007, 07:13 AM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
You go John! 
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12-29-2007, 07:56 AM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
Hey i liked Ultraviolet, so you know, someone will like a turd. 
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12-29-2007, 11:18 AM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
Wassup, Tino! 
Yeah, you know what they say, SOMEONE somewhere had to like it, I guess i'm the one lol. Fine, let it bomb, that means i'll be able to get it on DVD that much sooner.
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12-31-2007, 12:51 PM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
I saw it and I thought it was terrible. I guess it's a little better than the first AVP but that's hardly an accomplishment.
Before I get crucified for complaining about it being bad, I'm just stating what I thought of the movie. I'm not surprised, I'm not mad, I'm just stating what I thought. |
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12-31-2007, 02:33 PM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
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Before I get crucified for complaining about it being bad, I'm just stating what I thought of the movie. I'm not surprised, I'm not mad, I'm just stating what I thought. |
Actually, this is probably a case where you'd get crucified if you DID like it not the other way around. |
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01-02-2008, 12:20 AM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
Believe it or not...but the showing I was at...the audience clapped at the end! And it wasn't because the movie had ended..it was a sincere clap. I won't list my complaints as they've already been discussed, but the one thing that I really enjoyed were the references to the first 3 Alien movies..especially to Aliens (tank scene anyone?). I got a real kick out of that. It was worth my matenae price..and I'll buy the dvd. I mean come on...it's Aliens!
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01-02-2008, 10:00 AM
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Actually, this is probably a case where you'd get crucified if you DID like it not the other way around.
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There are tons of bad movies out there that people love, this is merely one of those and no one should be crucified for that.
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01-02-2008, 11:23 AM
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There are tons of bad movies out there that people love, this is merely one of those and no one should be crucified for that.
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01-02-2008, 04:50 PM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
I've seen people cite the as the main reasons many didn't like the movie and ordinarily I would be right there with them.
However none of that bothered me because of the context in which those scenes took place, if it were a film about a serial killer doing that than I would have walked, no check that, RAN out of the theater in protest but the film is about aliens fighting other aliens and thus it removed any negative realism from those scenes for me.
Nontheless the filmmakers had tremedous balls to go there, I still can't believe that a modern film went there, never thought that would ever happen.
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01-02-2008, 05:26 PM
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Re: Alien vs. Predator 2 in the works
You make a good point about the context of those scenes, John. However, I couldn't divorce myself from that context. To me, it wasn't aliens doing that -- it was the filmmakers. It quite frankly disgusted me in the same way torture porn does. I just couldn't consider that entertainment and if it wasn't for my 14 year-old nephew -- who asked me to take him -- sitting there enjoying it, I would have walked out. Instead, my mind checked out.
"If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it's called searingly realistic, even though it's never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you're accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental."
-Richard Curtis, Screenwriter and Director
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