But Requiem has Reiko Aylesworth! I agree that the first AvP is "pretty good". AvP:R is more in the "Well, it's not really that bad...but Lord it isn't good" territory (which to bring this back around to the topic, is kind of how I feel about the 1976 King Kong).
Not really. Technically, all of the Alien and Predator and Alien/Predator films are part of the same universe, even though there are inconsistencies.
It's more like the Hammer versions of Dracula and Frankenstein vs. the Universal versions of Dracula and Frankenstein.
Or like Greystoke or...
Same here. Well, I don't know if I'd call it "deplorable", but after seeing it in its original theatrical release, I'd only ever seen it once more, on cable, many years later. Like a number of other movies I didn't care for, I was willing to give it another try to see if my opinion changed, and...