Poll: AvP vs AvPR

[dachande89]

I dont know, its kinda tricky. I feel AVP had better characters that you at least slightly cared if they died, but AVP-R had the girtty, gruesome action that you want with an AVP movie (even if its hard to see at times through the darkness). But overall I would say I enjoyed AVP-R over the first AVP, cause Wolf was bad ass.

[That Yellow Alien]

Enough with the hyperboles. AVPR may be bad, but it is nowhere close to as bad as pornography or sci-fi original movies.

See that? That is what a sci-fi channel original movie looks like. It has zero cinematography, what barely constitutes as acting, and god awful special effects. Now you may say AVPR is mediocre in those areas, but not even close to being as bad as this crap.

[Xenomrph]

Hyperbole? On an AvP messageboard?

WHY I NEVER.

edit--

RAPED MY CHILDHOOD.

WORST. MOVIE. EVER.

MY ALIEN.

GAH I WANT TO KILL EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON IT.

did I miss any?

[That Yellow Alien]

Predator fans are guilty of this too. We heard it for 4 years.

[predator elite]

Enough with the hyperboles. AVPR may be bad, but it is nowhere close to as bad as pornography or sci-fi original movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_JySW7njk

See that? That is what a sci-fi channel original movie looks like. It has zero cinematography, what barely constitutes as acting, and god awful special effects. Now you may say AVPR is mediocre in those areas, but not even close to being as bad as this crap.

oh god that movie looks crap.do the people who make that know guns like that don't hold about 30 bullet's each magazine

[DoomRulz]

Enough with the hyperboles. AVPR may be bad, but it is nowhere close to as bad as pornography or sci-fi original movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_JySW7njk

See that? That is what a sci-fi channel original movie looks like. It has zero cinematography, what barely constitutes as acting, and god awful special effects. Now you may say AVPR is mediocre in those areas, but not even close to being as bad as this crap.

Sweet Jesus, that was terrible. But that film aside...it's a sci-fi orginal film. It's not meant to be taken seriously and everyone knows it's most likely going to be silly.

AvP:R on the other hand, bears the words Aliens and Predator, two words which people associate with established and well-done movies, ergo something well thought-out and planned is expected.

[Xenomrph]

AvP:R on the other hand, bears the words Aliens and Predator, two words which people associate with established and well-done movies, ergo something well thought-out and planned is expected.

You'd be surprised what average people expect from an Alien or Predator movie nowadays, after things like Alien3, Alien Resurrection, and Predator2.

[Predboy]

Predator fans are guilty of this too. We heard it for 4 years.

So true.

[Scree]

I loved AVP-R but I still like AVP better. Despite the recent news I'm really hoping for a third one.

[The Demon]

AvPr wasnt a masterpeice but it was an entertaining cheap movie.

[Deathbearer]

I liked AVP's Pyramid setting even though the hole Antarctica thing was a bit silly. I also liked that there were more preds in AVP even if they were a bit..useless. Only like one of them accomplished anything, and he died so that's not saying alot. The special effects were really good and so was the fighting and the new weapons. The Queen was too..big though. She was more like a step above Queen or a Queen on steroids. Acting was decent, it did it's job for the movie.

AVP:R's setting was okay. Wolf was a f**king badass and that makes up for there being only one Predator of any significance in the film. I liked the new weapons in this film a bit better, even though the massive wrist blades were awesome in the first. I really didn't get how a whole ship full of Predators got their asses handed to them by 1 Predalien. Didn't too much care for the acting since it really wasn't why I went to see the movie in the first place. While you could care about the humans in AVP, the characters in AVP:R the only humans you can really feel anything towards are the babies that get eaten. The movie was way more hardcore than AVP. A bit too dark sometimes yet it helped set the atmosphere IMO.

I suppose it depends on what I'm in the mood for: Senseless violence with an okay story and rather bad acting or moderate violence with a decent story and moderate acting.

[gameoverman]

^ Agreed. It was funny how he said it wasn't even a movie, then he said it was a poorly lit, poorly shot MOVIE right after.

Movie is short for motion picture.  You could point a camera at the floor for 6 hours and call it a movie.

One of the first movies exhibited was apparently a train travelling a few feet.  Not very epic.

So, you've got to have some standards to actually call it a "MOVIE".  You usually say, "I'm going to watch a movie" which doesn't usually mean that you're going to watch funniest home videos or something.

[DoomRulz]

So, you've got to have some standards to actually call it a "MOVIE".  You usually say, "I'm going to watch a movie" which doesn't usually mean that you're going to watch funniest home videos or something.

That's nonsense. This is like saying there's a difference b/w the terms "movie" and "film"; Film is supposed to be something that creates a legacy, leaves a hallmark of some sort for future features whereas a movie is something that is silly and outlandish.

Film and movie are the same thing. And fan film or professional cinema, it's still a movie. AvP:R is a movie/film, period. A bad one, but still a motion picture all the same.

[gameoverman]

So, you've got to have some standards to actually call it a "MOVIE".  You usually say, "I'm going to watch a movie" which doesn't usually mean that you're going to watch funniest home videos or something.

That's nonsense. This is like saying there's a difference b/w the terms "movie" and "film"; Film is supposed to be something that creates a legacy, leaves a hallmark of some sort for future features whereas a movie is something that is silly and outlandish.

Not exactly, I'm just pointing out how the word "movie" is used in common usage.

Film and movie are the same thing. And fan film or professional cinema, it's still a movie. AvP:R is a movie/film, period. A bad one, but still a motion picture all the same.

I would put AVPR in a seperate category, not a general category.  "Bad movie" maybe.

[That Yellow Alien]

After rewatching AVP...I like AVP more. It's just so much more epic than AVPR. The last 10 minutes are retarded, but the first 2/3 I actually really like. I like how Anderson held off on the creatures, and built up to them. The film has a fantastic look and, for the most part, great special effects. There is actually a lot to like.