I clearly just don't get Tarantino (I'm in a minority I know). I liked RD and PF (I do mean "liked" and not "loved and studied relentlessly") ... and really disliked everything else since. I was watching Hateful 8 the other day, and I kept thinking that he's basically become a parody of himself (the over use of the "N" word, the camera pov looking down the gun barrels and all that stuff).
Is it time for AvP3.
Abso-f**king-loutely. I'd love to see this given another chance - I don't know that we need to ret-con the first two, but if they did, I wouldn't be all bent out of shape over it. As has been identified here earlier... needs to be about the people caught up in it - character and all that stuff.
But it would need money behind it and the decent script and the right director. I'd say WS again (of course I would) but that wouldn't happen. Neil Marshall maybe?
But yes, Colonial Marines with analogue tech works for me as Hemi says (though it occurs to me that doing that
now would be really expensive. They used a load of "to be crushed" CRT TVs on Aliens, but I can't remember the last time I saw one of those!).
Actually, I'd like to see Royal (or Commonwealth - I forget how it is in the universe) Marines instead of Colonial Marines - I think Brits, Kiwis, Aussies and Saffas would give a different flavor to the proceedings for sure. The danger with grunts would be that they'd be easy to compare to Hicks and co.
I was reading about the "Aliens being female / Predator being male" earlier - that was ace: I think the protagonists should reflect that.