Sorry to necropost but I have been out of the loop in awhile and I need to catch up lol
Anyway, while AVP was never the best film, neither was it the worst. That dishonour goes to the sequel Requiem and that joke called The Predator.
The cgi has aged fairly well in some places of AVP, the shot of Grid standing up and flicking its acid at Celtic is a great shot. The concept of the story is not bad, though I feel it should have been off earth. The character developing is lacking and lore is broken as well but even with its flaws I do have a soft spot for this movie. Even the better executed prequels doesn't change my opinion of it, in fact I would say AVP was less lore breaking/altering than Prometheus and Covenant and it did try to
loosely follow the comics.
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Do Alien movies really need gore though?
I see people picking AVP-R over AVP because it was gorier. But is that really what makes it better?
Aliens are born from exploding out of peoples chests, then bite people in the head.
Predators cause carnage with their lasers and rip peoples spines out.
Yes, they do need a certain level of gore.
You don't have to show the impact of the headbiting.
Most of the first three Alien movies are a (relatively) bloodless affair, except for one or two scenes. Things got gorey with Resurrection, AVP-R and Covenant. Prometheus doesn't have a lot of bloody scenes either.
Predator is a different story though, but the Alien movies never were about showing as much gore as possible.
The first alien film had plenty of gore, it actually shocked quite a few people back in the day. The second movie showed just the same amount of gore. The alien movies just knew when it appropriate, unlike AVPR.
Requiem was over- compensating for the pg-13 rating of the first film, so they thought visibly killing children and pregnant women would be a good idea.