OK AvP fans!! it's very interesting to see all kinds of points of view here, so, let me share some thoughts, I think of Sci-Fi/Horror movies as a very complex genre, you have the Excellent movies (like the Original Starwars, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, the Exorcist) the Great movies (such as Alien, Predator, Terminator) the Ok movies, fun to watch (Resident Evil, Nightmare on Elm Street, Underworld, Friday the 13th), the crappy but fun (Army of Darkness, Guyver,Pumpkinhead) and the very bad ones...but sometimes cult classics (like the Toxic avenger...hehe) Any way my guess is that AvP will be somewhere in between OK and Great, I don't expect more because for that you'd have to get Cameron or Scott for Director, Giger and Winston for creature design, excellen t writers, a 200 million budget and at least one big star on a leading role, Personally I like Resident Evil and Event Horizon as a different approach of Sci Fi/Horror fun watching movies, so it doesn't matter if the Predator is a little different from the original, I'm not so sure about the Alien but I'm sure I'm gonna watch this movie many times, just because it's one of my favorite franchises, just like Freddy vs. Jason, it was a lot of fun to watch, just sit back and enjoy the ride!! If you feel it's gonna suck, don't watch it!! but I'm sure EVERYBODY, even those who make bad comments will end up watching it at least twice!! hehe, and wait when the DVD comes out!! I just hope this becomes such a hit that FOX move forward to produce Alien 5 and Predator 3....we can just hope!!