Poll: AvP vs AvPR

[Dark Passenger]

and they had light filters thousands of years ago?

Risking to sound obvious here, but aren't they Predators, a species technologically far more advanced than us, with spaceships arriving on Earth thousands of years ago...?

yep, this about sums it up...thanks yutanidutch.

[Corporal Harrison]

and they had light filters thousands of years ago?

Risking to sound obvious here, but aren't they Predators, a species technologically far more advanced than us, with spaceships arriving on Earth thousands of years ago...?

yep, this about sums it up...thanks yutanidutch.

the predator's taught the humans how to make pyramids, the predators didn't make the pyramids.

[YutaniDitch]

and they had light filters thousands of years ago?

Risking to sound obvious here, but aren't they Predators, a species technologically far more advanced than us, with spaceships arriving on Earth thousands of years ago...?

yep, this about sums it up...thanks yutanidutch.

'Anytime'...

[Dark Passenger]

and they had light filters thousands of years ago?

Risking to sound obvious here, but aren't they Predators, a species technologically far more advanced than us, with spaceships arriving on Earth thousands of years ago...?

yep, this about sums it up...thanks yutanidutch.

the predator's taught the humans how to make pyramids, the predators didn't make the pyramids.

well, those other pyramids probably yeh, but this pyramid with and in-built power core and with a queen 'jail'', yeh sounds like the humans made this pyramid.

[StealthHunter]

There was a lot of scenes like that ^ like when Celtic is charging at Grid.

There's several dropped flashlights scattered throughout the area, and Stafford has one attached to his vest aswell.

The lighting in the shot Dusk posted is definitely unnatural. But then again tons of movies that take place in settings like AVP's use exaggerated or unrealistic lighting. In this particular scene the lighting gives much more emphasis on the closing/shifting wall, and eventually the shot of Sabastian nearly being crushed. Had Anderson and his DP decided to go for something more naturalistic I think the scene would've lost alot of impact visually.

[YutaniDitch]

There was a lot of scenes like that ^ like when Celtic is charging at Grid.

There's several dropped flashlights scattered throughout the area, and Stafford has one attached to his vest aswell.

The lighting in the shot Dusk posted is definitely unnatural. But then again tons of movies that take place in settings like AVP's use exaggerated or unrealistic lighting. In this particular scene the lighting gives much more emphasis on the closing/shifting wall, and eventually the shot of Sabastian nearly being crushed. Had Anderson and his DP decided to go for something more naturalistic I think the scene would've lost alot of impact visually.

David Johnson, the AVP DOP, mentioned the difficulty of rendering the lighting on a dark setting like the pyramid one on the AVP Unrated Edition Disc 2... he stated that 'the darkness sells the scariness of a movie' and that it is always tricky lighting a scene with backlights and such in a setting like this and still make it dark enough so that the torches' use was believable and realistic...SO, lighting a dark setting is a tricky affair... Now, darkening shots on purpose with color-grading is another matter... hence why, in my op, AVP looked far better lit than AVPR...

[Dusk]

The pyramid was heating up, so it could have been a light-filter.

Why would there be light-filters?

Here's another scene that irritated the crap out of me.



They are still 2000ft below the ice and it's even still night on the surface. So where does that bright light from above come from?

[Cellien]

Same reason Aliens and Predators are fighting on Earth.. cause it's a sci-fi movie.  At least it actually looks good.  Other than that, there's no reason unless they are trying to get you to believe the pyramid has "come to life", which would be something done with artistic license.

[DoomRulz]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

[LukaKovach]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

[Dark Passenger]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

hah, we know what happens when they show to little {cough} avp-r {cough}...

[DoomRulz]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

Hardly. Half the stuff in the film didn't make sense until the deleted scenes were released.

[Craig]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

Hardly. Half the stuff in the film didn't make sense until the deleted scenes were released.

Like?

[DoomRulz]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

Hardly. Half the stuff in the film didn't make sense until the deleted scenes were released.

Like?

Namely why the Predators split up and why the pyramid kept re-configuring itself.

[Craig]

The only reason I can think of the pyramid reconfiguring was to keep the hunt going. Would've helped if that was explained in the film.

Don't you think they explained a little too much in AvP?

Hardly. Half the stuff in the film didn't make sense until the deleted scenes were released.

Like?

Namely why the Predators split up and why the pyramid kept re-configuring itself.

Wasn't it pretty obvious why the Predators split up when you see through the vision mode focusing directly on the gun in the bag? Unless you're referring to something else.