Has Alien vs. Predator (2004) aged all that well?

[SM]

Cloning does work like what? Like a science fiction film 300 years in the future?  Neither do artificial gravity or cryosleep or faster than light travel or monsters that go zero to a hundred in a few hours but cloning is over the top?

[Kradan]

Changed me life, it did.

There are brilliant aspects, the opening of the satellite which looks like the Queen, the Sacrificial Chamber as the eggs rise up, and when Dr. Graeme Miller (Ewen Bremner) awakes cocooned and tries to survive by shooting facehuggers, and more keep coming and it pans away as he screams, and the Queen chasing through the whale boneyard.

Yes

I think of the fights, Scar vs Queen is the better one. Seeing Her Majesty in the open was a treat and I still the scene when Scar leapt and drives his combistick into her head was a very cool scene.

f**k yeah



I'm very upset with all of you turning this thread into a Resurrection discussion 

[Nightmare Asylum]

Resurrection definitely has a more heightened, exaggerated tone, and a style/execution more comparable to comics than to the previous films themselves, but I wouldn't say it feels like parody at all to me. It is earnestly setting out to be another Alien movie, not to riff on and make fun of the ones that came before it.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I agree but say that I think most have made it clear for twenty six years, it is an inherently flawed premise to most, Alien Resurrection. Some can not buy earnestly into the cloning from the word go, especially used to bring back ostensibly dead characters, it only works to the degree it does because everything feels lalmost ike a fever dream.

[The Cruentus]

Cloning does work like what? Like a science fiction film 300 years in the future?  Neither do artificial gravity or cryosleep or faster than light travel or monsters that go zero to a hundred in a few hours but cloning is over the top?

Cloning doesn't work like it does in the movie but that is not what I consider the most over the top, its mostly about Ripley 8

Alien rez is less sci-fi and more comic-like to me.

Already stated in other threads that even the original films had a few unexplainable stuff, stasis. Flight speed. Yes even hours growth is pushing things but these last few things were atleast established in the first film. It set the tone and didn't show how stasis, gravity or the flight speed worked so there isn't much to contradict as its left to us speculate. Alien res goes comical with what it features.

[Salt The Fries]

I think of the fights, Scar vs Queen is the better one. Seeing Her Majesty in the open was a treat and I still the scene when Scar leapt and drives his combistick into her head was a very cool scene.

Now that you mention it, this scene does look unironically cool 😅. I've never thought I'd say that (I've always disliked Avp otherwise).

[E. Shaw]

I think of the fights, Scar vs Queen is the better one. Seeing Her Majesty in the open was a treat and I still the scene when Scar leapt and drives his combistick into her head was a very cool scene.

Now that you mention it, this scene does look unironically cool 😅. I've never thought I'd say that (I've always disliked Avp otherwise).

Scar: Hold my (combi)Stick. XD

[Wweyland]

I think of the fights, Scar vs Queen is the better one. Seeing Her Majesty in the open was a treat and I still the scene when Scar leapt and drives his combistick into her head was a very cool scene.

Now that you mention it, this scene does look unironically cool 😅. I've never thought I'd say that (I've always disliked Avp otherwise).

https://img.wattpad.com/3425acd728fd1c51ae482824c06957415fa784f5/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f5f683571543242474c73435143773d3d2d313237333839343333322e313731613361653037386665633137383330323931343536303934312e676966

Scar: Hold my (combi)Stick. XD

Damn, the Xenos are very adaptable to head wounds.
The Predalien took the wristblades to the head, and kept going as well.

[SM]

Well for a few seconds before being vapourised.

Another took wrist blades to the head and his whole face fell off.

[The Cruentus]

Pretty sure that was a shuriken.

[SM]

Oh yeah. Oh well same result.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Speaking of the shurikens, never did like their design nearly as much as I do the smart disc in Predator 2.

Was pretty shocked that The Predator opted to bring back the weaponry from AVP/AVPR, but then... that's also the movie that put the Alien tail spear on full display as well...

[426Buddy]

I like both... do I prefer the disc? Yeah but the shurikan is cool too.

[Nightmare Asylum]

The disc has this weird blend of primal weaponry and more heightened tech that just really does it for me with Predator gear.

That being said, I'm all for rotating stuff out movie to movie. Let them all roll up with their own kits. Don't need to see the same weapons on every Predator every time.

[The Cruentus]

The smart disc is cool. With the technology in it, it makes at least some sense on how it could be controllable, like a RC/drone. The shuriken relies on boomerang physics and could easily harm the user, at least more so than the smart disc could I presume.