Well, my fellow fans, I am probably in a very lonely spot when I say that AVP was not that bad a movie! I could give you tons of reasons: the FX, either makeup and visual, the aliens looked greater than ever, the Preds not that great, but without Stan Winston and having to choose only one FX companym he chose the Aliens' FX crew for the last 3 installments of the Alien Saga... About the sequel to AVP, three HUGE concerns: 1) the setting - completely destroys Alien continuity by setting the action on Earth, not a remote location, but an actual American small town. As you all recall, the tension in Alien Quatrilogy was to prevent, at all costs the xenomorphs from reaching Earth! Now, 150 years before the Nostromo's demise, we have Aliens on American soil, killing people! 2) the Predalien growth is too farfetched even for this Sci-fi crap! SO, we have to believe that the Scar's spawn would grow within minutes, attack a spaceship full of Predators (!) and manage to make a spaceship already out of earth's gravity pull (double
) crash into earth with everybody dying, EXCEPT the distress caller and an ALIEN (where did it come from) and FACEHUGGERS (where did they come from too?)...Although Shane salerno will PROBABLY solve two of these three probs, the fact remains that the small-town setting will remain and will throw the entire Alien continuity out the window!