Alien Resurrection vs AvP : R.
Like choosing which gas chamber to go into...
Alien Resurrection is almost salvageable. Some editing work could really repair the damage. As the guy who runs "Alien Legend" pointed out in his now gone "My Thoughts" section of A:R, there were many things that could have been changed with a few edits which would have greatly improved the film. The one thing the film needs desperately is to have the pace reworked. More action, more actual horror.
However, beyond all that, it is still a far better crafted film. It has an identity of it's own, as silly and strange as it is.
AvP:R shoot's itself in the foot from the word go. It banks on nostalgia right off the bat, lays it on thick for it's run time... Which is a bad thing, because it's trying to cover up for lacking it's own identity as a movie. It gives us incompetent Predators and feeble, weak, aliens. Neither are particularly threatening. The characters we are given are fed some very awful dialogue.. No thank you. I went into AvP:R very hopeful and excited. I didn't want to hate it. I wanted to enjoy it, but it frankly didn't even try to meet me halfway on that. Sure it has "lots of action" but that doesn't mean it's better for it, or that the action itself is good. Which it isn't. It's often very dark, and very... Silly, over the top.
