Darkness
1) If not alot of people liked it why did it make so much at the box office and why did it sell and still sells so many dvd's ?? Even reading these forums it's obvious alot of people enjoyed it. Why can't you take it that some people actually enjoyed it, you've got to respect other peoples opinions.
2) They should have been happy that the film had been made at all. In a perfect world it would have had a better script, director, budget etc but because of the previous 3 films failures in the franchise this didn't happen and people related to thre franchise thought it was a ridiculous idea full stop, so why do people like yourself expect this masterpiece that never was ??
3) I'm not a gamer and as you know movies based on games have a shocking track record, most successful one being - Resident Evil (directed by guess who!) and lest we forget you have the comics to thank for coming up with the AvP concept and keeping it going over the years.
4) AvP is a tough concept to pull off no question & i'll be glad if AvP2 is better than the first, but it won't make me hate it
5) This assumption you have if that you like AvP you can't like the previous 6 installments (A:R is no masterpiece) is ridiculous. If you read my posts it's obvious i love aliens and preds 1 & 2 especially (& alien is a masterpiece), you just love top pick at AvP.
You take every film on it's own merits, sure AvP is no Alien, aliens, pred 1 or 2 but you can't judge it against them, you judge it against AvP2. As for damaging the franchise, hollywood is all about box office, everyone loves pred 2 but it didn't lead to pred 3, A:R was a disappointment and didn't lead to A5. If those 2 films had made real money (& if dvd's had been around!) they would have led to further films no matter how good or bad the critics thought they were. This hatred and resentment for AvP and it's director people like yourself have certainly doesn't help. Why can't you just say AvP could / should have been better and move on.
& you know AvP2 your looking forward to just wouldn't have been made if AvP had failed at the box office & dvd and i bet your wishing it had ? For all its faults i'm glad it succeeded against the odds meaning we'll see more of the characters we love