Quote from: NickisSmart on Sep 12, 2015, 09:04:41 PM
Event Horizon wasn't terrible. For what it was, I enjoyed it, largely because it succeeded at being something appropriate for the genre. It felt at home. Resident Evil wasn't the Gothic/Survival Horror film it should've been, and thus felt like it was having an identity crisis, and missing some important context in regards to the source material; AVP was far too truncated and accelerated for it's own good, and also didn't seem to understand the film(s) made before it. Though perhaps I should scrutinize the Dark Horse graphic novels, instead, but coming at AVP purely from a moviegoer's perspective, I feel as though the homage the film should have been paying to the classics was sorely lacking.
That being said, I wouldn't have cared had it been well-made. Alas, for a film called Aliens versus Predator, there was very little actual combat. I liked these parts, more or less, but there wasn't nearly enough of it to justify the other 70-or-so minutes of boring human characters. There was little in the way of memorable suspense, dialogue or character interactions.
1. The comic book homage was good. The characters were just too weak because very little went into them probably because of the time spent trying to execute the conflict... Besides, establishing new ground with AvP by paying homage to the previous installments sounds rather wasteful... I mean look at what it did to Predators.
2. There was very little of everything. I wouldn't have expected that the fight scenes would be above average.
3. I agree, this buried the concept completely. Essentially it was a good idea but it was just executed so poorly.