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Posted by The Cruentus
 - Jun 16, 2020, 11:32:33 AM
Quote from: SM on Mar 23, 2020, 07:45:33 PM
It doesn't need a reboot so much as a film that neither acknowledges nor discounts the originals.

Ignoring is not a bad idea but by creating ambiguity like that, neither discounting or acknowledging, a lot of canon wars can arise because there is no definite path.
But I would take that over a direct sequel or any other references to the two avps.
Posted by OpenMaw
 - Apr 23, 2020, 10:55:14 AM
Quote from: SM on Mar 23, 2020, 07:45:33 PM
It doesn't need a reboot so much as a film that neither acknowledges nor discounts the originals.

Yeah. I never saw the AVP series as being heavily reliant on continuity. The individual franchises, sure, and YMMV on whether we need reboots there, but with AVP... Just make another one. It's been near enough 13 years, I think enough time has past that most people have forgotten or moved on. Hell I was a teenager, i'm now in my 30s.

Point of fact, one of the things that made AVP so successful in the comics, aside of a really good first outing, was the pliability of the concept. You can set it anywhere, do so many different varied things with it.

If I had the keys, i'd just make an animated movie out of the original comic. Plain and simple.

Posted by SM
 - Mar 23, 2020, 07:45:33 PM
It doesn't need a reboot so much as a film that neither acknowledges nor discounts the originals.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
 - Mar 23, 2020, 10:08:37 AM
It's the only viable option really. I think AvP as a film brand is tainted by both of them. I know they have their fans (I like the original occasionally), but they're not very well received. It needs a reboot, placing itself more in the same frame as the comic and the games tended to.
Posted by Still Collating...
 - Mar 23, 2020, 09:44:13 AM
When it comes to AVP, I'm all for a reboot.
Posted by Wysps
 - Mar 22, 2020, 09:09:40 PM
I side with the reboot; it's pretty evident that their version of AVP for the films wasn't going in a particularly popular or sustainable direction. Not unless a serious time skip were involved, which would allow the universe to be built around the left behind tech. But meh, I'd rather see a time skip like in Concrete Jungle than one based around the "suit". Reboot seems like a safe choice...
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Mar 22, 2020, 04:05:35 PM
Reboot would be preferable to a sequel to the AVP films, I personally don't want those continuity messes carried forward and cemented in canon, The Predator already references them which is bad enough.
Posted by The Old One
 - Mar 09, 2020, 02:55:44 PM
I think perhaps we'll get a full universe reboot only using the films as the main source material perhaps even abandoning Resurrection and the Prequel Trilogy, while drawing from other material for ideas but vacating anything interesting, as happened with another newly acquired popular property. But hopefully we'll get a final prequel and soft reboot at once, Alien and Predator returned to their former glory, but the nostalgic formula's promise of guaranteed success no longer works completely.

People recognize it now and hopefully such a fact leads to more intelligent decision making overall apart from one last big budget film to get everyone onboard again with the Alien universe, restoring the story of the Alien and Pilot, whilst finishing the David and the Engineer story. Every other Alien film with medium sized budgets, every other Predator film with medium sized budgets, and AVP as your large event film every so often.
Posted by The Old One
 - Jul 17, 2019, 06:32:16 PM
I enjoyed them,  it's a very gaunt design, very biomechanical design but also clearly proportionally influenced by the further angular design work of ADI on Resurrection, AVP and AVPR.

Applied to AVP 2010's
versions of the Aliens design, AlienĀ³ design and the PredAlien.
Posted by The Cruentus
 - Nov 11, 2018, 02:11:58 PM
The Alien designs were not too bad in 2010, they were not accurate to Cameron's but were at least more biomechanical than the ones in the AVP movies. Which is better than nothing. I hated how weak they were in some areas though, physically they should have been the toughest, but you can get knocked on your ass by a marine with a gunbutt.. Their posture isn't very intimidating either.
Posted by skull-splitter
 - Nov 09, 2018, 08:48:08 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Oct 28, 2018, 11:04:45 PM
AVP-Verse

AVP + AVPR + AVP 2010
God, how I hated the heavily used AvP designs in that game...
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 28, 2018, 11:04:45 PM
AVP-Verse

AVP + AVPR + AVP 2010
Posted by SM
 - Oct 28, 2018, 11:00:53 PM
Strause-verse = Anderson-verse.
Posted by Immortan Jonesy
 - Oct 28, 2018, 09:48:30 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Oct 25, 2018, 10:07:13 PM
I think the 'AvP' movies are more or less their own separate Universe, now. 

-Windebieste.

Yeah, particularly the Strause-verse. It was a dark dream after AVP :)
Posted by SM
 - Oct 27, 2018, 09:43:59 PM
'Nothing bad ever came of it' because the Predators contained the infestations.

Accepting that thousands of people wiped out in instant doesn't count as 'bad'...
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