Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 13, 2009, 02:09:51 PM
Can't say I agree. I've just watched AvPR for what seems like the first time in ages. The situations maybe cliched but the characters are better with better relationships which each other.
The thing about AvP is the characters don't have relationships, because they've just met. Their lack of chemistry sort of works on that level. AvPR doesn't only seemed forced in that regard, but the characters are supposed to have histories with one-another and this only comes across effectively a couple of times in the whole film.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 13, 2009, 02:09:51 PMThere are some nicer shots in AvPR but it does still have it's flaws. The lighting, for one. The Alien designs are poor - overbite and Chet's design is far too busy around the head.
The Aliens seem far too... dinosaur. In every other movie, whether you liked or disliked the design, the creatures had a sort of bizarre,
alien quality to them. It's like AvPR took the Alien and removed everything unearthly about it. As for Chet... being busy about the head is one of many offenses. If you ever got to see the bitch in full light, you'd notice that she doesn't really look Alien at all.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 13, 2009, 02:09:51 PMAvPR manages to respect the time length of the lifecyle until the introduction of the Chet-Hugger thing when it just goes to pot. Wolf is easily the star of the show though. I think it's a good movie for the Predator, just not for the Aliens.
This was just discussed, I believe. In dumbing down the Aliens, you dumb down everyone who takes them on, Wolf especially. The original
Predator didn't give me the feeling that Anytime could take on a bunch of Aliens and win - it gave me the feeling he would be clever enough to engineer a situation wherein he could take them on in equal terms, or at least survive.
AvPR just gives me the feeling that Wolf should've gotten his ass kicked time and time again.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 13, 2009, 02:09:51 PMI can pick out a lot of dialogue I would have trimmed or changed but that's Salerno for you. Over all I think it's far more enjoyable than AvP but it's still not the AvP film that we want.
AvP was severely disappointing due to the lack of action sequences. It was actually really
good when the movie title was actually being played out on-screen - there was actual tension and twists within the two main battle sequences. If AvP had the pure volume of action we wanted and trimmed some of the boring character development (or a lot of it!), it probably would've been exactly what we wanted.
Say what you like, Celtic vs. Grid and Scar vs. Queen kicked
shit out of any battle sequence in the second film.