Quote from: DoomRulz on Dec 14, 2008, 09:39:35 PM
AvP is anything but a good movie. It's bad in almost every way imaginable. Lack of action, no real plot, poor creature designs, poor script, stiff acting, poor cinematography, and poor direction.
Funny, because AVP R was universally panned by film critics, moreso than AvP,
If AvP had no plot I'd hate to think of what AvPr was. Like sending an alien creature to a town to kill everybody is original, sedning a team of explorers to be killed in an alien environment is nothing new either, but at least it was an environment full of tension. Please explain why AvPR's plot was better, because the way I see it, it was essentially the 2 alien races go down to a town to slug it out, while in AvP, the explorers disturb an ancient predator hunting ground and eventually the main character allies with the lead predator: scar, forming an interesting friendship.
AvPR did have more action but it all looked the same, with a few exceptions. Essentially the film was full of shooting and the odd brawling, that said, the predator shurikens whipping out and impaling the lead female was an excellent scene, but in my opinion, the rest of the violence was simply the predator killing aliens as if they were nothing. How could anybody be scared of aliens after the Wolf single handedly dispatches so many aliens, I mean if the aliens drop like flies, they don;'t become worthy advereries to the predator anymore. They're simply extras to be killed every scene. The action in AvP was stylised, like the slow motion slicing-in-half of the facehugger wih the predator shuriken and the brilliant celtic- grid fight scene, perhaps AvOP wasn't full of gore and massive brawling scenes every ten seconds, but at least it looked cool enough to warrant a second watching.
Poor creature designs. Explain. I think a slight broadening of chests doesn't warrant a film to be rated as bad.
poor script, stiff acting, poor cinematography, and poor direction- How do those not affect AvPR even MORE. I remember a particular scene where Dallas says to the sherrif: "People are dying. We need guns." and: "The goverment wouldn't lie to us." The film was so dark it didn;t generate tension, it just made it hard to see what was going on. As Josh Rosenblatt said: "An orgy of mindless violence, a random collection of bloody bodies, alien misanthropy, and slobbering carnage designed to bore straight into the pleasure centers of 13-year-old boys and leave the rest of us wondering when the movies got so damn loud."
