Buz, Fincher thinks '
Alien 3' is a "piece of shit". Is he being "blasphemous", too?
Cameron has mellowed in his opinion of it, saying the cinematography is great, but still doesn't like it very much. Neither do I. I don't think '
Predator 2' is much more than mediocre, except when the creature is in a scene. Those are the only points it's ever good and even a few of those were done for comedy, which just lessened the impact. I'm with Cameron. I was personally fairly entertained by '
Alien Versus Predator'. That doesn't mean to say it's magical, but could have been hugely worse and the last two '
Alien' sequels, before it, were not nearly as entertaining for me. This 'holier than thou' attitude when it comes to '
Alien Versus Predator' has got sickeningly trendy, recently. All the people who do it are going to be reversing their opinions with fondness in a few years or so, just like people miraculously did for '
Alien 3', '
Alien Resurrection' and '
Predator 2'. It's a pattern. That's how it is. Ridley Scott is great, but I'm not sure he would necessarily be a good choice for a director of this particular franchise now. The last time he spoke about it, he wanted Space Jockey ships to be shown bombarding our worlds with eggs (yeah, the same eggs Ripley incinerated with an ordinary flamethrower), above atmosphere.