dvader27: The movie was just about finished when the Writers' Strike began. All the writing on AVPR was last year. About the DVD. I will buy it. I am conflicted on which I like better, AVP or AVPR. Currently both I give 5/10 rating. I like AVP for the pyramid setting, with the discovery leading to a "wouldn't want to discover" situation. AVPR had more action. The bad lighting didn't effect me on the action sequences, either I have sharp eye-sight or I watched a better film reel. On the bad side: Both films have poor to mediocore acting. AVP has the better side for the characters being international mercaneries and explorers is more interested than average American citizens. I perfer AVP leading lady than AVPR's. They both are ripoffs of Ripley, but AVPR's was the greater. The overall execution of the both films is just simply not the best. Both have budget constraints, but that isn't always the factor to determine great movies.(Terminator) They may have done thier best, but their insight, capacity, and knowledge of best executing a scene is what short from what made the best the best. And Ultimately, the reason critics are so hard on the new films, is just we are doing the same thing over and over agian. From the chestbursters, skinned bodies, and appearance, etc. have been seen and overlooked so many times, they are sick of it. That's how franchises run out of fuel. So this franchises sake, look at the scenery off the sides of the road rather than just the road.
