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Really, it's just utter garbage,

posted 10 years ago by BrickNash
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I liked the first AvP film. It had it's flaws but it was visually excellent and had some great entertainment.

This film on the other hand is a complete disaster!

It's painfully obvious that it's geared towards 12-18 year old boys or those with the mentality of that age range. The film has annoying teenagers and masses of nonsense gore simply designed to get a "*beep* yeah!" out of the moronic audience. It even went for the twilight style small town setting to probably play off that and to save money on any kind of elaborate sets.

Now I'm the kind of person that really likes to give films a chance and I gave this one many chances just to see if I'd missed anything and I even Went so far as to do my own rough edit of the film and remove all the teen crap to see if there was a decent hour long 'visual only' movie under here just featuring the Predator chasing the down the Aliens.

There wasn't but it was less irritating.

This film is just complete garbage! A Tuesday hooker of a movie and just as toothless and trashy, simply designed to make opening week cash for as little outlay as possible and to hell what people actually think after they have paid to see it.

Fox really has a bad reputation for treating it's franchises (movies and TV alike) like *beep* and they really, REALLY botched up on this one.

[–] vortexrider 10 years ago

I had similar thoughts. Today I rewatched this bad film on AMC on TV and I thought about how people criticized the first AVP film but also how much better that one is in comparison. The first AVP seems to have taken itself more seriously. It was closer as far the feel and tension of the scenes was. It is crap too, but way better than AVP Requiem. Requiem is a monster slasher that is also a concealed comedy. One of the worst blunders by Fox.

[–] VagabondNomad 10 years ago

I've been a huge fan of both the Alien and Predator franchises, and this hack movie just spits in the face of the canon that was established in the earlier films, just to shoehorn those wonderful science fiction universes into a silly teen slasher movie. If that's the kind of movie they wanted to make, fine. But they shouldn't have it set in the Alien and Predator universe ... they needed to create their own monsters, because the majority of fans of these franchises were disgusted with this mockery of a movie.

It was Aliens and Predators in name only.

[–] marty1968 9 years ago

These two AvP movies are more for fans of the Dark Horse Comics where they came from...
I never really understood the vitriol against them because any of the 'regular' films steps over canon left and right as well: Look at the last Predators film with Adrian Brody= lets make a bigger, angrier Predator with an even more vaginal looking mouth!