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Well, if you can ignore the lame plot, forgettable characters......

posted 10 years ago by Z-Dizzle
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.....poor dialogue, uneven production values, etc., I think it's actually an enjoyable movie, lol! I mean, don't get me wrong, it is a badly made film. It's basically a fan-film that happened to be produced by Fox and given a moderate budget, but I went into it with expectations lower than Hell, and I found it to be entertaining. I guess I just love seeing Predators and Aliens on screen, 'cause I love both franchises, and I thought they handled the look of the creatures well, at least when I could see them :-P. They did have some nice homages to the previous films, and I thought the pred-alien was pretty cool. I thought it was funny that they went with cranking up the violence and gore to not-so-subtly contrast the PG-13 AVP: *beep* it!! Let's kill pregnant women and children!!" I mean, if something like this happened in real life, I'm sure these things (at least the xenomorphs) would kill plenty of pregnant women and children, but it felt kinda forced and over-the-top. But, despite it's plethora of badness, I still find this film fairly entertaining, probably on par with the first AVP. What do you guys think?

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[–] SCY385-1 9 years ago

I have to say that I AM NOT a fan of these films. I'm one of the ones that thought the marriage between Alien and Predator was a bad idea. Having said that let me say that say that Requiem does have SOME redeemable qualities. The situation these people find themselves in is absolutely horrific. The film does do a good job of showing just how truly awful it would be if the Alien ever made it to Earth. We'd be majorly screwed. But the Predator thing.....no, just no. Don't get me wrong the Predator was doing his thing. I just wish he had done it in another movie of his own. The other problem I had was that I couldn't see the damned film. It was so dark in some scenes that the only thing I had to go on was the sound. Alien films are usually powerful when it comes to the visuals. This was just a mess in that sense and it made for a poor movie-going experience. Like Z-Dizzle I enjoyed some things about it, but it is still fairly crappy.

[–] OneFilmLover 9 years ago

This thread summed down is basically - "If you ignore the fact that AVP: Requiem is an absolute piece of garbage on every level with zero redeeming values it does feature Aliens & Predators. Like a cat chasing a light their presence soothes me."

There. It's on the Internet. Thus it's official

[–] Z-Dizzle 9 years ago

Yeah, that basically sums it up, lol!!