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Date: 2004-08-27 14:11:27

Comment:

I'm a huge fan of the first two Alien flicks and liked both Prerdator movies a lot. Alien 3 and Resurrection I can watch but took the franchise in a direction that I feel it is still reeling from. I think that AvP is guilty of the same thing but I have to be honest in it's praises.

First is the Alien and Predator 4 minute brawl. It looked just as good as I hoped it would. With minimal CG and great sequences( what fan did not like the Alien "hammer throw" performed by the Predator? Outstanding!). Sadly, this fight should have ended with the Predator hoisting the Alien's head up in the air in triumph. I'm a bigger Alien fan than Predator but the end result was not what I was expecting.

I thought the Aliens, especially the queen looked great. I saw no need for the Predator's different masks as having seen both movies and read virtually all of the comics there hasn't been any differnce before with the exception of some markings.

On that note fans of the comics, and I am a huge one, know that a lot of elements in this film are "borrowed" from the Dark Horse books. That is why this movie is somewhat defensible by readers of these issues as we did  see a lot of "Aliens vs. Predator"(first series), "Cold War", "Duel" and others influences. Surely, us Dark Horse readers would have much preferred the AvP first series on the desert planet(excellent series) brought to the screen since Anderson has obviously read it.

Finally, the thing I have to say that I'm sure is going to get me some cute nicknames is you should go see this movie. As a fan of these creatures I was thrilled to finally see them up on the big screen. The passion we all seem to have for these franchises I would agree has been taken advantage of but there are some sequences that do shine( that chestburster should have stayed in the italian dudes chest). Then maybe Cameron can call the studio and say " I'd like to take a crack at this." and we can all get the definitive AvP movie we all deserve.