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Date: 2004-08-30 15:54:47

Comment:

You don't need to read any books or comics to understand AvP.  You just have to pay attention to the details in AvP, Predator, Alien and Aliens.  Those three films tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about the Aliens and the Predators.  If you've seen Alien, then you know exactly how the entire life cycle of the Alien works.  And if you've seen the director's cut, you know exactly what it looks like.

I even brought a friend who had never seen any of the Predator and Alien movies and she got it just fine, thought the movie was ok.  The basics of AvP were this:  

(skip if you don't want spoilers)



1) If you're a threat, Predator kill you.  You's sporting if you's armed.  Pick up a weapon, you die.

2)  Pyramid is test for young INEXPERIENCED Predators as their rite of passage to warrior.  I thought this was pretty damn obvious without the scientists actually talking about it in the movie.

3) Predators use captive alien queen as the source mechanism in this "rite of passage."  Been doing it for centuries.  Pretty convenient since you can just freeze, defrost, and refreeze for repeated use.  Clever idea.

4) Humans too damn smart and too damn nosy, f*ck*d it all up.  Hunt was supposed to start when the Predators got their guns at the bottom and worked their way back up to the top.  Humans pulled the guns, the Hunt was started too early AND the Predators didn't have their their guns.  Rite of passage went FUBAR.

I  mean, I could be on crack, but that's a pretty damn tight story.  It ain't Lord of the Rings, but it's kick ass better than Predator 2 (let's cut up a bunch of people for fun in LA and have Danny Glover chase them) or Alien3 (Ripley and the Aliens buddy up on a prison planet) and 4 (Let's clone Ripley so we can have more Aliens).