AVP stands for A Very Pitchblack movie
Added 10/27/2009
this movie is too dark and I wonder if these darkness was made on purpose.Why?afraid to show that the film really does not have much to offer?Did not they want to show the predator and the aliens explicitly?But why? The fantastic atmosphere of the original saga had already been lost in the first AVP. It is just a frantic-paced C-movie trying to imitate a film from the fifties. There are slight references to the first Alien, like the name of one of the characteres, Dallas (played by Tom skerrit, in the first movie), the military girl , obviously an allusion to lt.Ripley,the population of the small town is expendable like the crew of Nostromo...but what for? Not totally bad but it should end here. Please, no AVP-3...
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Great idea, fair execution
Added 10/14/2009
The idea of transporting Alien and Predator to an unsuspecting town somewhere in the U.S. and having them battle it out, seemingly destroying the whole down in the process, was a great idea, but unfortunately the execution here is only fair. I didn't hate the movie like many of the Alien and Predator fans here who gave it 1-star reviews; I thought the action and overall concept were good, but I do agree the movie had more than its share of problems.
For one thing, I agree with many of the reviews here that the lighting was way too dark and it was difficult to see many if not most of the scenes. Add to that that many of the scenes take place at night, in dense forest, in darkened buildings after a power failure (how convenient), or even underground in the city's sewer system, there are plenty of opportunities to avoid wasting any photons. They even show people using night goggles in several scenes; well, they probably needed them just to get around the sets.
There are too many characters to be developed in any meaningful way, but no doubt that was just to increase the body count, since all but a handful of them get killed off. And the action scenes were shot in that choppy way that often makes it hard to even follow the action, which I don't mind usually, but this movie had more of it than the original AVP.
Still, there's plenty of action and gore if that's what you want, but as one disappointed reviewer here commented, you can't see the gore because it's too dark. But be advised that this is the most violent Alien and Predator movie yet so it's not for everyone. There are scenes of aliens killing young children, teenage girls, and helpless pregnant mothers. They have to keep escalating the violence with each movie, so if it's interplanetary or intergalactic gore you want, you'll find plenty of it here. It's just not easy to see it.
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Exceedingly medicore action film
Added 10/2/2009
This movie has enough action and special effects to hold your attention, but watching movies like this gives me hope that I could someday be a Hollywood screenwriter, because apparently the ability to write is not a factor. Apparently, this film was constructed through somekind of pre-fab generic movie building blocks software program, and they forgot to add anything unique.
I will have to say though, that the most hilarious scene is when the Predator is hanging out on the homeworld, apparently relaxing on his couch, when he receives a SOS from his hunting buddies and, after a Rambo-like scene of arming himself, zips off into space. I don't know why, but the idea of the Predator just chilling on his couch cracked me up.
There are some really odd parts to this movie. For instance, apparently the military lets Soldiers take home military night vision devices to give to their kids... some kind of a post-deployment parting gift? My biggest question is why has a species that has mastered intergalatic flight not able to develop a weapon sighting/tracking system that can actually hit a creature that is moving? And why do projectiles from an energy weapon move so slow?
Watch it for the violence and gore... don't watch it because you want a story or character development!
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Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
Added 9/8/2009
IF you love the Aliens and Predator franchises this is worth a pickup. The extras, deleted scenes and extended movie make this an enjoyable addition to your movie collection.
Picking up from the end of the first AvP movie, the story leaves a little to be desired - A Predator ship crashes on Earth releasing its cargo of face huggers and a Predalien (Alien Queen that has gestated in a Predator) into the mountains. With a lone Hunter on his way to clean up the mess a human town is soon caught in the crossfire.
The graphics for the Aliens and Predator are good, while the humans really only feature as fodder. Not a brilliant movie but still enjoyable and worth picking up.
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What were they thinking?
Added 8/15/2009
Ugh!
I bought this movie and I had to give it back the next day. I thought I was getting a Alien Movie that was supposed to improve on AVP. Instead, the director might as well called us suckers for buying this piece of garabage that he most likely thought of over a weekend full of booze and beer. It reminds me of that Tyson Vs. McNeeley fight on PPV for $49.95 after Tyson got out of jail. Yes, I went there. "SUCKER" is all over our foreheads.
The lighting was a big problem. I had to personally adjust the settings on my TV so I could actually see what was going on. Any other movie, I had to adjust back so I could see THAT one.
Onto the movie: It was a mess. Father and Son are hunting when they are attacked by face-huggers. They are taken quite easily. I still don't know what the HECK they were thinking having the father's arm DISSOLVE when it came in contact with the Alien acid after blowing it away? I remember Cpl. Hicks from Aliens getting sprayed in the arm among others and it didn't dissolve. Quite awful. The town starts to be taken over, the Predalien is stalking through the sewer and people, instead of actually running, are crawling up into little balls crying. O K A Y I'm sure most people would do just that when they are attacked......
Then, we have a scene at the indoor pool (I think) in which the blonde decides to make a certain guy "lucky" only to be spoiled somehow by the ex-boyfriend and crew before anything happens. And then, the Aliens seem to attack right afterwards. I'm actually getting more angry as I write this because of the $10 dolars I cannot get back from purchasing this pile of sewage.
Anyways, the people spilt into 2 groups, the National Guard were wiped out TOO EASILY (I wanted to see a actual fight...COME ON!!!..they had machine guns for god's sake), the crew goes to the hospital where the blonde gets killed and the new boyfriend lives after running toward the Predator with a M16 on full-auto????? give me a break...the predator had killed people for much less than that.
The most distrubing part of the movie (and I cannot believe that they put it in, but they did show a young boy getting busted openily by the chest-buster alien) was that materninty Ward where the Predalien forcing little aliens down their throat and having them burst through the pregeant stomach where the baby used to be. There's a difference between what "envelope to push and what not to push". This is the latter.
The final battle was disappointing. I knew that the predator would be blowing himself up and the look on the other townfolk seeing the missile flying toward their town is priceless!!!
Worthless, barely worth a rental.
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AVP stands for A Very Pitchblack movie
Added 10/27/2009
this movie is too dark and I wonder if these darkness was made on purpose.Why?afraid to show that the film really does not have much to offer?Did not they want to show the predator and the aliens explicitly?But why? The fantastic atmosphere of the original saga had already been lost in the first AVP. It is just a frantic-paced C-movie trying to imitate a film from the fifties. There are slight references to the first Alien, like the name of one of the characteres, Dallas (played by Tom skerrit, in the first movie), the military girl , obviously an allusion to lt.Ripley,the population of the small town is expendable like the crew of Nostromo...but what for? Not totally bad but it should end here. Please, no AVP-3...
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Great idea, fair execution
Added 10/14/2009
The idea of transporting Alien and Predator to an unsuspecting town somewhere in the U.S. and having them battle it out, seemingly destroying the whole down in the process, was a great idea, but unfortunately the execution here is only fair. I didn't hate the movie like many of the Alien and Predator fans here who gave it 1-star reviews; I thought the action and overall concept were good, but I do agree the movie had more than its share of problems.
For one thing, I agree with many of the reviews here that the lighting was way too dark and it was difficult to see many if not most of the scenes. Add to that that many of the scenes take place at night, in dense forest, in darkened buildings after a power failure (how convenient), or even underground in the city's sewer system, there are plenty of opportunities to avoid wasting any photons. They even show people using night goggles in several scenes; well, they probably needed them just to get around the sets.
There are too many characters to be developed in any meaningful way, but no doubt that was just to increase the body count, since all but a handful of them get killed off. And the action scenes were shot in that choppy way that often makes it hard to even follow the action, which I don't mind usually, but this movie had more of it than the original AVP.
Still, there's plenty of action and gore if that's what you want, but as one disappointed reviewer here commented, you can't see the gore because it's too dark. But be advised that this is the most violent Alien and Predator movie yet so it's not for everyone. There are scenes of aliens killing young children, teenage girls, and helpless pregnant mothers. They have to keep escalating the violence with each movie, so if it's interplanetary or intergalactic gore you want, you'll find plenty of it here. It's just not easy to see it.
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Exceedingly medicore action film
Added 10/2/2009
This movie has enough action and special effects to hold your attention, but watching movies like this gives me hope that I could someday be a Hollywood screenwriter, because apparently the ability to write is not a factor. Apparently, this film was constructed through somekind of pre-fab generic movie building blocks software program, and they forgot to add anything unique.
I will have to say though, that the most hilarious scene is when the Predator is hanging out on the homeworld, apparently relaxing on his couch, when he receives a SOS from his hunting buddies and, after a Rambo-like scene of arming himself, zips off into space. I don't know why, but the idea of the Predator just chilling on his couch cracked me up.
There are some really odd parts to this movie. For instance, apparently the military lets Soldiers take home military night vision devices to give to their kids... some kind of a post-deployment parting gift? My biggest question is why has a species that has mastered intergalatic flight not able to develop a weapon sighting/tracking system that can actually hit a creature that is moving? And why do projectiles from an energy weapon move so slow?
Watch it for the violence and gore... don't watch it because you want a story or character development!
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