Or Will I??

"Uh oh, a weird looking plane just crashed, c'mon Junior, let's go explore the flaming reckage! Oh GAWD, it's even more disasterous and dangerous than I thought, let me poke it with the butt of my rifle. Okay son, this looks like trickery from the democrats, let's get the hell out of here!"

That guy should win father of the year. Too bad his grill just got humped by those facehuggers. That's okay, the Roger Murtaugh version of Predator is coming to deal with this trash, I am sure in alien he just said "RAWK KRAHK KRAHKIET RAWKKHRAW" Which translates, "I'm gettin' too old for this SHIT!"

Michael Myers vs. Leprachaun for the right to be king of 3rd place slasher villian.

Braveheart vs. Highlander for the right to be officially labeled Greatest Scottish Badass Warrior Ever!

Rambo vs. Rocky, in an ode to the Parent Trap, Sly fills in both roles to see who can be the ultimate American hero!

Do you think I should go in with a printed copy of that infamous AvP2 script-review Talkback in my jacket pocket? You know, for street-cred?

I can just hear those slimely FOX execs now:

"Philbrick! Bring me the latest testing figures as well as the profiles on those AintItCool Talkback troublemakers! We'll show those little internet assholes whose boss. On the double now, Philbrick!"

One thing is for sure, if I do go see this thing in the theater, I plan on being thoroughly wastehorsted. A bottle of fine single-malt may be calling my name.

Sure, by all means bring that thing with you, but if you should suddenly spot three small glowing dots over the pocket containing the printout, DUCK!

"RUUUNNN!!! GOOOOO!!! GET TO THE CHOPPAAA!!!"

Although, tentative plans have already been proposed to do such childish things in the theater anyways...

Sci Fi channel doesn't have a single good program except for Twilight Zone reruns, and I guess BG, though I am not the biggest fan.

Best of luck with your wayback machine / replign!

And thus geekdome is once again thwarted in its attempts to see McAdams sweet sweet ass!

The Piano would go insane!!!

Wow. I'm starting to think that all the hard work Orcus has done in traveling the archives is starting to pay off. It seems the powers that be have managed to restore some of AICN's better (and more infamous) moments after the great server debacle. There's no telling what other forgotten jems may turn up...

I understand if the narrator is going back in time in a storytelling sort of way. But when a character has a personal flashback and they see things from outside their skull it bothers me.

As does this security footage.

Now, we can say that the Homeworld Predator's computer software extrapolated the events after the attack and rendered the ship's demise. But, it is odd that it matched the POV of the camera in the opening sequence.

Just sayin'

Jeez, everything this guy does just seems to be a retread of something he did before. "Okay, we start in a spooky forest, a gothic looking Johnny Depp is there and then..."

As much as I thought they were crap, at least Mars Attacks and Planet of the Apes seemed like somewhat of a departure for him. After that it's all been pretty much the same.

My prediction: Depp plays all the parts, he is Alice, The Rabbit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Mad Hatter, Chesire Cat, and of course The Queen! It will be the single most exhausting shoot of his life, he will go nearly crazy aftwards, the Oscar folk will praise him and want to give him an award but in the end he loses it out to Shia LeBeouf and Dame Judy Dench in the best Actress and Actor awards (in that order) since he was playing both female and male roles.

Ripley did all that hard work to keep them from getting here, but she was a hundred years too late.

Thanks anyway, Ripley.

finally it witnesses a crash that has already happened. How did the scope get that information? Where was the camera or mask that recorded the crash externally from the ship?

It is a small point, but I don't like being called an idiot.

Hate to say it, but the off-ship camera idea might be more gripping then the dot footage solution.

I'm hoping it is a satellite so we have a chance.

KV's TCARUZD makes more sense in that the view we saw at the beginning WAS the view from the TCARUZD. Then we see it again in the viewmaster when the homeworld predator checked out the security tapes after hearing the alarm.

That said, I would like to put fourth my theory of an ecological tornado like Geigers' Alien species and how it could possibly coexist with its' food source and survive without killing itself out house and home.

I believe that the Aliens' home moon must be inhabited almost entirely by billions of flying moon krill who reside almost year long (a year on this moon would be 4 days) in the high altitude, feeding on the light debris that is blown into the atmosphere by the high winds common on their small moon.

The Aliens, not so long ago, used to resemble something closer to a hairless ALF, however, their volatile DNA structure has meant that years of integration with moon krill DNA has evolved them into the recognisable forms we know today (egg laying, black and blind. Although most specialists hypothesise that the blindness probably equates to generations of moon krill flying into their eyes during hunting...).

Most of the time, food is usually just as easy as climbing to 40,000 feet (although it takes 2 years to get there and is the reason for the long claws and agility) and opening ones mouth where the thick cloud of moon krill simply fly in. In the summer day of the year, an Alien can eat enough food to last him 8 years!

During the winter day, the Alien must use his sharp teeth, mini-mouth and cunning to feast off the masses of moon krill found frozen to the mountain rock.

In the Spring day of the year, the Krill descend en mass to the vast plains to feast on freshly fallen Autmun dust, attracting an Alien free-for-all. It's a spectacular event that entertains hundreds of tourists every year for what has become known as "The Krilling Floor" and is the main income of the Stanley tourist trade.

The Stanleys' first stumbled upon this deadly moon in the turn of Earths 17th century and, soon, factions decided to hunt them for their pleasure. Alien activists protested this complete disregard for this perfect ecological wonderment and thus pass laws to ban all hunting of the Tearitongers (the name the Stanleys gave to the Aliens).

Determined to hunt the deadliest creature known to Stankind, a few rogue crouponaires went on a 2 year mission and captured 14 Tearitongers & one queen and transported them to international 'waters', Earth, where they like to fight them on occasion without the Earthmen being any wiser. The ingenious cover up plan if all goes to hell (which it frequently does) is to detonate a small nuclear weapon over the crime scene. This receives little-to-no press due to Stanleys occupying high level political seats in all countries (except Micronesia where there are no seats).

Fuckity-fuck!

The problem with Predators, of course, is that they've never really been convincing as either monsters or aliens. They look (and sorta act) like big, aggressive humans. Not particularly otherworldly.

Unfortunately, while scanning through it I noticed that it seems truncated, with posts and parts of posts missing. Perhaps a result of escaping the Banning Zone?

Oh well, beggars can't be choosers I suppose.

Oddly, Philbrick seems to work for other studios as well...

But I still hope that it won't suck as much as ALIEN 4 and AVP did. It's about time we get a decent Alien flick.

Btw, I liked that the kid got fracked by that facehugger, too :-)

Fuck off with your weak "we must support R rated films" shite- go and tell your soulless whoremasters at Fox that we'll support them when you give us something to support.

And in this case that means a Neil Marshall Alien (with no predators) 5.

No amount of phony plant-y attempting to build a buzz will make up for drivel.

and full marks for acing the kid.

The reason they are all called Philbrick is that it is their model number (as when people say "I drive a ford") because the soulless execs fear becoming too attached to their disposable minions.

Yay. All power to the internet.

"Never mind that shit, send out the plants"

"But sir, they seem to be wise to the plants"

"PHILBRICK, you cocksucker, send out the plants or you'll never eat lunch in this town again"

"Yes sir, Plants deployed"

"Now, BRING ME THE BOREWORMS. I'll teach you not to question me"

"No sir, not the boreworms, please, anything but the boreworms. AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH"

"Jenkins, call the intern farm, Philbrick just croaked".

If I have banished him, then I award myself a gold star.

The hat must be running a bit low now- Requiem. I wouldn't be surprised to see AvP3: Monkey as the next one.

The only way this could be would be if that Predator had sucked another Predator's dick, and the Predator semen fertilized the developing Alien embryo in his belly, thereby creating the Alien-Predator hybrid. So for the sake of logic, the Predators better be giving each other hummers in this movie, or I'll demand a refund from theatre management. I will.

Typing triffids polluting the boards with their shitty "Give it a chance" cries.

But they wilt when confronted with the mighty weedwhacker of truth: IT'S SET IN PRESENT DAY TEXAS IN FUCKING KMART. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW "HARD R" IT IS. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

Looks the dogs nuts though which is a nice surprise and the dad and kid getting it is encouraging!

It would have made a good AvP movie!

Book 2: Hunter's Planet

Book 3: War

All with the same Asian female protagonist.

It doen't matter- they'll just keep raping it's carcass

On another topic--everyone assumes that the Predator "world" is in fact the Predators homeworld. If so, it's not how I imagined it (hot, but humid and swampy). I instead took that planet to be a remote outpost, or a headquarters for the hunter-cleaners. Wherever it is, it can't be that far from earth unless the Predators have lightspeed technology. It's not everyday you can watch a video of a bad event and say to yourself, "Oh we have a problem--I better jump in my space cruiser and go help."

On another 'nother topic. Wouldn't it be great if the movie shows us the kid with the face hugger suffering horrendously, before an alien tears its way through his chest? It would be like the Strauss brothers saying, "We wanna do it right, and we spit on watering shit down."

And the Hybrid was like, "I jacked your brother, beyotch!"

And the Predator was like, "Aw, naw you DINT!!" And decides to just start shooting his ass.

Yes, I am an Alien and Predator nerd.

Apparently, we Earthlings are a contagious bunch: The Preds must've suffered massive brain damage from their last battle or they would've had the common sense NOT TO SHOOT A PLASMACASTER IN SPACE!

All in all, that was pretty enjoyable -- compared to the previous abomination.

I understand that aliens versus predators as a concept sells more tickets than aliens versus regular people, so maybe that answers my question. Still, I think that a better movie would be something set in the same thematic world as the first 2 (maybe three) alien movies, except a bit farther in the future, and have the film concern a group of humans who actively go and exterminate aliens. Show them becoming increasingly cultlike and violent, art-direct up their spacecraft to look all gieger-y, and have the plot suggest that these alien-hunters might actually be spreading aliens from world to world for the purpose of giving themselves something more to fight and kill.

Something like that would combine the sense of unease and horror from the first film, along with the theme of infection (because the hunters become more alien-like, maybe even reinforced visually by things like sharpening their teeth or wearing bits and pieces of dead aliens for decoration) with the cool action of the second film.

Anyway, not to degrade the predators or anything, but I just don't see the point of them in an alien movie. Why should I in the audience care about two different types of special effects throwing punches at each other?

I still hate it and its awful sequel

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earlier in the "film", predators used their fancy vision to see that one of the humans was carrying a nascent chestburster, enabling a predator to kill the thing when it jumped out. So, really, there's no excuse for the predators not knowing their fallen compadre carried an alien. There's an explanation of course (namely: these movies are retarded), but that's not the same thing.

Just to clarify, I did not, and would not, pay to see AvP. Same goes for this "requiem" nonsense.