PREDATOR vs ALIEN

I hear ya.

I admit the movie could have been better {I would have liked to see it based on the Dark Horse series} but I still enjoyed it.

It could have been better, but it was worth seeing.

QUOTE: Originally posted by out04 I've seen it. What do yall think?

Whoever wins ... we lose ... eight bucks.

Hey Brian, I'm going to see it Wednesday night. Send me a webcam via overnight courier and I'll hook it to my wireless internet laptop and beam it to you live!

Then you can watch them LIVE as they come get me and boot me out of the theater!

I had a change of heart because the New York Times review was not totally negative. What the hell, I have a friend who likes movies like this too.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Larry_Dunn Hey Brian, I'm going to see it Wednesday night. Send me a webcam via overnight courier and I'll hook it to my wireless internet laptop and beam it to you live!

It's on the way!

As I mentioned before, as long as the Aliens and Predators look good, and it's a good scrap, I'll be satisfied!

I went and saw this movie sunday and all I can say about it is,"that I should have wait untill it came out on video."What took 2-3 days for the alien to grown from the hand and bust out of the chest has now been done in an hour.What a waist of money and most defently a waist of some good film.Digger

Not only that, but they seemed to become full grown in about as much time as it took for them to "hatch." There are a lot of inaccuracies in the film, but I still think it was worth seeing. The action scenes made up for it.

Just a little trivia, but the original Predator was a 'crab-like' creature which John McTiernan filmed two scenes with before sending it back to the studio. The actor originally cast in this role was 5'10" (1.78m) tall Jean Claude Van-Damme. Stan Winston came up with the final creature design on a flight to Japan, and cast 7'2" (2.18m) tall Kevin Peter Hall to play the Predator. It was felt that Hall was more of a threat to the bodybuilding actors in the film. Since Hall was always cast as monstors or sub-humans (he was bigfoot in Harry and the Hendersons, for example) McTiernan also cast him as the black helicopter pilot in the end of the film so that Kevin would finally show his face on-screen.
A lot of this is on the new DVD set that came out in the past few weeks.

Guys, please watch the spoilers. A big part of the fun of a movie is ... seeing what happens.

Hated the film. But...

Ripley said that the Alien wiped out her crew in less than 24 hours. So it's not as slow of a growing process as some may be thinking. But 10 minutes per stage is a stretch.

QUOTE: Originally posted by adrake2 Not only that, but they seemed to become full grown in about as much time as it took for them to "hatch." There are a lot of inaccuracies in the film, but I still think it was worth seeing. The action scenes made up for it.

Ah, the wonders of time compression...

I enjoyed the film immensely! And I don't think "inaccuracy" even applies since the Alien life cycle has never been scientifically explored on film. As I mentioned in a previous post (page 3, I think), the writers for the Dark Horse Aliens comic series theorize that the aliens develop at a variable rate based on whatever is the appropriate speed for the survival of the species. They grow as fast as they need to in order to propagate and to make a good scary movie! Works for me!

IMO, the only thing to dislike about the film is its length. I was ready for another 30 minutes of action.

-Mark