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Get your eyes checked, fool. I, nor either of my friends had any trouble seeing what was going on. Also, we didn't poll the audience, but I bet you didn't either, so how would you know if the audience had to squint? Are you looking at the audience instead of the movie? Maybe THAT'S why you can't see when the predator put on the AWESOME GLOVE(tm) and f*cking ripped through a city street.A blind moron said:If “Requiem” wasn’t horrible enough of a picture to start with, it’s also impossible to view, with entire chunks of the narrative and action lost to total darkness that seems to defeat the purpose of the shiny new R-rating. Instead, the audience has to squint to see the bloodshed or decipher the expressions (and I use that term ironically) on the actors. It’s also futile to figure out what the Aliens and Predators are doing at any given moment of the film.
Transformers was rubbish.
That MUST be the matinee price, right? Or maybe the early-bird special?$15? Movies are expensive where you live. Movies here are only $6.
Transformers was ****ing shite.
Man you two aren't even old enough to know Transformers, shut your traps, human germs.
I'm going to watch this film, and I'm going to enjoy it.
30? But that makes you a child of the eighties. We're of an age...why...why do you say such things then? Are you just mad because of that incident? It's ok, man. All our mothers did it. Garage sales, or charities, or flea markets, or the trash bin for some unfortunate kids. It's ok brother, you don't have to become jaded and hate on your childhood because of it. Cry on Darkside's shoulder, I am here for you.Bah - i'm almost 30 and had a huge colection of transformer vids untill my mum sent them to some foreign country as charity :/
Seriously, if you're a fan of the movies, just watch the damn thing. I'm telling you it's a good movie, and if you don't agree, you're wrong. That's the bottom line, plain and simple. You are wrong.
Because this movie was cool, and being a fan of the Yautja let me tell you I'd drill this movie into the ground verbally if I didn't like it. But I liked it. That should tell you something.
Darkside55 said:30? But that makes you a child of the eighties. We're of an age...why...why do you say such things then? Are you just mad because of that incident? It's ok, man. All our mothers did it. Garage sales, or charities, or flea markets, or the trash bin for some unfortunate kids. It's ok brother, you don't have to become jaded and hate on your childhood because of it. Cry on Darkside's shoulder, I am here for you.
We're of an age, you and I. I know you can't really hate the Transformers movie. I know, because as I always say, we children of the eighties all carry the love of giant robots in our hearts. You can't hate transformers. You just can't, unless you're broken. I don't think you're broken, Warbie.
<RJMC> said:AVP looks like crap,seriously
first one was crap and this one dont look diferent
if is all for the blood and gore and alien and predators killing each other then get into a slaughterhouse or meat store disguised as a alien or predator
AVP looks like crap,seriously
first one was crap and this one dont look diferent
if is all for the blood and gore and alien and predators killing each other then get into a slaughterhouse or meat store disguised as a alien or predator
Seriously, if you're a fan of the movies, just watch the damn thing. I'm telling you it's a good movie, and if you don't agree, you're wrong. That's the bottom line, plain and simple. You are wrong.
30? But that makes you a child of the eighties. We're of an age...why...why do you say such things then? Are you just mad because of that incident? It's ok, man. All our mothers did it. Garage sales, or charities, or flea markets, or the trash bin for some unfortunate kids. It's ok brother, you don't have to become jaded and hate on your childhood because of it. Cry on Darkside's shoulder, I am here for you.
We're of an age, you and I. I know you can't really hate the Transformers movie. I know, because as I always say, we children of the eighties all carry the love of giant robots in our hearts. You can't hate transformers. You just can't, unless you're broken. I don't think you're broken, Warbie.
Come to think of it, how much dialogue was there between the Transformers at all?
Didn't care for it. My main problems with it were three-fold:What did you think of the first AvP Darkside?
Who cares. Blew hard anyway. Like Xen.
See man, I knew you still loved! *Hugs Warbie*When shit blew up I did cheer, though, and embarrassed my family by making transforming noises when they transformed - which was hardly ever. Come to think of it, how much dialogue was there between the Transformers at all? I remember very little. And the Decepticons, we saw like 1 minute of them! Fun, wasted opportunity. I am still a little broken.
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Thing is, as Darkside said, i'm a child of the 80s and couldn't help but love seeing Transformers on the big screen. The same went for the original AvP, which I thought was pretty shit. We don't get fun adventure/sci-fi these days - it's all 'gritty' realim/acting, twists for the sake of twists, trying too hard to be cool/witty, and waaay too much political correctness - so we just have to make do.
*walks away mumbling something about Robocop*
Didn't care for it. My main problems with it were three-fold:
1. Storyline
2. Lack of action
3. The human characters
Now, certain parts of the story I can kind of get behind. The predators are notorious for seeding worlds as popular hunting grounds and returning to them every couple hundred years, or during times when the unblooded (as we see in the film) go through their initiations. And I could kind of get behind the fact that they set up this massive temple for that particular purpose, but it was one of those "Eh..." kind of things. The whole thing about people worshipping them as gods and sacrificing themselves for the hunt, I didn't really get down on that. I figured it was rather stupid, and dialogue like,
"What was this place called again?"
"Sacrificial chamber..."
didn't help either. The whole nonsense about the heat signature meant to call humans to the site was really stupid as well. But I guess they had to come up with something. In the original AvP comics by Dark Horse the Predators carry a queen onboard their ship, and the facehuggers plant chestbursters in local livestock on the planet Ryushi. So, if you were to adapt the comic book storyline to present-day Earth, then the story would have been facehuggers planting eggs in cattle. You can already see that's a much, MUCH worse story. So while the story for AvP isn't great, it could've been worse.
That being said I didn't expect much of a story beyond aliens fighting predators--the movie could literally been two hours of aliens fighting predators without any exposition and I would've been happy, so long as the action was good and interesting. Neither of these is fulfilled in the first AvP with the exception of Scar, who fights like a champ and does manage to do some pretty cool stuff, but not enough. The whole thing's rather lackluster. There weren't enough aliens to fight to begin with, and with something like that you'd expect there to be a lot of tension between the last predator and a lone alien drone, but no, you don't get any of that. So while he does do some neat tricks (especially against the queen, or the xenomorph t-rex as I like to call her in this movie), on the whole it's rather forgettable.
Third problem is the humans. Seriously, gtfo humans. Nobody even likes you. You're all forgettable except for Weyland, because of who he is; "sacrificial chamber" guy only because of his annoying voice and stupid line; and woman-who's-supposed-to-be-Machiko, except nowhere near as cool, and not really deserving of a clan mark. Respect, perhaps, acknowledgement, but not a clan mark. So they were really in there to just fill screen time.
Now, in Requiem, these things are addressed:
Storyline picks up from the first movie so you're already kind of thinking, "Ok, all that really matters is the predalien. Everything before doesn't really matter, focus on the predalien." And within the first five minutes the ship crashes and that's an excuse for facehuggers everywhere. And as I said, I'm perfectly happy with little-to-no exposition and just dropping aliens and predators into a setting to battle it out.
Second part, action. This time, we don't have three unbloodeds, we get WOLF, who's one of the elite predators. He's not an elder, but he's one of the species' best fighters, best trackers. You don't need any other predators because Wolf will handle it. Wolf gets the job done.
And so he comes to Earth and immediately he's thrust into a situation where he's heavily outnumbered by aliens. Aliens everywhere. The sheer volume of aliens he faces ensures that there's going to be lots of action, and even if it wasn't good action--which it is--the quantity of it would make up for it. Even if he was just going around stabbing aliens unenthusiastically with a combi-stick, you're still going to be like, "Damn, he stabbed a lot of aliens." But he doesn't; he's throwing shuriken, and setting up laser nets, and he's got his Awesome Glove and his razor whip, and he's tracking aliens and using corrosive acid to cover his tracks, and he's baiting them with traps and live bait, all sorts of stuff. And of course there are parts where he just starts brawling. Like, the last battle, I don't want to spoil it for anyone but he's a brawler.
And the humans don't really get in on the action, they're just there to be meat and move the story along. They don't do anything notable, not a lot of time is spent on them, and thus they don't detract from the experience. I can say they 'sort of' add to the experience in that it's cool watching the military fight aliens, and of course the aliens need to be shown killing off people so they fill that niche. All-in-all it's an accurate depiction of what would happen if a small town really was overrun by aliens.
So, you know, I'm always baffled at how people are coming in here saying it's a bad movie, or critics saying it's a bad movie. I'm curious as to what these people even want in an Alien vs. Predator movie. You have aliens...you have a predator...they fight. Were you expecting Citizen Kane? I mean come on, people. Minor spoiler, there's a part where Wolf rips off one of his plasma casters and reconfigures it into a pistol, and he's blasting up an alien-infested building. Are you telling me that isn't what you came for? What, were you expecting an alien with a monocle and a predator in a top hat to sit over a cup of tea and have friendly discourse? People, SHIT GETS F*CKED UP IN THIS MOVIE. My God, you guys, have you absolutely no love for shit just getting f*cked the hell up? I mean because that's what I came in for. I came in thinking, "I didn't like the first one, but I'm still going to reserve judgement, because maybe shit gets f*cked up." And it did.
Oh, lord, did it ever.
So seriously, anyone who didn't like the movie I stand by what I say: you're wrong. Because obviously you weren't there for aliens versus a predator, you were there for God-knows-what, and you might be mad because somehow it didn't deliver to your expectations. As for me, that was my only expectation, and I even had to reserve my negative feelings about the first movie enough to give the second one a chance, and I loved it. So seriously, shut up, you detractors. Combi-sticks to all of ya!
Also Remus, seriously, if you don't love giant robots and you're a child of the eighties, you're broken. It's an inborn gene. Lambda, shut up, I won't here things about giant robots from someone who watches a lackluster series like Evangelion, and furthermore someone who has a boorish, unfeeling angel like Rei Ayanami as their avatar. Transformers rocks your house, your momma's house, your daddy's house, your great Uncle Joe with the glass eye's house. Everybody's motherf*cking house. 'Til all are one, for the Allspark.