That last AVP movie wasn’t toooooo bad.
Requiem was okay in a B-movie sort of way. Funny how the AvP $2.00 comic books DESTROY the multi-million motion picture productions though…
I agree that the Predators shouldn’t be in the movie or have anything to do with the Xenomorphs origins/creation.
However regarding the Xenomorphs origins
Either they’re biological WMDs or an experiment gone haywire being their origin is about the only way I can think of an origin for them @_@
Post a link to the comics… (I can only find the first 4 pages, and i really cant be bothered to buy it). http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/16-104?page=0
just hurry up and give me Batman vs Predator.
i assume they are going to drop the brotha off on that prison planet?
Confession: I am an AVP nerd. Grew up on theses movies (Love the first 3 Alien and first 2 predator films fyi) so you asked the right person.
This is really, really good. If you ever wondered what if Fox made a sequel to Aliens that was completely different from the Prison Planet idea in Alien 3, this is something you need to check out. It follows the adventures of Hicks and Newt (later renammed for continuity reasons to Wilks and Billy, seriously) immediately after the events of LV426. Tons of shit happens from a cult that worships the Alien being responsible for the creature spreading throughout the galaxy, Hicks and Newt go back to LV426, I believe they go to the homeworld (I could be wrong, it’s been awhile) , encounter the Space Jockey, the company capturing the Alien and trying to weaponize them.
Great stories, abso-fucking-lutely fucking amazing artwork that blows away most modern comics with some of the best Airbrushed artwork I’ve ever personally seen in a comic. And gory as hell. If you are a fan of the Alien franchise I would say it’s a requirement to read at least the first Omnibus.
From there I recommend: Aliens Omnibus Volume 3 (there’s a story exploring the idea of a King Alien being the result of a genetic experiment, and it has one of the best miniseries Labyrinth), Predator Omnibus Volume 1, and AVP Omnibus Volume 1.
The Predator comics tended to be on the bad side and a majority of them wrote the Predator as just an evil alien hunter that kills unarmed humans. Total opposite of the bad ass Anti-Hero with a code of honor from the films.
Yeah, like I said, it’s amazing that $2.00 comics absolutely blow anything that Hollywood has come out with out of the water when it comes to Aliens/Predator lore. Hell, even the “silly” stories like Mondo Pest > Hollywood films.
Horrible quality teaser that’ll get taken down any minute now
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Adult content isn’t something you can turn on and off like the options menu in Mortal Kombat. A lot of movies use the R-rating that way, but others aren’t as shallow. I dunno if Alien 1 would have been the metaphor for rape/aggression it ended up being, if studios were pushing Ridley for a general audience-friendly theatrical release.
HYPE!
That sure as shit looks like an “Alien” movie to me, even the opening title scrawl is done ala “Alien”.
Yeah, but they don’t rate movies based on metaphors, they base on the holy trinity of sex violence language. Alien 1 could largely pass for PG13 these days, outside of the chestburster scene. Even Ash’s breakdown would seem like tame stuff nowadays. I’m not saying Scott’s gonna film a PG13 movie and add stuff to make it an R like AVP with it’s added CG bloodspatters. Scott will shoot however he shoots, but I won’t be bothered if the theatrical is PG13, because Scott gets final cut on all his DVDs(outside of Gladiator and Black Hawk Down anyways). I dunno, I don’t really digest a movie when seeing it in the theater, I wait for the DVDs to really study them.
EDIT:The trailer has me psyched though.
Sexually-oriented violence= R from the MPAA. By today’s standards Ash scene would have to go, along with the chest-burst. Either way, while avoiding R is one concern, the studio’s main concern would be to appeal to general audiences, and get their money back.
Any good director can work with a handicap, sure. But Alien is one of the movies where Ridley faced the least studio pressure. Maybe that’s why 30+ years later Alien is considered a classic and still relevant today. And it didn’t need 20 different directors’ cuts to reach that status.
Did studio pressure force him to cast Orlando Bloom as the main character in Kingdom of Heaven? I know he fought off execs who wanted him to insert random sex scenes into Gladiator.
that explains the scene in 300, not that I was complaining
trailer looks great even on shitcam
So wait: the best ver. of Alien 3 is the Director’s cut/extended ver.? I’ve been avoiding watching Alien 3 since I’ve heard it wasn’t very good, but wouldn’t mind checking out this extended ver.
I highly recommend watching the director’s cut. Original cinema release was complete fucked over by movie execs
Worth reading - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3
Thanks I’ve read about Alien 3 months ago, but it wouldn’t hurt to read it again to see if I’ve forgotten anything ^_^;
woah. didnt know this at all.
yeah Alien 3 had a hell of a time being made, and most people agree they dunno why. You took the original amazing movie, then James Cameron makes a fucking badass sequel that was BETTER than the original, and then the third just shit the bed.
I 100% agree that killing off everybody else but Ripley from the previous film was a slap in the face to fans of the series.