My thoughts on ALIEN VS. PREDATOR.

I'll wait until I see it before I judge it. I hate slow motion explosion scenes.

best buddy movie of the summer

I had a bad feeling when I read the paper looking for a review yesterday. All I found was this: 'AvP was not available for a screening for critics' That's usually not a very good sign.

I got a call this morning from a bud in Vancouver.
he loved it, and we have pretty similar tastes in movies.
I'll see it, when I get around to it.

I hope that tight-ass remark wasn't directed at me...

Nope, just in general to people who hate anything that isn't exactly like something they've already seen.

I still have to see it, and I'll judge it my own.
I've now heard both "Loved it!!" or "Hated it!!" reviews from people I know who've seen it.

However, there were some scenes that I enjoyed.
And when I spend the $5.55 on the DVD at Wal-Mart, I'll strictly skip to them.

*minor spoilers*

The scene where Celtic and the other Predators kill the men at the top and send Quinn sliding down the shaft, and then kill him at the bottom. I found that satisfying, and was more violent that I expected with a PG13 rating.

The scenes involving the Predator ship were alright.

The scene at the end with the Elder Predator was also alright, but the horrible faces on the Predators took away from it some.

<u>*end spoilers</u>

And just a couple others.
Overall, I think about 30 minutes total of the film was well worth it.

I should've said this before, but one of the biggest problems this film had was extremely poor lighting (which worked in earlier films, but failed here) and incoherent and confusing editing.

It's weird that people thought it was too dark. I almost always think movies are too dark, but I didn't think that at all about AvP. Perhaps your theatre's equipment just wasn't as good?

You know, at first that's what I thought.

But then I thought that the filmmakers decided to make it dark a la Alien and Aliens... you know, to try to make the film like those two in terms of atmosphere.

But obviously/in my opinion, it didn't work.

But the good thing about the DVD is that you can increase the brightness, and I feel that will help a lot.