It don't open in Denmark until No-friggin'-vember!

I wanna see it, good or bad - I'll make my own judgment call.

I'm in complete scififilmnerd mode. Ijust saw and loved The Chronicles of Riddick because it was a visual feast and I was entertained by it, unlike the utterly boring Spider-Man 2. I saw The Abyss Special Edition today for the first time in a long while and still love it, and tonight I wannna watch Terminator 3.

And I finally succumbed to buying Alien Quadrilogy and am really looking forward to getting started on that.

JediMaster said:

Well, I love Alien3. It was an apocalyptic masterpiece. Sigourney Weaver played her ass off in that one and should have received an Oscar for it.

I love the first two Alien films and the first Predator. The other Alien sequels nearly ruined it for me. Because of that, I will be avoiding this one in theatres. As much as I love sci-fi, this doesn't look very entertaining.

Natsume said:

Dont bother.. I saw it and it sucked harder than a $10.00 whore! I was very dissapointed!

BabyCakes said:

I likeded it. It was clumsy and poorly acted in the "land" scenes, but once they were in the water and were only required to act scurred and scream I really enjoyed it. Good fun.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I thought it was badly acted, it wasnt' scary at all.. (an occasional bump of a shark on someone) dosent' constitute as being scary for me at all..) They were talking their lines .. yes an occasional scream in the water was OK, i just thought it coudl of been done so much better.. Their was no character development, and the end was horrible.. There were actually boo's given out in the audience of the theater i was in (and they DIDN'T come from me)..

BabyCakes said:

boo.

silentflute said:

I am sorry but that was just too funny!!!!!

scififilmnerd said:

Apocalyptic master piece of shit! That movie was almost as bad as Batman & Robin

BorisFishpaw said:

...but its NOT a crap idea. The original comic series was quite good, and did an excellent job of blending the two different species. They still managed to preserve the mystery of BOTH species. In fact, the first story deepened both, when a few biological commonalities were discovered between the two. The only thing that it established was that the Predators hunt the Aliens as well as the humans.

I do see your point though, even though I often enjoy the "vs" movies myself. This one, I did not.

BorisFishpaw said:

Actually, I believe "T2" started that retarded trend!

Natsume said:

luv4u said:

I loved them too, but this was ridiculous.

JediMaster said:

So he looked exactly like his great great great great, etc. grandson?

PhilG said:

Good points.

The pressure would have definitely had an effect. And it would have taken them much longer to get down there.

PEJ said:

If you think it rocks, then your taste in films is warped beyond repair.

BorisFishpaw said:

That's cuz the filmmakers care more about money than art.

Marrk said:

That's the first piece of news that convinced me it would be in trouble. But of course, it must have been hard to get a great director to do a "Vs." film.

Marrk said:

Cuz that's how they get more money. They get the families in there.

scififilmnerd said:

Alien 3 was junk.

JediMaster said:

A retarded film that started a retarded trend.

EvilWhiteMale said:

Ridley Scott must be pulling his hair out.

BorisFishpaw said:

My thoughts are summed up here, thanks Boris

Marrk said:

I wonder if he could bring himself to watch it.

flipwilson said:

It is. An artistic study of the current U.S. citizen -- caught between the Democrats and Republicans.

JediMaster said:

Yeah, T2 may have actually started it, but with T2 it felt like a 'natural' abbreviation rather than
a forced one like ID4, LXG or AVP
[This message was edited Wed Aug 18 15:43:12 2004 by BorisFishpaw]

EvilWhiteMale said:

HATERS! - ha, ha!

It must be cuz U Americans. Europeans love it. Me and my scifinerd-friends love it. Even the critics loved it. I still got the clippings, praising it to the sky. And deservedly so. But, sure, I can see how someone who expected a remake of Aliens would hate it. I like it that they are very different flicks.

Also, Alien3 made Sigourney Weaver/Ripley a gay icon beyond compare over here. For some reason, all the lesbians tripped on that movie.

Sure, I'd also like to know where the eggs came from, but beyond that, it was an emotional tour-de-force. The plot-holes in Alien Resurrection were much larger and downright stupid. Yet, I also kind of like Alien Resurrection, if for no other reason than that I think the set-design is absolutely amazingly pretty.

EvilWhiteMale said:

HATER! James Cameron is a friggin' genius!

I like T2: Judgment Day. Not as much as the original, no, but T2 certainly entertained me and I watched the Special Edition recently and was still entertained.

EvilWhiteMale said:

James Cameron said only about a year and a half ago that he and Ridley Scott were talking about doing a new Alien movie together - without Ripley and with a whole new kind of alien race. I hope their talks become reality any day now.
[This message was edited Wed Aug 18 16:08:42 2004 by scififilmnerd]

JediMaster said:

Well, maybe me calling all 'Vs' movies 'shit' was a bit harsh, but you know what I mean.
'Vs' movies are the domain of the b-movie (of course I actually enjoy a lot of b-movies)
but it's so not the direction that I wanted to see Alien go. These monster mashes and
'what if' team ups work well in comic form, but they very rarely work on the big screen.
There's just something about it that annoys me when they mix 2 or more unrelated
imagined universes together in movies. It always seems to 'cheapen' it somehow.

It just annoyed me that the Alien had become part of the Predator's universe, when they
should have remained at the top of the food chain in their own (so to speak).