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my kid thought it was awsome ...
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I thought it was ok. Like urge has stated....the casting could have been better.
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It was rushed alright. Fox made Anderson hurry with the end-product the moment they had the script in their hands. They held Cameron off for as long as they could (seems like Alien 5 wasnt their priority, sadly...and Cameron's rep didnt help much either), and the result? We had a half-baked piece of cornbread on our plates. The casting left a lot to be desired. The female lead couldnt have been more straight-faced...for chrissakes she was dealing with Aliens and Predators all alone! At least the scream queens of the 70s and 80s did their bit in screaming their lungs off...and here we have a new-Millenium Ripley-wannabe who isnt much bothered by that fact AT ALL. As for the rest of the group, the less said the better. Henriksen was wasted, IMO...he had the strongest role of all the characters. The accents looked forced, and so did the characterisation-fittings. I really see this as a much cheaper jungle flick than one set on ice. Suburbia might have cost more, but jungle was where this should have been in. Quote:
Yes they "borrowed" from that one comic, like I mentioned above. But the setting in the comics was a bit different than that shown here. The human heroine there actually engaged and fought off an Alien, before killing it. Ergo the "acceptance" of an "equal warrior" of sorts by the Predator, sort of like a "mutual hunter respect". But wasnt the Ripley-clone begging for her life on her knees (bowed after throwing him his plasma cannon) in the flick before the Alien jumped on the Predator? Ergo my question...how can such a "creature" command any sort of respect from an "advanced and fierce alien warrior with ethics"? The more I think of it, the more I feel that AvP is a great example of lost potential. Anderson had everything in his hands, but he made a total mishmash of it. I still dont regard it as a bad movie, or one which I would hate. I would rather watch it again, groan audibly, and with a long sigh, mumble to myself, "What if..........?"
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I'll echo the posts of bad casting and wasted potential. This flick is so mediocre that I don't love or hate it I just don't care. |
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