AVP: Alien vs. Predator - Movie Review
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Chris Stuckmann reviews AVP: Alien vs. Predator, starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. - Zábava
I love how all the posters said "Whoever wins. We lose."
But the human female won
Guess you dont remember the ending, because she definitely did not win.
Wasn't she stranded in Antarctica.... Lol
@@norgepalm7315 except she did
@@liammcnulty1987 how?
Team- wiped out
Transportation- destroyed
Employer with connections- dead
Food- hahaha
@@TheReZisTLust because she lived. The only survivor.
well in the comics humans and predators DID team up, but most of the time the predator was an outcast and he just teamed up with 1 guy, who is usually your token war veteran. And if you manage to survive a predator hunt you MAY get invited to join a predator tribe.
Yeah, the argument that "This wouldn't happen" doesn't make sense. Predators know humans are smart and can fight. Multiple xenos are hunting for them, so it would be stupid to NOT team up.
Yeah, the human getting "adopted" by the Predator was one of the few things that seemed on-canon. I mean, being so badass that she didn't just kill a xenomorph but then stripped it and turned it into weaponry? That's exactly the sort of thing to make a Predator go "Yeah, that human's a bro."
isnt there a comic where it has the exact same thing going on where theres a female human who teams up with a Predator and even gets the face acid brand?
Papa Bear as far as I know there was an asian woman who lived around ripleys time and managed to be part of a predator tribe. But because some tribe members were racists and plotted her "accidental death" behind her back, she left her tribe and continued her "ordinary life". But I dont recall her face beeing damaged.
i think it's literally the one he has to his left in the backround ^^
"It actually has a surprising amount of gore for a PG 13 movie."
I think you mean "slime". ; )
Forgen20 He could have been watching the uncut version.
On a DvD release there's an unrated version with more gore which I think is better
@Litshttam naaah it's relevant
Good I'm not the only one who noticed that
blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence. That is gore
They got the same guy to play Mr Weyland as Bishop, because the implication is that all the androids produced by his company were modeled after him.
What about ash?
That doesn't make sense anymore, since the Alien prequels all have Michael Fassbender playing the androids and we also see Guy Pearce as Weyland
@@duccioguelfi larrs henrikson is too old now
@@MannyJazzcats Too old to play an old man? o.O
@@Zatzzo Is it that hard to imagine that they have more than one model?
My favorite line in this entire movie is: "My experts tell me it's a pyramid"
LUL
Can you tell me around where in the film that happens so I can see it again?
@@LorenzoDoesntExist in the beginning. When they all are in front of weyland and he's explains shit.
@@boxkid759 Thanks. That's actually hilarious.
Mine is the one about the condoms
The human and the predator teaming up is actually kind of explained.
When the scientist explains that the predators hunted the xenos as a rite of passage from youth to adulthood aka becoming a fullblooded hunter, it explains in my opinion why lex, the woman, later teams up with the pred.
She killed a xenomorph, on her own and with a ritualistic yautja (predator) weapon.
So in the eyes of the predator she made that transition from prey to hunter, and by that became a fellow huntbrother.
And in the Comics there is also a human that lives with them, hunts and so on.
So the idea oft those two teaming up made a lot of sense to me.
They shouldve followed up in that, instead oft just leaving her on earth (which was bogus because rule number one dictates to them never to leave any trace or evidence of their existence behind!!) ,and placing a hint of the predalien in the closing scene.
That was the one mistake this movie made, at least in my own humble opinion.
I agree
And i always felt it was a missed opportunity to tie the movie to cannon by simply having the girl leave with the predators, that insures why theres no evidence of the events happening by the alien movie…
All because they wanted to have a hybrid cliff hanger. The most logically ending was sacrificed by exactly what made the movie and its 2nd movie lack luster… A cheap ending and execution of a hybrid. Had the girl left with the predators. That ending would have been more impactful and left possibilities to think about for years. The same way the alien skull left implications in the 2nd predator. And there was never a 3rd movie.
Predators should have different personalities and some could have more empathy than others, the same predator had even spared Weyland.
@@jongee7034lol the movie was never going to be canon AT ALL, be real.
@@archangel7052they DO have different personalities, as seen at the end of predator 2.
I thought the scene where the predator teams up with the girl was pretty sweet. She did just kill an alien in his presence, provided him with his shoulder blaster, and his two other predator homies were dead. I can assume the predator felt he could use all the help he could get at that point.
Great review and excellent movie!
Predators respect warriors and he saw that in the main character. I thought it was a no brainer for them to team up.
I think it also helps cement the stakes, seeing the Predator taking help from anyone shows how dire things are.
AVP is actually pretty okay
But Requiem...
Eeehhh...
Requiem should drink fucking cyanide.
AVP is an atrocity, Requiem is good. At least we got a Predator who's a bad @$$ in that film & it isn't a kiddy flick, taking things back to the horror routes.
@@jonathanlisowski5618 AVP Reqiuem has the production value of a made-for-TV straight to video film
@@jonathanlisowski5618 You are literally the first person I have ever seen saying this
Requiem was the first time I saw the predator and the xenomorph on the big screen. And it was absolutely horrible. Even as a teenager it was disgustingly stupid and in very bad taste. It was no horror, just some grotesque stuff similar to "Resurrection"
My favorite rating description of all time is still the one for 2010's Alice in Wonderland.
"Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar"
Sam King h
haven't laughed that hard in a while lmao
The wild thornberrys movie had to warn of scenes of mild peril.
Traditional Godzilla violence is my favorite.
Predator has a very high honour code. It's possible that it could team up but at arms length. It recognises mercy and such like, it would never attack someone that was unarmed or vulnerable because it's not good sport.
I know this post isn't relevant after 3 years, but the electricity means that the Queen gets forced by electric torture into laying eggs for the Predators.
6:25 He was trying to go for the fact that the lightning was "waking" up the queen alien..
Just so people know.
7:15 Also, this has happened before.. this was based off a comic where a female kills an Alien and the Predator is so shocked by her that he believes that she is a good warrior, because Predators are very honourable and to kill her straight after that would've been awful.
In the comic she actually started to live with the predators, a very hard life for her.
I'd love to read this comic, got a source or title?
AVPR could have been way better if we could just see ANYTHING!
HappiestSadGuy I honestly don't get this complaint. Older Horror films in general (before the 90s made everything looks slick) were dark like this. It feels so much more real when it comes to night shots vs the whole modern slick and shiny way of shooting night shots.
I just rewatched it right after AVP 1, and it feels way more faithful to the predator universe. The action is interesting, the Predator is smart, honorable, driven and bad-ass. The humans aren't as interesting, but you get a wide range of characters (not all of them are bad). I think it's lightyears ahead of AVP visually, and feels serious and not campy like it's predecessor.
But watch it in a dark room.
ravissary79 the plot is foolish. And the fact that it takes place at open space & not isolated doesn't even help contain the fear either. Yeah i know it try to be different unlike the others but it failed doing that.
Imo if they want to make it out at open space just take one of the great zombie movies concept like "dawn of the dead"/"28 days later" . Make that species already a dominant one on earth & people got extinct. Think that will be a very good concept.
The Citizens what do you mean open space? It's on earth, and the Predator was tasked with getting rid of the alien outbreak, cover up their existence and get revenge for his fallen comrades. We actually see a predator work solo again, use traps, hunt, cover up evidence, and fight in a no-holds-barred way instead of just stalking and taking game (he has a different mission).
The predalien is a much scarier design than the alien newborn, and the predator has a more classic and realistic look than AVP.
ravissary79 "Open space" doesn't mean literally in space. It just means it's in a location (any location) that has a lot of area to move around (a town on Earth, in the case of AVP), unlike a space ship that's confided, closed, and claustrophobic place where you pretty much have no where to run
AVPR would have been better if it didn't exist. It was a fan-fiction disaster of a movie and just disgusting. The best scene in it by far was the girl getting her clothes off because the action was hard to see, the predalien was ridiculous and the whole impregnating already pregnant women with predaliens was distasteful and just horrific for horrific's sake.
One of the worst movies ever made that was meant to be good.
I think the electricity around the queen was to wake her up. It happens only once in the movie and that is when she gets pulled out of her prison.
It also appeared like it was used to force-stimulate her egg production.
Event horizon is/was so underrated
Some real horror/sci-fi that one
What kills me is they had cut a lot out of Event Horizon and LOST the deleted scenes! Makes me mad since I like that movie and would have liked to see more.
This movie introduced me to both franchises and for that I will always be grateful, I was also 6 and it scared the shit out of me lol
lol this is awesome. similar experience - think i was in 2nd grade when i saw this. the idea of facehuggers and xenomorphs kept me awake for like 2 weeks lmao
@@masonreeves3426 exactly! The face huggers is what got me. I thought one would get me in my sleep.
They should make E.T. v Predator
Cillian Brouder will be the best film ever
No! Batman vs Predator!
That would last 5 minutes. What about “Borg vs. Predator - in Maine” ?
Lmfaooo
No E.T vs alien
I like it I'm not even gonna lie, you watch this film to watch the aliens and predators fight and the fights were awesome
Mr Someone I think that is the greatest flaw of the movie actually. the fact that a single alien took out 2 of the 3 predators in a 3 minute scene is inexcusable to me.
l m totally with you. one of my guilty pleasure films.
But you had to sit through a whole bunch of crap just to get to the fights. People watch Aliens & Predator to see soldiers battling monsters, yet both movies are entertaining all the way through.
Yeah, having two out of 3 preds killed by an alien right off the bat was pretty lame, though since I'm a bigger alien fan, I'd have been fine with it there had been five predators to start with, and the three that remained put up a good fight throughout the rest of the movie, but died one by one due to sheer numbers or sneak attacks, right up until the climax with the Scar predator and the queen.
There should also have been a more memorable death for the Grid. Every time I watched that movie I was thinking "You built up this super-awesome alien warrior who killed two predators in one go, gave it its own distinct, battle-scarred appearance, and you just let it die with the rest of the horde in a lame explosion? You didn't even focus on him when they exploded! He's barely even in frame!" They should have included him in the final fight - maybe have the predator go mano-a-mano with him while the queen tears the old village apart looking for Alexa.
re: Alien Queen electricity- admittedly years since I saw the film, but it's the Predators shocking her so she gives birth, yes?
If you notice, the electricity woke up the Queen via electrical stimulation, and then proceeded to shock the sphincter of her birth canal causing her to scream and begin to release eggs which probably had been building up in her system for the entire hundred years of cryosleep until the next predator rite of passage through the hunt of the xenomorphs would begin.
Well, there is one theory, might have been from the Aliens RPG originally, that the Aliens run on electricity with that acid blood acting like battery acid.
The electricity is to thaw her out.
@Grand Champ - Pokes random female with a cattle prod: "Breed, woman!" Lol 😂
I think the Predators are manipulating the Alien Queen to speed up the "egg laying" process, but I don't know the source...
Am I? The Only One Who Loves *AVP Alien Vs Predator?*
Taronamic I like it too, I think it's highly underrated.
Robert Savageau I So Agree
Taronamic Thanks.
Taronamic yup...that movie is complete shit and makes the predators look like complete and total uncoordinated stupid retards. Dude. That movie should've been more epic than all the others combined! And it was shot in ANTARTICA??!!! ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDING ME....A PYRAMID? WTF!!😲
Chuck Farson Its not that bad!, it has a great score, great cinematography, some good fight scenes in it, some good special effects, some good acting, and a good story!
As far as I'm concerned, Prometheus, Alien 1 and 2 happened, and Ripley dreamed everything else when she was asleep with Newt.
Danyal Mohammad thats a great theory. I now believe that
I think that's actually what happened. Didn't 20th Century Fox kinda decided that Alien 3 and Resurrection weren't canon anymore?
The Book Nerd ripley wasn't in the avp franchise so it seems a lil bit off. And how did you know that "covenant" doesn't gonna suck? I saw the trailer & deep down of me i got a sense that i will be suck.. Alien at open space? Not my thing. But I guess we never know till it release
i can't wait for Predator 1987 sequel next year..director by shane black !.. i want a cameo by Arnold..
Alien 3 was way better than Prometheus.
Actually, even Alien Resurrection was better than Prometheus.
I say that this movie should have been made as a rated-R movie. I think it would have been better (at least more interesting) and more memorable. When both Alien and Predator are works that were built around that R rating, it makes no sense that the combination of the two would be a PG-13 film. With this PG-13 film, they used kid gloves and some of the aspects and feel of these works people like have been lost when you try to turn a movie into something it is not. Instead of trying to get more people in the theaters to see it, they should have been more focused on staying true to the material.
Yeah it could have been R-rated but at least Fox listen and gave us Requiem so we can finally get the blood and gore and fuck language but still not a good movie Requiem is horrible even know the gore and the creature effects are the highlight that's about the best this movie has to offer.
More asses in seats. This is what money does to great things, unfortunately.
Matt Mohl (sigh) yep.
Gabriel Crosley Gore does not make a good movie at all. Most films that use a lot of gore forget to have any decent plot or characters, and are shit (Saw, AVP2, Friday 13th 2010)
A rating for a film does not matter. What matters is the story/narrative the movie is trying to tell, the writing, the acting, and the pacing of the movie.
6:35
Uh, I thought the electricity was pretty self explanitory. It was being used to artificially induce the Queen to lay eggs. Not that far off from what we have done to some animals.
I just have to say that the one thing I LOVE about this movie is how the Xenomorphs look... It's honestly one of my favourite designs probably right behind the original look in Alien
Nah this design is hands down the best, no design before or after has looked as badass as these, and with the cgi we get to see it in all its glory as they fought the predators.
@@Asmokedetector i agree. the xenomorphs look fantastic in this
I honestly preferred on how they looked in Alien Covenant, they looked PHENOMENAL and truly horrifyingly fast and scary in that movie that was beautifully brought to life with the CHI that really brought their lightning fast savage nature to life. They looked great on AVP but they were so fantastically brought to life with the phenomenal CGI in Alien: Covenant.
I assume AvP: Requiem will be a Hilariocity review?
But it wasn't funny.
Hilariocity lost its meaning long ago. Now it's just the worst of the worst movies
Sad thing is that Requeim is not even funny. It's ungodly annoying.
I still remember the scene when one girl ran away screaming and the Predator impaled her to the wall with a weapon, that scene was so unintentionally hilarious it had me laughing out loud in the theater
I know it's the internet and people say this about every single movie, but Requiem is one of those few films I've seen that was so bad I just couldn't believe what I was witnessing.
I actually love this film and not as a guilty pleasure. I mean I genuinely like it as a film. It's certainly not a masterpiece like Alien or Predator and it has flaws for sure but I still enjoy it and love seeing the alien and predator duking it out.
same
Love it too. To bad avp requiem wasnt so good cause wolf is one my favorite predators.
This is a really watchable film. Fun & very entertaining. really good effort.
Yes, but it's still painful considering alien movies should live up to fan expectations. It is better than Alien 3 and 4, but still a disappointment...
@@Cucerescmunti k
I consider AVP to be my 3rd favorite Alien film (after 1 and 2), and my 2nd favorite Predator film. It's super enjoyable, fun, and relatively well put together. There's plenty to criticize, but those criticisms don't ruin the film.
It’s actually a well made film it’s just the cast and pace thats lacking. It could have been better but it could have definitely been worse. The visuals are pretty amazing even for 2021 standards and the cinematography ain’t that bad either.
I respectfully disagree lol I love this movie, especially with the gorgeous practical effects. The effects for some reason just go downhill with 'AVP: Requiem' and even the most recent 'The Predator'. 'Predators' wasn't so bad because it actually explores the world of Yautja.
I rather watch resurrection than requiem
I'd rather watch none of them tbh. The 2 movies with xenomorphs in them that are absolute sh*t.
I watched the whole alien series this weekend, and I agree with Meliora. It could have been better, but it became shit.
I found Resurrection better then both AVP's
I rather watch my arm rape my anus than watch requiem
That's like comparing Schindlers list to The Room lol
Not a good movie, but this is Aliens compared to it's sequel.
True. I still can't believe how bad they messed up the second one.
This is Citizen Kane compared to its sequel
End Credit Reviews so damn true...what kind of Predator devolves the remains to hide the evidence but yet hangs a body for the police to find? so stupid!😤😠
Fun fact: James Cameron and Ridley Scott played with the thought of Cameron writing an ALIEN sequel for Scott to direct. They abandoned the idea when Fox CEO then Tom Rothman greenlit AvP instead.
What could have been...
When you can actually tell what's going on because it's so dark!
This was one of the first monster movies I watched when I was younger, and even though it kind of terrified me I just loved the fact the this badass predator teamed up with the human protagonist and become one of the "good guys" so to speak. I adored it. Even though it's not a particularly well made or amazing movie, it remains without a doubt one of my favorites :)
7:30 Basic Predator lore - they live to hunt. The finding of a worthy adversary. Assuming from the origin flashback exposition, they found xenomorphs and saw how challenging/worthy they can be, subsequently using humans as merely a carrier for their foe (how that correlates in other canon idk, humans are fun to kill when they fight back I guess?) When that woman showed that she could kill one herself - apparently disregarding what an accident it was - the predator sought to acknowledge that strength and mark her, it's only goal now to destroy the queen and ensure their victory without loss of honour. I think She would've been yet another skull of a worthy adversary by the end, had it not died. The mark merely saving her from that.
This movies a lot of fun when you're 12, and almost hard to appreciate when you're in your twenties. At least you can see what's happening 90% of the time.
*fuck requiem*
One thing that annoyed me somewhat about this movie was the facehugger impregnation/gestation/chest-bursting was so quick in this film (because they were trapped I suppose). Part of the appeal of the process in previous films was that impregnated people would wake up seemingly fine for days (even without knowing what happened) until things went surprisingly south for them later on.
yes, that's why some scenes were a let down. That scene in particular when it first burst out of that woman and it's like the gestation process lasted for only a few hours? Doesn't it take usually much longer? And did u expect that the alien that's been inside that one predator in the end would've bursted out much sooner? It was killed or stabbed by the xenomorph queen so wouldn't that have killed the offspring inside? 🤨
Tbh, I kinda thought the chest burster was too quick in the original movie. Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't it occur at the first meal after the bad guy from V for Vendetta wakes up? I mean, I guess we don't know how long Winston from 1984 was in a coma.
All I can think is that these are OLDER less evolved aliens, possibly a different species of the alien, and they just evolved into a longer incubation time. That's what I tell myself for this to make sort of sense.
That annoyed me, too. They did something like that I'm the Prometheus and Covenant movies, too, and it was just way too fast.
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. lol
Jake G 2187 same. The fights in this are epic
Jake G 2187 Still have some solid fun with since I saw it was back in third grade in theaters, and it's still miles better than AvP:R
Jake G 2187 same
i like how the aliens and predators are given a little more character, for example Grid and Brute
Jake G 2187 This wasn't bad
"I loved all the AvP comics/novels when I was a kid except I didn't actually read them, so I don't understand the concept of why the human-predator team up happened". Yeah, you didn't retain any of the plot points, did you?
Omg thank you. The comic book is right behind him in the video. Lol. Sorry for being two years late.
Yeah, might want to reread the comic literally behind you
Yep was thinking the same thing when watching this. One of the parts they actually DID adapt from the comic book 😅
I love this movie for one reason:
The moment when the Xeno peirces it's tail through one of the Predators and holds it up and kills it is incredible.
Totally dude. I jumped up in the theater I was so pumped at that scene. And I can see most people just don't get that movie because try to find that scene on youtube. The only clip i can find is a little later in the fight and to me, to cut that part out, means you're missing something. There should be multiple channels with people who made that clip but there are none.
I had chills watching that in the cinema
Yeaaah man
And as the actor Woods realises the first creature than next moment it got killed by the another even more creepy creature and she survives it at all for that reason is incredable.
And I love the fight between the queen when finally the predator jumps in the scene to push that spear into her head and she turns rounnd in massive pain . W O W
The lead female and the last predator team up in the original comic series you said you read... why was it so unbelievable in the film?
He also said he wasn't up to date on the mythology.
I don't see how you can read the very comic that this happened in and not be. There are only so many comics and he actually one issue of the four issue original run on display behind him lol.
For one he may not have remembered since those were released in the 90's.
Sure. I haven't read them in like 10 years nor have I seen AVP since it came out and I remembered. I just think it's an oversight that lead to him misidentifying something as out of place when in reality it was not. I don't feel like her character had the same qualities as the female lead back then, but when all your homeboys get killed and she's all that's left you might as well team up.
Jordan VanWormer I agree I dont see how you could forget that he's being biased based on other people's views! I remember it and I haven't viewed or read anything in many many years!
AVP: Requiem deserves to be a hilariocity video.
+Bobby da Costa At least that would have been creative, something AvP: Requiem wasn't.
+Bobby da Costa I couldn't see shit in that movie.
+Bobby da Costa What would have been great for an Alien vs Predator movie would be setting it in the future with the Colonial Marines. That might have been awesome if they got a good director and writer.
dumbestname Definitely, I saw it in the movie theater high as fuck and I could not stop laughing.
The movie had potential to be fun, kinda Predator 2 but in a small town. Sadly, I literally couldn't see shit and the acting was, well, crap.
AVP was pretty good but not great, my favorite part was the Predator and the one Alien duking it out.
I would guess that Lex was not shivering within the snow at the end was because she was running away from a high heated explosion that was inches behind her...and more running that kept her warm LOL
I grew up waiting for the next Stuckmann videos to come into my feed
it's "unreported" because the Weyland Corp and Yutani cover things up
It doesn't make it canon.
brazwen sure
Hayden Crongeyer This shit crossover is still not canon. Prometheus retconned it and Predators are trash.
TheSmashingTesticles ay just to clarify, I am not defending this film. I am just pointing out something cuckman missed...
I enjoyed the movie. I was surprised how quickly the predators were killed though. I thought 3 predators would give the Xenos hell even as young bloods
The PG 13 rating hurt it. But its still a fun movie, the ending was good, and Lance Henrikson is always worth the price of admission!
I hope you give AVPR an F
Did he ever review Predators (2010)?
He didnt
But I guess he will when the next Predator movie will be released
My uncle co-created the Alien v Predator comics, but I’ve yet to see AVP film. It’s something that I think must be done eventually though
The director obviously read the comic from Dark Horse, Broken Tusk did indeed team up with the human protagonist against the Aliens and even added her to his clan, just like the moveie.
lol why do movies that have an awesome concept, always turn out to be garbage ?
high expectations
Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend Studio interference.
Not always true. That new movie Colossal has a highly original premise and is supposed to be pretty good
Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend because Paul WS Anderson
They don't
Oh no not being rated R IS a very big deal.
Horror movies shouldn't be rated PG-13 unless they of the Sixth Sense type. Anything to do with monsters and killing in general should be rated R.
Having just watched this movie again I now realise why I didn't really feel much at the end. You are 100% right about the lack of suspense and high energy scenes, things just kinda happen with some added slow mo for....style?
IN the book AVP. There is a female character, and she DOES team up with the PRED and they help. Pred dies, but puts his mark on her with alien blood, then uses his blood to nullify it. She then goes off with the preds that come down to clean up. She then later kinda joins their culture.
Yes this film is pretty bad, but some of the flaws in canon can be explained, in the end the base is destroyed, if all the bodies are gone it explains why in the future they don't know about xenos, also the bishop robot is based on the human.
Michel van der Molen That's a pretty good concept as they just found the pyramid & the predators are just using that site as a playground. So people outside never know they exist all this time
VietnamD0820 so u think weyland knows about the predators existence ??
VietnamD0820 with alien covenant coming out in 2 weeks and the predator coming out next year you think they trying to plan another avp movie ??? Why make a predator movie right after covenant ?? Why ??
Adriel Omar Díaz i would imagine Weyland would've went in search of the head of their corporation and discovered dead aliens and predators, as well as the deceased Mr Weyland. Also in AVP Requiem, Yutani discovered Predator technology...when Weyland and Yutani merge, I'm sure the information was shared
Adriel Omar Díaz I highly doubt there'll be another AVP movie...Hollywood probably realizes there's not a good 3rd story to tell, and that it won't make money
In the Darkhorse comics the Yautja routinely team up with humans if they prove themelves in combat. Machiko Noguchi actually becomes a low ranking Predator after saving one and joins a party, Ahab befriends a mercenary when they're trapped on a planet, and a few times they actually protect human beings/help when fighting the Xenos. So yeah even though no one reads the comics, its not without precedent. I don't plan on seeing this movie though, I'll stick with the Original trilogy/the Prometheus franchise
Prometheus was garbage. AvP isn't "legit" but it's more fun to watch.
I read part of one of the first scripts long before AvP was released. I believe it was even before Alien Resurrection was released. It was amazing. It took place after Alien 3, dealt with the Colonial Marines, and it was the Predator hunting the Marines at first on a planet the humans were starting to colonize. Why couldn't they have done that one? It would have made sense timeline wise, and would have been an amazing film. Or at least could have been.
Hi Chris, I'm really enjoying your channel since I found out about it just within this week or so, and I had a question for you. Have you reviewed the movies Predator 2 and Predators (2010) and the game version of Alien vs Predator? I'd love to see your reviews on those too.
atleast he didnt hate on it like most people would do, he looked on the brightside of this movie and thats why i liked this video
I really like AVP and I didn't have a problem with the build up. I don't expect every moment to be heavy or clutching because I want to be ready for when all the awesome fighting happens. I expect some story if they expect me to fully buy the predators being the "gods" and aliens being associated (despite ripley's journey). And I actually never paid attention to the dates, that was my oversight. But correct me if I'm wrong... I always immediately assumed the electricity meant she was being "revived". They were seen as gods so they must have some pretty neat primitive looking advanced tech to make this all happen. I mean... some people are still puzzled over the baghdad battery (and other things, and Im sure the answer isn't always (if it is at all) time travelers or aliens). I'm not sure how the predator teaming up with the lady isn't a good idea. He's a warrior, the last of his kind who was sent on this mission and obviously, he can't win this on his own. And after seeing her take out a xenomorph, he was impressed... Not to mention, she made a point that she didn't wanna be ditched. Predator history we know from Predator 1 & 2 show they respect effort, skill and honor. The predator just wants to win this "coming of age thing" (which was my interpretation of this) and move on (of course personally the whole take off the mask thing was stupid on his part but hay, can't be perfect). It was smart to keep her around (good for a meat shield). The whole "not catching up to someone" is a cliche by now used by... a lot of people, its not just added to movies involving big monsters (it even happens in the matrix movies, one in particular... can't figure out why everyone runs so slow and uniform) And can everyone stop hating on the Godzilla movie its not perfect but I don't get why people hate it so much. I get to watch interesting dino violence and character involvement without an overabundance of both AND I get to see the guy from Leon the Professional in a movie again.
Lamia Zlogonje Agreed with all those points. The godzilla one I'm pretty sure people bash it cause it looks nothing like "Godzilla" but using that iconic name as marketing . It will be awesome if they just put another title.
Even in the comics humans do sometimes work with Predators. In Three World War the main character actually lived in a Predator tribe for years after doing basically what happened in AvP. She met a Predator at just the right time, when it was faced with an uncontrolled Xenomorph hive with no backup, saved it from being killed, then helped it destroy the hive. That's canonically a legitimate way to be recognized as an equal by the Predators, they value honor and ability more than what species you are. It's just really rare for a human to both live up to those standards and be in a position to prove themselves without becoming prey.
I mean, in Three World War the Predators do also call a temporary truce with Earth as they work together to fight the rogue Killer tribes, but that's not quite on the scale of AvP.
I loved the location of Antarctica, until it quickly becomes obvious that the cold wasn’t a backseat antagonist. Take _30 Days of Night_ for example, one of my favourite vampire movies of all time. A large part of what sells the terror of that story is that the characters are not only fighting off a hoard of vampires, but they also have to contend with the extreme cold. Even if the vampires aren’t trying to kill you this very moment, the cold *always* is and it’s palpable. Same goes for _The Thing_ because the people don’t just bolt out of the building with the fucking monster in it. The creature might kill them or it might not. But the cold absolutely doesn’t give a shit. Hell, even the monster respects it.
If you’re in Antarctica and the cold isn’t a passive antagonist in the story, what’s the point?
FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!
FUCK IT!!! WE'LL SHUCK AND JIVE!!!
Rafael Trivino lol
Rafael Trivino FUCK IT!!! WE'LL BURN THE HIVE
FUCKING THING SUCKS
Drunken peasant?
2:58 "utilize the use"
Chris is a smart boi
Looks like a quote from my thesis.
The predators do ally with humans in the comics.
The electricity was used to energise the queen.
That's what I think.
one of the things I admire about the Predator is that they won’t harm anyone who posed a threat and they would admire people who can defeat them in single combat
"Better to have one and never need it than needing it and not having one". A *great* line, it is seriously from this movie.
That saying has been around at least a hundred years
Naw fam, id rather not have one. Movie was dumpster juice
wut that line is shit
A shit film and a saying that has been around for decades.
@@mantistoboggan5171 How does that help me, friend?
Mulholland Drive (2001) review?
This needs to happen.
Or he should just do every David Lynch film
+Collider Videos In preparation for the Twin Peaks revival. Less than a month away, and the hype is getting real.
lolz, Chris doesn't posses the artistic insight to review films like that! he's more comfortable with comic book films and things he can easily make fun of.
Dude, not even gonna argue, just go check out his analyzed reviews of films that he loves like Signs, Drive, Only God Forgives, and others. I'd personally recommend his video "The Problem With Horror Movies Today", I think he has a great insight into the different methods of horror filmmaking. And I should also mention, just because a film is a super hero movie or that it features lots of action, doesn't mean it loses all artistic credibility. Art is subjective.
From the first time I saw this, I always thought the electricity was to, somehow, force the queen to churn out eggs at a rapid pace.
Chris if you can read this, is the character on the shirt your wearing, from the 90’s AvP comic book?
8:24 Hollow is the perfect description of this movie. I always felt that way about this movie but could never describe what I felt. Thank you Chris.
Yeah that's the same experience that James Rolfe had when watching it and did the review of this movie during his Monster Madness marathon his experience in that movie that he described is the key word in his review and Chris's is underwhelming. Not as bad as everybody said it was but just underwhelming but the sequel is much worse that we can all agree.
In the first AVP comic series back in the early 90's the heroine of the story does team up with a predator to fight the aliens and it works but in the confines of a movie it does come across as a bit silly. Especially when Paul W.S. Anderson is directing because his movies tend to have awful dialogue and they look like they're made for TV.
Apart from Event Horizon, that's a great movie.....was Event Horizon a fluke?
Hey, Chris, what are your thoughts on a gimmick movie of a crossover Predator/Purge movie, in which a Predator shows up on Purge night? That's kinda a guilty pleasure thought of mine for a popcorn action movie...
I am watching this again, I love how he changed through time...i am very happy for his success.
Chris helped me to watch more and more good movies through out time... thank you 🙏🙏
I really liked the temple the hunt took place in. Very creative how it shifted and changed throughout the hunt to make it more challenging.
Do Freddy vs Jason
Freddy Vs. Jason is one of my guilty pleasures! Lol
The Reel Talk what movie is better Alien vs predators or Freddy vs Jason
I haven't seen both in a while but I remember always liking Freddy Vs. Jason better. Should be interesting to revisit both.
The Reel Talk yep
The Reel Talk can you review saw
The girl is a nod to a human girl in the comics who joins the predators and becomes pretty bad ass.
I was 12 when it released in theatres. Went to see it and from then on it’s been my all time favourite movie. It has the best “cool-factor” look out of any movie I’ve ever seen. Just fkn badass. Scar pred is a beast. I find myself indulging in this film here and there still at 30yrs old . It’s like my go to pleasure movie lol same with Predators .
Chris, did you consider that in Aliens The Corp wasn't telling the truth when questioning Ripley? Why would they admit anything? It's not in interest of any corporation. Second thing Bothering me about your reviews. LT Ripley. Maybe She wasn't a LT in real world but placed in a ship full of marines, chain of command or any authority from her part would have to come from somewhere, in a mind of corpowhores. Or She was simply reinstated and bumped to LT.
+Artur W, Yes there's no reason this suit would have all the facts, or would tell them to Ripley if she did. It's not a continuity glitch at all.
Artur W so true! In the first Alien movie, the android Ash calls the alien a "perfect organism"...clearly Weyland Yutani corporation secretly knows about xenomorphs and that's why the crew of the Nostromo was forced to investigate...the events in AVP are a good explanation as to its first encounter with the alien species.
I accept your explanation of the time line continuity, but could they really be part of the same world? Waht about Mr.Wayland from AVP and the Mr.Wayland from Prometheus? I haven't seen these movies in a while but aren't they both referred to as the "founders" of Wayland corp in their respective movies?
Regardless, both AVP's sucked and swallowed homeless dick cheese. Don't get me wrong, when I first heard about AVP I had a hard on, even was in denial after watching AVP the first time, but after some time your brain stops jacking off to the AVP idea and you see it for what it is. an ok action movie. But one worthy of the name "Alien VS. Predetor"? FUCK NO!
The Weyland from prometheus is a decendent. They explain that in the movie. Also I'm agree that Ash knew what they're looking in the first alien.
A lieutenant is not just a military rank, she was the lieutenant of her original ship from Alien. Lieutenant just means second mate, as in second in command. Which she was as a science officer, if you remember she didn't want to let her crew back in because of possible contamination. She had that authority as a lieutenant.
Got wet when I saw the upload notification
Adrian Alexandre Alcantara fucking hot
Low standards...
So you got stuckmanized?
I saw all these movies when I was 13 and goddamn the teamup with the Predator was AWESOME! Also I remember loving Requiem, it was actually terrifying. I'm going to go order all these movies on Blu Ray now excuse me
Perfect review of the film. One part I loved was the way the movie showed the power of the alien acid blood. Like when the predator uses the net weapon on the human soldier, cutting him in half, and then the same weapon on the alien, only just piercing its skin.
Yeah, it's an aight movie. Good movie to watch on a boring rainy day when you have nothing to do
Shione Cooper I can think of better things to do on a rainy day...
Who hasn't had a rainy day movie marathon? Alien, Predator and Alien Vs Predator movies are some of the better choices I think...
Alien Vs. Predator is a better duel than Batman V. Superman
OGMillyMillz yes, yes it is
OGMillyMillz Freddy vs Jason is a better duel than both of those put together
OGMillyMillz i respect your opinipn but 90% disagree
Well. I could even say those movies combined were better than Suicide Squad, by far.
OGMillyMillz oh, yeah.
Also, the sonic merging of the two musical and sound design signatures is great !
Predator and girl teaming up is one of my favorite parts
This is actually one of my favorite aliens movie.
Lars Gebhardt Same here...I thought it was a great movie but wish it was a half hour longer.
toymasterful toymasterful really i wish it was a half and hour shorter
Lars Gebhardt it's g8 movie
it would be cool if, in Covenant, right at the end when the remaining human survivors are surrounded by Xenomorphs and they are about to get taken away to be impregnated the three dot laser pointer and the predator sound effect were to happen. the predators come hunting, it was them all along! a lot of fans would cream their pants. who'd expect it? nobody!
dsmyify im not expecting that considering ridley scott shits on AVP but im praying to God we get to see at least a predator easter egg maybe they stumble with a bio mask or cannon something tho I hope it does happen
dsmyify Ridley Scott would *never* do that. He said multiple times the crossover was a shit idea (and I agree with him). Ridley Scott would never merge the two universes. He even retconned AvP when he made Prometheus and I'm glad he did.
hey, never knew Ridley Scott was against the crossover. it would still be amazing simply because it being unexpected (it will never happen). there is a good AvP still waiting to happen.
love your style of review! great passion
Are you by any chance going to review the Outlast 2 video game? Or the series in general?
chris grew up with everything lol .
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i wouldn't hate the movie for being set in the year 2004. wayland yutani is a shady corporation. everything they said in alien/s/³ has been a lie. that's the most canon thing they have! the movie taking place in 2004 wouldn't discredit the sequels, but insert the idea of how the corporation decided to search for the alien in the first place. If bishop is the original owner of the corporation, why wouldn't it be use as the model for some androids in the future? is there any law against it? he was the founder, maybe by the time aliens take place the corporation thought it would be marketable to use the likes of him. also... why aren't you addressing the fact that the entire first act of AVP was later ripped of by Prometheus? I don't want to compare a lesser director which i hate with one i like, but for once, Paul SH*t awful Anderson, was first to it. I mean: A team of the best in the world scientist hired to go on a mission to a remote location to find an ancient Pyramid tying the connection between earth and extraterrestrial life. An ancient race of warrior aliens hosting/experimenting/playing/creating a second 2 different alien species. The oldest almost dead wayland ceo around getting killed by the humanoid alien? things go south and 2 aliens end up facing each other while the last woman standing manages to run out for her life.. in a straight line:D... she survives, but is not shown returning home,... end shot showing a kinda xenomorph looking alien bursting out of the dead alien? questions like the origin of life or our place in the universe thrown at us but never truly addressed?...
I always noticed the parallel between AVP and Prometheus regarding the predators giving us civilization and the engineers creating humanity...both movies even have a scene where multiple ancient human civilizations are discussed...all the other similarities you point out are impressive!
Ernesto Daniel and you're right about Weyland Yutani lying...they knew about xenomorphs prior to the events of Alien which is why Ash called the species the "perfect organism" and the crew was considered "expendable" in the attempted retrieval of an alien.
Jeez, someone should make a video about the sheer amount of parallels the two movies share. They're almost exactly the same on a structural level.
yer thats what i was thinking and even if avp happened in 2004 all evidence was destroyed plus by the time 2025 came around anyone that still new about it would be dead or just forgot about it
Ernesto Daniel that was impressive! Also predator series is taking place in current time so it all makes sense :)
AVP year does make scene BECAUSE what the two movie predator take place in what year again ?
Where do you get your shirts!? They're all so awesome!
yo Chris .... do a coen brothers marathon !!
SmartWater09 56 Good idea
Any evidence of xenomorphs was obliterated in both films.
that was my thought too. It would be Lex's word against anyone she would ever tell, and since the temple was destroyed, the predators would have no reason to go back to Antarctica. Hence, no human would find out about Xenomorphs until over 100 years later by Ripley and the crew.
Possibly Weyland Yutani company had some notes that were kept at high level. That's why the Nostromo was programmed to seek it out.
I still love AVP's concept (the alliance in particular) and the unrated edition does atone for the lack of substance and violence for several scenes. The practical effects are especially astounding.
at 6:38 if you check out the commentary i'm pretty sure that Paul Ws Anderson will tell you about that electricity lighting surrounded the queen Alien but its only in the theatrical version and not the unrated version
It's funny how there's a terrible director Paul W.S Anderson and then a master director in Paul Thomas Anderson
Jacob Morales Resident evil or There will be blood
Who could forget everyone's favorite quirky auteur filmmaker, Wes Anderson?
I don't like this movie much, but I'm going to defend it also (like Resurrection), well, just in explaining the parts you seemed to be confused about.
This movie takes place in 2004, but it can still connect to the other movies easily. In this universe the public doesn't know what happened in this movie: it all take place in a secluded area. No one knows about it except Weyland-Yutani, which would line up well with Alien and even Aliens. This can also excuse the events in AVP2 as well since that whole town basically died. Again, I don't like these movies much, but it's not like they didn't make sense. It was everything else that sucked about them.
Also I thought it was heavily implied that the Weyland in this movie was related to the Weyland in Alien 3? This wouldn't be the first movie series I saw that used the same actor to play multiple characters in the same family (but separated through time). I don't know how this could confuse anyone, I mean look at Back to the Future 2! According to Hollywood that's how genetics work. Yes, it's distracting, but easy to forgive/overlook.
The electricity around the queen? She was being shocked/revitalized from cryosleep. I mean, that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Dude this shit crossover is still not canon. Ridley Scott retconned it when he made Prometheus. AvP is being ignored by both Alien and Predator franchises. They aren't connected. No, I don't give a fuck about comic books. Please don't mention them to me.
TheSmashingTesticles comic books. And you can see the alien skull in predator 2. So yes, even if you don't like it, the predators do exist in the alien world
+PicsL8ed
If Weyland-Yutani knew about the Alien back in 2004 then how come 100 years later they send the Nostromo to investigate a life form and never send anyone else after the Nostromo blows up?
Clearly they have NO idea what the Alien actually is because it's not until Ripley shows up 57 friggin' years later and tells them, that they actually send some colonists (who have been living there 20 years btw) to investigate.
If they knew what the Alien was and it was THAT important to them, why wait 57 years for Ripley to show up (who was assumed deceased btw) to tell them something they already knew??
Sorry, you're theory is shit and makes no sense.
Why would Weyland company know about the aliens if everything exploded at the end?
Maybe its because they are still unsure and do not want to waste the money sending a team out there. There a literally dozens of reasons why they wait for a surviving crew member of the incident to come back, plus they still had no idea where the ship was from the first Alien movie. It is not until later than gained the coordinates and send a probe out to investigate. They the the Xeno is out there they just do not know where an exact location is, they just use the spacers as possible probes. No the theory works you just think to small.
Good thing is that they can do this movie again and do it right. Since Predator 2 did connect the two universes they can make a good AVP movie. I’m hoping they reboot it, make it rated R and really nail it with characters and the screenplay
I've been looking for that Dutch figure for a while can someone provide the manufacturer or something?