Well I think I must disagree with you on several of your points. First... the acting was pretty good considering almost everyone was new in the movie. It certainly was LIGHT YEARS above number AVP 1.
Second...it isnt a must see for an Alien fan or for those fans who love a great toe-to-toe scrap. This movie was GREAT for Predator fans, but totally compromised the firce and brutal image of the Alien. Some of the Aliens actually TURTLED! Give me a break. What made the Aliens terrifying was that they were like 300 pound ants- impervious to pain, freakishly strong and fearless to the point of suicidal. The ALiens in this move were more like ladybugs!
Third...a movie in the future doesn't need a large introduction or explnation. In fact what's has been compromising the AVP stories is the writers trying to explain everything with logic and background story and timelines. It isn't needed. The less we know the more our imaginations can create our own hypotheses. In fact...it is easier to have the story in space and in the future then trying to explain how the Aliens and Predators have been on Earth for centuries and have never been noticed before in fossils or recrded human histroy.
A third movie, set in space in the future, is much simpler premise. Human spacecraft sets out to colonize a new world (or to set up a mining colony...or best yet...a military resweearch facility) and the humans dig up a thriving Alien hive! Predators drop in for some fun too. That's it. And THIS time.... the Aliens are the REAL aliens!
Finally forth....nothing ingenious about sending a single Predator to fight an Alien hive alone. If the REAL alien was in this movie...the Predator would have been jumped by 10 aliens in the sewers and bitch-slapped. Maybe he would have taken out 3....but no way he escapes that situation. This idea of a single Predator stalking 100+ Aliens (and then fighting to a draw with the PredAlien) makes the Predator lookgreat... but makes the Aliens look like pussies. What makes a fight great is balance and equality.
But you are right about it being better then number one. But of course... anything would be ;)
Second...it isnt a must see for an Alien fan or for those fans who love a great toe-to-toe scrap. This movie was GREAT for Predator fans, but totally compromised the firce and brutal image of the Alien. Some of the Aliens actually TURTLED! Give me a break. What made the Aliens terrifying was that they were like 300 pound ants- impervious to pain, freakishly strong and fearless to the point of suicidal. The ALiens in this move were more like ladybugs!
Third...a movie in the future doesn't need a large introduction or explnation. In fact what's has been compromising the AVP stories is the writers trying to explain everything with logic and background story and timelines. It isn't needed. The less we know the more our imaginations can create our own hypotheses. In fact...it is easier to have the story in space and in the future then trying to explain how the Aliens and Predators have been on Earth for centuries and have never been noticed before in fossils or recrded human histroy.
A third movie, set in space in the future, is much simpler premise. Human spacecraft sets out to colonize a new world (or to set up a mining colony...or best yet...a military resweearch facility) and the humans dig up a thriving Alien hive! Predators drop in for some fun too. That's it. And THIS time.... the Aliens are the REAL aliens!
Finally forth....nothing ingenious about sending a single Predator to fight an Alien hive alone. If the REAL alien was in this movie...the Predator would have been jumped by 10 aliens in the sewers and bitch-slapped. Maybe he would have taken out 3....but no way he escapes that situation. This idea of a single Predator stalking 100+ Aliens (and then fighting to a draw with the PredAlien) makes the Predator lookgreat... but makes the Aliens look like pussies. What makes a fight great is balance and equality.
But you are right about it being better then number one. But of course... anything would be ;)
