[vyper]

Originally posted by Shrike
There's a surprisingly limited amount of blood.

Oh, and the very first scene is too cool.  Hint:  It's not what you think it is at first glance.

Okay, let's look back at Predator. Ahrnie and his team went through a whole host of gore at the behest of the Predator and his lovely techniques of skinning.

The Arnie killed eet with lots of blood, yelling and manly chest bearing... (Stop eet, stop whining!)

Where the **** has all that gone? Are we too soft these days to see such things?

[Jetmech Jr.]

The fact of the matter is, FOX made Paul tone down the violence to pg-13 3 weeks before it was too be released so they could rake in money from the younger crowd

It was originally intended to be R rated, and to make it pg, they had to cut out about 40 minutes worth of the best (and bloodiest) scenes, also creating a number of plot holes.

In addition, the budget to create this film, I hear, was pretty damn small.

Fortunately, they'll be releasing an R-rated, extended directors cut of the film.

[Corhellion]

HELL-****ING-YES!

GIMME MY BLOOD AND GORE DAMN'T!

[Bobboau]

when?

[Jetmech Jr.]

Beats me. Probably around the time of the DVD release.

[Kosh]

Originally posted by MicroPsycho
How can this movie  only be rated  PG?

The studio cut 40 minutes out of it without Paul Anderson's permission (and much to his annoyance, he was originally going for the R rating). It's not like an R rating has ever stopped anyone who is under 17 from seeing those kinds of movies. Dumbarse studio.


Btw, I just saw it today. The charactization (of the humans) could use some work and the plot is a bit thin. The dialogue was ok. It was extremely entertaining (the whole shifting pyramid thing was pretty unique). Overall it was ok. Not nearly as bad as the critics said it was. It was better than Predator 2 and Alien 4. I look forward to the directors cut.

[Mr Carrot]

Its ludicrous going for a pg13 the key markets for the film are/were 18+!

[Bobboau]

not better than preditor 2, but defenately better than alien 3 and 4.

one thing that had me a little was that I thought that both aliens and (especaly) preditors were suposed to like hot weather, why was this thing built in antarctica?

[Jetmech Jr.]

Aliens, I have no idea what your talking about, but predators, your correct about. They do prefer hot weather. The going idea is that, considering the whole thing is a predator manhood ritual, they were to be blooded under less than ideal weather conditions as an additional bonus, so to speak.

[Ford Prefect]

Btw, I just saw it today. The charactization (of the humans) could use some work and the plot is a bit thin.

In Alien vs. Predator? Isn't that like going to an opera and saying there wasn't enough spoken dialogue?

[Kosh]

No, but the characterization in the Aliens and Predator series were better.

And Bob, Predator 2 was not a good movie and it was pretty disappointing. One of my major gripes with it was that it revealed the predator in the first 15 seconds of the film (in AvP they waited until 30 or 40 minutes).


EDIT: The Aliens set up a nest in the warmest part of the facility in the movie Aliens. In AvP they were there because the queen was forced to be there. They can easily survive in pretty much any weather.

[Ford Prefect]

I'm sorry but when I see previews for movies like these, I automatically expect them to be plotless action orgies. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I thoroughly enjoyed Freddy vs. Jason.

[Dark_4ce]

Ooooh... A directors cut eh? Cant wait!