DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

  • ScreenRant.com · 1 year ago
    Good Lord. A "B"?!?

    Damn...

    This thing SUCKED.

    Vic
  • Joe · 1 year ago
    I actually want to see this one I think... Kevin I think you've convinced me.
  • Felipe J. · 1 year ago
    I really enjoyed this movie a hell of alot better than PWA's AVP.

    Number 1: It's rated R the way an Alien and Predator movie should be rated.

    Number 2: Anybody and everyone was getting clipped during the movie.

    Number 3: They had original sound fx for predator and aliens.


    I like the way the opening credits started. It was like a Freddy vs Jason type thing. For the Aliens they had the radar noise from Aliens and the predator they had the noise the predator makes.

    ofcourse this movie had some bad acting, what would anyone expect. At least the predator didn't make friends with any humans and ran into the sunset together.

    Hopefully there will be another installment because you can't end a movie like this the way it ended and have no sequel.

    All I can say is that this movie was better than AVP.
  • Jeremy · 1 year ago
    I don't understand why people are looking for character depth in these movies. It's Alien VS Predator! Not Humans Have Self-Discovery Among Alien Races Duking It Out.

    Requiem made up for the junk that the first AVP was. Movie was a success in my mind when Dallas resurrected Arnie's famous line, "GET TO THE CHOPPA!"

    Also agree with Felipe bout the Pred not making friends with humans. That was ridiculous in the first one. Requiem probably means Clean-Up guy in Predatese. "I am here to CLEAN god-damnit! Ain't nobody gonna stop me nuh-uh! Not humans, not aliens, and most definitely not the pred-alien hybrid that forced me to leave my Virtual Boy game."
  • Toms · 1 year ago
    I love how this movie is called AvP: R. It's like they are acknowledge the biggest problem with the first AvP was its PG-13 rating. They want the world to know they did not water this movie down. Seriously.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    I enjoyed this film too. My review will probably be up soon, its also very positive.

    Someone mentioned the "choppa" line, I hope you also caught the line "What the fuck are you?" which was in both films.

    Lots of fun, lots of blood. I would love a 3rd. Or new Alien and Predator films. I love both franchises. Also, notice the Predator design has gone back to the original style, where AvP had big blocky Predators that looked like doodoo.
  • Kevin Carr · 1 year ago
    There was also the "You're one ugly motherf*cker" line, only said to an alien rather than a predator.
  • OldBoy · 1 year ago
    I was wondering if some one could tell me what the hell the end of the movie was about with the female character and the general brings the pred gun to her nad she says" the world isn't ready for this technology who the hell is she ?
  • ScreenRant.com · 1 year ago
    "I don’t understand why people are looking for character depth in these movies."

    Oh, you mean like there was in "Alien" and "Aliens"? Where we actually CARED about what happened to the characters and were rooting for them to survive and it bothered us when they died?

    Like that?

    It's funny that someone mentioned "Freddy vs Jason" because that very thought occurred to me as I was watching this piece of crap.

    Vic
  • OldBoy · 1 year ago
    Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation in the motion picture Alien and its sequels, often referred to simply as "The Company". It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration, has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission's Company Review Board, and also has a large presence on Earth.

    Weyland-Yutani is consistently portrayed as exhibiting the worst aspects of corporate profiteering, and as being willing to sacrifice decency and human life in the pursuit of profit. In various portrayals of the Aliens' universe, the corporation has its hands in all aspects of space colonization and research. The corporation has consistently ordered its employees and agents to attempt to obtain living Xenomorphs so that they can be exploited as a biological weapon, of course, without regard for their lives.

    Weyland-Yutani is a modern example of the longstanding trope of the evil megacorporation in science fiction.
    hahahahahaah I answered my own question oh well here is the answer
  • Felipe Jorge · 1 year ago
    I think the woman in the end was Anna from Predator.
  • ruben · 1 year ago
    The first AVP movie had so much more depth than this one. The predators in the first movie were skillful, fast, interesting, had awesome weaponry, two seemed younger and therefore more ruthless and killed everything whereas the one predator who lasted until the end seemed more mature and allowed to girl to live as she gave him his weapon back. He even marks her face with alien blood since she earned a warrior status by killing 1 alien. In this movie, the predator was stupid, had no purpose, was slow, was always playing catch up with the aliens, and his fighting skills were boring at best. This movie didn't spark an ounce of interest in me and I left the theater upset I spent money on it. The best word to describe it is dull.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    Ruben, I wish I saw the version of AvP you did! 2 of the 3 Predtors were killed pretty much immediately, leaving behind a slow, chunky, below average Predator.

    In the new movie, he was much closer to the original Predator. I felt he was faster than in AvP. He was also a great hunter! He killed dozens of Aliens, while in the original AvP the main predator killed maybe 8 or 9.

    I dug this way more than AvP and felt it really was a decent "Alien vs Predator" movie showing what we wanted - lots of aliens fighting a Predator. Hopefully a 3rd AvP would go a little darker and be more in tone with the original movies, but for a pure popcorn driven fun fight flick, AvP:R was a winner to me.
  • Defigi · 1 year ago
    I just walked out of this movie and I found it much better than the previous AVP. This is a close as you could get to what would really happen if some Aliens got loose on Earth. I only wish that they would have shown a little more of the Predator home planet and explain who that Asian lady was at the end. I was waiting for her eyes to glow or something. Overall I would give it a solid B too. If you are a fan of the Alien or Predator films I would recommend seeing this one.
  • Xtracrispy07 · 1 year ago
    Please do not go see this movie, if you liked the first one then you wont like this one. Not because it wasn't connected to the first one, but mostly just cause it was a steaming pile of crap. Way too many shallow characters and infinite plot holes could never be made up by some so-so action/violence. I think that the only reason why there was only one predator is that they couldnt afford more :p. Oh well it was fun to laugh at.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    The Asian lady at the end was Miss Yutani. Yutani is one half of "The Corporation," aka Weyland Yutani Industries, from the Alien franchise. There a fairly evil big corporation who own and operate nearly everything in the future. They were the ones that owned the space rigs in Alien and later were trying to capture the aliens for use and study.

    At some point in the far far future (Alien: Resurrection) they were bought out, sometimes its said that Wal-Mart bought them out (novels).

    In AVP Weyland (the other half) was played by Lance Henrickson.

    So AvP-R was just giving us Yutani to AvPs Weyland. The start of something big and evil.
  • Bubble o' Bishop · 1 year ago
    When I was a kid, people got really excited about Rocky, and Flash Gordon. I remember seeing people punching the air as they left the theater, now I see rolling eyes and smirks.
    What levels of fulfillment are people requiring from the silver screen these days? Was it that too much faith was pledged early on ending in a confused forlorn mess of disenchanted cynicism?
    I have not seen this film yet, but I am going with an open mind while not expecting to discover the meaning of life.
  • Mrs. Hyde · 1 year ago
    As I read the review and the comments a simple question comes to my mind, does
    anyone remmember the first Alien and predator movies? ANYONE AT ALL?

    I can't believe what I'm reading, the Alien and Predator movies are not just regular
    monster movies they're all about CHARACTERS, who can forget Ripley, Bishop, Hudson,
    Vasquez, Dallas, Ash and Parker? (just to mention some).
    Ok I admit that Predator's characters are more iconic action movie types, but still that's
    not an excuse to replace Ripley, one of the strongest female characters ever made for a
    friggin pizza delivery boy!!!

    ... Well I could go on and on with this subject, but there's no point to it, thanks to AvP
    and AvP-R the remaining dignity of this 2 alien races it's completely gone.
  • sam · 1 year ago
    Like alot of you, i am also a huge fan of the originals. I thought the AVP:R was way better than AVP.
    I dont think wer will ever get what the James Cameron, ridley scott and John McTiernan delivered. I mean these are top notch directors.

    Why dont these movie producers pull out the cash for a better script, director and cast. They want a blockbuster with little money spent.

    I think we should just appreciate we can still go to the pictures to see Predator and Aliens on the big screen.

    I say lets join the writers.
  • Reichgard · 1 year ago
    Agree with the fact that it's improved from AVP,but many things don't make sense at all.

    Humans, are real dumb,not suspecting of nothing...why would everyone go to the town center if the civilians know that there's the thick of battle?running away driving is a much better idea...why the cars were all empty?ok,the colonel told them,but only the sheriff knew that there's gonna be evac in the city center.so,why were all survivors in the city center?

    Aliens:As fans of A,P,AVP series,you all know that aliens hunt for the queen,for reproduction,cause they need hosts for the facehuggers,if there's no queen present{in this case},they just hunt for needs(self defense,etc),their acid blood could sustain them millenia,they don't need human as food,so why they keep attacking humans like that?

    Predator:In AVP,the ship carrying the corpse of the deceased predator(with alien inside)was in a huge ship,and there will be hundred,if not thousands of predators inside,where's that ship?Why change it?Where's the old Leader predator?The ship was leaving earth's orbit,in this film,it was going near earth,why?
    Besides,all predator would disarm themselves in their own ship,why the predator skinning the trophy was fully armed?And for god's sake,blowing a hole in their own ship?Even the dumbest human wouldn't do that,not mentioning these are much highly evolved creatures...
    Why the self destruction bomb didn't explode?The death of the predator would make no difference,as you recall in AVP,the bomb would explode even if it left the predator's body.Well,the predalien must be some bomb expert,knowing how to disactivate bombs I guess...

    What's really ridiculous is the ability of the predalien to transform human babies into 4-5 baby aliens,you've gotta be kidding me....A baby can turm in 4 aliens?You tell me that...You've no need of queens anymore,get a predalien,grab some pregnant women and there you go!!The queen should eat the guy who thought of this idea...
  • Reichgard · 1 year ago
    One last thing,was the predator in this film so poor that he couldn't afford his own weapons?Why he need to arm himself in the crashed ship?
  • FanBoy · 1 year ago
    Ok Reichgard, You have several problems with your problems.

    First: the other humans went to the town center because they heard for the military also, you could hear the colonel on one of their radios when they pulled up in the truck.

    Second: I the previous alien movies the aliens not only hunted for reproduction, they also killed randomly, as if for sport or simply because they are pissy little bastards.

    Third: The huge ship you are speaking of was leaving earth's orbit because this film picked up right were AVP left off (ship leaving after dropping Queen alien in the drink). The small ship separated from the large ship that was presumably heading home, and it was this small ship that crashed on earth.

    Fourth: The bomb in AVP didn't explode when it was remove, the predator armed it, and then removed and threw it.

    Lastly: The Predalien did not turn human babies into aliens, he simply put alien larva into them, you will remember the waitress was not pregnant and she produced three aliens herself.

    In regards to your second post: The predator was armed when arriving at the downed ship, he just was not aware that there were aliens on the ship and realized that he would need stronger weapons to deal the the alien masses.

    I hope I have helped clear things up for you. If I am wrong in any of this let me know.

    Oh and I did enjoy this film, it was a bit of mindless fun that was more in the style of the old films.
  • Reg..Joe · 1 year ago
    Man oh man, that fan boy really knows what he is talking about. I wonder if he is a famous critic?
  • schrodingers cat · 1 year ago
    if ya want to watch a meaningful film watch schindlers list if ya want to watch a funny film watch as good as it gets and if ya want to watch a shoot the aliens film watch this or any of the alien or predator or alien predator films its fiction who cares if things dont fit,the whole lot of them are full of holes if ya want to look having never come across a real alien i dont know if they can transform babies into multiple aliens and i dont care.alien vs predator requiem is a good not too heavy kill the aliens film for those times that you dont want to work out the meaning of it all but just need something to veg out and watch Its a good watch if ya like that kinda film and are not mr or mrs cynic,its fiction surely that means no rules its just easy watching for them days that you dont want to think too much.however i would like to know who that woman at the end was and what was that bit all about but i`m not losing sleep about it.dont like it ? do one yourself and see how good it is :)