Like the: "Get to the chopper!" line?
I don't remember what line you're referring to, but the drum music from predator, the sound of the radar from Aliens at the beginning, and a few other little things were nice.
After action sequence took place in the dark and was all closeups and shadows. There were no mid-range shots that actually showed what they were doing.
....I saw mid-range shots. There were some close ups but not near as many as we see in most films today. Maybe your theater had the screen too dark somehow?...
I expected that the script wouldn't have been written by child and they actually explained things. Rather than just....."I like this girl"...."Ooop! Aliens"...."Oooop! Predator!"....Invasion.....Death.....Battle....End .
The girl thing I agree with....but with the exception of a few minor details, isn't this how the originals were? Alien - distress signal, face hugger, alien, deaths, battle, end. Essentially the same with Predator.
Other than the fact that I am sure there is a difference between military and civilian helicopters and that they somehow had the keys to start it up.
True...but it is a movie. Ripley knew how to drive the ATV in Aliens in a snap.
This isn't Counter-Strike
. Guns in real life have recoil. Especially when firing in full-auto like they were. The soldier I can understand knew how to use it, but just because someone is an ex-con doesn't mean that they are experienced with military-grade weapons.
No, but the soldier could have explained them to them off-screen or something. Did you expect a rehash of Hicks describing the weapons?
He held it for about 5-10 seconds just fiddling with it and suddenly..."Oh! This is how it works". And then he was an expert at it. Judging by the guy's dialogue ("People are dying! We need guns..."), I can't see him being that smart
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Well.....It's an alien gun so we don't really know how complicated it is. It may just be a simple button when it's not attached to the predator.
The size of it's tail is huge! Notice when the pred-alien stabs that Predator at the end. Look at how big of a whole that makes. Even if he was stabbed in the shoulder, it would have done some serious damage. If it was directly on his shoulder, his arm would've been ripped off. If it was any closely, it probably would have hit his heart/lungs/arteries.
Maybe it didn't go that deep, plus...it's a movie. People get hurt in movies all the time and live. Hicks took acid and lived. Bishop, even though a robot, was torn in half and survived. It's suspension of disbelief, man.
Besides Alien: Resurrection and AvP, every other alien and predator film had characters that actually contributed to the story before they were killed. Or if they were "background" characters, they didn't say anything so you didn't even notice.
Alien - Lambert, Brett. Aliens - Drake, Frost, Ferro, Spunkmeyer, Crowe, Dietrich. Predator - Poncho, Phillips, Hawkins.
I think I've watched the original films enough. Just because the woman at the end was a part of them, does not mean the other people were. I'm pretty sure that WY does not have the authority to nuke a city.
No, probably not. But they're a large factor in the films and perhaps the government is crooked? Just like the line delivered in AVPR: "The government doesn't lie to the people"
If they would have showed that, then I could understand. I just found it weird that they go into the hospital and it somehow looks like the hive straight out of Aliens there when they've only been there a few hours (in film time).
With the way the hybrid reproduces 6+ aliens in pregnant women's stomachs and there are many, many pregnant women in hospitals....I don't find it that hard to believe
I know that they have. But just tossing that in at the end with the only purpose of setting this series up for another sequel is disgraceful.
Most films are set up for sequels these days. And it really wasn't thay "tossed in". You could tell that Robert Joy's character was working for Yutani when he was looking at the projected infestation.
Anyway, I enjoyed it. Perhaps that you're too much of a fan and went in expecting something in particular? All I wanted was something better than Paul Anderson's P.O.S. and that was delivered.
I'm a big fan of Alien, Aliens, and Predator and while this films isn't near as great as those....it was a fun film. The ROTLD ending was a bit cheap, but I suppose that could actually happen.
All-in-all...I would give it a 6/10. Entertaining but nothing special(and let's face it - how could we even expect it to be as special as the originals?).
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