Yay! Everybody's a winner!
I went into AvP with low expectations. There was the PG-13 factor. The horrible tag line factor. The director who didn't really do much with Resident Evil. And there were the first couple of trailers they released with the, "You ugly....son of a...." thing going on.
I'm an Alien series fanboy so this movie was on my list of highly anticipated movies when it was announced. That's why I didn't let any of that stuff get me down. I knew from the time it was greenlighted that I would see it on opening day no matter what.
I won't say I was disappointed by the movie. I think they did some really good things with it. There were some stupid things, but I think that's to be expected from Hollywood nowadays.
**Spoilers lie ahead in the following rant**
My major gripe, and this is going to sound really stupid because it's the complaint I hear from lots of dumb people, is that a versus movie should have some sort of outcome. I didn't see Freddy vs. Jason, but I heard that ended in a tie somehow. I always thought it was stupid to hear people complaining about that, but this is now the second offense. It's a total cop out. Have some balls about pissing off half of your audience instead of finding some wimpy way to appease everyone. I would've preferred to have the predators come out on top even though I was rooting for the Aliens than to have it end in a tie. That's kinda the point in seeing two forces duke it out. You want to know who would win.
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But we all know who would win in today's battle royale. Alf goes hard in the paint, fool.
I'm an Alien series fanboy so this movie was on my list of highly anticipated movies when it was announced. That's why I didn't let any of that stuff get me down. I knew from the time it was greenlighted that I would see it on opening day no matter what.
I won't say I was disappointed by the movie. I think they did some really good things with it. There were some stupid things, but I think that's to be expected from Hollywood nowadays.
**Spoilers lie ahead in the following rant**
My major gripe, and this is going to sound really stupid because it's the complaint I hear from lots of dumb people, is that a versus movie should have some sort of outcome. I didn't see Freddy vs. Jason, but I heard that ended in a tie somehow. I always thought it was stupid to hear people complaining about that, but this is now the second offense. It's a total cop out. Have some balls about pissing off half of your audience instead of finding some wimpy way to appease everyone. I would've preferred to have the predators come out on top even though I was rooting for the Aliens than to have it end in a tie. That's kinda the point in seeing two forces duke it out. You want to know who would win.
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But we all know who would win in today's battle royale. Alf goes hard in the paint, fool.
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Yeah, but if they declare one of them a winner, the other franchise sort of gets devalued like a cheap peso. It's like, "Oh yeah, 'Alien' used to be cool till they got skunked by the dreadlock monster. Now they suck." Next thing you know, HR Giger's creatures are fighting against Screech in Celebrity Boxing.
It's an understandable thing that the studios don't want to go down that road.
But the fact is that it makes for a better movie to have one of the franchises come out on top. A better movie could lead to sequels in which the other species might come out on top, and it could go back and forth.
If they're defeated, once and for all and with glorious shame, how are they gonna come back for a sequel?
I'll tell you how -- they're NOT.
Except this one will probably have like five sequels. And nobody will ever win.
Let's just watch Alf.
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