Why I Hate: "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"

Yes, it's another bashing session i'm afraid- this time on one of my other favourite franchises: The Terminator.

Now, i love the first movie as much as i do T2. Absoloute classics of the era, and pure masterpieces of sci-fi cinema. James Cameron created a fantastic world full of nightmarish dark imagery, philosophical freedom and the dangers of mankind's power over technology. Two simply great films, the starting and supposed ending of a dramatic saga. But there was a plothole, thus a sequel could be made...and they made one- one to finish off the saga completly, and end it finally. T3 should have been the greatest 3rd chapter in one of the greatest and most succesful (and groundbreaking) Sci-Fi franchises of all time. Far from it! Not even waiting 5 hours in a sweaty, pushy crowd just to catch a glimpse of my childhood idol Arnold Schwarzenegger at the premiere of said movie (but actually seeing up close and shaking his hand!), not even the sheer excitement of yet another Terminator movie, not the sheer coolness of seeing Arnie agian on the big screen in his most iconic role ever was enough to bring T3 out of the depths of despair. To put it simply, the film sucked.

I just it agian on TV for the 3rd time after so long and, after having some time to reflect upon it, it is still shit. I didn't hate is as much as the first time i saw it, but still it does literally nothing new to the established franchise, more like a re-hash of T2 with a more humorous approach, i was actually pretty gutted that they make fun of it bit too much because i love the movies with a passion, but T3 was just parody from start to finish.

If you want to make a T movie make it serious, not with lame Scary Movie type jokes. There were some pretty bottom of the barrel jokes included that make fun out of the whole franchise, and in all honesty it was pretty hard to watch for the sheer fact that the T films are highly revered and a lot of people including me have a lot of respect for them. I mean sure Arnold's old now and the T movies are a bit campy but still. They didn't have any silly self-parody jokes in the new Rambo, so why the hell did they with T3.

It didn't try to be something new and original it just followed the same format, same Good Terminator vs Bad Terminator chase sequence that we had seen twice before. T3 should have been set in the future with the Resistance but it just gave us another modern-day setting carbon copy of T2 which we did not need becuase we had already seen it before, they just changed T-1000 into a bullshit woman version for eye candy and gave her crappy powers. I don't think it was needed at all, a pointless clone of one of the coolest villians of the 1990s and an easily forgettable character. Its the same stuff with more money thrown at it thats all. Even the effects and CG were sub-par, if anything.

Claire Danes- you don't put her into a T movie, it just doesn't work and it didn't. The music was crap and wasn't Terminator at all, no signature motifs, it sounded like it was lifted from a teenage slasher B-movie; if you make a T movie you NEED Brad Fiedel, no question about it. Arnie looked okay despite being old, but still, i wish this film was never made so i didn't have to have my hopes tarnished. I like to look back on the T series as Arnie in his prime and film-making at it's ultimate best, now we have T3 with a dumbed-down vision, a dumbed-down older Arnie and a crappier plot to look back on. T1 and T2 are masterpeices that both start and end the saga perfectly- then we get this crap that doesn't do anything new and tries to add a different take but doesn't do anything, it's just a bad imitation of T2. I try not to put it in the official timeline, thankfully The Sarah Connor Chronicles retcons it even if people don't like that show, i think it's better than T3.

Now, since we waited 11 years for T3 what was the point if they just churned out the exact same film? No point. It should have been the next chapter- in the future, the War of the Machines. Not John Connor yet agian running away with a good Terminator being chased in cars and trucks yet agian by a bad Terminator. It sucks becuase its the same freaking thing. You cant continue a saga by just copying the previous film in every way but killing off the main character and then changing the history and canon- "Judgement Day was avoided oh no it isn't oh yes it is, oh no it cant be avoided" bullcrap. If they had to make a T3 it had to continue on with the story propetly IE the Skynet future wars, not them sending yet another Terminator to kill John Connor and John sending yet another T-800 series Arnie type to protect him in present day LA agian.

Some nice effects and a cool car chase sequence, but needless to say a movie the world could have done without. The T saga should have ended with T2, but they just change everything around and kill Sarah Connor off, what the hell, pointless.
T3 is an abomination that should not have come, thats the honest truth, It craps all over the established franchise and doesnt add anything new to it. It's like the kiddie PG version of T2 and thinking it's just as good. It's a waste of time.

It is the unremovable stain on an otherwise perfect saga and as a massive T fan i have to live with the fact that it exists, which sucks.

I would have prefered it if they had done the scene differently other than him being in the coffin, becuase that made the "saviour of the human race" look like a loser (but i guess this was how it was supposed to be becuase T3 made Connor look like a complete wimp from the start)! Connor could have done something else in that sequence and i'm not saying he should be shooting people, though him participating would have been fun since he missed out on it in T2.

I think personally a better way would have John and Kate escape in a van round the back (you know, make him look more determined and use his thinking more since he's going to be a leader some day) whilst Arnie destracted the Swat team from the front or something. Anything other than the thought of this John cowering like a kid in a coffin.

John is human yes but he really shouldn't be this loser character that was portrayed in the film, so the problem really can't be solved easily as the whole entire premise of the movie is the problem and completly different to what i thought was going to happen. Instead of John taking control of his life properly and being a courageous, smart-thinking guy (which would have been after T2 as it's in that movie where's hes a wreckless child and learns to follow his mothers advice and be a "soldier") instead in T3 he takes a complete step backwards. Which agian is silly becuase in T2 he was smart and very quick-thinking- remember how he manages to use an Atari laptop for loads of extraordinary things like hacking into cash machines and getting passed Cyberdyne secruity doors? As well as fighting for his life to run away from a relentless T-1000 in a truck with nothing but a little bike! And he was 12 in T2! In T3 he's older so of course he would have been smarter than what we saw in T3 but no, we get a complete loser who can't think for himself, smashes into shops like a drunk bum and gets owned by Kate right at the start. Thats my problem. The fast-thinking John wasnt in T3 and thats where the problem i bought up started. So it's not becuase he's "just human", he's not even the John Connor we know of from T2 which is why he isn't doing things like i expected him to. And if he was the John Connor they created in T2 then he wouldn't be a wimp and hide in a coffin. My problems in T3 can't just be rectified simply as the problems are within the whole film itself, to solve them would mean scrapping the film entirely imo.


Fast thinking in the face of danger people would do something, and John could have done something better than hiding in a coffin imo, Kate was smart anyway so even she could have done something. Since they were surrounded by Swat guys who were intent on shooting the place down i have no problem in them quickly working together just to get out of there. At least not John.

All the films portrayed him as a human, but T3 had him as a character he wasn't supposed to be and thats one of the reasons i hated about him. Yes he was whiny and a kid in T2- and that's becuase he was a kid, but he still showed intelligence, a smart and rebelious attitude and hve a knack for doing things no-one else could do- and where was that in T3? If he had retained that then it would have been a completly different film which is what i would have wanted and all his actions would have been better- he would be showing his character as a future war leader instead (which is what he was supposed to do becuase this is what he starts to learn since he was born and redeems himself in T2 but in T3 they threw it all away, they threw the whole premise of the T saga out the window in favour of something else which i hated.

Even if things had changed and he was living a normal life that doesnt mean he completly forget everything he was taught by Sarah and turn into a whiny, depressed and angsty twenty-something year old guy, which is what we got in T3. It's like they built him up as this character who is about to face his destiny in T2 and then becuase Judement Day doesn't happen (lame) he suddenly turns into a a loser. Wrong way to do things imo, "the future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves" IE anything could happen and any given moment and in T3 it does, things kick off agian and he's not even ready to face it properly as he's suddenly forgotten he's a soldier and they changed his character so he can't deal with the sudden change. Lame. If he's a hero he's supposed to think fast in danger as it comes, in T3 he could barely even walk let alone think straight- and thats not the "future world resistance leader" wer'e meant to have, that doesn't even show any character of a courageous leader- it's completly unrealistic and not true to his character. If he was human he'd at least have certian qualities that would show him being this future hero like they already showed, but he was a complelty differen character altogether. I was gutted when i first saw T3, i'm like "who is this fool? Thats not John Connor, thats just a pathetic lonely ass drunk".

And don't even get me started on Arnie who was a walking, talking parody spoof of his character!

The fact that Sarah Connor died of course is another reason why i completly hate the film which plays a part into why Connor is a loser in it! Of course he was taught by Sarah to be strong no matter what happens, if anything were to happen to her it's okay as long as he's alive, remember in T2 she said this? It didn't matter about Sarah, but it's imperative that Connor be strong, be alert, and most importantly be aware if anything was to happen. And Sarah cops it (lame) and what does he do? Be a depressed, suicidal kid that almost drinks himself to an early grave- charming. Thats not the John we had established in T2 now is it? He was supposed to carry on with his head up high, lying in wait for the future to change- instead he barely scrapes by, as a man who's high on stolen animal medicine, if Sarah saw that she'd be disgusted. I know he learns midway into the film to overcome this, but still the movie shouldn't have even gone in that direction.

Thats one possible direction and base of actions out of many scenarios that could have happened but i can assure you thats not what i wanted nor do i agree with it in the slightest. The direction T3 went in i despised, the whole film's premise was completly agianst what i wanted. If they had to continue it there's loads of better ways they could have done it, one only needs to look at the extended universe such at the comics and original novels to see how they could have done it -better-.

The Terminator novels and some of the comics have much better stories than what T3 gave us though, if adapted by a good writer we would already have a better story other than T3 which was just a blatant re-hash of T2 which doesn't add anything new and all the film really does is say "Sarah Connors dead, Kate Brewster is your future wife, and oh, Judgement Day is gonna happen- it's the internet!". Those were the main 3 things than T3 provided to move the saga along and frankly they could have been presented in a much better way other than just generic action scenes wev'e seen before in T2 with a lame T-100 copycat to link them together which is what the film provides anyway! 3 just fcks it all up in order to make a new saga ans gives us the same freaking film! Everything T3 introduced i felt was unessasary and just ended up screwing with established canon- and the film itself is just T2, from the way it starts to the action scenes to, well, everything. Even going to the military compound was an exact imitation of them going to Cyberdyne building in T2.

The Incredible Hulk - An Incredible Trailer

And the verdict is- KICK ASS!

Now don't get me wrong i thought the original 2003 movie was brilliant. I loved it but can see why people didn't "get" it. It's different for sure but i admire Lee's take on it, it doesn't fit the bill of all the other comic book movie adapations and frankly thats the best thing about it becuase most if not all comic book films suck. I enjoyed it as an engrossing drama, and i loved how the creature itself looked- the movement and mannerisms were awesome, even as a fan of the big guy i thought it was great for a first try and was happy with the end result (despite all the problems they had getting it right).

However just by looking at the trailer for this new one- I can't wait to see it!! It takes a different route for sure (even if is the generic action/adventure comic book one) but still, i dont mind if it's action all the way as the first one was a decent drama- more "Alien". And this one will be "Aliens"! And i also think this movie will make a ton of money too becuase agian last year proved with Transformers that no matter how bad a movie is, you put in a shitload of effects, big explosions and massive things beating the crap out of each other and you have a sure fire blockbuster hit.

Showing what Hulk looks like in the trailer was also the best thing they could have done, i'm glad they didn't keep it a secret becuase at the end of the day, the first movie didn't do very wel and so they had to have a kick-ass trailer to kick-start this new "re-boot" of the franchise. Showing what A-Bomb looks like in the trailer was the best thing they could have done- showing them about to have an epic battle was the icing on the cake. It's just them telling us "look, you didn't like the first movie, fine- here you go- you wanted more action- have it".

However i have been hearing a lot of complaints on the CGI- yes, everyone is bitching about it already despite it being in unfinished trailer form.

I have no idea what they are complaining about to be honest, i think it looks great and has that comic-book feel to it. Personally i think Hulk has never looked better, this is exactly how i envisoned him and what i wanted the first time round. You can now see the muscles, veins, colour, skin texture etc much more clearly and you can easily see that it is much more defined then it's previous CG incarnation. I think he looks great. And freakin' ripped!

Still, everyone wants this ultra-realistic CGI but seem to miss the point that computers just aren't that advanced to give it to us yet. It was only 5 years since the last Hulk, 5 years since Gollum, just a few years since Kong, 2 years since Davy Jones how much more can they get out of software in that short amount of time? We have seen everything before it will take at least another 10 years to see something outstanding agian. To make a fantastic looking CG creature they would need like 5 years alone on rendering, and that just isn't going to happen. It's true, theyr'e not idiots, in several interveiws the director has stated that they tried everything else and CGI was the only way to go. Prosthethics and make-up can only do so much, we we can't have epic battles and pure carnage without a massive CG factor.

CGI is the best way to go for Hulk and people should just deal with it, whether they think it looks fake or not. I mean at the end of the day a big green goliath is going to look unreal, but it's big fun comic book movie after all, suspension of disbelief needs to be there! So we just have to deal with the CG we have here and in all honesty it ain't that bad, i wasnt expecting something unbelievable and neither should anyone else- this is exactly what to expect from a summer blockbuster comic book film and they are giving it to us. Your'e just shooting yourself in the foot if your'e expecting something amazing, so get real becuase there is no way that is going to happen. I'm sure ILM (or whoever are doing the effects for the film) wern't out to make some groundbreaking peice of work, they were just there to make something big, colourful and good enough for the piece, as well as cool for the kids who will obviosly be lapping it up. I think the effects so far do that!

People expecting anything more need to understand they will never get it. If this is what they wanted then they would have spent 10 years perfecting it. Not going to happen. It's buisness first and foremost, then art. I'd expect a super-realistic Hulk if Peter Jackson was doing it, not from a Marvel summer action movie.
This film will be straight-forward action film and as such the CG looks good for what it is supposed to be and what type of movie this is- a freakin' summer action blockbuster comic book movie. Not a long-winded emotional drama like the 2003 film, and right now it is looking great. This new one looks better than the older one and they seem to have adressed all the issues that was wrong with the original. Yet people are now coming up with whole new random flaws and now resorting to going back and claim that the older Hulk was better, despite them probably being the very people who hated the first one and complained about it in the first place and ILM making this new one better becuase it was those people who hated the original CG incarnation!

It's catch-22 and it makes me laugh. I just hope everyone who thinks this new Hulk kicks ass (like me) can ignore the bullshit from those people and go and watch the movie knowing full well that we will enjoy it. I know i will, as much as i loved the first movie i think this one ticks all the right boxes and i'll have a blast. It's good for what it is and does what it's expected to. People expecting some outstanding, groundbreaking achievment in CGI need to get a reality check!

In all honesty the CGI is the last thing i am worried about with the film becuase so far it checks the list and i love it. Now on for plot, characters, acting, etc.

I think the movie looks great even though i liked the first one. Should be entertaining, along with The Dark Knight a must-see comic book movie. Still not too sure about Iron Man though.

Current Rating- 4/5. Love for the green guy.

Final Monotony

Final Fantasy. Genre-defining. Gameplay refining. Evoloutionary perfection. It's great, isn't it? No! Seriously, it's the most over-rated game series i've ever seen. I'm not biased or anything, i have played a couple of them, but i just can't see what all the fuss is about.

I've tried sitting through them, honestly i have, but they are the most jarring, annoying and downright monotonous series of games i've ever tried to play- yet the whole world loves them and it's the biggest selling RPG of all time. I just don't get it. What's the appeal of sitting through a long-ass cliched story about stereotype Japanese androgynous emo characters (that all look the same), getting randomly and inadvertently attacked every 3 seconds and then consequently waiting your turn to fight? It's the most irritatingly laborious type of drivel thats ever tried to pass off as "gameplay" that i've ever experienced. Someone please explain what the deal is, as not only is the series so highly revered and popular but why FF7 is constantly regarded as one of the greatest games of all time? And most importantly, someone please tell me where the fun is, as i really don't seem to understand.

I agree that the soundtracks are always outstanding (even if they do sound repetitive at times) and the art/concept design is stunning, as well as the CG cutscenes which are always beautifully rendered, and i see can what fans (especially those crazy cosplayers) dig about it from that perspective. But that doesn't make the game itself any more fun to play. Playing through 50+ hours of random battles of it is just insane!

I just never understood how turn-based battle became accepted as a standard when the whole concept to me is monotonous. They dealt with it in FFXII to an extent, but the point of attacking, waiting your turn, juggling characters around, then attacking agian etc is just too annoying for me to see any sort of satisfaction from. On a side note, i absoloutly adore the Legend of Zelda series. I guess it's the more hands-on, control based scheme. With FF, it's just walking around and adjusting stats. With Zelda, i feel your'e immersing yourself fuller into a world with a character you have more control over.

Stories are all the same too. Considering they are all based around a central theme (Planet is dying, everyone must unite, tragedy will unfold but it will be for a better future) you can only do so much within that field until it gets repetitive and cliche. The central characters are almost always the same, like all stereotypically insane-haired Japanese fictional heroes, but i guess the typical Japanese-ness of it all is the appeal. Usually revolving around the central protaganist (arrogant/brash/angry/innocent but all good-at-heart emos) who are connected to the story in a much bigger way than what first started out (either through relatives or a past/future event), where the other characters are either quiet "strong" hard-asses (Kimhari, Barret, Vincent V or Auron) or annoyingly high-pitched happy happy joy joy cute girlies (Rikku,Tifa, etc) as well as the antagonists/villains (Sephiroth, Seifer, Edea) There's always a tragedy in there to spice things up but everything is mostly resolved by a love story (Rinoa,Aerith, Yuna) to keep everyone happy as the world they live in falls apart and then puts itself back together agian in some way, shape or form. And i'm drawing that quick conclusion having never finished playing any of them and not being a fan, but i think most will agree that's FF in a nutshell. But it is epic fantasy and it's hard to do something original these days when everything has been done before. I don't really have a problem with the stories as much as i have with the actual point of random turn-based combat.

And i don't even want mention the pointless movies, but becuase they were so terrible i'm going to rant on them anyway."Advent Children" was laughably bad, to the point that i just got bored at the pretty visuals before me. The plot is all over the place, broken and non-sensical whilst moving slower than a snail pace, the action is just too random, constant and OTT (not to mention physically defying to the point of ridiculousness), the dialogue was terrible and was full of cliche stereotype anime EMOs we've all seen a hundred times before already. It was nice to look at yes but where's the depth? Where's the plot? Wheres the POINT?

It's clear the makers had no idea how to make a film so why bother? There was no sense of direction, character development or story progression- just one long ass FMV sequence. And people actually wanted it? The film does nothing new to anything, i don't even see the point of it's existence except to showcase fancy graphics, and i can do that on my PS2. It tried to ramble about something important but stumbled at the first hurdle, taking itself so seriously it ended up mumbling nonesense and being shallow and emptier than the very CG it's made from. There's nothing deep about it, despite constant images of wide-eyed, stupid-haired miserable morons looking up the sky and philosophising over making the world a better place. Well boo-hoo. It all seems like an overlong outlet for depressed teenagers half the time. It was a waste of time, just like the other FF movie. Money wasted on fancy graphics.

But the fans seem to love it, so good for them i guess....

Sales & Sell-Outs

So Devil May Cry 4 is out and i've just finished purchasing it online, despite not having a next-gen machine to play it on... yet. I was always going to get a PS3, and rightly so, me having over 100 PS2 games and all. And whilst the next installment of one of my favourite franchises doesn't really look like an imporvement from the last, it is the first next-gen game in the series and i guess something to get excited about. Oh, and the reason i bought the game now instead of waiting and getting it cheaper later on in the year (which it will be no doubt) is becuase it's the Limited Edition version. It was the same price as the normal version and i know how hard it will be to get hold of it later, so better to pick it up now. Agian of course this is a marketing ploy, but who cares? Everything is these days. I'm a fan of the series and it will look good in my collection, having previosly purchasing the Limited Edition version of DMC3; even if it was just a fancy slipcase!

My main arguement however is with Capcom's supposed "betrayal" of fans by releasing the game for the first time ever as a multi-format title.
Yes, Devil May Cry finally comes to Microsoft's playground, much to the dismay of Sony fans who have openly aired their anger directly at the culprits.

360 owners jump in joy as they don't miss out on the series, whilst Sony fanboys frantically write petitions to boycott the game and their alegiance with Capcom. But this whole multi-format announcement was come to be expected anyway, it makes perfect sense as Capcom is no stranger to multi-releases. Initially i was slightly miffed as I bought my PS2 all those years ago specifically for Devil May Cry, and news of number 4 being a Sony exclusive cemented which machine i was going to purchase. But i don't care, I was never going to buy a 360 anyway.

So for all the Sony fanboys out there, just calm down. Capcom is a buisness after all and their main goal is to make money and profit. It's common sense to branch out to other formats for maximum sales. The GC-only Residentl Evil series was a nice idea to help boost the GC as a console and to also showcase the power of said machine (and lets face it REmake, 0 and RE4 are some really stunning looking titles made entirley on the GC hardware).

But look what happened as soon as the GC bit the dust- Capcom released RE4, the supposed "GC-Only title" onto the PS2, amisdt previolsy claiming matter-of-factly that RE4 wasn't possible on the PS2 becuase of hardward limitations, which is why they opted to do it on the GC instead. What a load of garbage. I agree the PS2 version doesn't looks as good as the GC version, but it's still adequate and perfectly playable. Capcom making 360 games is perfectly normal too, the machine being the only next-gen system that has been out the longest.

Dead Rising and Lost Planet were experimental titles to showcase what they can do with next-gen titles, with Dead Rising easliy being a prototype for Resi 5. I wouldn't call it 360-favouritsm either, they had to make games at some point, they couldn't just specifically make games for the PS3 and wait till the machine came out, that's silly and they would lose a lot of money. They practised making games for the machine that was out already, which was the 360. And look how much experience they got from it. Capcom seeing sales of their games do well on the 360 is more than a good enough reason to keep making games for it too, and lets not forget that there are more 360 users currently than there are the PS3, hence it makes perfect sense to release DMC4 as a multi-platform game.

Even though releasing a game which was originally a Sony exclusive series (to me, Devil May Cry is the true eptiome of the Sony PS2, along with Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo and God of War amongest others), they would make hell of a lot more money to release the game on the 360 as well. True, it insulted a lot of Sony fanboys, but at the end of the day who cares- gaming is a buisness after all, and it's a lot of money that Capcom make this way, they would rather upset a few fans than lose out on potentially thousands. Fair point, anyone would rather make extra bucks than to listen to some fanboys cry. And who knows, maybe making games for the 360 is easier than for the PS3, a lot of companies have expressed how fussy it is sometimes making games on the hardware, it being easier on the 360 becuase it is a Microsoft PC after all.

I think we will see a shift in the next year or so, when the PS3 user-base increases and it (hopefully) becomes the next "definitive" next-gen machine, where we will see Capcom make more games for it.

Of course this is going by the speculation that because the 360 is slightly older, it will date quicker and fizzle out, with the PS3 finally becoming the machine it was initially hyped up to be, and taking over the race. However this is hardly the case, the 360 has a fantastic catalogue of games and nothing ive seen on the PS3 so far can even compete in that league...yet.

Why I Hate: "AVP"

I love Aliens. I love Predator. I HATE AVP.

Alien vs Predator (2004). A dream movie that should have been an entertaining, action-filled sci-fi horror with two of sci-fi's (and two of my all time favourite) most iconic monsters. Far from it, really. The result was everything but- a nightmare of epid fail proportions. What a big pile of fucking SHIT!!! Everything about that movie was rubbish. Only good thing was the budget. Sorry, hated it all.

Lets forget about the terrible acting, script, plot, music and unknown Eurotrash actors for a second. I mean, wer'e talking a VS movies- all we should be getting is said monsters kicking the crap out of each other. And we don't even get that. I find it hard how anyone can screw up such a simple premise, escpecially with these two franchises who have had a multitude of spin-off comics and novels, most of them great. All Paul W S Anderson had to was to take one of the comics (preferably the first one called Prey which cleverly combines both creatures together really well) and adapt it for the movie- but he didn't do this. he opted instead not only to write a whole new screenplay, but a screenplay that wasn't even original. It took 90% of the material from the comics and then set it in the Alien universe so to link it with the Alien saga's cannon. Which sucks even more as now we have a yet another rubbish movie with an even more preposterous setting that we have to take as part of the already tainted Alien saga.

He literally mixed up and bastardize the various comic stories and made the film into mess. If you read the original novels, you'll see how good AVP stories can be. Hec, even the AVP2 video game had a better storyline than this peice of shit movie. I hate hate hate hate HATE AVP.

I bought the the 2-disc edition recently for £6, a really cheap price, and only becuase i wanted to see the documentaries to see what excuses they could come up with for their design choices as i'm interested in that prt of film-making. I also i wanted to hear the audio commentary- and it's unbelievable! Anderson, [Sanna] Laathan and [Lance] Henrikson seem to be lapping the movie up, even Henrikson applaudes Anderson and thanks him for making such a great film!? That's just bullshit! Can they not see how bad the film is? They mention no flaws whatsoever, and Anderson seems to love his own work, theyr'e all laughing and joking away, "oh wow that was great" "how cool is that part" "well done Anderson that was a really good film"- it's astonishing to hear these people this way concerning such a sh!tty film.

Iv'e heard loads of commentries where they apologise if something doesn't work or wasn't as good as how they would like, or didn't turn out well. With AVP it takes the cake- apparantly the movie was the PERFECT vision of Anderson's imagination! He doesn't say a bad thing about anything! And Henrikson and Laathan agree!? Seriously, listen to Henrikson next time, you can hear them sucking Anderson's cock, it's insane.

I'm sure the Strause Brothers (directors of the AVP sequel) will be more apologetic, since they have been listening to fan's responses and Colin has guts to show his face on these boards as well as the ones on fansite AVP Galaxy.com.

Anderson hasn't done anything of the sort- has never talked to fans, doesn't show his face in public and has never mentioned anything about AVP except on the DVD where he "claims" to be the biggest fan. Yeah right lol. He has never outright spoken about the film's failure to acheive anything in the same vein as Aliens or the original predator.

I don't care how many Aliens killed Predators or vice versa either, which happens to offend a lot of Predator fans as well as they see it as insulting that the creature wasn't shown in a fair light. To be honest, i don't care, I'm a fan of both franchises although i'm not going to resort to whatever tactics the other fans do to defend the creatures in these movies. I like monsters and i hold both species dear to me, and whatever bias is going on is purely down to bad film-making and idiotic amateur directors. Neither species is "better" than the other, though there will always be an exuse/answer from each party to counter-argue the other's opinion. It's just disheartening to see fans of both franchises stoop so low when trying to have a coherant debate, the arguements here are so nonsensical at times it's beyond silly.

As long as both creatures are doing what they do best, it's fine by me. However, i ddin't even get that in AVP.

I just wanted to see good creature designs and good performances from them. I come to see the monsters, i don't care about anything else. AVP SUCKED with the Predators. Fat obese mutha*bleeps* who don't even have the original sound effects, and the actors inside them just running around not even getting into character!! And then unmasked, it's even more of a joke.

"Because the audeince had come to respect and empathise with [Scar], subtle changes were made to his facial anatomy to make him more heroic" -Alec Gillis and Tom Woddruff, Jr. AVP: The creature Effects of ADI by Titan Books.

"Subtle changes" ?? They made him look like he had special needs Downs Syndrome (No offence). Anderson was to blame on this part too- he wanted the Preds to have an exagerated, comic-book posture to them. But for some reason they turned out to be fat mutha*bleeps*. I guess he doesn't know anything about comic book art either.

Thats why he sucks. He doesn't care for the source material or the fans. The least hecould have done is do some research in what people wanted in the first big-screen AVP movie. He didnt do anything and just "assumed" that this is what we wanted. That is blatant disregard, disrespectful and downright patronising to all of us that admire the series so much. He didn't even give any interviews to AVP fansites, or talked about "in retrospect". Nothing whatsoever. Resident Evil sucked, and i'm so glad that he's got nothing to do with the film adaptation of one of my favourite game franchises ever- Castlevania. His original script for it sucked more than AVP and Resident Evil combined. You know why? He made the main character in his script use a sword instead of THE WHIP. The trademark weapon of the protaganist, and he doesn't give it any justice. Anderson is a fucking idiot, plain and simple.

For what it's worth, AVP had some good Aliens though, and a nice Queen. In AVP-R however, we get a wicked Predator (with extra-special kudos to Ian Whyte for actually studying the character properly, or just watching the original movie for once), but then the Aliens look like trash. Theyr'e not sleek, slender or scary- they just waddle along like idiots, and even the animatronics on them was crap. Even the Predalien was garbage, if you looked closely the guy in the costume didn't even "perform" like a creature, he just wobbled backwards and forwards like the fat bastard he was.

So hey, maybe on the next one they'll be right on both fronts.....next one? Like hell there will be another. AVP was bad and AVP-R was just adding insult to injury. Although i did enjoy the latter a hell of a lot more!