Just finished watching AvP: Requiem. All I have to say is: dadblame, but directors can screw up a good movie. Hot blond in her undies at a pool? Have the scene interrupted by her ex-boyfriend AND the alien! Aliens taking out the rescue force? Don’t show the actual firefight– just cut to it in one second bursts! Government sets up a trap for the survivors? Have them walk right into it! (The film’s set in Colorado… the Red Dawn state. Worse yet, one character even whines, “That’s crazy. The government doesn’t lie to people.” She was not thrown from the vehicle.)
Overall, it was enjoyable for the sheer carnage, watching those untrained in self-defense perish*, and the cheesecake (even though she magically found her clothes again in the midst of the horror and carnage). One pinkie up.
* At one point, a woman is getting off late at night, hears the chef screaming bloody murder in the kitchen, and calmly and totally Condition White walks right into two Aliens. She then sits down and waits for the end, surrounded by knives and stainless steel. Oh, and at one point a hunter uses the butt of his rifle to tap on something, thereby pointing the muzzle right at his own face.
Linoge
10 Aug 10 at 5:10 PM
Well, you have to admit – if you are going up against Aliens, blades are not exactly your best choice.
That said, the movie is a lot better when you expect nothing from it… which, after the first AvP, I had plnaned on
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Dixie
11 Aug 10 at 1:31 AM
Eh, well, she coulda at least have used a frying pan on one. But noooo… just sit there and cry.