Alien/Predator Franchises

[DestronMirage22]

These films have been around for years, have crossed paths on a few occasions, and have grown in popularity in the last few years. Because of this, along with the fact that each franchise is getting new entries in the near future, I thought it appropriate to make a thread discussing these franchises. What are your thoughts on these series'? Are you guys fans? Do you have any fond memories about these films?

[CyberCubed]

Alien 1 is a classic, Aliens is a fun action movie.

Alien 3 is OK, but it drags on too long and the CG is terrible. Alien Ressurrection is pretty awful, but fun to watch because of how stupid it is. Bringing back Weaver as a clone of herself and watching her play basketball is retarded.

Predator of course is amazing mainly because of Arnold and its a fun movie due to the mystery. Predator 2 is a step down, but a decent action movie and I like Danny Glover.

I've never seen any of the other movies, and from the reviews and what i heard online, I don't think I'm missing anything.

[DestronMirage22]

I agree with what you said about Alien(s) and Predator (2).
Alien 3 used rod puppets and costumes, no actual CGI was used in actuality.
I haven't seen AvP:R yet, but I hear it's on the same level as the 1st one: an ok movie that doesn't compare to other installments in eachs respective franchise. I haven't seen Predators or Prometheus yet, so I can't comment on either.

[CyberCubed]

Also killing off Newt and Kyle Reese off-screen was pretty bad, it retroactively ruined the ending of Aliens. But if you can look past that, Alien 3 on its own isn't too bad a movie. But I can understand why so many people don't like to acknowledge the films past the first two.

[Cure]

I like Predatorsss.

[Wildcat]

I like the Predator movies better and the predator monster too.

Aliens (part 2) was my favorite of that series. I liked Resurrection too. It was pretty cool.

[turtlefanforever]

They're good franchises. Actually "Alien vs Predator" has become like it's own franchise in a way with all the comics it has. If you havent seen AvP:R you arent missing much. It's a decent movie but

Spoiler:

it's basicially a superpowered predator coming to earth and killing f'n everyrhinggg!!! Thats essentially the plot of the movie. And he kills the girl before the nerdy guy gets laid. That was pretty lame too lol.

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If you're a comic book guy predator has fought the likes of batman and many interesting people in crazy crossovers. (even archie!)

Theres no stop on site for these two franchises. I like most every movie. But prometheous and Predator 2 didn't do it for me.

On a side note i main Alien on Mortal Kombat XL. Unstoppable once you get his moveset down.

[The Deadman]

Predators was a pretty decent film for what it was worth.

[AT-Man]

Predators is good, not great. Predator 2 is great, and Predator is phenomenal.

Alien movies are alright.

[NinjaPug]

Thanks for the clarity Blomkamp. I didn't believe it the first 50 times you or Ridley Scott or Sigourney Weaver said the project was dead. Seriously, how long are sites going to report that this project isn't moving forward?

[Andrew NDB]

Don't worry. Instead of Blomkamp's movie, we'll get to see what happens when David arrives at Origae-6. That will be exciting too, won't it?

[NinjaPug]

Think we'll even get a sequel to Covenant? The box office for Covenant has been pretty bad. The production budget was a good bit lower than Prometheus but not enough to offset the dwindling returns.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Think we'll even get a sequel to Covenant?

Hmm... production budget of 97 million, about 70 million in marketing... that's about 167 million to offset. It just passed its third weekend in theaters and is sitting at 67 domestic and 106 overseas. That means as of right now, Alien: Covenant has netted around 50 million here, and 53 million overseas... 103 million, 70 million in the hole.

Probably no sequel, unless it has serious legs overseas. It might. The overwhelming likelihood is that Ridley has successfully sent the Alien franchise back into the ice box.

[DestronMirage22]

Scott talks a bit about another movie:
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2017/06/21/...venant-sequel/



Seems like he's determined to finish this trilogy despite all that happened with Covenant.
I'm relieved. We'll get some closure after all.

[NinjaPug]

With the box office performance of Covenant I'm not sure it's up to him to do another movie. Covenant left such a bad taste in my mouth I'm not sure I even want a follow-up.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by DestronMirage22

Seems like he's determined to finish this trilogy despite all that happened with Covenant.
I'm relieved. We'll get some closure after all.

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

With the box office performance of Covenant I'm not sure it's up to him to do another movie. Covenant left such a bad taste in my mouth I'm not sure I even want a follow-up.

Yeah, Ridley Scott doesn't get to make these decisions.

[Andrew NDB]

Surprise, surprise:

http://heroichollywood.com/alien-cov...uel-uncertain/

[Andrew NDB]

So what do we think about LV-426? Was the original queen that chestbursted out of the ancient engineer in the derelict Kane found and laid all the eggs there probably 2,000 years before Alien still around in the present? Like, did she then relocate to the Hadley's Hope settlement and Hive, or did she die somewhere and then it was a new queen born when the settlers found the derelict?

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So what do we think about LV-426? Was the original queen that chestbursted out of the ancient engineer in the derelict Kane found and laid all the eggs there probably 2,000 years before Alien still around in the present? Like, did she then relocate to the Hadley's Hope settlement and Hive, or did she die somewhere and then it was a new queen born when the settlers found the derelict?

I always just assumed she metamorphosed out of one born when the colony had the accident.