Comments on: Alien vs Public Relations* vs Planet Terror

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:01:02 +0000

Comment of the month!

By: Scott Florance

Scott Florance — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:05:19 +0000

I hope the Angels are allowed free travel through this area of space I never saw an angel maybe one small one for a second flying up. They are the creators holy messengers

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:34:44 +0000

There is a half-arsed effort to make the humans interesting, which is the problem. The five it does bother to try and characterise it does not make them complete cliched archetypes: ie the returning soldier is a WOMANG, the sheriff is useless, the hottie actually dumps the jock. So in hinting that they may be more interesting - but by not in anyway justifying this by their actions when the crisis hits, we get distracted from their job in the film - which is fundamentally to die. 30 Days Of Night had almost exactly the same problem, wheras Planet Terror has the nous to fill its films with stock characters and then slowly develop a few of them through it actions.

The nastiness of AVP:R seemed a little tame to me really. The only sequence that really stands out is the pregant woman one (which while interesting misunderstands a) CHEST bursters, b) the reason this bit of Alien was scary in the first place (MPREG!!!).)

By: MBI

MBI — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:44:09 +0000

I actually kind of liked AvP:R, in that it’s unabashedly nasty. And quite honestly, I don’t think it’s that unjustified — why wouldn’t children and pregnant women be just as vulnerable to an Alien/Predator attack? Also interesting to me is how pretty much no effort is made in making the humans at all interesting. It’s undeniably lazy, but somehow it got to me watching these people go about their meaningless lives while the world around them collapses unnoticed. AvP:R is on accident what United 93 is on purpose.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:44:27 +0000

If you went to see it yesterday, you weren’t alone! In the Prince Charles everyone can hear me clap. Actually I think my clapping, at the very clever and funny “pretend we’re using real film” bit, may have been the first time I actually burst into applause at the cinema. Oh god, I might have at the opening of The Phantom Menace, actually.

I’m also curious what Ver Yoof would make of all this celluloid-specific japery - I found that I quickly ignored almost all the scratching, though the fact that it was noticeably heavier around the sechs scene amused me.

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:35:32 +0000

alien and predator and rita and sue and bob too II: “in bradford no one can hear you scream”

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:55:22 +0000

I’d rather see Alien vs Predator vs STIFFLER’S MOM more like…

Actually a better pairing would probably be Harold vs Kumar vs Alien vs Predator (that way it can be a knock-out competition).

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:28:28 +0000

aka Alien vs Predator vs STIFFLER

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:27:48 +0000

American Pie IV: Alierican Piedator

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:17:03 +0000

If this was the 1940s, the next logical step in the franchise would have been ‘Abbott & Costello Meet Alien Versus Predator’

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:38:42 +0000

Well, strictly that’s the rule for Aliens only, but correckt nevertheless (and the cat should have been infected).

Here we have FOUR SURVIVORS, none infected.

Planet Terror has lots of survivors, but all the right people die at the right time.

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:12:31 +0000

survival rate = 1 hero plus one victim (infected) <— it’s the LAW