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Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available

Posted by CowboyNeal on Sat Nov 01, 2003 03:49 PM
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downix writes "Coming to a theatre next summer is one of the most often delayed movie titles known to sci-fi fans, Alien vs. Predator. The movie's official website is pretty bare, but a teaser trailer can be found on Apple's trailers page. I don't know how many hours I wasted playing the AvP game on the Atari Jaguar, but I do know that this is something that will have to be seen to be believed. This gives hope to everyone that even Duke Nukem Forever can arrive one day."
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  • Slashdot vs. Server (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:51PM (#7367776)
    Trailer won't be available, because Slashdot wins.

  • Let's hope more movies are made (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:51PM (#7367777)
    This gives hope to everyone that even Duke Nukem Forever can arrive one day.

    Still waiting for Pong-The Movie myself ...

    • Re:Let's hope more movies are made (Score:5, Funny)

      by cei (107343) on Saturday November 01 2003, @05:27PM (#7368164) Homepage Journal
      Been done [ntv.co.jp].

    • Re:Let's hope more movies are made (Score:4, Interesting)

      by eidolons (708050) on Saturday November 01 2003, @05:30PM (#7368178) Homepage
      Bleaugh. I'm getting sick of remakes, director's cuts, re-issues, re-sequalizations, re-this and-re-that and "x versus y" algorithms in movies that mask the simple fact that no new ideas are surfacing in Hollywood. I mean alien vs. predator makes for an okay comic book but seriously, could we please get some new ideas off the ground? How about a new monster franchiese, or science-fiction franchise, or even a new slasher movie cult icon.

      Pretty soon we'll have a movie version of every damn superhero ever sketched up. We'll soon have a "freedy vs. jason vs. mike meyers" in all probablity. Hollywood will cough out a few more Dr. Seuss movie-versions before that horse is beaten to death.

      Every movie that soaks up its production costs with revenue gets a sequel. I want something new. No more sequels. No more director's cut or cgi effects thrown in for good measure and then re-issued (like "Alien" and "ET".)

      Is rehashes of old material the only safe bet anymore in Hollywood?

  • Did anyone else read the Dark Horse AVsP comic?

  • First post for once???? (Score:5, Informative)

    by falcon5768 (629591) <Falcon5768@NosPAm.comcast.net> on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:52PM (#7367782) Journal
    Anyway, acourding to aintitcoolnews.com the script is a total pecie of shit, not taking any of the mythos of either franchize into consideration (and even eliminating the colonial marines since it takes place in present times in ALASKA!!!)

    Oh and this was the teaser they showed before the directors cut last night as well

    • I'm willing to bet the script will be identical to that of "Freddie vs Jason". Hapless humans try to survive as the two nasties battle it out almost on top of them.

      I wonder if there will be a day where people actually create a fan base behind good script writers, like they do for moviestars and directors. Then there might be some pressure on the studios to focus on nurturing the good writers and DEVELOPING BETTER SCRIPTS!

      Sigh.

      • Re:Likelihood of a good script (Score:5, Insightful)

        by KDan (90353) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:11PM (#7367870) Homepage
        The trailer definitely supports the idea that the script is a pile of shite given its absolute and utter lack of any sort of information on the movie that you couldn't have gotten from the title. In fact, after watching the trailer, I am even less likely to watch alien vs. predator (though watching it in the cinema was already not on my list of things to do, now i might even skip it if it comes on in a few years - got better things to do).

        Certainly as long as the american-dominated mass-market movie production aims all its movies at dumb-of-the-mill average americans, we're not going to be seeing better scripts from them.

        Daniel
        • And movie producers wonder why indie movies win the acadamy awards every year....
        • Certainly as long as the american-dominated mass-market movie production aims all its movies at dumb-of-the-mill average americans, we're not going to be seeing better scripts from them.

          Oh, it's far worse than that. America has begun to dumb its movies down for foreign audiences which make up a large portion of sales nowadays. Wit, and other things that don't subtitle well, are being traded for explosions.
        • But it's not a trailer.

          It's a teaser...a teaser is something that doesn't deal with any part of the plot, merely tells us that the movie will be coming out. It does exactly that: tease.

          As long as dumb-of-the-mill average people thing teasers are trailers, I assume they will think that the trailers are in fact, the movies.
      • wait better yet, we have a FREAKING queen on earth too... I would say go over to www.aintitcoolnews.com, it is quite the funny as hell ripfest that they do on the script, which was writen by the guy who wrote the Resident Evil movie.
          • I doubt if this guy really ever played "Resident Evil".

            Actually, if you watch the featurette on the DVD, the director played the first game and was in the middle of the second when he wrote the film.

            I hadn't played the games when I saw the movie, and I thought the movie was all right. It was no masterpiece, but it was visually well done, like Event Horizon which he also directed. The plot was certainly better than Soldier (another Anderson film).

            Anyhow, I figured I'd check out the Gamecube remake of the

      • Re:Alaska? (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Comsn (686413) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:04PM (#7367841)
        there was a book Predator: Cold War, in which a predator ship crash lands and the predators find heat in an oil refinery (or boiler room)...

        good book. also, Concrete Jungle was excellent, would make a great predator 3. only the comics of AvP would make a good avp movie, anything else is crap.
          • Well, the Predators ships are kinda swampy looking. No reason to suppose that it's neccesarily warm, though.

            If I were going to be logical about it, though, a cold area makes alot of sense for a critter that sees with IR - no background radiation.

        • What's with this "predators like warmth" crap everyone is spouting? Predators are a technological species, for cryin' out loud, if it's cold out they just turn up the heat on their clothing.

          Sheesh. Humans like warmth too, and they're all over Antarctica.

  • Is this something about... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Nom du Keyboard (633989) on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:53PM (#7367788)
    Is this something about Microsoft verses SCO?
    • Uh, first off that's being way to generous to either SCO or Microsoft. As for them being enemies, let me clue you in.

      #1 Darl McBride speaks with a very weird lisp that was previously only heard from the likes of Billyboy.

      #2 Billyboy's lips are moving when Darl speaks, and Billy's arm is stained all the way to the elbow... it has a bad smell even by Redmond standards.

      I'll let your imagination take over from there.

  • What a lousy trailer... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SexyKellyOsbourne (606860) on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:55PM (#7367792) Homepage Journal
    However, there is a two-video set at Fileplanet that does more than show close-ups of Alien and Predator skin. In it, there's an interview with the creator, as well as some concept art, detailing the story.

    If you don't feel like downloading it, it takes place in 2004 in Antarctica, where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.

    http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132403.shtm l [fileplanet.com]

  • Jaguar? (Score:5, Funny)

    by t0rnt0pieces (594277) on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:55PM (#7367796)
    I don't know how many hours I wasted playing AvP on the Atari Jaguar

    So you're the guy that bought the Jaguar...
  • I'm looking forward to "Slashdot vs. Microsoft - The Movie."

    I guess the casting process will be difficult. For instance, a *lot* of food consumption in the auditions, not to forget actor-wannabees asking the crew for the WLAN SSID.

    I wonder who'll play CowboyNeil?

  • Bout damn time... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Cyno01 (573917) <Cyno01@hotmail.com> on Saturday November 01 2003, @03:59PM (#7367808) Homepage
    I remember hearing about this 8 years ago, but then they put out that piece of shit that was Alien Resurrection. Somehow that movie sucked despite being done by one of my favorite directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of the Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie) and the presence of Winona. Glad to see this is finally being made. Hopefully it'll be as good as Alien and Aliens or Predator and Predator II and not suck like Alien or Alien Resurrection.
    • wait the script was written by Joss Wheton too, which wasnt half bad.

      I think your biggest problem was trying to write a movie revolving around a character who dies in the previous one. Joss did a good job, but they should have left Ellen Riply out of it.

    • I wonder if I'm the only person on the planet who liked Alien Resurrection. Yeah, Winona Ryder was uncharacteristically boring, but the rest of the cast was quite good, IMO; Sigourney Weaver did a brilliant job at showing the monster under the skin, scary and sexy and empathetic all at once, and the rest did a good job as the expected cannon fodder. And there were some scenes -- the underwater chase and the "don't kill me, mommy" bit at the end -- that struck me as some of the best pure horror ever put on

  • Okay. I loved the Alien movies (well, the first two).

    Predator was way cool.

    When you take the bad guys from one movie and the bad guys from another, what's the attraction? I'm going to want to see a stalemate, where the Predator guys blow up the planet to keep anybody from winning. I can't imagine any kind of script writing where I'm going to want to see one side win. Is this just going to be an actionfest slaughterhouse?

  • There's not much to this trailer, but it should be an interesting movie! If you can't wait until this movie, check out this [theforce.net]. :)

    On a related note, the teaser (ie. no content from the movie but a little snippet from the last one) of Resident Evil: Apocalypse [apple.com] is out!

  • Direct movie link (Score:5, Informative)

    by jroysdon (201893) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:07PM (#7367854) Homepage
    Large full trailer [akamai.net]

    To store it locally and view later or without jitter:
    wget -c http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/67b9aacd822d40/1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec6493f46ada/avp-teas er_m480.mov
    Mind the slashdot spaces.

  • Why do so many new movies... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Tokerat (150341) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:17PM (#7367898) Journal

    ...use initials, as if they where some kind of open-source project or something?

    "Yes, the new AVP system can completely increase the likelyhood of blood, guts, and gore; thus guarenteeing people will pack into theaters to see it."

    We all know how well LXG did. Ever since ID4 was so popular...*sigh* AVP isn't even that good of an abbriviation. Ashcroft Vs. Powell? Anti-Virus Protection? Always Verify Postings? Avril laVigne's Poontang? It's like they're trying to market to the Internet hype crowd by "giving" us an official acronym/abbrivitation/initial-shortened spelling, whatever they want to call it. Hey guys if your movie is worth a shit after the 8 years you spent pretending it was comming out, we'll dub it what we feel worthy. Perhaps less on marketing and more on "movie" and you wont' have to worry about us giving it some other name like FPC - Festering Pile of Crap.

    Erm, perhaps i should see it first before I call it crap. But marketing ploys like this sure make it look like they have something to hide. :-\

  • Hot, Heat, Humid (Score:5, Interesting)

    by shatfield (199969) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:24PM (#7367918)
    What part of the 3 H's don't the director/writers understand? The Predator hunts when it is very very hot -- that was the underlying theme of the first 2 movies. They need heat, possibly because they are reptilian/cold blooded. Put them in the arctic, and you take them out of their natural hunting environmental conditions, and quite possibly kill them like a Vampire in the desert at high noon.

    That problem aside, I think everyone should watch the featurette [apple.com]. It's pretty cool.
    • There's a Predator (or AvP, or something -- I can't remember) FAQ out there that had a more plausible (IMO) explanation. Predators don't seem especially well adapted to warm climates: specifically, they're damn near blind without their helmets because of the IR vision. So, the explanation goes, they actually evolved in a cold climate, but prefer hunting where it's warm because it's difficult. Same reason they carry spears instead of rifles, and run around in their underwear instead of wearing power armor

  • Not exactly "trailer" (Score:3, Informative)

    by fuxoft (161836) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:30PM (#7367938) Homepage
    That is not the trailer. That is "teaser", meaning that it doesn't contain any footage from the actual movie (which started shooting just a few days ago).

    More interesting than the teaser itself is the "Behind the scenes footage", also available at the oficial site, which contains suprisingly detailed information about the movie plot and some nice storyboard illustrations.

  • Season's schedule. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Black Parrot (19622) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:31PM (#7367948)

    Alien ------+
    |
    +-+
    | |
    Predator ---+ |
    +--- __________ [2003-2004 champion]
    King Kong --+ |
    | |
    +-+
    |
    Godzilla ---+


    (...maybe if I put enough spurious text in here I can sneak it past the lameness filter. What shall I use for my filler? Start a flamewar? Link to goatse? ...)

    • Im still waiting for Picard vs. Zap Branigan

    • Re:Season's schedule. (Score:4, Funny)

      by Diamon (13013) on Saturday November 01 2003, @07:50PM (#7368734)
      No No No, we already had the whole Godzilla Vs. King Kong back in the 70's it's...

      Alien-----+
      +--+
      Predator--+ |
      +--+
      Freddy----+ | |
      +--+ |
      Jason-----+ |
      +--- 3. Profit!
      Batman----+ |
      +--+ |
      Superman--+ | |
      +--+
      CowbyNeal-+ |
      +--+
      CmdrTaco--+

      But personally I'm waiting for

      SCO-------+
      +--+
      M$--------+ |
      +-- Whoever Loses...We Win
      MPAA------+ |
      +--+
      RIAA------+

      Arrr lameness filter, she be a b*tch tonight. (said of course with the voice of the Captain from the Simpsons). Still too lame. Can I trade off some of my karma to be able to pass the lameness filter? I'll even read a Jon Katz article if it will get it through. Junk Junk Junk, I got more junk than Fred Sanford.

  • What about this movie (Score:3, Informative)

    by psicic (171000) on Saturday November 01 2003, @04:56PM (#7368030) Homepage Journal
    If you think an Alien vs. Predator film is a good idea, watch the movie at

    http://www.theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/batman_ deadend/index.shtml [theforce.net]

    (not off-topic if you watch the whole movie)

    I bought into the Alien vs. Predator hype right from the pre-release Jaguar blurb... so this is great news (two months ago it would have been brilliant news but then I saw the above movie. Now I can only say the big screen version has been truely pipped at the post and unless it has a great story line(unlikely) then it already been surpassed by a three way tie-in actioner)

  • Bleh (Score:3, Insightful)

    by BeerSlurpy (185482) on Saturday November 01 2003, @06:09PM (#7368316)
    Disclaimer: I am an avid aliens fan and predator fan, and a semi-avid avp fan (despite the mediocre quality of the games outside of their value as homages to the original works). On their own, each of them are interesting science fiction movies that deal with unfriendly alien life forms that kill people on sight and are generally unpleasant.

    Ok here are the cliff notes for the downloadable trailers:
    The "teaser" is just a bunch of very short clips from aliens and predator spliced together to demonstrate that the "alien" is the one from the movies with sigourney weaver, and the "predator" is the one type that Ahnold fought. Duh.

    The longer preview film consists of a bunch of clips spliced together from the movies (mostly predator 1 and aliens) to make it seem like they have already started fliming. This trailer reveals several disappointing things:

    The directors/screenwriter's only prior moviemaking experience is "resident evil." Danger Will Robinson! Alert alert! I didnt pay money to see Resident Evil and I thought it was mediocre. The only thing it did well was demonstrate why making movies out of console games is still a stupid idea (even after the blockbuster performance of Super Mario Brothers). Note that AvP builds on this shameful history.

    They are focusing on giving the predators a million new flashy toys and seeing lots of aliens and predators kill each other- rather than actually telling an interesting story. Somethign either series hasnt seen since, oh, 1986 (AL|ENS).

    The movie will take a steaming shit upon loads of separate Aliens and Predator canon. Why? One of the central flaws in combining the two genres is that the predator movies all take place in the present, and the alien movies all take place in the distant future. Combination movies that take place in the near future violate the aliens timeline in numerous obvious ways. Combination movies that take place in the distant future assume that the Predator species simply stopped interacting with the human species for a few centuries after meeting Danny Glover. It also means that you have to have a bigger budget in order to make everythign look like its in the future (vs the "near future" where everyone still drives GM products and has 80s hair).
  • So how could this not be terrible?

    Still the concept art in the featurette is pretty cool looking.

    He also directed Event Horizon, which I thought was pretty terrifying but seemed to get pretty poor reviews. I really hope this movie is more like Event Horizon than MK, anyway.

  • Know what I like about the concept? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by NanoGator (522640) on Saturday November 01 2003, @10:13PM (#7369273) Homepage Journal
    Not sure if I'm hyped about seeing this movie, but there is a concept about it I get a kick out of. Niether the Predator nor the Alien is really a good guy. So the actual ending might actually be a surprise. It's hard to watch a movie like The Matrix, for example, because the good guys are so 'good' and the bad guys are so 'bad'. Who's gonna win? Duh. Suspense goes bye bye. At least here, the potential exists for surprise. That'd be cool.

    • The trailer says nothing on the story either. Just pictures of the alien and the predator with them making their fancy noices ...

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