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Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available 347

Posted by CowboyNeal from the silver-screen-comics dept.
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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Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available

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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?

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday November 01, 2003 @03:52PM (#7367782)
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    • 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

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
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        • 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.

          I'm no fan of the big movie producers, but if it weren't for the mass-market movie producers, you wouldn't be seeing any sci-fi films with multi-hojillion dollar f/x budgets, even the good ones, like the Star Wars films (original), the Matrix, Aliens, even the LotR movies (yes, NZ film but where do you think the money cam
          • if it weren't for the mass-market movie producers, you wouldn't be seeing any sci-fi films with multi-hojillion dollar f/x budgets, even the good ones, like the Star Wars films (original), the Matrix, Aliens, even the LotR movies

            Hah, good riddance. I'll take one low-budget "Life is Beautiful" any time in exchange of all these crappy blockbusters... and god only knows how many quality but smaller independent movies we miss out on because they never make it to a larger audience...

            Daniel
        • It's not a trailer, it's a teaser. Teasers are basically supposed to say "This movie is coming out" and little else.
        • 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.
      • Then there might be some pressure on the studios to focus on nurturing the good writers and DEVELOPING BETTER SCRIPTS!

        It will never happen. That would require the hiring of something called a "writer" and that isn't part of the "more pixels please" Hollywood formula any more.
      • They do. Just not for crappy, "knock-it-out" movies. But for well thought out movies, there are plenty of writers who have a following, although it seems that many of them direct as well, e.g. PT Anderson, David Mamet, M Night Shamalayan, etc.
    • yeah the trailer gives the 'story' away (as if they could sell it) ... and i think you meant antartica
    • Is anyone surprised? It's directed by Paul W.S. Anderson [imdb.com], maker of such gems as Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat.
    • "Hi I'm Paul Anderson [imdb.com].

      You may remember me as the director of Stellar Hit Movies like Resident Evil [imdb.com]
      [imdb.com] and Event Horizon [imdb.com]."

  • 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?

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

    by SexyKellyOsbourne ( 606860 ) on Saturday November 01, 2003 @03:55PM (#7367792) 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.
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion
      • --Resurrection was a LOT better than Aliens 3. In fact Res is probably my favorite in the whole series, because of the char development they did with the Ripley clone.
    • maybe it sucked BECAUSE of the presence of wynona
    • 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
    • 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.

      The featurette points out that AVP is being written and directed by Paul Anderson [imdb.com], the man who both gave us the timeless game-to-movie adaptation of Resident Evil [imdb.com] and directed Mortal Kombat. If you're looking for something that won't suck, you might want to look elsewhere. Maybe this guy needs to try something besides movie adaptations of video

      • Lumping "Resident Evil" in with "Mortal Combat" is a little harsh, IMO. While much of it was highly derivative of previous zombie movies, I found that it didn't set off my crap detector so many times as to be un-entertaining. And it was actually scary.

  • 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)
    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.
    • I can't wait for this research of yours to be put up next to the paper you've written about the unrealistic visual depiction of warp nacels (sp) in the third Star Trek movie - in that one scene where if you freeze the frame you can see a brief glimpse of a "wonka" class cruiser past the space station. :P
    • 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
  • Mr. Jekyll (played by the Pretator) conducts some strange experiments on himself which turn him into the ugly character Hyde (played by the Alien), who sucks blood from vigins. He continues his blood sucking business until Gozilla arrives in the city and destroys, among other things, the laboratories of Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Frankenstein and Rabbi Loew, who was busy playing with clay at this time. In a great finale, the three realize that they have a common enemy and they release their respective creatures upon G

  • 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.

  • Will we see a Schwarzenegger or Ventura cameo?

    hint: both Governors were in the original Predator film.
    • Will we see a Schwarzenegger or Ventura cameo?

      Considering what a piece of crap this movie will be, I doubt it.

      To quote Ventura in Predator: "I've got no time for pain!"

      But, of course, later in the movie he does find time to die.

  • 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? ...)

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
      Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • 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.
  • I wated the teaser (it's really not a trailer) and said to myself "Is that it?"

    Maybe if we learned more about it in the ad that would be cool, but until then I'm going to place my hype machine on low simmer mode.

  • 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)

  • Robocop vs Terminator. If the Terminator loses, I will shoelace IRL.
  • Sigourney Weaver vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger

    The Scene: Aliens have taken over Sigourney's body. Arnold has been sent back in time by Predators to try to find and stop Sigourney from blowing up their hidden spaceship. Arnie is a Predator morphed into a human, while Sigourney is just a really evil bitch with the soul of an alien.

    The Action: Takes place in an half-abandoned inner city ghetto, in between gang drug wars and robotised police who use massive firepower to try to outgun the local crooks. The croo
  • It's a movie featuring two of the goriest movie monsters in history, and the trailer gets approved for everyone? Now that's what I call a crappy trailer.

  • 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).
  • Having watched the glacial process of licensing, I can say with great confidence that the reason this movie was so "oft-delayed" is because there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING slower than two bureaucracies negotiating with each other over licensing.

    Given the fact that Alien and Predator are individually multi-million dollar licenses, I can imagine the licensing negotiations must have been excruciatingly slow and given to long inexplicable intervals of total inaction. Anyone who has ever watched this proc

  • Dialog (Score:2)

    by sklib ( 26440 )
    While certainly watching two monsters battle it out on the silver screen can be a lot of fun, it can only be fun for so long -- 20 minutes tops. I bet the movie will be an hour and a half or so, and i'm wondering what kind of stupid filler the rest of it is going to be.

    Clearly they can't talk to each other (they don't speak the same language probably, and there's no universal translator), and they can't talk to anyone else in an intelligible language. So what's it gonna be? grunts?

  • all that trailer made me want to do was turn on a light so i could see. If that was supposed to make me want to see the movie, they missed their mark.
  • And only hunted in the heat?

    That was clearly stated in the second Predator movie and was consistent in just about most of the outstanding literature.

    Don't tell me we've found plot holes before it's even begun!

  • This guy directed Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil (Score:3, Insightful)

    by caitsith01 ( 606117 ) on Saturday November 01, 2003 @09:58PM (#7369214) Journal
    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.

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