I apologise, we feel bad, but there's no trailer available. ~Ed.
Because Aliens vs. Predator: Not Another Clip Show wouldn’t fit on posters.
Welcome to Make It Yourself!, the super-fun rainy-day activity guide. This week, we'll be showing you how to make Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. You will need: a blender; cellulose tape; VHS copies of the original Alien and Predator movies.
Using a screwdriver (get an adult to help), take apart the cassettes. Unthread the tape, and place it in the blender. Activate the blender so that the tape becomes a mess of variously-sized bits of movie, and stick them back together using the cellulose tape. Doesn't matter what goes where!
Give your movie a name! You can go with Requiem if you like, but as this word has absolutely zero relevance to the goings-on in the picture, any word in the English language will do equally well.
Thread the reassembled melange of scenes, shots and sounds back onto a videocassette. Placing the cassette in your VCR machine, enjoy your handiwork. Play some CDs of the soundtracks from the original movies in the background as you watch.
If your cutting-and-pasting isn't perfect, you may find the picture somewhat jarring, the edits incomprehensible, the screen sometimes filled with ugly, nauseating noise. We in the film business refer to this as stylishness.
You may also notice that some scenes, while pretty much shot-for-shot as they appeared in the original movies, now make no sense out of context, and appear to have been placed within the movie solely to remind you of what it's like to watch an Alien or Predator movie. This dull, soulless sense that your nostalgia is being cynically preyed on – together with an ugly awareness that the only real innovation in your new Aliens vs. Predator movie is that some torture-porn has slipped into the mix – is a sensation commonly referred to by psychiatrists as "living in the 21st century".
By Tom Goulter, Flicks.co.nz
I love alines and love preadtor but what the blink was going on in this cash in on the franchise film with no story no real intelligence give me my money back
It's not just the underlit sets that keep the audience in the dark on this flick. Sure, there's also the MTV-style quick-crosscut editing (what 21st Century movie would be without it? Cuts that last more than 2.4 seconds, or -- heaven forbid! -- show some continuity of action, are just *so* last century, aren't they?!), but above all there's the fact that not a single entity in this flick, human or alien or, errr, predalien, is given any recognisable motivation or characteristics. So it's not only dark and murky -- metaphorically as well as visually -- but there's no clear reason for a single thing that happens on-screen. None of the characters is given any clarity of intent, so as well as being denied the ability to see what is actually happening, we're denied the opportunity to give a rat's about any of the characters or what happens to them. We're given no choice but to settle into an uneasy litany of gory deaths, many of which play around the edges of on-screen taboos. When they cross those lines, there's a distinct air of self-congratulation on the part of the film-makers, but sadly that sense of daring disappears and all too soon it just starts feeling like the movie didn't know where to stop. A couple of moments managed to be genuinely old-school horrific, but as we'd been given no reason to care about the people they were happening to, they were merely gratuitous and torture-pornish. The film-makers are total noobs (which kinda shows the disregard Fox has developed for the "Alien" and "Predator" franchises), but there's really no excuse for their neglecting such a fundamental ingredient in a film as *story*. They grabbed a career opportunity to make a marketable product, but it seems like none of their minders remembered to teach them that to have even a half-decent movie, you have to have a story to tell, before you even start talking to effects labs about latex suits and CGI. This flick went nowhere.
An orgy of mindless violence, a random collection of bloody bodies, alien misanthropy, and slobbering carnage designed to bore straight into the pleasure centers of 13-year-old boys and leave the rest of us wondering when the movies got so damn loud.
Aliens vs. Predator -- Requiem simply exists, nodding to the continuity of the larger series and opening the door for, yes, another entry in the franchise. In Hollywood as in outer space, spawn begets spawn.
It may not be classic sci-fi like the original “Alien,” which it has in its DNA, but it’s a perfectly respectable next step in the series.
A tasteless, witless, mindlessly perfunctory bloodbath that has the discourtesy to take itself seriously. Pitting aliens against predators may be the height of frivolity, but God forbid anyone have fun with it.
Provides enough cheap thrills and modest suspense to shake a few shekels from genre fans before really blasting off as homevid product.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 10th Jan 2008.
Release date: January 10th 2008.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
