[Dolemite]

I picked up masked Scar after skipping the unmasked version in the previous wave (I picked up Celtic from that one). I can skip the other two Preds in this wave, they all loo too much alike. But the quality of this new buck is amazing, to be sure.

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

While everyone is entitled to their opinion, to say that AVP:R was worse than AVP, you are doing that film a disservice. While not exactly a work of art, and it's annoying humans aside (who were only there for the purpose of creating a body count) that film was leaps and bounds better than AVP in nearly every aspect, and at a much lower budget no less. I'd even go as far as to day that the unrated cut is probably the third best film in the series, behind the original two Predator films.

I sort of agree with you. AVP:R is, overall, a much better film than the stinking shitpile that was AVP, with better action scenes and designs that were much more loyal to the original movies.

However, AVP:R was also packed with the most annoying, unsympathetic human characters ever seen in a horror/sci-fi movie...every one was an aggravating, cliched douche that were there, as you said, simply to be killed. And also, after years of great AVP Dark Horse comics set in the future and involving the Colonial Marines, setting the movie in the modern day was a move no one wanted to see, in addition to destroying the continuity of both individual series. Overall, AVP:R a guilty pleasure (although pleasure might be too strong a word), but it only compares to AVP favorably because AVP was typical Paul W.S. Anderson quality, AKA fucking terrible.