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Old 02-01-2016, 12:26 PM   #19
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You are not alone. I like the first AVP quite a bit. It's probably my second favorite after the original Predator movie and I don't understand why everyone acts like they hate it so much. I always thought Predator 2 was weak and AVP: Requiem is really lousy IMO.
While I don't hate AVP I don't like it either. Most people dislike it because it is so unfaithful to its source material. I am more likely to watch AVP than Alien 4 though. AVP:R was also poor but in my eyes it did carry the R-rating that AVP lacked and Wolf was a cool predator (when it wasn't so dark that you couldn't see shit).
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Funny. Since you mention Predator 2 I always thought of it as the best among all Predator films. I'd rate it even higher than original. The original while being very good resembles Commando and other Arnie flicks too much. Also P2 introduced more stuff than P1 ever did.

As for AvP I am also among the minority. I'd guess the human-predator interaction and bulky design of hunters were the main reason why people hated it. Add Antarctica and there you go.

Back to Neca's AvP. I will pick these babies no matter what. It's no big deal but it would be nice if Grid will be with it's tail cut. Or a detachable tail with extra head without gridding.
Predator 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine but it doesn't come close to the first as a film. They traded in the first film's sense of tension for extra gore factor, this doesn't ruin the movie to me but it does make it weaker than the first.

Regarding AVP you are correct that the predator-human interactions were a main source of contempt from fans. In the comic that the movie clearly borrows most of its frame from the hero predator winds up helping the humans because the human doctor who kept him alive after his crash was killed by the aliens and he felt he owed the debt to her allies. In the movie Scar just decides to team up with whatshername after she gives him his plasma caster. There's a huge gap between what it took for the predator to join the human's side and in the movie it came off as more of a stretch. Besides their stupid tanky designs Scar also just had blue eyes. Every predator on screen before him was clearly shown to have pretty much gold-yellow eyes while Scar has this stupid, gentle face with baby-blue eyes. I can't complain about the aliens really beyond saying they weren't scary but only because we were already so familiar with them.

On Twitter it seemed like Randy teased that we might get a two pack with battle-damaged Celtic and Grid.
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