Alien vs Predator

I’ve always been a huge fan of the Predator films. The first one (1987) featured Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Predator 2 (1990) featured Danny Glover and Gary Busey and a young Bill Paxton. Predator 2 gave some cool background information about the Predator character and their code of honor. I.e. the scenes in which the predator leaves the pregnant detective alone and the scene in which a predator rewards Glover with an antique gun to honor his bravery.

Now, in a similar sense I liked the Alien quadrilogy. Set in a distant future (as I understand it some 150 years from now) where mankind is doing some kind of space exploration, it is a lot different from the Predator series that had planet Earth as their backdrop for all the action. Where Predator is about action, I think Alien is more about psychological suspense. I found Alien to be a lot more scary than Predator.

Both franchises met in a ‘crossover’ in the 2004 movie Aliens vs Predator (or AVP), which I thought was ok, but definitely not a big hit. And the sequel to that, AVP2 (or “Aliens vs Predator: Requiem“), in my opinion, was a totally redundant movie.

At the same time we have seen a load of video games in the spirit of AVP. I felt lukewarm to most of them and never bought downloaded any of them. But this year (2010) a new installment of the game came out. Made by SEGA, and developed by Rebellion studios, it looks a whole lot better than the previous versions (although a lot of gamers bash the game for having way to much old-school textures, and I have to agree on that).

I got my hands on the game, installed all 17gb of it, and since yesterday I am enjoying my cool predator moves, trophy kills (i.e. rip the spine out of a marine) and last but not least the predator sound effects and predator vision. I love it!

Having said that, I know for sure that in a week or two the novelty will wear out and  I will delete the game again. It is far from ground braking or original. There are many more FPS games out there that are way more engaging.

Anyway: this is just some pastime for me, because - drum roll please – there is going to be a new Predator movie!

I am exited about this in many ways. First: the fact that movie director Robert Rodriquez is going to produce it. I like many of his movies and the way he approaches action scenes in it. Second: it is a sequel, not a prequel or a cross-over. They will ignore Predator 2 and the AVP series.

It’s called “Predators” just like the sequel to Alien was called “Aliens”.

The plot sounds simple and easy: “a bunch of people get abducted to a planet to be hunted by Predators”. Sweet!

Only one thing might spoil the fun for me: the fact they casted the whimp called Adrian Brody for the lead character  I wonder how he is going to pull off being a bad mofo like “Dutch” Schaefer was in Predator?

I can’t wait till it comes out later this year (rumored to be July 7th this year).

In the mean-time: check out the AVP 2010 game video:

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