@Echon> haha, i'll have to go and watch it then

Hm I disagree heavily. I was nice to look at yes but for me it was by no means as amazing that I'd spend money on watching it again. The 3D is a complete let down. I thought it would have much more impact. But apparently Ridley Scott would like to make a SciFi movie again so it's not a complete loss.

Well, I agree on that, have seen it on monday

The story wasn´t that original, yeah. But I guess what catched me was the many Final Fantasy/Secret Of Mana/Studio Ghibli references. The movie was easygoin´ and simply beautiful. And the visuals! The ideas! Marvellous.

But, David, on one thing we agree; I was excpecting much more of the "new" 3D-technology. It was well executed, technically top-notch, right... But the huge impact on future filmmaking and how it will change movies forever went past me somehow. It sure was impressing but no quantum leap.

right now Alien.vs.Predator, the third film with the Predator, couldn't get Predator 2 -- my fave scene is Danny Glover meets the team. all three are good, except the fourth film.

I didn´t like Avatar at all. For me one of the most crapies movies I saw last year.

What I enjoyed a lot: Tenshi No Tamago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel's_Egg

I won't even watch Avatar, don't like the premise and description. Not one person that liked it praised the story...

Last 2 movies I saw:

The Hangover: awesome comedy. While not on par with Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Tropic Thunder, it could easily be a contender for the top 5 or 10 comedies

Beetlejuice: kind of dissapointing. I remember it being better. The story is structured in an bad odd way (and yes, I know the story in itself is odd, but that doesn't bother me, it likely elevates it). The writers could have done a better job. But it's not bad, it's ok

I hate AvP, but Predator 2 is rather cool... The first one remains the best !

I don't understand why you hate it .. because of that mumbo-gumbo of three cultures..? I was left with a similar impression by AvP 2, there-in was at least one really fucked-up scene. AvP 2 is quits with the decent level of the prevous sequels.

Actually I think that AvP's ambience is really too different from the good old Predator 1...

:) so be it.

about the Avatar film: I don't know what I really want from the movies anymore. I'm pro this one in all its aspects. maybe I'm tired of movies trying to deal seriously with someone's perception of life, reality.. whatever it is that includes the pretention to say something with finality, yeah the Avatar probably does not fall far from whatever the I'm trying to post, but I'm watching nearing the end of it where Jake is "praying to a tree", it feels good.

@Val

when I think about it you're right, these guys in Predator 1 were trained, they had qualities like the best of the human race .. and is really interesting to watch. comparing at the moment: the idea of confrontation is weaker in Predator 2. I liked AvP, because we lose the variant of humans able to stand against the Alien (hostile Nature), then comes the Predator - who is somebody and a humanoid. btw, if you watch the hall with the trophies (the skulls) in the Predators ship (P 2) there's one that resembles the Alien's type of skull; now I have become a connoisseur.

I've begun warming up number 1 from the Alien films. I was thinking and expecting the first would be lame or hilarious, but I'm .. this is a class. now, my half-wit brain is around that ship where they found eggs for the first time. Is this a ship of the Alien race or a ship that belonged to extra-terrestrials beings who got messed up

@Chavdar : actually I don't remember a lot Predator 2, well, not enough for recalling the hall with the skulls. However, in AvP 1, I think that human people die "at random"... the scenario isn't so interesting, to my point of view.

you mean "not enough" to recall the scene before their ship took off. fundamentally, this is the time-line of Harrigan standing and the hunters turning off their camouflage. then he says: who's next and the hunter's disk slips from his hand to the floor. first the dead is carried away, then those surrounding leave disappearing both in mist and camouflage. The last to turn his back is relatively small. There's a lot of stuff across the chest and on the belt of this guy. Departing, he comes back and throws an old, antique pistol to Harrigan who reads the incription and the year over it : 1715 Rafael..

oh yeah, lol, of course, "not enough to recall" ... I must have been tired.

On wikipedia (fr), it's confirmed that their is both a dinosaur & an alien skull at the end.

Plus, i've just read on a forum :



Here they same something different but I believe they're talking about the book series.

Val

thank you, these stories are important, we see movies people caring for fun. another thing is that from one to the next, the script-writers bring in a genetic crossing dealing with the question of human proportions and suggesting the question about boundaries.

Alien 4 has brought me to Michael Wincott http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000699/