1. It was set on Earth, in place people live. No questions like "but why are they in space? There's no reason for them to be there!" There were no evil corporations with Paul Reiser behind all the mistakes leading to deaths. Most importantly, it wasn't in a f---ing lead-smelting prison colony. Finally, the action and horror come to us instead of requiring the Nostromo or an icebreaker.
2. There is little to no plot, no political subtext (apart from what you read into it. Like "veterans always get screwed" or "craven men who don't enlist and stay-at-home dads are abominations in God's eyes and will be killed and no one will care" or "homeless people are breeding grounds for disease and xenomorphs".) and, as you mention, dialogue about as significant to listeners as it would be to the hearing impaired. And if anyone sees this as a failing, they ought note that neither Arnold S., nor the hot Sigourney Weaver are in this flick, so who cares if anyone ever talks? Seriously, are you watching an alien-versus-alien film for the compelling dialogue? The two title characters can't speak (at least, they don't get subtitles and I can't understand them).
Near as I can tell the plot is: A Predator leaves his home-world because he wants to kill a Predator-xenomorph hybrid.
3. It takes place in the previous films' timeline: Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1997), AVP (2004), AVP: R (2004-later), Alien (2122), Aliens (2179), Alien^3 (2179-later), Alien: Resurrection (2381). There are a few continuity issues, but every film has those. The longer the canon, the more inconsistencies.
(So to answer your query: He's not Gary Busey because Gary's character died in 1997.)
(Also, when we saw AVP, Wheel pointed out that it did not mesh with the traditional/implied 10-year gap in the Predators' hunting trips. Laud him.)
4. It is the antithesis of the its progenitors. Alien had slow, dramatic build (making it seem dull to today's lower attention spans). Predator had similar development, although there was considerably more action than Alien had. In both originals, the appearance of the title monsters is severely delayed. In AVP: R, the work has already been done; all the prior films build to this one. This is a film for fans whom already know what the yautja predators and xenomorphs have done and want to see more of them doing each other.
You could probably see AVP and then AVP: R without the other films. But AVP is definitely prerequisite because AVP: R has none of the previously released films' exposition. It's just two movie monsters wrecking up the place.
5. This is an ideal monster movie. It's not about the fodder-humans. It's not about "how do xenomorphs reproduce?" or "where did they come from?". It in no way hints at why the predator aliens hunt. There are vague trappings of sci-fi convention, but AVP: R has even less pseudo/abbreviated- scientific explanation than Star Wars.
So if you A) Know of the xenomorph Aliens and yautja Predators -OR- B) Can watch AVP first, then see this movie. It is action and horror.
1. It was set on Earth, in place people live. No questions like "but why are they in space? There's no reason for them to be there!" There were no evil corporations with Paul Reiser behind all the mistakes leading to deaths. Most importantly, it wasn't in a f---ing lead-smelting prison colony. Finally, the action and horror come to us instead of requiring the Nostromo or an icebreaker.
2. There is little to no plot, no political subtext (apart from what you read into it. Like "veterans always get screwed" or "craven men who don't enlist and stay-at-home dads are abominations in God's eyes and will be killed and no one will care" or "homeless people are breeding grounds for disease and xenomorphs".) and, as you mention, dialogue about as significant to listeners as it would be to the hearing impaired. And if anyone sees this as a failing, they ought note that neither Arnold S., nor the hot Sigourney Weaver are in this flick, so who cares if anyone ever talks? Seriously, are you watching an alien-versus-alien film for the compelling dialogue? The two title characters can't speak (at least, they don't get subtitles and I can't understand them).
Near as I can tell the plot is: A Predator leaves his home-world because he wants to kill a Predator-xenomorph hybrid.
3. It takes place in the previous films' timeline: Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1997), AVP (2004), AVP: R (2004-later), Alien (2122), Aliens (2179), Alien^3 (2179-later), Alien: Resurrection (2381). There are a few continuity issues, but every film has those. The longer the canon, the more inconsistencies.
(So to answer your query: He's not Gary Busey because Gary's character died in 1997.)
(Also, when we saw AVP, Wheel pointed out that it did not mesh with the traditional/implied 10-year gap in the Predators' hunting trips. Laud him.)
4. It is the antithesis of the its progenitors. Alien had slow, dramatic build (making it seem dull to today's lower attention spans). Predator had similar development, although there was considerably more action than Alien had. In both originals, the appearance of the title monsters is severely delayed. In AVP: R, the work has already been done; all the prior films build to this one. This is a film for fans whom already know what the yautja predators and xenomorphs have done and want to see more of them doing each other.
You could probably see AVP and then AVP: R without the other films. But AVP is definitely prerequisite because AVP: R has none of the previously released films' exposition. It's just two movie monsters wrecking up the place.
5. This is an ideal monster movie. It's not about the fodder-humans. It's not about "how do xenomorphs reproduce?" or "where did they come from?". It in no way hints at why the predator aliens hunt. There are vague trappings of sci-fi convention, but AVP: R has even less pseudo/abbreviated- scientific explanation than Star Wars.
So if you A) Know of the xenomorph Aliens and yautja Predators -OR- B) Can watch AVP first, then see this movie. It is action and horror.
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