| AVP |  |
Linked Guest Movie Review - AVP by James Lileks
“Alien Vs. Predator” I knew it was bad. The DVD box might as well have said “Buckets O’ Shite!” – Roger Ebert on the front in 72 pt type, and I still would have rented it, because, well, Alien! Vs.! Predator! Even though I didn’t much like the Predator movies, and hated the fourth Alien like a retinal cyst, I had to see it. Got about one-third through it before overcome with boredom and disinterest, and the nagging sense that the director did not take the source material seriously. No! you say. True. Apparently the chest-bursters’ incubation period is now one minute, for today’s attention-deficit audiences. Those leisurely days of waiting ten minutes before the chest cracks open are gone, alas, unless Merchant-Ivory directs the next one.
1 Comments:
My suggestion - borrow Joshua's friend's bootleg copy. They turned on the subtitles, since this 50-cent DVD was recorded in a Chinese theater and the volume was poor. What a lovely surprise when the characters lines did not remotely match the movie: "I'm just an average black man trying to get by" and later " Are you f!@#$ing my sister?" There were no credits at the end, but someone should have taken credit for the great idea of taking a bad movie and adding another movie's lines for added interest!
Post a Comment
<< Home