Quick film review: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
So on the weekend I settled down to watch a film with the lowest of possible expectations.

I was pleasantly surprised.

Not all the colossal fuck-ups of the previous film were fixed, but for the first time since alien3 They stopped using CG all the time, and opted for puppetry for the close ups with aliens.  I cannot stress how much that helps... nothing looks shittier than using CG when a man in a suit could look much less fake (and they are pretty darn good at making neat looking masks dripping with milkshake thickener nowadays).

There was only one Pred, and he was meaner than cat's piss.  None of this dime a dozen "kill em off every two seconds" like last time.  You could believe this was the same kind of motherfucker from the Predator movies.

Children get chestbursted... no tacky nice ways out for the pre-pubescent.

It wasn't great (the acting blew goats, the human characters were emptier than a creationist's fact-book, Alien gestation time is still about three seconds), and at times the 'tributes' to Aliens were as subtle as a half-brick in a sock... but hey, they at least acknowledged the previous films in some way other than name dropping.

It has problems, but then it is going up against shit like alien4 and the last AvP... and frankly, it is 10 times better.

This sad fanboy is sated, and not enraged like the last few outings.


Others will of course... disagree.