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"Although most reviewers are saying that the movie is bad for various reasons, They are only saying this because they donât comprehend the Aliens instinct to Procreate or the Predators embodiment of Honor or Pride.
When people complain about a movies rating because they wanted more "gore" they are basically giving away the fact that they donât care about a story or have a respect for either of the two alien races, they simply want to see the "insides" of people when they die. And that, to me, seems creepy....
As far as the complaints that a single Alien kills two Predators, You have to take previous knowledge of both alien races into account. For starters, the predators primarily use different vision modes within their masks to defeat the use of camouflage. Humans give off heat, so while hunting them, Predators use Thermal Vision. In the movie Aliens, the colonial space marines have a Thermal scanner but, as they say, Aliens arenât picked up on the Thermal scans, thus describing that Predators cant see them while using the Thermal setting in there helmets. So as far as the first Predator death, he didnât know it was there. And while the first Predator was being held up in the air, the Celtic Predator switches to the Electro-Magnetic vision mode to see the Alien. The alien only wins the Fight that follows because the predator does not have his primary projectile, the Plasma Caster and is a young warrior, compared to Human 15 year old male.
Another popular complaint is the fact that the Scar Predator doesn't kill Lex. As stated in an earlier review, soft-meat's aren't supposed to defeat hard-meats in a one-on-one fight, of course in this case the soft-meat is the human and the hard-meat is the alien. So when the alien was attacking Lex, the Scar Predator stood by and watched. Once it died, the predator saw her as a warrior; to him she was a better warrior than the two Predators that died before her. The concept isn't difficult to understand if you can think of the Scar Predator as a Human tribal male going though his tribeâs man-hood ritual. He even watched her kill Sebastian out of mercy, as he was held against the wall by the alien hive nodes. He respects her as an equal, and because of this he fights along side her for the late third of the film.
The next popular complaint would be the fact that in Aliens 3, Charles Bishop Wayland was talking Ripley out of committing suicide. That was obviously all a fabrication if you think about what he was saying. He wants to help her, he wants to wipe out aliens also, he wants to make his wrongs right, all of those things are a huge contradiction to the orders from Wayland industries in the previous movies. As Lance Henrickson said about that role, he was simply an advanced model synthetic, and he was trying to trick Ripley so the company could have the Queen Alien in captivity. To believe that he was actually Mr. Wayland in Aliens 3 you'd have to be ignorant to every other order that came from Wayland industries in the entire Alien series.
Most other complaints donât make sense. "Its cold outside and there wearing small jackets", "Its the same as Freddy Vs. Jason", "Predators cant be killed that easily" and "Why did Paul Anderson direct it?". There are lightweight thermal cloths that all special operation teams around the world use for coats, sleeping bags, and the sort. Just because a reviewer is too poor to be able to afford this material doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The movie is similar to Freddy Vs. Jason in the sense that the abbreviation for versus is in the title. The Predators in this movie were young unseasoned warriors who weren't able to initiate their test properly because the humans took the Plasma Casters and that began everything. And Director Paul W.S. Anderson directed the movie because he wrote it, has spent 10 years developing it, and is one of the few fans that actually respects the genealogy, anatomy and beliefs of both the Alien creatures and the Predators.
I believe this movie truly moved both Predator Lore and Alien Mythology further. Never before have the "reasons" of both of these creatures been depicted so powerfully. The Aliens, referred to as 'Serpents' in AVP because of the sculptures along the walls of the pyramid, are more dominating than ever before. In one scene an Alien Warrior kills two Predators, a definite contradiction to what most audience members were expecting. On the other side, a properly equip Predator dominates the entire movie until he is faced with the task of defeating the Queen, which he still manages to do at the expense of a mortal wound. It was not just another scary movie; it was a film that defined the creatures better than its predecessors.
And finally for those who say there was no winner, The Predators live by a code that is similar to that of Samurai. The Scar Predator, although dead, is honored as completing the trials of man-hood. So if you lack the understandings of Honor and Pride, I suggest you turn to a creature besides the Predator for random gore and kills.
That said AVP has more of a story line, and a deeper meaning behind all the events that happen. Its not just another super villain vs. super villain film, its a story that very beautifully describes the connection between these two amazing creatures.
-Kyle Mesa"