AvP: Requiem

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Just watched the new unrated director's cut on US import. What the hell's the matter with the idiots who mastered the DVD? I had to turn the brightness up from 42% to 80% on my GF's TV just to be able to see the damn thing. Even exterior, full daylight shots are shrouded in darkness as it comes off the disc. Is this some cheesy Doom 3 numbnuts thinking that if you plunge everything into darkness it automatically makes it scarier? Or have they just totally buggered up the transfer?

So so film, by the way. Enjoyable enough, but more than a little laboured. Coulda been so much better.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
The normal cinema release was apparently dark too. Someone reviewed it and said you could hardly make out the aliens and predators from the humans in some scenes because the lighting was so rubbish.

Is this true?
 
I remember reading there was about 30 minutes of extra footage for the DVD release, but on the back of the DVD in Woolworths says it's only 7 minutes. If the picture is as dark as it was in the cinema, I probably won't be buying it.

Paddy :D
 
Yep, the unrated version only claims an extra seven minutes of footage. Though it does claim hours of extras, a DTS soundtrack, and a second disc containing a 'digital' copy meant for ipoRAB. If only I wanted to squint at a tiny screen, or I actually owned an ipod, then I'm sure it would be most useful.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
Oh it is miles infront of the first one. Just forget about the first one, a hard thing to try and do, sinse it is so horrible it haunts us day and night. My only complaint about AVP:R is that the lovely Reiko Aylesworth wasn't used as much as she should have been.
 
I so much wanted to like this movie, i've been a big fan of both franchises for years and the avp books are amazing. I liked the first movie even though it lacked Machiko Noguchi but this is crap and not the good crap like Starship Troopers :(
I'll still buy it though cause i'm a mug
 
I liked this movie a lot. Predator is the star of the show, forget the humans, they are completely unimportant. Just enjoy the Predator completely owning the Aliens with all manner of awesome toys. :D
 
Yip. It is ten times better IN EVERY WAY when compared to the first one. Wouldn't be hard though sinse it was Paula Anderson that was responsible for the first one.
 
Both are utterly terrible films. Perhaps Requiem is slightly worse (I spent the whole film looking for a reason to close my gaping face as the mess unfolded in front of my eyes. I failed). They both make the otherwise flaky Predator 2 look like a cinematic masterpiece. Stupid, flawed, badly shot, badly acted contradictory, intelligence-insulting crud. I haven't been so disappointed by a film since The Phantom Menace was vomited onto our screens nearly 10 years ago.
 
Have to agree. They just destroy the wonder of the original Alien films. They are just everything that Alien wasn't about, in fact what the likes of Ridley Scott and James Cameron went to great lengths to avoid, overblown badly acted action gorefest with no sophistication
 
At least the much criticised Paul WS Anderson is self aware enough to realise this & play upon it.

There's a nice gag in AVP which explicitly compares his flick to Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man.

Whereas the latest film in the franchise is so laughable it's on a par with the Abbott & Costello monster movies.
 
It pains me that the makers of these films took 2 of the best characters ever created for the Sci-fi/Horror Genre and came up with this total utter trainwreck.

I just hope they give up now and don't try to make another one.

The Resident Evil Movies are better than this and that's saying something.
 
it is a super dark film all the way through which is a trifle annoying! gonna pick up the dvd special edition though, LOTS of features:

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?id=11807


ingle Disc Theatrical Cut: - Features both Widescreen and Full Screen presentations on a double-sided disc with English DD5.1 Surround, French and Spanish Dolby Surround and English and Spanish subtitles.

Single Disc Unrated Cut: - Features the extended unrated cut in widescreen with the following features:

2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

English DD5.1 and DTS 5.1 Surround

French and Spanish Dolby Surround

English and Spanish subtitles

Commentary by directors Colin and Greg Strause and producer John Davis

Commentary by creature effects designers/creators Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis


Two-Disc Special Edition: - Features the single-disc unrated cut content plus a bonus disc with the following features:

Digital Copy feature which allows you to transfer the film to your Mac or Windows based computer, as well as portable media such as your iPod, iPhone and Microsoft Windows PLAYFORSURE enabled portable video devices.

Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes

Prepare for War: The Making of AVP-R

Fight to the Finish: The Making of AVP-R

AVP-R: The Nightmare Returns – Creating the Aliens

Crossbreed: The PredAlien

Building the Predator Homeworld


Still Design Galleries

Designing the Predator

Designing the Alien

Designing the PredAlien

On Set: The Rooftop

On Set: The Sewer

On Set: The Hive

On Set: Cast & Crew


Theatrical trailers (including Restricted Audience trailer)
 
The most annoying thing being they've done it deliberately and post production. I'm not sure if it's some lame attempt to make it creepier, or the fact that they looked at the finished product and thought, "Gee, the creatures don't look terrible convincing, what can we do to disguise that? Oh, I know..."

I suspect the latter.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
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