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Not so fast . . . in Predator 2 "they" had been tracking and trying to capture a Predator. Did they ever define who "they" were? (Sorry I forget.)

And the Alien movies happen way into the future (as opposed to the Predator movies), so it is possible that something happened (Predators lost and were wiped out, Predators said "Eh, f#@! the humans" and just left, Predators developed a predisposition to intergalactic whoring instead, etc.)

A NEW International trailer.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...311972,00.html

Looks pretty cool, I still don't understand why aliens are fighting the predators, but I remember the old atari jaguar game. Hopefully this is better then that.

So far, and this could change in the next month, but the press screenings for this film are set for the night before release - which is not a good sign.

Just a thought...

I saw a tidbit on www.darkhorizons.com that said AvP now officially has a rating of PG-13. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else (including the official site) so take it with a grain of salt.

If this is true, how good could it be? It makes you wonder if this is the equivalent of a Robocop 3 where the predecessors were pretty hardcore in their themes & violence while the PG-13 version totally stripped away what made the original a hit. One thing that helped the Alien & Predator franchises become classics was the carnage created by the titular creatures. I was kinda looking forward to this after the last trailer (minus the rock music). This puts a damper on it, though.

Who cares about the rating. These days the MPAA is more and more lenient. Dawn of the Dead 2004 was extremely violent and bloody, and that wouldn't have flown a few years ago. They had so many 'headshots' and 'exit wounds' with zombies being shot in the head.... Tom Savini stated in his commentary track for Night of the Living Dead 1990 that his film was given an X rating by the MPAA because they had 2-3 instances of a zombie being shot in the head and you could see blood squirt out the back. They had to cut that. Dawn '04 is chock full of blood spraying out of heads, limbs being cut off, chainsaw to the chest of a non-zombie!, and tons of other stuff....

Tons of violence doesn't mean it's a good movie...

I think a PG-13 film can have plenty of violence. If 'Alien' made a few trims here and there, it could've nabbed a PG-13 in today's film ratings.

Has Paul Anderson ever made a movie that wasn't rated R?

Mortal Kombat.

He had so much trouble with the ratings board on Event Horizon, that he is actually much more aware of the violence while he is filming now, as he mentions on the commentary of Resident Evil. Apparently Even Horizon had so much violence that it was just insane.

For instance.... A corpse is found on the ship, with a human sized spike...SHOVED UP IT'S ASS and shooting out of the person's mouth. That would hurt! And it was extremely violent. It got cut , along with a ton of other stuff.

You can't have an Alien or Predator film that's respects both franchises and be PG-13.

PG-13?!?! That's bullshit... I'll definatly pass on that.

Well we all do know that Paul Anderson is a no-talented hack.

And nothing is up at the MPAA website yet about the rating...

It's official. The film is PG-13.

I believe the info...but where is this "It's official" talk coming from?

And Dark Horizon's site is not an 'official' source of anything...

I just got the screening date from Fox publicity (which is the night before opening, ALWAYS a good sign ), and there's a big fat PG-13 next to the title.

Ah...yep, sounds pretty official to me! Let us know how the screening is.

Does it say anything such as "Rated PG-13 for....Alien Lesbianism, etc...." or just "PG-13"

I agree that excessive violence does not make a movie a good one but how in the hell can they show a chestburster doing it's thing without an R-rating? Like I said, it was the way these creatures killed that helped make them original and popular. Predators either blow a hole through you with a shoulder cannon or cut you up with a variety of instruments and usually leave you hanging like a gutted deer. Try cutting the Predator movies down for a lesser rating and see if they are as effective.

The MPAA may be a little more lenient than it was a couple years ago but it is in no way close to how liberal they were in the 80's.

Granted, most of the violence probably comes from the two alien species going at it so maybe it earned PG-13 status due to a lot of green blood being spilled instead of the red variety. Plus, I bet there are a lot of cut-aways just as the humans bite it that saves it from the R-rating.

Sounds like a movie begging for an unrated crazy cut on DVD.

Then again, it may suck either way. We'll see.

Call me crazy, but I'll reserve judgement on the film until I actually see it!

well, for instance, take watching either of the Predator films on cable tv(ignoring the commericals and it being full frame for a second). Lots of the gore is obviously cut out, or cut away scenes which are just as bad. A recent example is the new King Arthur movie. That film was begging to be more violent(and supposedly the directors cut is), and it really hurt the movie but doing cutaway shots, not showing swords actually hit people or blood coming out, etc. etc. Film ratings do matter, and when films get trimmed down just to obtain a lower rating, it may semi-help the box office, but it definitly hurts the actual film more times than not.

Ah, the Star Trek VI "rule." You can show buckets of blood, as long as it isn't red or human.

Not only are you crazy, but you obviously don't belong on an internet forum.

I remember seeing the PG-13 Willard remake on DVD. Although I liked it, when I saw the unrated deleted scenes I realized how much better the movie could have been. The sanitizing of the violence and the language really removed a lot of the impact from the original scenes. So I would say this info about AVP does not bode well.