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<blockquote data-quote="Abraxas" data-source="post: 1707781" data-attributes="member: 1266"><p>But the majority are not average movies - they're below average. I Robot was average, AVP wasn't much more than a saturday afternoon creature feature with better effects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I don't think they're doing their best. If CoR is an example of their best the scifi movie biz is in sad shape already (IMO). AVP is Aliens and Predators in name only - its not cool or original. Its two monsters bashing each other for all of 10 minutes screen time - a souped up godzilla movie with smaller critters and less time spent kicking each other's asses.</p><p> </p><p>Previously all the alien movies are far away from earth, in a future setting, with a people trapped in a bad situation, a corporation trying to keep the alien alive and bring it to earth, and [SPOILER]a set incubation period of longer than a half hour.[/SPOILER] Previously all the predator movies are in areas of sweltering heat, one predator vs a small number of humans, and [SPOILER]the predators don't forget to bring their shoulder cannons.[/SPOILER] This movie ignored all that and just used the costumes.</p><p> </p><p>Hardcore Scifi Movies are a niche market - if they can't come up with a way to appeal to the masses they will never make money. As for extremely cool and original movies not being made - thats happening in all genres - its only a rare gem that gets out of the formulaic mold.</p><p> </p><p>This movie was like watching someone else play AVP. Playing AVP is fun, watching someone else play it is boring. (And playing Alien tag against all your friends at a LAN party is lots of fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abraxas, post: 1707781, member: 1266"] But the majority are not average movies - they're below average. I Robot was average, AVP wasn't much more than a saturday afternoon creature feature with better effects. I don't think they're doing their best. If CoR is an example of their best the scifi movie biz is in sad shape already (IMO). AVP is Aliens and Predators in name only - its not cool or original. Its two monsters bashing each other for all of 10 minutes screen time - a souped up godzilla movie with smaller critters and less time spent kicking each other's asses. Previously all the alien movies are far away from earth, in a future setting, with a people trapped in a bad situation, a corporation trying to keep the alien alive and bring it to earth, and [SPOILER]a set incubation period of longer than a half hour.[/SPOILER] Previously all the predator movies are in areas of sweltering heat, one predator vs a small number of humans, and [SPOILER]the predators don't forget to bring their shoulder cannons.[/SPOILER] This movie ignored all that and just used the costumes. Hardcore Scifi Movies are a niche market - if they can't come up with a way to appeal to the masses they will never make money. As for extremely cool and original movies not being made - thats happening in all genres - its only a rare gem that gets out of the formulaic mold. This movie was like watching someone else play AVP. Playing AVP is fun, watching someone else play it is boring. (And playing Alien tag against all your friends at a LAN party is lots of fun :D ) [/QUOTE]
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