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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 1708489" data-attributes="member: 16278">I think one of the biggest complaints I have see on this thread is that the setup to the fights was too long, and that people wanted their fighting NOW!!!So, when did all of you get so impatient?  I'm sure all of you liked Alien, Aliens, and Predator, right?  To me, one of the things that made those movies so great is that they did NOT get to the aliens/predators IMMEDIATELY.  They did build up the setting/scenes, let the predator take out one human here, one there...they didn't even show the Alien in the first movie until over half way through the movie... so why aren't you all now complaining about how much of a waste of time that all was.  After all, you wanted immediate action.I think the director was trying to go back to the way the first Alien and Predator movies were filmed and not show the aliens/predators immediately, but try and slow things down initially, lead us along with a quick shot here and there, and then give us the action.Some of you need to just take a breath, relax, and realize that you don't need immediate action.  I guess it's just the way this society is...everything has to be faster, sleeker, more expensive, better, immediate.  I went and saw this movie, I enjoyed it, thought the fights were cool.  If I have a gripe, I think that he handled the beginning too quickly.  It was, satelite sees heat/girl climbing mountain of ice/gets on helicopter/goes to antartica/meets nervous guy/go to temple...and no real connection between the people either with each other and with the audience.  That is probably my only gripe.  Everything else made up for it.</blockquote>

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