New Aliens vs Predators trailer

[hellbender]

It's called metal people, not butt rock..and what kind of gamer doesn't listen to metal? Sheesh. Oh..and 'butt rock' is the crap with a he-she screaming at the top of their lungs. I didn't hear any of that in the trailer.

I saw the new trailer before Chronicles of Riddick and I have to say that it looks great. Underground pyramids in the arctic with giant aliens? Sounds almost like a Call of Cthulhu movie to me.

Here, here! (I abhor the term butt rock myself, makes no sense, none whatsoever).

As the first Alien movie was very Lovecraftian, it does make sense that this will follow suit. The pyramids in the Antarctic does smack of The story with the Yithians (Shadow out of Time?).

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[hellbender]

And it has no place in serious sci-fi genre films. None. James Cameron got away with it with Guns N Roses' "You Could Be Mine" in T2, but that was tied to a specific character and used very sparingly, not as part of the score.

And considering Paul Anderson *way* overrused it in the Marilyn Manson scored "Resident Evil", I can only assume AvP will feature annoyingly out of place headbanging ass rock in much more than the trailer. Lame.

Wear earplugs. Now where would the original Heavy Metal film be without the soundtrack? I hope AvP has a soundtrack that flows like the HM soundtrack.


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[Kai Lord]

It's called metal people, not butt rock..and what kind of gamer doesn't listen to metal? Sheesh. Oh..and 'butt rock' is the crap with a he-she screaming at the top of their lungs. I didn't hear any of that in the trailer.

Labels evolve and overlap. What you term as butt rock now often fit under the "Glam Rock" umbrella of the 90's and was just plain old mainstream "Rock" for the most part during its heyday in the 80's.

But whats its called isn't the point and who listens to it isn't the point. The point was it has no place in the score of a serious sci-fi film. We all "listen" to a lot of music that has no place in certain films. Metal/Butt Rock/Hard-Rock-of-any-kind and an Alien/Predator film is just a horrid combination.

 

[Kai Lord]

Wear earplugs. Now where would the original Heavy Metal film be without the soundtrack?

The same place it is now: Nowhere near my DVD collection.

 

[aurance]

Good grief. "Serious sci-fi film?" The whole thing screams camp. They can put whatever music they'd like there.

And anyway the metal thing didn't bother me. Who's to say your taste is the definitive end all of soundtracks?

 

[Pants]

The point was it has no place in the score of a serious sci-fi film.

The contending point here is serious sci-fi film. I think this movie will only qualify as one of those.

 

[barsoomcore]

Huh? What the frank is wrong with the music? People have something against rock n roll? Sheesh.

I think it looks like a fun movie that knows what it is. Stupid, loud, and lots of big uglies kicking butt. Liked the Predator grabbing the chest-burster, liked the flying facehugger, people jumping chasms -- yeah, I'm up for this.

The idea that Alien movies are serious sci-fi is sadly a lost cause. The last two movies have put paid to THAT notion. So let's crank up the tunes and let 'em go nuts.

Sure, it's probably going to suck, but at least it's not pretending to be anything it isn't. And seriously, what's up with the anti-rock-and-roll thing?

 

[Shadowdancer]

I think the music is great. I know, I know, it's only rock 'n' roll, but I like it.

 

[Kai Lord]

And seriously, what's up with the anti-rock-and-roll thing?

Not wanting rock music in an Alien film /= not liking rock music.

And I realize AvP isn't going to be high drama, but neither was Resident Evil, and the Marilyn Manson crap wasn't appropriate there either (and there, yes, I did find the music to be crap in and of itself.)

You want that music in a Bill and Ted movie? Great. Transformers the Movie, well okay for nostalgia's sake I'll let that one slide too. And I knew AvP wasn't going to be great, but now that I see P. Anderson is most likely sticking to the crap sci-fi score of Resident Evil, I see they aren't even trying to make it great. Or good.

They don't care about continuity with the Alien franchise, they don't care about what music's appropriate for the genre, they're not even aspiring to the level of Freddy vs. Jason.

I'm glad some of you are happy they set such a low bar for themselves. Me, I look at all the supbar premises and genres that have been released in within the past year (Freddy vs. Jason, Texas Chainsaw remake, Dawn of the Dead remake, etc.) about franchises that nobody cares about anymore and the production teams actually went to great lengths to honor that which made the original characters and situations so compelling to their fans.

Who knows, maybe the trailer is misleading and AvP will have a lot going for it (yeah right.) But if that isn't the case, and we've got facehuggers pumping their fingers to heavy metal electric guitars, then I'll probably retch in my seat.

I mean, Freddy vs. freaking Jason actually had a passable script and execution. Sure I wouldn't call it "good" but they did about as good a job as you could expect or hope for for such a nutty concept, and they ended up pleasing a lot of fans from each franchise.

But Aliens and Predators are infinitely cooler and they're getting the "Torque" treatment? Wow, way to aim for the fences.

 

[barsoomcore]

KL, you sure sound like one of those old folks in an Elvis movie. "Kids these days, what do they know about anything? They just want to play their rock and roll and dance all the time. Darn kids."

What makes you think they've "set a low bar for themselves"? Because they aren't bothering with continuity to a series that has sucked for two pictures already? Frankly, throwing out the existing Alien mythology is a point in the picture's favour, because the existing Alien mythology is CRAP. It's been crap since the third picture, so who cares?

What genre do you think this is? From where I'm sitting, it's pretty solidly in the "stupid action picture" genre. Which is a fine and noble genre worthy of as much respect as "serious sci-fi". And a genre to which big honking rock and roll is perfectly appropriate. It's a contemporary action film. Why wouldn't you use a contemporary soundtrack?

I'd love to know what it was about the utterly horrible Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake that you thought was done with such care to honour the original. Or how ANYONE could "honour" franchises like Elm Street and Friday the 13th that were established on sleazy efforts to titillate teenagers.

Kids these days. Playing their rock and roll everywhere.