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Message: <blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 3736557" data-attributes="member: 40123">I've never watched the artsy French film in question because of the negative reviews it got. But I hardly think any slasher film will match the original Alien directed by Ridley Scott.I do understand why fans are demanding more blood after being underwhelmed by the previous film's pansy ass PG-13 rating. But the violence in the trailer was a mite excessive and totally killed the mood for me. See, I don't agree with that. Yes humans are slaughtered by the score in many scifi and horror flicks, but they don't always have to be witless cattle. The Colonial Marines in Aliens were an elite and battle ready bunch and they still got slaughtered by the xenomorphs. Ahnuld's team too were a bunch of hard core special ops types who could overthrow a small country, yet one Predator made mince meat out of them. And that adds to the suspense I feel, that the best that the human race can offer are nothing to these beings from space and beyond. You won't find such in a slasher film, where most of the victims are horny and scared teenagers who've barely hit puberty (and primes examples of the witless cattle type I mentuoned).Aliens vs Predator should be and scifi action franchise, not a slasher flick.</blockquote>