The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
Stead and I went to see Alien Versus Predator this morning - not without some trepidation. It's had some poor reviews. Lots of fanboys on the internet saying things like 'the Alien's gestation period was all wrong' and 'the Predators ain't as hard as they should be' and 'the plot was crappy'. Also there's a lot of stuff flying around about the studio insisting that the film was cut to be a 15 at the last minute and the director having to cull plot building scenes because the studion only wanted a 135 minute movie.
Don't worry about it. It was a great movie. No-one expects greats plots from a monster movie. All we got was lots and lots of Aliens fighting people (well, killing them, anyway), Predators fighting people (well, killing them, anyway) and Aliens fighting Predators. It had a wholly predictable, but very cool, ending. What's not to like? Go see it!
What was mildly amusing was that when we went round to the Woolie's for dinner last night, Pedro, who'd already seen it told us, knowledgeably, that the Alien's gestation period was all wrong.
Stead. You're right. I over-reacted. I made assumptions about KT's preference for chick-flicks based on the fact that she's a chick and... er... likes flicks...
Miss Reid, I apologise unreservedly for my uncalled-for Huge Grant comment. I was rude... nay, outrageous of me to suggest that anyone with your obvious style and elan would ever what a movie staring the Huge one himself. Sorry.
OK ... the fanboy replies because it was wank. Depending on how you took it.
As a no brain action adventure with cool special effects then it does exactly what it says on the tin. Thumbs up.
As a part of the Alien and Predator franchises (which is the viewpoint I'm coming from) it was arse cake. Completely ignored most of the history from the films, and even contradicted itself in parts. The Alien gestation period, we know from the first 4 films, takes days ... not minutes as this film implies ... mind you, it goes from minutes to hours in this so who knows. This film portrayed the Aliens as fully confronting fighting beasts ... which (again, if the first 4 films had been seen) Anderson would have known they aren't ... they are sneaky ... they are hunters and, if they need to go in hell for leather it would be en masse. And the fight with the Queen was stupid ... and she was FAR too big and GREW depending on the location ... crap. The Predators ... now, I know they were supposed to be going through a right of passage but, come on ... bloody ridiculous. They also look less like fearsome Predators and more like stoned Jamacans stereotypes ... gah
I want to see Paul Andersons original, 45 minute longer, uncut version in the hope that he redeems himself.
In short ... great actioner ... should have been 2 unknown creatues. As part of the franchises it's even more ridicullous that the pink alien at the end of Resurrection.
Haven't seen AVP yet - all my colleagues have let me down and no-one is free for cheap night at the Showcase tomorrow night - I'll have to wait until next week then!!
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