You could never real close either franchise, yes you could close certain story lines such as Ripley’s battles with the bugs. But if you think about it the Aliens and Predators are an idea, a species, you could create all manner of situtations to base a film on. All you have to do is look at the massive amount of material available in the graphic novels.
I very much doubt that they will ever make a film that will follow in the footsteps of the first of both Alien and Predator, although the second films of both were pretty good. The Crow was another example, fantastic first film, dumbed down action/horror flick for the second, StarShip Troopers 2 (WTF was that about??) I could go on with the sequel syndrome but its too depressing.
I for one will watch AvP safe in the knowledge that I expect nothing great from it, it will be a typical mainstream trainwreck of two of the greatest movie monsters of modern cinema. At least we can rely upon the endless supplies of plastic action figures and lunch box merchandise to pour from the highstreets once the film has been seen by all the kiddies.
I’m getting a little upset now so I better stop.
PS. Who here bought a life sized face hugger? Great aren’t they 😀
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