The Reel Rejects - ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: October 6, 2024

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We just watched Alien versus Predator. Yeah. What did you think of the movie? That was fun. That was a lot of fun. That was a great time. And we got what the title was, Alien versus Predator. We got it.

The acid juice came into play. I appreciate that. I like that they humanized the predator a little bit more. He worked with her. She just, she was a great final girl because I love that she goes, I'm going with you, you son of a bitch. She didn't say son of a bitch. bitch, but she had that vibe.

She implied it. And he, he turns around and then he teaches her about the acid blood. I love that in the script, gives her the weapons that she still somehow, a little bit with the continuity, I'm like, wasn't she hanging on to the thing that jetted them out with both hands? Where did the head go? I don't know, but she had it after. She flew off of that, that little shed thing, shed thing, no, a sled thing.

Yeah. And still had the head attached. Love her for the final girl I don't understand the continuity of it I'm not gonna question it Nope because I had a lot of fun That's right It was a good time

It was a great time Yeah I had so much fun with this movie too This was a banger from start to finish Is it the most To a divorce movie? No No, it's alien which is predator I don't need all that

I don't need strong characters I don't need a strong engaging plot. I just need to see some aliens do some cool shit and some predators do some cool shit with the mythology that we know for both of them. Guess what? That's what we got. And it was a lot of fun

the way that they were able to merge those two properties and have them clash and get all the 2004 action like we thought we would. I didn't know this took place in 2004 but after watching it, it's very 2004 coded, which I'm not mad at, you know. Give us those

extreme two thousand's slow mo's and the the way that they line up the shots it was great you know and agreed i really enjoyed explain exploring the mythology of the predators even though i know or at least from what i've heard that the these movies are not canon to the alien franchise because it's going to get real weird trying to explain why the why the predators and the aliens were fighting over 100 years ago when they were made by David like some umteenth years in the future in covenant but we're not going to address that we're not going to talk about that we're just going to talk about the goodness that is this movie and it does not disappoint i've heard talks of this movie for years and have not seen an inkling of it until today and it did not

disappoint i'm so happy i can now finally revel in the goodness with my friends we can say we've seen it We made this journey. High five, Tara. It's so good. We did. Let's see that again. The fact that a chesty came out of the predator, y'all. Yeah, that was awesome.

And they set that up, and it was really cool. And we got to see, even after that point, them fight. I really like getting to see how honorable the predator was. And the fact that, you know, they had this ritual that they kind of went through. They almost had, like, this religious aspect to the way that they go within their Their annual or, or I don't know what the term. The sacrificial, like century annual fighting and the humans are just the pawn in the game. And I thought that was cool because with the exception of, not in the exception because the humans are typically the, the cannon fodder or the, essentially the harvesting bank for them to go on their hunt to fight the ultimate being.

and for this predator to now face or be on the side of a human to face these odds because he's the only one left at least what he believes until the very end of the movie I thought that was very cool you know the enemy of my enemy is my friend and we got to see that in its ultimate form even though you know we're again we're not it's it's not like cinema it's popcorn like slashy fun the predator is definitely outrunning that girl like nine 10 times out of 10 but That's not the point of the movie. We're just here to have some fun, and I, by golly, I had some sweet, alien, juicy fun. Yeah, and I like that they brought back sort of the moral code that we saw with Whalen of, like, when he goes in, sees his heart is not all right, and then leaves him alone. Because we called that out, they didn't make it as obvious in the other films saying, like, oh, when, I mean, they kind of did, like, when someone doesn't have a weapon is how we saw it. the first one. But then it graduated to where they have a bit of a moral code and they really

hammered it down with not killing Wayland right away. Yeah, when they don't have a weapon when they're pregnant, when they're sick. They don't mess with you. And I like that. I like that a lot where they really showed us in this. And I agree with you. We didn't need like a huge foundation from our lead girl of like, I'm not going to complain that this movie didn't have a ton of heart that I wasn't like, oh my God, please nobody die. It's like I, no, I. No, I. I didn't really, really care. Like, oh, I don't want Whalen to die. I don't want that.

The other guys did I. It was like, it was fine. You know what we're here for. But we weren't, there was, there wasn't a part of it where I, where I needed it. The way that it was set up with the pacing and the tone of it, I didn't need it. Because it was just like, we're scientists, we're here, we're already in the jam. Like, they didn't waste time getting us into it. Had they wasted time, we brought this note up in the last one, had they wasted a lot of time,

I don't know, at the freaking, the science building talking about them going on this mission and blah, blah, blah. And it was a bunch of exposition that we didn't really need. Then I would have complained. But we got to it right away, which I appreciate it. I mean, we set up in the building, sure, but it's five minutes. That's what we needed. Talk, get on the road.

And I love that. Yeah, and even before they showed the predators or the humans interact with the predators directly, was still us uncovering the because the thing that I don't want to say doesn't make Predators to work or Predator to work, but the thing that this movie did differently than Predator 2 is that it's giving us a reveal of sorts of the Predator

even though we're seeing them in space but to our characters but it's done via giving us more mythology about them as a whole by exploring one of these temples and now that we're talking the really cool thing I like about this movie, is that you could go into this movie blind, not having seen any alien or any predators, and you can still have a lot of fun because it does a good job of establishing the what

you need to know, the basics for both of these properties. Now, I even think that if you were to watch this first and then go back, I feel like you can even have a, still have a great time because you're like, oh, no, I know the beginning of this, and I know the beginning of this. And watching them come together, it makes so much more sense. It's like it enriches it. I feel like each one of those movies build to make it better. Yeah, I agree with that.

I think that's great, you know? I think that that's fun. I know that Ridley Scott is very anti-Alean versus Predator. And, you know, it's his baby. And I can definitely get why because he wanted to do some really interesting and different things with the project or with the franchise and, like, have these philosophical questions about God and creation. And Alien vs. Predator is not concerned with any of that. just like we're just going to have some good own fights we're going to have some ritualistic war and we're going to have some rage quits if the predators lose because they're just salty babies

and you know what that's fine by me you know get salty i'm happy the earth is still here good good on you guys 2004 earth we did it we survived yep um and yeah i had a good time is there yeah we can either like yeah do you have any other thoughts or do you want to get into facts or do you want to? Reject Nation. I never really consider myself a sports guy. I know so many people who are in this sports. Some of people who watch this channel are in the sports. My wife, in the sports.

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you're saying where he wouldn't he wouldn't want this but i'm not sure i don't know if you would know this if he's come out saying like if he hates this movie he did he did he does he hates it okay all right um okay i it's it's directed Very differently. Listen, Alien One is an actual cinematic film with some character shit and feeling and emotional depth and camaraderie between people that you care about. You care about people who die. I already stated watching this, I didn't care who died. Nope.

I got, you know, I didn't want our lead girl to die, but I didn't care that much. If Ripley had died, I would have screamed. I would have really felt it. Now, that's a difference in the filmmaking there where I can maybe understand why he's like, this is no, no, thank you. But this is just a different type of movie. They're not focusing on that.

They're really just focusing on like, it's a popcorn flick. You sit down, you want to see, it's a cool idea. It's like as if a kid came up with an idea for a comic book of an alien versus predator and they did a blueprint and people were like, this is cool, yeah, make it. And so they did.

They're like, we don't have to set up, you know, to make it a really great cinematic film. Alien is that film, right? God bless it. I'm still mad at two. They don't, or three, they don't bring new back, or no, that's two. Whatever. I'm still mad about that, but one gives us all the juice.

This is just a different kind of film, so it's okay to put it in a completely different category where it's like a kid had this idea a director brought it to life somebody wrote it we don't need the stuff we just wanted the blueprint because it looks cool having an alien fight the predator and it's an

awesome idea to have a chest to come out of a predator hell yeah it is end of like that's it it's just a cool idea it's a cool idea and I'm thinking because we've gone through so many of these now we've gone through like what six alien movies two predators and an alien AVP Terry do you have like a ranking

I was, as we were talking, I was listening because two is with newt, right? Two's with new. Yeah, so it'll be alien one and two. I don't know where the other ones fall. And then probably, probably maybe the first predator with Arnold, which I really enjoyed. I'd probably go alien one, two, and then maybe that first predator

because the other aliens ones, right, I wasn't really in love with it. I don't think. I was still mad about the newt thing. Yeah. Even though the third one was still with Sigourney, right? And the weird prison thing. I didn't hate that one, but I wasn't in love with it.

So I don't know. If I'm going to like favorite to least favorite at all of these, I would say Alien 1 is still my favorite. Alien 2 is right beneath that. Predator 1 is underneath that one. Yeah, okay. So we're rating the same. Exactly the same on that.

I don't know where the rest of them fall. I think after Predator 1 for me, it would probably be... Alien 3. No. I put Covenant above Alien 3 for me. Then AVP. Then probably Predator 2 and then Prometheus, Alien 3, Alien 4. Y'all, that's where I'm ready for me.

I will be honest right now. When he says the words Covenant and Prometheus, and then he says Alien 3, I'm like, we've watched that many. I don't know the difference. Okay? I knew Ripley in the prison, the rest of them, out of my mind. You guys know how my memory is. But that means the good one stuck with me, which is one and two and the first a predator.

The rest of them, I don't know how to rank them. When he said, and then he goes, and then what do you say? Predator 2 was the bad one, right? I didn't hate Predator 2. I thought it was okay. Is that the one we just watched? That's the one we just watched with Danny Glover.

Yeah, okay. I didn't hate it I didn't love it though I think I didn't love it I don't know how to rank him forget about it but we're the same at the top I would need to go back

to remember the differences between three covenant and Prometheus because he said those words and I went we what we did we did that we did that we did that

what did we did that we did that yep we watched a lot of movies Hopefully we get to watch a little bit more I don't know if we're going to watch Predators and The Predator and before we get to Romulus but who knows, I hope so let us know if you guys want to do this. I am so excited

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