So if you can get past the silly characters and you're able to ignore the more obvious shortcomings (like the idiotic decision to make the film PG-13) you're in for a fun ride. Whoever designed those really scored and seems to have a great love for the art of Giger and the previous films. But despite all those flaws I have to admit I enjoyed the movie from start to finish - because of the amazing set- and creature-design and the more than decent action sequences and special effects. It's hard to take characters or a story seriously when nearly every sentence spoken resembles lines from a parody of cheap science-fiction and horror movies from the fifties and sixties. When I watched it yesterday I got angry at times because some of the dialogue - well, most of it, actually - is truly awful. I completely understand why this movie got such terrible reviews after all, it marked the first 'let's make a quick buck' entry in the two beloved Alien and Predator franchises and was done by a director who many felt didn't treat the material with the respect it deserved. Just watched it again yesterday - it's striking how good the action is compared to the ridiculous dialogue. He suffered for four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You think that's the last thing your dad remembers? The pain? Or drinking champagne with his daughter fourteen thousand feet in the air?

On the way down, he developed a blood clot in his leg that traveled to his lung. I had my first drink with my dad at 14,400 feet. We reached the top and he opened a bottle of champagne. My dad broke his leg seven hundred feet from the summit of Mount Rainier. And that's it.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: I've heard this speech before. You know what I realized would happen when I go? A ten percent fall in share prices. We'll update you at the top of every hour.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You know, when you get sick, you think about your life and how you're going to be remembered. Alexa 'Lex' Woods: There's no room for sick men on this expedition.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: My doctors tell me the worst is behind me.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: You're not a very good liar, Mr.

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