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AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (2007)

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Yes. It picks up right at the end of the last film.

A town called Gunnison, Colorado

Because it has always been Aliens vs Predator. In the comics, video games and the first film. Despite there usually being more than one Predator.

"Basically you're following this one Predator the star of this movie," Greg said of the hunter in pursuit. Added Colin, "We call him the Wolf internally because basically he's Harvey Keitel from 'Pulp Fiction.' He's the cleaner. He shows up and he's not there for the trophies. ... If anybody gets in his way, he'll just cut 'em in half. At [an early] point in the movie, [the Wolf] takes a gun off of a dead Predator, and so he has double shoulder cannons," Colin explained. "There's also a cleaner case where he stores all his new weapons. It has an implosion bomb that he uses for imploding the crash ship to basically get rid of it. ... That's a new type of bomb he has."

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The Strause brothers did this just like James Cameron did in Aliens (1986) because they belived that as it did in Aliens it would provide a natural camouflage.

There are also different Facehuggers than the ones from the Queen in the first film, so different Queens provide different looking aliens.

According to him, he wanted to move on to other projects. He never directed the Resident Evil sequels either but wrote and produced them.

The infamous "Company" referred to throughout the previous Alien movies is called Weyland-Yutani. We can assume from what we see of her that she is the CEO, or some other high up person, of this company. Her presence represents the foreshadowing of the future control, involvement, and power her company will have in the Alien/Predator universe. The first AvP movie included Charles Bishop Weyland the CEO of the then Weyland company. They most likely merged in later years.

The Predalien has the ability to implant humans with alien embryos. The most likely reason for it choosing women is that they have a womb, and can hold more embryos at once. They would gestate and explode from the woman's stomach. At one point we see several of these embryos pushing themselves down through a woman's neck. We can assume multiple aliens were able to birth themselves from a single mother in this fashion. Also, the Predalien impregantes humans with up to four embryos. The likely reason for this is because it is confirmed by the film makers that the PredAlien was a Queen and at a stage between Chestburster and full Queen. So it is most possible that this is an ability that a Queen has before it becomes a full Queen and grows an egg sag. It's also possible that for some reason a Predalien queen doesn't lay eggs but instead directly implants the embryos, but but that isn't what the film makers said.

This is also why we see a couple women with their stomachs torn open as opposed to their chest. eg. The girl in the diner and the woman in sewer.

The town was nuked because they needed to stop the infestation. It would stand to reason that they would have soldiers around the perimeter for a while to make sure there weren't any surviving creatures at the outer limits of the blast radius.

There are a few possible answers to this:

1. As the first few were corpses, and since the Predator is a hunter, he decided to kill the deputy (who was alive, of course) and treat his body like a trophy.

2. It's also possible that, being a clean up guy and understanding the psychology of his prey, that he may have strung up the deputy as a warning to other humans to stay away from the area. While its doubtful he did this out of any kind of altruism, its plausible that he did not have an exact head count on how many facehuggers there were roaming the woods and he wanted the humans (I.E. potential hosts) to avoid the area so as to not contribute to his workload by getting themselves implanted.

3. Lastly, since we never found out why a Predator would ever hang a skinned body in any of the other films, we could assume that skinned bodies were always meant to be a source of food.

This film picks up directly where the last film ended; therefore Lex, the survivor from the first film hasn't reached civilization to tell anyone what happened yet. That or she froze to death. In this film all people and military that came into direct contact with the aliens were killed when the army nuked the town. However there were four survivors from the town. They escaped the nuclear explosion and helicopter crash and were rescued by the military surrounding the perimiter. The military was either BlackOps so knew all about top-secret or because they never went into the town, they were told it was a viral outbreak or something along those lines. As for the survivors, we can assume they were silenced. Make up your own story as to how (unless it is explained in AvP3). The most likely explination is that Ms. Yutani, being a wealthy business woman, clearly pulling the strings behind the military incursion paid them all off. Or they tried telling the story to people but nobody took them seriously; 'the reason the town was nuked was because of an alien invasion? Yeah right.'

This is why Ms. Yutani obtains the predator's pistol. and clearly a motivation for why the company sends spaceships to investigate planets with possible alien lifeforms on them, the goal is domination, and if they have alien weaponry they are way ahead of any other country/planet.

Also in ALIEN the company (Weyland/Yutani) did know about the aliens, thats why mother woke them from chryo and sent them to investigate the alien signal. Also if anyone has played an Xbox game called PREDATOR Concrete Jungle it shows how the aliens were discovered, how mother was created and how weyland-yutani merged.

Colonel Stevens was working for Mrs. Yutani, so he might have been a corrupt officer in the military and he was actually following orders from Ms. Yutani as opposed to the Government. Therefore he had no Government authorization to drop the nuke, it would probably be blamed on terrorists and not the military.

This is not very likely, though. There are quite some ways for outsiders to raise suspicion that it was actually a US aircraft that dropped the bomb (e.g. satellite footage, people spotting planes, etc.). Just count all the conspiracy theories connecting the US government to the 9/11 attacks. It would also be quite unwise to suggest that terrorists were able to smuggle and detonate a nuclear bomb inside the United States. All of this would raise national security levels and warrant unwanted investigations into the attack (aside from the question why terrorists would select such a low-priority target in the Mid-West, instead of a highly populated area like, say, Las Vegas).

It stands much more to reason that the military justified the attack by claiming the town had become the victim of a very deadly and contagious virus or so. So the town had to be steralized quickly in order to prevent the infectious agent from spreading (and also to remove most evidence). Communications from the town had largely been cut off because of the power failure, and messages for help through the radio were mainly received by the military, so information about "attacks by monsters" could have been explained away as Urban Legends (or infected people being delerious). Also, Mrs. Yutani probably had a lot of political influence to keep the evidence for an alien invasion under wraps and justify the bombing in Congress as well. With no remaining evidence to the contrary and survivors silenced, Congress would probably have believed this version.

*edit* ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION: I missed the piece of dialogue the first time I saw the film. After the Predator tracks the alien to the Plant and the alien kills the guy with the hard hat. The predator then shoots at the alien then misses. Next is a scene with Eddie and Dallas in the car and the dispatcher says "there was an explosion at the Nuclear Power Plant." So it is likely they blamed the explosion on the plant going critical.

This does not fully explain what a US military airplane was doing above the town precisely at the time of the explosion, though. Further research would have also concluded the epicentre of the blast was not the power plant eventhough that could've been covered up as well.

A third film has been hinted at by The Strauss Brothers. They had said that this film ties up loose ends from the first movie and there will be no need to set the next film on earth so the next film they want to take it right to space. Most likely staying true to the original AvP stories, the film will take place around the timeline of the 2nd and 3rd Alien films.

No. The creatures nor the ships look nothing alike, not to mention the concept of predators did not exist back when Alien was made. The alien creature on LV-426 is commonly referred to as "Space Jockey" by the fans, and "Pilot" by the designer of the creature, H.R. Giger.

This was just a subtle homage to the original Alien; this film is full of homages to the previous films in both Alien and Predator series.

One theory of why the chair was like the Derelict, no one knows how the Predators first found the Aliens and AVP 1 shows they found them thousands of years ago which would probably date back to the time the Derelict crashed on LV-426 so it's likely the Predators may have found the Aliens the same way the crew from the Nostromo did and they may have duplicated the chair from the ships designs.

He was using him as a bait. He didn't come to the earth to kill humans, ironically he was actually there to protect them in a way. He killed the deputy because he spotted him, he killed the two stoners because they were going to shoot him, he shot the guy in the graveyard because he had a revolver and was making threatening gestures (extended cut). Other than them, he doesn't bother harming humans, though he was the means of Jesse's demise, it was uninentional.

The mark means you are a proven highly ranked Predator Hunter and there are probably many different Predator tribes. So Wolf Predator could have been from a different tribe then the ones who went down into the Pyramid and did not need to prove himself and the Predators on the ship could have been lower ranked hunters or Predators scientists.

And the reason why the Predators in Predator 1 and Predator 2 didn't have marks was probably because they were from different tribes who hunted Aliens but not mark themselves, which Wolf was probably part of.

He may have had the mark on a helmet (as we see he has a vast selection) but he just didn't take that helmet, as he is obviously a seasoned hunter he didn't need to take his original hunt mask. Also he *may* have had the mark somewhere else, perhaps on his cheek that was scarred so the mark was lost.

Also, his mission wasn't actually to hunt for sport but rather just clean up the alien mess - their was no game or ritual involved.

How the predator in AvP marked himself and the girl was taken from the book AvP:Prey. In this book it was explained that a predator who had hunted his first alien would be blooded by the leader (with the leaders mark). This was a way of signifying a caste system within the heirarchy and show other predators who had trained you. AvP took some creative liberties from the book, and other movies simply may not have included this backstory in them. Though in AVP1 the leader Predator was Celtic and he was killed and Scar marked himself so being marked by a leader may not apply to the movies.

In the first Alien vs. Predator film the Predators used the acid blood to burn marks into their foreheads by pressing the acid on their skin and also burn a mark into Lex's left cheek, but in this film Buddy (the hunter at the begining) gets burned by a small drop of acid and it burned his whole arm off. Though in Aliens 1-4 the acid was strong enough to burn through almost three floors.

Explanation?

It's possible the Predators are probably less affected by the acid blood then humans since they can survive shotgun bullets to the chest (Predator 2) which would explain why the Predators were unaffected by the pressure of the acid against their skin and Lex's mark was burned by a small bit of acid and was burned a lot lighter into her skin then Buddy getting acid splashed on his arm. So it may depent on the amount of acid blood and the force of it on your skin and on a Predator it may take a lot more amount to have fatal damage. In other words the Predators can probably survive acid better then humans.

Also, according to some AvP backstory, the predator has a somewhat basic composition, which partially neutralizes the acid blood from an alien.

Also it's possible that the blood from a facehugger is more potent than regular alien blood due to it's defence mechanism.

That's possible because in Alien Resurrection a tiny drip of acid got Vriess' ear and it didn't burn completely off. Though another theory of that is that the cloning process may have neutralized the acid blood a little. But the first theory works better.

in the theatrical version, the predator mothership from the first film shows the dead predator on the slab, then the predalien bursts from it's chest. then it cuts to the predalien slaughtering two predators on a much smaller ship and crashing to earth. In the extended cut, after the predalien births, we see a small scout ship jettison from the mothership and then cuts back to the predalien killing to the predators.

So to put it simply, the dead predator was on the mothership, the predalien birthed from the corpse, then stowed away on the scout ship. much like the Alien did in the original film, it hid on the escape shuttle.

Well, the PredAlien never showed any sign of acid blood in the film and when Wolf Predator the PredAlien fought it looked like a lot of blood poured out onto Wolf Predator but did not effect him. So the PredAlien either did not have any acid blood or the blood did not pour on Wolf Predator.

This again could be because according to many backstories the predators have a basic composition. Perhaps when it was gestating in a predator the alien picked up some of that composition which partially neutralized it's blood.

Because the Predator was non ritualisticly hunting and not taking trophies this mission. The helmet reads "Not for glory. Not for honour. Not for the hunt. But to clean up the mess." The first two lines on the right side are the 'glory & honour' lines. The center line of text mentions the 'hunt' (mostly because it in bold lettering) thus showing that the predators still value the hunt, but in this case it doesn't take presidence. The last couple lines on the left side describe the job and show disdane for the work because it would rather be doing what it wants.

AVP: R recieved even weaker reviews than the intial AVP which was also panned. It has a 14% approval rate at Rotten Tomatoes and scores a lowly 29/100 at Metacritic.

Critical quotes:

"Simply put, AVPR is trash. It should be burned with the rest of the garbage that accumulates on Christmas Day. " James Berardinelli, 2007

"Fans deserve better" BBCi film review, 2008

"The world's most illogical and boring action-horror grudge-match" The Guardian, 2008

"easily the best sequel in either franchise since James Cameron's Aliens, and the only Predator outing besides the original worth the film stock it's shot on." DVD Verdict, 2008

"An early but strong contender for worst movie of 2008" Empire, 2008

"A tasteless, witless, mindlessly perfunctory bloodbath that has the discourtesy to take itself seriously." Scott Tobias, 2007

"Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B." Entertainment weekly, 2007

"Provides enough cheap thrills and modest suspense" Variety, 2007

"An orgy of mindless violence" Austin Chronicle, 2007

"A dull actioner that looks like a bad video game" Kirk Honeycutt, 2007