B-Movie Bias

[Brother Ragnarok]

Some new movies with (relatively) high budgets are allowed to be crap.  Look at Alone In the Dark.  Beautiful, lovely crap.  But Alien vs. Predator is spawned of two of the best and most beloved franchises in all of horror/SF filmdom, plus about 15 years of comic book continuity ranging from excellent to at least interesting.  I don't think it's excusable to take a previously well-handled property beloved by so many people and still possessing so much potential and turn it into a giant thundering turd.

[Master Blaster]

I think you hit the nail on the head Eirik.

[Ed]

On the acting note, I thinkour standards foracting are much higher than they used to be.  Not long ago I saw John Wayne in "Genghis Khan" on AMC.    Dear Lord what poor poor acting.
I think poeple didn't mind so much when an actor just played themselves playing a part... Bogart, the Duke, Jimmy Stewart, etc.  It was always "them"  shining through.  Personally, I think a good character actor is worth more than a dozen stars... someone who can immerse themselves into a part and you don't recognize them .  

"Shall we invade the Han, Pilgrim?"

-Ed

[Ed]

At the risk of starting yet another AVP sideline... It was a fine movies, that I was able to see at the cheap theatre with a  beer in hand. ( boy I love movie pubs).  In that light it was fun, and served its purpose... so it wasn't QUITE a BAD movie on that level.  Just another monster flick with some familiar "faces".   For all that it didn't live up to its family roots.  

I will add the disclaimer that I have seen all the movies, but I'm not a fanatic.  I'll further add that my only AVP experience was 90 seconds on a coin-op game back in 1990 or so.  
-Ed

[Sugar_Nads]

That's an interesting observation. I've often wondeered the same thing about myself. I guess it stems from the fact that most of the films in the past were meant to be taken seriously.

Now days everybody is dabbling in something so most concepts and areas of expertise have been overdone. As a result, we have hack directors coming out of the woodwork trying to immitate bad films. You can't make a bad film, it just happens.