There is no build-up to the film, no unveiling of the various creatures’ threat. More than that though, part of the reason that Alien became a classic was that it dug down into primal fears with the monster being deliberately associated with sexual imagery.īy the time of Aliens vs Predator Requiem, both the alien and the Predator have become no more than generic monsters. Alien 3 did so to a lesser extent, while Predator enjoyably mixed Alien up with action movie formula. Showdown of Alien and PredatorĪlien and Aliens are classics of the genre because their respective directors Ridley Scott and James Cameron plunged their audiences into an intensively suspenseful and gruelling ride. Needless to say, The Brothers Strause are no equivalent of The Wachowski Brothers, or even for that matter the Farrelly Brothers, and Aliens vs Predator Requiem is disappointingly ill-conceived on almost all level. One supposed they should have had a sinking feeling about Aliens vs Predator Requiem after realising that the scriptwriter was Shane Salerno, who previously co-wrote the likes of Armageddon (1998) and Shaft (2000), as well as worked as a script doctor on Alien vs. The Brothers Strause began directing with various music videos and commercials, as well as a couple of short films, and AVPR: Aliens vs Predator Requiem was their debut as feature-film directors.
They are credited as visual effects supervisors on high profile films such as The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Aeon Flux (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Poseidon (2006), 300 (2007) and Avatar (2009). The Brothers Strause are better known as visual effects supervisors, starting out working for Light Matters/Pixel Envy in the mid-1990s and then forming their own company Hy*drau*lx. The Alien(s) vs Predator crossover was an idea that originally began as fan speculation, gaining life through a series of comic-books and merchandising spinoffs and then a videogame, not to mention an extraordinary number of spec fan scripts.ĪVPR: Aliens vs Predator Requiem comes from Greg and Colin Strause who bill themselves as The Brothers Strause on screen. Predator was in turn a crossover between two of 20th Century Fox’s franchises – the Alien series consisting of Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997) and the subsequent Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017) – and the Predator series consisting of Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990) and the subsequent Predators (2010), The Predator (2018) and Prey (2022). AVPR: Aliens vs Predator Requiem is the sequel to AVP: Alien vs.
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