Film Summary DLV (Alien vs. Predator)

So I decided to re-watch Alien Vs Predator and looked over my original review for this thing.
And it was truly horrible.
The review not the movie.
It was about a paragraph and a half long. It didn't bring up any point about the movie, I didn't bring up any of my own opinions. I didn't really talk about anything.
It was just me bad-mouthing and saying ''worst. movie. ever'' Totally worse than other Alien movies that I probably hadn't seen in Forever when reviewing that film.
I said it was worse than Alien Resurrection. Well I can tell you right now upon re-watching it, It's certainly not as bad as Alien Resurrection.
In fact it's significantly better.

It's structured better, it has better CGI, the acting for the most part is okay. Some parts are even good. The story is easy to follow and although I don't particularly consider it an overly entertaining film. It's at least coherent enough to keep your attention.
Alien Resurrection was full of a lot of dead air and pointless running around.
Whereas Alien versus Predator is structured with a build up. It wants to introduce us to the environment and give us a gradual sense of the motion.
As we observe our characters heading deeper and deeper into a mysterious unknown environment while secretly being tract and monitored by a group of creditors arming themselves for the hunt once the alien queen lays enough eggs to impregnate another group of idiots.

In a lot of ways it's the same as the original Alien film. Setting up a group of people going to investigate something that they have absolutely no knowledge of. Or at least I think it is. You see the corporation that's in all the other Alien movies is also here but I'm not entirely sure if they were aware of what they're actually investigating. And every other alien movie it's always been implied that Weyland-Yutani knew exactly what they were doing and that they wanted to capture the weird alien creature for weapons testing but I can't remember if that happens here.

The guy who plays Bishop sure doesn't know. Also how many Bishops are there now?
There's got to be at least four of the darn things and I guess this guy's the original.
It's a little too Star-Wars for my liking as we're now starting to connect the dots and make everything incredibly streamlined but then who gives a crap about the alien continuity.
I even made that joke in my original review claiming that the alien franchise is kind of like X-Men now.
 And it is, it's just a series of weird movies that don't really have any connection to each other. There's a lot of references but no concrete evidence. Outside of the initial three films in the original alien franchise and to some extent the fourth one but even that's kind of debatable was it doesn't make any darn sense.

And strangely enough that works for Alien versus Predator. It's an odd film. If you wanted to you could tear the entire thing apart breakdown the plot breakdown the characters and explain how the entire thing doesn't make a lick of sense.
But at the same time you can kind of just watch it and enjoy it for what it is.
A kind of soft slasher film and where three groups of characters all get thrown in one environment with really contrived reasoning just to watch a bunch of Creature Slaughter each other.
And in that regard it's okay.
I know some people complain about it being PG-13 and us not that big of a door fast but I've never really cared about that. The original movie isn't all that gory and that was down to limitation so who cares if it's all that bad here. Especially given that most of the combat is between the aliens and the Predators and their blood is green and silly looking to begin with.

So I'm kind of making fun of people that nitpick movies but there is one part of it that I kind of want to nitpick myself.
hey have the dorky astrology guy or scientist guy who's in the film you see him in the helicopter of our main protagonist mountain climbing person and he's just completely clueless. I'll look up who he is.
He's played by Ewen Bremner. In the whole movie he's just going around of everybody else asking ''what is this? what is that? what are we doing here? And it doesn't seem like he has any sort of speciality skill that couldn't be taken up by one of the other members of the team.
He's just kind of there.
Maybe he's supposed to be this character who asks all the questions for the main audience but it's all stuff we don't really need to know.
Especially given that we get old of visual cues from the Predator aliens modernizing the people as they go for the pyramid.
And let's face our reality here just about everyone is going to see this film already knows about the aliens in the Predators.
Even if they don't they don't need to get the information from this film.
I think you can piece together pretty easily in the movie that the one group of aliens or just kind of animalistic and style and are literally burping themselves out of humans out of necessity while the more technologically advanced aliens are just running around in hunting everybody. It could all be shown not told.

Anyways that's just me running my mouth. The Alien versus Predator movie is right there in the middle. It's not something I consider to be all that good but it doesn't do anything so egregious that I want to be upset about it*.
It's perfectly acceptable.
It's a great movie to put on in the background or just to watch when you're burning time. Probably explains why it was on TV every 15 minutes of every freaking day.

I know what this movie reminds me of now. It's just like those Brendan Fraser Mummy movies. It's just trying to have fun of its own concept and it doesn't take itself all that seriously and you probably won't remember the story when it's done but you just having too much fun with it you don't care.
I was thinking with the pyramid shifting scene was a reference The Mummy film but then I remember that was in the Hellboy movie which is another one of those films that kind of Falls in with all of this. Well okay hellboy's a little bit better than any of these films but you know same kind of atmosphere.

*In all truth I think this could have been a legitimately good movie if they soughted out some of their situations and character motivations a little bit more. Maybe tied one or two moments try to make a bit more sense.
There's one point in this movie where wall is starting to collapse in on itself and this one guy is trying to crawl through it and everytime the camera turns away from the wall seems to be pushed back down there to get the guy more time.
You could have just had the higher up and have him trying to run threw it initially. Almost getting squished at the end regardless. I don't know if it's one of those weird things you see in all types of movies what are the obstacle clearly gets keeps getting reset back and it just kills the tension and he seen of that sort.