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azerty, on 06 September 2011 - 10:03 PM, said:

And then Greedo will say "Next time Hans Solo it will take more than younglings to save you!"

and perhaps they will replace Hans blaster with a walki talkie, we'll have to see.

Wonder what they gonna do about this scene?

http://www.youtube.c... 1zPE0-Y&t=2m21s

BUUUYY MOOOORRE STARRR WAAARRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! !!!

All this talk of realism puts an idea in my head.

I could be completely wrong about this, but the thing that has been growing on me ever since the days of the Matrix sequels is that movies are becoming more and more about experiences. Directors today have tools available to them that they didn't have 15 years ago and perhaps that is the reason. Sometimes I have the feeling that techniques like 3D and shaky cam and dark night scenes and fast zooms and others are used to make it an immersive experience to watch a movie. This creates a peculiar distinction between getting immersed in the story and getting immersed in the experience. This has probably been the case ever since they started making movies but today with 3D and CGI I cant help feeling that the story side is loosing out, and often the director will place story second to make his direction and use of these techniques be the main experience of the movie. I am not very fond of this development, perhaps getting up in the ages I have had all experience of that kind that I can take. Ideally a movie can be made that combines both of these qualities. I maintain that the first Star Wars movie was such a movie. A story that immersed you, and, a thrilling ride down the trenches of the Death Star. Again of course I was young and much more impressionable when I first saw Star wars, but I still take it as an example that it can be done. And with the tools available to them today I am waiting for them to do better. Waiting for that genius to emerge who can figure out how to truly use these techniques to complement a solid story. Because I think realism and even gritty realism by itself can never be as succesfull as the real world. But if they can use these techniques to give a sense of real excitement in a fictional story, a good one, then maybe something good can come from it.

It's been a long time since I saw AvP Requiem. I know the lonely predator in that movie managed to deal with several Aliens whereas the three in the first movie didn't do very well. Two of them at least are killed off very quickly by the Aliens. I don't know if this is what they mean when they say beeing a proper warrior? For my part I feel that AvP has bigger problems than the Predators not beeing as strong as people expected them to be. Also the pred in AvP Requiem may have been very effective but from what I remember, the actiuon scenes were both dark and used shaky cam making it difficult to see what happens a lot of the time. Maybe that would be easier if one watcehd on DVD and had the option to go back and see again though.

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Yep, they went there. Though iirc it's used about one of the Aliens in AvP which makes even less sense in a way. And the delivery of the line was just awful. I tried to find it on youtube but you're lucky I couldn't find it. I cringed anyway, both because they used the line and because it didn't fit context of the movie just then. It was so obviously thrown in as a reference to Predator. And to make it even worse, and I don't know how to explain that, she just says it all wrong.

I don't think they used the 'get away from her you bitch' line. Though after I heard u.m.f I wouldn't have been surprised of that one popped up as well.