Alien vs. Predator - Nostalgia Critic
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Let's look back at one of the biggest crossovers that led to the most underwhelming of responses. Nostalgia Critic takes a look at, Alien vs. Predator.
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Alien vs. Predator (also abbreviated as AVP) is a 2004 science fiction action horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen and Raoul Bova.
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Now to be fair, it actually shows the Predator getting facehuggered early on. And it's established that the aliens take characteristics from the hosts they're implanted into. In Alien 3, a facehugger gets a dog, so the alien that's born gains the attributes of a four-legged animal.
Yes but the movie doesn't establish the taking of DNA from a host, and since they definitely didn't make it clear if this was a independent universe or not we can only take this as a stand alone movie. And from a stand alone point they don't establish that fact, no alien penguins. Now for a die hard fan yes we know that but then we see the film basically then hitting us with things that are the most basic of basic, it's like a zombie movie spending 20 minutes explaining what a zombie is to a Resident Evil vet...but then not explaining how suddenly one of the zombies is cognitive and has psychic powers. But really it's one of those things where there are nitpicks from any angle you look at this movie but it's not a bad movie.
What trait do they get from us?
Teeth.
The alien from mortal Kombat x is from barraka
@@AliG-fr9oj Probs bipedal standing with two arms two legs and a straight spine
"The journey of a man in need of a high five" still a better movie then alien v predator 2
Someone give that man a high five!
Rufus Goodman, it was like the first alien v predator, but it just lacked any appeal
marrick855, yes please!
For me, it's because AVP Requiem is dark. I mean, too much dark, you just can't "make out the actors on screen" kinda of dark. What's the point of watching a movie you can't watch because it's all dark?
Marco Coelho, money, that's what
For the three questions near the 21:00 mark: the Predator got impregnated when he was marking his face, the Queen was most likely in a murder-rampage after being locked up for so long and just wanted to escape and destroy its captor, and the Xenomorphs taking on attributes/traits of the creature birthing it has been shown in almost every Alien movie to date (it's a central part of the Alien franchise lore).
The Smoking Skull you mean like the ALIEN T-REX
Earlier films didn't show much og this, but there is the dog-alien in Alien 3 which is a bit different from the aliens we have seen before.
It make sense for the aliens to absorb and display features from their hosts, to make them able to live in the atmosphere the host live in, not getting poisoned when eating them or anything like that.
still stupid as hell and lazy writing
bruh i have the alien t-rex as my background
People want to see a PredAlien, it's been done in the comics and games, thus a movie version was needed. Too bad it came in a movie that shat over its potential.
I love the hilarious Predator voiceovers. :)
-"Mine's bigger"
-"Shut up Frank!"
I'll be your Frank.. ;)
Lolol sry man, just had to.
"We'll just let Time kill him and piss on his corpse"
"HI, I'm Time"
I also like "Eh, we'll just let time kill you." followed by "Hi. I'm Time".
Jock Doug trying to get a high five is one of the greatest side plots NC has ever done, period
Ian Campbell
It was really funny too
I cannot stoo laughing
Patrick Bojko I cannot start laughing
Patrick Bojko, ya I can’t stoo either
In the movie's defense, the reason the "Drop the eggs off and come back in a year" idea wouldn't fly is that it was intended as a rite-of-passage, NOT Big Game Hunting. Sending novice hunters out against a planetful of the things isn't the same as sending them to hunt a half dozen or so.
yeah, his to dumb to understand it
Aamar Rahman says the one with horrid grammer
I know, the movie explains a lot of the reasons behind it. It's obvious that those preds are not the greatest of fighters. And he totally missed the part where the last pred was ambushed. Obviously he was so bored with the explanation for the temple being there in the first place and didn't pay attention to the scene.
Also the whole, no known record of xenomorphs (aliens), would obviously be do to with the company keeping it a top secret. They wanted the alien as a weapon so naturally they would keep the incident off the record. This could have been when the company truly first found out about it.
As the first movie I saw with aliens in it, this movie got me into the Aliens series alone. Predator I watched when I was much longer. This movie holds a place in the Sci-fi area of my heart no matter what anyone thinks of it.
Also, aren't Predators respectful of the environment or something? They have no qualm taking individual lives but they wouldn't destroy whole species.
Yeah, it's been shown that they are an honorable alien race. Won't kill unarmed humans. Everyone that they killed up in the old whale hunting town had weapons or, in the case of the last guy, had attacked them. Honor is a big thing to them.
"why would it mix with its DNA creating a new creature?"
Alien 3 established that the Aliens take traits from their hosts. The Alien that gestated inside a dog was a more dog-like alien.
In the Assembly Cut it was an ox, not a dog. Haven't seen the threatrical cut in years.
@@JoakimOtamaa the dog made way more sense. There was literally nothing remotely ox-like about the Runner variety of xenomorph.
@@fanghur I should watch both versions back to back just to compare. And you're right, it's totally a dog like, the ox thing is a weird difference.
Trust me. As a film enthusiast, amateur film critic, and aspiring filmmaker, my intellectual side and my jock side are always at war with each other. Brilliant analogy as always.
I relate to you on every level there, my guy… or gal. Idk what you identify as lol
@@badasscomedy5126ok
To answer the three questions at 21:05 ...
1: There was a brief moment after lopping off the alien's face with the throwing star that the Predator got jumped by a facehugger (seriously, rewatch it).
2: Alien 3 established that when a host for another Xeno causes too much physical pain for an adult Xeno, the adult will attack (Ripley in Alien 3 had a damn queen in her and the Xeno left her alone... UNTIL she dropped it in molten steel, then it tried to rip her apart).
3: Again, back to Alien 3 (and further established in the various mythos expanded upon in the comics), Xeno will gain some DNA from whatever species it was impregnated into... the alien in that movie popped out of an animal and looked different from its "human" Xeno cousins. Which is why we can have a Predalien in this movie and the crappier sequel, those various Xeno-hybrids from the old toys, and even a friggen crocodile-Xenomorph when there was an old Batman vs Alien comic years ago!
So there ya go, questions answered! :)
To "change" 3rd one:
Predalien is a race in Aliens versus Predator 2 (the video game) that can be selectable in multiplayer. "Normal" Aliens are called Drone, Runner is Facehugger + Dog. Praetorian is between Queen & Drone in evolution, loses wall crawling ability & acts as Queen's "bodyguards" and then there is Predalien, which is Facehugger + Predator.
That's why they call the aliens 'Xenomorph', because they morph by using dna of their host.
The Predators are shown to be able to see a baby xenomorph inside of someone. So why'd they take that one Predator onboard without realizing a xenomorph was inside of it??
+AGrayPhantom We've never seen a chestburster come out of a dead person, so maybe they don't survive if the host dies?
+Evil Ash
Nah, Xenomorph is just nonsensical gibberish, it's a butchered latin of "Alien life form", Xeno - Foreign, Morph - Form.
Gorman said it in Aliens to sound cool at the briefing, and failed hard. But hilariously enough the butchery achieved memetic status and pretty much became the official designation of the monster, lol.
Yes jock Doug just wanting a high five is probably one of the funniest jokes on Nostalgia Critic.
The sound he makes at the end is the best. Looks like Darkheart found yet another clucking buddy
hilarious
The high five when he says, what did i do?, just the best XD
Duck tits tho
Someone! Please just give jock Doug a high five! He wants love and acceptance too 😭 😂
Good point about the main character. Imagine if she and the predator had to communicate without language throughout most of the movie and sticking together to survive. They do that for just 2-3 scenes.
Exactly...she was definitely interesting enough, and the way she communicated with the predator had potential to be a good plot device...more scenes with both of them on the same page would have made this film way better.
Heck, what if they just started with that. Have the film begin in media res, maybe show some flashbacks to give some basic info about her and why she was there, and show that she came here with people she's been separated from. Maybe she's lost in the temple complex and she's doing an audio log just in case she can't find anyone before she starves or something, so there's a record of what happens, say she's been separated from the rest of the team she came with and has been wandering around the temple for about two days or so. Then she finds the corpses of the rest of her team with holes in their chests. She'd be wondering what the hell was happening, but the audience would likely already know, and understand it means she has that many aliens to deal with. And if they were worried about fans not understanding, have one last surviving member barely alive who wakes up in time to tell her about face huggers (have some face hugger corpses near by) before they suddenly start panicking as they realize what's going on, and before they can properly explain it, their chest burster emerges and kills them. Then maybe rewind a bit to show the Predators coming, and we get a couple scenes of them in the temple undergoing the blooding. Before eventually our main human character and our main predator finally meet up and join forces once the Queen escapes containment. We cut most of the unneeded chaff, we can avoid a lot of overused cliches, more of the movie is dedicated to what drew people to it in the first place. Also by having most of the gorier aspects of what happened to the humans in the movie happen off screen we can get around the rating while not undercutting the body horror aspect of the aliens, just show the looks of pain and horror on the faces of the victims, as well as handwave away some plot holes, sometimes no explanation can work better then a bad one, no explanation if done well can leave the audience intrigued, a bad explanation takes away from the movie.
"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection."
What's wrong with that line? You're going to a place of ancient history and finding something amazingly high-tech. Exploring Moses' tomb and finding DVDs is a pretty good comparison to exploring a buried pyramid and finding some form of gun.
It is a dumb line *in story* . The comparisson is apt, but it's also a dumb line that would make anyone laugh, or at least snicker. And that's what happens in the movie. Of course, being purposely dumb doesn't make it not dumb, just legit and apropiate, if the movie wanted to make us laugh at it.
Great line. They're just haters.
He didn’t say there was anything wrong with the line, just that it’s a WEIRD line
yeah that was a weird line
It's fucking dumb.
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Malcom-"How about that chick from Alien vs. Predator"
NC-"Was she black I don't really remember"
Malcom-"Pretty sure she was"
NC-"That chick was awesome"
Malcom-"why do so many people hate that movie"
NC-"I think it's seriously under appreciated as movie crossovers go, I mean it's no Avengers but it was still pretty damn decent"
Sometimes your feelings about a movie change when you watch it a second time.
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tomatodamashi but his feelings didn't change? Watch the whole video before leaving comments lol
tomatodamashi - Considering the lengthy run of the Nostalgia Critic Show, I do like to connect the dots from his past reviews. Like his agent smith all the way back to his Bebe Kids review.
Predator: Human woman, I shall give this spear and this shield... and this box of chocolates.
Lex: Uhm... No... I'm good with the spear and shield.
Predator: Damn, And I thought I was going to score it.
Alvin De Rama should have given her a cannon.
sweetcinnamonpnchkin What you did there.......I see it.
sweetcinnamonpnchkin Bitches love cannons.
I get that reference.
halozilla117 BLESS!
19:48 That's authentic to the comic series.
20:43 "We're Yautja. Weapons are part of our religion."
21:08 Xenomorphs have always done that. The idea is that they're born from creatures assumed to be indigenous to wherever they happen to be, so the chestburster, while in development, hijacks that DNA to give it a localized evolutionary "jumpstart," so to speak. The name "xenomorph" literally means "foreign body."
The guy in the back that can't get a high-five describes my life perfectly
he had more of an arc than some movies nowadays
@Marcus Straya yes, because everyone that disagrees with you is automatically a boomer. Grow up
@Marcus Straya Using kids labels, especially as insults, makes whatever you say/write look petty and fucking stupid. It’s not cool to act dumb, never was.
Same.... :/
@Marcus Straya lol wow... ffs this spoiled ass brat generation.
"You cannot decide because of a battle between your mind and jock self"
Can the chart decide for me?
mounir maged The chart says no.
mounir maged well the chart says............
We're doing it "for the Fans"
+The Pickles Oh god do i hated that.
+Iain Hansen lol that joke will nevee get old to me.
That sub-plot about giving and not giving hi-fives though.
Ivan Skodje Nah.
9:26 I love how the sound designers make the wind completely disappear when the ship passes over.
"A vegetarian being trampled by a cow." Aaaaaaaaah, NICE ONE!
WHo else would love to see that by the way? Maybe I'm a bad person for that but, meh.
The 3 questions at the end.
1) When did a Face Hugger Get Him?
The review skimmed over the scene. He was attacked by a face hugger for a split second, presumed left to die, and that was pretty much it, til he returned.
2) Why would the Queen attack him if he was Impregnated?
The extended universe goes over this a little better. A queen will not attack an impregnated host because she can see the chest burster developing inside. It has something to do with their Eyesight, which is unable to detect the mixbreed.
3) Why would the Chest Burster mix with his DNA creating a new Alien Species?
Again, the extended universe helps out here. In the extended universe Xenomorphs have many different forms: Drones, Warriors, Praetorians, Spitters, Queens, etc. But a unique xenomorph is created when it is used on other species able to take presumably different roles as well. An example of this is in the Batman vs Alien crossover comic, a face hugger manages to impregnate killer croc, releasing the "Aligator Xenomorph." Human and Kryptonian DNA however are close enough that a Super Man-Xenomorph did not exist. The Chest Burster could not make it out of the Man of steel's Ribs.
Can we just agree that 'Extended Universe with no Explanation' means that THE FILM gave no explanation?
Great.
Batman vs Alien...? The extended universe sounds kinda dumb.
You quit your sazz, Bazz. 'Batman/Aliens' kicks azz.
the storyline itself was cool, but the part where Batman's Rogues Gallery get experimented on and turned into xenomorph hybrids was fuckin stupid.
I have mixed feelings about the villainmorphs. At least the Joker xenomorph looks haunting, don't you think?
Poor high five guy.
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Neat! I just learned a hot-key for UA-cam.
17:14 It would be TOO challenging. They like to hunt, but they're not morons. An entire planet full of xenomorphs, they'd be easily overwhelmed given what they're there for.
21:03 Right before Mexican guy started explaining the predator's ancient history on earth.
21:06 Since the chestburster was so far along, it stands to reason the predator host was not really necessary at that point, and killing him would ensure he would be taken onto the ship to wreak havoc.
21:09 Have you even seen Alien 3?! It is clearly shown that the xenomorphs ALWAYS mix with the DNA of its host. This is xenomorph 101 guys!
domidium Thanks for this, it irked me to no end that they missed that whole thing entirely
Not to mention, 17:14 is essentially the plot to Predators
That would require someone watching alien 3
Also Predators have an honor code and aren't genocidal. They're not going to wipe out entire colonies full of civilians because they only go after strong prey who can defend themselves.
He literally not watching a predator movie, the predator only hunt a man, they dont kill a child of pregnant woman, they have honor
The story line could have been simplified in one simple move, Danny Glover's character from Predator 2 could have been her Dad. Kill the stereotypical survival-horror explain mission/meet-the-soon-to-be-dead stuff and just cut to the good stuff.
Exactly.
Even the unrated cut of this film is bullshit. Have you seen it BTW?
I like the High Five subplot.
Best subplot since Anakin's love story
best subplot since th editorials
Or the avatar revews
High five to jock Doug! Can't leave him hanging forever.
Every like is a high five
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"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection" isn't *that* weird, they just found something fairly modern looking (alien guns) in an ancient ass temple (Moses, I guess).
Not weird but it is a dumb line.
Fun fact: Some helicopters, mainly military ones, do actually have a sort of a silent mode. They basically mode their rotor blades in a way that makes less noise. He could be hovering behind your wall and you woldn't have any idea.
Why would they have a silent "mode" as opposed to being silent all the time, or having specific helicopters that take advantage of their silent technology? Is there an advantage to "loud" mode?
@@chrisandrew7577 maybe silent takes more power? idk
@@doom5895 or this is waffle
I think people could still notice it because it would still be producing wind.
@@doom5895 Probably, because "silent mode" sets the blades in a way, that would be detrimental to efficient flight, and thus "silent mode" can only be employed when the helicopter is hovering in place?
1.The Predator obviously got facehugged in the scene while he was marking himself, as explicitly implied.
2.The alien queen still attacked him because they are able to prioritise.
3.The Aliens always inherit traits of their hosts.
Yeah, they're really overlooking how the aliens have HUMAN TEETH, which is the most obvious visual clue we get to prove that the aliens get genetically mixed with their hosts.
But the mixing of genetic information was subtle before. Visually, there was no real distinction between those born of human hosts and the one from _Alien 3_ other than that it runs on all fours. So to have one that carries over such overt physical traits is just stupid. It reminds of the toyline they had with all the variants like a gorilla or bull or grasshopper. Wait, how the fuck does a facehugger impregnate an insect? See, it's that stupid!
ya
You literally see a scene where the facehugger gets him, and the the xenomorph adapts the DNA of its host.. That's literally the whole gimmick of the alien.. In Alien 3 it comes out of a dog, and walks on all fours and murders for food..
This.
So true, I literally only went to read the comments to see if someone said this already! Trey the Explainer actually has an interesting video on the possible anatomy of the aliens where he mentions the same exact thing, how xenomorphs are one of the few aliens that make sense in the world of science because they borrow the DNA of the host (and that's exactly why they resemble us so much), unlike other aliens whose human-like appearance would be highly unlikely.
Wow I'm a nerd.
This is the theatrical version not the unrated one isn't it ...
she doesn't, or at least if you look at the aliens in Prometheus, they are constantly developing, taking genes from the hosts.
An Alien dog? I'm surprised they didn't do an Alien cat, seeing that there was ana actual cat in the Alien movie
17:35 "Oh BTW Diey McDie Dead dies" 😂 🤣
I love how he claps his own hand in the jock scene
I never understood how a movie with Aliens could get PG-13.
I mean really??? Deaths, facehuggers, chestbursting, acid melting stuff...
HOW IS THAT PG-13!?!?
Well, Captain America DID shred a nazi into a cloud of blood on a propeller at the end of his first movie, yet that was PG13.
Paul WS Anderson wanted it to be PG-13.. According to him an Rated-R movie wouldn't be successful on the box office or "Among fans"..That's why Mortal Kombat and Even Horizon was PG-13. He only cared if they made money. He only made the Resident Evil movies R-rated because his wife were naked in those. ...He's a greedy hypocrite.
What? That makes no sense! Fans of the Alien movies WANT R-rated movies!
Such weird choices...
Unbelievable :/
It's because it was cheaper to make a PG-13 film. It's a baffaling concept considering the previous six films were all gory and had plenty of f-bombs in them. Still, an R rating doesn't fix everything, Requiem proved that.
This movie is a masterpiece compared to Requiem
MegaSoulHero true
Truth right there
the sad thing is I didnt even mind Requiem too much. The action and suspense was decent, but the camerawork was sloppy, the main characters (kinda?) were lackluster, and the ending was dumb. Even with that, it was better overall compared to the predecessor. In my humble opinion though.
He needs to review Requiem down the line, that movie is horrible.
MegaSoulHero it's a masterpiece compared to Alien: Covenant
Gremlins in an Alien vs Predator movie?
That would actually make this movie a lot more likable!
"just in time?.."
they were there all the time. they were not gonna interfere at all. they were watching it all (most likely with beer and snacks)
I died when the penguin made the chun noises god I wish that was real
I just wish The Critic would have shouted Penguin! in the same way he shouts Cat! Though because he's a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender he'd probably play the clip when Aang says it.
Happy Feet would have been entertaining with that noise
The eragon movie. I think that would be a great movie to review.
Star Wars with Dragons... nuff said.
Exactly.
I agree, i hated that awful piece of shit for what it did to a series that i love.
There were supposed to be a few of them but the first bombed that hard, right?
What an awful piece of trash that movie is. It didn't do the great book justice. :/
8:33 that's an Italian actor though, who usually stars in Italian romantic comedies. For the Italian audience is like watching Hugh Grant in Alien Vs Predator, but surprisingly, he somehow pulled it off.
"Don't make me throw her at you"
"Yeah. I hurt"
21:03 shortly after he marked himself with the blood of his kill. A facehugger latches onto him, scene cut and next scene we have is him pulling it off.
21:07 because it's still a potential threat. The only exception to this is a host carrying a queen.
21:09 because that's what xenoMORPH means. It takes on the form of it's host. This has happened in Alien3 when the facehugger impregnates the ox (or dog depending on which version) as well and morphs into a more animalistic xeno, walking on all fours.
Actually Xenomorph means alien form, and was never actually intended too details about it just that it was distinctly... *alien* in appearance. but the other 2 points were right, and i'd see why you'd think the last one.
I personally think the name is a happy accident.
While Xenomorph, as you said means alien, strange, foreign or unknown form as a reference to it's own appeareance, it does make sense for Chris' point
actualy in requiem the hybrid xenomorph dose spawn a groupe of xenomorphs from the belly of a pregnant women so if it can reproduce doesn't that make it a queen ?
@degree7 yes it does and you are a tool.
It takes traits from it's host. That and the acid blood is their entire thing.
But to be fair in NC's case in the review is if you don't watch the Aliens movie, you're not gonna know much about the Aliens because very little is actually explained.
Yeah the Predators are hunters, but that's practically all the movie tells you.
Yeah the Aliens are incredibly deadly and adaptable...but that's it.
The thing about a Crossover is not only do you need to try and give both sources their screen time, you do have to try and give some backstory on both of them so a fan of one can learn about the other and help entice him to check it out.
The high five arc with the jocks was hilarious
123bamboom totally agreed
That cutoff wail at the end with jock critic had me laughing so hard!
"Hi. I'm Time."
Now I want a buddy-cop prequel starring Time and (insert 80's action movie star here).
10:07
Alpha Predator: I love the Power-Virtual Glove.
It's so evil
42 dollars for a blank t shirt? GeeZ better be made of beetle shells and conduct hamon
Actually it's made of special fibres that are more comfy and don't capture odour
Mr Critical sooooo... I can't murder vampires with it then? What's the point?
OMG IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO'S REFERENCE?! :OOOOO
HOLY SHIT BOY IS THAT A MOTHER FUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?
ahhh yes. The inevitable JoJo reference
When he said “Hi, I’m Time” that got me 😂
"Mine's bigger"
"Shut up Frank"
"When did the Facehugger get him?"
Critic, did you see the scene where the Facehugger gets him then goes off screen during the markings scene?
"Why did it mix with his DNA creating a new creature?"
This is a question you should've asked when watching Alien 3.
i hope you can do that crappy sequel. it's so dark it makes fan4stic look like a flashlight.
jake hilado when watching that i was thinking why the sun was never coming up lol
The only reason Fant4stic was so dark was because I had my eyes closed from complete boredom.
I still barely remember any of it, it was the hardest movie to watch.
Alright, couple nit-picks mostly because I know a good bit about about the Yautja (Predators) because of the various books and comments. 1. The 3 Predators were Unblooded, basically teens going through their initiation (Think like a bloody Bar Mitzah) their goal was to kill all the aliens in the temple and mark themselves with their clan's insignia using the alien blood. Which is why there was only 3 and the ship didn't help (They were there for pick-up and or clean-up if they failed). 2. They didn't just drop off the eggs because its been shown in books that left unchecked the Xenomorphs spread like a cancer, which makes them difficult to control, thus ruining the point of the ritual (and Yautja are nothing if not very strict with their rituals). And lastly, 3. The reason the Pred-alien was a thing is because Xenomorphs take on trait of whatever they were birthed from (like the one born from the dog in Alien 3).
Funny that. It's different for someone brand new to both franchises as well. NC's perspective is from someone who's seen the movies, but only the movies. This was my introduction to both Aliens and Predators, so when he talks about us knowing what the different creatures do, that wasn't the case for me. Still, it's nice to get the perspectives of all sides.
Sky, if you are interested in learning more about the Yautja, I'd suggest reading these three books as I found them very interesting. 1. Alien vs Predator: Prey by Steve Perry (it's a trilogy but honestly book 1 is enough) this one is really good because you get a real good view of Yautja culture following Daschande, imo my favorite Predator character to date. 2. Predator: South China Sea by Jeff Vandermeer one of the best Predator stories out there, a favorite amongst many, and 3. Predator: Concrete Jungle by Nathan Archer (bonus with this one it stars Dutch's, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, brother so it ties very well with the first movie)
Thanks. I'll have to check those out.
No problem, definitely start with the Alien vs Predator one though.
I also recommend the Rage war Trilogy by Tim Lebbon.
"My God they're evil, they find a way to combine the virtual boy and the power glove into one" No comments, just laughs
they actually explain why the preds don't let the xenomorph's reproduce and have there own planet, those things are monsters and are tough to beat and are only used as a coming of age hunting ritual. i'll be honest it doesn't make alot of sense but its not the worst plot in the world
They would also wipe out the entire planet so there would be nothing left to infest eventually.
Yeah, Xenomorphs are highly reactive creatures capable of rapid evolution , and it wouldn't be far fetched that an entirebplanet of them would be an unstoppable nightmare to clean, and a potential threat to the galaxy as a whole if they developed the ability to comprehend technology and space travel. It would take a while, but it COULD happen. The possible only reason the ones in Alien are just eggs is because there's no life capable of sustaining them on that planet, so they lay in wait as eggs instead. Let them have a planet full of life and you're asking for trouble.
@@rohit2rule Well it's a test for young hunters so having a fixed ennemy to face that is known to be tought but beatable is a good way to have a true test with similare chances each time (and it's also logical to have a reduced amount of aliens to fight new hunt pack and not a full planetary scale.
I like how the narrator describes the predators "breed the perfect prey"
The predators fucked up big time if that's their goal lol
A pig or cow is the perfect prey... that's why we breed and farm so many(maybe fish would be better?), (narrator clearly just had it worded poorly) this would be like the equivalent of a child being born out of a cow or pig in a slaughterhouse, standing on two legs, and going on a fucking rampage and taking everyone out lol
"why would it mix with his DNA and make a new creature?"
That's mostly what the Xenomorphs do, they were way more primal looking and quadripedal before breeding with the first human, after that they developed human-like attributes like walking on two legs, being more tactical, and developing a form of clear communication for hunting. You can see more facts like this in the comics or that god awful, sorry excuse for a prequal Prometheus.
From what little I've seen of Prometheus Covenant is FAR worse(my opinion).
Also see the dog (or cow) alien in Alien 3. The aliens incorporating parts of their hosts was as far as I know always the explanation for why the alien in part 1 was relatively humanoid, making it older than even the concept of a queen, which was mostly hatched for movie 2 after a scene from 1 where dead people were turned into more facehugger eggs was left on the cutting room floor for pacing reasons. That's why they're officially called xenomorphs, they morph after foreign lifeforms. In this case the alien infects a predator creating a predalien. So someone drop these guys in Jurassic Park and give me some raptalians already.
Sim Jones I thought Prometheus was pretty good. Explaining why the aliens were feral and had no sense of order or society, how the alien ship you see in the original films was all messed up. I HATED the cgi though. That tentacle thing was sooo fake!
I think in a comic book somewhere or a fan art/fiction, you have Aliens Vs Preds on prehistoric earth( or some other world that is in its Prehistoric stage), and of course the aliens breeds with Dinos..., Alien T-Rex and Alienraptors are the scariest shit you can imagine...
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Reading the un-edited script for Prometheus gives it an entirely new feel and really sheds light on huge plot holes and confusion. Honestly, it could've been worse and as a LONG time Alien/Predator fan I found it the least offensive attempt at clarifying long awaited details and was easily a 7.5 or even 8/10 for me.
BUT they still shouldn't have fucked with the sequel so damn hard... *Fuck David!*
Requiem? You mean the one with no lighting?
Avery H their logic: "they can't critique us if they can't see what's going on"
+Avery H
Actually it was decently lit... in cinemas...
The transfer for the home video release was butchered hard, tho. The movie disappointing heavily both from critical as well as financial standpoint, so i guess they never bothered to make an improved transfer for a re-release(that next to no one would care about), or perhaps because of the movie's failure they no longer even have the original master copy of the movie.
Like Doom 3.
no seen it in the cinema because i loved the first AVP and i have to say i didn't see anything, camera zoomed in way too close on giant screen, cuts are way too fast for your eyes to focus or your brain to process what you are even seeing, camera shake and generally dark picture do the rest.
All the action in that movie was shit thx to the camera work.
Don't forget they have one Predator going around apparently erasing all evidence of aliens . . .it gets to the point that the whole town is infested and has to be nuked . . . and that mother fucker is STILL going around pouring acid on the bodies of dead aliens like it actually matters at that point. If he lived he'd probably be fired. God what a stupid movie.
"Don't make me throw her at you!" "Yeah! I hurt!" That alone deserves a thumbs up.
Edit: I think the main problem with AvP was that it was in the works then dropped then in the works, back and forth for so long, had all the fans of BOTH series gnawing for it to happen, that when it finally did it just, well we were happy it finally happened. But severely disappointed with what we got. At least that's my take on it.
Still, beats Requiem.....
The face hugger got him when he marked himself as a Xenomorph killer, they showed the scene of it creeping up on him. The Queen fought him because he was trying to kill her. The Xenopmorph merged with his DNA because that’s what they do. That’s why the Xenomorph in Alines 3 looked more dog like rather than the bipedal versions from the first movies.
I'd like to see you review the Last Unicorn movie. I remember watching it once as a kid and thinking some of the scenes were really freaky.
Leonardo Katana my best friend quoted this movie for her yearbook
Ive heard of it but I never understood what it was about
I remember I would watch that when I was little. I watched it again recently and, well, I thought it was quite flawed to say the least (cough cough- Jeff Bridges' singing).
Poor Jock Doug....
(Hugo Weaving voice): Jocks need love like everything does
I just wanna give him the high five he deserves
‘It’s probably better than what you are wearing right now’ me in my Wookiee onesie: HOW DARE YOU!
I honestly enjoyed the final part because it shows that the Predators aren't just blood thirsty aliens, they actually are honorable to the people that earn their respect
The mixed DNA is actually established. The alien spices have a complex life cycle in order to adapt to the environment around them. That's why the drones are largely human. In Alien 3 this is confirmed with the dog alien.
Sploogmaster2
Hey! it's the Black Swordsman!
Hai yo!
ZiggyHedgehog9538
Guts VS 100 aliens.
Mindeer
I'd watch that actually
Sploogmaster2 Good point! Also your name is goddamned hilarious.
Doug I have to say your jock character just breaking at the end has to be one of the funniest (and most underrated) jokes in any of your reviews. It just always gets me in stitches. Hope you see this.
I died laughing with that and him giving himself a self-high five, 15:10, 16:25 and 18:56
Agreed.
Aw man I'm late to the party. This was my favorite movie for a majority of my life for many reasons! The AVP rivalry is a staple in history of how I meet my best friend. I was on the side of the predator and he was on the side of the alien. This rivalry helped create our friendship and to this day neither side has won. Another fun fact is that this rivalry helps remind us of our history as friends. Like what the nostalgic critic said in many of his videos, "everyone has their own opinion and some movies have an emotional tie to some people," this movie is the best example of that.
O ya I totally agree requiem does suck, surprised it wasn't on a top 11 worst squeals episode.
Damn this joke with high-fiveing him self gets me every time 😂
And Years later Alien and Predator got a rematch in Mortal Kombat XL
SuperFusionAJ93 so true 😂😂😂 mkx will
Forever be the best mortal kombat ever made in the series because it has alien vs
Predator 😂😂😂
Adriel Omar Díaz nah. Mk9 will simply be the best mk.
SuperFusionAJ93 Missed a big opportunity to have Freddy vs Jason and Alien vs Predator.
SuperFusionAJ93 and was great
Poor Nostalgia Jock
Will he ever get a high five?
🖐
🙋🙋🙋✋✋✋
SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE I think they're gonna come back, the jocks were too fun to be a one time thing in my opinion
The dna face hugger splice has been explained in recent movies
First example was Alien 3 with the cow corpse and the quadrapedal Xenomorph. They change in accordance to the host in order to adapt. Always interesting to see when people obviously never paid attention in the other films.
alien: jock
predator: intellectual
jock vs intellectual: requiem?
RIP Malcolm Ray, the world's greatest Deadshot/Catwoman
2013 - 2017
"It wasn't impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else." Andrew Ryan.
Nah, he's fine, just not in the video. I was only havin' a laugh.
Andrew Ryan a man chooses, a slave obeys.
Derek Hearne Would you kindly stop referencing things?
"Hi, I'm Time."
XD Best line in this review
i laughed my ass off at that
Honestly the funniest thing here
"Mines bigger"
@@Officiall_Bean shut up frank
I just love that Elephant Graveyard Joke
I’m glad they made an Unrated Version of the film, it also has some extended scenes and an alternate opening.
Who wants Nostalgia Critic review AVP: Requiem?
Vote Now -> Yes or No
yes
Raven the Magnificent I'll actually take the two measly seconds to type "YES" as opposed to just a thumb's up. Seriously guys, how lazy have we become?
Not sure we need a full review to cover "It's dark. In the bad way."
No.
I want Steven Universe.
Yes. I want to see his reaction to arguably the sickest shit in the Alien films, the Predalien forcing embryos down pregnant women who give birth to several belly bursters shortly after. Considering what we see in Covenant, David would admire that so much. XD
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
was awfully bad and made no justice to the first.
He did at the end. It sucks.
Allow me to simulate what it's like to watch Requiem. Watch being used in the loosest term. www.solidbackgrounds.com/images/2560x1440/2560x1440-black-solid-color-background.jpg
Don't make me throw her at you! Yeah I hurt! 😂😂😂
17:15 In the comics, that's pretty much what the Yautja do. They deploy a few Xenomorph eggs and then send down a hunting party as part of a ceremony called a Kainde Amedha Chiva (Hard Meat Hunt [Kainde Amedha being the Yautja word for Xenomorph]) composed of a few Blooded (or veteran) Yautja and coming-of-age Yautja who need to prove their worth.
Comics? Who wrote them? Are they canon?
@@TheALPHA1550 alien and predator actually exist in the same universe, because ridley doesnt like avp he doesnt consider avp canon
Mack Weldon is expensive as fuck, I watch UA-cam videos, I don't have enough money for $30+ plain color tees
what does watching youtube videos have to do with the cost of shirts?
but the chart says that youtube and shirts have SO MUCH IN COMMON!
Shin The Mouth nobody who spends that much on plain tee shirts uses the small amount of free time they have on watching stupid UA-cam videos
Nostalgia Critic's advertisement is Mack Weldon
I dont wanna be that guy...knowing by saying that I am making myself that guy but isnt it somewhat common knowledge that Xenomorphs copy the genetic traits of their hosts? Thats why the one in Alien 3 acted more like a dog....I'm probably just nitpicking needless to say it was a great episode.
You don't have to be that guy to point out how dumb those last 3 questions were. There's a scene where a facehugger jumps him. A queen is more important to the hive than one embryo. Alien 3 flat out shows us the Xenos take on the hosts characteristics.
Still a fun episode.
So, perhaps, the questions were intentionally placed?
TheJbuckhanan if you watch review channels sometimes, you start to notice they leave out scenes or information so they can ask questions for no reason.
I think the point of those questions is to point out that, while people know about Predators and/or Aliens, they don't necessarily know about their joined stories or the specifics of how they work.
Hardcore fans of Alien do know about the Xeno's characteristics depending on the host and Predator's fans do know about their code of honor, but first timers don't and there is no explanation about any of it in this movie (for obvious reasons). The markings and weapon gifting of the predator's leader and the sudden birth of the Predalien (Does anyone else like Xenopredator as an alternative too?) may be information that confuses the audience if it's their first time in contact with these franchises.
Hawner but they could easily and quickly explain most of that in the video.
I liked the AVP lore. Tying the Yautja and the Xenomorph together kind of made sense. A super advanced warrior type civilization could totally make the perfect creature. Sadly, Ridley Scott decided to make them the frankenstein monster of a robot with a god-complex, which I dont hate. But having the Predator making them for sport seems cooler to me.
Doug has mastered the art of hilarious angry/confused facial expressions
Is he joker in disguise cause he almost kills me every time
Douche Bag Dougs breakdown at the lack of high fives are some of the best bits
Also the alien is shown in alien 3 taking the features of which ever host birthed it
J-bard yeah but..... alien 3 was ass
Alien 3 was pretty bad, but it still explains that the Xenomorphs (somewhat) take form of the host that they impregnate, which answers the question (That was in the review) as to why the chest buster took form of the Predator at the end.
Yeah but even though so it didn't look that much different. In the Alien 3 the host is a dog (or an ox in another version) yet it looks almost exactly the same as Xenomorphs that came from a human host in terms of deign.
Scratch the ox/bull thing, turns out they fixed it in the comics I think and gave it a bull-like design.
J-bard so you actually watched alien 3
That lady was outrunning a xenomorph
_how do you outrun a fucking xenomorph_
_with your legs_
SuperStachey eightnineeightnine They meant how do you outrun it if it's faster than you? Duh.
I figured as much, I was just kidding around.
SuperStachey eightnineeightnine Ah. My bad. I should've noticed it was sarcasm from the italics.
RipleyandWeeds to be fair it was a Queen, and Queens are really slow compared to drones
For the *insert (mass) confusion* scene, I think it would be funnier if the mind people said "Hey, it's getting crowded in here."
I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking about how cool it was that she became an honorary predator
If a illegal immigrant and a child molester fought would it be called Alien Vs. Predator?
Illegal Alien vs Sexual Predator
sounds like a porn movie
+ZeroB4NG More like a prison porn video
Not sure if I want to shake your hand or smack you upside the head.
Sounds like thatd be a better movie
UA-cam is so fucked Doug has to do ads. Holy shit.
I'm mad at youtube not Doug. Doug is just doing what he has to so everyone gets paid. UA-cam ads have been not working properly for some youtubers.
Ok since people are misunderstanding my complaint allow me to clarify.
UA-cam ads have been fucked for awhile. meaning some youtubers can't get ad revenue, which means they can't make money and some youtubers make a living off this site. So to continue to make money they must do the ads themselves. I'm upset with UA-cam being a broken website.
At least the ad was entertaining.
So, fuck UA-cam ads! I prefer this style of ads!
Cause, I don't wanna skip, I wanna see what joke He'll say!
Fair enough
Terrence Garcia Doug's best ad has to be Fantastic Storytelling. I still remember you can find it in his Sam and Max editorial.
Awesome review as always! Love NC and the whole team! I just want to answer the questions the guys asked near the ending:
1) It got in when he removed the mask to mark himself and a facehugger grabbed him
2) The Queen can always make more eggs and start a new nest but she wont be able to do so if these guys are around it and destroy her eggs. She attacked so that she can eliminate the threat and proceed to make more eggs after the previous nest got destroyed.
3) The Alien is a result of a combination between the host and the alien itself. In Alien 3 it runs like a dog because it came out of a dog. In Prometheus a hybrid between the host and the Engineers came out and its a well known fact that they do that in general with every host. Thats exactly what the Alien always does, it creates a new creature because they mix their dna with the host.
-" mine's bigger"
-" shut up frank"
*Dies*
This was a great review but the best parts were totally when the Jock Doug wasn't getting a high-five from anyone.
IKR it's the little things~
TeslaChad i literally lost it when jock Jim tried tried to get a high five from jock Doug and Doug just gives him this look of "are you fucking serious?!?!?!"
TeslaChad yeah definitely my favourite part of the review
TeslaChad also tamras "thas bullshhiiiit" line delivery was great
just like my life
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
He remembers it
So you don't have to
2B Honest golf clap
He didn't remember the scene where the Predator was face-hugged.
ShadowGolem86
To be a little forgiving, it didn't show the act itself, it just showed the Facehugger leaping while Predator's mask was off, and when it cut back to the Predator, he was putting his mask back on like nothing happened.
It may have only been in the unrated version. Not sure. But I do remember the part. It was after he killed the alien and took his mask off to do that whole marking ritual. Then we see a face-hugger fly through the air and it cuts away.
2B Honest perfect
The Lead is surprisingly very like lara croft
Ironically one of the flashback sacrifice maidens spent some time as a Lara Croft model. I don't remember which you tube channel I saw that on.
I wish they had been smart enough to have her be the archaeologist and the survival expert all in one. Would have cut out the need for dude talking so much. All she had to say was "its real not a myth". Let the killing begin.
I lost it when the shakey fight happened and the inner Dougs kept changing from annoyed to happy and vice versa 😂
I watched AVP years ago without ever having watched a single movie from either franchise, and honestly, I really loved it. It allowed me to get to know both the Aliens and the Predators as characters and concepts, and gave me an awesome lead to follow throughout the movie. My only regret was that I watched Requiem immediately after.
i had only seen the first predator movie before i saw this one compared to that i thought this movie was pretty mediocre but still enjoyable
BlueJaguarRanger Me too.
You must have really low standards in movies then.
I know right.
I died when he said hi I’m time
A crossover between Alien vs Predator and Gremlins would probably be awesome, and I can see it happening, considering all the AVP crossovers, from Terminator, to Judge Dredd, and I think even Batman, possibly among others. We need Xenomorph Gremlins, damn it!
Just to explain, the temple was a 'rite of passage' for young predators. It's confirmed that the trio who we see aren't fully grown (hence why they're taken out kinda easily) but the temple was built so young bloods could slay a serpent to prove their strength and be allowed to hunt honourably.
also, that's why the other predators didn't help. if the queen wasn't killed, they would've done something then.
Please do the most Traumatizing children's movie of all time, Watership Down.
Brandon Lyon I think the real reason he did Care Bears Nutcracker at the end of 2014 was because it finally got released in theaters and Doug originally said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't in theaters. Just a thought that may or may not be true.
And he did Search for the Titanic a.k.a. Tentacolino fairly recently, which was another movie he said he would never review, so while maybe not right away, he might eventually do it if he feels like it.
Sam McCullough lmao
Loved the movie and absolutely love the book. Would love to see a review of it.
He said that he would never do Watership Down in a previous video.
kinda sucks we never got Predator VS Battlefield Earth
All the surviving Psychlos are exterminated by the Yautja empire.
21:20 to be fair alien 3 was the first that seemed to imply the host affects the xenomorph. The alien was born from a dog (or cattle originally) and it’s quadrupedal in that film. Also discussions with the creators of the original alien like Ridley Scott implies the xenomorph in that film inherited not merely human traits, but specifically traits from Kane. Such as Kane’s attraction to Lambert, which the xenomorph acts out by raping her to death...maybe.
Why is Malcolm white in this episode?
Okay, I laughed.
@Michael French
That's racist for thinking all European people are American. Maybe he's European-Canadian or European-New Zealander or European-European.