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The one thing I remember from Av P: R (outside of the Alien eggs inside the pregnant woman's womb): this small town has A LOT of pizza places. I counted at least five in a small town of maybe 8,000.

13% on the Tomatometer. Good FX, bad dialogue.

It's being called a Roger Corman type of film, and the aliens STEAL BRAINS?!

Okay, matinee time next week.

Now I have to see this.

Just saw this movie and I loved it. So many alien invasion tropes averted, deconstructed and generally beat with a stick.

• The army, instead of being badass heroes who save the world, completely and utterly fail. To compare their efforts to a bee stinging a rhino's ass would be polite.
• The aliens are visually unique, terrifying, seemingly omnipresent, and completely unexplained. No crappy explanations or reveals to spoil it.
• The efforts of pretty much every human character end up amounting to shit, with only one of the smallest, weakest aliens dead by the end of the film.
• The movie pretty much ends with the entire human race being harvested for parts, showing we are nowhere near as invincible as we like to think.
• Hell, the movie ends with an Inferred Holocaust and the main character Breaking His Arm Punching Out Cthulhu, his demise all but iminent.

The movie had a Lovecraft Lite vibe to it, an effect I was quite pleased with. That said, I didn't entirely enjoy the ending, which was kind of grating. But overall, two thumbs up.

edited 12th Nov '10 11:18:50 PM by KSPAM

Pretty much everyone who's seen it hates the ending. Some have even resorted to calling it the worst ending in movie history (apparently they haven't seen Troll 2, Eegah or Monster A Go-Go).

^^

Fuck the fucking Strause Brothers; all that was supposed to be the goddamned Alien's schtick, so instead of doing what they should've with their last movie, they neutered an iconic and existing monster and expied its traits in their next film.

In order to the put the motherfucking Predator on a pedestal.

IT'S JUST A FILM IT'S JUST A FILM IT'S JUST A FILM RRRRRAAAAAGH

People hate the ending? The ending had some of the only original, clever concepts in the entire film! They should have just made the whole movie about the pregnant chick's alien boyfriend kicking extraterrestrial ass and breaking out of the spaceship!

Also, the mexican's death got a solid B from me.

-He gets points for badassery and causing and explosion.

-He loses points for using an obvious cliche and failing the first attempt

They steal brains? That's what they do? Steal brains? They're brain-stealing aliens?

Now I can't not watch this.

I literally just got back from seeing this with my girlfriend.

I feel...violated.

The funny thing is how this film was marketed in Australia.

No mention of the AVP stuff. The narrative was "A couple of Aussie special effects wizards have struck out bravely on their own to make THEIR film".

I was actually going to watch it, based on that story. Glad I checked here and found out I was being fed a load of bull.

...and they went WAAAAAY overboard with the "guerrilla" aspect.

I mean, christ, this movie could probably out-lens-flare Star Trek 09!

edited 13th Nov '10 2:52:15 PM by Roundy210

Resistance Is Futile. Truer words have never applied to a movie concept.... Well, maybe it has, but lets not argue that right now. On the plus side, I've never seen a movie that actually had the old cliche of brain-sucking aliens before.

edited 13th Nov '10 5:45:33 PM by DRCEQ

It's so rare it isn't even a cliche anymore.

But yeah, crappy ending aside, this movie gets points for taking a Kill Em All approach tot he alien invasion movie.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought the ending was sucky. >>

NECRO TIME:

Saw this on netflix last night; was looking for a scifi movie and we put it to the five-minute test.

I liked the cold opening, but the proceeding fiftee minutes with jerks was a bit jarring until we caught back up to the cold opening. I called that the black guy dies, and as soon as I found out he was cheating around with his assistant (she was the assistant, right?) I knew she was a goner too. Especially since they stick them in a nice car together.

I had figured that the witchy girlfriend was going to eat it, wasn't dissappointed.

Found some plot elements to be off; the perscence of the military choppers in the beginning was never explained (although it suggested that the military knew what was going to go down and was prepping for it, at least), and I found the massive air attack sequence to be cheesy - what, no B-1 Lancer planes? Hey, how about we send nuclear-tipped Tomahawks, instead, guys? Another plot hole - why only human brains?

Also, F-22 crash sequence was pretty conspicuous CGI. Cast was a bit wooden at times, but that's a bit subjective.

I did find it neat that Jarrod was able to overcome, through force of will, his supposed fate, though. Other then that, the ending... Yeah.

Pretty good high-test nightmare fuel, but upon picking the film apart, it loses its HONF factor.

This movie sucked a herdload of goat balls.

That Is All.

Saw the trailer a while back, heard that the creators were Doing It for the Art and decided to check it out.

There was a distinct lack of plot in there.

I just dont understand the people who say than the ending sucked.

You got it wrong. The WHOLE movie sucked HARD, EXCEPT maybe the ending. That was OK, nothing special but definitivly good if compared to the rest of the film.

No, the ending sucked as hard as the rest of that load. I'm willing to buy that repeated exposure to the light did something to his brain. I'll go with that. His heroic breaking free? Sure. However ten seconds after the movie faded to black he and his girlfriend were ripped apart by the five hundred pissed off aliens descending on them.