Episode #2 - Alien vs. Predator
One movie was bold enough to put two of films greatest monsters against each other... Not Godzilla vs. King Kong. Not Charizard vs. MewTwo. No. This is Alien vs. Predator. A 21% rotten film that was just about everything it promised it was in the title. We get right into it, just like a face hugger into your ear hole, so give us a listen.
SHOW NOTES
Correction: Transformers: The Last Knight is the fifth, not the sixth, live-action Transformers film.
The director who is scheduled to direct real-life couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in a film, but whose name Esy and Nick didn't remember, is Asghar Farhadi. Production of that film is scheduled to start in Madrid in mid-August according to Screen Daily.
ADR stands for automated dialogue replacement. It's how actors re-record lines to make them sound better.
Ridley Scott, director of the original Alien (1979), doesn't like Alien vs. Predator. According to Damon Lindelof, co-writer of the Alien prequel Prometheus (2012), which Scott also directed, "I said to him, 'You know, Weyland was a character in one of the Alien vs. Predator movies,' he just sort of looked at me like I had just slapped him in the face. That was the beginning, middle and end of all Alien vs. Predator references in our story process."
James Cameron, co-writer and director of the first Alien sequel, Aliens (1986), said in 2006: "I think of the 5 Alien films, I'd rate it 3rd. I actually liked it. I actually liked it a lot."
Someone really did lace food with PCP one day during production of Titanic (1997), as Entertainment Weekly reported at the time.
Esy's blurb: A bunch of random humans serve as wallpaper for an inept, intergalactic monster mashup that attempts to say something but should’ve just been a fucking fight from the start.
Nick's blurb: At times enjoyable, at times laughable, very often fluorescent green, AVP has one real winner—the audience who came in without any expectations.
Alden's blurb: Alien vs. Predator—it's exactly what it sounds like.