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Seriously, I can’t think of a cooler alien in movie history outside of the Predator.

Sure, the ‘Alien’ was awesome.. I mean it was something completely new, it scared the crap out of everyone and as the series evolved, it because more lithe, more voracious and eventually, under CGI, it became superb - but in my opinion, it never matched the sheer brilliance of the Pred.

The Predators were super advanced, they were huge, powerful, and looked awesome. You only have to go as far as the bonus features on the Predator special edition, to see Kevin Peter Hall in the complete suit, running around the filming park, to realise just how cool it was - and how much fun they must have had.

I spent many days and nights wishing I had one of those suits!

Over the years both series’ got diluted a bit. Predator 2 didn’t have Arnie and it was in the city. The future Alien films retained Weaver, but lost their freshness and stand-out scripts.

Nonetheless, I watched them and I enjoyed them, if only for their alien vision.

The first Alien vs Predator film, based loosely on the AWESOME video game (that I played like mad) grossed about $80 million at the box office. Not bad, but not brilliant. It was one I saw at the cinema and it had some serious impact on the big screen, Preds and Aliens duking it out and Humans just basically getting in the way of the hierarchy. I loved it probably because I played the game and I’d guess everyone you talk to that loved it would have also played the game at some stage. That or they are just die hard Predator/Alien fans who would watch any film under the series name.

So now they’ve announced AvP2 and a ‘return to the roots’ version.

So the brothers plan to bring the new film back to its roots — namely, Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien.

“That movie was dark. That movie used a lot of rain,” Colin says. “And that movie was scary. We want it more like the classic early Alien and Predator movies we grew up on.”

So it sounds good. And when your main alien looks like this:

A Predalien, you know it has potential. Potential to be awesome, or potential to be a total failure.

Regardless, I’ll probably be at the cinema with all the other fans, catching this one in its big screen glory, at the very least admiring the CGI of an awesome alien.

Link: Aliens vs. Predator 2