10 Sci-Fi Movie Ideas Too Good To Fail (That Did It Anyway)
9. Alien Vs Predator - Takes An Hour For Either To Appear (and Is As Bloodless As A Care Bears Film)
Honestly this one still sort of blows our minds. Even
if the contract stipulated that it needed to be set in a waterpark and feature
a cameo from Daffy Duck, how on earth does a filmmaker mess up a formula as
simple as “Alien Vs Predator”?
The promise is right there in the title, and as flawed as helmer Paul W.S Anderson’s Resident Evil adaptation may have been, his earlier Event Horizon made it clear that the director knew how to handle tense space-based horror. Add in an Antarctic base setting straight out of The Thing and you’ve the recipe for an incredible action-packed sci-fi horror as humans find themselves caught between the two titular monsters in a desperate fight for survival…
Right?
Sure, once you don’t inexplicably decide to dwell on boring backstory for half the film’s runtime, robbing the opening half of anything resembling tension or suspense, and then settle for a woefully misjudged PG-13 rating, thus robbing the long-awaited monster-on-monster action of any visceral impact.
Not that a rating change alone would have helped, mind—the
sequel, released four years later, brought back the R-rated ultraviolence and
proved to be an even less interesting, murkier affair than its predecessor.