Fun fact, the predator who comes in this movie is called wolf. If it wasn’t obvious he specializes in these kinds of hunts. In fact the ship that crashes sent a distress signal to him specifically I believe. To answer your question about the skinned man, Skinned prey by Yautja are only skinned because they were considered “easy” prey. They hang them up to basically intimidate other potential victims, a scare tactic if you will
And he’s a reference to the guy that helps Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta’s characters in Pulp Fiction which is actually said by James A. Janisse when he did the Kill Count for this film.
Wolf was such a badass cleanup Predator. He's been through it all. I wish he was in a better, brighter movie. Hell, I wish we got a movie focused on him in his younger years/earlier hunts.
I agree and I like the fact that they have a cleanup crew glass of predators like when they a pred alien happens as I do believe that A the ship that went down may have be part of his clan or do to the change of a ped alien the message was sent to him as wolf clearly has experience with that type of alien Maybe how he got the scars on his face from a pass hunt/clean up job with one
I've actually been thinking about possibly doing my own AVP stop motion movie using Hiya toys for aliens and predators and marauders with Wolf if I get to it. I really would like to do it though because I love Wolf too and I want to give him a better movie that he deserves to be in.
Wolf will forever be the most, badass predator in probably the whole predator franchise. He's literary an equivalent to a John Wick version of an alien. Going alone solo and not call for back up when there is an alien infestation is a literal suicide mission.
Seriously the best comment on wolf 🐺 pred, hands down the most badass looking predator too with duel Palma casters a damn whip, and a broken off mandible basically saying this predator has been through and seen some shit, he has the most badass mask too with all the marks basically saying he has had great hunts
I do fully agree with the John Wick part on Wolf and that is what makes him more awesome compared to the other Predators we see in this franchise. Wolf has the most unique personality of all of them which makes him an engaging character to root for.
to me that just shows why the Xenomorphs are better. they use tactics and don't do dumb shit like go alone when they could bring backup. or stop in the middle of a hostile environment to remove their helmet to mark themself leaving them vulnerable to facehuggers.
I remember watching this in theaters and when she said the government doesn't lie everyone in there laughed so damn loud. Just something that always brings a smile to my face. Wolf the GOAT
The one thing I like about this movie, as flawed as it is. It broke ALL the rules. Kills kids, pregnant woman, and other people, which is entirely possible. Great review Alteori, This movie would have been better if you could be seen, lol. Also, fun fact, the directors had planned to have the military waste the survivors after they handed the weapon over. But the studio was already pissed off enough with them so they went with a happier ending.
I saw this movie on DVD years ago with my brother and we hysterically laughed out loud when that woman said that’s crazy the government doesn’t lie to people 😅😂😂😂
The one scene that gives me chills is where the predalien is at the hospital. (Shivers) I prefer not to speak much about it. But I can say THAT scene is horrifying.
Its fucked but i like the xenomorphs ability to adapt for many situations egg morphing, all drones possibly being dormant queens, facehugger varients and now this faster more efficient inplantation method by the predalien. The xenomorph species is truly monsterous yet disturbingly fasinating
I remember watching this scene when I was like 5, I probably shouldn't have watched this but some days this scene plays in my head. I was in awe when I saw that hospital scene rewatching this movie.
One big missed opportunity is how basic the Yautja's design is. According to the lore, when Yautja go hunting, they put limits on their arsenal to give their prey a fighting chance. But in this case, he's not there to hunt. He's there to do a job and he has to get it done as quickly and efficiently as possible meaning the usual restrictions on his arsenal shouldn't apply. In other words, this was a chance for the creators to go completely ham and make his design as over the top and insane as they wanted but chose not to. I can't decide if that's respectable or just plain stupid.
I do agree to this but I do have a question... would it really be necessary for Wolf Predator to have an over the top design? As shown in the film, it's not like he NEEDS any improving on just design alone when he's fully capable of handling the situation with just the material he has. Unless you're suggesting that Wolf Predator should come in there with something like that ridiculous Predator Killer armor they had in The Predator 2018 (which I'll never consider canon) in which case, that would be cool and would make sense since he's in there to exterminate an infestation of xenomorphs and not go on a hunt but would still be ridiculously unnecessary.
Fun fact: the predator wolf is is a special hunter that forsakes the glory of the hunt and focuses on clean up to keep their secrets and tech from falling into the wrong hands hence the killing of innocents and weak prey
All artistry and subtlety that a movie should have just isnt in this movie. Its really like a 5 year old kid made a whole damn movie with no adult help at all
The Predalien impregnation scene was fucked up and honestly it's the best character re-railment of the Xenomorph I've seen. Returning it to H.R. Giger's original vision of it as a rape metaphor that's disturbing due to its inherently, monstrously sexual nature and it's perversion of reproduction and birth.
It was Giger's vision of the design, but I'd say the Alien's nature should've be more lovecraftian in the portrayal. The first film goes very hard on the "we shouldn't be here" and "It's completely unknown" vibes in the first half, and the second half is just basically punishment for the curiosity.
Just needs it talking like imperfect cell but with the i'l enjoy having my way with you talk and I'll officially won't be able to speak or sleep and I already have a hard time by that scene
Also apparently the lighting issue *WAS* noticed by the filming crew but I think the director said "Ahh it's fine don't worry about it" there's a behind the scenes bit, which is so frustrating
I can see everything in this movie and it sucked. The whole Dawsons Creek angle was obviously made to appeal to stupid hillbillys no one else would ever like this crap
A long time ago a TH-camr called decker Shado pointed out that the bioluminescent blood of the predator *didn't* glow in the movie, nor did the fire of a lighter make any sort of Illumination, which means the directors purposefully made it this way
You know the thinking about the predators plasma caster. It suddenly makes a lot more sense that they would use that because it would instantly cauterize the wounds from a xenomorph and so you don't get the acid splash that you normally would with regular weapons. So I'm actually not as mad about them not getting hit with the acid from using the predator's weapon
In the AVP game Extinction, there’s a Predalien Queen that was spawning normal Xenomorphs to attack the predator player. Seems the Predalien in Requiem was meant to be a praetorian type that can egg lay through the inner jaw. Also in AVP 2010 game, the Predalien in that one removed a head & spine from a space marine. The Predaliens do retain they’re Yaujta influences, like trophy collecting/honor fighting other preds/and in a deleted scene of avpr the Predalien skins the dead predators in the crashed ship & hangs them upside down.
They confirmed in the behind the scenes that the Predalien was a young queen and the mouth implantation is something they can all do so they have enough Xenomorphs around to protect them when they make the ovipositor, at first I thought this was a crap excuse but the more I thought about it the more it actually kind of makes sense
Wolf was actually named after Winston Wolf, from Pulp Fiction. Winston Wolf was basically someone who cleans up the mess and leaves no evidence, which Wolf from AvPR does, at least to a certain degree
This movie reminds me of Godzilla: King of Monsters. The story is pretty good and the action scenes look awesome with the few scenes YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE! The fights are legit barley visible because they’re either set at night or in the rain and it looks almost to realistic because it’s like it’s being filmed at night with an iPhone.
In this one behind-the-scenes video, when they were filming 2nd Unit photography during the hospital rooftop battle, the camera operator was saying that he was getting some really dark images in the viewfinder of the camera, only to be shot down by someone saying "Shut up, Dave!" Clearly, they should've listened to Dave.
@@autisticjoeyyoNo, I'm not joking. I'd share the link, but I tried 2 times before and the link gets taken down. Because TH-cam doesn't allow that anymore for some reason. But just look for the ADI video of the rooftop fight.
the name wolf is actually a reference to the film pulm fiction, named after a character named Winston Wolfe who is a "cleaner" who cleans up evidence at crime scenes
Fun fact: the blood of each stage of a xenomorph has different acidity. The most potent of which is the ovamorph (egg). The other stages have varying potencies of about the same level.
I liked the Veteran Predator, nicknamed 'Wolf' after Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction, and just like 'Wolf' in that movie, he does a good job with cleaning up evidence.
What sucks about Wolf predatpr is that he was on his last day before retirement. *Turns around to gear up* "Fuuuck.....Of course this shit happens on my last day before retirement. I should've listened to the wife and called off work, but no, I thought I knew better. I swear if I survive this she'll never let me hear the end of it."
This sequel was needlessly cruel. It's like the writers saw all the criticism of the past movie and went "Oh was that too boring for you? Well here's some women and babies getting chomped on and a whole town exploding!"
Alien Vs predator requiem is such a trainwreck of a movie that really didn’t do either franchise justice because oh boy it was so bad and a complete trainwreck.
I remember on a podcast , the host and co-host theorized that the film was darkened in post because it received an NC 17 for the violence. Then again the same people did skyline and I remember not being able to even make out what happened in the final act
This movie was the first purchase I ever regretted. I was a wee lad, who had only watched the original Alien V Predator film, and I saw the DVD for Requiem at one of our supermarkets for $10. The cover looked amazing so I saved up the money to buy it. Put it up in the player...and I just regretted it... However. At least it had the human decency to cover up the bad parts of itself in darkness. ... Unlike The Predator. As I was watching that train wreck, it was like every second of it made every second in Requiem shine like a gem. Because of The Predator, Requiem is a good movie to me, because it is a preferable alternative to wipe the former title out of my eye sockets.
Man, how far have we come. That current day movies make this garbage look good. Lol, everyone hated AvP Requiem for being way too dark and wasting screen time with stupid teenage drama. But The Predator puts everything in perspective, ha ha!
The alien's acid oxidices, so it's most likely is nullified by the rain at the end, same way the face huggers didn't manage to burn anyone in Aliens, because of the sprinkers as they were shot.
20:03 Back as a kid, I actually used this line for my spelling homework, where I had to use a list of words in different sentences. One of them being the word "lie." My mom saw me write it down, and corrected me in saying that the government does lie. Me, being the hair brain I was, decided to go 180 and wrote down something along the lines of, "The government always lies." She corrected me again, thankfully, but it certainly got her laughing.
The cool thing about Xenomorphs is that their embryos take DNA from the host creature they are implanted in, this gives the Xenomorph the best adaptations for their new environment for their warriors. This is best seen in the Predalien and Dog/Bull alien. The Xenomorph lose the dna forms when molting from Warrior to Praetorian and so on to Queen and Empress.
Actually, the Predalien in this movie IS a Preatorian. The Praetorian form of the dog/bull alien (also called a Runner alien), is called a Crusher alien.
@@bable6314 Really? I wouldn’t think that the Predalien had enough time to reach Praetorian status. Given the time frame id have said it would have molted into a warrior caste. It would explain the rate it can produce drones, I had simply assumed that the ability it used on the pregnant women was a predalien version of the standard evomorph ability. Is the Crusher alien based in the Dark Horse series? I dont know of that sub strain.
As far as killing an unarmed dude, if the pred-alien is in the area, that dead guy is one less host for it to incubate more chest bursters. Would be my best guess anyway. For all the predator knows he's already been mouth baby smooched. There's actually a lot of cool predator lore about how un-fucking stoppable and brutal predators are on the warpath, as opposed to on the hunt. One is an honorable tradition, one is just the cost of doing business.
So when this movie came out I was pissed about the darkness as well. But my friend had a PC at the time with an in-built bluray player and he had software to create modified recordings of movies. So we spent maybe 2 or 3 hours correcting the lighting for it and it enhanced the movie significantly. Also found out that the older TVs which had manual contrast and gamma controls like your average computer monitor can be tweaked to enhance the movie. Granted my Dad was really confused about what happened to the TV when he tried to put on his college football teams game and was like "the color seems... off." Meanwhile I'm like "...."
This predator in predator vs alien requiem is called wolf and he is a elite predator which means that he has been in so many battles and never lost and thats why he has a white eye and his one of his mandables is missing
He’s stated to be a King- a very rare form of Xenomorph with an entirely unique manner of reproduction. ….. basically a Queen but is in fact a male variant. Idk. It’s been years since I’ve been into this series (except this film. I personally hate it)
I was just thinking about this movie the other day while I was having lunch with my best friend, I told her to not watch this movie because of the hospital scene (she got recently pregnant), she told me she watched it a few months ago, we both stared awkwardly for a few seconds and she said "oh god, I have a xenomorph in me now", we both had to re watch it after that
6:06 there's your answer alteori, after the hunt an elite predator comes back to clean up the evidence, same happened at the end of prey in the credit scene, oh and fun fact this predator is an elite, he's like top predator, hundreds of years old and he has acid burns on his face which shows he killed an entire hive of xenos to earn his rank
Pretty much the one thing I liked about this movie was the parts where he was hunting the xenomorphs. What there should be is a movie or series where we as the audience follow the Predator as our lead.
so there's a massive Xenomorph infestation, and the Predators sent...ONE dude. not even a small squad of cleanup crew, literally just one guy against what could easily be thousands of xenos.
They went to film school and learned show not tell and that concealing the monster is good for suspense, and someone was like you know combining those ideas would be a master piece
This is actually starting to get me a bit weirded out since... there have been a few coincidences: 1. I start to look into Primal, here's videos about Primal from you; 2. I look back at the LotR series and you make a video about it; 3. Felt in the mood to look back at the Alien vs Predator Requiem's creepy pregnant woman attack scene because I was on a binge-watch for AvP and here we are now. I love your videos and your sound sense of logic, but I feel like someone's reading my brain at this point. xD
Alteori has a little bit of everything. I’ve been watching her reviews on Primal then I wanted to catch up on LOTR and her video popped up in my recommended straight away lol
I watched this with my parents in theaters when it came out, I didn't realize how dark it was at the time but ever since I've watched it on any streaming service it's dark as fuuuuuuck haha. I don't care about all the hate these AVP movies get I think they're awesome, my favorite is still the first one. I watched that with my older brothers and their friends in the theater tooooooo
Don't they usually do a test screening before releasing a movie? Did the director ignore the sane people that said "How are we suppose to watch a movie in Pitch black?" Or were the screening audience just sitting there saying "Ah yes drown me in the void as I listen to their Cries of agony."
Spot on review. I watched this movie when it came out and thought the same thing "This movie would be awesome if I could actually see it." Really glad you're a youtuber who gets it. She could have easily said "The government is only there to help" and it would have worked too. This gave me an Outbreak vibe, when the African village thought they were getting an airlifted humanitarian aide package and instead everyone in the villaged gets incinerated.
I first watched this on an old Cathode Ray Tube TV back in the day. My brother and I truly believed that we had broken the tv because we couldn't turn up the brightness enough to see the action.
in the behind the scenes, you can see that the effects and everything was amazing. and you can SEE the recording. the darkness was done in editing. and for the life of me, i have no idea why they choose to do it that way
Cause they wanted to hide the practical effects so they didn't look to fake. That's what they thought. And they didn't want to show to much of the creatures in the movie. They wanted to hide them in the darkness and the rain.
Rare Fact: in the deleted scenes/concepts the PredAlien was supposed hang up and de-spine the two Predators it killed and use their armor and weapons. And in the AVP video game from 2010 another PredAlien also does the spine removal and throws it away because it doesn't understand why it's doing it.
I just installed that game on my Xbone and went through the Alien and Predator campaigns. That game is so much fun, if only Colonial Marines or Fireteam Elite were just as good.
This movies is kinda re-watchable if you skip all scenes that are not the AvP parts, making the movie 30 mins long. That Predator was an actual Blooded Elite, he was not there on a trial. He was there for clean up, total clearance. That means everyone goes, hunters, fishers, rig workers, soccer moms, soccer moms kids. It's been well established how dangerous Xeno's are if left unchecked. The Predator was there to CTRL-ALT-Delete anything the Xeno touched. Can't risk it. More movies showing full Blooded Elites in action would be sweeeet.
There's a brightened up version of this movie floating around out there, I literally went to go find it before watching this and I watched it again. It was still too freaking dark. Between that and the footage in this review, my eyes are so sore from trying to see anything.
Their orders were to contain the situation, which they did with the nuke. A small group who managed to escape isn't going to instantly be killed. They would be detained, tested, interrogated, etc., before eventually being let go. The main threat was dealt with, they had no reason to kill them.
The base model of xionmorph is actually based on the human form. As you said earlier; they do in fact take traits of the incubation host. Which since we have seen no thing but xinomorphs from humans. It is the base model we have known. The only exception being the yautja (predator) and a dog in alien 3.
The sad thing about everything bein so dark that you cant properly see it. The Makeup and practical effects are actually really good. Watch the making of, there you see the predalien actor in full costume walk to the set while in full light, and it looks absolutely realistic.
Okay, as much slack as this movie gets it does contain,in my opinion, one of the most gruesome kill scenes in an alien and/or predator franchise. Put yourself in the mindset of that little boy who sees his father died of chestburster, right before your life is taken by the same. It might just be me with the whole killing off the kid thing, but if you think about what he went through and what he saw in his last moments it's pretty sad.
Fun fact: the PredAlien sometimes displays more personality traits and behavior than it’s other race, in the movie this one wanted to make a nest, while in the game it hunted like a predator, even ripping off peoples head and spine, but doesn’t really understand why it does that, it mainly comes done to genetic memory and instinct of the predators, yeah it did it in the movie, but only once, while in the game it does it a lot.
But wouldn't that make the predator's entire civilization be genetic and instinctual in nature, then? Which is, kinda a racist undertone. It's one thing when you do "its a planet of hats" trope, but when you go even further and imply that desire to make hats is programmed genetically...
My theory on why it was so dark was because with certain scenes they chose to do, like the kid getting killed and the pregnant woman getting what happened to her as well, the movie's rating was starting to go past rated R and to keep the R rating, they had to darken the movie so you kinda see what's going on, but not enough to where you get gruesome details.
Great video, I've never understood why people ship Alexis/Scar as during that movie there is no flirting/chemistry in any scene, just two beings working together. It'd be the human equivelant of a person falling in love with a chimp, the yautja are advanced beings that care a lot about genetic purity as they literally fight for the right to pass on their genes. Again great video, I didn't hate AVP 2 either, not trying to upset anyone, just never understood the ship. Have a great day everyone XD
There's a lot of love for the Wolf predator, but honestly he failed. He died in the end and I refuse to believe he didn't miss at least one Xenomorph. Add the fact that he had zero impact on the outcome and he's just a sad predator that died for now reason after failing. The nuke saved the day and that would've happened without his involvement. Its a little sad but all he did was muddle about and fight a handful of aliens before getting flash fried. Predalien kiss was hot though, mad respect for drawing attention to that.
fun fact: the original drafted ending for this movie was after yutani was given the plasma caster it would've transitioned to a weyland-yutani ship flying to xenomorph prime, the colonial marines would land and we would see a group of predators on a hunt and also see a xenomorph king on screen
My problem was how the government was so trigger happy to drop a nuke on american soil without a half ass attempt at military action first like most movies, (granted I think it worked out for the best) but how did they know the extent of the xeno threat? considering the were massacreing a civilian population that had no combat experience. I just feel like they could've had a throw away line explaining the dealt with xenos before.... which could've open the door for an alien prequel with that general encountering them while he was a foot soldier
I was waiting for her to discover this ever since she mentioned watching the original AVP, I was like oh you think this is crazy? Wait till you see Requiem 💀
Thank you! Other than the impenetrable darkness, I thought this was one of the better Alien movies, and far better than the first AvP. I own a fair number of the original Darkhorse comics (including AvP), and I feel like it was much closer to the source material. The humans weren't elite military, they were normal people; they weren't the main characters, they were cattle on the killing floor and their stories mattered about as much. The Predator was the real protagonist, we just saw the story from a more relatable perspective.
What? It is easily the worst. The whole small-town-USA-teenage-drama crap has no business in either a Predator or an Alien movie. They had a few good ideas with the Predalien and clean-up Predator plus the gore, but the rest is generic B-horror with the AvP label to make it interesting. There's a reason why everyone was pissed at this when it came out.
Kids are weird. I remember when my niece was 7 or 8. She only wanted me to make her instant ramen. No one else. I have no idea why. It's not like I did anything special to it. Anyway, this movie would've been great schlock if only we could see it...
I remember dead meat covered all the deaths in the movie he had to turn up the exposure to see a goddamn thing, this movie had to be the inspiration for the justice league filming technique
Fun fact, the predator who comes in this movie is called wolf. If it wasn’t obvious he specializes in these kinds of hunts. In fact the ship that crashes sent a distress signal to him specifically I believe. To answer your question about the skinned man, Skinned prey by Yautja are only skinned because they were considered “easy” prey. They hang them up to basically intimidate other potential victims, a scare tactic if you will
This is why you should always keep 1 grenade on you to blow yourself up if you go down easily in hopes of taking the yuatja with you.
And he’s a reference to the guy that helps Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta’s characters in Pulp Fiction which is actually said by James A. Janisse when he did the Kill Count for this film.
@@GunnarBarker wow really??? Do you remember his kill count?
@@destinitaylor4360 vaguely yeah
@@GunnarBarker what was it??
Wolf was such a badass cleanup Predator. He's been through it all. I wish he was in a better, brighter movie. Hell, I wish we got a movie focused on him in his younger years/earlier hunts.
I agree and I like the fact that they have a cleanup crew glass of predators like when they a pred alien happens as I do believe that A the ship that went down may have be part of his clan or do to the change of a ped alien the message was sent to him as wolf clearly has experience with that type of alien Maybe how he got the scars on his face from a pass hunt/clean up job with one
I wish he walked away from this movie and could at the very least have comics about his adventures after.
I've actually been thinking about possibly doing my own AVP stop motion movie using Hiya toys for aliens and predators and marauders with Wolf if I get to it. I really would like to do it though because I love Wolf too and I want to give him a better movie that he deserves to be in.
Wolf will forever be the most, badass predator in probably the whole predator franchise. He's literary an equivalent to a John Wick version of an alien. Going alone solo and not call for back up when there is an alien infestation is a literal suicide mission.
Seriously the best comment on wolf 🐺 pred, hands down the most badass looking predator too with duel Palma casters a damn whip, and a broken off mandible basically saying this predator has been through and seen some shit, he has the most badass mask too with all the marks basically saying he has had great hunts
I do fully agree with the John Wick part on Wolf and that is what makes him more awesome compared to the other Predators we see in this franchise. Wolf has the most unique personality of all of them which makes him an engaging character to root for.
Yup, dude looks at xenos freakin aliens and is like “oh lovely, target practice” and draws with a fucking super hybrid killing machine.
Yup, dude looks at xenos freakin aliens and is like “oh lovely, target practice” and draws with a fucking super hybrid killing machine.
to me that just shows why the Xenomorphs are better. they use tactics and don't do dumb shit like go alone when they could bring backup. or stop in the middle of a hostile environment to remove their helmet to mark themself leaving them vulnerable to facehuggers.
I remember watching this in theaters and when she said the government doesn't lie everyone in there laughed so damn loud. Just something that always brings a smile to my face. Wolf the GOAT
Yeah tho really to make it even more halerios put the government do their job
Now the one good thing I can say about this movie is the Predator/alien hybrid is terrifying
Yes
*Predalien
What about wolf
If we could actually see him throughout the half of the movie
The one thing I like about this movie, as flawed as it is. It broke ALL the rules. Kills kids, pregnant woman, and other people, which is entirely possible. Great review Alteori, This movie would have been better if you could be seen, lol. Also, fun fact, the directors had planned to have the military waste the survivors after they handed the weapon over. But the studio was already pissed off enough with them so they went with a happier ending.
Agreed.. To many movies have kids and pregnant women being unnaturally safe.. It's more fun when everyone can die
Entirely possible but not at all necessary imo.
It didn't beak all the rules, it didn't kill pets
@@dream6562 Did the dog make it out of town before the nuke went off? "Taps head in thinking gesture"
@@OrangeHatReviews don't tell alt
I saw this movie on DVD years ago with my brother and we hysterically laughed out loud when that woman said that’s crazy the government doesn’t lie to people 😅😂😂😂
🤣🤣 and then she got blown up by the gov't
ROFLMAO I know ...I really know.
I cracked up at that part. Especially when everyone else was looking at her. Like they wanted to say something nothing how wrong that statement is.
The one scene that gives me chills is where the predalien is at the hospital. (Shivers) I prefer not to speak much about it. But I can say THAT scene is horrifying.
But it would be a much better scene if the hospital actually TURNED ON THE DAMNED LIGHTS!
Man that shit was ROUGH!!
Gives me the good kinda chills.
Its fucked but i like the xenomorphs ability to adapt for many situations egg morphing, all drones possibly being dormant queens, facehugger varients and now this faster more efficient inplantation method by the predalien. The xenomorph species is truly monsterous yet disturbingly fasinating
I remember watching this scene when I was like 5, I probably shouldn't have watched this but some days this scene plays in my head. I was in awe when I saw that hospital scene rewatching this movie.
One big missed opportunity is how basic the Yautja's design is. According to the lore, when Yautja go hunting, they put limits on their arsenal to give their prey a fighting chance. But in this case, he's not there to hunt. He's there to do a job and he has to get it done as quickly and efficiently as possible meaning the usual restrictions on his arsenal shouldn't apply. In other words, this was a chance for the creators to go completely ham and make his design as over the top and insane as they wanted but chose not to. I can't decide if that's respectable or just plain stupid.
I do agree to this but I do have a question... would it really be necessary for Wolf Predator to have an over the top design? As shown in the film, it's not like he NEEDS any improving on just design alone when he's fully capable of handling the situation with just the material he has. Unless you're suggesting that Wolf Predator should come in there with something like that ridiculous Predator Killer armor they had in The Predator 2018 (which I'll never consider canon) in which case, that would be cool and would make sense since he's in there to exterminate an infestation of xenomorphs and not go on a hunt but would still be ridiculously unnecessary.
@@treyrex5987 I suppose I'm just surprised they didn't go that route considering the level of madness they took with the Predalien's design.
@@Warrior-Of-Virtue Ah, that's a fair point. Understandable.
@@treyrex5987 xeno armor for a Xeno hunt.....
@@caliginousmoira8565 Oh, yeah... that actually sounds pretty cool. I wouldn't mind that. 😄
Fun fact: the predator wolf is is a special hunter that forsakes the glory of the hunt and focuses on clean up to keep their secrets and tech from falling into the wrong hands hence the killing of innocents and weak prey
He is the one they call when shit hit the fan. ❤
All artistry and subtlety that a movie should have just isnt in this movie. Its really like a 5 year old kid
made a whole damn movie with no adult help at all
The Predalien impregnation scene was fucked up and honestly it's the best character re-railment of the Xenomorph I've seen. Returning it to H.R. Giger's original vision of it as a rape metaphor that's disturbing due to its inherently, monstrously sexual nature and it's perversion of reproduction and birth.
It was Giger's vision of the design, but I'd say the Alien's nature should've be more lovecraftian in the portrayal. The first film goes very hard on the "we shouldn't be here" and "It's completely unknown" vibes in the first half, and the second half is just basically punishment for the curiosity.
You don't get to the uterus by way of the throat. There would be a lot more prego ladies otherwise.
@@justinhammer3196 the Predalien is clearly operating on a "every hole's a goal" mentality.
@@justinhammer3196 that's your problem with the comment?
Just needs it talking like imperfect cell but with the i'l enjoy having my way with you talk and I'll officially won't be able to speak or sleep and I already have a hard time by that scene
Also apparently the lighting issue *WAS* noticed by the filming crew but I think the director said "Ahh it's fine don't worry about it" there's a behind the scenes bit, which is so frustrating
I can see everything in this movie and it sucked. The whole Dawsons Creek angle was obviously made to appeal to stupid hillbillys no one else would ever like this crap
Alteori: it was decent
Me: but was it good
Alteori: it’s decent
Me: so it’s an ok movie
Alteori:…….
N..................o................
Believe me this movie is dumb dont ever praise it people will think youre an idiot
A long time ago a TH-camr called decker Shado pointed out that the bioluminescent blood of the predator *didn't* glow in the movie, nor did the fire of a lighter make any sort of Illumination, which means the directors purposefully made it this way
*I KNEW IT!!!!*
You know the thinking about the predators plasma caster. It suddenly makes a lot more sense that they would use that because it would instantly cauterize the wounds from a xenomorph and so you don't get the acid splash that you normally would with regular weapons. So I'm actually not as mad about them not getting hit with the acid from using the predator's weapon
Can we all agree that when alteori has 1 ear up and the other down is so cute❤️
In the AVP game Extinction, there’s a Predalien Queen that was spawning normal Xenomorphs to attack the predator player. Seems the Predalien in Requiem was meant to be a praetorian type that can egg lay through the inner jaw. Also in AVP 2010 game, the Predalien in that one removed a head & spine from a space marine. The Predaliens do retain they’re Yaujta influences, like trophy collecting/honor fighting other preds/and in a deleted scene of avpr the Predalien skins the dead predators in the crashed ship & hangs them upside down.
You can actually still see the skinned Predators in the background behind Wolf, and I mean “see” very loosely.
They confirmed in the behind the scenes that the Predalien was a young queen and the mouth implantation is something they can all do so they have enough Xenomorphs around to protect them when they make the ovipositor, at first I thought this was a crap excuse but the more I thought about it the more it actually kind of makes sense
My problem with this is that it makes predator's culture to be genetic. Which is kinda, you know, racist.
@@DarthBiomech Maybe Predators have genetic memories, unlike humans?
@@DarthBiomech actually it's probably because when it was in teddy's belly it learned from him
Wolf was actually named after Winston Wolf, from Pulp Fiction. Winston Wolf was basically someone who cleans up the mess and leaves no evidence, which Wolf from AvPR does, at least to a certain degree
This movie reminds me of Godzilla: King of Monsters. The story is pretty good and the action scenes look awesome with the few scenes YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE! The fights are legit barley visible because they’re either set at night or in the rain and it looks almost to realistic because it’s like it’s being filmed at night with an iPhone.
You mean Godzilla 2014 Godzilla king of the monsters was honestly a little to bright at times
Actually you can see the action in kotm really it is as dark as fan4stick
In this one behind-the-scenes video, when they were filming 2nd Unit photography during the hospital rooftop battle, the camera operator was saying that he was getting some really dark images in the viewfinder of the camera, only to be shot down by someone saying "Shut up, Dave!"
Clearly, they should've listened to Dave.
Ur joking 😮
@@autisticjoeyyoNo, I'm not joking. I'd share the link, but I tried 2 times before and the link gets taken down. Because TH-cam doesn't allow that anymore for some reason. But just look for the ADI video of the rooftop fight.
Sounds like the film in a nutshell considering how hard it is to see
This movie is DARK
And by dark I mean you can’t see what’s happening half the time.
Lol ikr
Yup
Darker than fan4stick
the name wolf is actually a reference to the film pulm fiction, named after a character named Winston Wolfe who is a "cleaner" who cleans up evidence at crime scenes
Pulm fiction was greant movir
Fun fact: the blood of each stage of a xenomorph has different acidity.
The most potent of which is the ovamorph (egg). The other stages have varying potencies of about the same level.
So the bigger the bug, the less potent acid?
@@kenneldbofungus i guess that would make sense given an adult don't really need to shoot acid to catch their victim's they just run them down
I liked the Veteran Predator, nicknamed 'Wolf' after Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction, and just like 'Wolf' in that movie, he does a good job with cleaning up evidence.
22:43, their heads look like that because they are warrior xenomorphs, the one in the original film was a drone
I saw this movie once and in my opinion I like the first film more. But the predalien design is very interesting.
What sucks about Wolf predatpr is that he was on his last day before retirement.
*Turns around to gear up*
"Fuuuck.....Of course this shit happens on my last day before retirement. I should've listened to the wife and called off work, but no, I thought I knew better. I swear if I survive this she'll never let me hear the end of it."
Laughs in Danny Glover 🤭
This sequel was needlessly cruel. It's like the writers saw all the criticism of the past movie and went "Oh was that too boring for you? Well here's some women and babies getting chomped on and a whole town exploding!"
It's a horror movie, or at least supposed to be. If anything it's appropiately cruel, the one point in it's favour is that it didn't pussyfoot around.
Wait, babies get eaten in this movie? So Alteori can tolerate _that_ but Scooby-Doo wins a Newbury Award and she's irrevocably traumatized?
@@grizzlymelon8376 Personally, I think it sucks at being anything close to a horror movie. It gives an attempt but fails.
@@grizzlymelon8376 It is not even trying to be a horror movie. It's action but with sadistically-cynical attitude of an edgy emo goth teenager.
It’s a horror movie, horror means someone or something is disturbing and horrifying, w-what do you expect?
Alien Vs predator requiem is such a trainwreck of a movie that really didn’t do either franchise justice because oh boy it was so bad and a complete trainwreck.
20:41 if you have a problem figuring out whether you like AVP Requiem or not, you ain't black - Boe Jiden
16:59
Alteori: “That’s hot.”
Me: **Visibly Concerned**
As someone who would, happily, take a fem-pred to pound town, I am equally concerned.
Lmao see her new video on alien Romulus
@@OmniUni007 🤣🤣🤣
Dam l wish that was me
"Have you seen Alien vs Preator Requiem?" "Yes and no."
I remember on a podcast , the host and co-host theorized that the film was darkened in post because it received an NC 17 for the violence.
Then again the same people did skyline and I remember not being able to even make out what happened in the final act
For me, it was darkly hilarious that Wolf accidentally killed the girl with his shurikens.
Really I don't care about her
This movie was the first purchase I ever regretted. I was a wee lad, who had only watched the original Alien V Predator film, and I saw the DVD for Requiem at one of our supermarkets for $10. The cover looked amazing so I saved up the money to buy it. Put it up in the player...and I just regretted it...
However. At least it had the human decency to cover up the bad parts of itself in darkness. ... Unlike The Predator. As I was watching that train wreck, it was like every second of it made every second in Requiem shine like a gem. Because of The Predator, Requiem is a good movie to me, because it is a preferable alternative to wipe the former title out of my eye sockets.
Man, how far have we come. That current day movies make this garbage look good.
Lol, everyone hated AvP Requiem for being way too dark and wasting screen time with stupid teenage drama. But The Predator puts everything in perspective, ha ha!
Meh the predator wasnt that bad 😭
The alien's acid oxidices, so it's most likely is nullified by the rain at the end, same way the face huggers didn't manage to burn anyone in Aliens, because of the sprinkers as they were shot.
I quite liked this movie, the pred alien is one of my fav species of alien tbh
I like the new pretentious robotic doggo mascot. Thanks as always for the content Alteori.
Honestly, not being able to see 99% of the monsters in this movie was one of my biggest gripes about it. Good to know I wasn't the only one 🍻
20:03 Back as a kid, I actually used this line for my spelling homework, where I had to use a list of words in different sentences. One of them being the word "lie."
My mom saw me write it down, and corrected me in saying that the government does lie. Me, being the hair brain I was, decided to go 180 and wrote down something along the lines of, "The government always lies."
She corrected me again, thankfully, but it certainly got her laughing.
The cool thing about Xenomorphs is that their embryos take DNA from the host creature they are implanted in, this gives the Xenomorph the best adaptations for their new environment for their warriors. This is best seen in the Predalien and Dog/Bull alien. The Xenomorph lose the dna forms when molting from Warrior to Praetorian and so on to Queen and Empress.
Actually, the Predalien in this movie IS a Preatorian. The Praetorian form of the dog/bull alien (also called a Runner alien), is called a Crusher alien.
@@bable6314 Really? I wouldn’t think that the Predalien had enough time to reach Praetorian status. Given the time frame id have said it would have molted into a warrior caste. It would explain the rate it can produce drones, I had simply assumed that the ability it used on the pregnant women was a predalien version of the standard evomorph ability. Is the Crusher alien based in the Dark Horse series? I dont know of that sub strain.
As far as killing an unarmed dude, if the pred-alien is in the area, that dead guy is one less host for it to incubate more chest bursters. Would be my best guess anyway. For all the predator knows he's already been mouth baby smooched.
There's actually a lot of cool predator lore about how un-fucking stoppable and brutal predators are on the warpath, as opposed to on the hunt. One is an honorable tradition, one is just the cost of doing business.
So when this movie came out I was pissed about the darkness as well. But my friend had a PC at the time with an in-built bluray player and he had software to create modified recordings of movies. So we spent maybe 2 or 3 hours correcting the lighting for it and it enhanced the movie significantly.
Also found out that the older TVs which had manual contrast and gamma controls like your average computer monitor can be tweaked to enhance the movie. Granted my Dad was really confused about what happened to the TV when he tried to put on his college football teams game and was like "the color seems... off." Meanwhile I'm like "...."
When I saw this movie in theaters, all the soldiers in the audience laughed when the lady said the government doesn’t lie to people 🤣
20:05 Come on now. The theater I was watching this in loved that line. Good humor.
This predator in predator vs alien requiem is called wolf and he is a elite predator which means that he has been in so many battles and never lost and thats why he has a white eye and his one of his mandables is missing
I just realized that the predalien is a xeno, an egg, and a face hugger all in one. Maybe even a queen.
He’s stated to be a King- a very rare form of Xenomorph with an entirely unique manner of reproduction.
….. basically a Queen but is in fact a male variant. Idk. It’s been years since I’ve been into this series (except this film. I personally hate it)
I don't know he is more like a princess
My favorite Predator Wolf loved this movie.
So funny story, when the scene of the girl saying the government doesn’t lie; no joke, everybody laughed at that in the theater
I was just thinking about this movie the other day while I was having lunch with my best friend, I told her to not watch this movie because of the hospital scene (she got recently pregnant), she told me she watched it a few months ago, we both stared awkwardly for a few seconds and she said "oh god, I have a xenomorph in me now", we both had to re watch it after that
Well to make it easy on your find here this film basically never happened because we saw nothing due to the god damn darkness
“Darkness falls across the land”
“The midnight hour is close at hand”
“Grisly ghouls from every tomb”
“Are closing in to seal your doom”
6:06 there's your answer alteori, after the hunt an elite predator comes back to clean up the evidence, same happened at the end of prey in the credit scene, oh and fun fact this predator is an elite, he's like top predator, hundreds of years old and he has acid burns on his face which shows he killed an entire hive of xenos to earn his rank
Alteori those aliens with the "cornrows" are actually warriors. Drones have a smooth head while warriors have the ridges.
“The government doesn’t lie to us” is the dumbest thing some people actually still believe
Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the biggest lies in recent history.
She was asking to die to say such a stupid thing really saying something that dumb is a sign to take the moron out of his stupidity
Pretty much the one thing I liked about this movie was the parts where he was hunting the xenomorphs. What there should be is a movie or series where we as the audience follow the Predator as our lead.
so there's a massive Xenomorph infestation, and the Predators sent...ONE dude. not even a small squad of cleanup crew, literally just one guy against what could easily be thousands of xenos.
They went to film school and learned show not tell and that concealing the monster is good for suspense, and someone was like you know combining those ideas would be a master piece
Fun fact: Even the Director hates his own movie.
For realz? Lol
This is actually starting to get me a bit weirded out since... there have been a few coincidences:
1. I start to look into Primal, here's videos about Primal from you;
2. I look back at the LotR series and you make a video about it;
3. Felt in the mood to look back at the Alien vs Predator Requiem's creepy pregnant woman attack scene because I was on a binge-watch for AvP and here we are now.
I love your videos and your sound sense of logic, but I feel like someone's reading my brain at this point. xD
Lol our brains are in sync
@@Alteori are you going to do a livestream soon?
@@Alteori 0:04 so who's your new friend
Alteori has a little bit of everything. I’ve been watching her reviews on Primal then I wanted to catch up on LOTR and her video popped up in my recommended straight away lol
I watched this with my parents in theaters when it came out, I didn't realize how dark it was at the time but ever since I've watched it on any streaming service it's dark as fuuuuuuck haha. I don't care about all the hate these AVP movies get I think they're awesome, my favorite is still the first one. I watched that with my older brothers and their friends in the theater tooooooo
The first one was fun, this one ... deserves the hate.
@@youtubevoice1050 eh, I still like it haha
“It was just a rat”
“Rats don’t shed their Fucking skin, fuck this shit I’m out”
Smart man
Guy: ”Well, the clock’s behind you.”
Me: ”And the wall is in front of you.”
Don't they usually do a test screening before releasing a movie? Did the director ignore the sane people that said "How are we suppose to watch a movie in Pitch black?" Or were the screening audience just sitting there saying "Ah yes drown me in the void as I listen to their Cries of agony."
Scar did not fall in love, he teamed up to have help facing the aliens.
Fact: wolf predator is the highest ranked predator we have ever seen throughout all of the predator franchise
Spot on review. I watched this movie when it came out and thought the same thing "This movie would be awesome if I could actually see it." Really glad you're a youtuber who gets it. She could have easily said "The government is only there to help" and it would have worked too. This gave me an Outbreak vibe, when the African village thought they were getting an airlifted humanitarian aide package and instead everyone in the villaged gets incinerated.
I first watched this on an old Cathode Ray Tube TV back in the day. My brother and I truly believed that we had broken the tv because we couldn't turn up the brightness enough to see the action.
in the behind the scenes, you can see that the effects and everything was amazing. and you can SEE the recording.
the darkness was done in editing. and for the life of me, i have no idea why they choose to do it that way
Cause they wanted to hide the practical effects so they didn't look to fake. That's what they thought. And they didn't want to show to much of the creatures in the movie. They wanted to hide them in the darkness and the rain.
@@hideandpride1891 but that's the thing... the practical effects looked AMAZING. there was minimal things to hide at any point
@@alicepbg2042 yeah I wouldn't hide the practical effects. But the directors of this movie aren't the best when it comes to filmaking.
Rare Fact: in the deleted scenes/concepts the PredAlien was supposed hang up and de-spine the two Predators it killed and use their armor and weapons. And in the AVP video game from 2010 another PredAlien also does the spine removal and throws it away because it doesn't understand why it's doing it.
I just installed that game on my Xbone and went through the Alien and Predator campaigns. That game is so much fun, if only Colonial Marines or Fireteam Elite were just as good.
@@sanemaniac7416 agreed.
I literally was checking if you covered this after watching your other alien/Predator reviews haha great timing!
The raccoon city incident of the Alien/Predator series
This movies is kinda re-watchable if you skip all scenes that are not the AvP parts, making the movie 30 mins long. That Predator was an actual Blooded Elite, he was not there on a trial. He was there for clean up, total clearance. That means everyone goes, hunters, fishers, rig workers, soccer moms, soccer moms kids. It's been well established how dangerous Xeno's are if left unchecked. The Predator was there to CTRL-ALT-Delete anything the Xeno touched. Can't risk it. More movies showing full Blooded Elites in action would be sweeeet.
There's a brightened up version of this movie floating around out there, I literally went to go find it before watching this and I watched it again.
It was still too freaking dark. Between that and the footage in this review, my eyes are so sore from trying to see anything.
I'm so glad I'm not alone in thinking the predalien doing the pump throat thing is kinda hot in a strange way.
I think the mask or the description of wolf's mask says" not for the hunt, not for honor, but to clean up the mess."
Their orders were to contain the situation, which they did with the nuke. A small group who managed to escape isn't going to instantly be killed. They would be detained, tested, interrogated, etc., before eventually being let go. The main threat was dealt with, they had no reason to kill them.
The base model of xionmorph is actually based on the human form. As you said earlier; they do in fact take traits of the incubation host. Which since we have seen no thing but xinomorphs from humans. It is the base model we have known. The only exception being the yautja (predator) and a dog in alien 3.
The sad thing about everything bein so dark that you cant properly see it.
The Makeup and practical effects are actually really good. Watch the making of, there you see the predalien actor in full costume walk to the set while in full light, and it looks absolutely realistic.
That was the only good thing about this film 😔
Okay, as much slack as this movie gets it does contain,in my opinion, one of the most gruesome kill scenes in an alien and/or predator franchise. Put yourself in the mindset of that little boy who sees his father died of chestburster, right before your life is taken by the same. It might just be me with the whole killing off the kid thing, but if you think about what he went through and what he saw in his last moments it's pretty sad.
Yeah that part was very well done
@@Alteorii wouldnt say well done, they only did it for shock value.. like half of this entire film 😂
Fun fact: the PredAlien sometimes displays more personality traits and behavior than it’s other race, in the movie this one wanted to make a nest, while in the game it hunted like a predator, even ripping off peoples head and spine, but doesn’t really understand why it does that, it mainly comes done to genetic memory and instinct of the predators, yeah it did it in the movie, but only once, while in the game it does it a lot.
But wouldn't that make the predator's entire civilization be genetic and instinctual in nature, then? Which is, kinda a racist undertone. It's one thing when you do "its a planet of hats" trope, but when you go even further and imply that desire to make hats is programmed genetically...
@@DarthBiomech no it instinctively kills people like that but doesn’t understand why it’s doing this and simply throws away the head.
My theory on why it was so dark was because with certain scenes they chose to do, like the kid getting killed and the pregnant woman getting what happened to her as well, the movie's rating was starting to go past rated R and to keep the R rating, they had to darken the movie so you kinda see what's going on, but not enough to where you get gruesome details.
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I love it when Alteori talks dirty
The film should have been titled Alien vs Predator: Requiem of Darkness
Great video, I've never understood why people ship Alexis/Scar as during that movie there is no flirting/chemistry in any scene, just two beings working together. It'd be the human equivelant of a person falling in love with a chimp, the yautja are advanced beings that care a lot about genetic purity as they literally fight for the right to pass on their genes. Again great video, I didn't hate AVP 2 either, not trying to upset anyone, just never understood the ship. Have a great day everyone XD
There's a lot of love for the Wolf predator, but honestly he failed. He died in the end and I refuse to believe he didn't miss at least one Xenomorph.
Add the fact that he had zero impact on the outcome and he's just a sad predator that died for now reason after failing. The nuke saved the day and that would've happened without his involvement. Its a little sad but all he did was muddle about and fight a handful of aliens before getting flash fried.
Predalien kiss was hot though, mad respect for drawing attention to that.
fun fact: the original drafted ending for this movie was after yutani was given the plasma caster it would've transitioned to a weyland-yutani ship flying to xenomorph prime, the colonial marines would land and we would see a group of predators on a hunt and also see a xenomorph king on screen
I recommend dead meats covrage of avp requiem if you actually want to see any of the monsters.
My problem was how the government was so trigger happy to drop a nuke on american soil without a half ass attempt at military action first like most movies, (granted I think it worked out for the best) but how did they know the extent of the xeno threat? considering the were massacreing a civilian population that had no combat experience. I just feel like they could've had a throw away line explaining the dealt with xenos before.... which could've open the door for an alien prequel with that general encountering them while he was a foot soldier
I was waiting for her to discover this ever since she mentioned watching the original AVP, I was like oh you think this is crazy? Wait till you see Requiem 💀
it's clear this movie was beaten by Yugi and sent to the shadow realm
Note Alteori, AVPR is directed by the same brothers who directed Skyline
Thank you! Other than the impenetrable darkness, I thought this was one of the better Alien movies, and far better than the first AvP. I own a fair number of the original Darkhorse comics (including AvP), and I feel like it was much closer to the source material. The humans weren't elite military, they were normal people; they weren't the main characters, they were cattle on the killing floor and their stories mattered about as much. The Predator was the real protagonist, we just saw the story from a more relatable perspective.
What? It is easily the worst.
The whole small-town-USA-teenage-drama crap has no business in either a Predator or an Alien movie. They had a few good ideas with the Predalien and clean-up Predator plus the gore, but the rest is generic B-horror with the AvP label to make it interesting.
There's a reason why everyone was pissed at this when it came out.
The brother character Dallas is the Easter egg to the character Dallas from the original 1979 alien movie
Kids are weird. I remember when my niece was 7 or 8. She only wanted me to make her instant ramen. No one else. I have no idea why. It's not like I did anything special to it. Anyway, this movie would've been great schlock if only we could see it...
Aliens vs predator requiem is what the first avp movie should have been which is so insanely awesome
I remember dead meat covered all the deaths in the movie he had to turn up the exposure to see a goddamn thing, this movie had to be the inspiration for the justice league filming technique
When the girl ask if he is looking at her or the clock I was like: you you definitely you
The most unrealistic part of horror movies (especially ones set in America) are how much they trust their local police/government agencies
I guess the "Wolf" predator is the John Cena of his species lol You can't see him!!
This was actually my first alien/predator movie when i was a kid and this was pretty good but now i have 2nd thoughts