Now to be fair, it actually shows the Predator getting facehuggered early on. And it's established that the aliens take characteristics from the hosts they're implanted into. In Alien 3, a facehugger gets a dog, so the alien that's born gains the attributes of a four-legged animal.
Yes but the movie doesn't establish the taking of DNA from a host, and since they definitely didn't make it clear if this was a independent universe or not we can only take this as a stand alone movie. And from a stand alone point they don't establish that fact, no alien penguins. Now for a die hard fan yes we know that but then we see the film basically then hitting us with things that are the most basic of basic, it's like a zombie movie spending 20 minutes explaining what a zombie is to a Resident Evil vet...but then not explaining how suddenly one of the zombies is cognitive and has psychic powers. But really it's one of those things where there are nitpicks from any angle you look at this movie but it's not a bad movie.
For me, it's because AVP Requiem is dark. I mean, too much dark, you just can't "make out the actors on screen" kinda of dark. What's the point of watching a movie you can't watch because it's all dark?
For the three questions near the 21:00 mark: the Predator got impregnated when he was marking his face, the Queen was most likely in a murder-rampage after being locked up for so long and just wanted to escape and destroy its captor, and the Xenomorphs taking on attributes/traits of the creature birthing it has been shown in almost every Alien movie to date (it's a central part of the Alien franchise lore).
Earlier films didn't show much og this, but there is the dog-alien in Alien 3 which is a bit different from the aliens we have seen before. It make sense for the aliens to absorb and display features from their hosts, to make them able to live in the atmosphere the host live in, not getting poisoned when eating them or anything like that.
People want to see a PredAlien, it's been done in the comics and games, thus a movie version was needed. Too bad it came in a movie that shat over its potential.
Predator: Human woman, I shall give this spear and this shield... and this box of chocolates. Lex: Uhm... No... I'm good with the spear and shield. Predator: Damn, And I thought I was going to score it.
In the movie's defense, the reason the "Drop the eggs off and come back in a year" idea wouldn't fly is that it was intended as a rite-of-passage, NOT Big Game Hunting. Sending novice hunters out against a planetful of the things isn't the same as sending them to hunt a half dozen or so.
I know, the movie explains a lot of the reasons behind it. It's obvious that those preds are not the greatest of fighters. And he totally missed the part where the last pred was ambushed. Obviously he was so bored with the explanation for the temple being there in the first place and didn't pay attention to the scene. Also the whole, no known record of xenomorphs (aliens), would obviously be do to with the company keeping it a top secret. They wanted the alien as a weapon so naturally they would keep the incident off the record. This could have been when the company truly first found out about it. As the first movie I saw with aliens in it, this movie got me into the Aliens series alone. Predator I watched when I was much longer. This movie holds a place in the Sci-fi area of my heart no matter what anyone thinks of it.
Yeah, it's been shown that they are an honorable alien race. Won't kill unarmed humans. Everyone that they killed up in the old whale hunting town had weapons or, in the case of the last guy, had attacked them. Honor is a big thing to them.
Trust me. As a film enthusiast, amateur film critic, and aspiring filmmaker, my intellectual side and my jock side are always at war with each other. Brilliant analogy as always.
the sad thing is I didnt even mind Requiem too much. The action and suspense was decent, but the camerawork was sloppy, the main characters (kinda?) were lackluster, and the ending was dumb. Even with that, it was better overall compared to the predecessor. In my humble opinion though.
"why would it mix with its DNA creating a new creature?" Alien 3 established that the Aliens take traits from their hosts. The Alien that gestated inside a dog was a more dog-like alien.
Good point about the main character. Imagine if she and the predator had to communicate without language throughout most of the movie and sticking together to survive. They do that for just 2-3 scenes.
Exactly...she was definitely interesting enough, and the way she communicated with the predator had potential to be a good plot device...more scenes with both of them on the same page would have made this film way better.
Heck, what if they just started with that. Have the film begin in media res, maybe show some flashbacks to give some basic info about her and why she was there, and show that she came here with people she's been separated from. Maybe she's lost in the temple complex and she's doing an audio log just in case she can't find anyone before she starves or something, so there's a record of what happens, say she's been separated from the rest of the team she came with and has been wandering around the temple for about two days or so. Then she finds the corpses of the rest of her team with holes in their chests. She'd be wondering what the hell was happening, but the audience would likely already know, and understand it means she has that many aliens to deal with. And if they were worried about fans not understanding, have one last surviving member barely alive who wakes up in time to tell her about face huggers (have some face hugger corpses near by) before they suddenly start panicking as they realize what's going on, and before they can properly explain it, their chest burster emerges and kills them. Then maybe rewind a bit to show the Predators coming, and we get a couple scenes of them in the temple undergoing the blooding. Before eventually our main human character and our main predator finally meet up and join forces once the Queen escapes containment. We cut most of the unneeded chaff, we can avoid a lot of overused cliches, more of the movie is dedicated to what drew people to it in the first place. Also by having most of the gorier aspects of what happened to the humans in the movie happen off screen we can get around the rating while not undercutting the body horror aspect of the aliens, just show the looks of pain and horror on the faces of the victims, as well as handwave away some plot holes, sometimes no explanation can work better then a bad one, no explanation if done well can leave the audience intrigued, a bad explanation takes away from the movie.
The Shining mini series review Malcom-"How about that chick from Alien vs. Predator" NC-"Was she black I don't really remember" Malcom-"Pretty sure she was" NC-"That chick was awesome" Malcom-"why do so many people hate that movie" NC-"I think it's seriously under appreciated as movie crossovers go, I mean it's no Avengers but it was still pretty damn decent"
tomatodamashi - Considering the lengthy run of the Nostalgia Critic Show, I do like to connect the dots from his past reviews. Like his agent smith all the way back to his Bebe Kids review.
To answer the three questions at 21:05 ... 1: There was a brief moment after lopping off the alien's face with the throwing star that the Predator got jumped by a facehugger (seriously, rewatch it). 2: Alien 3 established that when a host for another Xeno causes too much physical pain for an adult Xeno, the adult will attack (Ripley in Alien 3 had a damn queen in her and the Xeno left her alone... UNTIL she dropped it in molten steel, then it tried to rip her apart). 3: Again, back to Alien 3 (and further established in the various mythos expanded upon in the comics), Xeno will gain some DNA from whatever species it was impregnated into... the alien in that movie popped out of an animal and looked different from its "human" Xeno cousins. Which is why we can have a Predalien in this movie and the crappier sequel, those various Xeno-hybrids from the old toys, and even a friggen crocodile-Xenomorph when there was an old Batman vs Alien comic years ago! So there ya go, questions answered! :)
To "change" 3rd one: Predalien is a race in Aliens versus Predator 2 (the video game) that can be selectable in multiplayer. "Normal" Aliens are called Drone, Runner is Facehugger + Dog. Praetorian is between Queen & Drone in evolution, loses wall crawling ability & acts as Queen's "bodyguards" and then there is Predalien, which is Facehugger + Predator.
The Predators are shown to be able to see a baby xenomorph inside of someone. So why'd they take that one Predator onboard without realizing a xenomorph was inside of it??
+Evil Ash Nah, Xenomorph is just nonsensical gibberish, it's a butchered latin of "Alien life form", Xeno - Foreign, Morph - Form. Gorman said it in Aliens to sound cool at the briefing, and failed hard. But hilariously enough the butchery achieved memetic status and pretty much became the official designation of the monster, lol.
19:48 That's authentic to the comic series. 20:43 "We're Yautja. Weapons are part of our religion." 21:08 Xenomorphs have always done that. The idea is that they're born from creatures assumed to be indigenous to wherever they happen to be, so the chestburster, while in development, hijacks that DNA to give it a localized evolutionary "jumpstart," so to speak. The name "xenomorph" literally means "foreign body."
I just wish The Critic would have shouted Penguin! in the same way he shouts Cat! Though because he's a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender he'd probably play the clip when Aang says it.
21:03 shortly after he marked himself with the blood of his kill. A facehugger latches onto him, scene cut and next scene we have is him pulling it off. 21:07 because it's still a potential threat. The only exception to this is a host carrying a queen. 21:09 because that's what xenoMORPH means. It takes on the form of it's host. This has happened in Alien3 when the facehugger impregnates the ox (or dog depending on which version) as well and morphs into a more animalistic xeno, walking on all fours.
Actually Xenomorph means alien form, and was never actually intended too details about it just that it was distinctly... *alien* in appearance. but the other 2 points were right, and i'd see why you'd think the last one.
I personally think the name is a happy accident. While Xenomorph, as you said means alien, strange, foreign or unknown form as a reference to it's own appeareance, it does make sense for Chris' point
actualy in requiem the hybrid xenomorph dose spawn a groupe of xenomorphs from the belly of a pregnant women so if it can reproduce doesn't that make it a queen ?
It takes traits from it's host. That and the acid blood is their entire thing. But to be fair in NC's case in the review is if you don't watch the Aliens movie, you're not gonna know much about the Aliens because very little is actually explained. Yeah the Predators are hunters, but that's practically all the movie tells you. Yeah the Aliens are incredibly deadly and adaptable...but that's it. The thing about a Crossover is not only do you need to try and give both sources their screen time, you do have to try and give some backstory on both of them so a fan of one can learn about the other and help entice him to check it out.
"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection." What's wrong with that line? You're going to a place of ancient history and finding something amazingly high-tech. Exploring Moses' tomb and finding DVDs is a pretty good comparison to exploring a buried pyramid and finding some form of gun.
It is a dumb line *in story* . The comparisson is apt, but it's also a dumb line that would make anyone laugh, or at least snicker. And that's what happens in the movie. Of course, being purposely dumb doesn't make it not dumb, just legit and apropiate, if the movie wanted to make us laugh at it.
"why would it mix with his DNA and make a new creature?" That's mostly what the Xenomorphs do, they were way more primal looking and quadripedal before breeding with the first human, after that they developed human-like attributes like walking on two legs, being more tactical, and developing a form of clear communication for hunting. You can see more facts like this in the comics or that god awful, sorry excuse for a prequal Prometheus.
Also see the dog (or cow) alien in Alien 3. The aliens incorporating parts of their hosts was as far as I know always the explanation for why the alien in part 1 was relatively humanoid, making it older than even the concept of a queen, which was mostly hatched for movie 2 after a scene from 1 where dead people were turned into more facehugger eggs was left on the cutting room floor for pacing reasons. That's why they're officially called xenomorphs, they morph after foreign lifeforms. In this case the alien infects a predator creating a predalien. So someone drop these guys in Jurassic Park and give me some raptalians already.
Sim Jones I thought Prometheus was pretty good. Explaining why the aliens were feral and had no sense of order or society, how the alien ship you see in the original films was all messed up. I HATED the cgi though. That tentacle thing was sooo fake!
I think in a comic book somewhere or a fan art/fiction, you have Aliens Vs Preds on prehistoric earth( or some other world that is in its Prehistoric stage), and of course the aliens breeds with Dinos..., Alien T-Rex and Alienraptors are the scariest shit you can imagine... vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fan-made-kaiju/images/4/47/Xeno_Rex.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170604004003
Reading the un-edited script for Prometheus gives it an entirely new feel and really sheds light on huge plot holes and confusion. Honestly, it could've been worse and as a LONG time Alien/Predator fan I found it the least offensive attempt at clarifying long awaited details and was easily a 7.5 or even 8/10 for me. BUT they still shouldn't have fucked with the sequel so damn hard... *Fuck David!*
The story line could have been simplified in one simple move, Danny Glover's character from Predator 2 could have been her Dad. Kill the stereotypical survival-horror explain mission/meet-the-soon-to-be-dead stuff and just cut to the good stuff.
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"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection" isn't *that* weird, they just found something fairly modern looking (alien guns) in an ancient ass temple (Moses, I guess). Not weird but it is a dumb line.
17:14 It would be TOO challenging. They like to hunt, but they're not morons. An entire planet full of xenomorphs, they'd be easily overwhelmed given what they're there for. 21:03 Right before Mexican guy started explaining the predator's ancient history on earth. 21:06 Since the chestburster was so far along, it stands to reason the predator host was not really necessary at that point, and killing him would ensure he would be taken onto the ship to wreak havoc. 21:09 Have you even seen Alien 3?! It is clearly shown that the xenomorphs ALWAYS mix with the DNA of its host. This is xenomorph 101 guys!
Also Predators have an honor code and aren't genocidal. They're not going to wipe out entire colonies full of civilians because they only go after strong prey who can defend themselves.
1.The Predator obviously got facehugged in the scene while he was marking himself, as explicitly implied. 2.The alien queen still attacked him because they are able to prioritise. 3.The Aliens always inherit traits of their hosts.
Yeah, they're really overlooking how the aliens have HUMAN TEETH, which is the most obvious visual clue we get to prove that the aliens get genetically mixed with their hosts.
But the mixing of genetic information was subtle before. Visually, there was no real distinction between those born of human hosts and the one from _Alien 3_ other than that it runs on all fours. So to have one that carries over such overt physical traits is just stupid. It reminds of the toyline they had with all the variants like a gorilla or bull or grasshopper. Wait, how the fuck does a facehugger impregnate an insect? See, it's that stupid!
Fun fact: Some helicopters, mainly military ones, do actually have a sort of a silent mode. They basically mode their rotor blades in a way that makes less noise. He could be hovering behind your wall and you woldn't have any idea.
Why would they have a silent "mode" as opposed to being silent all the time, or having specific helicopters that take advantage of their silent technology? Is there an advantage to "loud" mode?
@@doom5895 Probably, because "silent mode" sets the blades in a way, that would be detrimental to efficient flight, and thus "silent mode" can only be employed when the helicopter is hovering in place?
@Marcus Straya Using kids labels, especially as insults, makes whatever you say/write look petty and fucking stupid. It’s not cool to act dumb, never was.
Doug I have to say your jock character just breaking at the end has to be one of the funniest (and most underrated) jokes in any of your reviews. It just always gets me in stitches. Hope you see this.
"Don't make me throw her at you!" "Yeah! I hurt!" That alone deserves a thumbs up. Edit: I think the main problem with AvP was that it was in the works then dropped then in the works, back and forth for so long, had all the fans of BOTH series gnawing for it to happen, that when it finally did it just, well we were happy it finally happened. But severely disappointed with what we got. At least that's my take on it. Still, beats Requiem.....
You literally see a scene where the facehugger gets him, and the the xenomorph adapts the DNA of its host.. That's literally the whole gimmick of the alien.. In Alien 3 it comes out of a dog, and walks on all fours and murders for food..
So true, I literally only went to read the comments to see if someone said this already! Trey the Explainer actually has an interesting video on the possible anatomy of the aliens where he mentions the same exact thing, how xenomorphs are one of the few aliens that make sense in the world of science because they borrow the DNA of the host (and that's exactly why they resemble us so much), unlike other aliens whose human-like appearance would be highly unlikely. Wow I'm a nerd.
I never understood how a movie with Aliens could get PG-13. I mean really??? Deaths, facehuggers, chestbursting, acid melting stuff... HOW IS THAT PG-13!?!?
Paul WS Anderson wanted it to be PG-13.. According to him an Rated-R movie wouldn't be successful on the box office or "Among fans"..That's why Mortal Kombat and Even Horizon was PG-13. He only cared if they made money. He only made the Resident Evil movies R-rated because his wife were naked in those. ...He's a greedy hypocrite.
It's because it was cheaper to make a PG-13 film. It's a baffaling concept considering the previous six films were all gory and had plenty of f-bombs in them. Still, an R rating doesn't fix everything, Requiem proved that.
ShadowGolem86 To be a little forgiving, it didn't show the act itself, it just showed the Facehugger leaping while Predator's mask was off, and when it cut back to the Predator, he was putting his mask back on like nothing happened.
It may have only been in the unrated version. Not sure. But I do remember the part. It was after he killed the alien and took his mask off to do that whole marking ritual. Then we see a face-hugger fly through the air and it cuts away.
Seriously though, I know this film was only OK, but how did Requiem go so wrong? It just seemed to do everything possible wrong. Was more a teen slasher flick. No likable characters. The Pred-Alien's utterly stupid special ability. Also, disappointed that Doug missed out the hilarious scene where the main character and the predator run through smokey shadows, in a very Batman and Robin style shot.
Brandon Lyon I think the real reason he did Care Bears Nutcracker at the end of 2014 was because it finally got released in theaters and Doug originally said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't in theaters. Just a thought that may or may not be true.
And he did Search for the Titanic a.k.a. Tentacolino fairly recently, which was another movie he said he would never review, so while maybe not right away, he might eventually do it if he feels like it.
"When did the Facehugger get him?" Critic, did you see the scene where the Facehugger gets him then goes off screen during the markings scene? "Why did it mix with his DNA creating a new creature?" This is a question you should've asked when watching Alien 3.
Raven the Magnificent I'll actually take the two measly seconds to type "YES" as opposed to just a thumb's up. Seriously guys, how lazy have we become?
Yes. I want to see his reaction to arguably the sickest shit in the Alien films, the Predalien forcing embryos down pregnant women who give birth to several belly bursters shortly after. Considering what we see in Covenant, David would admire that so much. XD
Perhaps, the Xenomorph Queen attacked the Yaut-ja because it considered the idea of a Yautja Xenomorph disgusting or a possible threat to it and it's offspring , believeing the resulting hybrid would have Yautja intelect and lust for hunting opposed to the much more basic instincts of Xenomorphs.
8:33 that's an Italian actor though, who usually stars in Italian romantic comedies. For the Italian audience is like watching Hugh Grant in Alien Vs Predator, but surprisingly, he somehow pulled it off.
The mixed DNA is actually established. The alien spices have a complex life cycle in order to adapt to the environment around them. That's why the drones are largely human. In Alien 3 this is confirmed with the dog alien.
The Predator was impregnated when he took his helmet off and marked his forehead. It was displayed as "did it happen?" that you don't find out until the end of the movie.
The comics were so much better though. Better plot, better characters, better tension. My biggest gripe is that this movie should have been amazing. Instead, thanks to a lacklustre scrip and a pedestrian director, the franchise was stillborn.
The novelization that became the comics was a rewrite of the original script way back when they were originally shopping the idea for a crossover movie. AVP was in production hell for like 20 years before Freddy VS Jason did well.
TeslaChad i literally lost it when jock Jim tried tried to get a high five from jock Doug and Doug just gives him this look of "are you fucking serious?!?!?!"
The 3 questions at the end. 1) When did a Face Hugger Get Him? The review skimmed over the scene. He was attacked by a face hugger for a split second, presumed left to die, and that was pretty much it, til he returned. 2) Why would the Queen attack him if he was Impregnated? The extended universe goes over this a little better. A queen will not attack an impregnated host because she can see the chest burster developing inside. It has something to do with their Eyesight, which is unable to detect the mixbreed. 3) Why would the Chest Burster mix with his DNA creating a new Alien Species? Again, the extended universe helps out here. In the extended universe Xenomorphs have many different forms: Drones, Warriors, Praetorians, Spitters, Queens, etc. But a unique xenomorph is created when it is used on other species able to take presumably different roles as well. An example of this is in the Batman vs Alien crossover comic, a face hugger manages to impregnate killer croc, releasing the "Aligator Xenomorph." Human and Kryptonian DNA however are close enough that a Super Man-Xenomorph did not exist. The Chest Burster could not make it out of the Man of steel's Ribs.
Alright, couple nit-picks mostly because I know a good bit about about the Yautja (Predators) because of the various books and comments. 1. The 3 Predators were Unblooded, basically teens going through their initiation (Think like a bloody Bar Mitzah) their goal was to kill all the aliens in the temple and mark themselves with their clan's insignia using the alien blood. Which is why there was only 3 and the ship didn't help (They were there for pick-up and or clean-up if they failed). 2. They didn't just drop off the eggs because its been shown in books that left unchecked the Xenomorphs spread like a cancer, which makes them difficult to control, thus ruining the point of the ritual (and Yautja are nothing if not very strict with their rituals). And lastly, 3. The reason the Pred-alien was a thing is because Xenomorphs take on trait of whatever they were birthed from (like the one born from the dog in Alien 3).
Funny that. It's different for someone brand new to both franchises as well. NC's perspective is from someone who's seen the movies, but only the movies. This was my introduction to both Aliens and Predators, so when he talks about us knowing what the different creatures do, that wasn't the case for me. Still, it's nice to get the perspectives of all sides.
Sky, if you are interested in learning more about the Yautja, I'd suggest reading these three books as I found them very interesting. 1. Alien vs Predator: Prey by Steve Perry (it's a trilogy but honestly book 1 is enough) this one is really good because you get a real good view of Yautja culture following Daschande, imo my favorite Predator character to date. 2. Predator: South China Sea by Jeff Vandermeer one of the best Predator stories out there, a favorite amongst many, and 3. Predator: Concrete Jungle by Nathan Archer (bonus with this one it stars Dutch's, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, brother so it ties very well with the first movie)
they actually explain why the preds don't let the xenomorph's reproduce and have there own planet, those things are monsters and are tough to beat and are only used as a coming of age hunting ritual. i'll be honest it doesn't make alot of sense but its not the worst plot in the world
Yeah, Xenomorphs are highly reactive creatures capable of rapid evolution , and it wouldn't be far fetched that an entirebplanet of them would be an unstoppable nightmare to clean, and a potential threat to the galaxy as a whole if they developed the ability to comprehend technology and space travel. It would take a while, but it COULD happen. The possible only reason the ones in Alien are just eggs is because there's no life capable of sustaining them on that planet, so they lay in wait as eggs instead. Let them have a planet full of life and you're asking for trouble.
@@rohit2rule Well it's a test for young hunters so having a fixed ennemy to face that is known to be tought but beatable is a good way to have a true test with similare chances each time (and it's also logical to have a reduced amount of aliens to fight new hunt pack and not a full planetary scale.
I like how the narrator describes the predators "breed the perfect prey" The predators fucked up big time if that's their goal lol A pig or cow is the perfect prey... that's why we breed and farm so many(maybe fish would be better?), (narrator clearly just had it worded poorly) this would be like the equivalent of a child being born out of a cow or pig in a slaughterhouse, standing on two legs, and going on a fucking rampage and taking everyone out lol
Just to explain, the temple was a 'rite of passage' for young predators. It's confirmed that the trio who we see aren't fully grown (hence why they're taken out kinda easily) but the temple was built so young bloods could slay a serpent to prove their strength and be allowed to hunt honourably.
+Avery H Actually it was decently lit... in cinemas... The transfer for the home video release was butchered hard, tho. The movie disappointing heavily both from critical as well as financial standpoint, so i guess they never bothered to make an improved transfer for a re-release(that next to no one would care about), or perhaps because of the movie's failure they no longer even have the original master copy of the movie.
no seen it in the cinema because i loved the first AVP and i have to say i didn't see anything, camera zoomed in way too close on giant screen, cuts are way too fast for your eyes to focus or your brain to process what you are even seeing, camera shake and generally dark picture do the rest. All the action in that movie was shit thx to the camera work.
Don't forget they have one Predator going around apparently erasing all evidence of aliens . . .it gets to the point that the whole town is infested and has to be nuked . . . and that mother fucker is STILL going around pouring acid on the bodies of dead aliens like it actually matters at that point. If he lived he'd probably be fired. God what a stupid movie.
Allow me to simulate what it's like to watch Requiem. Watch being used in the loosest term. www.solidbackgrounds.com/images/2560x1440/2560x1440-black-solid-color-background.jpg
Douche Bag Dougs breakdown at the lack of high fives are some of the best bits Also the alien is shown in alien 3 taking the features of which ever host birthed it
Alien 3 was pretty bad, but it still explains that the Xenomorphs (somewhat) take form of the host that they impregnate, which answers the question (That was in the review) as to why the chest buster took form of the Predator at the end.
Yeah but even though so it didn't look that much different. In the Alien 3 the host is a dog (or an ox in another version) yet it looks almost exactly the same as Xenomorphs that came from a human host in terms of deign.
Meister Prakti Are you talking about Alien Verses Predator Requiem or AvP Requiem... The movie that sucked so bad that it makes this movie look like Citizen Cane. It was so dark that a scene where a character ignites a lighter and the fire generates no light.
Wolf is cool when he kills things, but he's gotta be a more unstable version of predator that enjoys his job a little too much cause he doesn't just kill aliens or armed humans, but literally everyone. He's like the Judge Death of predators.
I like your interpretation! But I thought he was more like the Janitor - the guy you called when things messed up royally. Predators dead, their tech still intact, Xenomorph-Predator hybrid? Wolf gets called to 'clean' it up.
@Michael French That's racist for thinking all European people are American. Maybe he's European-Canadian or European-New Zealander or European-European.
There actually is a movie where the Predators make a planet into their own personal hunting grounds, called Predators. The story follows a group of people brought to said hunting grounds to challenge the Predators.
Hey, Critic, review PREDATORS next. Also, FYI, the Predalien chestburster took on Scar's physical attributes because that's how xenomorphs do. In the Alien cannon, facehuggers not only implant the chestburster, but sample the host's DNA and incorporates it into the chestburster's makeup, making them take on said attributes. They were purportedly designed from the DNA up to literally adapt to any environment, including taking on a host's form in a manner of speaking.
First example was Alien 3 with the cow corpse and the quadrapedal Xenomorph. They change in accordance to the host in order to adapt. Always interesting to see when people obviously never paid attention in the other films.
I remember I would watch that when I was little. I watched it again recently and, well, I thought it was quite flawed to say the least (cough cough- Jeff Bridges' singing).
the book/comic the is (extremely) loosely based on answers all of your questions. in that version called Prey, it was set in the Aliens timeline, and involved a backwater farming colony becoming a hunting ground, a W/Y employee called Machiko Noguchi is pretty much the same character as Alexa in this movie. Except its more badass, she saves the predator leader and they go hunt the queen together like in the film, but unlike the film she decides to join the fucking Predator pack!
And then leads a lonely, terrible existence. I actually really like that the comic had the balls to make a sequel that said "Hey, living alone with aliens and thus leaving behind not only your family but also any chances of ever seeing a human again can actually be very depressing." A little heavy handed, sure, but A+ for realism.
yeah not gonna lie, that book was a difficult read. You really felt sorry for her! At least she got revenge on Shorty for all the bullying he did to her!
I honestly enjoyed the final part because it shows that the Predators aren't just blood thirsty aliens, they actually are honorable to the people that earn their respect
Ryan Redinger the monster madness(his early movie reviews) series used to be a side series that only went for a short time. He keeps the same style even in his new videos.
I would guess it probably has to do with time and production constraints. Doug has a full studio and works with his brother and probably one or two other people in post-production, while James works solo.
Aw man I'm late to the party. This was my favorite movie for a majority of my life for many reasons! The AVP rivalry is a staple in history of how I meet my best friend. I was on the side of the predator and he was on the side of the alien. This rivalry helped create our friendship and to this day neither side has won. Another fun fact is that this rivalry helps remind us of our history as friends. Like what the nostalgic critic said in many of his videos, "everyone has their own opinion and some movies have an emotional tie to some people," this movie is the best example of that. O ya I totally agree requiem does suck, surprised it wasn't on a top 11 worst squeals episode.
The face hugger got him when he marked himself as a Xenomorph killer, they showed the scene of it creeping up on him. The Queen fought him because he was trying to kill her. The Xenopmorph merged with his DNA because that’s what they do. That’s why the Xenomorph in Alines 3 looked more dog like rather than the bipedal versions from the first movies.
The part where it makes a new creature is actually just part of Xenomorph lore. They always take on certain aspects of the host, which is why the one from Alien 3 spent more time on all 4's, it was hosted in a dog. So that part actually has a full explanation. Also it's never really been said if the queen will leave you alone or not if you've been facehuggered, but seeing how in Alien Resurrection the main Xenos were still hunting someone we knew had been attacked by a facehugger, it's likely to say they don't actually care if you're a host or not.
10dan Reviews unfortunately, he skipped the part before "better to have one and not need it" where she compared a gun to a condom. which i actually thought was kinda funny.
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Now to be fair, it actually shows the Predator getting facehuggered early on. And it's established that the aliens take characteristics from the hosts they're implanted into. In Alien 3, a facehugger gets a dog, so the alien that's born gains the attributes of a four-legged animal.
Yes but the movie doesn't establish the taking of DNA from a host, and since they definitely didn't make it clear if this was a independent universe or not we can only take this as a stand alone movie. And from a stand alone point they don't establish that fact, no alien penguins. Now for a die hard fan yes we know that but then we see the film basically then hitting us with things that are the most basic of basic, it's like a zombie movie spending 20 minutes explaining what a zombie is to a Resident Evil vet...but then not explaining how suddenly one of the zombies is cognitive and has psychic powers. But really it's one of those things where there are nitpicks from any angle you look at this movie but it's not a bad movie.
What trait do they get from us?
Teeth.
The alien from mortal Kombat x is from barraka
@@AliG-fr9oj Probs bipedal standing with two arms two legs and a straight spine
Jock Doug trying to get a high five is one of the greatest side plots NC has ever done, period
Ian Campbell
It was really funny too
I cannot stoo laughing
Patrick Bojko I cannot start laughing
Patrick Bojko, ya I can’t stoo either
"The journey of a man in need of a high five" still a better movie then alien v predator 2
Someone give that man a high five!
Rufus Goodman, it was like the first alien v predator, but it just lacked any appeal
marrick855, yes please!
For me, it's because AVP Requiem is dark. I mean, too much dark, you just can't "make out the actors on screen" kinda of dark. What's the point of watching a movie you can't watch because it's all dark?
Marco Coelho, money, that's what
For the three questions near the 21:00 mark: the Predator got impregnated when he was marking his face, the Queen was most likely in a murder-rampage after being locked up for so long and just wanted to escape and destroy its captor, and the Xenomorphs taking on attributes/traits of the creature birthing it has been shown in almost every Alien movie to date (it's a central part of the Alien franchise lore).
The Smoking Skull you mean like the ALIEN T-REX
Earlier films didn't show much og this, but there is the dog-alien in Alien 3 which is a bit different from the aliens we have seen before.
It make sense for the aliens to absorb and display features from their hosts, to make them able to live in the atmosphere the host live in, not getting poisoned when eating them or anything like that.
still stupid as hell and lazy writing
bruh i have the alien t-rex as my background
People want to see a PredAlien, it's been done in the comics and games, thus a movie version was needed. Too bad it came in a movie that shat over its potential.
Predator: Human woman, I shall give this spear and this shield... and this box of chocolates.
Lex: Uhm... No... I'm good with the spear and shield.
Predator: Damn, And I thought I was going to score it.
Alvin De Rama should have given her a cannon.
sweetcinnamonpnchkin What you did there.......I see it.
sweetcinnamonpnchkin Bitches love cannons.
I get that reference.
halozilla117 BLESS!
In the movie's defense, the reason the "Drop the eggs off and come back in a year" idea wouldn't fly is that it was intended as a rite-of-passage, NOT Big Game Hunting. Sending novice hunters out against a planetful of the things isn't the same as sending them to hunt a half dozen or so.
yeah, his to dumb to understand it
Aamar Rahman says the one with horrid grammer
I know, the movie explains a lot of the reasons behind it. It's obvious that those preds are not the greatest of fighters. And he totally missed the part where the last pred was ambushed. Obviously he was so bored with the explanation for the temple being there in the first place and didn't pay attention to the scene.
Also the whole, no known record of xenomorphs (aliens), would obviously be do to with the company keeping it a top secret. They wanted the alien as a weapon so naturally they would keep the incident off the record. This could have been when the company truly first found out about it.
As the first movie I saw with aliens in it, this movie got me into the Aliens series alone. Predator I watched when I was much longer. This movie holds a place in the Sci-fi area of my heart no matter what anyone thinks of it.
Also, aren't Predators respectful of the environment or something? They have no qualm taking individual lives but they wouldn't destroy whole species.
Yeah, it's been shown that they are an honorable alien race. Won't kill unarmed humans. Everyone that they killed up in the old whale hunting town had weapons or, in the case of the last guy, had attacked them. Honor is a big thing to them.
"You cannot decide because of a battle between your mind and jock self"
Can the chart decide for me?
mounir maged The chart says no.
mounir maged well the chart says............
We're doing it "for the Fans"
+The Pickles Oh god do i hated that.
+Iain Hansen lol that joke will nevee get old to me.
Trust me. As a film enthusiast, amateur film critic, and aspiring filmmaker, my intellectual side and my jock side are always at war with each other. Brilliant analogy as always.
I relate to you on every level there, my guy… or gal. Idk what you identify as lol
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This movie is a masterpiece compared to Requiem
MegaSoulHero true
Truth right there
the sad thing is I didnt even mind Requiem too much. The action and suspense was decent, but the camerawork was sloppy, the main characters (kinda?) were lackluster, and the ending was dumb. Even with that, it was better overall compared to the predecessor. In my humble opinion though.
He needs to review Requiem down the line, that movie is horrible.
MegaSoulHero it's a masterpiece compared to Alien: Covenant
Yes jock Doug just wanting a high five is probably one of the funniest jokes on Nostalgia Critic.
The sound he makes at the end is the best. Looks like Darkheart found yet another clucking buddy
hilarious
The high five when he says, what did i do?, just the best XD
Duck tits tho
Someone! Please just give jock Doug a high five! He wants love and acceptance too 😭 😂
"why would it mix with its DNA creating a new creature?"
Alien 3 established that the Aliens take traits from their hosts. The Alien that gestated inside a dog was a more dog-like alien.
In the Assembly Cut it was an ox, not a dog. Haven't seen the threatrical cut in years.
@@JoakimOtamaa the dog made way more sense. There was literally nothing remotely ox-like about the Runner variety of xenomorph.
@@fanghur I should watch both versions back to back just to compare. And you're right, it's totally a dog like, the ox thing is a weird difference.
Good point about the main character. Imagine if she and the predator had to communicate without language throughout most of the movie and sticking together to survive. They do that for just 2-3 scenes.
Exactly...she was definitely interesting enough, and the way she communicated with the predator had potential to be a good plot device...more scenes with both of them on the same page would have made this film way better.
Heck, what if they just started with that. Have the film begin in media res, maybe show some flashbacks to give some basic info about her and why she was there, and show that she came here with people she's been separated from. Maybe she's lost in the temple complex and she's doing an audio log just in case she can't find anyone before she starves or something, so there's a record of what happens, say she's been separated from the rest of the team she came with and has been wandering around the temple for about two days or so. Then she finds the corpses of the rest of her team with holes in their chests. She'd be wondering what the hell was happening, but the audience would likely already know, and understand it means she has that many aliens to deal with. And if they were worried about fans not understanding, have one last surviving member barely alive who wakes up in time to tell her about face huggers (have some face hugger corpses near by) before they suddenly start panicking as they realize what's going on, and before they can properly explain it, their chest burster emerges and kills them. Then maybe rewind a bit to show the Predators coming, and we get a couple scenes of them in the temple undergoing the blooding. Before eventually our main human character and our main predator finally meet up and join forces once the Queen escapes containment. We cut most of the unneeded chaff, we can avoid a lot of overused cliches, more of the movie is dedicated to what drew people to it in the first place. Also by having most of the gorier aspects of what happened to the humans in the movie happen off screen we can get around the rating while not undercutting the body horror aspect of the aliens, just show the looks of pain and horror on the faces of the victims, as well as handwave away some plot holes, sometimes no explanation can work better then a bad one, no explanation if done well can leave the audience intrigued, a bad explanation takes away from the movie.
The Shining mini series review
Malcom-"How about that chick from Alien vs. Predator"
NC-"Was she black I don't really remember"
Malcom-"Pretty sure she was"
NC-"That chick was awesome"
Malcom-"why do so many people hate that movie"
NC-"I think it's seriously under appreciated as movie crossovers go, I mean it's no Avengers but it was still pretty damn decent"
Sometimes your feelings about a movie change when you watch it a second time.
Thomas Chancey j
tomatodamashi but his feelings didn't change? Watch the whole video before leaving comments lol
tomatodamashi - Considering the lengthy run of the Nostalgia Critic Show, I do like to connect the dots from his past reviews. Like his agent smith all the way back to his Bebe Kids review.
High five to jock Doug! Can't leave him hanging forever.
Every like is a high five
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To answer the three questions at 21:05 ...
1: There was a brief moment after lopping off the alien's face with the throwing star that the Predator got jumped by a facehugger (seriously, rewatch it).
2: Alien 3 established that when a host for another Xeno causes too much physical pain for an adult Xeno, the adult will attack (Ripley in Alien 3 had a damn queen in her and the Xeno left her alone... UNTIL she dropped it in molten steel, then it tried to rip her apart).
3: Again, back to Alien 3 (and further established in the various mythos expanded upon in the comics), Xeno will gain some DNA from whatever species it was impregnated into... the alien in that movie popped out of an animal and looked different from its "human" Xeno cousins. Which is why we can have a Predalien in this movie and the crappier sequel, those various Xeno-hybrids from the old toys, and even a friggen crocodile-Xenomorph when there was an old Batman vs Alien comic years ago!
So there ya go, questions answered! :)
To "change" 3rd one:
Predalien is a race in Aliens versus Predator 2 (the video game) that can be selectable in multiplayer. "Normal" Aliens are called Drone, Runner is Facehugger + Dog. Praetorian is between Queen & Drone in evolution, loses wall crawling ability & acts as Queen's "bodyguards" and then there is Predalien, which is Facehugger + Predator.
That's why they call the aliens 'Xenomorph', because they morph by using dna of their host.
The Predators are shown to be able to see a baby xenomorph inside of someone. So why'd they take that one Predator onboard without realizing a xenomorph was inside of it??
+AGrayPhantom We've never seen a chestburster come out of a dead person, so maybe they don't survive if the host dies?
+Evil Ash
Nah, Xenomorph is just nonsensical gibberish, it's a butchered latin of "Alien life form", Xeno - Foreign, Morph - Form.
Gorman said it in Aliens to sound cool at the briefing, and failed hard. But hilariously enough the butchery achieved memetic status and pretty much became the official designation of the monster, lol.
19:48 That's authentic to the comic series.
20:43 "We're Yautja. Weapons are part of our religion."
21:08 Xenomorphs have always done that. The idea is that they're born from creatures assumed to be indigenous to wherever they happen to be, so the chestburster, while in development, hijacks that DNA to give it a localized evolutionary "jumpstart," so to speak. The name "xenomorph" literally means "foreign body."
I like the High Five subplot.
Best subplot since Anakin's love story
best subplot since th editorials
Or the avatar revews
I died when the penguin made the chun noises god I wish that was real
I just wish The Critic would have shouted Penguin! in the same way he shouts Cat! Though because he's a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender he'd probably play the clip when Aang says it.
Happy Feet would have been entertaining with that noise
21:03 shortly after he marked himself with the blood of his kill. A facehugger latches onto him, scene cut and next scene we have is him pulling it off.
21:07 because it's still a potential threat. The only exception to this is a host carrying a queen.
21:09 because that's what xenoMORPH means. It takes on the form of it's host. This has happened in Alien3 when the facehugger impregnates the ox (or dog depending on which version) as well and morphs into a more animalistic xeno, walking on all fours.
Actually Xenomorph means alien form, and was never actually intended too details about it just that it was distinctly... *alien* in appearance. but the other 2 points were right, and i'd see why you'd think the last one.
I personally think the name is a happy accident.
While Xenomorph, as you said means alien, strange, foreign or unknown form as a reference to it's own appeareance, it does make sense for Chris' point
actualy in requiem the hybrid xenomorph dose spawn a groupe of xenomorphs from the belly of a pregnant women so if it can reproduce doesn't that make it a queen ?
@degree7 yes it does and you are a tool.
It takes traits from it's host. That and the acid blood is their entire thing.
But to be fair in NC's case in the review is if you don't watch the Aliens movie, you're not gonna know much about the Aliens because very little is actually explained.
Yeah the Predators are hunters, but that's practically all the movie tells you.
Yeah the Aliens are incredibly deadly and adaptable...but that's it.
The thing about a Crossover is not only do you need to try and give both sources their screen time, you do have to try and give some backstory on both of them so a fan of one can learn about the other and help entice him to check it out.
"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection."
What's wrong with that line? You're going to a place of ancient history and finding something amazingly high-tech. Exploring Moses' tomb and finding DVDs is a pretty good comparison to exploring a buried pyramid and finding some form of gun.
It is a dumb line *in story* . The comparisson is apt, but it's also a dumb line that would make anyone laugh, or at least snicker. And that's what happens in the movie. Of course, being purposely dumb doesn't make it not dumb, just legit and apropiate, if the movie wanted to make us laugh at it.
Great line. They're just haters.
He didn’t say there was anything wrong with the line, just that it’s a WEIRD line
yeah that was a weird line
It's fucking dumb.
That sub-plot about giving and not giving hi-fives though.
Ivan Skodje Nah.
I love the hilarious Predator voiceovers. :)
-"Mine's bigger"
-"Shut up Frank!"
I'll be your Frank.. ;)
Lolol sry man, just had to.
"We'll just let Time kill him and piss on his corpse"
"HI, I'm Time"
I also like "Eh, we'll just let time kill you." followed by "Hi. I'm Time".
"why would it mix with his DNA and make a new creature?"
That's mostly what the Xenomorphs do, they were way more primal looking and quadripedal before breeding with the first human, after that they developed human-like attributes like walking on two legs, being more tactical, and developing a form of clear communication for hunting. You can see more facts like this in the comics or that god awful, sorry excuse for a prequal Prometheus.
From what little I've seen of Prometheus Covenant is FAR worse(my opinion).
Also see the dog (or cow) alien in Alien 3. The aliens incorporating parts of their hosts was as far as I know always the explanation for why the alien in part 1 was relatively humanoid, making it older than even the concept of a queen, which was mostly hatched for movie 2 after a scene from 1 where dead people were turned into more facehugger eggs was left on the cutting room floor for pacing reasons. That's why they're officially called xenomorphs, they morph after foreign lifeforms. In this case the alien infects a predator creating a predalien. So someone drop these guys in Jurassic Park and give me some raptalians already.
Sim Jones I thought Prometheus was pretty good. Explaining why the aliens were feral and had no sense of order or society, how the alien ship you see in the original films was all messed up. I HATED the cgi though. That tentacle thing was sooo fake!
I think in a comic book somewhere or a fan art/fiction, you have Aliens Vs Preds on prehistoric earth( or some other world that is in its Prehistoric stage), and of course the aliens breeds with Dinos..., Alien T-Rex and Alienraptors are the scariest shit you can imagine...
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Reading the un-edited script for Prometheus gives it an entirely new feel and really sheds light on huge plot holes and confusion. Honestly, it could've been worse and as a LONG time Alien/Predator fan I found it the least offensive attempt at clarifying long awaited details and was easily a 7.5 or even 8/10 for me.
BUT they still shouldn't have fucked with the sequel so damn hard... *Fuck David!*
The story line could have been simplified in one simple move, Danny Glover's character from Predator 2 could have been her Dad. Kill the stereotypical survival-horror explain mission/meet-the-soon-to-be-dead stuff and just cut to the good stuff.
Exactly.
Even the unrated cut of this film is bullshit. Have you seen it BTW?
Alien vs Predator. Could've been amazing and turned into meh. What does everyone think of Alien vs Predator?
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Channel Awesome please review AvP:R next
Channel Awesome you should review alien vs predator requiem for sequel month
Channel Awesome Nostalgia Christian already reviewed this one.
Channel Awesome lol I must be so early that I was able to comment before ya :3 love you're reviews!! 🙂
Nostalgia Critic is without question
the best movie reviewer
The eragon movie. I think that would be a great movie to review.
Star Wars with Dragons... nuff said.
Exactly.
I agree, i hated that awful piece of shit for what it did to a series that i love.
There were supposed to be a few of them but the first bombed that hard, right?
What an awful piece of trash that movie is. It didn't do the great book justice. :/
"This is like finding Moses' DVD collection" isn't *that* weird, they just found something fairly modern looking (alien guns) in an ancient ass temple (Moses, I guess).
Not weird but it is a dumb line.
17:14 It would be TOO challenging. They like to hunt, but they're not morons. An entire planet full of xenomorphs, they'd be easily overwhelmed given what they're there for.
21:03 Right before Mexican guy started explaining the predator's ancient history on earth.
21:06 Since the chestburster was so far along, it stands to reason the predator host was not really necessary at that point, and killing him would ensure he would be taken onto the ship to wreak havoc.
21:09 Have you even seen Alien 3?! It is clearly shown that the xenomorphs ALWAYS mix with the DNA of its host. This is xenomorph 101 guys!
domidium Thanks for this, it irked me to no end that they missed that whole thing entirely
Not to mention, 17:14 is essentially the plot to Predators
That would require someone watching alien 3
Also Predators have an honor code and aren't genocidal. They're not going to wipe out entire colonies full of civilians because they only go after strong prey who can defend themselves.
He literally not watching a predator movie, the predator only hunt a man, they dont kill a child of pregnant woman, they have honor
1.The Predator obviously got facehugged in the scene while he was marking himself, as explicitly implied.
2.The alien queen still attacked him because they are able to prioritise.
3.The Aliens always inherit traits of their hosts.
Yeah, they're really overlooking how the aliens have HUMAN TEETH, which is the most obvious visual clue we get to prove that the aliens get genetically mixed with their hosts.
But the mixing of genetic information was subtle before. Visually, there was no real distinction between those born of human hosts and the one from _Alien 3_ other than that it runs on all fours. So to have one that carries over such overt physical traits is just stupid. It reminds of the toyline they had with all the variants like a gorilla or bull or grasshopper. Wait, how the fuck does a facehugger impregnate an insect? See, it's that stupid!
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9:26 I love how the sound designers make the wind completely disappear when the ship passes over.
Fun fact: Some helicopters, mainly military ones, do actually have a sort of a silent mode. They basically mode their rotor blades in a way that makes less noise. He could be hovering behind your wall and you woldn't have any idea.
Why would they have a silent "mode" as opposed to being silent all the time, or having specific helicopters that take advantage of their silent technology? Is there an advantage to "loud" mode?
@@chrisandrew7577 maybe silent takes more power? idk
@@doom5895 or this is waffle
I think people could still notice it because it would still be producing wind.
@@doom5895 Probably, because "silent mode" sets the blades in a way, that would be detrimental to efficient flight, and thus "silent mode" can only be employed when the helicopter is hovering in place?
The guy in the back that can't get a high-five describes my life perfectly
he had more of an arc than some movies nowadays
@Marcus Straya yes, because everyone that disagrees with you is automatically a boomer. Grow up
@Marcus Straya Using kids labels, especially as insults, makes whatever you say/write look petty and fucking stupid. It’s not cool to act dumb, never was.
Same.... :/
@Marcus Straya lol wow... ffs this spoiled ass brat generation.
Poor Jock Doug....
(Hugo Weaving voice): Jocks need love like everything does
I just wanna give him the high five he deserves
And Years later Alien and Predator got a rematch in Mortal Kombat XL
SuperFusionAJ93 so true 😂😂😂 mkx will
Forever be the best mortal kombat ever made in the series because it has alien vs
Predator 😂😂😂
Adriel Omar Díaz nah. Mk9 will simply be the best mk.
SuperFusionAJ93 Missed a big opportunity to have Freddy vs Jason and Alien vs Predator.
SuperFusionAJ93 and was great
10:07
Alpha Predator: I love the Power-Virtual Glove.
It's so evil
"A vegetarian being trampled by a cow." Aaaaaaaaah, NICE ONE!
WHo else would love to see that by the way? Maybe I'm a bad person for that but, meh.
Doug I have to say your jock character just breaking at the end has to be one of the funniest (and most underrated) jokes in any of your reviews. It just always gets me in stitches. Hope you see this.
I died laughing with that and him giving himself a self-high five, 15:10, 16:25 and 18:56
Agreed.
The high five arc with the jocks was hilarious
123bamboom totally agreed
"Don't make me throw her at you!" "Yeah! I hurt!" That alone deserves a thumbs up.
Edit: I think the main problem with AvP was that it was in the works then dropped then in the works, back and forth for so long, had all the fans of BOTH series gnawing for it to happen, that when it finally did it just, well we were happy it finally happened. But severely disappointed with what we got. At least that's my take on it.
Still, beats Requiem.....
Poor high five guy.
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You literally see a scene where the facehugger gets him, and the the xenomorph adapts the DNA of its host.. That's literally the whole gimmick of the alien.. In Alien 3 it comes out of a dog, and walks on all fours and murders for food..
This.
So true, I literally only went to read the comments to see if someone said this already! Trey the Explainer actually has an interesting video on the possible anatomy of the aliens where he mentions the same exact thing, how xenomorphs are one of the few aliens that make sense in the world of science because they borrow the DNA of the host (and that's exactly why they resemble us so much), unlike other aliens whose human-like appearance would be highly unlikely.
Wow I'm a nerd.
This is the theatrical version not the unrated one isn't it ...
she doesn't, or at least if you look at the aliens in Prometheus, they are constantly developing, taking genes from the hosts.
An Alien dog? I'm surprised they didn't do an Alien cat, seeing that there was ana actual cat in the Alien movie
I never understood how a movie with Aliens could get PG-13.
I mean really??? Deaths, facehuggers, chestbursting, acid melting stuff...
HOW IS THAT PG-13!?!?
Well, Captain America DID shred a nazi into a cloud of blood on a propeller at the end of his first movie, yet that was PG13.
Paul WS Anderson wanted it to be PG-13.. According to him an Rated-R movie wouldn't be successful on the box office or "Among fans"..That's why Mortal Kombat and Even Horizon was PG-13. He only cared if they made money. He only made the Resident Evil movies R-rated because his wife were naked in those. ...He's a greedy hypocrite.
What? That makes no sense! Fans of the Alien movies WANT R-rated movies!
Such weird choices...
Unbelievable :/
It's because it was cheaper to make a PG-13 film. It's a baffaling concept considering the previous six films were all gory and had plenty of f-bombs in them. Still, an R rating doesn't fix everything, Requiem proved that.
Gremlins in an Alien vs Predator movie?
That would actually make this movie a lot more likable!
"Hi, I'm Time."
XD Best line in this review
i laughed my ass off at that
Honestly the funniest thing here
"Mines bigger"
@@Officiall_Bean shut up frank
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
He remembers it
So you don't have to
2B Honest golf clap
He didn't remember the scene where the Predator was face-hugged.
ShadowGolem86
To be a little forgiving, it didn't show the act itself, it just showed the Facehugger leaping while Predator's mask was off, and when it cut back to the Predator, he was putting his mask back on like nothing happened.
It may have only been in the unrated version. Not sure. But I do remember the part. It was after he killed the alien and took his mask off to do that whole marking ritual. Then we see a face-hugger fly through the air and it cuts away.
2B Honest perfect
Seriously though, I know this film was only OK, but how did Requiem go so wrong? It just seemed to do everything possible wrong. Was more a teen slasher flick. No likable characters. The Pred-Alien's utterly stupid special ability.
Also, disappointed that Doug missed out the hilarious scene where the main character and the predator run through smokey shadows, in a very Batman and Robin style shot.
That shot was soooo bad. I'd rather watch a collection of teen slashers, lol
ShadowMaskPrime a "wtf" moment
ShadowMaskPrime the predalien is the best xenomorph to ever be made comic game movie and enen thought of
ShadowMaskPrime what was it's special ability?
Don Flamingo
It could impregnate people itself no need for face huggers.
However he only did it to pregnant women, because.... Reasons.
"just in time?.."
they were there all the time. they were not gonna interfere at all. they were watching it all (most likely with beer and snacks)
Please do the most Traumatizing children's movie of all time, Watership Down.
Brandon Lyon I think the real reason he did Care Bears Nutcracker at the end of 2014 was because it finally got released in theaters and Doug originally said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't in theaters. Just a thought that may or may not be true.
And he did Search for the Titanic a.k.a. Tentacolino fairly recently, which was another movie he said he would never review, so while maybe not right away, he might eventually do it if he feels like it.
Sam McCullough lmao
Loved the movie and absolutely love the book. Would love to see a review of it.
Xenomorphs adopt traits from the species they grow from
Poor jock Doug, all he wants is a high five
"When did the Facehugger get him?"
Critic, did you see the scene where the Facehugger gets him then goes off screen during the markings scene?
"Why did it mix with his DNA creating a new creature?"
This is a question you should've asked when watching Alien 3.
42 dollars for a blank t shirt? GeeZ better be made of beetle shells and conduct hamon
Actually it's made of special fibres that are more comfy and don't capture odour
Mr Critical sooooo... I can't murder vampires with it then? What's the point?
OMG IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO'S REFERENCE?! :OOOOO
HOLY SHIT BOY IS THAT A MOTHER FUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?
ahhh yes. The inevitable JoJo reference
Who wants Nostalgia Critic review AVP: Requiem?
Vote Now -> Yes or No
yes
Raven the Magnificent I'll actually take the two measly seconds to type "YES" as opposed to just a thumb's up. Seriously guys, how lazy have we become?
Not sure we need a full review to cover "It's dark. In the bad way."
No.
I want Steven Universe.
Yes. I want to see his reaction to arguably the sickest shit in the Alien films, the Predalien forcing embryos down pregnant women who give birth to several belly bursters shortly after. Considering what we see in Covenant, David would admire that so much. XD
Perhaps, the Xenomorph Queen attacked the Yaut-ja because it considered the idea of a Yautja Xenomorph disgusting or a possible threat to it and it's offspring , believeing the resulting hybrid would have Yautja intelect and lust for hunting opposed to the much more basic instincts of Xenomorphs.
Even the Queen knew that Requiem was gonna suck.
She tried to save us all from the sequel...
I think it's even more simple than that. The queen values more her own life (as she can lay eggs) than that of a single minion. Which she can replace.
perhaps the queen didn't know it existed?
Joshua Brumbles It still stopped the face thingy from attaching to the face though
8:33 that's an Italian actor though, who usually stars in Italian romantic comedies. For the Italian audience is like watching Hugh Grant in Alien Vs Predator, but surprisingly, he somehow pulled it off.
The mixed DNA is actually established. The alien spices have a complex life cycle in order to adapt to the environment around them. That's why the drones are largely human. In Alien 3 this is confirmed with the dog alien.
Sploogmaster2
Hey! it's the Black Swordsman!
Hai yo!
ZiggyHedgehog9538
Guts VS 100 aliens.
Mindeer
I'd watch that actually
Sploogmaster2 Good point! Also your name is goddamned hilarious.
The Predator was impregnated when he took his helmet off and marked his forehead. It was displayed as "did it happen?" that you don't find out until the end of the movie.
The comics were so much better though. Better plot, better characters, better tension. My biggest gripe is that this movie should have been amazing. Instead, thanks to a lacklustre scrip and a pedestrian director, the franchise was stillborn.
And funny enough, the original script was closer to the comics. It even had its own version of Machiko.
Yeah, especially since Machiko was an honorary Yautja.
The novelization that became the comics was a rewrite of the original script way back when they were originally shopping the idea for a crossover movie. AVP was in production hell for like 20 years before Freddy VS Jason did well.
17:35 "Oh BTW Diey McDie Dead dies" 😂 🤣
This was a great review but the best parts were totally when the Jock Doug wasn't getting a high-five from anyone.
IKR it's the little things~
TeslaChad i literally lost it when jock Jim tried tried to get a high five from jock Doug and Doug just gives him this look of "are you fucking serious?!?!?!"
TeslaChad yeah definitely my favourite part of the review
TeslaChad also tamras "thas bullshhiiiit" line delivery was great
just like my life
The 3 questions at the end.
1) When did a Face Hugger Get Him?
The review skimmed over the scene. He was attacked by a face hugger for a split second, presumed left to die, and that was pretty much it, til he returned.
2) Why would the Queen attack him if he was Impregnated?
The extended universe goes over this a little better. A queen will not attack an impregnated host because she can see the chest burster developing inside. It has something to do with their Eyesight, which is unable to detect the mixbreed.
3) Why would the Chest Burster mix with his DNA creating a new Alien Species?
Again, the extended universe helps out here. In the extended universe Xenomorphs have many different forms: Drones, Warriors, Praetorians, Spitters, Queens, etc. But a unique xenomorph is created when it is used on other species able to take presumably different roles as well. An example of this is in the Batman vs Alien crossover comic, a face hugger manages to impregnate killer croc, releasing the "Aligator Xenomorph." Human and Kryptonian DNA however are close enough that a Super Man-Xenomorph did not exist. The Chest Burster could not make it out of the Man of steel's Ribs.
Can we just agree that 'Extended Universe with no Explanation' means that THE FILM gave no explanation?
Great.
Batman vs Alien...? The extended universe sounds kinda dumb.
You quit your sazz, Bazz. 'Batman/Aliens' kicks azz.
the storyline itself was cool, but the part where Batman's Rogues Gallery get experimented on and turned into xenomorph hybrids was fuckin stupid.
I have mixed feelings about the villainmorphs. At least the Joker xenomorph looks haunting, don't you think?
Alright, couple nit-picks mostly because I know a good bit about about the Yautja (Predators) because of the various books and comments. 1. The 3 Predators were Unblooded, basically teens going through their initiation (Think like a bloody Bar Mitzah) their goal was to kill all the aliens in the temple and mark themselves with their clan's insignia using the alien blood. Which is why there was only 3 and the ship didn't help (They were there for pick-up and or clean-up if they failed). 2. They didn't just drop off the eggs because its been shown in books that left unchecked the Xenomorphs spread like a cancer, which makes them difficult to control, thus ruining the point of the ritual (and Yautja are nothing if not very strict with their rituals). And lastly, 3. The reason the Pred-alien was a thing is because Xenomorphs take on trait of whatever they were birthed from (like the one born from the dog in Alien 3).
Funny that. It's different for someone brand new to both franchises as well. NC's perspective is from someone who's seen the movies, but only the movies. This was my introduction to both Aliens and Predators, so when he talks about us knowing what the different creatures do, that wasn't the case for me. Still, it's nice to get the perspectives of all sides.
Sky, if you are interested in learning more about the Yautja, I'd suggest reading these three books as I found them very interesting. 1. Alien vs Predator: Prey by Steve Perry (it's a trilogy but honestly book 1 is enough) this one is really good because you get a real good view of Yautja culture following Daschande, imo my favorite Predator character to date. 2. Predator: South China Sea by Jeff Vandermeer one of the best Predator stories out there, a favorite amongst many, and 3. Predator: Concrete Jungle by Nathan Archer (bonus with this one it stars Dutch's, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, brother so it ties very well with the first movie)
Thanks. I'll have to check those out.
No problem, definitely start with the Alien vs Predator one though.
I also recommend the Rage war Trilogy by Tim Lebbon.
they actually explain why the preds don't let the xenomorph's reproduce and have there own planet, those things are monsters and are tough to beat and are only used as a coming of age hunting ritual. i'll be honest it doesn't make alot of sense but its not the worst plot in the world
They would also wipe out the entire planet so there would be nothing left to infest eventually.
Yeah, Xenomorphs are highly reactive creatures capable of rapid evolution , and it wouldn't be far fetched that an entirebplanet of them would be an unstoppable nightmare to clean, and a potential threat to the galaxy as a whole if they developed the ability to comprehend technology and space travel. It would take a while, but it COULD happen. The possible only reason the ones in Alien are just eggs is because there's no life capable of sustaining them on that planet, so they lay in wait as eggs instead. Let them have a planet full of life and you're asking for trouble.
@@rohit2rule Well it's a test for young hunters so having a fixed ennemy to face that is known to be tought but beatable is a good way to have a true test with similare chances each time (and it's also logical to have a reduced amount of aliens to fight new hunt pack and not a full planetary scale.
I like how the narrator describes the predators "breed the perfect prey"
The predators fucked up big time if that's their goal lol
A pig or cow is the perfect prey... that's why we breed and farm so many(maybe fish would be better?), (narrator clearly just had it worded poorly) this would be like the equivalent of a child being born out of a cow or pig in a slaughterhouse, standing on two legs, and going on a fucking rampage and taking everyone out lol
Just to explain, the temple was a 'rite of passage' for young predators. It's confirmed that the trio who we see aren't fully grown (hence why they're taken out kinda easily) but the temple was built so young bloods could slay a serpent to prove their strength and be allowed to hunt honourably.
also, that's why the other predators didn't help. if the queen wasn't killed, they would've done something then.
Requiem? You mean the one with no lighting?
Avery H their logic: "they can't critique us if they can't see what's going on"
+Avery H
Actually it was decently lit... in cinemas...
The transfer for the home video release was butchered hard, tho. The movie disappointing heavily both from critical as well as financial standpoint, so i guess they never bothered to make an improved transfer for a re-release(that next to no one would care about), or perhaps because of the movie's failure they no longer even have the original master copy of the movie.
Like Doom 3.
no seen it in the cinema because i loved the first AVP and i have to say i didn't see anything, camera zoomed in way too close on giant screen, cuts are way too fast for your eyes to focus or your brain to process what you are even seeing, camera shake and generally dark picture do the rest.
All the action in that movie was shit thx to the camera work.
Don't forget they have one Predator going around apparently erasing all evidence of aliens . . .it gets to the point that the whole town is infested and has to be nuked . . . and that mother fucker is STILL going around pouring acid on the bodies of dead aliens like it actually matters at that point. If he lived he'd probably be fired. God what a stupid movie.
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
AVP: Requiem!!!
was awfully bad and made no justice to the first.
He did at the end. It sucks.
Allow me to simulate what it's like to watch Requiem. Watch being used in the loosest term. www.solidbackgrounds.com/images/2560x1440/2560x1440-black-solid-color-background.jpg
"Hi. I'm Time."
Now I want a buddy-cop prequel starring Time and (insert 80's action movie star here).
"When did a facehugger impregnate him?"
They showed that happen in the movie.
Douche Bag Dougs breakdown at the lack of high fives are some of the best bits
Also the alien is shown in alien 3 taking the features of which ever host birthed it
J-bard yeah but..... alien 3 was ass
Alien 3 was pretty bad, but it still explains that the Xenomorphs (somewhat) take form of the host that they impregnate, which answers the question (That was in the review) as to why the chest buster took form of the Predator at the end.
Yeah but even though so it didn't look that much different. In the Alien 3 the host is a dog (or an ox in another version) yet it looks almost exactly the same as Xenomorphs that came from a human host in terms of deign.
Scratch the ox/bull thing, turns out they fixed it in the comics I think and gave it a bull-like design.
J-bard so you actually watched alien 3
"Requiem" sucks... but 'Wolf' (that movie's Predator) is awesome as all hell.
And Wolf didn't growl and roar like a tiger.
Ricardo Parente whats the full name of the movie?
Meister Prakti
Are you talking about Alien Verses Predator Requiem or AvP Requiem... The movie that sucked so bad that it makes this movie look like Citizen Cane. It was so dark that a scene where a character ignites a lighter and the fire generates no light.
Wolf is cool when he kills things, but he's gotta be a more unstable version of predator that enjoys his job a little too much cause he doesn't just kill aliens or armed humans, but literally everyone. He's like the Judge Death of predators.
I like your interpretation! But I thought he was more like the Janitor - the guy you called when things messed up royally. Predators dead, their tech still intact, Xenomorph-Predator hybrid? Wolf gets called to 'clean' it up.
I love how he claps his own hand in the jock scene
Why is Malcolm white in this episode?
Okay, I laughed.
@Michael French
That's racist for thinking all European people are American. Maybe he's European-Canadian or European-New Zealander or European-European.
There actually is a movie where the Predators make a planet into their own personal hunting grounds, called Predators. The story follows a group of people brought to said hunting grounds to challenge the Predators.
Yeah and that movie is shit.
TheSmashingTesticles no its not
Its a bad movie tho
And that Movie is great!
As a predator fan, that movie is...ok...still way better than the avp films. Prove me wrong lol you can't. Coz avp sucks donkey dick. HARD.
Poor Nostalgia Jock
Will he ever get a high five?
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SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE I think they're gonna come back, the jocks were too fun to be a one time thing in my opinion
I’m glad they made an Unrated Version of the film, it also has some extended scenes and an alternate opening.
Hey, Critic, review PREDATORS next. Also, FYI, the Predalien chestburster took on Scar's physical attributes because that's how xenomorphs do. In the Alien cannon, facehuggers not only implant the chestburster, but sample the host's DNA and incorporates it into the chestburster's makeup, making them take on said attributes. They were purportedly designed from the DNA up to literally adapt to any environment, including taking on a host's form in a manner of speaking.
Our current reality is riddled with plot holes
Sam J. Johnson go on
Jock Doug is the best! Don't leave the poor man hanging!
lol watch the whole review hoping someone would high five him.
The dna face hugger splice has been explained in recent movies
First example was Alien 3 with the cow corpse and the quadrapedal Xenomorph. They change in accordance to the host in order to adapt. Always interesting to see when people obviously never paid attention in the other films.
I'd like to see you review the Last Unicorn movie. I remember watching it once as a kid and thinking some of the scenes were really freaky.
Leonardo Katana my best friend quoted this movie for her yearbook
Ive heard of it but I never understood what it was about
I remember I would watch that when I was little. I watched it again recently and, well, I thought it was quite flawed to say the least (cough cough- Jeff Bridges' singing).
never clicked on something so fast
h.r. animates same
h.r. animates Couldn't agree more.
oh cool the new NC is ou- HOLY SHIT HE DID ALIEN VS PREDATOR! DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED THIS UNTIL NOW!!!
requiem ruined my favorite predator (wolf) and the pred alien like come on
requiem ruined my favorite predator (wolf) and the pred alien like come on
Xenomorph use DNA to morph into whatever the host is, Human = Drone, Predator = Predalien, Dog = Alien Runner, Engineer = Ultramorph
or maybe you've been reading way too much of those wiki pages.
It's actually canon, one of the comics even has an alien crocodile that took over the DNA of the crocodile when the facehugger impregnated it
A crocodile? Creatures known to have big giant gaping mouths? Damn, must have been one hell of a facehugger then XD
Then what is the warrior variation then?
owen davis What does an engineer look like?
"My God they're evil, they find a way to combine the virtual boy and the power glove into one" No comments, just laughs
The amount of times I've done the same thing as Doug does at 16:30, is so uncountable that it really is sad.
Next review should be about the GI-JOE movies or at least the second one with the rock
the book/comic the is (extremely) loosely based on answers all of your questions. in that version called Prey, it was set in the Aliens timeline, and involved a backwater farming colony becoming a hunting ground, a W/Y employee called Machiko Noguchi is pretty much the same character as Alexa in this movie. Except its more badass, she saves the predator leader and they go hunt the queen together like in the film, but unlike the film she decides to join the fucking Predator pack!
And then leads a lonely, terrible existence. I actually really like that the comic had the balls to make a sequel that said "Hey, living alone with aliens and thus leaving behind not only your family but also any chances of ever seeing a human again can actually be very depressing." A little heavy handed, sure, but A+ for realism.
yeah not gonna lie, that book was a difficult read. You really felt sorry for her! At least she got revenge on Shorty for all the bullying he did to her!
I feel your pain, my friend.
and good thing none of the AvP shit is canon.
Sitharos The original novels were freaking awesome!! Michiko is perfect!!
I honestly enjoyed the final part because it shows that the Predators aren't just blood thirsty aliens, they actually are honorable to the people that earn their respect
The penguin bit kills me every time I see and hear it.
i hope you can do that crappy sequel. it's so dark it makes fan4stic look like a flashlight.
jake hilado when watching that i was thinking why the sun was never coming up lol
The only reason Fant4stic was so dark was because I had my eyes closed from complete boredom.
I still barely remember any of it, it was the hardest movie to watch.
How come NC can use actual movie footage when reviewing a movie but when AVGN reviews a movie he has to use still images.
probably due to time constraints. James Rolfe generally has several projects on the go, it's much quicker to edit in a screen grab than actual footage
On cinemasacre.com they use the actual clips, maybe it’s to get around TH-cams copyright policies.
Ryan Redinger the monster madness(his early movie reviews) series used to be a side series that only went for a short time. He keeps the same style even in his new videos.
I always thought is was a style choice so James' reviews don't look like every other review on YT
I would guess it probably has to do with time and production constraints. Doug has a full studio and works with his brother and probably one or two other people in post-production, while James works solo.
Aw man I'm late to the party. This was my favorite movie for a majority of my life for many reasons! The AVP rivalry is a staple in history of how I meet my best friend. I was on the side of the predator and he was on the side of the alien. This rivalry helped create our friendship and to this day neither side has won. Another fun fact is that this rivalry helps remind us of our history as friends. Like what the nostalgic critic said in many of his videos, "everyone has their own opinion and some movies have an emotional tie to some people," this movie is the best example of that.
O ya I totally agree requiem does suck, surprised it wasn't on a top 11 worst squeals episode.
Next thing you know, we're gonna have Ripley vs. Sarah Connor...
Why would Ridley Scott fight Sarah Connor? ;)
...vs. Furiosa
no not furiosa
RIP Malcolm Ray, the world's greatest Deadshot/Catwoman
2013 - 2017
"It wasn't impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else." Andrew Ryan.
Nah, he's fine, just not in the video. I was only havin' a laugh.
Andrew Ryan a man chooses, a slave obeys.
Derek Hearne Would you kindly stop referencing things?
We need to see a fight between the two best characters:
Bill vs. Devil Boner
Mm, hmm.
"Mm! hmmm, mmmm m hm hmm!"
Bill.
First, we must ask the chart
VGM_ Bill is omnipotent. A single Mmhm destroys the omniverse.
Hell yeah. I would gladly sit through a bunch of mhm mmmhmmm and WHATEVER I'M SAYING THE SCRIPT IS IN ALL CAPS
The face hugger got him when he marked himself as a Xenomorph killer, they showed the scene of it creeping up on him. The Queen fought him because he was trying to kill her. The Xenopmorph merged with his DNA because that’s what they do. That’s why the Xenomorph in Alines 3 looked more dog like rather than the bipedal versions from the first movies.
The part where it makes a new creature is actually just part of Xenomorph lore. They always take on certain aspects of the host, which is why the one from Alien 3 spent more time on all 4's, it was hosted in a dog. So that part actually has a full explanation. Also it's never really been said if the queen will leave you alone or not if you've been facehuggered, but seeing how in Alien Resurrection the main Xenos were still hunting someone we knew had been attacked by a facehugger, it's likely to say they don't actually care if you're a host or not.
GRex7777 I think they figure, there can always be more eggs as long as the queen is alive, so dispatching hosts that are a threat is no big deal.
Exactly. And never forget, we watched them kill one of their own to get free in Resurrection. They aren't exactly "loving" creatures. lol
GRex7777 ya that's how the got away using a xenomorph in mortal kombat by haveing him come from beroka
and that's why in Mortal Kombat X the Alien has Tarkatan traits like longer teeth and retractable arm blades, because Baraka was the host.
I would buy terminator v robocop if they used the originals
Boss Man well there's a comic of it at least
9:00 - Oh, look, a leftover extra from Batman Returns.
That cutoff wail at the end with jock critic had me laughing so hard!
This is like finding moses' dvd collection
10dan Reviews unfortunately, he skipped the part before "better to have one and not need it" where she compared a gun to a condom.
which i actually thought was kinda funny.
ridley almanson and then she dies because she didn't use protection.
what does that even mean? I don't get it
10dan Reviews poor Ewen Bremer. Went from being in Trainspotting to this shit