AM I THE ONLY ONE???

@craigamore: you're right on the money.

[quote]Two things Shadowcaster....One, I totally agree with your assesment about how the AVP movies tried to make themselves prequels. That really annoyed me. Two, in reference to the number of xenos in both the graphic and prose novelizations of AVP, the colonists of that particular planet raised a species of mammal called Rhynth, I think, not sure on that name, for sale as meat stock. There were even references to the quality of Rhynth steak in those stories. The point I'm driving at is that, in the comics, ranchers begin to find corpses of their Rhynth with, get this...massive holes in their bodies...i.e. from chestbursters. The story makes it very clear in that regard and it goes even further. The aliens infest a transport ship that is loaded full of an enitre herd of Rhynth that were meant to be shipped off world, hence the hundreds of xenos that followed. [/quote] Oh Craigamore, no no you had my question wrong. I was not talking about the one that takes place in the future with Machiko Naguchi as the main character, that one made total sence. I love that novel, I have read it several times. Steven and Stephani Perry are excellent sci-fi writers!! I was talking about the AVP movie and AVP movie novel. The xeno numbers were totally off in the film and the novel version of the film and was never explained lol. Sorry that you misunderstood my thought, but thanks for trying to clarify!!

I love both franchises and own both AVPs on Blu Ray since they were released. Although both have horrible acting I'd have to say I enjoy AVP-R more as the acting is all I have to complain about with that one. I remember being disappointed after watching AVP; maybe I was expecting more having waited so long for it to finally be realized and actually made into a film. I didn't mind the teaming up of the Pred and Human in the first one ( as we could expect that based on the Predator mytho), however it felt forced and didn't seem to fit right. As if anyone in the theater watching needed to be told "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy" and the whole prisoner guard analogy to explain to us why further on in the plot the Predator will team up with the human and not kill her. We certainly didn't need an explanation as to why the Pred threw Bishop to the side and turned his back on him. In AVPR they pretty much gave us one kickass Predator and the Aliens version of the alien which I was happy with, but I know some others would have preferred to see the more durable alien as has been stated, however they did make the predaliens dome translucent with a visible skull underneath in a nod to the original Alien.