LayGuy

Tomorrow night is a movie night for my wife and I and I can’t decide which movie we are going to snuggle up in bed and watch. I have a choice between two - “AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem” and “No Country For Old Men” - both of which are new release videos here in Australia today and tomorrow.

I know both films are questionable in their content - especially in their violence but I’ve been watching violent movies all my life and the last time I had a fight with someone was in fifth grade as I defended my title of “toughest boy in primary school”.

I checked out both trailers on YouTube:

Alien vs Predator - Reqiuem

No Country For Old Men

My wife and I are huge fans of the Alien series. On Mothers Day a few years back, I bought my wife one of those magnified mirrors with lighting around it so that girls can do their thing.  She took one look at it and asked if I had kept the receipt. When I asked her what she wanted, she replied, “The Alien Series on DVD” - all four of them!  Since then the Alien vs Predator movies have come out and “Requiem” is the 2nd movie.

But looking at the trailer above and checking the IMBD rating (5.1/10) I can tell this once masterful series has been reducing to a teenage flick where teens are popped off one at a time until some heroic good looking babe blasts the crap out of the bad guys.

But it’s the legacy of Aliens and Predator which lures us towards this film.  My wife cherishes (and I mean literally cherishes the Alien race) - bizarre I know but she is Spanish born in France :)   And I reckon that Predator is a dude with cool weapons - until he takes off his mask and looks like play-doh with sharp bones.

No Country For Old Men, on the other hand has a huge 8.5/10 rating at IMBD and I have heard great things about this movie.  The trailer looks a bit slow and the whole concept of a serial killer is a little grim to say the least.  But I like good cinema and being drawn into a story.

So there’s my dilemma.  Anyone watched any of these and give me a review?  Without giving the story away!  I bet you’re glad you’ve read this post now huh?  Like, a massive exaggeration of a title to discuss something so minuscule