Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Jason Coyle, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Paul W.S. Anderson’s AvP: Alien vs. Predator.
Alexa “Lex” Woods is one of the best mountaineers in the world. Recruited by reclusive billionaire Charles “Bishop” Weyland, she finds herself drawn into a race to investigate a mysterious energy signal detected in Antarctica. However, it quickly becomes clear that there are far stranger forces at work, and that Woods might be leading her expedition into an ancient conflict between two vicious alien species.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 30th September 2024.
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- Matt Patches at Grantland argues for the auteurship of director Paul W.S. Anderson, February 2014.
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at MUBI considers Paul W.S. Anderson as “the world’s least pretentious auteur”, September 2012.
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- Randy Stradley talks to AvPGalaxy about developing the Alien vs. Predator comics, March 2006.
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- Tara John at Time reports on Sigourney Weaver’s feelings about the Alien vs. Predator films, July 2015.
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- Alien Explorations considers Vincenzo Natali’s brief flirtation with the Alien franchise, July 2015.
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- Cyriaque Lamar at Gizmodo reflects on Robert Rodriguez’s original pitch for Predators, February 2010.
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- Alien Explorations considers the involvement of Dan O’Bannon and Ron Shusett in Alien vs. Predator, July 2004.
- Alien Explorations considers the aborted plans to include a birthing temple in Alien, June 2014.
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- Cathy Dunkley at Variety reports on Guillermo Del Toro’s plans to adapt At the Mountains of Madness, February 2003.
- Russ Fischer at /film reports on Guillermo Del Toro’s opinion that Prometheus killed his At the Mountains of Madness adaptation, May 2012.
- Marc Cerasini talks to AvPGalaxy about adapting Alien vs. Predator as a novel, October 2017.
- AvPGalaxy reports on the PG-13 rating for Alien vs. Predator, April 2004.
- Valerie Jones at Deseret News ponders how PG-13 became the default for family-friendly movies, February 2020.
- Scott Mendelson writes at Forbes about increasing levels of violence in PG-13 movies, November 2013.
- Paul Fuhr at Medium wonders where all the “PG” movies went, February 2022.
- Ian Spelling at The A.V. Club reflects on how “PG” became “the new G”, August 2023.
- John Abbitt at Film Stories considers the popularity of the unrated extended cut on home media, August 2022.
- Paul W.S. Anderson talks to IGN about casting Lance Henriksen in Alien vs. Predator, December 2003.
- Luiz H.C. writes at Bloody Disgusting about the cues that Alien vs. Predator lifts from At the Mountains of Madness, July 2022.
- AvPGalaxy reports on the influence of Erich von Daniken upon Paul W.S. Anderson’s vision of Alien vs. Predator, July 2004.
- John Squires at Bloody Disgusting considers reports of a fully-finished Alien vs. Predator anime at Disney, May 2023.
- Fede Álvarez talks to Deadline about his hopes to make an Alien vs. Predator movie with Dan Trachtenberg, August 2024.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline reports on Warner Bros.’ decision to accept a tax write-off on Coyote vs. Acme, November 2023.
- Matt Zoller Seitz writes at RogerEbert.com about the studios writing off projects like Coyote vs. Acme, February 2024.
- Ciara Moloney writes at Current Affairs about the way that capitalism incentivises the destruction of art, July/August 2024.
- Mary Beth McAndrews at Thrillist considers Paul W.S. Anderson as a “wife guy”, October 2020.
- Sonny Bunch at The Washington Post considers the importance of Blade in the evolution of the superhero, January 2018.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes argues against the erasure of films like Blade and Spawn in pushing progressive depictions of superheroes on screen, February 2018.
- Michael Cavna at The Washington Post reflects on the long delay before the addition of a female lead to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, March 2019.
- Ed Power writes at The Irish Times about the racism of H.P. Lovecraft, August 2020.
- P. Djéli Clark writes at CBC about the writers subverting and deconstructing H.P. Lovecraft’s racism, January 2021.
- Roger Ebert reviews Predator 2 for The Chicago Sun Times, November 1990.
- Frederick Martyn at The Establishment considers the Predator as a figure of cultural appropriation, March 2019.
- Tamari Kitossa at The Conversation considers the racially charged subtext of the Alien and Predator franchises, August 2020.
- Paul W.S. Anderson talks to Film Focus about the plans for a Schwarzenegger cameo at the end of Alien vs. Predator, October 2004.
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