Alien vs. Predator vs. Mediocrity

I did catch Alien vs. Predator today, and I'm torn. It was good for what it was, but it could have been so much more awesome. It wasn't the worst movie ever made like a lot of people act like it is, but there are better Alien and Predator movies out there. The PG-13 rating, the cheesy dialogue, and the extremely lame way of explaining the feud between the Aliens and the Predators really hindered it. I'll admit I haven't read the AvP comics or played the video games, so I don't know how they hooked up there, but here, it was just laughable. And why would it be rated PG-13? The Aliens and Predators have six movies between them, and every single one of them were rated R. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Two and a half stars for Alien vs. Predator. Maybe I can go see Collateral or Resident Evil: Apocalypse (when it comes out) to make up for the big waste of potential that was AvP.

Bloody-Disgusting.com, my main horror movie news source, reports that Universal will distribute George Romero's Land of the Dead with a release date of late 2005. Meanwhile, TheHorrorChannel.com reports that Dennis Hopper has been cast in Land of the Dead, making him the first well known actor to appear in one of Romero's "Dead" movies (as Romero's casts are usually comprised of relative unknowns).

Nothing else to report. Sutton out.