AvP VCD

Post by **C64GLeN** » 18/08/2004 - 20:52

Interesting Fact, I hear the VCD Telesync of "Alien Vs. Predator" by Maven has an Old style Cracker intro feature Johannes Bjerregaard's Shape (taken from his Nexus 6581 album I guess)

I'm Not wanting to comment about the legal/copyright issue, rather the fact that after all these years "Crackers" are still using C64 music.

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 19/08/2004 - 9:02

Well, it's a kind of compliment, I guess.

What's a telesync?

Chris

Post by **C64GLeN** » 19/08/2004 - 9:58

I'm not sure to be honest, I think it's when they take a camera into the Cinema and record the above, but I could be mistaken.

Romeo Knight · Post by **Romeo Knight** » 19/08/2004 - 10:40

And what about the movie?
Is it great?

skitz · Post by **skitz** » 19/08/2004 - 12:14

Chris Abbott wrote:Well, it's a kind of compliment, I guess.

What's a telesync?

Chris

A Telesync is where they take a camcorder image and sync it up with a seperate audio stream - typically the audio is taken from the cinema seat for the hard of hearing where headphones are available or they know the projectionist and record it directly from the projector..... not that I would know this of course

GeckoYamori · Post by **GeckoYamori** » 19/08/2004 - 12:36

Romeo Knight wrote:And what about the movie?
Is it great?

It's probably what you'll expect it to be, just a little treat for the fans.

Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson · Post by **Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson** » 19/08/2004 - 13:30

skitz wrote:A Telesync is where they take a camcorder image and sync it up with a seperate audio stream...

Ah! Telesync = Milli Vanilli

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

And for those of you that aren't old enough to know what Milli Vanilli did, they were the first pioneers to do what 90% of all artists do nowadays. They didn't sing on their own records...

It's sad, really sad...

Post by **C64GLeN** » 19/08/2004 - 14:11

Romeo Knight wrote:And what about the movie?
Is it great?

No, the word used wan't great it was shit

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 28/08/2004 - 16:59

What did you expect... without somebody like Arnie & Sigourney? Posing freaks with Rasta looks and mass-toasted nasty aliens... Didn't quite worked as a Computergame, was a pain in the ass as a comic crossover.

Really sad, because as I heard the first time of the crossover (8 years ago?)I thought "Predators & Aliens...two badasses in one story... equals : nice idea!" but I was dissapointed with every attempt.

(And I as an DM kill every RPG gamer who wants to play "a cool Predator" or "a kickass Alien" in my sessions the most hideous way I am able to come up with...

)

xo · Post by xo » 27/10/2004 - 16:36

I think it was pretty good. I would certainly not call seing it "wasting time". If you have huge expectations, "of course" you'll be disappointed. I thought the locations were quite cool and there are some good fights in the movie.

I'm ooking forward to Alien 5 though, perhaps Ridley Scott will be the instructor; full circle!

(Vosla: I'm just going to assume you're joking here.)

Kenz · Post by **Kenz** » 27/10/2004 - 17:05

I *loved* the original AvP graphic novel and the actual novelisation based on it (Machiko Noguchi = babe!) - I thought this would make a FANTASTIC movie.

Shame the actual movie wasn't based on it.

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 27/10/2004 - 21:02

Its another "Final (IT BEARS NO RELATION TO THE GAMES AT ALL) Fantasy"

Kenz · Post by **Kenz** » 27/10/2004 - 22:26

And Wing Commander springs to mind - the cutscenes in the game looked like a movie and there were some memorable characters (Biff from Back to the Future and Mr Luke Skywalker of course) - plus the Kilrathi looked neat in the game ... Good lines too - "You pathetic descendants of monkies!"

Nice of them to drop all that from the movie then.

(Only redeeming feature - Martin Galway's name in the credits!)

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » 28/10/2004 - 1:11

Yeah damn shame Mr Hamill didnt get the role - when i first heard about the film i was dead excited - a shame only McDowell made it from the original cast.... and with hackers still on everyones mind, i wasnt convinced with Biff's replacement.

Chappers · Post by **Chappers** » 28/10/2004 - 11:03

Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson wrote:
skitz wrote:A Telesync is where they take a camcorder image and sync it up with a seperate audio stream...
Ah! Telesync = Milli Vanilli Sorry, I couldn't resist...

And for those of you that aren't old enough to know what Milli Vanilli did, they were the first pioneers to do what 90% of all artists do nowadays. They didn't sing on their own records... It's sad, really sad...

Just a brief digression with regards to one of my favourite stories about Milli Vanilli.

I remember reading an interview with them in Smash Hits! (UK teen pop mag) when they were riding high in the UK charts (1990 probably). It was a very funny interview for all the wrong reasons because they didn't understand most of the questions asked to them. It rapidly became obvious that they knew very little English, giving bizarre answers to simple questions and replied to most of their questions in French anyway.

Thankfully, the interview exposed the lip-synching sham for what it was and they quickly sunk without trace. The whole story still makes me laugh even now because of the naivety of the pair of them.

Paul