That's right! As inevitable as the tides, i've had some more rejections letters in. Well in all fairness, i've only had one through. What i've had from the others is a complete lack of response. Which i find more annoying than an actual rejection letter. You see which a rejection letter
you get a certain amount of closure, well you actually get an total amount of closure. In fact i don't think there are many things where closure can be measured in quite the same quantities but this is not really the point i wanted to make. The point i wanted to make was that when you don't get any response from an employer you are left with that most dangerous thing, hope. 9/10 or, hang on lets work this out using my own personal statistics, 100% of the time, if you don't get a response within 3 weeks of sending your application, you wont ever get a response. Yet for another week or so, or until you get in a sufficient number of other applications in to forget the previous ones, you are left with a niggling thought in the back of your mind that they might still reply to you and you are left waiting for a reply that will never come. I also think that it shows a certain amount of arrogance on the part of an employer. Either that or cowardice.And that all that's been going on in the job hunt this week.
However the week wasn't all bad, not by a long shot! For starters i had some company this weekend, Jason was around in Naseby for the weekend and so for sake of consistency and because the challenge was there, we toughened up, reloaded our guns and completed Gears of War on Hardcore difficulty. Gears of War has quickly become one of my favourite games, although it doesn't take much for a game to impress me these days as my aging PC and PS2 are now a good 3+ years out of date. Its incredibly gritty, massively fun and has a 2 player co-operative campaign that actually writes the two characters you and a friend control into the story line, as opposed to say Halo, where everyone just seems to ignore the second identical character. It also has a gun which has a chainsaw for a bayonet, with all the gory related results that that entails.
However on the Friday night we decided to go to the cinema. As a result, and which further adue, i give you my review of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.
All i knew going into the film was this. There are these Aliens, that jump on peoples faces and impregnate people who then wake up, walk around a bit, then fall over screaming as their unknown bundle on joy rips out of their stomachs. Th
en there are these other Aliens who seem to enjoy a spot of hunting and trophy collecting in their spare time and who have previously taken on the current Californian governor. The latter aliens are called predators, presumably because of their love of hunting and killing, and the other aliens are called, very imaginatively, Aliens. Apparently the people that made Alien, Aliens, Aliens 3 and Aliens : Resurrection had decided that they had not squeezed all the money they could out of this franchise, and so married it which the Predator movies (comprising of Predator and Predator 2), to create Aliens vs Predator. This was then followed by Aliens vs Predator: Requiem. Thus i find myself at the end of a series of movies that now currently stands at 8!
All i knew going into the film was this. There are these Aliens, that jump on peoples faces and impregnate people who then wake up, walk around a bit, then fall over screaming as their unknown bundle on joy rips out of their stomachs. Th
en there are these other Aliens who seem to enjoy a spot of hunting and trophy collecting in their spare time and who have previously taken on the current Californian governor. The latter aliens are called predators, presumably because of their love of hunting and killing, and the other aliens are called, very imaginatively, Aliens. Apparently the people that made Alien, Aliens, Aliens 3 and Aliens : Resurrection had decided that they had not squeezed all the money they could out of this franchise, and so married it which the Predator movies (comprising of Predator and Predator 2), to create Aliens vs Predator. This was then followed by Aliens vs Predator: Requiem. Thus i find myself at the end of a series of movies that now currently stands at 8!*SPOILER ALERT!*
The following contains material that will give away the events of the film. Although, lets be honest, if you watch this film its not really the story arch that your interested in. I mean come on! It's an Aliens vs Predator movie, not the Kite Runner! Which is fantastic by the way, in fact i'd encourage you to go and see that. Or at least rent it when it comes out on DvD. You wont be disappointed.
Anyway, on to the film! Well its a standard action / horror, plenty of gore, people being chased / hunted. The story goes along the lines of a predator ship crash lands in the woods near Any-Town-USA after the predators piloting it fall victim to the Aliens they are transporting for some reason. One of the predators falls victim to the Alien head crabs and this results in a predator Alien cross. A 
Predator is dispatched from Predator killing Inc. based on the Predator home world, Predator Town, Predation Street, post code ET1 KILL, to destroy this abomination and stop the Alien outbreak on Earth. He / she/ it also seems to be going round destroying all the evidence of his / her / its presence and that of the Aliens, which seems to also include anyone who happens to be unfortunate enough to be caught in the Predators eye line for more than 30 seconds. The human characters only saving grace is that the Predator seem too occupied with the job of killing the Aliens to really focus much attention on the town rapidly diminishing population. The national guard are eventually called in and heroically march down the high street of Any-Town for about 10 seconds before all being made into lunch by the Aliens. You would have thought with all those guns they'd have lasted a bit longer... Anyway, a bunch of survivors (including Michelle from 24!), a group rapidly losing members to both the Aliens and the Predator, decide its finally time to try to leg it and decide that either linking up with what's left of the towns population, under siege in the centre of town by the Aliens, or heading for the helicopter on the roof of the hospital is a good idea. The fact that by now they are driving around in a tank and that they could easily make good their escape by, ummm, lets see, turning around and heading out of town, doesn't seem to occur to anyone. Thus half of the group head for the Alamo on the promise of some guy from the government telling them they'd come and pick them up from there, and the rest head for the hospital. At the hospital the Aliens have been put to their usual tricks of gory death dealing and even gorier reproduction (this time using all the unfortunate women in the maternity ward) thus the group lose a couple more members while they are all gawping at the various horrors around them. The Predator seems to have thought the hospital was also worth a visit and is hot on the heel
s of the Predator Alien cross (which seems to be the Alien in charge) fights through the hospital. The whole bunch end up on the roof, the people escape in the chopper (eventually, they seem to like mucking around and nearly getting themselves killed before they do anything in this film), the Predator gets to fight his Alien half brother, and the people trapped in the centre of town have evidently been lied to by the US government, who instead of sending the helicopters to pick them up land a nuke on them. Thus by the end everyone in the town, the Aliens and the Predator are all crispy toasted dead and the helicopter crash lands due the being conveniently at the very edge of the blast. A bunch of special forces come into the crash site apparently to make the body count even higher, luckily for the survivors they just want the Predator pistol that one of the guys half hinched back at the hospital. We end with two people in a big government building looking at the pistol, which was: "not meant for this world".......wooooOOOooooo!
Predator is dispatched from Predator killing Inc. based on the Predator home world, Predator Town, Predation Street, post code ET1 KILL, to destroy this abomination and stop the Alien outbreak on Earth. He / she/ it also seems to be going round destroying all the evidence of his / her / its presence and that of the Aliens, which seems to also include anyone who happens to be unfortunate enough to be caught in the Predators eye line for more than 30 seconds. The human characters only saving grace is that the Predator seem too occupied with the job of killing the Aliens to really focus much attention on the town rapidly diminishing population. The national guard are eventually called in and heroically march down the high street of Any-Town for about 10 seconds before all being made into lunch by the Aliens. You would have thought with all those guns they'd have lasted a bit longer... Anyway, a bunch of survivors (including Michelle from 24!), a group rapidly losing members to both the Aliens and the Predator, decide its finally time to try to leg it and decide that either linking up with what's left of the towns population, under siege in the centre of town by the Aliens, or heading for the helicopter on the roof of the hospital is a good idea. The fact that by now they are driving around in a tank and that they could easily make good their escape by, ummm, lets see, turning around and heading out of town, doesn't seem to occur to anyone. Thus half of the group head for the Alamo on the promise of some guy from the government telling them they'd come and pick them up from there, and the rest head for the hospital. At the hospital the Aliens have been put to their usual tricks of gory death dealing and even gorier reproduction (this time using all the unfortunate women in the maternity ward) thus the group lose a couple more members while they are all gawping at the various horrors around them. The Predator seems to have thought the hospital was also worth a visit and is hot on the heel
s of the Predator Alien cross (which seems to be the Alien in charge) fights through the hospital. The whole bunch end up on the roof, the people escape in the chopper (eventually, they seem to like mucking around and nearly getting themselves killed before they do anything in this film), the Predator gets to fight his Alien half brother, and the people trapped in the centre of town have evidently been lied to by the US government, who instead of sending the helicopters to pick them up land a nuke on them. Thus by the end everyone in the town, the Aliens and the Predator are all crispy toasted dead and the helicopter crash lands due the being conveniently at the very edge of the blast. A bunch of special forces come into the crash site apparently to make the body count even higher, luckily for the survivors they just want the Predator pistol that one of the guys half hinched back at the hospital. We end with two people in a big government building looking at the pistol, which was: "not meant for this world".......wooooOOOooooo!The special effects were fantastic, however what isn't these days and the acting varied from half decent to not so great. The plot was straight forward and did what i assume it was designed to do, i.e: allow passage from one fight scene to another. Anyone who had not already had seen an Alien or Predator movie will have no problem at all getting this film as to be honest there is not that much to get. The point of this film is fight scenes between the Aliens and the Predator, or seeing people getting themselves killed by either of them and it does this very well. The most surprisingly aspect of the film i found is that instead of rooting for the humans during this film i found myself supporting the Predator. I suppose this could be that of all the two dimentional charcters he appealed to me the most, if only because his lines consisted of either a sort of dolphin esce clicking or a full blown roar and thus avoided the films questionable dialogue.
Evidently the film was all about Aliens vs Predator and nothing about a Requiem. Sorry classical music fans, but if go see this film, you will be greatly diappointed.
