This ad campaign in New Zealand for Sky TV’s Alien vs. Predator night is simply too too cool.
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Too bad the movies were so powerfully awful. Other images of these two enemies squaring off can be found at Super Punch.
Tip o’ the Nostromo to io9.
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March 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
*laughing*
Playing pool?
March 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Oh man, the alien should totally call the predator out for not having both feet flat on the ground.
Next he’ll be using a bridge.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Not being an SF fan and all, I thought that this title would have been more appropriate for the Saturn-Satellites transit image.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
DAMN, these are absolutely amazing pictures. I love the one where they play that…ball…pole… tennis…thing.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
The picture with AvP over cheesboard is… failed? Blacks do not move first usually… unless they’re xenomorphs…
March 17th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Or unless you’re playing reverse suicide chess.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I can’t tell if the Predator is using his laser sighting. Then again, the xenomorph gets an advantage in not needing to see at all. Hm.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I wonder why they are not playing secret agent laser chess.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
@ Jason: Preds need their helmet (usually) for laser sighting, so no.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I’d like to see them in a pillow fight.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I don’t know… AvP:R was the better of the two & was actually fairly bold in killing off a lot of “demographics that you usually don’t kill off” in a horror film. At least for a mainstream film.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
What in the world whyfor? When gentlemen plays one foot contact, say a toe tip, suffice. The world rules states:
“3.13 FOOT ON FLOOR
Player must have at least one foot in contact with the floor at the moment the cue tip contacts the cue ball, or the shot is a foul. Foot attire must be normal in regard to size, shape and manner in which it is worn.”
Oh, maybe you are pointing out that these are no gentlemen.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Hmmm,,,bipedal hominids, with large brain cases,,,is this meant to imply that monsters are merely variations on humans?
I remember the Blob,,,now, THAT was one scary monster.
GAry 7
March 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Well in that case, I was lied to about the rules. -(
March 27th, 2009 at 4:54 am
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