The most recent Alien Vs. Predator online featurette is not only illuminating but it makes me hopeful that this film is up to snuff.

Goodies: the characters and actors look better than the casts of Alien 3 and 4 (though Ron Perlman was good in that one; no slam against him intended), and the billionaire “Bishop” from Alien3 is back. Nice to see Lance Henriksen is in this.

Granted, previews are always tough to judge by. We all know how many movies have looked awesome and turned out to be total crud. But perhaps such fears are just a phantom menace, and I shouldn’t worry about an attack of a big budget clone.