{"id":285,"date":"2005-01-27T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=285"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:43:06","slug":"avp-the-alternate-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"AVP: The Alternate Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=137\"><i>Alien versus Predator<\/i><\/a>&#8216;s DVD package proudly proclaims on its front, &#8220;With an Alternate Beginning never shown in theaters!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get excited.  The alternate beginning is a roughly one-minute long pre-credits teaser that shows what happened the last time the Predators visited their Antarctic hunting grounds.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would have been in the deleted scenes, but it&#8217;s actually part of the DVD&#8217;s extended cut.  Indeed, the alternate beginning is the <i>only<\/i> thing extended about the extended cut.  I hoped for the rumored R-rated cut of the film, and I imagine that we may well see that at some point down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien versus Predator&#8216;s DVD package proudly proclaims on its front, &#8220;With an Alternate Beginning never shown in theaters!&#8221; Okay. Don&#8217;t get excited. The alternate beginning is a roughly one-minute long pre-credits teaser that shows what happened the last time the Predators visited their Antarctic hunting grounds. I thought it would have been in the deleted<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=285\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;AVP: The Alternate Beginning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[161,452,874],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-aliens","tag-dvds","tag-predator","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}