I finished reading Fight Club on 12th.  I loved the book, but I have to say this is one instance where I liked the movie slightly better!  Maybe it's because I watched the movie first (and many times after that), before reading the book.  Still, I've read that the author Chuck Palahniuk himself liked screenwriter Jim Uhls's ending for the movie better than his own.  Anyway now that I've read the book also, I like Fight Club even more... and a few days back I even did a drawing based on one scene in the book.

I am waiting to watch Alien vs. Predator - it was released in the US on August 13th (Friday the 13th!), which means the CDs will be available soon.  For this as well, there's a small drawing in my notebook, where I drew the movie poster from memory.  I also wrote down a few points on my expectations of the movie.  Firstly, the positive points:

• The director is Paul W.S. Anderson - who made Event Horizon and Resident Evil, two excellent movies in the genre (science-fiction/action/horror) in my opinion.
• There's Lance Henriksen in it, and he's playing Charles Bishop Weyland (one half of Weyland-Yutani, or the sinister "Company" from the Alien movies.
• I watched a bit of the trailer (without sound, in a small Flash clip) and the Alien/Predator fights looked really cool.

Now the reasons why I may be disappointed with the movie:

• The primary reason is that IT IS RATED PG-13!  Which means very less blood/gore/slime... I guess this will be more "cool" than thrilling and scary.  In my reviews for Event Horizon and Resident Evil (linked above), I mentioned that they were both "toned down" in different ways (one of them had a lot of cuts made to get an R rating, the other had less blood and gore than I expected though it was an R rated movie) to appeal to a wider audience, and if that hadn't been done the movies might have been even better.
• The plot about Aliens and Predators battling it out in a pyramid in Antarctica... well I'm a bit skeptical about that, I will have to see how convincing it is made.

Anyway, even if Alien vs. Predator disappoints (I loved all the Alien and Predator movies), I can still look forward to Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which seems very good.  And it is rated R for "non-stop violence, language and some nudity"...  The movie is written by Paul Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt, and is going to be released in the US on 10th September.