What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
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hey what if instead of having the old-fashioned Predators, the classic villains from the movies everyone loves, the honorable, terrifying, technologically advanced hunters
what if we replace them with bigger, meaner, blacker versions covered in blood and animal bone headdresses that dance and caper around bonfires like 1950s cartoon tribesmen and strut around with cocked arms like they're guido bodybuilders
and they can have some poorly-defined rivalry or war
What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
Didn't like the big Predator design.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
I think its more that they weed out the ones that arent worth a fight, their honour isnt really about fairness as we would understand it. In their logic, if you cant dodge their blasts, or find them when they're invisible, you arent worth a fist fight.
And I loved the big predator design.
Also Depressperado those are really stupid complaints, and you listing things that happened in the movie in a sarcastic tone doesnt have the effect of magically making them actually bad things.
The predator in Predator one 'strutted around with cocked arms', they kind of have to, because they're huge, they've always been huge and muscular, as well as agile, this was in the first one, it was like twice the size of arnold, and it jumped from treebranch to treebranch. And when in the hell did they dance around bonfires? There was a hunting camp where they stripped their kills, they never dance around it? What?
And the use of hunting dogs, the lore, they were all reasonable within the canon of what Predators are.
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Oh damn, I had no idea that was a callback to the original trailer
That is fantastic
They did it with the lettering appearing bit by bit in the original teaser, too. Check out the OP, and compare how the word 'Prometheus' appears and compare with the way 'Alien' appears in the 1979 trailer.
I hope this movie is about a struggling single xenomorph queen, trying to make it in a xenomorph drone's world, struggling to support her brood of facehuggers who she can't afford humans for until some finally land outside her run down space apartment doing archaeological research.
Her best friend can be a gay predator, it'll test well with the target demo.
I hope this movie is about a struggling single xenomorph queen, trying to make it in a xenomorph drone's world, struggling to support her brood of facehuggers who she can't afford humans for until some finally land outside her run down space apartment doing archaeological research.
Her best friend can be a gay predator, it'll test well with the target demo.
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hey what if instead of having the old-fashioned Predators, the classic villains from the movies everyone loves, the honorable, terrifying, technologically advanced hunters
what if we replace them with bigger, meaner, blacker versions covered in blood and animal bone headdresses that dance and caper around bonfires like 1950s cartoon tribesmen and strut around with cocked arms like they're guido bodybuilders
and they can have some poorly-defined rivalry or war
oh and the tuskdogs
and Adrian Brody pretending to be a badass
and Topher Grace
All the actors were fine in the movie. Brody was definitely a believable mercenary. He needs more action roles IMO.
What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
Didn't like the big Predator design.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
one predator versus a team of commandos is a fair fight
The thing is not liking the casting or the acting is fine, I disagree (I thought Brody was great) but I get it, its the other criticisms that just make absolutely no sense to me.
They werent 'blacker' or bigger, three of the Predators involved were the EXACT same type of predator as in the first two (same size, same build, design, movements, behaviours.
The second movie established that each one has his own custom helmet, and given that the first movie predator decorated himself in bones it makes sense that others would to, including their helmets.
Also there was no bonfire and no dancing and the whole cartoon tribesmen thing is just weird, its not in there, watch the film, it doesnt happen, ever. The closest is that they have a hunting camp, which has no bonfire (or at least is not central nor ever danced around), just piles of dead things in various stages of being skinned, which they have always done, in every movie, and as hunters, makes absolute sense. Is this like a general impression you got from that set or something?
As for the 'poorly-defined rivalry', there are two types, Alphas and Betas, the ones we've been seeing so far are Betas. I mean its not well defined because it doesnt need to be from the perspective of the humans, which are the viewpoint of the movie, its not outrageous or stretching the limits of what we can accept in a universe like this. Its not amazing, but its certainly not a negative mark against the film.
And the tuskdogs also make absolute sense, they're hunters, using hutning dogs weaken and weed out the chaff so thats all thats left is the best. I mean maybe its unimaginative? But eh, its not like eye-rollingly bad.
The movie has some dumb parts, just none of the ones Dep mentioned were outrageously dumb (or even in the film).
What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
Didn't like the big Predator design.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
one predator versus a team of commandos is a fair fight
you can tell because the predator loses
The Predator only loses after he killed 99% of the team. The only survivors are a woman and the only sane soldier who got out of dodge asap (am I remembering that right?) by helicopter. Staying there was suicide.
Dutch barely was able to defeat the Predator, which was close to a draw. Had Dutch been unable to outrun the self destructive explosion it would have been a draw. Dutch only survived that long by discovering the predator's weaknesses accidentally and relying on the Predator twiddling its thumbs for hours while he built traps. If the Predator had not let Dutch build said traps he'd have been screwed when the fight started. It also took off its armor and weaponry later on, too. Then it proceeded to curbstomp Dutch like a little bitch for a while.
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Prohass, I liked predators.
Fishburnes role was originally written for Annie.
Imagine if they kept that under wraps.
Would have been fucking insane see Arnie de-cloak.
What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
Didn't like the big Predator design.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
one predator versus a team of commandos is a fair fight
you can tell because the predator loses
The Predator only loses after he killed 99% of the team. The only survivors are a woman and the only sane soldier who got out of dodge asap (am I remembering that right?) by helicopter. Staying there was suicide.
Dutch barely was able to defeat the Predator, which was close to a draw. Had Dutch been unable to outrun the self destructive explosion it would have been a draw. Dutch only survived that long by discovering the predator's weaknesses accidentally and relying on the Predator twiddling its thumbs for hours while he built traps. If the Predator had not let Dutch build said traps he'd have been screwed when the fight started. It also took off its armor and weaponry later on, too. Then it proceeded to curbstomp Dutch like a little bitch for a while.
so you can tell the predator had an unfair advantage because he almost won
What in the fuck, the creature design is the best thing about Predators, its iconic and utterly different to CG monsters these days, I love em.
Didn't like the big Predator design.
If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
one predator versus a team of commandos is a fair fight
you can tell because the predator loses
The Predator only loses after he killed 99% of the team. The only survivors are a woman and the only sane soldier who got out of dodge asap (am I remembering that right?) by helicopter. Staying there was suicide.
Dutch barely was able to defeat the Predator, which was close to a draw. Had Dutch been unable to outrun the self destructive explosion it would have been a draw. Dutch only survived that long by discovering the predator's weaknesses accidentally and relying on the Predator twiddling its thumbs for hours while he built traps. If the Predator had not let Dutch build said traps he'd have been screwed when the fight started. It also took off its armor and weaponry later on, too. Then it proceeded to curbstomp Dutch like a little bitch for a while.
so you can tell the predator had an unfair advantage because he almost won
you know what's another word for almost winning
The Predator proved it had an unfair advantage by killing his team effortlessly and throwing Dutch around like a ragdoll for it's version of a "fair fight".
You're also ignoring it having the Idiot Ball for Dutch to even the odds and luck for finding its weakness.
He was also the strongest member on the team, as well. Anyone else wouldn't have lasted five minutes under the same conditions.
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If I remember correctly, Preds reserve their cloak for prey that shoot back. And as far as I can tell, they aren't significantly more resistant to bullets than any other biological creature. Bigger, tougher, and stronger, yes. But tools and weapons act as a pretty good equalizer.
I also really wish they actually filmed the King Willie fight.
And that there was a movie which actually pitted the Colonial Marines against a Predator or two.
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Bullets do less damage to them than people.
Though I didn't know what you are doing firing humans at predators.
Though I didn't know what you are doing firing humans at predators.
Next Predator movie, Predator attacks a circus! Strongest man fights Predator hand to hand, RELEASE THE LIONS! The Amazing Human Cannonball versus Alien FLESH!
I want to know how even with CGI and more advanced special effects, the creatures in this movie looked worse than the original.
There should be a law about this kind of thing.
Yeah, this was the one major flaw of Predators
How did anyone look at that creature design and go "yeah, this looks good"
I was thinking more along the lines that they really weren't concerned with the fact that the predators look like they just left some kid's birthday party a half hour before. And then way too much of the CGI didn't look great. There was way too much digital blood for a movie that didn't involve Zatoichi.
Predators is thoroughly enjoyable, had a nice reveal, the Grand Predator is actually genuinely frightening in how obviously it outclasses and terrifies the standard Yautja (Plus I honestly didn't expect it under the mask) and it has a lot of nice little touches
If I recall correctly the corpse they find at the beginning surrounded by traps has a chesthole for obvious reasons
That would have been a foul way to go
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If you are armed and capable of defending yourself (which Arnie and Danny Glover, and presumably some 1700s dude, have shown that we theoretically are) (and not pregnant), then you are fair game honour wise to the predators.
not Predators
or you're not and you're just wrong
what if we replace them with bigger, meaner, blacker versions covered in blood and animal bone headdresses that dance and caper around bonfires like 1950s cartoon tribesmen and strut around with cocked arms like they're guido bodybuilders
and they can have some poorly-defined rivalry or war
oh and the tuskdogs
and Adrian Brody pretending to be a badass
and Topher Grace
Didn't like the big Predator design.
I know how their honor works. The point is that don't fight fair. What's the challenge when they can take almost any bullets humans can shoot at them and snipe them with laser beams while being invisible. That's fucking cheating. The best times when they actually live up to their honor is when they go mano-a-Predator and even then they dominate humans, including human monsters like Dutch (the guy who lifts up trucks).
And I loved the big predator design.
Also Depressperado those are really stupid complaints, and you listing things that happened in the movie in a sarcastic tone doesnt have the effect of magically making them actually bad things.
The predator in Predator one 'strutted around with cocked arms', they kind of have to, because they're huge, they've always been huge and muscular, as well as agile, this was in the first one, it was like twice the size of arnold, and it jumped from treebranch to treebranch. And when in the hell did they dance around bonfires? There was a hunting camp where they stripped their kills, they never dance around it? What?
And the use of hunting dogs, the lore, they were all reasonable within the canon of what Predators are.
Oh you're right I apologise, you've convinced me.
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Didn't deliver on the promise its premise held but
It is not a terrible movie
The only thing that was wrong with Predators was the goofy-ass new predator design they used. The classic one looked fine
The rest of the movie was basically just one giant reference to Predator and as a Predator scholar I found it to my liking
Also the opening of that movie was one of the best. The smash to title card was executed with aplomb
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Adrien Brody playing the heavy is way better than I ever expected
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They did it with the lettering appearing bit by bit in the original teaser, too. Check out the OP, and compare how the word 'Prometheus' appears and compare with the way 'Alien' appears in the 1979 trailer.
Her best friend can be a gay predator, it'll test well with the target demo.
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All the actors were fine in the movie. Brody was definitely a believable mercenary. He needs more action roles IMO.
one predator versus a team of commandos is a fair fight
you can tell because the predator loses
They werent 'blacker' or bigger, three of the Predators involved were the EXACT same type of predator as in the first two (same size, same build, design, movements, behaviours.
The second movie established that each one has his own custom helmet, and given that the first movie predator decorated himself in bones it makes sense that others would to, including their helmets.
Also there was no bonfire and no dancing and the whole cartoon tribesmen thing is just weird, its not in there, watch the film, it doesnt happen, ever. The closest is that they have a hunting camp, which has no bonfire (or at least is not central nor ever danced around), just piles of dead things in various stages of being skinned, which they have always done, in every movie, and as hunters, makes absolute sense. Is this like a general impression you got from that set or something?
As for the 'poorly-defined rivalry', there are two types, Alphas and Betas, the ones we've been seeing so far are Betas. I mean its not well defined because it doesnt need to be from the perspective of the humans, which are the viewpoint of the movie, its not outrageous or stretching the limits of what we can accept in a universe like this. Its not amazing, but its certainly not a negative mark against the film.
And the tuskdogs also make absolute sense, they're hunters, using hutning dogs weaken and weed out the chaff so thats all thats left is the best. I mean maybe its unimaginative? But eh, its not like eye-rollingly bad.
The movie has some dumb parts, just none of the ones Dep mentioned were outrageously dumb (or even in the film).
The Predator only loses after he killed 99% of the team. The only survivors are a woman and the only sane soldier who got out of dodge asap (am I remembering that right?) by helicopter. Staying there was suicide.
Dutch barely was able to defeat the Predator, which was close to a draw. Had Dutch been unable to outrun the self destructive explosion it would have been a draw. Dutch only survived that long by discovering the predator's weaknesses accidentally and relying on the Predator twiddling its thumbs for hours while he built traps. If the Predator had not let Dutch build said traps he'd have been screwed when the fight started. It also took off its armor and weaponry later on, too. Then it proceeded to curbstomp Dutch like a little bitch for a while.
Fishburnes role was originally written for Annie.
Imagine if they kept that under wraps.
Would have been fucking insane see Arnie de-cloak.
Satans..... hints.....
so you can tell the predator had an unfair advantage because he almost won
you know what's another word for almost winning
The Predator proved it had an unfair advantage by killing his team effortlessly and throwing Dutch around like a ragdoll for it's version of a "fair fight".
You're also ignoring it having the Idiot Ball for Dutch to even the odds and luck for finding its weakness.
He was also the strongest member on the team, as well. Anyone else wouldn't have lasted five minutes under the same conditions.
Idris Elba with a southern American accent, though? Fie!
I also really wish they actually filmed the King Willie fight.
And that there was a movie which actually pitted the Colonial Marines against a Predator or two.
Though I didn't know what you are doing firing humans at predators.
Satans..... hints.....
Next Predator movie, Predator attacks a circus! Strongest man fights Predator hand to hand, RELEASE THE LIONS! The Amazing Human Cannonball versus Alien FLESH!
In Predator, when the pred sees Billy on the log with his machete, he de-cloaks and take him mano-a-mano
If I recall correctly the corpse they find at the beginning surrounded by traps has a chesthole for obvious reasons
That would have been a foul way to go
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