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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 28, 2019 18:34:42 GMT
A few quick thoughts:
-A lot of people think of the original as just being some big, dumb action film, but actually it definetly had some horror atmosphere to it, with the looming threat picking everyone off one by one. It was basically a slasher film set in the jungle. Even the inferior sequel maintained some of that tension (the train scene comes to mind). This one completely abandons it, there's no real build up or tension, hell the Predator shows up within the first few mintues of the film. Feels less like a Predator film and more like Guardians of the Galaxy which kinda leads to my next thoughts:
-The humor was a bit too much. Yeah the original had some silly moments ("Stick around"), but this one it just beats you over the head with it, particular with some of the meta humor ("You're one beatiful motherfucker"). Comic relief is supposed to ease the tension, not irritate you with all the corny jokes.
-Predator dogs, what's the point? I know the Super Predator was a "deputy" of sorts and he was using them to hunt down the other Predator, but they just came off as kinda silly and most of the time never really posed much of a threat.
Overall I think was decent though, better than the sequel, not as good as the original though (obviously)
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 28, 2019 18:37:58 GMT
I almost turned it off. I thought The Predator blew so bad I actually re-rented Predators to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Nope. Predators was a masterpiece in comparison.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 28, 2019 18:40:17 GMT
I almost turned it off. I thought The Predator blew so bad I actually re-rented Predators to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Nope. Predators was a masterpiece in comparison. How would you rank it against Predator 2?
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Post by James on Jan 28, 2019 18:44:25 GMT
The worst Predator movie aside AVPR.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 18:54:34 GMT
Shane Black flat out botched this big time (trying to turn a Predator movie into some slapstick /action/comedy ) fucking horrible and probably the worst film I saw in 2018 .
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 28, 2019 19:00:07 GMT
I almost turned it off. I thought The Predator blew so bad I actually re-rented Predators to see if it was as bad as I remembered. Nope. Predators was a masterpiece in comparison. How would you rank it against Predator 2? Clearly you're gonna think I'm crazy, but still prefer Predator 2 over The Predator. The Predator is god awful. It's the worst Predator movie IMO.
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Post by ck100 on Jan 28, 2019 20:22:16 GMT
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jan 29, 2019 0:59:06 GMT
After the way in which Shane Black botched Iron Man 3, I had bad feelings about this film from early on. Everything I've heard about it since its release seems to justify those concerns.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 29, 2019 1:06:23 GMT
Didn't care for it. There were some things I liked like Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, and I didn't actually mind the giant predator. Everything else was just grating and obnoxious. Felt like a Deadpool script mated with whatever the original vision was.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jan 29, 2019 1:06:23 GMT
OK. Clue me in here. Who is she and what's the connection to this film?
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Post by ravi02 on Jan 29, 2019 1:26:01 GMT
Predator 2 wasn't perfect, but it at least had some cool sequences like the Predator slaughtering the Jamaicans, the alleyway confrontation/decapitation of King Willie and the subway massacre. Even Predators had Laurence Fishburne hamming it up and a more engaging lead in Adrien Brody.
The Predator had nothing like those aspects going for it. It just recycles the same shit we saw in the previous films - a wisecracking squad of soldiers, the creature in a urban environment, Super-Predators which they did in the third one - then gives us forgettable characters, too much comic relief, annoyingly retcons their motivations (they come to earth to harvest spinal fluid and an autistic kid would grant them super-powers or something?) and the action bits aren't even that good.
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Post by ck100 on Jan 29, 2019 2:24:37 GMT
OK. Clue me in here. Who is she and what's the connection to this film? That's Olivia Munn. She's one of the stars of The Predator.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 29, 2019 9:29:20 GMT
"Finally".
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Post by DSDSquared on Jan 29, 2019 13:45:24 GMT
A few quick thoughts:
-A lot of people think of the original as just being some big, dumb action film, but actually it definetly had some horror atmosphere to it, with the looming threat picking everyone off one by one. It was basically a slasher film set in the jungle. Even the inferior sequel maintained some of that tension (the train scene comes to mind). This one completely abandons it, there's no real build up or tension, hell the Predator shows up within the first few mintues of the film. Feels less like a Predator film and more like Guardians of the Galaxy which kinda leads to my next thoughts:
-The humor was a bit too much. Yeah the original had some silly moments ("Stick around"), but this one it just beats you over the head with it, particular with some of the meta humor ("You're one beatiful motherfucker"). Comic relief is supposed to ease the tension, not irritate you with all the corny jokes.
-Predator dogs, what's the point? I know the Super Predator was a "deputy" of sorts and he was using them to hunt down the other Predator, but they just came off as kinda silly and most of the time never really posed much of a threat.
Overall I think was decent though, better than the sequel, not as good as the original though (obviously)
WHAT? Better than Predator 2. That is almost insulting. This movie blew in comparison. Predator 2 gets a terrible rap for some reason when it was very entertaining. Sure, some of I was cheesy, but The Predator was just all cheese. For instance, no scene in The Predator even comes close to the train sequence in Predator 2 or the opening scene. Predators and Predator were great films. Predator 2 was also very entertaining. The rest all blow.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 29, 2019 13:48:37 GMT
Didn't care for it. There were some things I liked like Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, and I didn't actually mind the giant predator. Everything else was just grating and obnoxious. Felt like a Deadpool script mated with whatever the original vision was. Agreed with Sterling K Brown, he was the only real highlight. It was like his character was in a different film. Overall the film was terrible.
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Post by charzhino on Jan 29, 2019 15:00:15 GMT
Predator 2 is a worthy sequel to the original. Its not a simple rehash and adds a lot of new things like expanding the mythology. Also had a black lead of an action movie, something rare in those days. No idea why people say its bad. Predators with Brody is a complete rip off of the original. The Predator isn't even worthy of being a sequel to that.
AvP is underrated. AVPR is forgettable. They need to end this franchise.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 29, 2019 19:38:04 GMT
Shane Black flat out botched this big time (trying to turn a Predator movie into some slapstick /action/comedy ) fucking horrible and probably the worst film I saw in 2018 . ^THIS^
Surprising because I've at least LIKED everything else Shane Black has done. But this was just terrible. There were literally scenes that didn't even make sense.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 29, 2019 19:44:10 GMT
A) Predator 2 is a worthy sequel to the original. Its not a simple rehash and adds a lot of new things like expanding the mythology. Also had a black lead of an action movie, something rare in those days. No idea why people say its bad. B) Predators with Brody is a complete rip off of the original. C) The Predator isn't even worthy of being a sequel to that. D) AvP is underrated. AVPR is forgettable. They need to end this franchise. A) Agree B) disagree. Predators at least had a few unique qualities about it, the most enjoyable being that it takes place on another planet, it adds the inner conflict of Predators vs each other for the first time, and had a decent cast. They just didn't do enough with those elements. C) absolutely agree D) Those are awful too IMO, but at least better than The Predator.
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Post by charzhino on Jan 29, 2019 20:26:11 GMT
A) Predator 2 is a worthy sequel to the original. Its not a simple rehash and adds a lot of new things like expanding the mythology. Also had a black lead of an action movie, something rare in those days. No idea why people say its bad. B) Predators with Brody is a complete rip off of the original. C) The Predator isn't even worthy of being a sequel to that. D) AvP is underrated. AVPR is forgettable. They need to end this franchise. A) Agree B) disagree. Predators at least had a few unique qualities about it, the most enjoyable being that it takes place on another planet, it adds the inner conflict of Predators vs each other for the first time, and had a decent cast. They just didn't do enough with those elements. C) absolutely agree D) Those are awful too IMO, but at least better than The Predator.
Predators might take place on another planet and introduce some inner conflict but its still a rip off. Blatant copying beat by beat and basic premise. Big muscly lead togther with mercenary soldiers being hunted down in a jungle. Its a fine line between paying homage and plagiarizing. But when they even use the same music from the original, it becomes the latter. Oh and the twist with one of the humans was pretty lame. They could easily have done this for predator 2 but they went in a different direction which was good.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Jan 30, 2019 3:06:44 GMT
I think I would rather sit through ‘AVP:Requiem’ again than ‘The Predator’.
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