Predator 5 announced - Why can't they leave this fucking franchise just rest in peace?

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Cardenio said:
All I've got to say is I liked Predators. Robert Rodriguez The Director knew he was directing a big dumb action movie and he deliverer.

Edit: Didn't know Rodriguez only produced it.
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Now that was a movie.

Also I'm sure trans predator is in the works given they had Predators hunting autistic kids(next step in human evolution!) in the last one.
 
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Cardenio said:
All I've got to say is I liked Predators. Robert Rodriguez The Director knew he was directing a big dumb action movie and he deliverer.

Edit: Didn't know Rodriguez only produced it.
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I thought Predators was boring, it was just a rehash of the first movie, not bringing enough new to the table, having people run around the jungle again but this time there's more than 1 Predator does not a new movie make, it needed an all new setting ala 2.

Maybe I would have been more forgiving if I had seen it on TV, but I went the extra mile to see it in theaters and thus walked away disappointed because I was expecting something great, not mediocre.

Mediocre is still preferable to everything that's come since though.

RomanesEuntDomus said:
Don't forget the Predator in the first movie killed himself, another trans allegory if you ask me.
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Not technically, it was already dying after Arnold mortally wounded it, which is why it decided to activate the bomb as a final "fuck you"
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I thought Predators was boring, it was just a rehash of the first movie, not bringing enough new to the table, having people run around the jungle again but this time there's more than 1 Predator does not a new movie make, it needed an all new setting ala 2.

Maybe I would have been more forgiving if I had seen it on TV, but I went the extra mile to see it in theaters and thus walked away disappointed because I was expecting something great, not mediocre.

Mediocre is still preferable to everything that's come since though.
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I also found it boring. Especially after the script was talked about for so many years as being some amazing Predator film that Rodriquez had written with no thought towards budget. I'd actually be curious to know if the final film was at all anything like his "script" or if it was just non-sense hype by losers like Harry Knowles.

One aspect of the film that really annoyed me was the Israeli chick knew about the Predators and could brief them.
 
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Screamer said:
I also found it boring. Especially after the script was talked about for so many years as being some amazing Predator film that Rodriquez had written with no thought towards budget. I'd actually be curious to know if the final film was at all anything like his "script" or if it was just non-sense hype by people like losers like Harry Knowles.

One aspect of the film that really annoyed me was the Israeli chick knew about the Predators and could brief them.
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It wasn't, the script Rodriquez wrote was about Arnold's character being abducted by the Predators, taken to their home planet and forced to fight in gladiatorial games against other alien creatures who, like him, managed to kill a Predator.

The final movie was almost nothing like that save for the element of people being abducted and sent to an alien planet.

But since Rodriquez was still attached as producer it was hyped up as some epic thing by guys like Harry Knowles, especially because at that time new sequels to 80s movies was still a novelty.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I thought Predators was boring, it was just a rehash of the first movie, not bringing enough new to the table, having people run around the jungle again but this time there's more than 1 Predator does not a new movie make, it needed an all new setting ala 2.

Maybe I would have been more forgiving if I had seen it on TV, but I went the extra mile to see it in theaters and thus walked away disappointed because I was expecting something great, not mediocre.

Mediocre is still preferable to everything that's come since though.
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I liked it but it's a deeply flawed movie. How in the fuck do you miscast Lawrence Fishburne so badly he's the worst part of your film? Just embarrassing.
 
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frozenrunner said:
I liked it but it's a deeply flawed movie. How in the fuck do you miscast Lawrence Fishburne so badly he's the worst part of your film? Just embarrassing.
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Lawrence Fishburne was definitely the moment I realized "yeah, this movie kind of sucks"

And think of how bad you screw up when you screw up casting him, think of how much he elevated movies like Event Horizon or The Matrix, embarrassing indeed.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
It wasn't, the script Rodriquez wrote was about Arnold's character being abducted by the Predators, taken to their home planet and forced to fight in gladiatorial games against other alien creatures who, like him, managed to kill a Predator.
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Not gonna lie, I came a little in my pants.

That sounds fucking awesome. I have no clue how to pull that off, what kind of threats and other gladiators Arnold could face or team up with, but one thing is for certain, it would have had potential.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Not gonna lie, I came a little in my pants.

That sounds fucking awesome. I have no clue how to pull that off, what kind of threats and other gladiators Arnold could face or team up with, but one thing is for certain, it would have had potential.
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Join me in mourning for the King Conan movie we'll never get either.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Not gonna lie, I came a little in my pants.

That sounds fucking awesome. I have no clue how to pull that off, what kind of threats and other gladiators Arnold could face or team up with, but one thing is for certain, it would have had potential.
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Oh yeah, it's a great premise.

There's a whole slew of unmade Arnold sequels that sound cool, in the late 90s and early 2000s there were two different attempts to make a Total Recall sequel and while Total Recall doesn't really need a sequel, what we know about them they would have been pretty cool and kept the ambiguity as to whether anything that we're seeing is real or not.
 
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So making my bet now , the movie will end with No and her tribe preparing for war as you see ships in the fog

EDIT: Hell heres my exact bet for how the scene will play out.

No is now the leader of her tribe , and shes sitting down for lunch with other members when scouts run in and tell her about something in the fog , her and her army (bonus points if all women) go to the shore and prepare for whatever is in the mist , in a reprise of a scene featuring the predator , 3 ships emerge from the mist , with several tiny boats rowing to shore.
 
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You know what I love about "representation" of minorities?
When their movie costumes makes them look like rodeo clown version of their culture.
You know what I love about new entries in an established franchise?
When said new entry makes me feel like it's ashamed of being from said established franchise.

And just for the record, I once again went "Wait, they are making a Predator 5? Oh right... I made this thread myself!" upon seeing that this thread got bumped.
 
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Hulu. Ah, well, Hulu. I'm really convinced to sign up for Hulu now.
 
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HeyYou said:
I could actually see this premise working if you took a lot of cues from Apocalypto.
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I can't see this working. Arnie had a hard time taking down a predator with 80s weapons. How can someone with Flint and arrows face one? Unless the twist is its post apocalypse and now 300 years in the past.
 
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