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

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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.
iirc they traditionally handicap for what the local tech is?
 
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As someone who holds the original movie in high regard, and appreciate its sequel despite how cheesy it was, this is a franchise that had been mistreated to such an extend that now I'm apathetic to it. I don't want more reminders of how culturally stagnant is Hollywood that they cannot let go of ideas from four decades ago.
 
If even a smidge of name recognition is felt to be able to be capitalized on, the Hollywood suits will ruthlessly dig up stuff from decades ago to reboot, retool, revamp - and you have plenty of people, including so-called film critics who remain proudly incurious about most film before 1980 and see most movies of past years as potential intellectual properties to be fed into the machinery in hopes that maybe this time this will be the reboot that will actually do well at the box office.
 
You know, for all the wokeshit and screeching about racism and whiteness, and so on... what little we've been told about this film flies in the face of the Comanche way of life and culture, starting with the facts

1) Women were not warriors. They were not taught to be warriors. They did not hang out with warriors. They did not go on raids. Fuck, they didn't even learn to ride horses!
2) Kids that misbehaved would be dealt with by their parents as they saw fit. If the parents failed, it fell to other adults in the band to scare them straight. Getting nicknamed "No" over being a brat that refuses to go with their people's ways and disrespected their elders? Yeah, good luck with getting married, dumb cunt. :story:

To paraphrase something I said in a prior post ITT: If the ending shot of the film isn't the protagonist's spine hung to dry, Disney could have acheived the same results livestreaming themselves burning all the money in a pit.
 
"Why do you want to hunt?"
-"Cause you tell me I can't"

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The bear CGI looks like trash, but I will give this exactly one positive thing: It's about a regular Predator, not some Super-Predator or genetically engineered Mutant-Predator or some asshat wearing an Iron Man suit or whatever. It's back to the roots, one Predator hunting some prey.

But I can smell bullshit when I see it. Comache-woman REEE will easily outperform all the warriors in her tribe and of course now knowing there's european settlers in this, we can expect them to be murderous racist shitstains that'll get slaughtered comically quickly.
 
I find it funny the natives are speaking English instead of their own language with the exception of the MC giving instructions to her dog (who looks baffled). Yes, it is true indigenous tribes in the Americas learned English and other European languages when they came over. But you just no someone will make a fuss over the native characters speaking English. At least Mel Gibson had the dialogue in The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto be a modern approximation of the languages for those films' settings.

Also:
"I know how to survive."
*Almost got killed by a bear*
 
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I watched the trailer, so I get that.

I am not 100% against the idea of Predator vs. Indians. Arnold killed the first one with wits and a log trap. I just have 0 faith in it being any good given the track record.
yeah iirc Dark Horse got at least a couple of decent one-shots out of Predator Vs Some Ye Olde Timey Guys (maybe samurais or indians or whatevers)
 
I watched the trailer, so I get that.

I am not 100% against the idea of Predator vs. Indians. Arnold killed the first one with wits and a log trap. I just have 0 faith in it being any good given the track record.
I would totally dig Predator vs Apocalypto but this is gonna be some prog garbage that probably won't even have decent action.
 
Lol. This is hilariously stupid but also kinda awesomely stupid? It's like someone made a caveman vs astronauts movie.
 
It's funny how many movie franchises there are that should have stopped at the second movie but just kept going, Predator, Terminator, Alien, Robocop and Poltergeist being the examples that first come to mind. (I'm including any remakes and reboots)

In the case of Predator there was always potential for a good movie after the first two, lots of room for an interesting new story, but they always find some way to fuck it up.
 
Weirdly enough, the thing with the bear harkens back to the Predator Primal comic:

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The comic is pretty bad despite the art being good. A Predator who is over the hill kills a cub and engages with the mother and dies to a god damn bear.

Overall, I have mixed feelings. I get the feeling we're going to spend a lot of time with this chick and the last 20-30 minutes will just be exactly like the final 20-30 minutes of the original movie but with an Indian chick. The cinematography looks cheap at times. There might be some good carnage tho. It would be impressive if it's worse than the last movie.
 
In the case of Predator there was always potential for a good movie after the first two, lots of room for an interesting new story, but they always find some way to fuck it up.
The flinklock pistol from Predator 2 could have set up the Predator in pre-20th Century setting for the next film installment. Instead, thanks to the Alien skull, we got that inevitable crossover on the big screen a decade later.
 
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