The Predator - The hunt for autism.

I think they decided to take ideas from the Predator EU were not all predators shown are hunters but they go to war too

I read all the comics as a kid and that never once came up. Closest you got to that is the comic Bad Blood where there could be "insane" Predators that didn't have an honor code and a "cop" Predator sent to to stop it. That and they did launch campaigns in order to catch an Alien Queen. That's about it. Unless there were more recent comics or some obscure book that explored that idea.

Since this flopped I'm thinking that Disney will reboot it. Probably with a remake.
 
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I think they decided to take ideas from the Predator EU were not all predators shown are hunters but they go to war too
Honestly, my theory was always the Predator we saw in the original film was just the alien version of those rich doctors who go to Africa to kill lions and shit. The idea the entire civilization is structured around trophy hunting is fucking idiotic.

Oh yeah Disney gets to ruin Aliens and Predators now, too. Forgot about that.

Those franchises have been completely ruined since the 90s.
 
Oh yeah Disney gets to ruin Aliens and Predators now, too. Forgot about that.

Honestly my nigga, it would be impressive if they made a worse Predator film then this. I am a massive Predator fan boy and my expectations were pretty low for this entry. All they would have to do to make a "good" Predator is just adapt one of the comics like Bad Blood or Race War or Big Game or AvP: Eternal.

AvP: Eternal is an AvP comic but it's more Predator-focused and the Aliens are more in the background. In that one, an old Asian guy stumbles upon a crashed Predator ship and uses the technology to live for hundreds of years and becomes rich. But he's starting to die and he has his merc team (using Predator technology) try to lure out some Predators and harvest their organs. The Aliens are just there.

Honestly, my theory was always the Predator we saw in the original film was just the alien version of those rich doctors who go to Africa to kill lions and shit. The idea the entire civilization is structured around trophy hunting is fucking idiotic.



Those franchises have been completely ruined since the 90s.


I liked Alien Covenant. Come at me bro. I also liked Predators. Predators had some flaws but it was pretty fun and a lot better than this shit.
 
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I loved Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Then again, it's been several years since I saw it.
 
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I loved Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Then again, it's been several years since I saw it.

It is a fun POS. It's not a good movie but I didn't find it to be an insult to my intelligence like The Predator. Plus, there's a kid in it but there's very few scenes with the kid thank god.

Edit: another Predator comic ripe for adapting is Predator Kindred. That one's pretty interesting: a kid goes out with his dad on his first hunting trip and a Predator kills his father. He grows up a little fucked up because of the experience and in his small town a serial killer worshiping the Predator has appeared. Surprise, it's the same one that killed the guy's father. Good comic.

A lot of the Predator comics are terrible but there are a few good ones worth checking out.
 
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One of my new favourite critics just saw it, and judging from his report I am so fucking glad that I didn't.


8:35 "Ass Burgers figures out how to use the holographic alien keyboard letting him control the new Predator ship that has just arrived."

Do you know what that reminded me of? The fucking synthesizer key from fucking Masters of the Universe. Shane Black and Fred Dekker may have ripped off Masters of the Fucking Universe...

This review is great BTW.
 
I've seen the self-diagnosed Aspergers crowd who like to pretend autism is some sort of mutant power that gives you a magical super brain and when I heard about this important plot point of The Predator I wondered if it was secretly written by one of those parents who believe their kid is an "indigo child" i.e. "our child is not autistic, he/she is a special one who represents a step forward in human evolution."
 
I've seen the self-diagnosed Aspergers crowd who like to pretend autism is some sort of mutant power that gives you a magical super brain and when I heard about this important plot point of The Predator I wondered if it was secretly written by one of those parents who believe their kid is an "indigo child" i.e. "our child is not autistic, he/she is a special one who represents a step forward in human evolution."

I took a look at Black's IMDB page and found this:

"Is a self-admitted sufferer of Tourette syndrome."

There you go.
 
One of my new favourite critics just saw it, and judging from his report I am so fucking glad that I didn't.

.....hooooleeeeeeeee sheeeeeeeeeit that sounds like the most hilariously bad film made by mainstream hollywood in decades

It straight up sounds like if tommy wiseau directed a predator film with a script written by chris chan and edited by uwe boll
 
I'd honestly just watch this film in like a Movie Night or something, since I don't believe this film is worth giving money to. I'd want to watch it, but no on FOX's dime.

In other news, I died last night when I learned that it made 66 million world wide... off of an 88 million dollar budget. I also laughed when I realized that Shane Black made a comedy rather than a horror movie based on his only successful film, Iron Man 3.

A side note; I saw Predator v. ISIS as an idea pitched and that'd work. I had my own idea.

Predator 1 and 2 were interesting since they started as a different film. 1 is a goofy action movie like Commando, 2 a cop movie in the style of Lethal Weapon. Both then turn into an action/horror movie with slasher elements.

So my idea, based on the shittastic product before me, is to basically make the Batman v. Predator movie. Have a vigilante squad of heroes in a grungy city like Camden or Detroit beat up crooks and have their own Rogues Gallery. A small hunting lodge of Preds go to this city during a July heatwave and go after both of these groups, since their style and usage of gadgets means they're the best prey in the area and it'd be an honorable fight. The two sides of good and evil break down and the groups have to work together to outwit the hunters, while also dealing with their own issues of being crook and hero.

It's not fucking hard to make a decent idea for Predator; it's a slasher sci-fi movie for fuck's sake. Don Dohler could've fucking done it and it'd work.
 
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So my idea, based on the shittastic product before me, is to basically make the Batman v. Predator movie.

You were beaten to the punch by a couple of decade. Batman did take on the Predator in a number of mini-graphic novels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Versus_Predator

I have only read the first one, when I was a kid, but I remember it being badass.

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The first Batman VS Predator comic is okay. The writer's for Predator comics at that time liked to forget that the Predator has an honor code and doesn't kill unarmed or unworthy prey. The other Batman VS Predator comics are terrible and there's even a Batman and Superman VS Aliens and Predator which was even worse.

Judge Dredd VS Predator is actually really good. The rest of the Predator VS so and so (along with Aliens VS so and so) are dog shit.
 
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the first Aliens vs Superman was okay. Supes ended up in some old space station so he was away from sunlight for a while.

Yeah and it involved Darkseid trying to weaponize the Aliens. It was okay. After that though...
 
I forgot about that part. They're kinda small time for him, aren't they?

I think he wanted to use them as a biological weapon and his son was impregnated by a facehugger so there was a ticking clock element as well.
 
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