The Predator - The hunt for autism.

BrunoMattei said:

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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Just okay? Anything that has Alfred being a badass is better than ok in my book
 
A Useless Fish said:
You were beaten to the punch by a couple of decade. Batman did take on the Predator in a number of mini-graphic novels.
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You didn't need to explain this to me; I am well aware of its existence (in my post I say to basically just make it after all, implying said awareness) and was using it as a super loose template due to FOX not having the rights to Batman.

It was clearly what Shane Black wanted to make after all; he used his own Iron Man movie and Marvel films as his template for this dumpsterfire given the joke of a structure.
 
I've never seen a predator movie before and even I found this to be a bit crap. It was so dark you couldn't see the action most of the time. And the human characters all came across as emotionless sociopaths. I get what they were trying to do by making disabled people the heroes for a change, which is nice, but they had no other notable traits.

Nobody here probably cares about spoilers but...
At the end when they were opening up the "good" predator's gift, Boyfriend whispered "If this is a Xenomorph I swear to God." And if it was a Xenomorph I would have jumped out a fucking window.

Instead it was some armor because fuck this movie.

I saw Searching afterwards though which I found to be a pretty swell picture.
 
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There hasn't been a good Alien movie in 32 years ... And apparently there hasn't been a good Predator movie in 31 years either.

Just let these franchises DIE already.

I was cautiously hopeful for this, too ... Only because of Shane Black's attachment to it. I haven't seen the movie yet, but everything I've heard about it makes it sound like I'm going to absolutely hate it. I'm just going to wait for this one on Redbox or Netflix, I think.

The first Predator is a movie that never EVER needed a sequel. Want to know why? Because that movie took a premise and already did anything and everything you possibly could with that premise. There's limited things you can do with Predator, and that fact only becomes more obvious as the decades go on.

(I will say that Predator 2, while a bad movie, is a guilty pleasure of mine though ...)
 
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I like Alien 3 and Alien Covenant. Predator 2 is a great sequel and Predators was pretty good.

And fuck you, there's a lot of things you can do with the Predator. Set him in different locations and conflicts for one.

Put a Predator in Syria killing ISIS. Perfect conditions for that.

Have a movie in pirate times.

Have a movie set in the samurai era.

Explore their culture and how they acquired their technology. There's a fan theory that the Predator's are a slaver race that enslaved other aliens to make their technology.

There's a lot of things you can do with it. The comics are proof that you can.
 
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Well, I hate Alien 3 with every fiber of my being (and I say this as a huuuuge fan of David Fincher), and I thought that Alien Covenant was so bad that it was hilarious, so ... Clearly we don't see eye-to-eye on this. lol.

You bring up some really fun ideas and possibilities. Too bad the movie studios are just ramming the brand into the ground with bad, uninspired movies.

I'm deflated with all of the bad movies. I've lost hope on any of them being good at this point. I want to be proven wrong, but ... Meh.
 
I'm going to have to agree on Covenant being awful, but 3's Assembly Cut is okay. The first ten minutes are always the roughest, but weather it and you get a decent and dark movie. And Predator did have good-decent films in 2 and Predators.

It really isn't that hard to make a decent film out of the Predator films: take a basic film structure (like a pirate movie or a western or anything really) and then slowly turn it into action/horror.

For some reason this simple structure is too hard for people to get; keep the films simple stupids. Both it and Alien are not complex movies and they shouldn't be mired in lore.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I like Alien 3 and Alien Covenant. Predator 2 is a great sequel and Predators was pretty good.

And fuck you, there's a lot of things you can do with the Predator. Set him in different locations and conflicts for one.

Put a Predator in Syria killing ISIS. Perfect conditions for that.

Have a movie in pirate times.

Have a movie set in the samurai era.

Explore their culture and how they acquired their technology. There's a fan theory that the Predator's are a slaver race that enslaved other aliens to make their technology.

There's a lot of things you can do with it. The comics are proof that you can.
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Predators suffered from clearly being written so you were supposed to go into it thinking it was another one of those "Battle Royale But They're Criminals" movies like the one Stone Cold Steve Austin was in, and then when they see the sky you're supposed to go "wtf they're in space wtf space dogs oh holy shit predators!"

I'm in the very small minority that had fun watching Alien 4. I already had seen City of Lost Children before Alien 4 came out, so I was among the few that could go "Oh wow it's City of Lost Children vs Aliens".

I liked the first Aliens vs Predator. It had Matrix Facehuggers and I'd been waiting since 1994 or whenever Hero magazine printed the earliest rumors of James Cameron's AvP in development. It wasn't a Great Film but it had some Aliens and some Predators and they vsed.

I still haven't actually sat down and watched any of the modern Scott Alien-ish movies all the way through.
 
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Predators suffered from clearly being written so you were supposed to go into it thinking it was another one of those "Battle Royale But They're Criminals" movies like the one Stone Cold Steve Austin was in, and then when they see the sky you're supposed to go "wtf they're in space wtf space dogs oh holy shit predators!"
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I think it was written more as a pseudo-remake/reboot of the original. It follows the original almost beat by beat but changes key things. That's the big flaw of the picture but I still enjoy it.
 
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I took the afternoon off from work to go see this because I wanted a movie that I thought I wouldn't have to think a lot about while watching. And it did not disappoint. This is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Not the worst by any means, but it's fucking DUMB.

Olivia Munn is one of the most thoroughly unlikable actresses I've ever seen. I could see her elevating the tension on the set every other day. What a fucking cunt.

I nearly fell out of my seat when they revealed that the key to the next level of evolution was tard cum.

The group of guys they put together weren't half bad. Too bad they were wasted in just about every way possible.
 
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A Useless Fish said:
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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I think I still have the complete graphic novel in storage.
 
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