PREDATOR

[DannyBeane]

[MouthForWar]

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[RapZiLLa54]

[RapZiLLa54]

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[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[MouthForWar]

[Elliot Gay]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[MekaGojira3k]

I agree with a lot of people that this isn't as good as the first, but not as bad as the second. My biggest problem with the film lay in the acting/dialogue. Bear minimum kind of stuff, but given it is what it is I should expect it. The Super Predator was kind of underwhelming. I really just wish there had been more alien races involved.

[RapZiLLa54]

I agree the whole Super Pred take was very underwhelming. After Wolf from AVPR I was expecting these to be the Ultimate Predators but instead were the preds from AVP.

I really wish they had Ian Whyte for this movie, the Predators didn't have any or much character...

[mr.negativity]

[RapZiLLa54]

[Dr Kain]

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[jellydonut25]

Just watched it...

The Good
-TOTAL fangasm over the music, oh man, i was like a little kid in a candy store...

-It's actually REALLY enjoyable for...an hour???like, to such an extent that I thought I was going to be in the minority that absolutely LOVE this movie

-creature designs are all fantastic, and the creatures are all utilized pretty well. i take back any prior complaints on the preda-wolf. they dont look stupid, and they work really well within the concept of the film

-the concept (game preserve) isn't quite as awful as i thought it'd be in fact, it actually COULD have worked REALLY well, if just given a bit more time to breathe and leave us in suspense before letting the cat out of the bag and having the characters instantly figure it out

-adrien brody is better than i thought he could be (still some complaints but i'll save that for the "bad")

The BAD
-i'll start with the adrien brody complaint while it's fresh in everyones mind; why did he (and fishburne) have to speak in "The Dark Knight" voice like every single line they uttered was the most fantastic revelation in the history of the world/the most badass statement in the history of the universe

-fishburne's scene - seriously??? like...really??? i'm guessing that we weren't supposed to be laughing at this considering how essentially "serious" the rest of the film is...

-jawbone predator, the only design that didn't do much for me...it was just a little goofy

-ok wait...these are SUPER Predators right? as in, able to completely whip the CRAP out of the regular predators, and yet our intrepid heroes are able to stand toe to toe with them??? I F*CKING THOUGHT this would happen, and it's just terrible when someone who HASN'T had this story in their mind for 10 years can pick up on this in 100 minutes and Rodriguez couldn't in TEN YEARS...

-the infrared. terrible. just terrible. should have stuck with the original effect

-Yakuza vs. Predator...would have been so much cooler if it just went the way things went in the original predator - but this gets back to my "Arney couldn't stand up to one of these things toe-to-toe and here these guys are trading blows with...SUPER Predators??? F*CK THAT!" complaint.

-Topher Grace's character....EVERYTHING about him...EVERYTHING. from his inclusion at all (the rest of these people are WARRIORS, he's just a sick, demented serial killer?? terrible), to his knowledge of ALIEN life forms (or how about his knowledge of plants AT ALL - let me tell you something, my sister is a doctor and no way could you show her a plant and have her say "oh that's zabbadee gobbledee "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!", super poisonous, don't touch"), terrible, just TERRIBLE

-pacing. yep, it's been mentioned before, but from the "yakuza vs. predator" scene it went on too long and featured too much dialogue. by that point, the whole story is set up, and all plot development is done, the extra dialogue just pads the running time...unnecessarily.



i dunno, i sooo badly wanted to LOVE this, especially when i was doing so for the first hour SOLID...and then it just kinda...falls apart...

you know what? it's like Pandorum, but the last act is SLIGHTLY more enjoyable because Dennis Quaid isn't in it...

3 outta 5 - maybe 2.5, even leaving aside the 5-minute suckfest that is fishburne's role, the last act left a really bad taste in my mouth...

[MouthForWar]

/\ Sounds like we're in the exact same boat on this one. This, Wolf Man and the Expendables, while not the worst movies I've seen all year were definitely the most disappointing.

[jellydonut25]

i thought of another "bad"

why does EVERYTHING in this movie have to EXPLODE??? well, not EVERYTHING, specifically i'm referring to Laurence Fishburne and the first preda-wolf that die...they LITERALLY explode into NOTHINGNESS but a few blobs of CG-blood...



just a few too many moments in this movie...

[MouthForWar]

Can we also make fun of the fact that Fishburne's character named "Roland Noland?"

[Gman2887]

I don't know. I think a lot of these arguments are a little too nitpicky for my blood. Quite frankly I found Predators to be one of the most enjoyable and well crafted summer flicks this year. (Not saying a lot. Granted. But it could stand up to other summers as well.)

The number one complaint I see is how this cast can stand up to the ~!*SuPeR*!~ Predators. Who cares? It works completely on its own and the moments where our merry band of victims stand up to these beasts are perfectly well crafted. Is it simply because the main character of the original was Au-nold? So no one else can be more badass than Dutch because he was played by a T-800? Don't buy it. The movie takes place over twenty years later. Militaristic training is different-- It births new baddies. Besides, if these bigger badder Predators picked these guys they must have known they were worth the challenge. Spoiler alert. They were.

Noland was one of the best pieces about the movie. Fishburne's performance was great. Admittedly, if it weren't for him that entire character would've been nothing, but he made it into something worthwhile. And I thought Topher Grace was (shamefully) really enjoyable. He wasn't a warrior, but he was intelligent and calculating. Two qualities that match the Preds to pretty little tee.

I concede that the movie isn't Shakespeare, but it works well as a strong action flick. I cared about the characters, the story was fun and the action didn't remind me of The A-Team. I wasn't aware that alien infrared sight was such an important element to creating a decent action flick.

[MekaGojira3k]

[Arrow]

I found Predators enjoyable, but not the fantastic reboot I was hoping for. But then it's not as if the original was anything more than an entertaining run-of-the-mill summer action flick (give me Aliens any day).

I found this movie to feel far too restrained, no surprises, no risks, nothing that separates it from the original at all. The biggest example is probably Fisburne's character who's only role is to explain what's been going on up to that point and give the characters something to do for the rest of the movie. And I cannot say that I found Adrian Brody's character very interesting - he's nothing more than a one-dimensional, roguish mercenary with a compassionate side. I probably would have preferred if he became the antagonist while Topher Grace became the hero. Still, some nice action scenes and special effects, so it's not terrible.

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]