Predators

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I just hope it won't suck as much as AVPs.

It will

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It will

Twice as much

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It will

Twice as much

With anus rape

Ok I watched it, it's what you would expect.. dialogue which mostly consists of "What the fuck is going on?" or "Shut the fuck up".. the standard predators are joined by some kind of bigger super predators which look like the smaller ones but with dark skin and different coloured eyes.. they're having some kind of fued.. which is never explained. Nor is why the Hell everyone dumped on the Jungle are mercenaries/gangsters except for one lone doctor.. well it is kinda explained but it's terribly executed. Laurence Fishburne

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doesn't last very long

and all the leads are two dimensional and generic as they come (American special forces guy acting like he knows it all better than anyone, Yakuza sword fighting, Honourable Russian Spetsnaz bumbling about shouting a lot with his homage to "Ol Painless".) Considerable lack of any of the original Predator sound effects as well...

Not great but not terrible either... at least better than AVP Requiem.

When you're finished reading this crap, go watch this:

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It's better than Predators or the AVP films by miles.

Yeh, movies like this are an insult to the original Predator, which still stands on my top5 best movies ever.

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Ok I watched it, it's what you would expect.. dialogue which mostly consists of "What the fuck is going on?" or "Shut the fuck up".. the standard predators are joined by some kind of bigger super predators which look like the smaller ones but with dark skin and different coloured eyes.. they're having some kind of fued.. which is never explained. Nor is why the Hell everyone dumped on the Jungle are mercenaries/gangsters except for one lone doctor.. well it is kinda explained but it's terribly executed. Laurence Fishburne

and all the leads are two dimensional and generic as they come (American special forces guy acting like he knows it all better than anyone, Yakuza sword fighting, Honourable Russian Spetsnaz bumbling about shouting a lot with his homage to "Ol Painless".) Considerable lack of any of the original Predator sound effects as well...

I disagree with all of this.

Predators is good. Topher Grace sucks, but Predators is good.

I'm glad they didn't go out of their way to define each character, they're dropped into the situation just as you are, so the lack of any real hard information about anyone helps the film. And to knock it against the first one for that makes absolutely no sense. The squad in the first Predator was essentially the same, every character was basically how he looked. Which was great, cause they all looked bad ass. And it's basically the same in Predators. The music was straight from the original, so they realized somewhere along the lines that they are never going to be as good as the original which is the best movie ever made, give or take, so good call there. The premise is worthwhile and they never over explain it, which they could have, cause it's intriguing enough for you want to understand what exactly happened before they landed but it's never elaborated on, just as the first film didn't elaborate on the Predator itself or his origins, only hinted. There's not enough valid fiction in this universe to really go beyond that threshold, so good call in knowing their boundaries.

This is as good as 'reboots' or whatever of classic movies get these days, just be glad it was done by a bunch of people who seem like they care about these kinds of films.

And fuck it, Adrian Brody is a good action hero. Fuckin' Pianist can hold his own.

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This is as good as 'reboots' or whatever of classic movies get these days, just be glad it was done by a bunch of people who seem like they care about these kinds of films.

So you're saying it's on the level of Batman Begins/The Dark Knight?

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So you're saying it's on the level of Batman Begins/The Dark Knight?

They're going for different things, but sure, Predators is about on par with Begins, which was bloated and all over the place. The Dark Knight, not so much.

Though to think Batman was a classic film franchise before Nolan got a hold of it is up for serious argument as well.

I guess that depends on how big of a Tim Burton fan you are. Some people still swear that Jack Nicholson was a better joker. I think those people are a bit batty themselves.