I think this was the best action movie I saw this year. The first 10 minutes really set the tone. No long as exposition. It was pretty blatant on how it setup Chekhov's guns but whatever. It felt like Mad Max: Fury Road in that it shows and doesn't tell and its primary goal is to keep the action moving. I popped some nicotine packets before the movie so I was feeling jazzed. I am getting to the point now where if I am going to an action movie, I want to be in a little altered state. Straight up fucking banger. The last time I was impressed by an action movie like this was Fury Road.
Steaming pile of shit! All movies are just garbage now and this movie is just CGI crap and what they did to the Predator is just a crying shame. It looks like the Predator is transitioning to a woman.
Fair enough. As I told you before I was kinda' taught by old school review system back by movie review books in the late 80s, so that stuck with me even now.
Fair enough. As I told you before I was kinda' taught by old school review system back by movie review books in the late 80s, so that stuck with me even now.
Cool cool. I plan to watch Badlands again also. I'm going to pay close attention the score this time. I didn't notice it that much the first time I watched it (probably because I was too engrossed with the film).
I did rewatch Tron: Ares and it holds up. I'm confident that it's going to find an appreciative audience in the future.
Steaming pile of shit! All movies are just garbage now and this movie is just CGI crap and what they did to the Predator is just a crying shame. It looks like the Predator is transitioning to a woman.
I'm not quite sure i know who exactly this movie was made for. 40 year old dudes who want to get their 9 year old daughters into Predator i guess.
There was even a goofy big eyed alien that doesn't really speak who joins the crew.
I'd say this one was about on par with that aliens vs predator requiem where the predator ship crashes near the small town and the aliens get loose. 4 or 5 out of 10.
When I was a kid I was a HUGE Predator fan. I read the comics too.
Some of the comics were good. Some of em were bad. Even as a 12 yr old I could tell the difference.
So even back then I can say that if you give us a MEH/Shitty Predator movie, I would say, ok that is... ehhhhhhh. Even back then ! The mystery about the Predator in the first one, obviously that mystery doesnt exist in the second one, in the sense that we know what the Predator is now.
But we still dont know THAT much about him. Other that he's part of a tribe, you dont really know all that much. The change was that they put him a new enviornment. A new situation. He's in the city, full of people.
When tasked with hunting down members of Harrigan's squad, to draw him out into open battle, The Predator was willing to not just rely on quick savage stealth attacks, but to actually attack a train full of commuters. This was really cool stuff that there was no way we coulda seen in the first movie. The carnage, the body count was much higher, and while the cast wasnt as memorable this time around, they sure were a hell of alot better than anything we got after.
Sure it's ok to experiment, I dont mind them makin a bunch of movies and get better at makin em, but there is such a thing as going too far from the essence of what made the first two movies good.
In that sense at least Prey has the right idea, that we got one badass Predator, who is definitley not there to make friends with anyone, or do any goofy bullshit.
That animated Predator movie, did some cool experimental stuff, and I mostly liked it until the third story and the final half. I also dont mind the IDEA that some Predators kidnap some people who have defeated them in battle. But..
those gotta be asshole predators who dont play by the rules. Cos what we've been shown so far for the past 30 years is that the Predators honor those who can beat them in battle. (if they can stop them from self detonating first) Even giving them weapons as gifts.
Why the fuck would they bother doin that if they are to just be cryo frozen and thrown to fight other humans for their pleasure? lol
So I dont think the lore of all Predators should be fixed to that aspect.
I havent seen this movie yet, but why cant i cringe at the fuckin previews, this puppy dog eyed "friendly" predator teaming up with another girl?? wow is that all you can come up with after all this time ? The same shit, except now with so much CGI, they might as well have made another animated movie?
I didn't like it. It kept me engaged - I don't regret seeing it - but it's too much video game shit. I was correct about it being the Transformers/Fast and Furious of Predator movies. But I'm old meow and I appreciate the movies I grew up with that were slower, very intelligently made and creative.
I enjoy some popcorn movies but with a franchise that started out relatively grounded I prefer it stay that way. Same issue I have with the Terminator movies after the second, though to be fair, that is only one of many lol. I knew what I was getting into though.
With CGI and modern effects it's like they can do too much and the video game shit is immersion breaking to me. I believe the limitations of the past kept movies from getting too ridiculous. If you wanted to keep something suspenseful and engaging you had to be more creative and really pick the right tool for the job. It's cool for certain things, certain battles, but it's overused.
Too much humor too. It has that modern "quippy" humor. Tonally, it just doesn't feel right.
A lotta people will probably like it though and I'd recommend it for the majority. 150,000,000x better than The Predator. It's a ride if nothing else. It was fun but it felt like a Disney Predator movie.
I liked the Predator's comeback tour and the fight scenes with the two predators and his dad, that was solid. Dek fighting the Mech was too much though, straight video game shit. At one point it hits him so hard he flies like hundreds of feet. Is he a yautja or a fucking T-800? The doe eyed baby Kalisk seemed like some Disney shit. The snake/eel thing sacrificing itself for him made no sense to me and I feel like they coulda done something more creative with his plasma caster and Tessa generally.
The thing eating the thing getting killed by the thing was done in Prey, it felt weird seeing it again. It's unnecessary and overdone. Just show one animal being predatory toward another. It fits with the theme without feeling so artificial and weird. I had that problem with Prey, too. We don't need to see the entire cycle of life to get the message.
I feel like I'm living in bizzaro world. This seems to be more of a parody than a serious movie yet people are giving it 8/10. Wondering what they rated the original then.
I didn't like it. It kept me engaged - I don't regret seeing it - but it's too much video game shit. I was correct about it being the Transformers/Fast and Furious of Predator movies. But I'm old meow and I appreciate the movies I grew up with that were slower, very intelligently made and creative.
I enjoy some popcorn movies but with a franchise that started out relatively grounded I prefer it stay that way. Same issue I have with the Terminator movies after the second, though to be fair, that is only one of many lol. I knew what I was getting into though.
With CGI and modern effects it's like they can do too much and the video game shit is immersion breaking to me. I believe the limitations of the past kept movies from getting too ridiculous. If you wanted to keep something suspenseful and engaging you had to be more creative and really pick the right tool for the job. It's cool for certain things, certain battles, but it's overused.
Too much humor too. It has that modern "quippy" humor. Tonally, it just doesn't feel right.
A lotta people will probably like it though and I'd recommend it for the majority. 150,000,000x better than The Predator. It's a ride if nothing else. It was fun but it felt like a Disney Predator movie.
I liked the Predator's comeback tour and the fight scenes with the two predators and his dad, that was solid. Dek fighting the Mech was too much though, straight video game shit. At one point it hits him so hard he flies like hundreds of feet. Is he a yautja or a fucking T-800? The doe eyed baby Kalisk seemed like some Disney shit. The snake/eel thing sacrificing itself for him made no sense to me and I feel like they coulda done something more creative with his plasma caster and Tessa generally.
Even tho ive not seen the movie, you write like I do about this franchise.
Humor being added into these genres are 100% failures.
Alien to Alien resurrection= an asshole pulling his own brains out
Terminator to T3= "talk to the hand"
Predator to.....well, whatever is in this.
Frankly, inserting humor in the creation it was never meant for tells me, they just cant match any shimmer the originals had, so they run with the fact that the audience knows the creatures now, therefore have 'fun' with it.
Prey didnt do that.
Plus Predator can be suspenseful again since you cant see it. Gotta be crafty is all.
I feel like I'm living in bizzaro world. This seems to be more of a parody than a serious movie yet people are giving it 8/10. Wondering what they rated the original then.
I feel like I'm living in bizzaro world. This seems to be more of a parody than a serious movie yet people are giving it 8/10. Wondering what they rated the original then.
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