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UPDATE!! Harry Sees PREDATORS Footage At SXSW!! Site Now Online with Footage!!
HARRY HERE: Actually there's footage there now, the trailer will be there on 3/18)
Merrick here...
The PREDATORS site Harry mentioned below is now online at http://www.predators-movie.com/ Good call, Talkbacker Doomofman!!
Unfortunatley, contrary to what we were apparently told, sounds like the footage won't be online until next week (3/18 according to the site).
Crap.
Hey folks, Harry here... at this precise moment, I'm in the midst of a screening of LEAVES OF GRASS, which I'll be handling the Q&A for. But because this is SXSW, sometimes you feel you need to be in two places at once - and as most of you know, I can really spread myself around. At this exact moment at the Alamo Ritz - Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal are taking the stage. They have Greg Nicotero there operating a fully awesome original style PREDATOR head. They're going to talk about a number of things - like how Robert came to hire Nimrod. How together they fused what Robert had written ages ago with ideas that Nimrod had for telling the story. They'll talk about a desire to make the Predator mysterious, scary and alien again. Throughout the talk - on the screen behind them will be a slideshow of designs, both final and conceptual - to give everyone an idea of just how many decisions, directions and ideas that they explored. You'll hear how they matched Hawaiian Exotic Jungle with Central Texas Piney Woods - and it looks perfect. Throughout this presentation - there will be Predator Laser Tags going everywhere... because EVERYONE IS GETTING a PREDATOR tri-mark laser pointer.... a special limited edition of 200 copies poster and a T-shirt.
And they will see 3 different things. The first two are a pair of trailers, there's just a few extra money shots in the second one, but both trailers are selling the premise. Unlike either of the two prior 'canon' films - this isn't a film made up of an established team used to working with each other. And next, you'll notice the tone. It has a weight. A seriousness that feels scary. 5 warriors from a variety of backgrounds wake up in a strange locale. They learn that each was a member of an elite killing force. Black ops, Yakuza, Special Forces, etc. Quickly they realize, they're not in Kansas anymore. You get the feeling something could be hunting them. Then you see a Predator with a roaring hellhound looking critter - that isn't really a Predapuppy, but a whole different kinda of critter. Something mean and scary. You'll see that Adrian Brody is no longer even close to be lanky. That he's bulked up in the fittest manner you can imagine. One of the things you'll notice is that these trailers are made up of practical real things. You'll see things caught in real light and shadow and it looks fantastic. The jungle stuff isn't at all LOST-y, tall thin trees with white bark and a fog or mist or smoke in the air. This jungle looks like a place where bad shit is the norm.
They'll continue chatting for a bit, taking some questions, and if the audience is good, they'll play a scene. This scene isn't a creature scene. It is a character reveal. I'm not going to reveal who it is, but this character has been living on this planet for a while. He is wearing various 'gear' that is of alien origin. When the fx are finished, the character will decloak in front of Adrian Brody. He'll remove his helmet and will simply reveal his badassness to them. He'll tell them that they smell wrong, that they're too loud. He'll tell them that "THEY" will find them fast. And I wish I'd seen it a couple of times so I could have a better grasp of the dialogue. But this character's dialogue will incite cheers.
I know all of this, because Robert showed me the presentation earlier yesterday. And this is being posted while I'm in another movie by Merrick, who will be searching online for the official website which will be going live around this time. At something like http://www.predators-movie.com/. Which will have a 30 second preview that will have some of the images folks will be seeing right now...but there will also be Behind The Scenes glimpses thrown in too.
I have to say, PREDATORS is looking like the real thing. Which would be real fucking nice, wouldn't it?
The PREDATORS site Harry mentioned below is now online at http://www.predators-movie.com/ Good call, Talkbacker Doomofman!!
Unfortunatley, contrary to what we were apparently told, sounds like the footage won't be online until next week (3/18 according to the site).
Crap.
And they will see 3 different things. The first two are a pair of trailers, there's just a few extra money shots in the second one, but both trailers are selling the premise. Unlike either of the two prior 'canon' films - this isn't a film made up of an established team used to working with each other. And next, you'll notice the tone. It has a weight. A seriousness that feels scary. 5 warriors from a variety of backgrounds wake up in a strange locale. They learn that each was a member of an elite killing force. Black ops, Yakuza, Special Forces, etc. Quickly they realize, they're not in Kansas anymore. You get the feeling something could be hunting them. Then you see a Predator with a roaring hellhound looking critter - that isn't really a Predapuppy, but a whole different kinda of critter. Something mean and scary. You'll see that Adrian Brody is no longer even close to be lanky. That he's bulked up in the fittest manner you can imagine. One of the things you'll notice is that these trailers are made up of practical real things. You'll see things caught in real light and shadow and it looks fantastic. The jungle stuff isn't at all LOST-y, tall thin trees with white bark and a fog or mist or smoke in the air. This jungle looks like a place where bad shit is the norm.
They'll continue chatting for a bit, taking some questions, and if the audience is good, they'll play a scene. This scene isn't a creature scene. It is a character reveal. I'm not going to reveal who it is, but this character has been living on this planet for a while. He is wearing various 'gear' that is of alien origin. When the fx are finished, the character will decloak in front of Adrian Brody. He'll remove his helmet and will simply reveal his badassness to them. He'll tell them that they smell wrong, that they're too loud. He'll tell them that "THEY" will find them fast. And I wish I'd seen it a couple of times so I could have a better grasp of the dialogue. But this character's dialogue will incite cheers.
I know all of this, because Robert showed me the presentation earlier yesterday. And this is being posted while I'm in another movie by Merrick, who will be searching online for the official website which will be going live around this time. At something like http://www.predators-movie.com/. Which will have a 30 second preview that will have some of the images folks will be seeing right now...but there will also be Behind The Scenes glimpses thrown in too.
I have to say, PREDATORS is looking like the real thing. Which would be real fucking nice, wouldn't it?
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Looking forward to this! Back to badass Predators after the bumwash Alien v Predator ripoffs.
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who is the CHARACTER???? and what does he SAY????? INTRIGUE!!!!
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This movie is going to suck. RR's old script was ass and the new one is ass with nacho cheese. How can we make the Predators scary? Let's make them mutants with black blood. Pfft.
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I truly hope this doesn't suck... We deserve another decent predator flick...
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Mar 12, 2010 9:21:43 PM CST
The character is Ug from the Critters Series...
by shut the fuck up donny
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I'd sure hope it isn't a fucking predapuppy. C'mon now.
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IS The Shadow. Also this sounds better and better. IF it's rated-R. Also, somebody better make that
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Most likely this http://www.predators-movie.com/
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Remember Predcycles?
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I'll have to keep checking back for the link.
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http://www.whois.net/whois/predators-movie.com
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THE ESSENCE OF THE TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH
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Okay, how did that happen virtually overnight? And how does a guy like Brody, who obviously has a genetic predisposition to lanky, get buffed and big in the first place?
Some networked investigative journalist needs to do a story on performance enhancing drugs in Hollywood. This shit is rampant. Steroids, HGH, god knows what else. -
Catch the rage!
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Requiem?
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Welcome to another edition of To Catch A Predator. Of all the Predators I've met, this guy, screen name "Pussyface" may be the creepiest.
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...has been into Dr Dre's 'roids.
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....and they are bound to make a good one, right? right???
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It's called working out. Try it, it's fun! Then you too, can be the Doc Savage of Geeks everywhere. "A god damned sexual tyrannosaurus. Just like me."
Or maybe he said "fuck it!" and did some 'roids? -
and he is getting too old for this shiat.
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YOU'RE DEAD!
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IT NEVER ENDS!
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says trailer will be available on the 18th, so another week yet :(
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Bur what is SXSW?
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3 pics of the new Pred Dog in the gallery though.
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CORRECTION: 4 pics
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Could be a lawsuit.
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SNEAK PEEK RUNNING NOW!!
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Trailer is not up yet, but there is the sneak that Harry mentions, just takes a minute to load.
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As in the actor, Laurence Fishburn ("Nolan" in the movie) Hopefully the movie still plays like the script. It was epic.
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He's plainly listed in the IMDb credits.
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...get Harry in to suck some cock.
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As long as you don't like the Predator from the first film and prefer mutations. He sort of just hangs around.
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That would be awesome. He even has his own dog.
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Man the clip is awesome... This movie looks great
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...but perhaps a bit more toned.
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If you've seen any of the (crappy) leaked pics, the Predators still look very much the same. The script makes a big deal about differentiating the new Predators from the old, but an "original" Predator gets to battle the new one. That alone is worth the price of admission. They're not out to change the Predator all together. Just a different clan.
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...'disgraced physician'. Hmmm...sounds a little like ALIEN 3.
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A bad ass action film that has the guts to introduce new elements and has a group of bad asses played by great actors against an impossible foe that hasnt been done justice in 20 years? Um, fuck yeah thankyouverymuch.
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They look the same but look at this concept art.. http://tinypic.com/r/29zsmr9/5 IT'S KRANG!
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Spends most of the movie tied up and then gets his ass fucking kicked. Bullshit. What, the sequel is gonna be Originals vs BSPs? Is this Clone Wars? Maybe TNA Wrestling?
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...on stuff...seem to post the most on this site. Attention whore much?
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I thought it was a bunch of college dropouts that beat up gamblers and drunks with golf clubs - someone's been reading too many comics.
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doesn't inspire much confidence, but the footage on the site gives me a lot more hope than I had yesterday. I seriously think that this could be the Predator movie we've waited over 20 years for. Is there any way to "undo" AvP:R? That movie sucked balls!
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She got everything that uncle John need...I'm gonna me some fun tonight...I'm gonna have me some fun tonight...I'm gonna have me some fun tonight...
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this is gonna be a no holds barred badass sci-fi action flick n i cant wait...i see it being on par with aliens
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Hopefully, this will be what we've been wanting. Fingers crossed. And if this does pay off, then maybe others will follow. ALRIGHT, I know that is what we all have wanted for all films up to this time, but dammit, I hope!
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Three posts IS a bit much WHORE!
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and don't you little poor excuses for sluts forget it.
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Is it Wolverine?
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I love the way it looks in this footage. I think the original Predator type being bullied by a being that's even more technologically and physically bad-ass is cool as fuck. The original Predator in the script gets his licks in before the coup-de-grace. If only the "face" of the new Predators has changed (and it isn't even some massive change) it isn't going to ruin the film. They still wear the bio helmets, etc.
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Even in his old script there was the one superior badass BSP. He's like the Martin Luther King of Predator. At least they didn't keep the men with mantis arms..
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Whoah. Mofuckin SOLD. I love all the OG Silvestri and sound effects. I was being the BIGGEST pessimist going into this. I never have been a huge fan of Robert Rodriguez, but now, if this sneak is any indication, I want to say, "I love you Robert Rodriguez." Well played INDEED.
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Reparations now!
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DEALBREAKER!!!
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I have been waiting for this for a LOOOOOOONG time. And THIS looks like it might just be worth the wait. So far-so good! Let's hope they keep feeding us some tasty morsels leading up to the July release date.
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Hey, cocksucker. Unless you wanna get thrown to Wu's pigs, I suggest you quit fuckin' spoilin' the movie.
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Morpheus fucks a Predalady and she gets pregnant and gives birth to the Predator from Predator 1 but he's a half breed so the other Predators won't accept him so he moves to Atlanta and gets a job as Ted Turner's underdesk and they have five kids and Bob Barker cuts off their private parts and sells them to the fly from The Phanton Menace for parts for his 1910 one wheeler and Barker loses the lottery to Jean Claude Van Damme who quit Predator 1.
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Predator 2 is one of the most underrated sequels EVER. You have Murtaugh and Mr. Joshua from Lethal Weapon this time as regretful rivals/allies AND Terminator 1's street punk leader extraordinare this time reformed his telescope-smashing ways.
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Want originality, but they use the "anytime" thing at the end of the spoiler. And the Predator is now a dog? or are the "upright" Predators using a hunting dog too? Here Fido ! Sit boy ! Kill Boy ! Eat Boy ! Sorry, but The Alien Predator franchise has been flushed down the toilet big time.
Disgraced Doctor = Aliens 3/Alien 3
Please, just make some Cameron based movie where the Alien home world and Predator home world are relatively close by, the Predators constantly harass them at their own peril and somehow Colonial Marines are sent to the Predator home world for some payback, like Nuke the fucking site from orbit after, say 50 or so hunting raids on Earth, they nearly succeed, but then damage to their ship gets them crash landed on Alien world with zillions of aliens, and the pissed off remnant of Predator home world. NOW THAT WOULD BE A MOVIE.
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I like the directing this is going and I finally believe they have a good director calling the shots this time not some hack! I will be one of the first in line to see this movie!
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Sold! If this gets an R-Rating. And not dumbed down like avp 1+2.
Then..That's it...Im gonna celebrate, after watching the flick, with finally making some of that Puerco Pibil from Rodriguez 10 min cooking school.
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I saw him/it, and it looked at me and knew I knew what it was as I was looking... although, I didn't do anything. I just didn't want to make a big deal about at the time.
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"And this is being posted while I'm in another movie by Merrick" That's great, I didn't know Merrick was a filmmaker. But his movie can't be very good if Harry is surfing the net and posting articles during his movie.
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"the badass character reveal"
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Way too puffy/old. Derek Luke should be playing Fishburne in this.
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ill fucking jump out my window with joy. it has to be after glovers comments and the fact hes old as fuck
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It's just one cliche strung together after another. I like most of the people in the cast (Walt Goggins is terrific), but it just looks like a bunch of too-familiar actors trying to make us forget we know who they all are. And they look like anything but a bunch of elite warriors.The forest elements look Predator-y because they're ripped straight from the original film. The girl looks like she walked right off the set of Aliens.This looks like it will be very well made from a technical standpoint, but it doesn't seem to offer one new idea, one new shot, one new image which isn't just some fan-fiction garbage (oh, this time an Asian guy fights a Predator, with a sword! Coool! And there's another big guy...with the same big gun! Yeah!)
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this shit aint for kids.
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I am impressed. Until now I was just crossing my fingers but that video really wets my appetite. It looks like the ultimate Predator movie! Well, minus a big star in it, but that's not a must-have by any means.
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Would be weird to see a forest with nothing in it but hunters and human prey- also a missed op here that no one's mentioned. All the prey is from earth. You could have had alien and human prey ala Last Star Fighter. Oh well.....
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The entire movie looked the same. The locations looked to earthly to be a foreign planet.
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dont you notice that he's the one answering all the questions like he's been there for awhile.
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in action and not just the drawing. it was a very brief shot. looks kind of stupid.
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it would be DOWN without hesitation. This is based on the stuff I've seen come from Rodriquez-none of of worth much more than a few decent action scenes (I think) because, well, I dont recall any offhand. If he pulls this off, I'll be the first to sing his praises, but my expectations are for lots of gore, so so effects, and bad story and dialoge. I'd like nothing more than a home run but for the life of me I cannot even concieve it based on whats came before.
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I thought "I'd better spell it "whets" or some fucking douchebag will come along and thing he's correcting me. But then I thought "Fuck it", I feel like spelling it "wets" as sort of a joke. And sure enough...
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we got flashlights that only work from a foot away. sad :(
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The secret guy Harry was talking about is in fact Lawrance fishburne, how is that a big deal? seriously who cares about some character not from the other movies, you would think the way Harry was talking that when the hekmet came off it would have Been Arnold or something.
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Mar 13, 2010 2:34:20 AM CST
'I'm gonna have me some fun... I'm gonna have me some fun...
by joker gordon levitt
Holy SHIT that was awesome!
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From Cinema Blend.com's set report:
Rodriguez and Antal talked at length about the film. Detailed bullet points containing everything they revealed follow:
The idea for the movie came from a 1996 script by Robert Rodriguez, but it’s been rewritten extensively since his script featured a return by Schwarzenegger’s Dutch from the original movie, while this movie does not.
The original Predator design from the original movie is in there, used for the first time since the 1987 movie. It’s a small part, but Rodriguez describes it as” a total flashback”, like seeing an actor you haven’t seen in a long time on screen.
Predators won’t be in 3D.
The movie uses primarily practical effects. The predators are all actors in costumes, there are no CG predators. Green screen was used only on a few brief sequences. They shot on location in Hawaii and in places around Austin.
Predators will definitely be rated-R. Fox may be planning an Unrated DVD.
James Cameron told Rodriguez that he came up with the original design for the Predator mouth used by effects guru Stan Winston.
Their first attempt at a trailer was rejected by the MPAA, and it ended with the Predators title fading out to leave only the “R”, a clear hint at their intention to deliver a gritty, hard-R film. You won’t see that in the trailers which were finally approved.
The film will introduce new kinds of never before seen predators. The concept was to develop the “ipod of predators”. Rodriguez explains these streamlined predators as being part of a different tribe from the ones we’ve seen before. It’s like the difference between “wolves and dogs”. New predators include Falconer predators, a massive Flusher predator they call “Mr. Black” (referred to in some internet rumors as a “Super Predator” which is just a meaningless script description), and you’ll see predator dogs along with airborne predator creatures.
Rodriguez and Antal wanted each human character on the planet to feel like they could be a character in their own solo story.
Expect to see lots of different alien creatures, including predator animals and other “prey” brought to the planet by predator hunters.
You’ll see two different predator tribes in the movie.
All of the film’s characters are new and how they get to the planet is new.
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Your talking this movie up as if its gonna be great and live up to the original.....but pretty sure if the original type Predator is gonna get his ass kicked by some new different looking Predators it sounds like a movie i would not want to watch.
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and i deserve a cookie for it.
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The film will introduce new kinds of never before seen predators. The concept was to develop the “ipod of predators”. Rodriguez explains these streamlined predators as being part of a different tribe from the ones we’ve seen before. It’s like the difference between “wolves and dogs”. So basically RObert is shitting on the original by saying they werent good enough, look at me, i can make better Predators, this is sounding like absolute shit too me.
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The vid on the website is pretty cool.
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Gawd, that movie is so awesome. This movie should be about the remaining Predators on the ship at the end of P2. Pissed that Glover killed their buddy.
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Why not Alan Silvestri?
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Fingers crossed though, at least its not another shitty AVP movie.
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. . . says the strongest feed on any prey they can. And I was branded beast at every feast before I ever became a man. Those who have read the script know all about that.
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footage actually looks interesting. This could actually be decent if they catch a proper vibe. Do they mean no CGI on the human shaped predators or on all of them? I can't see any other way to believably pull off a huge dog or bird predator without CGI, unless theres no full reveals/ full body shots.
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We didn't see him die did we?
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Dutch and Blain became governors, Poncho ran for office unsuccessfully, i heard Billy had some batshit political views.
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..do I have to get through a paragraph (or two sometimes) of a life story before he gets to anything that resembles substance. I know, he has always done this. That's why I never read his articles, but this was PREDATOR and I had to. Okay, bitching over, back to my life.
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Mar 13, 2010 4:20:48 AM CST
Is this about old dudes who have sex with little girls?
by slimbutnotreally
If so im going to start standing in line right now!
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Not expecting too much from this. Once you already know how the Predator looks, once you've seen and know the monster of the series, how much spin can they put it to make it surprising? It will be a 7/10 but that's all one can expect.
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are lying
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Lame
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How is Robert Rodriguez, shitting on the original? - Afterall, you're talking about a movie that's over 20 years old
Would you accuse James Cameron of shitting on the original, considering all the technical advances at his disposal today?
Who wants to see a Predator movie in 2010 with late 80's effects and sensibilities? - Get real, whiner! -
Looks good actually. Hopefully this will repair the damage AVP did. Oh, and that shit god awful fucking lousy mother fucking bastard retarded AVP game on the XBOX 360.
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my idea:
Alien home world and Predator home world are relatively close by, the Predators constantly harass them at their own peril and use them for sport, like they do with humans. Colonial Marines are sent to the Predator home world for some payback, like Nuke the fucking site from orbit payback after, say 50 or so hunting raids on Earth, they nearly succeed after a space ship to ship battle-- we get to see some of those badass big colonial marine mother ship guns goto work, but then damage to their ship gets them crash landed on Alien world with zillions of aliens in an organized, yet somewhat reptilian in nature civilization all about, and the pissed off remnant of Predator home world. NOW THAT WOULD BE A MOVIE.
Humans have about 2 weeks until a rescue ship arrives. Meanwhile Predators want to kill the humans and the Aliens want to kill both-- payback to Predator for picking on them forever, and they hate humans anyway because they are mean mother fuckers. Make it a short time after events of Aliens so everyone knows what to expect with Aliens, no surprises, except maybe LOTS of queens running around -
We might not have seen his death, but his bloodied, dead face gets a lovely close up as the Predator prepares to rip ou his spine as Dutch is preparing his traps. So far, this looks good. To all the naysayers and Harry-slaggers, fuck off and go and do something more constructive like milk a polar bear.
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"Alien home world and Predator home world are relatively close by." They need to stop with the mashup. It was only ever done right once, and that was the comic book.
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Is Dutch in this fucker or not?
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So its on an alien planet-cool. Explains the extra wildlife that you see in the film. I personally like what i saw and hopefully it will be cool!
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3 times to get his name right. WHAT THE FUCK!
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Oh dear. This sounds every bit as bad as I thought it would be. The problem with Harry is he jizzes his pants too easily. Like us, he's desperate for another classic genre film like Alien or The Thing, but those days are gone. Movies are all about getting butts on seats for the opening weekend and to hell with subtlety and quality.
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Is it any good?
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Mar 13, 2010 6:45:38 AM CST
So we have the "small woman with a big gun"? Check!
by hollywoodhellraiser
A movie star pretending to be an "action hero"? Check!Running through the forest? Check!Black guy who tell us things that we already know? Check!Bullshit director who trying to pretend he doing something different? Check!Yup, everything here!
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Rodriguez is normally an eloquent guy but in that 'sneak peek' on the website he seemed to me like he was phoning this one in. "They're such killers.. they're such predators" he mumbles. Riiight...
The 'money shot' at the end of the teaser Brody with lots of lazer target dots on him has also been done so many times now. I mean even COBRA with Sly Stallone had a lazer dot shot and that was back in the Eighties.
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I'll wait to see the full film before I judge, but another team in a jungle being hunted by Predators? Is this a sequel or a remake?
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It is a good thing that a Oscars now give 10 Academy Awards for Best Picture of all time everyyear because Solomon Fucking Kane is going to win one and this will definitely win the other 9. But did anyone else think El Mariachis looks so scared? This is a man who leaves his wife who look so old for a Scream Boobs who turns your dick to cum just by looking at her. That is a dream of every man why is he not more happy? He must be so scared because this is a first movie he makes for more than $14
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This looks like the best thing ever! The Predator movie we have all been dreaming about for decades!
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Come up with a more original environment for fucks sake. Its either jungle (Predator) or urban sprawl (Blade Runner) or icy waste (The Thing). Even Avatar Pandora was just a souped up rainforest. Give us some frikin originality already, that's what you're being paid millions for.
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Billy ran for Govenor of Kentucky. He never made it past the primarys, but I got to talk to him for a while about making Predator and he was very cool. He said the people were great but the conditions were hell.
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I am super excied about this one. Looks like I am going to have to chance seeing this in the theatre.
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Your overuse of pronouns is almost as annoying and elementary as the infamous, "That said."
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Impressed!
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Big thanks merrick for sharing this posting as well as the link to the upcoming Predator movie website and behind the scenes sneakpeak segment.
Looks like Robert Rodriguez is going to finally give the fans of the Predator 'verse the film and story that we have been craving ever since the 1987 original film!
It has been so freaking "heartbreaking" if you will..to see the shity Predator and Alien Vs Predator sequels over the years...just like with the Alien Franchise (after James Cameron's "Aliens")...Predator has been gutted and turn into pure unadulterated garbage!!
It looks like Robert Rodriguez is showing a lot of love and respect for the Dreadlock-looking badass Alien Hunters from another World and taking a page (or several) from the old Dark Horse comic series from the past.
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But all they show is snippets so my mind can be changed.
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When Rodriguez is on, he's really on. But when he's off it's just laughable. I'm betting he hits with this one.
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Predators Trailer will be shown in front of Repo Men
[url]http://www.cinemablend.com/new/SXSW-Predators-Trailer-And-Footage-Seen-It-s-Badass-17543.html[/url]
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Have to agree that the "alien" jungle (assuming thats what they were showing with the wide shots)looks a bit too earth-familiar. Although, I think you have to give Cameron kudos for the Pandora planet (about the best part of the movie for me). It looked truely alien, a bit more than just an amped up rainforest. Actually, the last truely original planet I recall seeing in a movie was from Star Trek III. The genesis planet was neatly all screwed up (cactus fields covered in snow, etc;) It all looks rubbery and fake (now) but it had a funky quality. Oh, and Revenge of the Sith had a couple of quick shots of, what looked like, a planet full of giant glass flowers. That was neat too - for about fifteen seconds.
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If it bleeds it will give me boners...
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Mar 13, 2010 9:14:50 AM CST
Corplhicks, your ideas would cost a studio 300 million $$
by ganymede3001
Good try though.
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The sneak peak felt like I was watching an episode of Lost with the Predators in it. *shrug* I have no inclination to run out and see this... maybe DVD... maybe. Adrian Brody isn't that big... he's still a bean stick... he just has more definition. I don't know why they're trying to pimp him out as if he's some big action hero.
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I always thought that was the dumbest one of the additions PW Anderson made with Alien Vs Predator, giving the Predators comically large wrist blades. And yet it looks like Robert Rodriguez did it here too.
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Mar 13, 2010 9:19:27 AM CST
And I guess Lawrence Fishburne is the old guy who's been there?
by d.vader
The way he's talking it sure sounds that way that he's the one wearing the Predator armor that Harry mentioned up above.
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Best alien planet... I might have to nominate the planet from ALIEN.
Ridley really makes it look like an effort for the crew to get out there, with that heavy looking equipment and masks, the jagged rocks and the wind. And then the cavernous interior of the alien spaceship was like nothing else seen on the screen up to that point. It all had that tangible believability to it (unlike the cgi giant glass flower planet from ROTS mentioned above). -
That was pretty original and alien looking in my book.
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I don't know if I can trust anyone who thinks it sucks.
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It's the fact that his perpetual facial expression is that of a child who just had his bike stolen by the neighborhood bully.
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Vades, don't know if you've ever seen any of the illustrations or book covers from the pulp sci-fi stuff of the Fifties and Sixties... but some of that artwork really does put Hollywood's creativity to shame when it comes to depicting alien worlds.
I know some of it is budget limited, but in the old-school days they could have realised it with matte paintings and in this day and age they could realise it with cgi... but they dont seem to have that creativity or imagination to pull it off. Hence we have 'another fucking jungle' for this next sci-fi epic. -
Vades, I agree. I don't think many of us really think PREDATORS is gonna trump the original. But i'd be happy enough if it equals PREDATOR 2 for quality and entertainment value.
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"It's the fact that his perpetual facial expression is that of a child who just had his bike stolen by the neighborhood bully." Hhahaha! Couldn't have said it better myself Smackfu!
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....Im getting that special feeling that this is the Predator movie we have all wanted since the poor AvP movies.
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Because in my mind, all those pictures and artwork, I remember them as being variations on a theme too, mostly weird deserts.
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Mar 13, 2010 9:45:26 AM CST
Predators - filmed in Rodriguez's back yard
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
So no chance of creating a fantastic alien world then, of which the top two are inarguably A)Pandora and B) LV-426 from Alien. Predator 2 sucked as well, though it'll be a gourmet meal compared to this doggerel.
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Suck it. Take your negativity and go back to mommy and daddy's basement and continue to write down your little movie ideas that will never get done, and keep whacking off to the sports illustrated swimsuit issue. Live your miserable little lives, where nothing is good enough...EVER.Anyone who knows me knows I am normally very tolerant and not harsh, but this CONSTANT negativity about EVERYTHING just makes me fucking sick. How anyone can live with such hate and negativity is beyond me.
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Mar 13, 2010 9:47:35 AM CST
Super Black Predator will make a trophy out of Brody's nose
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Which he will wear as bling.
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Mar 13, 2010 9:53:12 AM CST
Brody to reunite with Polanski for 'Predator: Out On Bail'
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
To atone for starring in 'The Pianist', Brody is ordered by the judge to hunt down the most feared Predator in Hollywood - a creature that can evade capture and makes trophies out of young girls. The hunter has just become...the hunted.
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Well shit on a stick! That's great. I'm so fucking pumped for this July to hurry up and get its ass here. I'll repeat what I read somewhere above that it does seem to have practically the same plot as Matt Reilly's novel Contest, only with less creatures, but still that looks badass. Can't wait.
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What if they are all wiped out by the end of the movie. Then they drop in Arnold(Dutch) at the very end. As he is getting up form the ground, he looks up slowly and the red laser triangle apears on his forehead. End with a onliner from Dutch, "This is not good..." The End.
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'Cept the first Predator of course. The whole subway sequence rocked my world when I was younger. That movie still has one of the best action finales for a movie of its type. But for this, I'm liking the look of everything. It looks fast, action-packed, and intense. I hope it can bring the goods.
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what you said is music to the ears of the studio chumps who are too lazy to cook up something of quality but still want us to buy their same old recycled phoned-in shit. "Nothing in life is ever good enough". well, I rather have that scenario then living in the illusionary world that a piece of dog turd like Predators is worth celebrating.
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Seriously, if it were AvP I'd get the instant hate, but this looks solid.
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I am officially stoked.
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Scratch that... They already added the orignal 'Predator' from "Predator". So dropping in Arnold is never going to happen. This is a prequel to "Predator".
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Gah, do we have to put up with this? You know what killed the predator / alien franchise? Fan Boys. When they started making the decisions the whole thing went down the tube.
Sorry. I'm not slapping any money down for a Predator rehash with a little extra most dangerous game on top. There has to be more meat in the predator concept then tough guys getting chased in the woods by scary monsters.
Last, the Predator puppy looks stupid and impractical. Actually, it looks like a pierced-faced, black clad design kid who's really into death metal tore it from his sketch pad. "Horns are fucking metal! Then lets litter this bastard with'em. Look how hardcore it is! some of the horns have even grown through its face...that just makes it angrier!"
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Sounds like an Italian dish.
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So what if they get chemical assistance to bulk up? They're not competing in a 'drug-free' sport.
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I've always felt that PREDATOR 2 was an unfairly maligned film; most likely due to the strength of the original. Stephen Hopkins, however, made excellent due with the material he was handed, and turned out a film with ambiance (one can practically feel the steam rising off of the sweltering LA streets), fluid pacing (notice how carefully the film builds to a climax) and cultural context (rampant crime, a faceless government entity, fanatical newsmen, and a bloodthirsty public). My only main gripe is with the editing of the action sequences. Hopkins had filmed several thrilling shots that were edited to mere snippets in the final cut (for a good example, watch the opening shootout between LAPD and the Colombian drug runners). If PREDATORS manages to achieve something on the level of PREDATOR 2, then I'll be both pleased and impressed.
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... but it still looks cool to me.
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when Austin masturbates, while thinking about how wonderful it is. Lived there, done that. Unfortunately, too many people have come to share in the self-love, and the place is unaffordable and impossible to maneuver around. Had a great place off South Congress, and some fun parties, BUT Austinites are the biggest moochers on the face of the planet. They love a good party, as long as they don't have to host it, and they'll invite themselves to any party that they can crash, along with "friends" - most likely stoned in the process. (Wait, that probably appeals to some of what I've encountered in here.)
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I kid, I kid. Honestly, that sounds like just about every place I've ever been to. At least Austin seems to have a damn good indie music scene.
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but for me, Arnold & his team and Glover & his team were the best parts of the movies; not the predators themselves. I'm down with the "Predators hunting humans on the Predator world" concept, but I really need to see Arnold and/or Glover in this one to get me excited.
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Mar 13, 2010 11:25:13 AM CST
CinemaBlend has a better write-up of the SXSW footage...
by mr. nice gaius
...here: http://tinyurl.com/yh9shay I have to say that I've got no real reason to believe that this film will be much of an improvement over the AvP flicks. (You may count me in the camp that believes that PREDATOR 2 is highly underrated despite the fact that it has some of the worst ADR I've ever heard in a film.) However, after seeing the sneak-peek footage, I'm pleased to see the direction they SEEM to be taking even though it's far too early to make a serious judgment. That being said, the casting of Brody and Fishburne intrigues me and could be a sign that we've got something worthwhile coming our way this summer.
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a Grunt could take out Adrian Brody with a plasma pistol.
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...Batman.
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...has me even more excited. Although I don't understand how "more than a Predator movie it (reminds one) of the original Alien movie in tone." From the brief footage displayed on the website, PREDATORS looks and feels the closest to McTiernan's original than any subsequent entry in the series. The color palette alone conjures nostalgia.
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So Brody is going to kill the predators with his nose? cool
Anyway you can not beat the classics.And this movie has the sign of mediocrity all over it.
Something else: Rodriguez says that he wants to step away from the direction of the Arnold original and start everything fresh.And he does that by sticking a group of military types and one brunette lady in the jungle, on a mission that goes wrong and in the run from a Predator. Yeah..now this is very original and fresh..
Mr Rodriguez if you want to be original,then why not using Darkhorse's Predator comics,which some of them have really great stories.
For instace that story where a predator team-ups with a cop in order to stop an out of control berserk predator who kills everything.I think its original enough for a movie predator.But instead you are remaking the original one with some twists.I guess first and foremost we must satisfy those suckers fans right? -
And HOW FUCKING OLD are you people demanding EVERY action/sci-fi film feature an AARP member you had a man crush on back when Reagan was President?
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I've never noticed any issues with PREDATOR 2's ADR. However, this gives me an excuse to re-watch it, as it's been a while. Any particular scene to bear in mind?
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Happen to know the title of the Dark Horse series with the berserk Predator? It does, indeed, sound like a unique enough take for a Predator sequel.
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Mar 13, 2010 12:24:51 PM CST
WOW, I CAN FUCKING POST AGAIN!!! OH, AND PREDATORS LOOKS SHIT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
Gee, how fucking original, virtually remake the first movie but call it "Predators" to copy Aliens. Hey, Rodriguez, it's been 5 years since Sin City, your only masterpiece, so if your not going to revisit that property then why not stop the fucking kiddie flicks and adapt Love & Rockets.
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It's been awhile since I've seen it as well. However, one scene I do remember is when Glover/Harrigan is picked up by King Willie's posse. The lines, "King Willie will see you now." and "Want some ganja, man?" are laughable in there "delivery".When you watch the film, I think you'll notice that a lot of Glover's lines are delivered as near-whispers (all of which are surely dubbed). But there are a lot of lines that are spoken off-camera (like the ones I mentioned) and you can tell they were inserted ad-hoc.
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Predator: Bad Blood
info here:
http://tinyurl.com/yeyyhb6
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Bloody typos.
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I seem to remember the predator's desperate run from the pissed of new york cop Danny Glover for 20 minutes. It's been ten years, but is that really the climax? If so, awesome. This one looks good. Go Nimrod, go Hungarians!
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Robert Rodriguez is SHIT at writing characters. Every character he's written generally feels hollow at two dimensional. One of the biggest successes of the original Predator was the strength of the characters. Dutch's team felt like they'd been in the shit as a team before they wound up in the jungle. They had individual personalities, and their death's had weight. They weren't just an assorted group of bad asses- they were a unit. I read the script- and Rodriguez is going with random assorted guys with guns angle. It just seems uninspired- there's no gravity to the characters- other then Brody's character- the deaths are disposable. Here's hoping those rewrites fixed that.
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"Predators will definitely be rated-R."
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Mar 13, 2010 1:26:38 PM CST
REMEMBER WHEN RAMBO 5 WAS GOING TO INVOLVE A SUPER-SOLDIER?
by doctor cosmic
Instead, they should've just made Rambo 5 Rambo vs. Predators. One vs. many. The ultimate face off.
Throw Arnie in there on the planet to help out or give exposition, then have him get killed off.
In the end, John Rambo brings the war to the Predators!
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I wish the cast of the Expendables were in this film. The characters are either too fat, too thin, and too fucking PC for a Predator film. God I miss 80's action movies. They were pure male testosterone. These new films were the women are equal in ability to the males is just too 90's. I fucking hate PC 90's femme bullshit movies. Can't a woman simple play a woman in a film?
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as i said,this movie is to satisfy the fanboys,a quick cash,nothing more.
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...imagine the size of the beak on that child.
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"Why you pushin' me?" Rambo
"Garrakkh narrraaakkh... whyyy..garraahgh... whyyy uuu poooshin meeeeee.." Predator
GEEK ORGASM. -
http://tinyurl.com/ygwnojx
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Why hasnt one of the Predators in the clip got armour on? Is their going to be Predator Sex in this??
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now that would have been geek orgasm.
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The possibility exists that this might be the movie that re-invigorates this franchise. Look at it like this...PREDATOR and PREDATOR 2 are both damn cool sci-fi/action hybrids. Then you have the misfires that are the two ALIEN VS. PREDATOR films. This reminds me of the BATMAN Franchise. Burton's two film-especially the first-are cool movies, butr when they handed them over to Joel Schumacher, they took a nosedive into the creative toilet. Then we got a little film called BATMAN BEGINS that put life into what many called a dead franchise. This could be the same thing. It sure looks like it to me so far. I am not coun ting my chickens before they hatch, but I am looking forward to this movie, hoping that I am going to get a hard-R sci-fi/action film that kicks ass.
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What made the first Predator so great was that this was one creature versus Arnold....and that creature seemed unstoppable. After 2 Predator movies we know they can be killed, and we know they WILL be killed. So basically you're just paying to see a remake of the original...with some new stuff and less intrigue. Doesn't interest me at all.
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You know, it's one thing to judge a movie once you have seen it. But to pass judgment BEFORE you have seen it, based on a few stills an a few two minute trailers? That's short sighted and stupid.Period. Hey if that's how people want to live, that's fine. I'm not music to the studio's ears. I am just a rational person who is not so arrogant to think that I can judge something with very little to base my judgment on. I don't know if this is gonna be a good movie. I HAVE NOT SEEN IT, neither has anyone else, but you all (haters) must feel that from what little you have seen, you can judge the entire movie on that. Has anyone even seen a trailer? No, so the declaration by those that this is crap, has no basis in fact, or even a rational opinion. If this movie sucks, it will open big (with geeks like us the bulk of the audience i'm sure) then sink like a lead safe the following weekends. So how is that enabling the studios to produce crap? I reserve final judgment until I see the finished product. I dont listen to critics, word of mouth, what anyone on here says. I rely on my own judgment to decide if a movie is good or not. Again, if this is how haters choose to live, have at it, and good luck ever being happy about anything.
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Nice to see another rational thinker in here, instead of the usual negative hateful shit that's generally spewed out in these TB's. I am with you on this, looking forward to it, but treading with some caution as well. Like I said before, I will reserve judgment until I actually see the freaking movie.
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On a trip to a colony world where all the humans have gone missing, Sulu and Chechov get infected by a parasitic creatures of unknown origin. Two Aliens are soon loose on the Enterprise. A predator sneaks on to the Enterprise and bedlam ensues.
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Some questionable things, but even people hating on this movie are blowing a load over the footage. It's when they disect it on here that they begin to make themselves believe it's shit. Listen, it's THE SHIT. It's okay to embrace Predators. Learn to trust Predators again.. It's all right.
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I am with you on the anti-negativity train bro. I get soooooo sick of people dropping payloads of hate onto films that they haven't even seen yet. It happens constantly, and it gets old really quick. I am not saying I love PREDATORS yet...I haven't even sene it, so why judge it. IAM saying that I will be there to see it when it opens, with hope that it is an entertaining film. Enough with the negative waves already!!!
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..it doesn't look shit!
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Good sense of audio-visual coordination. On my next watching, I'll have to look for those discrepancies. PREDATOR 2 has several clear examples of studio interference. It's always been a theory of mine that the film was heavily tampered with and your observations add credence to my suspicions. Thanks for the info.
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PREDATOR: BAD BLOOD sounds like a killer, no pun intended, premise for an entry in the Predator series. I find myself surprised that some enterprising executives haven't culled the comic books for big screen adaptations. Although, if I recall correctly, wasn't PREDATOR 2 adapted from PREDATOR: CONCRETE JUNGLE? Perhaps that cooled any goodwill the execs at Fox had towards the comic series? Either way, it seems Fox is sitting on a vast, unexplored goldmine of material for any future entries. Thanks for the heads up.
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Shit like this will get my money every time.
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Looks like a joke. Looks like every other "franchise" movie: "We wanted to take what fans loved about (X), but then totally and completely change it because we couldn't possibly compete with the quality of the original." Then, throwing a thumbs-up at the audience, the guy winks, nods and says "PG-13, YEAHAWRIIIIIGHT!' Suck my tits, black predator. As a black woman, I love how everything has to be black now in order to be dangerous. "It's like the original PREDATOR monster, but now he's black so he gives you more shit on the bus!" Nice, Robert Rodriguez! Tell you what I'm going to make a movie called MEXICAN SUPER JAWS and it's going to be about a shark who threatens the parking lot of HOME DEPOT.
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If you know of a way to put on 30-40 pounds of pure muscle in 4-6 weeks naturally you should win a Nobel Prize of something. It doesn't happen.
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It's a bunch of tooled up soldiers and some latino bitch being stalked by some Predators in a fucking jungle. The thing that made Predator great was that you had a hardcore group of motherfucking badasses who got picked up one by one until Arnie had to face the beast alone and go primative. The most significant moment was when Arnie could have bashed the Predator's head in but didn't because his humanity came through. The movie is a fucking classic and every single sequel has been a piece of fucking shit, oh and that includes Predator 2 because although the idea of a Predator running around a city was cool, it should have been New York and Arnie should have returned as a retired soldier working as a cop instead of a fat, bloated Danny Glover.
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yup, Batman has his BatDog, Superman has his SuperDog and Iron Man will present his IronDog soon. Why not Predator Dog? What's next, AlienDog? The first pics looked shit, the "sneak pee" looks even worse. R.I.P. Predator.
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I just spit my RC Cola at my monitor. Well done.
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yeah im not down on this remake but still cool!
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SGU gets some cool looking aliens! on April 2nd!
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its a stand alone sequel, much like the comic books are. looks great imo. i trust him, i love the cast minus fishburn..maybe he will get sliced up early.
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A poor man's Alan Silvestri. I would perfer the original, but he'll do.
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4-6 weeks? Your right. Not gonna happen. For joe-schmoe, a year? Not impossible.
Still. It's not like he has gained "Arnold in Predator" Mass though.
Where is the info on 30-40 pounds of pure muscle in 4-6 weeks?
David Prowse on Chris Reeves's workout for Superman:
"With a strict schedule we managed to bulk him up from
12.5 stone to 15.2 stone in just six weeks."
Six weeks. That's impressive. Not too sure about converting british stone into american pounds though.(Since we use kilos over here)
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about part 2 that is.but these guys are "supposed" to be brutal.we'll see.
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Its not about the effects its just he seems like hes saying he can do better than the original by redesigning the predators look a little and saying there tougher and more bad ass than the original Predator and by getting them to kick its ass. Why re disign the Predator? and does he seriously think the fans of the original want to see the Predator they know and love get his ass kicked? i think not.
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Cocksuckin' doppleganger.
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What do you mean I lost you at that? i do not understand. I mean relatively, as in next system or maybe even same planet in same solar system. Predator world is Earth like in climate and they are like a mix of something like Klingon and Cardassian architecture let's say plus a brutal aspect to it and can to FTL etc..
Alien world can be, let's say nearby system or maybe 0.5 light years away, soemething like that. Alien world can be a jungle world. Alines do not wear clothing and have no signs of any building other than hive related stuff. And Predators have been shown to know about Aliens for years, hinted at in Alien retrospectively and recently in film and in comic and geeks talking about it forever.
That said, I think making this like this might work. It requires a back story that Predators go all over looking for prey to bring hunt in place or bring back to their world perhaps as training, perhaps as a rite of passage perhaps for study, etc.. And Earth has been victim to them for a while and finally we have the ability to get to their homeworld for a little payback-- maybe we go with a massive armada but first hold them back and try peace???
my idea: Alien home world and Predator home world are relatively close by, the Predators constantly harass them at their own peril and use them for sport, like they do with humans. Colonial Marines are sent to the Predator home world for some payback, like Nuke the fucking site from orbit payback after, say 50 or so hunting raids on Earth, they nearly succeed after a space ship to ship battle-- we get to see some of those badass big colonial marine mother ship guns goto work, but then damage to their ship gets them crash landed on Alien world with zillions of aliens in an organized, yet somewhat reptilian in nature civilization all about, and the pissed off remnant of Predator home world. NOW THAT WOULD BE A MOVIE. Humans have about 2 weeks until a rescue ship arrives. Meanwhile Predators want to kill the humans and the Aliens want to kill both-- payback to Predator for picking on them forever, and they hate humans anyway because they are mean mother fuckers. Make it a short time after events of Aliens so everyone knows what to expect with Aliens, no surprises, except maybe LOTS of queens running around -
the second it was announced he was producing, I was on board. the dude understands genre film making. he understands fanboys & he doesn't put out shit(his kid movies have been mediocre at best, but he wasn't making them for anyone but children) PREDATORS is the only reboot I genuinely am not worried about sucking.
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http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/03/13/predators-sneak-peek-from-sxsw/
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I dunno why I kept hoping to see Tom Berenger's character from Sniper jump out of the shadows.
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When it is awarded in science, math, economics, doubt it's fixed as you say, because everyone who wins has achieved something massive in their respective field. We cannot rule out completely some politics involved but certainly if you look at what the person did who won in those fields, they are incredibly significant achievements in the fields.
The Peace Prize as far as I know is for either a massive accomplishment to further the quest for peace on a large scale OR based upon a career or lifetime of work towards that goal with some major accomplishments.
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Good points on Predator 2's accomplishment on the movie structure. I also have to add that Hopkins shot this movie pretty complexively in a technical way, by that is the camera was very up close to people and things when needed and not the static faraway style of many movies of that day. And also the production in this movie was topnotch, nothing looks cheap, the sets look real and solid in that crime style glitzyness and the Predator tech and effects looks equally solid and sophisticated... unlike the AVP movies where it looked like the Predators got Fisher Price to build them their gear, way too much rubbery looking and everything overly huge in detail.
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That would be a great "Oh shit!" moment. And then Fishburne becomes the lead.
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Hell, that's a major reason to watch a sequel. Not just same o, same o. Also, let's not forget Danny Trejo is in this flick. Which, of course, should warrant some Machete action.
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Forgot to add but there's a sort of classic style to people's wardrobe like a detective noir movie from the 40s or 50s. Harrigan's 1950s baggy pants, people's fedoras and ties, it's kind of like Blade Runner's future.
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...about the Nobel Prize thing. It's something of an in-joke with a couple of guys i know.
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Looks like Rodriguez is trying to go the Cameron route, except he completely lacks the genius and talent of Cameron. Camerons Aliens idea was actually brilliant AND original, where Rodriguez claims to be going in an "original" direction it feels rather contrived. The footage doesn't look awful though, and if they can make the alien environment feel right it could be a fun movie.
Whoever said LV-426 and Pandora are two of the elite alien worlds, spot on. The brilliance of Pandora IMO was the familiarity on the surface, but when you did in to it there's just so much cool alien shit going on. I mean, how bout that bio-luminescent forest? Stunning. -
Mar 13, 2010 6:37:25 PM CST
All AICN & Predator Fans in Louisville, KY!!!
by the reluctant austinite
Get ready for Wonderfest this year, May 15 & 16, 'cause Harry is going to be there and he's bringing some friends with him. Some big, scary friends--and some Predators too. Nimrod Antal will be there to talk about "Predators" and show exclusive advance stuff and Greg Nicotero will be there to show off costumes, props and who knows what else. Lastly, we expect Robert Rodriguez to be announced as the Guest of Honor very soon. According to Harry, Robert is a huge model/kit fan who was raised on the Aurora Monster models and he's looking forward to Wonderfest!
If you live anywhere near Louisville, you NEED to be there. If you've never been to Louisville, this is the best excuse you're ever going to get to visit. See the hometown of Muhammad Ali and Hunter Thompson! Lose money at Churchill Downs! See the city that was nuked in "Return of the Living Dead" and meet some of the actors and production artists from the film! Meet Harry! If you miss this you better be dead or in jail. -
inferior to the original one,but it was the movie which defined and expanded the Predator universe.New cool weapons,they do this hunt for centuries on Earth,they live many years,they have a code of honor and they dont kill innocents,only guys with guns and they never kill women which are pregnant.Predator 2 put a lot of character in the Predator creature.
Now AvP expanded the Predator universe more,although it got a lot of material from the already expanded universe in the Darkhorse comics.Rodriguez seems to want to do the same thing,to expand the universe with his own ideas.Its cool.
BUT mr Rodriguez,although i am not a hardcore Predator and based on what i have seen in the 2 movies,i have some questions to ask:
1.If the Predators bring their preys in their home planet to hunt them,then why in the original movies they go to the prey's home planet and hunt them there? And i am not bringing this up as a plot hole,but rather as a misinterpretation of the Predator's character and culture.They are warriors-hunters,they hunt to prove to themselves and to the other Predators that they are worthy hunters.So logic dictates that all this hunting needs to have some defree of challenge for all these predators,otherwise it does not give gravitas to their hunting achievements and status to their alien tribe.Its like having a British hunter of the 19th century,who instead of going to Africa to hunt lions,he brings the lions to his big farm and shoots them there.Does this make him bad-ass to the eyes of the others? me thinks not
2.The next question is again about the same thing:The alien dogs the Predators use.Again isnt this a contradiction to the Predator's character? In the original movies we know that he has the technology and the physical abilities to track down and hunt his preys,silently in stealth mode.Thats what defines him,thats what makes him such a cool hunter.He knows his enviroment,although he is alien to it,and he uses it to his advance,ie using the trees to reach his preys or the flora to camouflage himself and sillently follow his preys.
But now he uses dogs to discover his preys? wtf is this shit? I know that we as hunters use dogs for hunting,but we are humans ffs,we dont have cloak devices,we cant hope from tree to tree,we are not very goot in tracking animals with our own senses and we our not strong enough to face them alone even with our guns.Predator is an ALIEN hunter,and by giving hims alien dogs you humanize him,you bring him down to our own level of doing things like hunting.
3.you said that you intend not to follow the basic formula of the original movie.But instead you do exactly this: The movie is about a group of modern hardcore soldiers and a latin chick being chased by Preds.Is this the fresh approach that you were talking about? because it a rip-off from the original movie.But ok lets accept this "remake" approach of your movie.Which brings us to another problem:
The combat team in the original movie,was not just cannon fodder for the movie.They were soldiers with character and they were acting together as a real unit,friends and comrades who seemed to have pass through many things in their military life.And as an audience you felt for their deaths.Now i dont know how you have approached these combat team-mates in this prequel/remake,but there is an obvious hint that at least one of them is a racial stereotype: the asian guy with the tattoo and the katana and the macho chick. and that is not a good sign for how the characters will be in the movie.
And ofc there are some other nitbits like why the Preds home planet is like our earth jungles,how exactly a fat guy like Fishburn is supposed to be a badass soldier,there was a glimpse of some obvious nerds as cannon fodder,etc
But anyway these are my initial concerns about the whole project and it gets shaped.I like Brodyn,it is a good creative choice to have a fit guy as the leader,oppossed to the muscual Arnie and i think he is goign to do a good job.The movie will be a hit thats for sure,but i think that it wont reinvent the franchise as you claim. -
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My point is an awful lot of these Hollywood actors go from Joe Schlubb to jacked and pumped in that 4-6 week timeframe--and while there probably is a small group of genetically favored men who could actually pack on that much mass in such a short timeframe with proper diet and strict exercise regime, it's still a very small group and Adrian Brody does not look like he falls into that category. Brody is a naturally slender guy. It's a lot harder for guys built like him to pack on mass than it is for, say, a fat guy with a bigger frame.
But anyone who does not think there's a lot of 'roids and other associated junk being pumped into movie stars to build up that beach muscle is fooling themselves. The practice is rampant. -
1. Rodriguez's characters are always flat with no depth.
2. Rodriguez wants to go in a different direction but it's still military guys with a latino chick in the jungle.
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I would have taken any diff location... rather than a jungle...
http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/imgs/mid/43science-fiction04-m138.jpg
http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/imgs/new/176GreenValley.jpg
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Looks interesting and images have been floating on the internet for several years now.
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Yeah, i totally see your point, however:
I never said that there wasn't an abundance of morons who uses steroids. (Twilight werewolf guy...)
In fact, i said:
"Or maybe he said "fuck it!" and did some 'roids?"
I dont have ANY idea how long this guy has been training.
Let us not confuse actors with 9-5 normal persons.
Let us also not forget that this IS Brody's 9-5. He has the time AND money to train and eat right.
Hey, check this out: Cris reeves diet, Steak for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. Wow. -
...they said it was "a preserve" where they bring game to hunt. Sheesh. Get your panties out of a bunch.
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http://tinyurl.com/5fghsq
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...does the overuse of cgi not bother you? I myself would take a lazy jungle over a fake cgi setting any day. I'm getting tired of that crap, and I'm a digital artist.
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it's boring...
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http://tinyurl.com/ykvfums
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Where is a Predator movie supposed to take place then? The Desert? Nope. The city? Did that already. How about a space ship, or under water! Oooh, how about an amusement park!!! A jungle sounds perfect to me. I'm looking forward to this one.
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It blinks once with a predator symbol then goes to black and stays there. If that's the trailer it look a whole lot better than the last 2 AVP movies combined.
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I'm excited about being excited, but until the trailer works I'm stuck in excitement limbo.
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What a sad bunch of people. They live and thrive on negative feelings. I cant even imagine how unhappy these people must be to have so much negativity in their lives. Pity them.
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I ain't got nothing on this guy. I stand humbled by his devotion.
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Finally, someone who actually knows how to direct a movie is directing a 'canon' film.
Thank you, Robert and Nimrod, for putting some effort into this one. Hope it kicks major ass.
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Read Liquid Meddle's posting of CinemaBlend.com's set report.
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Before he started this project he was going for a R rating. So don't worry you Nerds.
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All his movies have been R (not kid movies)Fox gave him complete control, It's his story, so I'm not worried. Movie will Awesome!
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complete with a 110lb woman who can kill 100 guys each twice her size with her bare hands....
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I think the idea of a Cameron lead movie like I wrote above would work. Especially if he used the Colonial Marines exactly with the same nail on the head like he did in Aliens.
Right now, we know little of this new movie, but I suspect hat it will be a bunch of people most of whom probably do not know each other who SURPRISE find themselves on some magically able to breath on planet and then find themselves with weapons and being hunted and have to survive. 2 hours of that?
where one gets picked off one by one.
wow
yawn
There are zillions of people who recognize the genius of Cameron, the fun of Aliens, the coolness of Colonial Marines, the fun of the original Predator movie and putting it all together, lead by a master of the helm, Cameron, is the ONE way telling the story of these characters and aliens has any chance.
Basically, every single movie that had to do with aliens and predators sucked horribly.
Sorry, but so far this movie looks like crap, with what little is seen.
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Just interested. What he said at the talk.
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They should have just done a prequel dealing with the the pistol that Harrigan received
at the end of Predator 2 (Raphael Adolini 1715). I can picture the story. It's about Thomas Brown who served under Captain Francis Marion of the second South
Carolina Regiment. On Brown's way to to meet up with General Horatio Gates to fight the British... he runs into a village that's been completely ravaged... at first they think it was the result of savages... but it was the result of
a Predator "on the hunt." As far as the role of the gun from 1715? Maybe it's an heirloom from a family member that Brown keeps on his personage... or maybe he's traveling with a buddy who's of Italian descent that carries it... or maybe Brown runs across a family in the village whose family possessed it. *Shrug*... it would be more interesting to me to see people fight a Predator during more antiquated times than another Predator film out in the jungle. -
Then get off your asses and write a fucking screenplay and submit it. Until then, stop whining about how your ideas are so much better and everyone else's suck.
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that nobody has used. Predators hunting in 1515 in Mexico City, when the Spanish and their Tlaxcalan allies besieged the Aztecs. 'Apocalypto' and 'Predators' rolled into one.
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http://tinyurl.com/ykvfums
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STFU and stop being a pussy!
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Predators hunting down roman soldiers in the forests of Germany.
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Predator movie. The bar is indeed low, considering the last installments.
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STFU? No chance there pal. Being a pussy? The pussies are the sad little haters who fucking complain about EVERYTHING. Get a fucking life....better yet, enjoy life a little instead of making every fucking thing so negative. I enjoy life, I enjoy movies, I don't live to fucking hate everything. On top of it all, I don't profess to be so fucking knowledgeable about everything having to do with movies, I don't see some stills from a movie and declare it shit. I reserve judgment until I see the finished product, unlike the pathetic haters who obviously know everything about movies, even before they come out! How blessed we are to have such geniuses present in these TB's to guide us. They know so much, we live for all your guidance. What fucking ever.
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The surprise person is gonna be Gary Busey..Yeah he was cut in half in Pred 2, but that does not mean that he died.
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Growing up I always wanted to see Aliens fight Predators and Jason fight Freddy. Now, I have. And it sucked. But on the flip side I always wanted to see how Batman became Batman. Now, I have. It was great! So, when it comes to this film. I hope it's taken care of like Batman Begins and Dark Knight, but...We've seen what happens.
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If Arnold was in this, we'd all be happy as shit. How do these filmmakers not understand what we want? It's not hard. Give the audience what they want and they will pay to see it over and over again.
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It sounds like one of those fake names like Alan Smithee or Figaroo Schmucker
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Fucking hilarious! I tip my hat to you, sir.
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Only his legs got cut off and maybe his stomach, but otherwise his vitals seemed to be intact.
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Sorry guys, but I don't think that we will be seeing Arnie or any other surprise cameo in this movie. I don't think Robert would spoil the whole movie by giving this away in this fashion, plus if you read it above and watch the footage, you can already see which character he is talking about.
That said, I would be quite happy to not have a cameo shoe-horned into the movie. It shouldn't need it and if it as good as it looks at this early stage, the movie will be able to stand on its own two feet. Looks promising! Roll on Thursday! -
you can hear mac say over here, any time. now that fucker was most definately dead by the end of predator
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...Arnold's Oscar moment, no doubt.
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Looking good, echo's of McTiernan's and a solid set-up. Looking forward to seeing that expanded sneak.
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Aside from the crappy unimaginative setting, this looks promising. Hopefully, this "new" Predator won't be the equivilant of a the "Super Shredder" from Secret of the Ooze.
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Geht ta da choppa
anytime
fuck u asshole
give deez peeple airrrrr
it's gonna suck
make my life complete: make sin city 2 already! Me wants more Nancy callihan ! -
Mar 16, 2010 12:52:27 PM CDT
Wikipedia has Semi-Spoilers in the Predators article!
by banditdarville
Lists the characters: Brody plays a U.S. mercenary soldier; Topher Grace is a disgraced physician and serial killer on the FBI most wanted list; Alice Braga is a revolutionary guerilla fighter; Trejo is the primary enforcer for a Mexican drug cartel. There's also a Russian commando. Lists Fishburne as a stranded U.S. soldier. Could mean he was there before the others.
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The cast of the first was spot on perfect. Textbook chemistry between players and literally *tons* of rockin' one-liners.It's gonna be hard for anything to even compete with that kind of serendipity, much less surpass it. But we'll see.
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or there will be one left to get to the chopper.
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would be a good username.
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This power-inflation BULLSHIT NEVER WORKS. When the Spinosaurus survived a bite to the back of the damn neck from Alpha T-rex and then snapped his neck with his claws, I walked out of that royal POS. If Rodriguez thinks that this "NOW WITH TWICE AS MUCH BADASSNESS" lemming bullshit is going to please fans of the original, he is stupid as fuck.
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Now with super-directing power and ultra-"NIMROD" action!!!
...sigh. I'm not drinking the cool-aid, bitch.
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