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The PREDATORS teaser trailer is online and it is not an ugly mudderfucka!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here writing from the Highball as I wait for my 9pm movie at SXSW. Some news has come in and I wanted to make sure it went up as I catch up on SXSW reviews.
The biggest bit of news to hit is IGN's premiere of the teaser trailer for PREDATORS, directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez. The presentation at Southby went swimmingly, I hear, and now you and I can see why that is.
So far this promises a return to the horror of Predator, which is something that I don't feel has been exploited in the series. Even the original had a pretty even balance of action and the terror of being hunted.
View it below!
I wanna see! Love how the trailer is cut, love that they're giving atmosphere and gravitas to the Predators again and not treating them like lumbering dumbasses as seen in the AVP films.
-Quint
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That shot of the stars turning to the treetops is rad. Not sure that will be in the movie, but it’s rad. Also, I’m pretty sure that the shot with all the Pred targeting lights on Brody is just for the trailer, or more specifically, the shot is in the movie, but with only one light on him. The others being added in for the trailer.
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ITS TAKEN 10YRS!
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You want to get back to Hollywood with a bang? Here you go!
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THIS WAS A MISTAKE...THE ORGINAL IS JUST TOO GOOOD
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Eat it.
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Please do prove my apprehensions misplaced. Fingers crossed.
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has to be 10 times better than the AVPs without even trying
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Guy falling from a waterfall, net trap grabbing someone/something, muscled dude with a gatling gun, bunch of guys and one chick in a jungle, etc.
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For an alien world that sure looks like your run of the mill jungle to me, though. Fingers are crossed, I want this to be awesome!!!
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Aliens, now that would be something.
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I actually like Lawrence Fishburne's presence in the movie. He gives it weight, and some brains....but they still a lead actor with some action potential. He didn't have to be muscle bound, but he should at least look like he can scrap. Gonzo looks like the guy who gets bullied in the cafeteria and gets his milk stolen.
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and only one movie really delivered. But it's hard not to root for this to be the second best predator movie because we've been waiting so long and there's no topping the first.
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Mar 18, 2010 8:08:33 PM CDT
A dude unsheathing a katana in a predator
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Mar 18, 2010 8:09:50 PM CDT
Robert Rodriquez is not qualified to produce or direct
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a Predator movie.
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Good to see he's finding work.
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Looked tense. Not completely sold (once burned, twice shy), but I like the way it looks like its coming together. There's potential there.
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is one ugly motherfucker in his own right, but one hell of an actor. The Shield, the lone bright spot on Justified, all those movies he made cameos in with his brother Ron Howard as director.
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And basically a remake of film No.1 - though I'd love to be wrong. That bit where they all introduce themselves better be a lot better in the context of the film; as it stands it's hilariously cheesy.
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I don't care how Good (Predator) or bad (Choose a sequel) they are, I still love em. Bring it on bitches!!!!!
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My only problem is that there's about eight humans in the cast and we saw the deaths of about half of them in that trailer.
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Silvestri's Synclavier percussion… love it! :)
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It makes them look like bobble heads with blades.
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I agree so much... i think you could even put it like this "Robert Rodriquez is not qualified to produce or direct".
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across the galaxy just to put them on a planet that's pretty much like a jungle here. Hard to see what about that teaser lends the predators weight or gravitas though, but it is a decent teaser. I'm not sold on the idea of this film (unnecessary sequel to 80s classic), but this teaser does go a small way towards piquing my interest. We'll see.
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You love all of the sequels? Even AVP: Requiem? I thought that was an awful, awful movie with no redeeming value what-so-ever. Well...except maybe the Predalien design and concept of laying multiple eggs into a victim via the mouth. That was kinda cool. Otherwise, awful, awful movie.
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What does that mean?
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Expect a quick shot of a predator killing a guy (off camera and we don't get to see the predator) in the first moments, followed by an openingOFLOST bit where the "hero" guys wakes up and gets introduced just as all the others are showing up, meeting awkwardly and exchanging info. We'll spend an exhausting amount of time with them, like 45 minutes of nothing but talk, and we won't see a predator once, but we'll see the predator's leavings like dead bodies and stuff, enough clues for them to figure out they're hunted. Night comes and they slaughter two, maybe three of the people we barely know or care about or meet, and then there will be one guy, probably Trejo, who will go out knives blazing in a suicide run and then the chick and the hero guy and the Dark Chocolate Teddy Bear will run a lot and then DCTB will die and give out some assy warning and then it will look like the hero guy is dead but then the chick will run and then hero guy will rescue chick and MAYBE live or not and they'll get a quick nod from Ahnuld. Roll creds and pop a beer.
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Can somebody tell me once and for all what is this movie to be rated???
With some source please, if possible.
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About time we got Predators being done right again. Congrats to all involved....looks like a killer movie so far.....and Walton Goggins is the man. Shane Vendrell up against Predators? One of the best idea's in cinema history. If there's a sequel, they HAVE to have the Chiklis.
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i like the build up. i like brody. I have high hopes.
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pg13
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This looks great!!!
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Why the fuck is he in this movie?
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You're actually wrong. Wait and see...
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This recalls "The Most Dangerous Game", which in turn inspired the first film. They've collected the best killers in different professions from around the world and placed them on a private game reserve. so basically this is a Predator theme park! Or a game arcade! That's a good idea.
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Is the only guy that kinda reassembles a bad-ass in this movie. Sonny Landham(played Billy in Predator)...where are you?
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This looks shit, just a lame remake of the classic original ....Whatever.
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like i'm gonna take action movie advice from a guy named gil.
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Seriously, if the bad ass predators exist, there must be other alien life forms that are much better prey than a bunch of middle aged humans.
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Haters can piss off, you never give anything a chance, judge the movie on a 2 minute trailer......then again I forgot that haters know more than everyone else, to the point where they don't need to see a movie to know how good or bad it is. Ridiculous.Looking forward to this, aint been no good Predator movies since P2, which despite some of the hate for it was a worthy Predator movie.
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doesnt seem to add anything exciting to this franchise
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Digital? Super 35? Vipercam? Anamorphic?
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vibe at all and the trailer ruins the remaining survivors and shows a few who are greased and the cast look boring, and so mixed but like comically mixed. and only humabns the preds hunt lots of shit, but i guess they are particular about groups. so maybe some other hunt arena is full of same spieces or something, and like some have already said you see so much shit lifted from the original film. No excitment rages. It's a fucking cover song. this time instead of one pred there's like more and it's on their planet but that planet looks just like ours. Fucker off...
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who is danny trejo going to reassemble to be a badass. I mean....he's the one that resembles a badass but if he's the only one who reassembles a badass then I take that to mean that some badass will blow up and Trejo will put him back together.
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You better. *insert obscure action movie reference to prove my worth*
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No. No. Good trailer but PREDATORSSSSSS? THE BEST TEAM EVER ASSEMBLED GOT TAKEN OUT BY A TEEN. YOU WANT ME TO BELIEVE THAT TEAM IS GOING UP AGAINST SEVERAL????
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Nicely cut, a good slow-build. God, I hope this doesn't suck. I have zero investment in the Predator franchise, really. I didn't think all much of the first one, and I'm not even sure I saw all of the second. But Kontroll kicks so much ass, I would fucking LOVE to see Antal nail the fuck out of this and get some seriousl geek love. And everything looks pretty fucking great so far.
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And why is everyone here jizzing their pants over a trailer? Lets wait for the first audience reviews to seep out. But plotwise its stupid. A supreme hunter gets sport by being in the environment of its prey, not the other way round. What's the point of transporting a brown bear from Russia and hunting it in your back yard? Where's the challenge in that? Fuckin stupid.
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"How do we kill them?"
"However you can."
I'd punch a motherfucker in the mouth if he answered my question like that. If you don't know, just say you don't know. If you do know, then fucking tell me. -
that should be every trolls talkback name
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...you're clearly not a fan of B-movies, and with that knowledge, i wonder what reason, other than trolling, you're here for.Rodriguez may be hit-an-miss...but he's given us some fucking BRILLIANT movies. Independantly...and I stress that.Let's see you do better.
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they had to give him a sword didn't they? Film looks like shit. Adrian Brody deserves much better than what he's getting thrown at him these days.
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Is in the movie (the bald black guy) cool!
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Yeah I don't see this being any different then the other Predator flicks over the past 20 years. Just like Aliens then don't know when to let a franchise die. If they took the cast of 'The Expendables' and add the level of violence and gore to 'Predators' then I would have some interest but after 'AvP 2' more then likely I will not be seeing this.
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my hopes have risen
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and I might get excited. If the trailers have the ol' standby of "This Film is Not Yet Rated" two weeks before release, well it's most likely going to be PG-13. If it's R and a hard R I will be there. If not, I'll wait for the "unrated director's cut" on home video.
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a Yakuza dude as one of the most deadly people on the planet? Sorry, don't buy it. Just an excuse for an asian guy with a sword.
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I like when people call others haters just because they are being cautious about this flick. The first 'Predator' came out in 1987 and that was the only decent one since then. The Predators and Aliens...sorry they're not scary anymore.
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will make or break this film. Come on, guys, it's a throwback to 80's action, and that's not all bad. But what sold the original for me is how alien the Predator was. That's what got lost in AVP: not weird enough--too many reveals-- yet not full Yautje culture either.
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especially the unrated versions!
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When did Adrien Brodey grow such manly vocal cords?
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only shittier.And an Asian guy with a sword? Seriously?
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Can we not already see that this is going to basically retread the first movie?$20 says Morpheus ends up being the only one left alive.
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atleast from what I see so far .. and I know you cared about that ... BTW, the AVP films were a shame .. a total shame.
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that trailer was better then oral sex
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Jeez you got a big pussy.
The supporting cast in Predator really deserves so much for the feel of the movie. Those guys were perfectly cast.
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way better than a lot of other franchises revitalizations
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I would have rather seen several humans and several other species of varying levels of intelligence and tech It would be like "The most dangerous game" meets "Enemy Mine" meets uh.... Predator. This whole basic plot was also covered by an old DS9 episode IIRC.
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...and skull in that big Predator's mitts at the end of the trailer. I wonder if that's one of the human characters or one of the other Predators (from another tribe) that just got victored.Word on this is that there are several types of creatures to be found on this planet. So, perhaps we shall truly see the legendary......PREDATOR FALCONS!!!
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Cause this movie is gonna suck.
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I thought it was going to be a classy film right up until when they encounter the first action bit in the pyramid. Then it just turned into a video game. They had built up such a great idea, and then forgot that they actually needed to have an intelligent story line to keep it from ending up like a mindlessly linear bad 80's horror flick. OK kill him... check... kill her.. check... you , then you, then you. yawwwwn.
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But turn off the IGN video.
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ive seen IIRC before...what does that mean?!?!?
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That's the movie were that black chick uses an alien head for a shield and runs side by side with a predator in slo-mo?
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[I]f [I] [R]emember [C]orrectly Oldbies like me on the internet are dying and so take with it our lingo, and onions hung from our belts ( as was the style at the time )
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so the fish is the guy that uncloaks...was hoping it would be Dutch (harrigan would be too old)
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...and you should be just fine. Don't get me wrong, I love Predator 2 a lot, but just imagine your still pumped after seeing Aliens in 1986, then you got Predator in 1987, and then you hear the next film is a human game preserve storyline to be called "Predators", coming out in the summer, we'd have been pissing our Garanimals. If Rodriguez can help me put me right in that moment with this movie, I'm sold.
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now i know! :)
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For the record: Brody actively pursued this flick. Since he is apparently a BIG fan of the original+He's got the acting skills and he worked out for the role. That gets him my respect. And i buy him as a military leader.
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have individual personalities and fighting styles; something that was dreadfully missing from AVP 1. Each Predator/human match should be unique, and not just a quick kill.
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"I put on 25 pounds for this role. That wasn't the point. They didn't hire me to be a bodybuilder. I'm not a bodybuilder, but I felt in order to be playful with it as well I shouldn't be strapped. It's not the physical strength that outsmarts an alien with energy based weapons and high tracking skills and a culture of hunting and trophy hunting. You have to outsmart them."
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she got everything, that Uncle John need. Aw baby, I'm gonna have me some fun, I'm gonna have me some fun, I'm gonna have me some fun.
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The tri-lasers looked CGI for Christ's sake. The jew nosed skinny guy is not tough enough for this role either. Friggin' Morpheus is too old as well. Me thinks RR blew it with the casting.
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someone made a valid point ages ago that his sort of build is the sort we see for badasses nowadays (in the military anyway) that sinewy build. if they had just got someone with arnies build they would have been slated for copying anyway. the only misstep i see is the topher grace character
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...oh, no wait! That's the one with Glover...Oh no wait that's Fishburn..Apocal..wait..There's that Piano Guy...Must be King Kong! Nope, there's a bunch of Predators...where are the Aliens?...can't be, it's set in the jungle...Where's Kong?...Oh, no, wait!...I recognise this!: It's the one with Arnold!
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Jamie Foxx is in negotiations to star opposite Bruce Willis in "Kane & Lynch," a video-game adaptation that veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane is helming.
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but a bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. The end.
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a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus...just like me.
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ok let's start this:
my money is that at the end, it will be Morpheus, the chick and The Pianist left, before Morpheus sacrifices himself for Brody n em, and gives them the McGuffin (airship map? key? code?) which will take them back home. Maybe Venom appears right at the end and he was alive all along and hitches a ride.
Everyone else is expendable.
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can't be more than 116!
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I like Predator and some of Predator 2 is OK. This one has potential. But I am first and foremost a fan of the Alien series. We had the potential of Ridley Scott AND James Cameron collaborating on an Alien 5, but the execs at Fox decided to go with AvP. For that, I despise that pairing. Never should have happened. I guess the Alien prequel could be awesome, but a Scott-Cameron pairing could have been legendary.
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You people seriously seem on the verge of mental illness. You pick apart the entire plot from a 2 minute trailer as if you'd seen the whole movie. You joyless fucks are pathetic.
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It gets a bad rap. It's not a great film by any stretch but it's an entertaining ultra-violent piece of silliness. Certainly better than the terrible, terrible AVP films.
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His personality is. He just isn't a badass dude. Hes a bit effeminate. Yeah the casting could have been better. It could have been a lot worse, too. I prefer this cast to a bunch of unknowns. As a teaser this trailer fails, though. Well, it doesn't look TOO bad which I guess is good news, all considered. It does look like another mediocre entry into the Predator/aliens franchise, however.
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.... this was a very needed remake. Where the fuck are the original ideas?
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Somebody like Maggot in "The Dirty Dozen."
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"...it come from dee udda side!"Sorry, JackSlater4. I'll take PREDATOR 2 over the AvP films any day.
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had an intelligent story.right...
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Considering both of these franchises, Alien and Predator have been destroyed, this looks great. Its back to the roots of what made the original Predator great: a team of badasses each of whom you could imagine carrying their own film. And its not action. And from what Ive read it will be R. Way more excited about this than anything in the 2 films since the 90s.
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What I meant it doesnt look like they tried to make an action flick but more a horror flick which is nice
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You must be confused. They were going to make an Alien 4 at one point, but then they realized that it was such a horrible fucking movie that it made Alien 3 good, and they decided to all go do other things more suitable for their lives.
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come on now,that movie was terrible.nice way to close a trilogy..
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Where the hell have you been? This has been confirmed OVER AND OVER AGAIN as a hard R. Don't be the twats you are -- make an effort to be somewhat intelligent.
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Just keep doing what you are doing, this looks better than any Predator films since the first one. That's good enough for me!!... now, surprise us in July!!
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Yes it's a simple plot, but there's nothing wrong with that. but whats important is that the characters behave intelligently and believably in their environment, even if their world is simplified or idealized. This is where AVP went wrong IMHO. In Predator, the story line is believable ( except perhaps for the ridiculous amount of ammo and exotic weaponry ) Each of the supporting cast are caricatures, no doubt, but they meshed well together and give the movie that sort of "idealized" , but not campy,camaraderie. And the dialog was slick... not shakespeare, but memorable. Remember this is the movie that gave Arnold a dozen more successful one liners. "Stick around", "If it bleeds we can kill it" , "You're one ugly mother fucker", etc. It worked then. The movie also has the virtue of being the first, so the entire nature of the Predator was unknown when you first watched it. Which adds to the drama significantly.
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This is looking pretty cool, I'm just not digging the new Preds. I hope there's more of the classic Pred outift.
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PREDATOR 2 was great; i can watch that one anytime. even AVP has a few redeeming moments. but AVP 2 was really, really bad. made me want to sanitize my DVD player
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which dont have to do with the story which is very simplistic.
Things like good direction,actors chemistry, suspenseful atmosphere,verisimilitude,etc.
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and looks good, and all the people that disagree are going to see it regardless.
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Unless the Preds are reproducing with ...organic eggs.
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Basically the same setting, same sort of team, same weapons, lots of the same "signature" shots...even falling down a waterfall, for Pete's sake! This is too lazy to even be called a "reimagining"...what a bunch of crap. Why watch this when you can watch the original? Or Aliens, for that matter?
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Why in the fuck would we care? Separating the Predators, male and female, will in-turn just lead to more idiotic ideas. I don't want them turned into fucking Klingons. I could careless about some Predator "culture." They are what they are. It works. The end.
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This fucking series should have ended a long time ago. Who at this point seriously gives a shit?
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An R rating means there'll be graphic deaths, most likely tired and predictable ones in a tired and unoriginal setting stuffed with moments and images ripped off form the original. And they'll be able to curse when they get killed or scared. Yeah, that'll make it okay.
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I have the original on blu-ray, and the transfer SUCKS!!!!!!!
Aliens BD won't come out until November.....
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otherwise we dont need the Alien Queen too,no?
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a lot of things from the original one. io9.com has a recent article with screenshots which show what iconic scenes have been stolen.ok they will call it a tribute,i call it increasing the chances to milk the stupid fans.
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that shit hasn't been released yet...oh and the trailer still looks like a shit sandwich.
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thank you trailer. to me what worked about the first was a group of men on a mission of a different sort that were unfortunate to run across the predator. here it seems they're trying to shoehorn a bunch of character archetypes that cross the predators. and to top it off the dialogue was clunky.
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Apparently, both are acceptable. In any case, I don't like Danny's use of "team-orientated." Sounds dumb. Maybe his character is dumb, even if he is one of earth's most deadly killers. Fuck it.
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with the HDTV version of the film as the bluray version of the film.Maybe thats why Bardo thinks that the transfer of the film is so crap,because in reality it is ripped from a HDTV channel when it was playing the movie.haha.
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The Aliens are more like bugs -- it made sense to further. People want to give the Predators a bunch of "human" traits, traditions, etc. From the novels to the comics. You explain them away, you take the mystery away from them, you ruin the creature. Predator home planet? Alien home planet? Who gives a shit. They're in the shadows.. They're hunting you. Keep it the way it works. I don't want to see little Predator children hunting stray dogs and cats and have their "language" translated on screen. Fuck all of that.
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I read the book adaptation for the original film before I ever saw the movie, and the Predator was much different. It was more like a praying mantis, and used a spear and throwing disk exclusively. It was hinted that it had much better technology, but didn't use it for sporting reasons. When I actually saw the film at the theater shortly after, I was kind of let down by the design. Still a great movie, but if you can pick up the novelization, give it a read. I think it was based off of the original screenplay, and I wish they had stuck more closely to it.
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thats what makes them so fascinating.But think it the other way.If you give to the audience a glimpse of a Predator Female,which wont reveal anything major about their culture,but will be just enough to intrigue us,wouldnt that increase the mystery surrounding the Preds and make us more eager to discover more about their race? A lot of movies use such story elements in order to help to make some things more mysterious,thus more interesting.Take for instance teh Alien movie.The aliens as a concept are already mysterious.We dont know their origin,they reproduce with a very strange way,they have acid for blood which to our biological knowledge its something extraordinary etc.BUT it is that scene with the Space Jokey and his destroyed spaceship with the hundreds alien eggs in it,that makes the aliens and the whole alien universe so much more mysterious and so much more intriguing.We dont know anything about the the Space Jokeys,and people are still discussing what they are and what they were going to do with the eggs,they even suggested that they might have bio-engineered the aliens etc.You dont have to reveal anything about them,you just introduce them and you automatically bring the whole aliens concept into a new level of mystery.you see my point? a bigger mystery will help a smaller mystery to become bigger.
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suit in the extras of the special dvd version of the movie?
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Mar 19, 2010 12:48:28 AM CDT
WOOO it's at least SOMETHING to look forward to this garbage Sum
by zillabeast
Iron Man...Toy Story....Inception....The Expendables. The list is pretty thin.
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It looks cool and it will make for a fun popcorn movie. So, I'm sure I'll check it out.On the other hand...how does this movie make any sense?WHY would the Predators have a game preserver? Going back to the first movie, it seems that the whole POINT to being a Predator was for YOU to be dropped into a foreign land or hostile environment and to then prove your mettle. YOU had to deal with being a stranger in a strange land and come out alive. So, I could see how that would earn a Predator his manhood or stripes, so to speak.But here it's totally flipped and (to my mind) makes the Predators more wimpy. Sure, you captured a professional soldier or a Yakuza... whatever... but the bottom line is now THEY are disoriented and out of place. And so obviously they're not going to be thinking very clear. And they don't have access to all their weaponry or whatever to defend themselves. I mean, what good is dropping a soldier into a foreign forest even with his gun given that he'll inevitably -- and probably very quickly -- run out of ammunition. Gee, at which point he's a freaked out, unarmed guy up against physically larger opponents running around with fucking laser cannons on their shoulders.WOW! Just think of proving your Predator manhood given THOSE odds!Plus, most gaming preserves are exactly that -- they PRESERVE life. We have wildlife preserves here to make sure some aspect of the species stays alive. So, fine, I could understand the plot point of this being a preserve if you told me that these are the people being allowed to live...to keep some humans alive...while Predator ships drop warriors all over the Earth and the Predators wage all-out war, looking to literally kill as many people as possible.So, fine, make PREDATORS an X-rated porn film or something. I mean, I could understand if the point of the preserve was to bring men AND women there to fuck and breed and to keep making human to hunt. At least THEN the preserve idea could work as well.But, seriously, I just don't see how this movie's overall concept reflects the basic cool concepts that were introduced in the original film.
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Mar 19, 2010 12:54:26 AM CDT
What's the difference between a teaser and a trailer then?
by benbraddock
Anyway, loved it. Instant classic!
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The plot was looney on how they got the xenomorphs and the yautja together! Looney, I tells ya!
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Do people say that?
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dig it, the lean mean preds, the whole best of the best hunt...could be fun..fuck the haters..see the flick first before u hate it
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Movie should last about 10 min
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in a previous Pred topic.What i have seen so far about this remake,it makes no sense compared to the true characterization and way of living of the Preds.I will say it again: this movie is specifically made to target the fanboys,thats why it uses the same plot and steals a lot of things from the original one.It will be cool,it will have its moments,it will be a well-crafted modernization of the original concept BUT it will just be one more travesty of a 'remake' movie,milking an already dead franchise.
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Supposedly Topher Grace IS a scrawny serial killer. Perfect casting there then.
*-SERIOUS- SPOILER IF TRUE*:
I THINK this is some sort of Predator Killing Tournament.
The prize for the winner is to return home.(Earth)
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And yes, he said orientated. Looks better than I was expecting, though. Could be cool.
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Mar 19, 2010 1:32:19 AM CDT
It looks like Predator the TV show. Where's the leading man?
by orionsangels
Mr. long bent nose, Adrien Brody, just isn't cutting it. Didn't anyone see the King Kong remake? He's just not a good leading man. Look what happened to Predator 2, with that commie Danny Glover as the leading man. It flopped, why? because it didn't have star power, but not only that. A likable leading man. One that you wanna cheer for. On top of that, Cameron set the bar high with Avatar and now the media loves comparing alien type scifi movies to Avatar.
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Seriously, get more girls into the hunt! Like one guy here said, this doesn't look too bad but more like a remake rather than a sequel.Hopefully it won't suck as much donkey balls as these awful AVP movies...
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Pretty much a rip off (from what we can see so far), but any improvement on the AVP crap has gotta be good.
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DEE DOUBLE POSTS FRUM DEEE ODDAU SIIIDEEEE
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Nice to see some quality has appeared based on the trailer back into the franchise.
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Simple as that.
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I'm really gonna miss that...
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Mar 19, 2010 2:07:07 AM CDT
I am glad they chose actors over wrestlers and body builders.
by gunnarcannibal
No one could compete with Arnold or Jesse, who are you going to get? The Rock and Danzig? I can't wait to see this, but if it sucks, it will kill me, along with the franchise. But honestly it looks like they actually are attempting to make a good movie this time...what a relief it will be if that ends up being the case. Then lets bring back Alien, and in 10 years try AVP again.
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After the AVP movies we've all seen worse i still reserve the right to judge till I've seen more.
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Mar 19, 2010 2:12:09 AM CDT
Remember when Danny Glover called the Predator "Cunt face"?
by gunnarcannibal
That was perfect. If I were talking shit to a Predator that would be the first/last thing I would say.
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But yeah....... probably because it's so similar to the original. Which is a classic obviously.
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but it made sense because Clemens was an educated Englishman. What's Danny Trejo's excuse for using it?
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Mar 19, 2010 3:25:29 AM CDT
now this looks like the sequal we deserve!
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
I'm thinking of this as more predator 2. Looks great fromt he tease. I get a real first blood vibe from it. That's gotta be good right?
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if you cunts are not into seeing a predator against a master swordsman then you can just fuck right off and leave your geek badge behind on the table. You are off the case!
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It looks like it's back to the tone of the original...but BIGGER! It also looks like Rodriguez has delivered on his promise of making the sequel we should've gotten back then a la ALIENS to ALIEN. Too bad Arnold doesn't have a cameo in this though. Looking forward to it anyway!
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Sold!
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that Gyula Pados who did an excellent job as a DP is also the cinematographer in Predators. He knows atmosphere
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always has all the answers.
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are not the same person; the latter is the one who's actually Ron's brother. Or was that some kind of joke? Half the cast looks like they're doing this to knock off another mortgage payment.
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Mar 19, 2010 4:20:24 AM CDT
The secret to a good action movie, according to Joel Silver
by mr gorilla
... is 'casting, casting, casting'. And dammit it looks to me like they've assembled a GREAT cast in this. (Walt Goggins a personal favourite.) No one seems to be winking at the camera. Which is good. I'd say this looks like it could be fantastic. And the people who moan about a B-movie action flick that stars a cast this strong? Frankly they don't know what they are talking about.
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I can't stand these shitty little low-res torture devices you guys insist on posting just to seem like you're really on top of things. I always wait for quicktime.
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That's one of my all-time favorite movies. I kept looking for it on all those "best of the decade" lists, but I guess it couldn't touch "Bring It On." In any case, see Kontroll. Viva Nimrod!
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...so far.
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He doesn't have lead actor in him. Machete might work because it's tailored to him, and it looks like he doesn't speak much. Apart from that, his natural fit is the background henchman who only has a few lines, or gets killed early on....because he just doesn't seem to have too much going on upstairs. His brute strength might make a hand-to-hand battle with a predator somewhat interesting, but he's not charismatic enough to be the lone man standing at the end.
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lol. wtf, i'm there.
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The script is out there. I read it a few months back, and it's shit. And by the sound of the dialogue in this trailer, that shit script IS the one they used.
I found it through the IMDB forums talking about PREDATORS, but I'm fairly sure it's all over the net by now.
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And fuck Adrien Brody.
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and clever too boot. hope it's enjoyable.
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Looks great, but the "bunch of badass criminals, psychos, & a couple of honest soldiers dumped on a hunting ground" meme is a bit cliche.
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This movie looks cheap, both meanings of the word. After Avatar, it's a little flat for the trailer to this movie to say "On a different world". It's clearly our world. Even Return of the Jedi in the early 80's made an effort to supersize the trees to make up for the other West Coast forest shots for Endor.
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Looking forward to the movie!
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bwhahahaha. What a fucking snoozefest. Depp was the only entertaining thing about the film and even he couldn't save it.
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The winner of the tournament is a Predator. THE Predator from the original movie. Prize: Free trip to Earth and as many skulls and spines you can collect.
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Yes. They are called aliens. In the first Alien movie Ash called it the perfect organism. and on a technical note, the predators are aliens also... but in this movie, humans are the aliens. Does anyone know if the species name of either of the two other-worldly creatures was ever revealed? Just curious. By the way, this is a DVD for me...
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What is the sound at 1:20? How do you know it's a synth? Tell me more. Iconic.
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Warning several possible spoilers :
The reason the jungle looks similar is that its in a giant bio dome, The predators have recreated the exact environment that proved to be the best test to have their braves prove worthy for an off world hunt.
The real twist Predators are not born they are made!... they are cloned/deformed/mutated to the ultimate hunters, taking the best human warrior and mutating them with original Pred DNA. (Skinny Pred with big head/nose.. Brody's Predator) (there were other species used but humans have proven the best candidates, shown in remains and flashback)
The Bio-dome jungle on their home world is where they take the final selection from earth, they are then hunted by the newest transformed candidates, if they survive they them selves are mutated in to a Predator.
The big reveal at the end is the super Predictor named .................Dutch! (Shown by his dog tag still round his neck.) that's right a ripped massive (1/3rd bigger than normal) the super Predator mutated and grown from the survivor of the first trial.
Once the newly created braves prove them selves in the Bio dome... they are sent back to earth to really prove they have what it takes to be the ultimate ..............Predators
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I'm not sure, but I seem to recall the "Alien" creature is called a Xenomorph or some such shitty name. I prefer Alien.
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I'm stoked that this movie is forthcoming, but it still looks wonky to me. How in the blue fuck would the Predators come to pick that group? It made sense in PREDATOR - the Predator got dropped off in a comfortable environment & hunted humans, not necessarily the best of them. What now, their prey has to be Equal Opportunity? What Predator was in charge of selection, do they have Analyst Predators? Hollywood, please appoint me to the general oversight office of Dumb Shit Control, thanks.
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Which is a shame because he's such a freakin' badass.
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Did that moment remind anybody else of Hudson and his 'You want some of this?!' line from Aliens? Just me? Okay...
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Good point about timing. Maybe I'll watch ALIEN, ALIENS, & PREDATOR right before going to see PREDATORS.
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Is anyone else completely bored of movie trailers? I think they should stop making them and you should only be able to rely on word-of-mouth. Fancy quick cut trailers with fancy graphics and punchlines and 'trailer' lines of dialogue literally do nothing for me and almost make me NOT want to see particular films.
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If the original was 'R', then the sequel, reboot, whateverthefuck should be 'R' as well.
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hehe, gets me every time
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I know it's off topic, but where's the writeup on Fess Parker's passing?
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So far so good, but it better have a few new riffs rather than copy the format of the original - would've been more interesting if the Preds had waylaid a mixed bag of inter-planetary prey for their hunt. I do like set-up, although the killer elite team are no where near as interesting as the original line-up of Mercs in Predator.
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If you are a fan of Predator and don't get excited by that trailer than you are a fucking hater-nerd. With a couple shots of alien weapons, predator dogs, cramped hallways there's already enough to add more to the predator universe without making it a straight-up clone of the original. I love the beginning shot of stars fading into jungle.
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....after the mess of AVP and AVP:R but you clearly will for one very good reason. You obviously knew from reviews and word of mouth how bad the AVP movies were........but you still went ahead and watched them. Its such a ridiculous thing to say! You may watch it and decide you dont like it, but you WILL watch it. Without a doubt.
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his predator blade looks even longer than his were. lol
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'Whos your daddy now'... I MEAN REALLY ?
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....Morpheus and the Predator will come face to face. The Predator will take the red pill and wake up to find to himself in a powerplant that uses iconic film characters to generate cliched, generic Hollywood movies.
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God, I miss the SHIELD. Looks good. Who's your daddy now? - is a pretty funny thing to say to a fucking Predator.
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Do you seriously think the AVP movies are better than Alien 3? Wow. The title sequence for Finchers film alone is better than those other two horrible pieces of shit put together. Requiem is an absolute fucking travesty of a film, absolutely terrible.
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Not what I expected, definitely horror, great teaser, hope the film lives up.I see nothing to get pissed/worried/snarky about so far. But if it makes you feel good keep on clucking, hens.
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This trailer will fix all of a problems with too many peoples in a world because when everyone watch it they cum so much that there is no more cum left to have any more babyz.
One thing that will not make any boners in you is a hit movie Alice in a Pile of Shit 3-D that you can read a reviews for here
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....on any other website that has an article about Predators and the general reaction is very positive. Come here and its all doom and gloom. God you AICN lot are such a miserable bunch. Enjoy life its a journey not a destination. If this doesnt turn out to be a great film, what does that really mean in the grand scheme of things? Nothing. START BEING HAPPIER AND MORE POSITIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING OR IM REALLY GONNA LOSE THE PLOT!!!!1ELEVEN
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if it means they're more limber and graceful like the original. The bulky clumsy wrestler predators from AvP fucking sucked.
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would be cool. But that's what sequels are for. If they do go that route I hope they spend plenty of time designing the aliens appearance and defenses. The concept has alot of potential.
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The urban gangs getting hunted down, the subway massacre scene, the final chase scene, the memorable ending. Of course it doesn't match the first but it's still a solid action movie that puts AvP abortions to shame. Hell, I'll take Alien 4 over the AvP movies. It's a fun B-movie that's not nearly as fustrating.
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Pretty much. I basically tuned out it AVP when one Alien took out TWO! fucking Predators and lived. Kind of hard to believe when a Colonial Marine with a good rifle can take out dozens of Aliens and one Predator can take out a whole special forces team. Looking forward to this. Too bad they couldn't fit in a guy with a flintlock pistol.
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Horror? Really? Their trying horror? The Predators were hardly scary in the first place, we all know what they look like, so why all the retreading of old scenes and atmosphere? Really dissapointing, I hope I'm wrong but I rarely am.
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...Arnold's hero from the first film was in place of the Lawrence Fishbourne character.
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Look, it aint going to be Citizen Kane, and its not canon like the Terminator movies... but people already busting on a teaser trailer?! The look of the movie is pretty good; and the cast is really, really good...Its going to be a good film (don't know if it will be great) and do plenty of box office... with the comparison to the first film, good luck finding kids under 21 who've actually watched predator in its entirety: this will be new and fresh, and essentially, a reboot for the franchise.
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a fairly docile and technologically advanced race that co-inhabits the planet with the Predators, that looks different but similar enough to look like they evolved on the same planet. They're the ones that developed the ships and advanced weapons for protection, but the jungle dwelling Predators are so smart and deadly they're able to break city defenses and steal technology from time to time. I always thought this would be an interesting direction for the franchise. A night sequence with hundreds of predators jumping the walls and raiding the city for resources would tell you everything you need to know about the relationship between these two cultures.You could even throw socio-political issues in there like slavery, caste and science vs. religion, and almost make the Predators the sympathetic race, showing that they got to be as violent and resourceful as they are from centuries of opression. They could keep the game reserve storyline, and use the humans for exposition about the struggle between the alien races. But I'm sure we'll get a straight up horror/suspense film, which is fine too.
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will hate it, because they will think its a remake. It actually looks more like a sequel. Thats what I like about Predator and even the AVP franchise, they can all coexist in the same timeline without conflicting. This looks like an awesome entry.
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stealing a ship, and show both Predators from the first two movies with the group from the end of the second film.
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Predators.
This is their training ground before they graduate to hunting on Earth.
No?
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probably wishes he had the strike team with him instead of these faggy wimps. Vic Mackey would crush these predators by himself. so, this group is amongst the most badass killers from Earth? HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH.
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and do another hunting story with the ones that never left, or even better show the group on the ship go hunting on an alien planet after they drop off the Predator from the first film.
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of Giger's Aliens running through the woods in this film.
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The thing about this site is that none of the readers actually like movies. They piss on literally everything. If it wasn't made pre-1995, its considered "shite." They're misanthropes who think it makes them look more cultured/intelligent to have a negative opinion of all things.
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I liked Pred 1 and 2. Alien 1 and 2 as well. Everything else from both of these franchises hasn't been so hot...
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I liked Pred 1 and 2. Alien 1 and 2 as well. Everything else from both of these franchises hasn't been so hot...
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So to say there are no badasses in this is wrong. I'll give it a shot, but it does look like a retread of the 1st one.
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Poor trailer, you can tell Fishburne hates the dialogue. The concept of "the best killers from around the world" all awful stereotypes, along with the fact there's going to be predator "dogs" in this film ruins any potential for me.
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gotta love arnie
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Mar 19, 2010 9:53:47 AM CDT
Yeah, I really don't understand the 'that looks shit' posts
by mr gorilla
Nothing in that trailer looks 'shit'. Or even 'a bit shit'. It that is 'shit', then what was the second Alien v Predator movie?
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Nothing overly interesting to see in this trailer I'm afraid. A shot of a character falling over a waterfall, hmmm, now where have I seen that before... What next? A character'll slice into their chest before taking on a Predator with their blade / sword?
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What, no rapper? ;O
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....and drapped the six of us in a meatgrinder! What happened to you Dillon? You used to be somone I could trust."
"I. Woke. Up. You're an asset. An expendable asset. And I used you to get the job done, GOT IT?"
"My men are not expendable. And we don't do dis kind of werk."
Go watch that scene again and tell me Arnie and Weathers didn't have some chops on them. Not oscar worthy chops ofcourse but they were excellent in that film, all the actors were, that's what makes it such a good film. It was pulpy but they made it completey believable. -
Oh? You can?
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It's really, really sad that people are bashing the execution an idea that was well received upon hearing it.
And Brody looks skinny? in the trailer there is a shot of him running with his shirt ala Arnold. Guy is ripped.
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That's the movie were that black chick uses an alien head for a shield and runs side by side with a predator in slo-mo?
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Motherfucking Walton Goggins is in this, aka Shane Vandrell aka CLETUS VAN DAMME. Not to mention Danny Trejo and Laurence Fishburne. This looks like a slice of awesome-pie. I hope it's rated R so we can see predators seriously fucking people up, not just cut-aways right before the kill. DON'T LET US DOWN, YOU OWE US FOR THOSE SHIT-TASTIC AvP MOVIES!!!!!!
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He's not doing his Morpheus voice. It seems he's doing a different voice timber and tone for his particular PREDATORS character.
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I think I first read it from one of the editors on this site, but they proposed that the Predator race was actually quite civilized, with the ones we see from the movies being redneck good ol boys who jump in their pickup spaceships and head to earth for a weekend of huntin.
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it's called Morpheus 1.1 what a chameleon!
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Aside from the part about Once Upon A Time In Mexico sucking. I dug that movie. But otherwise I concur with him: This is an intersting franchise expansion, looks good, Predators should be kept kinda mysterious but not TOO mysterious, I would be intrigued to see female Preds, and the first AVP was pretty good too.
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that Vic Mackey makes the original Predator his bottom bitch for the last Act of the film.
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If that is true, that would be worth watching. Nevertheless, this trailer makes the movie look bad.
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Mar 19, 2010 10:54:37 AM CDT
Is this the first time Rodriguez produces for someone else?
by asimovlives
Is this the first time Rodriguez produces a movie that he himself is not directing?
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Mar 19, 2010 10:56:15 AM CDT
Looks GREAT. First time I'll pay to see a Predator film
by stormwatcher
since the 1st two came out when I was underage and PTA is a shit director/writer...ha ha...writer... who I won't support.
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I think the trailer picks up speed towards the end and becomes darker than the first film ever was.. which rocks!
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WOW, dare i dream it'll be good... here's hoping...
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Which is a good place to be ripping off..!
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Let's face it people. The original was never critically hailed like the Alien franchise. (76% on rottentomatoes). As long as it is a non-stop action movie with characters you care about, you don't need much depth in this series. The original was about as far storywise that you can take it.
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That's what's funny about Rodriguez always dissing it. People were skeptical of it and dismissive of it and didn't bother seeing it in '90, but now, everywhere you go on the Internet, people love Predator 2 and the fans even hold it alongside the original. The only person dissing it is Rodriguez. Heh. Hopefully he doesn't try to remove it from continuity.
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Mar 19, 2010 11:09:45 AM CDT
Too bad they couldn't have included Shane Black...
by the bicycle sharer
As one of the soldiers. Although, maybe the fact that one of the actors used to play a character named "Shane" and another actor is black may be good enough for me.
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Really? Most people? You took a poll or something? Maybe you could link to that 'cause I have serious fucking doubts about the validity of that assertion about "most people."
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"Nimrod" is his real name? hahaha
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Sheesh. Shane Vendrell ultimately couldn't even handle his own boss. What's he gonna do against a Pred?
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...targeting triangles land on Brody's chest. Much cooler if there were no sound effects or just one sustained, ominous note with a slight build to it.
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Even a child could do better.
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Danny Trejo's character takes first blood killing a Predator brave... in the next attack he is grabbed by two invisible stalkers and dragged shouting into the foliage the others cant save him.. he is gone. The next time you see him he is being thrown in to a tank of what looks like glowing Predator's blood as he regains consciences a vat of blue glowing catalyst dumped over him! He sinks in to the glowing liquids.. 30 seconds later he burst up screaming... covered in Pred blood his body is mutating.. ( think werewolf transformation) his limbs are cracking, elongating, claws bursting from his fingers, the camera pans up his torso wracked and splitting to his face.. his face is stretching root like stalks sprouting form the back of his head the camera pans to just above him... his jaw splits his screams turn to a roar as the camera passes up and looks down as the sound echoes in to the night! Panning back to the remaining humans they look at each other after hearing the noise.... later the' Danny Pred' will face off against the yakusa in a blade fight before being killed by Brody.
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'Cause his character is obviously from Great Britain, right? Riiiight....
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ANYTIME someone yells "Who's your Daddy now?!", they die. You can take that to the bank.
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In case you aren't aware, Nimrod IS a name. It's from the Bible. It's the name of a mesopotanean king who founded the Akadian empire. The bible credits him as the builder of the Tower Of Babel. So, if you are laughing at his name, the joke is on you.
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Mar 19, 2010 11:23:45 AM CDT
Bwahahahahaha! "If you're laughing at his name..."
by the bicycle sharer
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Mar 19, 2010 11:27:28 AM CDT
Bwahahahahaha! "If you're laughing at his name..."
by the bicycle sharer
"The joke is on you!" LOL! LMMFAO! Yes, Nimrod is a "real" name. So are "Tissaphernes" and "Artaxerxes" but you don't run into many of them on the street now do you? Hold on. Hold on. Let me ask my sister "Enheduanna." Okay, she confirms - not too many Tissapherneses or Artaxerxeses and just one "nimrod" that she can think of right now. I concur.
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Mahershalalhashbaz Ali... imdb it
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This may be an example of a sequel being as good or better than the original. I know, Blasphemy but that looks amazing. Again there are haters in here that continue to baffle the mind. I just feel sorry for them, that's my new stance.
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Your suits are showing. I didn't think AICN would be worth planting in the TBs anymore, but apparently it is.
To anyone who is new here and thinks we're all being too negative, I think it's partially due to every scrap of the 80's being recycled and done, for the most part, very poorly. It's not all negative though.. The Tron TBs are actually overflowing with praise, if also some apprehension, and I'm not even sure it's entirely deserving of that. -
...like I am to the Tron Legacy trailer. Like, I'm not watching this trailer over and over again.
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It's alright... not great... maybe we'll get a better feel later. As soon as I see the minigun, my heart sinks though. That's the pivotal moment where it starts to feel like a retread. What it told me is that it's going to be a story in a bottle. There will be no wider Predator universe expansion, which is what people are hungry for IMHO. It's simply going to be a cage match. The predators will not be characters themselves, but merely be the hand of death. meh... with the right director, you could do something with that, but... I guess we'll have to see.
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Looks like a fun flick, almost like the first one.
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as a sequel it's a great film. RR is fucking up thinking people don't like that movie.
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1996 called and wants its taunt back. Seriously, this does look kind of cool.
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Here is a scary monster. Here is a stick figure with a gun. You like the stick figure. You don't like the monster. Run, stick figure, run. Ooh, but you secretly like the monster. Run, monster, run.
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FUCK AVP and anything after Aliens 3(yes i know they are not fucking connected but people tend to put a and p together anyway)I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE THIS! I remember watching the original with my father when I was like 8 I think I will see if he will watch this sequel with me.
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The hungarians are not bound to the dude speak in USA, are they? Nimrod antal is hungrarian, did you know that? In fact, Nimrod is not that rare a name in Hungary. So, the joke is also on you too. And the fact you showed a pretty small-minded etnocentric attitude. You made a really poor show there, i'm affraid. Lern this simple fact: not everybody in the world are americans.By the way, there's people still called Artaxerxes today. They are persians, aka, iranians, and the name today reads "Ardeshir" and it's quite common. Again, you fail. The joke keeps being on you.Here's a funny name for you: Philip. you might not think much of it, but it's an ancient greek name, which is a contraction of two words, "Philo" + "Hippos" and the name means "He Who Likes Horses". How about that, hem? The very common name Philip, if one wnated to be as smart ass idiot as those who are joking about this director's "Nimrod" name, one could joke that anybody called Philip is one who likes to have sex with horses. It would be hysterical if that was your name!
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Brody has also spoken about how he channeled his inner Ah-nuld for the film, but it might be Topher Grace's revelation that somebody delivers Jesse Ventura's immortal "I ain't got time to bleed!" line that gets fans most excited.
"That line is in the film," he promised. "It was so much fun to work on; this movie is so kick-ass. It's all in-camera, there are very few special effects; it's really, really cool." -
serial killers are badasses? now i love cletus van damme so i'm giving this a pass, but really - serial killers are complete cowards who kill only when it's easy. how are they considered threats to the predators? maybe the predators are only looking at stat sheets, seeing which human has the highest body count?
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but that doesn't make it good. I was 12 when that movie came out and I thought it was bad then. I liked the end sequence on the ship, but repeat viewings over the years have not altered my overall perception.
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This has a chance of being the best predator movie in years. Let's see what they do with it At least it's not starting off by destroying years of canon off the bat, like the AVP movies did. Antarctica?! The predators hunt in HEAT! Aliens on modern day earth?! Horrible idea! I'll take a predator dog any day over those ideas.
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You can't be serious or you're doing some serious digging here. It's all been said many time: predators prefer heat not cold; what's up with the fucking aztec rubik's pyramid?; and on and on which doesn't even begin to scrape the surface of the universe of cheese that having Zoe Saldana buddy up with the fucking predator and go tobaganning. It's ludicrous and the only reason it's better than Avp:R is because that movie basically redefined the art of suck to an extent.It's like saying getting your skin ripped to shreds by a giant cheese grater isn't so bad if your alternative is being shot into an elephant's ass by cannon if that elephant just ate it's own weight in pickled vienna sausages.
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LOL @ Arnie, I didn't find out until years later that the guy who's unit went missing and got skinned was named Hopper, via subtitles.Makes me like the film that much more, as that's my actual last name.This looks to be pretty sweet, I'll give it a watch.
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Predator 2 is fun. Not great though. AVP in all its forms and guises can fuck off.
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1. Team of badasses introduced, along with even baddasser menace. 2. One-by-one, badasses are eliminated. 3. Last man standing prevails against same threat which has killed all the rest of the badasses.
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With his katana... What happened, couldn't find a pair of nunchuks?
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The same as the samurai first used when they were outlawed. They're called Shirasaya and are identifiable in that they look like an ordinary walking cane with a slight curve.From what I understand, it is a favored weapon of the modern Yakuza and coming from someone I know who lived in Japan, even having one raises eyebrows in that country or to those who are aware of their use by the Yakuza.That doesn't mean having an Asian guy with a sword isn't utterly derivative of course.But then I'm in the rare company that doesn't trust Rodriguez any further than a hamster could throw him.
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A bucket of shit is better then both AVPs.
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It's not like they're running around with katanas in violin cases...I think it's more for making a point than an actual perfunctory weapon.I would like this to be an awesome flick but I've my doubts...love to be wrong here...
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And if you think it's better than Alien 3, you're fucked in the head. Was Alien 3 great? Not all at once, but at least it had good acting for the most part and a decent script. AVP was smeared, childish, adolescent half-assed shit. Fucking pathetic from top to it's 'Predator and Hutch' leaky sprayed shit ending. Paul W.S. Anderson is a walking abortion of talent and should be put in prison for sexually molesting what could have been a fantastic premise. Having had to sit through that pathetic cinematic stool sample, I decided to pass on Requiem and am forever grateful that I did. 'Predators'? I'll give it a chance.
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Feel free to talk to the fans over on www.avpgalaxy.net or imdb.com or the aliens_predator livejournal community or whatever you want. Hell, I'll even link you straight to the board page about the Predator movies, where people are waxing rhapsodic about Predator 2 all the time: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?board=12.0
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QUOTE: "Get over it guys. Please take some film classes, shoot a feature film, realize that you are totally incapable of creating something worthy of watching, the shut your mouth and jerk off the porn." REALLY? So we need to shoot a film, or attend film classes to know what we do and do not like? That is by far the flimsiest piece of shit retort to negativity that can be spewed in an online forum. I don't need to cook the steak, motherfucker, to know that the steak tastes like shit. If the film blows we are qualified to say so simply by having bought a ticket to see it.
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I was ecstatic that they were going to make an AVP movie. I don't think I could have been more disappointed with the result. Anyone that says AVP was fun or good doesn't realize the potential that franchise had.
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Do you need to known how to build a whole car, from engine to chassis to electronics, to know if one is good or bad?
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The point of a trailer is for us to judge a movie (preferably positively) before we even watch it.
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I have to say I fucking love that shot. Maybe it's the swirling gale that's blowing at the same time, giving the shot that Aliens feels, I don't know. But something about that one moment from the trailer got me smiling and thinking this might just be worthy as a follow-up to the original.
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so even that is not new.as i said this movie is a remake aimed at the fanboys to milk their money.nothing new here.
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Just another cash in.No love for the franchise,no intention to expand the universe,give a new twist on the concept,create original stories,nothing at all.
Yeah i will get my 2h entertainment but that movie is no fucking way to be to the Predator franchise,what Aliens was to the Alien franchise as Rodriguez claims.Sorry Rodriguez but only geniuses with vision like Cameron can pull such masterpieces,not people who make movies to please and milk the fanboys. -
I think a teaser is generally shorter, and goes more for mood instead of summarizing the plot.
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different time setting.In the future with Space Marines or in the past with knights or samurai.And if you want mix it with our real history: ie maybe a Predator was the true origin of the Beowulf myth or maybe Hercules was a real badass guy who had killed a monster aka a Pred in the ancient times.After all myths hide some historic truth in them.
What i am trying to say is try and make a damn original well-crafted story.Why the fuck should you keep recycling the same original plot just to please the fanboys? give as a new scifi masterpiece or at least something that we dont expect.and i am not talking about midochlorians or Highlanders being aliens (someone said that in the movie that a new twist is that the Preds are bio-engineered creatures.i hope he was joking) -
You are hardly optimistic about this movie, are you my friend? I understand how you feel, though.
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And that whole premise was already set up in the 2nd film. Also, Jesus vs. Predator.
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let's cut it to pieces!!!! ... Brody looks good though
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And people thought Freddy vs. Jason was cheap horror-ploitation! As if! Fucking predators and Jesus squaring off biblical style baby! The mountains rumble, the seas boil and the sky falls...and just think of all of those "Left Behind" pussies getting their fat asses handed to them as Jesus fights off predators intent on impregnating their fatass daughters.Can I request a sweet montage where Jesus is getting all prepared and ready to hunt the predator down? I know it's not original, hell it could be an homage to the first movie but seeing Jesus streak camo mud on his face with that instense Dutch stare would be the cat's fuckin pajamas dudes. You know it to be true.
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and run past the Romans in slo-mo.
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after all they are very hard to kill,so they are formidable preys.
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Intriguing. So is this some sort of prequel then?
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Mar 19, 2010 3:59:46 PM CDT
"maybe a Predator was the true origin of the Beowulf myth"
by royston lodge
Cuz THAT would be an "original" idea.
Cough ... Outlander ... Cough ...
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... run past the Romulans in slo-mo.
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Then Godzilla could show up
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I'd like to see some more action shots though. In related thoughts, a Jesus vs. Predator movie would be the most insane, odd, hilariously awesome things ever to grace the silver screen. If Liam Neeson gets involved as a time travelling Abe Lincoln they can consider my ticket already in hand.
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... mtv shit cut teaser anytime anyday
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!!!!!
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... Im suprised.
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Just like that rabbit and bear joke. Rabbit=Na'vi
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.. ALEC BALDWIN - ANOTHER "I AM MATURE SO I CAN BE FAT, LAZY AND PATHETIC, BECOUSE IT'S THE PROOF OF ME GETTING OLD WITH DIGNITY" .... "GETTING OLD WITH DIGNITY" = NOT SEEING YOUR DICK ANYMORE BECOUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF ABOVE-THE-DICK-FAT!!!! ... PATHETIC!!!!
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... days of many, many booty photos of Jennifer Lopez. Sweet Lord Jesus Christ I miss these days!
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Cause, I bet more than 75% of the trolls here are ENORMOUS. Just sayin
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And obviously anything is better then the shit stains that were the AVP films. But people are right to say it's basically a retread of the first. Basically take out the idea of a game preserve and it's the EXACT same, like remake status. Just humans getting hunted down in a Jungle that's clearly on Earth (despite what they say)...the only difference is more Predators. I hope they exploit the alien aspect though and have some cool fucking creatures. IMO they shoulda dropped a bunch of money on this thing and made it like Avatar. The ones being hunted should have been CGI performance -capture aliens, and a few live-action humans. Then they could make the whole preserve look truly alien, which would add so much to this film. Perhaps if they had done that the retread plot could have been easier to forgive, but as of now the jungle might as well be from Predator...it's just not that new and interesting.
It's obvious Rodriguez is going the Cameron route with this sequel, trying to make this film the "Aliens" of the Predator series. And Rodriguez has made some cool films, so I doubt it will be awful (yes, I know he's not directing, but heavy involvement nonetheless). The problem is Cameron created a new genre with Aliens. The genius was he stayed true to the original film by keeping it dramatic and tense and frightening, BUT, had a completely original spin on it. He brought the main character back to LV-426 in a believable way, developed her character like a motherfucker, added NEW great characters (that were NOT rip-offs of the first), added tons of more aliens (while still keeping em mysterious), and a new take on the alien with the Queen. If Predators wants to be great and stand up to the original, it better take ACTUAL notes on Camerons masterpiece sequel. -
Sweet tittyfucking christ, what an awesome concept!
Could THIS be why Spielberg has kept that Lincoln flick in development hell so long?.
Maybe Steven is building an actual time machine to satisfy the cgi-haters.
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I took it to be an alien creature, that the predators use like their hunting dog. Like in a fox game. Get it..."Fox"?...Who knows if there are any more aliens in this. Could be others. Im sure they aren't revealing all cool shit in the trailer.(i hope)
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Nice use of Francois-Eudes Chanfrault's Celebration A2 music from Haute Tension in the trailer.
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If this film can live up to the trailer's tension and visuals, I think this might erase the stench of the AvP films and Alien Resurrection. Hell, by the look of the Predators trailer, I'd like to see Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal tackle an Aliens vs Predator film kinda like the video games that had Aliens, Preds, and Colonial Marines.Now hopefully Ridley can do something good with his new Alien film and get that series back on the track to greatness again.
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You know it's on the way.
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It looks like it has potential.
BUT there was one black mark.
ALL Predator fans know the proper way to reveal/imply a Predator and get every fans juices going is not the lasersight. Hell, they only use those things for a few moments.
Imagine you are in a theater. You are watching a trailer "oh shit, this looks like a halfway decent action movie/I think it looks good. Oh alien planet. Cool."
then all of a sudden shot of them walking through the jungle....and the foliage shifts. OH SHIT, PREDATOR!
everyone knows the invisible cloak.Everyone loves the invisible cloak. Thats the predators sweetest and most iconic tool. I was hoping so bad that was going to be the clue to the audience. -
I REALLY like that idea about the predators raiding another race. That would be awesome. Especially if you worked the angle that the Hunter-predators are some sort of outcasts, living in the jungle, traveling space, and living the old way of life. Thus the need to "prove" themselves to live on their dangerous planets. Meanwhile, the rest of their race is happy, content, and lazy inside their walled cities guarded by automated defenses and guards. Why are humans there? Because in the past they have proven worthy opponents, so they want to bring one back as an offering to the Soft Predator leader so he will trade back the Predator-Hunters prince/VIP they have hostage.
I also saw another good idea about the Predator coming to Iraq/Afghanistan. Perfect: you have soldiers, special forces vehicles, a local population to tell a "tall tale". Sure it would have been the same as Predator 1, but it wouldn't be bad. -
Your ideas and points are so stupid, so wrong, and so off of any basic sci-fi/movie canon that it causes me physical pain.
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The story is a bit cliche. Maybe Roger has a twist up his sleeve, but the "bunch of misfits kidnapped and dumped on an island to be hunted" is a tad overdone.
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...Or just a lazy fuck.I mean, he's big enough to slap Arnie around like a red-headed stepchild, but he'd rather use all these hi-tech gadgets to make the kill as easy as possible.
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He's like the Dick Cheney of interstellar hunting. I want the Ted Nugent.
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The rednecks idea is good! But I imagine it more like the Vikings. The "Predators" are the infamous ones that go out to hunt and scavenge, but there is a whole society of pretty normal "folk" in their homeland of Scandinavia, sorry, Preditonavia. We just don't know it and think they're all just a bunch of brutal warriors out to get us. And label them all Predators.
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I'd like to hope for something really solid but I have my doubts about anything coming through that studio grinder with these big monster properties. Look at how geeks talked up the post-Cameron Terminator sequels and the AVP films.
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very much a homage to the original ALIEN trailer. Looks good but we've been duped into believing the got this francise right by decent trailers before...if anyone can do it then its rodriguez though...
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I'll be there. Mark my words. Topher Grace will be fucking with The pianist and the chick at the end of the movie. He'll be trying to stab them in the back...Literally. Oh, and Somewhere in the movie the xenomorph will have a cameo.
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I wouldnt mind if the canon was tweaked if it made a amazing movie.. my idea has hommage to original.. dutch, crazy horror transformation using similar concept to how an Alien is made, eg using a second creature as a host/symbiant. it also explains why pred world looks like jungle bio dome to mimic original envoroment. and no cheesy happy ending.. who ever wins they loose their humanity and become a 'monster' your idea << Hunter preads trying to win favor with noble preds, oh please let us back in your nice city I brought you Adrien brody.... I know what movie I would rather see..
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is to have hunter preds begging noble preds to come back in to the big city, and give adrien brody as a gift..? i know what movie i would rather see
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Woulda like to have seen what Graeme Revell coulda done with this, but Debney (being the other Rodriguez composer of choice) will do a great job, I'm sure. :D
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And if any of them are in the film they will sink the franchise.
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Send a few good ol' boys from the woods and the hoods to fry some Pred meat.
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The rest just keep walking.
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In the script they walk up to a hill to see a huge hole in the planet.
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complaint is that it resembles Earth a lot.As others said,whats the point to take them into another planet,if its going to be another terran jungle? why bother,you might keep the setting on earth as well
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Why do you think that? Explain your veiwpont?
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Which clearly doesn't interest you, and so you try to turn it into something which only YOU want to watch instead: A bad rehash of Alien, Body Snatchers and Cronenberg instead of a fantastical riff on "The Most Dangerous Game." BTW, please stop labeling your posts "SPOILER WARNING" and "SPOILER ALERT" as your crap ideas have nothing to do with the film that has actually been made in real life, and never will.
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it remains a fucking masterpiece.
And it is a crystal clear proof of why Cameron is such a great genius and why Aliens is such a great example of how sequels should be made. -
They use weapons because they are hunting people with weapons. They use game preserves probably for the same reason humans do: convenience. And what the hell is wrong with assuming a Yakuza couldn't be one of the most deadly human beings alive? Certainly a killer would want a chance to kill--a perfect breeding ground for a prodigy.
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Nice to see the Preds look menacing again.
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i would like to point out something.
In the original movie a Predator single-handedly killed a combat UNIT,not a random group, of 7 professionally trained,heavily experienced,bad-asses soldiers.And he did that by using his technology,skills and the hostile environment which those soldiers were trained to survive in.thats what makes the Pred such a ferocious hunter and a formidable threat to the well-skilled human warriors.
Now in this trailer what i have seen is this: a group of a half a dozen of stereotypes,pretending to team-up in order to survive.And half of those stereotypes are not even professionally trained killers,they are not soldiers.
A fat guy? A chick with guns,but a chick nevertheless? the russian heavy-weight guy with the big fucking gun? if i remember correctly a similar guy with a similar gun was killed in a split of a second in the original.hm
A Yakuza killer and a serial-killer might be feared by the weaker people,who after all they are the kind of people they prey on,but as Punisher said,when facing that psychopath Nick Carvelas: being crazy can take you just there,but not any further.
meaning in other words, you can scare and be a threat for the weaker people,but you are nothing outside of your element.A yakuza with a katana and a psycho-killer are no match for a unit of hardcore
soldiers or even cops,and we have to believe that they are the ultimate prey for a GROUP,not just a single one,of Preds? is Rodriguez fucking joking?
To say it simple: in the original we have a unit of soldiers who are killed by ONE predator.That makes the Pred an awesome "villain"
Here we have a group of misfitted people,half of them soldiers,a fat guy,a chick,a yakuza guy with a sword,a serial killer who is probably gonna try and rape the chick who will be saved by a Pred ( yeah we must not forget that the Preds are warriors with honor,right Rodriguez?),your typical russian who will probable tell cold russian jokes about americans,some guys who are the necessary cannon fodder,and the white leader with the biggest nose in the universe,which he will probably use to kill the final boss Pred.
And these misfits will be hunted by a dozen of Predators ,the ultimate bad-ass black Predator,their Predator-dogs,their Predator-falcons,in a place which is thousands of light years away from Earth.
I am sorry but how exactly the new Preds are looking menacing again in this movie? because for me it is now that they look more pussified than ever. -
They use weapons because they are hunting people with weapons. They use game preserves probably for the same reason humans do: convenience. And what the hell is wrong with assuming a Yakuza couldn't be one of the most deadly human beings alive? Certainly a killer would want a chance to kill--a perfect breeding ground for a prodigy.
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because if so, what you say does not answer to the arguments i gave.please try again,with a bit of thinking this time.
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That's what im getting too. Maybe they observe the human killers, to learn from them. They want them to fight and kill each other, to learn from them. To become better hunters and killers themselves.
Maybe humans are known as the best killers in the universe.
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A Yakuza with a sword will probably be fought not with energy weapons, but the Predator's blades--a perfectly decent match if said Yakuza is descended from Samurai and properly trained. The Predator took out an entire combat unit using its advanced weaponry. There is every evidence that it down-scales its weaponry to allow the prey to be a challenge. A fat guy? What does that have to do with his skill with weapons and tactics? A chick with a gun who knows how to use it is more dangerous than almost any unarmed martial arts dude in the world. The serial killer? Well, he's a predator all right, but probably not much of a challenge. The fun of this movie will totally come from our ability to believe these people can pull together effectively--given one advantage (the predator weapon) Danny Glover was able to go mano y mano with a predator, and survive. It will all be in the execution. So to speak.
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Obviously the main premise for the sequel was "game preserve". If I had my way it would be based on the AvP novels, or just a rehash of the original Predator but in Afghanistan. I'm not a screenwriter. I was just trying to think of some reason for the Predators to have brought the humans to their "preserve" to save this goddamn movie. And integrating sithmenace's idea
How old are you? Do you even understand predator? They aren't some sort of fucking mutant that grow in cloning vats. A lot of science fiction novels and movies were probably written before you were here. And a lot of them are DAMN good. And people like them that way. So no one wants to go retcon the story of a mysterious alien race that prides itself on the hunt into the story of alien mutants looking for others to convert. Oh shit because that would make this original well loved idea exactly like....Aliens. The Borg. The Body Snatchers. Necromongers. The Thing (kind of).
Its commendable you say that shit here, which is one of the rudest movie forum I've seen.
And to all the people saying we are being negative: We aren't. If a movie looks good, people will like it. If it looks like crap, people say so. If its mixed, thats the way. Go read the Avatar threads. The division of opinion based on the trailer....IS THE SAME as it is in the real world after the movie release.And people were calling that thread negative too. -
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This movie has almost no chance. It cannot and will not match the original masterpiece.
Still I am intrigued by that interior structure shown-- a space ship perhaps?
If it's a prequel, would it not be cool if somehow, it ends on the ship that the SapceJockey is on, and why was only ONE spacejokey found?
Oh so many questions; the answer is there there is no answer; no one gave a shit in the 1970s trying to create a complex backstory.
it's up go geeks to make it up.
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Come on... either do something different with the Predator franchise or let it die. Seriously, like I mentioned in another thread... they should have just done a prequel dealing with the flintlock 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 archaic times than another Predator film set out in the jungle while soldiers, etc. drug around mini-guns and M4 carbines.
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drag around... not drug around... didn't get much sleep last night.
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Sorry my friend, that is incredibly short sighted. The point of the trailer is NOT to make you pass judgment on the movie before you see it, it is to entice you to go see it, to get you interested in it. There is no way for anyone to base a good/bad judgment on two minutes of footage. No way, I don't care what anyone says it's not possible, because you have not yet seen the complete, finished product. Changes are always made, we all know that, and to come out and decide before you see it that it is crap, is just dumb. If you see a trailer and it doesn't interest you, fine, you wont go see the movie, but until you see it, you cannot judge the entire film based on 2 minutes of footage. "Looks bad" fine. "Looks like crap" fine. "Not gonna see that looks like shit" fine, all your saying there is the trailer looks bad and your not interested. Any further judgment is baseless.
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Mar 22, 2010 10:54:24 AM CDT
List of trailers I've rewatched more times that Predators:
by royston lodge
- Tron Legacy (of course)
- A-Team
- MacGruber
In no way does this reflect badly on the final movie, but I don't think that was a really great trailer. It was missing the "holy shit" moments we crave like the crack-addled nerds that we are. -
Mar 22, 2010 11:00:14 AM CDT
BixbySnyder: That reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode.
by royston lodge
The one where aliens show up and inform the Earth that they're gonna blow it up. You see, they seeded the planet millenia ago and are disappointed that we spend so much of our time and resources warring with each other.
So the United Nations sez, just give us 24 hours, and we'll change your mind.
So the aliens say, "I don't see how you can change our minds in just 24 hours, but go ahead and try."
So the diplomats all get on the phone and call every country in the world to broker a whole bunch of peace treaties. By the end of the 24 hours they have succeeded in negotiating world peace.
The aliens come back and the humans say, "booyah! World Peace muthafuckas! What do you think about that?!"
The aliens reply, "you misunderstood. We were mad that you were wasting your time fighting EACH OTHER. We need warriors to help us fight our intergalactic wars OUT THERE. You fuckin' pussies."
Kaboom. -
...nice group of actors, but will it deliver? I'll reserve judgement and see what Mass has to say about this.
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