The Predator (2018)

SixTwoSix · 7 Sep 2018 at 23:41

Seen a bunch of reviews since it's showing at TIFF, takeaway comments:

- Nothing like any of the previous predator movies.
- It's more comedy than action "it's what Iron Man 3 would have been if Shane Black could have added more comedy"
- It's got more gore than any other movie in the franchise...
- but...that's removed by the comedic tone so the violence and gore has little/no impact.

I was kind of hoping secretly this might be good, reviewers could be wrong though.

Efour · 8 Sep 2018 at 06:23

It's going to be naff but my cinema is showing the original and this together so yay.

ianh · 8 Sep 2018 at 13:55

One thing I noticed from all the Trailers so far is that the vast majority of the Predator scenes are, just like AVP:Requiem, set in the dark which usually means they aren't very confident of the creature effects, which has me slightly worried.

wolfie138 · 8 Sep 2018 at 17:13

i've read about the ending. wouldn't go see this if you paid me.

VincentHanna · 8 Sep 2018 at 18:22

I don't understand why you would do that.

JediFragger · 8 Sep 2018 at 23:16

Efour said:
It's going to be naff but my cinema is showing the original and this together so yay.

I think I'd choose just to watch the original in 4k at home....twice.

SC0TTRS · 9 Sep 2018 at 20:35

It has a 12A rating!.

Are you ******* kidding me!?!?..

Deleted member 651465 · 9 Sep 2018 at 20:56

I’d post the quote from Shane Black where he stated it should be an R rating, but I can’t be arsed.

Doesn’t surprise me it’s a watered down cheese fest :rolleyes:

ElliorR · 9 Sep 2018 at 20:57

SC0TTRS said:
It has a 12A rating!.

Are you ******* kidding me!?!?..

The BBFC website is saying 15.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/predator-2018

AMDPower · 9 Sep 2018 at 23:40

Just saw the trailer and what a let down. I hope I am wrong and the movie is better but i just don't think so.

How you can take such great movie series and go so down hill is baffling. The music and movies produced now pales in comparison to what the 80's and 90's was producing.

the suspense is gone, you know just hard bad ass men in a jungle hunted one by one by something very scary and unknown.

Terminator series went down hill after terminator 2
Alien series went down hill with that Prometheus nonsense and then they went one better with alien covenant lol what terrible movie.
Now the predator has followed the other two epic sci-fi films, really should have expected it tbh.

I remember watching predator 1 and 2 and been blown away, what great movies and lets not forget aliens and alien just a masterpiece. I watched all these very recently again for like the millionth time and they are still amazing movies after all this time.

SC0TTRS · 10 Sep 2018 at 10:43

ElliorR said:
The BBFC website is saying 15.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/predator-2018

Saw it here, must have been for the trailer :rolleyes:

: https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/predator-filmtrailer-2

Took my 10yr old to the Cinema this weekend, they showed The Predator trailer before Ant-man & The Wasp (being a 12a) and my Son turned and said, Dad I want to watch that!!....

Sad times when a trailer for a 'Predator' film is targeted at 12a rated audience...

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2018 at 10:56

I saw Predator when I was about 9 or 10 on ITV...of course a boy would want to see it!

I watched it in 4K last night and I could remember the exact moments where they put the advert breaks in! I must have recorded it off the TV and watched it a lot.

SC0TTRS · 10 Sep 2018 at 11:16

VincentHanna said:
I saw Predator when I was about 9 or 10 on ITV...of course a boy would want to see it!

Your right, I was the same, watched Aliens was I was 8 and loved it, but as a parent you have to be the responsible one (unfortunately) and know that a 15 rated film is not something a 10yr old should be watching...
and that it's sad that a once decent horror/action franchise has turned into films 10 yr old's would find amusing..

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2018 at 11:35

I'd be the same - It's still double standards though

My dad rented Robocop for me from the local video store when I was 8. If I had an 8 year old son I wouldn't let them watch a film like that and yet it didn't do me any harm.

SC0TTRS · 10 Sep 2018 at 11:52

VincentHanna said:
My dad rented Robocop for me from the local video store when I was 8. If I had an 8 year old son I wouldn't let them watch a film like that and yet it didn't do me any harm.

My dad was similar, let me watch practically any action film but always remember watching the original Terminator film, and we had to skip passed the sex scene haha

Deleted member 651465 · 10 Sep 2018 at 12:22

Watched the original predator last night and some of Pred 2.

Still chuckle at the scene where they waste all their ammo firing blindly in to the jungle with the mini gun

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2018 at 13:19

I'd never really noticed Arnie not holding his gun the way a soldier would before, but I watched this at the weekend:

hux · 10 Sep 2018 at 19:53

Gerard · 10 Sep 2018 at 20:37

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-45469677

So the rest of the cast are "shunning her" because she found out she had a small role with a sex offender in the movie that was subsequently cut. :confused:

Must be more to it than that surely

Deleted member 651465 · 10 Sep 2018 at 22:17

VincentHanna said:
I'd never really noticed Arnie not holding his gun the way a soldier would before, but I watched this at the weekend:

Great review, thanks for sharing.

Listened to it in the gym and burst out laughing at the line “this was the movie that taught everyone how to do an Arnie impression”

The Predator (2018)

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