The Predator (2018)


Where is the sense of alone, in the jungle, no escape, no civillians, the sense of pure danger. The commando team feel... The hunt or be hunted.

Gerard said:
Same things were in predator 2. From some of the talk around the net there's meant to be predators working with the government and "dissident" predators as well.
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Some of Predator 2 was not bad but I still didn't like it. It had a cheesy feel as if it was something related to Robocop 2 with a Paul Verhoeven style.
 
McBain said:
The AVP scene where the Predator makes the weapons for the woman out of an alien, oh the humanity. Probably the worst scene of any film i've ever seen, just so horrendously bad.
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It was taken directly from the AvP graphic novel, but because the novel was able to explore the Predator/Human Warrior relationship in a lot more depth the scene made more sense (they'd already fought the Aliens together and the Predator kind of respected her and she needed something for the boss fight with the Queen).

Gerard said:
Who really cares?
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Fans. Lots and lots of fans.

Simply, if you set a rule in one film and then change it in another without giving a reason for the change, it doesn't make fans like myself happy. Now that answer very probably won't change your mind but hopefully it shows that while something appears inconsequential to one person it can be a big issue to others.
 
ianh said:
Fans. Lots and lots of fans.

Simply, if you set a rule in one film and then change it in another without giving a reason for the change, it doesn't make fans like myself happy. Now that answer very probably won't change your mind but hopefully it shows that while something appears inconsequential to one person it can be a big issue to others.
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Technically it wasn't a "rule" more of an observation by one of the characters. Maybe the comics as they usually do went totally OTT with this observation and made it some set in stone "rule", i don't know. And if people are going to let "lack of a heatwave" get in their way of enjoying a movie then i find that pretty laughable. There's really nothing in the trailer that suggests heat or lack of it, just have to wait and see.
 
And that "observation" made it cannon to the Predator series - "The Predator hunts when it's hot" etc which is why my "hot" comment was made about the the Antarctic based AvP movie :D

However this film doesn't look like a Hunt, it looks like the kid activates a ship/drone which crashes so it looks more like a recovery rather than an actual hunt to me, which negates all the "hot" rules, just like it did in AvP 2.
 
ianh said:
However this film doesn't look like a Hunt, it looks like the kid activates a ship/drone which crashes so it looks more like a recovery rather than an actual hunt to me, which negates all the "hot" rules, just like it did in AvP 2.
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I think it'll more go along the lines of the crash we see is the first ship that crash lands, assassins/mercenaries go in, kill/salvage equipment. Annoying kid opens package meant for his parent, triggers a tracker and predator number two appears to retrieve tech.
 
Predator a horror? No, it was an action with some terror. Alien was a horror. Alien most of the time felt uneasy back then versus Predator.
 
Hot could mean hot in a sense that the area is dangerous?

A bit like a war zone would be considered a hot / no-go area for flights.
 
EVH said:
Hot could mean hot in a sense that the area is dangerous?

A bit like a war zone would be considered a hot / no-go area for flights.
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Its all about heat, in predator 2 the heatwave was mentioned a few times, in the first movie it was also mentioned a coulple of times.
 
Gerard said:
Its all about heat, in predator 2 the heatwave was mentioned a few times, in the first movie it was also mentioned a coulple of times.
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I know but there was also a huge gang war in no 2 and there was conflict in no 1.... not disputing that it wasn’t hot but perhaps they could get around it if they got this route.
 
Gerard said:
Technically it wasn't a "rule" more of an observation by one of the characters. Maybe the comics as they usually do went totally OTT with this observation and made it some set in stone "rule", i don't know. And if people are going to let "lack of a heatwave" get in their way of enjoying a movie then i find that pretty laughable. There's really nothing in the trailer that suggests heat or lack of it, just have to wait and see.
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It was a rule, mentioned by the creators themselves. it was mentioned by the characters to spell/point it out to the audience. the comics followed that.
 
wolfie138 said:
It was a rule, mentioned by the creators themselves. it was mentioned by the characters to spell/point it out to the audience. the comics followed that.
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I'm referring to the first 2 movies, not the comics. Comics can obviously go into a lot more exposition about things like that, in the first movie from what i remember it was only mentioned once by the girl they capture.
 
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