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do i get a cookie now? | ||
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I'll see it. Though probably not in theaters. But I'll definitely see it. ------------------------------ I'm a right wing, anti-illegal, pro-life, gun owning, straight, white, college educated, politically informed, conservative, Christian male. Liberals hate me. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
Shane Black, Rated R, looks better than the other bullshit Predator movies...I'm in. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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They’ve tricked me so many times with their bullshit. The Antarctica Predtaor film, the one with Brody on another planet fighting them in the jungle, then the one where the ship lands in Colorado and shit erupts on the street . All 3 of these were shit films. The one with Brody was terrible. An Oscar winner, doing some B movie Predator film. This new deal, meh. I’ll watch it on Blu Ray or 4K Blu Ray when it’s available at home. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
I've only seen the original. This one looks good - though trailers suck you in sometimes. It's what they do. | |||
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Didn't Shane Black do Ironman 3? Count me out. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain. |
But he wrote Lethal Weapon, does that help??? NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Then you're better off skipping possibly all the others with the possible exception of Predator 2. It isn't as good as the first, but it's way up there on the 80's action scale meter and starts to explain the yautja as a species, what they do, and why they do it. I saw a few references to backstory that won't make sense without having seen that film, so it might be worth a watch. The species backstory gets filled out a little more with the successive movies, but they turn into worse and worse crapfests pretty quickly. Brody was the worst. This one? It looks like it will be worth a watch. I've been wanting to see a film that takes one of, arguably the coolest monster creatures brought to the big screen, and does something actually interesting. The PC games did a far better job of it than Hollywood has, so far, and I'll let you in on a little secret: The scene in the middle of the trailer is straight-up lifted right out of one of those games. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
Just goes to show some things don't improve with age. I'm not thrilled with the way the trailer makes this movie seem. On the one hand, it seems to start out like a very strong sequel to the original but then introduces an element that makes me nervous. There is a comic mini-series titled Predator: Bad Blood that Dark Horse Comics released in the early '90s that featured a rogue Predator stalking human prey on Earth and a second Predator that was sent to capture it. Over the course of the series, the "good" Predator ends up killing a few humans but is mostly trying to avoid contact with them. If that is the premise on which this movie is based, it's definitely doing it backward. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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the main 'good guy' played the Anglo DEA agent in Narcos. I might give it a shot... maybe looks like some good gunplay -------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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| Frangas non Flectes |
That's a possibility. I was talking about this very thing with my brother a bit earlier and he had another theory. Lazy writing. They've been doing it with Star Wars and Star Trek films the last few years also. When you can't think of how to make a terrifying opponent who's been bested before terrifying again, you make a Leviathan version. Star Wars: Bigger Death Star, bigger Super Star Destroyers. Star Trek: More or less the same thing with the Enterprise being just always hopelessly outmatched and puny. The Terminator series of films did this also, increasingly bigger, badder, more advanced versions of everything. And at the same time, making the original versions into creampuff versions of their former selves. Same with Predator. So, I see it as a bigger trend to outdo the old stuff, but without much success. Alien was a terrifying film, with just one xenomorph to deal with, but by the time we get around to AVP and AVP2, they're practically a joke unless they're one hatched from something that isn't human, getting slaughtered wholesale. That said, the more I watch the trailer, the more and more I remember from the AVP2 PC (2001) game that so much of this is starting to look like it's directly lifted from. And honestly, if that's the case and they do it right, it might not be a bad thing at all. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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We're mid-season 2 on Narcos & I thought he looked familiar. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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great series, isn't it? ----------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Enjoying it quite a bit. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Meh. I'll see it at a cheap matinee. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Been a fan of the series. I’ll watch it on the big screen. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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I have no doubt this will be a stinker. The trailers usually have the best scenes and I wasn’t impressed. Just get Predator 1 and 2 on Blu Ray and be happy with them. None of the other movies are worth watching. | |||
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I bought Predator on BluRay Year’s ago, and it looks fantastic. Dark scenes lack much clarity, but the bright jungle shots are amazing. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Another Hollywood's "We've run out of ideas" movie. Yawn. Q | |||
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