do i get a cookie now?

I'll see it. Though probably not in theaters. But I'll definitely see it.

Shane Black, Rated R, looks better than the other bullshit Predator movies...I'm in.

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.

I've only seen the original. This one looks good - though trailers suck you in sometimes. It's what they do.

Didn't Shane Black do Ironman 3? Count me out.

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Originally posted by Vgex:
Didn't Shane Black do Ironman 3? Count me out.

But he wrote Lethal Weapon, does that help???

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Originally posted by f2:
I've only seen the original. This one looks good - though trailers suck you in sometimes. It's what they do.

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.

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Originally posted by Vgex:
Didn't Shane Black do Ironman 3? Count me out.

But he wrote Lethal Weapon, does that help???

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.

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:

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Originally posted by Vgex:
Didn't Shane Black do Ironman 3? Count me out.

But he wrote Lethal Weapon, does that help???

No.

the main 'good guy' played the Anglo DEA agent in Narcos.

I might give it a shot... maybe

looks like some good gunplay

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Originally posted by Orguss:
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.

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.

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Originally posted by Sig209:
the main 'good guy' played the Anglo DEA agent in Narcos.

I might give it a shot... maybe

looks like some good gunplay

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We're mid-season 2 on Narcos & I thought he looked familiar.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

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Originally posted by Sig209:
the main 'good guy' played the Anglo DEA agent in Narcos.

I might give it a shot... maybe

looks like some good gunplay

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We're mid-season 2 on Narcos & I thought he looked familiar.

great series, isn't it?

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Originally posted by Sig209:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

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Originally posted by Sig209:
the main 'good guy' played the Anglo DEA agent in Narcos.

I might give it a shot... maybe

looks like some good gunplay

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We're mid-season 2 on Narcos & I thought he looked familiar.

great series, isn't it?

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Enjoying it quite a bit.

Meh. I'll see it at a cheap matinee.

Been a fan of the series. I’ll watch it on the big screen.

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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Originally posted by aparoche:
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.

I bought Predator on BluRay Year’s ago, and it looks fantastic. Dark scenes lack much clarity, but the bright jungle shots are amazing.

Another Hollywood's "We've run out of ideas" movie. Yawn.