Predators had its world premiere last Wednesday in Austin, Texas. AvPGalaxy’s Mr. Domino was there to check out the event. You can view his report here and find out what happened and his thoughts on the movie.
Thanks to Mr. Domino for talking the time to put together this report.
the bad points to the movie was the opening credits, could have been longer and more epic, after all its been 20years since a pred movie, the predators in the movie went predators, they didnt have the physique, the 'movements'. the vision mode was terrible and felt robotic, like terminator, i prefered 'the wolf' from avp-r, ian whyte was needed, i liked the movie, but the preds just died way too easy and they didnt act, feel, behave like preds. i just wish they could stick 2 the orginal 'stan winston' design. hopefully the sequel will have ian whyte potray the predator again, love that guy! and hopefully the vision mode will go back to the orginal and actually feel 'alien' and all the sounds, movements and gestures will return. i rate the movie 6/10. could have been 9.
the planet has no rotation, hence the spinning leaf that Isabelle showed to Royce. It was "night time" because the storm (that Noland mentioned) came in and blocked out the sun. The storm should have lasted A LOT longer on a planet with no rotation... thats the only problem I had with this scenerio.
Royce covered himself in mud to hide his heat signature when he was running out of the fire and into the trees. It made perfect sense to me when we saw him run in and out frame, smacking Mr. Black in the face.
They were hired after attempts to create a convincing monster (including Jean-Claude Van Damme wearing a much different body suit) had failed. Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended Winston after his experience working on The Terminator
All Brody said was the sun hadn't moved since they got there, so maybe 2 hours? He was simply commenting that it wasn't like earth! So the sun must be moving slowly compared to earth and it did get dark later in the film. Now the dogs, with the horns past the mouth, that according to ebert can't eat?? We don't know anything about them, maybe they have a tounge like a cameliin or maybe the horns retract like a tarantulas fangs? We don't know. Not every thing has to be explained! And to the final fight I don't think the pred was trying to switch vision modes his vision was messed up from the explosion and the heat. And I think brody just put on the mud to maybe give himself a slight advantage but the fire nulified it.