Coinciding with the unveiling of the first teaser trailer for The Predator, Empire has just released a brand new still of one of the film’s unmasked Predators!
“As if seeing the first trailer for Shane Black’s The Predator wasn’t enough, your pals at Empire have managed to get hold of a world exclusive first look image from the film. Our never-before-seen pic shows the fearsome alien hunter go up against an unfortunate human, who appears to have been pushing too many pencils. Take a look below.”
We’ll have screen captures from the teaser trailer up shortly. What do you think of ADI’s latest take on the Predator? Let us know below!
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Eh, just use the same two sets a million times, it'll be fine!
I agree, the tone was also not correct, the middle of the movie is like they are wandering about on the same set painted differently. The moving pyramid had tons of potential.
One of the nicer touches on Anderson's AVP was the ship entry at the end with the lack of sound effects for the stealth.
Everything I mentioned is already done.
I thought those laughs sounded familiar! It all makes sense now
Might have worked well for Nice Guys or something where the story takes place in a Vegas casino, but Predator...?
That’s why I loved the Sabacc scene in Solo, a single bug zapper style lightbulb over the table. Atmosphere was fantastic
This is something JJ Abrams hasn’t figured out either:
LESS IS MORE
I think we're more discussing what could be edited in the trailer to make it more appealing, while not changing the film.
Otherwise we'd just be making up anything and everything.
Yes.
Why not just a simple landing? Predator comes, lands, exits from his ship and starts hunting.
Shots of the jungle. Maybe throw in a little of "The Chopper."
Holbrook on his mission. Intense. Scope shots.
Cut to kid at home, with box.
Holbrook searching through scope. Looking for his target. Sonic boom.
Kid slicing box with box cutter.
Ship crashing, Holbrook trying to evade.
Kid peels back flaps.
Holbrook moving through the wreck. Predator clicking sound.
Kid pulls out the mask.
THE PREDATOR.
Hell! The kids trick-or-treating is a 30 year old sound effect
that I recognize from Roller Coaster Tycoon!!!
It's not even like it would be difficult to make a Predator teaser for the plot synopsis of this.
The structure of the trailer is quite bad. Actually it might just straight up be the worst trailer between the films of recent time. Not because the movie looks bad, just that nothing really happens.
I like the comment that says "The moment you realise it's not a fanmade trailer". Totally spot on.
having the Teaser a few weeks back now looks to be following the normal time frame for big movies
http://collider.com/deadpool-2-trailer-release-date/
Where's the damn full length???
Which app were you trying to use?
Nope Australia.
There was also a shot before Sterling K Brown speaks of a non skinned body hanging from a tree. But can also confirm the shot of the individual loonies laughing on the bus. It shows Alfie, TJ, Augusto and Trevante
I think people just have to be ready for the basic core of what came from the leaked script/plot leaks/set photos. The bigger issues for me was how insane it got in the third act and a lot of the dialogue. It'll come down to execution for a lot of this. It can only go so far for some people, which can be evidenced by how people have expressed their opinion on here about what we have heard and seen.
Like I have said, I'm going to have faith but I have no problem calling it a bad movie if it turns out to be one.
If Black can’t manage the jokes while juggling the suspense, horror and action. Then it’s not gonna be pretty.
On the flip side of that, if he can utilize the jokes in a way that doesn’t distract your attention from the film itself. Well, he’ll have overcome a very big hurdle, that allot of fans fear he’s incapable of.
No-one ever wants to look scared in front of "the team".
I watched 3 minutes of it on tv once, and had to change the channel. It was just too much. As for the modern analysis angle, I think films like Predator would be the main example for this type of thing. Something that was initially meant to be, and was seen as scary or thrilling.
Commando is deadly serious.
I honestly cannot accept that anyone ever thought Commando was a serious movie...
Again watching those movies in the year 2018. Is a completely different circumstance of study and analysis.
My dad brought my mom to that movie and to this day recalls the entire theatre on edge, could hear a pindrop, along with my mom bruising my dad's arm from squeezing constantly during the film.
Maybe not the M134, but they were very interested in turning the minigun concept into a portable platform. I do remember them mentioning this only briefly in one of the BTS videos for Predator. Jesse Ventura talks about it for a second.
It just never worked out. Trying to shrink things down to make it practical gutted the overwhelming fire power, and besides the amount of fire power was actually... ultimately wasteful.
Though they did eventually, decades later, pull it off with the XM556.
Ol' Painless has a little brother.
Yeah some people laugh at strange things. My reactions when I first saw Predator were "oh shit" to most of those things. The handshake between Dutch and Dillion had me go bug eyed. "Gawd-dam!"
Right- so 30 some years later....you can look back and see the "funny" aspects of the 80's machismo playing out (as with most movies in that era). At the time tho, AND upon very first watch, wasn't the case at all.
So your statement actually has some severe flaw in it.
Not really.
If you ask me, the minigun is no less comedy than the final act of Commando.
People are strange.
It seems at this point "humor" is an opinion based on over-analytical pickiness towards meaningless aspects of film.
Good news is Black as confirmed in "Collider" that the humor won't be too much as it's not meant to be a "comedy" of any sort:
“I think the reason there’s a lasting quality that the original movie has that’s due I think, in part to the fact that it was made before it was so easy to just do a bunch of CGI effects and before video games had taken hold as well. So, there was a more visceral kind of war movie thriller-esque quality to the material.
It [The Predator] is ultimately gonna be a thriller. It’s not gonna be a comedy. It’s an R-rated movie and it’s supposed to be a kind of harrowing experience. I think it goes to what Fred and I are very familiar with, which is, if you told me to write a comedy I’d be helpless, but if you say write a thriller and put some jokes in it, then fine. Then, I don’t have to worry… it’s that sort of combination and tone shuffling that becomes at once the juggling act and also the challenge, but the joy too of what we’re trying to do.”
I saw Predator in a packed cinema just a while back, and the place roared with laughter whenever that thing was fired on-screen.
Other big belly-laughs I can remember off the top of my head included Dutch and Dillon's "handshake", most of the shootout in the jungle camp, Dillon stripping off and joining in with the sweaty muscle tree-hauling and Dutch screaming into the jungle to get ol' Pred's attention.
That said, this is very true. Most of the silly stuff is in the first act. But there are definitely a lot of intentionally funny things in there.
Couldn't agree more. Predator is a fun movie, not a funny movie IMO.
It’s still very much out of the realm of possibility. They tried mounting the M134 onto the Humvee and couldn’t. So the likelihood of seeing a man portable version in reality is still a ways away. Not too mention ludicrous seeing one man using it as if it were possible or practical.
I can’t speak to if the Pentagon was thinking about developing a portable handheld M134 in the 80’s. But, I’m pretty confident in saying that was not the reason for it’s inclusion in the first film. However, I’m open to being corrected.
However, Old Painless is very much the product of its time. Totally 80’s machismo to the nth degree.
I don’t want anyone to think I dislike Painless. I love it. Just something I figured could be argued as an unintentionally funny aspect that could be found in P1.