20th Century Fox has released the final The Predator trailer! Shane Black’s The Predator is less than two weeks away from release and 20th Century Fox have unleashed its final and arguably best trailer for the movie yet. The trailer lasts for 2 minutes 15 seconds and shows plenty of new footage including character moments and lots of Predator action.
The trailer opens with our first look at Yvonne Strahovski as McKenna’s wife and there are a lot of character moments in this. We get a sense of McKenna straight away and there are some great moments showing the Loonie dynamics.
There is a lot of new footage of the Fugitive and Upgrade Predator too. We see the Fugitive hanging off the side of a tree and cloaking, a very clear look at the Upgrade’s skin changing and the Ark crashing and Upgrade wading his way through water having left the ship. There is plenty of brutal Predator action and the trailer ends on a money shot of the Upgrade grabbing a hold of McKenna.
The trailer also pokes fun at the use of name Predator, with Brackett describing them more as hunters. This is brought up again later in the trailer when Traeger points out that the Upgrade “brought his dogs with him” and we get some clearer footage of The Predator’s new dog design.
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But such a superficial change to bring it more in line with the rest of the franchises may at least have elevated it a little in some people's eyes.
The Predator putting characters in similar situations kind of proves it.
I mean, it would've been more entertaining, for sure. But unless you add depth to the characters, give the film a decent direction and a satisfying conclusion to the conflict, that doesn't make it good. It would've been better, but on a very superficial level, and I think the reception would only have been different amongst fans. Critics and general audiences would've bashed it just the same - if not more.
I would suspect even something as superficial as a change in setting would have benefited the movie a lot more. It still would have been a let down given the quality of the script I'm sure, but it would have at least felt more closer to expectation.
Having the movies set on present day earth does a massive detriment to them in my opinion.
I think this shared a sizable role in the the film's ultimate failure (among other elements of course.) While I still enjoy watching AvP(R), the stories were just...bad. I think part of the reason is due to the original stories being set in the future. The foundation was right there for them to use! So many different stories they could have chosen from, but instead they decided to come up with their own material from the outset - admirable in a way, but risky - and ultimately a story that was and has sort of always been meant to take place in the future was forced into present time. It just...doesn't go well with traditional AvP. I feel like them changing the time period just set it up for failure from the get-go
It's far, far too away from the Alien for my tastes.
Give me phallic heads or give me death.
all i wanted was a movie where the predator was treated like the real threat they are but the studio and directors always insist that he just isnt enough they gotta be super predators or bio enhanced gene spliced i dont know sorry im venting i know im prob in the minority and sound like a debbie downer
Dave Dorman's design is lacking.
If they do AVP again now after The Predator, I don't think I'll want a film immediately set on the future tho, because it looks like they plan to develop it across the films before making an AVP crossover, like a proper shared universe, and I'm completely down for that if they pull it off. But we'll see, this film has to be a success first.
That also happened with predators, in the cinema i was dissappointed, but rewatching it, its not that bad, it has interesting ideas, hounds (that doesnt have dreads..), the falcon, another planet... The film doesnt develop it well but its a film i ended liking.
Avp is massive hated, but i dont think its that bad, the whole idea is interesting, problem is the timeline, it should have been the future, and not in the earth, a d some colonial marines please
Neither do I tbh.
well as a Producer he had a lot of shots to call, so he could see where everything is going, and him being a director too and also more experienced guy then Nimrod, I puting a lot of responsobility on him, even though it could be not fair I agree. I guess it's only because He dissed Predator 2, I don't think Nimrod dissed Predator 2 in interview
Oh no, he isn't adressing it in the movie and it doesn't have affect on it other then he acknowledges the things from first movie and ignores the second. It wasn't what I am saying, BigDaddyJohn sayed it better "I wouldn't say it's because Rodriguez entered the franchise with this mentality that Predators was meh. It just helps understand his arrogance when you clearly see that this film is less fun and memorable overall than predator 2 for a lot of people too. "
Predators are okay with me, it just was less fun then Predator 2, they had 3 predators and they tryed to make them more scarier then fisrt two. But this predators got killed by 8 people(8?). I mean my problem is that this group of people was like group of the most dangerous people on Earth, but they didn't feel like Dutch, or Mike Harrigan. I would believe that team of 8 Dutches or 8 Harrigans would kill 3 predators, but team of these guys who were in the movie, no. And it's not problem of the actors, they are all good. It's just we know Harrigan is bad ass, because we can compare him to all his other team mates, we know Dutch is freaking dangerous because we can compare to everybody else too. And when Dutch or Harrigan killes the Predator in the end, we are not surprised or feel cheated, we knew this guys were the top of their game. Now when I see how Falconer and Tracker died in the Predators, I was underwhelmed, and it felt anticlimactic. The idea of a yakuza fighting with Predator in the field with high grass was a good idea, I didn't feel the scene, didn't feel the action(the music cover of "Billy" theme with asian motive was great ). The way Tracker died was lame too, and felt lazy. Action between Mr Black and Classic, was ok for me, action between Royce and Mr Black was worse.
Again Rodriguez didn't straight up dissed second movie in his movie, but him dissing "Predator 2" in the interview, and not delivering it for me personally, felt like the boxer who trash talks, and after getting KO by another boxer(not saying that Predator 2 KO Predatos
I am admiting that Predator 2 is kind of controversial in the fan base of predator(and not only fan), and I do agree that Stephen Hopkins isn't a great director, and more likely weaker then Rodriguez, but I do feel that he made much more "FUN" Predator movie(With a bad ass Predator). Again could be my subjectivity
Yeah, I guess Predators was an idea for a $100mi budget that was forced to be compressed under $40mi, and that's probably the film's biggest issue.
Yes some ideas could've been interesting, but are underused/useless (the falcon thing, the fact that they are on an alien planet that feels exactly like earth...)
I think it's a little different with Predators, because it very quickly reveals the Crucified Predator. So then the question becomes if that thing is there, what are the ones hunting them? But right after the Berserkers attack during that scene, they are immediately fully revealed. Up until then the film does a fine job in portraying how differently these new Predators hunt, with the dogs and the Falcon and everything, but from then on it kinda falls short on keeping that up.
That is completely subjective, tho. Predators was generally better received than Predator 2. Critics and most audiences that do like Predators often say is closer to being the sequel the original deserved than Predator 2 ever was. Even if it doesn't look like it from this niche standpoint, that's the majority of people who accept Predators more than they do Predator 2. I don't completely disagree with them, for me Predator 2 and Predators are pretty much in the same level overall, but sometimes my balance tilts a little more in favor of Predators.
I often think about why Predator 2 got dissed the way it did, ever since I first saw it. Never made sense to me. It's a solid film. Of course there will be those who criticize it for the lack of big guns compared to the first one, but I don't think that justifies the widespread bad reception that Predator 2 had. Then I was rewatching it the other day and I think I figured it out, or at least one reason... See, like Shane said in interviews, we all know what the Predator looks like. At this day and age, everybody knows what the Predator looks like so it's very easy to let this slide - especially me, for I saw Predator 2 before I saw the original -, but Predator 2 treats it as if it was the first film. There's this big mystery as to "what is killing those people?", "what does it look like?", "where does it come from?", "why can't we see it?" when people already knew all of those things back then. It keeps hiding the Predator as if we had never seen it before, and the movie never engages in new territory up until the 3rd act, where it finally acknowledges all the things that we already know and moves on to the next step. I think that, for people who saw that movie when it first came out, must've been kinda disappointing. I don't think we should hold that against the movie today, it's an outdated issue - everybody knows what the Predator looks like today and they're gonna go into the first movie knowing that already, so when they get to 2 they won't have that in mind and it won't matter -, but it's just something I was thinking.
Predators benefited a lot from the AVP/AVPR effect, which is that anything that came out after would've been regarded as fairly good compared to those turds
Predator 2 got the opposite effect. It's widely criticized because gna gna no Arnie gna gna no big muscles
Predators was a fine movie imo, had its issues, sure, but a solid little film. Way better than anything the Alien franchise got after Aliens. And Rodriguez's dislike for Predator 2 was completely irrelevant for that movie. There's no such thing as "ah because he went with that mentality the movie sucked"; no. Most people just don't like Predator 2, and that's it.
I personally would be okay with classic predator dying and loosing to Berserks, if the whole direction(in terms of directing) of the movie was few levels higher.
LOL there's no way in hell that would make sense as a storytelling mechanism regardless of the 'predator' setting. They went to all that trouble to establish that these new predators were bigger and "better", there's no way they\d contradict that by having an OG predator undo all their work previously in the film. Literally the only purpose classic has was to make the new predators look good.
Oh man Predators is TERRIBLE !
I keep pretending that movie was never made, same with the avp movies.
Predators was an absolute mess.. Royce: "we have height advantage, we are in a good spot, we need over lapping fields of fire" ... next minute they all walk off in the complete opposite direction. I mean it was just dumb. Nolan was wasted. Secondly I'd of had more respect for the film if classic beat mr black. Classic was strung up all through the film only to be butchered at the last minute. It was just awful. It should of ended with Royce being used as bate by classic, classic killing mr black, and then a final showdown with Royce.
I definitely agree with you Hicks on those points. Predators of course wasn't perfect or anything, but I still really enjoyed it and it gave some new elements while still playing the story line a little safe I guess. I also liked the cast for the most part, (which is not how I really felt at first about the new The Predator movie, but I'm definitely way more hyped about all of the actors & the overall look of the film so far
& if Rodriguez had any dislike of Predator 2? I think he maybe just wanted his film totally separate and to not directly tie any parts to it if he wasn't the biggest fan. Instead he went with a story that subtly just referenced the first Predator story, but not the sequel in anyway. Which is ok with me, because it didn't have to connect too much to that film's story I guess for me at least. Still, Predators worked I thought and had some decent quality and effects to it too. It's missing a few extra things I would add/change, but overall it was a step up after the AVP films for sure.
I don't think so. I know there's issues with the film but I still thoroughly enjoy Predators (in fact, it's one of the few I actually get a bit upset about when people slag it off) and I wouldn't say his dislike of Predator 2 showed at all to me.
But, IMO it helps understand in what state of mind he conducted this project... And i think it wasn't the greatest one to say the least.
Ohh sure, it didn't. It's just his attitude towards Predator 2, I got a little bit offended because I am a very big fan of predator 2. And I was like:"okay, bring it on (as a producer)". And at first I liked "Predators" but it did leave a bad taste in my mouth, more I thought about it, more I was getting irritated. Man at least make a cool Predator who feels dangerous. Stephen Hopkins isn't A list Director and I would assume he is much lower league then Rodrigez, but damn his City Hunter was vicious. I know Nimrod Antal and Rodriguez tried to make these group of people the most dangerous people on Earth (like squad of Dutches and Harrigans ) and it's why it's logical that these Three "Baad" Predators lost to them, but the problem is I didn't feel and see these people as Dutches and Harrigans. So yeh I was sad that he dissed my favorite movie and didn't deliver a better movie, but of course it's my personal opinion
Lol. Exactly.
It made no difference to the film.
Oh lol!
Yeh, he said in interview that he isn't fan of Predator 2 and making a sequel for "Predator 1" he ignored all what happened in Predator 2 and said that it's never happened for his vision of Predator universe.
I was talking about Rodriguez dissing Predator 2.