Why the PREDATOR sequels get the face WRONG [Opinion Piece]

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I keep expecting their Predator to end up mutating into something like Pumpkinhead, just like their Alien did, as if that was the pinnacle of creature design and can't wait to make everything else they do resemble it.

Cucurbitization, like carcinization. This is a thing now, we're calling it that.

[Yautja888]

Can ADI for once in their life JUST NOT 

It don't need to be spread out like syrup on pancakes, sometimes a few teaspoons is enough of a helping, it don't gotta be downing in it that it turns into a pile of molasses. I beg yall, we just want great Predator design again. I had enough of just having mid.

KNB didn't do a better job. Their classic pred was inferior to most fan made pred faces.

[Mr.Turok]

Can ADI for once in their life JUST NOT 

It don't need to be spread out like syrup on pancakes, sometimes a few teaspoons is enough of a helping, it don't gotta be downing in it that it turns into a pile of molasses. I beg yall, we just want great Predator design again. I had enough of just having mid.

KNB didn't do a better job. Their classic pred was inferior to most fan made pred faces.

It's nuts that they were so close. Like THAT close to getting it right. Instead they had the mandibles just droop from it's mouth and barely closed. They had the X mandible positioning right but it remained open making it look like a mouth breather. 

[razeak]

I keep expecting their Predator to end up mutating into something like Pumpkinhead, just like their Alien did, as if that was the pinnacle of creature design and they can't wait to make everything else they do resemble it.

They're like Mr. Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie.  Every building he designed, whether it was a restaurant, office or convenience store looked just like his house.  Which he designed.

My biggest complaint by far is the Pumpkinization of creature design across the board. Pumpkinhead is cool too. Everything just doesn't have to look like it.

[CANNON]

I'll take anything over Feral. The others are just pour attempts at the original design, ferel isn't even a Predator.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I'll usually take Steve Carrell over Will Ferell.

[Greyback]

Changes in design are always interesting so long as there's some sort of context. Berserkers for example being a different subspecies, and Feral being a different subspecies and being 300 years earlier in the timeline. With the context of those films I'm totally onboard with those designs. But the choices behind the standard Preds post-P2 has always been bizarre to me. 

The problem with these changes is that the design is too far removed from the popular Stan Winston design.
I also think it's a rarely stupid idea to introduce a new species in Predators, as if Jungle Hunter and City Hunter weren't menacing enough. This idea has haunted us like a curse ever since.
The 300 years in Prey don't explain the different design, evolution takes place over thousands of years, rather millions of years. Trachtenberg simply uses the Predators thing here and that is uncreative.

[CANNON]

The problem with these changes is that the design is too far removed from the popular Stan Winston design.
I also think it's a rarely stupid idea to introduce a new species in Predators, as if Jungle Hunter and City Hunter weren't menacing enough. This idea has haunted us like a curse ever since.

Absolutely agree. Glad I'm not alone.