Watched both
Predator and
Predator 2 last night for the first time since 2018 when
The Predator really soured me on all of this. Forgot just how much I love both of these –
Predator as a damn near perfect 80s actioner-turned-slasher, and
Predator 2, which technically isn't as good as the first even though it is my preferred of the two, as a schlocky/grindhousey, cocaine-fueled, hyper-violent expansion of the first one. They make for one Hell of a fun double feature. I'm glad I held off so long on revisiting these movies again after 2018, 'cause coming in as fresh as I did after so long a gap made them feel really special all over again.
Really hoping that
Prey lives up to the spirit of these two movies – the relentless energy, the grime and sweat, the "dump a Predator into a film of another genre" mentality that
Predator and
Predator 2 operated on. I like Trachtenberg, and from what we know the structure of
Prey feels like it should be much more in line with these first two films than the more recent entries in the series were, which bodes well.
Also, how did we get such an insanely cool spaceship interior in
Predator 2 only for every subsequent film to just default to a chrome interior? Also not sure how we ended up with years of "honorable space Samurai" Predator stories coming off of the back of these two dickhead Predators, but that's another story.