QuoteWinston's Predator to me, is the best, and it will always be the best. You can't ever go wrong with the original. There isn't anything wrong with the original. You don't need to change the original. Why? Because it's a classic.
Unfortunately, Rodriguez thinks otherwise.
Well, who said there was something wrong with the original ? the original is the reason why this movie is being made in the first place. Didn't RR say the original is a masterpiece? Besides, no one can change the original, because it's done and out there, so I don't really see your point. He just doesn't want to copy what has been made, and you know, just want to do a new movie.
I don't care about this whole geek debate around what should or should not be a predator, people here are excessively possessive about the character anyway, but you are making assumptions about the intentions of RR and the filmmakers that are truly unfair. That, just because an ordinary/original predator gets killed and that makes you angry. Are you a child or something ?
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..What? Rodriguez might as well say that the original is obsolete and not cool anymore... oh wait... He has been saying that, or rather implying it.
Again, childish behavior because you get your favorite toy getting killed, so you feel betrayed. And it's just that, a character getting killed because it is diminished, wounded and facing its equal and enhanced mate in perfect shape. It logically loses in a direct intense fight, the one with favorable circumstances win, end of story. No big deal.
The challenge... I don't know where did you get that? If the predator liked challenge so much, why would it make itself invisible to begin with ? A predator doesn't hunt for challenge, it just loves to feel a total control on its prey, watching it trying to desesperately escape from its inevitable fate. And when things are getting out of hand like in the final battle with Dutch in the original, it gets pretty pissed off and frustrated. It hates being in a challenging situation. A predator is a primitive beast basically seeking the same feeling Edwin experiments when he's pulling the wings off that butterfly, or when a kid takes pleasure at chasing a bug. At least that's what I get from P1. In fact, Edwin is the perfect human enbodiment of the predator ( he has a truly great exchange with Isabelle about that ), hence why he wants to stay there at the end, and that's an interesting idea. Yeah, it's not the same direction taken by P2, but since I'm not a fan of P2, that's fine with me. I'd even say the predators in this, even less subtle in their methods and behaviors, are much closer to the pred portrayed by Mctiernan than the preds in P2.