Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 10, 2021, 06:38:37 AM
Quote from: Pu$$yFace on Feb 08, 2021, 05:15:45 AM
You keep telling yourself that kiddo.
It very much is a retread or remake.
It is in that era of films where they change a little bit of set dressing to a cinematic classic but ultimately deliver the same movie. IE: Force Awakens.
Not to mention as an aside, a lot key points to the film are nonsensical and stupid.
With that said it's still decent and miles better than The Predator
Not in the slightest. Predators is no-where near the repeat that The Force Awakens. It's an entirely different plot compared to Predator for a start. It has a jungle settings, and repeats several story beats - most notably Billy's turn IMHO. To call it a retreat or repeat of Predator is entirely incorrect. If you don't like the repeated beats - I loathe reused dialogue - that's fine, but it's not in any way shape or form a remake/retread of Predator.
No it's definitely the exact same movie broski.
The overwhelming majority agrees on this aspect. I'm not the first person to suggest it. I don't care if you really like the movie, I myself find it tolerable, but definitely inferior to the first two films and essentially a pointless movie.
It is what it is. So many reviews state that when watching it, it's so desperately tries to just be the original film, yet released in 2010, that its whole existence is pointless, and just makes you want to watch the original again.
They just rework certain things. Some of the things they did work and added cool new elements, most of it makes no goddamn sense.
Including the very premise of abducting and then dumping into an alien planet hunting preserve, where humans can breathe and other alien species all breathe?! They also abduct original predators? What?
At that point you've already hunted them and captured them, so why re-hunt them?
Where is the thrill of the hunt, in hostile settings (as established in previous films) hunting them in a game preserve where they know the elements and the ground?
Also using vastly superior technology? And having three of them to hunt? Against random groups of individuals who don't even have the strength of being a team like in the original film or the sequel?
They're not hunters in hostile territory. A kin to a human going to Africa to hunt lions in their element.
All it unintentionally does is defeat the purpose of making them big bad blood "super predators", they look ridiculously inferior to the two lone hunters in the first two films.
It actually makes them look like pussies by comparison. Jungle and City Hunter went into hostile territory, surrounded by the big game they hunt, elite deadly game at that with own weapons and fought on their lonesome on their prey's turf.
That's what gives predator its dimension. As a character. It's like an alien samurai hunter. It has a moral code. While simultaneously also being utterly frightening.
Why is the alien planet just essentially a repeat of the South American jungle setting from the first film? It's shameless. The only remote difference between that setting, is a few artifacts of alien technology, and one brief shot of multiple planets or moon is in the background.
No different than force awakens, creed, where they essentially remake the original film to bring the nostalgia feels, just with slight different window dressing.
Predator 2 didn't need to do that. It was actually a different movie. It advanced and added new wrinkles to the mythology. Ones that kept in line to the traditional rules established without breaking them. But broadened everything in an interesting way.
There's a difference between paying homage, and literally taking so much from the original material beat for beat, music for music, scene for scene, that it essentially becomes a soft remake.
It's not even a reboot. Batman Begins compared to Batman 89 is an entirely different movie. That is a reboot. Same character, same mythology, yet totally different interpretation and new story. IE rebooted.
Force Awakens, Creed, and several others like Predators are soft remakes.
Why watch such pointless franchise cash grabs, when you could just watch the more innovative and better quality original version?
Wasn't an out and out hard remakes likes a Nightmare on Elm Street 2010. But it's definitely a remake.
It's not just tipping its hat and paying homage at certain points. Mind you, Predator 2, which came out three years after the original, didn't have as many shameless and groan inducing "homages"