Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 26, 2019, 02:59:23 PM
Read what I said again. I said "Predator movies". Not AvP movies.
I read that, but this is a clear example.
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 26, 2019, 02:59:23 PM
Fought fair and square? The battle was fine but no sense of honor, ritual or code was presented to the audience. And the classic Predator was strung up which is quite a torture. Where's the honor portrayed to audiences in that?
They literally provided the prey with weapons, they had numerous points where they could have slaughtered the prey outright and they didn't, they even entered into one on one unarmed combat when provided.
The strung up Jungle Predator was from another clan they were enemies with. There's honor and then there's pathological adherence to "honor". They were showing that their enemies weren't worthy of honor and that makes perfect sense.
No sense of ritual? The entire movie is one incredibly complex ritual.
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 26, 2019, 02:59:23 PM
In the uneven film The Predator, the playing possum Fugitive let naked Casey survive, but conflictingly killed a bunch of other unarmed doctors in the lab. But that whole script is a mess.
It's ambiguous here, I'll give you that, but I don't think he was playing possum, I think he had just woken up and was desperate to escape. The scientists could very well have drugged him again and he was eliminating that threat. Again, there's honor and then there's pathological adherence to a code when it makes no sense.
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 26, 2019, 02:59:23 PM
In the camper? Watch it again. That had nothing to do with honor but rather mission. "Tracking stolen cargo." The humans at that point wasn't its primary concern.
Primary concern or not, it gave the humans a fair head start and even gave them opportunities to set traps when it could have easily have slaughtered the bunch of them, taken the kid and headed home for the day.
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 26, 2019, 02:59:23 PM
In Predator 1 and 2 there was not killing the unarmed. Not killing the young. Not killing the pregnant. Respecting the prey when it kills a fellow Predator, even rewarding the prey.
No... any sense of honor, ritual or code has not been been ramped up clearly to audiences in the Predator movies since Predator 2. Just the opposite. It's been marginalized.
I disagree but then I guess we're at a roadblock.
Even The Predator, the one I'm closest to agreeing with you about has clear examples showing that you're wrong, one you even listed yourself, and again the very premise of the movie, with the delivering of the Predator Killer armor is another clear sign of your fractal wrongness on the topic.
Predators even had the Jungle Hunter respect Royce after being freed.
And, while I wouldn't count it, it's fun to add that the Predator Hound in the Predator, turned good after being defeated.