Oh yeah. Predator 2 is 100% schlock, and I say that completely endearingly. It is crass, kinda trashy, violent to an almost overwhelming degree, rough around the edges, and manages to top the original Predator as my favorite movie of the series for those very reasons. I love it.
I actually really wish Predators pushed more into a schlocky territory too; it could have really played up Robert Rodriguez's grindhouse style (I wish he actually directed it, rather than handed it off). As it is, it is way too clean/sterile. There is so much conceptually that I love about Predators, and the first half is fairly strong, but the movie unfortunately never amounts to its baked in potential. I still revisit it from time to time, though.
Fingers crossed that Trachtenberg isn't afraid to make his film a bit "messier," for lack of a better word, like the first two films.
