Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 07, 2021, 08:04:15 AM
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Apr 06, 2021, 04:24:26 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Apr 06, 2021, 03:57:07 PMAre ya sure?
I'm entirely sure.
Whatever sins it commits elsewhere, I will maintain until the day I die that the opening in Mexico and the lab breakout scene are actually really good, and comfortably the best live-action Predator action we've seen since Predator 2.
Nothing in Requiem is actually really good. Nothing in Requiem is even mediocre. It's all just unwatchable, hateful shit.
Agreed. The lab sequence is just fantastic. The Predator may go off the rails after he gets out, but before that is genuinely good stuff.
Before that lab sequence is genuinely good stuff? Say it isn't so brother Hicks!
McKenna's lame hostage betting joke? His dull encounter with the Pred? The mailing of the mask and swallowing the ball? Roy getting picked on? Rory and the chess boards pieces? Rory gets the mask from the mailman? Rory deciding what to be for Halloween with mom? Rory plays with the bio-mask? McKenna's unconvincing tough guy routine and quips during the interrogation?
Do I get a cookie now?Oofa! The lab fight is definitely good stuff. But anything other than the Predator Ships to me before that lab scene is below average at best and often cringey. Even the fakeish looking blood falling on the Predator's face that HuDaFuK is going to rave about in 5... 4.....3.....
To me the best stuff comes after the lab scenes, like once Sterling K. Brown starts chewing scenery, the escape outside the lab, the genuinely funny scene surrounding an unconscious Casey and the Loonies in the hotel room, the Upgrade Predator against Stargazer, etc. That's the stuff I can still mindlessly enjoy with a beer in my hand.
