Quote from: Johnny Handsome on Mar 11, 2009, 09:11:52 PM
Gorman never had control over anything, he wasn't giving advices like Garber did
What do you call him ordering Apone to collect magazines from everyone?
Quoteand give us a bunch of bold criminals we don't get to know very well.
We know the ones we need to know fine enough. Predator 2 gave us drug-lords and train commuters we didn't know at
all. Only two had names - El Scorpio and King Willy. The rest were thrown in just so they could be killed seconds later.
QuoteIt didn't expended the universe or to make it short, it did nothing for the Alien series but to give it a piss weak finale with bad effects.
It gave us a solid emotional final and finished Ripley off.
QuoteDepends on its budget. It only made 57 million, total.
Predator 2 never had a 50 mil budget. I guess it was around 20 - 25 mil given that the first movie wasn't all that successfull either. And that's what it looks like as well.[/quote]
The first Predator made 94 million. Wasn't huge, but it made money on its 18 million investment.
Predator 2 put in little money and
got little money.
QuoteI'm not either. I didn't liked A3 wayyy before i even knew Predator 2 even existed and i said its a bad sequel back then, Has nothing to do with me being a Predator fan, i just think Predator 2 is the better movie because it doesn't try to hide what it is, a 108 minute action romp that is fun to watch and expanded the Predator universe by a long shot. It gives you everything that one would expect from a sequel to Predator, more creature, more action, suspense, gore elements and a strong male lead character.
It gives you nothing but more weapons and a new location, plus a brief glimpse in the ship at the end.
Token female character. The joker side-kick. The guy the main character respects getting killed off. Seedy agent people who know more than they're letting on.
The plots?
Unit of hard-asses sent in to deal with some unruly peeps on a seemingly normal mission. On arrival they find not is all what it seems; someone is hiding information and there's someone out there, someone they weren't expecting, stalking their asses. An outsider to the group has prior knowledge of the creature they're fighting, which doesn't actually help them at all but provides some atmospheric scenes.
A trap is made for the creature, but just when it seems it may work everything goes to hell. Our main character has the crap beaten out of him and left all but defenseless, forced to use what little he has around him to defeat the Predator. Cue mano-a-mano fight and explosive finish.
Seriously,
which film am I talking about here?
Yeah, there are differences, but they're fundamentally the same (Much in the same way
Aliens is just
Alien, but with more explosives and guns).
QuoteIf you think its a good sequel and you can enjoy it everything is fine and dandy, but it really isn't. I wish it was but it really isn't.
It is. It really is. If you can't see it, tough shit. It's not a bad sequel, it just had less options open to it during the production than the previous two did. For what it is, it's perfectly fine.
QuoteIn A3 we have these characters and were are stuck with them in an isolated place, we are going to spend time with them no matter what.
We only spend real time with a handful of them. The rest, as you said, are the victims.
QuoteEveryone remembers King Willi. It still isn't a sign for tremendous acting.
Dude what was wrong with his acting. That guy was a Shakespearean actor.
QuoteYes, Predadtor 2 had terribl.. wait, what is Predadtor 2 again?
Oh, like you're one to correct
anyone's spelling.
