Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
I'd disagree they're worth bringing up. I don't know for a fact but I imagine they're just written by NECA.
Well, they are an official source. Not like they're fanon or anything. I just thought they'd be worth something bringing up, even if they are questionable.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
"Kind of like". Nolan is in no position to make a definitive statement about their genetics. It's just easier to say than "it's kinda like the difference between this race/ethnicity of humans/then that other race".
I thought that the Wolf and Dog analogy served fine enough in the context of the film in what he was trying to get across. If anything, I thought he was right on the money. Evolution has a weird way of playing things out, the slightest change in an environment could cause an entire species to choose to either adapt or go extinct. Sometimes, evolution results in enough changes to where a genus could result in similar but different species.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
The African fella's at work also have different skin to me. Are they a different species to myself? No. It's ethnicity. Humans come in all shapes and sizes with all sorts of differences. The foot thing, granted but that's more than likely down to artistic license than any desire to make them some sort of sub-species.
And I am a Hispanic with thick, straight hair and dark skin and brown eyes. Aside form the differences between myself, you and the friend from work you bring up, we're still homo sapiens are we not? Thing is you are trying to apply human cultural and biological qualities to a fictional alien species, who while having different tribes, are a completely different thing from we are.
It's like comparing apples and oranges. Like you've got a variety of different apples and oranges, you can't compare. Also Rodriguez himself even goes onto say that these Predators are a different breed, different species. But hey, I guess Word of God doesn't count in your book, right?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
You just read into it too much in an effort to isolate them from the films because of your dislike of the film and a concept that didn't even make it into the film.
My disliking of the film cast aside, I am going by what is presented to me in the movie, through Rodriguez's statements and what material has been published in the official material-- confirmed or questionable. I'm looking ALL sources here.
Now if you want to discuss on how much I hate the film THAT's an unneeded discussion which I'm sure the both of us REALLY don't want to get into. Hell, I did not want to get into this discussion but here we are... Again.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
Depends on the context of the preserve. Our hunting preserves are controlled. Dropping a bunch of dangerous prey on a planet isn't controlled. And then there's the increased danger of desperate prey. Isn't there a saying about animals being most dangerous when they're cornered?
An animal is most dangerous when cornered... But how dangerous is said animal when the Hunter has weaponry which is perhaps equivalent to military grade weaponry, even by Predator standards? I mean those Super Predators did have upgraded weaponry according to Noland.
As for cornering an animal to make it's most dangerous.. same thing could be done on a hunt in the wilderness. Or in the Predator's case, off-world and on the prey's home turf.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
I get what you're saying - that it could make it less of a challenge but I disagree completely. I think it gives the potential of an even greater challenge, when these violent and dangerous people/creatures are fighting for their very existence on an Alien planet. Look at Royce for flips sake.
And I am glad that you get what I am saying but I disagree with completely with your view. I've already mentioned my reasons, and I don't feel like I need to re-state them again. So we'll have to agree to disagree.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
I'll give you that. But I stand by the opinion that Predators was a well done film. I would have reduced the number of new Predators to one and removed the dialogue homages but otherwise, I think it's a great film that I like as much as Predator.
I still stand my opinion that PREDATORS was a terrible movie. I've seen it five times, tried to watch it a sixth. You can't say I didn't give the movie a chance when I gave it five viewings to let it grow on me. I probably would've responded to the movie better had it been set on Earth but we would've seen the clan war between the two Predators happening in some other jungle. Or any other environment, like.. a desert, or caverns. We'll have to agree to disagree.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
Same way as usual. Hish vs Yautja. Then someone mentions the BSPs as if they are as originally intended.
It's almost six in the morning. Can I go to sleep, Dad?
(A playful joke)