Quote from: PRJ_since1990 on Dec 16, 2013, 05:49:38 PM
See, after rewatching Predators last week, I can say I did like it. What I didn't like was that in making another "Predator" species, they made the original obsolete, as if those creatures are so far inferior, they pose little challenge to Super Preds. I feel that does the previous films and tie-ins no justice.
Nor do I have a problem with the movie's setting. It reminded me a lot of AvP Hunter's Planet, but with the twist that it was Predator controlled to begin with.
I didn't like the movie because it was in the hands of the wrong man from the get go. It had a horrible script from the beginning, and I am referring to the 1994 script which Rodriguez had written. While a lot of the elements from the old script were removed, some major elements still managed to get in such as the alien planet- which wasn't so alien after all, and of course the Black Predator. Sure, it could've been worse but I still feel like PREDATORS was just awful and it just.. I just hate that movie for what it was. It had a bad draft script, they worked with the draft script to refine it.. and we still had a mediocre film. I also didn't like the fact that it was approached with such an arrogant attitude and Rodriguez took potshots at the previous sequels.
I do agree with you that the Super Predators were just.. not necessary. The idea of the original movie was that the original species, the Yautja, were supposed to be this Grendel archetype enemy. A near unstoppable force from the far reaches of space. For the first two sequels, that's what we got. It can be debated whether or not the AvP films kept that idea. For there to be a different species of Predators which is supposed to be more hip, or bigger, badder.. completely defeats the concept of the original.
I have issues with the preserve planet idea because to me it contradicts what was established in the first movie. There was a sport, a challenging about going to a different planet and hunting the prey there. Part of that challenge for a Predator was to immerse themselves in a different environment, an alien environment unfamiliar to them on a world they ventured to. The idea of kidnapping prey and putting them on a preserve planet just defeats the purpose of the challenge of the hunt. You might as well be having Predators throwing fish in a barrel. Some have argued that it was poaching, and some have claimed from a Hungarian magazine source that the normal Predators toss the Super Predators on the planet as form of exile. The latter idea isn't so bad of an idea but the film doesn't make any indication that seems to be the case. All we have is word from Rodriguez indicating it, but nothing concrete in the film to suggest it.
Quote from: PRJ_since1990 on Dec 16, 2013, 05:49:38 PM
What I would like to see is a movie about the Yautja erradicating the Super Preds in a huge war, hunting them down like the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith, with the idea at the end that there are still a few SP's out there that could potentially make appearances for future titles.
We kind of sort of got that in Predator: Pray to the Heavens and Alien vs Predator: Three World War.. And if you want to count the iOS game, then we also got that in Aliens vs Predator: Evolution.
The only thing good about the idea of combining Alien, Predator, Prometheus and AvP (which sadly ignores the AvP films) is that according to Sebela-- it doesn't really link to the old expanded universe material. It's a stand-alone story. A reboot series. Sounds like to me this is a stand alone story with multiple comics tying into each other. That's not so bad I guess but if this is something ongoing.. you know, like ongoing like X-Men, Spider-Man, TMNT... well, I just don't like the idea of it.
-Rakai'Thwei
