Quote from: Tangakkai on Aug 08, 2017, 05:13:08 PM
I'm not saying at all that you have to keep the Pred in the jungle. Just look at Predator 2. I love that movie and the setting of it.
That's what I thought you were implying since you were upset at the thought of filming going on across the street somewhere and then echoing the word "suburbia".
QuoteEspecially the scene with King Willie brought an almost spiritual aspect of the Predator into the fold. That is what I mean with mysticism. You add to the lore without actually having to do exposition about the predator himself
We know the Predator isn't anything spiritual so all of Willie's talk about the Predator being on "the other side" and "in the spirit world" as he throws chicken bones on a barrel as if it tells him anything is a load of crap, not lore. Predators are extraterrestrials. Willie did not know what was going on and added nothing to the actual lore.
Quote...and you show his power by him moving and navigating through areas which we humans couldn't.
You don't think we will see the predators do physical feats no human can in this film? They hired very athletic guys and showed off free running skills online. Surely they won't be doing that if they're just going to be walking and driving around.
QuoteHe shows up, he kills. He disappears into the vastness again. And he does so under topographical and weather conditions, which we can't even bare for 1 minute.
That's not mysticism if you know what the Predator is, which we do. That's just stealth.
QuoteI just don't see it working like that in a small town, like I saw in AVP:R. There are streets. There are houses. It's something I see in my every day life. When you bring me a Pred to to this location, he automatically loses a sense of his menace.
Streets and homes are also featured in Predator 2 though. Of all the issues with AVP:R, the location was far down the list and didn't make or break that film.
QuoteBring me outlandish locations which I don't see every day and which I don't understand.
Though we dont see jungles every day, they are understandable. Just dense forest and vegetation. Was this a problem in Predator 2 though or just this film?
QuoteJust think of huge cave constructs or archeological sites, himalayan mountains, anything...
Caves like from The Descent? The movie that was 90% darkness? Now THAT'S an issue AVPR had.
Quotebut not my freaking neighbourhood where the Postman gets around faster than a Pred.
Which set photos have you been looking at suggesting a sleepy suburb complete with Olympic sprinting postmen?
QuoteOn top of that, I don't like Predators being stuck into an AMV Vehicle and holding gattling guns. You automatically make the Preds behave in a human matter.
The Predator in the original behaved in a human matter as well. Tending to its wounds with a med kit, taking trophies, hunting, throwing punches, laughing, using tools, speaking English...are there more?
QuoteI have no desire to see that. I'd rather prefer making him as "Alien" as possible.
So you're skipping this movie?
QuoteYou know the Predator has a code of honor, yet you don't really know why.
Honor is a very human concept. Is that them automatically behaving in a human matter, too? And it is pretty clear why the predators we have seen so far choose who to kill. Sport. It is repeatedly emphasized in all movies. I also don't think each predator thinks and acts the same way like they're a bunch of single-minded clones, so giving other ones different motivation is an area worth exploring.
QuoteYou know he collects trophies but again, you don't really no much about it rather than it's for his pleasure. You can build on it, you can elaborate on it as human beings. But you will never get the answer.
It's not an elaborate mystery nor is it something the imagination runs wild yearning to understand. He's a hunter. He, like human hunters, takes trophies of his kills.
QuoteWhen I see Preds teaming up with humans it just makes them less majestic. Case in point:
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I think simply seeing a predator in full view makes them less majestic. That happened in the first movie and every movie since, though. Did you think it was majestic when City Hunter ran out of a bathroom and shared the screen with an old lady holding a broom with curlers in her hair?