Quote from: MoBiUGeArSkIn on Nov 22, 2009, 10:13:18 PM
Better something be introduced than nothing.
No.
No.
That line of thinking is what gets us
Jaws the Revenge and
AvP Requiem.
New does not mean good, it does not mean bad, it means
new. It might be good. People like the Queen. It might be ass-tastic - Few people like the Newborn and the way the PredAlien was executed in AvPR.
A shark does not need to be reinvented to be scary; it's a God-damned shark. The reason every shark movie since
Jaws has failed, however, is that sharks are a pretty limited concept. They're in the water, people with boats are in the water, there are only so many options.
The Predator is more diverse, however.
You can drop a Predator in any environment and make it unique by simply changing the situation it moves into. A zombie's a zombie, but by just changing the location, or changing the movie's thematic stance, you can turn a horde of brain-sucking monsters into a new and unique threat every time.
Adding arbitrary elements leads to convolution and a series getting retarded by its own standards.
What these movies need to do is
develop what's already there and logically
expand what we have. You get to have your cake and eat it - You aren't stepping on people's toes, but you
are giving people something fresh, at least in execution.
The idea of bad blood Predators works within what's set down in the original movies and expands the idea of good sportsmanship in the Preds - Or at least their
facade of good sportsmanship. "You won, now I blow myself up. Ha-
ha!" doesn't seem very sporting.
What we get in this new script ... I dunno. It's having its cake, eating it, and then eating someone else's cake too, just to be a dick.