JAYSUS!!!
Why does it honestly matter if RR respects P2 or not? All I am concerned about is if he makes a good Predator movie.
He can bad mouth P2 as much as he likes as long as he concentrates on delievering a good Predator movie. The early signs looks positive and it appears that he trully has gone "back to roots" and created a story about what Preadtors are really about; decadent, evil and remorseless intergalatic bad-asses who enjoy hunting and killing humans for sports. In my oponion, the failure of all films since the original is that they failed to protray the most important selling point of the Predator franchise properly, "THE HUNT"!!!
P2 had some cool lines (mostly by the Jamaican..."f**kin Voodo Magic Man!!") but with the exception of the last 30 minutes (i.e. Harrigan chasing Pussyface) it was a piss poor movie with no tension, suspence, poorly acted (apart from Glover) and directed. I applaud them for trying something different but it failed imo. A Predator movie will only work if the story is about "The Hunt", Predators are the bad guys and involves a group of humans or other species trapped in a claustaphobic environment driven insane as each commrade is being picked off and brutally murdered one by one. To be honest, despite what RR says and no matter how succesfull Predators is, I dont expect any more sequels or at least succesfull ones unless someone can protray the "The Hunt" in a novel and different way.