Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jan 17, 2018, 10:04:03 PM
And just to talk about people who want to root for a predator, Spoiler
i think they could do that with this movie, i found myself personnally rooting quite a bit for the first pred that crashes in the jungle
Why is that?
As to the idea of depicting the Predators in the right light, well, for one it is always bad form to use the old big bad to make your new big bad look biggerer and badderer. With few exceptions, this almost always alienates fans.
Two, the problem with the Predator franchises is that the first film did a really good job of making Dutch and his team a group of really likable, macho, charismatic guys. This made the Predator seem even more imposing, if even these guys barely stand any kind of a chance, then anyone else is in real trouble. So you're not rooting for this invisible killer, you're rooting for the guys you've gotten to know for the first 40 minutes of screen time.
Predator 2, things get a little shaky, because most of the Predator's body count is either criminals or antagonistic government agents. (The El Scorpio guys, the Colombian drug lord guys, the faceless commuters, and the O.W.L.F. capture team.). So what happens when you're watching the Monster slaughter people you don't really like or care for? Your interest as an audience member is going to fall back to the creature and the interesting stuff it's doing, and the spectacle. Predator 2 has some great "stuff" but most of the body count is inherently disposable. It turns focus to the Predator as much more of a Jason Vorhees slasher where the fun is derived from watching it slaughter people.
Then you get to AVP, between the Alien and the Predator the only one we have any chance of communicating with on the same level if the Predator. Scar is the anti-hero of the story. He's still shown gutting humans like nobody's business, but he's also Alexa's only hope.
Then you have Predators, which communicated the aforementioned sin of making the "old" Predators look not-so-great by having the ever-so-awesome super-duper-over-hyped predators literally decapitating them mortal combat style.
Personally, I think, what the series needs is a back-to-basics approach. Or continuing on the very narrow thread left by Predator 2 of humans trying to turn-the-tables on the Predator species. The macro-story of the entire franchise; Hunted becoming Hunter.