Quote from: Xerxész on Aug 25, 2018, 03:56:49 PM
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 25, 2018, 03:05:29 PM
Don't really care about all the fan stuff if it's built in a bad movie.
That was AvPR.
Spot on.
I know the Predator film that I would want to make, but Shane Black isn't me. I don't wanna see "my" movie, I wanna see
his movie, just like I saw McTiernan's, Hopkins', Rodriguez/Antal's. That's what make movies great. I didn't watch the first Predator thinking "boy this movie better be have these things I love or else...". If Shane were to treat movies just for what the fans want, this would never go anywhere actually good, it would be just another soulless thing that only the fans would get and wouldn't even be able to justify its existence besides "oh just because the fans want it". That's AVPR right there. Had AVPR had a good director behind it, same story, decent actors, more character work and a decent ending to the battle... It still would have been a pretty mediocre movie, because it adds absolutely nothing to the mythos, it doesn't attempt to do anything new even as a movie by itself. It would be just a fun compilation of fanservice. Say what you want about AVP1 or Predators, but those movies tried to work with the material and add something new there, even if just a little. AVPR satisfies me as a Predator fan, because shit I actually love Wolf - but it absolutely lets me down as a movie viewer, and after that little experience I have no second thoughts on which I prefer The Predator to be.
Goddamn I'll stop writing so much.
