I still think the predator's just run a sport hunting safari business where they take out of shape boomer predators to random planets to hunt. Explains why they are beaten by that guy, an Indian chick, an out of shape cop, etc.
He bulked up for the movie. >"He put on twenty-five pounds (11 kg) of muscle for the role, stating that "I want it to be entertaining and part of the ride that people see when they see a movie like that. But that's not really why I'm in it and that's not really what I brought to it. I brought the same kind of discipline that I would to a film like The Pianist."[10] Antal and Rodriguez specifically wanted to avoid casting an actor physically similar to Schwarzenegger, wanting to "go in a very different direction" and reasoning that real-life soldiers are wiry and tough rather than burly.[11] "We thought casting a physically 'Schwarzenegger-esque' character would have done the original film a disservice", said Antal, "and would have done this film a disservice because we are not trying to remake or copy the original film. I told everybody early on that I can make anybody look tough. What I can't do is teach them how to act".[12]
>he couldn't literally beat it to death while it was actively resisting therefore there's no difference between him an a toddler
I'm getting real sick of low iq autists, tell you what
I didn't like how it ended. The way Morpheus described being there for 10 seasons makes it seem like he's been there for a very long time. For Brody's group it was less than 48 hours before the new parachutes come in. Makes Morpheus going crazy a bit odd. Only idea would be that the same group of Predators face multiple sets of prey.
Wasn't the implication that he'd just been there for a few weeks/months and was an unreliable source since he'd lost his marbles/was willing to get them all murdered?
Prey wasn't great but it was absolutely better than actionman Brody, caricature badguy Goggins, bad b***h israelite soldier, serial killer Eric Forman, etc
The plot and characters are like a bad shitpost come to life, I don't know how anyone rates it above a 5/10
The Fishburne part was originally going to be Glover's character in Predator 2 and Arnie was going to appear at the end as the leader of the predators.
Thinking back on it in >current year, it might have been a hidden gem.
That would've been great. I got no respect for arnold after the "frick your freedoms" bit and lying about roids in general, but separating him from the character, that would've been great. Thanks anon, I had no idea.
Only point in the movie Brody is completely intolerable is the end when he's shirtless shouting lines from the original. Did not come off intimidating at all and the shamelessness of the references with him being covered in mud, which isn't even set up in this film if I'm remembering correctly, almost ruin the end for me. Topher Grace and the girl aren't great either, but the twist keeps that blandness of character from derailing the movie.
Genuine morons don't understand that Brody was cast against type and his over the top performance is intentional. The entire movie is basically a parody of Predator and Brody is perfect in that regard. And you can tell he's having a great time which is always a plus.
no he was intentionally cast to avoid trying to be a direct imitation of arnold or pred1. He's also the opposite of dutch as a character, he uses his compatriots as meatshields and in the end runs off leaving them to die.
Yeah, if you're looking to watch a predator movie that is entertaining. Lots of fun moments and interesting characters in concept. Brodie and the main girl aren't good, but everyone else is fun and the premise is fun.
Yes, it’s fun and has some cool scenes and action sequences. Few cool callbacks. Literally every member of the band is based. Especially the russian.
However I thought the ending was unsatisfying. Kinda makes you wonder what they end up doing, just surviving indefinitely? Do they frick? It seemed a little too romantic when brody is caressing the woman’s face and basically pillow talking her after he saves her
I thought the romantic undertones at the end were warranted, that's what happens when an attractive guy and girl go through an intense experience together. Apparently the sequel was going to have them steal a predator ship and they'd have to fight the predators as the ship went back to Earth like "die hard in space" which is actually another fresh concept.
>Predators: Surviving Life. >Surviving Life picks up several weeks afterward. Royce and Isabelle have split up according to Royce’s wishes, but now Royce realizes he needs her help, so he seeks her out and joins back up with her. A romance blooms between the two. At the same time, it becomes apparent that Royce has been designated as some sort of champion by the Predators for defeating any opponents they have set before him. This is indicated by their gift to him of a set of human-specific Predator armor.
If this comic went on they would've tied it to the shitty 2018 movie, where it would reveal that he was the one that made the predator killer armor
Spoilers for the comic: He got that armor and turned into a human predator, defeating a four-arm super predator. Eventually he got Isabelle back to Earth, but then frick off to hunt for sport in his predator-armor. kek
It was entertaining. New predator design was weak. The predators ignoring weapon honor code was also weak. They always seem to sideline the sporting aspect of the predators and I wish they would develop that aspect of them only.
>The predators ignoring weapon honor code was also weak. They always seem to sideline the sporting aspect of the predators >predators weigh twice as much as humans, hand to hand would be no contest in any scenario >counter knives with detachable wolverine blades >counter literally any projectile with heat-seeking flachettes and targeted laser beams >hunt using heat vision and aerial recon no matter what kind of prey they follow >just blow shit up if they ever start losing
Autist fans misunderstood this concept. The predators never intended to fight fair. They just want a challenge. It's like hunting deer with a bow instead of a rifle, or fishing with a pole instead of a net. They're space boomers.
Do they really ignore code in this though? That one took on the Yakuza guy blade to blade and none of the tech they use is absurdly advantageous given how equipped the human group is.
this bugged me too but apparently they took the comic lore wherein the 'superpredators' dont have the honor code like the regular predators do, they're more just having a safari so I can give it a pass on that now.
Prey is a shittier version of the first movie. It would be getting railed in reviews if it had a male lead. WB is just shilling it in full force right now. It will nose dive in ratings and box office next week.
best part of any project he's in, without fail. He'd be a great lead in some underworld Star Wars show if it weren't ran by obese women and israelites.
I remember being pleasantly surprised by it. I was 19 at the time, though. I just thought the premise was really cool and it had a ton of fun moments, like the Russian guy's death, the Yakuza guy sword fight, the one guy being a Dexter-style serial killer etc...
I've always considered it the second best Predator film, but I think the original is the only truly good film in the franchise.
Cinemaphile hated it because the big nerdy looking israelite MC, but it wasn’t bad. In fact the only “bad” Predator is the Shane Black one. 1 is a classic, 2 is kino and only really disliked because Arnie wasn’t the MC, but it expanded the mythos well and the Predator had cool gadgets. Predators was an interesting take if a little unoriginal, it really needed a sequel, and Prey is a good back to basics.
Overall the franchise has been a lot more consistent than the Alien franchise.
Cinemaphile here
I hate it cause it's shit
I liked Brody fine
and it shat the bed with its stupid fanfiction tier ideas
how do you even make sequels to predators it will always have to be about two warring predator faction
No one fricking cares homosexual. Unless you're literally a child or an idiot the opinions of others doesn't mean shit to you. >So and so thought this better change how I view something!
People that actually think this way should be sterilized.
It is overall quite underwhelming but there are a couple you good scenes with kino cinematography out of nowhere. Just enough to give you a sense of the wasted potential.
what happened in the first 20 minutes to keep watching?
I had it open on my second monitor while playing total war and I still got bored during loading screens and put on something else
>Most soldiers aren't fricking giant meatheads
Found the american mutt. Career infantry sodiers are just that. Only young conscripts that are serving for half a year are lanky homosexuals because of barely any weight training in their programme and low caloric diets
You fricking neverserved homosexual. Infantry in particular does not want fricking arny tier meatpiles. It wants lean and durable soldiers that cant withstand long, on foot marches. Carrying around a lot of meat takes its toll on stamina. Even strict army diets reflect that in everybody is losing weight but coupled with the systematic marches stamina goes up.
>Found the american mutt. Career infantry sodiers are just that. Only young conscripts that are serving for half a year are lanky homosexuals because of barely any weight training in their programme and low caloric diets
I just watched it for first time since it came out and as a goggins fan I loved most of it, the vast otherwise is mostly decent besides Topher and the Japanese and Russian were other favorites after goggins
Nope. All predator movies after 2 are shit. All alien movies after 4 are shit. All crossovers are basically summer horror movie with college students on vacation -tier.
especially the end fight is just a lame copy of the original. I was fine with the flick until then but by the point the guy with the giant nose starts smearing mud on himself I noped out.
especially the end fight is just a lame copy of the original. I was fine with the flick until then but by the point the guy with the giant nose starts smearing mud on himself I noped out.
It unironically is a much better movie if you know nothing of the original. Kinda like Terminator 3 and Shyamalan's the Last Airbender
2 ways this movie subverts your expectations: White trash southern probably-racist rapist who says "homosexual" dies a heroic death.
Stoic silent Yakuza reveals that the reason he doesn't speak much isn't because he's just naturally above it all or anything but because he used to be the guy who would talk way too much and he said something he shouldn't have more than once and had to perform yubitsume.
>simple to the point of idiocy >characters look like a Select Your Fighter menu in vidya >very little filler, no time wasted on exposition >fun little twists that pay off well
Love this movie.
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It unironically is a much better movie if you know nothing of the original. Kinda like Terminator 3 and Shyamalan's the Last Airbender
I started with Predators and went backwards from there. Wasn't even really aware of the fandom so I think I was being objective. For me it's Predators > 2 > 1 = AVP
Now I have seen all of the above multiple times and still love them. AvP suffered from the PG-13 rating though
the effects and design of the aliens and predators in the AvP movies are good and cool enough that i still watch them somewhat regularly. not as regularly as my favorite Predator and Alien movies, but i enjoy both. gotta sit through a lot of dumb shit for not a huge payoff, though
It's okay but Adrien Brody as the lead Tough Guy is just bad. He cannot act tough at all, and kind ruins the movie with his performance. Also some of the other actors or characters are not great, like Topher Grace. Also, Goggins character is poorly written ("I LIKE RAPE HEH HEH"), and Fishburne's performance is pretty meh. A who lot of mediocre, but has some okay action scenes and concepts.
>watch Prey last night >predator lifts a grizzly bear over his head
i liked the flick but that nearly ruined it for me. he could've easily crushed the girl's windpipe or even her skull when he got his hands on her.
the twist where one of the guys is there because he's a date rapist or some shit was really dumb, I doubt predators would care to hunt a dude who can't defend himself, has no survival skills and is only really a threat if you let him roofie you.
Other than that the film gets it mostly right. Even though it takes place off planet it feels more in keeping with the universe of the first film that the second. Predator 2 while entertaining in its own right feels more like its taking place robocop than same universe as predator. Honestly The Predator (2018) is the only solo pred film you should avoid like the plague. The rest are all at least watchable.
>the twist where one of the guys is there because he's a date rapist or some shit was really dumb
he was a ted bundy tier serial killer who used manipulation and intelligence to blend in, look weak and frick shit up at his leisure
I feel like that's a little more dangerous than "date rapist"
but whats ted bundy gonna do if you throw him in the jungle and make him fight a predator? his combat specialty is hitting women on the head with a tire iron when they least expect it. Thats not exactly fight worthy
>whats ted bundy gonna do if you throw him in the jungle and make him fight a predator?
I mean, he made it all the way to the end before dying so apparently being ted bundy > being a huge hulked out soldier like the russian and other degenerates who died immediately
right but he only lives that long so he can do the heel turn at the end of act 2 when really he would have been the first to go because his "skill set" is completely fricking useless compared to every other person in the film.
>I doubt predators would care to hunt a dude who can't defend himself, has no survival skills and is only really a threat if you let him roofie you.
The hunter has become the hunted
while predator vs alien is a okay premise all it amounted to on screen was two guys in rubber costumes that clearly couldn't see what they were doing awkwardly slapping/bumping into each other in the dark.
They tried to make the fights look cool but the end result looked more like an episode of power rangers or a punch up at a cosplay convention.
Do you think the predator was shaken by the bigotry involved in being called a Space homosexual? We never discussed how he might've felt. I think we should.
The movie is great. But the end with brody beatsticking a super predator is double-edged for me
on one hand: awesome, on the other though... a israelite in hand to hand combat with a biological death machine?!?! Come the frick on.
when will you Black folk realize that brody isn’t supposed to be playing some macho fantasy version of a mercenary or spec-ops dude but rather a more realistic version?
he’s just an operator dude like that guy with the glasses from the CIA and the sicario guy you dudes cite all the time >he’s not like dutch!!!1
so?
At the very least they could have cast him as a IDF war criminal or something. At least I could respect the honesty then but even so the basis should be a young Benjamin Netanyahu.
I liked it because I think the concept is interesting. An ensemble cast of modern day humanities greatest warriors. It's the exact same reason I thought this dumb show was kinda fun. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a sequel movie with a new batch of human warriors.
That configuration of stars is not present in our solar system, so taking into account that it takes 2 years to get out of the solar system at the speed of light and they didn't complain about age or anything (and possibly wasn't cryogenic-preserved), you can deduct that the space-ships that transported them was some fast motherfricker.
For me 1=2>Predators>Prey. I’m not going to included AVP and AVP:R but I like them and I don’t think they deserved the hate they got. Especially R, it’s a guilty pleasure, and had some horrific scenes.
>avp 2 needs a cut with better lighting
Agreed, from I could hear the movie seemed alright, but I couldn't see frick all, and with a predalien that's a crime.
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At the very least they could have cast him as a IDF war criminal or something. At least I could respect the honesty then but even so the basis should be a young Benjamin Netanyahu.
>Better body than anyone on Cinemaphile at his age
This is what a prime physical specimen looks like agreed
I rewatched that movie because of this thread
I've seen it like six times and this is the first time I realized the reason the blast doesn't kill goggins is because he stole that vest that fishburne told him to stop fricking around with
also pretty based how that character is part of the recurring theme of the movie that helping others gets you killed, nobody would have expected him to have the big sacrifice
>also pretty based how that character is part of the recurring theme of the movie that helping others gets you killed, nobody would have expected him to have the big sacrifice
Friendship is a powerful thing. And he went out with a bang.
Die you space homosexual is arguably the best quote from the entire franchise, too.
Possibly tied with if it bleeds, we can kill it.
He's probably my favorite character in that movie. He was even pissed off that Brody let the black guy get killed at the camp - even though he was trying to kill him a few hours earlier - because he'd saved his life from the dog so he respected him. Goddamn I fricking love Walton Goggins in everything he's in
>Walton Goggins in everything he's in
Good news for you, then: He's the protagonist of the new Fallout series. I'm sure he won't be the goofy guy we expect, but it's better than nothing.
mass murderer >cool guy doesnt afraid of anything calls alien space homosexual. dies for friends
serial killer >beta incel nerd who tries to rape ugly Hispanic. so lonely he tries to be friends with murderous aliens who see him as a gazelle
Imagine how that friendship could have turned out for the russian, I think they made a huge mistake in having him go rapey for the girl instead of turning that seed of trust on it's head.
>either of them
Topher Grace is the one who immediately tried to slowly kill somebody the second he was alone with them, Goggin's character did literally nothing wrong
Just watched the scene where the cartel guy is set in a trap and Goggins character is the first to claim for mercy in his name. They really were setting him up as not as bad as he looked type of guy.
There is a moment when they find the trench dead guy where two characters do something very complimentary to their backstory: Trejo's character does a sign of the cross (he's from the Los Zetas cartel) and the Yakuza guy does a "salute the dead" type of thing by moving his palms together and bowing to the corpse. This type of stuff adds a lot as nuance and it's something that I'm sure you don't have in The Predator because it's such a bad movie in every way.
I liked it. I think movie suffered too much from direct comparison of the french mercenary to Arnold, even though they are two very different characters in every way.
Yup. Its better than Prey
This guy beating a predator
Kek
I still think the predator's just run a sport hunting safari business where they take out of shape boomer predators to random planets to hunt. Explains why they are beaten by that guy, an Indian chick, an out of shape cop, etc.
Adrian Brody and Danny Glover were in far better shape than you, so shut up clown
it's actually the character's stamina and agility that got him the win. Half the fight was already won when the predator got hit by the grenades.
Looks like roided Jerry seinfeld
>out of shape cop
The frick are you talking about? Glover was ripped in that movie.
they talk shit because he wasn't running around shirtless
arnoldhomos are cringe
>2020+2
>morons still think you need to be roided out to beat a Predator
I think you missed the point of the original.
every predator is physically superior to humans so it does not matter
He bulked up for the movie.
>"He put on twenty-five pounds (11 kg) of muscle for the role, stating that "I want it to be entertaining and part of the ride that people see when they see a movie like that. But that's not really why I'm in it and that's not really what I brought to it. I brought the same kind of discipline that I would to a film like The Pianist."[10] Antal and Rodriguez specifically wanted to avoid casting an actor physically similar to Schwarzenegger, wanting to "go in a very different direction" and reasoning that real-life soldiers are wiry and tough rather than burly.[11] "We thought casting a physically 'Schwarzenegger-esque' character would have done the original film a disservice", said Antal, "and would have done this film a disservice because we are not trying to remake or copy the original film. I told everybody early on that I can make anybody look tough. What I can't do is teach them how to act".[12]
dutch can't overpower the predator so being jacked won't help you
>he couldn't literally beat it to death while it was actively resisting therefore there's no difference between him an a toddler
I'm getting real sick of low iq autists, tell you what
>all the israelites seething at this post
lmao
I respect any actor who doesn't conform to Hollywood roiding standards. Including this israelite.
It was him and the female sniper actually. Also the ending implied more predators were coming so they were fricked
I didn't like how it ended. The way Morpheus described being there for 10 seasons makes it seem like he's been there for a very long time. For Brody's group it was less than 48 hours before the new parachutes come in. Makes Morpheus going crazy a bit odd. Only idea would be that the same group of Predators face multiple sets of prey.
Wasn't the implication that he'd just been there for a few weeks/months and was an unreliable source since he'd lost his marbles/was willing to get them all murdered?
If you have an imaginary friend I gotta believe you've been there for at least a year.
Better body than anyone on Cinemaphile at his age
Don't make me post pics of myself.
>Better body than anyone on Cinemaphile at his age
This
He couldn't even be you guys in a fight
>He couldn't even be you guys in a fight
Shapeshifters aren't real so it's kind of obvious
No.
Wrong.
REEEEEeeeeee
Imagine what it's like kissing those lips
Hnnnggg
Frick off. She's mine.
I'll fight you both for her.
It is but I still can’t take that comically israeli looking actor seriously as an action hero.
Fpbp. It's literally the last good Predator movie thanks to a great case and based Robert Rodriguez.
why won't you just have a nice day robert
Contrarian homosexual
No.
Was that the intention like The Star Wars precuels?
No
Prey wasn't great but it was absolutely better than actionman Brody, caricature badguy Goggins, bad b***h israelite soldier, serial killer Eric Forman, etc
The plot and characters are like a bad shitpost come to life, I don't know how anyone rates it above a 5/10
>The plot and characters are like a bad shitpost come to life, I don't know how anyone rates it above a 5/10
This, but for Prey.
I like it
Brody is decent
Nice homages to the original.
The fishburne part should've been arnie though
Why Arnie? You want Arnie to be the guy who betrays and gets vaporized? Itd ruin his legacy.
That's how it was written
Arnie was supposed to be appear at the end as the leader of the predators and Danny Glover was originally going to play Noland
The Fishburne part was originally going to be Glover's character in Predator 2 and Arnie was going to appear at the end as the leader of the predators.
Thinking back on it in >current year, it might have been a hidden gem.
That would've been great. I got no respect for arnold after the "frick your freedoms" bit and lying about roids in general, but separating him from the character, that would've been great. Thanks anon, I had no idea.
He literally admits to taking all kinds of shit in his autobiography.
>Arnie was going to appear at the end as the leader of the predators
That's moronic and makes no sense.
Only point in the movie Brody is completely intolerable is the end when he's shirtless shouting lines from the original. Did not come off intimidating at all and the shamelessness of the references with him being covered in mud, which isn't even set up in this film if I'm remembering correctly, almost ruin the end for me. Topher Grace and the girl aren't great either, but the twist keeps that blandness of character from derailing the movie.
>Like 5 o'clock? b***h raping time!
No, it's worse than Prey
Celebrity obsessed weirdos can't get over their casting choice for the lead, but it's a decent action flick for people with social lives.
Genuine morons don't understand that Brody was cast against type and his over the top performance is intentional. The entire movie is basically a parody of Predator and Brody is perfect in that regard. And you can tell he's having a great time which is always a plus.
>Uh you see this thing is actually shit on purpose
Naw, man he was trying to be le action man at the time and it failed
no he was intentionally cast to avoid trying to be a direct imitation of arnold or pred1. He's also the opposite of dutch as a character, he uses his compatriots as meatshields and in the end runs off leaving them to die.
Would have been great if it didn't acknowledge the first film in any way.
Yeah, if you're looking to watch a predator movie that is entertaining. Lots of fun moments and interesting characters in concept. Brodie and the main girl aren't good, but everyone else is fun and the premise is fun.
Only 2018 isn't worth watching. That one is complete garbage.
Pretty good action movie, better than The Predator
Yes, it’s fun and has some cool scenes and action sequences. Few cool callbacks. Literally every member of the band is based. Especially the russian.
However I thought the ending was unsatisfying. Kinda makes you wonder what they end up doing, just surviving indefinitely? Do they frick? It seemed a little too romantic when brody is caressing the woman’s face and basically pillow talking her after he saves her
I thought the romantic undertones at the end were warranted, that's what happens when an attractive guy and girl go through an intense experience together. Apparently the sequel was going to have them steal a predator ship and they'd have to fight the predators as the ship went back to Earth like "die hard in space" which is actually another fresh concept.
There’s apparently a followup comic where Brody gets a predator’s camo and armor and he and the woman go their separate ways for some reason
link?
>Predators: Surviving Life.
>Surviving Life picks up several weeks afterward. Royce and Isabelle have split up according to Royce’s wishes, but now Royce realizes he needs her help, so he seeks her out and joins back up with her. A romance blooms between the two. At the same time, it becomes apparent that Royce has been designated as some sort of champion by the Predators for defeating any opponents they have set before him. This is indicated by their gift to him of a set of human-specific Predator armor.
man that is some fanfic level shit
If this comic went on they would've tied it to the shitty 2018 movie, where it would reveal that he was the one that made the predator killer armor
>predator killer armor
This sounds like a repressed memory
Fricking awful. Thanks for sharing.
This is me Predators trilogy concept.
Spoilers for the comic: He got that armor and turned into a human predator, defeating a four-arm super predator. Eventually he got Isabelle back to Earth, but then frick off to hunt for sport in his predator-armor. kek
>"die hard in space" which is actually another fresh concept.
Stop talking.
It was entertaining. New predator design was weak. The predators ignoring weapon honor code was also weak. They always seem to sideline the sporting aspect of the predators and I wish they would develop that aspect of them only.
>The predators ignoring weapon honor code was also weak. They always seem to sideline the sporting aspect of the predators
>predators weigh twice as much as humans, hand to hand would be no contest in any scenario
>counter knives with detachable wolverine blades
>counter literally any projectile with heat-seeking flachettes and targeted laser beams
>hunt using heat vision and aerial recon no matter what kind of prey they follow
>just blow shit up if they ever start losing
Autist fans misunderstood this concept. The predators never intended to fight fair. They just want a challenge. It's like hunting deer with a bow instead of a rifle, or fishing with a pole instead of a net. They're space boomers.
I've always thought that the predators that kidnapped them were the ones that doesn't obey the code
Do they really ignore code in this though? That one took on the Yakuza guy blade to blade and none of the tech they use is absurdly advantageous given how equipped the human group is.
this bugged me too but apparently they took the comic lore wherein the 'superpredators' dont have the honor code like the regular predators do, they're more just having a safari so I can give it a pass on that now.
>Contrarians needs to shit on prey so badly that they are now defending the garbage that is Predators.
The only predator I hate is the autism one.
Prey is a shittier version of the first movie. It would be getting railed in reviews if it had a male lead. WB is just shilling it in full force right now. It will nose dive in ratings and box office next week.
>Prey is a shittier version of the first movie.
So predators (2010)
what does WB have to do with it
i bet machete gets killed fast
First one dead
it's worth it for our guy
guy killed his wife
problem?
>racist womaniser
>our guy
Go back
b***h raping guy and have his sister’s breasts as a tattoo.
Basado
FRICKING SPACE homosexual
Can you imagine the squeals of the woke brigade
They'll have to put a disclaimer
>“Man im gonna rape so many b***hes, know what I mean?”
Die you space homosexual is best quote of the film
I can’t believe him & Mahershala Ali were in the movie. They just seem so out of place now
Fricking love that guy. I'm not even racist.
>rapist and serial killer is the most likeable character
Bravo Rodriguez
>5 o' clock: it's b***h raping time!
Had the best death in the film too.
best part of any project he's in, without fail. He'd be a great lead in some underworld Star Wars show if it weren't ran by obese women and israelites.
He's the lead in the new Fallout show. Plays a ghoul.
RAYLAN HELP ME THERES A PREDATOR AFTER ME
Even today he's such an underrated actor. Same with
they both play sociopathic dickheads to perfection
> Die you SPACE homosexual!
The greatest line in American cinema, bar none. I lose my shit every time I hear it.
Way better than Prey. Not a high bar but still
Unironically yes
It's pure kino.
When it came out Cinemaphile hated it. Much of the praise in this thread was literally the opposite at the time.
I remember being pleasantly surprised by it. I was 19 at the time, though. I just thought the premise was really cool and it had a ton of fun moments, like the Russian guy's death, the Yakuza guy sword fight, the one guy being a Dexter-style serial killer etc...
I've always considered it the second best Predator film, but I think the original is the only truly good film in the franchise.
We didn't know what we had
Cinemaphile hated it because the big nerdy looking israelite MC, but it wasn’t bad. In fact the only “bad” Predator is the Shane Black one. 1 is a classic, 2 is kino and only really disliked because Arnie wasn’t the MC, but it expanded the mythos well and the Predator had cool gadgets. Predators was an interesting take if a little unoriginal, it really needed a sequel, and Prey is a good back to basics.
Overall the franchise has been a lot more consistent than the Alien franchise.
Cinemaphile here
I hate it cause it's shit
I liked Brody fine
and it shat the bed with its stupid fanfiction tier ideas
how do you even make sequels to predators it will always have to be about two warring predator faction
No one fricking cares homosexual. Unless you're literally a child or an idiot the opinions of others doesn't mean shit to you.
>So and so thought this better change how I view something!
People that actually think this way should be sterilized.
It's watchable if you go in expecting it to be mediocre.
If you go in expecting it to be good you'll hate it.
Has anybody mentioned that the heavy ajd medic from TF2 show up? Huge minigun wielding russian who becomes best friends with the medic. kino
It is overall quite underwhelming but there are a couple you good scenes with kino cinematography out of nowhere. Just enough to give you a sense of the wasted potential.
Underrated
I tried it once and turned it on 15 minutes in.
No, I started watching it yesterday and couldn't make it past the 20 minute mark, it's VERY bad, and whoever cast Brody should be shot.
I can't imagine hating fun this much. What happened in the first 20 minutes that triggered your autism? I like their meet up personallu
what happened in the first 20 minutes to keep watching?
I had it open on my second monitor while playing total war and I still got bored during loading screens and put on something else
anyone who watches a show or movie while multitasking is a moron whose opinions need disregarded
rewatched it recently still loved it
You people are fricking idiots. Brody was great. Most soldiers aren't fricking giant meatheads and his stature has no barring on his performance.
>Most soldiers aren't fricking giant meatheads
Found the american mutt. Career infantry sodiers are just that. Only young conscripts that are serving for half a year are lanky homosexuals because of barely any weight training in their programme and low caloric diets
You fricking neverserved homosexual. Infantry in particular does not want fricking arny tier meatpiles. It wants lean and durable soldiers that cant withstand long, on foot marches. Carrying around a lot of meat takes its toll on stamina. Even strict army diets reflect that in everybody is losing weight but coupled with the systematic marches stamina goes up.
he's a euro with mandatory service so his army is full of limp wristed soiboys
>Found the american mutt. Career infantry sodiers are just that. Only young conscripts that are serving for half a year are lanky homosexuals because of barely any weight training in their programme and low caloric diets
Yeah. Movie is kino when they're all teleported from the sky into an empty field and suddenly there's a dozen predator lazers on Brody
it has a lot of over the top cringe, but if thats what youre looking for, then yes
can't be as cringy as the gay zoomer injun disney movie
I saw this recently and liked it. Great cast of characters.
I just watched it for first time since it came out and as a goggins fan I loved most of it, the vast otherwise is mostly decent besides Topher and the Japanese and Russian were other favorites after goggins
Movie becomes certified kino when Fishburne shows up whispering
Nope. All predator movies after 2 are shit. All alien movies after 4 are shit. All crossovers are basically summer horror movie with college students on vacation -tier.
it's the ONLY other good Predator movie.
a distant 2nd but still 2nd
Prey and predator 2 are both decent
I liked it. might watch it tonight.
It's basically a worse version of the first movie.
especially the end fight is just a lame copy of the original. I was fine with the flick until then but by the point the guy with the giant nose starts smearing mud on himself I noped out.
It unironically is a much better movie if you know nothing of the original. Kinda like Terminator 3 and Shyamalan's the Last Airbender
2 ways this movie subverts your expectations:
White trash southern probably-racist rapist who says "homosexual" dies a heroic death.
Stoic silent Yakuza reveals that the reason he doesn't speak much isn't because he's just naturally above it all or anything but because he used to be the guy who would talk way too much and he said something he shouldn't have more than once and had to perform yubitsume.
Those were the best characters along with the Russian. Brody would probably be 4th best even though he gets a lot of hate here
Its one of those movies I want to like but its so boring except for Goggins and Fishburne rambling for 10 minutes and then dying
>simple to the point of idiocy
>characters look like a Select Your Fighter menu in vidya
>very little filler, no time wasted on exposition
>fun little twists that pay off well
Love this movie.
Not realy. Brody is pretty good playing tough guy. But is just expansive fan fiction.
I prefered Predator 2 but always had a soft spot for this one
Royce isn't Dutch but goddamn that mf was cunning as hell in this movie
Predator 2 is the best one in the franchise and I'm tired of pretending its not.
Buy far the coolest aesthetic and Predator design.
it is and i never had to pretend otherwise
I started with Predators and went backwards from there. Wasn't even really aware of the fandom so I think I was being objective. For me it's Predators > 2 > 1 = AVP
Now I have seen all of the above multiple times and still love them. AvP suffered from the PG-13 rating though
>and I'm tired of pretending its not.
and that stupid homosexual sentence confirms you as a moron
I've always maintained that Predator 1 = best in terms of the human characters and Predator 2 = best from the predator's perspective
you see that hack name on the poster?
that's your answer
Predator 1 > AVP 1 > Prey > Predators >>>> All other Predator movies
Predator 1 > Predators > Prey > Predator 2 >ALL others
Don't be putting that AvP garbage in with the rest of them
But AVP 1 is kino though
It really isn't, It's better than "AvP 2"
and it's better than "The Predator"
but it is so far behind the others.
AvP is far better than Predator 2.
frick no
it's shit and avp2 is better
>avp2 is better
Caravan of Garbage tier opinion
This. I was amazed at how great AvP2 was after hearing years of negativity about it
Literally a perfect AvP movie. Great characters, setting, action and aesthetic
Based
fricking masterpiece
Spoiler it gayet, not everyone has seen it
the effects and design of the aliens and predators in the AvP movies are good and cool enough that i still watch them somewhat regularly. not as regularly as my favorite Predator and Alien movies, but i enjoy both. gotta sit through a lot of dumb shit for not a huge payoff, though
I have grown much more fond of it over the years
AvP is a fantastic film, though.
Hell yeah. Only other good predatoe movie.
I miss Alice Braga.
It was fine
its alright.
It's okay but Adrien Brody as the lead Tough Guy is just bad. He cannot act tough at all, and kind ruins the movie with his performance. Also some of the other actors or characters are not great, like Topher Grace. Also, Goggins character is poorly written ("I LIKE RAPE HEH HEH"), and Fishburne's performance is pretty meh. A who lot of mediocre, but has some okay action scenes and concepts.
It is fine for a hungover weekend viewing and little else
>watch Prey last night
>predator lifts a grizzly bear over his head
i liked the flick but that nearly ruined it for me. he could've easily crushed the girl's windpipe or even her skull when he got his hands on her.
Alice Braga is CUTE
p1 = p2. simple as. end of.
No. It's better than Prey.
>shit cast
>Shit setting
>Shut aesthetic
>Shit action
Yeah, nah
AvP2 is actually 10/10 however
Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. You want your butthole demolished, you low-iq troony?
Bad movie. Only the first Predator is actually good.
Fishburne was wasted in this. Also I wanted russian guy to fight Predator by hand before dying.
god this movie was awesome
I have to rewatch it
>die you space homosexual
all it needed were some cool pred scenes but there werent any. i only care about cool pred scenes.
the twist where one of the guys is there because he's a date rapist or some shit was really dumb, I doubt predators would care to hunt a dude who can't defend himself, has no survival skills and is only really a threat if you let him roofie you.
Other than that the film gets it mostly right. Even though it takes place off planet it feels more in keeping with the universe of the first film that the second. Predator 2 while entertaining in its own right feels more like its taking place robocop than same universe as predator. Honestly The Predator (2018) is the only solo pred film you should avoid like the plague. The rest are all at least watchable.
>the twist where one of the guys is there because he's a date rapist or some shit was really dumb
he was a ted bundy tier serial killer who used manipulation and intelligence to blend in, look weak and frick shit up at his leisure
I feel like that's a little more dangerous than "date rapist"
but whats ted bundy gonna do if you throw him in the jungle and make him fight a predator? his combat specialty is hitting women on the head with a tire iron when they least expect it. Thats not exactly fight worthy
>whats ted bundy gonna do if you throw him in the jungle and make him fight a predator?
I mean, he made it all the way to the end before dying so apparently being ted bundy > being a huge hulked out soldier like the russian and other degenerates who died immediately
right but he only lives that long so he can do the heel turn at the end of act 2 when really he would have been the first to go because his "skill set" is completely fricking useless compared to every other person in the film.
AvP2 is as bad as The Predator or worse. I was drunk by the end of both so hard to say
>I doubt predators would care to hunt a dude who can't defend himself, has no survival skills and is only really a threat if you let him roofie you.
The hunter has become the hunted
It must be so exhausting having to pretend in every thread that AvP 1 isn't kino. It's the same tired reddit opinion over and over again.
Big agree. It’s always been kino. Easily the best after the original and 2.
while predator vs alien is a okay premise all it amounted to on screen was two guys in rubber costumes that clearly couldn't see what they were doing awkwardly slapping/bumping into each other in the dark.
They tried to make the fights look cool but the end result looked more like an episode of power rangers or a punch up at a cosplay convention.
Also it had no business being pg13.
The fact this is all true yet it’s still better than anything made since is pretty damning
yea
Yes but only once.
>This is never in the movie
I went to the cinema specifically for this scene you homosexuals.
There were definitely more in the original trailer.
Do you think the predator was shaken by the bigotry involved in being called a Space homosexual? We never discussed how he might've felt. I think we should.
It's garbage
the lead is a homosexual and the predator suit and the entire last fight look like silly shit
only 1 and 2 are worth watching
2 is garbage besides the mexican gang scene.
Shit take, 2 is the best come at me arnoldgays
it is
Frick yes! It's so badass! I like the part where he has his lasers pointing on him and the dude is like shit he got me!
It's kind of by the numbers and plays things a little too safe, but it's better than most.
Better than predator 2
The movie is great. But the end with brody beatsticking a super predator is double-edged for me
on one hand: awesome, on the other though... a israelite in hand to hand combat with a biological death machine?!?! Come the frick on.
kino flick
when will you Black folk realize that brody isn’t supposed to be playing some macho fantasy version of a mercenary or spec-ops dude but rather a more realistic version?
he’s just an operator dude like that guy with the glasses from the CIA and the sicario guy you dudes cite all the time
>he’s not like dutch!!!1
so?
I wish Noland had survived.
At the very least they could have cast him as a IDF war criminal or something. At least I could respect the honesty then but even so the basis should be a young Benjamin Netanyahu.
Seethe burgerstinian
It's alright. Should have made Laurence Fishburne or Danny Trejo the main character.
It’s forgettable. AVP is better.
I liked it because I think the concept is interesting. An ensemble cast of modern day humanities greatest warriors. It's the exact same reason I thought this dumb show was kinda fun. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a sequel movie with a new batch of human warriors.
It's shit but has one of the most kino scenes in sci-fi history
>guys why didn't we notice weird sky before
Because of the JUNGLE you fricking tard, the fricking trees. Are you braindead?
Fricking piece of shit
there's no sky in the jungle?
That configuration of stars is not present in our solar system, so taking into account that it takes 2 years to get out of the solar system at the speed of light and they didn't complain about age or anything (and possibly wasn't cryogenic-preserved), you can deduct that the space-ships that transported them was some fast motherfricker.
You're a fat greasy basement dwelling parasite, and you're judging what a "worthy adversary" is? KEK
yes, unexpectedly entertaining
For me 1=2>Predators>Prey. I’m not going to included AVP and AVP:R but I like them and I don’t think they deserved the hate they got. Especially R, it’s a guilty pleasure, and had some horrific scenes.
agree
avp 2 needs a cut with better lighting and it would instantly be bumped with a point or two
>avp 2 needs a cut with better lighting
Agreed, from I could hear the movie seemed alright, but I couldn't see frick all, and with a predalien that's a crime.
Still waiting for a terminator vs predator movie. But this was pretty good
This is what a prime physical specimen looks like agreed
Lmaaooooooooooooo it was the israelite!!!
Once because it's a predator and not so bad.
this one is preddy gud
I rewatched that movie because of this thread
I've seen it like six times and this is the first time I realized the reason the blast doesn't kill goggins is because he stole that vest that fishburne told him to stop fricking around with
also pretty based how that character is part of the recurring theme of the movie that helping others gets you killed, nobody would have expected him to have the big sacrifice
>also pretty based how that character is part of the recurring theme of the movie that helping others gets you killed, nobody would have expected him to have the big sacrifice
Friendship is a powerful thing. And he went out with a bang.
He's probably my favorite character in that movie. He was even pissed off that Brody let the black guy get killed at the camp - even though he was trying to kill him a few hours earlier - because he'd saved his life from the dog so he respected him. Goddamn I fricking love Walton Goggins in everything he's in
>Walton Goggins in everything he's in
Good news for you, then: He's the protagonist of the new Fallout series. I'm sure he won't be the goofy guy we expect, but it's better than nothing.
He plays a ghoul too I read, my hopes on that show ride solely on him because it sounds like such a fantastic premise
Die you space homosexual is arguably the best quote from the entire franchise, too.
Possibly tied with if it bleeds, we can kill it.
mass murderer
>cool guy doesnt afraid of anything calls alien space homosexual. dies for friends
serial killer
>beta incel nerd who tries to rape ugly Hispanic. so lonely he tries to be friends with murderous aliens who see him as a gazelle
Yeah. Just don't be alone with either of them and you are fine.
Imagine how that friendship could have turned out for the russian, I think they made a huge mistake in having him go rapey for the girl instead of turning that seed of trust on it's head.
>either of them
Topher Grace is the one who immediately tried to slowly kill somebody the second he was alone with them, Goggin's character did literally nothing wrong
Just watched the scene where the cartel guy is set in a trap and Goggins character is the first to claim for mercy in his name. They really were setting him up as not as bad as he looked type of guy.
Stan just wanted to rape b***hes and snort yay.
There is a moment when they find the trench dead guy where two characters do something very complimentary to their backstory: Trejo's character does a sign of the cross (he's from the Los Zetas cartel) and the Yakuza guy does a "salute the dead" type of thing by moving his palms together and bowing to the corpse. This type of stuff adds a lot as nuance and it's something that I'm sure you don't have in The Predator because it's such a bad movie in every way.
I liked it. I think movie suffered too much from direct comparison of the french mercenary to Arnold, even though they are two very different characters in every way.
It’s worth watching once. Good fun.
Who's your daddy now!?!? BOOMMMM!
DIE, YOU SPACE homosexual