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Okay MadCardDisease, I'll go for you since you haven't checked the forum lately
No Amazon.com synopsis needed. If you haven't seen it go rent it.
Basic plot: A crack team of special forces soldiers in a south American jungle are hunted by a mysterious alien creature.
Unfortunately, that cookie-cutter plotline has become a staple of crappy direct-to-video movies and Sci-Fi Original Pictures. Substitute in genetically-enhanced Raptors, genetically-enhanced Komodo dragons, or a Chupacabra for the alien and voila! You have a crappy sci-fi/action movie!
As the trailblazer for this sub-genre, Predator did it right. Even with the stereotypical "crack team of special forces soldiers". Despite the presence of Hawkins (screenwriter Shane Black), who looked like he would have a hard time with Boy Scouts let alone special forces training, the group just felt right for this kind of movie. Jesse Ventura steals every scene he's in. Bill Duke is exceptional as well. So what if they follow no conventions of special forces warfare or display any hints of reconaissance training - the fast-paced action, the genuine tension, and the incredible special effects more than make up for the little flaws.
Of course the highlight of the film is the Predator itself. From the cicada-esque growling, to its replaying of dialogue it has heard, to its thermal-vision, the Predator definitely stands out as one of the creepiest and most effective sci-fi villains ever. The fact that you never get a chance to see it until the very end of the film helps out quite a bit - especially considering the makeup effects Stan Winston did for the unmasked Predator - wow!
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Originally posted by Brian in Mesa Any opinion on the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator?
Seeing as it's being written and directed by Paul "I wrote and directed Resident Evil" Anderson, who didn't bring in Stan Winston for special effects on AVP, I'm not expecting too much. I mean it takes place in Antartica - didn't they say in Predator that Predators don't like cold places?
But I'll be there to see it opening day.
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All I remember about the Predator is that they came to earth when it is hot. Now that could be a seasonal thing not just because they like heat.
I think in Predator 2 they wanted to trap him in the cold warehouse because they thought he could only see in infa-red and were trying to hide their heat signatures.
Anyway good choice.
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McTiernan Doing a Predator Restart? Source: Latino Review
February 8, 2005
Latino Review has an interesting rumor saying that Fox is looking to restart the Predator franchise:
Twentieth Century Fox are in talks with John McTiernan to do a new Predator film - not a sequel, not a remake, not a prequel; more of a restart. There's talk - based on a treatment that's floating around the traps - that it might fix on Dutch's (the guy from the first film, played by Arnold) grown-up commando kid.
How is it not a sequel if it involves the grown-up son of a character from the first film?
C'mon, just name it Predator 3 already.
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Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, From Dusk till Dawn) had written a screenplay for Predator(s) 3 that would have taken humans to the Predators' home planet. It was supposed to have sucked pretty hard, though, and eventually dropped.
Any comic book geeks know that the Predator had some awesome sequels come to life through the Dark Horse comics. My favorites were Predator: Cold War (w/ Dutch!), Predator: Big Game (Predator vs. the U.S. Army), Predator vs. Batman (very cool despite sounding cheesy) and one that was very good where the Predator is hunting convicts inside a maximum security prison in Arizona.
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The original Predator is sick! Carl Weathers is ripped. Ol ex-Governer Ventura is awesome in that. I liked the Indian guy who knew they were going to die.
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