Hologram AI
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The problem is, you're just never gonna get another Jungle Predator from Hollywood. You just won't. This isn't even exclusive to early 80/90s properties but even today, you can't get two movies back to back without characters changing their look or costume. Companies want to sell toys, they want to be different from stuff that has come before, they want their version to stand on it's own, they want more creative freedom, etc etc. There is no Predator movie that we'll ever get that will reuse the Jungle Predator design. Studios just have no interest in doing so. They always have the need to do something new and fresh. At least with Prey, the overall movie goes back to what the first movie was about, unlike all the **** Predator movies we've gotten since 2. Whether you like the design or not, is of course personal preference but getting another Jungle Predator that isn't anything more than a cameo, is a long lost dream.So much this. I'm tired of them trying to reinvent the Predator.
They did it in Predators with the "Super Preds", they did it in The Predator with the "Assassin" Pred and they did it with "Feral" in Prey.
I know the "Fugitive" Pred and the captured "Classic" in Predators are meant to be Winston style Preds but they don't match the quality of Winston's work.
We haven't had a expertly produced classic Winston style Pred since P2.
Instead of constantly churning out these mutant Preds, I wish they could produce a classic Pred, to Stan Winston's standard.
Play around with the skin colouring, armour etc. But no more drastically altered anatomy please.
Just look at Alien, Robocop and Terminator. Now we have 20 different Alien types, a rebooted Robocop design and we can't even get an Endoskeleton that stays consistent from one movie to another. I agree with what you're saying too. I wish they would stay closer to the core design structure of the Jungle Predator and not go so extreme but at the same time, they do have room to play with seeing as it's a creature that they can excuse as having multiple sub-species under, resulting in there being various designs. Studios aren't really tied by a mandate that tells them, "You NEED to make the Jungle Predator again but slightly change its bells and whistles".
At the very least, I'm happy Prey was a Predator movie that went back to form. The design for the Predator might not be to everyone's taste but at least the overall movie wasn't a complete **** show like what Shane Black was doing with his movie.
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