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[prefused]

Unless you're a true Predator fan

or just a Star Wars/Trek fan who thinks Predator has any real cannon continuity outside the movies.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

or just a Star Wars/Trek fan who thinks Predator has any real cannon continuity outside the movies.

If it's good, I'll take it.

I'm not one of the up-tight arrogant retards who say anything that's not Predator 87, or Alien 79 is garbage.
I like different stories, different ideas. Some go too far, some don't. This didn't, it was enjoyable and I accept it.

 

[prefused]

what you like is beside the point. there is no Predator universe outside the movies, period. there is no George Lucas to maintain an official cannon. all the games, comics, novels, etc are essentially fan-fiction. that means i could call predators "bloodfarts" and that makes it just as official as "yautja". it wasn't in the movies, so it doesn't matter at all. if somebody in a future Predator movie calls them "yautja" or "hish", (that's another made up "official" name) i'll go with it. until then, none of that makes you or anybody a "true fan".

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Oh I know that it isn't cannon, and the "true fan" thing was mostly a joke...

 

[sprig0701]

but those are all rules you made up.

Well apparently you need to re-watch P1. Preferably when Anna specifically states "They are drawn by heat and conflict". And also, remember that part where Dutch figures out it only attacks armed adversaries, and turns and kicks the weapon out of her hand? I in now way, shape or form made any of the rules up, but I can at least remember the ground work laid out in the first Predator.

So at what part of Predators does Royce kick a scalpel out of the pansy doc's hand to prevent him from giving one of the Preds a superficial wound?

 

[sprig0701]

Anything with the word "Yautja" in it is a complete fail.

Unless you're a true Predator fan

Agreed with Sabres. The Preds are only referred to as the Yautja in the AvP novels (if I'm correct), and very few people actually know that because it was never anything announced to the masses in movie-land. I actually had to look it up on-line a few years back to see why the hell people were calling them that, and I've been a die-hard Predator fan since the original theatrical trailer release.

So, there are Predator fans whom have, and ones who haven't, read any of the Predator/Alien fiction.

 

[Greenblood72]

It's easy to settle this, if we agree that Predators is indeed cannon, which it must be because the events of the first film are prominently referred to, than Isabelle states in the film "We don't have a name for them."

Thus they were never called Yautja , Hish or anything else by the humans in the film universe.

 

[jonny88]

This is why he is one of the top actors in the world today.

l don't like christian Bale at all. he seems like an A-hole in real life. plus he is like Madonna, he can't make up his mind on what his real voice is like. l see him do interviews and he sounds Australian, then in some he sounds American. though it's pretty insane the things he dose to his body, getting scary skinny then ripped, then scary skinny then ripped again.

Bale ruined the Batman films for me. he looks the part but the Batman vioce he did just made me laugh and shake my head everytime he opened his mouth. the only movie l really liked with him was "The Fighter", he was great in that.

 

[Greenblood72]

What got me about him in the Batman movies is that, as Batman, he continued to speak that way to people who already knew who he was lol.

I just kept thinking to myself "Dude, Fox knows your Bruce Wayne, you can speak normally around him." lol.

 

[sprig0701]

"The Fighter", he was great in that.

What got me about him in the Batman movies is that, as Batman, he continued to speak that way to people who already knew who he was lol.

I just kept thinking to myself "Dude, Fox knows your Bruce Wayne, you can speak normally around him." lol.

There are studies about how when people wear costumes or uniforms they take on another persona, which would be why he did that. When he's in costume, he's no longer Bruce Wayne anymore, he's Batman. To me, it would have been ridiculous if he talked "normally" when in costume. That's just my opinion, though, but glad they did that in the movies.

 

[a-dev]

Michael Keaton spoke normally while in the Bat costume near the end when he says the Joker's phrase back to him - ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.

 

[jonny88]

What got me about him in the Batman movies is that, as Batman, he continued to speak that way to people who already knew who he was lol.

I just kept thinking to myself "Dude, Fox knows your Bruce Wayne, you can speak normally around him." lol.

haha. Batman Begins and the Dark Knight were on Saturday and l said the exact same thing to myself.

l agree with Spig that he should have a little deeper voice when in costume were he is now Batman, but Bale took the voice to a rediculas extent and just made it laughable, if l was directing him l would say, "wow man tone it down a little".

 

[Greenblood72]

Must be a psychological thing, similar to when you're talking on the phone with someone who's whispering and for no reason at all you begin whispering too lol.

 

[prefused]

Well apparently you need to re-watch P1. Preferably when Anna specifically states "They are drawn by heat and conflict". And also, remember that part where Dutch figures out it only attacks armed adversaries, and turns and kicks the weapon out of her hand? I in now way, shape or form made any of the rules up, but I can at least remember the ground work laid out in the first Predator.

So at what part of Predators does Royce kick a scalpel out of the pansy doc's hand to prevent him from giving one of the Preds a superficial wound?

that's still just your interpretation. none of the movies specifically laid out any rules-of-engagement for predators. they're not in a zombie movie where you shoot them in the head, and they're not mogwais that you don't feed after midnight. even if those were the rules in the first movie, it doesn't matter because the ones in Predators used completely different tactics. similar setting, totally different situation.

 

[jonny88]

that's still just your interpretation. none of the movies specifically laid out any rules-of-engagement for predators. they're not in a zombie movie where you shoot them in the head, and they're not mogwais that you don't feed after midnight. even if those were the rules in the first movie, it doesn't matter because the ones in Predators used completely different tactics. similar setting, totally different situation.

well l agree with the other guy. the first 2 pred movies laid out rules. the predators only killed people who were armed and a threat. they said this in the first predator. then in the second the predator was ready to blow away the littles kid but realized the gun was fake and he was not a threat. then all the people on the train were killed because they were armed.

they should of mentioned in Predators that it was an all out hunt and didn't matter whether they were armed or not. Predators was bad for explaining what was going on.

 

[Greenblood72]

I've always looked at Preds as being a lot like we are, we all have different personalities and traits that differentiate us from one another.

Some Preds, like the one in the first film, follow a certain code of conduct and ethics when on a hunt, he liked to keep it fair and only kill those who have a reasonable chance of fighting back.

Others, again like us, are just _______s out looking for a good time like the ones in Predators lol.

 

[jayiw]

Yautja-hoo. It's Yoo-hoo, but for Predators.

 

[prefused]

well l agree with the other guy. the first 2 pred movies laid out rules. the predators only killed people who were armed and a threat. they said this in the first predator. then in the second the predator was ready to blow away the littles kid but realized the gun was fake and he was not a threat. then all the people on the train were killed because they were armed.

they should of mentioned in Predators that it was an all out hunt and didn't matter whether they were armed or not. Predators was bad for explaining what was going on.

well by that definition, they're not very consistent in following their own rules. an old stoned jamaican guy with a cane-sword isn't much more of a threat than a serial killer with a scalpal. and Billy was killed when all he had was a bush knife that wouldn't do much to a pred that can brush off having a shotgun emptied into it.

 

[jonny88]

well by that definition, they're not very consistent in following their own rules. an old stoned jamaican guy with a cane-sword isn't much more of a threat than a serial killer with a scalpal. and Billy was killed when all he had was a bush knife that wouldn't do much to a pred that can brush off having a shotgun emptied into it.

hey. you saying a machete/bush knife or small sword isn't a threat to a predator. didn't one of those gay predators in Predators die by a sword with a little asain on the other end. sound dangerous too me. so they will attack when someon has one of those regardless who is on the other end.

 

[CelticPredator]

Uh, the New Preds in Predators werent normal Predators.... They didnt need to follow the previous rules. I dont know why this was a hard concept to get.

And fear, it's called Getting Into Character.... And thats what Bale does. Hence why his voice changes.