Official PREDATOR thread!

[MaulFan]

BTW, I think a P3 is fine. Bring Cena on.

If they opt for a sequel, cheers to that, but a redo wouldn't be welcome.

 

[King Darkness]

As for remaking Predator, Arnold is by no means a great actor, but his performance is not about being a Tom Hanks, it's about being Arnold. Yes we have people like The Rock and this other guy they're talking about who can be that big muscle guy who can't really act just do kickass action, but I don't think anyone will ever be as entertaining in the roles Arnold was cast in as he was. Casting for the film was actually perfect, you felt like they were a tight unit, Carl Weathers played a ferfect *******, there's no room for a ""better"" cast, so that's one element not to remake. There's the story line, an Alien from outter space comes to earth for a ritualistic hunt. While Halloween may alter the character's core plot, many people hated where the sequels took his background, but with Predator, it's been accepted and loved by the core fans, the Predators perform hunts every so many years and use earth as a hunting ground, no reason to change it. You could argue that the special effects between Predater 1 & 2 and AVP were much improved on the cloaking, but frankly, I don't think they look "cheesy" or "old school" in Predator, it was something not done before so it set the bar of what a transparent, light-bending being would look like and it works, in some scenes you can't even tell where it is if you haven't seen the film 30 times, they did a good job and I even felt AVP moderned the effect up a bit too much. The cast was good, the plot works, the effects were there and creature design was perfect, there is nothing to be reimagined there, nothing that could have been better. A Predator remake wouldn't be about any grand reinvisioning, it's a cult classic film, it's not like a King Kong or Planet of the Apes that stand as Hallmarks of classic films, and remaking it would just be a show by Hollywood that it doesn't care to put any effort into developing original concepts and stories and just thinks everything old should be made new. The only good that could come from a Predator remake is that hopefully it would turn off people and steer them to the original and grow it's following.

Perfectly stated

I agree 100% MaulFan.

 

[MaulFan]

Perfectly stated

I agree 100% MaulFan.

Well there are just some films that succeed the first time around because everything was there and nothing was missing. For example, I can't imagine someone ever remaking JAWS, but I'm sure people have thought about it having the ability to add a CGI shark, which could look better, but frankly, compared to CGI sharks I've seen, I think "Bruce" has stood the test of time, and it was as much the cast of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw that made the movie a great flick to watch and a masterpiece. Predator probably won't ever get the recognition and all that JAWS and others do, but it is still just fine the way it was done, if that's your type of movie, you can watch it and just enjoy every minute of it. I can honestly say, I've never watched Predator or Alien/Aliens or T1/T2 and thought I wish this or that was different, I love them just as they are.

 

[King Darkness]

Well there are just some films that succeed the first time around because everything was there and nothing was missing. For example, I can't imagine someone ever remaking JAWS, but I'm sure people have thought about it having the ability to add a CGI shark, which could look better, but frankly, compared to CGI sharks I've seen, I think "Bruce" has stood the test of time, and it was as much the cast of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw that made the movie a great flick to watch and a masterpiece. Predator probably won't ever get the recognition and all that JAWS and others do, but it is still just fine the way it was done, if that's your type of movie, you can watch it and just enjoy every minute of it. I can honestly say, I've never watched Predator or Alien/Aliens or T1/T2 and thought I wish this or that was different, I love them just as they are.

Again I agree 100%!

 

[MaulFan]

And because it's fitting...

You're one ugly mother****er...

 

[King Darkness]

I think that proto pred looks like an Alien that impregnated a goat. I am not liking that jaw bone.

This should be know as the Goat Alien, kinda like the Dog Alien.

 

[MaulFan]

I think that proto pred looks like an Alien that impregnated a goat.

Now, granted it would be a goat with a face hugger, but my first reaction was imagining a goat and Alien having sex lol, thanks for saying that, great laugh.

 

[p!tu]

And because it's fitting...

You're one ugly mother****er...

OMG!!!! El Chupacabras!!!!!!!!

 

[King Darkness]

OMG!!!! El Chupacabras!!!!!!!!

 

[FACEBOX]

OMG!!!! El Chupacabras!!!!!!!!

Hahahahaha! LOL

 

[galactiboy]

That proto must have found its way onto the Transformers set

 

[Reinhardt]

coming in late to this thread so apologies for the obvious question..

what the hell IS that?? is it from AvP2? Is it supposed to be from the new Predator movie?? those eyes are horrendous.

and galactiboy, although i'm massively psyched for the new Transformers movie, your comment was hilarious!

 

[Mudshark]

Hey Reiny, where ya been buddy? And where the heck are those Pred pics you mentioned a while back? Hope you didn't change your mind, 'cause I'd still like to see 'em...

 

[thundergod]

That wasn't a prototype as such , it was actually used and photographed in the actual movie!! ( And played by Jean Claude Van Damme , if I'm not mistaken ). It was only when it proved impractical for shooting in the jungle (and the fact it looked ****) that a hiatus was taken and Stan Winston (with a tiny bit of help from a Mr J. Cameron ) was drafted in to sort out the design .

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

So that's the Van Damme Predator. I remember hearing about it, but this is the first time I've actually seen it.

Thank goodness that thing didn't work out.

 

[p!tu]

So that's the Van Damme Predator. I remember hearing about it, but this is the first time I've actually seen it.

Thank goodness that thing didn't work out.

you should get the 2 disc Predator so you can see the Screen test of the suit!
it looks like a Power Rangers Bad Guy!!!

Thank God For Stan Winston!!!!

 

[dekadentdave]

Actually it was James Cameron who sketched the design for the Predator when he was on a flight with Stan Winston.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Actually it was James Cameron who sketched the design for the Predator when he was on a flight with Stan Winston.

I thought Stan sketched it but Cameron had the idea for the "mouth"?

 

[p!tu]

Either Way!!! God Bless James & Stan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dekadentdave]

Either Way!!! God Bless James & Stan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, they are the Fathers of the Predator.