Re: the new predators movie!
You'd need to have an absolute idealist epic A-class director, writer and production team and publisher to not make any Alien or Predator film flop in this day. Simply because back in the day, the things you saw in the original films were never seen before - you have yourself a winner when you can successfully merge great directing, design, suspsense and fear of the unfamiliar.
We've seen our fair share of aliens and predators in all sorts of mediums through the decades, it isn't something new for us anymore. And the fact that Hollywood is reproducing classics like Alien, Predator, Robocop and milking Terminator, goes to show that they've run out of good ideas. And if they've run out of ideas, exactly how great can their ideas be for a rehashed franchise? Likely no good.
Gone are the days when visionary filmmakers produced works of art - you can never find another Bladerunner for example. The amount of creative effort that went into that film is just mind boggling. Nowadays, people just wanna make money - they don't give a rat's ass if the film sucks, so long as it brings profit.
And we've got a pansy rating culture these days, which partly has to do with profit as well since the general perception is that a PG-13 rating can garner a higher audience, hence higher earnings. Aliens, predators, robocop and terminators have invaded the children's toy scene... makes sense not to make them PG-13 wouldn't it? Yeah... and that almost always makes films from these horror/sci-fi franchises suck.