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Phylodox posted:Remake Ocean’s Eleven except one of Ocean’s eleven is a Predator. No one acknowledges this. Did you miss the part where Casey Affleck was in the movie?
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Remake bad movies with good concepts! It’s why Oceans Eleven is the best remake! also The Thing, and Dredd (to an extent, as they're more re-attempts than re-makes, but whatever)
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May 23, 2021 22:36
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Predator doesn't need a remake. Just stand alone movies. There is no need for a continued storyline. Just have a predator movie show up in different places during different times in history.
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May 23, 2021 22:39
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Adapt Concrete Jungle you cowards!
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May 23, 2021 22:44
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Highlander 2 is doodoo-rear end.
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May 23, 2021 23:11
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It's remarkable how difficult it has been for directors to make something good out of the "Predator" formula (or alien formula after Alien 2) It's literally just "scary alien hunts people in cool settings" but yet we get all these sequels completely failing to make something interesting or fun with it
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May 23, 2021 23:21
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Collapsing Farts posted:It's remarkable how difficult it has been for directors to make something good out of the "Predator" formula (or alien formula after Alien 2) We already had "jungle" and "90's city". The hell with it, Predator in the John Wick universe. Who cares, just make it cool.
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May 23, 2021 23:23
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The movies become bad when they take the biting commentary and satire out. The "IPs" have become parodies of themselves.
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May 23, 2021 23:30
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Predator 2 was a good sequel that's just not as good as the original. I thought Predators was okay, too.
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May 23, 2021 23:30
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Romance of the Three Predators Sengoku Predator Predators of the Roses
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May 23, 2021 23:32
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Homora Gaykemi posted:Romance of the Three Predators The Once and Future Predator
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May 23, 2021 23:36
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Predator vs Predator. It's about a Predator couple going through divorce and the impact on their lives and on their son, Chestbuster.
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May 23, 2021 23:40
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I still haven't seen the Shane Black Predator film, but I was shocked to hear that it turned out to be really bad. From the trailers it looked like it could be a fun action film. Plus, "hardened convicts vs. monster" is a killer premise for an action flick. Real bummer 
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May 23, 2021 23:58
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Collapsing Farts posted:It's remarkable how difficult it has been for directors to make something good out of the "Predator" formula (or alien formula after Alien 2) That is why people don't make anything good from it. They just try to do "Cool alien hunts things" and that doesn't work without the surrounding context and themes.
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May 24, 2021 00:04
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JordanKai posted:I still haven't seen the Shane Black Predator film, but I was shocked to hear that it turned out to be really bad. From the trailers it looked like it could be a fun action film. Plus, "hardened convicts vs. monster" is a killer premise for an action flick. Real bummer
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May 24, 2021 00:05
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JordanKai posted:I still haven't seen the Shane Black Predator film, but I was shocked to hear that it turned out to be really bad. From the trailers it looked like it could be a fun action film. Plus, "hardened convicts vs. monster" is a killer premise for an action flick. Real bummer Oh GOD. Is that one.  Is the one where one character is an autistic kid and happens to be a caricature of actual autistic children, and at the end gets magically "cured". 
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May 24, 2021 00:12
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Codependent Poster posted:Predator 2 was a good sequel that's just not as good as the original. I thought Predators was okay, too. Yeah I've enjoyed all the Predators except 4, but basically ranked in release order with 1&2 close together. Why they thought they needed a kid character in a predator movie is a mystery and also yay autism stereotypes
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May 24, 2021 00:24
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Desperado Bones posted:Oh GOD. Yes, and he has the autistic superpower of being really good at puzzles or cryptography or whatever. Also there is a character who has Tourette's and it's about the worst thing I've ever seen. Felt really stupid trying to assure my friends "Man, it's Shane Black doing a Predator film, how can it be at least not watchable?" WELP. It's also got the thing where Olivia Munn understandably wanted a registered sex offender's scene cut and her costars giving her crap about it because of course.
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May 24, 2021 00:31
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Outside of Munn being rightfully pissed Shane Black put his sex offender friend in the movie, all I know about that Predator movie is a gif I saw of Sterling K. Brown's death scene, which was just about the most Shane Black thing possible.
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May 24, 2021 00:34
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Desperado Bones posted:Oh GOD. Definitely remember the bad Autism but not the cured part I thought the Shane Black Predator was ok but it didn't live up to the standard of a Predator movie or a Shane Black movie for that matter.
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May 24, 2021 00:35
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Dawgstar posted:
oh god i forgot about that
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May 24, 2021 00:51
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what were the themes and commentary in predator? all i remember about it is the native american guy cutting himself with a machete and arnold covering himself with mud
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May 24, 2021 00:59
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Sgt. Politeness posted:Definitely remember the bad Autism but not the cured part Yeah, at the end the kid is making eye contact, smiling and laughing and poo poo like that. I think he even hugs a person? I dunno, the movie was dripping in ableism and it was cringy Dawgstar posted:
My mind had erased that. *screams*
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May 24, 2021 00:59
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site posted:what were the themes and commentary in predator? all i remember about it is the native american guy cutting himself with a machete and arnold covering himself with mud Messages and themes weren’t invented until the 90s. 80s movies just were.
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May 24, 2021 01:08
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it's so bafflingly terrible compared to everything else he's made or even worked on and yet somehow also is the highest grossing predator movie
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May 24, 2021 01:10
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The worst part with the Tourette’s character is that it’s Thomas Jane, who was criminally underused. If the movie had just been about the Predator hunting a group of decorated veterans struggling with their issues, and drop everything else, it could’ve been a decent movie. Arist posted:Outside of Munn being rightfully pissed Shane Black put his sex offender friend in the movie, all I know about that Predator movie is a gif I saw of Sterling K. Brown's death scene, which was just about the most Shane Black thing possible. The problem is you can’t even really enjoy the ridiculousness of that particular death, as it’s during a night shot and a scene in which multiple people are dying in quick succession. I only realized what happened after the fact when that character wasn’t in later scenes.
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May 24, 2021 02:03
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Desperado Bones posted:Oh GOD. Arist posted:Outside of Munn being rightfully pissed Shane Black put his sex offender friend in the movie  I think I might hold off on watching this film. Forever.
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May 24, 2021 02:31
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JordanKai posted:I still haven't seen the Shane Black Predator film, but I was shocked to hear that it turned out to be really bad. From the trailers it looked like it could be a fun action film. Plus, "hardened convicts vs. monster" is a killer premise for an action flick. Real bummer Yeah, same here. I'm personally in this camp as far as ranking the other three main ones go: Soonmot posted:Yeah I've enjoyed all the Predators except 4, but basically ranked in release order with 1&2 close together. Why they thought they needed a kid character in a predator movie is a mystery and also yay autism stereotypes but uh... I think I'm with you on probably skipping 4. Yikes.
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May 24, 2021 02:59
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Yeah I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't bothered to see it yet.
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May 24, 2021 03:06
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I've read that a lot of stuff got cut out of the final release for time which makes the finale a mess
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May 24, 2021 03:25
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Dawgstar posted:That certainly explains why Amanda's show never really felt like it was about Amanda. That poor actress. The big one is really Roger Daltrey who was in like 2 or 3 eps every season until the last one. But Gift was a recurring villain as well, I believe.
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May 24, 2021 03:26
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JordanKai posted:Plus, "hardened convicts vs. monster" is a killer premise for an action flick. Real bummer They're not quite "hardened convicts" but if you haven't seen Attack the Block, you really should. It brought us John Boyega! Who just signed on for a sequel! JordanKai posted:
For the record, the sex offender in question is not actually in the final cut of the movie because Munn complained, which is good, even if it apparently screws her character over because it leaves her without her introductory scene.
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May 24, 2021 03:54
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Attack the Block is great agreed
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May 24, 2021 03:55
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Arist posted:They're not quite "hardened convicts" but if you haven't seen Attack the Block, you really should. It brought us John Boyega! Who just signed on for a sequel! gently caress. Yes. Really?!
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Sgt. Politeness posted:gently caress. Yes. Really?! https://deadline.com/2021/05/attack-the-block-2-sequel-john-boyega-joe-cornish-reunite-nira-park-studio-canal-film4-cult-classic-1234758463/
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Gaz-L posted:
She actually was under government surveillance, Ken Starr and the agents serving his investigation had issued a subpoena for her that they couldn't serve her while she was in Europe filming Raven. She had had an affair with Clinton shortly after getting crowned Ms. Arkansas and both Start and Paula Jones' legal team were itching to get her to testify for them.
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May 24, 2021 04:17
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gently caress it, Predator movie that takes place in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. I have no idea what it would be about, but I know it would make a huge amount of people insanely loving mad, possibly up to and including me, no matter what
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May 24, 2021 04:28
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site posted:what were the themes and commentary in predator? Collapsing Farts posted:It's remarkable how difficult it has been for directors to make something good out of the "Predator" formula (or alien formula after Alien 2) * Arnold's screen presence * Weathers and Ventura * the twist once the predator comes into play * the whole ending with the traps and imagery * the sicknasty plasma caster thing * the innovative Optical Camo effect * the shock of seeing the drat crabgina monster The predator is essentially a slasher for half the movie. They torment the main group, pop up and dissappear causing chaos, and start thinning the cast. The last part of the movie is when it starts being brought down bit by bit and becomes Mortal. The successor films fail because it's not some unknowable thing anymore, and you count the minutes till It Does The Thing with the disc, or javelin, or takes the mask off, or... Just find a way to adapt the loving AvP arcade game story where cybernetic Arnold and Android Asian assassin Girl pair up with 2 preds for the ultimate hunt that happens to be Weyland-Yutani's fault. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 04:59 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 04:50
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Arist posted:They're not quite "hardened convicts" but if you haven't seen Attack the Block, you really should. It brought us John Boyega! Who just signed on for a sequel! I love Attack the Block! I need to rewatch it one of these days.
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FilthyImp posted:If you sleep through the opening you miss out on all the Macho American Imperialism in the Central American countries, the fact that Dutch's team of highly trained dudes were set up to just murk some guerrillas and soviets for political gains, and the whole bit about the American Muscle Gun men sleepwalking through killing a bunch of locals and then having the tables turned on them when something with more advanced weaponry takes them apart like it's a total joke... and also Dutch having to revert to primalism in order to defeat the advanced hunter (Vietnam much) while also realizing that having lost the creature plays dirty and nukes himself. I would love to see that game adapted, or the AvP2 game which is still my favorite story from either property.
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