Escape to the Movies: Predators

[Synek]

Um...I think one of the tags are spelled wrong, escapt to the movies?
And one more movie I have to see this summer.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Sweet, iv been looking at this for a little while so im excited to see it.

Mabey ill celebrate this new movie by going Hunting!
Gotta go check what Hunting Season it is.

 

[fishbeinb]

I think i'll see it you usually like what i like

 

[DigitalSushi]

Hi MovieBob, could you stop ragging on Twilight, its flawed yes... not every single piece of literature is The Divine Comedy, if you hate anything enough you will find flaws because your looking for them.

You said yourself in the Harry Potter critique you did that any flaws pointed out would not change peoples minds over it (please correct whatever you said) and whether or not they would see it.

All your doing now is giving flamers and trollers ammo to attack someone else on this site and other sites with regards to Twilight, these kids would not have noticed what you have noticed because a) they aren't as of observant as you and b) because they wouldn't have watched it anyway.

Anyway, I'm going to buy all the films and all the books as retribution for all the smack talk this series has got, girls like it, LET THEM, I like KillZone, I've not come across a girl that likes that, or anyone for that matter.

 

[lewism247]

I am gonna try and see it, your review has just made me more determined.

I think that after 1 and especially 2 the series lost it's way, good to see a return to what made the series great.

 

[awsome117]

The bit with the targeting lasers at the end was very cool, one is scary, having half a dozen light you up is where you start thinking "I'm fucked and those were new pants damnit"

Just for the record, that never actually happens in the movie. Just the one.

 

[Notere]

I swear, every time Bob drops politics into his professional critic work, I want to step on his neck.

"Yes, this is a perfectly viable thing to do. Fill in time with obnoxious op ed crap." There's a reason those two sections of the newspaper are separated, goddamnit.

 

[Anah'ya]

The AlienS to Alien?

Fuck yeah. Can't wait 'till it hits the screen here.

 

[HippySecond]

Pretty ok movie, saw it just before watching this video, great account of it too.

 

[Mkvenner]

GARFIELD IS SPIDERMAN? :O
What happened to Peter Parker? xD

Good review. I really enjoyed the first Predator and if this one is as good as you say it is Im going to be looking forward to see it

 

[JdaS]

Finally... That's all I can say. A good Predator movie is something this Predator geek has been waiting for. Still kinda hoping for something that focuses more on the Predators themselves since they're such surprisingly fleshed out characters (considering that they're the titular monster in a b-movie). I guess the games will have to handle that area.

 

[Lust]

Hmmm...........might be worth checking out. You never know.

 

[Anthony English]

Hi MovieBob, could you stop ragging on Twilight, its flawed yes... not every single piece of literature is The Divine Comedy, if you hate anything enough you will find flaws because your looking for them.

You said yourself in the Harry Potter critique you did that any flaws pointed out would not change peoples minds over it (please correct whatever you said) and whether or not they would see it.

All your doing now is giving flamers and trollers ammo to attack someone else on this site and other sites with regards to Twilight, these kids would not have noticed what you have noticed because a) they aren't as of observant as you and b) because they wouldn't have watched it anyway.

Anyway, I'm going to buy all the films and all the books as retribution for all the smack talk this series has got, girls like it, LET THEM, I like KillZone, I've not come across a girl that likes that, or anyone for that matter.

I think the reason why him and other people are flaming it so much and picking it apart is because it really is that bad. If i wrote a bad essay at university my lecturer doesn't say "ahh well everyone to their own" they fail my ass and proceed to tell me why it's a load of crap. That is what bob is doing, he's explaining why it's rubbish.

 

[Fraught]

Edit: And in relation to the seemingly-tribal yet technologically sophisticated predators, maybe the reason they hunt like they do is not for sport or to bring home a trophy (They don't eat the humans they kill, do they? That might be the reason), but because all of the predators we see are adolescent predators that are sent to kill whatever they can to prove their status as a "real man" back at the predators' home planet. Instead of trophy hunting because you need to prove to yourself that you're more manly than everyone else, you trophy hunt because of a traditional rite of passage all predators must go through.

And you know what kind of societies on Earth go through this whole "rites that make you a real man" and "rites of passage all male teenagers go through" kind of thing?

Tribes! God damn technologically retarded tribes.

 

[TheEnglishman]

Good review, now that I know it's not bad I'm going into the cinema's on Monday feeling reassured.

Very true about Robert Rodriguez, it's nice to see a guy who doesn't mess around, except for three little points: Sin, and City, and 2!

 

[sephiroth1991]

I might give it a chance i'm a big softy for those rastas

 

[Pipotchi]

I really liked it with the exception of Lawrence Fishburne as he just hams it up way to much to be taken seriously. Topher Grace on the othe hand I thought was pretty damn entertaining as the odd one out in the macho cavalcade. Ditto for Danny Trejo but I have loved that guy since he was in Heat

Recently it seems like some of the reviewers on this site spend about 50% of their reviews wittering on about other topics. Movie Bob with Twilight, Yahtsee with motion controls or RPGs.

Overall not a bad review but nothing on Mark Kermode i reckon

 

[DigitalSushi]

Hi MovieBob, could you stop ragging on Twilight, its flawed yes... not every single piece of literature is The Divine Comedy, if you hate anything enough you will find flaws because your looking for them.

You said yourself in the Harry Potter critique you did that any flaws pointed out would not change peoples minds over it (please correct whatever you said) and whether or not they would see it.

All your doing now is giving flamers and trollers ammo to attack someone else on this site and other sites with regards to Twilight, these kids would not have noticed what you have noticed because a) they aren't as of observant as you and b) because they wouldn't have watched it anyway.

Anyway, I'm going to buy all the films and all the books as retribution for all the smack talk this series has got, girls like it, LET THEM, I like KillZone, I've not come across a girl that likes that, or anyone for that matter.

I think the reason why him and other people are flaming it so much and picking it apart is because it really is that bad. If i wrote a bad essay at university my lecturer doesn't say "ahh well everyone to their own" they fail my ass and proceed to tell me why it's a load of crap. That is what bob is doing, he's explaining why it's rubbish.

Fair enough, although I was waiting for a review or critique of Predators, not a sudden "hold on I've just realised another reason why you should hate Twilight", if this was a Twilight review I could understand.

But its not, its either MovieBob is acting like he's a fanboy of a console and bitching about its main rival or he ran out of things to actually say about Predators.

Robert Ebert as far as I know didn't stop half way during a review and start bitching that Universal Soldier 2 is a pile of arse (it is, Universal Soldier 1 however is pure gold).