Escape to the Movies: Predators

[Drauden]

Movie looks like alot of fun, can't wait.

I have to wait though, doesnt get out in Norway until late August.

 

[TOGSolid]

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.

Uh, no. That happens in every culture, it's just that in (for lack of a better word) "civilized" cultures it's done in other, subtle ways (or not so subtle as with the whole shooting your first deer example).

Here, I'll get you started with one great example: The whole "losing your virginity, notch on your belt" thing. Seems innocuous at first, and yet think about how much shit guys get as they get older and older for having not done it.

To think that "civilized" cultures have moved past the basic tropes of hunter/gatherer life is pure fallacy. All of our instincts and old tribal habits are still there, they've just been channeled and funneled into different directions. After all, beating your enemy's head open with a rock isn't exactly kosher these days.

we don't see female predators

How do you know what a female predator looks like ?
Or even if there are female predators ? Maybe they dont "do" it like we do

Or, and stay with me here, maybe all the Predators we have seen ARE female. After all, we're only assuming they're male.
(Note: I don't read the comics or books, so if this has been covered elsewhere please correct me)

 

[RoyalWelsh]

Wow, a pretty good remake? Well i'll be damned. Might just check it out.

 

[soapyshooter]

Saving my money for Inception.
Nice review as always =D

[sub][sub][sub]Torrents for the WINNNN![/sub][/sub][/sub]

Quick heads up, remove the torrents part, I got suspended for mentioning those once.

I watched predator 2 a few eeks ago, it does feel as if there should have been another film between the two.

Thanks for the heads up (fixed it). But torrents aren't illegal, that's reason to get suspended now?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

So it wasn't actually bad? A remake of a movie that wasn't all that good to begin with was nearly as good as that movie?

I'm amazed.

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.

That is actually correct. According to the Aliens vs Predator comic series, as well as the novels, they are adolescents. The Elders are actually a very sociable society.

 

[Fangface74]

Seriously though, a pred with a robot hunting bird and one with a pack of alien hounds!!!

Ah well, guess it doesn't matter if the scenes are well scripted.

 

[Stilt-Man]

Link's not working; this is the Eclipse review... oh, there's Predators.

Seriously, Bob, give it a rest. We know you hate Twilight. Heck, the majority of us hates it, too, but let's move on. To spend more than a fifth of this episode talking about something that was 1) abundantly covered in two previous pieces, and 2) has nothing to do with the topic-at-hand, is becoming a bit frivolous, if not, obsessive.

Otherwise, decent review, I suppose. I might check out the DVD.

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

I'm glad this movie turned out good. I really like the predators themselves but I usually can't take seriously the plot of the movies there in.

 

[hcig]

only now do i know why he liked avatar:

the hamfisted eco-bullshit is something movie bob is totally into

seriously bob? you are going to bother questioning why a freaking alien is brutal? do you just want to kill the entire concept of humanity vs alien, and start making movies where all aliens are painfully perfect and blue, and humanity is the big bad guy? why do you assume that morality is something all creatures must have?

oh, and to let everyone know (if you dont know already) ted nugent has a tv show where he trains a group of people in survival tactics, then releases them into the woods to hunt them down.
ted nugent...hunting humans...on tv
f*cking. awesome.

 

[MovieBob]

oh, and to let everyone know (if you dont know already) ted nugent has a tv show where he trains a group of people in survival tactics, then releases them into the woods to hunt them down.

I've seen it. It's dopey even as "survival" Reality Shows go. The Nuge is a one-trick pony as a self-promoter, and he was only ever a slightly above-average musician to start with.

 

[likalaruku]

On the Twilight thing, I'll bet old man Edward sees himself as a could-be-pedophile trapped in a teenager's body.

 

[Syphous]

Should have left Eclipse alone. That seemed really unnecessary. Also, who cares if they're hunters? I don't get the point you were trying to make there. You want non-badass anti-hunting Predators? They're fucking PREDATORS. The name says it all.

Overall sounds like it should be fun, even if this review did waste a lot of time with unrelated bullshit.

 

[Nouw]

Well it is Aliens to Alien so it being a good movie I have little shock. But I was expecting it to be bad, as it looked too similar to Predator.

I want to watch this but its R16 so I'll go watch it somewhere else.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

So it's good? GOOD! I couldn't fathom any reasonable way that Rodriguez could fuck up something as juicy and in-his-wheelhouse as Predators, and I'm glad that he couldn't either.

And yea, Andrian Brody, WTF. Since when did he turn into King Bad-Ass? Oh wait, that's right, it happened the moment he made conquest of Halle Barry's mouth on national TV. Damn, what a dude.

 

[MowDownJoe]

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).

You obviously hadn't heard how he walked out of a showing of Clerks 2 ranking like an old man about how awful it is.

 

[ward0630]

I am so glad this is a good movie. I was totally on the fence about seeing this, but I'm definitely gonna check it out this weekend.

 

[scnj]

I saw it earlier and it was fucking sweet. The homages to the original were a bit much at times, but I had so much fun I didn't care by the end.

 

[OBZ]

One more time for good measure: review "Unbreakable"!

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Saw it last night. Predators kicks arse!