The Predator

[mothman]

Gosh, that one actually gives you some idea what the film is about.

[phantom_power]

Some good actors in there as well. I will go out on a limb and say this will be the second best film involving a Predator

[Kelvin]

Didn't they already do ULTRA predators in the one with Adrien Brody?

edit: yes, they were called Beserkers, apparently. Might be interesting if they're building on that idea, rather than simply introducing an unrelated, even more ULTRA version.

[Steven]

edit: yes, they were called Beserkers, apparently. Might be interesting if they're building on that idea, rather than simply introducing an unrelated, even more ULTRA version.

Isn't this just like Ghoulies 2, where the end gimmick was they have a Big Ghoulie?

I bet this Predator doesn't end with him hiding in a toilet and biting someone on the bum, though. Think on Hollywood, think on.

[St_Eddie]

The new trailer is an improvement but I'm still mostly uninterested.

Didn't they already do ULTRA predators in the one with Adrien Brody?

edit: yes, they were called Beserkers, apparently. Might be interesting if they're building on that idea, rather than simply introducing an unrelated, even more ULTRA version.

The big Predator in this movie is a hybrid.  It's taken DNA from humans (and possibly other species), to modify itself.  The regular predators team up with the humans to fight it.  It's all very silly, even by the series' standards.

[Malcy]

New trailer makes it look like a different film. Looks decent but a bit predictable as well.

[St_Eddie]

The official poster for The Predator...

...looks kinda naff to me.  The blood looks like it was drawn using MS Paint.  Still, I suppose that it's better than the lazy photoshopped 'actors heads in a line' posters that make up 90% of posters these days.

[Thomas]

The hunt has only bloody gone and evolved.

A better tagline: 'the cunt has evolved'.

[Avril Lavigne]

The official poster for The Predator...

...looks kinda naff to me.  The blood looks like it was drawn using MS Paint.  Still, I suppose that it's better than the lazy photoshopped 'actors heads in a line' posters that make up 90% of posters these days.

Yeah that's awful, if you hadn't said so I really wouldn't have thought it was official.  Most of the blood has clearly been cut & pasted from an image where it was originally running down a flat surface, with zero thought to how it will look just magically hanging in the air in perfect strips, in exactly the way that liquid doesn't.

[Replies From View]

Where it says 9.14 I thought it said LOTS.

[The Bumlord]

It's supposed to look like a badly painted 80s poster isn't it?

[Avril Lavigne]

It's supposed to look like a badly painted 80s poster isn't it?

In which case the graphic designer should have applied some brush effect filters and slapped a wrinkled poster texture over the top to evoke that more effectively, OR they should have hired an artist to paint an 80s style poster properly & do the retro look right, like Hobo With A Shotgun.

[St_Eddie]

In which case the graphic designer should have applied some brush effect filters and slapped a wrinkled poster texture over the top to evoke that more effectively, OR they should have hired an artist to paint an 80s style poster properly & do the retro look right, like Hobo With A Shotgun.

Yep.  If The Predator poster is meant to evoke an old school 80's poster, then it's a piss poor effort.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

It worked for me.

[Dr Rock]

'THIS TIME, THE HUNT GOT HUNTIER...

[mothman]

The hunt has only bloody gone and evolved.

A better tagline: 'the cunt has evolved'.

Missed a choice bit of casting they could have had, then.

[St_Eddie]

Major Reshoots for The Predator Confirmed to Have Drastically Altered the Movie. (SPOILERS)

So the hybrids (including the spider-predator) have gone and the last act has been retooled to be a sort of remake of the first movie.  I'm thinking that this will now be entertaining enough but utterly forgettable.  Personally, I was hoping for 'absolutely awful but entertaining in just how awful it is' (which prior to these reshoots, they were on track for).  No spider-predator, no dice, baby.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed, just based on Shane Black's track record, but this is a bit disheartening.

[Custard]

Ah sweet, so we can just watch the first film again instead

[St_Eddie]

I've mentioned before that this movie features an alien dog, which teams up with the human protagonists (urgh...).  Via one of those absolutely God awful Funko Pop! figurines, we've got our first look (of sorts) at the alien mutt...

[mothman]

God, I fucking hate Funko Pops.

[St_Eddie]

God, I fucking hate Funko Pops.

The only thing which I hate more is the people who buy them.

[PlanktonSideburns]

That dogs expression says it all really

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sod that.

This bastard usually ends up on the parcel shelf of any car I own.

[Avril Lavigne]

The only thing which I hate more is the people who buy them.

I have two, but I didn't buy them so I'm off the hook ;)

[St_Eddie]

I have two, but I didn't buy them so I'm off the hook ;)

Close call.  Had you purchased them yourself, then my mind would have been torn between love and hate; the opposing dilemma of which would most likely cause my head to explode in a violent shower of gore and grey matter.

Once this Funko Pop! fad comes to an end, there will be millions of cheap, semi-identical looking, oversized headed versions of Walter from Breaking Bad and Marvel superheroes, filling landfills the world over.  Future generations will excavate these ghastly figurines and lament their strawy role in breaking the camel of global warming's back.  Somewhere among the discarded pile of unwanted tat, a Native American Funko Pop! looks on and sheds a single tear from it's stupid ugly, souless eye.

[Avril Lavigne]

Close call.  Had you purchased them yourself, then my mind would have been torn between love and hate; the opposing dilemma of which would most likely cause my head to explode in a violent shower of gore and grey matter.

Once this Funko Pop! fad comes to an end, there will be millions of cheap, semi-identical looking, oversized headed versions of Walter from Breaking Bad and Marvel superheros, filling landfills the world over.  Future generations will excavate these ghastly figurines and lament their strawy role in breaking the camel of global warming's back.  Somewhere among the discarded pile of unwanted tat, a Native American Funko Pop! looks on and sheds a single tear from it's stupid ugly, souless eye.

Very true, but there's no better decorative way to immediately signify to visitors that my personality is somewhere between April Ludgate and Smurfette, short of drawing up a chart, and I'm awful at maths.

[St_Eddie]

...and I'm awful at maths.

It's simple, really; 1 Funko Pop! + 1 Funko Pop! = Two too many Funko Pops!

[phantom_power]

Interesting titbits from Shane Black:

https://nerdist.com/the-predator-fox-sdcc-panel/

[St_Eddie]

The new poster...

Is ripped off from the X-Com 2 poster...

Both posters feature alien faces, viewed straight on.  Both faces are constructed with human skulls.  Both have a blue light on the left and a red light on the right.