Amph In Town With a Few Days to Kill: The Prey-dator Discussion Thread

Awesome, thanks

 

It is about time seeing "Yutaji" officially after all these yrs. I remember seeing an AvP book titled Prey at our K&B pharmacy in the 90's and i thought it would be a good b day gift for a friend. Said friend never got it lol. I enjoyed that book and still have it. Was 1st time i ever saw the word Yutaji.

 

Excited

 

I think I've narrowed it down to just being completely underwhelmed and confused with the Pred's visual look. Cause the trailer isn't that bad in itself. That feels kinda strange that I'd be so thrown off for this long just cause of its looks. It looks really bad though..that skin tone, hairstyle(where they have always had the forehead showing), and the lack of spot pattern on face/forehead...just ick. I think I issues with the eyes to. This is all crazy right?

That's definitely not the same breed from the "main line" Pred's of 1&2. Seriously why is that mass of hair in the spot that's supposed to be bald? It's forehead is fn tiny!!

 

I think he's meant to look puny even by Predator standards

 

He's supposed to be a young Predator.

 

Like Rob Lowe in the 80s?

 

I rewatched Prey the other day and I'm not thinking it holds up as much as I 1st found it. It did get a bit silly at times a gal is going toe to toe with a Alpha(?) Predator before she outsmarted him with his own device. To many 1&2 references with the trap course and then losing an arm. I think the only thing that just really shines is the time period. That said it's better by far then AvP 2, Predators or The Predator so it's definitely on the right track to bring the franchise back up.

 

You messed up your formatting, The Predator is supposed to be #1?

 

I read issue 1 of of the Predator vs Spider-Man comic, pretty gnarly for a Spider-Man comic, JJ uses the typical Predator heatwave and killing spree to sell papers, MJ ends up trapped in a subway (shades of Predator 2!) with a Predator that wears people's faces

 

At last, someone else who appreciated Predator 2 unironically as I do!

 

It is also Peak Gary Busey.



It all went downhill for him after this.

 

well with 2 new Predator movies this year might as well rewatch Predator 2!

 

Incorrect approach. Watch 1 and 2!

 

Careful there...you can do that...but then you realize how much better 1 is than 2.

If you watch them separately, 2 gets it's own chance to shine.

Watching them back to back...I think I'd struggle watching poor Danny Glover try to climb drain pipes and not want to flip back to muddy Arnold roaring into the Jungle.

 

I love the element of sweating heat in part 2.
And you can never go wrong with those Danny Glover pants.

 

It doesn't detract...it just reveals some of the lacking aspects of 2.

For example...I totally agree the urban setting does provide it's own visuals and situations.

But in the build up to the climax of the film...doesn't the city seem suspiciously empty?

It's Danny and Predator on rooftops and fire escapes and no one sees? No one shouts? No one calls the cops?

Even when they are running through the apartment building...only a few people look to see what is going on...and that is the end of it...no followup until after the ship leaves.

No helicopters from the police or media flying around?

Again, not until after the ship leaves.

It's like the city freezes for 15 minutes, and then "snap", wakes up when the ship leaves.

It's like a scene out of a Batman movie, and even those have more life in the city than Predator 2 does at that moment.

The first film, by contrast, goes to exquisite detail in setting up the isolation of our heroes in the dense jungle. By the end, Arnold has no choice but to go toe-to-toe with nothing but his ingenuity, labor, and the environment.

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Now...to balance that off...I will praise the subway scene in Predator 2...my favorite of the film, actually...as having those crowded, chaotic elements one would expect from dropping a Yautja into a city.

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Like Predator 2.

LOVE Predator 1.

 

Hmm, not sold on that trailer. I'm genuinely not sure I want a Predator to be the main character. Are they going to be able to get a good performance out of a Predator? Not sure. But Trachtenberg is a great genre director, so I'll give it a shot.

But I definitely don't like the look of the main character. And I liked the modified Predator look in Prey.