Oh, holy ****... is this actually a topic?
How is it that you can be on a "Predator Forum," and not have any idea about the character? No, seriously I want to know. NO.. no, wait.. I got my answer. The fact that you were too lazy to type out the word "Please" says volumes. OR, you didn't know how to spell it, but ya do now!!
You want to know how many Predator films were made, well... alright. TWO. There were TWO Predator movies made. I'm purposely leaving out Robert Rodriguez's "Presents" PREDATORS for the simple fact he chose to ignore Predator 2.
For aslong as I've been a member on this board, I've never once censored myself, and that's not about to change. So. Let's get to it, shall we? Unless you need a pacifier. Then go away.
PREDATOR- This movie was awesome. I watched it sooo many times as a kid on VHS (Oh, wait.. we have young ones in the crowd. That's what we had before everything had a ******* "I" plastered infront of it.) This movie was great in the fact that when you started watching it, you thought it was just going to be another dumb '80's action flick. Well, no. John McTiernan threw a ******* curve ball into that formula. He did something that totally changed everything. He took an overly "macho" flick, and threw in some nerd. Yup, and that nerd was the Predator. In my opinion he combined "action" with "science-fiction." So he get's a high-five for that. That, and he was adament about the "hand-to-hand" contest between Arnold and the Predator. Of which, Arnold lost. A lot of people think of "Predator" as a cheesey '80's flick, but I do not. I see it as much more than that. It was a great thing - not only in film, but special effects wise as well.
Predator 2 - Well ****. What do you want me to say? It was more of an "Homage" to the comic book "Predator: Concrete Jungle." The movie itself was just a re-hash of everthing from that time. A big action movie with big action stars. However, the art and conceptualization was just awesome. That alone fuels my creativity. Especially with the end scene, and all of the "others" coming out from the mist. While the movie bollocks'ed itself with the same cheese, it managed to expand upon the Predator creature itself. Giving out more without giving too much away. I can think of a few different ways that I would've wanted the movie to end, but I think it worked just fine. While Danny Glover was "too old for this ****," he still managed to put off the Predator race. Atleast until a sequel. "They left a door open that you could drive a truck through." That's what Kevin Peter Hall said. He was just awesome.
Now, we come to the "sequels." Right, well "AVP" was an abortion conceptualised by Paul W. S. Andersen. He crippled the talents of ADI into making his retard-fest that we all saw at the theatre. The long, flowing dredlocks of Scar was supposed to be romantic. You knoq what, I'm not even going to get into this. I've said time and time again about how this movie was ass. It was a ****-fest, and a total let-down to Predator fans. The director took "his" vision and put it on film. Too bad his "vision" was crap.
AVP:R I dunno what to really say about this movie. I couldn't ******* see it. Seriously, who ******* let the "Brothers Strauss" do this? Did they totally drain the budget that they couldn't properly light the ******* movie? I'm gonna save myself from talking about this with one word... "SKYLINE." Yeah. That should do it. By the by, who ******* let them make another movie? Is this how it goes in Hollywood? If you haven't seen "Skyline," you shouldn't. Just don't. Seriously.
Predators - Well, ****. If you've seen any of the previous films, you know. Unlike Robert Rodriguez. He'd seen "Predator," and thought about how he could do it better. So, he created a re-hash. Now, don't get me wrong as that's not a remake. It's a "re-imagining." And it's totally ******* stupid. Here's why -
First off, the original creatures design and modus operandi were not good enough for his film. So, what he did was try to re-invent the creature. He did this by turning them into outcast-retards. Oh that's right, I went there. See, Rodriguez thought that he had to "re-invent" the Predator to make it more appealing to audiences. He thought that through his own ego he had to make "his" Predators bigger, and badder than the Previous incarnations. Well, I'm here to tell him that, no, he didn't. That is unless his own ego got a hold of him, and demanded something bigger and badder. Anyhow, I digress. Audiences wanted to see the Predator back on screen as the Predator. They wanted to see him rip the spines from victims, and to just all around **** **** up. Well, they got to see him back on screen. However, it probably wasn't what they wanted. They got a Predator on screen, but he was tied up. He was humiliated, and he was defeated. He was NOT the Predator we all grew up with. He was supposed to be a throw-back, something audiences could identify as the Predator... and he was killed. Seriously, did this really happen? You know what... **** it. There you have "PREDATORS."