I agree, wholeheartedly with what BENSIN has said, and with what Sabres has just said. The new designs don't do much for me; except for the body suits and paint work. Some detailed stuff there. The helmet designs are.. eh. The "Falconers" helmet looks like an ADI leftover from the original AVP concepts. I'm not disrespecting ADI by any means, but what I am saying is that the helmet just doesn't get me. The Mr. Black Super Duper helmet is alright, and I can tell all the thought went into it. As far as the "Flusher" Predators helmet goes, it just seems like an after thought. "Eh, ****.. well, we don't have enough time. Just throw some **** together." POOF!!! Alright, enough of that... here is the real reason I am not too big on the new movie.
The only way that they could show that "their" Predators were the most awesome was to bring back the original design, and then kill him off. Wait.. no, what I meant to say was that they bring back the original creature, tie him to a pillar- stripped of his armor - then eventually kill him. Why? They strip him down, and then kill him. That doesn't sound very much like a "tribute" to me. Sounds more like "Our ***** better, but here's the old ****... just to show you how cool our **** is." No. Maybe I'm just too sensitive, and I read way too far into things, but it still doesn't sit right with me.
Oh, but who wants to see the same thing over again? I've actually thought about this, and I've come to the conclusion that I DO. Ya know what, I really want to see the first Predator back on screen again actually winning, and kicking the **** out of everything. I would really like to see him inserted into different periods of human history. I would like to see him punching Indians and skinning Nazi's. I want to see him at his prime, because we all know how he dies. PREDATOR was such an awesome movie that inspired me, but it was at the tail end of his journey. I want to see just how much of a badass he was before some Austrian dropped a log on his head.
Sure, change is necessary, but the ONLY reason I'm going to see PREDATORS is because of the inclusion of the P1 design. I could really care less about "Robert Rodriguez Presents" because I wasn't much of a fan before, and frankly this Resevoir Dogs naming pattern is starting to piss me off. Duuuuuhhhhrrrr.... Mr. Black, Mr. Green (sounds better than Flusher), and Mr. suckmyballs. So I wonder how he'll work Quentin Tarantino in as a cameo. You all know he will. That's ******* annoying.