JehdinThwei
New Member
This has been in the back of my mind for some time, and it finally tickled my conscious thought.
In all of the previous Predator films, we were able to get an inside look at something personal done by our alien hunter.
In Predator we were able to be alone with Anytime while he polished a skull, dressed a wound, and prepared for battle. Just him and us....hanging out for moments at a time while we got to see some of his gear and personal behavior ("behaviour" for those in the UK)
Likewise in Predator 2, we were up close and personal with Pussyface while he cleaned a skull, and dressed his wounds in the bathroom...all the while seeing more technical gear and getting a very intimate view of him; just us and him.
AVP, we saw the inside of the ship with the Preds preparing, the holographic images they displayed while tracking what was going on in the Pyramid, a personal rite of passage as Scar blooded himself. ....more "one on one" with the Predator and the viewer.
AVP-R: Healing his wound in the tree by the graveyard, landing in the water and coming out of the lake by himself, setting the mines for the bugs, clips of his chase while he was alone, and in the extended version we got to see Wolf mourn over his fallen comrade, do some techy stuff to enable him to track the face-huggers, and go around cleaning up the mess.... not to mention a clip of his home world and the onset of his quest; picking out his biohelmet and weapons of choice.
All of these things allowed us, the viewer and fan, to get close to our hero. He might be a monster to many, but to the true fan he is the hero of the stories.
In Predators, we got none of the "personal glimpse". None of the inside looks to their behavior or gear. We only saw what the humans saw except for the single scene where we saw them all for the first time in the camp when the falcon landed on Falconer's shoulder; but even that was a sort of introduction and first glimpse with no real "inside look". We never got to spend any alone time with any of the Predators. There were never any times we got to see them prepare, dress a wound, plot, plan, polish a trophy or gear up. The closest we came was when Classic put his mask on and charged up his suit, but that was seen by Royce and not exclusive to us, so we never got to see any of the Predators in a way that tied us to them personally....one on one with the viewer. Every scene was looking at them as an outside force of unknown hunters hunting the human "heroes" of the film. We were never allowed any closeness or intimacy (a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.) at all. In fact, I believe the only time we saw a Predator alone was when Tracker detected heat from the blast inside the drill, and we saw him for like 2 seconds.
In my opinion, this was a huge oversight by Antal and Rodriguez. Their creatures were bad-ass, cool, techy, raw, wild, scary almost (word used loosely), ....but we were never able to bond with them.
Does this make sense or am I alone in this thought
Do you think it was intentional by the directors or an oversight? Should they do another, I hope we get to see more "personal" glimpses of who I consider the star of the film.
Thoughts?
In all of the previous Predator films, we were able to get an inside look at something personal done by our alien hunter.
In Predator we were able to be alone with Anytime while he polished a skull, dressed a wound, and prepared for battle. Just him and us....hanging out for moments at a time while we got to see some of his gear and personal behavior ("behaviour" for those in the UK)
Likewise in Predator 2, we were up close and personal with Pussyface while he cleaned a skull, and dressed his wounds in the bathroom...all the while seeing more technical gear and getting a very intimate view of him; just us and him.
AVP, we saw the inside of the ship with the Preds preparing, the holographic images they displayed while tracking what was going on in the Pyramid, a personal rite of passage as Scar blooded himself. ....more "one on one" with the Predator and the viewer.
AVP-R: Healing his wound in the tree by the graveyard, landing in the water and coming out of the lake by himself, setting the mines for the bugs, clips of his chase while he was alone, and in the extended version we got to see Wolf mourn over his fallen comrade, do some techy stuff to enable him to track the face-huggers, and go around cleaning up the mess.... not to mention a clip of his home world and the onset of his quest; picking out his biohelmet and weapons of choice.
All of these things allowed us, the viewer and fan, to get close to our hero. He might be a monster to many, but to the true fan he is the hero of the stories.
In Predators, we got none of the "personal glimpse". None of the inside looks to their behavior or gear. We only saw what the humans saw except for the single scene where we saw them all for the first time in the camp when the falcon landed on Falconer's shoulder; but even that was a sort of introduction and first glimpse with no real "inside look". We never got to spend any alone time with any of the Predators. There were never any times we got to see them prepare, dress a wound, plot, plan, polish a trophy or gear up. The closest we came was when Classic put his mask on and charged up his suit, but that was seen by Royce and not exclusive to us, so we never got to see any of the Predators in a way that tied us to them personally....one on one with the viewer. Every scene was looking at them as an outside force of unknown hunters hunting the human "heroes" of the film. We were never allowed any closeness or intimacy (a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.) at all. In fact, I believe the only time we saw a Predator alone was when Tracker detected heat from the blast inside the drill, and we saw him for like 2 seconds.
In my opinion, this was a huge oversight by Antal and Rodriguez. Their creatures were bad-ass, cool, techy, raw, wild, scary almost (word used loosely), ....but we were never able to bond with them.
Does this make sense or am I alone in this thought
Do you think it was intentional by the directors or an oversight? Should they do another, I hope we get to see more "personal" glimpses of who I consider the star of the film.
Thoughts?