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Remake of Alien
MadassAlex:
I have pissed the utter fuck out of many Predator fans by saying this, but I can't be the only one who thinks this way:
What real narrative purpose can the Predators really serve in a situation involving the Xenomorphs, besides making it less interesting? I guess the Predators are pretty cool if you're a young boy with action fantasies, but they're not very interesting. Their rites are essentially appropriated from human ones, their behaviour is pretty much human, their senses are human (although distorted) and they use weaponry that follows human design logic.
They're essentially beefy people. Badasses of the nth degree. There is basically nothing interesting about them.
Orbert:
I guess what you say is uninteresting about the Predator is pretty much what I found interesting. In the second movie anyway.
In the original Predator, it was just some creature killing Marines in the jungle. We gradually learned that he was an alien with a personal cloaking device and lots of other very cool tech. In the second movie, we learned that he wasn't just some killer, but a hunter and a sportsman, travelling the galaxy in search of the ultimate species to hunt. In its own way, an honorable and cool thing (provided you're not the prey of course). They even had the scene where he scanned a potential target, determined that it was a pregnant female, and left it alone. And as with the movie Aliens, it expanded upon the basic premise and kept things consistent with the original flick, even reframed various things. There are actually a number of parallels between the first two Alien movies and the two Predator movies and how they played out.
But I do agree that if it's the Predators who have all the high-tech weaponry, and are bipeds and behave more or less like humans, then between them and the humans, one species is more or less redundant. That may have been one of the reasons why they didn't go that route with the AVP movies.
McTaggart:
AvP2 was great for the multiplayer (and the intro sequence for the aliens). Cloaking + good alpha strike + patience and I'm happy.
KvP:
I guess it should also be pointed out that in Predator 2, when Danny Glover (!) is in the Predator ship, there's an Alien skull in the trophy display thing they got going. I don't know if that was before or after AvP became a big thing in cheap novelry and comic bookdom.
ackblom12:
I think it was before actually. If I rememver right it was when they were toying with the idea of the comic franchise.
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