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mega_bassist wrote:I completely agree. Another villian that used to give me nightmares...I just wish they would make a DECENT Predator game :/
Honestly, they just need to get Bungie to reskin Halo with Predator and the flood with Aliens and a stealth emphasis. Problem solved
But yes. Predators was a good movie until the last third of the film, which just became boring and predictable. I don't think any of the films have managed to take full advantage of just how awesome the character is.
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The first film isn't guilty of that. It made perfect use of the character for the time, considering it was purposefully deigned to be a nearly anonymous predator.
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
iproxtaco wrote:The first film isn't guilty of that. It made perfect use of the character for the time, considering it was purposefully deigned to be a nearly anonymous predator.
idk. I always watch the first one which is definitely the best but I can't help but think as I watch that it could have been better. How it could have been better, I don't really know.
They should have made three or four, each one with more Predator exposure. The first in my opinion was perfect in it's representation, they others which feature one were either horrible, AvP (both), or lacking in what would have been best, Predators and Predator 2.
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For videogames, you can't get much eviler than Scolar Visari. The man who weaponized an entire planet, invaded another planet to start a war, nuked his own capitol city when the planet he invaded returned the favor, and who's death caused another heap of trouble for the good guys.
For a movie, I will have to say that the kids aren't alright.
Visari's speeches were all absolutely brilliant too.
Even the one where an idiot who should be retconned to have never existed shot him.
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
He was pretty epic. In Pitch Black. Not the movie that shall not be named anymore than characters who should be retconned because neither should have existed.
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MrDwhitey wrote:Visari's speeches were all absolutely brilliant too.
Even the one where an idiot who should be retconned to have never existed shot him.
Its Rico, and Rico is Rico. Surprised Rico and Templar were the only ones in the later games, Luger and Haka were pretty good characters.
I didn't like the speech in the third game, but the others were awesome for sure!
I've also come to terms with Rico, but I can't fething stand him...I would've liked to see at least Luger come back for a sneaky mission or something, but Sev does a good enough job for me
True, the speech in the third wasn't as good as the others.
But 3 did have the awesomeness that is Malcolm McDowell.
His last words will ever be remembered. He was a hilariously poor badguy though, doing everything wrong, but then that was the entire Helghast command in 3.
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Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
As far as guys that aren't so much scary, but that you just hate because they're so blithely evil I will have to nominate Kind Edward the Longshanks. From the beginning of the movie to the end his is just a completely insufferable bastard.
Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate.
As far as guys that aren't so much scary, but that you just hate because they're so blithely evil I will have to nominate Kind Edward the Longshanks. From the beginning of the movie to the end his is just a completely insufferable bastard.
True..though in all honesty the scene where he introduces his son's " advisor" to the concept of " wingless flight" makes me crack up every time I see it.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
How could you hate Longshanks? He was badass throughout.
"Who is this person who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?"
*throws out of window*
Edit: Ninja'd
And other classic lines like
"Yes... but we'll hit theirs as well. We have reserves. Attack."
"The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots."
"Bring me Wallace. Alive if possible, dead... just as good. "
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Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
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"The young and foolish seek glory and recognition for their deeds, brother, the experienced and old know that recognition and medals are precisely the same worth as ork gak."
-Avarian Pentus--Deathwatch Apothecary
It just lurks in dark places and kills you for no particular reason when you stumble across it. Every time I pop my head into a crawl space or open the door into a dark room this thing's face is in the back of my mind.
GOOD GOD! You even added the things fething picture....what a jerk Ill agree though, that movie creeped me out to my friggin core, and still to this day if I hear that.......sound she makes, it just sends chills down my spine. Once a chair rubbed the floo just right and made that sound, I about gak my pants
But as for mine
as well as the remake
I like Leatherface from both just as much, which I guess is good since its a remake and all and stayed true to the character. I like him because of how simple minded he is. A total brute that either honestly doesnt know its bad to chainsaw people, and stick them on meat hooks, or just doesnt care. Either way he gets the job done and people suffer because of it.
Pinhead is a friggin movie screen Dark Eldar. Its all about pain, and the sumbitch is from Hell for christ sakes!
And finally.
If you wake up in one of the multicolored rooms that look like that, just kill yourself, youll save yourself alot of grief. I personally think the Cube is a fantastic badguy, because its right in your face, the entire time, but you never think about it. Even while its slicing people up, burning them/melting them or smashing them to bits, suffocating you, you name the Cube has done it. And just when you think you figured it out....it gives you the middle finger and kills you just because
I might catch flak for this, but I actually thought the first Saw was a really freaky movie. And that Jigsaw himself was a really freaky killer. You know, before they started milking it and it descended into a senseless gore fest?
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"The young and foolish seek glory and recognition for their deeds, brother, the experienced and old know that recognition and medals are precisely the same worth as ork gak."
-Avarian Pentus--Deathwatch Apothecary
LordofHats wrote:I might catch flak for this, but I actually thought the first Saw was a really freaky movie. And that Jigsaw himself was a really freaky killer. You know, before they started milking it and it descended into a senseless gore fest?
Well if you do, Ill back ya up, because I personally LOVE the first SAW. The only thing I dont like about it, is now the secret is out there, it was that dude on the floor the whole fething time. Good flick. But yea, the rest? Pretty bad movies
ineptus astartes wrote:I don't really go for 'death horror'
We get it, youve said something very similar twice that I remember seeing
And if you're drinkin' well, you know that you're my friend and I say "I think I'll have myself a beer" 
Kabal of the Void Dominator - now with more purple! 
epic. In Pitch Black. Not the movie that shall not be named anymore than characters who should be retconned because neither should have existed.
as well as the remake
