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That being said when they said "hybridization" they did me a concern

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Well I will see it.

I think the Hybridization has to deal with the "Super Predators" from Predators. Since chronologically this one follows Predator 2 but precedes Predators.
   
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What a serious let down.

I was pretty stoked when they listed Shane Black as doing a new re-start to the franchise, but it's been nothing but bad news so far. The trailer doesn't help any. Predator was a great movie because of its simplicity and its non-trope laden writing/story. This looks like another "also ran" generic action film with an uninspiring cast. I'd love to be wrong, I really would, but my brother and I both just gave the trailer a resounding "meh".

By now you think I'd be used to major Hollywood films systematically ruining my childhood, but I keep pretending someone will do it right.
   
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So, the military is hybridization the predators, presumably to make the deadliest predators on Earth? To use as weapons? Can you imagine if we'd had those bad boys at Tora Bora?

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
So, the military is hybridization the predators, presumably to make the deadliest predators on Earth? To use as weapons? Can you imagine if we'd had those bad boys at Tora Bora?


Where did you get that its the military hybridizing? The very next line is "They're upgrading on every planet they visit." Maybe the Preds are hybridizing themselves.

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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
So, the military is hybridization the predators, presumably to make the deadliest predators on Earth? To use as weapons? Can you imagine if we'd had those bad boys at Tora Bora?


Where did you get that its the military hybridizing? The very next line is "They're upgrading on every planet they visit." Maybe the Preds are hybridizing themselves.


I was really just making the point that this film and Jurassic Word Fallen Kingdom both lack confidence in their base premises to the point where they have to invent hybrid super monsters in an attempt to raise the stakes and recapture the audience. It's a move of blatant creative exhaustion and won't fix the problems that actually lurk in the hearts of those films. It's dinoshark vs whalewolf without the campy charm.

   
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But this movie didnt invent the Hybrid Super Predators, that was the last movie. This one seems to be trying to explain why there was the "Basic Predator" and the Super Predators.
   
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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
But this movie didnt invent the Hybrid Super Predators, that was the last movie. This one seems to be trying to explain why there was the "Basic Predator" and the Super Predators.


Was there any great demand for this pseudo-reboot to force itself into continuity with the forgotten sidequel of yesterdecade?

Should Jaws 5 incorporate Jaws 4's Voodoo Shark lore just for continuity?

   
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There was clearly enough of a demand for the Super Predators to be explored that they decided it would be a good idea to put it in this film. I know at the very least I was curious what the hell was up with them.

For the record, I've liked every Predator film except the two AvP movies. And the downward spiral didn't start with Predators, it was clearly there in Predator 2.
   
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What does this trailer want me to feel? Was it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? What's with the lame jokes?

   
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Hmmm been waiting for the trailer and we get this um yeah what ever it is. Yeah I know it’s only the first trailer but damn guess you can’t best the originals. The 80’s did it right.
   
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I feel like an american suburb is a poor choice of an environment. The first two movies made a point of showing the predators prowling violent territories and it worked pretty well. I don't think soccer moms will be quite as exciting as marines in Vietnam or gangsters and cops of Detroit. I'd much rather see a predator in the Middle East, the Korean border or a South American slum.

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 Mr Nobody wrote:
I feel like an american suburb is a poor choice of an environment. The first two movies made a point of showing the predators prowling violent territories and it worked pretty well. I don't think soccer moms will be quite as exciting as marines in Vietnam or gangsters and cops of Detroit. I'd much rather see a predator in the Middle East, the Korean border or a South American slum.


SpecOPs in Guatemala (or the fictional nation of Val Verde) and Police/Gang Members in LA
   
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The only part that let me down was mentioning iron man 3.the worst marvel movie.


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Looks a'ight for me.

At the beginning I got scared they were gonna do a dumb "kid puts on a mask and turns into a predator" story

 
   
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The kid has Predator gear. Which he took out of a sealed cardboard box covered with shipping labels. And the protagonist is shown later in the trailer having a touching moment with the kid. We also see the protagonist stumbling across Pred wreckage and finding the gear in a jungle setting. So I guess protagonist finds the xenos artefacts and sends them to his son/nephew/little brother before getting debriefed by government or employer (he says his outfit are assassins) or whoever.

????

Seems weird to send that stuff to a kid ... whom you care about and whom you do NOT want to die. Because naturally the kid pushes buttons indiscriminately and something bad happens - in this case, another pred ship arrives ... seemingly landing in a temperate region that I'm guessing is in North America.
 Necros wrote:
"kid puts on a mask and turns into a predator"

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Maybe it wasn't sent specifically to the kid, but the kid opened the box anyway.
   
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I guess the protagonist could have just sent it to his own house. But even that seems like a pretty terrible idea.

   
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Yeah, no arguments there, but maybe the rest will be alright.
   
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SoCal

If they go the Monster Trucks route, I am much more interested. If we get Predakid using his Predagear to win the BMX race and save the community center, I will be there.

   
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 Lance845 wrote:
The only part that let me down was mentioning iron man 3.the worst marvel movie.


I'm not sure Shane Black has had a good movie since The Long Kiss Goodnight.

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Can't even really be optimistic honestly. I love Predator so much but the movies have ranged from great (the first one) to okay (second and Predators) to dreadful.

   
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 Ouze wrote:
 Lance845 wrote:
The only part that let me down was mentioning iron man 3.the worst marvel movie.


I'm not sure Shane Black has had a good movie since The Long Kiss Goodnight.


I liked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. And frankly I really enjoyed Iron Man 3. Thor 2 is the worst Marvel movie.
   
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Not even sure how Thor 2 can be the worst when there was a Thor 1. Thor 1 was bad. Not that Thor 2 was great but yeah Thor 1 was worse in my book XD

   
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Because I don't like Loki and Thor 2 focused on him so much it seemed to forget there was an actual badguy.

Also more Natalie Portman and more Kat Dennings.

Ya know I'll meet you halfway, call them both the same movie and say collectively they are the worst Marvel movie.

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Im3 simultaneously ruined AIM, extremis, cured death in the mcu with no consequence when stark fixed the extremis formulae, and did the worst version of iron patriot for no good reason. While making the motivation of the bad guy being stood up for a rooftop date with stark at a party.


There is nothing in thor 1 or 2 thats as bad as half that list.

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I think Thor 2 was definitely worse than Thor 1, and I think Iron Man 2 was worse than all of the movies previously mentioned. It was a poorly plotted, insipid toy commercial and I think easily the worst Marvel movie so far. Iron Man 3 wasn't particularly good either but I think IM2 definitely edged it out in badness.


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 Ouze wrote:
I think Thor 2 was definitely worse than Thor 1, and I think Iron Man 2 was worse than all of the movies previously mentioned. It was a poorly plotted, insipid toy commercial and I think easily the worst Marvel movie so far. Iron Man 3 wasn't particularly good either but I think IM2 definitely edged it out in badness.



Ya know, somehow I'd forgotten about Iron Man 2. Maybe its alot like Devil May Cry 2, just, something everyone pretends doesnt exist.

@Lance, in my opinion, Thor 1 and 2 are worse than all of what happened in IM3, because they exist.
   
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And yet all those movies will probably be better than this one...

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