Apprehensive. AVP and AVP2 were some of the absolute worst movies I have ever seen in my life, period. This is not an exaggeration.
You heard right... :D
But, just for the scene with the blond-haired women smahed by the Predator's disc, it IS fun <in a drunken state>
You heard right... :D
But, just for the scene with the blond-haired women smahed by the Predator's disc, it IS fun <in a drunken state>
Spoiler tags, please. We watch these things to figure out who lives and who dies.
RottenTomatoes reviews are actually positive so far.
EDIT: nvm sounds like you were talking about AVP2.
AVP2 was actually better than the first. Not by much, but still. It wasn't a classic by any measure, but it wasn't too bad. It could have easily been much worse.Maybe. I didn't get past the first 30 minutes.
... Seeing as in the first an m203 shell emptied into a leaf managed to disable the Preds cloak...well, that's them fooking n00b tubes for ya.
Still looking forward to seeing the reboot though.
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I meant a pred can take 6 grenades in the recent films. But back in the first 1987 film Arnie fries the cloak with an explodey-arrow.
It appears they have upgrades nowadays.
I didn't think it was very much in the Predator 'ethos' to have honour-based combat where one side is wearing the equivalent of several inches of steel plated armour, that really doesn't sound like the way I imagined them.
Edit: Though, in honesty, I never quite understood the Predators 'Thermonuclear Deathsplosion' either, why wipe out a large area simply because the hunt ended badly? That sort of goes against the image of them that was put forward as well, destroying the evidence of their existence, that I can understand, but that just seems a little over the top.
An explody arrow that was shot at a pile of concealed explosives. It was fried because it was a lucky hit that fried its wrist computer, it still didn't do anything to its other armored sections. After all, it took several more of those and even though it was bleeding it STILL wouldn't go down.
This movie was terrible, and I saw it for free. Kinda wanted to ask for my money back anyways.
This movie was terrible, and I saw it for free. Kinda wanted to ask for my money back anyways.
An explody arrow that was shot at a pile of concealed explosives. It was fried because it was a lucky hit that fried its wrist computer, it still didn't do anything to its other armored sections. After all, it took several more of those and even though it was bleeding it STILL wouldn't go down.
This remains irrevelant to the fact that then, and now, the majority of the Predator's body is uncovered skin and as such he should be much more like a sieve then he actually does.
There's an interesting theory on the CBT forums about how these aren't "Hunter caste" Predators, and would use a different set of ethos during the hunt.
Having a caste system would explain how they could create such advanced technology.
Having a caste system would explain how they could create such advanced technology.
Ants have a caste system. :)Having a caste system would explain how they could create such advanced technology.
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Ants have a caste system. :)Having a caste system would explain how they could create such advanced technology.
what
why
how
this doesn't even
So didn't the Prussian officer corps pre-1806 which was a contributing factor in their army collapsing when they first fought Napoleon. :P
you have a hunter cast, and a scholar cast, and an engineering cast, and a worker cast, the hunters could remain largely socially unchanged while the scholars and engineers make newer and more advanced spears.
Well, maybe I was just spoiled by the books, but I certainly got the impression of Predators that, whilst they didn't mind an advantage, it still had to be a challenge to the point that simply walking out of a bush, strolling up to someone and killing them was not an option. I'd say armour strong enough to withstand 6 grandes is not exactly 'sporting'
Spartans also couldn't deploy far afield from their city state else the slave caste that basically maintained everything (since Spartan males only knew war) would revolt.
Spartans also couldn't deploy far afield from their city state else the slave caste that basically maintained everything (since Spartan males only knew war) would revolt.
Except in this case there wouldn't be slave, they would choose when they are young which caste to join based on what they like.
It's a caste if once you join, it's very hard to get out.
Good movie. :yes:It's a caste if once you join, it's very hard to get out.
I thought that was Fight Club.
It's a caste if once you join, it's very hard to get out.
I thought that was Fight Club.
I think casteing in this respect would be genetic rather than social, but then, I've always kind of imagined Predators as similar to the bored children of aristocrats in the 18th Century, who used to go travelling to India to hunt Tigers, so maybe they are the upper classes of a race that simply doesn't think like Humans in some ways, and thinks frighteningly like Humans in others ;)