If you’ve been reading this site (and I don’t think you have been), then you would know there is a new movie being created named PREDATORS about those aliens that hassled Arnold and Danny a while back. Well, a kind soul over at AVP Galaxy was able to procure a few pictures from the film set. I have saved a few of the photos and placed them below this paragraph since they have already been removed by the studios from the original site. Behold!
My fern! Who killed my fern?!
I'm with stupid.
My ketchup packet exploded.
We're looking FABULOUS!
Ask your Mom about my other gun.
Did I just ruin the movie for you?
Is that a camera?
Well you're not handsome either!
Well, there sure are Predators in those pictures…yes sir. Honestly, it looks basically how I thought it would only a lot browner. Seriously though, what is up with the Predators striking a pose? It’s like there is a pandemic of Saturday Night Fever sweeping across the Predator planet. And why do they look like bobble-head dolls?
I still don’t have much faith in this movie because what made the Predator awesome in the first movie wasn’t the Predator (which is still a kick-ass alien design), what made him awesome was Arnold. You have to think of it in relation to the times. Before PREDATOR came out Arnold had only played unstoppable killing machines, like in TERMINATOR and COMMANDO. But then along comes PREDATOR which introduced a creature on film that not only stood toe-to-toe with the biggest star on the planet, but kicked his ass. This was really the first time in a movie that you could honestly say to yourself “Arnold could lose this fight,” not that he would because he was the star, but the threat was there. And that’s why the Predator was so intimidating; he whooped Arnold, but more importantly he whooped our perceptions of “Arnold the action star.”
But now, every time the Predator shows up and is eventually beaten by some average guy his mystique is lessened, not enhanced. A creature that can “almost” defeat the 1987 Schwarzenegger (he had him if not for Arnold and his log…tehe) is scary, a creature that loses to Danny Glover and Adrian Brody is not scary…that creature is kinda lame.
