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05-20-2019, 11:48 AM | #1 |
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It's a great-looking figure from the worst Predator movie ever made, by far.
Nice photo shoot, Joe. I got a chuckle out of the shot with the decapitated Fugitive. What spine did you use for that? A Storm MK one? |
05-20-2019, 12:44 PM | #3 |
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It's a great shoot as always but I was actually on board with the movie until that dumbass thing showed up. Lost all interest after it killed off the Fugitive Predator.
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05-20-2019, 01:37 PM | #4 |
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Yeah. the one that came with Sub-Zero. Good catch!
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05-20-2019, 01:39 PM | #5 |
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I hear ya for sure. The movie didn't do anything for me. But I appreciate a well made figure.
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05-20-2019, 05:51 PM | #7 |
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That thing is a beast, friggin Play Arts Kai sizing there almost. Great shots.
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05-20-2019, 07:52 PM | #8 |
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Anyway, the toys still look good. Considering how badly the movie bombed, I wonder how well they've been selling, though. |
05-20-2019, 08:03 PM | #9 |
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awesome photo shots
this is going to be a must get, also loving the box art. |
05-20-2019, 09:08 PM | #10 |
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I just watched the movie yesterday. I heard all the bad reviews and was prepared for the worst. When the predator was running amok in the lab, I thought, "Okay, it's not a great movie, but it's still kind of entertaining." It was all downhill after that. It was just so...stupid. Easily the worst in the series.
Anyway, the toys still look good. Considering how badly the movie bombed, I wonder how well they've been selling, though. |
05-20-2019, 10:16 PM | #11 |
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My sentiments exactly. Everything to do with the Fugitive Predator at the start was great, but the moment the big guy shows up, the whole thing goes downhill. Still it's a great figure, but I've no interest in getting something that only serves to remind me of how terrible the film was.
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05-21-2019, 05:44 AM | #12 |
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I just watched the movie yesterday. I heard all the bad reviews and was prepared for the worst. When the predator was running amok in the lab, I thought, "Okay, it's not a great movie, but it's still kind of entertaining." It was all downhill after that. It was just so...stupid. Easily the worst in the series.
Anyway, the toys still look good. Considering how badly the movie bombed, I wonder how well they've been selling, though. BTW, since we have some new viewers of this film here, I thought I'd keep the discussion going by re-posting a little "mini-review" I wrote on a different forum that points out all the stuff that's horrible about this movie. Anyone else, please feel free to chime in. Here it is: The Predator is just a whole new level of bad...it made the shitty AVP movies look like amazingly well-done and thoughtful films in comparison. The plot was terrible, the script made almost no sense in parts, bad dialogue was in abundance, almost all of the characters were completely unlikable and annoying, and even the editing of the film was confusing and poorly done. It wasn't a bad Predator movie...it was a bad movie, period. Even the ending, which was completely reshot after test audiences shit all over it, was absolutely terrible. I have some time to kill this morning, and its been a while since I've done a "random movie thoughts" post, so here's some examples:
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That's just a small sampling of the dumb shit in this movie. I could go on all day with this, I won't. It sucks, I hope they don't make another one. Last edited by Dolemite; 05-21-2019 at 05:49 AM.. |
05-21-2019, 09:20 AM | #13 |
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I think what pissed me off most was how they were trying to retcon everything from the previous movies. The Predators don't take spines to harvest DNA or some stupid BS it was about honoring worthy prey.
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@ Dolemite: Your write-up is bang on, especially re: the strange fascination with and misunderstanding of autism.
Everything is derivative, uninspired, debased. I was gobsmacked to read that Black considers this movie a "love letter" to the original, because it seems fundamentally disrespectful, even satirical. I honestly thought it was a parody. The deep questions and existential themes and inner drama that made the original great are glaringly absent. The most important subplot for Dutch didn't involve the Predator at all: I would describe it as his wrestling with self-doubt and ability to rise to a challenge and find his place in a universe beyond his control. You don't pay tribute to 'hard' science fiction by smacking it down and turning it into a sitcom. There's a scene where I stopped listening to the dialogue and started simply counting the number of times somebody said 'fuck.' What was the point? How did that add value? Rock bottom for me was the final "predator killer" scene in the epilogue. The design was comedic. The main character's last comment was the cinematic equivalent of spitting on you after you're knocked down. Ugh. IMO, the most important element that makes the original superior is the enemy as Unknown and Unknowable. Dutch has no idea what he's up against. The movie progresses through stages of discovery, small victories, like a detective story. In that sense, it can be likened to Alien or Silence of the Lambs. Black's movie seems intended to do the opposite, throwing anything and everything about these new retconned predators in your face, taking away all the fun. Yuck. And the hero wasn't a punk. Gripe, grouse. Last edited by Skoob; 05-23-2019 at 12:00 PM.. |
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