@EBone: You actually do see his body. The Predator lays it face down against a tree (right up into the camera) then reaches down with his finger claws, digs in, and pulls out the spinal cord and skull.
Cool shot.
@Cyprusbill (R.O.A.C.H.): I had forgotten that, since the scene is cut out of the TV-sanitized airings. I can't flick away from Predator when it's on TV. Time to break out the DVD.
By the way, I hope the French-speaking tough lady speaks Quebec French. I mean, who want a lady who screams "Sacrebleu", when you can have have alady spouting: "Ostie de Tabarnak de Caliss " (pronounced "Us-ty duh tuh-bar-nuk duh Call-Ys)
@TheGreenRanger: Actually, if you really analyze various Predator cinematic appearances, they kinda suck.
Think about it, they have invisibility, pin-point accurate shoulder-lasers, and about 100lbs and 12" of reach on a large human, and let's look at their track record:
1 - Crushed by log deployed by muddy guy
2 - Killed by Danny Glover. Danny Glover.
AvP - all get killed by Xenomorphs, a race that had previously nearly been wiped out by a decommissioned pilot, duct tape, and a walking forklift. Oh, but then the surviving predator gets his ass saved by a human, only to get chest-bursted once they leave planet.
AvP2 - Didn't see it, but somehow I doubt it went better for them.
I always thought the subtext of the Predator films was that you shouldn't over-estimate your antagonist.
@FrankenPC:
Maybe they're just the grunts and the smart ones are in their planets, busy inventing their next head-ripping gadgets.
Or they're just the retired ones and the kids thei'rey teaching how to hunt.
Or maybe they haven't come across any other intelligent being and are smart enough to have stopped fighting each other long ago and don't remember how to do it.
Yeah I know, that's the problem with Predator: It was an awesome action film, but it was a bad piece of science fiction, and it doesn't make too much sense
@TheGreenRanger: Yes, but maybe humans are the first sentient race they have hunted? The rest of their prey, even xenos, have been basically driven by instinct only, without the reasoning of pesky humans.
Well actually.. there's an unintentionally funny scene in his first movie "Ong Bak" where he goes through a similarily long and elaborate fight scene dispatching countless bad guys.
And when he's he rushes the main bad guy (whose in a wheelchair), the baddie just takes out a gun and nonchalantly shoots him.
Royce: Gerard Butler
Cuchillo: Danny Trejo (Obviously)
Nikolai: Konstantin Khabensky
Isabelle: Milla Jovovitch or Marion Coltillard
Skin Head: Jason Statham
Japanese Enforcer: Ken Watanabe
Death Squad Member: Michael Clark Duncan
Edwin: Steve Buscemi or Cillian Murphy
I don't see how pitting 3 Super Predators against 7 random humans on the Predator home plantet is very sporting. The whole point is that it be a test of the Predator's ability. Putting the humans in an unfamiliar location with strangers (rather than a cohesive unit) puts them at a disadvantage, no matter how bad ass they are individually.
@Swearengen: Yea, The Predators were never really sporting though. They basically come to Earth to hunt down prey who don't even realize they exist, with technology a century or two ahead of us, and with enough weapons to level an entire city.
Not to mention they're already naturally stronger, bigger, and tougher than us without all that gear.
They're basically like the extraterrestrial equivalent to backwoods hunters who try to romanticize modern hunting.
"I will challenge this majestic and noble animal as the laws of nature have demanded since time eternal!
But first....
Let me just go get my scoped rifle, ghilly-suit camouflage, a map, some bait, gps, food, cell phone, and manufactured bait.
OK! Now the hunt is on Mr. Ducky!"
Predators are also whiny sore losers. Who else would set off a thermonuclear weapon just cause they suck at their hobby?
@omgwtflolbbqbye: It's not that unfair. Predators don't wear any bulletproof armor. They can be seen in the second movie with special goggles. Water (rain) shorts their cloaking device out. Their shoulder cannon takes forever to lock on to a target, and has low rate of fire (probably worse than a machine gun in firepower). Their infrared vision is useless if you cover yourself in insulation. Their melee weapons are probably worse than a samurai katana in terms of speed and balance.
@Signal: You have seen Predator, right? A single Predator wipes out TWO well armed special forces teams (except for Arnold of course) and you say the Predator doesn't have much of an advantage?
@Ghost_in_the_Machine: And then was killed by a tree...so. And Predator 2? ::shakes head:: Hey I'm not down playing their awesomeness, but I don't thin they are the most intelligent alien species this side of the Milky-Way (or where ever)
I'm not too sure about the idea of them being on the Predator home planet. That hardly seems fair. Do they have some sort of wildlife park they drop the human's into. Are they running some sort of "Pay to Play" hunting park?
If they're entire existence is spent killing shit and blowing up other planets, and getting outsmarted by humans, where did all of their advanced tech come from?
Maybe the Predators we see are actually just a small subset of the actual Predator planet? Like these are the rednecks of the Predator world and the majority of the Preadtor species are normal blue/ white collar workers.
There are probably Predator accountants or teachers or short-order cooks and stuff.
I bet a lot of them look down at the Predator rednecks whenever they start going around and killing humans too.
Maybe in the movie we'll see a PETA that tries to protect humans and other species from being wipped out. They could march around the battlefield with videocameras and protest signs.
A small, unassuming man named Edwin? I'm going to assume he's a serial killer or something - and while I can appreciate the concept, I'm not sure how good a serial killer is going to do against Predators. I hope Edwin isn't one of the very first on the kill list, if only because I'm curious as to what possible good he could be...
@AngryEddy: I'm thinking a cross of Ben Linus and MacGyver. A resourceful sociopath who knows how to build improvished traps and weapons like the ones in the first movie. And will sacrifice the others to save his own butt.
Anyways, I really doubt it is anywhere as good as that japanese film where bunch of teens were put on an island to kill each others with the winner being the last one standing. Kind of survival or punsihment thingy... For the life of me I can't remember the name or find it imdb but it was pretty good film iirc.
Anyways, I can already see the awkward humor bits, the first kill that comes from nowhere, the trap which goes wrong and the last duel which ends up in really awkward way, kinda like the predator saga *sigh*.
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09/29/09
Cool shot.
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09/28/09
I would rather get assfucked by Brock Lesner on a pile of rusted tacks than get into fisticuffs with ol' Danny boy.
09/28/09
09/29/09
Personally, I'm hoping for Acadian French. Those people are raunchy.
09/29/09
By the way, I'm not a big swearer, but sometime, it happens... It's cultural, you know.
09/28/09
09/29/09
Think about it, they have invisibility, pin-point accurate shoulder-lasers, and about 100lbs and 12" of reach on a large human, and let's look at their track record:
1 - Crushed by log deployed by muddy guy
2 - Killed by Danny Glover. Danny Glover.
AvP - all get killed by Xenomorphs, a race that had previously nearly been wiped out by a decommissioned pilot, duct tape, and a walking forklift. Oh, but then the surviving predator gets his ass saved by a human, only to get chest-bursted once they leave planet.
AvP2 - Didn't see it, but somehow I doubt it went better for them.
I always thought the subtext of the Predator films was that you shouldn't over-estimate your antagonist.
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09/29/09
Maybe they're just the grunts and the smart ones are in their planets, busy inventing their next head-ripping gadgets.
Or they're just the retired ones and the kids thei'rey teaching how to hunt.
Or maybe they haven't come across any other intelligent being and are smart enough to have stopped fighting each other long ago and don't remember how to do it.
Yeah I know, that's the problem with Predator: It was an awesome action film, but it was a bad piece of science fiction, and it doesn't make too much sense
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09/28/09
Fingers crossed, but loosely.
09/28/09
#@!
09/28/09
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09/28/09
I mean how do you expect them to make a sequel once the entire Predator planet is crippled hmm?!
09/29/09
09/29/09
What, No one had a gun?
09/29/09
Nobody has a gun. Ever.
Well actually.. there's an unintentionally funny scene in his first movie "Ong Bak" where he goes through a similarily long and elaborate fight scene dispatching countless bad guys.
And when he's he rushes the main bad guy (whose in a wheelchair), the baddie just takes out a gun and nonchalantly shoots him.
09/28/09
Cuchillo: Danny Trejo (Obviously)
Nikolai: Konstantin Khabensky
Isabelle: Milla Jovovitch or Marion Coltillard
Skin Head: Jason Statham
Japanese Enforcer: Ken Watanabe
Death Squad Member: Michael Clark Duncan
Edwin: Steve Buscemi or Cillian Murphy
My dream cast. Oh man do I want this to happen...
09/28/09
09/29/09
Actually, now that I think about it, Reanimator vs. Predator would be pretty bad-ass.
09/28/09
09/28/09
Not to mention they're already naturally stronger, bigger, and tougher than us without all that gear.
They're basically like the extraterrestrial equivalent to backwoods hunters who try to romanticize modern hunting.
"I will challenge this majestic and noble animal as the laws of nature have demanded since time eternal!
But first....
Let me just go get my scoped rifle, ghilly-suit camouflage, a map, some bait, gps, food, cell phone, and manufactured bait.
OK! Now the hunt is on Mr. Ducky!"
Predators are also whiny sore losers. Who else would set off a thermonuclear weapon just cause they suck at their hobby?
09/28/09
09/28/09
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
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09/28/09
09/29/09
09/29/09
I'm not too sure about the idea of them being on the Predator home planet. That hardly seems fair. Do they have some sort of wildlife park they drop the human's into. Are they running some sort of "Pay to Play" hunting park?
09/29/09
If they're entire existence is spent killing shit and blowing up other planets, and getting outsmarted by humans, where did all of their advanced tech come from?
Maybe the Predators we see are actually just a small subset of the actual Predator planet? Like these are the rednecks of the Predator world and the majority of the Preadtor species are normal blue/ white collar workers.
There are probably Predator accountants or teachers or short-order cooks and stuff.
I bet a lot of them look down at the Predator rednecks whenever they start going around and killing humans too.
Maybe in the movie we'll see a PETA that tries to protect humans and other species from being wipped out. They could march around the battlefield with videocameras and protest signs.
09/28/09
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09/28/09
Yep, it looks like we've got a movie, people.
09/28/09
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed
09/28/09
09/28/09
Does Zoe Bell speak French?
09/28/09
Anyways, I really doubt it is anywhere as good as that japanese film where bunch of teens were put on an island to kill each others with the winner being the last one standing. Kind of survival or punsihment thingy... For the life of me I can't remember the name or find it imdb but it was pretty good film iirc.
Anyways, I can already see the awkward humor bits, the first kill that comes from nowhere, the trap which goes wrong and the last duel which ends up in really awkward way, kinda like the predator saga *sigh*.
09/28/09
Whoops, didn't see that MrFlake got it first. Sorry'bout that.