Robert Rodriguez (reliable director for the most part) has pencilled in a Summer 2010 release date for his 'Predator' reboot: 'Predators'.
That makes three 80s classics (Robocop & Highlander) being remade. Some say its a complete renewal, others claim its still in the original universe.
Rodriguez wrote most of this around 1993-94 and was orginally hoping Arnie would reprise his iconic role as Dutch. All that's changed now for obvious reasons, but as it stands the story's still the same: Dutch (or now some other character) is taken to a Predator run prison camp (on Earth or on the Predator home planet no one knows) where creatures from all over the universe are pitted in battle. People are bought there in honour of having survived Predator hunts on their home worlds; the script featured humans in Predator costume as depicted in a few spin off novels, games and comics. Our hero also encounters their hierachy and makes friends with the alien.
So, what do you say?
**&^! **%!!
Everyones a critic.
[ 25. April 2009, 15:33: Message edited by: Kash ]
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Awesome! I love Robert Rodriguez movies, I hope he does it well.
Speaking of Robert Rodriquez, I watched The Faculty last night, geez that's a good film!
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Hmmmmm.....I love Predator......but....just doesn't seem old enough to jusify a remake yet. Obviously the focus will be on razzle dazzle special effects......not sure about this one.....
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I hope he dies and I will personally **** on his grave! STOP WITH THE ****ING REMAKES!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: Obviously the focus will be on razzle dazzle special effects.....
I can care less if remakes are made, but even with all the razzle dazzle, they can never make another Predator that will even come close to the original.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
LOL Jay
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: I hope he dies and I will personally **** on his grave! STOP WITH THE ****ING REMAKES!!!!!!!!!!
Don't sit on the fence Jay, tell us what you really think Posted by He came and he saw that it was NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
Why are people calling this a remake? Sounds more like a sequel to me...
Pedantic Noms Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
RR said it was a "Reinvention" or "Reimagening" of the original Predator, that he wrote in the early 90's. If it is just another lame sequel, then whatever....!
Im so sick of remakes, reboots, reimagenings, spin offs or those Johnny come lately sequels, like indy 4, rambo 4, Die Hard 4 etc.
But what I hate the most is the people who goes to see these movies! You are enabeling HLWD, and telling them that it is ok to not come up with new stuff, and just keep beating the same dead horse over and over and over again! And why shouldn't they.... when a million douchebags just keeps forking over the cash for uninspired trash time after time!
The 2000's has been the saddest chapter in movie history, thus far... it is really depressing! I love movies, and have a big collection, but I just counted how many movies I had from the year 2000 and up.... 53!!!!! for a whole decade!!!! That's not even a fraction of what I have from the 70's, the 80's or even the 90's!
I also counted how many movies from those decades had been remade in the 2000's.... after 30 I just stopped counting, it was too depressing! If I had counted my Asian movies, also remade in HLWD, I would probably just have shot myself in the head!
I really wish that people would be more discerning, and not just eat up, anything that HLWD dishes out! there are very few people left in the mainstream movie game, with any artistic vision! But as long as they make the green without even really trying, why should they bother?
RANT OVER... JAY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
^ what he said Posted by EJ Loves Takashi (Member # 7767) on :
I agree, I am getting tired of all the remakes.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
MORE REMAKES!!!
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Robert Rodriguez, the director, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, d1ckless, hopeless, heartless, fat-@ss, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh1t he is. Hallelujah. Holy sh1t. Where's the Tylenol?
heheee... Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: MORE REMAKES!!!
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Robert Rodriguez, the director, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, d1ckless, hopeless, heartless, fat-@ss, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh1t he is. Hallelujah. Holy sh1t. Where's the Tylenol?
heheee...
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
I'll go see it before damning it and passing judgment. Rodriguez is one of my fave directors.......
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I haven't Predtor 1 or 2, so why should I care if the make a remake? I, too, would watch this one before passing any kind of judgment.
Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
i also saw the commercials for the star trek movie and another terminator movie last night although i don't think the terminator will be as good without arnold!! lol
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
on one hand i agree with jaylee.. the remakes and sequels are so out of hand. they remake anything these days. but on the other hand, i do go see the movies.. out of curiosity. if they are bad, i try not to let it tarnish my feelings on the originals or anything i love as original.
so did you guys hear? CLUELESS is getting a sequel which alicia silverstone has agreed to star in AND i heard DROP DEAD FRED is getting the remake treatment with RUSSELL BRAND.
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Ugh--Clueless? Drop Dead Fred? Neither one of those were favorite movies for me. What's next? A remake/sequel/prequel to the Hunt for Red October, which was the worst movie ever made????
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: MORE REMAKES!!!
Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Robert Rodriguez, the director, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, fore-fleshing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, d1ckless, hopeless, heartless, fat-@ss, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey sh1t he is. Hallelujah. Holy sh1t. Where's the Tylenol?
heheee...
OK, that was the line from Christmas Vacation in case you didn't get it...
I guess I would watch the remake. It can't be any worse than part 2... Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I can't even remember part 2.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I keep passin up part 2 in the $5 bin at Walmart...should I continue to leave it there?
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
Part 2 was pretty bad... Danny Glover was miscast in this role. The whole "feel" of the movie was off IMHO...
- jdocster Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Thanks jdoc....
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Predator 2 is great! I canīt believe u guys donīt like it??!!
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Hmmmmm....so maybe the $5 is worth the risk....sittin' on the fence now.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: I keep passin up part 2 in the $5 bin at Walmart...should I continue to leave it there?
kev, do us all a favor....buy the ENTIRE $5 Wal-mart bin already! It sounds like it is your home away from home.
Here's a bonus....after your wife kicks you out of the house for buying so many dvds, you can take the empty bin with you and make yourself a comfy, new home. Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
I am one of a handful of people who actually liked Predator 2. I'd snag it for $5.......
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
80's....the WallyMart staff hate when I open pop and chips before I pay for them...sit right on top of the pile of movies in the bin...and sift through them at my leisure! And, my friend...haven't I taught you anything? Once in a while....I buy one of them $5 movies for my wife....she'd never git rid of me! Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: the WallyMart staff hate when I open pop and chips before I pay for them...sit right on top of the pile of movies in the bin...and sift through them at my leisure!
When you finally get to the bottom of the bin, be on the lookout for aTomiK. He may be stuck down there himself. Posted by It's Sam, Mr. Hain If You're Nasty (Member # 3150) on :
OK it's time for me to come clean.
I've never seen any of the Predator movies.
I should be punished by having the Progressive.com girl torture me or something.
Posted by He came and he saw that it was NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
I am shocked and appalled by the statement made by one Mr Hain in the above post and would like to distance myself from this as much as possible.
Skinned a-noms Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on :
Can't believe they would do a Predator remake no one could take Arnie's place or character from the first one,i cant stand the second one Danny Glover is ok in it but a few of the other characters get right on my nerves. Tried watch the AVP requiem one last night couldn't get into it,the action seems mainly to be shot in the dark and gets on your nerves after a while.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Hated the AVP's... could even finish either one! cheap crap, filmed in canada with dubious CGI!!!
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by It's Sam, Mr. Hain If You're Nasty: OK it's time for me to come clean.
I've never seen any of the Predator movies.
I should be punished by having the Progressive.com girl torture me or something.
OMG Sammy! I cannot believe it...
She can't believe it either!!!
She'll be at your house around 8PM to watch the movies with you. You might even get lucky and get a free insurance quote!
QUOTE]Originally posted by JAY LEE: Hated the AVP's... could even finish either one! cheap crap, filmed in canada with dubious CGI!!! [/QUOTE]
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