Alien, Predator, AvP (news)

[thribs]

New Alien game announced.

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[The Wormhole]

Was that the one with Danny Trejo and Morpheus?

That's the one, yeah.

 

[Jedi Marso]

We need a Colonial Marines movie where they kick Predator ass with high-tech weapons.

This. AvP should have been set off Earth, sometime after Aliens, and involved a three-way between the Colonial Marines, Predators, and Xenomorphs. Kind of like the first couple of games back in the day.

 

[publiusr]

I want to see a Predator looking through the debris of Outpost 31…

 

[Roundabout]

And I don't mean this as a rip of the franchise, I enjoyed the first two and Predators, but it's still a very manly man, macho franchise.

I mean seriously, this

and this

tell you pretty much everything you need to know about the tone of the earlier movies.

Besides the muscle flexing, the cast of that first Predator movie had the distinction of including two future U.S. state governors IRL. So far, it is still the best of the Predator movies.

To me The Alien movies should always have a female protagonist and Predator a male. Part of the tradition of these franchises

Has any Predator movie featured a female Predator. It might be an interesting change up if a future Predator or AvP movie featured a female Predator.

I wonder if Arnold would be interested in doing another Predator, or better yet, an AvP movie. Arnoldnator against Predator and Xenomorph. That would be exciting.

 

[thribs]

You’re right. Maybe it is a lady Yautja here.
I don’t recall any female Predators in the movies but I think there was one in the Rage War novel trilogy.

 

[JD]

I've seen 1, 2, and Predators in any female Predators in any of them. I've been meaning to ask, where does the name Yautja for the Predator species come from? I've seen it used all over the place, but I don't remember it being used in any of the movies.

 

[thribs]

Must be from the comics. It’s the canon name for them since the new Marvel comic also uses the name.

 

[Tosk]

Has any Predator movie featured a female Predator.

For all we know, every Predator we've seen so far is female.

where does the name Yautja for the Predator species come from?

I believe it first came from Steve Perry in one of the novels.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I remember seeing a number of garage resin figurines of lady Preds. Of course, they’re clearly based off of a female human physique. Unless Preds have somehow also evolved identically as mammals, I suspect they probably shouldn’t have human looking breasts and hips like Marilyn Monroe with dreads and a helmet. Tosk could be right - they may all be female by human biological standards. I doubt we’ll ever know, and honestly I hope we never do.

 

[Tosk]

Personally, I like to think they don't correspond to normal Earth standards. Maybe they're all a single gender. Maybe they switch. Maybe there's more than two.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

If you believe the books and comics, the species is basically mammalian including gender and reproductive traits. Also, the females, at least of some clans, are way bigger than the males.

But the movies have never mentioned them. They could easily change everything about them if they like.

 

[Tosk]

If you believe the books and comics, the species is basically mammalian including gender and reproductive traits.

Depends on which books. There are some that present a wholly different lore.

 

[Reverend]

Has any Predator movie featured a female Predator. It might be an interesting change up if a future Predator or AvP movie featured a female Predator.

How can you be sure they haven't ALL been females thus far? It's not unusual in communal predatory species for the females to be the hunters. For all we know the males of that species are all short, skinny, wispy things that mostly just hang around the nests feeding the brood . . . or being fed to the brood . . .
Or they could do it like some angler fish do and anatomically fuse.

I think what you're really asking here is "what if they tried giving them wasp waists and boobs?", to wit I think most people would say "why!?"

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, with what little information we've gotten about them onscreen, there's really no way to know what kind of sexual dimorphism the Predator species has.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

For my money, you don't need an "Arnold like" lead for these movies. You just need a character that has ingenuity. Skill. Resourcefulness.

It's not as though Arnold was even able to stand with the Predator physically anyway. He got his entire ass kicked when they went toe to toe.

That's one of the reasons I like Predator 2 just as much as the first. Lt. Mike Harrigan doesn't have Dutch's special forces training, but he still manages to stand toe to toe with and kick the Predator's ass!

 

[Starkers]

It's kind of hilarious seeing people argue that it's unrealistic to expect people to stand a chance against Predators without modern weaponry. I mean did folks just sleep through the entirety of the other movies? (Understandable in AvPs case.)
How much good did modern weaponry ever do *anyone* against one of those things? It pretty much always comes down to a knock-down drag-out with rocks and pointy sticks anyway, so if anything the protagonists of this movie are WAY ahead of the curve.

Yeah, I mean just how many bullets does Bill Duke fire into the jungle with that minigun? I mean the Predator is injured, but it's just a scratch.

I actually did fall asleep while watching Predators. Or at least I think it was that one, was that the one that came out in 2010? The 2010 one is the one I fell asleep during, anyway.

Granted, I did have some serious sleep issues throughout 2010 in that I'd stay up most of the night and fall asleep at random points during the day.

I actually really like Predators.

My rankings would go something like...

Predator
Predators
Predator 2
AVP1
The Predator
AVP 2

 

[JD]

I watched 2 a while back, and I enjoyed it. One of the biggest things I have to compliment the creators on, is that they actually did something different, rather than just doing more of what the first one did.

 

[Tosk]

My ranking, seeing as no one asked.

Predator
Predator 2




Predators
AvP
The Predator






AvP2

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Yeah, I mean just how many bullets does Bill Duke fire into the jungle with that minigun? I mean the Predator is injured, but it's just a scratch.



I actually really like Predators.

My rankings would go something like...

Predator
Predators
Predator 2
AVP1
The Predator
AVP 2

Same for me, except I can't even remember the AVP movies well enough to rate them. And yet I still suspect they must have been at least slightly better than the dumpster fire that was The Predator.