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ralfy
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| It appears in Prey, which is an awful movie. |
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Gord Green
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Ralfi, on the contrary . . . I thought PREY was a wonderful movie!
Instead of hi-tech, muscle-bound caucasian warriors, it showed a proud, noble, and highly skilled group of survivors . . . and in this case a female member of that group . . . overcome the Predators supplied with semi-inadvisability and laser-aimed projectiles!
I loved the fact that a Comanche woman was able to defeat the Predator through her tenacity and sheer will!
Well done as far as cinematography and dialogue (the American aborigines — Indians — spoke to each other like real people, not in Pidgin English!).
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ralfy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:02 am Post subject: |
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They sounded like Cali teens. For Native American characters, I was thinking more of actors like Wes Studi and those from the 1990s version of Last of the Mohicans.
Also, the predator acted stupid, and there was one cringy scene involved the girl going Mary Sue on the trappers.
Overall, it's salvageable, like the second movie, but not as good as the first one. |
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Bud Brewster
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | | I've always wanted to know about the Predator social system. How do these simple-minded hunters happen to possess such advanced technology? Their society must possess individuals who have a high intelligence and who don't give a rats ass about killing intelligent life forms for sadistic pleasure. |
As I stated in an earlier post which included the comment above, it's unreasonable to assume that the Predator species was composed entirely of savage and sadistic hunters who cruised around the galaxy looking for intelligent beings to hunt down and rip out their spinal cords.
But today I realized that these individuals from an intelligent and highly advanced species would have to be the outlaws of their civilization — the cruel and mentally unbalanced misfits who defy the moral codes of their own culture and seek out backwater planets where they could indulge in their sadistic pleasures! 
A fitting sequel to the Predator movies would be something new and different — the arrival of a team of law enforcement individuals from the Predator planet. This team would be here to hunt down the individuals who were victimizing humans by indulging in their brutal and disturbing practices in a remote, heavily forested area of Oregon.
To make the story interesting, these alien law enforcement officers would make a valiant effort to contact the local policemen in this remote community explain their reason for being there.
This would give the story some very interesting moments in which average humans would struggle to accept these hideous aliens as moral beings who were here to apprehend dangerous members of their own race! 
I love idea of a tentative alliance between local people and several alien law enforcement officers. They team up to track down several alien hunters in the dense Oregon forest who have been killing the members of logging operation.
The climax would involve the human/alien posse and a group of tough logging men going up against several of alien Predators!
This is a movie I'd love to see!
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Maurice
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of Predator 2, I recently dug up this photo from 1993 (which I need to scan at higher res).
Yeah, that’s me with an actual Predator 2 suit. Craig Caton-Largent of Digital Domain took this pic of me and the BIG bad at the SIGgraph show.
I recently wrote a piece on the visual effects of the Predator films, here.
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Bud Brewster
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How damn, Mr. Molyneaux, I just had to post the image below because I'm so damn proud to have a published author of your caliber as a member on my humble message board!
Concerning the article, Maurice. . . I'm damned impressed!
You explained highly technical cinematic processes that I didn't know a thing about — and yet you did it so well that never got confused, and I certainly never lost interest!
I highly recommend your article (<— link) to All Sci-Fi's members.
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Maurice
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| Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | ______________________________________________
How damn, Mr. Molyneaux, I just had to post the image below because I'm so damn proud to have a published author of your caliber as a member on my humble message board!
Concerning the article, Maurice. . . I'm damned impressed!
You explained highly technical cinematic processes that I didn't know a thing about — and yet you did it so well that never got confused, and I certainly never lost interest!
I highly recommend your article (<— link) to All Sci-Fi's members. |
Thanks. Back in the day I wrote a beginners column for a computer magazine, and I've always enjoyed trying to help people grok arcane information. As I think my posts here demonstrate, I'm always trying to figure out what actually happened and why rather than just handing down received knowledge, which is often mythologized and inaccurate.
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