Like its fellow early-2000s horror icon showdown Freddy vs. Little wonder both series went back to ideas in development from before this whole sorry affair afterward.
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But it's for naught when their conflict is such a small, unrelated part of the movie the creatures are separate for most of proceedings and franchise ephemera is cheap, winking at the most well-known iconography and ideas (when not breaking continuity entirely). Predator, is a neat enough design and gives the xenomorphs, just hordes in the predecessor, a sense of autonomy.
The Predalien, the major antagonist after being teased in Alien vs. Whereas the first movie did add some fun aspects, this is a dud. Obviously, what suffers most are the titular beasts. It's narratively dull and visually dark, with the only real moments of inspiration from directors the Strause brothers being some experimenting with the R-rating, and that's a very mixed bag seeing xenomorph blood melt a douchbag's face is cool, having chestbursters come from a child and a ward-ful of pregnant women is not. It's not even a good slasher film setup. The string of potential victims have broad backstories and weak relationships messily established before they're picked off in an oddly paced escalation in genre cliche locations - forest, school, hospital - with weak internal logic (being stabbed by an alien's tail is interchangeably instakill or flesh wound) and cheap sets (the military presence is one guy in a room), all presented in a high contrast, high saturation image.
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In fact, involving these two is to a massive detriment: once you've seen a xenomorph in the fluorescent light of a diner kitchen, it's really lost all menace and the Predator can't be both human hunter and protector without losing the inbuilt code of duty. Set on modern-day Earth in a small town, AVPR is just a slasher movie where the killers happen to be Aliens and Predators. The previous films all had flirtations with the slasher genre, but here's where all the usual sci-fi trappings, unique style and grander themes were tossed aside and it became homogenized, indistinct from a Platinum Dunes remake. Predator: Requiem is the worst entry in both involved franchises by quite a margin.
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With The Predator hearkening back to some (not all) movies in the series and opening up many debates of what the Yautja means in modern-day cinema, we're going to look back over the series and rank all six Predator films from worst to best.
That said, crossovers aside, its lows are certainly a little less abrasive. As the confused nomenclature may hint, Predator a series with an unclear identity - narratively inconsistent and tonally varied - that tapers off much quicker than the likes of Alien or Terminator.
Their shared misstep led to a revising of an old 1990s script with space-set Predators, and now the series is going in a whole new direction with Shane Black's The Predator. It kicked off in 1987 with Predator, followed up by bigger budget sequel Predator 2 in 1990, before various versions were stuck in development hell before 20's double-tap of Alien vs. Predator, the David prequels - few of the six Predator movies so far has been quite like the others, and most tend to ignore much of what's happened before. Unlike sister series Alien, which has a clear set of throughlines - the Ripley originals, Alien vs. The Predator movie franchise is over thirty years old, and in that time can be best described as incredibly varied.
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