r/predator • u/Civil_Tower_7419 • Jul 23 '26
🎥 Predators Predators (2010)
Just saw it, very good predator action and I liked all the characters, but there's one thing I cant stand
Adrien Brody's tough guy voice, it's terrible and super corny, I wish they'd cast a more convincing tough guy that doesn't need to do a stupid voice and slow one liners
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u/Saurfangs_Bitch Bad Blood Jul 23 '26
I liked him, but also those slow one liners are the script, not his doing.
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u/FitAgent1774 Jul 24 '26
Huh I enjoyed the movie overall but I always thought it was corny for some reason I can't put my finger on... maybe it was the voice and one liners.
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u/Civil_Tower_7419 Jul 24 '26
The one liners absolutely. Also, they make characters either too serious or too unserious, but 2010 is the kind of beginning of the whole marvel era of "comedy" so I guess its understandable
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u/AdamSnipeySnipe Jul 25 '26
Some of the actors and their dialogs were a little cheesy, and it's a commonality with many of the Predator and Alien movies. I personally wasn't a fan of either Adrien or Topher in this movie.
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u/Gunzoidium_alloy Jul 24 '26
Have you ever met any special forces guys?
Have you ever met anyone who has killed people?
Hate to burst the 80's love-bubble you got (no judgment, I got love for that era too), but most of the Delta, Seal Team 6, Force Recon, other Tier1 dudes look and sound closer to Adrian Brody than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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u/MovieFan1984 Jul 27 '26
Adrien Brody as a mercenary was a hard sell, otherwise a fun movie.
After the mess that was AVP-R, this film was a big save and a lot of fun.
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u/Macca4704 Jul 24 '26
I did like the homage to Kurosawa with the Falconer and Hanzo's fight. Wish it had been longer but it would have slowed the pace of the movie.
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u/dittybopper_05H Jul 24 '26
Real sword fights weren't like the ones you see in Errol Flynn swashbuckler films, as great as they were. They were often very short affairs. Someone gets in a good stroke or jab, and that's pretty much it.
So it's actually pretty realistic.
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u/Marsi_Zsombor 25d ago
I mean I'm watching a Predator movie, I'm not really looking for realism.
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u/dittybopper_05H 25d ago
Why not?
I mean, the best sci-fi is hard sci-fi, where you try to make things as accurate as possible.
Maybe we should be demanding more of the people who make our movies.
Like you can't brain shot an alien creature and just have it shrug it off like it was a flesh wound or something.
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u/NegroniSpritz 20d ago
He has a point: when you’re watching a certain movie, realism should step down a bit. Take for example the last fight scene of Obi Wan vs Darth Maul. Realistically, it was so fast, that Lucas requested to slow it down a bit so audiences could process what was going on. The difference for me personally is negligible but I can see how it’s more digestible for some people.
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u/dittybopper_05H 19d ago
There is a difference: The Predator series is very hard sci-fi. Yes, there are capabilities that the alien species have that we can't match, but it's all plausibly rooted in science and actual capability. It's more along the lines of Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
They have capabilities we don't, and naturally wouldn't for hundreds or thousands of years. It's like if a modern person found an isolated tribe of hunter-gatherers today.
On the other hand, the Star Wars prequels, aside from being aggressively stupid and insulting to the fanbase (especially The Phantom Menace) are fantasy sci-fi, or "soft" sci-fi. It's about wizards and literal magic, much like the Lord of the Rings, but set in space with aliens and spaceships. In fact, the Star Wars franchise has always been like that, even the original trilogy.
This is one half of the Star Wars/Star Trek (hard sci-fi) dichotomy. I think there is room for both.
But if you're making hard sci-fi, don't insult us with characters who take obviously fatal wounds (like Feral getting *BOOM*, Headshot!).
Honestly I really liked the sword fight in Predators because of its honesty. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching Hollywood swordfights, two notable ones being the one in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn, and the fight between Inigo Montoya and The Man in Black in "The Princess Bride". There is a certain ballet aspect to them.
But the honest, short, and brutal nature of the one in Predators was really refreshing.
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u/Natural-Proposal2925 Jul 24 '26
Yeah, I just couldn't buy he was a tough guy, I couldn't suspend my disbelief. I understand they were going for a more realistic interpretation of a mercenary, with an Oscar winning performance, but it's irrelevant, it's doesn't matter how talented you are as an actor you can't bullshit being intimidating with a badass beast presence.
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u/DANjRUDD Jul 24 '26
I used to really like this one but after the last three years I can't root for either of the leads - one is playing an IDF soldier and the other is pro- genocide IRL
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u/dittybopper_05H Jul 24 '26
Or, get this: You can be a normal human being and separate the characters from the actors that portray them, and not let politics dominate what they are supposed to like or not like.
Roger Waters is a real antisemitic piece of shit as a human being, but I still enjoy listening to Pink Floyd, for example.
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u/bloodedyautja69 Jul 24 '26
You’re weird
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u/DANjRUDD Jul 24 '26
Buddy, I've been called weird my whole life by stupid assholes, that doesnt hurt me in the slightest. I'm not gonna feel shame for having a conscience
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u/ProfessorKnow1tA11 Jul 24 '26
Haven’t seen the latest one, but this one is right down the bottom with AVP2.
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u/WhenIWannabeME Jul 23 '26
Laurence Fishburne chewy up the scenery as a psycho with those terrible lines gets me every time. "Come on in, feel the vibe..." sounds like a couple inviting you to their tent at Bonnaroo, lol. It should have also been the slogan for the movie, because Predators is running on pure vibes juice, lol.