Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Predator Movies

Aliens were usually depicted as friendly beings or thin tiny creatures with an overgrown head having 2 antennas pointing out. It was not until movies like the Predator series that aliens were shown as vicious well built muscular beings having deadly lazer guns and self detonating wrist bands. To spice up these movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast as the protagonist of the first Predator movie. A muscular Arnie takes on the predator single handedly using his proficiency in Guerilla warfare. It's a treat of action cinema.

Predator :



The Predator, with the assistance of his sophisticated cloaking device, picks the men off one by one, until only Anna and Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) are left. Anna heads for the helicopter at the pick-up site, while the Predator chases dutchs. Turns out that his infrared sensors are easily fooled by the mud covering Dutch. He prepares some self-made weapons and traps, covers himself in mud and makes the Predator chase him.



While they both engage in several near-fatal exchanges, the Predator recognizes Dutch's advanced skills and wants to fight him directly without weapons, one-on-one. Dutch lures his opponent to the site of the traps, where the Predator manages to discover one, circles around it, but is crushed by the second one in form of a huge tree stem. Dutch wants to finish him off by crushing hsi head with a huge rock, but sees him bleeding, dying and thinks better of it. Instead he ask, half-rhetorically, "What the hell are you?". The Predator, in what looks like a translation attempt, opens his alien forearm-attached PDA, and engages its self-destruct mechanism, laughing maniacally.

Dutch runs away and nearly doesn't escape the Lt. Harrigan (Danny Glover) is a cop fighting the good war against drugs. But recently, the major drug lords have been killed off in a very brutal fashion. His superiors tell him to stay out of it, but Harrigan knows that something is wrong. His instincts are right when he discovers that the person behind the murders is none other than the Predator, the human-hunting alien who likes to make trophies out of his victims' skulls. But how can Harrigan stop the Predator when it can turn invisible and kill him without him knowing it?nuclear mini-explosion, which seems to entail some sort of electro-magnetic pulse, seen affecting the rescue helicopter carrying Anna. Dutch walks out from the smoking, devastated jungle area, where the helicopter picks him up. Roll credits.


Predator 2 :



Lt. Harrigan (Danny Glover) is a cop fighting the good war against drugs. But recently, the major drug lords have been killed off in a very brutal fashion. His superiors tell him to stay out of it, but Harrigan knows that something is wrong. His instincts are right when he discovers that the person behind the murders is none other than the Predator, the human-hunting alien who likes to make trophies out of his victims' skulls. But how can Harrigan stop the Predator when it can turn invisible and kill him without him knowing it?


Alien vs. Predator :



When audiences caught a glimpse of an alien skull mounted in the trophy cabinet of a Predator in the 1990 film PREDATOR 2, it seemed a franchise was about to be born. Sure enough, comic book artists immediately seized on the possibilities suggested by the brief scene, and a number of skirmishes between the deadly foes were played out on the printed page. Fans have had to endure a lengthy wait for a cinematic match-up, but writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson (EVENT HORIZON) has finally delivered the blood-splattered goods in ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. Set in the near future, a team of archaeologists lead by Charles Wiedland (Lance Henriksen, returning for more ALIEN action after appearances in the second and third films) ventures towards an inexplicable "hot zone" detected in Antarctica. Joined by Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan) and the requisite amount of human fodder for the otherworldly creatures to feast on, Wiedland and his cohorts discover a sizeable underground pyramid. Chaos ensues as they awake the Queen alien from her blissful slumber, causing face-hugging and chest-bursting scenes aplenty. But the ailing crew has a further quandary to grapple with in the shape of some fearsome Predators, who are using the aliens as bait for their offspring to brawl with in an ancient initiation ritual. With the human team trapped in the labyrinth-like pyramid, the battle evolves into a nail-biting three-way tussle between the archaeologists and their extraterrestrial adversaries. Fans of both the ALIEN and PREDATOR movies should find much to satiate their appetites here, and with an ending suggesting further hostilities between the pernicious coupling, this one looks set to run and run.

Alien vs. Predator Reruiem :


ALIEN VS. PREDATOR relegated its intergalactic grudge match to Antarctica, keeping most of humankind gleefully ignorant. This time around, though, the destruction takes place in suburban America, and those who have been waiting for it finally get to witness face huggers, alien hybrids, and the dread locked Predator wreak some homeland havoc. Directors Colin and Greg Strause (billed as "The Brothers Strause") don’t seem concerned with achieving the tension of the original ALIEN and PREDATOR films, instead using their visual effects backgrounds to create a steady stream of monsters, gore, and goo. Picking up where AVP ended, REQUIEM sees Predator on a homebound spacecraft when a baby alien/Predator hybrid bursts from his chest, causing the ship to crash in the Colorado woods. Several facehugger specimens escape, planting eggs down the throats of a hunter and his son. Soon, baby aliens emerge from their bodies and head for town, where ex-con Dallas (Steven Pasquale), Iraq War vet Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), pizza delivery boy Ricky (Johnny Lewis), high school heartthrob Jesse (Kristen Hager), and sheriff Morales (John Ortiz) have their own separate encounters with the creatures. The dead Predator’s home planet receives a transmission of the alien outbreak, and a fellow denizen of his world is dispatched to clean up the multiplying aliens, eventually causing enough death and destruction for government intervention. This is essentially a slasher film (or FREDDY VS. JASON with aliens), and the characters in REQUIEM are secondary to the creature effects. Fans of the comic books and videogames will appreciate the Strauses‘ adherence to the lore of the series, but others will probably just find thrills in the copious special effects, which are frequent and well-done (if often occurring in darkness). There is also a significant amount of indiscriminant gore in this rightfully R-rated film. A government conspiracy plot thread and an ambiguous ending ensure that this battle isn’t over yet.

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