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The Bloody Brood (1959), in which Leopold and Loeb go both Beat and Canadian…
Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960), in which “Colossus” isn’t Maciste for once, and at least a couple of the laughs are deliberate….
Orgy of the Dead (1965), in which Ed Wood tries his hand at writing dirty movies…
Predator 2 (1990), in which four fair-to-inspired Predator sequels come together to form one kind of lousy one…
and…
Witchfire (1985), in which Shelley Winters belatedly shows that she could hag-ham with the best of them.
#1 by RogerBW on April 20, 2021 - 11:17 am
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I have a horrible feeling that I may have seen Predator 2 on first release in the cinema. I haven’t seen any further films in the franchise at all.
I agree with you on the “warrior race” thing being boring; it shouldn’t really matter what these guys do when they’re not slaughtering Arnie’s buddies, whether they’re the elite supercommandos or a bunch of suburban accountants and orthodontists on a weekend hunting trip. The point is surely that they’re other, and that they are Tougher Than You so you need to get clever to beat them. As it is, we aren’t going to cheer for the drug dealers, we know the Predators aren’t going to come out on top, and what I remember of Team Cop is pretty profoundly unsympathetic. Eight Deadly Words time.
#2 by Chris on April 21, 2021 - 9:40 am
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Welcome back! I remember someone else having the same Predator backstory theory in an issue of Starlog that discussed the Predator in one of those alien ecology-type speculations reminiscent of Dragon magazine’s.
#3 by Elizabeth the Ferret on April 26, 2021 - 10:15 am
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#4 by MercifulRel on May 2, 2021 - 2:16 pm
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Nice to see you again, sir. Though I couldn’t argue much with your critique, I always enjoyed Predator 2 and a key part of that was Danny Glover. He takes a battering, and by the end of the film, he moves like a man who’s really taken that battering in a way that Schwarzenegger never did. I always appreciate that when I see it. I liked Eric Roberts in The Ambulance for the same reason.
#5 by maggiesmith on January 28, 2022 - 3:53 pm
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I actually liked Predator 2 a lot more than I liked Predator. I guess I’m one of the dimwits, because it didn’t occur to me that there was more than one of them on the loose. It seemed to me that his wiping out of the drug gangs would not be a bad thing, except that The Predator makes no distinction between the crooks and the cops. He does have standards, however. He spares the two women, either because he doesn’t consider it sporting to kill females, or because because one of them is pregnant and the other is unarmed. If you think back to the first movie, I don’t think anyone unarmed was ever attacked.