I haven’t watched a Predator movie since the second one (or an Alien movie since the 4th) but I’m looking forward to this one, because half an Elle Fanning is still much better than no Elle Fanning.
Yeah, that is a great trailer. Predator franchise has been on a comeback kick lately.
I highly recommend Prey then.
So do I. Prey is outstanding.
I used to quote all the dialogue of the original Predator from when Arnold lights the bonfire with a jungle shattering, “AAAAAHHHHHHHH” to “Get to the choppa”. Of course it’s an Arnold movie show so it wasn’t much. “He couldn’t see me”. “C’mon. c’mon, keell me!”. “What the hell are you?”
Me too. 
4th-ing Prey, it was excellent. This new one looks very exciting. My one complaint that jumped out at me from the trailer is that the predator actor’s physical movements seem too human to me. He looks and moves like a generic action-hero in a mask. Most previous predators have emphasized slow broad deliberate movements that felt imposing, strong, dangerous, and most importantly, alien. This guy’s physical acting seems miscast/misdirected.
Perhaps I’m preemptively nitpicking too severely, but I’m a superfan, it’s what we do.
I am probably not the audience for this, because I thought that trailer looked pretty dumb, and I completely agree with this:
Maybe I am misremembering/romanticizing the original, but this Predator really doesn’t look like an alien at all. This will be a pass for me.
From the trailer, it seems like the predator is purposely disarmed, not having his usual assortment of fancy gear? Looks like a more down to earth take, kinda like the Dark Knight series of “humanized” Batman. Could be interesting, but yeah, he does fight more like Khal Drogo in this one than a proper Predator. I’d still watch it, or course… loved every Predator and Alien vs Predator movie, even the really dumb ones 
Anyone ever play the old AvP first person shooter PC games? They were actually really excellent, letting you play as the predator, the aliens (xenomorphs), and the colonial marines in a 3 way conflict. Each species played really differently and it really helped flesh out the movies, mechanically, in terms of seeing how different it was for the predator to hunt an alien vs a marine, or for the xenomorph to hunt a predator. The movies are so much richer after having played that game.
This is true but the first two predators moved like a guy wearing a giant monster suit, this is definitely an improvement.
As with a lot of twenty-first century movies, I look at this and say “why? Why do I care what happens to a predator? They’re the baddies! I hope he gets torn to shreds, and it hurts a lot.”
John Wick can just fuck right off and die, too.
Specifically watch the scene at about 22-24 seconds where he is readying his space-bow. In my minds ear, the dialogue sounds like “Let’s rock, yo, I’m locked and loaded bruh!” rather than “Grrrichchchigrr…graggglllee…grrrowlwlwlgghh” coming from the actor’s generic human action movements.
I figure he’s a hybrid of some kind.
Per the director, this Predator has been outcast from his clan for being a runt.
Yes, he’s the Predator DJ Qualls.
Wasn’t there an end scene in one of the previous movies where there was a xenomorph-predator hybrid? Doesn’t explain why it looks more human, though.
“What if predator, but from the predator’s perspective” isn’t something I particularly care about. Same director as Prey, which I liked, so I’ll pay attention to reviews, but I’d bet against it being good.
Yeah, the problem with the Predator movies is that the more you make the less threatening they get because they keep losing. If you want to make a movie with a Predator protagonist in which he actually wins you don’t make them sympathetic, you just make his prey despicable. I’d love a Predator hunts Nazis movies.
Would you buy…Russians?
Imagine if you will, an alternate explanation for
Predator v Commies. It sings!