'Predator 2' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Josh has reviewed 'Predator 2.' Pure guilty pleasure. This Blu-ray isn't any show-stopper, with just adequate audio and video. Unless you can list the movie as a beloved secret shame, this one is rental.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2206/predator2.html

[metalhead4]

I've always enjoyed this one more than the first movie...I don't know why, I just do. I've been waiting on this review and sadly I just won't buy it.

[cheez avenger]

I've had the UK import for a while. I thought it looked/sounded better than this review scores it.

IMO

[EvilResident]

I've always thought this movie was awkward at best. As a side note, I think it's funny that they totally ignore what earth is like in the this movie in AvP... Shouldn't there be rampant gang wars and craziness going on in the first AvP? Or something as such? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't AvP technically supposed to take place before Predator in the timeline? Baha.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by EvilResident

I've always thought this movie was awkward at best. As a side note, I think it's funny that they totally ignore what earth is like in the this movie in AvP... Shouldn't there be rampant gang wars and craziness going on in the first AvP? Or something as such? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't AvP technically supposed to take place before Predator in the timeline? Baha.

Yeah, but L.A. is a war zone. The first AVP took place in Antartica, and the second AVP was in the midwest.

It's always a warzone in L.A.

[Landy]

Chet from 'Weird Science' rocks!

Great review, it was a very fun read.

[Josh Z]

Originally Posted by EvilResident

I've always thought this movie was awkward at best. As a side note, I think it's funny that they totally ignore what earth is like in the this movie in AvP... Shouldn't there be rampant gang wars and craziness going on in the first AvP? Or something as such? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't AvP technically supposed to take place before Predator in the timeline? Baha.

The AVP movies take place before any of the 'Alien' movies, but after both 'Predator' movies.

Predator 2 is set in 1997. According to Wikipedia, the first AVP is set in 2004 (the year it was released), and the second picks up immediately afterwards.

So, in answer to your question, yes the AVPs do more or less ignore some of the continuity of Predator 2.

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Yeah, but L.A. is a war zone. The first AVP took place in Antartica, and the second AVP was in the midwest.

It's always a warzone in L.A.

True, but most of the supplements on Predator 2 point out that the "near future" of 1997 was meant to be a world in which global warming was out of control. That's why everybody is always sweating in every scene. If that were the case, you'd think most of Antarctica would have already melted.

[amigou]

Has someone compared this release to the UK Predator 2 BD release? Do both share the same issues?

I have the UK BD and the only noticeable problem I detected was some dirt and smudges visible during the opening titles.

I was expecting more grain from the source. I wasn't specifically looking for waxy faces, so didn't see any either.

[Filmmaker]

I, too, enjoy this one a tad more than the first, which--across multiple viewings--takes too long to get to the "good stuff". PREDATOR 2 starts kicking mucho ass right out of the gate, as well as having a, what?, thirty-minute mano-a-alieno battle as the finale. Good fun...not high art, but good fun.

[EvilResident]

Originally Posted by Josh Z

True, but most of the supplements on Predator 2 point out that the "near future" of 1997 was meant to be a world in which global warming was out of control. That's why everybody is always sweating in every scene. If that were the case, you'd think most of Antarctica would have already melted.

Yeah this was what I was referring to. It's been a while since I've watched either movie, but I knew there was some giant gaping inconsistency between them. I think Anderson was more of an alien fan than Predator by quite a wide margin. It just seemed like he got a lot of the references to those movies as right as possible for him, but not so much from Predator.

[taygan315]

Just fyi, I was reading athe latest issue of 'Empire' (movie and film import magazine) and they have ''the true sequel to Predator'' coming out in July of 2010 in the UK so I am thinking the U.S. version will be out sometime around the summer or early fall. Film is called ''Predators''.

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by taygan315

Just fyi, I was reading athe latest issue of 'Empire' (movie and film import magazine) and they have ''the true sequel to Predator'' coming out in July of 2010 in the UK so I am thinking the U.S. version will be out sometime around the summer or early fall. Film is called ''Predators''.

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[Son of Odin]

i thought the transfer was very clean and sharp compared to other releases from that era on blu-ray. i would've gave the pq a little higher score. as for the movie, better than any action film released so far this summer. more than a guilty pleasure, it's a damn good movie.

[Thulsadoom]

Originally Posted by Son of Odin

As for the movie, better than any action film released so far this summer. more than a guilty pleasure, it's a damn good movie.

I have to agree... I always thought this was badly underrated, like Robocop 2. Films that, while perhaps not quite classic in the way the originals were, stand up surprisingly well, and are still better than most comparable films even now.

Heck, I just recently saw Terminator: Salvation, and Transformers 2 at the cinema... and all were a bit of fun but pretty forgettable. In 20 years, I can bet hardly any one will be watching those again, but a lot of us will still be getting a good kick out of Predator 2, and similar late eighties movies (Okay, technically 90s, but let's face it, it was one of the last proper 80s action movies! ) I always thought Danny Glover was a good choice for the lead, as well. Not to mention Alonso looking cute-as-hell.

And who can't love some of those lines? "You can't see de eyes o' the Demon, till 'im come callin'!" Or the absolute classic "I don't think he gives a $shit!"

And gratuitous nudity? Come on... one brief shot of bouncing breasts... Hardly over the top. Really, this was just one of the last times when action films were made for adult audiences, rather than having blood and language tamed down to entice the kiddies all the time.

Films like Predator 2 weren't big hits because the competition in the eighties and very early nineties was just so damn good. In comparison to stuff now, it's still a better film than any number of recent so-called brilliant films, that are just stories about one-tone rich people dressing up in rodent suits.

[irrob]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

I've had the UK import for a while. I thought it looked/sounded better than this review scores it.

IMO

I agree with this post.