Sore about the Spelings.

Robert is to obsessed with doing movies on the cheap and in some ways look cheap. That’s great for his kid movies and his Desperado series but for something like the Predator…well it demands some cool rethinking and creativity. Things that Rodriguez has yet to demonstrate to me.

My few problems with rodriguez are this:

A. He has like 10 movies lined up right now, so this isn’t likely to get off the ground for awhile.

B. He’s upsessed with that fucking green-screen technology. Predator needs to be shot on-location in a fucking jungle, he’s never filmed anywhere remotely exotic like that before.

C. He’s too obsessed with homages and “wink-wink” film-making, which absolutley does not belong in a predator movie. The closest thing to a totally serious movie of his is probably desperado, and even that had some of that stuff.

Still, I think he’s a pretty solid film-maker and I have no doubt that he would do his best to respect the source-material. He’s certainly a huge step up after the last couple movies.

I do love the original (it was AA here, and my Dad took me when I was pretty young). What bumps Predator from just an action flick to be a really enjoyable re-watch film is the characters and how they were all so compelling and different from each other. Almost has what we now see as a heist film setting up with everyone having such specific roles. I wonder if they will keep that as part of the film or if it will mostly be blowing stuff up / hunting stuff down.