PREDATORS 2010: That 70s guy opens can of worms

#1

So since we are severely depleting the subject matter to discuss on this forum, here is one I thought makes perfect sense and strangely should be debated and effectionately talked about.

Predators 2010 proposed that Badbloods (Super Predators) can be outliers of the yautja lore but it doesn’t detail the reasons why they exist. It just purely makes them out to be the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” version of yautja. That is, the yautja clan that have questionable tactics.

This is evident primarily because it is assumed their selection are wildly different from the norm. The inclusion of a sadistic doctor is probably the most obvious apart from the rest as there literally is no valid reason for him to exist in the film.

A selection process often requires for Yautja to actually witness events in such things as actual warzones (streets, countries in conflict), or even facilities where there could be violent uprisings like a penitentiary. This explains about half of the “chosen” crew of prey. What is not explained is why “this nobody” working at a hospital that has intimate interactions with innocent patients might be selected. The Yautja having “god-like intuition” in selection of prey is just implausible. Unless “said nobody” was studied as a incubent who understood tropical and dangerous plants, kidnapped and held to study all sorts of alien plants–which might make good narrative.

I found the movie effective and interesting but its that 70s guy that really is the REAL problem and I just don’t buy it!

I accept even the wierder shit in the movie because it works, such as:

  1. the new tools that these super preds have
  2. the captured predator derived from the tribal elkage of the first /second film
  3. the super predator and the River Ghost are cool ideas in general
  4. the cast of characters being taken to another planet on a hunting grounds
  5. weird artifacts that aren’t explain such as the structures of other sacrificial slaughter den
  6. Nolan as being some weirdo who out-smarted everyone.

I just don’t buy that 70s guy. Is he a joke? Like flipping the script on us. Was it some kind of directors cut joke? The only positive take away is that the narrative from Royce even points directly to Edwin as a point of interest.

There is a definite back story with the original captured Predator because otherwise, the traps we saw only points back to the predator Dutch had faced-off with. That being said, there is much to be told about this predator and why he exists.
As i recall the comic sequel failed to explain anything pre-dating the film and acted more as a shoddy illustrated sequel.

#2

He was a serial killer

#3

oh that explains…nothing. I just fucking written shit…did you not read it?
I don’t believe a logical explaination is saying the yautja got sent a fax about a serial killer whose MO was under the radar written in plain ENLGISH which yautja just translated with their hippy Apple Translate gadgets . or that yautja had psychic god-like mind reading detectors for people with killing habits like the one that he had.

Maybe thats good enough for you Badblood. because you’re a degenerate.

I also don’t buy that Predator superversion can rip a skull out of a body like a tissue paper from a box of 2-ply.

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#4

Fuck no I didn’t read that

What am I?

A farthead?

If you kill 100 people and then I kill you I’ve killed those other 100 as well

This is how a predator warrior thinks

The only thing they understand/care about human culture is killing

I like you

But sometimes you’re fucking retardud

#5

Denied Loyalties! OKELY DOKELY!

#6

Mass has a point. Its one of the flaws in the movie. The two people that make no sense being there are the serial killer and the prisoner. Because, unless that prisoner killed like ten guys with his shiv in a single bathroom brawl, there has to be some predator with no legs going through all the prison records looking for big killers. Its also very strange timing to grab the guy in prison rather than when he’s actually doing all the killings.

But for the serial killer, how did they find him? Are there just millions of scouts watching all the people in case someone its stabbing people stealthily? The only possible explanation is that they’ve bugged detective databases and this dude was caught but not yet arrested and was yoinked at the perfect time. And even then, he’s not really hunt material. Like, I don’t think the Predators think Ted Bundy is a prime choice. “Oh, but he killed over a hundred people, so he must be worthy of a hunt.” Over a hundred teenage girls. Serial killers aren’t known for taking down people that can fight back. Its like going to a group of big game hunters to show off your capybara head. You’ll be laughed out of the club.

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#7

Consequentially if the falling out of the sky wasn’t actually a routine but a back story and that the military cast and the criminals simply didn’t trust each other enough to tell them why they were there. You know how 70s guy pretend fell from his parachute and knew that he wasn’t in deep waters?

That whole thing could have been a faking effort, or just a device to foreshadowing them all not being truthful in order to gain trust with one another to survive. Everyone had no reason to tell each other the truth considering maybe there was a world war going on and people didn’t trust each other, or they knew what they were briefed on what they were up against but they never believed it until they seen it.

All back stories seem to allude that they weren’t there for any good reason which may be explained possibly because they were coerced through blackmail or extortion or they were contracted to secrecy).

The convenience that one cast even knows about 1987s yuatja is suspicious. Meaning they all might have known and been in on the intel from the very start. The hunting grounds entrance being something coordinated by non yautja, I’m thinking maybe by Stargazer? Or an organization similar like OWLF? They recruited them all but it’s obvious they knew nothing about this place they put them on.

However this makes it even more plausible as the Stargazer PMC since in PHG they are corrupted and possibly hiring criminals or loonies. and maybe the militant side provides evidence for my claim of OWLF being involved as OWLF in the original films Predator2 are depicted as government headed.

How they figured out how to get to the planet?
I could hazard a guess that the lifeboat/droppod/dropship that brought the jungle hunter to earth(1987 film alluded to in the opening sequence but never explored) was found by humans and the predator lifeboat/droppod/dropship could have carried individuals back to this home planet of theirs. Of course it’s pretty good editing to remove this backstory altogether from Predators.

And where did all these lifeboats come from that brought the cast onto the planet? Well in predator2 there was a tribe and they left in their mothership so maybe they may have left behind all their lifeboats somewhere to humans to find. It’s possible that there is an intentional function to droppods as luring devices (capturing and caging animals -as evident in the final scene of Predators) or simply return ships.
This planet might be the original lost tribe home planet just because we see the captive predator there and of course the previous films might have had these pod ships available for each tribe member leaving them those pods behind.

#8

Why not? He’s a hunter too. You forgot how he knew the environment, the toxic plant he used against Isabelle. How he tricked everyone into thinking he was a an inocent prey only to show he was a predator in disguise. We see that in nature too, particularly in insects, fishes and reptiles, which mimic the prey of a predator to hunt.

When it comes to hunting bragging about your trophy is like bragging about what music you listen to. Some hunters prefer to hunt the most dangerous prey (whatever they consider is the most dangerous), others the most elusive one (whatever they consider is the hardest one to hunt), the vast majority, prefer to hunt something they can eat and tastes good (whatever generates a pleasant flavor to their taste buds). To each its own.

#9

Not in the primal Yautja sense. No where near. There would be clearly no motivation for them to be hunted, like Fossil said, Ted Bundy even if he was an intelligent but wierd ass curator of dead bodies. Because his MO has no consequence to the alien or by-and-large the human species. However like i said in my recent comment, it could have been that he was recruited by the big boy organizations like Stargazer because of his rotten nature. Predator Yautja don’t hunt their prey because have internal personal demons or beerfs with other people. That is purely a psychotic problem. And Yautja aren’t psychologists because they would have to actually study a person closely.

I’m already over the hill on whether or not the Superpreds were behind all these captures for the hunting grounds as there really is no cognitive indication that they were, but only assumed that they only just run the hunting grounds for their ‘own’ sport.

That 70s Guy is proof that you can throw Superpreds behind the captures out the window.

Therefore, how the cast got there is a different story altogether i believe.

#10

Yautja’s hunt to learn tactics from other hunters. Not necesarily because they will apply their techniques, but learn to identify them. They hunted other hunters, not herbivore prey.

#11

Like i said, you’d have to be close with a detective or a psychologist or part of a human police department to figure a serial killer out. I don’t see the Superpredators displaying any of that in the film.

That said, based on The Predator Film, Stargazer had been hiring Looney types from the military and in PHG, Stargazer had become a private military company obsessed with predator yautja artifacts and they could have been enlisting criminals to do their dirty work.

Man, its just a fan theory but an actual good one. Maybe we can get someone from AVPGAlazy to make a theory video?

#12

So you won’t catch a fish because they got no poles?

Fuck the shut up you nitwit

NINCOMPOOP!

#13

I don’t know what you just wuz sayin. What are you tryin to say? SPEAK ENGLISH!