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Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rav-aQM7jLQ
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Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rav-aQM7jLQ
L0rdinquisit0r
Weyland-Yutani gets around
killernat
2 thoughts first how the fuck does a laser bow string make any sense like at all. 2 the writers REALLY liked hell boy
ShimmerinStrider
Sure, why the hell not?
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
They improved the CGI of the predator's face for this trailer, glad to see it. Trachtenberg loves the whole mythos, so I'm excited to see what this is like
ArdentNature
Unfortunately, I'm at a point where I can't get excited at all for any movie releases of beloved franchises anymore. All I see is "great, another cash grab, let's see how bad they fuck it up this time".
graehall
From the people who brought you Prey, the best Predator next to Predator itself. Hell yeah I'm all in
KevinStrexcorp
I just started rewatching Umbrella Academy and the way the mother charges is identical to this.
WhiteRhino723
kamui9460
This is kinda like a Mad Max: Fury Road version of Predator IMO. Well, without the car chase, but just as metal and *mad*
0Steve0
Wait, in theaters??? Really? This old man doesn't have to yell at a cloud today!
mrmakiki
What is the logo behind her?
AbeHamTraveler
Weyland-Yutani logo
Huor
I love Elle Fanning!
RawChicken
Ah that's who she is. Was awesome in The Great.
Rips4w
Don't really care for humanizing the Predators. I get they are technically humanoids, but I don't feel right seeing them as personable to this extent. I'll still see it, though.
ManOfEvil93
all these Predator movies, they need a new AVP
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Take a close look.
Wayland-Yutani shows up. And the loader scene at the end.
They 100% setting up shop for an AvP.
3006mv
She seems nice
pickledpete1337
I hope it's good.
Darklinkinfinite
I haven’t kept up with the Predator franchise but is this the first time The Company (Weyland Yutani) has appeared in a Predator film since the two AVP movies?
Endocrom
VictusVonGuyver
The crippled masters! /gallery/crippled-masters-koZ6FAK#koZ6FAK
ChareAndFlaff
Chewy carrying C3PO vibes
mirrorz
The loader at the end sets up for even more of an Aliens tie-in. https://youtu.be/43R9l7EkJwE?si=bkdtFeRkKFJu858p
ufoara
Minus the Cookie Slop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R9l7EkJwE
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean, the two universes were always super compatible; The Alien Versus Predator title comes from books that were written . . . early 90's, I think?
bastafari
Why does the predator look more human like and red?
LoopStricken
He's young.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
They dropped many of the details around the face and head. Essentially they got lazy with the design. Kinda sad. I don't mind it being red, they have always had a variety of skin tones, I just wish it had more pattern to it.
InHarmsWay
There's an Independence Day alien skull on the trophy wall. This raises so many questions.
debob
Quentin Tarantino when the female lead doesn't have any feet.
NumptyDumptyLump
pareidoliaperson
Well the actress has a lot of feet on the new game.
joshuasplinth
Although… that means the feet are available elsewhere…
SmoeAhsolse
Ok, you've moved into a lonely section of the kink Venn diagram. You might say it seems dead there. [distant moaning]
joshuasplinth
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlcXVrdjhhM28zazhvMHppeWRreGswZ3A3cXBmdnQ0cTFxZHMzMWFkNSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/kCNFfgWZxYjKeU9btW/giphy.mp4
loismustdie
Unattended
cattlegrazer82
Nice ad
ufoara
Building Better Worlds
hyptosis
Nice retort :D
yifin
I didn't know it had come out, so it was neat to see and didn't include all the dumb adcopy that comes along with the actual ads
PhailRaptor
Some of the creature design seems a bit lazy. The tentacle plant I like, but the flier is just a pterosaur, and the "boss monster" is kind of just a big, vaguely cat-like... thing?
Acc87
yeah. One issue with today's expected CGI fidelity is that for full fantasy creatures, they basically have to develop full fantasy physiology with all muscles, sinew etc. So often they got the easier way of just copying actual real animals instead. Like the diamond shaped Mulefa from the HDM books. Just became an elephant/tapir mix in the BBC show because that was feasible in the budget/timeframe
PhailRaptor
Copying the motion isn't a problem. But you do have to develop a compelling and interesting creature around that mechanical profile. Which I don't see out of the boss monster.
dizzyturtle
This reminds me, I still need to watch Prey.
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Best one since the original for sure. It's a very fun movie
ROGUEdenied
Then watch "Killer of killers", Great Movie
dizzyturtle
Watched that one already. Great flick. I also love animated films.
ROGUEdenied
oh then Prey will actually be better, I think.
vindik8or
I'm not so cool with how much they're humanising and anthropomorphising the new Predator.
77thtimesthecharm
Don't really see how this Yautja is any more anthropomorphic than the ones that came before but ok chief
LonelyVoid
The head shape is just completely human with the exception of the mouth bits obviously, as opposed to previous designs where is was decidedly nonhuman. Obviously they were always anthropomorphic with them being bipedal and having eyes and a mouth in approximately the same location a human would have them, but the changed skull shape was enough to make it register as "alien" in my head, whereas this one registers more as "guy with weird mask".
vindik8or
There's that fucken word too. Yautja is such a dumb, pop-scifi name that bears no resemblance to the vocalisations of the original Predators, ie. more anthropomorphisation. It's got a rounder head, smoother skin, less-pronounced mouthparts, human-like hairstyle, shallower, more expressive eyes. It's a sanrio predator.
77thtimesthecharm
Wrong on literally every detail except for the hairstyle which the Yautja has always had ( unless your too stupid to think the predators hairstyle isn't inspired by dreadlocks) and the eyes which I'll give you
Other than that quite a bit staw-grasping
vindik8or
Even though they look like dreadlocks but aren't, I'm not talking about that - I'm talking about how they come off the front of his scalp like he's straight out of the Vikings TV show, rather than from the underside of his cranial crest - which coincidentally he also doesn't have because of the rounder, human-like head. You know, this whole section:
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Fucking thank you. I knew that something was off about the general silhouette but I just couldn't place it.
And yes. Looking at this side by side of all the previous designs, this new one is clearly more anthropomorphized. The head shape is just a humans with the fact bits. Everything else about them is gone.
dwolvin
Oh, that looks interesting!
ladyjigglebutt
I think Prey was really good and this is by the same people so I'm definitely interested.
BenHobson
The Predator: Killer of Killers was also fun!
If you are a WW2 history nerd though, you might want to deactivate that part of brain. Although it was nice to USS Ranger (CV-4) get some love for a change.
ladyjigglebutt
Oh yeah! I still need to watch it but I LOVE the animation style from the trailer. It's like an oil painting come to life. My dad is the WW2 nerd, I'm the animal nerd, lol.
emptyother
Oh it does.. Cyborg backpack watching ones back sounds useful.
GrumpyClimber
bril350
Is this a connection back to the alien franchise?? I know with Prometheus they retconned the AVP movies because it set fhe creation of aliens to be farther in the future than the previous movies had set
dwolvin
Seems like they are ignoring Prometheus, I feel I saw an alien head in the trophies...
SlyMrFox
Fairly certain that's the Weyland-Yutani symbol behind her head at the beginning.
dwolvin
And in her eyes...
IceWeaselX
The on screen text as she reboots shows the AI is MU/TH/UR and is part of Weyland-Yutani Bio-Weapons Division.
bril350
Oh ya!
Kodan00
Not a fan of these more human-like predators. They look like they could be in a star trek uniform talking politics in the next scene.
avenlanzer
Good. They're not a uniform species and are advanced enough to be considered for the Federation, hell, they'd decline and give the federation a serious fight before even considering. I didn't like the new Klingons, but art should make you uncomfortable, art of alien species should make you feel uncomfortable in exactly that way, that they're not quite right.
CrabbyBlueberry
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chalnoth
Fourtypacks
There's an episode in Voyager where one of the two aliens of the week, pretty much look like Yauthja
zetzmemp
It’s Star Trek, I assume there’s an episode for everything.
kamui9460
There's only one here and his look is part of the plot (he's a young one who was outcast from his clan for being too weak physically)
bril350
Was he outcast or it’s simply his first hunt so it’s either a win or die?
kamui9460
He was outcast. (See the video description on YouTube)
bril350
Ahh ok i saw the “first hunt last chance” thing and made an asumption
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
I like that they are fleshing out the Aliens and Predator universe, but part of the fun was the incomplete mystery
MaleProstateMilker88
Knowing Americans who can't have anything stay as a mystery and everything needs to be explained it was inevitable. Just like Scott ruined Alien with an explanation and ruining the entire concept horror is built on which is the unknown.
Bowtie8bit
Yup. Americans need to learn the japanese word, "Yugen," and stop being explorers-of-all-things.
Sageypie
Speaking of, with the inclusion of Wryland Yutani, I'm wondering if this one isn't actually a secret AvP movie. Or, at the very least, a set up for a proper one finally. They keep setting them on earth in the modern day, and just...man, the space Marines are right there, and a way better way to insert humans into the mix without them just being fodder straight up. Turns it from, "no shit, they're getting slaughtered" to a resounding, "oh shit, they're getting slaughtered"
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
Thought they were going to take a new direction after PREY. Not really world building, just Predators hunting people across time. Lebanon, Iwo jima, Vietnam, Iraq, the trenches of WW1.
kahlas
They are fleshing them out wrong though. I keep waiting for a Machiko Noguchi AvP movie I'll likely never get. Hollywood doesn't want to take the existing books and comics and create something fans already love. They want to put twists on it that don't make sense to the die hard fans.
CrumpetsWithHoneyAreCrumpetsWithBeeVomit
I am a huge Alien fan (the good ones at least of which I'll definitely include Romulus which was the best movie hands down since Aliens) but goddamn the lore has ruined the universe. Aliens made by David? The dumbest woman in Alien history being experimented on (Noomi made every single mistake POSSIBLE including fucking her unquarantined partner RAWDOG!) by him? The Creators... It's just stupid. The mystery was what made it fantastic! Your mind ran wild. Too much exposition has ruined the myster
pareidoliaperson
I truly hope they don't touch Ex Machina.
grandfalloon
And some of the paths have just been stupid. "Predators hunt to add different species genes to themselves." No. You're wrong. That's what Xenomorphs do. Predators hunt because that's fucking cool enough.
Firestar002
Was probably a Bad-blood.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Yea. Like, the hunt could have been something they did to gain social standing or a rite of passage of some kind. They could be like British colonizers who hunted "for science". Something that plays on their warrior culture which was featured heavily in the OG movies.
Literally anything would be better than making them knock-off "xenonorphs but intelligent".
Like, the whole thing that made AvP cool is just how diametrically opposed Predators were from the Aliens in their strengths.
SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin
One day, we'll get a movie that shows us Predator society and it turns out the hunters were just overpaid dentists on vacation.
sirfluffymcdog
That's exactly why they hunt in the true lore from way back in the days of Dark Horse comics. Hunting is entirely for social standing.
Giantengineer
Hey look, we've really been waiting to take a good look at the planet that spawned these intergalactic sport hunters, and I'm loving this clip's energy so far.
Did Prometheus kill your enjoyment of Alien? Actually, maybe that's a bad example...
4etherling
I love prometheus for the lore. I hated it for the players. Same with covenant. The characters were pointless npcs making bad decisions constantly.
Telemapus
What people sometimes forget is that Xenomorph fans already survived Alien 3 (underrated) and Alien Resurrection (fun movie that just shouldn't have been Alien-branded, should have been more like a tribute/parody). And since Prometheus we've had Covenant and Romulus. Prometheus barely registers anymore.
nspriest233
Just as people did not like avp i enjoyed them. Sure i got a awkward view from someones camera and could not hear everything. But it was still enjoyable
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Maybe I'm crazy but Romulus might be my favorite of the modern (post resurrection) alien movies. It's actually a good nod to the original with a unique twist. I like that it doesn't read necessarily like an alien movie.
njessup1992
It killed my enthusiasm to see any more of them. Prometheus was a supremely aggravating movie.
Firestar002
Romulus will bring it back. In fact, based on the trailer, you won’t be able to guess what THE creepiest thing of the movie was.
BishlamekGurpgork
Can't explore without exploring. The trick is to have every answer provide more questions.
victell
Ok JJ Abrams
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Like how Promethius did it with the goo
DarkBusterBaron
True but the trick is too many questions will turn your story into a bloated incoherent mess see Five Nights at Freddy's, Kingdom Hearts, etc.
BishlamekGurpgork
Pace your answering of questions and your opening of new ones. Keep them aligned in theme, and expand laterally into unexplored facets, rather than trying to keep going bigger.
tzahtman
But why?
BishlamekGurpgork
Why what? Why explore an interesting world? Why open new questions? The answers to those are 'because I want to' and 'to keep it from growing stale as we explore it.'
tzahtman
What do you mean?
BishlamekGurpgork
Only what I said. But if you can clarify the question, I'll tell further.
PhailRaptor
As long as the questions are more compelling than "but why is the Predator red?"
alcaray
Racism!
Giantengineer
So they could call him the Red-ator ;^)
smegheadenergy
Questions like ‘is pee stored in the balls?’
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean, hopefully. But Prey was satisfying, and my understanding is that the director loves the whole mythos, so I'm hopeful.
THISISYELLING
Watch the new animated anthology film. I’m interested in what they’re doing. Especially with cameos.
BishlamekGurpgork
Ooo, I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to take a look.