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That last scene was like, Michael Bay Transformers levels of bad.
I think the "Arnold shows up at the end" thing was for Predators, not this.
Can't remember much about what Shane said about Arnold here, if anything, in terms of what he'd written for it. The whole "Arnold's hooked up with the Predators since the first movie, travelling on space ships and hunting alongside them" thing always seemed so weird/wrong to me anyway, glad it didn't happen in Predators. That really gave the sense he was in-league with them, watching the events of that movie unfold and turning up to congratulate the winner. Doesn't seem like Dutch to me.
Now that would have been great!Nah, in the script Dutch actually shows up via helicopter, after hearing about the events and ready to hunt these things off te Earth once and for all.
Nah, in the script Dutch actually shows up via helicopter, after hearing about the events and ready to hunt these things off te Earth once and for all.
I wouldn't really have gone for any kind of badass "Dutch shows up in a chopper/tank/Harley/etc" scenario.
The Dutch we saw at the end of Predator was traumatised, sitting in a helicopter staring into space. His entire team (who were obviously close to one another) was wiped out, and he'd just faced off against a deadly alien creature. I wouldn't have been surprised if Dutch had developed full blown PTSD after this as a result of trying to process everything he'd saw and been through.
If they'd felt the need to include Arnold in this film, they could have went down a route where he's living in isolation but is actively sought out by the others (or the government) because he's one of very few humans to survive a Predator encounter. But he's resistant to help because of his PTSD, and has to overcome that fear.
Well I enjoyed it, except for those last five minutes. That said, I wish more of this film would have been like the scenes in the lab with the Predator going nuts and just slaughtering everyone.Sad. Probably the most disappointing movie of 2018, and hands down the worst in the series.
Hardly surprisingly, unfortunately. Marketing didn't do very well, and then with the rewrites and reshoots (which may have been for the better if it was indeed Arnie that was supposed to have shown up at the end). I don't think we should expect another Predator film anytime soon.