predators (2010)
my rating: Two cavernous vagina jokes short of a perfect homage.
what possessed me: You know how they pluralized Alien and made the best sequel ever? I thought they might have found a formula for success.
what i learned: Hey you. Did you like Predator? Well, so did the guys who made this movie. I mean, they might have liked it even more than you did. While you were eating Chee-toes and/or smoking a joint laughing at Carl Weathers losing an arm in an eerie portent to the events of Happy Gilmore, these guys were taking notes on all the stuff they’d reference if they made their own sequel. And they took pretty good notes. But it plays like a couple of junior high kids got a Summer blockbuster budget and went to town. In the best and worst sense. While some design choices seem silly and Laurence Fishburne‘s character should have been a little more like Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea, the movie is a fun jaunt. Also, it’s good to know that (unlike the ultimately more predatory and savage Aliens), at their cores Predators are a lot like us. They’re jerks.
you may also enjoy: Predator, Predator 2, Alien vs. Predator, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Hellboy and unabated fanboy-ism.
tangential thought: It wasn’t until the credits rolled for this movie that I realized “I’m gonna have me some fun” is from Long Tall Sally. I just that that guy from the original movie was kind of hilariously insane. Ignorance may be bliss after all.