Predator 3-Movie Collection (Blu-ray, 2018, STEELBOOK) Arnold Schwarzenegger

Description: PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE BIDDING AND ASKING ANY QUESTIONS ITEM DESCRIPTION This BLURAY is previously viewed but in EXCELLENT condition. The disc(s) is LIKE NEW. It includes all the original cases, covers, inserts and, of course, the disc(s) itself. Synopsis:MovieWith The Predator coming out later this year (actually helmed by Shane Black, who played Hawkins in the original 1987 film) it was pretty much a given that we were going to see a 4K release of the original three films of the franchise (although I kinda would have hoped to have seen AvP and AvP: Requiem too, as bad as they are). Luckily it looks like Fox is atoning for the sins of the past, releasing them with some great looking video encodes, which was the antithesis of the first two film’s releases on Blu-ray. Either way, I can’t complain as I’m a huge fan of the series and have enjoyed all three of the movies in their own way over the years. A nice new boxset that includes the old Blu-rays, and some REALLY nice reversible cover art (pull out the art and flip it around to see what I mean) make this a very solid purchase in my opinion.Predator Predator has been reviewed on 4K UHD separately, so you can view my thoughts on the film HEREPredator 2 I used to really love Predator 2 as a young kid, but looking back on the film some 28 years later, it is kind of the weakest link in the series. There’s still a lot to like about the film, such as the look at Predator weapons, the inside of one of their hunting ships, the introduction of the trophy system, and we have Bill Paxton (the only actor to have been killed by an Alien, a Predator, AND a Terminator) spouting off cheesy one liners as the over sexed, under PC partner to Danny Glover. The negatives stem from a weak predator (he seems like he was the rookie on a field run), Danny Glover, and an L.A. gang war that really makes little sense of WHY he was a target for a trophy hunting killer like the Predator.In 1997, Las Angeles is under attack from all angles. Rival Jamaican and Columbian drug lords are shooting up the place, including civilians and gun toting cops alike. Not only that, everyone is suffering under an epic heat wave that has drawn a dark visitor to the corrupt city. Central L.A. cop Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover, fresh off of Lethal Weapon fame) is a hard nosed detective who takes the law into his own hands (a bit like Mel Gibson’s character in Lethal Weapon) comes face to face with something he can’t explain. During a shootout with the Colombians, his police detail crashes in to confront them, only to be confronted themselves with a grisly scene of murdered drug dealers who have been skinned and hung from the ceiling. Thinking it’s a rival gang, the police go back to their duties, only to be called out to find Jamaican’s and Colombians alike are murdered in the same fashion.When a super secret government agency headed by agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) swoops in to take the case from Harrigan and his new smart mouth partner Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton is top form), they get a bit suspicious about who, or WHAT is causing these murders. When fellow officer Danny (Ruben Blades) gets murdered by this unseen force after retrieving a bit of the predator tech, Mike embarks on a mission of revenge against an enemy he can’t see, can’t match in strength, or even understand. All he knows is that this ugly killer is going to pay, even if it costs him his life.The first half of Predator 2 isn’t really that important. The drug war between the Colombians and the Jamaicans is nothing but a setup for introducing Mike to the Predator. By the time Danny dies the movie shifts directions and we’re no longer giving two thoughts to the drug dealers, and are now focusing in on the invisible killer and the cover up from the crazed Agent Keyes (Gary Busey before he went plain nuts). If anything, the gang war 1st half just burdens the story down with unnecessary storytelling that is ditched later on in the movie. Buuuuut, on the other hand, it does introduced the explanation of the heat wave that draws the Predator to L.A., and sets up his killing ground. My only complaint is that since the Predator is a hunter of trophies, why is he going to cramped city where it’s just like shooting ducks in a barrel?The good points of the film? It’s a lot of fun. We get to see a whole lot more Predator tech, and an explanation (of sorts) on why the Predator bodies are decked out with all sorts of items (trophy kills). Also if you look closely on the Predator ship’s trophy wall, you get to see an Alien head, as well as several other winks and nods to Fox properties. Also, Bill Paxton is in top form, spouting off bad sexual innuendos like they’re going out of style, and just being a young Bill Paxton. The bad? The first half of the movie is nothing but filler, and Danny Glover is horribly miscast. At this point he’s already aging badly, and it’s hard to see him as the rough and tumble cop. I’m assuming his success as Officer Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon had something to do with it, but he just feels a bit too old, and a bit too “I’m too old for this…..stuff” for a Predator film. Predators : Looking back on Predators I’m kind of surprised it didn’t do better than it did in theaters. The film was a bit different than what we had seen before, but it infused some of James Cameron’s Aliens into the idea of the Predator universe, making it one of the better “mindless action flicks” of the 2010 era. My only comfort is that maybe the awful Aliens vs. Predators series had numbed the responses of so many viewers, and they didn’t go in with as much enthusiasm as would have been needed to make the film a financial hit. I guess I can’t blame them. Predator was an AWESOME bit of 80s machismo, but Predator 2 was a cheesy sequel that, while fun, just wasn’t nearly as good. Then add in AvP and AvP: Requiem and we have an audience who really doesn’t care about the Predator universe anymore. Not to mention it had been 23 years since the original film, so most younger audiences didn’t get a rip about them anymore. Sadly Predators was a neat little film that really should have been bigger and more widely received than it was (the dual meaning of the title is a nifty wink and a nod I have to say).Predators took a new twist to the old concept. Instead of a bunch of macho Americans running around being hunted on Earth by roving Predators, they’re taken out of their environment just a bit. A group of humans from all corners of the grove wake up being thrown out of a craft and parachuted onto a strange planet. There they escape as best they can and group together wondering what is going on. It doesn’t take long for them to figure that they’re a long way from Kansas, and that they’re NOT on a friendly planet. All of them (except one) seem to be a bunch of killers, soldiers, and mobsters and their combined skills seem to make them perfect for survival. As they try and figure out what’s going on the planet’s brutal world opens up and the military trained crew realizes that they’re being hunted by something/someone bigger and more brutal than them.The premise is super simple, but it’s a fun little twist. Instead of a Predator coming to look for a trophy, we have the invisible alien’s capturing training fodder off of Earth and dumping them on a planet that they can then use to hone their skills. All of the people thrown into this meat grinder are not your average team. In fact, they’re the OPPOSITE of a team. Each of them is completely different, and none of them want to work together. A fact that makes their search for a way off this rock even harder. Royce (Adrien Brody) is a special forces commando with a dark secret, Isabelle (Alice Braga) a military sniper with her own past, Stans (Walton Goggins) is the thug, Cuchillo (Danny Trejo) the Latin Sicario, Nikolai (Oleg Taktarov) the Spetsnaz Russian forces operative, and then there’s Edwin (Topher Grace), a medical examiner who seems to have no marketable survival skills at all. However, working together is what they my do, and the group has to find a way to out hunt the hunters, and find a way off the planet before they’re nothing but Predator foodNimrod Antal (Vacancy, Armored) directs a tightly done action flick, with some really cool additions to the hunt team (such as the spiked “dogs” that the Predators use). The action is high powered and pretty constant, as three young Predators try and hunt down the rag tag band of humans. The inclusion of the “rogue” Predator is pretty neat as well, playing off of the ability for humans and Predators to work together like they did in the first Aliens vs. Predator. The film doesn’t shy away from the blood and gore, showing several battles that really are much more gruesome than anything we saw in Predator or Predator 2. However, it also feels less visceral due to all the CGI that is laden in the film, instead of the more realistic looking gore of the prosthetics used in the first 2. The only real complaint I have is that the finale for the film isn’t really that great. It kind of peters out at the end, instead of rising to a great crescendo of battle. 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