Predatoris a franchise the same way the Baldwin brothers are an award-winning acting family.
There’s the Oscar-nominee, and then there’s Stephen, Billy, and Daniel, you know?
Turns out, it’s pretty simple.
Image via 20th Century Fox
The originalPredatoris the only entry that works to scare you.
Do you know what it feels like to be hunted for sport?
Not unless you’ve gotten too drunk with Jeff Bezos in a Tijuana bar you don’t.
Image via 20th Century Fox
In the meantime, McTiernan manages to turn the open jungle into a haunted house.
Every leaf brush is a creak on the stairs, every broken branch a slamming door.
Predator 2lost this thread immediately in the hopes of turning aPredatormovie into an urban-action shoot-out.
Image via 20th Century Fox
Which is a fact that dooms theAlien vs. Predatormovies from the start.
Maybe even more so than the Predator, theAlienfranchise’s Xenomorph is a monster better seen less thanfelt.
Andersonis the furthest the franchise has veered from the 1987 original.
Image via 20th Century Fox
Black is known for subverting every trope possible, with early word already paintingThe Predatoras more of an action-comedy.
Image via 20th Century Fox
Image via 20th Century Fox
