Predator -

[Rick_1138]

FourWheelDrift said:

When Jean-Claude Van Damme was the Predator - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/predator/32595/whe...

Yeah that's a very young JCVD and he was a bit of a moan apparently but he did have a genuine gripe about the leg struts cast into the feet to make the alien back bent legs as they broke and caused injuries to his feet etc, and as he was the high kicking brusselarian, this was bad.

They then got the massive guy who had done some star trek aliens on next gen too, Kevin peter Hall.

[dave_s13]

THX said:

dave_s13 said:

???

i wouldn't even know where to start.

Widescreen (16:9) TV's came about circa 15 years ago. The cinema screen, in its 'wide' format, since... Christ. The 1950s?

As for why 'wide' TVs didn't just come in the anamorphic ratio to begin with, I did wonder at the time but I suppose the majority of TV shows were shot in 16:9 - if not 4:3?!

Think of it this way; as 'big' TV's took off (only a few years prior to 'wide' TV's) you'd been watching anamorphic movies in a pan and scan format... That is, the original 21:9 image chopped down not only to 16:9, but again to 4:3.

(Although I sometimes used to really enjoy that not-so-subtle 'scan' the editors would have to implement so that the image featured everything happening on screen, especially during an action sequence; it would lend an extra sense of rhythm to the action. Little did I know the Director or DP probably intended for that sequence to be shot from a fixed camera)

With regards to 21:9 vs 16:9, our eyes see the world far wider than any 21:9 screen - so why contemplate restricting that further? The opportunity for composition on a wider screen is far greater than on a narrower. I'll happily watch with the black bars, if it means I'm seeing all the work that's gone into making the movie. I don't suppose Predator suffers from this much, but take any David Fincher, Ridley Scott, or Sam Mendes movie and blow it up to eliminate the black lines?!

Blade Runner zoomed in?!?!

I'd rather not bother.

Dear God.....was a ste reply.

That one made more sense.

Even still, black bars are rubbish.

Why don't they make 21:9 tellys and tv cameras standard issue then, muppets!

[Negative Creep]

omgus said:

Negative Creep said:

hornetrider said:

Negative Creep said:

I would have loved to have been able to watch this on release with no prior knowledge of what it was. Imagine seeing about 30 minutes of what is basically Commando 2 before taking a complete turn into sci-fi/horror

I feel quite lucky to have seen Dusk till Dawn and Sixth Sense completely at random with no advance knowledge of either.

I got my little sister to watch From Dusk Till Dawn on the promise it was a crime thriller starring that hunky one from ER

I watched Dusk Till Dawn thinking it would be like Pulp Fiction, it was quite a shock when it went a bit bitey.


When i went to see Hancock one of the girls with us was sure it was a film about a Journalist. We all knew and didn't tell her so obviously she got a bit of a shock when Will Smith started flying.

To be fair I think everyone got a shock when Hancock changed to a completely different film halfway through!