Movies I’m planning on seeing …

Prince of Persia – Probably gonna go this week.

The A-Team – Loved the TV-show and I hope the movie version will do it justice (the concepts are there so I expect the only thing they can fuck up is the casting).

Nightmare on Elm Street – It’s the remake and I’ve only ever seen glimpses of the original. At the very least this gives me an excuse to go and get the original on DVD for comparison.

Predators – Holy Shit!! They actually made a third Predator movie. =D I’m psyched as I totally hadn’t heard anything about this one. Contrary to popular opinion, I actually think the second movie is actually better and more entertaining than the first one with Arnold Schwarzenegger. With all due credit to Ah-nold, without whom the last third of the movie wouldn’t really be worth it, the first Predator just didn’t have the same atmosphere and coolness factor as the second. Nor was it as funny in its stupid, comedy moments in my view. However, my favorite Predator movie of all is actually AVP: Alien Vs. Predator but let’s see if this changes with this new movie…

Yeah, it seems like most of the movies I go to see these days are either sequels to established movies or adaptions of video-games, books (Shutter’s Island), TV-shows or comics (Iron Man 2). Or remakes as in the case of “NOES”. If anyone can recommend me a really good original film that’s coming out in the near future I’d very much appreciate it. The last one I saw was The Men Who Stare at Goats.

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  1. Technically, “Predators” would be the 5th movie in the series:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_%28franchise%29

    But I’m hoping that they do kind of ignore the two AVP films, which each had entertaining elements but just seemed too low-budget compared to the first two films.

    Don’t have any recommendations for movies coming out this summer. Going to the theater to see movies has just gotten too outrageously pricey for me, so I wait for the DVD release and recommendations from friends and fellow movie fans.

    1. The AVP films are supposed to be set chronology wise between the Predator films and the Alien films so I don’t believe there’s need to worry that their stories will affect the the latest Predator film. Also, while it might “technically” be the fifth film most people tend to count the films in the Alien series and Predator series as their own films first and as a part of a larger franchise (AVP) second, so hense it is officially the third film in the Predator series.

      However, the four Alien films are much more tightly knit since they all feature the same protagonist (Ripley) whereas the Predator films seem to have a completely different cast in each films so I guess the definition of the Predator series is a little more flexible.

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