Predator 2 : Renegade Cut - Predator 2

Renegade Cut - Predator 2

This weeks new episode of "Renegade Cut" takes a look at Predator 2 from 1990.

Renegade Cut: Predator 2 – What is the sci-fi urban hellscape and how does it relate to Predator 2 and other American science fiction films?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSoPZsd3Klg

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Re: Renegade Cut - Predator 2

Well.. it is true that the Fiona-character isn't sexualized or presented as a potential love-interest for the hero. But then again: Neither was Ana from the original. Plus: Fiona isn't a very interesting character anyway. All we know about her is that she likes to swear and grab cocky colleagues by the cock. You could pretty much delete her character from the movie, replace her with a female extra in the "pregnancy-scene" and the film wouldn't be much different.

So, yeah.. Although she isn't a damsel in distress or a future love-interest, I don't see how her character makes this film stand out - even when viewed in the context of 1980s, testosterone-filled, dumb action-movies.



... but it's exactly the reason why Hollywood is so paranoid about demographics that they cast people who aren't good enough in lead roles simply to appease insecure minority audiences/SJWs.


It's all a matter of "technique", IMO. Look at, say, Robocop (1987), where male and female police-officers shower together like it's no big deal .. or where Murphy is partnered with a female cop and there's no real sexual tension between the two - just a normal, working relationship turning into friendship. The point is that a smart movie like Robocop simply shows that stuff to you and doesn't rub your nose in it. Yes: When film-makers are obviously pandering and overdo the whole "racial diversity"-thing, films can get pretty damn awkward. For example: I can't re-watch the first "Captain America" without laughing at his ethnically diverse squad of soldiers, set in a time when the US Army was segregated and Asian-Americans would probably have been in an internment camp. But that doesn't mean that you can't still have films that have a diverse cast and present men and women simply working together - if you're doing it right and for a purpose other than simply being "PC".

IMO, film-makers and movie-executives these days underestimate the intelligence of their audience, thinking we need to have everything spelled out for us and that we expect all the old cliches to still hold up ... like the one about "two attractive people on-screen together ... they have to start fugging before the film is over".



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