{"id":21228,"date":"2018-11-10T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=21228"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:07:26","slug":"the-predator-streamingat-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2018\/11\/10\/the-predator-streamingat-best\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Predator<\/i>: Streaming\u2026at best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21229\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thepredator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thepredator.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thepredator-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone&#8217;s big-game-hunting alien(s) return in the latest installment of the\u00a0<em>Predator<\/em> saga. What&#8217;s new this time? Not very much other than their race can be over ten-feet tall. Shane Black takes a shot at directing and in my opinion he came up short. He just made the same 1987 and 1990 movies, except the creature is trying to retrieve some stolen technology a US soldier managed to ship home. Plus, the government is aware of the aliens&#8217; visits. Nothing terribly interesting beyond a by-the-numbers flick. The ending is also lame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you&#8217;re a fan, you&#8217;ll probably see it and be disappointed. Everybody else, don&#8217;t bother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Alamo Extras:\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers for\u00a0<em>It Came Without Warning,\u00a0<\/em><i>Robowar<\/i>\u00a0(an Italian ripoff of\u00a0<em>Predator<\/em>)\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Predator 2<\/em>; scenes from a Japanese movie involving samurai v. cyborgs; footage of the CapCom video game\u00a0<em>AVP<\/em>; Thomas Jane singing in an Indian movie; a little kid dressed up as a Predator at a convention; dancing Predators montage; Brad Neely&#8217;s &#8220;Preteen with a Predator Head&#8221; cartoon; Alamo&#8217;s collection of 100 Alien Movie Sightings (quite a collection, covering a century); lastly, everyone&#8217;s favorite fights with the Predator:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gary Busey in\u00a0<em>Predator 2<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Walter Goggins in\u00a0<em>Predators<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carl Weathers in <em>Predator<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Calvin Lockhart, aka &#8220;King Willie&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Predator 2<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arnold (of course) in\u00a0<em>Predator<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s big-game-hunting alien(s) return in the latest installment of the\u00a0Predator saga. What&#8217;s new this time? Not very much other than their race can be over ten-feet tall. Shane Black takes a shot at directing and in my opinion he came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2018\/11\/10\/the-predator-streamingat-best\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[269,276,64],"class_list":["post-21228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intheaters","category-movies","tag-action","tag-alien","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21230,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}