3 Things I Learned From Predator 2
Posted in movies on 11/25/2008 01:36 am by Wes1. LA Sucked in 1997
One of cinema’s oldest, most hilarious practices is to set a movie a few years in the future and predict that just a little ways down the road everything will, inexplicably, go all to hell. I still remember the beginning of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, in which a foreboding narration informs us that the year is 1991, and cats and dogs are totally extinct.
Predator 2, set a mere 7 years into the future at the time of its release, portrays Los Angeles as a warzone: desperate cops have firefights in the streets against gangs and drug lords. I guess we’ve cleaned the place up a bit in the past decade, huh? And by we, I actually mean Danny Glover.
What can I say. The man can drive. He’s also good at massacring drug dealers, but that’s just not as original or cool, really.
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