barakall Wrote:
To say that Predator was a bad movie or didn't do well or whatever the case may be, it does not take away anything from it's position in the 80s. Everybody knows it! The movie is iconic, Schwarzenegger's lines from that movie have been re-hashed almost as much as the ones from Terminator. I do however agree that teenagers now do not know Predator or any other of the 4. Maybe Jason.
So we should ask ourselves: which audience are they catering to? We all know that Jason & Predator are characters Boon and the team wanted to do for ages, so that is personal. They are very well known by the people born in the 70s-mid 80s. Ironically, these are probably the same people who grew up with the franchise and know it very well. By putting in so many old characters, you would think that they already have that group covered.
So again, who are they doing these DLC for? WB trying to push their new editions of these movies? Leatherface is not iconic at all in my opinion, I have never heard of him before this game. I know the title of the movie he appears in, but that's it. He's a weird choice whichever way you look at it. Alien is quite new so I guess most generations have a chance to know him. Predator vs. Alien of course made that DLC highly likely. Still, I wonder what the idea behind these 4 is and why they are pushing so strong for freaking horror movies.
Maybe because they're simply horror fans? Not that hard to deduce.
And the Alien franchise is older than both Friday The 13th AND Nightmare. Me and several of my generation weren't born in the 70s or 80s and yet we were also raised on those films. So it's not an "age" thing. And once again- WB doesn't own the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series so there's no TCM film for them to push. And Paramount currently controls future Friday The 13th films so there's no movie for WB to push there either. It all comes down to WB demanding guests and NRS being horror junkies- not much deeper than that.
