Alrite guys. The latest Predator movie has hit Hulu streaming and it’s good.
Set back in the 1700’s a predator is dropped off in native American country. The landscape looks like a combination of Highmountain and Grizzly Hills so that was really cool. And if you happen to play a hunter class another awesome thing is the lead female has a dog companion that helps her thru-out the film.
I would rate this up there with the original and part two but in saying that, the original is the best and always will be. Lots of action and gore. Definitely werth checking out. We live in a werld atm where as soon as people see a strong female protagonist they’re automatically called out. Don’t listen to the haters out there. This is a good movie.
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I really enjoyed the movie. I’m a huge fan of the Predator and I will buy this movie and put it right beside Predator, Predator 2 and Predators.
The only thing I was really disappointed with is I would have liked for Naru and the Predator hunting party to have exchanged weapons. It would have been a PERFECT nod to the second movie. When I seen that gun she was given I almost jumped out of my chair and yelled “no way!” Missed opportunity for a tasteful reference.
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Same here Tovi. I was expecting a spaceship to land and take back the body and give something in return. Oh well.
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Spoilers below. You have been warned so don’t open this then complain.
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I’m so relieved they didn’t go for the easy kill. It would have been cliche and annoying if they killed her dog. My gut was in knots the entire movie because I thought they were going to show the Predator killing him, giving her more motivation. I can’t watch movies like that. It’s the reason I’ve only seen “I Am Legend” and “John Wick” once.
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I really liked how they showed the predator attacking the local wild life as well before it came across the humans. Something we haven’t seen before.
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Spoilers below. You have been warned so don’t open this then complain.
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Yeah I liked that too. Kind of gives the impression the director was saying it was the first time they were on planet.
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I thought it was fine movie…its more of a remake of the 1st film. I wanted to see body counts and they didn’t disappoint me.
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Living in the forest/plains half naked all the time , these actors look too clean and their hair seems too perfect . It break my immersion…bah
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I really hate this too. It’s like that god awful movie 10,000 BC where all the cavemen and women had perfect blinding white teeth.
But for me the story was good enough that I could over look that.
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Lead’s acting is so-so, and though she’s part Sioux she sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of those cast as her tribe. More than a little Mary Sue. Now-standard highly negative portrayals of men. Plenty of eyeroll-inducing moments.
But easily the second-best movie in the series after the original. Filmed quite well. Editing has a few issues. Effects are mostly very good. Story concept is interesting. Better overall than much of what’s made for TV and the big screen any more.
Aww not a fan of Danny Glover? For the me the first and second movie are tied.
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I thought it was ok movie. I did like the Predator’s victory roar.
So after watching the movie for a third time I don’t get this view at all and I’m not just picking on you. There are many online reviews that say the same thing. Anyways, the main character fails at every thing until the very end. She can’t kill an elk, her brother gets her hawk, she couldn’t bring the cat home, she can’t kill the bear, she gets caught by trappers and skinners and even though she gets a few licks in, she can’t even win a fight against the men in her tribe.
The only thing she does succeed at doing is running away and at the very end killing the Predator.
And retelling things in the way they happened isn’t purposely putting men in a negative light. NA women were expected to stay in the camp and do domestic chores. The men were simply reacting to someone being a weirdo. And foreigners did almost wipe out the buffalo and treat NA horribly. I’m glad the director and writer for this movie didn’t take the cliche route and make all the men rapey. Also, they didn’t portray her brother or the French guy in a negative light. They showed that were both good human beings.
And I also don’t get why people are pointing out that she’s only a 110lb girl. In the grand scheme of things, everyone, including Dutch from the first movie, is a 110lb girl when compared to the Predator’s strength. He lifts a 1500lb bear into the air. Whether or not the main character is a man makes no difference. She did exactly what Dutch did in the first movie, which was kill the Predator using traps. Why is that eye-rolling when she does it but not when Dutch did it?
P.s. this isn’t directed to you but online reviews, but I’m starting to think people don’t understand what “woke” and “pandering” actually mean. Just because a woman is in the lead role doesn’t mean the movie is woke. If a woman is not white or straight, that doesn’t make the movie woke.
To me an example of a movie being “woke” (I’m really starting to hate that word) is Laura Dern’s character Star Wars 8 telling Po that he doesn’t get to know the plan because he’s a man and he does man things.
It is ok for woman to be the leading role in a sci-fi movie. Two of the greatest sci-fi movies starred a woman: Alien and Terminator.
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She’s not a Mary Sue but has aspects of one, and her physicality isn’t in question relative to the Predator.
More the manner than the fact.
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Her brother and the Frenchman were the two outliers among very many men, but even her brother was portrayed as patronizing, arrogant, less intelligent, and disloyal until his end-of-movie redemption - after which he, too, dies. The traders played brutish, ugly, pitiable monsters who died weakly, stupidly, and comically.Again, it’s not about her size relative to the Predator, nor do the eye-rolling moments I mentioned have anything to do with her own conflict with the Predator - which I thought was good.
Alien is a master class in just about everything, and Ripley is a shining example of a powerful and intelligent female protagonist. And that was 40 years ago. We’ve had a litany of good to fantastic female protagonists in sci-fi, horror, dramas, and thrillers since.
Much of the criticism of Prey is not just that its lead is female, or that she’s smart or strong, or that some/most/all males are portrayed as one or more of evil, sexist, dumb, and inept. All of that’s been common fare for decades.
It’s in the combination and degree, in its place on a continuum of the same, in the social and cultural atmosphere in which it’s made, in the intentions of creators and participants, in the synergy of all of these with very real-world discourse and action.
Still, it’s a good movie. Even many critics who discuss the same issues described above have given it a thumbs up. My wife hasn’t seen it yet, and we’ll be watching it together over the weekend.
