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[mansoor1980]

the best comedy role i have seen in a while , great onscreen death too

 

[adamsapple]

Do you think there are any redeeming qulities of the 2018 film?.

The "normal" predator was pretty good, his suit/mark and general mannerisms were Ok.

And then the super predator and predator dogs happened.

 

[TheMan]

Not badly made I guess. But the implausibility of a space faring alien with high tech weapons and a cloaking device getting bested by a teen girl wearing deerskin who has never seen a gun before is just a bit too hard to swallow

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Watched it last night with the gf. We both enjoyed it, she loved it. It's a big step in the right direction for the brand which has been flailing all over the place since the OG.

I'll get the negative out of the way first:

- CGI is awful. Just be prepared for it going in. I'll never understand why directors who know they don't have the CGI budget, still have the "money shots". Use practical effects, or hide the CGI during nighttime or rain. This frustrates me tremendously. All of the animals should've been practical effects, and they never should've shown the predator during daylight in focus. The active camo effect looks stupid; just make him completely invisible. There is one shot of the predator during nighttime/in the fog that I would literally hang on my wall though, it's really cool.

- The acting. It's totally fine for this type of movie, however it's not believable whatsoever that these characters are Comanches. There's a "disconnect", it's not a big deal but it keeps the film from reaching its potential.

That's really all I have as far as straight negatives, and for most people they're probably nitpicks. Everything else in the movie is fine to good. Some of the cinematography is straight up beautiful - the world is a character in itself, just like the jungle in the OG. I liked the main character and her dog (the dog was adopted for the film btw, I encourage you to read up on the dog's story because it's really sweet). Naru has an arch in the film that's easy to follow and services the plot just fine.

For the "woke" arguments all I'll say is if you think this movie is "woke" you've been poisoned. Not gonna bother expanding on that.

It's a personal 7/10 for me which I admit is inflated subjectively - objectively it probably sits around 6/10. It's a tight film that doesn't overstay its welcome or try to be anything more than what it is. For the Predator franchise I think it goes in the win column. It's not a classic, it doesn't stack up against major action films (which isn't a fair comparison), but it's extremely decent.

 

[Romulus]

Not badly made I guess. But the implausibility of a space faring alien with high tech weapons and a cloaking device getting bested by a teen girl wearing deerskin who has never seen a gun before is just a bit too hard to swallow

I think they tried to sell it because the predator was using slightly less advanced tech and he had been shot dozens of times by the colonists and stabbed by the brother.
Still, imo killing a wounded predator should have been a collaborative effort between the sister and brother/rest of tribe. Fine, they want the female to lead the charge to show women run shit now too. Ok, but not alone.

 

[pel1300]

lol @ people getting so upset at Men_in_Boxes.

If you really liked the movie, it shouldn't be bothering you if another poster is calling it woke garbage.

I'm surprised at the good reception it's getting and I'll probably watch it this weekend.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

lol @ people getting so upset at Men_in_Boxes.

If you really liked the movie, it shouldn't be bothering you if another poster is calling it woke garbage.

I'm surprised at the good reception it's getting and I'll probably watch it this weekend.

After sleeping on it Prey is OK at best but Men_in_Boxes is just doing auto pilot anti-progressive opinions. It's boring. Just go into the Critical Drinker comments section and hope he notices you.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

And I hate to discuss "woke" stuff, because the term is overused so much these days as to make it virtually meaningless (I've yet to see someone actually articulate what it even means within their society and why it is bad)

Wokeness is valuing race and gender over merit and quality of character.

It's bad because it allows immoral or incapable people to pass, and prevents moral and capable people from progressing.

It's a greenlight to believe "I don't really care what happened as long as a member of my tribe won."

It's 2022, you finally have a working definition to use going forward.

 

[ManaByte]

Wokeness is valuing race and gender over merit and quality of character.

It's bad because it allows immoral or incapable people to pass, and prevents moral and capable people from progressing.

It's a greenlight to believe "I don't really care what happened as long as a member of my tribe won."

It's 2022, you finally have a working definition to use going forward.

 

[FunkMiller]

All those YouTube losers are the same fucking dude: usually overweight, beards, sat in front of their collections of plastic nerd shit, and whining about women

 

[RaduN]

Movie started decent-ish, but it doesn't really go anywhere really interesting.
It has none of the visceral feeling the original has, and it can't be said enough how the hero chick can not run to save her life (pun intended).
The actress simply does not know how to run, they really should have used a double or something, cose those scenes are embarassingly slow and lazy.

5.5/10

 

[Ulysses 31]

All those YouTube losers are the same fucking dude: usually overweight, beards, sat in front of their collections of plastic nerd shit, and whining about women

But do you think TheQuartering deep down just dislikes women and uses intersectional feminism as a front(motte-and-bailey fallacy) to mock/complain about them or is that stuff cringy and worthy of mocking?

 

[Trazyn the Infinite]

All those YouTube losers are the same fucking dude: usually overweight, beards, sat in front of their collections of plastic nerd shit, and whining about women

ALways remember, they are the same type of person as those who cry about anti-woke people. None of them are sane.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Do you think there are any redeeming qulities of the 2018 film?.
For me i just hated it. From the giant Predator that seemed to be included just for something new, to the weird humour throughout the film, the shit action, the awful script. Everything was just so dumb and felt it was made by someone who didnt know the franchise, and that shouldnt be the case with Shane Black who said the franchise is super important to him for obvious reasons.

 

[Toons]

Wokeness is valuing race and gender over merit and quality of character.

Its funny.... the people you'd call woke agree with you on that because that's the definition of racial supremacist and misogyny.

It's bad because it allows immoral or incapable people to pass, and prevents moral and capable people from progressing.

It's a greenlight to believe "I don't really care what happened as long as a member of my tribe won."

The absolute irony of this comment in modern day America is hilarious.

It's 2022, you finally have a working definition to use going forward.

And it doesn't apply to this film at all. Congratulations, you just played yourself.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Its funny.... the people you'd call woke agree with you on that because that's the definition of racial supremacist and misogyny.

We don't know much about each other so I'm not sure how logical that statement is. I bet we have more in common than our digital tribal identities suggest.

The absolute irony of this comment in modern day America is hilarious.

Can you say something less vague so that we can reach some kind of understanding? There is no country in earth's history that is perfect, but valuing merit and character over tribal affiliation should be embraced by the large majority. I don't find wokeness encourages that.

And it doesn't apply to this film at all. Congratulations, you just played yourself.

You're somewhat correct here. I think my pushback on this film comes from how obsessed woke people are with representation in media. If you swapped the genders and races with different groups, tweaked the story to fit the swaps, woke people would lose their ever loving minds and the Tomatoes score would plummet.

In a way, I'm just playing by their (pathetic) rules.

I also think the movie is objectively terrible even after ignoring all that stuff.

 

[ManaByte]

I also think the movie is objectively

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Watched about half this half asleep last night.
The setting was fantastic and not overdone which is hard to do in something that needs to be well cooked.
The lower budget on effects made it feel more personal. The story has been very personal too.

I'm at the voyageurs now, I'm very glad that the film didn't go Apocalypto with the language with the cultural setting. Lots of fun so far.

 

[Toons]

We don't know much about each other so I'm not sure how logical that statement is. I bet we have more in common than our digital tribal identities suggest.

That has nothing to do with what i said.. i didn't say anything about you specifically, or myself. Based on YOUR OWN definition of "wokeness" there's a lot of people you claim to be against that would agree with you.

Can you say something less vague so that we can reach some kind of understanding? There is no country in earth's history that is perfect, but valuing merit and character over tribal affiliation should be embraced by the large majority. I don't find wokeness encourages that.

The problem is that what you attribute wokeness to doesn't match your own definition.

You're somewhat correct here. I think my pushback on this film comes from how obsessed woke people are with representation in media. If you swapped the genders and races with different groups, tweaked the story to fit the swaps, woke people would lose their ever loving minds and the Tomatoes score would plummet.

In a way, I'm just playing by their (pathetic) rules.

Nonsense. We've gotten tons of movies that have been led by a white straight male and have been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike across the board. Top gun Maverick is an easy example. Its a great movie. Yes it features competent male characters that just happen to be competent, but have learning and growth to do just like this movie does but for a female. This is what we want.

And that's far from the only movie either. Gray man was pretty awesome too, and has an insanely competent white male character. No one has a problem with that. Also see literally every superhero movie released before 2017, aside from blade. Most of the good ones are well received. These "rules" sound more like an obsession and brain rot from overexposure to fringe takes on Twitter. Theres plenty of regular people elsewhere. Using the most extreme cases ok which to build a foundation for an argument will only make you look just as extreme and out of touch.

I also think the movie is objectively terrible even after ignoring all that stuff.

Then you dont know what objective means.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Merde. lol

It's a little like Ginger Snaps too.

Cast in decent Predator movie.
The Pope in a headdress.

Echo.

Nice roll.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

That has nothing to do with what i said.. i didn't say anything about you specifically, or myself. Based on YOUR OWN definition of "wokeness" there's a lot of people you claim to be against that would agree with you.

Who? Who do I claim to be against that would agree with my definition?

Nonsense. We've gotten tons of movies that have been led by a white straight male and have been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike across the board.

Notice the tactic you used here. I'm not sure if it was conscious or not.

I say: "Swap all the genders and groups in this movie..."

You say "Plenty of movies with white male leads..."

That's not what I said. There are essentially 3 major representation groups in Prey. The female protagonist, her male dominated culture that oppresses here, and evil white capitalists.

Find me a movie that swaps all 3 groups for representations woke people would be upset about.

Are there movies with male leads, surrounded by toxic women, and an evil minority group that is stereotyped to death, that the white male lead must defeat?

It doesn't exist. Why? Because it would be called racist and misogynist and no one affiliated with the film would be able to work in Hollywood again.

If you're representation obsessed, as the woke are, don't be surprised when we notice who your representing and in what way.

Then you dont know what objective means.

Steam is literally spouting from my ears right now.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Who? Who do I claim to be against that would agree with my definition?


Notice the tactic you used here. I'm not sure if it was conscious or not.

I say: "Swap all the genders and groups in this movie..."

You say "Plenty of movies with white male leads..."

That's not what I said. There are essentially 3 major representation groups in Prey. The female protagonist, her male dominated culture that oppresses here, and evil white capitalists.

Find me a movie that swaps all 3 groups for representations woke people would be upset about.

Are there movies with male leads, surrounded by toxic women, and an evil minority group that is stereotyped to death, that the white male lead must defeat?

It doesn't exist. Why? Because it would be called racist and misogynist and no one affiliated with the film would be able to work in Hollywood again.

If you're representation obsessed, as the woke are, don't be surprised when we notice who your representing and in what way.



Steam is literally spouting from my ears right now.

Lol

 

[iPaul93]

I'll watch the comanche version and see if it lives up to the hype.

 

[jason10mm]

Are there movies with male leads, surrounded by toxic women, and an evil minority group that is stereotyped to death, that the white male lead must defeat?

I'm only sorta kidding

Is the woman in this film, IIRC dutiful to her customs and willing to be a wife to Tom Cruise, considered "toxic femininity" today?

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

It's great what art brings out in people. Sometimes it's their own concerns that they look for to shoot their mouths off about it and make it about them and thier mood every time they cry.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I'm only sorta kidding

Is the woman in this film, IIRC dutiful to her customs and willing to be a wife to Tom Cruise, considered "toxic femininity" today?

This was actually a good suggestion.

It also praises Japanese culture and villanizes the West (White) a great deal, so I wouldn't count it.

Great movie btw. Not woke. Would recommend.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Great soundtrack. Love the use of drums.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Maybe it's in the comics.

I would guess that since this was a predator's first foray on earth and he got iced, more were immediately attracted to the planet for the assumed challenge. One probably got that chief and took the gun as a trophy.

It's an entirely different story...

 

[cormack12]

Just saw it. Enjoyed it to be honest.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Not a bad film. Not amazing but I enjoyed it for what it was worth.
CGI is bloody odd. 87 film looked better than this.
Other than that, it's a fun romp.

I would recommend.

 

[adamsapple]

I'm only sorta kidding

Is the woman in this film, IIRC dutiful to her customs and willing to be a wife to Tom Cruise, considered "toxic femininity" today?

Also:

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

CGI was like Zatoichi(2003) at times which was nostalgic.

edit: as are some of these posters above. Are they large enough to compensate?

 

[Toons]

Who? Who do I claim to be against that would agree with my definition?

Did you not say in your last post who? The people who make these "rules" you are assuming?

"If you swapped the genders and races with different groups, tweaked the story to fit the swaps, woke people would lose their ever loving minds and the Tomatoes score would plummet.

In a way, I'm just playing by their (pathetic) rules"

How do you have such a clear idea who you're against but don't know who I'm referring to when I say "people you claim to be against"?

Notice the tactic you used here. I'm not sure if it was conscious or not.

I say: "Swap all the genders and groups in this movie..."

You say "Plenty of movies with white male leads..."

That's not what I said. There are essentially 3 major representation groups in Prey. The female protagonist, her male dominated culture that oppresses here, and evil white capitalists.

At no point is her culture shown to be oppressing her.

And how exactly are these men capitalists? They make no mention of capitalism, or socialism, or buying or selling land? They are settlers, colonizers... where on earth are you getting capitalism from?

Find me a movie that swaps all 3 groups for representations woke people would be upset about.

Are there movies with male leads, surrounded by toxic women, and an evil minority group that is stereotyped to death, that the white male lead must defeat?

Given that you clearly didn't even understand the character dynamics in this movie that you are talking about, in that the men weren't toxic to her because she was a woman but because she wasn't as good as they were at hunting, im not sure you'll be convinced by anything I could list. But the idea of a white male having to defeat a tribe of evil minorities, usually depicted as savages, and /or saving "the good ones" of the minority group from the bad minority guy is so ingrained in film that it has its own trope name. You can find elements of it in everything from Indiana Jones to Lawrence of arabia.

It doesn't exist. Why? Because it would be called racist and misogynist and no one affiliated with the film would be able to work in Hollywood again.

If you're representation obsessed, as the woke are, don't be surprised when we notice who your representing and in what way.

But movies like that do exist. Ever seen pocahontas? Avatar, which ripped off pocahontas? The only difference is the bad guy is also a white guy lol.

Let's not forget the Moses movie in which Moses is played by a white British guy and has to save all the israelites from the eeeevil Egyptians? Or when they cast a white kid as aang from the last Airbender and changed the sympathetic inuit tribe to white people, but the bad guys were all Indians?

Its time to end thus brain rot. There are plenty of questionable film choices we can purse over but focusing all your attention on looking for ones you don't like while being blinded to the fact this stuff has been going on for a while makes you no different than the people you claim to be against.

 

[Toons]

This was actually a good suggestion.

It also praises Japanese culture and villanizes the West (White) a great deal, so I wouldn't count it.

Great movie btw. Not woke. Would recommend.

So wait. This prey movie, which doesn't even praise native American culture and in some ways criticizes it, and villifies white guys a great deal with a native American lead, is woke

But the last samurai, which praises and glorifies Asian culture, and vilified white guys a great deal and has a white lead, isn't woke?

Hmmm i wonder what the difference could be...

 

[Razvedka]

The "normal" predator was pretty good, his suit/mark and general mannerisms were Ok.

And then the super predator and predator dogs happened.

Predators targeting autistic children because that disorder is the 'next step in human evolution' and a 'genetic super power' was so mind blowingly stupid that I was speechless when it transpired on screen. Pretty sure that preceded the super predator and the dogs.

 

[adamsapple]

Predators targeting autistic children because that disorder is the 'next step in human evolution' and a 'genetic super power' was so mind blowingly stupid that I was speechless when it transpired on screen. Pretty sure that preceded the super predator and the dogs.

Yeaah, but at least the normal Predator was coming to stop the madness and help humanity before he got shot and captured lol.

The whole movie is a clusterfuck.

Prey is a VERY solid return to form.

 

[Razvedka]

I'm going to rewatch Prey, but:

Spoiler

did anyone notice how the one Comanche hunter with Midthunder up in the tree hunting the lion was never addressed? Like he seemingly was killed and nobody in the tribe nor her brother even commented on his loss? That's the only part of the movie that stood out to me was something of a plothole. Not even a mention in passing.

 

[Rival]

I thought the movie was overall really good minus the cgi animals and a few wtf moments. I really liked the girl that played Naru. She’s great.

 

[DeepEnigma]

How are you supposed to enjoy a movie if someone hasn't told you whether you are allowed to like it first.

People do it all the time based on brand badging on gaming side…

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I can't be asked. Fool me once and all of that. The only great film was the first and it's been garbage since.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

All those YouTube losers are the same fucking dude: usually overweight, beards, sat in front of their collections of plastic nerd shit, and whining about women

Let's be honest here. He probably looks like 90 percent of gaf. He's no specimen but neither are most of us. The drinker is a good looking dude though

 

[March Climber]

lol @ people getting so upset at Men_in_Boxes.

If you really liked the movie, it shouldn't be bothering you if another poster is calling it woke garbage.

I'm surprised at the good reception it's getting and I'll probably watch it this weekend.

If you created a thread about a movie and then a poster comes in, takes a dump on it to bait others into discussing potential hidden agendas, then ends up making the thread more about himself than the movie, what would your logical reaction be?

 

[FunkMiller]

Let's be honest here. He probably looks like 90 percent of gaf including you. He's no specimen but neither are most of us. The drinker is a good looking dude though

Fuck off, son. I’m an Adonis.

 

[thegame983]

It was fine. Movies are fine now.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Let's be honest here. He probably looks like 90 percent of gaf. He's no specimen but neither are most of us. The drinker is a good looking dude though

I’m a pretty mofo.

 

[mortal]

It was alright, had some nice cinematography. Preferred the Comanche dub for immersion.

There were some contrived parts that had me rolling my eyes like the scene where Naru physically took on several grown men on her own without so much as a scratch.
Also, this predator manages to wipe out an entire group of Frenchmen, kills a grizzly bear with one punch, but struggles to kill this small woman. lol
The comically evil Frenchmen element was dumb.
I didn't particularly like how often it kept cutting away from the more visceral, gory deaths either. Felt rather cheap.

It was a decent watch, really don't get what all the hype was about though.
More of a one-and-done for me.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

It was okay.

One and done.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

How do you have such a clear idea who you're against but don't know who I'm referring to when I say "people you claim to be against"?

I don't know what you're asking here. Can you rephrase?

At no point is her culture shown to be oppressing her.

So the kind old woman who is preparing food, watching the protagonist sharpen her axe, and asking "Why do you want to hunt?", the boys criticizing her and fighting her due to her wanting to hunt...didn't ring oppression to you? The wink at the young girl at the end, as if to say "girl power"...wasn't overt for you?

And how exactly are these men capitalists? They make no mention of capitalism, or socialism, or buying or selling land? They are settlers, colonizers... where on earth are you getting capitalism from?

Dead Buffalo with pelts removed = capitalism raping mother nature.

Given that you clearly didn't even understand the character dynamics in this movie that you are talking about, in that the men weren't toxic to her because she was a woman but because she wasn't as good as they were at hunting, im not sure you'll be convinced by anything I could list.

Wait...you think it was completely random that the first scene in the movie was of her picking carrots...and the old woman preparing food not wanting her to hunt?

But the idea of a white male having to defeat a tribe of evil minorities, usually depicted as savages, and /or saving "the good ones" of the minority group from the bad minority guy is so ingrained in film that it has its own trope name. You can find elements of it in everything from Indiana Jones to Lawrence of arabia.

But movies like that do exist. Ever seen pocahontas? Avatar, which ripped off pocahontas? The only difference is the bad guy is also a white guy lol.

I haven't seen Pocahontas in it's entirety, maybe ever, but if I recall there's solid representation all around. John Smith and Pocahontas are good natured + brave etc...and they likely have at least one wise good hearted member from their tribe telling them not to judge the other side.

So yeah, there are some pretty vast differences between woke propaganda and Pocahontas, which just teaches colorblindness.

Let's not forget the Moses movie in which Moses is played by a white British guy and has to save all the israelites from the eeeevil Egyptians? Or when they cast a white kid as aang from the last Airbender and changed the sympathetic inuit tribe to white people, but the bad guys were all Indians?

Woke Priestess Ibram X Kendi preaches "The only remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination and the only remedy for current discrimination is future discrimination.

Um...no.

Its time to end thus brain rot. There are plenty of questionable film choices we can purse over but focusing all your attention on looking for ones you don't like while being blinded to the fact this stuff has been going on for a while makes you no different than the people you claim to be against.

We've never had this much racist trash clog our media channels since the 1940's, 1950's...maybe ever? This woke nonsense is big business at this point.

One thing I think many fail to consider is frequency and potency. Propaganda isn't a binary tool...its feathered to varying degrees with each endeavor. Saying it doesn't exist is brain rot indeed.

Btw, I've had my niece come home and tell her parents that she's one of two straight girls in her class. All the other 9 year old girls are LGBTQ. This media crap matters.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Saying it doesn't exist is brain rot indeed.

Yeah!
Wake up sheeple!!

Those poor 18th century frenchmen were misrepresented and are part of a greater cultural war of which Men in Boxes is a great warrior with his mighty meth head connections and seeing the same conspiracies everywhere out to get the world. But he's a hero trying to wake us all up. Men_in_Boxes is WOKE to their agenda...wait...

 

[Airbus Jr]

We've never had this much racist trash clog our media channels since the 1940's, 1950's...maybe ever? This woke nonsense is big business at this point.

One thing I think many fail to consider is frequency and potency. Propaganda isn't a binary tool...its feathered to varying degrees with each endeavor. Saying it doesn't exist is brain rot indeed.

Btw, I've had my niece come home and tell her parents that she's one of two straight girls in her class. All the other 9 year old girls are LGBTQ. This media crap matters.

you havent explained which part of this movie is woke

were still waiting for your answers