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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

It Didn’t Try To Reinvent The Predator.
I do think the finale and in particular the kill is a wee bit contrived (I mean, surely the Predator would know how it’s Seeker Dart things work), but because it’s all put together so well it’s earned that wee bit of handwavium.

Fair! Hadn’t considered that.



If anyone is on the fence about this? Give it a watch, you won’t be disappointed.

This is the Predator sequel you’ve been waiting for, and deserve.

My favorite review I've seen so far is MovieBob's drunken rant that's basically, "why did it take them so long to figure this out?"

That’s a fair review!

It's not exactly a high bar to make it into the top 3 Predator films given that every film since the second has been either 'okay at best' or 'god awful' so it's impressive this movie is maybe just as good if not better than Predator 2 IMO.

My only real complaints I have with this movie are

2) No ones gonna just make a run for it? No one? I mean it's cool that everyone doesn't just freak out and die achieving nothing. It's cool many characters even when they're losing manage to be kind of badass while they're losing, but you'd think something in this movie would have a reaction that isn't 'oh hey there's something there lets murder it.'

1) that the fight choreography was overdone in some parts. There were times in this movie where people were knife fighting like Jedis and I think it was a bit silly for how grounded the rest of the movie tended to be.

But yeah great movie. I really liked this more primitive/savage hunter Predator who was different from previous incarnations but not in a stupid or eye-rolling way.

The supporting cast of this movie (admitting mostly the brother) was also a much better one than I think it needed to be. Everyone, even the bit actors, did their characters right.

Also the dog lived and that's instant kudos XD

Also fun fact;

So the predators aren't hunting for autism anymore..?

Having the French be the real enemy really helps elevate the film.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
So the predators aren't hunting for autism anymore..?

Thank god no.

Of all the stupid plot points in all the world in all the films ever made, that was far and away the dumbest thing anyone ever put in a movie.

Of the four, and only four, movies made I would say for me the order goes like this:

Predator > Prey > Predator 2 > Predators


Predator 2 has a lot of nice moments but it just never gelled with me as well as the original, nor Prey at this point. Still both are worthy follow ups.

I wasn't really impressed by this one, it only seems kinda good cause the last couple were so bad. It wasn't horrid or anything, I guess like the orignal it's a solid B movie popcorn film. And I guess that's why people must like it, it's not complicated or convoluted, it just is what it is, back to it's roots.

Yeah I get that.

The important thing is? It made the Predator scary again. And because by now the vast majority of the audience knows what the beastie is, it gets some pretty impressive screen time

And you know what? For the first time a long time, I’m feeling the need to rest my Dark Horse Predator comics, because I’m enthused about Predators once again.

Everything The Predator isn’t? Prey is

I’m genuinely wonder though how much of my enthusiasm was not knowing this film was coming until the relatively last minute. It didn’t receive a great deal of hype overall. No big push. Just….trailers on the Tubes of You, maybe some posters.

As someone who loved their video rentals, and considered The Trailers something to be enjoyed, it’s been a long arsed time since Just A Trailer got me aware and wanting to watch a movie. That it’s objectively good is just a bonus!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yeah I get that.

The important thing is? It made the Predator scary again. And because by now the vast majority of the audience knows what the beastie is, it gets some pretty impressive screen time

And you know what? For the first time a long time, I’m feeling the need to rest my Dark Horse Predator comics, because I’m enthused about Predators once again.

Everything The Predator isn’t? Prey is

I’m genuinely wonder though how much of my enthusiasm was not knowing this film was coming until the relatively last minute. It didn’t receive a great deal of hype overall. No big push. Just….trailers on the Tubes of You, maybe some posters.

As someone who loved their video rentals, and considered The Trailers something to be enjoyed, it’s been a long arsed time since Just A Trailer got me aware and wanting to watch a movie. That it’s objectively good is just a bonus!

Apparently it was supposed to be kept secret that the movie was a Predator movie at all - the idea being audiences would go in with no knowledge this was a Predator movie and only find out later in the movie.

The film's working title was "Bones" but it seems they had a change of heart at the last minute and started promoting it as a Predator movie.

I think that's a shame, I would have liked to go in blind and then be super surprised at the reveal.

I seem to remember that the fact it was a Predator-related film got leaked, and that caused the marketing pivot - a plan based on hidden information doesn't work well if the information makes it out into the wild first.

Would certainly have been interesting to see that pan out. But, interwebs being interwebs, you’re only ever a single clickbait scumbag’s review away from the secret being out before anyones really had a chance to find out for themselves.

Consider Star Trek Into Darkness. Some tosser on my FB went to the midnight screening, and just posted “KHAAAAAAAN”. Surprise (and to be fair it wasn’t that good a surprise) ruined.

Think I might watch it in Comanche later.


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Ninja’d (sort of) by Dysartes.

Mind you, looking at my thread title….maybe I was the clickbait scumbag here, because the trailer kept the secret for the first bit, and then sent me hype.

Really wish it had a cinema release.

Don't have or want Disney+, but do want to watch this.

Can you do a week trial sub?

 stonehorse wrote:
Really wish it had a cinema release.

Don't have or want Disney+, but do want to watch this.

It’s not a D+. I wanna say this one is HBO Max? Fuzzy because whatever it’s on I don’t have it so watched it… elsewhere.

It’s Disney+ in the U.K., as we get Star part and parcel, which is either Hulu by another name, or at least Hulu’s Greatest Hits.n

Ah, weird. Hulu I guess then. I wish it was D+ here too, I’d watch it on that to give them the view.

Here it is on Star+.

I'm really starting to hate Disney's streaming services.

In that regard I think we’re thoroughly spoiled in the U.K., as it’s all just a single service, for a single price. And for a literal fraction of what Netflix charges.

This movie is absolutely terrible. Not once did the Predator try to hunt any Super-Autism! Did they makers of this not even see the last one?


All joking aside, that was fan-frickin'-tastic, and easily the best Predator movie since the original. Great action, great main character, earned call-backs to the first two films, a nice look at a more "primitive" Predator that has a magnetic-accelerator cannon rather than a plasma-caster. Simple premise, great execution, good music, wonderful visuals, and just a complete story told very well. I echo Bob Chipman's sentiment: What the hell took 'em so long?

My only negative is that the trappers were French, rather than English. I really wanted a 1700's version of "You're one ugly mother fether!". I wanted something like "You are one ghastly son-of-a-whore!".

Yeah. Watch this. It's great!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Consider Star Trek Into Darkness. Some tosser on my FB went to the midnight screening, and just posted “KHAAAAAAAN”. Surprise (and to be fair it wasn’t that good a surprise) ruined.

That was a surprise in that film? That was obvious from the trailers! It was the worst kept secret in any of the three JJ Trek movies.

I almost want to say it feels like a Fan Film, in that it’s clearly someone who understands what makes Predator such a good movie.

Nothing reinvented as such. No “but this time it’s got four arses” type one up. But not slavishly following the original formula.

One of the Loot Admin absolutely hated it, so we can’t please everyone. But for me, the gore being there, but never the focus really worked.

Definitely watching it again tonight, but in Comanche.

 LordofHats wrote:

Spoiler:

The pistol at the end of the movie is the same one at the end of Predator 2, so are we getting a sequel about how the Predators got that pistol back :/

If you watch the first element of the credits with the cave art style backgrounds, the final one shows three Predator ships descending on the tribe, so maybe?

Oh I didn't pay attention to that XD

That's sad... But I guess it makes sense XD They'd want to wipe out the evidence.

Chances are they just came and took their tech back. I doubt they wiped the tribe out.

Could also be them coming to claim the pistol, as one of the weapons that lead to the prey being victorious.

Just saw Prey. It was much better than I had expected, which is nice.
A few things seemed weird to us, the topography of the area being the main thing.
The French seemed maybe out of place given what was shown but I don't really know for sure. I just thought they operated around the Grate Lakes area and up north but I can't remember very well now. School was like a billion years ago.
I wont nit pick too much as it was much better than I had expected. I think the first trailer didn't really tell it right.


If Amber Midthunder can make a career out of action movies then more power to her. I'd only seen her in Legion before this.
I didn't recognize her in the first trailer either.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Chances are they just came and took their tech back. I doubt they wiped the tribe out.

Heck, based on the second movie there’s decent odds a party of Preds showed up and offered them a reward and it led to trades.

The pred seemed to be a cataloger who was determining if earth was a worthy hunting ground. A dead cataloger is basically the highest rating you could get and would draw in the big game hunters to claim some trophies. "Dead cataloger. 5*. Would hunt here again."