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Jack the Ripper was really a Predator.

Jack the Ripper was really a Predator.
Clumsy is an apt way to describe a lot about the film but the Predator often put himself in dumb situations that not even then drunkest of redneck hunters would find themselves in.
Limits of the setting. You kinda have to make the Predator dumber, otherwise the entire cast is a smear against a tree in five seconds flat![]()
Hard disagree. Predator thought it was a guest Tekken character taking on Kuma. And it doesn't explain the French fur trader sequence. He's there to hunt, to find the most worthy opponents. That wasn't hunting. That was action movie porn. We got that in the original movie but from the opening and from Arnold's team. It went from a typical 80s action movie to a horror movie.
The Predator was able to overhead press a brown bear (a few hundred kilos in weight).It's quicksand/sinkhole.....of course the Predator couldn't move. What they SHOULD have done was have it fall into the sinkhole and she shoots it through its eye or something while it's stuck.
My thoughts exactly lol.
There’s definite fuckery going on with the Predator’s motives and methods, but they‘ve been doing that for years now, so what are you gonna do?
Personally, I actually think as far as a franchise goes the entire concept was a one and done. The original was perfect, and nothing else needed to be said. Hollywood gonna Hollywood though.
the other previous 4 predator movie with male protag: normal
The 1 with women protag : girl power movie
see your own bias?
Full grown elephants get stuck in mud and die all the time......they are bigger and stronger than a Predator. They didn't do a good job of executing it in this movie. For one, when she got stuck they should've shown how to actually get out of quicksand/sinkholes - you can't brute force/pull yourself out typically. It would've been a good showcase of her using brains not brawn, and would've been a great finisher to the Predator who probably would've tried to brute force his way out.Are you saying the Predator shouldn't have been able to move?
Because I reckon anything of that height and strength would have no problem simply walking (or leaping) out if it is able to stand in a "sinkhole".
The first lines from the trailer - Why do you want to hunt? Because you all think that I can't.
Full grown elephants get stuck in mud and die all the time......they are bigger and stronger than a Predator. They didn't do a good job of executing it in this movie. For one, when she got stuck they should've shown how to actually get out of quicksand/sinkholes - you can't brute force/pull yourself out typically. It would've been a good showcase of her using brains not brawn, and would've been a great finisher to the Predator who probably would've tried to brute force his way out.
This is the camp fight scene for context
Oh god.
Now I’m desperate to see a Predator movie set in a gothic as hell Victorian London, fighting people dressed like this.
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The night to hunt for foul beasts…
Yea a setting like that would be pretty sick.or if they wanted to do an urban environment as a nod to Pred 2, maybe old London?
Watching it now. I'm at the part where she is returning to the village after gathering some orange medicinal herbs and a Native American tells her that a lion took Puhi ... a lion ... I came here to start ranting how fake this movie is after hearing that and then, while typing this post, remembered that Mountain Lions are a thing in North America too so I'm gonna pivot hard and say that that doggo in this movie is awesome and nothing better happen to it ...
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"The Bride is a woke sjw Mary sue for female empowerment!! She off tons of trained male ninja in her quest to get revenge on the typical rich white male who wronged her! Kill Bill is obvious libtard propaganda, i was waiting for her to come out as LGBT and dye her hair blue at the end!"
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Oooh please let the Twitter crowd go and watch his scenes in the original Predator just so they get triggered and try to cancel him for what he calls the other guys in the helicopter.
It's there on Hulu, just got done watching it. I'm on a Predator binge. Totally forgot about that line lolHave Disney cut that line on streaming yet? I haven’t checked![]()
It's there on Hulu, just got done watching it. I'm on a Predator binge. Totally forgot about that line lol
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How long until they're forced to film a trigger warning introduction to the movie like HBO Max had to do with Gone With The Wind and Blazing Saddles?
They should get Ventura to do it.
Aliens is super anti-woke. The hispanic woman is directly responsible for a nuclear explosion, and then indirectly causes the spread of 'aliens' across the cosmos.“It’s fucking stupid that Ripley can use that Pulse Rifle and flamethrower so easily. And you’re really telling me she could fucking survive going into that hive, when all the marines got killed easily by the aliens earlier in the film? And all that shit about Weyland Yutani and the corporate stuff is just typical anti-capitalist propaganda. And all the white dudes die easily, or are made out to be weak or assholes, and not as strong or capable as ripley, who has to save them. Fucking woke bullshit.”
also /s
Agree. I thought the Predator's death was poorly written.
Naru placing the skull mask in an approximate position to target the middle of the bog... Okay.
Naru counting on the Predator to stop moving precisely where she needed it to... Zero probability.
The Predator enters the bog, submerges and then resurfaces, with eyes on Naru (who has suddenly become a stationary target in contrast to all of the earlier fighting). This somehow doesn't trigger a flight (instead of fight) decision from the Predator... Laughable.
The Predator with its enhanced hearing capabilities, hears the skull reticle activation tone and the tracking beeps, watches the guided bolts miss the intended target, circle the bog, then sees the reticule pointed at him and takes no defense posture... F~ Right Off With That!
Overall the movie was great and the finale paid hommage (a little too closely perhaps) to the original Predator, but Prey's ending for its Predator was disappointing.
Predator is one of my favorite movies of all time and I mostly agree. I do think you could have brilliant sequels and Prey has just about the perfect backdrop, it just fumbles the ball early and often. While the Predator is large and imposing, it often relies on technology and guile. I guess you could argue that we don't know how Billy died and maybe that was more Mano a Mano, but I never envisioned the Predator as careless or a hunter that mindlessly slaughtered (ironic considering the buffalo scene in this movie). Prey feels like it misses the mark of what made Predator such an iconic movie monster. Maybe that's to play up to the attention span of modern audiences, but again the original gave us schlocky action for the first 30 minutes or so. Prey could have easily copied that format and made the Predator portion of the film mirror the original, with that scouting party getting picked off one by one. That's probably too subtle though.
Okay, a better movie than what I was expecting, some awesome scenes in there, only wish it would have been even more visceral. But the dumbing down of the Predator for the plot is no excuse, for crying out loud, it still arrived on a spaceship.
But what is up with all the comparisons to Aliens and Ripley and all that? You can`t compare Prey`s heroine with Ripley, first it`s unfair, as Ripley had a previous experience beforehand, where mind you, defeated the Xeno IMO with a bit of chance. Second, the Xeno, though my favourite creature/enemy of all time, doesn`t compare to the Predator intelligence wise, let alone in the gadgets and tech stuff, maybe physically.
And it`s not like Ripley woke up one day and decided it was a good day for hunting Xeno`s, she had IMO a better motivator for doing that, one could argue the most powerful one.
Okay, a better movie than what I was expecting, some awesome scenes in there, only wish it would have been even more visceral. But the dumbing down of the Predator for the plot is no excuse, for crying out loud, it still arrived on a spaceship.
But what is up with all the comparisons to Aliens and Ripley and all that? You can`t compare Prey`s heroine with Ripley, first it`s unfair, as Ripley had a previous experience beforehand, where mind you, defeated the Xeno IMO with a bit of chance. Second, the Xeno, though my favourite creature/enemy of all time, doesn`t compare to the Predator intelligence wise, let alone in the gadgets and tech stuff, maybe physically.
And it`s not like Ripley woke up one day and decided it was a good day for hunting Xeno`s, she had IMO a better motivator for doing that, one could argue the most powerful one.
I loved it easily the best predator since the original but I do have a soft spot for 2 because of how dumb it is.
I said from the beginning that best boy better not die. I knew her brother was done, but not dog.I give it a 7.5. Fun and I liked all the little tie ins from the previous movies (gun from Predator 2 ... totally forgot about it). Also the dog didn't die thankfully. But the Predator's death was really lame. It would have been better, and more believable, if the predator bolts hit it in the leg, knocking him down and then she just hatcheted it to death viscerally. Anyways, probably 3rd best Predator film but doesn't come anywhere close to the original.
Agreed on pretty much all thatThere's obviously differences between the situations the two characters found themselves in, but both Ripley and Naru continuously did what was right and best for their team / people regardless of whatever undeserved pushback they received. They both defeated their enemies through observation, adaptation, and ambush given the realities of their physicality (they weren't big strong warriors). Neither were lazily written, rather shown to have flaws and weaknesses they had to quickly work through. And finally, of course, both did all of these things as heroines rather than as a male character that would typically inhabit such a role.
If Dan T didn't write Naru with Ripley in mind as an inspiration in some way I would be very surprised.
I can get on board with this. Predators is hella underrated. I probably overrate P2.Predator has the reverse Star Trek movie rule. With the TOS movies, the even number ones (Khan, Voyage, Country) were the good ones and the odd-number ones were bad.
Predator: Good
Predator 2: OK
Predators: Good
The Predator: Worse than getting Monkeypox and Ebola at the same time.
Prey: Good
I need thisOh god.
Now I’m desperate to see a Predator movie set in a gothic as hell Victorian London, fighting people dressed like this.
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The night to hunt for foul beasts…
what i didnt get is how olivia munn went from nerdy scientist to green beretI watched parts of The Predator movie and I've realised it is quite bad. When I saw it in theatres in the Philippines the screen was horribly calibrated and too dark, green tree leaves at night didn't even look dark, seeing it on Disney+ now and damn the Predator dogs look absolutely pathetic. Really bad CGI.
And I'll never understand the reasoning behind Olivia Munn getting nude to try and exit the facility she is in, makes zero sense. The most offending thing about that scene was the fact we didn't actually see her nude though. CRIMINAL I TELL YOU!
The problem that I have with this movie is just the insane plot armor Neru has. I get that she's written to go from zero to hero at the end, but some of the happenings to get to the end is just too much for me.
Dutch escaped from a Bear like nothing? Dutch fell into a bear trap and didn't break his leg? Dutch teamed up with a Dog to knock down a predator? Dutch ate some herbs that INSTANTLY lowered him body temp? Dutch escaped quicksand ? I mean... it's just too much this time.This has already been covered, Dutch had plot armour in the original film as well.
A plasma weapon that puts a hole in other characters barely phases Dutch as one example.
And I also posted a video above where the predator just so happens to conveniently stop right under a log that Dutch set up earlier.
Dutch escaped from a Bear like nothing? Dutch fell into a bear trap and didn't break his leg? Dutch teamed up with a Dog to knock down a predator? Dutch ate some herbs that INSTANTLY lowered him body temp? Dutch escaped quicksand ? I mean... it's just too much this time.
Dutch escaped from a Bear like nothing? Dutch fell into a bear trap and didn't break his leg? Dutch teamed up with a Dog to knock down a predator? Dutch ate some herbs that INSTANTLY lowered him body temp? Dutch escaped quicksand ? I mean... it's just too much this time.