Werewolf Jones
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I'll watch it but the movie woulda been better if it was Sacajawea.
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Predator prequel 'Prey', coming to Hulu in 2022
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LaughingStock
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It could be good. But it's 2022 so I doubt it.
Ulysses 31
Member
Well, it made it more believable he could take a couple of punches. If Pocahontas even takes one punch like Arnie, that would be stretching it.
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vpance
Member
I think we all know how this movie is going to go...
Seriously, though...I'm a huge Predator fan and have high hopes for this. The franchise needs a win after that last film.
That would actually be kind of funny and interesting.
But we all know she'll kill him with her smarts or valiantly dies saving the village. Yawn.
sol_bad
Member
Film blurbs released by studios aren't always accurate to what the film actually is, you know, to hide plot details and what not. In that clip alone she seems to be running for her life.
You can't see how it will work? It can only be because your imaginings are so narrow minded? We already know from the franchise that Predators have been coming to Earth for hundreds of years so at some point they would have been hunting game when men could only use axes and bows.
In the first film the Predator could have blown Arnies head off at any second but chose to take his armour and futuristic weapons off. Which in all honestly, for a film that is toted as a cinematic classic (and I do love the film) makes absolutely zero sense narratively. The Predator was happy to blow everyone else away with it's advanced tech but not for Arnie due to reasons.
GASP and HORROR, for all we know the Predator in this film is a female Predator who does the same, takes her armour and weapons off.
Realistically, Arnold would be knocked the fuck out from those punches the Predator gave him. The creature is like 2 or 3 feet taller than him and anyone that gets hit and flies 8 feet through the air would be knocked out.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Nah. She's going to defeat a man predator. Probably rip it's dick off while she's at it.
Edit: being humorous here in case it's not obvious
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Little Mac
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With all the tech The Predator has isn't this going to be an absolute slaughter? Does The Predator get Samus'd and lose all of it's gear and abilities in the beginning of the movie?
plushyp
Member
The complainception has begun.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Y'all feel free to talk about how great the movie will be. Nobody is stopping you. I'd rather it be great but there's 30 years of mediocre to awful predator movies at this point.
Ionian
Member
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
It's the Native American actress from Legion and The Ice Road! I love her! She can actually sell physicality. I'm going to give this the benefit of the doubt just for the action set pieces.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
Nope. Not getting hyped for another predator movie that's most likely going to be ass.
Ulysses 31
Member
Reading a bit about the Comanche, how their empire were the dominant traffickers of slaves in the lower mid continent in the earlier 1800 and had frequent raids in Texas and Northern Mexico, I wonder if any of that will be in the movie. 
Spaceman292
Banned
In the first movie the predator was killed by some sharp sticks and a falling log.With all the tech The Predator has isn't this going to be an absolute slaughter? Does The Predator get Samus'd and lose all of it's gear and abilities in the beginning of the movie?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
And guns and explosives. Keep forgetting about that though.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
More like a big thick spear, amirite???***trying to imagine this scene with bows & arrows***
Spaceman292
Banned
But the guns and explosives only scratched him. In the end he gets killed by sticks and logs.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
After it lost its cloak due to the explosive arrow.
Spaceman292
Banned
I thought that was because he jumped into water. I need to watch it again honestly.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Nope. Dutch fired an explosive arrow at him while he was crossing a log and it blew up in front of him and wrecked its cloaking device. I've seen this movie way too many times lol
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I mean we have established in the first two movies that:
1) native Americans in tune with their environment can 'sense' the presence of the predator, even when it is cloaked
2) the predator is selective with female targets, we never really know if he would have killed the woman if she had a gun in the first movie, and in the second he let's a woman who was shooting him go because she was pregnant
There are lots of ways to make this work.
1) native Americans in tune with their environment can 'sense' the presence of the predator, even when it is cloaked
2) the predator is selective with female targets, we never really know if he would have killed the woman if she had a gun in the first movie, and in the second he let's a woman who was shooting him go because she was pregnant
There are lots of ways to make this work.
Spaceman292
Banned
I'm not sure predators have ever been killed by guns in any of the movies.
Ulysses 31
Member
Ignoring plot armor, it's not a stretch to infer that if bullets can make them bleed, a well placed shot could lethally wound them.
Rat Rage
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I don't have a problem with the setting, it's just that the Predator franchise and its main creature, the Predator, has always had so much potential for actually good movies and stories, but that potential hasn't been tapped into after the first 2 movies, becaue - for some reason - the franchise has'n been taken seriously anymore after these two.
In fact, it's been mismanaged SO BADLY with every sequel that has come out ever since, that - from a cinematic standpoint - nobody is hyped for anything predator related anymore, because all odds are massively against any new entry being good, especially after the unimaginabe blunder that Shane Black's (of all fucking people!) Predator movie was.
At this point, the only good sources to experience remotely good Predator stories, are probably comic books and/or novels.
In fact, it's been mismanaged SO BADLY with every sequel that has come out ever since, that - from a cinematic standpoint - nobody is hyped for anything predator related anymore, because all odds are massively against any new entry being good, especially after the unimaginabe blunder that Shane Black's (of all fucking people!) Predator movie was.
At this point, the only good sources to experience remotely good Predator stories, are probably comic books and/or novels.
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I don't think it is much of a thematic stretch that modern weapons fail against the predator because man must become primal in order to muster the cunning, skill, and resolve to defeat them. A predator hunt is a visceral primitve experience, you can literally see the technology and modern morals fall away as it becomes a true beastly conflict of fight/flight, kill or be killed.
So while it seems obvious that a shotgun is a far better weapon than an axe against a pred for narrative purposes guns fail so the main characters can drag up their base impulses of survival. So in this indian squaw version they ought to strive for a similar personal journey, though I'm not sure it will resonate nearly as well (it would be more like the scientist lady from AvP who gets her acid scarification ritual for "a good showing" that feels a bit unearned compared to what Dutch went through. Given her starting point with presumably a hunting bow and 'hawk, she has far less distance to fall before she is using deadfalls and her teeth against the pred. I suspect they will have her fighting other humans, lesser aliens like the dogs, or even pygmy yautja species rather than the whole film being one long pursuit from a solitary hunter.
The whole "protecting her tribe" part makes no sense because non-combatants aren't a target of preds, unless they introduce a new element. Maybe she is a sacrificial prey sent out to appease it, along with other tribes, kind of a twist on the whole "princess fed to dragons" thing.
sedg87
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https://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/movie_prey/prey-full-trailer.mp4
New trailer 'leaked'. Predator is my favourite film of all time so I'm rather excited. Then again, I said that when The Predator footage started to emerge...
Anyway, I like the look of this. Not sure about the design of the predator though.
New trailer 'leaked'. Predator is my favourite film of all time so I'm rather excited. Then again, I said that when The Predator footage started to emerge...
Anyway, I like the look of this. Not sure about the design of the predator though.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Straight to Hulu tells you everything you need to know. The trailer was awful.https://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/movie_prey/prey-full-trailer.mp4
New trailer 'leaked'. Predator is my favourite film of all time so I'm rather excited. Then again, I said that when The Predator footage started to emerge...
Anyway, I like the look of this. Not sure about the design of the predator though.
Hoya Destroyer
Member
I hope its good but the Predator franchise feels cursed.
The premise is cool, but I never hear anything good about the new stuff.
The premise is cool, but I never hear anything good about the new stuff.
I collect VHS tapes
Member
I actually enjoyed Predators (2010)
BattleMonkey
Member
Looks good, like that they are taking into account it's 300 years in the past and giving the Predator what looks to be some slightly different tech. The Pred look is also neat.
BattleMonkey
Member
Danny Glover fires 6 12 guage rounds point blank into the City Hunter in Predator 2 and it just kinda shrugs it off. It clearly hurts them but they are strong as heck. Only time we saw a bullet really hurt a predator clearly was the Sniper rifle round that goes through the pred at the end of Predators.
Course we also see a Predator get downed by a single slice of a katana... soooooo
Revolutionary
Member
Watched the leaked trailer. Looks great. I have faith in Trachtenberg - he hasn't directed something I dislike yet.
Fbh
Member
Looks pretty good.
The actress was terrible in Legion though, hopefully she is better in this.
clarky
Gold Member
Trailer looked ok except for the good looking well groomed lead. Not up on my American history but sure looks like shes walked straight out of the make up booth and slapped a bit of shoe polish on her face.
Predator is 1 for about 7 in good to shit movies so law of averages says this might be good but im not holding my breath.
Straight to DVD doesn't fill me with much hope either, luckily it won't cost me anything to find out.
Predator is 1 for about 7 in good to shit movies so law of averages says this might be good but im not holding my breath.
Straight to DVD doesn't fill me with much hope either, luckily it won't cost me anything to find out.
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Methos#1975
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Trailer looks decent, though it's sorta of stupid they speak English. I would of been OK with subtitles
No doubt this will be filled with examples of the Predator wading through packs of armed men, slaughtering them with ease, yet constantly being unable to spike this girl to a tree. Then again, that's pretty much every slasher film EVER so if this takes a more horror vibe then I'm good with it.
She uses mud at one point, so we get to see that. Ten bucks says she gets some gunpowder and makes bomb arrows as well.
Gotta question the wisdom in hunting a bear with that little bow though. Trying to prove herself to the tribe? Wonder if that scene is later in the film and the predator is helping her at that point and the trailer is deliberately misleading.
She uses mud at one point, so we get to see that. Ten bucks says she gets some gunpowder and makes bomb arrows as well.
Gotta question the wisdom in hunting a bear with that little bow though. Trying to prove herself to the tribe? Wonder if that scene is later in the film and the predator is helping her at that point and the trailer is deliberately misleading.
CatsGamesWhatever
Member
I'm trying to keep an open mind but it's difficult when you see some glaring stuff like:
- It would be extremely hard to kill a bear with a bow & arrow in that era (and I know nor am interested in nothing about hunting). She should have had a spear at least in addition to the bow/arrow. She's supposed to be this super trained hunter right?
- The actress should have a bit of muscle and less make up. I mean she looks heavily made up in some of these scenes right out of the chair.
- What reason does the predator have to even save her from the bear?
- The CGI on the bear and Predator camouflage is pretty bad so hopefully they polish it up before it releases.
- The tribe using English is terrible at least subtitle it and let them speak a native language.
- The hand axe on a string is "cute" but good luck pulling that corded thing out once it's lodged in a tree with any semblance of accuracy (unless she gets it in the face which would be a nice twist actually lol)
Still hoping it's decent.
- It would be extremely hard to kill a bear with a bow & arrow in that era (and I know nor am interested in nothing about hunting). She should have had a spear at least in addition to the bow/arrow. She's supposed to be this super trained hunter right?
- The actress should have a bit of muscle and less make up. I mean she looks heavily made up in some of these scenes right out of the chair.
- What reason does the predator have to even save her from the bear?
- The CGI on the bear and Predator camouflage is pretty bad so hopefully they polish it up before it releases.
- The tribe using English is terrible at least subtitle it and let them speak a native language.
- The hand axe on a string is "cute" but good luck pulling that corded thing out once it's lodged in a tree with any semblance of accuracy (unless she gets it in the face which would be a nice twist actually lol)
Still hoping it's decent.
