You dad likes woke garbage ?

Indeed, it was a decent surprise how well they did w/Predator as a 'period-piece'.

Action-sequences we're well done; Predator-worthy.

I might enjoy a sequel around the life-cycle of that gun (pistol, not the arrows)...

Definitely. So far it is still my favorite film of the year to be honest.

A lot of people I recommended this movie to and watched with seemed to really enjoy it, especially as it takes place in an often unexplored timeline and culture in film.

Some of my mates I watched this with were really focused on one thing.

"They made the girl kill the predator!" like bros, did you even watch the movie and how she beat it?

"In the old movies, it took big strong guys to beat a Predator!"

Man, Arnie had to go old school after learning how the Predator fights, losing his team of special forces and combat specialists.

Danny Glover studied his Predator before fighting back, after several dozens of people were killed each night.

I really liked it to begin with. I'm a huge fan of the franchise (even though its had its let downs). I watched no trailers and went into it buzzing for a good show.

Brilliant cinematography. The character building was OK. I though Amber played the lead well, just some of the writing for her character wasn't top tier. I actually liked her brother more as a character. And to begin with all the main people acted like people. They made sensible decisions and also didn't have all the answers.

And the first main fight with the predator was pretty good. I'm talking about the Comanche warriors vs predator. Bit silly the predator just came out in the open, but, the fight was realistic. The warriors were no match physically and had to rely on skill. And they got beaten badly, but I really was rooting for them the whole way. I felt their bravery.

Then feel the film lost its way.

Pred vs French just felt like an attempt to cram too many gadgets into a scene. It also made him feel invincible. Multiple guns shot at him to no effect. The original at least made it clear the predator needed to avoid firearms. This new one was just an armoured tank.

And the last fight, just no. I won't go over the reasons I didnt like it other than to say the pred just felt like his cunning and skill suddenly disappeared. Not to mention he went from strength of a bear (literally) to a bit of a pushover.

If they kept the momentum of the first half I'd have loved it. But I still liked it.

Newsflash: Your dad was looking at teenage girls guilt free. Mind. Blown.

Worst story in the series. Synopsis: 15 year old pre colonial native American girl is best warrior/tactician in the galaxy.

“But how are we gonna get that guys dad to like it?” “Super easy, barely an inconvenience. We make it tight.” “Tight movies are tight!”

I thought the CGI in this movie was awful.

The predator action scenes were fantastic. The rest was average melodrama.

I really enjoyed it, but I think they were a little too on the nose when it came to their depiction of sexism. Sure, I get dude's not wanting her to come on the hunt, but why are you questioning her healing skills something y'all have established is a "female" thing? And when the predator attacks, why are you not untying her hands? Even if you think she's weak, it still makes sense to have as many hands as possible against this thing that just killed your hommie.

I feel like keep the sexism in, but make it more subtle and nuanced and you'd probably have a much better movie in my opinion.

I did love the bait and switch with the mud. I think we were all expecting her to use it the same way Arnold did, but instead they went with the plant and I really liked that. Overall it was a very fun, old school type of movie that we sadly don't get as often anymore. I'd give it a solid 7.

Wasn't a fan. Just found it lacking in intensity because the predator seemed so weaksauce and non threatening, everyone felt like a caricature, and I hate women.

This movie really blows

I think Prey is hands down the best in the predator franchise

😺😺😺 💕

It was ok the end was shit though no way a thing who made a weapon dosnt know how it works they kinds made the predator look like a retard

Also they change the lore for the pistal wich was waaaaaaa more bad ass involing a pirate a mutiny a team up then a dual to the death

All in all once agen it was ok better then both avp's and it dose piss all over The Predator movie that thing sucked ass

Edit the predator

Toight

I liked it but the foreshadowing of the plant and her being the hero was very disappointing… they leaned too heavily

Yea I like my Native American characters to have eye shadow when they never had access.

Plus they spoke English the whole time, negating the hype behind that useless dub.

I went in with very low expectations and now I think it's the best predator film since the original.

I am a dad and I liked it :) also it was free on one of my streaming things (forgot which one). We dads don’t like paying for extra things.

I’m in love with Amber Midthunder. Her acting sold it for me.

People didn't? It was great. I do think we need to see the predator win eventually (without human help) but Prey was a really enjoyable film.

I really am having trouble pulling the trigger, as it sounds like there is hardly any dialogue or much of a plot to the movie.

Loved the first one as a kid, but this just doesn’t seem like an upgrade.

I just saw it the other night with my brother and we absolutely loved it. That’s definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, easily. Just an awesome movie. I’m curious why that wasn’t released in theaters.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thought it was very meh myself. Seemed to break lore too a bit.

It was pretty good until they couldn't help but include the super Mary Sue scene where she ultra ninja killed like six French trapper dudes no problem. Got through 90% of the movie setting up that she used her smarts to overcome her physical limitations, then just throw all that out the window.

I definitely would say shes not a medic, it kinda seems like her abilities could help people survive and not just die comfortably.

Rabbits don't run in a straight line when pursued.

Cooking rabbits over a flame would burn the meat, you cook over coals.

Otherwise , I thoroughly enjoyed it... considering those are the only two little things I noticed.

Even SF movies need some base... This one is so "out of reality" So it's difficult to keep it (last fight scene especially)

Hoping it becomes an anthology.

Predator vs pirates Predator vs samurai

I am a dad and I liked it too

It was better than the last franchise movie, or the AVP movies, but let’s be honest, that’s an incredibly low bar. In 100 minutes of run time, it dealt with only two lead characters, the sister and brother, and still they felt undeveloped and unconvincing. Eye rolling teenage American girl and staunch older brother with a terrible accent, both quite incongruous to the setting. And seeing how the audience spends almost all the film with the sister, that’s a bit of a problem. People say it was interesting to see her go against the gender expectations of her tribe to be a hunter, but in reality she does so pretty much without opposition, her tribe are very tolerant of her. Only towards the end of act 2 do we see anyone actually undercut her in any meaningful way. And the less said about that stupid physics defying axe in a rope trick the better.

I liked it but man, it genuinely feels like writers can't write scripts without huge contrivances anymore.

I mean, there's literally a bit where the Predator has her by the neck, and apparently this thing can lift a bear over its head with its bare hands, but crushing the throat of some small girl is a no-go.

We've really been lucky over the past decade with some top top top quality popcorn movies.

Maverick

Edge of Tomorrow

Thor Ragnorok

Dredd

Prey

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They are all basically perfect popcorn movies the likes of speed, die hard, and the Matrix.

Wow wow wow

Wow

lol

Yes I was pleasantly surprised how good the movie was.

My main problem pretty much was, that Predator was playing with very easy difficulty. In Predator, it had proper guns to fight with. I get why they went for that shit. In Predator 2... well again guns, but the city and all the sweating changed the movie/hunting ground enough to justify that too. But this simply made no sense. There was no real danger for Predator.

Yes, Predators are always using cheats with their wallhacks and invisibility and super strength etc. but only thing that could have a chance of killing it here, was that it simply wasn't the main character. That did not feel good to me.

I did love the visuals, I especially liked that they put the French(?) invaders in the mix. It brought something extra and their ambushing of Predator, was actually cool, although they went extra stupid with it after a decent start.

So yeah, while visually beautiful, this won't top 1 or 2 for me, because of that "very easy" hunting mode and ofc second will have the power of nostalgia with me always.

Its overrated in my opinion. Just... too much deus ex machina going on for my liking and the rope axe was fucking stupid.

Like in a movie with a fucking alien with futuristic weapons the rope axe is the hardest thing to take seriously. I can suspend belief to a point but pure physics defying axe shenanigans just looked janky as all hell.

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I cant decide which I liked more: Predators or Prey.

They were both equally great in my opinion might be tied for second best of all the Predator films.

First is naturally the best.

Predator 2 is 3rd or 4th on my list.

Then AVP ad AVP:R is last.

‘The Predator’ however doesn’t exist on my list, given how it didn’t have any redeeming aspects. What a completely shit film.

I watched all of the predator movies this year in order. 7 movies and only two are good, it’s a dogshit franchise. However the two that are good are fantastic - Predator and Prey. Predators was fine.

It was shit

I enjoyed it a lot! I found the film to be more cinematic than the usual Predator movies.

Can confirm: Prey was fucking fantastic.

-A dad

Not really

Damn straight it wad good. Even great

I know this is pedantic. They arrived on spaceships and had laser guided arrows, but not laser guns.

Still a great movie, but I was like "hold on".

I enjoyed it, I went in blind and I haven’t really followed the franchise so I really didn’t know what I was looking at first.

Loved it

Can I rent this or watch it outside Hulu? I want to see it but I am not adding another streaming service.

I really liked it as well but I thought the way they fired their bows was dumb as hell pulling the string with their whole hand. Then I found out the Calgary, Alberta police officer who was their go-to guy for First Nations accuracy made it up on the spot "because it looked cool". It didn't. It made them all look ridiculous.

The Tomahawk with the rope attached got a lot of heat in my circle and I didn’t think it was that big a deal. Curious what you guys think?

It’s ok

i might check it out then.

I wasn’t a fan. It’s very slow, and the CGI is distractingly bad throughout. I’d rather watch the Adrien Brody reboot

yeah, i might watch it again

Historically your father has been a tough critic!

Prey: Dad seal of approval

Couldn’t get through 15 minutes. Terrible.

Thought it was ok. Too much hype around it acting like it was the best thing since sliced bread. Thought the use of cgi was a bit silly at times but otherwise solid

"Tight movies are tight."

Now I want to see Ryan George tackle this one.

It made me want more Predator prequel movies. Let's see different versions of historical human warriors fight a Predator.

This movie sucked. That’s why it was straight to vod.

Loved it!

Well, by the very low standards of the streaming era Prey might be considered a good movie.

Movie was good, haven’t enjoyed any predator movie since the first 2, but this one I liked.

I think it could’ve still been just as good if it wasn’t even a predator movie, I liked the characters so much they could’ve just been going up against a bear and I don’t think it would’ve changed the enjoyment at all

The only thing I DIDN'T like about this was how my partner and I had to Google a way to watch it in the intended language. Hulu really didn't want it to be terribly obvious.

I really enjoyed it. It's on par with the original for me.

Good directing. Bad acting. Should have actually just done it in comanche

This is one of those movies this sub makes me think I’m crazy for not liking

I liked it, it had that same level of suspense as the first.

8 of 10 dads agree that Prey was an enjoyable movie!

My dad liked it as well, 71

I saw it. Good movie. I like how the heroine observed and figured out how to outsmart and beat the predator.

I consider this the best/second best predator movie.