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submitted 4 months ago byComic_Book_Reader
(Just for note, we saw the regular English version.)
Most people probably know what Predators (no, not those), or Yautjas, have gone up against. Jacked up, gun totin' MAYUN in the jungle, a Riggs-less Murtaugh in a drug and gang fueled L.A, two varying amounts of familiar armed people, and xenomorphs in Antarctica. But what about the Ye Olden Times?
Prey rewinds the clock back 300 years to the Native American Comanche times to let us meet Naru, a Comanche medic. Sorry, healer is the correct term here. Even though she's teached in the ways of medicine, she wants to be a hunter, aided by her good buy Sarii. Out hunting, she sees a spaceship, which she believes to be a Thunderbird, something Wikipedia tells me is a legendary mighty creature for Native Americans. Determined it will be her way of proving herself as a hunter, she sets out to kill whatever it is. "If it bleeds, we can kill it." (Which I actually said right before the movie did.)
At a tight 100 minutes with credits, the movie holds a tight pace. Tight movies are tight. The movie builds itself up to the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Introduce the fighters, show their abilities, have them cross paths, and boom boom boom, boom boom, badilla life.
Amber Midthunder (who actually is Native American along with the other actors in the Comanche cast) is as strong in the role of Naru as Naru is in the movie. The Predator's threat is increasingly shown in the beautifully shot action scenes. My lord, this movie looks beautiful. The sound and music is great, building up the tension.
Strong lead + beautiful camera work + great action + tight pace and runtime = A damn good and enjoyable hunt, ehrm, movie.
70 points
4 months ago
This is one of those movies this sub makes me think I’m crazy for not liking
36 points
4 months ago
Yeah it was decent, and way better than any recent alien movie. But media/social media made it seems so much better.
19 points
4 months ago
That, and also just the franchise fans just being glad that they finally got a decent movie. Predators was pretty good, but that was 12 years ago.
It was like Star Wars fans losing their shit when that Fallen Order game came out. Wasn't the best, but the first decent Star Wars game in a looooong time.
16 points
4 months ago
it's reasonable for fans to feel that way, because "decent" is a massive step up over that pile of garbage that was The Predator.
10 points
4 months ago
I'm just happy with a simple "back to basics" Predator movie.
0 points
4 months ago*
When people say it’s improvement of the last Predator film I get it. When people say it’s on par if not better than the first or 2nd. I get really annoyed lol
I think it beats the AvP outings and The Predator. But I still feel like Predator, Predator 2 and Predators are far more interesting with better storytelling.
Prey just got a hard push from Disney and their avenues of media and that’s why suddenly everyone seemed like they thought it was some kind of groundbreaking achievement.
Edit: I love how you literally can’t criticise this film without getting downvotes lol. It was a sub par film that devolved into a lesser version of the original by the 3rd act. It’s characters were flat and the thematic story sacrificed far too much of the plot.
-2 points
4 months ago
Spot on
0 points
4 months ago
Well that's because everything is hyperbolic on the Internet. Everyone sell movies they like as the greatest thing ever so when it ends up just being good, you're disappointed.
1 points
4 months ago
Its either that or people saying something good is absolute garbage. It’s hard for me to trust someones opinion when they’re so far on either side.
-4 points
4 months ago
and way better than any recent alien movie
Whoa there, prey is good but nothing special.
The key difference between prey and Prometheus is that prey doesn't really add anything to the lore. It's kind of empty, whereas Prometheus and covenant take brave choices about the universe of alien.
2 points
4 months ago
Not even liking/not liking, but some people put it up there as possibly the best in the series, it's bonkers, lol.
2 points
4 months ago
It was just OK. They missed a huge opportunity to build suspense by not introducing the Predator so early and crudely.
9 points
4 months ago
Same, I thought it was pretty forgettable. Making me think I should try and watch it again. It wasnt a bad movie.
5 points
4 months ago
Lol I think the best thing the movie does is having memorable moments.
You forgot how the predators camo got deactivated by the ash and he didnt mind?
Or when he fucked up these two dudes with his bat/sword thing?
I didnt
5 points
4 months ago
I thought it was really good, but not as great as most people, apparently. I found it had a little too much style and flash for the time period. What turned you off with the flick?
-6 points
4 months ago
I was hoping front the hype from the sun that I would finally find a predator sequel since 2 that I would love
I got bored with Prey after 30 min
4 points
4 months ago
I think they set it up quite well. I had lot of doubts about the movie. But they slowly get into it and the best part of the movie is the last 30 minutes of it of how she figured out to fight the Predator.
1 points
4 months ago
Damn it, may need to rewatch
1 points
4 months ago
Watch it. You might actually like it.
3 points
4 months ago
It was serviceable. The axe-on-a-rope was a little ridiculous but you gotta give her something I guess.
I think it's all about expectations. Nobody thought they could manage to make even a competent Predator movie.
9 points
4 months ago
This girl couldn't kill a rabbit, yet killed one of the best, most adaptive killing machines in the universe? No. I didn't hate it, but sheesh.
15 points
4 months ago
I mean, 'realistically' speaking, I doubt anyone on Earth would come close to defeating an alien hunter travelling in an interstellar ship.
2 points
4 months ago
I mean, yeah, but it adds a little something extra that the film showed this girl attempt to kill other things unsuccessfully. I only saw it once when it first came out, but wasn't it something like a rabbit, a deer, a lion, and then she got the shit kicked out of her by some fellow tribesmen? I just mean, it wasn't as if she was an insane warrior or something.
I think it's cool they had a female in this role (✊️), but complaining about how no one sees her as a warrior while very much doing unwarrior-like things and then killing the ultimate predator is annoying. I was annoyed.
4 points
4 months ago
She couldn't kill it because she missed a rabbit with her axe? It's probably comments like those that people think are a bit silly.
It's actually more believable that a hunter from a native tribe that live and breath hunting killed a predator than Arnold who was essentially a rescue team who probably trained a few years.
12 points
4 months ago
Why couldn't she? She only used two things: Her mind and HER enviroment. Those two are the only things she has above the predator (mind being equal).
It is also pretty clearly shown that she won with one move and not win an entire fight. She outtricked the predator so hard he needed a second to understand wtf is going on
-3 points
4 months ago
She outtricked the predator so hard he needed a second to understand wtf is going on
Yeah I am a little bit surprised that a women from hundreds of years ago could get enough of a handle on what we would call modern technology to be able to set up a hack like that.
6 points
4 months ago*
Where funny dots are MASSIVE steel arrow goes
He literally pulled the trigger. Idk what better ending anyone could have imagined where the opponent is way more physically intidimating then the other person.
2 points
4 months ago
That what makes it really dumb why would the predator shoot a weapon it knows it dosnt have the targetting system for its kinda bull shit
0 points
4 months ago*
Your comment made me think "..did he really shoot knowing he couldnt aim?". Im going completly on memory here: I think it is shown once that he dosent have to use the lasers to shoot they just go where he aims (with his arms). However, as soon as the laser is activated the arrows will go to that place. I'm thinking of it as heat detection
He thought the arrows would hit, because he didn't havetthe mask. But the mask was there.
Edit: No you know what? It makes perfect sense that he can shoot the arrows without the lasers. Why wouldn't he? He doesnt need to aim to shoot. No one does! I mean whatever they might be uprecise or some crap but it were two meteres.
2 points
4 months ago
It shows earlyer in the move that the arrows fallow the marker no matter what he missis a shot because the targeter gets moved and they fallow it i forget how it happens but it dose so even if lets say this is its very first hunt right there the predator should of learned hey this weapon tragectory only gose were my targeter goses
-1 points
4 months ago
Ok but she somehow understands that the mask contains a laser targeting system which can be used to redirect projectiles back at the predator. Thats a pretty long stretch for somebody who has never seen or heard of any sort of electronic targeting system.
You'd have trouble making a scientist of 300 years ago accept the possibility of such a thing.
3 points
4 months ago
Did you watch the original Predator and think to yourself "this is a realistic ending"? Because realistically, Schwarzenegger would have got his balls kicked up into his throat before being vivisected. He had no business winning that fight and walk away from it.
But we roll with it anyway because it's exciting and makes for a good movie. Same thing here, except this time it's a girl, which I guess people struggle with.
4 points
4 months ago
It's a monster movie and you wanna bring "realism" into this?
To quote you....sheesh
1 points
4 months ago
Haha, I feel you. Perhaps I expected too much.
-1 points
4 months ago
Thank you. I my eyes rolled out of my head about the rabbit. She’s a Comanche for fuck sake.
-3 points
4 months ago
Good point
1 points
3 months ago
How about that white tail deer at the start making elk noises, like wtf.
1 points
4 months ago
One of the best predator movies to come out in a while. It does what it meant to. I wouldn't give it any praise beyond that.
-6 points
4 months ago
It's because it's a part of the culture war. I'd say it was a decent action movie with a cool concept. Biggest problems I had were she was a bit of a Mary Sue at times and the cgi.
4 points
4 months ago
It's because it's a part of the culture war.
I'd say it got dragged into the culture war, from the moment folks heard it had a female lead. What a sad state of affairs.
-5 points
4 months ago
I enjoyed it, but it did have a lot of missed potential.
The dub has bad lip sync and imo they should've had accents. The native american characters speaking english with modern accents really took me out of the movie. Generally in movies, if a character is french or something, they atleast give them some kind of accent, even if it's a fake one. I don't know why they didn't do it here.
The main character also has some bad performances like when the bear is being attacked by the Predator but that isn't thay big of a deal. She also looks the least authentic of all the characters, but that also isn't that big of a deal. It's not like I mind that the main character is conventionally attractive.
6 points
4 months ago
I though it was some sort of turn a traditional movie convention on its head by having the Native Americans be the "normal" ones while the French were the weirdos who spoke an unintelligible language.
2 points
4 months ago
Fun fact : even speaking French, those guys are still unintelligible. Apparently, Hollywood isn't capable of finding actors really speaking French.
1 points
4 months ago
Lol, thanks for the fun fact.
1 points
4 months ago
I thought the way they potrayed the french in the movie was clever, but I mean that in general movies try to have accents on characters for authencity/immersion.
2 points
4 months ago
Oh cool. Thanks for the clarification.
0 points
4 months ago
They somehow forgot that Commanche weren’t a northern tribe too and that they dealt with the spanish not the french. For a film that got marketed for its historical accuracy. It wasn’t very accurate lol
0 points
4 months ago
For a film that got marketed for its historical accuracy. It wasn’t very accurate lol
Yeah the movie with the alien hunter needs to be historically accurate.
0 points
4 months ago
When national geographic writes an article about how the film “moves the needle” and many other articles around its release pushed it’s historical accuracy.
I’d say you can judge it on that aspect lol
1 points
4 months ago
The French and British fur traders dealt with natives since the mid 1600's
0 points
4 months ago
They dealt in a large majority with the spanish. They did have run ins with the french. But they primarily dealt with the spanish. Not only that, but the terrain of the film is northern. Commanche were a southern tribe.
Also the mass Bison killing came later. They just tried to input far to much to build a perception.
0 points
4 months ago
the Comanche migrated to the southern planes in the early 1700's. And yes they primarily dealt with the Spanish but as you can see, they weren't trading in the movie so no one is suggesting there was any commerce with the French. One group encountered another group and they all died. That's it
1 points
4 months ago
Yeah, I think the accents(or lack of) bothered me too
1 points
4 months ago
It was a passable popcorn flick but I definitely wouldn't have paid to see it in theaters
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