It was good, won't knock the movie down because of one or two parts in the final fight that were unlikely. I might watch the cool parts again, but it's unlikely I'll watch the whole thing through again, it was fun, would've seen it in the theaters like I have all the other ones. Loved how primal and vicious the Predator was in this one, just an animal and really cool to see. They changed up his look a little too much when he had his helmet off, not sure why they want to change the iconic look, but this one looked like the redneck Hills Have Eyes deformed inbred third cousin of the original Predator.
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Is how I would rank them personally. The last three are hit or miss, the only reason I liked Requiem is because it brought back the gore and made the Predator a badass again instead of one alien killing two predators, that was an unforgivable sin in my eyes in the first AVP. You can change out Prey for Predator 2, those were pretty much tied in my book. I could see them giving this franchise the Assassin's Creed video game treatment, now we'll just put a Predator in different time periods since this one worked.
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I liked how creative she was with the traps, the helmet, the mud pit, the spikes on the trees, thinking quick to grab his spear while his claw arm was caught then cutting off his arm when he tried to block it with the shield. Then cutting off the French guys leg and setting him up to get killed so she could get the headshot off. The dog carrying the rope axe made me laugh, and her rope work to lasso him down into the pit was the most far-fetched part, but at that time he already sustained a stab through the shoulder with his own staff from the brother, a gunshot to the back of the head to start the fight, multiple axe wounds when she was hidden from him and jumped down onto him, a cut off arm, etc etc. It was good, regardless of the ending fight scene asking the audience to dispel belief for a few moments.
Originally Posted by Fish:
About what I expected. Mostly entertaining, but they went too far with the whole "Women can be warriors too!" thing. It got downright silly. Cinematography was well done.
I thought it was an enjoyable movie all around. I liked the main character's ingenuity, her brother was a likable badass, and it had some brutal kills.
That fight between the Pred and Grizzly alone would have been worth the price of admission, especially the way it bathed itself in the bear's blood. Fucking awesome.
I can't say I agree with the 'woke' criticisms either. I didn't think the 'she's a girl' angle was overplayed.
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Only big issues I had with the movie were the weird orange plant and the change in the Predator's design.
I'm not sure how a flower could lower your internal body temperature to ambient temps instantly without killing you, though I recognize that they were trying to avoid having the protagonist cover themselves in mud.
The Pred's new design was a bit weird too. I'm wondering why they even changed it at all? I don't think the original is something that ever needed to be changed. It's one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.
This one wasn't even bad, but it kinda reminded me of a turtle. Even the dreads were really skinny and not locked up.
I hope this one does well on Hulu so we can get some more Predator through time action. I was Preds vs samurai, Aztecs, pirates, WWI, Civil War, etc. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
I thought it was an enjoyable movie all around. I liked the main character's ingenuity, her brother was a likable badass, and it had some brutal kills.
That fight between the Pred and Grizzly alone would have been worth the price of admission, especially the way it bathed itself in the bear's blood. Fucking awesome.
I can't say I agree with the 'woke' criticisms either. I didn't think the 'she's a girl' angle was overplayed.
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Only big issues I had with the movie were the weird orange plant and the change in the Predator's design.
I'm not sure how a flower could lower your internal body temperature to ambient temps instantly without killing you, though I recognize that they were trying to avoid having the protagonist cover themselves in mud.
The Pred's new design was a bit weird too. I'm wondering why they even changed it at all? I don't think the original is something that ever needed to be changed. It's one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.
This one wasn't even bad, but it kinda reminded me of a turtle. Even the dreads were really skinny and not locked up.
I hope this one does well on Hulu so we can get some more Predator through time action. I was Preds vs samurai, Aztecs, pirates, WWI, Civil War, etc.
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This wasn't an organic James Cameron heroine they literally pushed " I can hunt" BS. This was fine but how she soloed the Predator at the end was ridiculous
This wasn't an organic James Cameron heroine they literally pushed " I can hunt" BS. This was fine but how she soloed the Predator at the end was ridiculous
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It was pretty organic, IMO. I don't believe there was even one mention of the words girl or woman in the whole movie. It just so happened that the plot was about a woman trying to break the mold.
They didn't have some gratuitous shot at the end of all the women in the tribe suddenly feeling emboldened enough to become warriors or anything like that.
Did you watch the movie? The Pred solo'd a Grizzly Bear. With its bare hands. Literally any human fighting it at all is ridiculous, but we don't watch these movies for realism. They showed the Pred tanking enough injuries throughout the movie to where that final fight wasn't all that weird to me.
She wasn't a Mary Sue and the most badass human in the movie was Taabe.
It was pretty organic, IMO. I don't believe there was even one mention of the words girl or woman in the whole movie. It just so happened that the plot was about a woman trying to break the mold.
They didn't have some gratuitous shot at the end of all the women in the tribe suddenly feeling emboldened enough to become warriors or anything like that.
Did you watch the movie? The Pred literally solo'd a Grizzly Bear. With its bare hands. Literally any human fighting it at all is ridiculous, but we don't watch these movies for realism. They showed the Pred tanking enough injuries throughout the movie to where that final fight wasn't all that weird to me.
She wasn't a Mary Sue and the most badass human in the movie was Taabe.
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OOOoh you are not going to start that shit " did you see the movie" that diminishes your take right there.
The bitch got knocked out right before a cougar stalking her not to mention the Griz having her trapped., and her mother mentioned like her she should be a medicine woman because of her intelligence. " I want to hunt"
" Father gave you that axe to grind medicine"
Considering the tech available it should've been a group effort. Though we have to also forget that the Pred should've killed her twice before the last big brawl
OOOoh you are not going to start that shit " did you see the movie" that diminishes your take right there.
The bitch got knocked out right before a cougar stalking her not to mention the Griz having her trapped., and her mother mentioned like her she should be a medicine woman because of her intelligence. " I want to hunt"
" Father gave you that axe to grind medicine"
Considering the tech available it should've been a group effort. Though we have to also forget that the Pred should've killed her twice before the last big brawl
Oh, for fucks sake.
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It was absolutely a group effort. The predatortook damage fromaton of differentsourcesalong the way. She doesn'tkillitwithouther brother.
Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider:
Oh, for fucks sake.
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It was absolutely a group effort. The predatortook damage fromaton of differentsourcesalong the way. She doesn'tkillitwithouther brother.
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You mean the ass pull saves like the ax in the thigh? If it was about family and acceptance it should've been a 4 or 5 person assault that was planned like Arnold and Carl Weathers but instead of the mid battle it was the final
OOOoh you are not going to start that shit " did you see the movie" that diminishes your take right there.
The bitch got knocked out right before a cougar stalking her not to mention the Griz having her trapped., and her mother mentioned like her she should be a medicine woman because of her intelligence. " I want to hunt"
" Father gave you that axe to grind medicine"
Considering the tech available it should've been a group effort. Though we have to also forget that the Pred should've killed her twice before the last big brawl
That's the plot, bruv, but feel free to keep crying about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
That's the plot, bruv, but feel free to keep crying about it.
Not crying, you took issue with a different opinion with the rebuttal tactic that others used with the OBJ thread which was applied against you even [Reply]