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Woke fest of a could-have-been great movie (Spoilers)


I have watched all of the Predator movies.
My favorites are 1, 3 and 2.

Having seen the trailer for Prey and done a bit of research, I was really optimistic, both for the environment and for the time period the movie was set in.
I really wanted it to work.

Watched the movie last night with my GF, she is also a fan of Predator.

We were disappointed.
The movie, however they try to push it online, is a woke-fest.
These are the parts I do not like:

1. The girl, Naru, is an insecure, entitled, antisocial, disrespectful, diva-like person, with constant need to show others that she is "worthy".
- Even though we know that the Comanche had clearly divided roles in their society, the girl has no problem disobeying advice and even orders from her brother Taabe (who is a war-chief).
- She is okay to think of herself as better than other females, and to just leave the village as she sees fit to practice hunting and exploring, while all the other females had to carry on with daily tasks.
- She sees no problem in hitting a fellow male hunter in the head, because he tried to take her home, as per Taabe's order. Hunter smacking her back was satisfying.
- She doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that she had to be carried back home while unconscious after the cat attacked her (and would have killed her), or that she is physically unable to carry a fellow hunter home if needed, or, at least to cut and gather wood by herself. Simply why these jobs do require divided roles.


2. The girl, Naru, is also a superwoman.
- Even though she was unfit to pass her main hunting test, she is somehow fit to survive several attacks of Predator, where he kills a dozen armed men by himself in one fight!
- She is capable of winning a fight with 3 to 4 armed male trappers by herself, something that even a professional and masterfully trained assassin John Wick would struggle, at least a bit.
- But the best part is, at the end, she is capable to kill Predator all by herself, something a bunch of 220+ pound heavily armed and trained commandos from the eighties struggled really hard to accomplish. By the way, in the process, she cut his arm, and used his homing missiles, and she somehow knew exactly where (and at what height) the predator will stand, so she put the helmet's laser targeting at that exact spot.


3. The Predator in this movie is a joke. I wont go into his face changes, but I'll point some horrible choices for him.
- We all know Predator as a stealth killing machine, mostly killing from afar, or when he comes near, cloaked. Not this one. This one is okay with casually jumping into the group of a dozen of armed men and attack them like that.
- This Predator seems to can't defend himself from Taabe's attacks. Taabe is even able to hit him with an arrow, walk next to the Predator, pull the arrow from his body, arm his bow, strike him again, and repeat.
- This Predator seems to have no problems slaughtering a heavy bear, killing 15 armed men in one scene, but somehow can't keep up with a tiny superwoman who chops him to pieces in the final scenes.


4. Movie itself suffers because of all this.
- Why they had to be so "modern" and to not "offend" anyone and to make it so the tiny supergirl does all by herself something that many trained and armed men were unable to?
- Wouldn't it be great, as suggested somewhere, that there was no superwoman, but both normal men and normal women, who joint forces as a village, and killed the Predator in an intelligent and "realistic" setup, in a prepared field with traps, ranged and melee attacks, where some or most of them would be slaughtered, but they were able to kill him? No superhuman feats, just plain old normal people and cooperation.


I really wanted this movie to invoke some of the atmosphere from the best Predator movies, but at least for my girlfriend and me, it is more of a "safe bet" movie that wont offend insecure groups of viewers.
For the rest of us, this is another ruined chance for a worthy successor of an old gem.

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New sock puppet lol

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Of which account?

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I don't know. He could be a genuine poster, I just find it odd how there seem to be a number of accounts on this movie's board with single or double digit post counts and saying the same stuff

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Because this is the only open, free discussion place to discuss the film?

You can't say bad things about feminism on Reddit, nor can you say anything against the hivemind on there, so you have to make a post here. People who want to vent their frustrations about this film don't have many places to do so other than here. Your comment might get yeeted off of YouTube for saying something the AI deems "offensive", so you have to tiptoe around whatever word filters they use.

A popular movie franchise like Predator is obviously going to attract a contingent of people to discuss it, and since you can't do that on IMDB, MovieChat is the next best place.

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They have a lot of right wing subreddits. r/conservative, r/anarchocapitalism, etc

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Neither of those subs are for movies.

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Neither is this site

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You lost me there. Was that sarcasm?

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Yes. Point is that this site is primarily for political rants

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I am surprised you remember the names lol. Me, after watching, I remember : protagonist girl, her brother, the bad white guys, the predator, a wolf and a bear. Thats how forgettable it was. Didnt care about their names at any point.

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Well, I do love Predator movies, and was really invested in watching the latest one.
Although, I had to google their names just to make sure :)

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This

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did her story journey/arc show her growing, improving and changing from the "going to die by a bear" and "going to die in a field trying to outrun a Predator" in the trailer, into an effective killer over the course of the movie?

I never wanted to bother with this film, now I just want to watch it to see if it IS good or bad and all wokey

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If you haven't watched it yet, I suggest you do, and see the answer to your question.
I would feel bad telling anything if you want to watch it at some point.
I hope you will like it more than I did.

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This is what I'm talking about. The lead is a self serving narcissist who puts everyone else in harm's way and doesn't even appreciate their sacrifices for her.

The movie could have done the teenage hero thing, male or female, and the old frontier native American setting... it could have had its cake and eaten it if it was better written.

Instead of making all the secondary characters horrible so we are manipulated to have sympathy for the lead, why not make them likable? Why not have it so she's ALLOWED to go hunting but on the trip her tribesmen get attacked by the predator. Then she has to take on the predator alone and avenge them. Dutch did it for his team, show her strength of spirit and love for her kin by doing it for her entire tribe.

I could give a care if it's a female lead. Saying that all criticism is about that is a deflection from the fact that the lead is a narcissist who would be as ugly as a male. Why does there have to be so much animosity and narcissism in the movie? Did the people who made it have an ax to grind? Why did they have to use a Predator movie to crap all that narcissism on? It makes the humans more vile than the predator. I was hoping that he would win. The brother was ok, showed care for his sister but look where that got him.

Can you imagine Naru leading Dutch's team? She would tie them up in their sleep then leave them for the predator and go off to do her own selfish thing.

If she saw the cops on the ground at the beginning of Predator 2 she wouldn't drive into enemy fire. She would be like "Whatever. I have better things to do so don't bother me!"

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Yeah, agreed.
I also thought the brother was ok. He cared for and supported her, until she almost got killed by the cat. Then he told her she needs to stop and rethink what is she doing.

Would really want to see the same movie where both him and her, and a couple of fellow hunters together take the Predator together.

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See you're on to something. That would make it more of an ensemble movie like the good Predator movies are.

All the characters could be written as likable. Even the French could be. Make them enemies at first until they all realize they have a common enemy and have to work together to survive.

The movie could still have the teenage girl as the survivor who finally defeats the predator. It would be a more enjoyable and satisfying journey overall.

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Indeed. Sad times we're living in.

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You're using 3 accounts to talk to yourself šŸ˜­

You're so pathetic

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go back to your pride parade woke-tard.

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Another shit-tier sock puppet

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*pretends to be utterly shocked*

Now I totally did na zi see this coming!


You meanā€¦ itā€™s the exact, EXTREME opposite of these boards and reich wing bro media? HALLELUJAH! Seriously, as with most content from reactionary-disapproved Hollywood today, this GREAT fucking film (according to the ā€œsheepā€ majority not found in these boards) isnā€™t the reich wing brokeflake fest this site approves of? THANK FUCKING GOODNESS, Whew! Keep triggering the reich wing chuds (all regressive minds), Hollywood! Leave ā€˜em chuds in the fucking dust, baby!

But heheheheā€¦ yet another (on top of another and another) wittle incel brokeflake crying about the woke boogeywoman in the broflake safe space that is MovieChan. Grrrā€¦ woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke! Damn, such edgy originality up here. Well Iā€™ll give you a better W O K E drop, little bro. Hemā€¦ STAY WOKE.

Lol, projecting propagandist reich wing colonizers and their meltdowns tho. Ya really having a bad time as of late, aye? LMAO. I mean from Hollywood and many in society keeping things woke (reich wing-unfriendly and inconveniencing fascist neckbeards) consequently making chuds like the ā€œtoughā€ OP continue to have meltdowns like this to the reich wing magat community as a whole currently having the biggest meltdowns over Donny Chump and his goons fucking finally dealing with some consequencesā€¦ itā€™s just been an unpleasant time for the inconvenienced brokeflakes! šŸ¤£ Yup.


Well keep crying, chud. Let those broflake tears flow. And as always, thank you Hollywood! Even though you could actually be even more woke *gasps* evidently you continue to have the disapproval of the REICH people and thatā€™s fucking awesome. Donā€™t stop šŸ‘Š

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Well, this post is unhinged.

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