Predator General Thread

I liked it. I did appreciate how Naru was established and clearly shown to be observant and more about planning and traps than the more macho male hunters so her defeating the Predator with a trick felt earned when it happened.

Edited by jakobitis on Aug 6th 2022 at 7:44:17 PM

Jesse Ventura praises the Prey movie and Amber Midthunder and welcomes her to the Predator family.

Congratulations to Prey's viewership, which has scored the honor of being Hulu's most viewed program to date. This is being reported by Deadline.

Regarding the last statement: I'm sure we'll get some US Nielsen ratings in the coming weeks anyway.

But considering the defamatory "go woke, go broke" campaign by some pundits surrounding the film, it's another film in the bucket that proves the opposite.

Well I guess Predator will now be a streaming exclusive. Tbh after various tries and fails at the box office maybe this is the best route.

Even Critical Drinker admitted the film isn't that bad.

if they can make a decent Predator movie then they can surely make a decent Alien movie,right?

After already railing against it before it was even out, but he's a fucking racist moron anyways.

As a writer I love how useful the Predator's honor code is as a tool. You can basically have anyone you want escape it without it looking like Plot Armor because most won't kill outside their rules.

My question is has anyone in these films thought of just surrendering? Putting hands up dropping weapons and being let go?

I have only seen Pred 2 and both AV Ps as a kid so my memory may be hazy but it seems like an easy out.

Of course in Prey Naru weaponized it.

It was also fun seeing the Predator's technology be lower tech as well. Though it does kinda seem odd that in-universe they had space ships and cloaking tech and laser sights in the 1700s but that they still needed an extra 300 years to get firearms that weren't arrow based.

Though bowhunters exist irl, maybe they were just a larper?

Perhaps it's a cultural thing, this predator is apparently from a different breed and culture from the others.

Sidenote: Everyone says that this predator's technology is more primitive than that of the previous predators but I never got that impression. It certainly looks more archaic but that seems to be more of an aesthetic thing since the weapon's performance is just as good as the more metallic jungle hunters or even better, such as the deployable drones or the spear that can be split into two. Hell, his cloaking device doesn't even short-out when exposed to water like the ones from Predator 1 and 2.

Could it be that the Predators nerf themselves depending on the technological level of their prey? Like, maybe they don't use guns if the enemy doesn't use guns?

Edited by GNinja on Aug 9th 2022 at 2:59:54 PM

This predator didn't seem to know about humans till after he saw Naru given how he was hunting animals beforehand. And some of his targets do use guns, namely muskets. I'd argue that the speargun is more advanced than the plasmacaster in some ways given that it can home-in on its target.

Edited by Kaiseror on Aug 9th 2022 at 10:21:51 AM

It seems less like an honor code thing and more whatever suits an individual Yautja's interest. A Yautja hunter might willingly put aside their ranged weaponry to fight hand-to-hand against prey whom they've come to consider a Worthy Opponent.

Edited by M84 on Aug 9th 2022 at 11:25:27 PM

The Predator from the first film was equipped for hunting trained soldiers armed with modern (for the 80's) weaponry. Not surprising that, when landing on a pre-industrial planet, you're not gonna arm yourself as heavily. Even if you take honor out of the equation, you might not bring along the deadliest weapons available simply because they don't seem necessary.

Like, OG Predator might conceivably have found itself needing to shoot down a jeep or a helicopter. Not really a concern for this one.

Edited by RavenWilder on Aug 9th 2022 at 10:14:46 AM

Saw it a couple of days ago, and loved it as well, no major complaints whatsoever from either me or my circle of friends.

I'm a bit torn on the decision to show off the predator so early in the film, and without fanfare. It's understandable why the director chose to do so - unless you stumbled onto this film at random, you probably know exactly who the antagonist is going to be and what he's all about - but it ruins the sense of shock for first timers. Got to see that in person with my mother, who sat down a few minutes into the film and is generally unaware of the Predator franchise, and wondered why the film gave away the "alien from the Aliens movie" so quickly.

This latest Predator didn't even seem to be setting out to hunt humans specifically anyway, he was just working his way up the food chain.

So he probably wasn't packing his very best gear, and to be fair when you can kill a frigging bear by punching it in the face you'd probably be fairly confident too.

Edited by jakobitis on Aug 10th 2022 at 8:52:09 PM

I think if you surrendered you'd be killed in frustration over you depriving them of the thrill of the kill. It probably be labeled as dishonourable of you.

Again, aside from the plasmacaster, this predator's arsenal doesn't seem any less advanced than the previous ones aside from the fact that it doesn't look shiny. The predator from the first movie only had two weapons with him.

Maybe this Predator was a new guy on his first day of hunting man?Poor guy is more like a Hunter.

It could simply be that this particular Yautja's culture disdains the plasmacaster in favor of that arrow drone weapon.

Also the blades seemed less like metal and more like animal bone or antler based. Which of course makes even less sense given the big metal space ship.

I think it was an aesthetic choice to make the villain feel more low tech to match the setting even if it does seem kinda odd to have someone with a space ship and drones not using fire arms.

Also this Predator leaned more into the action of the horror-action. Someone here said they were opposed and I kinda agree with that. Horror thematically is about surviving the bad guy, action is about fighting the bad guy. No one in Friday the 13th is getting in a Machete duel with Jason Voorhees. (As far as I know, they made a lot of sequels)

So for here they had the Predator set up as a foil to Naru (and pretty much all the characters, almost every living thing in this film that's not a plant is a hunter of some kind). You see them hunting while you see her hunting, you see them tracking while you see her tracking and so on.

Pred 1 was played as an cliche 80s action film before the alien killer shows up, this was more about building up to a prize fight.

No, but somebody did get in a boxing match with him.

In Jason X, Jason fights against a android.

And he fights a psychic in Part 7.

Noted, but my general point stands in that this film is less about helpless victims getting killed by a slasher and more about skilled hunters fighting the ultimate hunter, that leads to The Predator being less of a hidden spoopy threat and more of a looming menace.

Saw Prey several days ago.

My first Pred film ever, pretty good pick. Great film overall, and man was the gore wild. So epic kills by the Pred.

Should really watch the first movie one of these days.