Best poster yet!#PreyMovie #prey #predator pic.twitter.com/HwhIQikQo1
— Naru (Immortalis) (@NaruPreyIM) August 2, 2022
Haven’t yet seen it… although, since it’s on Hulu, I’m actually tempted to check it out. To be truthful, I haven’t seen any of the Predator movies, but the memes are unavoidable. Murphy knows I’m not the target market, but I love the chatter (also: full Comanche dub, with English subtitles!)…
I know canonically the Predators in Predator are part of an entire species whose culture revolves around hunting but it's funnier to imagine them as the equivalent of, like, a suburban dentist who shoots an elephant.
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 5, 2022
The one before this one was not very good but did actually have a conversation about how calling them Predators was wrong when they were obviously sport hunters
— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) August 5, 2022
rest of the species just like 'I can't believe he's putting pictures of DEAD HUMANS on his wall. I had a pet human once and it was almost like a person."
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 5, 2022
A bunch of Predators protesting outside a hunter ship with signs that say PROTECT THE XENOMORPHS
— Fresno Fred (@Suleyman_Grundy) August 5, 2022
Ohh look at Mr Mighty Warp Manifold Engineer bringing home another spinal column for his holodeck. Awfully brave to knock off a small-brained backwards primate from 600 meters with a shaped-charge active-guidance plasma caster! Did you at least turn your active camo off?
— Loyal Toady (@LoyalToady) August 5, 2022
And most Predators? Or "The Smiling People," as the non-hunter members of their species call themselves? Most of them do administrative work.
— First Wordle Problems (@matthewfdesmond) August 5, 2022
What if the Yautja we see in every Predator movie are their species equivalent of the incel dudes who started their own basement fight clubs? We only see Yautja culture through their perspective but what if their whole planet is super embarrassed of them?
— Every Voice (@everyvote_prize) August 6, 2022
The War of the Worlds aliens don't believe in germ theory.
The Independence Day aliens are that species' facebook boomers, always clicking on unsolicited emails.
We're just constantly being invaded by other planets' MAGAs, and their dumb guy hubris is why they always lose.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 6, 2022
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite tweets pic.twitter.com/ejWPzs8o81
— Dennis the Filth Farmer (@horowitz101) August 6, 2022
War For Ukraine Day 164: Evidence of More Russian War Crimes Come To Light
eddie blake
the last one, shane black’s the predator was just dreadful, a complete train-wreck. I’ve heard very good things about this new version.
no hulu though, so i’ll probably miss it.
Steeplejack
This collection of tweets about covers it. I would add only this:
eddie blake
@Steeplejack: yah, that works.
patrick II
frosty
Having read Empire of the Summer Moon about Quanah Parker, my conclusion is that the Predator picked the absolute worst target among any human culture. The Comanche stopped westward expansion for decades. They also intimidated the Apache.
I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Feathers
Looking forward to this. Have a free month of Hulu, I’ve been watching the second season of Only Murders in the Building and enjoying it. Also caught the Branaugh Death on the Nile, which was meh. With a Christie story, you have to make all the suspects memorable characters, who might be the murderer. Death on the Nile had stars and everyone else.
Here’s a review of Prey from John Scalzi, with some interesting notes on why it’s OK that it’s on streaming.
HumboldtBlue
Why do men have nipples?
On the breast/chest.
oatler
I like the Pitch Meeting for the 1987 Predator movie:
“Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!”
NotMax
@eddie blake
Pretty decent anatomy of a cinematic train wreck is the documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers, currently streaming on Tubi.
Martin
The first one is good – sorta. It’s centered on hyper-aggressive male culture, which if nothing else is super cringe, but Bill Duke and Sonny Landham are both really good in it and make it worth watching even if you’re just in it to understand the references in other media.
Shalimar
@oatler: That’s his catch-phrase. He uses it whenever something that has been made out to be a huge obstacle turns out to have a simplistic solution, a by-product of poor writing that happens a lot more than it should.
r€nato
In Maricopa County’s primary election this past week, the elections department issued Pentel pens in place of the infamous Sharpies that allegedly mumble mumble mumble something fraud.
Pieces of the pen tips were flaking off all day long and causing ambiguous marks on the ballots in every voting site where they were used.
Where’s the hooting and hollering of the Sharpiegate crowd on that one? Why is County Recorder Richer (R) getting a pass on this one? And why won’t any journalists report on this???
gene108
@HumboldtBlue:
Embryos develop breasts/nipples before developing male/female sexual characteristics, so they are present in both sexes.
Chris T.
@gene108:
Bah, the “scientifically correct” answer is boring! You’re supposed to say something something woke mumble trans something!
Doc H
Twelve year old thoughts about the Predator as hunter. Watched Prey last night and it didn’t change my take – and also, when were there ever that many francophone trappers in the same place at the same time??
apocalipstick
Watched it, loved it. It’s a lot of fun and very efficient in its storytelling. Amber Midthunder is outstanding as Naru, the script does a great job of showing, not telling, and there’s a fair amount of humor.
Thirty years ago it would have made a tidy 2 1/2-3 times its budget, then run on cable forever. It’s easily the equal of the original (IMO), and Amber Midthunder (who has been a working actor since age 4 and is now only 25) really puts herself on the map, and has a great name to boot.
UncleEbeneezer
Tried it last night but turned it off after 15 minutes. Beautifully shot but felt very much like a straight-to-streaming lesser quality movie, imo. We then tried a couple other potentially so-bad-they’re-good movies but ended up going back to watch Narcos: Mexico (Season 3) which is really great. We’ve been on a tear of watching a lot of old, fun summer action movies and the original Predator holds up very well. As does Point Break, Top Gun, Running Man.
bookdragon
I watched it last night and then watched the original right after which confirmed my impression that it was in fact the very best of the Predator movies.
I see a bunch of people comparing Naru to super badass John Wick type characters, and she certainly was badass, BUT the story showed her as a young teen unhappy with a gatherer role and aiming to become a hunter, but she is not a prodigy by any means – in trying to off with a cougar or against a bear she clearly is not Mighty Hunter. In fact in the very begining she misses deer and rabbits. What she is, is determined + smart and observant. She thinks and plans. Btw, that was Duke’s superpower in the original – not that he was a muscleman spec ops guy (all the others with him were too and the Predator took them out, and one-on-one it smacked him around like a rag doll). He was reduced to not much more than the materials Naru had by the end of the movie when it was just him against the Predator.
Anyway, loved the number of call backs to the original, but the way this film wove the parallels between hunter cultures, between Predator and Naru, was wonderfully done.
Plus her dog. The dog definitely tipped this movie to the top of the franchise.
eddie blake
@bookdragon: arnold was dutch. bill DUKE was mac.
taumaturgo
Intriguing and earnest depiction of original Americans, splendorous cinematography and a knockout soundtrack. Disney should have used the Comanche language version w/ subtitles. This excellent project deserved a theater release, not a wimpy Hulu debut.
eddie blake
@Doc H: while IMO avp didn’t work; an alien or predator movie NOT rated R doesn’t have the, er, teeth, it can largely be viewed through the lens of a bar-mitzvah. it’s a coming-of-age ceremony. unarmed predator youth have to battle the xenomorphs throughout the pyramid, find their gear and get out before they are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of their foes.
if successful, they are viewed as “mature” and able to join the larger predating society of yautja.
Nicole
Me, the spouse and the 12-year-old really liked it. Highly recommend watching the dub in Comanche, rather than the version in English (the English version is… very contemporary sounding. The subtitled translation from Comanche into English is simpler, and fits the period better).
Loved that the French trappers speak in French and it’s not translated for the audience. Keeps you seeing from the point of view of the Comanche characters. (That said, I speak enough French to follow what they were saying and it was all awful, just what I would expect from 18th century French trappers. ;)
Also- you don’t need to have seen any of the other Predator movies to follow along. Fun if you have, as there are a few Easter eggs, but absolutely not necessary.
DMcK
I’ve got a real soft spot for Predator 2. For the unfamiliar, a Predator inserts itself into a war between rival drug gangs in then-near-future Los Angeles, as Danny Glover and his narco squad try to make sense of the alarming body-count. Silly as all get-out, a fun cast, the Predator’s first-aid kit is right up there with the Barbasol can from Jurassic Park for quality prop-porn, and it even addresses climate change (albeit obliquely). Anyway, very much looking forward to seeing the new one!
Subsole
@Steeplejack: The one where they grabbed a bunch of killers from all over the world and dropped them into a Predator game preserve was pretty good, too.
Didn’t see the last one.
Subsole
@Doc H: I really, really like that observation: bullfighters.
UncleEbeneezer
Okay, I take it back. After reading so many rave reviews we gave Prey another chance. You (they) were right. It was pretty damn good. Really fun, Summer action flick and definitely the best in the Predator franchise since the original.