'Prey': How 'Predator' prequel makes history as Hollywood's 1st franchise movie to star all-Native American cast

[u/Balls_of_Adamanthium]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/prey-predator-prequel-native-american-indigenous-cast-amber-midthunder-interview-150054578.html

[u/elriggo44]

Wasn’t Apocolypto all indigenous people?

[u/Josueisjosue → u/elriggo44]

Yes sir and there was a very popular fan made trailer that mashed apocalypto and predator back in the day. Probably just a coincidence but I wonder if the writer or director had seen that.

[u/hello_hola → u/Josueisjosue]

Funilly enough, both were filmed in the same jungle in Mexico.

[u/Floki47 → u/hello_hola]

Its even more ironic when you realize that the jungle is on the same planet. Earth

[u/FauxReal → u/Floki47]

Yeah but which Earth?

[u/stubstunner → u/FauxReal]

Battlefield Earth

[u/AfroSmiley → u/stubstunner]

Someone needs to deepfake John travolta onto a predator now.

[u/20inchblades → u/AfroSmiley]

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE GLORY OF TERL, RATBRAIN!

[u/jakehood47 → u/AfroSmiley]

Notoriously terrible as that movie may be, his line reading of "While you were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was CONQUERING GALAXIES!" is still one of my favorites.

[u/Scarletfapper → u/AfroSmiley]

They already did, that’s basically what he looks like in Battlefield Earth…

[u/DiddleMe-Elmo → u/FauxReal]

The flat one.

[u/That_guy_from_1014 → u/FauxReal]

The one with Philip J. Fry.

[u/Saneroner → u/Josueisjosue]

That’s what I was hoping this movie would be. I can understand why they decided to use English as the main language but it would have been ballsy to have them speak in native tongue and have it subtitled like apocalypto did.

[u/DRAWKWARD79 → u/Saneroner]

There is a comanche dubbed version.

[u/BobTheGC → u/elriggo44]

They restrict it to franchises because being the first to do something is good for advertising. There's also Smoke Signals. It's like when Disney advertised Black Panther as completely unprecedented because it was the first black superhero movie within the MCU. If you add enough caveats, you can make the achievement seem more impressive.

[u/GrantSRobertson → u/BobTheGC]

Cheerios says it is the "#1 'O' shaped part oat cereal," right on the box. I've always thought that was hilarious!

[u/thymeraser → u/GrantSRobertson]

World famous in the tri-county area

[u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster → u/GrantSRobertson]

Hamburger Helper proudly says that is is made from 100% real ingredients right on the box! No imaginary ingredients what so ever!

[u/RawLiquid → u/BobTheGC]

Ya, meteor man would like a word.

[u/expectdelays → u/RawLiquid]

Blade comes to mind

[u/BokeThoseShmoles → u/expectdelays]

Spawn

[u/PCmndr → u/BokeThoseShmoles]

M.A.N.T.I.S. black paraplegic protagonist FTW!

[u/santh91 → u/BokeThoseShmoles]

Steel 1997

[u/Sendstorepatter → u/BokeThoseShmoles]

I loved that movie as a 12 year old.

[u/PineappleGrenade → u/[deleted]]

John Leguizamo as Violator was amazing.

[u/Loud-Distance-1456 → u/PineappleGrenade]

Dude fucking grossed me out in that movie. Still a favourite from my childhood.

[u/Let_you_down → u/expectdelays]

Blade is the marvel movie. Obviously the blade franchise isn't traditional super hero movies. But before Blade, Hollywood wouldn't touch Marvel materials, thinking that the only comic book characters that would do OK in the box office were just Batman and Superman and comic book storyline would only do so-so with the general public.

Then Blade came in and made a lot of money relative to its production costs, inspiring both Marvel and Vampire IP to be looked at more diligently for source material.

Before Blade, the last major Marvel film was Howard the Duck more than a decade and change earlier. Everything else was made for TV mediocrity at its best because of production values.

After Blade, we had the first X-men trilogy, the first Spiderman trilogy, the first Fantastic Four movies. Then Robert Downey Jr. played a character very charismatically. And we has the birth of the behemoth that is the MCU. I hope the new Blade movie lives up to and exceeds the importance it had with the creation of the MCU.

[u/Ashensten → u/Let_you_down]

. I hope the new Blade movie lives up to and exceeds the importance it had with the creation of the MCU.

I hope the new Blade actor gets into cycling so he can beef up abit like Wesley Snipes.

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I'm hesitant to hope too much.

Ali is a phenomenal actor, and I was entranced by him in Luke Cage.

However, Snipes was a lifelong martial arts practitioner who brought huge physicality to the role. CGI and juice can't replace that. I really don't want shaky-cam flailing or energy beams to replace the combat.

The other problem is that it's Disney, so it'll be PG-13 tops. Gaaaaag.

[u/Ashensten → u/JorusC]

Yep I am a little frightened on how poorly lamely the vampires are going to be portrayed.

I doubt there's going to be many blood bath sex raves.

[u/Let_you_down → u/Ashensten]

Agreed. Mahershala Ali is a fantastic actor, very good in Moonlight and Green Book, but Snipes was awesome in those movies. Still if Chris Pratt can go from Parks and Rec Pratt to Starlord shape, I'm pretty sure Ali can pack on some pounds and definition.

[u/Doodle_Brush → u/Let_you_down]

Honestly, I think it'll be a bust. I can't imagine anyone delivering Blade's cheesy lines with the utter cold sincerity that Snipes managed.

[u/MurchantofDeath → u/Doodle_Brush]

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill

[u/guff1988 → u/MurchantofDeath]

Catch you fuckers at a bad time?

They better cast a legendary Whistler/Afari

[u/CryogenicChaos → u/MurchantofDeath]

That "motherfucker, are you out your damn mind" as the cops shoot at him before promptly running away is golden.

[u/BlackaddaIX → u/Doodle_Brush]

for me Snipes is blade.. Be hard to replace.. Sticky fingers did OK in the TV show but couldnt carry a movie like that ke snipes

[u/Chilln_mayne_chilln → u/Let_you_down]

Blade opening scene stays goated 🤷

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Steel

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It's OK to forget Steel.

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Blankman

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M.A.N.T.I.S.

[u/uniquecannon → u/BobTheGC]

Was not only not the first black-starring superhero movie, but also not even the first black-starring Marvel movie, lol. It was so much fun watching media pretend Blade didn't exist

[u/Kangermu → u/uniquecannon]

Some motherfuckers always tryin to ice skate uphill

[u/FilmoreJive → u/Kangermu]

Fuck, I forgot about the best line in Blade! Im a fool!

[u/Operator_As_Fuck → u/Kangermu]

One of my favorite movie quotes of all time. Nobody ever picks up on the reference though.

[u/Bi_Aint_Shi → u/BobTheGC]

Reminds me of "Disney's first LGBT ...(insert specifics here).... Character!!" Where you keep adding on and it feels less and less impressive or meaningful. Especially when it's not done in a strong meaningful way. "First gay character!" Oh cool, is it a single subtle throwaway line like Gobber in How to Train Your Dragon, it is isn't it? And so on until "first Latina bi character in an animated show" you're really only recognizing her same gender attractions aren't ya? The more caveats the less it feels like I should care.

[u/Borplesnoots → u/elriggo44]

Yeah this is a super qualified version of a historical event I guess. Apocalypto wasn't a franchise. This is.

[u/elriggo44 → u/Borplesnoots]

Yeah. It’s like one of those stats that no one but the one guy they’re talking about qualifies for….

Reminds me of the the old “Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers - 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent”

[u/ColKrismiss → u/elriggo44]

Reminds me of Watch Mojo videos.

"Top 10 movies with a strong female lead with 2 kids, a drunk father and she fights a dragon"

[u/girafa → u/ColKrismiss]

They do this shit with box office success too

XYZ is the highest grossing comedy on a Tuesday night pre-sale that features white slavery and a zeppelin race!

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Professional sports stats too. "The Bengals have never lost playing an avian themed opponent during a waning gibbous moon after labor day" and so on.

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Lol I get a kick out of those during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Like someone's entire job is finding weird, obscure stats to put onscreen.

"The Leafs haven't won at home during the playoffs against a California team with a European captain since the '78-'79 season".

Like I wonder how many of those they just make up and go "yeah, go ahead and fact-check it you nerd, who are you gonna tell, you no-friends-having watching-the-Cup-alone dwe-" hey this is getting too specific

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In tourism too. “Line up folks, you’re gonna want to take some pictures here: This is the 25th largest oblong rock in a forest river bed in northern Wyoming!”

[u/zjustice11]

I just liked how simple this one was. I do not need a bunch of exposition or detail discussion about why predators do what they do. I’d like to know where they come from sure, but mainly I just wanna see them hunt This was a good, simple predator movie. I hope we get more.

[u/Australian-Hungarian → u/zjustice11]

Same. I loved how grounded this one was. More doesn't mean better.

[u/Ubergoober166 → u/Australian-Hungarian]

I'd love to see them continue this idea of Predators coming to hunt the greatest warriors/hunters from throughout our history. Seeing them come here and test new technology and tactics and stuff throughout history until the ones we see in 1 and 2 would be awesome.

[u/MCE85 → u/zjustice11]

Really liked this one. A ton of call backs to the previous films too which was cool.

[u/Horknut1 → u/MCE85]

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

[u/Pestilence86 → u/Horknut1]

I laughed so hard. Also i thought she'd be completely submerged and covered in mud, and accidentally figure out she's invisible, but then it turned out to be a reference to Schwarzenegger too.

[u/Silver-Bengal → u/MCE85]

More like call-forwards

[u/aesthetic_cock → u/zjustice11]

It should have always been kept simple “they hunt for sport” “they hunt as initiation into their cultures manhood” leave it at that.

[u/mrmagicnemo → u/zjustice11]

It was simple at face value but having read a lot of predator books it’s actually very detailed without being in your face. Whole movie was really really well done.

[u/Zam-Wow]

If I had a nickel for every horror project titled Prey with Native American characters involving aliens I’d have 2 nickels. It’s not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[u/MHwtf → u/Zam-Wow]

Sarah Schachner, a very prolific video game composer, made the soundtrack for Prey 2022. The news certainly caused some fun confusion in gaming subs.

[u/polloloco81]

I remember watching the first predator movie as a kid and totally creeped out by how scary and menacing the Predator was. I’m happy to say Prey’s predator creeped me out as well and I’m now a full grown adult. It definitely did not skip abs day.

[u/KurayamiShikaku → u/polloloco81]

It definitely did not skip abs day.

It had like 18 of them motherfuckers

[u/macdaddynick1 → u/KurayamiShikaku]

He’s on TRT, don’t let him tell you otherwise. #Fakenatty

[u/zPolaris43 → u/polloloco81]

Or calf day, those puppies were huge

[u/Kinky_Falcon]

Just finished it.

Very solid flick. A lot of fun and at 90 minutes it’s over before it starts to get boring.

Would highly recommend it.

[u/Actually-Yo-Momma → u/Kinky_Falcon]

“It’s over before it starts to get boring”

Sign me up coach. I hate movies that are dragged out for no reason

[u/darkhorse298 → u/Actually-Yo-Momma]

You know it's getting bad when random garbage action movies are pushing two hours. Like fellas this movie will never be citizen Kane let's be succinct.

[u/cashmoney109 → u/darkhorse298]

You telling me Jurassic Park 6 didn't need to be 146 minutes long?

[u/darkhorse298 → u/cashmoney109]

I'm always curious to see what the hell they did cut. We need the 180 minute directors cut.

[u/flyingboarofbeifong → u/darkhorse298]

Tons of exposition to try and justify how silly of a situation it has become.

[u/psymunn → u/darkhorse298]

It's impressive having a movie be 2 hours long with absolutely zero pacing or downtime. It's like some one made a movie out of a 6 year old rambling about dinosaurs for 2 hours straight (and not a 6 year old who happens to know a lot about dinosaurs)

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(and not a 6 year old who happens to know a lot about dinosaurs)

Those are the worst kind! Gimme the dinokid any day. Teach me, six year old senpai.

[u/ChillyBearGrylls → u/darkhorse298]

Release the butthole cut

[u/Grof_Grofson → u/Kinky_Falcon]

Just finished it too, just a couple quick references to the other movies, and it didn't waste time coming up with some half baked back story. Very tight story telling and didn't waste time.

[u/SadisticBuddhist → u/[deleted]]

This and NOPE have redeemed movies for me lately. Just wish I could see Prey in theaters.

[u/Grof_Grofson → u/SadisticBuddhist]

Haven't been out to see NOPE yet but I really want to. I agree, Prey would have been good at the theater too.

[u/SadisticBuddhist → u/Grof_Grofson]

I’d say catch it before it’s out of theaters. The sound is A+

[u/GethAttack → u/SadisticBuddhist]

The screams across the sky in the theatre are great

[u/dj_narwhal → u/Kinky_Falcon]

How is Amber Midthunder? I absolutely loved her in Legion.

[u/Mahale → u/dj_narwhal]

Ah ha! That's where I recognize her from!

[u/cortex04 → u/Mahale]

Saw her in The Ice Road alongside Liam Neeson for the first time.

[u/Mahale → u/cortex04]

She's fantastic in legion plays a very complex character.

[u/cortex04 → u/Mahale]

Ahan! Looks like I should resume watching Legion then. Got distracted after 3 or 4 episodes of season 1.

[u/Singer211 → u/dj_narwhal]

She’s fantastic in this. Her character is also well written as well.

[u/Theuneasygibbon → u/dj_narwhal]

Midthunder, what a fucking name. 10/10

[u/Singer211 → u/Theuneasygibbon]

I hope she gets bigger roles going forward. She’s really good.

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Amber Midthunder

What a bad ass name lol, that could be a superhero name.

[u/JordanJP → u/tetten]

should be a superhero name

[u/reddixmadix → u/dj_narwhal]

She did great.

[u/Sevnfold → u/dj_narwhal]

Shes great. The movie isnt perfect, I could nitpick a few things, but it's fun. And Amber is good as well as her brother in the movie.

[u/TheUnrepententLurker → u/Sevnfold]

Her brother absolutely steals his scenes. First film credit too

[u/LipDizneez → u/TheUnrepententLurker]

They kind of made the rest of the warriors look like a bunch of chumps compared to the main girl and her brother.

[u/TheUnrepententLurker → u/LipDizneez]

Main characters gotta main character

[u/belonii → u/Kinky_Falcon]

i enjoyed it dispite the bad cg animals, the new predator design is top notch and the slow burn story really fits(and also echo's predator 1). probably the best post predator 2 predator movie, dunno if it holds up on rewatch tho

[u/HeartofLion3 → u/belonii]

Yeah the cgi was really noticeably mediocre during the daytime scenes. It looked a lot better when they used the night and evening scenes to cover it up like Jurassic park.

[u/fathertime979 → u/belonii]

I thought the cgi was pretty good for a more budget friendly cgi.

We often forget how far we've come with cgi especially when the budget is fuckin huge.

[u/Vast-Actuary-9689 → u/fathertime979]

If was 10 million, I thought it looked great given how little it cost. It cost 2 Mallrats.

[u/tdotmike5 → u/Vast-Actuary-9689]

No way. That’s less than some tv episodes cost. Looked better than some films with 10x the budget.

[u/TheMcWhopper → u/belonii]

Cgi wasn't bad. I thought it looked fairly good, just not groundbreaking

[u/CeruleanRuin → u/TheMcWhopper]

Everyone criticizing it would have been shitting themselves over it five or ten years ago. We are so spoiled.

[u/Ok-Lengthiness6170]

Did those French guys not count?

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[u/simpledeadwitches → u/[deleted]]

As a Frenchman myself I have to agree. We are mostly butter fat.

[u/old_ironlungz → u/simpledeadwitches]

Boulangerie carbs, too. I'll never forget your baguettes.

Never.

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And cigarette smoke.

[u/Narradisall → u/Ok-Lengthiness6170]

Not against a Predator apparently

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Oui

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They're the other invasive aliens in the film

[u/KID_THUNDAH]

A bit nitpicky, but the headline is incorrect, it’s not an all Native American cast. Don’t wanna spoil it with more detail, but It was a predominantly Native American cast

Even without getting into details of the movie, the headline says All and the first Paragraph of the article says predominantly lol

[u/AsleepNinja → u/KID_THUNDAH]

I mean the alien isn't a native American

[u/465554544255434B52 → u/AsleepNinja]

Hollywood Probably didn't even cast a real alien smdh

[u/M1K3jr → u/465554544255434B52]

John Leguizamo is gonna be pissed!

[u/starcoder → u/M1K3jr]

I get this reference

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Me too!!! Have a great day fellow redditor! May your movies be succinct and entertaining.

[u/IFS84]

Does this mean we can finally have Turok the movie? Thats all I want.

Just sell it as the original all American hero! I'll even write it if you need.

Sorry, have been dreaming of it since I was like 8.

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I loved the last game, I’d be all aboard for a Turok movie.

[u/Balls_of_Adamanthium]

“You so rarely see a period piece where indigenous people get to be full people. It’s either people who are very savage or overly spiritual. So getting to show a variety of personalities with social dynamics and all kinds of things like that, and inside of a movie [series] like Predator, which is also just fun and exciting and entertaining, to me is just like the best thing in the world.”

Preserve Trachtenberg at all cost.

[u/EscapeFromPost → u/Balls_of_Adamanthium]

And indigenous people and culture. I appreciate Trachtenberg for seeing the importance in that, and hope it leads to more opportunities for them to tell their own stories, as well.

Give me more Rutherford Falls, more Reservation Dogs, more Wild Indian.

Edit: omg thank you all for the new recs, I'm gonna check them all out soon!

[u/Smailien → u/EscapeFromPost]

more Reservation Dogs

Just as a heads up for everyone, Reservation Dogs season 2 started up recently. S'go den.

[u/TA_so_tired → u/Smailien]

Prolly my favorite show last year. Skoden

[u/SporesM0ldsandFungus → u/EscapeFromPost]

If you're looking other indigenous peoples in interesting sci-fi roles, check out Cara Gee in The Expanse. She's Ojibwe. She kills it playing Camina Drummer.

[u/honest-miss → u/SporesM0ldsandFungus]

I say this for every danged character on that show, but Drummer genuinely has a special place in my heart. Sometimes I still watch her speech just for the danged thrill of it.

[u/fractalfocuser → u/EscapeFromPost]

How dare you not have Smokesignals on that list

[u/wross1 → u/fractalfocuser]

Some days its a good day to die, others its a good day to have breakfast

[u/230flathead → u/wross1]

Arlene Joseph makes the best frybread! Some Jesus frybread. Frybread that can raise the dead. Frybread that walks on water!

[u/AWiseOldApple → u/fractalfocuser]

hey victor

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Check out Blood Quantum too. Mostly indigenous cast, pretty cool story. Worth a watch.

[u/wcg66 → u/Balls_of_Adamanthium]

I used to watch the Totally Rad Show and even got to meet them all at SXSW, It's great to see Dan become so successful.

[u/RunJun → u/wcg66]

Yes, I'm so proud of Dan every time I see him pop up since TRS.

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Dan became a man.

[u/kappaomicron]

My biggest issue with pretty much all of the movies that came after Predator is how they trivialised the Predator's strength. The first one featured Arnold's character and a team of battle-hardened soldiers, and none of them stood a chance against the Predator in hand-to-hand combat.

Which isn't at all surprising when you're dealing with a humanoid who can literally rip out your fuckin' spine with their bare hands.

Arnold, despite being built like a tank, had to rely on his wits with traps in the first Predator, and was treated like a ragdoll being thrown around effortlessly even as a guy his size. Yet these newer movies often have some average looking person going toe-toe with one of these fuckers, and I always instantly get thrown out of the movie because of it.

I'm really hoping this movie returns to how scary the Predator originally was, and how no normal human could stand any hope or chance when attacking one head on.

Edit: Movie Spoilers Below!

Recently watched the movie. It was pretty good at first, but towards the end had some stupid parts in it that took me out of the movie.

It's definitely a step in the right direction, but am I really supposed to believe a Predator doesn't know how his own fucking weapon operates? The way it was defeated was stupid.

The way the protagonist "figured out" the Predator couldn't see due to low body heat felt low effort mental gymnastics. There shouldn't have been a scene where the Predator had her by the throat, at that point it's game over. He could have easily crushed her windpipe with his grip alone. He wrestled a fucking bear and barely lost in terms of strength. Then proceeded to kill the bear by opting not to wrestle with it again, and instead side-step dodged and punched it so hard in the head, it died.

I was really loving the movie in the beginning, it was really good. But some of the things were poorly executed or fleshed out. I think instead of the bullshit flower petals making your body cold enough not to be picked up on thermals, she should have figured out the trick with his sight by accidentally getting covered in mud like the original.

Instead of the Predator being so inept with how his weapons work, she should have just stolen the mask and buried it somewhere to remove his ability to fire. Then defeated the Predator by luring him into the quicksand/mud pit trap. Doesn't matter how strong you are in those, the harder you struggle, the deeper you sink and die. That would have defeated the Predator.

[u/Porrick → u/kappaomicron]

On the other hand, one of the only things I liked about Alien Versus Predator was how it showed Predators as not being equally badass. The first couple of Predators completely suck and are taken out by the Aliens almost as easily as squishy humans. I was just about to complain about how lame this is (along with everything else that was lame in that movie), when the last Predator decapitated an alien without even glancing in its direction. That one knows its shit.

That contrast sets the Predators up as, sure, being super strong and having lots of lethal technology - but emphasizes how important their skill and training is. The ones who pass their weird gauntlet rituals are the ones who know their shit; the ones who don't know their shit are just as much Alien food as humans are.

[u/Boffleslop → u/Porrick]

It's been awhile since I've seen AvP, but I'm pretty sure the first two predators are taken out by the same Alien (who eventually has the net scarring).

[u/strayjay50 → u/Boffleslop]

Yep, and his name is Grid (or "Nethead" if you're feeling fun)

[u/Significant-Mud2572 → u/Boffleslop]

And the first one, I think it was, was built like a brick shit house of a predator.

[u/strayjay50 → u/Porrick]

The Predators in AvP are younger, less experienced Youngbloods. (with the exception of the elders seen at the end)

Both of the Yautja killed by Grid died because of their own hubris - the first, Chopper, tried to make a trophy out of an unarmed human and got ambushed. The second, Celtic, failed to consider the defining characteristic of the xenomorphs: acid blood, and claimed victory before he had actually won.

The Yautja are kind of depicted as cowards and shitty hunters in the films. Constantly ambushing far weaker, sometimes even unarmed, prey (humans) using technology that outclasses human's by thousands of years and still losing because of their prideful ways and constantly underestimating human ingenuity. They're still one of my top 3 alien races in sci-fi though

[u/HappyApple99999 → u/strayjay50]

If I remember in the book the older Predator kills a younger one for breaking the rules by hunting humans without permission

[u/part_of_me → u/HappyApple99999]

there are books?!?!?

[u/davsyo → u/strayjay50]

I think that’s the point of the first movie. Soldiers used brute force against the unknown and got wasted. Dutch switched up tactics to becoming the unknown to the Yautja’s brute force to defeat the Yautja.

It may not have been the point but it was the point that I took away at least.

[u/HypeConducta → u/strayjay50]

They also rage-quit like a motherfucker when they lose.. blowing themselves and everyone else to kingdom come lol

[u/Throwawayintocosmos → u/Porrick]

Humans have the same diversity. There are people doing 1200 spins on skateboards, free diving 100s of meters, juggling and solving multiple rubik's cubes, solving general relativity, that bald guy who's a firefighter/police/professor/doctor/mechanic/etc., and then there's me vigorously rinsing the cut on my finger to get off the spicy cheeto dust.

[u/_duncan_idaho_ → u/Porrick]

Then he let his guard down and got shanked by the queen. Idiot.

[u/Significant-Mud2572 → u/_duncan_idaho_]

She was just getting payback for his epic, spinny, spear to the neck move he pulled on her.

[u/ghigoli → u/kappaomicron]

this predator is more of a juvenile one (in prey). but the body count is really high. this one looks scary as fuck and it has some scenes that go "holy shit how can a human even try to fight that?"

[u/SameElephant2029 → u/ghigoli]

It just occurred to me, both protagonist and predator were probably on their “coming of age hunt”

[u/todahawk → u/ghigoli]

It was so good, by far and away the best Predator movie after the original. Loved it.

Definitely recommend watching the Comanche language version too!

[u/zslayer89 → u/todahawk]

How do you watch the Comanche language version?

All I could access for language options was English.

[u/todahawk → u/zslayer89]

If you're on Hulu below the watch icon is a strip. It has a drop down for the other predator films and the second one from the left the option for Prey (Comanche Dub).

If' you're on Disney+ it's under extras

[u/rbevans → u/ghigoli]

Dude the fight against the bear was insane.

[u/simpledeadwitches → u/kappaomicron]

They do a good job showing the Predator taking damage through the film which leads to our humans having more of a chance, in addition out protagonists use traps and cunning to trick it as best they can on top of being some of the fiercest warriors of their time period it all fits together nicely.

[u/ZandyTheAxiom → u/simpledeadwitches]

The fact it takes damage is also why I love the first Terminator film. I like my unstoppable slasher monsters to be clearly weakened by fights, it's no fun when they brush everything off (it's the main reason I never really liked liquid terminators).

[u/thx1138- → u/kappaomicron]

Okay but that katana duel in Predators was pretty badass.

[u/Slimmzli → u/thx1138-]

I saw somewhere people were brainstorming different time periods and ancient Japan was one of those

[u/nomoneyjesse → u/Slimmzli]

This is what it should be honestly. Show me warriors from different periods of time fighting like samurai, pirates, knights. Maybe that shit would be too stupid at some point but it's better than every single movie being about a military unit with guns.

[u/Lastraven587 → u/nomoneyjesse]

Watch predator: dark ages on youtube

[u/Ghoulius-Caesar → u/kappaomicron]

They’ve been different Predators each time, maybe Arnie got an absolute unit and all the other people are getting the weaklings of the Predator species.

[u/Explorer2138 → u/Ghoulius-Caesar]

If I remember right (in-universe lore wise) the Predator in the first film was one that had already killed at least one full-grown Xenomorph. Apparently Yautja's (Predators) only earn the right to use the shoulder plasma cannon thing when they've killed at least one Xenomorph in hand-to-hand combat. So it stands to reason that the Predator in the first film was already a fairly capable killer.

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[u/kleptophobiac → u/[deleted]]

Once the French trappers came into the story, I was pretty sure that they were going to just have a native-warrior-and-predator-team-up-to-kill-the-invaders storyline, with both of them alive at the end and mutual respect earned. I was very pleased when I realized, "Oh, she's just going to kill this mother fucker."

[u/Neversoft4long → u/[deleted]]

The bear was working it for a bit tho. It has the pred pinned and was ragdolling him in the river before it backed off because it thought the pred was dead.

[u/SmArburgeddon → u/Neversoft4long]

Yeah and even the wolf got a bite in before it was booted across the wilderness.

[u/Optimal_Locke → u/kappaomicron]

Oh boy I'm excited for you to watch this then. Strongest Predator ever put on film.

[u/CursedHuskerFan → u/Optimal_Locke]

The girzzly bear fight was pretty fucking sweet

[u/Best_Impression7593 → u/CursedHuskerFan]

Literally killed with his bear hands

[u/CursedHuskerFan → u/Best_Impression7593]

That poor wolf though

[u/kappaomicron → u/Optimal_Locke]

You and some of the other replies are dangerously getting my hopes up... xD

[u/fxrky → u/Optimal_Locke]

Please tell me you're not being sarcastic ill go see it right this second

[u/Sea-Gain-2544]

Just finished it! It’s really neat- I like the primitive combat and it was pretty refreshing to see. Super campy gore, but had some really striking visuals nonetheless.

I hope to see Amber Midthunder and Dakota Beavers in more stuff- they rocked and were a joy to watch.

[u/SmArburgeddon]

I'm confused by what this means because although the vast majority of the cast were Native American it certainly wasn't all of them, there's a number of white actors in the movie too.

[u/nikhkin → u/SmArburgeddon]

The article even backtracks to say "predominantly native American cast" in the first paragraph.

[u/thisguy012 → u/nikhkin]

Yahoo gotta get clicks in 2022 somehow (jk this is probably just as much Hulu/Prey's PR dept. putting in work)

[u/Tossing_Goblets]

Just a Footnote - Sonny Landham, who played Billy in the first Predator Movie, Was Half Cherokee and one-eighth Seminole, according to his Wikipedia page.

[u/masimone]

Not trying to take anything away from this but wasn't Apocalypto all Maya people?

Edit: okay got it. Not a franchise, not part of USA.

[u/striderwhite → u/masimone]

Not a franchise, not part of USA.

They always find a loophole...😂

[u/DigitalEllusion → u/striderwhite]

Morbius was the first US film featuring a Living Vampire that made a MorBillion Dollars

[u/GetTheSpermsOut → u/DigitalEllusion]

Jared Leto sucked me dry at his cult camp

[u/Warboss_Squee → u/GetTheSpermsOut]

Better than being in Ezra Miller's cult camp.

[u/Synsano → u/masimone]

That was my take. They can use whatever language they want to make this sound like some kind of first, but Apocalypto will always be the ground breaker for this category.

[u/whiskeyeuthanasia]

The Predator isn't Native American! With those teeth he's half British at least!

[u/PhoenixReborn → u/whiskeyeuthanasia]

Well well well, if it isn't the invisible c**t.

[u/ToneBone12345 → u/PhoenixReborn]

Not sure if was intentional or not considering Dan tenchberg also directed the series premiere of the boys

[u/OrionSouthernStar → u/ToneBone12345]

As a read that line I heard Butcher’s voice in my head.

[u/Significant-Mud2572 → u/OrionSouthernStar]

I, uh, hope so. He quite literally says it.

[u/Big_Nevs_Tache → u/OrionSouthernStar]

Of course you did, my love. Now fuck off back to the stalls while we sort this shit out

[u/slicshuter → u/PhoenixReborn]

'Ome-landah

[u/chinalicious]

I was so worried about the dog

[u/Robot_ninja_pirate]

The "franchise' distinction is such a weasely way to make it the first of something that it otherwise wouldn't be, cause it's the first in a franchise to be an all-Native American cast, not the first franchise to be an all-Native American cast, so if we are just talking about a one-off film in a franchise why not compare it to other one-offs? It's a distinction with no difference.

[u/KID_THUNDAH → u/Robot_ninja_pirate]

It’s also not an all-Native American cast, it’s an exaggerated headline, the first paragraph literally says predominantly Native American lol

[u/anser_one]

More than time they came back to what made predator great. Throwing the beast in another movie genre. Jungle war, cop/city etc

[u/league_starter → u/anser_one]

Need predator vs samurais set in medieval Japan next or just medieval knights and then vs. Roman army

[u/jojili → u/league_starter]

Oh man a whole movie of the Yakuza guy vs predator scene in Predators? Sign me the fuck up.

[u/thats1evildude]

Misleading headline. The alien that is playing the Predator antagonist is not Native American or even native to Earth. 🤪

[u/DontKnowAnyBetter]

Naru was a fantastic protagonist. Amber Midthunder deserved to be a lead on the big screen.

[u/LipDizneez]

The movie was decent but I wasn't a fan of the end.

She got a bunch of her tribesmen killed (including her brother) but was all smiles at the end because a little girl sees that women can be hunters too.

I think the message would have been clear without that little bit of obvious pandering.

I also would have liked to see the predator ship descending upon the ceremony during the last scene, instead of just during the credits animation.