Half in the Bag: Prey



Mike and Jay discuss Prey, which is an attempt to reboot the Predator franchise. Not to be confused with The Predator, which was an attempt to reboot the Predator franchise. Or Predators, which was an attempt to reboot the Predator franchise. Fart in a jar.

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42 thoughts on “Half in the Bag: Prey”

  1. " people don't complain about Bruce Willis taking on tanks and stuff, but they complain about a small woman defeating a predator." False. Everyone complained about Bruce Willis' insane power creep in the later die hard sequals. It's why no one liked those movies. We didn't buy an average NYC cop surfing on top of f22 raptors or whatever and jumping 100s of feet and being unharmed. The same with Tom cruise movies. If you don't establish that the character has super powers then don't show them doing super human feats. The same people who say a tiny woman fighting a predator is silly also said Bruce Willis stuff was silly

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  2. I like the Civil War idea. But it should be a dark ending, where the two armies can't work together and the Predator wipes them all out. A horror franchise needs a dark ending to keep you guessing in future installments.

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  3. She did, however, beat up a group of men two seperate times and only lost when – after taking a lot of hits from her – they ganged up on her. Not sure if this was 'girls get it done' or the omnipresent curse of the badass in so many Hollywood movies these days. However, had they cast an actress that seemed a little more like a tough little fighter, I would've been in for the ride. It also never felt to me like she was really messing up and learning in the process, it felt more like just bad luck was keeping her from reaping the benefits. She wounds the lion instead of falling Prey to her naivitee and barely surviving. She does not face her own unhealthy pride anywhere in the story, i never felt like i was witnessing her having a profound learning experience. It was just a pretty flat character a little too strong for what she pulled of. Just imagine Timothy Chalamet in the role beating up the french poachers. Its a matter of credibility, not gender.

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  4. Fun Fact: 13th Warrior is based on a Michael Crichton novel called Eaters of the Dead. It was the mid-90’s when Hollywood lost their minds with all the loot Jurassic Park raked in. Congo is amazing schlock. Sphere is meh. Disclosure has that hysterical virtual-reality sexual harassment climax (no pun intended).

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  5. I think my problem with the young woman protagonist who is underestimated and has to prove herself while defying traditional gender roles is it's an overused trope at this point that has become cliched, just like how the buff, hyper masculine over the top action star trope became cliched. I've seen this before and I'm bored of it.

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  6. So, she is norwegian then. Why is she called a native? Dont understand that stuff, are we not all abit mixed? Actually we are all african?.. Funny how identity is such a thing these days. Anyways, I did not like her caracter. Movie could have been good, without the feminist jabs at males, and better writing. Should have seen less of the predator too.

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  7. I don't know why Mike and Jay are Mr. Plinkettos now and why Mr. Plank is Mike and Jays now, but, quite frankly, I don't care. I know I'll love it either way. I watch maybe every 8th Marvel property at a time and I just sort of catch up during it. More time efficient that way…

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  8. Here's my pitch. The famous Roman defeat by Germans in the northern forest, turns out it was predators, and the movie is Roman Legion and Germanic warriors in an uneasy truce for survival.

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  9. I feel like people don't know what a Mary Sue is anymore and is just using it as a blanket statement for "woman bad." I feel like the movie was small enough in scope that the fight was pretty believable. I think the criticism should be the convenience of circumstances in which she finds herself close to death and gets whisked away somehow. But then again, the entire thing about how "a woman wouldn't be able to best The Predator because blah blah blah not strong enough" was literally the entire film's message about how no one was taking Naru seriously as a threat and would just beat her up, knock her out, or just walk away from her. Her tribe's hunters did it, the trappers did it, and the predator did it. And they all died lol

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  10. No no, the predator doesn't walk past her because she was the prey, he walks past her because she had eaten the plant that lowered her body temperature (which was established earlier when she gives it to the injured tribesman, and later the french guy that spoke her language) so it couldn't see her with its thermal vision schtick.

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  11. id just like to point out that calling it a "proto-predator" wouldn't be right because they live so long that the feral predator would likely be alive today if he didn't die in the movie.

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  12. I think they missed the fact that her brother (probably) didn't kill the lion. Right before she falls, she slams her spear into its side. It's a very short and dark scene so it was easily missed.

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  13. My problem with it is the over powered natives. It wasn't just her, the brother was also able to do super-human feats. The original Predator only had 1 scene I could think of that isn't physically possible and that was the "stick around" part. Which to be fair, I would have accepted a cheesy one liner scene from her too if they kept the rest reasonable. That and the predator having a case of the dumbs. You're telling me he sees his own targeting sights and doesn't think, hmmm maybe I should move?

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  14. Tom Cruise was a terrible example considering they always put out videos of him doing his own stunts so you actually believe he can do what he is doing in his movies

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  15. You guys do such a good job breaking down movies! I love these semi-serious takes, such great perspectives! I think a Predator movie against Samurai would be terrific, Japan even has some great heat in the summer so it fits with the Predator liking only really hot climates.

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  16. I did complain when Tom Cruise and his foe were smashing through concrete and breaking the support posts rather than smashing their bones. So, I guess I am that one guy who complains when men appear superhuman in action movies.

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  17. Meh, mediocre movie and also quite woke yes, though i suppose it's not as bad as some stuff out there in that reguard? The whole sub-story line about a female Indian wanting to be a hunter against the better judgement of the other Indians was stupid and of course all the French people HAD to portrayed as ogres. Couldn't be any other way because white people bad, right?

    Other than that, i didn't like the CGI, i didn't like the low tech inept predator, and i didn't like the Indians jumping around like Legolas. It's amazing just how grounded in reality the original was compared to this kiddie video game stuff we have in movies nowadays, including this one.

    Ho well, will probably be forgotten in a few weeks.

    My ranking of the Predator series so far remains: Predator 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Predator 2 > nothing, because anything after that is worthless.

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