🎬 In this FilmSpeak video essay we discuss Where the Predator Movies Went WRONG and How Prey SAVED it, why Prey is the best predator movie, and Predator – Why is it SO GOOD?!
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Sequels are hard, especially sequels to something so insular as the original Predator movie. You can really only do that first film effectively once, and yet the Predator franchise has had its initial premise and title monster sucked dry. The Predator movies have largely followed the same path as many of the iconic slasher such as Michael Myers in Halloween, Freddy in Nightmare on Elm Street, and Jason in Friday the 13th. The reason those films and the Predator sequels have become increasingly worse to varying degrees over time is because they lost what it was that made these characters scary in the first place. Predator isn’t scary because of the creature, his backstory, the lore, and WHY he’s hunting Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew, Predator is scary because it represents out worst nightmare, a fear that we are NOT the dominant species, we are NOT the apex predator. It’s a reflection to the uglier side of humanity and like any great movie monsters isn’t really there to be the lead character, isn’t there to take center stage and hog the spotlight, it’s there to tell us more about our ACTUAL characters and ourselves. When your movie monster stops becoming a movie monster and the filmmakers start to humanize it, it becomes less scary. That’s why the predator movies aren’t scary anymore…until PREY. The new Predator movie on Hulu, Prey, is the best predator sequel and arguably the best predator movie because it goes back to basics, focuses on the hunt and humanities fear of being hunted be a force of nature who kills for sport just like we do. While our Prey movie review is forthcoming, let’s dig into all of the reasons why the predator is scary, why the predator sequels are bad, what makes the Predator scary, and how Prey recaptures that with a Prey review discussing why Prey is good. Griffin (@griffschiller) gives you his Predator movie review, Predator analysis and video essay on the Predator movies, Why the Predator Sequels are BAD, and Why Predator Sequels Fail. Enjoy!
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0:00 “Get to the YOUTOOB…”
02:06 I – What is a Predator?
04:02 II – Creature Fear
06:40 III – How Did We Get Back?
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A skilled Comanche warrior protects her tribe from a highly evolved alien predator that hunts humans for sport, fighting against wilderness, dangerous colonisers and this mysterious creature to keep her people safe. Prey is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and stars Amber Midthunder.
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What do you guys think of the Predator as a movie monster? Is it still scary? Comment below!
It’s funny in some way a predator (yautja) are better the humans because at least they seek a challenge and don’t just hunt the weak.
I disagree with the creature fear section. The more you know of the predator the more you realize how close they are to humans.
I liked the Ultimate Predator. The only scary moment in the movie, is where they are at school, Quinns son gives him that thing that controls the ship, and we see a shadow in the hall and heavy footsteps. The only scene that I find some "scariness". The Predator was ok to me, but not the best.
Other than how frickin' DARK it is, I really enjoy Requiem. It's no Predator, or Predator 2, or Prey… but it was fun!
The intro is perfect 0:03 😅
I wanted to like Prey too, because it was something fresh and I dig weird westerns… 🙁 Rant time:
For a film, that prided itself on its Native cast, the protagonists are so obviously mixed, it hurts the eye. Come on! Half of Canada is working for the US film industry now! My White ass has darker hair, than the brother. They even ordered a 2000+ word puff piece from National Geographic.
I've read my share of Predator novels. The Yautja breathe methane, but this alien is running around and fighting with an uncovered mouth. And it looked like it was ordered from Wish. The cloaking device shouldn't work in water. And the creature should've had a plasmacaster, because they were already equipped with them in ancient times in the AvP flashback. And these aliens respect females, because Alien Queens are the ultimate trophy to them. Even their own females are bigger and tougher, which was established in the 1994 Prey novel.
There was a French colonization attempt is Texas, but it failed 30 years before this film takes place, and they were in the Eastern part and faced entirely different tribes. Texas was Spanish and Mexican, so the main enemies the tribes would face (apart from each other) were Mestizo soldiers fighting for Spain.
Extensive bison slaughter began more than a hundred years later. People armed with ponderous flintlock muskets would have never been able to kill that many animals. You needed the Sharps rifle to shoot scores of buffalo, which wasn't invented until the middle of the 19th century! And killing the animals and leaving the meat behind was a cruel tactic devised by the American government to starve and subjugate the Plains Indians. It wasn't done by early 18th century Frenchmen, who had little to no contact with the Comanche people. Pierre Antoine and Paul Malett were the first Frenchmen to meet Comanche in 1739, 20 years after the film takes place. This choice was deliberate, they didn't want the human antagonists to be Hispanics, because they feared cancellation by Twitter and because they couldn't use the film to demonize White men again.
And have your protagonist lift some weights and do some push-ups a'la Linda Hamilton, because she looks like someone, who could be knocked over by her own pooch, yet she's fighting 6 ft men and a 7 ft alien. The 1994 Prey, an AvP novel had a female protagonist, Machiko Noguchi, who was a black belt and ended up fighting Aliens and rogue Predators with another Predator.
The Comanche were far more brutal to women. They kidnapped Whites, Mexicans and Natives alike and gang rape was an accepted method of warfare. Cynthia Ann Parker's story is the best example. They should've chosen the Apache, they had documented warrior women like Lozen, Gouyen and Dahteste.
I'm not going to lie, there were a few dodgy fight scenes in 1 and 2. But this takes the cake, the brother turns into Legolas and shoots arrows at the Predator in close combat. He also pulls arrows out of the alien's body to reuse them. Ludicrous. The movie should've been about the Yautja and a group of two or three human characters stalking each other.
The atrocious CGI was a minor problem compared to the above.
I can't think of a single bad thing to say about Prey. Sadly thats all I can say about the film though.
Prey was DOPE
Lol the prey was good until the predator had to get nerfed so the female could get her moment. Smh
How the hell did AvP almost derail two franchise that were almost at that point in time ??? If anything it regained interest in both
The AVP Films weren't failures because the Predator and Xenos didn't work together. They Failed cause they had horrid plots, cause Fox was too cheap to buy the story rights from the Award winning Comics series released in the 90's
Don't draw a connection between depth of storytelling to failure of good story telling…. back stories always make movies more interesting… the people involved in the movie making just didn't do a good collaborative job
The characters are 1 dimensional maybe 2 in Predator… this dude is just spitting out words to sound smart…. Dutch showed sympathy regret, fear, joy anger and your saying he's 1 dimensiomal…. as a matter of fact all the characters involved had unique temperaments but showed the same consistent human traits… Naru never had a GENUINE look of fear against the predator, nor did she shake and tremble when her brother died or when holding a gun BEHIND the predator which is a never before seen ALIEN
-predator is about colonialism
I cringed so hard
Prey never saved predator, that woke shit is just as bad as 2018 predator movie wtf you on about. Lol
I completely agree about not needing to know everything about the monsters in these movies. That's one of the things I hated about The Predator (2018). The Predator in Prey is simply there to hunt.
To quote Randy from Scream, that's the beauty of it all: simplicity. Besides, things get too complicated, you lose your target audience.
i can't take this seriously if you think this movie saved anything
none of it made any sense
Hated this movie – stop comparing this trash to Predator 1 and 2. Maybe if they make a sequel this 100 pound girl can take out a whole country by herself with her little tomahawk 🙄
Amazing movie with top-notch fight choreography and good main character arc,also brutal kills and incredible Predator design. Loved it from beginning to end hope they continue with those type of survival stories just with different time periods.
prey is the same shit as the rest…. humans comes humans conquer.. shitty