![]() I like the idea of John going rogue and getting fired from the nypd. I'm not sure how I feel about this scene as the ending. Oh interesting I had never heard of that. It was definitely a step in the right direction after The Predator. I hope that makes sense, reddit crashed twice when I tried to reply to you before lol Especially when you consider Jim Thomas’ reason for creating the creature. That film language that’s prevalent in the original, the second and Predators to an extent feels a little lost in Prey. But work that went into designing and making Feral was awesome, again though it just felt like he was there to kill nameless natives and trappers in cool action scenes for the most part. She went from struggling to best a young native boy to John Wicking trappers and killing an interstellar traveling advanced alien in a day. It just sucked any suspense out of the film by the 3rd act, but that’s just how I felt watching it. Dutch, Harrigan, Royce, Izzy are all battered, sweating and exhausted.īut by the end Naru was acrobatically hopping through trees, setting traps, killing and outsmarting everyone around her without even breaking a sweat. The hero gets exhausted, they’re sweating, they’re constantly bettered and outsmarted. I liked Prey’s setting, that was a really refreshing thing for the franchise and Naru started out really interesting but by the end she just felt completely infallible, which is something series does right in most of its entries. Predator’s now more about setting up action set pieces and the gimmicks, the intentions of these original ideas get lost under the big studios profit margins. It had commentary on post war themes, using predator as a horror monster to expose the fear in soldiers dying unceremoniously because of orders they were given. Jim Thomas’ created Predator with the intent of being a force of nature that leaves the hero smaller by the end. Arnold was essentially the “last girl” in that film. ![]() The first was a deconstruction of the action genre, using the stark difference between cathartic hollywood action and the horror slasher genre. Predator is another that’s lost its way, even with Prey. Then Rocky became about winning and Rambo became about beating the bad guys. ![]() Both were these intimate films that explored the characters and tackled social, cultural and political themes. I always look at Stallone’s Rambo and Rocky as big time examples. So many films fall into this franchise trap. Any time you increase the stakes and setting like that, you have to make more and more leaps of disbelief and it makes the story so awful Every Die Hard movie increased the setting, from a Building > Airport > entire city > the entire country. Youre telling me guys good enough to hack federal systems wouldnt use their own hardware? Ok so you gave them hardware and not a single one bothered to look inside the equipment they were given? Were all of the pc's built with blu-tooth and the explosives were connected to bluetooth and no one checked connected devices? Like I literally spent the entire movie trying to figure that single part out and the entire rest of the movie was just equally dumb. Like that entire mechanic was the most braindead, smooth brained, lobotomy performed with a wine bottle opener piece of writing I have ever seen. I just could not enjoy Die Hard 4 after the beginning sequence where they killed the hackers they hired by detonating the explosives in their PCs. ![]()
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