Prey Review - YMS
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The thing that really broke my immersion in this film was how beautiful the skies were.
But at least it has fur glow.
LMAO
???? Do you live in England or something?
@ its a joke from YMS's lion king review, apparently the director thinks beautiful skies in the movie are unrealistic
And the dog’s face was way too expressive
I still think they should make a young Predator spin off called "Child Predator"
And have something like "The Little Vampire"?
Kevin Spacey making a comeback
Predator vs Chris Hansen
7:37
That’s the best idea I’ve heard all year
1:10 "there's some really beautiful Alberta skies"
Adum still salty about John Favro thinking beautiful skies are unrealistic
True
I wouldn't know. Looks the same as a Colorado sky to me.
@@filthyshoggoth Colorado skies are higher
Jon Favreau*
You’re on the internet. There’s no excuse.
JON!!!!
I like how the predator punched a bear and broke its face but then choke slams our protagonist in the final battle and does almost no damage to her
Cuz WOMAN》
@@svenjansen2134 no, cuz protagonist
Plot armor, the strongest armor of all
@@svenjansen2134 touch grass, ya dork
@@hihihi1q23 good comment
I haven't seen the movie but I love the idea of Predator period pieces. I want a Predator vs. Marie Antoinette. I want a Predator in Benito Mussolini's Italy. I want a Predator at Stonewall.
Predator vs Joan of Ark,
wait that's a little too hot right now.
Well according to conservatives we already got the last one...
it all was done in comics
Yautja Creed
XD
All I want is Predators vs. Vikings. That's all I want. It's not too much to ask, is it?
I liked the part where the predator picked her up and said "looks like now.... you're my prey" soo good
Bro the part where she said “what are we… some kind of Prey” to her brother was waaaaaaay better
I miss when people made original jokes
And then he predatored all over her
Wait…
@@dr.manhattan7283 I miss when people didn’t lament about unoriginality
I liked the part where “insert thing that wasn’t actually in the movie here” hahaha lolz lmao rofl
Best actor in the movie, bar none, was the guy in the Pred suit. whenever it was guy in suit he did a great job of conveying the power of the character. Also the fight with the trappers was a real fun sequence, easily the highlight of the film for me.
There's one shot at the fur trapper camp where he's stomping around kinda goofy, but other than that I agree.
There was a highlight in this film?
the bear fight was sick as fuck too
@@TheQuickSilver101 If you’re not an annoying hipster who only watches art house movies no one hears about, then yes.
@@thorntonwager6750 I'm not a hipster but I found very little redeeming about this film. Maybe my expectations were too high going in...
“I just saw prey and apparently I’m gonna ruin your day” absolute bars 🤯
waiting on the prey dis-track
Eminem better watch out
7:37
Actors abandoning their ego was something you brought up in your Lion King 2018 review and it's something that stuck with me deeply since. I'm glad you brought it up here as well as I think it's something that can be applied to the current trajectory of a lot of up and coming actors (social media star into "movie star ") and it'll be interesting to see how many people swim rather than sink in the current climate
Huh, you bringing that up reminds me of a girl in my theatre class who complained about having to do all the weird improv exercises that are there specifically so you aren't too embarrassed to go on stage and actually have a presence.
I remember seeing a tom holland quote from the uncharted promotional shit. He said something like "I was thinking to myself, do I look cool in this shot?"
Bruh, you were in the uncharted film, you have bigger things to worry about.
Good point
He also mentioned it in the Saw series. That one of the actresses focused too much on looking pretty even as she's being chased
reminds me of Jamie Fox's anecdote from working with Quentin Tarantino. I'm paraphrasing but QT essentially told Jamie.
"You're a slave. You're not cool. Don't talk like you're cool. You come in here with your Mercedes and Gucci bag. Check that shit at the door."
To be honest I was kind of excited when I read that they "shot the movie both in English and in Comanche" cause I find Native American languages fascinating, but it was clearly dubbed and you can read the English words off their lips and its kinda annoying and disappointing
Yeah that's lame as fuck. Also was that the actual dub he played? Because it sounded just as bad as the English in delivery.
Didn't the bug mouse do that with Mulan?!
Thank the US government for cultural genocide for the choice to dub instead of full Comanche
From what I have read the studio basically refused them that so they did the dub as a second best option. I'm honestly impressed that they got it dubbed in the correct language at all.
@@psychotophatcat That's fair I guess, at least they tried. I really wanted to like this movie but I have to agree with all of Adums criticism here
"make something new please" has been my motto for years at this point.
I actually don't understand why people use the Wilhelm scream still. It's like it's meant to get a rile out of people just because they recognize it
I hate hearing that scream in anything serious. I remember it being in the second Lord of the Rings and I was soured for the whole rest of the film.
It’s like having John Ratzenberger in every Pixar movie: it’s tradition
At this point, the Wilhelm scream is a meme. If you aren't gonna use it ironically or to add a little gaiety to your movie, don't use it at all. I can't take anything that uses the Wilhelm scream seriously.
Yeah from my understanding it sort of became a 'running joke', but more of an...homage to the original dude; so a lot of action movies will throw it in there, even if it's in the background. (It's even in Lord of the Rings at the Battle of Helms Deep!)
Agreed. If you're going to use the Wilhelm Scream nowadays you better be using it at least three times in quick sucession in one comedy fight scene or something. There's NO reason for it to be in something that we are meant to be taking seriously.
Use it for EVERY SCREAM or not at all.
Prey is suffering from that very particular scenario franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars and the DC Comics movies were in. Where a franchise has been "bad" for so long that all any new entry has to be is "not complete shit" in order to get high praise. Give it a year or so for people to go "eh, it really wasn't that good" and collectively re-appraise it or outright turn on it.
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Specifically at the Release of Force Awakens, the JJ Abrams Trek, and Wonder Woman. I don't think they're in those same scenarios anymore, because all of them had sequels that kinda blew the wind out of the sails and revealed them to largely be exceptions. Then after a few years of being disappointed by sequels, everyone seems to turn on the originals too as the entire franchise keeps slipping down the drain.
Exceptions? Abrams trilogy sucked
I remember being excited about the new Star Wars and then I saw it. Took me a few days to process then saw my friend and we both agreed it was a bad movie. Then Star wars was dead.
2015 I think was the year that modern Hollywood took over and we just had shitty writing for every franchise and everything was a reboot. Jurassic world came out that year and I remember laughing and cringing at how bad it was. Then Star wars came out afterwards and it was the same shit.
@@Cousin_Uli >bad for so long
bruh star trek before jar jar trek was beyond compare
She's is less than 1/4 Native American (and from a very different tribe) more than 1/2 Scandinavian/Germanic and 1/4 Thai. She also didn't grow up or go to school within the tribe either.
There are plenty of Actors from local tribal theater productions that look more the role and could have done just as well, but thier parents don't work at Entrainment Talent Firms or as Hollywood Actors.
that’s hilarious, so much for authenticity
Oh no, nepotism ruined this movie.
@@al112v4 That tends to happen lol
Idc
Also native Americans don’t view themselves as one contiguous race. Tribal designations matter. The studio casting a Sioux as a Comanche and patting themselves on the back for being progressive is actually pretty offensive
That bear scene was straight from Skyrim. Especially when it saw the dog and totally forgot about Prey.
As a movie it was kinda "meh" but compared to Predator sequels, it was a fucking masterpiece.
underrated comment
Not exactly hard to be a masterpiece in comparison with the sequels.
I'll reply to your comment just to point out that people might get upset with this review not because Adam bashed Prey, but because he gave The Predator, a movie that pretty much everyone agress is terrible and the worst Predator movie, a higher score of 5/10. I don't know if he even remembers that movie, or his review, but it is what it is.
@@PeixeKing I think the issue is that Adum is full of shit, so he just gives a random rating to the movies that he doesn't enjoy. Listening to him badmouth Tom Hanks for a solid minute and a half to two minutes, then spend another 2 minutes walking back his criticism when his chat called him out on it is ALL you need to know about just how full of shit Adum really is.
@@heavydfunk Yeah, I've been watching the dude's YMS videos less and less.
He won't shut the fuck up about Kimba and it has rotted his brain.
The star looks like someone who spends the day drinking lattes at Starbucks, not a hunter gatherer who fights for survival.
She looks like she works at a Starbucks. The one in the mall bookstore.
@@JDoe-gf5oz
With the Phd's in comparative lit. and gender studies.
I thought I was crazy for thinking the tone was weird. I was fully on board for a gritty Predator film and it was just so goofy. It's like these studios can't risk having even one person be conflicted over what's going to happen or feel any kind of tension during the entire runtime
What, like the original Predator?
It's kinda hard to blame them. Audiences are stupid. When the Thing came out people hate dit because it was actually tense to watch. Obviously that was a long time ago, but Movies like the Witch still get shit on massively. Adam is correct of course, just sad that movies like this aren't going anywhere anytime soo
@@jamescampbell6728 I watch challenging movies to an unhealthy degree, and even I think the snobbery is a bit much around this film, especially when it's in the same conversation as the original.
@@Hoganply no, not the original movie. The first predator has tension and risk, had weight and grit. This film has really nothing
@@zzodysseuszz I've always held the unpopular opinion the original Predator movie is highly over-rated and fairly tension-free. Predator is effectively just a slasher movie. The fact that this one subverted expectations in a satisfying way was enough for me, and the predator kills were entertaining.
When are people gonna learn that Adum doesn’t respond well to mediocrity? A movie either has to be a masterpiece or an embarrassing disaster for him to enjoy it.
He ought to rewatch "The Predator" then, because he would enjoy it greatly (for the latter reason).
Lol what? He's rated plenty of movies well that aren't masterpieces or laughably bad. Just comes down to personal preference and never has Adum said that he is the authority on if a movie is good or not.
Adam also has some bad takes too, but I mostly respect his opinions. I completely get where he's coming from with this movie, but honestly I enjoyed myself enough to overlook these issues, and this is from someone who came into this movie expecting to hate it.
he doesn’t even finish the movies he watches so his credibility shouldn’t be taken seriously.
@@SurrealiamPrime If he doesn't finish a movie he always says that he didn't finish it. No need to lie just because you disagree with his opinions.
I actually strongly agree with the criticisms this guy in the video has for this movie. I was thinking exactly the same thing about the actress. They should have made her a bit less pretty. Maybe made her look more rugged or "weathered". She'd still remain good looking, just would look more realistic. But I am very happy with the other actors who played other hunters from her tribe. Actor who played her brother is particularly very impressive. He has a very interesting face and he acts pretty well.
at least don't put water resistant eyeliner and pluck her brows
Women in movies are rarely if ever are allowed to look gross, the one time I can actually think of is Atomic Blonde, the main character actually has her face severely scarred and I really enjoyed that
@@athenajaxon2397 Did a good job during the briefing making her look like she was essentially a beat up car getting a fresh paint job. Looks decent enough, but you can see it's not doing well in covering the dents, which we see how later in the story.
I agree, it was two or three in-movie days before her face-paint got washed off.
As a matter of fact it was so noticeable and off-putting that I was actually surprised when it finally happened.
Too many predators in Hollywood as it is 😤😤
The only reviewer I saw that addressed the sheer stupidity of the ending, THANK YOU!
I actually like the “Next time you’re cooking” line, sounds like something I’d say to my dog
I get the feeling that it would be better received if the other lines didn't exist in the script, bc that really is the most realistic/natural line out of the examples he chose
the line itself was fine, the delivery was the thing that made it for me so unrealistic.
@@doomedallweare5014 Idk dude, I don't really speak to m dog too realistically, lol
@@sillypplproductions2 The whole girl power thing is old and tired and very unrealistic. Ruins the emersion and why a lot of people can't even watch movies like this lol.
@@kevinleewilliams5119 what?
Everyone looked like they were ready for their Glamour Shots, or something. Oh, and the whole "flower that cools your blood power-up" thing kind of pulled me further out of it
In the first movie Arnold, hid in mud, and painted himself with it to reduce his visibility so he could get the jump on the predator. In this movie, the protagonist literally cooled their internal temperature to the point past hypothermia to become invisible to heat detection? It wouldn't matter if the predator couldn't pick up your heat signature at that point, because you'd literally be dead from cold. Magic flower makes no fucking sense.
@@newvocabulary in all fairness mud doesn’t hide body heat, flower is awful though I agree
They deliberately made all the French look like a bunch of fat slobs while all the Indians were Kalvin Klein models.
@@GG-ou7it IMud masking the heat of the camera is was more believable than a flower thag by all means should kill you but doesnt.
holy shit its the starfox guy. dude you rock, love your work, great atmosphere and dialogue.
OMG the trying to look pretty thing is spot on 💀💀
I bet Disney executives asked the writers to find a way to put "GET TO THE CHOPPA" in, and the writers looked at each others and said "they are joking right... RIGHT?!"
The part that really broke my immersion was how she found the mud trap again. I mean there are so many cuts that it makes it seem like a long distance was traveled, like lord of the ring style terrain cuts but there it was intentional. The movie wants you to believe that she had traveled in a big circle, and in the middle of the night while being chased by a predator just knew exactly were it was. I feel like a better pay off would've been if while looking for the mountain lion the mud trap was pointed out to her brother, insinuating that she knew it was there, informing to the audience that she knows the terrain like the back of her hand. Thus supporting the plausibility of finding it again to be used to her advantage, instead of stumbling right into it by accident,(which screams plot convince).
I dont remember much but i think the point is that she led the predator to that place? However that is the one thing that they should have developed and used more in the story: These people lived along with nature and knew the terrain perfectly and could use it to their advantage in several aspects, it was the perfect background to set up a protagonist in this context using nature and intelligence against a more advanced and powerful threat. Instead, they did nothing with all that. It would have been clever and it gave the story a lot of room for cool ideas.
@@CabezasDePescado idk if you or the original comment saw the movie but she does all of this. From the mud to the trees and beaver damn, she uses all means of her environment to survive.
@@christopherestrada1981 yes but what Im saying is even thought all the aspects were all calculated its still doesn't make sense of how she got back to the trap so fast while actively being pursued and in the middle of the night. Its far fetched. We see the movie going from point A -----> to point B ----> to point C ------> to point D and then in a short pace strait back to point B like they're right next to each other. Sorry for late response never say your comment until now 😅
I didn't hate this but when she was asked why she wants to hunt and replied "Because they say I can't" I groaned out loud.
"i want to be able to protect me family". See, how hard is that?
Couldn't believe they made a serious moment out of a Simpsons joke
"That's right, a girl wants to play football"
Predator is no match for Comanche girlboss shield maiden
I tolerated it until she went on that schpiel towards the end about how the predator wasn't attacking her because it didn't see her as a threat, and then said she was going to prove him wrong.
This predator movie is dead ass claiming the predator is sexist.
Sidenote, maybe I'm misremembering this, but aren't female xatja wayyy more terrifying and deadly than the male hunters we usually see?
@@nicklafleur7620 xatja? Do you mean Yautja?
This kinda makes me appreciate a lunatic like Mel Gibson making a pretty decent ancient tribe movie like apocalypto
I hope by "pretty decent" you meant to say "the worst thing to happen to the Maya since the Spaniards."
wasn't that move incredibly historically inaccurate?
@@tockidy4283 no? Wtf
He mixed up Aztecs with Mayans. Pretty stupid really, it's like calling Julius Caesar the leader of Sparta.
@@beansmybeans2433 what i mean is in terms of events, like didn't colonizers pull up way to early than they should have?
The dialogue in this movie is more like a high school camping trip rather than nature-hardened native Americans who can fight.
Unpopular opinion: Predator-2 was pretty fun and interesting
It has very cool vibe to it, moving action from jungle to a crime-ridden city
Other then the originality of the idea and Arney I say it's the equal of the first movie
I liked the second for sure. They both had their strong points. And I remember Danny Glover acting his ass off in the second one. Been awhile since I've watched it.
Glad to see people enjoyed 2. I loved it.
From a real jungle to the urban jungle... Or Jungle-2-Jungle you might say...
edit: I did.
That’s a pretty popular opinion
Wish the Wilhelm Scream would go the same way as Zimmer Parps, Shakey Cam and Bullet Time🤔
this movie is shaky cam
one big giant shaky cam on top of a gelatin cub in a moving soviet trtain on a surface of fat jiggling machine powered by shake weight
What are "Zimmer Parps"?
@@mursie100 The loud single note horn blasts used by composer Hans Zimmer in the Chris Nolan film Inception.
They've were used (or variations of) again and again in soooo many trailers over the last decade.
See also the annoying Bay Transformers transformation sound 🙂
Was expecting at least a decent movie, but this was really bad. So many scenes without purpose, chaotic editing, lots of cringey moments. I was so bored I didn't make it to the end.
Maybe I need to watch it again but I think Predators (the one with Adrien Brody) is highly underrated. Everything about it was actually kinda fresh & awesome, from how it just gets right to the point and starts with all of the characters being dropped into a jungle, to the idea of warring factions of predators, to the idea that the predators would choose top notch killers in a number of different fields to hunt. And the action scenes weren't ridiculously awesome but they weren't bad either, and the last scene where Royce (Brody's character) takes on the predator is totally badass. I've never been able to really figure out why it's not more well liked. The only thing I can think is people didn't buy Brody as an action hero. But they really should; he totally nails it and is entirely believable as basically a military trained assassin. Even the ending is great: dark, cynical, and not what you are expecting from a Hollywood movie with A-list actors. That movie deserves way more love.
That film is mediocre as hell
@@diobrando5896 You're mediocre as hell.
That movie is half lazy remake and half dumb ideas, that is why. I am a big fan of Alien and Predator and i have only watched it once on tv years ago and i dont even remember much about it. This one would be tied in quailty actually
@@CabezasDePescado "half lazy remake and half dumb ideas" I'm afraid if you want me to take you seriously, you'll have to explain what you think is so "lazy & dumb" about it, not just state that it was lazy and dumb as if that were just true implicitly. Just stating that with no explanation why is vague to the point of being almost meaningless.
But in the interim, I just want observe that some people seem to think the original was some sort of masterpiece theater level of classic filmmaking on par with Casablanca or Chinatown or something, which is utterly laughable. I mean, I liked the original as much as the next guy, but let's not pretend: The first movie was basically a Sci-Fi/Horror B-movie that had slightly better effects and casting that ended up somehow resonating culturally and becoming something of a cult hit that grew over the years. That's it. But it's like MF'ers wanna pretend its some art house film masterpiece or something. There's a reason why every single predator film after the 1st has been an unabashed B movie...it's because basically so is the original! And it seems to me this outsized reverence to the original is part of much of the unfair maligning of "Predators." But look, do I think "Predators" is some perfect 100% rotten tomatoes classic? Of course not. I have gripes: the hunting "dogs" were sorta weak and some of the effects could have been better. But on the whole "Predators" is the closest predator movie (by faaaaar) to succeed exactly where the 1st one did: to overcome being basically a B-movie and move into the realm of standard movie fare. I found it totally engrossing and entertaining, which is really all one can ask of a movie like that. I just don't get most of the gripes; they are either ridiculously overstated or just not true. For instance, the movie is not really a remake, there are tons of differences I could name right off the top of my head, and prob more if I really analyzed the movie. But for arguments sake, EVEN IF they did revisit some of main themes of the original, WHO CARES??? Terminator 2 is basically Terminator with window dressing (it's AT LEAST as similar to the original as Predators is to Predator) yet nobody seems to care at all about that; in fact some people think T2 is the BETTER movie. I could go on but I won't, for now, save to say it really makes little sense.
Predators is my second favourite Predator film, but it’s also emblematic to me of my main problem with Rodriguez… I’ve always found him to be style without substance.
He seems like a director who is always thinking of what would LOOK cool and then writing the story around it, like in Planet Terror with his machine gun leg or Desperado with his machine gun guitar case. Perhaps the best case in point of this is contrasting the Japanese guy’s sword fight scene with the predator to Billy’s last stand in the original: the Japanese guy’s was a cooler and better action sequence, but I felt like Billy’s was more meaningful.
Predators was fun, but I came out of it feeling like a kid who had just mashed his action figures together for a couple hours.
I love your reviews even if I liked a movie you didn't. You bring a fresh perspective on films and really make me think about what I'm watching. No matter if I agree with you or not your reviews are always entertaining 10/10
Anything I think is shit , adum thinks is shit, anything he recommends I love, so it's disappointing when I enjoy something but he thinks its shit ...but I can never really debate his points because he's very reasonable
i will literally drop everything for a YMS, apparently
Honestly same.
Same
i had nothing to do anyway...
me just drop me pants for this
Please explain that to my wife, she keeps going on and on about the baby.
That's why Apocalypto is so good. Everybody looks disgusting.
As a German, where every movie and TV show gets dubbed into our language, the idea that not-matching lip movements would bother someone is completely alien to me lol
Yeah I remember a huge part of yms lion king review is just dedicated to the voice acting, something that is completely different as a non English speaker
Do Germans prefer to hear their guttural gibberish spoken through an out of sync dub rather than just reading the subs?
Two years ago I would have agreed. But since I started watching everything in O-Ton, it's so distracting to see german dubs. It ruined watching movies and shows with my wife, because she hates subs.
@@seanstone9078 I mean if you’re watching any form of American media its gonna be dubbed
so for ALL any non English speaking countries dubs are the standard and not a lot of people want to go through the trouble of learning English and reading subs
Well the thing is this is the sort of movie where you'd expect a high quality dub where they put the effort in to make the lip movements match, especially since they made such a big deal out of the dub itself.
Criticizing an actress' performance for doing that "thing actresses do where they try to act and look pretty at the same time," feels kind of unfair when they are not the editor or director. They don't choose which performance of theirs to put in the final film, and sometimes they are expressly told to perform in that stilted way to highlight their perceived beauty. Not saying she's secretly a great actress, but that criticism in particular feels unfair to laud against actresses when it can easily be chalked up to bad direction and bad editing.
Its not a personal attack on the actress, she was hired purely for the ethnic role to be filled and that is the performance that was displayed, if it did come out there were takes where she did a better job then this argument would have more merit but as it seems we only have the version where she has that open mouth face in every scene with makeup...
@@askele-tonofgaming4878 you understand that you do multiple takes of the same thing when shooting a movie right? Or are you trolling?
Chris Hansen saving the girl from Predator after it said "It's Predatoring time" was incredible
"Take off that mask and have a seat."
@@thelunchlady8276 Predator: "It was a one time thing coming here to earth, I've never done something like this before. It was an honest mistake. Just came to get something to eat sir!"
Out of all of Adum’s takes, this is definitely one of them of all time
As in correct and justified, then yes it sure was...
Indeed
That's a bit extreme.
@@666slateran666 someone is mad their favorite movie sucks.
@@666slateran666 I mean, is this your first YMS review?
I'm a big fan of the first predator movie, and I really liked this one. I loved it, even.
that said, all your criticisms about the movie were very real. great job. sad that you didnt like it though
Instead this makes me want films based off Native American mythology or tribal stories- that would have been so much cooler, with the whole cast and background research… god that would be cool
A movie I would recommend is Edge of the Knife! It's a horror film performed entirely in the dying Haida language, with all of the cast and most of the crew being members of the Haida nation in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Without giving too much away it's set before the potlatch ban of 1885 and focuses around a legend of how hate and murder can quite literally turn you into a monster. The nation's elders are pretty much the only native Haida speakers left, less than 30 in total, but working on the movie has started a revitalization movement! Really cool movie and an interesting story behind the production
I think you're right on the acting part. A lot of actors nowadays seem to wanna look good on cam for their ego instead of doin their job to act
Edit: Not sayin that Im great at acting, its just an observation thats all.
Someone doesn’t watch golden age Hollywood movies
@@brigidmadden5577 Im not sure if you are directing this statement to me but just letting you know, I do watch 40s, 50s, 70s, early 2000s films n etc. Frm what I realised, there was a huge decline in performance in acting due to the amount personalities actin the same role/by themselves everytime (no hate on the guy but Ryan reynolds for example). And with the same faces acting the same roles, I think thats why a lot of films just feels and sounds the same sometimes. Again, do take it with a grain of salt. Its just my opinion anyways
I wouldn't say that ego led to the particular iconography of early Hollywood stuff in and of itself.
Film was still very much tied to the mores of theatre. Having a stage presence was extremely important. Exaggerated and melodramatic lines and expression was the norm for not only those historic reasons, but because some shit just isn't as clear on jank black and white cameras.
Orson Welles for instance, was never characterized as a humble man, lol, but he could be shrewd, subtle, bombastic, ominous, sly, playful, etc in his film and voice appearances. Whatever the film called for.
He took more pride in his performance than in himself. (Unless it was a Paul Mason commercial. Lol.) That's the big difference
@Joe Thune not really? Im just pointing my thoughts on something I observed thats all. Regardless, I still enjoyed the film for its action sequences but what YMS said about the cardboard acting the main character has was quite spot on.
I'm pretty sure the actors, especially non-A list actors, have very little say in what the make-up and costuming department does to them for the film. That's mostly on the producers/directors/costuming people.
Yeah I doubt filming it in comanche would be anything but a trainwreck. The actors aren't comanche speakers they would almost assuredly give awful performances if it was done in that language. (or you change actors and narrow your acting pool)
Or maybe, just maybe not making it so narrow of a focus? I'm sure there's other tribes who could offer more actors, right? Or is the Comanche the biggest?
@@silverhawkroman native language is a dying language. A lot of native people I know barely know anything besides English because the elders who taught it are dying out.
would rather have a train wreck in a immersive language than the train wreck of the original
@@dennisrodmanburner7348 no you wouldn't
Apocalypto did it fine with a language that was basically nearly extinct. Most of the actors in that movie who were speaking it were not native speakers at all. So yeah whilst some native Comanche speakers (of which I'd really doubt there are that many anymore) might cringe at some stuff I think on the other hand they'd be relatively complementary to it for atleast trying.
you really nailed down what I hated about this film. The main actor felt like she was more worried about being valley gurl than being born and raised on the great North American plains.
Beautiful skies? But but but...Jon Favreau says it's impossible to have beautiful skies in films.
And what about Beyonce?
@@jwnj9716 unless Beautiful Skies is a new Beyonce track we aren't interested
OMG, finally someone who isn't gushing over this movie. I watched it after the internet started praising this film to no end and thought, "wow, maybe there is actually a good Predator film after the original, cool!" Personally, I found it kind of offensive for all the reasons mentioned in this review. I would have loved to see this performed in a native language as opposed to just dubbed. That would have been bold and awesome. Also, every character did indeed look like they were fresh from their makeup trailer, which was super distracting and took me out of the movie. The concept here was good, but they punted the ball instead of going all the way with it which is really disappointing.
I felt the same way. Actually I'm late to the party since every reviewer was sucking this movie's dick. I should of known better that I would be let down since Disney bought out Fox. Some of the softest shit I've ever seen in an action film. The first half hour was the Native girl and her dog. And I knew they'd push the "white guilt card" when it came to the fur-trapers. But most of all the writing was weak. Never again will I watch a prequel, sequel, or whatever.
It still baffles me that people like the main character at all. In the movie all she talks about is how she wants to be a hunter and no one thinks she can be one. Yet they clearly show her failing multiple times. Wants to help hunt the mountain lion where she damages it but falls out of the tree and knocks herself unconscious but the movie still felt like they should reward her with the kill after the fact. Hunting the bear, shoots it once with an arrow and barely escapes if it wasn't for the Predator who kills it. She defeated the Predator but at the cost of every hunter including her brother being killed so that she can discover how to defeat the Predator and have her shining moment.
"Some really beautiful Alberta skies that they captured..."
*Favreau visibly shaking*
My response to this video: "Oh, he doesn't like the Predator franchise. That's a shame, I actually like almost all of them. I guess his opinion and mine are really not going to line up on this one."
And then I moved on with my life.
Really not that difficult, internet.
The true and based response...I personally enjoyed the film and see it as one that excels at doing what it wanted to.
I enjoyed Adum's insights while still enjoying the film
"If you like this movie then don't let me stop you"
Yeah, but you aren't everyone else and a lot of people take Adam's opinion as gospel and a free pass to dunk on a movie without seeing it for themselves without any preconceptions. Which is lame.
@@brolo7234 people suck nowadays...remember when Adum has pretty cool fans...oh wait that's like a decade ago : /
@@brolo7234 What are you basing that on?
If you want to see a cool movie in a native language, watch edge of the knife. I would love to see your opinions on it. It's in Haida if I remember correctly, and it's the first movie to be in that language
For once Adam has a polarizing opinion that I actually agree with.
And I don't, for once. Then again, I always kind of disagree when he overestimates schlock as a 'film' and proceeds to judge it as such.
I like how all the Native Americans in 1719 have pearly white teeth. Totally believable.
What really bugs me is how stupid the predator was. He only lost because he decides that doing hand to hand combat and ruining his stealth suit was the better strategy. The trap at the end had no tension what so ever. My wife literally said “that’s it?” When it happened.
Prey suffers from "Witcher problem"
It's setting is far from times, when everyone could look clean and tidy, yet here we are
All costumes look as they were just from the laundry, and characters went though two hours of makeup
You sure native Americans didn't just, y'know, wear clean clothes?
@@Peasham Nobody wore clean clothes back then. Not unless you were extremely wealthy.
@@Peasham what are you defending?
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter What exactly are you basing that off of lmao
@@completelytransparent6320 uh
I mean I'm not "defending" anything, I'm just saying, people weren't savages back then.
I want there to be some sorta clumsy predator who has like a turtle shell mask and it's only cause he tripped over it and it had a little turtle heart attack.
A Disney predator movie was never going to do anything exciting. It's Disney. It's going to be the most mainstream generic shit possible
I can watch dubs of some animated stuff, especially something like the typical TV anime where the mouth animation is on the simpler side and so any language "fits" as long as the timing is right, but I totally can't watch live-action dubs because even if the voice acting is GOOD my brain is still very stuck on *"those people aren't saying those words!"*
As Ebert used to say, animation is always dubbed
i've seen pefrect dubs with nice synchronization
@@Mantis42
Well, yes, that literally is accurate.
@@sweetbunnybun Name one
I also get the sense that the Comanche dub has no emotion in it.
Apocalypto nailed how to make a realistic film with a native cast, and also took the extra step to let them NOT SPEAK ENGLISH
I mean, they also shot the movie in the Comanche language
Just seen it again recently, holds up so damn well. The scene where he enters the Maya city is beautiful.
Apocalypto is genuinely one of the best films of the 00s and it gets overlooked constantly. The fact that someone like Mel Gibson made it is pretty mind-boggling to when you consider how non-mainstream it is.
Realistic is kinda of a stretch man
@@ekmad It's because it's fucking boring.
I love that “Hmm suspicious” has become a borderline meme
If you think of the main actress as a Native American Aubrey Plaza, her lines are actually delivered perfectly.
Predator 2 is a classic
I'd like to hear someone say they couldn't have done the dialogue in Comanche when Alpha exists; a 2018 movie where an anthropologist helped reconstruct a realistic, ancient European language and the actors learned to speak it. Also, Predator 2 is better than I remember. Way more entertaining than Prey.
For as much as I despise Mel Gibson and the brutality of his Passion of the Christ, I appalud him for shooting that film in ancient Hebrew and Latin.
Counterpoint: I've never heard of that; I've heard of this
@@CJWproductions I've never heard of Charles Darwin, therefore, we all come from Adam and Eve.
That's you're argument.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that a movie studio would rather sell on the scale of *the Bible* than on the scale of On the Origin of Species
@@CJWproductions You might be right from a marketing point of view, but your critical thinking is very poor. You're saying you would rather drink poison from a Coca Cola bottle than unbranded crystal clear water.
A bit late. But interesting part is that my grandpa helped with the cast speak the Commache language
They always built up the Predator as this huge badass and they're the deadliest hunter in the galaxy and blahblahblah.................but it never actually wins in these movies. That definitely hurts its street cred in my eyes.
Telling the story of one of the billions of times a predator won wouldn't be too compelling, though, would it?
I'm always bothered that the predator uses invisibility all the time. Like I could also be an apex hunter if the shit can't even see me lol
@@Hoganply we havent seen those stories tho
I mean in Predators they win quite a few fights.
@@moviebuff3000 Honestly they mostly win every fight in every movie. it's usually only the lsat one they lose.
I agree with every point you made Adam and was thinking the same. That willhlem really got under my skin for some reason too. I think I enjoyed it more than you, but how much the critiques get in the way of enjoying a film is probably one of the most subjective things there is. Good video, as always. Thanks for changing my perspective on film over the years, great critic.
I think people are putting this so high because the last Predator was so bad that people kinda had low expectations coming into Prey. While the movie nowhere near as cringe as we initially thought, I don't think it's the savior of the franchise either. Also "most viewed movie on Hulu?" Wow such an great accomplishment right there.
@@scaryrumpus lmfao no.
I feel like the bar is so low for predator movies as well as modern movies in general that when a not completely garbage movie comes out people hyper praise it and give it more credit than it deserves.
This movie was less than mediocre yet people are heaping praise on it like it's a modern day Citizen Kane.
What praise like that have you seen? It is certainly not being praised to that extent
I haven't seen the movie but the few clips of dialogue and yeah I can tell it's being over praised.
Why the fuck do serious movies keep using the wilhelm scream? Like its no longer a possiblity that it's just used as a stock effect and nobody's thinking about it, it's got too much notoriety. Takes me out of the movie every time and unless it's an intentionally fourth wall breaking comedy or something it's annoying when it happens.
I can't take a movie seriously that supposedly showcases a potagonist living out in nature - yet looks like an Instagram model! Clean hair, perfect teeth, despite years in the wild... yeah, right! And the natives speaking perfect English? Why not do like Apocalypto did and incorporate a real-world, historically faithful language?
Her dog looked so modern and well groomed
When redlettermedia says Prey is a good movie, it’s up to Adum to knock some cynicism back into us
Considering how cynical redlettermedia is, this says a lot!
@@Dravianpn02 They did the same with the Kenobi review. They go really easy on certain movies and shows.
Disney basically white-washed a film and then put some of the color back in with dollar store crayons
Dialogue so bad Adam wishes it was in a language he doesn't speak 🤣
4:30 I was afraid he was going to do the Max thing for a second
I can't believe you avoid mentioning the awkard musical segments with the birds flying around the characters.
Best line in the film when the predator says
"it's preyin time"
The mud thing is actually a misdirect it you’re a Predator fan, which is a good sign this movie is just fan service not even trying to be truly stand alone, but as a fan being serviced I enjoyed it.
Yeah this movie really is for Predator fans, who (at least for me) were happy to finally have a decent Predator sequel (or prequel) after years of crap. I could totally see how someone who hasn’t followed the franchise wouldn’t understand the hype or like the movie
It’s not even decent tho.
@@Usagi393 No it's not. It's for superficial fans like "LOOK IT'S THE SAME GUN AS IN PREDATOR 2! OMG!". Acting is subpar, Naru as a character is extremely boring (no character development and no personality but strong enough to kick the Yautja's ass even with a leg injury from the bear trap). The movie looks good, cinematography and effects are good but that's it. Story is very predictable. Personally I rank Prey in the middle after Predator, Predator 2 and Predators, maybe equal to AvP.
@@Battouga it’s the best film since predator 2 so people are happy maybe praising it too much
@@Battouga I’ll agree to disagree. Prey has its flaws, sure, but equal to AvP? Yeah…no
"...it's so cheesy!"
Well now I want him to rewatch the first predator film. 🤣
The original is a taught and trim as Schwarzeneggers mid 80s physique, so while there are moments that are humorous/slightly outlandish given the cartoonish nature of the fact that everyone in it is basically a superhuman bodybuilder, you don't have time to dwell on them because it's so well made that it keeps you moving over and beyond anything that might catch your attention as being out of place tonally.
@@jonathanw1019 Sure, for the first watch.
It's a fucking comedy after that.
That's pretty much the point of the first part of the movie. It's meant to start out like a cheesy action flick with all the badass commandos kicking ass. Then the predator shows up and the tension and horror are a stark contrast to the first half.
He does mention this movie is generally trying to be a lot more serious. Things made in the 80s often were goofy and over the top, but then committed to that. Especially if it had Arnold on board.
Yea thats the problem it's chessy by mistake and the first movie was cheesy by design.
I mean I’m not surprised he didn’t like it, but the fact he ranked The Predator a point higher is just madness
Predator 2 is actually really good, if you give it a second chance you might like it
Just like The Matrix Resurrection, fans of this movie can not accept someone disliking the movie.
I think we can accept it just fine. We just don't understand it.
You know, I don't like this franchise either, but you won't see me review a movie in in that franchise just because.
This thumbnail for this video is high art.
A predator movie being cheesy?? Nooooo that’s unheard of!!!
*drags Rambo knife across bare chest to draw blood. war cry. dies.*
Exactly what I said. I thought the movie was fun and enjoyable, but it wasn't the masterpiece everyone was making it out to be. Far from it.
Twitter really overpraised this movie and tried to make it seem like its a modern classic now but honestly it was just a fun and harmless movie
I think if you tried to throw a little hatchet like that with a long rope attached, the rope would weigh it down and throw it off balance and you’d never get it to stick into anything.
When will new actors understand that looking scared or shocked does not translate to opening your eyes as wide as they can get as if you had cold water splashed on your back?
The problem with this movie is that it feels so fabricated. The concept is amazing, but it's like they came up with the concept, and then shipped it off without thinking anything else through and hoped the concept alone would save it.
It disappoints me to hear that it was gonna be in Comanche and they abandoned it. That would have made it so unique...
When they wanna appease folks by seeming "woke" (implying that having a film in Not English is that) but they won't commit to it if it potentially loses them a small bit of profit.
Realistically, who expected YMS to like Prey?
Much like 'Alien', 'Predator' suffered for so many years. The sole fact people consider this movie a "masterpiece" just shows how terribly sad the franchise has fallen.
The first movie was truly amazing, not just a flick for the sake of being a flick; then the second movie turned it into a regular flick, it was good but not as good as the first one; then the third movie tried to do something like the first one, it was also good but still felt like a big disappointment; the fourth movie simply gave up on the previous ones, it was just a big parody of itself and then... came the prequel to just bury the whole thing, because it was better than the last one but that's it.
The worst is that Disney owns it now so there's no chance it will get any better than this so I'd say this franchise is pretty much doomed at this point, just like anything else Disney touches.
Adam, all of your points are completely valid.
.....still enjoyed the movie tho.
I was lukewarm on the film, myself. The beautiful Alberta skies were a bit too *unrealistic* for me.
I really enjoyed when the predator pulled out his weapons and said "it's predatorin' time" and had a fight with michael morbius
It's been months.
That movie will see a successful release before that repetitive joke becomes funny.
Can we stop with this joke please. It's under every RUclips video.
I was on board until a mountain lion had the generic roar, that really took me out.
I think this was far worse than Adam gave it credit for. This predator can lift a full grown grizzly over it's head *and* gut it while suspended in the air over its head but it has a problem with the 100 pound weak looking girl? In literally every other film the predators can see people or animals approaching from a half a mile away but it can't see, or hear, the damn noisy dog approaching? This movie was terrible and Disney should feel terrible for putting it out.
The bar has been set so low that mediocre garbage like this movie is praised for being "good."