300 years ago most humans died by the old age of 16
Living past your 40’s is literally something of the last 100 years.
So, many of the “elders” on our history books, were people in their 20’s
New 2022 Pred movie
In really looking foward to the bear fight assuming there is one, regardless of how the movie ends up im sure that will be one of the most memorable scenes in a predator movie.
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In Predator 1 and 2, the Pred intentionally limits himself to weapons that will make the hunt challenging.
After that, because fans are morons, that idea was abandoned. Maybe they’ll re-introduce that as a concept.
I think you need to add about 10 - 20 years to your ages.
Unless your strictly talking averages. Here’s a quote to consider.
“It does not mean that the average person living in 1200 A.D. died at the age of 35. Rather, for every child that died in infancy, another person might have lived to see their 70th birthday.”
Probably only thing good coming from the movie
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People in the past lived well into their 70s and beyond, just like now. What happened was that during times of pandemics, injuries, pregnancy…etc, they died from lack of medical treatment, food, etc…The invention of antibiotics and better medical procedures was a turning point in human history, but even before that during the industrial revolution the human population started to grow rapidly because of better access to food and also sanitation was improved giving people the opportunity to live longer lives.
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Agreed
Probably not. JH was likely a few centuries old, at least. It’d be kinda neat though.
I watched both 10 Cloverfield and The Boys episode, and I loved both, the movie was great for me.
So, no problem in that.
Yeah I think I did read that (but not sure) and yet for you might be something written from a child, while for someone else might be a great concept.
I just do not talk sh*t until I watch it, because every concept, good or bad, could be well realized in a movie.
People here are really damn toxic.
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Are gamers upset about women in Predator?
Looks at the comments
Yup, well, that was to be expected.
Well, nothing to do here. See ya.
Disappears in a cloud of magic smoke
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Best comment,
you perfectly summarise the situation.
Not toxic. Just have incredibly low expectations from the last shellacing we got in the last movie. I mean, I’m not usually one to turn into a Ken and ask for my money back and such, but I REALLY wanted to after last time. Plus, the last say, six/seven years out of tinsel town haven’t been very good.
As far as the female lead complaints, that’s not it at all. Everyone here loves Ellen Ripley (She’s still the # 1 heroine in film by a large degree) and most were very happy to see Isabel in this game. But circumstances of these characters being there in the first place have to be good and make some sense. Ripley, although being literally a space-tow-truck driver had an incredible arc into the hard-as-nails queen-killer at the end of Aliens, but she still showed vulnerability and still maintained a trace of fish-out-of-water because she was an ordinary person rising to extraordinary circumstances.
Isabel was chosen to be hunted because she was an incredibly deadly sniper, but the director knew the physical limitations of the character vs the creatures.
Consider this… since '87, we’ve gone from Preds hunting
1.) Elite private military contractors, the best of the best, according to Dillon to
2.) Mike Harrigan, the best, hardest detective in LA and his squad of highly trained cops to
3.) A loose group of mercenaries, soldiers, enforcers and murderers, all with very high body counts (if they hadn’t been good at killing, they wouldn’t have been picked) to
4.) (Sigh…) a group of severely traumatized veterans, one normal soldier and a scientist with no combat experience who is macigally Ripley by the end and an autistic kid to
5.) A 15 yr old with a bow and arrow. No combat training, no background in warfare, no high body count, nothing really.
The AvP humans aren’t in here. Because they aren’t canon.
You see how the bar didn’t just get lowered by the 4th movie, it got dropped? Like, to the floor? And this new concept is somehow even less believable. It’d be like if Newt’s older brother Timmy (In Aliens) picked up a sharp piece of metal and chucked it at a Xenomorph and killed it, lickedy-split. It’s just a bad idea.
Add to it that the Comanche (good choice for the tribe though. They were by far the most warlike and brutal tribe out there) didn’t have female warriors. Now, naturally, if an enemy invaded their settlement, I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate to pick up a club or knife etc, but what we have here is pure virtue signaling at its worst.
I won’t even compare it to Rey Skywalker (who I enjoy as a character btw) because Rey at least was built up to be a powerful force user and therefore had advantages other characters didn’t.
We just don’t like the bar being lowered over and over again.
And that goes for the Preds too. JH was just a hunter. Not like an elite, best of the best hunter from all we can gather. No one even really knows how old he was or overall how successful. But he set the bar fairly high with his prey.
CH was billed to younger and stronger, with more tools, but less experienced. It may have been his first human hunt, we don’t know. So the bar got a little lower, but just a little.
The Super Preds were billed to bigger, stronger and more ruthless than the classic Preds, and there were 3 of them (?!?), yet they all got their asses kicked pretty quickly. So the bar got a little lower.
Then we got a single predator without the mental fortitude to use his danged plasma caster against a giant Goliath Pred and got his head ripped off in 20 seconds. And the behemoth Assassin Pred, well he got taken out by his own brain damaged dog, a scientist and a regular soldier. The thing had an exoskeleton it could grow or remove at will, a cloaking device, all the other Pred toys and it still lost badly. Like shamefully. It was just sad. So the bar got dropped so low, the franchise nearly collapsed.
You can’t blame us for having low expectations. They are well earned. And that it’s a Hulu release signals that Disney doesn’t have faith in it. They seem to be expecting a flop, but are hoping it can maybe be a cult hit, but I find that to be a stretch. I think they looked at the direction the Terminator franchise went and are panicking a bit.
I could be wrong. I would give anything to be dead wrong because I’m a huge fan and I don’t want the franchise to die with a whimper.
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Please read the rant above. It will hopefully assuage your feelings just a bit.
Only real problem I got is it’s a 15 year old kid with no combat experience or training and somehow with movie magic they are gonna kill a predator
I hope “Prey” is available on Disney+
I actually agree with almost everything you said (even the Rey apprecciation, I like the character), and really appreciated you analysis …but I still think it’s unfair to hate an upcoming movie for his choice in the protagonist, we have no idea how the script will use that “girl with a bow and arrows”, she might not even be the real prey that the Predator tartgets in the movie, mybe he spares her, not seeing her as a worthy prey, and she tries to kill him to avange his tribe, I’m just doing an immaginary example, everything could happen!
You haven’t watched the movie yet, so what is the point in assuming that that girl will be and overpower warrior for no reason? Maybe she’ll be a sneaky worm, trying to find weakness in his opponent, maybe she will strike when the Predator is fighting other warriors or a bear, we have no idea of the direction wich the fight, and the movie, will take!
So, I’m not saying that it will be good, or that it will be bad, I’m saying that the awfulness of The Predator should not influence too much your opinions, these are different projects.
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You have no idea on how the script will be, that “somehow” might be well contextualized, I did exaples in the comment above.
You haven’t seen the film yet. So give it a chance. You don’t know these things to be fact. Not much information at all has been leaked.
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