What a strange comparison. May as well have been like SO ITS OKAY WHEN OPTIMUS PRIME 1v3S MEGATRON IN A FOREST BUT NOT NARU?
These are gun-fu films meant to be a series of action peices. Predator is not a wire-fu franchise.
It’s like comparing a Mission Impossible movie to Oldboy.
I’m not even defending the mud, that shit was stupid too. Hypothermia sets in around 95° F in body temperature, now imagine how exaggerated that would be if you lowered your temp to ambient temperatures that I guarantee are colder than 90°F
Here’s how I can tell some of the people here have never been in a real fight, because the way Naru fought dirty & climbed on Feral’s back is EXACTLY how you fucking win fights against opponents that are bigger & stronger than you.
Straight up there was one time I got jumped on the way home from school by three dudes and the only way I managed to not get my shit kicked in was I fucking grabbed a rock near me & bashed into one of their heads when they grabbed me and then I started jumping on the next dude and throtlling them.
Another time some dude picked a fight in a hallway and he is legit like Two Years above me and way more in shape at the time, took a few meaty punches to the face at first and I got a black eye & busted lip but I ended that fight by grabbing him by the collar and managing to use his weight to get him over to a locker and started banging the open door of it against his head until he backed off.
That’s how you win against bigger, stronger opponents guys and you’ve clearly never been in a real fight if you don’t know this.
Fights are not always decided by who is bigger & stronger, the winner are those who don’t give a fuck, fight dirty & wanna make sure they don’t try that shit again.
1:55, no one can live through that. If the lead was female, people like you would shit thier pants for her surviving that. No one does here because we all know its an action film and people like the main character.
And the Predator series is not part of the action pieces that the 80s is known to be? The one scene where the whole team blows up the jungle into a smoky clearing that everyone knows and loves? Please, stop, this is not the W you think it is…
This thread is just going places
No? It was haha here’s an alien twist in these action movies as a foil to action heroes at arnie’s peak career. And then the rest are just sci-fi, they don’t even continue the rambo deconstruction gimmick
Now here’s Tom Cruise doing a stunt in a stunt movie where the point is stunts and stuntmen im sure this must relate to Naru somehow, we must analyze these two completely different genres.
You realize the only reason movies look like that today is BECAUSE of Predator right? Like before Predator the rule of Action movies was the Protagonist can never be in real danger, they are unflinching murder machines who can wade into a storm of bullets and come out without a scratch. That’s literally Commando, and guess what Commando is still a really fucking good & fun film. But after Predator came out there was a HUGE shift. Protagonist were allowed to be shown weak, they were allowed to be hurt. Without Predator 1, you DON’T get series like Die Hard. You don’t get John Wick. These movies exist solely because Predator transformed the Action Genre.
Die Hard, John Wick, Beverly Hills Cop, etc all that exist solely because of Predator’s genuine subversion of the tropes. Like I’m sure a lot of people don’t remember or know this but in the original cut of Predator 1 the Ship coming to Earth is not even shown. That was not in the original theatrical release. It was a genuine mystery what the Predator was & what the title meant. It’s why the first act of the movie is a typical cold war action flick with only one or two hints as to something deeper.
yeah nah.
like capeshit is doing now, those movies ran their natural course and then fell out of grace.
I think a more honest comparison to John Wick would be Charles Angels (2000)
Just style and stunts.
The action movie did not fall out of grace until around 1998. Ironically with another Arnie flick, End of Days.
And capeshit peaked at Infinity War
I’m not going to credit that to The Boys or Invincible
I mean The Boys is a piece of cynical dogshit…
Yes
Unironically anyone writing stuff like “What if Superheroes were actually evil” or “Our Protagonist has to be an unlikable, cynical c.unt” should fuck off. I’m so done with cynical media, we need stories that inspire people to better themselves again.
Fuckin cap, if Charles Angles were released today like the remake did, people would shit “woke” faster than roadrunner getting away from wile coyote. If Prey was released in the 90s or early 2000s, you wouldn’t hear this “woke” nonsense. All this is deliberate bullshit, ain’t hearing this.
Top Gun 2 was good vibes, better than the OG
No Woke media absolutely exists. Mary Sues exist. The Star Wars Sequels are THIS to a T. Rey was a HUGE Mary Sue. Prey is not any of this.
I don’t think you’re understanding the difference between the original and the remake
Rey was such a fucking Mary Sue they had her steal the role of the actually interesting black stormtrooper who turned traitor and reduced Finn to a fucking joke in Episode 8 & 9. It should have been HIS story.
No I mean if the films were released in those days, we wouldn’t have this nonsense, instead people will just say the film is shit. But culture war is all the rage in the late new 10s early 20s. If Aliens and Terminator was dropped this decade, they would be called “woke” from the start and still have people saying it even if it came out just as good as it did in their respective timelines.
People would say Danny Glover would have been called a diversity hire, Noguchi and Lex would have been called ‘woke propaganda’, if the content was dropped this decade.
I forgot that was supposed to be his character since he was gunning down his old friends and cheering an hour later.
what a strange subplot
