Welp I don't mind breaking this down.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- A flower that lowers body temperature without the patient dying, and Feral doesn't see that kind of people on his thermal view, this is just bad physics, if you are losing body temperature that means you are radiating that heat in the environment, so they would be even more visible
You can say the same thing about mud. Mud doesn't keep it cold for that well and that long. In fact, for both the flower and mud, to cover their bodies to such cold temperatures would shock them into hypothermia. Both concepts have enough reality based ideas for the audience to forgive the actual physics of lowering the body temperature because it makes a fun element to the story. Suspense of Disbelief as they call it. Hell this very trope is how Jurassic Park is built upon and managed to be a successful series. You can clone from blood samples but not from blood samples of millions of years, DNA doesn't last that long and it will crumble but the film wouldn't be as fun wouldn't it? It's the same principle here, the mud and flower provides cold cover from thermal vision.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Feral doesn't know how his shield works, so he amputates his own arm
Naru thrusts the spear and Feral parries but the force behind it pushes the shield right into his arm. If you trained in HEMA or other combat sports, you'd understand that blows from any weapon will not always outright disperse when you parry or block it. The energy will always transfer somehow, whenever the blow is from a man or woman. Weapons are a combat force multiplier and it will always have a increased lethal factor adding into the fight.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Feral doesn't know how his bio-mask works, so he headshots himself
He didn't know the mask is missing on the count of him too busy dealing with a headshot from a huge ass .50 call musket ball. A wound from a bullet of that caliber will cause massive head trauma, no one will recover from that blow that easily even if you are a Predator. At that point he assumes the mask is gone. How would he have known Naru will use it against him? He doesn't have a single clue due to underestimating her and dealing with a headshot.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- The scene of running in the meadow, when Feral kills Naru's tribe member, and catches her when she falls in a trap shows that Feral is much faster and more agile, but in a final battle Naru becomes superhero and is much more agile than Feral ? Also Feral agility is seen in burned forest when he is jumping from tree to tree. And, Feral is extremely strong, because he killed bear in melee combat, and lifted bear like it was toy. That shows that movie is non consistent, Feral should have killed Naru in a melee combat, but she beat him although he is faster, more agile, and stronger than her. It is just bad and not convincing.
He also goes after her from tree to tree in the final battle. That tree trap? She knew of his agility and that he will catch up to her so she planned the spike tree trap on the exact place that Feral would have gotten her. You are right in that Feral's agility would have gotten her and she planned for this exact scenario. It just proves how a capable strategist she is to foresee this possible scenario happen.
Also you can say the same for Feral dominating Taabe, seeing how agile he was to dodge all those spear thrusts and sweeps from Feral when they fought. It doesn't surprise me that she knows how to fight too seeing how they are sibling and learned it from each other. I mean the beginning of the film shows that they hang out and train together, in the hawk scene of the duo hunting with their bows.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Feral looks at several French men how they are loading guns instead attacking immediately, also he steps in front of Naru's loaded pistol like some kind of idiot and just looks, like he is asking, please headshot me.
Since the last Frenchman headshot him and killed himself for it, he figured Naru will do the same. In that retrospect, its also him learning from experience that humans will go for headshot blows that will deal the killing blow. Of course he would have no idea how tricky they can achieve that, seeing how Naru sneaks up on him from behind with the flower medicine hiding her body temperature. It's his first time hunting on Earth so everything is going to be very new to him.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Taabe is best warrior and he is fiercely fighting against Feral, but at one moment he just quits without reason, and says to Naru's you go, I die. Why he didn't continue to fight, why he talked to her in the middle of the combat with Feral and just surrender ? That is just bad scripting so we can have one to one melee fight between Feral and Naru.
Combat pragmatism. His opponent is good, so he decides to play the stealth kill card using his cloak as the trump card. People throw dirt in the eyes, use the environment to their advantage, go for the "cheap shot" in any combat life and death situation. Taabe saw this and knew that eventually Feral will get to him due to his cloaking, you can't hit what you can't see. He gave her sister a fighting chance to live, something that any family with love in their group will do for one another. This is nothing new or bad, it's all in the line.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Feral doesn't behave like Predator, he is not stealthy, he is not observing, he goes in direct melee combat in the open, and that happens constantly
If the name "Feral" meaning existing in a wild or untamed state, having returned to an untamed state from domestication, or suggestive of a wild animal; savage, doesn't clue you in on his behavior then you gotta read a dictionary more often. It's an individual behavior, some Predators will go for a stealthy route and others wanna go all in balls out.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Most ugly and stupid Predator design so far, mandibles are wide open and non functional, face is wierd, eyes are too wide separated and on the side of the face which is not hunter but prey design (see lions eyes, wolfs, etc.), hunters eyes are oriented in front, not to the side
Well this is subjective at this point, I'm just going to talk about the story.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Feral has some kind of honor code, but it is not consistent, he doesn't kill Naru who he hunted in the meadow when he catches her, but kills a man without leg or any weapons who is pretending to be dead
That was his kill. In any hunt, you finish the kill you made. You wounded it, you track it down, and you finish the job. This is what you do in hunting in real life as it's the ethical way you are taught to do when you are going for your hunting license, and with the Predators caring about honor, this would also go in their line of finish the kill that you start.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Cliche moments, "If it bleeds it can be killed", OMG, I rolled my eyes when they said that
No lie, I would have preferred a different variant of that line but that is besides the point.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Relatively bad animal's CGI
Well they did say the film is low budget so perhaps with the success of the film, Fox will pump more money the next time around for better quality CGI.
Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Aug 31, 2022, 06:58:37 AM- Bad actors, no one is even surprised that being which doesn't look like anything on Earth is suddenly here, nobody discusses that, characters don't change from start to end of the movie, there is no emotions or personal growth, you don't even care about characters
She had tried multiple times to talk about a huge ass thing killing bears with it's bare hands but no one believed her. And maybe you don't but lot of people here did and like her character alot. A combat strategist, adaptable, insightful, observant, a strong spirit that desires to do more in life, all noble qualities.
