Prey Fan Reviews

[SiL]

I think Alien is inherently edgy enough that you could do a "final girl gets an Isolation killed" right at the last minute and pull it off if it was done right,

Nah, even David was too much for me. The Alien films aren't about everyone being miserable and then dying/losing any more than Predator movies are. Final girl getting an isolation kill is exactly the kind of empty, "f**k you" ending I'd dread.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I can almost guarantee that will be Fede Alvarez's contribution to Alien. Just ugh.

[Corporal Hicks]

And I'm just here loving that. But it's not so much about the Alien winning, so much as Alien just seems on the whole a more bleaker and "realistic" world (Aliens aside, and I suppose Resurrection's ending). But that's a discussion for another thread, I think, if someone wants to start that to continue.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I am all for that idea when it is given a counterbalance. Alien³ for example repeatedly puts Ripley through the meat grinder. But they win in the end, they never give up and just let the monster win. Because it champions hope and redemption even in the dreadful world we live in.

That story really resonates with me, so does Naru's and Prey's story. I do not want empty misery porn which I fear Fede Alvarez will create.

[PAS]

The Star+ subtitles like describing lots of sound effects haha

 Also, I'll debunk another final fight nitpick, the arm loss, y'all love saying Feral is just dumb, or forgot how his shield worked and accidentally cut his arm off, that's not what happened.
 Naru made him pull up his shield and then directed it at his arm as it was closing, cutting it off.
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How is a girl overpowering a pred? That's the issue. She overpowers him several times in this fight. Even win an injured arm I don't think she is that strong and the pred that dumb not to compensate.

She never once overpowers him, she either uses his own force/weight against him or gets the drop on him.

[alexpop]

Didn't like Predator design.
As an American native film kinda Disney cute. Scenery was beautiful that was the star. Also .. the cgi with Predator red glow thing, cheap as chips cgi.

Least favourite Predator related film.

Top three?
Arnie
AVP
Predator 2
Then
Predators ( underrated)
AVP requiem ( first 20 minutes good)
The Predator ( couple of good scenes)
The Prey ( again stunning scenery) let down with terrible Predator design skinny dude in costume.. horrendous face mask design.

[Rush Hour Rambo]

It was what I expected, a female right of passge movie in a male dominated society with evil white men and a predator thrown in. Thats the times we live in.

Not bad but not good. It entertained me well enough though. I thought the cgi wasn't great.

It wasn't a female right of passage, just a human right of passage. Replace Naru with a young male and you can have the exact same movie. It's not that she's a woman that have people in her tribe telling her she can't hunt.

You've reminded me why I hardly bother with this site. Literally your own opinion, which everyone is welcome to have, Is never right.

It was one to me, seeing as she was actually female.

[PAS]

It was what I expected, a female right of passge movie in a male dominated society with evil white men and a predator thrown in. Thats the times we live in.

Not bad but not good. It entertained me well enough though. I thought the cgi wasn't great.

It wasn't a female right of passage, just a human right of passage. Replace Naru with a young male and you can have the exact same movie. It's not that she's a woman that have people in her tribe telling her she can't hunt.

You've reminded me why I hardly bother with this site. Literally your own opinion, which everyone is welcome to have, Is never right.

It was one to me, seeing as she was actually female.

His opinion is literally factual

[BlueMarsalis79]

[Kimarhi]

I wasn't buying hulu just to watch this one f**kin movie, so I had to wait for it on Bluray.  Better than I thought it would be, even though the idea had been done fairly similarly in a DH comic from what I can remember.  Still decent.  Much better than any pred movies since 2.  I only disliked the feral pred design because (I suppose it could be intentional) it looks like the crazy preds from Predators, which look like the OG Preds on meth.  AKA dogshit. 

[BlueMarsalis79]

Watches this with my Mum the other night, really enjoyed it and thinks Amber Midthunder could be Predator's Sigourney Weaver equivalent, thought the little girl looking at Naru at the end's a very cute moment.

[StrangeShape]

I have just watched it for the first time 2 days ago. Im a fan of Predator since Predator 2 came out, so why on Earth would I miss watching a new Predator movie when it came out? Two reasons
1. The laughably bad Predator design. Holy cow, thats so bad it made me laugh. Ive never seen a bigger design downgrade in history of cinema. There are no words to describe how bad and awful that design is, especially without the helmet. There was no way I could take the movie seriously with something so silly and awful. I was never a fan of ADI designs, but that only cemented my opinion that while theyre good suit and effect makers, theyre some of the worst if not the worst big league designers
2. The Predators was so bad I lost any faith in the mythology, sort of like I did after what Scott did to Alien with Covenant, but Romulus brought me back.
So I did try Prey finally and I gotta say Im pleasantly surprised. i didnt think a movie set in this time period could stretch into a full lenght film but it sure worked and was very interesting to watch. Other than the "post car accident" Predator design and a very obvious CGI, I have no criticism

[Neila]

I have just watched it for the first time 2 days ago. Im a fan of Predator since Predator 2 came out, so why on Earth would I miss watching a new Predator movie when it came out? Two reasons
1. The laughably bad Predator design. Holy cow, thats so bad it made me laugh. Ive never seen a bigger design downgrade in history of cinema. There are no words to describe how bad and awful that design is, especially without the helmet. There was no way I could take the movie seriously with something so silly and awful. I was never a fan of ADI designs, but that only cemented my opinion that while theyre good suit and effect makers, theyre some of the worst if not the worst big league designers
2. The Predators was so bad I lost any faith in the mythology, sort of like I did after what Scott did to Alien with Covenant, but Romulus brought me back.
So I did try Prey finally and I gotta say Im pleasantly surprised. i didnt think a movie set in this time period could stretch into a full lenght film but it sure worked and was very interesting to watch. Other than the "post car accident" Predator design and a very obvious CGI, I have no criticism

ADI acts primarily according to instructions.
They make suggestions but ultimately the director decides what is made or used.
I once asked Tom Woodruff why the aliens became "fatter" and less aesthetically pleasing, like AvP-R, for example, and he said that it was decided by the directors.
They wanted the aliens to be more massive and muscular, like they appear in some comics.

In addition, there is the situation, as I already mentioned in another thread, that it generally looks increasingly cheaper.
For whatever reason.
The aliens became more and more like thick-lipped, horse-toothed dinosaurs and Feral, well.
In my opinion, ADI did their best design work on Alien 3.
The animatronic Bishop and Doggy are awesome.
I really liked that.

[StrangeShape]

I have just watched it for the first time 2 days ago. Im a fan of Predator since Predator 2 came out, so why on Earth would I miss watching a new Predator movie when it came out? Two reasons
1. The laughably bad Predator design. Holy cow, thats so bad it made me laugh. Ive never seen a bigger design downgrade in history of cinema. There are no words to describe how bad and awful that design is, especially without the helmet. There was no way I could take the movie seriously with something so silly and awful. I was never a fan of ADI designs, but that only cemented my opinion that while theyre good suit and effect makers, theyre some of the worst if not the worst big league designers
2. The Predators was so bad I lost any faith in the mythology, sort of like I did after what Scott did to Alien with Covenant, but Romulus brought me back.
So I did try Prey finally and I gotta say Im pleasantly surprised. i didnt think a movie set in this time period could stretch into a full lenght film but it sure worked and was very interesting to watch. Other than the "post car accident" Predator design and a very obvious CGI, I have no criticism

ADI acts primarily according to instructions.
They make suggestions but ultimately the director decides what is made or used.
I once asked Tom Woodruff why the aliens became "fatter" and less aesthetically pleasing, like AvP-R, for example, and he said that it was decided by the directors.
They wanted the aliens to be more massive and muscular, like they appear in some comics.

In addition, there is the situation, as I already mentioned in another thread, that it generally looks increasingly cheaper.
For whatever reason.
The aliens became more and more like thick-lipped, horse-toothed dinosaurs and Feral, well.
In my opinion, ADI did their best design work on Alien 3.
The animatronic Bishop and Doggy are awesome.
I really liked that.

I agree about Alien 3. I think their work AND design on that movie is absolutely superb, and Id even dare to say better than what Giger designed for that film

[Neila]

I like ADI's Dog Alien better too.
But I still find Giger's ideas interesting.
because his vision would probably have come much closer to what was actually strange in this creature.
But it was a bit too far-fetched for the makers and, above all, more work and more difficult to implement. They relied more on what the audience knows and made only relatively slight changes compared to Giger.
Giger's design was ultimately only cited for its animalistic look and the elegance of its form.
The type of tongue that Sil in Species has was originally intended for Alien 3.