Quote from: brokentusk420 on Aug 25, 2022, 12:58:35 AMThe movie is mid at best but the face design of the creature is pure trash.
I actually disagree on all of this. I like the face design, the CGI is a little wonky, but I like that Feral is a different Predator than we've seen before and I really like the masked look. But the movie itself is great -- in a franchise with mostly functional filmmaking (original Predator excluded) Prey is exceptionally well made. It's lyrical and poetic, but also pulpy, gritty, and fun. You obviously didn't like it, nothing wrong with that, but there's lots of folks who did (both critics and fans alike).
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Absolutely not. It's trash. You can like it all you want. But it doesn't change the objective truth that it is a piss poor design. With or without CGI.
The people who like it just have severely low expectations. They will take anything. And honestly don't even know better.
Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Aug 25, 2022, 05:22:33 AMQuote from: brokentusk420 on Aug 25, 2022, 12:58:35 AMThe ratings mean absolutely nothing. Audiences have proven time and time again they will rate a terrible film high even though it's nothing of the sort. The movie is mid at best but the face design of the creature is pure trash. It's funny cause I bet all of you bashing Critcal Drinker haven't even watched the Prey review. He has as nny positive things to say as well as being brutally honest about the movies many short comings. You people just can't take the criticism or are incapable of understanding what he's talking about.
He spent most of the video complaining about Mary Sue characters and Hollywood tropes after he quickly brushes over that he made a bunch of false claims and that he was wrong about Prey for many months. He's not gospel. He makes good points about movies aoften often, but also falls down the anti-sjw hole very easily, which immediately kills a lot of arguments for myself, and I'm sure others. I don't need forced politics or tropes in my storytelling, and Prey didn't do that.
The film can actually be good to some people, and that doesn't mean you can't go online and say "people" are wrong about it. But doesn't mean you're right either. Audiences also made Alien and Predator the staples they are today, because the people liked them and thought they were good films. If all the people didn't like receive those movies as they are with Prey now, I'd say we wouldn't even be here today posting in these message boards. The movie was likely received well, because it was actually good. Something is working well with this movie that is clicking with audiences, which is bringing new life into Predator.
If audiences mindlessly consumed anything, why didn't The Predator in 2018 get the same reception as Prey?
Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Aug 25, 2022, 05:22:33 AMQuote from: brokentusk420 on Aug 25, 2022, 12:58:35 AMThe ratings mean absolutely nothing. Audiences have proven time and time again they will rate a terrible film high even though it's nothing of the sort. The movie is mid at best but the face design of the creature is pure trash. It's funny cause I bet all of you bashing Critcal Drinker haven't even watched the Prey review. He has as nny positive things to say as well as being brutally honest about the movies many short comings. You people just can't take the criticism or are incapable of understanding what he's talking about.
He spent most of the video complaining about Mary Sue characters and Hollywood tropes after he quickly brushes over that he made a bunch of false claims and that he was wrong about Prey for many months. He's not gospel. He makes good points about movies aoften often, but also falls down the anti-sjw hole very easily, which immediately kills a lot of arguments for myself, and I'm sure others. I don't need forced politics or tropes in my storytelling, and Prey didn't do that.
The film can actually be good to some people, and that doesn't mean you can't go online and say "people" are wrong about it. But doesn't mean you're right either. Audiences also made Alien and Predator the staples they are today, because the people liked them and thought they were good films. If all the people didn't like receive those movies as they are with Prey now, I'd say we wouldn't even be here today posting in these message boards. The movie was likely received well, because it was actually good. Something is working well with this movie that is clicking with audiences, which is bringing new life into Predator.
If audiences mindlessly consumed anything, why didn't The Predator in 2018 get the same reception as Prey?
Quote from: SiL on Aug 25, 2022, 08:55:31 PMQuote from: Master on Aug 25, 2022, 08:40:49 PMSee 30% movie is really low. I'd say 60% is much more accurate for regular viewer.
It's not a rating of the film, it's a percent of people who reviewed it positively. That's why audience score is higher - a greater number of audience members reviewed it positively.
But this is a purely binary look at positive vs negative. If you want to see what the average rating is, then you look at other sites like IMDb.
RT is fine, people just need to use it properly.
The movie is crap. The audience is dumb. Alien and Predator were made by competent people at the top of their respective games. The people making them now are hacks. Prey is incoherent feminist BS. The only thing they did right was not allowing it to carry the Predator name. It will be forgotten and never revered the way the original and only two movies in the series that matter. Critical Drinker hit all the nails on the head. Anyone saying otherwise is just coping with the fact they have zero taste in good cinema or at least lack the ability to recognize it.
