Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 23, 2022, 12:51:16 PMDutch also plays possum and got drenched in freezing water yet comes to the conclusion the mud's why the Predator can not see him, it's no different whatsoever.
Both make a leap of logic despite an alternative interpretation being present, and then say out loud their thoughts, with the Predator nearby so the audience follows along with the story.
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot let this post fly by without comment. Dutch absolutely does not play possum in that scene. He hears the predator splash in the water behind him and start approaching. Dutch then crawls backwards towards some branches and reaches for his weapon, but realises that he lost it during his prior fall. Realising that he's screwed, he grasps onto two of the branches to either side and braces himself for impending death. The predator approaches, stops and then looks directly at Dutch. Dutch stares back at him, with lots of eye movement and facial grimacing, looking frightened. At this point Dutch has no reason to suspect that the predator sees the world any differently than he himself does. He's absolutely not playing possum. His eyes are fully open and locked onto the predator's own. He's making full eye contact and quite literally staring death in the face, he's not pretending to be dead.
As for Dutch saying "He couldn't see me"; that is not comparable to Naru doing the same thing. Dutch waits for the predator to give up searching and to walk well away from his location before making his comment. The predator is well out of earshot at that point, whereas Naru says her line when the predator is a mere couple of feet away from her, still searching for his prey and within clear earshot. I will grant you that in both cases, it's a complete contrivance that either character says anything, as opposed to simply thinking it. They say their lines so that the audience will understand what is being visually communicated but at least the original movie had the good grace and smarts to wait for the predator to have f**ked off, before having Dutch say his line.
You simply cannot compare the two scenes and say that they're one and the same. It's disingenuous. The scene in
Prey is a vastly inferior version of the mud scene from the original, executed with nowhere near the same directorial skill or writing talent. It's actually kinda disrespectful to the original movie to say that it's exactly the same as the equivalent scene in
Prey, in terms of execution. It's like saying that the trench run on Starkiller base in
The Force Awakens is executed in exactly the same creative manner and with the same level of artistic skill as the Death Star run in
A New Hope. It's bunkum. One scene is executed with expert finesse and the other is clumsily executed and nonsensical. It's akin to saying that an imitation from John Carpenter's
The Thing has all the heart, soul and humanity of the person its imitating.
