# Prey, the Hulu Predator movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [August 7, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233 "2022-08-07T04:21:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/41 "2022-08-10T22:40:43Z")
Two and a Half Predators ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/42 "2022-08-10T22:40:52Z")
Hm, how do predators feel about third parties? If one came upon a decidedly unfair fight, might they intervene on behalf of the underdog? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/43 "2022-08-10T22:42:07Z")
Only if the underdogs were more honorable than the favorites, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/44 "2022-08-10T22:46:50Z")
Predator: Tracking Down the Kardashians. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/45 "2022-08-10T23:10:56Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Predator: Tracking Down the Kardashians Finally, a feel-good movie! ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/46 "2022-08-11T06:01:34Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Predator the Thirteenth Some of the kills in Prey definitely seemed like ones Jason would applaud like shanking a dude through the head and then lifting him overhead in order to shank another dude without taking the first one off the claws. Or the bear trap to the dome. Or the ricochet off the helmet to kill a dude with his own musket ball. Or using a net to turn a dude into ground beef. There were some nasty kills in Prey but since the gore shots were surprisingly discretionary said kills were also _awesome_. Since this is basically a Disney movie, did anyone notice the Predator was basically killed by Yondu’s arrow? Naru even whistled in the same scene. And I can’t see the dog rescue scene as anything other than some John Wick action. I have seen interviews where the producer or director admits there is some God of War influence with Naru’s weapon. I also see some Horizon Zero Dawn influence with the sliding and the attempt to hide in tall grass. The bear makes a noise straight out of Skyrim when it is first coming after Naru. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/47 "2022-08-11T11:52:02Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > The biggest problem I see is that the Predator usually has to lose, leading to plot stagnation. Of course, there are also some human societies that just kind of … disappeared. Predator vs. [Roanoke Colony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony)? Predator totally won that one! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/48 "2022-08-11T14:27:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Why? If you do the historical encounters, then the Predator can kick butt every now and then. **Predator vs Rogue One** , if you will. Hell, a couple of the movies could revolve around “lost legions” or the like. Why did the 13th Legion disappear in Libya? Now we know… Yeah, if you want to give the Predator a win have him hunt Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/49 "2022-08-11T14:35:06Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Yeah, if you want to give the Predator a win have him hunt Nazis. Scene: _Predator’s landing craft comes down in the middle of Auschwitz. The Predator steps out, and looks around._ Predator: “Aw, _hell_ no!” Nazis: _Intense screaming_. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/50 "2022-08-11T17:16:14Z")
**All The Predator’s Men** ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/51 "2022-08-11T20:19:41Z")
We saw it this weekend and I really liked it. The film did a good job of setting up the narrative – Naru fails early but her intelligence and persistence is also set up early. The story was fairly simple and straight forward – we don’t need a secret alliance with the Predator or some fake out along the way. I wish the CGI animals were a little better but really the only thing that I wish they did better was the French trapper scenes and when Naru returns home at the end. The movie makes it pretty clear that the trappers are terrible – they all look terrible with bad teeth and poor hygiene and they seem to hang out next to the one field that is all burned out with wrecked trees and stuff. I don’t see why they had to be so bad – maybe rough guys but ultimately decent folk making a life on the land just like the Comanche tribe. I’d empathize with them a little more as Predator wiped them out. At the end Naru was triumphant and that should be celebrated but she just lost her brother and other members of the tribe but there wasn’t much of a moment showing how physically and emotionally exhausted she was even in her victory. But these are minor quibbles, imo. It was also interesting to see that flintlock pistol and the “hide painting” in the end credits hinting at more Predators coming in. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/52 "2022-08-11T21:14:12Z")
Was the flintlock pistol in Prey the same gun gifted to Danny Glover at the end of Predator 2? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/53 "2022-08-11T21:34:55Z")
Yup. The paintings during the credits kindof explain what happens afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/54 "2022-08-11T21:40:24Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > The movie makes it pretty clear that the trappers are terrible At least they didn’t rape her. That may have actually happened in a real life scenario back then. At least the producer was decent enough not to add (or infer) that to the story line. Good call. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/55 "2022-08-11T21:52:34Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > At least they didn’t rape her. That may have actually happened in a real life scenario back then. At least the producer was decent enough not to add (or infer) that to the story line. Good call. I’m not fluent in french but I’m pretty sure they did infer it. At least something about her being female as a reason to keep her. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/56 "2022-08-26T14:04:27Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’m not fluent in french but I’m pretty sure they did infer it. At least something about her being female as a reason to keep her. Watched it last night, and had on the subtitles throughout. The subtitles for the trappers were in French, as well, which was somewhat frustrating, but I agree with the poster above who said we were meant to view them as “outsiders,” almost as much as the Predator was an outsider. Anyway, my two years of college French are 30+ years in the past, but if I understood some of the subtitles correctly, one of the trappers wanted to kill her, but another said something like “She’s a girl. We can use her.” So rape was implied, but not specifically stated (as far as I could tell). And yeah, this was a very well-done Predator movie. I didn’t think the Predator was necessarily handicapping himself with his weapon choices so much; I think we were seeing the difference between that society’s technology in our 1700s as opposed to what that society would have developed by our late 1900s (when the first Predator movie was made). They had 200 years to improve on their hunting gear, just as we had 200 years to improve on bows and arrows and flintlock weapons. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/57 "2022-08-26T14:32:22Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > but another said something like “She’s a girl. We can use her.” While the suggestion of rape is pretty clear, there’s also a practical matter - they used her as bait for the Predator. Her being a girl made that easier, because they didn’t realize how much of a badass she’s be. They thought she’d be easier to use that one of the male natives. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/58 "2022-08-26T14:58:25Z")
I also thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Yes to the quibbles of Naru’s lack of reaction to losing her brother and tribe members, a bit of animal CGI, the French trappers being all horrible, lower body temperature. Yes. But. I LOVED this movie. I agree that keeping everything in French to get the Comanche pov was a good choice. In fact, it seems as if the French did worse than the Comanche in fighting the Predator to me. Sure, predator had a shield for the guns but the Comanche hit with arrows AND melee weapons. Really liked that. I also liked the ending animations and hints. I thought the actors did well and liked Naru. I love the movie ideas this thread has had! Explaining some lost colonies or things. I also like the idea of having it through the ages, always going after people in their prime. Maybe the ones where the Predator lost are when they avoid us for a century or two? I saw P2 and enjoyed it mostly, also notice that in that movie, they don’t kill pregnant woman, hunters or not? If I have seen any of the others, they didn’t stick. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/59 "2022-08-26T16:14:54Z")
Oh, what the hell: Downton: Predator > [@](#): > > SCENE: Interior LIBRARY. Present is LORD GRANTHAM, CORA GRANTHAM, THE DOWAGER COUNTESS, EDITH, ANNA. > > MR CARSON comes rushing in: “My Lord, I am afraid I have to say they have entered the main hall.” > > LORD GRANTHAM: “All right, Mr. Carson. Well, we knew this day would come, let’s face it stoically, like proper Englishmen. I wish Tom were here, but for his fateful trip to York…” > > Three PREDATORS enter the library, south entrance. > > ANNA: “I would call Mr. Bates, but he’s in prison again.” > > PREDATOR 1: “Let me put you out of your misery” (subtitled, as all PREDATOR lines are). > > P1 shoots ANNA dead, covering the DOWAGER in a mist of gore. Shocked, all are quiet as the PREDATORS turn to face their victims. > > MARY GRANTHAM enters the LIBRARY via the north entrance, all surprised to see her. > > MARY: “I demand to know what is going on here! Papa? Mama? Where’s Anna, I need to start dressing for dinner!” > > PREDATOR 2: “Shut up. We make the demands here.” > > PREDATOR 3 grabs EDITH, points gun at her head. > > PREDATOR 2: “It’s our time now.” > > MARY sits down, the disdain evident on her face. > > MARY: “Oh, good, I never thought this day would come! I get to see Edith put out of her misery. Are you going to do her bastard brat as well?” > > EDITH: “You bitch! I hope they pleasure themselves at your expense, you slut!” > > PREDATORS are shocked at this exchange. They look around, hestitantly… Finally, PREDATOR 2 speaks… English, this time. > > PREDATOR 2, addressing MARY: “But… she’s your sister.” > > MARY: Stares back, silent. > > PREDATOR 2: Stares back, silent. > > MARY: “Well? What are you waiting for?” > > PREDATOR 3: “Damn, that’s some cold-blooded shit.” > > PREDATOR 2: “No wonder they’re so dangerous. They literally don’t GAF. About themselves or anyone.” > > PREDATORS stand down their weapons, confused. Finally, PREDATOR 1 lifts his head, speaks: > > PREDATOR 1: “My apologies Lord Grantham, Dowager. Please send your charges to our man of business in London. And please let Mr. Bates know that we are deeply regretful.” > > PREDATOR 2 and 3 keep a wary, almost scared, eye on MARY as they back out of the library. As the scene progresses, we see them flee the estate through the windows of DOWNTON ABBEY. > > CORA CROWLEY: “Oh, Mary, we’re going to have to get you a new dressing maid. Do you think Mr Mosely…? No.” > > LORD GRANTHAM: “We have an hour before dinner, sorry for the rush everybody, but I must attend to a matter before I get dressed.” > > EVERYONE begins to leave the LIBRARY, camera placed in MAIN HALL > > DOWAGER: “Like Tennyson said when I met him during my fling with Prince Karugin: ‘If it’s not one damned thing, it’s another’.” > > Laughter, camera pans back, the swell of closing music > > END EPISODE. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233/60 "2022-08-26T21:49:31Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > Yes to the quibbles of Naru’s lack of reaction to losing her brother and tribe members, a bit of animal CGI, the French trappers being all horrible, lower body temperature. Yes. But… > > I LOVED this movie. Exactly. It works. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prey-the-hulu-predator-movie/969233.md?page=4)