#prey spoilers

[maycanady]

AMBER MIDTHUNDER as NARU PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

[thelvadams]

PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous. You can’t see that I’m killing you. And it won’t either.

[bluetiefling]

Amber Midthunder and Dakota Beavers in Prey (2022)

This is as far as I go. No more. This is it.

[sci-fi-gifs]

It knows how to hunt. But I know how to survive. Prey (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

[kaiserghidorah]

Prey (2022) spoiler without context:

[animentality]

Bros I'm crying.

The prey movie was insane.

It was actually insane watching a young female Native American hunter take down a predator using mostly her wits.

It was so fucking smart setting the movie in that era, not just bc it makes it appropriate to focus on native American culture and the Comanche people, which is awesome, but also because it just created this rich tension.

You're watching a cloaked, highly advanced alien soldier from another planet basically tear through the American wilderness, and it gets wrekt by a teenager with arrows and tomahawks.

I can't shut up about how brilliant that decision was, and how well done.

Really.

Just a stellar idea for a horror/sci Fi/ action movie.

It was simple and effective.

A native American hunter vs an alien warrior with a sense of honor.

She has tomahawks and arrows. He has bullshit tech, but he does have a sense of honor and also.

He can be beaten through wits. Through determination. Gumption.

She had all that and more.

She was the better hunter.

The movie is also gorgeously shot and choreographed! I really lost my mind watching Naru fight. I really was vibrating when the predator was tearing white guys to shreds.

I was shitting crying and vomiting when they had their final showdown.

Just couldn't bear how great it was.

[cyber-phobia]

The complete empathy ending is a just a little bit funny when you think about it

[helicarrier]

A long time ago, it is said, a monster came here. Prey (2022) | Dan Trachtenberg

[nocek]

dear Arkane, three is a pattern

(and I love it, please more!)

oh and sorry for SPOILERS I just had to

So I just finished Deathloop (yup, that's why I haven't been active lately, sorry) and obviously I loved it but I just realized...

Dishonored: dad and a child a bit too enthusiastic about murder

Deathloop: dad a gremlin of a child waaaaaaaay to enhusiastic about literal murder

Prey: kinda brother, kinda creator so a dad(?) and a literal gremlin of a child(?)

conclusion: .... so, yeah.

[legionofpotatoes]

feel like I'm the last person who needs to say this but prey (the new predator movie) rips so, so hard. it is such a lean, well-executed film. it feels fury-road simple, sticks to its stated parable, and doles out wonderfully subtle setups without forgetting to pay every last one of them off in really unexpected, fulfilling ways. there's no fat here, it is utterly uninterested in prolonged satellite arcs or fan service b-plots or lore-braining the predator side of things. Naru goes through a crucible all her own, and the predator is simply there as a crystallized, jet-fueled pressure element personifying that hardship. it is a perfect use of the creature as a metaphor, which has always been the series' secret strength and the reason why it has endured so long, agnostic to tonal shifts and canon inconveniences.

and this film just plain kicks ass beyond its story ethos as well. there's wonderful clarity in set pieces, actual storytelling in action (micro moments of tension-release staggered within larger combat scenes), the whole movie is DP'd beautifully, then color graded in vivid, earthly hues, and scored ever so gently by sarah schachner who is fast becoming one of my favorite musical voices in film and games. oh and as a personal favor to me, they made it run just under 2 hours, truly making me feel pampered. I can't speak to native rep here at all, so I'll leave that one to folks who can comment better, except to say that it does pass the aila test and firmly centers the protagonist with all her complications and humanity.

the dog is great. I rate the dog 15/10, best boy imaginable.

[maycanady]

PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

[thentherewasfury]

I am concluding that Prey (2022) is baller for a similar set of reasons to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which include:

Let women do things (specifically: murder)

You only need like three pages of dialogue to carry your 90-minute movie if you actually know how to write good dialogue

Sometimes 100% of the time super-complex “look at my galaxy brain” plots… are worse (cough fuckmarvelcough)

Mind-bogglingly hot shirtless dudes (who still die)

Top-notch violence without a whit of threatened sexual violence (yes MMFR has this in the backstory but not onscreen)

White ppl are fckn stupid

Bonus point for Prey: the dog lives.

[bluetiefling]

Amber Midthunder in Prey (2022)

A long time ago, it is said a monster came here.

[preyatnight]

You think that I’m not a hunter, like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous.

[demimask]

I swear these early images of the predator from Prey are making me go feral

[throbussydestroyersfwsquelcher]