Predator PREY

[Trexller]

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Yes Please.

[Bardp1999]

https://i.imgur.com/bSojG8G.gif

[Mblake1981]

Terrible.

[Trexller]

Terrible.

if it were 90 minutes of The Predator doing his taxes, I would watch it.

[Mblake1981]

You guys all about bad takes today?

[Bardp1999]

I love all the Predator movies, the franchise holds a special nostalgia for me and I'll watch every single one they make and love it

[Mblake1981]

I love all the Predator movies, the franchise holds a special nostalgia for me and I'll watch every single one they make and love it

All two of the films? so what?

[Bardp1999]

All two of the films? so what?

There are 7 or 8 of them dummy

[loramin]

All two of the films? so what?

Don't forget the (multiple) Alien vs. Predator movies.

https://i.imgur.com/TYrNFZd.jpeg

(The second one was evidently so bad that Imgur.com didn't have the movie poster for it.)

[starkind]

I liked the AVP films.

[Mblake1981]

There are 7 or 8 of them dummy

Don't forget the (multiple) Alien vs. Predator movies.

I liked the AVP films.

So much bad in such small space.

[Bardp1999]

Show me your best Ryan Gosling memes baby girl, that seems more your jam

[Arteker]

so they took one of the best predator comics of the 90s, one with enoch nakai a navajo usa soldier and turned it into a woke fiesta?.
i remember fondly that comic i was on hospital recovering from surgery sigh

[Trexller]

so they took one of the best predator comics of the 90s, one with enoch nakai a navajo usa soldier and turned it into a woke fiesta?.
i remember fondly that comic i was on hospital recovering from surgery sigh

female protaganist and white men with muskets raping the american wilderness is a woke fiesta?

did the comic have a male protaganist? if so that would bug me a lil, but i'll swallow that for a deathly, wheezing "ugly muuuthhaa fuckkkah"

please don't make me defend a "woke" angle, I really don't like being on this side. These people have nose piercings and blue hair...

[Mblake1981]

female protaganist and white men with muskets raping the american wilderness is a woke fiesta?

in 2022?

[Jibartik]

I like the predictor movie with Adrian Brodie in it

[Mblake1981]

I have no idea what predictor is but the Predator film with Adrian Brodie in it sucked rancid liquid-shit through a straw.

Predator 2 almost doesn't count simply due to Gary Busey, but it still had 90's left-wing ultra violence so that counts.

[Jibartik]

I agree with you about other predictor movies but the predictor with adrian brody was totaly a good romp.

[Mblake1981]

I agree with you about other predictor movies but the predictor with adrian brody was totaly a good romp.

figurative 12 year old, Jib.

[DMN]

gurl baws versus predator.

Wonder who wins.

[Skarne]

Predators was a good movie w/ brody and all the other folks

[Mblake1981]

Predators was a good movie w/ brody and all the other folks

Sure it is, I mean if you struck your head on something and felt woozy.

[Skarne]

K

[Elizondo]

Predator: Stunning And Brave

[Mblake1981]

K

lol you guys can't have that bad of taste, I thought you were being ironic, all of you have sex with your mothers. :p

[robayon]

Looks like a fun movie, but I've been let down by aliens predator verse a lot in the last few decades

I have been waiting for the Robocop crossover from the Dark Horse comics for a while, though

And since I'm pretty sure it's all Fox, just shovel in the X-Men and Deadpool and call it a movie, it's fine

[Mblake1981]

Aliens Vs. Predator desktop computer games were tits, those released before the god awful AVP films, new Predators or Aliens. Isolation was the best Alien game released in recent history. See that is the thing, these were not part of the main franchise. The main franchise being a Predator movie where you don't see him until part-way through the film and the other is about a mysterious Alien lifeform that kills a space crew
part-way through the film. (The point being they later turned a scary monster into the star, like Reddit fan fiction. The stuff we used to call computer games and comic books..)

Edit: Both were late 1970's - mid 1980's horror-slasher-action science-fiction films when Hollywood Left-Wing Ultra Violence ruled the media (and it still does).

-Yu08eFwIEU

[Mblake1981]

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[Skarne]

Looks like a fun movie, but I've been let down by aliens predator verse a lot in the last few decades

I have been waiting for the Robocop crossover from the Dark Horse comics for a while, though

And since I'm pretty sure it's all Fox, just shovel in the X-Men and Deadpool and call it a movie, it's fine

I want another Evil Dead movie.

[robayon]

Aliens Vs. Predator desktop computer games were tits, those released before the god awful AVP films, new Predators or Aliens. Isolation was the best Alien game released in recent history. See that is the thing, these were not part of the main franchise. The main franchise being a Predator movie where you don't see him until part-way through the film and the other is about a mysterious Alien lifeform that kills a space crew
part-way through the film. (The point being they later turned a scary monster into the star, like Reddit fan fiction. The stuff we used to call computer games and comic books..)

Edit: Both were late 1970's - mid 1980's horror-slasher-action science-fiction films when Hollywood Left-Wing Ultra Violence ruled the media (and it still does).

-Yu08eFwIEUI'm not disagreeing but that's the second time I have seen you refer to Hollywood Left-Wing Ultra Violence.

What makes violence in movies left-wing? The victims of the violence? Can you clarify this term?

[Mblake1981]

I'm not disagreeing but that's the second time I have seen you refer to Hollywood Left-Wing Ultra Violence.

What makes violence in movies left-wing? The victims of the violence? Can you clarify this term?

It helps to understand that Hollywood isn't Right-Wing. It's a political talking-point from before I was born, so you are probably aware of it, it's also a point to make jokes for as long as I can remember, so that probably isn't new to you either. There are a lot of examples of violence in films, including many of those from Hollywood or connected to Hollywood. Since Hollywood isn't culturally considered to be Right-Wing then it is simple to say it is Left-Wing. In the case of violence or indeed, Ultra Violence, then you simply add that after. This would indicated to anyone with a functioning brain that is from the USA to easily understand the reference being made.

Thanks, take care and have good one. Yours truly,
Mblake1981

[Mblake1981]

Most of the media I enjoy would be considered Left-Wing Ultra Violence.

Original FallOut for example. The guys were media sponges in a time prior to any
of that being considered Right-Wing. Not even in the same ballpark.

Original Fallout is still the best game of the series. Left-Wing Ultra Violence
did very well in computer games and the American culture until it began to attack
the same culture and twist it into some weird ungodly.. thing.. with dyed hair
and hacked-off genitals.. who target children and argue that straights
(who gave birth to them) are grooming them also.

[Jibartik]

would def sub to mblakes youtube 90s gaming channel.

[robayon]

Just because Hollywood is generally not right wing doesn't make them left wing. It depends. There's a lot of messaging packed into all of them, and I don't know how much is deliberate. Have you seen S. Craig Zahler movies?

I always liked the Disaster Movie trope, it's a real glimpse into the death drive of Americans. Obviously Americans arent the only ones making disaster movies, but we do make the best ones

There's a huge amount of shit to unpack in a lot of movies. Avengers films are chock full of mostly right-wing stereotypes, but so are the comics they're based on

[Mblake1981]

Just because Hollywood is generally not right wing doesn't make them left wing. It depends. There's a lot of messaging packed into all of them, and I don't know how much is deliberate. Have you seen S. Craig Zahler movies?

I always liked the Disaster Movie trope, it's a real glimpse into the death drive of Americans. Obviously Americans arent the only ones making disaster movies, but we do make the best ones

There's a huge amount of shit to unpack in a lot of movies. Avengers films are chock full of mostly right-wing stereotypes, but so are the comics they're based on

lol give me a break

edit:
Are you talking about Burt Reynolds? he brought film-making to Georgia, as whats-his-face once said.. Smokey and the Bandit is documentary. But even then it is still Left-Wing. It's acting and media, its a falsehood for entertainment or story telling. An imitation of life. Please stop this nonsense argument.

[Jibartik]

So I think about this thing you guys are talking about a lot.

It's called predicive programming.

A lot of folks think that there is some secret covert agenda to brainwash us to be ready to go to war with jesus when he comes to save us, because there is this relentless push that aliens will come offering gifts and actually be trying to destroy us.

But that's just a human cultural fear in all aspect of our lives, from the begining of time. Its like survival instinct 101.

So I think that humans, fear the worst, and now we create stories and movies, we try to one up each story and it results in us creating these fanatical predictions about our fears destroying us one day.

and 1000000 monkeys on 1000000 typewriters cant be wrong all the time.

The question that I have is, are we creating our own destruction by writing our own ending on accident?

Could the relentless accidental stories we create, actually be predictive programming, but not on a conspiratory level, but simply a natural evolution?

Like if our stories were about happiness, then about nihilism, then about suicide, dont you think that is a sign of something greater?

I do.

Maybe not a plan, but a very real cause/effect thing.. and the cause is just our natural tendancy to want to be scared, and maybe we scare ourselves to death and that is our natural cycle, like a forest burning itself to the ground with its own dead leaves so it can grow back stronger.

Say what you will about humans, but athiests & the fundamentalists all believe one thing: we have a destiny

[robayon]

lol give me a break

edit:
Are you talking about Burt Reynolds? he brought film-making to Georgia, as whats-his-face once said.. Smokey and the Bandit is documentary. But even then it is still Left-Wing. It's acting and media, its a falsehood for entertainment or story telling. An imitation of life. Please stop this nonsense argument.I don't think it's a stretch to say the ideological content of a movie or tv show depends heavily on the script and the director

So it depends on the movie or tv show. Right wing tropes not being as welcome in Hollywood now as they were fifty years ago is good for the bottom line because culture at large in America is liberal. Even the right wing dudes recognize this, otherwise they wouldn't be whining about how they can't express their white pride without consequences. They have to bake it into the crust of the film, they can't just openly say it like John Wayne used to

So, yeah, now movies still have shitloads of pro-police and pro-military arguments

You're probably mistaking neoliberalism for leftism. A common mistake (deliberate psyop) by conservatives online

[Jibartik]

The new The Man Who Fell To Earth is based on far right 1990s conspiracy and domestic extremism.

Most of the far left stories, are actually based of far right conspiracy theory.

This goes all the way back to the invention of sci fi.

An artist may be left, but their ideas come from the crazy stuff they hear their neighbor talking about.

[robayon]

The new The Man Who Fell To Earth is based on far right 1990s conspiracy and domestic extremism.I haven't seen that but all I am saying is that media content all has a lot of shit built in. There's movies and tv and software with every ideology

Well I have yet to see a Posadist movie but I don't speak Portruguese or watch Brazilian cinema. I sometimes watch Brazilian telenovelas translated into Spanish. No Juan Posadas. Yet

[robayon]

I want another Evil Dead movie.I would watch. I got through the first season of the show but got sidetracked

Bruce Campbell being cast as Mera in Aquaman would kick ass though, now that Scamber Heard is persona non grata

[Jibartik]

Humans are predictable. We have a science called Game Theory about it. (its not video game related its math)

and I think that artists access parts of their brain that is similar to mathematical brain types.


Mathematical brain types, use their brains, to notice patters on a level that they can easily decode into basically data that they can use to make predictions about outcomes.

While artists make those same observations and sort of 'creativly' store the data in their brains in a different way, then they access that data and make predictions about outcomes.

It's why comedians notice the things we all notice but dont notice. But those are the same things that game theorists that are trying to make vast predictions about human behavior also notice, through their data.

So basically, you have all these data scientists (artists) making poems about our future (game theory) based off the observation they encounter day to day (data analysis).

It makes absolute sense that either large portions of these predictions would become reality, because these "artscientistsbraintypes" are trying VERY HARD to make accurate predictions about our future the same way mathmaticians do.

This is why I think predictive programming is both a real science, but misunderstood as organized by a singular entity.

I also think that john, the author of the book of revelations, may have been one of these brain types, on an einstein level.

He observed the collapse of rome, babalyon and other empires we have long forgotten about, made the connections that they all shared using his own personal game theory brain.

Then wrote a step by step: "If A B and C happens, and then D E and F happens, then: G H and I will happen next.

So there could be very literal validity in the fact that, because things in the real life now are mirroring the book of revelations, if we dont heed the warnings and events "accidentally, or self determinedly lead us there" then we may have the same final ending... a war to end all life on earth, then 1000 years of peace and prosperity for those that survived as they live in an ample world with many treasures to rebuild their empire with.

The great barrier could be that john didnt know about radiation back then. And without radiation, you get peace after the fall of an empire, but with it after OUR fall, we wont get shit.

[Kaveh]

There are jingoistic / right wing films for sure. Everything Mel Gibson ever made, for instance. The patriot???

[robayon]

There are jingoistic / right wing films for sure. Everything Mel Gibson ever made, for instance. The patriot???I liked that stupid movie. Heath Ledger was dreamy, Mel Gibson may be an asshole but he's good at movies, and Jason Isaacs was a great villain.

Ever watch that show Turn: Washington's Spies?

Both of these contain multiple Star Trek people

[Jibartik]

Heath ledger was the shit! Tragic loss for movie fans.

[starkind]

*strokes large very smooth brain*

[MrSparkle001]

Interesting premise. So it takes place in the 1700s or something like that?

Predator 1 and 2 are still the only ones worth watching though. I just can't believe a primitive young woman withtomahawks and bows is capable of defeating a spaceship-piloting alien with lasers and cloaking. Sorry I'm just not progressive enough for that nonsense.

[Mblake1981]

I don't think it's a stretch to say the ideological content of a movie or tv show depends heavily on the script and the director

So it depends on the movie or tv show. Right wing tropes not being as welcome in Hollywood now as they were fifty years ago is good for the bottom line because culture at large in America is liberal. Even the right wing dudes recognize this, otherwise they wouldn't be whining about how they can't express their white pride without consequences. They have to bake it into the crust of the film, they can't just openly say it like John Wayne used to

So, yeah, now movies still have shitloads of pro-police and pro-military arguments

You're probably mistaking neoliberalism for leftism. A common mistake (deliberate psyop) by conservatives online

Imagine being out in the middle of a forest and you see a man with a hard-hat and chainsaw, he is busy cutting down a tree. You stop him and share this argument with him, what do you think he would say?

[robayon]

Interesting premise. So it takes place in the 1700s or something like that?

Predator 1 and 2 are still the only ones worth watching though. I just can't believe a primitive young woman withtomahawks and bows is capable of defeating a spaceship-piloting alien with lasers and cloaking. Sorry I'm just not progressive enough for that nonsense.It's an allegory, just like the old Aliens movies were for males about pregnancy and corporate indifference.

Predator has always had an anti-imperialism thread throughout it as a franchise. A foe with more advanced technology takes on a primitive, comparatively underpowered human, whether it's 1984 in the jungle or 1650 in the plains.

Ahnold used a tree and some physical power, good writing can come up with a way for a small woman to defeat a critter

Not that I'm expecting good writing from modern movies, but sometimes they still crank em out

[robayon]

Imagine being out in the middle of a forest and you see a man with a hard-hat and chainsaw, he is busy cutting down a tree. You stop him and share this argument with him, what do you think he would say?"SORRY COULDN'T HEAR YA OVER THE CHAINSAW... WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING OUT HERE?"

[Mblake1981]

"SORRY COULDN'T HEAR YA OVER THE CHAINSAW... WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING OUT HERE?"

Pretty much what I was thinking.

[Trexller]

Interesting premise. So it takes place in the 1700s or something like that?

Predator 1 and 2 are still the only ones worth watching though. I just can't believe a primitive young woman withtomahawks and bows is capable of defeating a spaceship-piloting alien with lasers and cloaking. Sorry I'm just not progressive enough for that nonsense.

in the trailer, predator saves her from that bear.

I bet they ally against a common enemy, probably the white guys with muskets. still a progressive white man bad theme tho

foreshadowing!

[MrSparkle001]

in the trailer, predator saves her from that bear.

I bet they ally against a common enemy, probably the white guys with muskets. still a progressive white man bad theme tho

foreshadowing!

Omg you might be right.

https://i.imgur.com/aIr0G3f.gif

[robayon]

still a progressive white man bad theme thoit's a scale, the overwhelming amount of white savior films must be counterbalanced somehow

pretty racist bear

[Trexller]

it's a scale, the overwhelming amount of white savior films must be counterbalanced somehow

pretty racist bear

yeah plus Predator is an entire race/culture of interstellar big game hunters, and they have been known to display honor. So if that girl is some native american hunter badass, Predator may recognize this.

I don't imagine that an interstellar being is going to have qualms about human gender norms

[Mblake1981]

in the trailer, predator saves her from that bear.

I bet they ally against a common enemy, probably the white guys with muskets. still a progressive white man bad theme tho

foreshadowing!

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[Mblake1981]

yeah plus Predator is an entire race/culture of interstellar big game hunters, and they have been known to display honor. So if that girl is some native american hunter badass, Predator may recognize this.

I don't imagine that an interstellar being is going to have qualms about human gender norms

Goddamn I hate Reddit.

[robayon]

Goddamn I hate Reddit.You're the one with the contrarian takes, you'd farm lots of karma there if you can keep a lid on your "old man yelling at the kids on his lawn" tendencies

Then you can turn around and sell the reddit account on the gray web so it can be used to propagate misinformation such as not liking predator movies

[Trexller]

Goddamn I hate Reddit.

I don't, nor do I know anyone who frequents reddit.

their interface is unintuitive and cumbersome, makes no sense.

I have no idea how reddit got to be popular, other than the fact that the first few years the reddit devs made millions of bots to look like postings, and then google made them the "always #3-5" search results

reddit is useless and stupid unless you're a data miner

[Mblake1981]

You're the one with the contrarian takes, you'd farm lots of karma there if you can keep a lid on your "old man yelling at the kids on his lawn" tendencies

Then you can turn around and sell the reddit account on the gray web so it can be used to propagate misinformation such as not liking predator movies

At no point does that alter the damage that Reddit has done.

[robayon]

At no point does that alter the damage that Reddit has done.It's not even the first site like that

I lay all of at the feet of Richard Kyanka, but he's dead so I guess Wil Wheaton is to blame

[Mblake1981]

It's not even the first site like that

I lay all of at the feet of Richard Kyanka, but he's dead so I guess Wil Wheaton is to blame

Digg.com, Kevin Rose, TechTV?..

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[Trexller]

so I guess Wil Wheaton is to blame

this is basically true anywhere, at anytime, about anything

fuck that guy and his sweaters

[Kaveh]

Speaking of movies, I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed the new Batman. Robert Pattinson does nothing in it, but the film was enjoyable. Especially since it was way too long

[Jibartik]

Yeah that was awesome.

I had a hard time keeping up with it at first but about halfway I just sort of settled into it and got sucked into the story. It was cool. Long yeah, but thank god because if it was any shorter Id be like, wtf was that about??!

[Topgunben]

https://i.imgur.com/bSojG8G.gif

[starkind]

At no point does that alter the damage that Reddit has done.

It's not even the first site like that

I lay all of at the feet of Richard Kyanka, but he's dead so I guess Wil Wheaton is to blame

reddit accelerated the bad tho have to admit

[robayon]

reddit accelerated the bad tho have to admitoh yes, reddit is certainly a lot larger than any of the previous versions and there's been some kind of weird exponential effect as time has drudged on

like the whole internet is building to a critical mass of stupidity and will reach stupidity fusion

[starkind]

oh yes, reddit is certainly a lot larger than any of the previous versions and there's been some kind of weird exponential effect as time has drudged on

like the whole internet is building to a critical mass of stupidity and will reach stupidity fusion

Thx for acknowledging that. I don't believe it's a phenomenon unique to reddit either.

In my video game subs tho there is this very cringy echo chamber effect I noticed even about generally subjective and apolitical topics or narrative points. And it makes me wonder if the vast majority of humans actually have any free will at all. It's just much more obvious on certain platforms than others. Reddit is by far not the worst like certain disqus communities. However it can be pretty bad. I still occasionally stumble on original thought. It's so rare now. Yikes. I'm probably an AI :(