WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:07.440 We can kill it. 2 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:14.560 Shut up? 3 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:32.119 What the hell are you? 4 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.520 Welcome back midnight viewers to Yahu. It's the one you've 5 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.600 been waiting for. It is Yah Mark two. We have 6 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:49.479 a bigger dressing room than the puppets. HP has joined 7 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.640 me as usual. He's on my He's on our Predator 8 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.600 journey with us, HP. How are you man? 9 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.920 I'm so good everything. I feel like everything has been 10 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.799 leading up to this moment when you mentioned to me 11 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.560 the idea for you yaouca fest Excuse me, I had 12 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:07.400 no idea the hills I was going to have to 13 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.319 climb and the distance I'd have to walk. But here 14 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.599 we are ready to go with Prey. 15 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.599 Hey, disregard this, listeners, this is just a test. I'm 16 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:20.280 leaving the network in February. All right, Pray, let's talk. 17 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:20.640 Pray. 18 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:24.439 It is the latest in the Predator franchise. Now efficiently. 19 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:28.040 Now look up until now, the direction of the series 20 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:31.120 has really been based on whoever happens to be making 21 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:33.879 the movie at that time, whether that was an edict 22 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.599 from twentieth century Fox that they wanted a particular type 23 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.280 of movie, and then somebody came in and made it, 24 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:41.280 or somebody came in and said hey, let's do this 25 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.920 kind of movie with the Predator, and they've done it. Now. 26 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.840 Obviously that's the case here where somebody pitched, let's do 27 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.079 this kind of flick and they went for it. But 28 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.480 this is the first time we have a filmmaker in 29 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.879 charge who's going to be given multiple films. He's already 30 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:01.000 made multiple films. Is there's three now technically, and hopefully 31 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.359 he'll remain in charge of the entire series. I'm talking 32 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:07.480 of for use about Dan Tracktenberg and his movie Pray. 33 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:16.680 Why do you want to Hunt? Because you all think 34 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:22.840 that I can't. I saw a song in the sky. 35 00:02:23.639 --> 00:03:06.960 I'm ready. Oh there's something else I'm trying. 36 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:09.240 You can't. 37 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:11.919 I'm trying to protect you, protect me from what. 38 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:19.639 It's time. 39 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.199 It knows how to hunt, I know how to circrive. 40 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:05.280 Whatever did this? I can character. 41 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.480 This movie was written by Patrick Eisen with a screen 42 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.079 that he wrote the screenplay, but stories by Patrick Iisen 43 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.279 and Dan Tracktenberg based on characters by Jim and John Thomas, 44 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.839 as all of them happened to be. This one stars 45 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:31.800 Amber mid Thunder, Dakota Beaver's, Dane de Lagro, Michelle Thrush, 46 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:37.120 Stormy Kip Julian Black, Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. And this 47 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.720 was released on July twenty first, at twenty twenty two. 48 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.720 That was the San Diego Comic Con premiere. Mott was 49 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.720 released officially and it was released in a few theaters 50 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.560 on August the fifth, Jessica's birthday, twenty twenty two. HB. 51 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.319 Was this your first time watching Prey? 52 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:54.519 It was not. 53 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.199 It's interesting we've and away he goes, here we go. 54 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.959 So long time listeners of you Yocha fest will know 55 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.560 that quite a few of these movies. I will say 56 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.199 to father alone, Yeah, this is the first time I 57 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:13.000 ever saw it. For this episode, this one, I the 58 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.120 trailers got me because so this is almost forty years 59 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.519 after the premiere of the First Predator, right, the First 60 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.480 Predator was nineteen eighty six, and here we are it's 61 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:27.680 twenty twenty two, so that's thirty six years. I like 62 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.639 most people, this was sort of coming out of the 63 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.279 pandemic a little bit, maybe not going to see as 64 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.639 many movies as I'd want to or I'd like to. 65 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.360 I caught wind of the trailer. It looked interesting to me. 66 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.000 We were all in a haze because of the pandemic 67 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.879 and the entertainment that we were getting also seemed to 68 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.279 be in a haze. Nothing was really clicking, nothing was 69 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:54.040 really firing right. As I understand, even Mill and Ted 70 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.079 couldn't save us. 71 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.199 That's the story for another day. I got a lot 72 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:58.920 of thoughts on that one as well. But as far 73 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.680 as this is concerned, and I also I'm aware that 74 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.439 this movie was made under the strictures of the pandemic, 75 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.480 so that's that in itself is an achievement when you 76 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:11.240 actually see the movie. But anyway, short story long, it 77 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.639 was the trailer that looped me in. It just looked 78 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.399 so cool. After so many years and so many seeming 79 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.639 disappointments with the direction of the franchise, nothing really interested me. 80 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:28.319 This sparked something because this was you often say, Father Malone. 81 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.319 And with respect to some of these movies and things, 82 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:35.040 we talk about, why has someone not thought of this sooner? 83 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.399 Why we've kind of gone to the future with Predator 84 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.439 in some respects, but we've never gone to the distant past. 85 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:47.000 We know that anecdotally through the Conic books and just 86 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.560 through various things that happen in the movies, that the 87 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.959 Predators have been around for a long time, but why 88 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:57.920 I know from Predator Too, right, So I guess I 89 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:00.759 would ask you rhetorically, Father Malone, why did it take 90 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.600 so long for somebody to come up with this idea? 91 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:04.839 Because it's fucking brilliant. 92 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.319 To be honest, I guarantee you the idea was floated 93 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.600 a long time ago. I bet Jim and John Thomas 94 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.199 probably floated it right after Predator two and they said, no, 95 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.519 we're not doing that. In fact, we're not making any 96 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.319 Predator movies after that. But I don't think since then 97 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:26.040 no one has come in to really we're talking Predator too. 98 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.199 And then the only actual dedicated Predator movie after that 99 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.759 was Predator and they were just excited to have Robert 100 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.480 Rodriguez and a script that was ready to go basically, 101 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.399 so that's and after that they got Shane Black, who 102 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.199 not only has tie and that he was in and 103 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.519 wrote a bunch of the first film, but he wants 104 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.120 to try and take it. And now we're in the 105 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:56.439 midst of world building an MCU and DC flailing around 106 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.839 attempting to make their own and they thought, well, Shane 107 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.680 Black just did Iron Man three. He's going to give 108 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.560 us a whole new universe and give us a direction, 109 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:08.199 and he tried, but it didn't really take and nobody 110 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.800 liked it. And to be honest with you, that ultimate 111 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.800 notion that the Predators are conquerors, I fucking hate it. 112 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.959 Yeah, I agree. And also, let's not forget that The Predator, 113 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:23.600 the Shane Black movie, was twenty ten, correct, So now 114 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:27.680 we've gone another twelve years without any kind of Predator 115 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:32.039 movie being released, and it sort of was feeling like 116 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.799 maybe the franchise had just reached its you know, had 117 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.320 taken its course, and there was no more a choose 118 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:39.639 to be squeezed from that lemon. 119 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:44.200 Good thing, I guess, because this is the ultimate example 120 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.840 of good things come to those who wait. If here's 121 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.559 my hot take on this movie. If they had made 122 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.279 Predator in nineteen eighty six and then we got to this, 123 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.240 only no other mention of a Predator in popular culture 124 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.559 until this came out, it would have been worth it. 125 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:03.879 This is a fucking great movie. 126 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.320 Brilliant in so many ways, brilliant from the way it's 127 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.799 photograph to the acting to the story. The music is beautiful. 128 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.720 This looks like a big budgeted Predator movie that takes 129 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:19.559 place in the seventeen hundreds. I mean what more could 130 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:23.000 you ask for? It's just it, truly, Like I said, 131 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.480 I saw the trailer and it intrigued me, But I 132 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.639 honestly don't know if I was prepared for just how 133 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.519 good it was until I saw it, and it blew 134 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.679 me away. It still blows me away. I watched it 135 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.639 again in preparation of this episode, and I was still 136 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:38.360 taken by it. 137 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.720 Tell us the story already. 138 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.159 So as I mentioned this, the story takes place. It's 139 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:47.799 in It's among the Commanche people in the northern Great 140 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.960 Plains in seventeen nineteen, and the plot really concerns a 141 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.559 Commanche warrior, a female warrior named Nauru, who is eager 142 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.919 to prove herself to the rest of the tribe. She 143 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:01.840 wants to be a hunter. She's being relied upon as 144 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.759 a tracker and as a as as someone skilled with medicine, 145 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.480 but that's not what she wants. She wants to become 146 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:14.080 a hunter herself. And there's this word for hunt that 147 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.240 all of the warriors have to go through. It's called katamia. 148 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:24.600 I believe I'm sorry from butchering the pronunciation. So so 149 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:30.840 she's Her older brother is Tabe, and he's basically in 150 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.279 line to be the new war chief, so she's in 151 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.399 his shadow. This is all very relatable stuff. It's a 152 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:39.600 sibling thing. She loves her brother, she loves her people, 153 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.159 but she wants more, she wants to be more, she 154 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.000 wants to accomplish more. And and on top of all that, 155 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:52.639 she has this absolutely cute fucking dog. And that's a 156 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.759 short cut to my heart right there. And I think 157 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:59.200 you two fought him alone. This dog is hard. It's great. 158 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.759 I mean not. Here's the thing, from what I can 159 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:06.200 gather from interviews, I guess the dog wasn't really trained. 160 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.039 I think Amber mid Thunder described the dog as a 161 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.480 bit of a hot mess. The dog when you watch 162 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.759 the movie, it's not as if the dog does any 163 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.679 crazy tricks or it can do all these It's just 164 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.080 a very cute dog that responds to a few commands 165 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.720 and makes its presence known. And it's just so fucking 166 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.360 adorable you just want to just squeeze it and give 167 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.080 a kiss. This awesome dog. So that alone predisposes me 168 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.320 to really pulling for this main character of Nahru. 169 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.679 Yeah. So let me here's here. Let me just speak 170 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.559 to the brother sister thing, because not only is it 171 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.799 relatable plot wise, and you know what, honestly, when you 172 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.440 when it's described, it sounds rote, but it is not 173 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.159 in any way wrote what we're seeing here, because first 174 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.679 of all, we're seeing a Native American tribe just portrayed 175 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:57.240 and as is, without any worry about the fucking white 176 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.039 man coming in and explaining to us what's going on 177 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.120 or anything. But to that point, they are so casual 178 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.519 and so familiar with each other that they really feel 179 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.159 like family. I loved both of these people, of these 180 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.559 two character like right from the get go. That's hard 181 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.159 to do, and these two are so charming and it's 182 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.759 so smartly written, and like I said, they make it 183 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:25.600 feel contemporary while not making that feel anachronistic. 184 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:29.360 It's it does really feel like a real sibling thing. 185 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.799 There's a lot of love between them Here's Ultimately, I'm 186 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.440 no historian, but to my eyes, I feel like this 187 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:40.639 picture was made with the utmost sensitivity to both the 188 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:44.480 time and the setting, but more importantly to the Commanche 189 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:48.720 people in particular. It just it felt authentic. It felt 190 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.679 matter of fact, and that there's nothing mysterious or like 191 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.919 the tropes of the mystical sort of Native American tribe. 192 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.200 These are just people that are living off the land, 193 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.279 doing the best they can. I'm dealing with life as 194 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.519 it comes to them. I just love, as you said, 195 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.440 how matter of fact that all is. And this it 196 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:12.360 creates this brilliant backdrop in which the Predator kind of 197 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:16.240 introduced inserts itself into this story in this culture. It's 198 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.080 really we're going to overuse the word brilliant, but I 199 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.720 don't have a better word to describe. It's really quite 200 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:23.919 amazing what they've done with the story here. 201 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.919 Yeah, not to jump ahead or anything, because I'm not 202 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.279 jumping ahead, because it's almost from the beginning. In fact, 203 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:35.759 when the predatorship arrives that that's when Nadho's she sponts it. 204 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.639 She's the only one who sponts it. And she mistakes 205 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.840 it for a thunderbird. She mistakes it for a vision. 206 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.519 And what's great about that is this movie completely side 207 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:50.679 steps the whole Native American mystical visionaries bullshit, the Oliver Stone, 208 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:56.519 the even Underhart, even Thunderheart. No one's having fucking visions quests. 209 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.200 No one's in the sweat lodge here. It's just she 210 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.039 sees the ship coming down. And by the way, the 211 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.960 reveal of the title, which is Nadu standing a top 212 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.360 a mountain peak looking up with her tomahawk in her hand, 213 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.759 and you don't see the ship, but you get just 214 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.159 the impression of it. But then the camera pans up 215 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.679 further into the clouds and the credits are the opening 216 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:25.279 title is waiting there. I loved it, man, It's so invigorating, 217 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.080 like once the last time a title came up and 218 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.879 you were like, Holy God, yeah, here we go. 219 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.720 It's invigorating, and it's foreboding because you know that this 220 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.080 what she's taking as this sign that she's ready for 221 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.759 her great hunt, is actually a sign that this creature 222 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:48.360 who we've seen its brethren lay waste to civilization after 223 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.679 civilization through the course of all of these movies. So 224 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.519 you're kind of left wondering initially, like, how is how 225 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.120 are these people? How is this character going to deal 226 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:04.519 with this tech logically advanced killer in their midst And 227 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.679 I tell you, the Predator was not prepared for Nadu. 228 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.000 I can say that much. 229 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.840 Well, that's the thing. That's the great thing about this 230 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:17.240 fucking title is look, in that first movie, Predator is 231 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.960 the Predator. Here the Predator ends up being pray baby. Yeah, 232 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.240 you're right, he's not. He is in no way prepared 233 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.039 for what's waiting for him on Earth. It's so fantastic, 234 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:27.120 it's so good. 235 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.080 Can we talk a minute. We're going to get into 236 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:30.879 the story more, but I want to kind of kick 237 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.919 off by talking about the Predator itself. We often will 238 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.080 bring up how did you think of this predator? How 239 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:41.120 do you think he did this? To me? Is probably 240 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.399 my second favorite predator because this one seems so much 241 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.799 more organic than the rest. I think, by definition, this 242 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:52.360 is a feral looking predator. It's much more lithe and 243 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.519 lean than any of the other predators that we've seen 244 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.320 in the previous four or five six movies. 245 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.720 Whatever. This is the This is the return of Gillis 246 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.360 and Woodruff as the designers for the Predator. That their 247 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:13.480 last one was Requiem or was it? Really? Very wisely 248 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.120 has corrected me that the last one they did was Predators. 249 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.360 Where they had they did all these swoll predators, all 250 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:25.320 the skipp and leg day predators, the triangular upside down predator. 251 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.399 I hated those, so it was a welcome relief we 252 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:33.360 didn't see them in the Predator. But I agree the 253 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.080 design on this one is pretty fucking spectacular, and it 254 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.759 takes one of their sort of earlier innovations to its 255 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:45.360 ultimate step, which is turning the what were dreadlocks into 256 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:50.559 basically hair. Now it's so thin and so multiple, it 257 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.399 becomes its own kind of character trait, like like a 258 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.159 cape on him, like a lion's mane. You're right, a 259 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.399 Farrell a much more less ten little and more sort 260 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:02.639 of biological threat. 261 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:06.839 Yeah. Even the mask, the helmet that it has is 262 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:09.920 it's not metal like we're used to. It's actually it 263 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.759 almost appears to be bone. I think it's meant to 264 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:16.160 be some sort of organic bony material. And that's where 265 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.279 it doesn't have a shoulder cannon yet, but it has 266 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.680 those three distinct laser lights kind of come out of 267 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.440 the out of the mask, and it actually doesn't even 268 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:32.200 shoot lasers like it actually shoots almost like arrow bolts 269 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.359 or crossbow bolts. 270 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.799 It's a projectile weapon. These Remember this is three hundred 271 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.440 years ago and another Look, we're just going to keep 272 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.960 saying it's brilliant. But I like when somebody thinks about 273 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.279 the science of something three hundred years ago, maybe they 274 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:50.279 didn't have energy based weapons. Maybe they were just shooting bolts. Yes, 275 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.440 the bolts were effectively laser guided or heat guided or 276 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.519 far in advance of anything that we could potentially do. 277 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.799 But I loved that. 278 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.480 It's still got the spinning discs that come off of 279 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.359 the gauntlet. The but it is it does feel like 280 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:11.480 a precursor to the predator creatures that we kind of 281 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:13.880 have seen in the later movie or the earlier movies, 282 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:17.119 I should say. But what's interesting is even in it 283 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.680 has these bolts that it shoots out, but at one 284 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.759 point it kills one of the warriors, one of the 285 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:24.880 Native American warriors, but then you see it has to 286 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:29.000 go and retrieve the bolts from the dead body. It's 287 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.160 not just it doesn't have an endless supply of these things. 288 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:33.519 It's almost like it has. It's like a like a 289 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:35.200 bo caster or something. 290 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:35.680 It's just it. 291 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.359 The logic of it, I think is it makes so 292 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.720 much sense to me, and I was thrilled by it. 293 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.359 Yeah, it evens the score just a little bit between. Look, 294 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.960 they don't have machine guns, so he shouldn't have a laser. 295 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.200 He should have a laser guided bow and arrow. 296 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.440 Basically, it's just attitudinally and just the way it moves 297 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.880 it's not this giant pro wrestler. It's just it's it 298 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.279 kind of has the bad quality. But even in terms 299 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.200 of attitude, there's a part in this. It's this little 300 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:11.039 sequence excuse me, where it gets attacked by a wolf. 301 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:13.960 This wolf, I don't remember the context, but the wolf 302 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:17.359 sort of catches it sent and it attacks it. Normally, 303 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:19.920 correct me if I'm wrong, but a predator will not 304 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:22.799 necessarily attack you unless you are a threat to it. 305 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.160 But in this case, it feels like this predator is 306 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.000 sort of new to the idea of hunting and what 307 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.000 should it hunt, and essentially kills us. I mean, it's 308 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.920 not really a poor wolf, but I end up feeling 309 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:36.599 a little bad for it. But it kind of made 310 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.200 sense in a weird way that this predator is the 311 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.759 code of the predator doesn't feel like it's been fully 312 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.240 formed three hundred years before we see the first official 313 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.119 appearance of the predator. I just thought it was kind 314 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.839 of neat to see this thing acting just a little 315 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.880 bit differently than we're used to, but again making sense 316 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:58.400 because this is an ancestor to the predators that we've 317 00:19:58.440 --> 00:19:59.559 come to know and love. 318 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:07.319 Well, hunting and predation are actual themes explored in this film. 319 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.200 For the first time ever in the Predator series, we're 320 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:14.559 looking at that as it actually applies to our characters. 321 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.319 In fact, this is the first time we have a 322 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:22.279 character who is a hunter, who is not only hunting 323 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.119 out of necessity. People need to eat, and this is 324 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.319 impressed upon us over and over, like when they come 325 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:32.640 back from ut. So not only does she need to hunt, 326 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.279 but this she needs to prove herself as a hunter 327 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.000 because everyone is saying she can't. So there's that. But 328 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.880 then just in the nature side of things, we have 329 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.799 them hunting a lion who has been hunting them. We 330 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.759 get this snake who is like hunting a rabbit and 331 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.359 like it attempts to attack the predator and because it 332 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:57.720 knows something is there even though some even though it 333 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.880 can't see it, but the predator can that and then 334 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.160 skins it and takes its little skull. There. God, what 335 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:07.440 else is there? Oh? Yeah, no, the rabbit is the 336 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.559 coyote is chasing a rabbit and the predator it is. 337 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.200 The predator steps in and then the coyote attacks that. 338 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:16.680 The great thing about that is the coyote snaps at 339 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.680 the predator, not knowing where or what it is, and 340 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.119 it makes contact and then for the rest of the scene, 341 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:25.599 every time that wolf's mouth opens you can see a 342 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.440 little bioluminescent blood in there. 343 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:30.599 Yeah, it's great. I'm sure. Hey, let's put the. 344 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.440 Car into every fucking shot of this movie that I'm making. 345 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.000 Let me actually consider everything we're doing before we do it. 346 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.920 It's all beautiful, and I'm sure most, if not all, 347 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.400 of those animals are CG creations, and sometimes it's a 348 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.000 little more obvious. But for the most part, I thought 349 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:51.559 all that stuff, the wolf, the snake, the rabbits, is 350 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:55.000 the getting killed everywhere, the lion, it all looks really good. 351 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.720 A lot of care went into just the effects work 352 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.119 in this, and it blends sodlessly into the world. 353 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:02.920 It's not all we have to say about the Predator 354 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:07.200 and predation. I'm just well, ultimately, no, So you were 355 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.000 saying that the Predator maybe their code hasn't been formed necessarily. 356 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:14.240 I think, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think, 357 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.200 who knows. Maybe this is just you're right, This is 358 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:20.880 a primitive version of them. He doesn't have a metal 359 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.480 face plate, he doesn't have lasers, he has his heads 360 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:28.000 up display, sort of bored into the skull of some 361 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.279 creature he had killed. 362 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:33.359 Yeah, it's cool, and there's a lot this predator, I 363 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.480 think more than most others, he just has a flare. 364 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:39.160 I think it's a conscious choice to make him a 365 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:41.200 little more of a badass in this because I think 366 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.160 it just the fight scenes are so fluid and great, 367 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:49.640 Whereas mostly predators will just kind of slash and punch 368 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.799 and throw its way out of anything, but this one, 369 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.920 we're seeing the predator flip things in the air and 370 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.519 bring them down into people's heads, and the weapons are 371 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:59.960 all kind of cool and a little different. It's just 372 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.000 this predator feels like more of a badass to me. 373 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:09.720 And what's interesting is there are there's moments and we've 374 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:11.440 kind of seen this a little bit in some of 375 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:13.359 the other movies, a touch of this here and there, 376 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:17.319 but there are moments where you can see that there's 377 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.839 almost a sympathy between the predator and Naduru. There's a 378 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:26.079 sequence where Naduru comes across this a whole herd of 379 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:29.359 buffalo that have been killed and just to be stripped 380 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:31.559 of their hides, and they're left there at a rot 381 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:35.160 and it really deeply troubles Nahdaru. And she says a 382 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:38.799 little prayer and she finds a cigar that will find 383 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:42.240 out that these French trappers are causing all this mayhem. 384 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.440 So, by the way, that completely fooled me the first 385 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:47.440 time I saw it. When I saw that herd completely skinned, 386 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.880 I thought, predators don't do that. What's going on here 387 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.640 in this movie? And then she found this cigar and 388 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.559 I went, oh, fucking humans. 389 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:58.359 It makes sense. But then maybe five minutes later, the 390 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:02.039 predator also comes across the same scene, and it's not 391 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:05.359 like it vocalizes anything, but you see it pick up 392 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:08.920 the cigar, and you know that the predators have this 393 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:12.960 code of, you know, killing only when it's in their 394 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.559 minds a fair fight. So the predator knows that this 395 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.960 is just senseless killing for the sake of killing, and 396 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:21.759 it just creates this. It's almost like Nahru and the 397 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.279 predator are kind of two sides of the same coin 398 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:28.319 in a way. They're both hunters trying to accomplish their mission. 399 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.720 She wants to prove herself to her tribe that she 400 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:36.440 can do this, and he is obviously on his hunt. 401 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:39.359