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All the negativity on this board...


And all I've seen literally everywhere else is overwhelmingly positive. The reasons for those negative posts are all bullshit right wing snowflake whining, of course. There is just so much of that on this site and it's incredibly discouraging. Very reminiscent of why the IMDb boards got shut down. Sad, sad stuff. I love the purpose of these types of boards, but they are just overrun with nutjobs.

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I would say it's the other way around.

Sensible film goers realize this movie has a lot of problems. However, those that embrace woke, Leftist ideology feel they need to stand up for the film and support it because of its "girl power" feminist and anti-white male message. In their quest to do so, they ignore the movie's artistic deficiencies.

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Yeah I'm surprised by how angry they're getting and how personally they're taking the criticism

Pretty shite film though, the wokeness was just the tip of the iceberg really

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It had a few bright spots, like the cinematography, but it was overall pretty disappointing. And this is coming from someone who liked the trailer and was looking forward to the movie. In fact, I subscribed to Hulu just to check it out.

The wokeness aside, it was also a rather dull affair. It was slow-paced to the point of inducing boredom, full of stock two-dimensional characters, and the action was largely uninspired and simply not that interesting.

But yeah, some people are flipping out, and you know that's not because they actually think it's a really great movie. There's more going on there. It's ideological.

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My reason for disliking the movie had nothing to do with her gender. It had to do with how her character was written. I would hate this movie if it was a male lead that acted this way. It had to do with the fact she was extremely selfish, obnoxious, petulant and did not care about the well being of her tribe or fellow tribe members. Now let’s get into some details on her lack of care for her tribe. Here is proof that she was selfish, petulant, defiant and didn’t care if members of her tribe died as long as she could prove them wrong. When they found the injured brave that was tore up by the Lion she is the only one who knows medicine. If she cared about the tribe her priority would be to help her people. Especially if they are hurt. When her brother and another brave decide to track the Lion and the rest need to take the injured brave back to camp she starts whining about wanting to hunt because she can. Screw the injured brave. Let him die as long as I can prove myself. The thing is they could have easily made her such a great lead using her tracking and medicine abilities with a team effort. Even if she is the last one standing and serves the killing blow. Instead we got Rey with a tomahawk on rope rather than a lightsaber who didn’t care about anyone but herself and her selfish desire to prove she could hunt no matter who she hurt in the process. It was her fault the braves died that went after her when she went off alone. It was her fault her brother was captured and ultimately killed by the predator. She put them all in that situation with her selfishness. And for some reason it’s always female leads that are portrayed this way.

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Gotta wonder if the people making these movies which are touted for "representation" are not the bigots because even a bad fan fiction writer could write a more likable lead character. I wouldn't like her if she was a male. If Arnold played the same character it would be as bad.

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Well, you are 100% right. She wasn't really a strong woman but a weak selfish child.

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You're exactly right.

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Well why come here then? You can always run into your the comfort of your echo chamber with censorship where admins will ban all non-woke stuff and you will live in happiness believing that everyone agrees with your woke nonsense.

Why come to a real world in a chat that is free of censorship and people say what they think? )))

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I agree though there are also a lot of far left posters that are equally annoying. Like that guy who goes by Leonardo DiCaprio's name who criticized me and others for our religious beliefs. He looks at the bible from a modern perspective because he's a fool. I put him on ignore. There are other things he thinks that as far as I am concerned are completley false. I'd rather not get into them though since a lot of far leftists on here think untrue false things. I do find people who complain about this and other movies being woke to be annoying. Then there's some people who go to every actress board to make topics about how ugly whatever actress is. What a rude thing to say about someone.

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Go to reddit, your safe space. You can downvote anyone that doesn't agree with ya into oblivion.
Cheers

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The more I see you whiny cunts bigging this movie up the less interesting it seems to me. Think I have decided to never watch it and tell everyone it's the worst in the franchise because female led action moves are tosh, just to piss you guys off.

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I think the praise of 'Prey' is over-the-top, but I agree that the discourse on Moviechat is dreadful (unless you are prepared to put dozens of people on ignore). To quote another person who replied here, "attention seeking posters work extra hard to drown out any nuanced discussion of movies, films, actors, etc".

Just from this thread alone:

"those that embrace woke, Leftist ideology feel they need to stand up for the film and support it because of its "girl power" feminist and anti-white male message."

"Well why come here then? You can always run into your the comfort of your echo chamber with censorship where admins will ban all non-woke stuff and you will live in happiness believing that everyone agrees with your woke nonsense."

"The more I see you whiny cunts bigging this movie up the less interesting it seems to me. Think I have decided to never watch it and tell everyone it's the worst in the franchise because female led action moves are tosh, just to piss you guys off."


I'm not sure whether the moderation team is understaffed or if they just let these types of posts dominate the message board because it means, on a base level, people are still engaging with the site. Some of these users should immediately be warned and then banned, not allowed to rack up hundreds and thousands of posts.

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We are not understaffed, we just have a very strong bias in favor of free speech and open discussion.

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We are not understaffed, we just have a very strong bias in favor of free speech and open discussion.


"Bet Predators turn homo on Earth." https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62dfc0a1a0590a6ac41c60b2/Bet-Predators-turn-homo-on-Earth

"Do predators like gang bangs" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62ea14aed0419b3150828403/Do-predators-like-gang-angs

"Lead actress is a half-blood race baiter." https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62b38b765fa7b83517b44be7/Lead-actress-is-a-half-blood-race-baiter-Cant-stand-her-since-that-Liam-Neeson-movie

"Comanche Indians butchered babies" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62b3f2385fa7b83517b45029/How-Comanche-Indians-butchered-babies-roasted-enemies-alive-and-would-ride-1000-miles-to-wipe-out-one-family

"It's woke nonsense..." https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62ed7f2270dad0051fed36a6/Its-woke-nonsense

"Woke fest of a could-have-been great movie" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62f4141d9bb97047db0f47b4/Woke-fest-of-a-could-have-been-great-movie-Spoilers

"Woke" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62ca73313a371340168238cd/Woke

"More woke shit on its way" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/61fdc836542837675e54ddbe/More-woke-shit-on-its-way

"More woke feminism shite." https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62b43ac75fa7b83517b451a5/Farcical

"Strong woman does not need man" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62f2042e711e711ac82ec326/Strong-woman-does-not-need-man

"waif girl beats predator with sticks" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62df7290c5b64278ce3c612a/waif-girl-beats-predator-with-sticks

"LOL facepalm. What she gonna do PMS him to death?" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/6288a83f476fae69bbf20ff0/LOL-facepalm-What-she-gonna-do-PMS-him-to-death

"Female Lead" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62278f85b697b810c616888e/Female-Lead

"Smash the native american patriarchy!" https://moviechat.org/tt11866324/Prey/62a0222088883875edbb1c04/Smash-the-native-american-patriarchy

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What about all the threads with defenders of the movie insulting anyone who dislikes it? Saying they're this or that horrible kind of person?

It goes both ways. Both sides give as good as they get and there's always trolls causing provocation whether they honestly believe in politics or not. If you're calling for censorship of free speech on here I hope you're prepared for both sides of the political fence to be censored.

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What about all the threads with defenders of the movie insulting anyone who dislikes it?


Where are these threads?

In regards to "censorship of free speech", the moderator(s?) of this board already police repeated profanity and spamming of topics. Yet they allow a film's designated discussion area to be clogged with "Bet Predators turn homo on Earth", "Lead actress is a half-blood" and endless variations of "More woke feminism shite", to the extent that the OP created this thread to vent about how overwhelming it was to slog through all the negativity (the majority of which has nothing to do with the technical aspects of the film).

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the irony

https://moviechat.org/tt9419884/Doctor-Strange-in-the-Multiverse-of-Madness/62ce9dcd38588857b1c5f625/I-thought-this-was-awful-spoilers

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the irony


My critique of 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness':

"I didn't enjoy this one, unfortunately. The VFX were ugly and overabundant, and the actors were clearly standing in front of green screens and emoting at tennis balls. Also, there was far too much expository dialogue and clumsily placed quips. I did enjoy some of the Sam Raimi-isms but they clashed with the Marvel formula for film-making that comprised most of this movie."

The critical assessments of 'Prey' on this board:

"Bet Predators turn homo on Earth. With the constant brainwashing WE have - in your face every 2mins."

"Looks woke as fuck... Skilled Female warrior my ass."

"A 120lb little girl up against a Predator! Yeah right. And she's a woman commanche warrior! FUCK OFF, she would have been bearing children and keeping the fucking teepee clean and tidy. More woke feminism shite. And another franchise that's been fucked over so many times since Predator II by those woke wankers in Hollywoke."

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Thanks, I saw these threads when you reported them.

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Maybe the moderation staff don't care about pandering to you because some differing opinions ripped your anus open so much?

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