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Youre a bigot for not liking it? Movie = meh because the lead is a selfish child not because of gender or race
Do you know what the definition of a hero is?
Ripley declawing the Marines
the war of darkness against the light
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This is wrong, did you get that from clownfish?
Myspace and livejournal were not left wing echo chambers. In fact back then people didn't have politics on their minds like they do now. People were more mature. Those sites were used to build your profile and share pics/blogs. It was easy to make friends because people weren't so egotistical. So it was common to have friends lists with people from all walks. People didn't define themselves or let their thought process be lead by politics. There were extremes on both sides but they were the exception not the rule.
As to what brought down myspace? The owners changed the layout, got rid of customization features that made it a fun open ended site that allowed the free flow of communication. The short and narrow sighted people in charge thought it better to take away features and turn it into a music platform.
As for livejournal it teetered out, gave way to other sites. It was just a place of people... journaling.
Tumblr has turned into a cesspool/attractor for "woke", that is true. To say other social media sites were like that or that's why people stopped using them is revisionist hyperbole. Channels like clownfish like to gossip about "woke" culture and would have nothing to offer if not.
This bizarre focus on seeing the "woke" in everything is as weird as the "woke" looking for offense and oppression in everything. Jung would say humanity is possessed and in love with its shadow. What would the left/right do without their favorite scapegoats to sneer down at/project that shadow on to and shadowbox with? Things are only gonna get worse as people become more galvanized in tribalism.
Twitter most represents this devolved egotism with short, shallow, sensationalist, blurbs. Far from myspace where people made long blogs with pics/music/custom code. All social media is entraining but modern social media is trash. Political obsession is a symptom of the devolution/limiting of human consciousness.
I wouldn't even call it garbage because if someone likes it they like it but yeah I have strong feelings of not liking it. I couldn't get behind the lead at all. Where as I thought all the characters shined in Predator. Meh the Predator franchise doesn't have many good sequels. At this point I'm happy with the first two movies.
Can you link to that thread you made? I think I saw it before but can't find it. I've been watching older movies to look for goodies I may have missed but anything new and genuinely good is cool too.
Again why go tit for tat? I've made plenty of replies saying why I don't like the movie and am not a bigot. Seems reasonable to spell out the reasons with my own thread.
The majority of my post isn't about other peoples posts. It's about the reasons I don't like the movie. Am I allowed to post those or do I have to piggyback on other posts?
At least the majority of my post isn't complaining. It's what I didn't like about the movie. I even gave them a concession with admitting there are reasons people might like it and how I'm not in favor of trollish critiques.
It's easier to make one thread than to go tit for tat in others explaining why people who don't like it aren't all bigots.
That's a good list. It reminds me that most old horror movies had female protagonists. Mostly women kicking butt and as the lone survivors. Mostly likable characters too.
There's no reason the lead in prey had to be so selfish and the secondary characters terrible people.
See you're on to something. That would make it more of an ensemble movie like the good Predator movies are.
All the characters could be written as likable. Even the French could be. Make them enemies at first until they all realize they have a common enemy and have to work together to survive.
The movie could still have the teenage girl as the survivor who finally defeats the predator. It would be a more enjoyable and satisfying journey overall.
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.
This is what I'm talking about. The lead is a self serving narcissist who puts everyone else in harm's way and doesn't even appreciate their sacrifices for her.
The movie could have done the teenage hero thing, male or female, and the old frontier native American setting... it could have had its cake and eaten it if it was better written.
Instead of making all the secondary characters horrible so we are manipulated to have sympathy for the lead, why not make them likable? Why not have it so she's ALLOWED to go hunting but on the trip her tribesmen get attacked by the predator. Then she has to take on the predator alone and avenge them. Dutch did it for his team, show her strength of spirit and love for her kin by doing it for her entire tribe.
I could give a care if it's a female lead. Saying that all criticism is about that is a deflection from the fact that the lead is a narcissist who would be as ugly as a male. Why does there have to be so much animosity and narcissism in the movie? Did the people who made it have an ax to grind? Why did they have to use a Predator movie to crap all that narcissism on? It makes the humans more vile than the predator. I was hoping that he would win. The brother was ok, showed care for his sister but look where that got him.
Can you imagine Naru leading Dutch's team? She would tie them up in their sleep then leave them for the predator and go off to do her own selfish thing.
If she saw the cops on the ground at the beginning of Predator 2 she wouldn't drive into enemy fire. She would be like "Whatever. I have better things to do so don't bother me!"
The credits are great. They keep the energy and fun going to the very end. Not every movie can pull off a curtain call but it does. I wish I could have seen it in a theater.
It's like a callback to silver screen WW2 movies and gutsy heroes. Sure all their masculinity means little against the Predator so in a way it subverts the old school heroic trope. It still shows a lot of love for it at the same time and ends on a great note. Literally with the music.
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