THE PREDATOR is Garbage - Part One | Cynical Reviews

The Predator (2018) might well be the funniest comedy of that year. But for all the wrong reasons.
The latest instalment in the Predator franchise, The Predator (2018) is both a complete mess and an insult to its intellectual property. After being hastily reshot and re-edited in response to awful test screenings, it was left as a pile of barely comprehensible garbage that writer/director Shane Black will never live down. It fails at being either a sci-fi horror or a comedy, being neither scary nor funny.
But throw in some terrible writing, over-the-top slapstick violence, bad CGI, unconvincing autism, and a little bit of controversy, and you have unintentional hilarity gold.
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[@micdrop344]

Take my subscription, you marvelous, analytical bastard. If I had spare money, I'd become a Patron, but responsibilities. 💁

[@ahardworker2154]

Am so sorry you had to site through this piece of crap

[@skeptica]

I can't believe there's movies this bad

[@nolongeractive7176]

To be fair the film wasn't all that. I prefer all the other predators instead of this one honestly

[@doc325]

Only point of disagreement, yes as a combat veteran with severe PTSD, this is actually how we would act if placed on a bus together. A combination of dark humor, teen momma jokes, and shows of masculinity against any authority who is not a member of "the club". However everything else in this movie is absolute crap, and makes Predator 2 look like Avatar in comparison.

[@lordkrythic6246]

Normal People: "That's not how autism works" Hollywood: *_"Is it though?"_*

[@omnical6135]

hollywood: wait, you're telling me autism isn't a superpower? nah, you're lying

[@matthewboer8279]

Lord Krythic it’s called plotisum

[@MahouShoujo-Studios]

@@matthewboer8279 bruh 🤣

[@oscardepaz1196]

Normal people: NO!

[@rmg8717]

I love how in movies kids never show their parents anything. My kids and all the other kids I know can’t go half and hour without showing us SOMETHING. But sure, bad ass alien tech a kid would totally keep to himself… Also, why do movie parents NEVER seem to check on their kids?

[@mrRufffnTumble]

"The predator uses autism lazily. " Is a sentence that I never thought I would hear.

[@gst013]

Or lazily...

[@Lenak_]

As an autistic person I wanted to die during the whole movie. When Olivia Munn said "autism is the next step in evolution" (or something like that) I actually cried laughing

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

In some ways, it could be. But it would not be mostly the savants Hollywood makes us out to be. Either way, The Accountant is better than this looks.

[@Lenak_]

@@KeybladeMasterAndy evolution doesn't have a goal, so the next step could also be having 6 fingers Yeah it's a good movie

[@kleptrep94]

I know like have they ever seen us? How the fuck are we the next step in anything?

[@Sonji_S]

@@drakep.5857 i have asperger and we often had fire alarms go of at our "special" school, NEVER have i seen a kid with autism have problems with the noise, they just got out just fine

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@Lenak_ Actually the next step is us having 5 fingers. 6 is the normal one?? I think it truly is a case of a recessive gene becoming the prominent one out of the sheer factor of breeding. Some research done on people with more than five fingers found they have on up on us and yes, I am jealous.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

In previous movies, the Predators were intergalactic, alien Big Game hunters (and literal "alien hunters") who live for the thrill of the ritualistic hunt and have a code of honour (i.e. not killing unarmed "civilians", pregnant females and young ones), who select the most dangerous prey that will pose a challenge and use cloaking tech to stalk their prey, and take trophies afterwards. This movie turned Predators into generic Slasher movie psycho killers in a monster mask who swagger around, gunning down and ripping people in half in a gory mess.

[@jephersonmyrs]

The only problem I've ever had with the Predators are the tech they use during their hunts, seems unfair, and hardly honorable.

[@jasonhasenfus6090]

@@jephersonmyrs by that logic when a person goes out trophy hunting you should square up to the moose with nothing but his fist and a knife.

[@raz0rbladeapolo]

@@jasonhasenfus6090 Well yea, if you claim to have a code of honor in the hunt. As we’ve seen through various media through the years, attacking a caveman armed with a flaming branch, while wielding weaponry eons ahead of human civilization is neither honorable or challenging. The first film and a handful of comics are the only times plot armor is the only reason the hunter didn’t wipe out 100 people and “hero” within 5 minutes.

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@jephersonmyrs I mean, no one says their code of honor has to be logical and moral. Their whole society is supremely racist and backwards, so its not surprised they see no problem with obliterating random creatures for sport.

[@sev1120]

​@@raz0rbladeapoloplus, Yautja aren't just killers, as shown in a comic. They will only hunt their chosen prey in such a time when it would be "sporting", and some will actively protect their chosen quarry. Plus with the first film, the soldiers managed to injure the predator even whilst it was cloaked, so it would pick them off one by one until only the strongest remained, then face it in single combat

[@WalkerRileyMC]

Gotta love how everyone save Munn was more concerned about how the movie would be affected by people knowing a convicted sex offender was on set than actually having a convicted sex offender on set.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

The set wouldn't be affected. There are a lot of people around at all times.

[@Sharks-wm1ru]

At least it is funnier than Holmes and Watson though...

[@GoinGreninja]

Absolutely

[@vectorequinox6202]

The highest of distinctions indeed.

[@CynicalReviews]

The lowest bar possible.

[@GoinGreninja]

@@CynicalReviews yup

[@kieronwheeler3087]

Yes, but so was was me finding out that I have liver, kidney, and heart problems, and will be lucky to live past 25.

[@kazzykun]

As someone with Aspergers, I’m not an idiot but I’m definitely not a super genius who can hack into alien technology or work for the government to encrypt super secret nuclear codes to defeat the Soviet Union.

[@jacobb.9181]

How does autism affect you? If you don’t mind me asking. Do you even notice when it gets really bad?

[@krystalendermalie1361]

@@jacobb.9181 it's kind of hard to understand social cues that normal people understand. We tend to obsess over things, especially things that comfort us. Some of us don't like physical contact. It's not the same for everyone who has it, so that we don't fit a single mold. As for noticing it being bad, we don't notice until it is pointed out or during a meltdown.

[@TheAngryXenite]

@@jacobb.9181 In my experience, the biggest detriment is probably the mental fatigue. I have trouble sometimes conversing with people. I have to maintain eye contact even when I'd really be looking anywhere else, and it makes me so incredibly anxious that I have to be constantly doing shit with my hands, ANYTHING with my hands (flapping them, twisting my fingers around each other, tightly clasping them together, twisting them behind my back while holding both wrists in the opposite hand, flipping a pencil, etc), to help distract myself and keep myself grounded. And I constantly am trying to decipher what exactly people are feeling and how I should respond to appear polite and avoid creeping them out, as well as to make sure I understand what they're asking me. Most people have it come to them more naturally, but to me it's a conscious effort, and the result is that it's exhausting after a while.

[@margaritam.9118]

Krystal Endermalie I have Aspergers and Iove physical comfort, I was super cuddly as a kid. Actually, it brings a lot of problems for me as an adult, because men I date think it’s a sign that I am ready to get physical with them and I get dragged into fwb shit without emotional closeness I want.

[@yanindexmessenger]

I have Aspergers as well. I mainly just have a lot of trouble with conversation, body language, and recognizing when people are disinterested or uncomfortable. In addition, I’m very logical and overly literal with things, so sometimes sarcasm and jokes go over my head, and I value things in a different way.

[@nuttherbutter4075]

As a lifelong Predator fan, this film absolutely crushed my soul. I've never had such animosity towards a movie and director.

[@geoczeoszkar]

Same. This will never be a predator movie in my book.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

So you don't know who Zack Snyder is, then? Because he is infinitely worse and more disrespectful to the franchises he adapts.

[@Mullerweb1138]

Yes you're quite right. Watching it again on Blu Ray I was very debilitated. It's only a movie, after all, and during the pandemic we've all got larger issues at stake. But Predator movies come along once in a while. And to have waited 9 months for this (when booking a day off work in advance to go and see this) I was very disappointed. The issue of course is that, due to the re-shoots, we are seeing footage from the first round of shooting, blended in uncomfortably with footage from the second round of shooting (when the producers had removed the Emissary Predators, the Hybrid creatures and General Woodhurst and reshot the entire final act), and then they embarked on a third round to paper over the cracks. We are left with what CJ has described it as..."a Butchered Frankenstein's monster of a movie". And the pity is that we will probably never see the original version of this movie, and will have to tolerate memories of The Predator in our minds until the next movie comes along. If indeed Disney, now owning Fox, actually do anything with the property!

[@AtemiRaven]

You know it is bad when it makes Alien Versus Predator look like a good movie in comparison.

[@FlagWaverFlagBearer]

Have you heard of a man called Rian Johnson

[@Rakerong]

"The Predator ignores her, probably because he didn't want to get cut out of the film as well." XD

[@98953812]

I couldn't stop laughing at that. I thought it was simply because of the fact that the Predators don't attack unarmed prey. But, then again, he did kill several unarmed scientists as he got up and ran off. Oh boy, that's a big step back, isn't it? 😑

[@viperblitz11]

@@98953812 To be fair, he woke up naked, strapped to a table with no idea where he was. I see it as a shift in priority from a hunt to a breakout, with anyone standing in his way being a threat to his progress. Someone cowering in the corner wasn't trying to stop him, and that's where the code kicked in.

[@98953812]

@@viperblitz11 I can agree with that.

[@shayla106]

@@viperblitz11 I disagree. Everyone in that facility should have been seen as an enemy. It’s doesn’t know all of their roles there or if she will be a danger to it later on once she calms down. She does become a threat later on. For all it knew she was cowering because her side was losing.

[@StealthMarmot_]

I'm not usually THAT guy to use the term "ableism", but this movie managed to make it necessary. The complete misrepresentation of neurodivergent people is utterly shameful. The scene with the autistic kid panicking and being left AND then bullied is just mean spirited. The way it treats autism as some sort of utterly crippling load of a condition that is only situationally useful is just disgusting. Yes, autistic people, particularly kids, do sometimes need assistance from someone who knows how to handle them in a serious situation, but those are the exceptions, and you can be DAMN sure that the teacher would know to take care of the kid and look to them during a fire drill. The fact that they didn't is grounds for a LITERAL LAWSUIT. It is literally like if a teacher forgot a student because they could not walk or were blind, assuming a kid had that level of sensory sensitivity that it would overwhelm them. Plus, they would almost certainly have earmuffs! The rest of the group having mental disabilities or some Hollywood version of them is just as disgusting. Hiring a sexual predator to act, and specifically play someone trying to harass a woman is doubly disgusting. Like he said, I could maybe understand giving an old friend a chance, but to A, use them as an ACTOR and not say a sound technician, and B, not tell the actress the guy will be "Accosting"

[@kinagrill]

A good way to do the 'that guy with tourettes is insane!' trope would be to have the rest of the group just go 'NO! HE HAS TOURETTES YOU DUMBASS'. It would subvert the normal idiocy and generally get a laugh out of me cuz that character being the asshole would get a funny expression and hopefully go 'okayokay, sorry' or some such.

[@WarFoxThunder]

As somebody on the spectrum, I agree that the film is abysmal

[@kinagrill]

@@WarFoxThunder you could say it's way OFF the spectrum, eh?

[@WarFoxThunder]

@@kinagrill lmaoo

[@SissypheanCatboy]

its not a "THAT guy" thing to call things ableist, annoying people on the internet just want to be allowed to make fun of disabled people and not get yelled at for it.

[@commandertorres]

No joke. I am autistic and went to see this shit with my friends. When they brought up how Autism is the next stage of human evolution, I legtimately turned to my friends and said “Guess that makes me superior to you all.” This was a lot funnier than the movie.

[@radiokunio3738]

Yeet weaponized autism wins again kek

[@pizzaparker592]

Weaponized Autism gang

[@fabianseewald7884]

the media makes us out as better and people actually start to believe it, so funny^^

[@geekworlds9621]

Dang it, having you next to me when I watched this shit show would have make it a hundred times funnier !

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

@Lame Duck I think you missed the obvious sarcasm of the original comment.

[@MandaloreGaming]

“We want the Marvel audience.” At this rate maybe Disney will have the Predator fight Black Panther in the jungle at least that might be fun.

[@NeverLucky1765]

MandaloreGaming or batman like that one batman comic.

[@cyanidesmile7263]

I'd acting see that

[@JackIsMe1993]

I can see it now Predator has Black Panther on the rope's cue Weaponized Autism riding those three CGI rhino's.....Oh well what could have been.

[@captaineardrum6208]

Thank you, Mandalore. Very cool

[@Scallycowell]

Or a movie where the predators fight the Disney CEO board. They can call it *_Predators Vs Predators_*

[@Don-ds3dy]

* sees a spear * "oh muh gawd it's alien thechnology!"

[@xxsideouz8953]

Excuse me Don181, but did you by any chance notice that you're a Neanderthal?

[@noesnoes3969]

@@xxsideouz8953 aliens use spears, and neanderthals use spears, so Don181 is a alien

[@xxsideouz8953]

@@noesnoes3969 But if they both use spears then how do we know who is who? Perhaps Don181 is a hybrid of a Neanderthal and an extraterrestrial lifeform... Maybe we shall never know.

[@xxsideouz8953]

@@meneersfeerbeheer Oops, sorry about that. Thanks for correcting me.

[@leekalba]

Ah, movie Tourette's, which is almost nothing like real Tourette's.

[@celiabracha7145]

Lee Kalba as someone with tics seeing a doctor soon for a diagnosis it’s so unrealistic 😂

[@ldmt1995]

And movie autism that's just basically superpowers.

[@spidersheep992]

I have no idea how this film manages to completely misrepresent two disabilities at the same time lmao

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

I have a friend with Tourettes and all he does is make a few quiet sounds every now and then

[@leekalba]

@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506 my tics always took the form of, what I can only call a face-spasm.

[@Bakalakalajihad]

"...the Predator ignored her, probably didn't want to get cut out of the movie" that was a beautiful line and editing.

[@officershepherdsa]

It's depressing when Mac and Me portrays people with disabilities better than this movie does.

[@jamesturnbull128]

LMAO fucking yes

[@orionrae3994]

OH MY GOD

[@anikmonette2140]

Then the boy in Mac and Me really had Spina Bifida so they wrote the screenplay accordingly. Still sucked but that's why it felt genuine.

[@slipknotter]

Hell even South Park did a great job portraying Tourettes

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Fun fact: The score for Mac and Me was written by Alan Silvestri, a film composer whose many credits coincidentally included the amazing score for the original Predator film. I learned this thanks to the review that Jason Brant did of the former for his “So Bad It’s Good” KZbin series, by the way.

[@phantomofchaos4702]

You'd think taking a predators cloaking would be a great oppurtunity to show how skilled the predator can be when it lacks its gear. But that would take effort I guess.

[@lindylou538]

Perhaps showing that a predator is terrifying with all its gear but it's still nearly impossible to kill a predator when its gearless

[@phantomofchaos4702]

Exactly. Like you have the Predator with the cloak and shoulder cannon and blades and its this nearly unkillable force. You take the ability to turn onvisible tho and you still have this giant warrior alien who's entire life has been training to fight. And presumable their warrior culture made them earn that cloaking tech by proving they could fight with out it.

[@Tacoguy1000]

Again, that would take effort.

[@bjwill9047]

@@phantomofchaos4702 do you understand how cool it would be for me to see a predator fucking ripping through people in full vision.

[@peepuschrist5670]

@@lindylou538 the first movie did that at the end

[@DalePWhyte]

9:12 you have no idea how much weight this holds, when I was younger (10 I think) I was getting ready to leave my house and meet some friends, my Mum jokingly said "Don't come home" but at the time we didn't know about my autism, and I took that joke to heart and didn't go home. I spent the entire time with my friends absolutely broken emotionally and embarrassed over that my own Mum kicking me out of the house so I didn't tell them what was wrong. After my friends went home I spent hours just walking from place to place barely holding back tears. Eventually my parents found me and asked why I didn't come home, I told them that she told me not to and not long after I got tested and diagnosed with Autism. So just to make it clear, do be careful what you say to someone who is autistic, I still to this day at age 23 struggle to tell the difference between a joke and a statement and almost always assume it wrongly.

[@babbybobabs8701]

That's freaking depressing!

[@DalePWhyte]

@@babbybobabs8701 I just take a lot of things literally, I struggle to read facial cues or voice tone or body language and just assume the people around me are being completely honest. When it happened I hadn't been tested so we didn't know. The fact that I have been diagnoses has helped a lot.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

That can be really hard, especially as a kid. As somebody who was diagnosed with Asperger's, I'm thankful I was able to develop a sense of sarcasm, though I still take some things literally.

[@Torthrodhel]

Reminds me of a time a teacher said to me that I had to get a book back to the school library in five minutes or I'd be expelled, as a 'joke'. Not exactly sure why he thought it was funny in the first place, like... you're a grown man, bit pathetic to be going on an ego trip on the back of students but there you go, that school was full of adults that were far worse than that so... never mind that. Anyway I bolted it, the librarians were shocked that I was so exhausted and trying to tell me not to make so much noise but I was treating it as the emergency I was told it was. Nobody cared much when I got back in exhaustion tears begging them to tell me how much time I took. Not a great moment.

[@kerrychristensen7204]

Could I ask for some advice? I've recently gotten into contact online with a much older brother from a previous marriage and he has written that he was diagnosed with high functioning Asperger's. I'd like to do some research, but all I can find is about high functioning autism. Does anyone know a good website I could use??

[@florenceb1031]

I went to a special needs school and we had fire drills twice a month in order to desensitize students like Rory so that they could evacuate during an actual fire. Unfortunately, I was desensitized to fire alarms and stoped taking them seriously for awhile after being subjected to over six dozen fire drills in a four year period. Hopefully, they since learned to pace it better to achieve the desired effect without accidentally invoking Crying Wolf Syndrome.

[@TheReZisTLust]

Not me questioning whether that fire alarm going off in city hall is a test and I walk or its real and i walk a lil faster

[@sirsquashh]

Shane Black wanted revenge for killing off his character so early in predator

[@gilbertotrevino7725]

Thats what i thought as well

[@SilvanSage]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for speaking up about the ridiculous and unrealistic portrayal of asperges/autism in Hollywood. As someone who has asperges, and has siblings who have it, it is beyond frustrating to see it handled so poorly in movies/tv.

[@spidersheep992]

Dope Sope yeah same with Tourette’s. The media representing it like this is why people without coprolalia are told that they are faking

[@jackassGALORE69]

The only movie I saw do it right was the accountant.

[@BadabingBadaboom69]

S A M E

[@binarydark4811]

To be fair, 9 times out of ten military member's humor is basically high school level.

[@brainman67]

I mean when you go through so much trauma you need the comedy

[@binarydark4811]

@@brainman67 Oh I don't deny it, I'm just saying in my experience our humor is basically high school level

[@brainman67]

Totally man wasn't trying to correct you or anything I just see humour as a way to get out of sad thoughts my humour is often dark and yet I have zero military experience I find comedy in anything because it sort of helps me

[@binarydark4811]

@@brainman67 Ah sorry about that I didn't ,mean to misread your message. I can relate, humor is one of the greatest things we can have in the end. I hope it continues to serve you well :)

[@brainman67]

It's all good man Thank you I am trying to use humour more often when I'm sad inside of letting the sadness get to me

[@tristansimmons5294]

" you wrote the book on evolutionary biology" wow Charles Darwin looks great now a days

[@yig_501]

I havent seen this movie i thought maybe this line was to the alien which still kind of bothered me because it still belittles darwin but thatsnot what happened but still a little belittling

[@darkspace2351]

God dammit 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@AustinScottHoffman]

@@darkspace2351 That's exactly what he did

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

12:32

[@luispagan9170]

The funniest part is they tried to convince us that Olivia Munn is a scientist 😂

[@BigPuddin]

Remember when Uwe Boll tried to convince us that Tara Reid had a PhD in like...some nondescript type of archaeology in Alone in the Dark? Good times.

[@andrewleah1983]

Or can act.

[@peterpohan3850]

I am from Slovakia. When you order something from the US it goes through customs, they usually open the packet or at least Xray it. They need to knoiw whats inside and whats the value so they can tax it. The same applies to packets being sent to US where you have to fill out a custom declaration stating whats in the packet. This packet would never made it trought customs!!! Just a quick note.

[@takumihijirihara1354]

I didn’t notice it until a few seconds after it showed up, but holy heck that facecam

[@melialialee5445]

Takumi Hijirihara CJ’s so cute

[@takumihijirihara1354]

Amelia Lee he’s absolutely adorable

[@nerulon089]

I've read the test audiance said the movie was too funny so they had to reshoot half of the movie. If this is true, imagine that version... 😂

[@csmead209]

Maybe the first version should have been released if it made people laugh.

[@glauberglousger6643]

Well, there’s a few scenes, I remember one had a gang of good predators riding in a military car Honestly think that would’ve been better, at least it wasn’t trying to be serious (I mean, it was, but no one would try to say it wasn’t funny, this one kinda sucks, except for how dumb it is)

[@alittlebitofhistory]

So basically the guy who killed every scene he was in Predator was able to kill an entire Predator film when he was directing it. Also with the Predator 2 date being wrong I'm also pretty sure that film happens in the summer not December.

[@waltrz]

I mean, that is summer south of the equator so it *can* be correct.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

@@waltrz Predator 2 is set in LA.

[@waltrz]

Norfolk lad There goes that then.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

@@waltrz Although by saying what you did the date for the 1st one is also wrong, as the local women say "it comes in hottest of summers." where it being most likely below the equator would make June the winter.

[@waltrz]

Norfolk lad And the plot hole deepens.

[@godqueenbidoof]

I mean aspergers can be like that in some regards. There are some loud sounds I can't stand but others that don't bother me at all. I find it extremely uncomfortable and distressing to look someone in the eye but make an active effort to do so when someone speaks to me that I respect due to it being a social rule I internalized very young. There are times where I completely break down and become an nonfunctional mess due to having essentially bottled up lesser irritants and collapsing under the weight of them. The main issue is that there is a lack of understanding of the progression between opposites for patients who do traverse the spectrum on symptoms. There tends to be a link between them and more progressive (From high functioning to non-functioning for instance) tend to be gradual with behavioral changes as it progresses. While I hate how autism is portrayed in movies and media in general we do have to give them some leeway in that they don't have the time to establish those things. Heck real life doesn't give you that time with most people which is why I outright tell new friends how to handle me at my worst in order to minimize frictions. Still though, autism or any other mental disorder being important for the plot of a movie is a very slippery slope and is typically done best in movies where the whole plot IS the disorder. This movie does it terribly and doesn't need it at all.

[@efoxkitsune9493]

Very cool comment, thanks for typing it out. I hope you're doing well!

[@Axe-wieldingFox]

aspie here too - sameeeee! Also I'm high-functioning and my psychiatrist said that "my intelligence cheats" people into thinking I'm not autistic, but like - if I'm distressed I become really helpless.

[@Scarlet-bubs124]

EXACTLY! I don't get why Hollywood movies portray autism as some "big brain ability" that only the worthy can have. It's incredibly irritating and disrespectful

[@godqueenbidoof]

@@Scarlet-bubs124 I guess it's a symptom of a movie being financed before they have an idea for it. So whoever they get to write it does whatever they want and there is no time or money or interest in fixing that stuff

[@slevinchannel7589]

There is definetly an Autism-Fetish; dont get me wrong; but what Autism really is and what the 'different wiring' of it really 'means' is also quite unclear.

[@luispagan9170]

Some people do get the stereotypical Tourette's but that's rare. Most people have physical ticks and/or very mild verbal ticks, not necessarily swearing

[@Dalek59862]

Not to mention someone with tourettes that bad probably wouldn't be in the military.

[@ravenshrike]

"she looks absolutely traumatized" Probably because that scene was shot after many of the others and she knew just what sort of shitshow she was starring in.

[@imboredso4035]

Original predator: show a changing of symbols and we assume account down The Predator:shows numbers below

[@smergthedargon8974]

19:38 The street address is 420. That's how immature this movie is.

[@agonleed3841]

Yea. Cause in real life there is no such address, no? The movie does suck, but this was a shit point of that

[@_V.Va_]

@@agonleed3841 Yeah but their address was conveniently 420.

[@sd5371]

@@_V.Va_ my sister chose a house solely because the address matched her son's birthday... some people are just eccentric.

[@omnical6135]

@@agonleed3841 homie homie, you're treating the movie like it's really life, yes there is a 420 st out there but the creators SPECIFICALLY chose to have street 420

[@agonleed3841]

@@omnical6135 every movie specifically chooses to have what's in it. This is why this type of complaint is shit. Just something you want to add, but has no actual weight. In this manner, your complaint is doing what you're accusing the movie of doing. You're adding some very unnecessary thing just to have that unnecessary thing on your list of things..just so someone else can say, "Hey..look at that. I like the way they thought about that. I'm gonna now like this comment". Immaturity

[@deprimada3560]

The actress that handicapped her entire career to oust a predator is a such a boss

[@crazyralph6386]

Meh? He was a small fry, compared to the real creeps and pedos that still walk around Hollyweird unabated.

[@paulie.walnuts2838]

I'm sure it was her terrible acting that handicapped her career 🙄

[@YodaOnABender]

@@paulie.walnuts2838either way, it takes guts to speak out about it

[@angryfruit4994]

I personally have Aspergers and if I ever get good enough equipment and understanding of editing I want to make a video essay on autism in the media So now I know another thing to check out if I’m ever able to make that video

[@efoxkitsune9493]

I'd watch the hell out of that video. Hope you make it some day!

[@angryfruit4994]

EFoxKitsune I’ve actually started collecting stuff to stream with so I might be able to start doing that in a couple years (I’m 16 and I don’t want people being predatory towards me)

[@efoxkitsune9493]

@@angryfruit4994 Oh, yeah, that's a wise decision! The internet can be a yucky place sometimes.. I work with kids, and I just had a 10yo boy who has his own YT channel... let me tell you, if I was his parent I wouldn't be cool with that at all... All the best to you.

[@chiaraj1003]

You know what's sad? I'm afraid you'll have more material than you could ever analyze due to media often getting it wrong. Still, I'd watch it!

[@sashaking1111]

That would be a brilliant video!!!!

[@kieronwheeler3087]

I'd like to jump in here, I have high functioning autism, relatively mild aspergers, and mild tourettes, along with a few other mental health issues. My autism doesn't make me incredibly smart, nor does it allow me to operate indecipherable technology. As far as I can tell it just means that I make random links between completely unrelated items, and people are so afraid of being branded as bigots that they just agree with me or just pretend not to notice when I say or do something stupid (it's fucking bullshit. If I do something funny without realising, then just fucking laugh, you might have to explain, but it's much less awkward than dead silence). The aspergers did cause issues with social skills, and I have spent years learning how to properly interact with people (still ongoing), it does make me different, but not always noticeably, but it can cause some serious life problems which seem to be trivialised or even mocked in most media, as just another trait to be bullied for. As for the tourettes, well trust Hollywood to focus on the least common branch of tourettes, and make a huge fuss about it. Most of the time tourettes results in muscle spasms, twitches or nervous ticks, for me it's a jaw twitch. Also, how the fuck was a guy with severe tourettes get accepted for military service? To my knowledge, every single one of my mental health issues could exclude me on it's own (at least here in England), so how did that guy manage to join?

[@Torthrodhel]

Yep I always wonder that. I went to a recruitment office once and the list of things you're not allowed to have before joining is quite long and very strict. Whenever I see a quirky army person with this wacky exaggerated quirk in a movie I just think about him trying to join and ask myself how.

[@kieronwheeler3087]

@@Torthrodhel I mean I know that some things can develop over time, but tourettes is often linked to other mental health issues.

[@Torthrodhel]

@@kieronwheeler3087 I don't know much about tourettes specifically, I was talking more in general. I mean I get plenty of tics and spasms but they're stimming and seizure-related so obviously not the same thing.

[@kieronwheeler3087]

@@Torthrodhel Yeah, my point was that that can be related to tourettes, and it comes with other things too. that's the point of my comment, tourettes is rarely ever found as a single disorder, it comes with others, even if it has developed, there would have been other reasons why he couldn't have joined the military.

[@Torthrodhel]

@@kieronwheeler3087 ah I see what you mean, sorry that took me so long to get

[@lucasmorahan4248]

Stop doing face reveals. It's getting harder not to imagine you as Rian Johnson.

[@Johnny_Shields]

I just look away. All I know is he is very white and very ginger.

[@TurtleGamers1]

@@Johnny_Shields He's brown-haired though

[@the_gratefulgamer]

@Hitsuran Yeah he's got Rian Johnson beat in looks and brains, generally speaking. So yeah very insulting.

[@incanticle6662]

@@Johnny_Shields THEY SAID WHITE AND GINGER!!! HAHA

[@bobtay214]

Shane black can't make good movies he is shit

[@snappergapp1283]

I think Predator 1 and 2 are excellent. The practical effects are brilliant. Then the rest of them came out.

[@snappergapp1283]

@Conrad Ferrus AVP 1 and Predators were alright. AVPR was shite

[@zad_rasera]

I only like the first Predator 1 and AVP 1. AVP 1 is kinda sucky but it introduced me to both franchise, and movie companies will probably continue to cash grab me with them until I die.

[@leroyalomnivore7168]

Conrad Ferrus predator 2 was shit. AVP and predators were the only two that were even entertaining after predator.

[@elennapointer701]

I quite liked Predators. Sure, it was predictable and didn't really offer anything new, but Adrien Brody as an action hero was worth the price of admission. I would have liked to see it continue. But the AVP movies were utter garbage.

[@MrRapp-yz4hu]

I enjoyed Predator 2. AvP made the Predators into footballer styled hunter ninjas. Didnt like it at all. AvPRr was definitely bad but enjoyable at least with the return of the gore and some fan service. Predators was enjoyable.

[@creepypinny8717]

I like how her saying I wish people would stop calling me sunshine is a reference to the scene with the sex offender that was cut

[@bijibadness]

"get to the chopper!" "the what?" "the choppers! the choppers over there!" "the what?" "the bikes. those bikes, right over there. certain people, a long time ago, used to call motorcycle bikes 'choppers.'" "oh. you should have said 'motocycles.' i don't believe that many people have called bikes 'choppers' since 1967." i guess THAT would have broken the tension. it wouldn't have been quite the ZING moment, i suppose.

[@adhirg]

it wasn’t quite the ZING moment as written anyways, lol. might as well have over-explained the joke while they were at it.

[@deathrimentall]

Me: * doesn't expect a face cam in this video * Video: * has face cam moments * Me: *A suprise, to be sure, but a welcome one*

[@cylereyes8195]

Ayano's Meme channel well, hello there

[@bozak5130]

He looks like a mix of Shane Dawson and Simon Peg A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

[@raseli4066]

Yes my lord

[@revantpamidi5249]

Woah Cynical. I didn't know you had a human friend

[@matthewpunk2012]

*pet.

[@BLake125ESP]

"In the other hand" And then CJ shows a predator graving a severed arm, clever dog.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

"autism is the next step in human evolution" I mean if 4chan's many campaigns of weaponized autism are proof, maybe this movie has a point.

[@exoticcarfactsofficialchan7050]

"The Predator " was actually meant to be a movie about Shane Black's buddy still working on films in Hollywood 😂😂😂 great video

[@Kidd0Wycked]

Another minor nitpick, but the severed arm used to signal the driver went from lefty to righty. What was that about?

[@wikistacks9396]

What professional co will accept a thumbs up to explain all the violent bus shaking noise.

[@Kidd0Wycked]

@@wikistacks9396 A lazy one. . . Lol.😅

[@ffejpsycho]

"Shit Sandwich!" That's my favourite *Spinal Tap* album!!

[@maineh3985]

Smell the Glove.....lol

[@qcube._.8342]

Just cuz he is atustic he can operate a spaceship and later made cyber security head🤔 is enough to tell you how bad this movie was

[@MarcinSzyniszewski]

Actually, predators often hunt not because they are hungry, but because they simply enjoy it. A lot of predators like to play with its prey, like cats for example. Ms Scientist is completely wrong.

[@georgeray1906]

Yeah predators in the wild just love playing with their prey and some can be quite sadistic like vultures watching their prey as they slowly die just to swoop in to eat the corpse.

[@Deform-2024]

Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a good horror movie nowadays?

[@curosaber]

They want money and they want it now. They don't care about anything else as long as they make money. Just look at Justice League.

[@brentdraper4382]

@@curosaber if they wanted money they’d make a good movie lol

[@curosaber]

@@brentdraper4382 If only they would think like that.

[@berengustav7714]

John Krasinski is our last hope.

[@TheReZisTLust]

Cause they wanted kids to watch so they add "comedy"

[@andrejracz8790]

"On the other hand..." *shows scene of a predator picking up a hand from the ground* Brilliant! (4:30)

[@socialanxietydora4112]

What’s messed up was that Olivia Munn was made fun of and ignored on set by the other actors. She was on a interview and it was supposed to be a ensemble interview but the actors never came it was just her.

[@KaeYoss]

Oh, and by the way: Cats hunt for sport. They go after prey even if they're not hungry. So there.

[@Tickerchicken]

Oh there’s two kind of predators in this film

[@pastelpancakes6624]

3. Dogs

[@elennapointer701]

I love your reviews. Your Braveheart review hooked me first, and now this. So angry. So... beautifully cynical.

[@Thatonegirl989]

Elenna Pointer it’s so refreshing isn’t it? I love his reviews

[@johndoe-kh4el]

Kind of ironic that they nearly had a real predator in a movie called the predator

[@1337fraggzb00N]

When Disney joins the franchise, the Predator will dance with a teapot. Also both will sing several times.

[@NAME-yg8sl]

Hey, at least the soundtrack will be killer

[@sammontgomery9575]

07:28 coming from someone with ASD that’s actually pretty accurate to how school treat people with ASD. Never underestimate how lazy schools can be.

[@patrickdaniels57]

Love the occasional facecam segments, it definitely added to the video

[@bentarbbronze6048]

As someone on the Autistic spectrum, I find the way this film handled it insulting.

[@tamnam5722]

Bentarb Bronze same. I don’t get why portraying us as some superhuman geniuses is Hollywoods favorite thing to do. I’d prefer just a regular ass autistic.

[@lecomatoad6586]

if I had a dollar for every claim like these made in KZbin comments

[@Sonji_S]

i even have asperger, the same thing the kid supposedly has and even i couldn't relate with that kid at all,and don't think i know anyone who would

[@hudsonsirheshicks2653]

Good on you fellas. Yeah this movie fucking blows.

[@Lucidopherus]

Dick B. Danglin okay so i’m sorry for this but i somehow like barely read your name and thought it said Dick Blower 😂

[@Stonk5331]

Predator 1 & 2 and IMO Predators are masterpieces and stay true to the origin. This is a good comedy film indeed.

[@beejay271]

Glad to see people giving Predators and Predator 2 credit! I loved Predator 2 granted not as much as the original but it was still a great film. Predators was also pretty good, not as good as 1 or 2 but it was a decent film.

[@nightshadeii9248]

@@beejay271 Honestly Predators > Predator 2 but yes I agree with your sentiment.

[@h.e.c.uagent834]

Predator 2 is good because they made something different from the original masterpiece.

[@Dalek59862]

Predator 2 was good because it was just fun. It wasn't good it was fun and stupid,which is all I can hope for from a movie that most people think is bad. I just want to have FUN with my movies.

[@Ozarka0]

Unpopular Opinion: I adored that goofy ass scene with the predator using the severed arm to fool the truck driver. It was just dumb enough to make me laugh my rear off.

[@leesimmons5453]

I liked it too, but how did he know thumbs up is good?

[@ciannaelizabeth]

I literally thought it was a comedy when watching it in theaters...me and my family couldn't stop laughing but we soon realized oh it's not supposed to be funny...😅💀

[@thepunchableface1506]

Another franchise bites the dust.

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

Holy mother of spontaneous face reveals! Didn’t expect that one!

[@ProjectRedfoot]

I think he revealed his face before, but yeah it hasn't set-in yet hahahah

[@BovineDesigns]

Please don't give them sarcastic compliments, Fox might take them seriously

[@princekyle4132]

I have Asperger’s and this had me fucking rolling on the floor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SanFran51]

Finally Fox made their own "Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare" by completely abandoning everything scary and turn the main villain into a cartoon. I'm amazed they didn't implement wacky cartoon sound effects.

[@MrPainkiller1988]

The actors "acting" in this movie all seem like they want to one up one another with being the best "comedian" they can be. Also the fact that they abuse the mentally sick people is another thorn in my side. Hollywood being so woke to implode on itself by actually laughing at people with genuine neurodevelopmental disorders. I mean you could do occasionally Tourettes joke with your buddy, but constantly jabbing like some prick is just annoying and borders bullying.

[@MrPainkiller1988]

@Nuby29 I mean, I'm not sure it was a great idea making your movie revolve around that one joke you were famous about. The joke was funny for like 20 minutes then I'd move on. I doubt any comedian would have it as a part of his set.

[@ShaytheFae]

The gum chewing made me laugh everytime! I feel like they asked him to chew as hard and dramatic as possible. Lmao

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

They were going for that 1980s vibe.... ;-)

[@DrumRug]

"The Predator, where we cast a real sexual predators!"

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

At least in 'Rain Man', the character played by Dustin Hoffman was established to be a Savant with eidetic memory, and he was also portrayed as having massive behavioral problems dealing with every day life. Dustin Hoffman actually prepared for the role months in advance by talking to several psychologists who worked with autists, and asked to meet people with severe autism who were in nursing homes, to get to know them as individuals and understand their tics and reactions. Hoffman was a method actor and really got into the role so much that people on set became worried if he was alright.

[@Waaagh40KRed]

Michael Keegan Key, Jake Busey, Sterling K Brown, That guy from Moonlight, and is the Thomas Jane? How are good actors like them in this movie.

[@mistergremm735]

10:22 impressive, you have very well trained human pet, i'm quite jealous

[@Moxbox99]

Sounds like that kid has “plot-ism” 😂😂 wow what a train wreck. Great video!

[@saintniccage2818]

Shane " i know about predators cause i was in the first one for 15min" black

[@bloodrunsclear]

The Loonies is probably a reference to the cult classic kid’s film The Goonies. I just made myself sad

[@bananatiergod]

I swear, every time Shane Black misinterprets mental/neurophysical illnesses in this movie I feel a part of me is dying inside

[@karmapolice247]

14:30 " and this one's a super predator" . Didn't Hillary clinton warn us about this ?

[@tortellini8220]

My sense of humor is messed up, I laughed at the E for Everyone joke.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

It was kind of okay.

[@TheUltimateBastich]

First Prometheus, then Alien Covenant, now this and Dark Fate. These ppl need to be stopped.

[@transformerdude4251]

Imagine thinking this movie wasn’t intended to be a comedy.

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

The thing that always got me was that that the main character is enlisted. He is on a mission to snipe drug cartel, then, when an alien shows up, he goes AWOL. Never mentioned again. And THANK YOU for addressing how stupid it is that they bring him to a VA Hospital. Just so you know, VA hospitals have police stationed on premises.

[@AJSSPACEPLACE]

If I was en executive and I heard about the test screening, I would’ve said “Ok, call the marketing guys, this movie is now a comedy”

[@liamfaoisidheold]

Based off of my experiences, I just wanted to say... in that scene with the fire alarm, it does make sense that kids would intentionally try to trigger him to have a meltdown using one if his twitches (my family has used the terms for years, I'm not sure if they're accurate, but they're what I know.). But, it's even more likely that seeing him meltdown, the teachers and some of the students wouldn't leave him there- they'd freak out. When you meltdown in a class, people get panicked. Other teachers will likely find out, and teachers will be asking you if you're okay all day... If they care. And if the staff is good at they're job, they'll try to figure out what caused the meltdown too.

[@apelican5836]

Hollywood: wait so you’re telling me autism doesn’t give people 50,000,000 IQ? nah your lying let’s make the character a 5 year old able to make a nuclear bomb in under 10 seconds

[@Fro0pik]

I watched this at theatre with my crush and she said 'it was a really good movie' that moment hits me hard even now

[@tedstudt8550]

"...cuz this film gets so much worse." Me: IT GETS WORSE?!

[@AggelosKyriou]

Is it even possible?

[@BenRai2k]

I hate the way the Predators move in every movie except from the first 2 (especially the first). Kevin Peter Hall had the movements down to a tee. He had this graceful movement with his hands when using the tech, and the general way he moved. In every other movie they bound around like wrestlers/rugby players.

[@JackIsMe1993]

They dragged poor Thomas Jane into this....Ding!!

[@mauriciomanassero4502]

"this porno has really high production value"...THE quota

[@mhairifergusonburns7582]

i hated that they explained the tourettes to the guy as soon as he gets on the bus, but she has to go through that cringe-inducing joke and they don't explain it to her so that joke can happen. It makes me so mad.

[@Tickerchicken]

Thanks for uploading this when I’m drunk

[@tieck4408]

"I heard you wrote the book on X." What a weird line, makes a great double edged compliment.

[@GumshoeClassic]

Gotta love the Predator Pimpwalk. Seriously sometimes it looks like they're wearing uncomfortable underpants but don't want to show it so they just waddle around trying to look buff.

[@justicedunn5502]

This was actually my first Predator movie and I really enjoyed it. Maybe going in without any expectations or franchise knowledge really helped me out.

[@davidsurtees4439]

9:21 "Miranda.... will bang ok" Commander shepherd.

[@arcanumdelta]

that “WHAT?!” was the highest I’ve ever heard your voice go and I love it (also, “not” a furry, but I really want to see him get a fursuit)

[@_V.Va_]

OwO I'm sorry.

[@arcanumdelta]

UwU hi sorry

[@berengustav7714]

"I'm not a furry..."

[@thebarbariansasquatch8108]

Quick rant for no ones sake but my own: I have a 19 year old brother with severe autism and "Hollywood Autism" makes my blood boil. Everyone I grew up with always assumed Autism ment that whoever had it also got some kind of superpower, IE: Rain Man and ect. It was hard to explain to people, "No, my brother cannot play concert piano or count cards, he just screams uncontrollably when it rains and he cant go for his ride around in the cart on a lawn mower."

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

The less extreme forms of autism are more pallatable for...well, most people, really. Nuance is rarely treated with the respect it deserves, and the kind of autism your brother has sounds like it would make for a niche drama.

[@thebarbariansasquatch8108]

I understand why Hollywood does it, because real autism doesn't necessarily make for good mass audience cinema. I just wish more people (audience wise) would grasp that Hollywood Autism is almost always more like Autism-lite or Diet Autism.

[@Sonji_S]

i'm not saying we should force films to be more accurate to not hurt my feelings,but c'mon, the audience should know NOBODY acts like that

[@thebarbariansasquatch8108]

@@Sonji_S I agree entirely. I know movies are for entertainment, but things get wonky in the world when people cite the movie "Sybil" as if it's fact.

[@martinfornusek1045]

Since the first five seconds I hoped that you'd reference Miranda Lawson. Thank you.