It's the streaming effect. We've seen this from RLM for a while now and others are starting to do the same thing. If there isn't as much of an investment, a movie being derivative or just "okay" is seen in a more positive light and worth watching. Especially if said critic is under the assumption that you have a subscription to Hulu anyways.
Like, I don't, so I have no interest in Prey. I'd probably give it a watch if I did have Hulu even if it's just an "okay" Predator rehash, but as it is I'd much rather spend the 5 bucks just renting Predator.
Yeah, I think that's probably true especially for a lot of Marvel's Phase 4 stuff and Star Wars' recent shows. People feel like they are getting it for free because they pay a single lump sum once a year to Disney so nearly forget its being paid for.
It was a strawman of Mike to say that critics of Prey wanted macho man Predator which means they want The Predator, which everyone agreed sucks.
Predators is overlooked and underrated, it should have been brought up more in their Re:View of Predator.
After watching Prey I went back and watched the other Predator movies (except The Predator because...well, it's awful). Predators is really underrated. It's good fun, the characters are memorable, the IDF chick is a much better "strong female" then Prey's lead. The main character isn't a huge buff muscle god and the final fight with the predator is the man and woman teaming up and outsmarting the predator in an interesting way including using Royce's "bad" nature which the Predator didn't expect by literally using one of his own team as a suicide bomber to try and kill the predator.
Prey was probably sitting at like a 4 out of 10 for me until the final fight. It was below average, I have already forgotten every character (which is an important element of a story for me), the long stretches of her walking around the woods by herself were boring to me as opposed to building tension (because she is super woman and the only character so I never felt she was going to die or be in trouble) and a lot of the politics stuff was annoying (She's not only the best hunter, the best tracker, the best hand to hand fighter, reinvents the axe to make it a sniper rifle, the best at making healing potions, the best at training dogs, etc.).
It dropped to a 3/10 for me for the final fight then because where Dutch is being thrown around the place by the predator and finally overcomes it or Royce had to have a predator help him then trap it with a pile of explosives, then use his brains to surround the place with fire so it's thermals didn't work, then get help from the IDF woman to finally beat it... instead Naru just kicked the shit out of it by herself with no issues at all. She out thinks it, out muscles it at times, uses its technology better than it did, etc.
Love RLM a lot, usually really enjoy their points but this video was just kind of weird. It's like they looked past basically everything they would usually criticise to praise the movie. Hell, they even would bring up issues they usually have with these movies, admit that this movie HAS those issues but then just say it didn't matter in this case. Them picking the most retarded anti-Prey takes to mock in the video just seem kind of awkward when they're basically shitting on reviews by children who can barely construct a sentence but even that led to a weird scene where Mike reads that one guy's review and then awkwardly is like "Well... he... he actually has some valid points in this.... but.... you know."
