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And I'm Caleb.
We are a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews out
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This week on the podcast we'll be talking about quite a bit of 4K Spotlight.
We got technically five titles coming out so that's freaking exciting.
My wallet hurts but you know that's okay.
We got nothing for Through the Wall.
So after we talk about 4K Spotlight we'll be able to jump right into our headliner of
the evening which will be our breakdown of the 2022 film Prey.
Hell yeah.
So Caleb what do you say we get started?
I say let's do it.
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Alright so this week on 4K Spotlight we have some new Scream Factory titles coming out
or Shout Factory whatever you want to call it.
We will be getting the first three Child's Play films on 4K which is very very exciting
and so you can get just the regular release that just comes with the classic posters well
at least the Child's Play 2 and 3 are the classic posters but the cover for Child's
Play is the cover that they used years back when Scream Factory did just a Blu-ray release
of Child's Play.
But if you go on Scream Factory's website and you want to spend a shit ton of money
you can get the bundles well maybe not bundles well yeah they are bundles I don't know what
the hell I'm talking about.
So they have three bundles of these Child's Play films.
The first one comes with and this one is freaking I think like 250 bucks.
Holy shit.
Dude man it's Shout Factory what do you expect?
I don't know something reasonable maybe?
So this one you get all three of the Child's Play films including two exclusive slip covers
for Child's Play 2 and 3.
Three posters of the movies and what else do you get?
You get a set of postcards.
You get a little enamel pin and you get a burned Chucky neck figure.
If you want to step down from that literally just take away the postcards and the enamel
pin and that's what you got here.
And that set is 150 bucks.
And then the...
Wait wait wait wait wait.
Hold up.
So you're telling me that I can...
How much was the first one?
250?
It's like 220.
Okay.
So you're telling me that I can spend $220 get basically the...
If I were to purchase something for $220 I could get the exact same thing minus some
stupid postcards and a pin and only pay 150?
Yes.
That is as much of a ripoff as I've ever heard in my entire life.
Are you kidding me?
I mean but the postcards have one of the classic shots from...
I can't remember if it's...
It was on the set of Child's Play 2 or 3 where they have like Chucky slinging his arm back
on his actor chair smoking a cigar.
Dude, that's a $70 difference.
Oh yeah.
You can go F yourself if you think that I'm going to spend $70 just to get some postcards
and an enamel pin.
You can go jump in a creek for the rest of your life if you think that that's even kind
of reasonable.
It's funny you say that because that's the one on the website that sold out.
Holy shit.
I hate this world.
I'm just kidding.
I just want to see your reaction.
I love that.
I hate this world.
Dude, I was about to freaking flip my desk.
Over some freaking Child's Play movies really?
For people that spent $70 extra just to get a postcard and pin.
I will not lie if all the postcards were signed by Brad Dwarf.
Yeah, I'd do it.
That makes sense.
That would make sense.
Hey, you get these postcards and a pin, but they're signed by Brad Dwarf.
Did I say Dwarf?
Yeah, that's Brad Dwarf.
Brad Dwarf.
Wow.
Yeah, how about no?
Only if they were signed by Chucky himself would that even be remotely worth it.
I love how you don't even want to try to pronounce his last name again.
I know.
I just butchered it so bad the first time.
I just didn't feel brave enough.
If you don't want the Nekafigure though, their cheapest set, which I think this one's $110,
$120, comes with literally everything that you got in the previous set minus the Nekafigure.
How much cheaper is that one?
I think $112.
Holy shit.
You got to remember that each 4K is $30 each.
You're incorporating the price of the posters and the slip covers.
Honestly, that's actually not too bad of a price.
It is still $70 extra for a postcard and pin.
Yeah.
Nothing about that says reasonable.
Now the $112, you said $112?
Yeah, I think that's what it is.
Okay, the $112 for everything not including the figure, postcards, and pin, that is reasonable
to me.
I absolutely agree.
Taking into the consideration that each Blu-ray is $30.
But you're treading a really thin line with me.
But it's child's play, man.
Man, I'm at that.
I'm just like, no, you can make smarter financial decisions.
Well, I'm glad I didn't purchase the big one then.
Dude, I'd be roasting you so freaking hard.
Oh, damn.
Well, anyway, moving on from that.
If you want to get any of those sets, you'll have to order them off the Shout Factory website.
But if you just want literally just the bare bones 4K releases of these three films, you
can get them anywhere.
Amazon, I'm assuming Walmart probably, or at least Walmart's website, and Best Buy.
So yeah.
Me though, I had to order one of these.
And I'm going to let Caleb decide which one he thinks I did.
Anyway, moving on.
The next big release we got is Jurassic World Dominion.
This movie will be getting a Best Buy exclusive.
Actually, wait, no, I don't even know if this is a Best Buy exclusive steelbook.
I think it's just a steelbook.
Just like a normal everyday?
Yeah, it doesn't say it's exclusive to anywhere.
Yeah, I can pre-order it right now on Amazon.
I'm not going to.
So you'll be getting that bare bones 4K and blue air release, as well as Shocker, a complete
set of all six Jurassic Park films.
Which I, because I kind of want, when it goes on sale to get the sixth film collection.
So I swear to God, if they come out with a seventh one, I'm going to be pissed.
Dude, no.
I pray that this franchise is dead.
Did you see Dominion at all?
No, I did not.
I didn't even, I don't even remember if I went to go see the second Jurassic World.
I literally saw Fallen Kingdom the day before I went and saw Dominion.
Is Fallen Kingdom the one where they escape into the normal world?
Yes, at the end.
Yeah, okay.
Then I think I might have seen that one.
Okay.
I will, no that's spoiler, nevermind.
It's fine.
I feel like it's impossible to spoil a Jurassic.
Okay.
But for those of you listening that don't want to spoil, spoiler alert, skip ahead a
couple minutes.
Yeah.
I will admit I wish that Colin Trevorrow would have made it more, what's the word, more,
not dominant, but more upfront of how dinosaurs and humans coexisted.
Because I feel like he just barely glances over it and then just moves into the plot
of the story.
Dude, what bullshit.
I feel that it should be such a much bigger.
Thing.
Like, come on, humans and dinosaurs having to coexist?
That shit's huge.
Oh my gosh, missed opportunities.
I will say though, it was really cool seeing the original trio back together again.
That was really nice.
They actually weren't wasted.
I feel like that would be really cool.
That's good.
Brielle told me that it was really cool seeing them again, but it felt like they were trying
really hard to basically hit all the nostalgia points from the previous movies.
Yeah, that's fair.
I can't really argue on that.
Yeah.
And I hate that shit.
Forced nostalgia pisses me off.
Wait, so wait, she went and saw it, but you didn't?
Yeah, she went to go see it with Sam.
Oh, okay.
Well, you really are not a Jurassic Park fan.
Well, I mean, I could have gone.
It's just it would have been a lot more extra effort that I didn't want to spend.
Fair.
You didn't really...
I'm not the hugest Jurassic Park fan.
Like I'm really not.
I just kind of like the movies.
Don't get me wrong, they're good.
And the first Jurassic Park movie is, oh my God, a masterpiece.
But I kind of just walked out of the movie and be like, yeah, that was all right.
I mean, it could have been a better cap to the whole Jurassic era, but you know, I'll
take it.
Yeah.
Oh man.
Which sucks because I actually I expected a lot more from Colin Trevorrow, considering
how much I freaking not freaking loved how much I enjoyed the first Jurassic World.
Yeah, like I'll probably go and rewatch the first one and then just watch Dominion.
When either you buy that movie or it comes to streaming.
I'm not going to like play any...
Go out of your way.
Yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to watch Dominion.
Oh, that's funny.
That's right.
I love that.
I'm just going to watch the original and then this new one.
But yeah, I don't think it's not like this new freaking Halloween timeline.
Yeah, I know.
No, I meant the first Jurassic World.
I thought you meant the first Jurassic Park.
No, no, no, no.
I liked the Jurassic Park series.
Wasn't the biggest fan of two, but I kind of have a soft spot for three.
But number...
You know, you and JC would get along quite well because he does as well.
Yeah, the first one is my absolute favorite.
Oh yeah.
And then the first Jurassic World, I'm kind of like, eh.
It was somewhat rewatchable.
I think for how they established the park, I think that's what makes it rewatchable.
Yeah, absolutely.
And then the second Jurassic World, I'm like, meh.
Yeah, fair enough.
I can't decide which is worse, though, Dominion or Fallen Kingdom.
I'll have to watch Dominion again.
Yeah, that'd be an interesting ranking.
Yeah.
So, enough shit talk.
Jurassic World.
So minus the Jurassic World, another release coming from Universal will be The Black Phone,
starring Ethan Hawke, which I am like 99% sure I'm gonna blind buy this bitch.
It kind of gives me the Last Night in Soho vibes.
Yes, I agree.
So I'm really excited for that one.
But other than that, that is really it for new releases, so Caleb, what do you say we
move on to our headliner of the evening?
I say let's do it.
Alright so, before we move on actually, I already effed up.
And I know Caleb always tells me that I'll eff up 4K spotlight every single week and
I frickin' did it this week.
I forgot.
I'm sorry, okay?
I forgot that-
I already played the themes, the music and everything.
Well I'm sorry, I have to add this for anyone that wants it.
There is also going to be a 4K steelbook for the first child's play at Best Buy.
So that's what I forgot.
I'm sorry.
You shittin' me.
It's the first thing you talked about.
I know, yeah, and it's child's play.
So I don't know what's wrong with me.
I could excuse it if it was Jurassic World, because you know, not that you're just a fan
of that franchise.
If it was Jurassic World I would have flown over to slap you.
Like you're screwing up our system for Jurassic World.
Well sorry, I gotta do it for child's play, I'm sorry.
Fine.
Wow.
He's so kind to me.
Every once in a while.
Well that hurt, I'm gonna silently cry inside.
Moving on, Caleb, do you want to let people know how we break movies down on this podcast?
I would love to.
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories
that we individually score to come to a final Albrose letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit into our algorithm and give us our
final grade for the movie.
And it gives us a letter grade to compare it to other movies of that same grade, and
then a percentage so we can figure out an actual ranking.
So with that, if you have not seen Prey, it is available on Hulu right now as we speak,
so go check it out.
Give this a watch, especially if you're a fan of the Predators movies in general, I
would say.
So go check it out, don't spoil this movie for yourself.
But with that, Rose is about to spoil the entire movie for you, so without further ado,
Rose.
Alright, let's see if I can screw this up.
Challenge accepted.
In 1719, in the Great Plains, Nauru, a young...
Fuck, I'm already...
God damn it.
Kamanshi?
Kamanshi.
Kamanshi woman, trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother,
Tabi.
Is that how you pronounced it?
Yep.
Yes.
While tracking deer with her dog, Sarie...
Oh my god.
That was right.
Okay.
While tracking deer with her dog, Sarie, she witnesses an anomaly in the sky which she
likens to the Thunderbird, actually a Predator spacecraft.
She then takes this as a sign to prove herself.
Really quickly, I don't know if you were just like this, when they freaking brought in that
dog at first, I'm like, oh my god, it's Charlie!
It did look really close to her, huh?
It did.
I promise I did not say it like that, though.
No, I feel ya.
No, for those of you that don't know, Charlie is my parents' dog, and she is the cutest
thing on the planet, and this dog was pretty freaking close.
Okay, I just want it documented that he just said that Charlie is cuter than his own daughter.
Dude, have you seen Charlie's puppy dog eyes?
I mean, oh yeah, no, I definitely agree.
Charlie is freaking adorable, but you just straight up said that a dog is cuter than
your own daughter.
I said what I said.
Well, Uncle Rose doesn't like that, so...
Anyway, Tobi agrees to bring her to join the search party for a lion that attacked
one of the tribe's hunters, but only so she can provide medical treatment if they can
find the hunter alive.
I swear, every single time the tribe members that were with the brother and sister opened
their mouths, because I watched this with my sister, and literally, it felt like after
the first scene of them being dicks, every single time one of them opened their mouth,
I just wanted to shout, shut the f*** up!
We're really earning that explicit rating this episode, huh?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I don't care.
Do you though?
No, seriously, like, I can't...
Oh really?
Yeah, marking this as explicit is just like one button.
Like I don't give a s***.
Okay, cool.
They retrieve the wounded hunter and depart, though Tobi stays behind to find the lion.
Following unusual tracks and a meticulously skinned rattlesnake, Nauru circles back with
Pakhi and finds Tobi.
Together, they set a trap for the lion, but it kills Pakhi.
Nauru wounds the cat, but fails and strikes her head after being distracted by a burst
of light in the distance.
Tobi carries her home and returns to kill the weakened lion, earning him title of Warchief
after completing the hunt.
First of a greater threat, Nauru departs with Sari, and they come across a herd of skinned
bison, and later are attacked by a grizzly bear.
The bear is killed by the predator, giving Nauru time to escape before running into a
group of Kamanchi sent to find her.
The creature ambushes and kills them in combat.
Nauru is caught in a foothold trap, but the predator leaves when she is no longer a threat.
French voyagers, responsible for killing and skinning the bison, find Nauru and Kacher.
Their translator, Raphael Adolini, questions Nauru about the predator, with whose species
he is familiar.
When she refuses to talk, the lead voyager reveals that he has Tobi captive and tortures
him with a knife before using both siblings as tide bay for the predator.
The creature kills most of the Frenchmen, while Tobi and Nauru escape.
Nauru rescues Sari from the camp and stumbles across a dying Raphael, who teaches her how
to use his flintlock pistol in exchange for her medical treatment.
Nauru gives him herbs that reduce his body heat to stanch the bleeding.
When the predator arrives, Raphael plays dead, and Nauru realizes that the creature cannot
see him.
Raphael is killed as the predator steps on his wounded leg, causing him to scream.
Tobi arrives on horseback to rescue Nauru.
Together they weaken the creature, but he kills Tobi after stabbing him through the
back.
Nauru flees and finds the surviving lead Frenchman.
She knocks him out, severs one of his legs, and gives him an unloaded gun before eating
the herbs to hide her body heat, baiting the creature to kill the voyager.
She uses Adelini's pistol to ambush the predator, knocking off its laser targeting mask, and
she steals it and flees into the woods.
Nauru lures the predator into a mud-filled bog pit before using the creature's mask to
turn its own projectile weapon against it.
The predator dies of its wounds, and Nauru severs its head and paints her face with its
glowing green blood.
She brings the head and the flintlock pistol back to her tribe.
They honor her victory by declaring Nauru a Warchief.
A cave painting in the end credits depicts three predator spaceships arriving in Comanche
territory.
ще
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Alright, starting off with story. This is like, for me at least, this is an
interesting instance of not a super complicated story, but it worked out for what it was. Like,
it's kind of the same feelings I had with The Princess from last week. This movie knew what
it was about, and it didn't try to force a crazy story on us or try to over complicate anything.
It just kept it as basic as basic could be. And I think it worked out incredibly well. It was still
like a really intriguing story. What did you think? Yeah, overall, I had a good time. I have
never seen a Predator movie in my life, which is funny because I remember when the first Alien
Predator came out, because that was like the same time Freddy vs. Jason was coming out. And so I
remember actually like going to the movie theater and like seeing both of those posters side by side.
It's a weird memory that I have. That was a really cool thing. But so yeah, shockingly,
I haven't seen a Predator movie. But thankfully, with how they set up the story, you really don't
have to because I wasn't lost at all. I mean, my sister explained like, oh, you know, like,
this is why the Predator does what it does. But other than that, I didn't need really any
explanation. I didn't get lost. So the sorry. No, I was just gonna say I honestly don't think you
even needed that. I agree. I think you could have gone into this completely blind with how well they
they pulled everything off. It's just like, they let you learn with the main character. That is true.
Like you learned its motivations. Yeah, she like she's a big fan of them. Oh, yeah, she loves her
movie. So she kind of wanted me to just have like a little insight. Dude, she should have been on.
Shit. My bad. I'm sorry. And we'll get her on for another Predator movie. Maybe we'll see if we ever
do another Predator. Like, okay, find out what her favorite Predator movie is. And we'll do an
episode with with her. Okay, deal. But yeah, anyway. Yeah, like that was something that I
really appreciated. Because Braille is a lot more familiar with the Predator. Like her favorite
series is the Alien series. So she's pretty familiar with Predator. And so I only know of
Predator what happened in like, the one that came out a few years ago. Just the Predator movie. The
one that everyone hates. Yeah, which I think it gets a lot of hate. But whatever, like what what
the hell do I know? Anyway, um, I mean, hey, you're entitled to your own opinion. Yeah, but it's also
I'm not super familiar with everything else. But I felt like I had so many questions when it came
to that movie that I was asking Braille. I was just like, Hey, who's this? Who's that? Like,
what's what's up with this? What's up with that? Like, just a lot of questions like that. Or with
this one, I didn't feel like I needed any of that. And it wasn't even necessarily because I knew some
of those answers. It was because they just did a great job at explaining everything and just like,
allowing us to learn with what's her face? Naru. So I appreciated the hell out of that. And just
her story of wanting to be a hunter or looked at as as a hunter. And it's more just to like,
it wasn't her. She didn't have some like, deep seated motivation to be a hunter, like where it's
like, I feel like it's in my blood or something like that. She's just like, because you guys said
I couldn't. I love attitude. I know I loved it too. I'm just like, more power to you. Like, hell
yeah. Like I'm all for that. Like if they would have given her some bullshit reason just like,
it was my father's dying wish. Yeah, I would have just been like, I would have been so over that.
But just the fact that she's just like, because you guys think I can't, like, I love that. Love it.
No, I really like that they, they literally base the story off of just this one girl along with
her tribe, but then we're able to work in a predator story as well.
Yeah, it worked effortlessly. And honestly, I think the only thing that they may have over explained,
which I wouldn't even say they over explained it. It was just that they, they offered the whole thing
of saying like, what the the trial was that she had to do that I don't think they have the name of
it in the in the Wikipedia description. But the the trial that a hunter needs to go through,
where you need to hunt what's hunting you. Oh, yeah. Like, I loved that. And then that was great.
It was awesome. And I love that they didn't try to do too much foreshadowing with the predator.
Like, it's just great. Just some crazy stuff. We get to see the predator like, they do kind of give
him like a really cool entrance when we see the snake fighting that are trying to attack that mouse.
And then predator comes a frickin like, Rex it. Yeah, I'll fully admit, I never wanted to see not
only an unskinned snake and an unskinned bison. That's something I could have gone my whole life
without seeing. But thank you to this movie. I appreciate it. Dude, so Iris came out of she was
in board. Okay, so she came out when when the snake was like skinned and everything. And I was just
like, oh shit. But she came out and she like looked at it for a second. And she just turned to me she's
like, yucky worm and then runs away. And I'm like, oh my god, I love that. Like, you're not 100%
wrong. That's my daughter. Yeah, that's right. Proud dad moment right there. Yeah, so that was,
that was pretty good. It's amazing. I'm like, that might be something that comes back to haunt you,
but it's not a problem right now. So yeah, we're good. We're good. Dude, total side note though.
So Braille bought these like super cheap dollar store lights and hung them on her bed.
And the batteries on one of them started dying. So the lights were flickering.
And Iris like started like, like, oh no, oh no, like, kind of getting scared. And I was just,
she's just like, she was telling me she's like, like, scary, scary. And I was like, that's not
scary. That's spooky. Spooky is fun. And she's just like, spooky. And so I was like, yeah, spooky's
fun. And so now like she, whenever she's doing something, she's trying to like scare you,
she'll say spooky. Oh my god. Like she came out from a nap. And like, she threw her blanket over
her head and was walking towards me and just saying spooky. Oh, that is frickin adorable.
Oh, that is frickin adorable. I know. Oh my gosh. Freakin love her. Anyway,
getting back to the story. Are you sure? Are you sure I can't buy her a Michael Myers mask?
Dude, she might totally be into that.
Like 100% honesty, she might totally be into that. No, Chucky, like, come on.
Oh my gosh. Another frickin side note. We were at Walmart last week, I think. And we were walking
around and I found this. It was like, it was a frickin Chucky outfit. It was straight up a Chucky
outfit. Same color pattern. It was blue overalls and everything. But if you pull the overalls down
a little bit, it exposes a little bit of a mini, like a mini mouse. And I'm like, no, this is
straight up Chucky. Just need the good guys logo on the... Dude, I kid you not. It had like the
bright buttons. It had like the pocket on the overalls. The shirt matched to a frickin T.
It was frickin Chucky. But no, it was something Disney. And I'm like, bullshit.
Universal, you should trademark Disney for that. I know. Dude, next time we go to Walmart, I'll see
if it's still there and take a picture for you. Yes, please. I gotta see this.
Anyway, getting back to the story. It's tough to... I had to remind myself a lot while I was thinking
of the score, or like where I was wanting to be with the scores. Like trying to remind myself,
like what do we score? And for me, it was like, okay, we score on how well the story flows. Does
it make sense? Does it have any slow parts or unnecessary parts or any of this other weird shit?
Like how did all that work to progress the story? And even though the story was basic as all hell,
like on paper, I think it sounds super boring. But the way that they executed it was just
really frickin good. Agreed. So I'm in the high 80s for the story. Same here.
Where are you sitting at? You know, I'm sitting at an 86.
Nice. I'm actually sitting a little bit higher than you at an 88. I like it.
All right, moving on over to writing. So I feel this goes with like the whole like subtitles
stuff. But I don't know if you knew this, but apparently there is an option when you start
this movie or you go on its page that you can actually turn on the subtitles for when they're
speaking to each other in their native language. Are you shitting me? Yeah, that's what I heard.
I'm like, that would have been nice to know. Because it would have been super nice to know.
Yeah, that would have been nice to know what they were saying.
Shit, dude. That's why I was like so confused. Like, I didn't let it bother me that much because
I was just like, okay, whatever. Like, they're speaking English through a majority of this.
They're just speaking. Oh, that's another thing. Total side note. This is one of the first movies
that can be translated into Comanche. That is awesome. Right? That is really cool.
Yeah, like I don't know if how many people speak it, but like knowing that that's an option for
them. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's super cool. Like, I think the three languages you can
translate this into are like English, French, and Comanche. Or those are like the three main.
Oh, not Spanish? I don't, I would assume Spanish. I don't know. It's just those are the ones that
they like talk about, like the big ones. Gotcha. But yeah, like the dialogue worked really well.
I think it worked better like with the Comanche people, like her tribe.
Like when they were speaking to each other, like I felt like I understood the gist of what they were
like trying to get across, which is interesting. Yeah. But I think where the dialogue like kind of
dies for me is when they started, when they introduced the French. The French were just
really freaking intense and it just didn't really work super well for me. I really wish I would have
been able to turn on the English subtitles there. Yeah, right. Like there was definitely some words
that I was able to pick up, like the freaking big dude that she gets predator to bushwhack.
Gets predator to bushwhack. Oh, such a great scene. Like calling her an idiot savage.
Like I'm just like, oh, frick him. Like you're going to get polled, dude.
But really, really enjoyed that stuff. And I really enjoy it. Like this is like one of those
things I'm not quite sure how this works in relation to the other Predator movies.
But the stuff that she was able to pick up about the predator,
like just those like little details about him, like noticing that he only
attacks people that pose a threat to him. Like he'll never attack someone that's defenseless
or that doesn't pose a threat. And I think the only, like I did have an issue with the way that
she worded it where she's like, oh, he stood above me, could have killed me, but didn't,
but didn't because he saw that I wasn't a threat. I'm like, he also just bushwhacked a bear. Like
I'm pretty sure he's still like recovering from that. Like he's probably like, oh, this, this
chick and freaking sent you on your way, like didn't really give two shits. And also for how
much blood he was drenched him, I'm sure he could really even see her that well. Yeah. Right. I'd be
like, eh, sensors might've been a little off. But yeah, that stuff was so cool. The writing,
unfortunately for me, just drops a little bit below the story. Like where I'm, because the,
no, you're good. What were you saying? Oh, no, I was going to say, I'm assuming,
uh, cause the French people, that's a majority of it. Yeah. Yeah. Same here. Um, everything else,
like the dialogue between them and the Comanche, I mean, it was good, nothing like Oscar worthy or
nothing, but like it was really well done. So where I'm, where I'm in the high eighties with
the story, I'm probably in the low eighties with the writing. Yeah. I can agree with you there as
well. So I'm probably sitting at like an 80 for writing. You know what? I'm going to match you there.
All right. Moving on over to acting. I have the cast pulled up here. One second.
All right. We have Amber midthunder who plays Nauru. We have Dakota beavers who played her brother,
Ta-Tabi. Um, we have Dane DiLeagro who did something for the predator. Like he's cast as predator.
So I bet he was probably like the body. Makes sense. And I don't think there was anyone else
that was in this enough to, yeah, I don't think anyone else was in it enough to be mentioned.
So those are like the big three. I like it. So you good?
You good? Freaking out like some big ass bug flew on me. That's terrifying. Yeah, just a little bit
shit. Anyway, sorry. You don't want to try and find it? No, I don't even know if I could. Okay.
Anyway, getting back into acting. This one's kind of tough to do like a top three.
I think I can make it work. Maybe. I don't know if you can.
Let's hear it. Let's see what you got. Okay. So number three, I would actually give to
Dane DiLeagro for the way that his body language for the predator. I love that.
It works, right? What? It works. He's still an actor and you know, for being under so much
prosthetics, I feel he does a great job with his motions. So that's why I'm giving number three to.
And I'm not trying to make this a joke. Like honestly, the people that like are behind like
this much prosthetics, honestly, sometimes I feel they don't get enough credit or love. So
kudos to you, Dane. You did a great job. Two, I would give to Dakota Beavers who played Tabi.
Great, really, really good character. He was the only part of Nauru's tribe that I could actually
stand. All the others were freaking jackasses and they deserved everything that they had coming to
them from the predator. When he finally killed them, I was very, very happy. Shit, man. What?
Freaking brutal. Oh, I know. And then number one, Shocker, Amber Midthunder who played Nauru. She
was amazing. She was so great. And I freaking loved her. So. All right. That's interesting. Dude,
like I love these ones that where it's like really hard to do a top three or where I feel like it's
hard because I would actually swap your number two and three. Number one, I'm absolutely giving to
Amber Midthunder for everything that she said. She just did an incredible job, but I would actually
give it to Dane DeLeagre for my number two because like you said, being in the
in being like just the body for something, you have to. There's just a certain way that you have to
move where it's not to like Power Rangers, but it's not to like just standing there, like being
like a mascot. Like there's a really fine line and I feel like actors who do a lot of theater, I'd
love to see his IMDB and see if he's done some theater work before. I don't even know if that
stuff would be on IMDB. Yeah, I don't know if it would. But I feel like he did do a really good
job of just having that imposing body language. Like just back straight, like great posture and
there's just something intimidating about that. And then him being built like a brick shithouse
helps a lot too. That's great. But yeah, and then nothing against Dakota Beavers. I think he did
a really good job. It's just when you're comparing it against other like his co-stars, it's just
not quite up on that level yet. Fair enough. And I think I had a hard time believing, like
I think it took a little extra effort for him to prove himself being like a warrior.
Dude, I'm getting attacked by this bug and freaking pissing me off.
Anyway, where are you at with acting? I'm trying so hard not to like disrupt the flow of this
of the show. You're just sitting here laughing at me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know if I'm in
the like, I would say I'm in the low 80s. Because it was still good. I think I'll go slightly higher
than writing. So I'll go, I'll go an 81. I'm a little bit higher than you. I think I'm gonna
be in like 84 range. Didn't quite get to like an 85. I do feel like there was some
issues and dry spots here and there. I almost would have, I almost would have preferred if this
whole thing would have been in Subject. I would have preferred if it was in Subject.
I almost would have preferred if this whole thing would have been in Subtitles.
You know what, fair enough. Like if they would have just spoken like full blown
Comanche the entire time, I think I would have been fine.
Yeah, you know, I can agree with that. But yeah, so I think, yeah, it's just the English,
like the switching back and forth kind of got a little like meh. Fair enough. Yeah, but
yeah, so 84 for me. Moving on over to Character Development.
This one's, this one's kind of hard for me. Like what genre is this considered?
It has to be horror, right? This is an action, it's, nope, action adventure drama.
Not horror. Well, that's what I was thinking too. I'm like if it's horror, we need to talk about
the logic of it. But this is technically an action adventure. So we have to talk about
the character development and the character development of Naru, which I felt she had a
great arc in this. Good point. It's a very good point. Yeah, this actually might be my highest
score. Oh yeah, no, hands down. Like honestly, I feel that this has reached 90 status in my opinion.
Because seeing her from when this movie starts out, like how Kayla pointed out, literally her
attitude is, oh, well, I'm going to do this just because you guys said I couldn't. I'm going to
prove you guys wrong. And I freaking love that mentality. And just, you know, seeing her journey
throughout the whole movie, just, you know, not only trying to get her people to believe
that this creature is not a bear, it's nothing that they've ever seen before, but it's something
they've ever seen before, it's completely different. But also seeing her finally prove herself
and actually be able to defeat the predator. And I feel like the icing on top was when she freaking
took the green blood and just streaked it across her face for like a tribal face paint. I freaking
love that so much. So yeah, great, great character arc. So you know, I'm going to go, I'm going to go
a solid 90. That's actually exactly where I would be too. I think they did a really good job at
giving us like a good proper arc, like someone who
kind of needs some extra life lessons to learn different things and like, more or less proving
herself and like needing to do certain things to prove herself. And the way that she's able to learn
and adapt and basically like do things that she's constantly being told that she can't do,
constantly being told that she can't do, and then just overcoming those obstacles. Like
I really liked how right before her brother died, that she or that he revealed, like more or less
told her like, hey, the only reason I was able to kill this lion at all was because I followed
your plan. Like, you know these animals, you understand their behavior better than I ever could.
Like you see things that I don't, and you always have been able to do that. And then with the,
just always kind of having this skill and this eye to catch things. Like she was able to catch
on to things like Predator not killing people that were like harmless. Being able to figure out like,
oh, they can't see this person when their blood is so low. And just all this other,
like their thermal stuff doesn't really work right. Which she was just able to deduce based off of
her, the medicine that she was giving people. Like she's just so freaking smart. And the way
that they go about sharing that with us was really well done. And then ultimately getting to the point
where she goes from like, kind of the prey to the Predator in her own sense was just epic. Like I
really, I really liked how she, the conversation that she was having with that French dude,
like right before the Predator came and then she took her like those herbs and lowered her
blood temperature and was able to like hear him and move out of his way right before he like hit
her. Like freaking, like a boss dude. So good. Yeah, it was so good. Yeah, there was so little about
this, about her character that I disliked. So yeah, definitely in the 90s for me.
All right, moving on over to effects. Where are you sitting there?
Overall, I think the effects were great. The blood spewing guts were great.
The animals having their skin turned inside out was absolutely disgusting, but it looked great.
Especially that freaking wide shot of all the bison. Just disgusting.
Yeah, no, honestly, I really don't have any complaints with the effects. I mean,
I don't know what the budget was for this movie, but whatever the budget was, I feel that they
definitely did not skimp out on the effects. Let's see if they have the...
Man, it doesn't look like it. I feel nowadays, if it's a streaming movie, they usually don't,
which sucks. Like they don't have the budget. Yeah, just because. Since they won't have to
report the box office, they feel that they don't need to report the budget. Right.
Yeah, I actually had, I think all my issues were with the Predator. I think they overused the
invisibility or the cloaking technology a little too much. See, I loved that. Like, it looked cool.
It looked cool as hell. It's just, I think there were times where it wasn't super necessary.
Like when he was walking through the Ash-ridden forest area and it was hitting him and you could
basically see him, I feel he should have just shut it off. Fair enough.
Everything else looked really good. I think the only thing that really stood out to me as not great
was when... I forget if it was during the French fight or with the Comanches,
but when they had his blood on them, it looked like digitally added.
For some reason I'm not remembering that part. Like there were just like spots of the blood on
their knees or just somewhere on their person and it just, the way that it was catching light
just didn't feel supernatural. But then there were other times where it looked really good.
Like when she came walking into the village with the glowing paint across her face,
that looked really good. It looked like they were actually using glow-in-the-dark paint.
But it just, for some reason whenever they were fighting him, it just didn't look that good.
Definitely got to give props to the stunt coordination on this.
Like they did some good work. Definitely not on like the same level as like the princess,
but it was still really solid.
With that, I think I'm like, I'm around like the same as story. I'm like at an 88.
No, I'm not, Chither.
All right, next up we got music.
This is one of those things that it's just nothing too special about it. Yeah, I mean it worked for
the scenes that it needed to either, you know, be more dramatic or kind of softer tone. But yeah,
nothing really stood out that much. I mean, I guess you could say with this kind of movie,
you don't really need it to. Yeah, so I think with definitely given that, I think a six is more than
fair. Yeah, I can agree with the six.
All right, next up we got costumes and I gotta say I loved the costumes. Just the way that all of
the Comanches, the villagers looked was awesome. Like I don't know, I'm not super well versed in
like historical accuracy or anything like that, but from what we saw, I think it was a good
thing. They looked great. Naru's outfit was awesome. I think it just added something like
her kind of having like the fringe was really cool. And just everything with her, like when she
painted her face, like right before fighting Predator and everything, like she was a freaking
badass. And she looked amazing. And then that like that's not even getting into the Predator
itself. His helmet, dude, was the shit. Yeah, oh, absolutely agree.
I loved his helmet. I loved how that looked. I've always just kind of been a big fan of like how the
Predator looks in general. But man, there's just something about this helmet that just made him
seem like almost like a caveman. Yeah, it kind of did. And it was so, so good, like so freaking epic.
So I'm having a hard time not giving this any. I think we're going to give it a nine just for
fairness sake. I don't think it's quite at a 10 yet. I can match you there. I was talking it up and
then I just, I kind of took a second to just like reel it in, reel it in. Like you, like is that, is
that the critic in you or is that the you? Like me personally, solid 10. The critic in me knows like
not the best, but it was good. Yeah, now I get you, man. So amazing work to the costume designers on
this one. All right, last up we got personal score. You want me to go first or you want to?
No, I can go first. Overall, I had a pretty damn good time with this movie. Like I said earlier,
I've never seen any of the Predator movies, but that didn't matter because you didn't have to.
This movie, literally they tell you everything that you need to know about the Predator.
And there's as far, they don't show any connections to the other movies,
which definitely makes it a lot easier to understand. The main protagonist is so good.
She is amazing. And it's a simple, not simple story, but like it's, I feel for a Predator movie,
I feel maybe, I don't know from like, maybe like the clips that I've seen for like how big
they sometimes go with these Predator movies. This might be like, is this like a little more
of a grounded Predator movie? I would say so. Okay. Like from what I know of the other Predator movies
and from what I saw in the newest one, they do try to, they go pretty heavy on like everything.
Like it's like super advanced technology and all this like super complicated,
like computerized work or like the interface that the Predator uses. It's just,
it is very heavy on like the sci-fi side. So seeing them take this into like so far into the past,
like going back 300 years from the, like the, like just going so far back and seeing like the evolution,
or not even evolution, the de-evolution that they had to do for the Predator was just awe-inspiring.
It was so good. Yeah, no. Kayla put it best. So yeah, overall, like I said, I had a really
good time with this movie, honestly more than I thought I would. I think it was a good movie.
Honestly more than I thought I would. So, you know, I'm going to go a solid 84.
Yeah, I had a great time with this movie as well. Didn't quite, like I was, I kind of went in
with the expectation that it was going to be like a shut your brain off film.
And I don't think it was. I think it could be if you wanted it to. Like I think it definitely
could just be like, oh, just go in, shut your brain off, don't worry about it. But I think
that would be doing the movie an injustice if you were to do that. Absolutely agree. I think you
need to go into this like wanting to see something, something more, something more than just crazy.
Crazy action and killing. I think that they do a really good job at building a character that we
grow to care about and root for. Because in the other movies, or the other movie that I've seen,
I was rooting for the Predator. Like I'm like, freaking these, these assholes are annoying,
freaking just get them. But but this like Nara was just such was such a good, well written character
that I, I found myself rooting for her. And like, so that's the biggest praise that I can give this
movie. Like, hey, you made a character that I actually didn't want to die. So really appreciated
that. I might be a little lower than you per on my personal score, though. I think I'm down to like an 82.
Like, don't get me wrong, it was good. And it was really fun.
Just not quite on the same, same level as you I would say. Fair enough.
All right, well, well, actually, wait, no, you, you, you got to do your part. I'm sorry.
Oh, yeah. All right. Well, with that, that concludes this week's breakdown. This one was a little
shorter than our previous ones. Like, I think we're slowly getting faster with them.
Maybe throw in a shorter episode every now and again. Yeah, no, right. But yeah, so the final
Albrose letter grade for prey has come to a B. That's not bad. Yeah, not bad at all.
I just realized I forgot to go through the scores of each of the categories.
So our story score averaged out at an 87. Writing went a little bit on the lower end,
went down to an 80. Acting jumped up a couple points to 82.5. Our highest score,
character development, is sitting at a solid nine or 90. The effects were really good,
just dropped a couple points down to an 88. Music sitting at a six, it was like everything worked
for the scene. Nothing too special, though. Costumes, amazing. Giving it a nine. And then our
personal score averaged out to an 83. So the percentage that prey is sitting at is at an 84.43%.
Not bad. Yeah, so really quick comparing this to other B movies.
Maybe if it wants to work for me. All right, so prey, like I said, is sitting at an 84.43%,
which puts it below Christopher Robin, which is at an 84.56%.
Puts it below the Matrix Resurrections, which is at an 84.70. Puts it below the Oath, which is at an 85.
Puts it below the Lion King, which is at an 85.1.
Puts it below the Oath, which is at an 85.
Puts it below the oath which is at an 85
Puts it below the Lion King which is at an eighty five point one and then puts it below the unbearable weight of
Massive talent which is at an eighty five point three seven
Yeah, but it puts it above
Avengers a Geovoltron
Which is at an eighty four point three seven
Puts it above solo
Which was at an eighty four point two one
Puts it above free guy which is added eighty four point zero six and then puts it above Thor
Earth yeah Thor Ragnarok, which is at an eighty three point nine zero
So
Yeah, I
That's a tough one to disagree with
Yeah, like I
I'm always like somewhat hesitant whenever I see an Avengers movie
like like
But this one it's I'll say yeah, it is above a Geovoltron
Yeah, as much as I love a Geovoltron yeah, I can definitely agree with it
Yeah, so I think it has a pretty decent home
I
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