Hello there! Well, I managed to finally get this video out, had limited sleep and breaks for eating, otherwise I have been stuck in Microsoft Word and Vegas for what feels like centuries. It tough to get done but after many drafts and corrections, it looks like we made it. For those who are wondering, we got the TFA Critique coming up and i'm gonna take a few days to wind down a bit then i'm back on with that, full throttle. I was going to cover Venom but I really want to push on with TFA now, hoping for a early November release, realistically. So I think I will skip Venom to focus TFA. Next up should be Aqua-man in December and after that.......who knows. I shall be posting updates to the Patreon about the TFA critique if you guys want more details, those are free posts and you can check them out here: www.patreon.com/user?u=4817956
Thank you for still making fun of TLJ. Because I'm still trying to digest how horrible that movie is and this reminds me that there's sanity out there.
Avakrr Lmao that is amazingly accurate for this film, like for goodness sakes just space out your events with full stops or something or else your audience is lost
And then a spaceship comes and then the predator wakes up and then the prisoners escape and then they fight the predator and then the predator kills the other predator
@@kieranschafer5180 and then the lobotomized predator dog spits out a grenade... If you wanna see something that is actually like that take a look at "Axe Cop", it's literally the ideas and stories of a 5 year old made into a webcomic, and it's better than this.
"The final act took place in daylight, and that wasn't scary." Shane Black, a man who was part /of/ the original Predator, a movie in which 3/4 of it takes place during broad daylight and is one of the tensest, most anxiety inducing experiences of all film history, has decided "Muh Daylight = Muh Boring". Well done, sir. Well done, managing to forget the lessons of the cinematic classic YOU WERE FUCKING IN.
The scene where the Predator kills Mac and Apollo Creed (can't remember his name right now lol) is one of the scariest in the movie and it happens in broad daylight _"Anytime"_
@@megamovieman101 The only reason he was in the film was to do re-writes on the script. So he wrote a large chunk of the original movie. Which makes this movie even more baffling.
You skipped over one of the dumbest things in movie history. When the girl goes to the Stargazer lab they show her a tablet with still images from P1 and P2. The P1 image is when it emerged from the water and couldn’t see Dutch covered in mud... as if someone was there and took that photo.
At this point I am willing to believe Hollywood has been taken over by shape shifting aliens with no concept of human culture and no ability to construct a story. These scripts would of got rejected as B movies back in any day.
Counting is hard these days isn’t it? Instead of 1,2,3,4 Predators, Predator, The Predator, Predator 2 Simple, totally not going to be confusing or just plain dumb I wonder what’s next, What Predator? A Predator? Predator 1? Predator 0? Choices indeed!
Remember when the Predator was an alien hunter that considered earthlings lesser beings with enough intelligence to be a decent hunt. Using it's greater technology to stalk, toy with and manipulate it's human prey. A creature of honour, that would not hunt something that couldn't fight back, only those with weapons. A creature that would eschew it's high tech blaster and tools to fight hand to hand, if it's prey threw it's gun away and drew a knife in futile challenge? One that if you were able to defeat it's Brethren, it would acknowledge your ability, and gift you one of it's many trophy weapons gathered throughout the ages, before leaving in mutual respect? I miss that predator.
@@tessajalloh3914 Well generally, if you can switch "its" for "his/her" then you should use its. If it is "it is" it is "it's". The castle and 'his' walls: its walls. The parliament and her decisions: the parleiament and its decisions, and so on
Heh in some ways it's true. A lot of movies seem to skip on the details nowadays (Star Wars: TLJ is probably the best example of this) which might be excusable in SMALL amounts, but these amounts are by no means SMALL in a lot of new movies.
The idea of changing Predator lore to make it more... grand in scope(?) kind of goes against what made Predator so effective in the first place. The basic idea is that they didn't see us as much more than sport. We were collateral damage in their rituals or hobbies. It's upsetting. It makes you really root for the human.
Thats also the problem with the new shitty alien movies. Predator was a mysterious and monstrous alien that came to earth to hunt for sport. We dont need to know more. More takes away the mystery and if written like this makes it fucking stupid. Same with Alien. First its some mysterious xeno found on some destroyed alien ship. It made you contemplate the unknown horrors of space and how this creature was a perfectly evolved apex predator. The rest was up to your imagination. Then the new movies made them bio weapons made by an insane robot. I personally love the idea that somewhere in the galaxy there could be planets with these apex predators like xenomorphs and that things even worse could be lurking. But no Ridley Scott just said, “lol so like these big pale bald guys made humans and then made a bioweapon that creates xenomorphs lol”
You missed the best part. Biologist lady, remember she's a biologist, claims that the Retcon "grew and exoskeleton under it's skin." That is an actual quote. An EXOskeleton UNDER it's skin. This is what a supposed biologist says.
FFS. It's a Endoskeleton if it's inside. This is something a basic exposure to Five Nights At Freddies will teach you. Because they have Endoskeletons. It's not massively complex.
"But Sir, Predator movies don't actually bleed money." "Hold my beer and watch. Let's start with an autistic lead, a colead with terrets syndrome, a colead that killed his own unit.... Hmm what else.. Secondary bad guy will instantly kill himself...
It will suddenly become an advantage in the post apocalyptic wasteland where social situations are solved with deadly violence, allowing you to play dead like the mighty goat. Godspeed, ultra assburger.
And it's almost every single one of them! Name something, you've considered a "cool action movie" - it's either raped in the last 3-5 years, or is about to be. Terminator(already twice), Alien, Star Wars(incredible triple massacre with two mediocre additions), Predator, Jurassic Park(also double combo punch), Gostbusters - are done, Matrix is on the way...And maybe sth else, I've forgotten. There are some lucky surprises ofc... I mean, I liked BR2049 pretty much, altho I wouldn't say it was an action movie ever, but still, I was totally prepared for it to be garbage. Ah, forgot - the "Predators" movie was recent enough too and it's not that bad (probably an accident)
@@Vladimir_Fedorov27 i was literally guna say "you forgot the new blade runner" but yeah, it probably shouldn't get lumped with those others, it deserves better
You know, I have Asperger's Syndrome, and I'm been around for a good while (in my final year of high school), so I can say with confidence... that this movie really is an insult to my condition. The only "superpower" I have is the ability to work out certain math equations in my head with few difficulties- sometimes. Beyond that, it is nothing but a problem for me, making it hard for me to speak in complete sentences without stuttering, to be able to connect with people on any meaningful level, and to break out of regular daily patterns without becoming anxious. I do bad in crowds, and I sadly cannot memorize patterns like other people with my condition can apparently do (especially not to the bullshit levels presented in this film). My only saving grace is that I have been lucky and have not been bullied for my condition, because if I was, I'm not sure how I would react (probably either burst into tears or throw a punch of punches out of anger). I know people think they are encouraging people like me when they write characters like this, but they never get it right, because they fail to acknowledge the drawbacks of Asperger's Syndrome, and instead make characters with only the good parts, exaggerated to the point where it is unrealistic and just disrespectful. I have been trying my hand at writing fantasy novels lately, and I like to think I can write some decent stories on my rough drafts alone. When I make a world, I always write out the rules, so that even if my story becomes a bit contrived, it does not break its rules. I do my best to make sure events flow from scene to scene, and while my foreshadowing skills need work, I do at least make sure the setups make sense. How people like this can get jobs in Hollywood, or any other film studios, with such obvious little care for lore, consistency, and dialogue is baffling to me. I know that I at least try, and the people I show my stories to can tell I try even if they don't like what I wrote- these people put no effort into their stories and try to cover it up with cool effects instead of checking the script. If the story sounds bad on paper before you cover it up with "amazing" effects, then the story should never be produced (yet they still do, somehow). Mauler, you have done a fantastic job with all of your rages and critiques, for movies and otherwise, and you have brought me much joy. You are helping my critical thinking skills for story telling, and have provided me with all the evidence I need for my friends when I tell them I hate Disney Star Wars (am loving the Legends Novels so far, though- I'm on a mission to get as many as I can). Thank you for all the work you put into these videos, and sorry if I ranted a bit. I look forward to your critique of TFA.
"How people like this can get jobs in Hollywood, or any other film studios, with such obvious little care for lore, consistency, and dialogue is baffling to me" simple, it's all about brand recognition at this point, which is really sad.
@@alansilvero it's all about dem connections at this point. How some people are even allowed to make movies such as the guy who directed the movie chips is all because they have connections.
ProfessorFanatic I see that you like DnD. If you don't already play I suggest that you do. However I would also suggest you play as the DM. Playing as the DM is a great way to learn interpersonal skills. It can be a trail by fire and passions can run high but it's worth it. Autism isn't a chain to a wall keeping you separated from others. It's a weight for sure, it will slow you down and it never goes away for good. But the focus and will power it takes to pull that weight will make you stronger.
Mailman here, if they weren't paying the PO Box it'd be held at the Office until payment, or the box was closed and then the items would be returned. But that stuff would be held onto for weeks, if not months.
Do not attempt to use any logic, common sense, actual fact, realistic expectation in this fucking movie. It's retarded beyond imagination and yet many liked it. Like I get it, personal opinion matters. But REALLY?? COME ON! Apparently people like feces now.
See that makes sense if you didn’t pay your bills why would they be like “Hey you owe us money but we decided to personally deliver your package home because going above and beyond for people that don’t pay what they owe is how things work right.”
Then you could have a mailman open it by error and the movie would center around a mailman trying to bravely deliver his daily quota while being chased by all predator, government and specops versions. Pretty neat. I just got an image of a mailman on a bicycle firing plasma shots from the mask cannon on a predator running behind him WHILE expertly pitching a newspaper on the welcome mat of a house...
Literally the most bat shit insane plot point ive ever seen/heard of. Predators want to harvest fucking assburgers and autism to become better warriors
"It is not hard to maintain a tone in Predator. Thank you for proving me wrong Shane." That ladies and gentlemen is why I love MauLer. Please don't ever lose your sass. One of your many gifts. :)
I also want to mention how the predator that came to "save" the humans, landed the first thing he did was kill a man and hang him upside down from a tree.
Rest in peace... Predator Alien Terminator Star Wars Star Trek Jurrasic Park Robocop The Thing Ghostbusters Doctor Who Game of Thrones James Bond The Conjuring Independence Day The Matrix Lord of the Rings What an awful time to be alive
now we got fckn marvel. marvel everywhere we look. oh well, ill just rewatch all of the classics you just mentioned and still be more entertained than by any of todays crap (i just realised i sound like some old dude, even tho im 19y old)
@@thahoule7924 Hell, even the MCU itself is outdated nowadays with all of the cringy jokes (well, some of then are good) and spitting on source material (yup, I'm looking at you Thanos and Captain Marvel)
@@murciadoxial8056 They probably just got him in to sell the idea that the director is attached personally to the source material, which he saw as a way of making the whole thing in his image, instead of just being a side character in the mythos.
But didn't you see how calmly he handled all the stress, gunfire, explosions, and death at the end of the movie.. I'm sure the only reason the fire alarm affected him at the beginning was because he wasn't used to his asperger super powers yet.
Shane Black: filming in daylight is boring! Let's do it at night! Also Shane: *was part of one of the greatest horror movies of all time, which was 100% filmed in BROAD DAYLIGHT.*
You missed Dude Blokes "best" line in the film! "I'm a SNIPER, just get me CLOSE." This might be the worst film I've ever seen. . . and I actively watch Neil Breen movies.
Much worse. Somebody actually deliberately pondered this, thought it was awesome, wrote it down and then paid someone to act it, made the movie and released it to the world.
@@gamma626 I mean, it's fun to have these videos mocking bad films, but it speaks to the quality of films as of late. I'm sure good films are still coming out, but there seem to be a lot of bad films recently, whether it be incompetent directors, poor writers, or mass rewrites.
How hard would it have been just to make a sequel to Predators? A movie about Adrian Brody's character trying to get off that planet would have been interesting.
Say what you will about the casting of Adrien, but he and everyone else in Predators most definitely outdid every actor is this shitshow with all their performances. Everyone’s lines and delivery and piss-poor acting in this “movie” literally made me cringe and unintentionally laugh from beginning to end. “Who wrote this dialogue?!”
I would love a predator movie set in the future. Mankind is starting to colonize planets. We have a group of space marines on an outer rim world outpost protecting the engineers there that are prepping it for a colony. Little did we know this planet is close to Predator space. A predator arrives and begins hunting a fearsome alien species from this planet. It crosses paths with the marines and they fight. Because of our advanced weaponry and maybe augmentations or something like this, the marines are able to put him down with minimal casualties. They caught him off guard not expecting human soldiers and his gear was for fighting an alien beast. Before he dies from wounds he sends a SOS and his helmet feed to his fleet. Then a squad of armored and more prepared Predators come to the planet and just wreck havoc.
"Turn your brain off. Brains are offensive to movies these days." Dude, this line applies to almost everything these days! No critical thought allowed.
weed helps a lot in that department. watched this film a few times after having a smoke and actually enjoyed it, watched it sober and well oh well very very very different story, sat there thinking i am watching the right movie this is shit. since been removed, and as no longer smoke no longer ever going to entertain this film.
_Shane Black:_ "Hmm. So we're at the end of Act One. How do we move into Act Two..? What do you think, Lobo?" _Lobo the Lobotomized Dog:_ "Werfff." _Shane Black:_ "You know... that just might work. But then, how will we transition into Act Three?" _Lobo the Lobotomized Dog:_ "Werrp..." _Shane Black:_ "Of course! Lobo, you're a genius!"
Next thing you know, Shane Black planned a scene in which the dog pukes out a dildo and the guys make a joke about it, referring to the girl. That would not surprise me at all if such a scene was cut from the final release.
Yeah, this. "Alien: Covenant" did that just fine, by having Walter create the Aliens. Which wrecks AvP canon, because the Aliens can't fight the Predators in the time of the Aztecs if Walter didn't create them until the 22nd/23rd century.
Funnily enough, they (apparently) hired Black because they wanted him to also take a look at the script / rewrite some stuff. He said no, because he was hired as an actor, not scriptwriter. So they killed him first XD
That part with the address is crazy. Apparently the predator knows enough about addresses to use them but not enough to think that a person wouldn't have their own address on their wall on a note. Not enough to think he was going thousands of miles in the wrong direction. And somehow he isn't.
@@sobrev1viente You know what? AVP wasn't great. Fell pretty flat if I'm being honest. But you know what what else? It wasn't as abysmal as this dog shit movie. Even AVP:R was a better movie. I'd never thought I'd say it but at least the predator did predator shit and had some decent fights. Despite it being filmed in the dimly lit void of a cave. But fuck Shane black and fuck whoever let this happen.
At least in the AVP movies, both the aliens and the predators were still scary. Unlike in Prometheus (seriously, wtf?), Alien: Covenant and The Predator.
Can we all remember the Alien Vs Predator game wherein a good portion of the Predator story line was hunting down the Pred-Alien, something that was Predator genes spliced with another, and they wanted it destroyed because they viewed it as an "Abomination"
I just realised none of the science people are wearing gloves or masks, which would be the absolute minimum amount of personal protective gear that you'd wear when autopsying/vivisecting an unknown species.
I think I've re-watched this video now for what feels like hundreds of times. There is legit no way anyone can get through this video without breaking out in laughter and in my case nearly to tears. What a fantastic review for the most absurd movie ever made.
It's okay, it definitely didn't bring me close to laughing out loud at any point. I admit it takes a lot to make me laugh verbally even a little. But this is just amusing for me. He repeats his lines a little too often for my taste. But I'm glad you enjoyed it so much I guess. I think they are well done but not amazing.
Actually weaponize autism. Brilliant. The irony of this is amazing tho. My brother is on the spectrum and we recently watched the first 6 mcu movies and he pointed out all of the plot holes and inconsistencies. He would obliterate this movie.
Well most people with Asperger's don't act like weird space aliens, they act like social awkward/impaired people. Intellectually, most of them are right around where most people are, plus or minus a few IQ points, they just don't do well in social situations. They are poor at picking up social cues, reading body language, and understanding how non-verbal communication works, but that's about it. They aren't known for acting like they are completely out of touch with reality, like some of the more extreme forms of Autism can do to someone. It's a weird choice because people with Asperger's are decidedly the least "alien" out of all the people on the spectrum, and I say that trying to be as respectful as I can be to such individuals.
Seriously though. Where in the movie did it say he actually had Asperger? The kids call him assburgers, but that could just be a way to pick on him. I dont remember the movie actually saying he had aspergers. He didn't seem like one with aspergers imo.
@@TheBarser of course he doesnt act like someone who is actually on the spectrum would. The writers clearly have no idea what they're doing. It's heavily implied that he is tho. Talking about how autism is the next step in human evolution (one of best retarded statements in the long list of scientifically illiterate shit movies have these days).
So the Predators are stealing magical survival powers from the spinal fluid of other species. Which is why they let Glover go when he successfully beats a Predator in front of them, instead of stealing his spinal fluid to improve their Borg-essence. And gave him a trophy for killing the Predator. This is literally Predator Midichlorians. Wait, do Xenomorphs even have spinal columns?
What happened to them just hunting worthy prey. Like no seriously, that was enough of a motive and it helped establish the predators as being so far beyond humanity in power that they view us as big game hunting.
How can you argue against daylight scenes when the most tense moments of the first film were in broad daylight? That's one of the things that made the Predator scary- you didn't need cover of darkness to feel vulnerable. He could be right next to you and you wouldn't know it.
Shaquille Shaw more or less. Dutch didn't even realize it til that point. Or Dutch was later hiding, camoflauged by mud and the Predator was crawling right next to him
A good film maker can find a way to make something work, a bad film maker can used the tried and tested method and still fuck up so bad its actually hilarious.
Gotta love MauLer. Not only he saves you from wasting money on garbage movies but he makes hour long videos about them that make you have dozens times better experience than on subject movies. Props to you friend.
Actual mailman here in the United States. The package were been returned to sender. It would not have been forwarded on to a home address, unless there was a valid forward. clearly there isn’t because he sent it to the P.O. Box. Do you remember when writers researched topics first? Sigh.
Calling this 'movie' fanfiction is an insult to fanfic authors as some of them put earnest effort into writing. What the fuck has happened to writing quality where people on the internet can write better than the 'professionals'?
You got that right. In fact I'll link a few here www.fanfiction.net/s/11317061/1/Jurassic-World www.fanfiction.net/s/12935052/1/Star-Wars-Rewrite-Episode-VII-The-Force-Awakens If you like them please share them around.
If you criticize my blockbuster movie full of dick jokes, unnecessary explosions, and "strong female characters" I'll cry and call you a racist, sexist, nazi, movie hater.
Yes there are good fanfiction stories out there, but c'mon. Get real. The staggering majority of fanfiction merely exists because creative thinking is hard. Their stories thus have huge problems due to their own lack of confidence and often lack of writing experience; ridiculous contrivances, gaping plot holes, and they often break the very characters they seek to emulate. To say something is like fanfiction is not to hark to the very best of the best, the 0.00001% of Fanfiction that isn't total vomit.
Hollywood has an intellectual wall around it and if you don't push their agenda you don't get in, so in a complete echo chamber they write utter shit surrounded by yes men and others devoid of logic or talent approvingly supporting their scribbles.
RyanKaufman Pretty sure that JammyONE wasn't saying that all, or even most, fanfictions are good. He's saying that many of them are young, amateur writers that have actual ideas, even if they aren't good ones. Comparing them to the so-called professionals that create vapid movies like The Predator, who put little effort into anything, is an insult.
You all do realize that almost all of of the unique (but simple designed) SF/action films of 70's and 80's were totally destroyed. Think about it--Terminator franchise: destroyed. Alien: destroyed, Predator: destroyed, Star Wars: destroyed, Die Hard: destroyed, etc.
Blade Runner: destroyed (and already ruined by the DC, which also soured me on Harrison Ford when he lied to go along with the Ridley Scott take-two cash-grab). Aliens: ...myeh; only the second one was a real A-list action blockbuster; the others were lower-budget horror movies, none of which were as good (JLC-in-panties fan-service notswithstanding) as Carpenter's "The Thing".
"The Predator" also breaks the entire idea of the "Predators" where they kidnap talented people off earth and bring them to an uninhabited planet to hunt them.
To me at least the whole 'abduct the people we want to hunt and drop them on a pre-prepared hunting planet' that was the basis of Predators seemed like a direct result of Predator 2 with the humans becoming a bit too "informed" about them (The whole shadowy government agency that tries to capture the predator in the second film) as if they were trying to get around having to fight through ranks of tacticool mooks to get to the guys they actually wanted to hunt in the first place.
If I remember correctly the Yautja have a caste/class system and the "Nobles" just kidnap people to hunt them on planets, while "Common" Yautja have to go to planets to hunt. .... Now this makes me want to read up on the Predator lore again.
@@frenchsoldier8485 They were members of so called bad blood. That means they were bunch of criminals and outcasts from Yautja civilisation. And i belive that not all of them were members of same sub-spiecies
"Predator Fans are the one demographic who'll utterly dispise this movie." You nailed it. I am a Die hard Predator Fan and I Hate. This. Piece. Of. Hot. Smoking. Grabage!!!! It doesnt even deserve to be called a movie. Even if it wasnt a Predator movie, it would be trash. It took me 3 attempts to watch this movie until the ending and I got drunk each time, because I could not bare it sober.....
Predator - amazing! Predator 2 - pretty good AvP - guilty pleasure but honestly pretty good and a new story for both aliens and predators. AvPR- no Predators- really good, and a clever way to retell the predator story. The Predator- this movie makes me root for the predator while killing people, because these people are so stupid....
The original movie is a modern classic,because it's a very subversive movie.The guys from RLM made a fantastic analysis about it. The movie starts out,as your typical 80's action flick,with macho commandos,going to a mission into the jungle and then turns into a slasher,but with the twist,that the killer is not some Jason or Michael Myers character,but a beefed up alien,armed with some awesome tech. You see these manly men ,losing their shit,as they're getting murdered one by one,by the Pred. In the end only Arnie is left,his squad all dead,no weapons left and fighting the Pred one-on-one,isn't an option,because the fucker is too strong,even for him. So,Arnie uses his cunning,to trap the Predator,in the end he won,because he outsmarted him. The new movie on the other hand,is just a Rated-R version of Suicide Squad,with lots of ''yo momma''-jokes,CGI-blood and a story that throws the entire Predator lore,out of the window,similar to what Alien:Covenant did with the Aliens.For example,it is established,that the Preds hunt for sport,not to gather DNA or some bullshit.
@@doublep1980 yeah I don't watch a lot of movies, but I find my time is usually better spent looking up old things that we know are good rather than gambling on new shit. It doesn't help that mainstream critics are either bought or have their heads so far up their own digestive tracts that they are basically useless. On the bright side it leaves an open niche for fan content to shine :D
This movie is a perfect repesentation of what's wrong with Hollywood nowadays. Back in the day,from the late 70's to mid 90's,you could pitch an original idea to a studio and if they liked it,they would gave you a moderate budget and let you do your thing.This is how we got Star Wars,all the early Spielberg movies like E.T. ,Jaws,Strange Encounters,Indiana Jones,Terminator,Ghostbusters,Alien,Predator,Back to the Future,Robocop etc. etc. etc. Nowadays,the studios won't finance an original idea,they only make movies,based on existing IP's,like comics,videogames,books etc. or they take an older IP,like Terminator,Alien,Star Wars or here Predator and reboot/remake it and completely screw it up during the process.The only exception was Mad Max:Fury Road,because the original director/writer,George Miller made it happen,the studio was actually not interested in it and he had to struggle with them for years,to get it done.Same thing,with the Karate Kid show,Cobra Kai,which was made by 2 guys who are huge fans of the original.
doubleP side note, even mad max did it kinda wrong, soft reboot that retconed continuity an aparenty only follows after thunderdome with a different max, or it fucks up the timeline of the apocalypse several times, watch E;R's video on it for te agendas in it
I liked Predator 2. Was it as good as the original? Hell no. It was a cheesefest, but it was a good cheesefest. The last scream of the 80s before the 90s happend and it was fun :)
Predator 2 is definitely inferior to the original but I can still sit down, watch it and have a jolly good time. Even ruthlessly making fun of it isn't enough to make this movie tolerable. It's pure dogshit
I know that’s what Michael Caine’s always done, I don’t think he’s ever turned down a role. I guess Olivia’s doing the same thing. And sometimes it’s frustrating because they’re both really talented when they’re trying lol
@@quinnrobinsson1646 so a person is not allowed to have an opinion unless they have made a movie? And if we are not allowed to have an opinion, why bother seeing the movie? Your basically give me ypur money and shut up. That is not a viable business strategy. Besides, your defending a movie that soneone pooped out a cloaking ball. Is this where you want to draw the line?
To be fair it’s not that stupid. Like I could easily go out and hunt animals in the world because of superior technology but I wouldn’t mind being as fast as a cheetah or strong as a gorilla or able to breather under water etc (cannot believe I’m defending anything about this film) it was executed in the most stupid way possible in this film with the surgido traits being autism and something to do with global warming
New Predator lore is overly complex and gay. Anna's monologue in Predator '87 describing this prolific hunter as "the demon that makes trophies of men" is utterly badass.
"overly complex and gay" That 'gay' bit was a bit random. The new predators are gay? Well, most martial and militaristic warrior cultures had a lot of intense male bonding going on, the boys would get a bit a carried away and didn't really relate to women, so that's no surprise. Does this predator rape anyone?
Well, their romantic lives aren't touched upon much, but I think that would actually be seen as a weakness to be homosexual. The only time I can ever remember a line about a female Yautja is in the AVP novel series (the good one) where Dachande reminisces about being with his wife
Makes you wonder why nobody just did what Alien did; 1st Stage: Show you how terrifying the monster is. 2nd Stage: Show you how it evolves to combat new situations. 3rd Stage: Show you how there are countless more of them. 4th Stage: Show you the Predator that hunts them for fun. 5th Stage: Repeat the above, and slowly introduce new stuff. Not really sure how this concept is really hard.
AvP wasn't all that bad. It wasn't great, but it was comparable to the less successful Alien movies. Same for Predators, not great, but certainly better than this trash.
I agree. Always thought Predator was hugely inferior to Alien, and that it hurt the Alien franchise to have this predator nonsense tacked on. But looking back at it, the first AVP was a decent action-horror exercise in mindlessness. But the setting was nice, the acting not horrific, the effects OK and the story didn't aggressively try to destroy the two franchises it was trying to greedily exploit. The second AvP though...Man that was almost as bad as Prometheus and Covenant. Not quite though. It was so stupid and overlooked that it was pretty easy to ignore it. Not like the two recent torpedoes Ridley Scott decided to launch at the hull of the franchise he very definitely did not invent, but massively benefited from early in his career. Yeah, let's just destroy all that! I'm the only great thing around here, not those stupid movies I made before I got Alzheimers!
@@ShiningDarknes AvP was bad but it was...good...bad? Idk it was enjoyable despite it being terrible and it was at the very least respectful to the two franchises. AvP: R was horrible though, I hated that film because it was one of the first films that butchered the xenomorph, turning it from a quiet, stealthy and smart killer to a dumb, mindless monster.
I think the first AVP may not have been a good movie, but it was still a really fun one. If you just cut out a few dumb and/or boring scenes it's a pretty solid movie.
Seriously, I've gotta say, it's amazing how much work and effort you put into these sorts of videos, especially seeing they're scripted. Writing, editing, and getting these large files uploaded, it must honestly be a strain, MauLer. With that said, it goes without mentioning, these are some of the toppest quality videos on the entirety of TH-cam, and you're without a doubt one of the best content creators on this platform. I like the sudden rise in TH-camrs, who are all critics of certain media, making really long critique videos and series. Not only is it giving dedication on the part of the producer, to come back and finish their work, but it increases the critical thinking skills of the audience themselves. With all the content promoted by TH-cam which basically forces you to turn off your brain, stuff like this keeps the mind sharp and thinking straight. Movie reviews, video game critiques - so forth - they're all really great sub-genres of content created on this site that are growing in popularity. I always smile whenever I see another one of your videos in my subscription box (same with Matthewmatosis, Joseph Anderson, and the like).
I actually have Tourette Syndrome or TS (was diagnosed super, super young) and can tell you that most of us do not spout obscenities and make clicking noises with our mouths. What makes this so incredibly frustrating, is that Shane Black also has Tourettes. He should know this. It's absolutely baffling to me that he chooses to further propagate this lazy stereotype when he has the power to change it. I am not offended, just disappointed.
I grew up with a guy that had Tourettes. Through the 12 years I knew him, I never once heard him randomly yell anything, let alone curse. He did have some rather bad ticks though.
Predator 1: masterpiece. Predator 2: underrated and is close to 1 in quality. Predators: not great, but it at least tried. AvP: give or take. AvPR: Unwatchable abomination. The Predator: abomination that rapes the franchise as a whole.
I agree. I really liked the second one. It may not have the same subversive and meta undertone like the first one. But it was good, had the right feel to it and was consistent in its tone and execution.
Predator 1 is great, unless you know anything about guns. If you do, then the part where Mac unloads with the minigun is pretty retarded. I try to block it out.
I knew this was coming.. soon as the credits rolled and I left the theater on Friday.. "Mauler is gonna destroy this" Less than a week leader, we were rewarded. Stay gold, Mauler... 😁👍
I saw a documentary about making every Hellraiser movie. The writer and director for one of the sequels, maybe the 5th film, was being interviewed and admitted he had never seen any Hellraiser movie. They hire him to write and direct a sequel and he had never seen a Hellraiser film. Even worse, he couldn't be bothered to watch even one of them. Instead he hired another guy to watch the Hellraiser movies and tell him the basic story, like cliff notes, so he could write another sequel. Summary: "Puzzle Cube opens BDSM demon portal, people die" Add a zip of cocaine and they write a script. This scenario explains Hollywood films today.
@@MSgt5J071 Hellraisers 5-8 were made using scripts that were not originally intended to be Hellraiser movies and the Cenobites were just shoehorned into all of them.
I actually read this as “you’re just watching it correctly,” this is completely fucked, superhero movies have just ruined filmmaking, we only have a handful of good movies now that don’t earn shit and massive blockbusters that need the audience to turn off their brains in order to enjoy a movie. I think we’ve actually reached idiocracy now.
it's a give and take. i know a guy who can memorise song lyrics the very moment he hears them for the first time... but he has a severe speech impediment. i know a woman who will remember your birthday years after she learns it... but is so socially awkward that she couldn't even wish you a happy birthday. i know a guy who memorised every single bus route in the country... but is mortally afraid of physical contact.as for me? it's more like a doctor jekyll & mr hyde kind of thing. fairly smart, but also a tremenduous anger i needed to learn to control, which certainly wasn't wasy.
Yeah that'd be great... It takes me a while to get used to people but I remember very insignificant things from years ago, I like the maths, and I'm very imaginative.
Hello there!
Well, I managed to finally get this video out, had limited sleep and breaks for eating, otherwise I have been stuck in Microsoft Word and Vegas for what feels like centuries. It tough to get done but after many drafts and corrections, it looks like we made it.
For those who are wondering, we got the TFA Critique coming up and i'm gonna take a few days to wind down a bit then i'm back on with that, full throttle.
I was going to cover Venom but I really want to push on with TFA now, hoping for a early November release, realistically. So I think I will skip Venom to focus TFA. Next up should be Aqua-man in December and after that.......who knows.
I shall be posting updates to the Patreon about the TFA critique if you guys want more details, those are free posts and you can check them out here:
www.patreon.com/user?u=4817956
Hi dude!
This next hour is gonna be awesome thank you sir
MauLer
Are we going to get an unbridled rage for rogue one.
Sorry for asking a fourth time, but I still don’t have an answer to that.
here just in time to see this video before it gets taken down :^P
Thank you for still making fun of TLJ. Because I'm still trying to digest how horrible that movie is and this reminds me that there's sanity out there.
We're living in an age where movie reviews are actually more entertaining than the movies themselves.
yes, and save me the trouble of watching the movies (which I was not going to do anyway, but at least now I can get some entertainment from them).
I knew I'd never watch this movie but enjoyed this review of it probably more than I would've
Yesssssss
Yup. I've saved so much money from watching extensive, entertaining reviews rather than this garbage-fire, abortion of a film.
Great age of cinema
If the Predator was trying to steal a child, does that make him a Child Predator?
Yes.
@@toxicmasculinity3976 great name.
Ironically, it also wanted his ass-burger
@@MrToshiroKurosaki Maybe I'm dense, but I fail to see the irony?
Pedo Predator = New SJW warrior.
This whole movie sounds like something a toddler would create by saying “and then” between every event
Avakrr Lmao that is amazingly accurate for this film, like for goodness sakes just space out your events with full stops or something or else your audience is lost
Right on
That’s how I felt about every predator movie since predator 2.
And then a spaceship comes and then the predator wakes up and then the prisoners escape and then they fight the predator and then the predator kills the other predator
@@kieranschafer5180 and then the lobotomized predator dog spits out a grenade...
If you wanna see something that is actually like that take a look at "Axe Cop", it's literally the ideas and stories of a 5 year old made into a webcomic, and it's better than this.
"The final act took place in daylight, and that wasn't scary."
Shane Black, a man who was part /of/ the original Predator, a movie in which 3/4 of it takes place during broad daylight and is one of the tensest, most anxiety inducing experiences of all film history, has decided "Muh Daylight = Muh Boring". Well done, sir. Well done, managing to forget the lessons of the cinematic classic YOU WERE FUCKING IN.
Maybe Shane had some “ideas” and that was part of the reason Hawkins was killed first 😂
The scene where the Predator kills Mac and Apollo Creed (can't remember his name right now lol) is one of the scariest in the movie and it happens in broad daylight
_"Anytime"_
@@megamovieman101 The only reason he was in the film was to do re-writes on the script. So he wrote a large chunk of the original movie. Which makes this movie even more baffling.
he also didnt learn from AvP2 that was also set at night and ended up being so dark to a point were i thought my Tv had turned off
I imagine he was huffing paint thinner throughout the entire filming.
Wait. Mauler hates Predator? (Starts watching the video). Ooooooohhhhhhhh.....Mauler hates the NEW Predator.
MauLer hates The Retcon
You know that Jack Nicholson meme that waves frantically no, that’s what the original predator does when you confuse it with this piece of shit movie.
I even had no idea , that they've made a remake.
@@cymes82 Haha
@Corvo@AZ Still better than the 2018 version no?
My favorite line is when he says: 'I'm a sniper; just get me close...'
Apparently nobody explained to Shane Black what snipers actually do...
Aint sniper a callsing for sword swinging medieval Knight
Didnt you know? The best ninjas had scopes on their swords.
@@SvendleBerries Good one.
@@talotalo1192 Wrong snipers were farmers that had to follow the legionarys and throw stones at gallic people in Romes service.
Bloody insulting to real service men and women and I've got some in my family.
You skipped over one of the dumbest things in movie history. When the girl goes to the Stargazer lab they show her a tablet with still images from P1 and P2. The P1 image is when it emerged from the water and couldn’t see Dutch covered in mud... as if someone was there and took that photo.
What in the actual fuck.
At this point I am willing to believe Hollywood has been taken over by shape shifting aliens with no concept of human culture and no ability to construct a story. These scripts would of got rejected as B movies back in any day.
No way! You're making that shit up! They can't POSSIBLY have been THAT stupid to actually put that in the movie! Please tell me you're joking!
That's dumb, but it is a really common sequel cliche.
Lol, what the fuck! xD
I had initially thought “Predator is a masterpiece, how could MauLer not enjoy it?”
Then I read “The Predator”
Oh.
Same, I didn't even realize there was a new Predator movie. They should really stop making them
Yeah, got me too.
Counting is hard these days isn’t it?
Instead of 1,2,3,4
Predators, Predator, The Predator, Predator 2
Simple, totally not going to be confusing or just plain dumb
I wonder what’s next,
What Predator? A Predator? Predator 1?
Predator 0?
Choices indeed!
@@uroborilAt least make them GOOD.
I was the whole movie yearning for Gary Busey from Predator 2.
Man this film sucks.
Man this film sucks.
Why did you say it twice?
I didn’t. It was an echo.... in the empty theatre.
OH SNAP
I dont got time to laugh
ANYTIME
What you wanna try next? cheese?
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Remember when the Predator was an alien hunter that considered earthlings lesser beings with enough intelligence to be a decent hunt. Using it's greater technology to stalk, toy with and manipulate it's human prey. A creature of honour, that would not hunt something that couldn't fight back, only those with weapons. A creature that would eschew it's high tech blaster and tools to fight hand to hand, if it's prey threw it's gun away and drew a knife in futile challenge?
One that if you were able to defeat it's Brethren, it would acknowledge your ability, and gift you one of it's many trophy weapons gathered throughout the ages, before leaving in mutual respect?
I miss that predator.
Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it?
its* its* its* its* its*
@@GodOfTheInternets A common mistake i shall likely never fix. But you're quite right Mr Genericwhitemale.
@@tessajalloh3914 Well generally, if you can switch "its" for "his/her" then you should use its. If it is "it is" it is "it's".
The castle and 'his' walls: its walls.
The parliament and her decisions: the parleiament and its decisions, and so on
The predators in this film are badbloods, they have a different code of honor.
"Brains are offensive to movies these days."
Perfect.
If people have brains they wont tell all their friends how awesome it was on twitter.
Let's kill the movie with word-of-mouth!
Democracy in action!
NPC praise subroutines activated.
Heh in some ways it's true. A lot of movies seem to skip on the details nowadays (Star Wars: TLJ is probably the best example of this) which might be excusable in SMALL amounts, but these amounts are by no means SMALL in a lot of new movies.
you can blame the americans on that one, with his anti-science culture, those assholes are wierd.
The idea of changing Predator lore to make it more... grand in scope(?) kind of goes against what made Predator so effective in the first place. The basic idea is that they didn't see us as much more than sport. We were collateral damage in their rituals or hobbies. It's upsetting. It makes you really root for the human.
its like if we put 50 Doom guys instead of just 1 (the player)
Thats also the problem with the new shitty alien movies. Predator was a mysterious and monstrous alien that came to earth to hunt for sport. We dont need to know more. More takes away the mystery and if written like this makes it fucking stupid. Same with Alien. First its some mysterious xeno found on some destroyed alien ship. It made you contemplate the unknown horrors of space and how this creature was a perfectly evolved apex predator. The rest was up to your imagination. Then the new movies made them bio weapons made by an insane robot. I personally love the idea that somewhere in the galaxy there could be planets with these apex predators like xenomorphs and that things even worse could be lurking. But no Ridley Scott just said, “lol so like these big pale bald guys made humans and then made a bioweapon that creates xenomorphs lol”
You missed the best part. Biologist lady, remember she's a biologist, claims that the Retcon "grew and exoskeleton under it's skin." That is an actual quote. An EXOskeleton UNDER it's skin. This is what a supposed biologist says.
That's actually hilarious if it's acutally in the movie. This is one of the worst scripts I've ever seen.
Sounds like a subtle joke from some kind of sci fi comedy.
@Jon Galt an ENDOskeleton if you will
FFS. It's a Endoskeleton if it's inside. This is something a basic exposure to Five Nights At Freddies will teach you. Because they have Endoskeletons. It's not massively complex.
@Cyril It had, but the character who said them was killed first.
"If the franchise bleeds, we can kill it." ----Shane Black
Hahaha XD
lol nice!!
Someone typed this!
"But Sir, Predator movies don't actually bleed money."
"Hold my beer and watch. Let's start with an autistic lead, a colead with terrets syndrome, a colead that killed his own unit.... Hmm what else.. Secondary bad guy will instantly kill himself...
"If there is a franchise, we can run it to the ground" - Hollywood in general
I'm on the spectrum. My superpowers are crippling anxiety that causes my brain to basically shut down when in social situations. Evolution!
I would give you advice on how to deal with that but i already find this long distance communication to be nerve wrecking and too awkward.
Autistic people are the new x men
It will suddenly become an advantage in the post apocalyptic wasteland where social situations are solved with deadly violence, allowing you to play dead like the mighty goat. Godspeed, ultra assburger.
We're perfectly adapted for social distancing. We'll come out of this pandemic on top, just wait and see.
I just want you to know, having a burger ass is okay
I love every time he says “because fuck you” he plays that execution scene from the first movie. Made me laugh every time
“Why is it than whenever a classic franchise is added to, it comes across that the people writing it, hate it?!”
So very true!
Getting strong Ghostbusters 2016 vibes here
Halo 5 is a very good example and thank god it not on Steam
And it's almost every single one of them! Name something, you've considered a "cool action movie" - it's either raped in the last 3-5 years, or is about to be. Terminator(already twice), Alien, Star Wars(incredible triple massacre with two mediocre additions), Predator, Jurassic Park(also double combo punch), Gostbusters - are done, Matrix is on the way...And maybe sth else, I've forgotten. There are some lucky surprises ofc... I mean, I liked BR2049 pretty much, altho I wouldn't say it was an action movie ever, but still, I was totally prepared for it to be garbage.
Ah, forgot - the "Predators" movie was recent enough too and it's not that bad (probably an accident)
@@Vladimir_Fedorov27 i was literally guna say "you forgot the new blade runner" but yeah, it probably shouldn't get lumped with those others, it deserves better
@i hate anime let's hope 6 fixes it
You know, I have Asperger's Syndrome, and I'm been around for a good while (in my final year of high school), so I can say with confidence... that this movie really is an insult to my condition. The only "superpower" I have is the ability to work out certain math equations in my head with few difficulties- sometimes. Beyond that, it is nothing but a problem for me, making it hard for me to speak in complete sentences without stuttering, to be able to connect with people on any meaningful level, and to break out of regular daily patterns without becoming anxious. I do bad in crowds, and I sadly cannot memorize patterns like other people with my condition can apparently do (especially not to the bullshit levels presented in this film). My only saving grace is that I have been lucky and have not been bullied for my condition, because if I was, I'm not sure how I would react (probably either burst into tears or throw a punch of punches out of anger). I know people think they are encouraging people like me when they write characters like this, but they never get it right, because they fail to acknowledge the drawbacks of Asperger's Syndrome, and instead make characters with only the good parts, exaggerated to the point where it is unrealistic and just disrespectful.
I have been trying my hand at writing fantasy novels lately, and I like to think I can write some decent stories on my rough drafts alone. When I make a world, I always write out the rules, so that even if my story becomes a bit contrived, it does not break its rules. I do my best to make sure events flow from scene to scene, and while my foreshadowing skills need work, I do at least make sure the setups make sense. How people like this can get jobs in Hollywood, or any other film studios, with such obvious little care for lore, consistency, and dialogue is baffling to me. I know that I at least try, and the people I show my stories to can tell I try even if they don't like what I wrote- these people put no effort into their stories and try to cover it up with cool effects instead of checking the script. If the story sounds bad on paper before you cover it up with "amazing" effects, then the story should never be produced (yet they still do, somehow).
Mauler, you have done a fantastic job with all of your rages and critiques, for movies and otherwise, and you have brought me much joy. You are helping my critical thinking skills for story telling, and have provided me with all the evidence I need for my friends when I tell them I hate Disney Star Wars (am loving the Legends Novels so far, though- I'm on a mission to get as many as I can). Thank you for all the work you put into these videos, and sorry if I ranted a bit. I look forward to your critique of TFA.
"How people like this can get jobs in Hollywood, or any other film studios, with such obvious little care for lore, consistency, and dialogue is baffling to me" simple, it's all about brand recognition at this point, which is really sad.
@@alansilvero
Brand recognition and trendy garbage that none of the suits making the films understand.
@@alansilvero it's all about dem connections at this point. How some people are even allowed to make movies such as the guy who directed the movie chips is all because they have connections.
I was just going to comment that this film is probably offensive to people with certain mental disorders. Thanks for confirming.
ProfessorFanatic I see that you like DnD. If you don't already play I suggest that you do. However I would also suggest you play as the DM. Playing as the DM is a great way to learn interpersonal skills. It can be a trail by fire and passions can run high but it's worth it. Autism isn't a chain to a wall keeping you separated from others. It's a weight for sure, it will slow you down and it never goes away for good. But the focus and will power it takes to pull that weight will make you stronger.
Mailman here, if they weren't paying the PO Box it'd be held at the Office until payment, or the box was closed and then the items would be returned. But that stuff would be held onto for weeks, if not months.
Do not attempt to use any logic, common sense, actual fact, realistic expectation in this fucking movie. It's retarded beyond imagination and yet many liked it.
Like I get it, personal opinion matters. But REALLY?? COME ON! Apparently people like feces now.
ya jus gota turrn ya brain oooofffffff
loook at al the flashy liiights
See that makes sense if you didn’t pay your bills why would they be like “Hey you owe us money but we decided to personally deliver your package home because going above and beyond for people that don’t pay what they owe is how things work right.”
Wait, question. Do you deliver your own mail? Or is there an endless chain of mailmen delivering other mailmens mail?
Then you could have a mailman open it by error and the movie would center around a mailman trying to bravely deliver his daily quota while being chased by all predator, government and specops versions.
Pretty neat. I just got an image of a mailman on a bicycle firing plasma shots from the mask cannon on a predator running behind him WHILE expertly pitching a newspaper on the welcome mat of a house...
Just let them have the kid's DNA, next generation of predators will have no social skills and be obsessed with trains
Literally the most bat shit insane plot point ive ever seen/heard of. Predators want to harvest fucking assburgers and autism to become better warriors
"It is not hard to maintain a tone in Predator. Thank you for proving me wrong Shane." That ladies and gentlemen is why I love MauLer. Please don't ever lose your sass. One of your many gifts. :)
Don't forget "bully tropes." lol. Love how he can simplify the most ridiculous concepts in a few simple words.
Sassburgers.
Did you ever get with Angie? You two were so fucking cute together!
That ever so polite and neutral British sass we yanks will never be able to have...
AmbientSpaceNoise Who is Angie? I'm not exactly brushed up on MauLer lore enough to understand this ship you're referring to.
I also want to mention how the predator that came to "save" the humans, landed the first thing he did was kill a man and hang him upside down from a tree.
habits.. i guess
Oh shit...
Ah, it's just one. Just leave it there and maybe they blame Someone else... Before THEY get here.
It's almost as if its second nature for a Predator to kill and hunt.
"Human, your world is going to burn soon. So I'm here to save you!"
"By ripping out my spine?!"
"You are being saved. Don't resist."
@@Umbra_Ursus Well Said. Awesome
Rest in peace...
Predator
Alien
Terminator
Star Wars
Star Trek
Jurrasic Park
Robocop
The Thing
Ghostbusters
Doctor Who
Game of Thrones
James Bond
The Conjuring
Independence Day
The Matrix
Lord of the Rings
What an awful time to be alive
And jurassic park
@@Levi-ki2dt I'll add that to the ever-growing list
now we got fckn marvel. marvel everywhere we look.
oh well, ill just rewatch all of the classics you just mentioned and still be more entertained than by any of todays crap (i just realised i sound like some old dude, even tho im 19y old)
@@thahoule7924 Hell, even the MCU itself is outdated nowadays with all of the cringy jokes (well, some of then are good) and spitting on source material (yup, I'm looking at you Thanos and Captain Marvel)
Forgot Robocop, The Thing, All of DC
" he was predator jesus" line made me spit out my coffee. Nice one Mauler.
That Carl Weathers stare is majestically edited.
SOMEBODY WROTE THIS
WHO WROTE THIS SHIT.
WHO WROTE THIS DIALOGUE
Movie: The Predator
Weather: DISTURBED
XD
I like the Billy clip used when the smaller Pred gets decapitated, "he's dead." It's so perfectly dubbed, lol.
"What's the driving force for your Predator movie?"
"I love to stereotype and make fun of people with mental conditions."
"...what?"
I bet that shane black fucked this movie up out of pure spite
@Adrijana Radosevic I wanna believe that, but I just can't, that movie reeks of cynicism, but not the corporate kind.
@@murciadoxial8056 They probably just got him in to sell the idea that the director is attached personally to the source material, which he saw as a way of making the whole thing in his image, instead of just being a side character in the mythos.
Ooh, making fun of mental conditions is TIGHT
The "next step in human evolution" is unlikely to be something that renders you incapable of appropriately responding to a fire alarm.
For real or socialize
But didn't you see how calmly he handled all the stress, gunfire, explosions, and death at the end of the movie.. I'm sure the only reason the fire alarm affected him at the beginning was because he wasn't used to his asperger super powers yet.
@@randomjoe3941 like Man of Steel
Oh nice burn, that never even occured to me till you said it
Shane Black: filming in daylight is boring! Let's do it at night!
Also Shane: *was part of one of the greatest horror movies of all time, which was 100% filmed in BROAD DAYLIGHT.*
Same kinda moon, same kinda jungle....
Not 100%, but all the kills happen in daylight.
"I'm not actually not convinced this film is real". Best opening line ever...?
Arguably yes. Just delete the other "not" lol
You missed Dude Blokes "best" line in the film! "I'm a SNIPER, just get me CLOSE." This might be the worst film I've ever seen. . . and I actively watch Neil Breen movies.
Yeah that cracked me up lol! A sniper who shoots from a point blank range. 😂
Awesome sniper haha. Hate this movie
This move is the cinematic equivalent of getting molested by a trusted family member, and then getting slut shamed afterward.
@@SewerTapes why do I find that funny
@@zyrus7733
Does it have anything to do with tacos? That would be delicious.
The "who wrote this dialogue" with the close up on Dillon's sweat-beaded face got me every single time.
And when Dutch just glares at him hahaha
That's the thing about end times. They never are.
The Predator was on TV last Friday, and I watched it.
Even after seeing this review (and others), I was still astounded how shit it actually is.
"Somebody wrote this."
Worse. Much worse...
"Somebody was PAID to write this."
But still worse...
Somebody PAID to watch it. RIP.
Much worse. Somebody actually deliberately pondered this, thought it was awesome, wrote it down and then paid someone to act it, made the movie and released it to the world.
and somebody approved this
Someone PAIDS to watch it -- and LIKED it
F
Weeell... The person who paid to watch it wasn't aware of the script at the moment of paying.
+andrexfucksomewhere THAT's the worst part
A rage video? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Star war reference
@@gamma626 I mean, it's fun to have these videos mocking bad films, but it speaks to the quality of films as of late. I'm sure good films are still coming out, but there seem to be a lot of bad films recently, whether it be incompetent directors, poor writers, or mass rewrites.
Dear Lord! *This is a movie about Predators literally trying to WEAPONIZE AUTISM*
Alpaca Man Predator: the hunt for the hacker known as "4chan"
Maybe it's Hollywood's attempt to imitate 4chan, it sure pissed off enough people.
Alpaca Man Somewhere, Mike Stoklasa’s screaming “OH MY GOOOOOD!”
Yeah--I didn't exactly adore that plot point. Like, way to make me feel even more awkward, movie.
At least they aren't trying to weaponize resurrected Dinosaurs....
How hard would it have been just to make a sequel to Predators? A movie about Adrian Brody's character trying to get off that planet would have been interesting.
Say what you will about the casting of Adrien, but he and everyone else in Predators most definitely outdid every actor is this shitshow with all their performances. Everyone’s lines and delivery and piss-poor acting in this “movie” literally made me cringe and unintentionally laugh from beginning to end.
“Who wrote this dialogue?!”
Indeed, I think the only issue with that would be not having enough people left to stand a chance.
@@sologamer3122 At the end of Predators new people were parachuting in.
@marcespinoza6068 ah you're right I remember now.
I would love a predator movie set in the future. Mankind is starting to colonize planets. We have a group of space marines on an outer rim world outpost protecting the engineers there that are prepping it for a colony. Little did we know this planet is close to Predator space. A predator arrives and begins hunting a fearsome alien species from this planet. It crosses paths with the marines and they fight. Because of our advanced weaponry and maybe augmentations or something like this, the marines are able to put him down with minimal casualties. They caught him off guard not expecting human soldiers and his gear was for fighting an alien beast. Before he dies from wounds he sends a SOS and his helmet feed to his fleet. Then a squad of armored and more prepared Predators come to the planet and just wreck havoc.
"Turn your brain off. Brains are offensive to movies these days." Dude, this line applies to almost everything these days! No critical thought allowed.
I dont wanna think I want convenience. wall-e isn't that far off from happening
Don’t think about the movies today because if you do you will get a long novel on why you shouldn’t.
It's some severe brainwashing going on.
weed helps a lot in that department. watched this film a few times after having a smoke and actually enjoyed it, watched it sober and well oh well very very very different story, sat there thinking i am watching the right movie this is shit. since been removed, and as no longer smoke no longer ever going to entertain this film.
@GGR Makes what does ''fr'' stand for??
Bro-Man, Dude-Bro, Person-fella, Gal-girl and boy-man. Best characters
And don’t forget about Misses lady
@@straythrawn7861 and gay-lord
Make those words Japanese, and you've got anime characters.
Don't forget about ass burger
Your forgot Asss Burger
They used a lobotomised dog to move the plot forward. Twice.
...What.
_Shane Black:_ "Hmm. So we're at the end of Act One. How do we move into Act Two..? What do you think, Lobo?"
_Lobo the Lobotomized Dog:_ "Werfff."
_Shane Black:_ "You know... that just might work. But then, how will we transition into Act Three?"
_Lobo the Lobotomized Dog:_ "Werrp..."
_Shane Black:_ "Of course! Lobo, you're a genius!"
Poetic Abomination Predator Dog, like wtf
Next thing you know, Shane Black planned a scene in which the dog pukes out a dildo and the guys make a joke about it, referring to the girl.
That would not surprise me at all if such a scene was cut from the final release.
squashedeyeball no , no , they would have cut another cohesive scene to keep that in , because , Shane black .
Interesting. God from dog instead of Deus ex machina. Trope perverted.
This has to be the funniest, most insightful critique of a movie that I’ve come across. Mauler, you are an absolute legend.
"Someone actually wrote this"
"I swear this actually happened"
Very insightful so far
"The burger himself...."
Dude how are your insults so pg yet so effective? I love it.
"You even tried to fuck up the AVP films! 'THEY DO NOT NEED YOUR HELP FOR THAT!'" Best line ever.
Yeah, this. "Alien: Covenant" did that just fine, by having Walter create the Aliens. Which wrecks AvP canon, because the Aliens can't fight the Predators in the time of the Aztecs if Walter didn't create them until the 22nd/23rd century.
What's wrong with them? I've only seen 1 and 2.
@@KneelB4Bacon well AVP is a separate canon. Like Freddy vs Jason.
At least those films adhered to Predator lore and built upon it in interesting ways.
"God damn I wish I had asperger's"
- Predator
I wish I had THAT asspergers. The one I have sucks.
I'd like one order of aspe-assburgers please, one with extra evolution.
It's like he held a grudge for his character getting killed first in the original.
PERHAPS
XD
Funnily enough, they (apparently) hired Black because they wanted him to also take a look at the script / rewrite some stuff. He said no, because he was hired as an actor, not scriptwriter.
So they killed him first XD
Predator: “UPGRADE ME WITH AUTISM!”
Everyone else: “Guys... shh, don’t say anything. Go get Chris Chan.”
Ooooohhhhhhffffffff lol
Chris: Don’t call anybody.
just vaccinate the predator, that will do the trick!
*predator draws a shit comic*
He's called Charnuckles. He's an echinda type pokemon who-
*other predators active his self destruct*
There is a post post credit scene where the predator drinks his own semen in fanta.
When AVP and Mortal Kombat portrays Predators better.
That part with the address is crazy. Apparently the predator knows enough about addresses to use them but not enough to think that a person wouldn't have their own address on their wall on a note. Not enough to think he was going thousands of miles in the wrong direction. And somehow he isn't.
Avp the game right?
@@sobrev1viente You know what? AVP wasn't great. Fell pretty flat if I'm being honest. But you know what what else? It wasn't as abysmal as this dog shit movie. Even AVP:R was a better movie. I'd never thought I'd say it but at least the predator did predator shit and had some decent fights. Despite it being filmed in the dimly lit void of a cave. But fuck Shane black and fuck whoever let this happen.
I actually like AVPR portrayal of a predator, even more than the first AVP.
At least in the AVP movies, both the aliens and the predators were still scary. Unlike in Prometheus (seriously, wtf?), Alien: Covenant and The Predator.
Can we all remember the Alien Vs Predator game wherein a good portion of the Predator story line was hunting down the Pred-Alien, something that was Predator genes spliced with another, and they wanted it destroyed because they viewed it as an "Abomination"
I fucking loved that game
God I loved that game and yes I remember
Second best Alien game I played the first alien isolation the worse alien colony marines
That’s probably what he meant by saying even they had more respect for the ip.
Sounds like a good damn time, as a never player of that game,
Also sounds like Underworld, good time
Bad guy blew his head off so fast I had to rewind the clip 20 times just to see that it actually happened
It's controlled by his mind, but he shoots himself? I re-watched and disappointed that's how they kill the manie villain
I just realised none of the science people are wearing gloves or masks, which would be the absolute minimum amount of personal protective gear that you'd wear when autopsying/vivisecting an unknown species.
Even if it was a known species. Dumb movie.
Hollywood didn't want to foreshadow the Coronavirus to early.
“Anyway, that’s how I lost my medical license...”
@@fischeborne9713 So this is what a beta documentary looks like... pass.
*Someone actually wrote this.*
_- Mauler_
This actually happens in the film.
The new "What were they thinking?"
@@thrallfan1056 this comment warms my heart
Because FUCK YOU
Well . . . what's the next franchise on Hollywood's hit list to destroy?
Indiana Jones
Oh wait...
They will probably ruin Rambo with Rambo 5 too.
All of them
Aren't they trying to reboot Robocop again? Let's see if they can kill the same franchise twice in a 5 year period.
I am pretty sure this franchise was already destroyed.. The predator, and even the alien movies have been consistently shit for a decade now.
I think I've re-watched this video now for what feels like hundreds of times. There is legit no way anyone can get through this video without breaking out in laughter and in my case nearly to tears. What a fantastic review for the most absurd movie ever made.
It's okay, it definitely didn't bring me close to laughing out loud at any point. I admit it takes a lot to make me laugh verbally even a little. But this is just amusing for me. He repeats his lines a little too often for my taste. But I'm glad you enjoyed it so much I guess. I think they are well done but not amazing.
Actually weaponize autism. Brilliant. The irony of this is amazing tho. My brother is on the spectrum and we recently watched the first 6 mcu movies and he pointed out all of the plot holes and inconsistencies. He would obliterate this movie.
And they chose aspergers of all things too. Thats just strange. If he was rain man autistic fine. But aspergers isnt a "hack alien technology" autism.
Well most people with Asperger's don't act like weird space aliens, they act like social awkward/impaired people. Intellectually, most of them are right around where most people are, plus or minus a few IQ points, they just don't do well in social situations. They are poor at picking up social cues, reading body language, and understanding how non-verbal communication works, but that's about it. They aren't known for acting like they are completely out of touch with reality, like some of the more extreme forms of Autism can do to someone. It's a weird choice because people with Asperger's are decidedly the least "alien" out of all the people on the spectrum, and I say that trying to be as respectful as I can be to such individuals.
@Lil toot your a pussy
Seriously though. Where in the movie did it say he actually had Asperger? The kids call him assburgers, but that could just be a way to pick on him. I dont remember the movie actually saying he had aspergers. He didn't seem like one with aspergers imo.
@@TheBarser of course he doesnt act like someone who is actually on the spectrum would. The writers clearly have no idea what they're doing. It's heavily implied that he is tho. Talking about how autism is the next step in human evolution (one of best retarded statements in the long list of scientifically illiterate shit movies have these days).
I just can't believe they actually johnson'd the Predator franchise....
Munson'd
I saw what you did there. WCB, baby!!!
Abrams'd
Quiet you manchild!
Good call.
So the Predators are stealing magical survival powers from the spinal fluid of other species. Which is why they let Glover go when he successfully beats a Predator in front of them, instead of stealing his spinal fluid to improve their Borg-essence. And gave him a trophy for killing the Predator.
This is literally Predator Midichlorians.
Wait, do Xenomorphs even have spinal columns?
Berserkasaurus Rex Yeah they do, but they view predaliens as abominations so that’s probably why they wouldn’t use their DNA.
Plus the spinal fluid would probably burn through the plastic test tube.
What happened to them just hunting worthy prey. Like no seriously, that was enough of a motive and it helped establish the predators as being so far beyond humanity in power that they view us as big game hunting.
@@oddluck4180 movies need to be overly complex and gory yet funny and stupid for kids in todays world.
Exactly. Taking spinal fluid from the losers but not taking it from the victors seems strange, doesn't it?
I don't know if Mauler wanted this to be the case but I was literally laughing out loud throughout this video
"The Predator is back, and this time he won't leave until he gets Asperger."
You misspronounced "assburger".
*@ $ $ 🅱 U R G E R*
😂😂😂😂
@@poslednisoud 😂😂😂😂
@RogerwilcoFoxtrot 😂😂😂😂
How can you argue against daylight scenes when the most tense moments of the first film were in broad daylight?
That's one of the things that made the Predator scary- you didn't need cover of darkness to feel vulnerable. He could be right next to you and you wouldn't know it.
" He could be right next to you and you wouldn't know it."
like how he tried to sneak up on dutch and got caught in the trap lmao
Shaquille Shaw more or less. Dutch didn't even realize it til that point. Or Dutch was later hiding, camoflauged by mud and the Predator was crawling right next to him
Exactly!!!!!!!! And to think, that argument came from a guy who starred in the original for crying out loud!
A good film maker can find a way to make something work, a bad film maker can used the tried and tested method and still fuck up so bad its actually hilarious.
I know right! That's what I said!
Gotta love MauLer. Not only he saves you from wasting money on garbage movies but he makes hour long videos about them that make you have dozens times better experience than on subject movies. Props to you friend.
Kidzin MauLer’s channel is a Cinema in of itself
Honestly if you are avoiding movies cause of this guy then you are truly robbing yourself
@@grampagohan3385 who decided that? You? People could still go and see the movie to see if he's right or wrong.
@@grandarkfang_1482 Your sentence literally supports what I said
@@grampagohan3385 Yeah buddy, this movie was hammered. It flopped. MauLer did a fun review of a shit movie, get the fuck over it.
Actual mailman here in the United States. The package were been returned to sender. It would not have been forwarded on to a home address, unless there was a valid forward. clearly there isn’t because he sent it to the P.O. Box. Do you remember when writers researched topics first? Sigh.
Calling this 'movie' fanfiction is an insult to fanfic authors as some of them put earnest effort into writing. What the fuck has happened to writing quality where people on the internet can write better than the 'professionals'?
You got that right. In fact I'll link a few here
www.fanfiction.net/s/11317061/1/Jurassic-World
www.fanfiction.net/s/12935052/1/Star-Wars-Rewrite-Episode-VII-The-Force-Awakens
If you like them please share them around.
If you criticize my blockbuster movie full of dick jokes, unnecessary explosions, and "strong female characters" I'll cry and call you a racist, sexist, nazi, movie hater.
Yes there are good fanfiction stories out there, but c'mon. Get real. The staggering majority of fanfiction merely exists because creative thinking is hard. Their stories thus have huge problems due to their own lack of confidence and often lack of writing experience; ridiculous contrivances, gaping plot holes, and they often break the very characters they seek to emulate. To say something is like fanfiction is not to hark to the very best of the best, the 0.00001% of Fanfiction that isn't total vomit.
Hollywood has an intellectual wall around it and if you don't push their agenda you don't get in, so in a complete echo chamber they write utter shit surrounded by yes men and others devoid of logic or talent approvingly supporting their scribbles.
RyanKaufman
Pretty sure that JammyONE wasn't saying that all, or even most, fanfictions are good. He's saying that many of them are young, amateur writers that have actual ideas, even if they aren't good ones. Comparing them to the so-called professionals that create vapid movies like The Predator, who put little effort into anything, is an insult.
You all do realize that almost all of of the unique (but simple designed) SF/action films of 70's and 80's were totally destroyed. Think about it--Terminator franchise: destroyed. Alien: destroyed, Predator: destroyed, Star Wars: destroyed, Die Hard: destroyed, etc.
What about Mad Max and Rocky?
Total Recall too
cohobast92 give it time, they’ll be milked to death eventually by Hollywood.
Blade Runner: destroyed (and already ruined by the DC, which also soured me on Harrison Ford when he lied to go along with the Ridley Scott take-two cash-grab). Aliens: ...myeh; only the second one was a real A-list action blockbuster; the others were lower-budget horror movies, none of which were as good (JLC-in-panties fan-service notswithstanding) as Carpenter's "The Thing".
Can't wait for Dune... T.T
This can all be summed up in three words:
"Who wrote this?!"
H o l l y w o o d
Shane Black.
"Somebody wrote this."
I laughed so hard when he said, ".... somebody ACTUALLY wrote this."
"Who would want this on their resume?!"
I watch this video at least once every couple days if not daily.
"WHO WROTE THIS?!" "Somebody actually wrote this..."
"The Last Jedi of the Predator franchise" - Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
No cow milk scene 0/10
Well that farnchise was already dead long ago so... didn't do too much damage
Which one? Star Wars or Predator?
Moreso The Force Awakens, where it makes everything about the original story pointless.
We got the milk boy anyway so all good.
"The Predator" also breaks the entire idea of the "Predators" where they kidnap talented people off earth and bring them to an uninhabited planet to hunt them.
To me at least the whole 'abduct the people we want to hunt and drop them on a pre-prepared hunting planet' that was the basis of Predators seemed like a direct result of Predator 2 with the humans becoming a bit too "informed" about them (The whole shadowy government agency that tries to capture the predator in the second film) as if they were trying to get around having to fight through ranks of tacticool mooks to get to the guys they actually wanted to hunt in the first place.
If I remember correctly the Yautja have a caste/class system and the "Nobles" just kidnap people to hunt them on planets, while "Common" Yautja have to go to planets to hunt. .... Now this makes me want to read up on the Predator lore again.
@@latentsymphony2746 Weren't the three Predators from Predators a sub-species of Yau'tja?
@@latentsymphony2746, that's cool, makes me want to know more too.
@@frenchsoldier8485 They were members of so called bad blood. That means they were bunch of criminals and outcasts from Yautja civilisation.
And i belive that not all of them were members of same sub-spiecies
"Predator Fans are the one demographic who'll utterly dispise this movie."
You nailed it. I am a Die hard Predator Fan and I Hate. This. Piece. Of. Hot. Smoking. Grabage!!!! It doesnt even deserve to be called a movie. Even if it wasnt a Predator movie, it would be trash. It took me 3 attempts to watch this movie until the ending and I got drunk each time, because I could not bare it sober.....
Sounds like me with The Hobbit movies.
So cool that they named a movie after my uncle's nickname. I miss him, and his special hugs.
Lol
God, at this point, MauLer's videos are my safe space. lmao
Richard Birrittella I prefer his mockery of movies more than the movies themselves.
Benjamin Kemer Indeed.
No place is safe. :(
Mine too!
No
*_Opening line:_*_ I am not actually convinced this film is real._
Me: *Cracks knuckles, grabs popcorn bowl and beer bottle. This is gonna be good.
Awesome opener
Predator - amazing!
Predator 2 - pretty good
AvP - guilty pleasure but honestly pretty good and a new story for both aliens and predators.
AvPR- no
Predators- really good, and a clever way to retell the predator story.
The Predator- this movie makes me root for the predator while killing people, because these people are so stupid....
Nice to find someone else who enjoyed Predators.
Stop making sequels … just stop
Well, you convinced me to finally see the original predator movie.
It was fantastic. I'm glad I watched that instead of this piece of trash
The original movie is a modern classic,because it's a very subversive movie.The guys from RLM made a fantastic analysis about it.
The movie starts out,as your typical 80's action flick,with macho commandos,going to a mission into the jungle and then turns into a slasher,but with the twist,that the killer is not some Jason or Michael Myers character,but a beefed up alien,armed with some awesome tech. You see these manly men ,losing their shit,as they're getting murdered one by one,by the Pred. In the end only Arnie is left,his squad all dead,no weapons left and fighting the Pred one-on-one,isn't an option,because the fucker is too strong,even for him. So,Arnie uses his cunning,to trap the Predator,in the end he won,because he outsmarted him.
The new movie on the other hand,is just a Rated-R version of Suicide Squad,with lots of ''yo momma''-jokes,CGI-blood and a story that throws the entire Predator lore,out of the window,similar to what Alien:Covenant did with the Aliens.For example,it is established,that the Preds hunt for sport,not to gather DNA or some bullshit.
@@doublep1980 yeah I don't watch a lot of movies, but I find my time is usually better spent looking up old things that we know are good rather than gambling on new shit.
It doesn't help that mainstream critics are either bought or have their heads so far up their own digestive tracts that they are basically useless. On the bright side it leaves an open niche for fan content to shine :D
+doubleP and dont forget, it was more than just subversive because nobody knew predator back then.
This movie is a perfect repesentation of what's wrong with Hollywood nowadays.
Back in the day,from the late 70's to mid 90's,you could pitch an original idea to a studio and if they liked it,they would gave you a moderate budget and let you do your thing.This is how we got Star Wars,all the early Spielberg movies like E.T. ,Jaws,Strange Encounters,Indiana Jones,Terminator,Ghostbusters,Alien,Predator,Back to the Future,Robocop etc. etc. etc.
Nowadays,the studios won't finance an original idea,they only make movies,based on existing IP's,like comics,videogames,books etc. or they take an older IP,like Terminator,Alien,Star Wars or here Predator and reboot/remake it and completely screw it up during the process.The only exception was Mad Max:Fury Road,because the original director/writer,George Miller made it happen,the studio was actually not interested in it and he had to struggle with them for years,to get it done.Same thing,with the Karate Kid show,Cobra Kai,which was made by 2 guys who are huge fans of the original.
doubleP side note, even mad max did it kinda wrong, soft reboot that retconed continuity an aparenty only follows after thunderdome with a different max, or it fucks up the timeline of the apocalypse several times, watch E;R's video on it for te agendas in it
I will never consider this new lore as canon. Covenant pushed me hard enough but this is where I draw the line.
Really? I drew the line at AVP.
I don't think they were considered canon anyways, whereas these modern abominations are sequels/prequels to the official stories...
I liked Predator 2. Was it as good as the original? Hell no. It was a cheesefest, but it was a good cheesefest. The last scream of the 80s before the 90s happend and it was fun :)
Predator 2 was a masterpiece next to this
Predator 2 actually got better the more you saw it. Which most movies can't do anymore.
Predator 2 is definitely inferior to the original but I can still sit down, watch it and have a jolly good time.
Even ruthlessly making fun of it isn't enough to make this movie tolerable. It's pure dogshit
Predator is a great movie. Predator 2 is a great Predator movie.
Predator 2 doesn’t deserve all the hate it gets - especially when you compare it to the modern films. I own 1 & 2, none of the others.
I'm convinced that Olivia Munn never reads the scripts before accepting a role; especially not her own part.
I know that’s what Michael Caine’s always done, I don’t think he’s ever turned down a role. I guess Olivia’s doing the same thing. And sometimes it’s frustrating because they’re both really talented when they’re trying lol
It's amazing how often these days the best criticism of a movie, is to simply describe the movie to the audience.
100
its horribly lazy
I think its really just a ploy to allow people to watch a movie in a short amount of time and without paying for it
Why the f*ck would anyone want to watch this godawful sh*tty mess of a movie, even for free? @@2ndfunctionFTW
Marvel Audience was to blame it
General Jack Ripper bro I could watch it rn but I cant sit through this nonsense
"Brains are offensive to movies these days" -- Mauler. Yeah, I really think this is kinda true. Sad.
But you are watching movies wrong if you are expecting logic and consistency!
@Winter Ice but you didn't expect soneone to poop out a cloaking ball, so it's unexpected! See? It's good because you didn't expect it.
@@quinnrobinsson1646 so a person is not allowed to have an opinion unless they have made a movie? And if we are not allowed to have an opinion, why bother seeing the movie? Your basically give me ypur money and shut up. That is not a viable business strategy. Besides, your defending a movie that soneone pooped out a cloaking ball. Is this where you want to draw the line?
@@quinnrobinsson1646 I really don't understand what your trying to do here.
If you didn't love the aggressive predator dog getting lobotomized and becoming cuddly predator dog, you have boring tastes and I feel sorry for you.
At the line "whose only goal is to weaponize autism." I lost it.
Acquiring the survival traits of your prey, the same traits that didnt save them from you, IS a genius concept. 😂
Quality writing 😂
@@thewanderingartists exactly! 😂
buckle up cus thats the same plot for Kung Fu panda 4. Acquiring the spirits that LOST to Po to... conquer...?
To be fair it’s not that stupid. Like I could easily go out and hunt animals in the world because of superior technology but I wouldn’t mind being as fast as a cheetah or strong as a gorilla or able to breather under water etc (cannot believe I’m defending anything about this film) it was executed in the most stupid way possible in this film with the surgido traits being autism and something to do with global warming
@@wephilips6651it also fails because the race improving itself is a 7 foot tall race or super strong warriors
A kid with aspergers managed to defeat a Predator, that’s the sign that we have hit rock bottom with this series.
Or, and just hear me out...
Aliens are autistic.
So we should DOUBLE EXTERMINATUS the mentally incapable xenos!
FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!
Gay Champagne Socialist BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Worked in Mimic. Sort of.
THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!
Remember, "bad movie" can be an offensive term.
Refer to them as "screenwriting-challenged".
Man-Dude and Women-Girl star in
*MOVIE-FILM*
Lord Laughter what about Bad-guy
@@Dreadwing2029 That's in the sequel
KINO-FILM
...This Summer
@@Nastuf In a Country-Nation near you...
New Predator lore is overly complex and gay. Anna's monologue in Predator '87 describing this prolific hunter as "the demon that makes trophies of men" is utterly badass.
Goddamn fucking right!
"overly complex and gay" That 'gay' bit was a bit random. The new predators are gay? Well, most martial and militaristic warrior cultures had a lot of intense male bonding going on, the boys would get a bit a carried away and didn't really relate to women, so that's no surprise. Does this predator rape anyone?
Well, their romantic lives aren't touched upon much, but I think that would actually be seen as a weakness to be homosexual.
The only time I can ever remember a line about a female Yautja is in the AVP novel series (the good one) where Dachande reminisces about being with his wife
Makes you wonder why nobody just did what Alien did;
1st Stage: Show you how terrifying the monster is.
2nd Stage: Show you how it evolves to combat new situations.
3rd Stage: Show you how there are countless more of them.
4th Stage: Show you the Predator that hunts them for fun.
5th Stage: Repeat the above, and slowly introduce new stuff.
Not really sure how this concept is really hard.
Wow. By comparison, AvP actually seems like a pretty good movie. I can't believe I wrote that, or that I now genuinely believe it.
Believe it. Because this movie,.....had forced Marvel movie/Dead pool humor with stupid ass direction.
AvP wasn't all that bad. It wasn't great, but it was comparable to the less successful Alien movies. Same for Predators, not great, but certainly better than this trash.
I agree. Always thought Predator was hugely inferior to Alien, and that it hurt the Alien franchise to have this predator nonsense tacked on. But looking back at it, the first AVP was a decent action-horror exercise in mindlessness. But the setting was nice, the acting not horrific, the effects OK and the story didn't aggressively try to destroy the two franchises it was trying to greedily exploit. The second AvP though...Man that was almost as bad as Prometheus and Covenant. Not quite though. It was so stupid and overlooked that it was pretty easy to ignore it. Not like the two recent torpedoes Ridley Scott decided to launch at the hull of the franchise he very definitely did not invent, but massively benefited from early in his career. Yeah, let's just destroy all that! I'm the only great thing around here, not those stupid movies I made before I got Alzheimers!
@@ShiningDarknes AvP was bad but it was...good...bad? Idk it was enjoyable despite it being terrible and it was at the very least respectful to the two franchises.
AvP: R was horrible though, I hated that film because it was one of the first films that butchered the xenomorph, turning it from a quiet, stealthy and smart killer to a dumb, mindless monster.
I think the first AVP may not have been a good movie, but it was still a really fun one. If you just cut out a few dumb and/or boring scenes it's a pretty solid movie.
Seriously, I've gotta say, it's amazing how much work and effort you put into these sorts of videos, especially seeing they're scripted. Writing, editing, and getting these large files uploaded, it must honestly be a strain, MauLer.
With that said, it goes without mentioning, these are some of the toppest quality videos on the entirety of TH-cam, and you're without a doubt one of the best content creators on this platform. I like the sudden rise in TH-camrs, who are all critics of certain media, making really long critique videos and series. Not only is it giving dedication on the part of the producer, to come back and finish their work, but it increases the critical thinking skills of the audience themselves.
With all the content promoted by TH-cam which basically forces you to turn off your brain, stuff like this keeps the mind sharp and thinking straight.
Movie reviews, video game critiques - so forth - they're all really great sub-genres of content created on this site that are growing in popularity. I always smile whenever I see another one of your videos in my subscription box (same with Matthewmatosis, Joseph Anderson, and the like).
This comment needs a hell ton of upvotes
He puts more effort in making his videos than the filmmakers did of the movie he's talking about. (Except Infinity War, of course)
I actually have Tourette Syndrome or TS (was diagnosed super, super young) and can tell you that most of us do not spout obscenities and make clicking noises with our mouths.
What makes this so incredibly frustrating, is that Shane Black also has Tourettes. He should know this.
It's absolutely baffling to me that he chooses to further propagate this lazy stereotype when he has the power to change it. I am not offended, just disappointed.
I grew up with a guy that had Tourettes. Through the 12 years I knew him, I never once heard him randomly yell anything, let alone curse. He did have some rather bad ticks though.
What's even more baffling is that Black has Tourettes
*UPDATE* Tony the Tiger has Higher T than Breadator
Yeah, ticks are the most common true symptom (though that is shared with certain forms of ADHD), though the clicking thing could be a legitimate tick.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH makin fun of disorders is funny btw XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
My poor Predator franchise.
My poor, poor Predator franchise.
You deserved better. Much better.
Predator 1: masterpiece.
Predator 2: underrated and is close to 1 in quality.
Predators: not great, but it at least tried.
AvP: give or take.
AvPR: Unwatchable abomination.
The Predator: abomination that rapes the franchise as a whole.
I agree. I really liked the second one. It may not have the same subversive and meta undertone like the first one. But it was good, had the right feel to it and was consistent in its tone and execution.
Predator 1 is great, unless you know anything about guns. If you do, then the part where Mac unloads with the minigun is pretty retarded. I try to block it out.
The Predator should have been deleted just like the sexual predator who's scene was deleted from it.
It’s almost like they don’t care
Agree with you here.
Every second line in this review;
"That is an actual line in the movie. Someone wrote that".
... Says quite a bit about the film honestly.
As someone with Asperger's I can totally confirm we all have secret super powers...
So secret you don't even know you have them yourself?
Can you taste colours?
*I knew it.*
"What happened for movies in 2018?"
Oh Mauler, my sweet summer child.
"Who wrote this movie???"
The most desperate question of 2010s.
Still in 2020!
@@Ramsey276one Damn straight.
I knew this was coming.. soon as the credits rolled and I left the theater on Friday.. "Mauler is gonna destroy this"
Less than a week leader, we were rewarded.
Stay gold, Mauler... 😁👍
As someone who is an aspiring writer, fan of the original Predator movie, and has Aspergers, this movie is beyond insulting.
Damn a triple whammy...
It's like Shane Black specifically wanted to troll you.
I saw a documentary about making every Hellraiser movie. The writer and director for one of the sequels, maybe the 5th film, was being interviewed and admitted he had never seen any Hellraiser movie. They hire him to write and direct a sequel and he had never seen a Hellraiser film. Even worse, he couldn't be bothered to watch even one of them. Instead he hired another guy to watch the Hellraiser movies and tell him the basic story, like cliff notes, so he could write another sequel. Summary: "Puzzle Cube opens BDSM demon portal, people die" Add a zip of cocaine and they write a script. This scenario explains Hollywood films today.
That's a freaking travesty. I've seen the first three Hellraiser movies and I can only imagine how much of a turd the fifth film is.
@@MSgt5J071 Hellraisers 5-8 were made using scripts that were not originally intended to be Hellraiser movies and the Cenobites were just shoehorned into all of them.
C'mon MauLer this film was a masterpiece, you're just not watching movies correctly
its not on the room's level of art dude
Ironically, you need to be a more evolved critic.
There is no quality to be observed from film anymore.
*O N L Y Z U U L*
Never say that again.
I actually read this as “you’re just watching it correctly,” this is completely fucked, superhero movies have just ruined filmmaking, we only have a handful of good movies now that don’t earn shit and massive blockbusters that need the audience to turn off their brains in order to enjoy a movie. I think we’ve actually reached idiocracy now.
This is far better than CinemaSins
CinemaSins is just a meme show. Not a very good one I might add.
I just remembered cinemasins exists and there are people who think it has substance and value and now i'm mad
@Nekid Snek9000 it's comedic and entertaining... and don't pretend to be so profound with a profile pic like that
@Nekid Snek9000 Fuck off prick.
@@kevk9306 the same joke 500 hundred times hahahahaha
I wish aspergers gave us super powers rather than horrible social skills....
it's a give and take. i know a guy who can memorise song lyrics the very moment he hears them for the first time... but he has a severe speech impediment. i know a woman who will remember your birthday years after she learns it... but is so socially awkward that she couldn't even wish you a happy birthday. i know a guy who memorised every single bus route in the country... but is mortally afraid of physical contact.as for me? it's more like a doctor jekyll & mr hyde kind of thing. fairly smart, but also a tremenduous anger i needed to learn to control, which certainly wasn't wasy.
Yeah that'd be great... It takes me a while to get used to people but I remember very insignificant things from years ago, I like the maths, and I'm very imaginative.
@@anniebot_45-73 Well, it has become a lot less useful since people started carrying computers in their pockets.
Ass Burger*
Rone Herushin agreed.
I still sometimes come back as if to remind myself that this is something that was approved, filmed and aired. This actually got to be made.