I noticed a similarity between the original Terminator and Predator. (These movies have a lot in common, besides being Schwarzenegger films.) They both contain a scene where you see the monster performing some kind of first aid on itself. I was wondering if there are other movies with a similar kind of scene?
Monsters performing first aid
predator 2. i sure do love when the preds use their alien healing tools
inb4 James Cameron gave tons of input to predator
That shits all rumour and reddit tier speculation
Didn't he crush up bathroom tiles to make bandages?
yeah he added some blue liquid to the tiles and cooked it and it turned to blue healing gel. i love how easily he punches through the tile and effortlessly crushes it
Theres so much in that for nerds. Predator recognises human tile as containing whatever it is he needs, possibly hinting they have their own ceramics.
The Terminator isn't performing first aid, it's fixing it's disguise.
Literally something I expect to see in every predator film now. Avp doesn't have one. Predators doesn't, prey doesn't.
prey had that lame scene where the pred has some first aid spray that just heals his wound instantly. its so very lame
What about The Predator? I know it got hate but it's the most thematically faithful
No, you see him repairing some kind of gear in his arms. Plus the implication is that the damage to his eye is impeding his vision. It's not just his disguise.
Point is I can't think of another movie where you see the monster doing some kind of self repair. You see this in Predator 1 and its sequels. Not much else.
Seems like a missed opportunity for a lot of franchises where they just decide the monster is invincible and heals instantly.
yeah its always cool. for whatever reason it fascinates me
The thing I like about Prey is that it was able to be a "DEI movie" while avoiding most of the major pitfalls.
Instead of replacing a white male character with a native American woman in a setting that makes no sense, have a setting that makes sense.
Instead of a Mary Sue who can do everything perfectly and who excels beyond her male peers instantly, she's kind of a retard and all the men comment how she's an unrealistic moron who can't do hunting
You even see her *practicing* to improve at one point
It isn't perfect but man I like that movie
Nah shit sucked
Because it is character development in a character that otherwise can't speak and has no emotion. It shows that the monster
is vulnerable
has some self preservation instinct, so it has motives beyond simply killing the protagonist
with the Predator specifically, the first aid kid has a kind of aesthetic to it, so it's like a glimpse into the creature's culture
In Terminator, while this scene is going on, Sarah Connor is talking with two detectives saying that this is all a delusion
so you need a scene like this to demonstrate that no, this guy is not human and this is 100% a real monster
this rubbed me the wrong way about Andor. i don't get if they have magical fantasy potions, or if it's like our world and people die of strokes. they're sort of having it both ways.
well you're a lot smarter than i am and that adds up perfectly
We've all been spoiled seeing the terminator endoskeletons for decades but in Terminator 1 it's also a hint at what's under the skin, which isn't fully revealed until the last part of the movie
I'm not sure, it probably doesn't have one either. What a dog shit movie.
Dead Snow 2 has a great scene of the nazi zombies performing battlefield medicine on their comrades.
Are those movies any good? Just low effort gore porn or what
capcha:dork
You're an idiot. Her spending 5 minutes throwing around her anime physics tomahawk just proves that DEI shit always sucks.
People who like Prey are the same people that think the AvP movies were good.
They're more satires of zombie movies than anything. Your milage may vary, but I enjoyed the hell out of them. Especially the second movie.
I honestly liked it, best one since 2. It had some shitty studio medalling but it had some awesome scenes too. I don't take Predator too seriously like a lot of nerds do, it's just not meant to be.
When those two guys sodokued in a Michaelangelo painting-esque shot... that was fucking awesome and came with great emotional payoff
Your autistic we get it.
she's kind of a retard and all the men comment how she's an unrealistic moron who can't do hunting
How does a super predator not kill some tiny chick? Get the fuck out of here.
It's in the same vein as every other action movie I've seen with male characters who become karate masters or whatever in a 5 minute montage. With female characters the inclination seems to be "Oh wow look she can fly a spaceship that she's literally never seen before" automatically, because seeing a woman as anything less than an expert is anathema to modern production studios.
Not a perfect movie but it does a lot more right than it does wrong.
Yeah also very important that they make a point to mention how it's a machine "encased in living tissue" so you need to show the audience what they're talking about.
What I find kind of disappointing in retrospect is that you don't see more of this in movies and I think a lot of films would be enhanced by this kind of thing. Like in the Matrix, when Agents die they just disappear from whatever body they inhabited and then immediately appear in a new body. It would be kind of interesting to see if the agents had to do some kind of defragging process after fighting or something. Or in the shitty second film when Smith says "Oh I came back because, um, I just had to..." If they had spent even 2 minutes showing how Agent Smith resurrected himself it might have been a slightly elevated movie.
I've seen with male characters who become karate masters or whatever in a 5 minute montage.
Name three.
IiRC it's not that she suggested that animal droppings were a way to track that was dumb, but that she gets it wrong. I'm not gonna derail the thread any further with talking about Prey, only that the first half of the film is mostly about how incompetent the main character is and she mostly survives from sheer dumb luck. The point is that she has to grow to match the predator and kill it. Meanwhile, a character like Rey surpasses Luke Skywalker immediately and doesn't actually need any training. Again, not a perfect film, but if you're going to do "DEI" shit that's the preferable way to do it, rather than simply remake Predator 1987 and replace Arnold Schwarzenegger with a 110lb wheelchair-bound black lesbian.
I believe the only thing that is confirmed is Cameron telling the designer tusks could look good on predator. That was mentioned by the creature designer in some making of Predator doc.
Stan Lee literally states Cameron helped with the design.
Will Smith in Independence Day flies an alien spaceship after having merely SEEN a similar ship flying. The bulk of his "practice" is realizing he had the controls labeled upside down. The ship isn't even built for human anatomy.
Neo in the Matrix literally downloads kung fu into his brain and has exactly ONE sparring session before "moving like they (The Agents) do" and then he's practically Jesus.
Tony Stark builds a fucking robot body for himself "in a cave with scraps" and is instantly a superhero capable of taking on entire a whole battalion by himself.
Harry Potter talks to fucking snakes because he just can.
You can shit on those movies if you want but each of them is genre defining at this point.
Not derailing this any further. Talk to someone else on this topic.
Rey flying a spaceship is fine, she just can the same way Luke can. I'll even say the lightsaber thing makes sense since she fights with a staff.
The bullshit part is when she needs to be rescued, there are guys there to rescue her, she fails at using magic then just...tries again and can suddenly do magic? That was a golden opportunity for her to realize she needs other people to help her out, sometimes. It doesn't come off empowering. Just makes her uninteresting even though we're told she's a special person.
Will Smith in Independence Day flies an alien spaceship
He's a fighter pilot. That's not 0 to expert.
Neo in the Matrix literally downloads kung fu into his brain
Literally the point of the movie.
Tony Stark builds a fucking robot body
He's was a genius before this.
and is instantly a superhero capable of taking on entire a whole battalion by himself.
He has a robot suit. He takes on a ragtag bunch of towel heads.
Your examples are trash.
So, how long training montages do you want for them to believable?
nta and agree with you but the ninja throwing axe really pisses me off. She throws and pulls that fucking axe like Scorpion, I wish she had relayed more in cunning than physicality in the end, her fighting the predator like some kind of cat ninja was dumb, she's not Spiderman fighting Hulk, one little blow from the predator and she's powder, that nigga broke the back of a fucking grizzly.
Girls flying on broomsticks is highly erotic
All the characters you mentioned had years of pratice and are genius/chosen ones. I would have no problem if the girl was the fucking chosen hunter from her tribe who would daily humiliate all men and make them fight each other to see who would fuck her by night, then one day the predator comes and start killing her harem of warriors forcing her to go out and solve things by herselve. Actually would watch the shit out of that movie.
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers has multiple scenes of it repairing itself in those movies.
Only if she has impossibly big And soft boobs and very large also soft fat wide butt and also some tummy too .
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