Okay 2 things,
For the Karen's who were insulting me in the comments  and getting butt hurt for no reason,

1.
Wild animals did probably hunt and attack humans more than they would now,  MY POINT was not that they would NOT attack things, MY POINT  was that they would not CONTINUE to attack things that were more trouble than they were worth.



Back In the day, if something is trying to kill you and hunt you and you were stabbing it with a spear or THROWING it 10 feet away from you,  an animal with nerve endings that is NOT SICK is NOT going to sit there and risk injury for a prey that is not worth it. FUCKING HELL.  I don't know why that's so hard to grasp



2.
When I said that a lot of the people in this movie don't look fully Native American,  the actual Native American people in the comments exactly knew what I meant by that.  Go look up what early Camanche people look like in general.

A lot of the actors that they have are mixed with different things and that's completely fine,  however as someone who's not from this country,   I would understand why some Native Americans take issue with casting people who  don't look as dark as many of the Comanche people back then were.


Also: imagine making a film based on early Nigeria or Ethiopia of a sect of people that were very dark-skinned,  and you cast people who are clearly mixed with white or black or something else and have lighter skin,  it would not be as believable,  and in some cases it would be seen as insulting. Same thing if you were doing a segment on China and many of the cast is half Chinese and European or lighter.



That was my point. Jesus

They don't give af about leveling the playing field. Otherwise they wouldn't use thermal vision and space weapons. They just go after game. It's like the scene in Cobra Kai season 2 where Johnny asks "2 cobras are in the jungle, one kills the strongest lion and the other kills a crippled monkey, which one would you want to be?" The Predator in the first movie took it's mask off because of how much Dutch went through. At that point, it wasn't about hunting. It was a raw fight. It addressed Dutch as it's equal, and not "game".

something i love about this film, is the fact thay you can clearly see this is the predators first hunting outing (in Predator lore it means it's a young blood, it's finished it's training, but has yet to do proper hunting) you see it make mistakes and under estimate its prey, you see it hunt small prey at first

and then move on to larger ones slowly working its way up the food chain, the reason it doesn't attack her once she's caught in the bear trap, is because to them killing another hunters caught prey is seen as dishonorable

A thunderbird is a creature from multiple Native American legends. It’s a giant bird of prey that brings storms or accompanies them, depending on the myth.
Also, most wild animals only began to really fear humans after guns became widespread. Records from before then indicate that many carnivorous species regarded us more as competition than a threat.
Heck, the Beast of Gevaudan (a man-eating wolf) was active in the 1760s. Some big cats were still killing people pretty regularly into late 19th-early 20th centuries. Look up Jim Corbett or the Lions of Njombe for some really crazy examples.
Edit. Thank you for the likes, I did not expect that. 😁

The animals being realistic and running away is way less entertaining then watching a fight between a wolf/bear and an alien hunter

"The animals don't act like animals... They're super highly aggressive."
Yeah, cause that's actually pretty accurate to how animals were back then (15-1700s) since they weren't being overhunted or the land wasn't being tore up by humans... They had whatever territory they wanted and any humans who set foot in it, was fair game cause animals back then weren't afraid of humans

I think what made naru likeable for me was the fact she made mistakes she learned from and she analyzed the predator throughout the movie to plan against it in the end. I also interpret the final battle as the predator severely crippled dude was being mauled, shot, bear trapped, impaled, and shot through the head. To me naru killing him in the end was just putting down a target weakened throughout the movie. While the spear circling back to kill the pred with its own mask is understandably stupid he did not have all his brains per the headshot. Taabe had to be my favorite though dude was a beast beating up that pred till it cloaked and ran, and his humility coupled alongside his warrior persona made him best character in my opinion. Will say would have been nice to see naru acknowledge the death of her fellow comanche and brother but overall very fun movie to me with creative kills.

In the scene with the bear, her bow string snapped because it was soaked. Earlier in the movie, in the scene with the brother he mentions how in a hunt with their father the same thing happened. When she slipped into the mud, her string got wet. A little bit later she was washing off her equipment when she noticed it, but she forgot.

I think this is supposed to show that while Naru is a natural born hunter, she is still an ametuer and has a lot to learn.

The predator couldn't see Raphael because of the orange herb they kept mentioning throughout the movie. It's mask helps it seek heat, but the herb makes the folks who take it feel cold.. so the mask overlooks it.

When the Predator punched the bear so hard it snapped its neck, I played that scene back 10 times. The bass of that punch was a different level of  demon time. That scene alone shows the literal physical difference between humans and Yautjas. (That Scene was just like GADDAMN)

Naru had plot armor that would make Batman jealous. If you took the Predator out of the movie.  She still would've been dead several times over. The entire movie her mother and brother were saying how awesome she was but her actions were a contradiction. She was also doing jujitsu moves during her fight scenes .She was stalking downwind(tracking 101). Was almost killed by a lion and was carried home.  Was almost killed by a bear and rescued by the Predator.  Almost died by drowning in mud in an area that she forages daily. Several members of her tribe self sacrificing on her behalf.  Leg got caught in a trap that should've broken her ankle which ended up saving her life because she looked too pathetic for The Predator to sully his weapons with her blood.
She managed to knock out a man over 260 pounds drag him to a cave and hack off his leg without him waking up in the middle of the " operation". She understood how the Yautja weapons worked better than the Yautja did.  And they give her the title of War chief for having one sucessful hunt.
In my opinion she's poorly written character that wanted to escape gender norms in a time where they would've made her stfu and go forage. They live in a community where you had specific jobs for SURVIVAL.

The lion attacks them because they are in it's territory... This is how big cats act in the wild. The wolf attacks the Predator because it can smell it, btw wolves are very aggressive and territorial, it's  not running away from something it can't see while it's  hunting.

I loved this movie, at first I thought they were just gonna portray her as this unstoppable badass character but really they made it realistic to the time. Men were hunters and warriors, women were gatherers and healers. She was humanized in my eyes by all the mistakes she was making. On your notion of honor though, I don't think this predator in particular has a notion of honor. They literally call him the "Feral Predator" So if this is a predator from a feral clan, don't you think they'd have no clue what honor is? If the predator in this movie hails from a feral clan you can expect that said clan doesn't bother with Yautja civilization.

The thing is that animals from hundreds of years ago didn't have the same fear of humans as they do now. Once creatures like wolves and cougars almost reached extinction from humans is when they finally backed off a bit.

This movie was pretty good, there were some parts that almost had me vomiting (I don't handle gore too well) and I like how the Yautja in this movie used the human tools to its advantage, and the doggo was probably the most badass creature in the movie taking on the Predator like it was another human

The only way that the Predator would have had that gun to give Danny Glover in Predator 2 is if that Predator hunted this chick down killed her and took a trophy.

Definitely better than The Predator.
In all seriousness, it's a good prequel. Although I was kinda hoping for a Predator vs Samurai type movie.

When it comes to plot armor I could be believe it, because let’s be honest the Predator went through a lot during the movie, it fought and got F*cked up by wildlife and a ton of humans.

Also right before the final battle Naru shot it directly in the back of the head.

I been hit hard in the back of the head before and believe me, it became extremely difficult to think straight and do things that I had no problem or struggle doing beforehand.

One last thing this Predator was definitely a Young Blood, which are basically the fresh inexperience teenage version of Predators.

She got lucky, just like Dutch did in the original.

I really enjoyed this film, I personally thought the main character was good, I loved how she wasn't perfect at everything and makes mistakes, it humanizes her for me and makes me root for her. The action was great and the predator was badass. I agree somewhat on the ending, like her brother literally died no tear no nothing ok. Her plot armor didn't really bother me as it still felt believable and she still used her smarts. 7/10 from me, a good film.

That was the funniest bit when it stepped on him. The guy screams then the predator screams and stabs him like "what the fuck was that? You scared me bro. Don't fucking do that."