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PMP#133: Predator (Films) and Prey

September 23, 2022 by Mark Leave a Comment

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Thanks to the new film Prey by Dan Trachtenberg and Patrick Aison, we now have six films (starting with 1987’s Predator) featuring the dreadlocked, camouflaged, infrared-seeing race of alien hunter-jackasses who have apparently been flying around collecting our skulls for 300 years.

Thankfully, the new film is good, and adds to the recent spate of Indigenous-centered media, with its young, female Comanche protagonist taking on evil French bison-killers, her sexist peers, and a mountain lion, in addition to a relatively low-tech version of what many comic books have called a Yautja.

We talk about what makes for a good Predator film, the appeal of the monster (and when in the films it gets revealed), the pacing of the films, the music, direction, effects, humor, social commentary, and more.

This marks the first episode of Pretty Much Pop season three, where Mark Linsenmayer’s recurring co-hosts will by default tentatively be those you will hear today: Philosophy prof/entertainment writer Lawrence Ware, novelist/writing prof Sarahlyn Bruck, and ex-musician, ex-philosophy grad student, and now ex-research manager Al Baker. The various convocations of musicians, comedians, et al, will still happen too, but will at least alternate with some permutation of that core group, so I hope you like them! (Yes, Lawrence is going to buy a better mic soon.)

A few of the articles we consulted included:

  • “‘Prey’ takes the Predator franchise to the great plains, 300 years ago” from NPR
  • “Every Movie in the Predator Franchise, Ranked” by Michael Heiskell
  • “A History of the Predator Franchise from 1987 to 2022” by Shane Smith

Follow us @law_writes, @sarahlynbruck, @ixisnox, @MarkLinsenmayer.

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Predators prancing!

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