The animated movie released this weekend on Hulu. It has four segments. One segment takes place in Scandinavia in 849, and involves a girl boss viking. The second segment takes place in 17th century Japan, and involves two Japanese brothers. The third segment is a dog fight between a Predator ship and a US Air Wing, and a latino kid from Florida defeats a Predator. The last segment is the three of them are taken to the Predator homeworld with them fighting each other and a super big Predator.
The viking segment is super girl boss cringe. As a normal sized older woman named Ursa just plows through multiple enemies at once. In one scene she cuts a dude in half with one swing of an axe. Her and her squad of 5, including a very small woman defeat a company sized army of vikings. She fights using two broken shields and is just mutilating dudes left and right. When the Predator arrives he kills everyone with the two women injuring the alien. Every white dude dies. At one point she picks up an anchor by herself without making a sound. And defeats the Predator.
The second segment is the Japanese one. This segment had no women in it at all. The two brothers, one is a Samurai, the other is a ninja, have to fight together to beat the Predator.
The third segment is set in 1942 during WW2. A latino kid is drafted and becomes a mechanic/pilot during the war. He ends up fixing a broke plane and flying to warn his Air Wing about a strange bogey. Everyone in the wing is white and from Texas, they all die. The kid survives with the plane falling apart, and defying all physics by holding onto wings and jumping around while the plane is attacked by the Predator. He somehow figures out the Predator relies on heat to see and ends defeating the Predator ship.
The last segment involves taking all three survivors to the Predator homeworld to fight each other for a chance to fight the Predator boss. The fighter pilot somehow figures out the alien tech to free the three of them and fly the alien ship. The viking woman ends up staying behind to help the males escape. The movie ends with a bunch of alien ships rising in the air to hunt down the escapees.
TL:DR - Predator: Killer of Killers is not only woke, it's just a bad movie. The animation is middle of the road, and doesn't really help the movie. It does have a fair amount of cartoon gore, if that's your thing. The Predators from each segment have no consistent look and look completely different. There are some call backs to the movies. The flintlock from the end of the second movie pops up. I say just skip it
Remember the Animatrix? It had different styles and stories set in the matrix. It makes me wonder why only that came out when I would love to see it for others.
for the other matrix movies? the wachoski trannies probably didn't want people to notice that rando (Japanese) studios and directors are more thoughtful and creative about the matrix than the original creators themselves
Probably true.
Even though it isn't an anthology, Batman: Gotham Knight (not to be confused with Gotham Knights), has a few different segments that all use fairly different styles of art (though it's not nearly as diverse as the animation and artstyles present in Animatrix, for instance, there's no 3D animated segments). Came out in 2008.
There's also that newer Star Wars Visions anthology show, but it's post Disney acquisition, and I don't care enough about SW to watch it.
Yes, I remember. Didn't they use one of the stories as a trailer of sorts? I think they played "Flight of the Osiris(?) before certain movies. It was a bridge from movie 1 to 2.
I just remembered, flight of the Osiris was CGI motion cap right?
Yeah, a few of them filled in holes. The robots trying to make peace with humanity and humanity rejecting it basically told the prequel.
The prequel cartoon really bothered me. I was 19-20 when it came out but I remember heads getting squished and it really got to me.
It also made humanity the antagonist of the setting. When the theme of the trilogy was that our irreducible humanity is a treasured spark of divinity. Really jarring.
Yeah there was some whack body-horror in those shorts…I still remember the runner (jogger?) pushing past his limits and his leg muscles tearing in gory detail