Multiple industry articles have proclaimed the latest predator movie a big success after a “strong” opening weekend of… just $40 million domestic and $83 million global. Against a projected budget of over $100 million. With analysts saying it needs $262 million to break even.
By what metric is this a success? By straight comparison to the original, of course! The first predator only made $12 million domestic in its opening weekend!
In 1987.
As a completely new IP.
On fewer than half as many screens.
And then went on to make 80% of its total run after opening weekend.
On a budget of just $18 million.
Movie industry media are attaching Saturn V rockets to every goalpost and firing them into fucking space just to manipulate audiences into thinking this modern slop is popular and good. This shit will be lucky to lose $50 million.
I've seen puff pieces that it's BETTER than the GOATed original movie with Arnie. These people are either deranged or liars.
Also, can we all just admit the new predator is basically just a leftoid attempt to make a "black" (African) predator?
The tendrils now grow on top of his head.not on his crown? And he has brown skin not the yellow green DBZ cell skin, and he has dad issues, and is unironically voiced by a black dude. Come on. That's Black Predator. And they're truing to gaslight us by saying it's not.
I'll watch that shit for free on someone's bummed Disney plus account.
I particularly like the big one going around ranking all their RT scores, with this one at the top followed two of the other modern ones then the original at 4th. Its such a level of disrespect to the franchise I don't see how other people aren't calling it out.
Prey was pandering garbage that wasted its great premise to make a "white colonizers are super evil" plot, and the Adrien Brody one is barely remembered. The fact that either of them rank better than the original is a sign of the rankings being fucked, instead of their quality.
They've been trying for that since at least the second movie, though its gotten increasingly less subtle over time.
Which is hilarious because a) he didn't see the first one then b) doesn't realize they aren't hair. The left is retarded. But it's hilarious how in 1990 movie is bad because the monster looks like a black guy and in 2025 movie is bad unless the monster looks like a bad guy. Different sides of the faggotry coin.
The entire story of the movie is that because the
Blacks/MexicansGangs are so violent and savage that a Predator has free reign because they are always a threat and turned a major urban sprawl into a warzone worse than the fucking jungle from the first movie.There is a lot of "racism" you can pull out of it, if you just want to ignore that that's real life in many cities and thereby not really "racism."
But the protagonist is a heroic black guy…
Professional critics are in a funny bind. They’ve lost all credibility as well as most of their audience, but they can’t course correct without getting canceled. It’s like an enforced self-immolation.