Here's what I don't understand...
Isn't this supposed to be a show that asks questions that we legitimately want to know the answer to? As far as I can tell, WHAT IF simply pulls out a number of questions that nobody seems to care about. The multiverse is infinite...that's the point. Sure, the episode questions/answers are valid, but it doesn't defeat its main issue...nobody cares.
I'd instead propose to have the show answer questions fans might have asked themselves at one point...like What If The Avengers Battled the DCEU?
Or, how about What If Spider-Man (2002) ran into the X-Men (2000)? All the Marvel universes are SUPPOSED to be canon now, aren't they? Why limit it only to the current MCU? Here's another idea - what if the Avengers traveled the multiverse and discovered the actors Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Sam Jackson, etc - who were all playing them in a movie version. Make it meta!
Answer questions we want to see...and stop asking the most random questions nobody ever once considered.
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Isn't this supposed to be a show that asks questions that we legitimately want to know the answer to?
I think the answer to that is "no"? The concept of the series is taken from the way that comics sometimes have side issues that do things like having famous characters as zombies, or batman set in Victorian England (Gotham by Gaslight). It's a chance for creatives to have some fun without the stories needing to be canon. They've somewhat stretched the usage of the "What If...?" titling for me, since the titles haven't often actually reflected the key change (for example, the Peter Quill episode was more about "What If Yondu didn't have a change of heart?" as the key change that made that universe branch off) - but the premise is fine. I particularly like episodes where we get different Avengers lineups... it's fun seeing characters interact who haven't on-screen.
I didn't realize this was a Predator movie the first time I saw the poster and thought this was some random horror movie but the positive buzz certainly didn't pass me by so here we are again. After watching it I'm certainly... shocked?
From the get go this did very little to pull me in, be it the CG animals, one-dimensional plot or the the selfish attitude of our heroine. Now obviously one can argue how much that all matters when the action is good but it didn't really scratch that itch for me either... the Predator fighting with the animals was certainly entertaining but random guys biting the bullet with mostly offcam/unclear CG gore not so much. Would have been nice if they showed some wits when they fought him at the camp but somehow him going invisible is enough reason to lower their weapons and start talking to each other. She saw how the camouflage works multiple times in action already..?!!
What all those scenes, and the movie poster for that matter, certainly established, is that our protagonist has little to worry and that a showdown was coming but I would never have predicted the amounts of bullshit that would contain:
- Somehow becomes a baller and expert in alien technology. Knows when the Predator is coming, takes her magic herbs to immediately lower her blood temperature (but is not shivering and still standing up) and is in the Predators path who obviously doesn't see a standing corpse right in front of it or notices her moving out of the way...
- Never used the gun but knows the right angle to shoot and remove his mask (betting on this being a weakness when this did little to stop it before).
- Gets to conveniently escape for the n-th time and has enough time to finish up some traps (which the Predator even hit on some random tree lol).
- Gets hit to the head twice from the shield that cut through the Predators limbs, spear and even stone but is unscathed.
- Can easily remove a fang attached to it's face to save herself just in time.
- GPS dog that always magically reappears is ready to bring her the tomahawk...
- Manages to sit on top of the Predator and even pull him into the bog with a tiny rope and a much much smaller statue.
- The Predator obviously submerges immediately, but little does it know of her the grand plan to have him placed at that exact LOS of the mask in anticipation that he is gonna fire from his gun (despite not having had his mask for the whole time) while he is already targeted by the laser the entire time... b r a v o. Obviously that one shot was also enough to kill it.
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Honest to god - how does a movie with such a contrived finale get so much praise, or even leave the script writing phase??loading replies
@sp1ti Everything you said is legit however it's a movie and movies are designed to entertain. I don't think we can call out all the unrealistic things in the movie while also ignoring the fact the movie has an alien which makes the core of the movie unrealistic. Sometimes you just need to suspend disbelief and just enjoy the movie for what it is.
The laugh tracks... just why?
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@kanda92 because it's a multi-cam sitcom, that's what they do?
I fastforwarded through most of this and it was still the longest hour and 45 minutes of my life. But it was nice seeing Anna Camp kiss a Heather Graham
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@codex13 well im about 15 minutes in but I think i will just see if that parts on youtube.
what a fucking boring rape awareness Show with teleporting as a side Story. dropped.
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@ruegnueg
"boring rape awareness Show"....Woah...I'm just amazed by how obvious your colors are showing. You must feel soooo manly. Please, hit your chest to signal your stupidity so women will know not to be near you. Thank you.
