THE PREDATOR is Garbage - Part One | Cynical Reviews 

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Normal People: "That's not how autism works" Hollywood: *_"Is it though?"_*

"The predator uses autism lazily. " Is a sentence that I never thought I would hear.

As an autistic person I wanted to die during the whole movie. When Olivia Munn said "autism is the next step in evolution" (or something like that) I actually cried laughing

In previous movies, the Predators were intergalactic, alien Big Game hunters (and literal "alien hunters") who live for the thrill of the ritualistic hunt and have a code of honour (i.e. not killing unarmed "civilians", pregnant females and young ones), who select the most dangerous prey that will pose a challenge and use cloaking tech to stalk their prey, and take trophies afterwards. This movie turned Predators into generic Slasher movie psycho killers in a monster mask who swagger around, gunning down and ripping people in half in a gory mess.

"The Predator ignores her, probably because he didn't want to get cut out of the film as well." XD

As a lifelong Predator fan, this film absolutely crushed my soul. I've never had such animosity towards a movie and director.

No joke. I am autistic and went to see this shit with my friends. When they brought up how Autism is the next stage of human evolution, I legtimately turned to my friends and said “Guess that makes me superior to you all.” This was a lot funnier than the movie.

“We want the Marvel audience.” At this rate maybe Disney will have the Predator fight Black Panther in the jungle at least that might be fun.

Gotta love how everyone save Munn was more concerned about how the movie would be affected by people knowing a convicted sex offender was on set than actually having a convicted sex offender on set.

I'm not usually THAT guy to use the term "ableism", but this movie managed to make it necessary. The complete misrepresentation of neurodivergent people is utterly shameful. The scene with the autistic kid panicking and being left AND then bullied is just mean spirited. The way it treats autism as some sort of utterly crippling load of a condition that is only situationally useful is just disgusting. Yes, autistic people, particularly kids, do sometimes need assistance from someone who knows how to handle them in a serious situation, but those are the exceptions, and you can be DAMN sure that the teacher would know to take care of the kid and look to them during a fire drill. The fact that they didn't is grounds for a LITERAL LAWSUIT. It is literally like if a teacher forgot a student because they could not walk or were blind, assuming a kid had that level of sensory sensitivity that it would overwhelm them. Plus, they would almost certainly have earmuffs! The rest of the group having mental disabilities or some Hollywood version of them is just as disgusting. Hiring a sexual predator to act, and specifically play someone trying to harass a woman is doubly disgusting. Like he said, I could maybe understand giving an old friend a chance, but to A, use them as an ACTOR and not say a sound technician, and B, not tell the actress the guy will be "Accosting"

As someone with Aspergers, I’m not an idiot but I’m definitely not a super genius who can hack into alien technology or work for the government to encrypt super secret nuclear codes to defeat the Soviet Union.

At least it is funnier than Holmes and Watson though...

You'd think taking a predators cloaking would be a great oppurtunity to show how skilled the predator can be when it lacks its gear. But that would take effort I guess.

Ah, movie Tourette's, which is almost nothing like real Tourette's.

Shane Black wanted revenge for killing off his character so early in predator

9:12 you have no idea how much weight this holds, when I was younger (10 I think) I was getting ready to leave my house and meet some friends, my Mum jokingly said "Don't come home" but at the time we didn't know about my autism, and I took that joke to heart and didn't go home. I spent the entire time with my friends absolutely broken emotionally and embarrassed over that my own Mum kicking me out of the house so I didn't tell them what was wrong. After my friends went home I spent hours just walking from place to place barely holding back tears. Eventually my parents found me and asked why I didn't come home, I told them that she told me not to and not long after I got tested and diagnosed with Autism. So just to make it clear, do be careful what you say to someone who is autistic, I still to this day at age 23 struggle to tell the difference between a joke and a statement and almost always assume it wrongly.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for speaking up about the ridiculous and unrealistic portrayal of asperges/autism in Hollywood. As someone who has asperges, and has siblings who have it, it is beyond frustrating to see it handled so poorly in movies/tv.

* sees a spear * "oh muh gawd it's alien thechnology!"

I went to a special needs school and we had fire drills twice a month in order to desensitize students like Rory so that they could evacuate during an actual fire. Unfortunately, I was desensitized to fire alarms and stoped taking them seriously for awhile after being subjected to over six dozen fire drills in a four year period. Hopefully, they since learned to pace it better to achieve the desired effect without accidentally invoking Crying Wolf Syndrome.

"...the Predator ignored her, probably didn't want to get cut out of the movie" that was a beautiful line and editing.

It's depressing when Mac and Me portrays people with disabilities better than this movie does.

" you wrote the book on evolutionary biology" wow Charles Darwin looks great now a days

To be fair, 9 times out of ten military member's humor is basically high school level.

I am from Slovakia. When you order something from the US it goes through customs, they usually open the packet or at least Xray it. They need to knoiw whats inside and whats the value so they can tax it. The same applies to packets being sent to US where you have to fill out a custom declaration stating whats in the packet. This packet would never made it trought customs!!! Just a quick note.

Some people do get the stereotypical Tourette's but that's rare. Most people have physical ticks and/or very mild verbal ticks, not necessarily swearing

I didn’t notice it until a few seconds after it showed up, but holy heck that facecam

I've read the test audiance said the movie was too funny so they had to reshoot half of the movie. If this is true, imagine that version... 😂

So basically the guy who killed every scene he was in Predator was able to kill an entire Predator film when he was directing it. Also with the Predator 2 date being wrong I'm also pretty sure that film happens in the summer not December.

The funniest part is they tried to convince us that Olivia Munn is a scientist 😂

The actress that handicapped her entire career to oust a predator is a such a boss

"she looks absolutely traumatized" Probably because that scene was shot after many of the others and she knew just what sort of shitshow she was starring in.

Stop doing face reveals. It's getting harder not to imagine you as Rian Johnson.

Original predator: show a changing of symbols and we assume account down The Predator:shows numbers below

I mean aspergers can be like that in some regards. There are some loud sounds I can't stand but others that don't bother me at all. I find it extremely uncomfortable and distressing to look someone in the eye but make an active effort to do so when someone speaks to me that I respect due to it being a social rule I internalized very young. There are times where I completely break down and become an nonfunctional mess due to having essentially bottled up lesser irritants and collapsing under the weight of them. The main issue is that there is a lack of understanding of the progression between opposites for patients who do traverse the spectrum on symptoms. There tends to be a link between them and more progressive (From high functioning to non-functioning for instance) tend to be gradual with behavioral changes as it progresses. While I hate how autism is portrayed in movies and media in general we do have to give them some leeway in that they don't have the time to establish those things. Heck real life doesn't give you that time with most people which is why I outright tell new friends how to handle me at my worst in order to minimize frictions. Still though, autism or any other mental disorder being important for the plot of a movie is a very slippery slope and is typically done best in movies where the whole plot IS the disorder. This movie does it terribly and doesn't need it at all.

I like how her saying I wish people would stop calling me sunshine is a reference to the scene with the sex offender that was cut

I think Predator 1 and 2 are excellent. The practical effects are brilliant. Then the rest of them came out.

I personally have Aspergers and if I ever get good enough equipment and understanding of editing I want to make a video essay on autism in the media So now I know another thing to check out if I’m ever able to make that video

Just cuz he is atustic he can operate a spaceship and later made cyber security head🤔 is enough to tell you how bad this movie was

"get to the chopper!" "the what?" "the choppers! the choppers over there!" "the what?" "the bikes. those bikes, right over there. certain people, a long time ago, used to call motorcycle bikes 'choppers.'" "oh. you should have said 'motocycles.' i don't believe that many people have called bikes 'choppers' since 1967." i guess THAT would have broken the tension. it wouldn't have been quite the ZING moment, i suppose.

Another minor nitpick, but the severed arm used to signal the driver went from lefty to righty. What was that about?

"On the other hand..." *shows scene of a predator picking up a hand from the ground* Brilliant! (4:30)

"In the other hand" And then CJ shows a predator graving a severed arm, clever dog.

"autism is the next step in human evolution" I mean if 4chan's many campaigns of weaponized autism are proof, maybe this movie has a point.

Actually, predators often hunt not because they are hungry, but because they simply enjoy it. A lot of predators like to play with its prey, like cats for example. Ms Scientist is completely wrong.

Woah Cynical. I didn't know you had a human friend

Oh, and by the way: Cats hunt for sport. They go after prey even if they're not hungry. So there.

What’s messed up was that Olivia Munn was made fun of and ignored on set by the other actors. She was on a interview and it was supposed to be a ensemble interview but the actors never came it was just her.

Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a good horror movie nowadays?

Kind of ironic that they nearly had a real predator in a movie called the predator

07:28 coming from someone with ASD that’s actually pretty accurate to how school treat people with ASD. Never underestimate how lazy schools can be.

When Disney joins the franchise, the Predator will dance with a teapot. Also both will sing several times.

Oh there’s two kind of predators in this film

Predator 1 & 2 and IMO Predators are masterpieces and stay true to the origin. This is a good comedy film indeed.

Unpopular Opinion: I adored that goofy ass scene with the predator using the severed arm to fool the truck driver. It was just dumb enough to make me laugh my rear off.

Finally Fox made their own "Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare" by completely abandoning everything scary and turn the main villain into a cartoon. I'm amazed they didn't implement wacky cartoon sound effects.

As someone on the Autistic spectrum, I find the way this film handled it insulting.

Holy mother of spontaneous face reveals! Didn’t expect that one!

Please don't give them sarcastic compliments, Fox might take them seriously

The actors "acting" in this movie all seem like they want to one up one another with being the best "comedian" they can be. Also the fact that they abuse the mentally sick people is another thorn in my side. Hollywood being so woke to implode on itself by actually laughing at people with genuine neurodevelopmental disorders. I mean you could do occasionally Tourettes joke with your buddy, but constantly jabbing like some prick is just annoying and borders bullying.

Imagine thinking this movie wasn’t intended to be a comedy.

At least in 'Rain Man', the character played by Dustin Hoffman was established to be a Savant with eidetic memory, and he was also portrayed as having massive behavioral problems dealing with every day life. Dustin Hoffman actually prepared for the role months in advance by talking to several psychologists who worked with autists, and asked to meet people with severe autism who were in nursing homes, to get to know them as individuals and understand their tics and reactions. Hoffman was a method actor and really got into the role so much that people on set became worried if he was alright.

First Prometheus, then Alien Covenant, now this and Dark Fate. These ppl need to be stopped.

The gum chewing made me laugh everytime! I feel like they asked him to chew as hard and dramatic as possible. Lmao

10:22 impressive, you have very well trained human pet, i'm quite jealous

I swear, every time Shane Black misinterprets mental/neurophysical illnesses in this movie I feel a part of me is dying inside

My sense of humor is messed up, I laughed at the E for Everyone joke.

Sounds like that kid has “plot-ism” 😂😂 wow what a train wreck. Great video!

"this porno has really high production value"...THE quota

If I was en executive and I heard about the test screening, I would’ve said “Ok, call the marketing guys, this movie is now a comedy”

"...cuz this film gets so much worse." Me: IT GETS WORSE?!

14:30 " and this one's a super predator" . Didn't Hillary clinton warn us about this ?

i hated that they explained the tourettes to the guy as soon as he gets on the bus, but she has to go through that cringe-inducing joke and they don't explain it to her so that joke can happen. It makes me so mad.

I watched this at theatre with my crush and she said 'it was a really good movie' that moment hits me hard even now

They dragged poor Thomas Jane into this....Ding!!

I hate the way the Predators move in every movie except from the first 2 (especially the first). Kevin Peter Hall had the movements down to a tee. He had this graceful movement with his hands when using the tech, and the general way he moved. In every other movie they bound around like wrestlers/rugby players.

Quick rant for no ones sake but my own: I have a 19 year old brother with severe autism and "Hollywood Autism" makes my blood boil. Everyone I grew up with always assumed Autism ment that whoever had it also got some kind of superpower, IE: Rain Man and ect. It was hard to explain to people, "No, my brother cannot play concert piano or count cards, he just screams uncontrollably when it rains and he cant go for his ride around in the cart on a lawn mower."

The thing that always got me was that that the main character is enlisted. He is on a mission to snipe drug cartel, then, when an alien shows up, he goes AWOL. Never mentioned again. And THANK YOU for addressing how stupid it is that they bring him to a VA Hospital. Just so you know, VA hospitals have police stationed on premises.

Based off of my experiences, I just wanted to say... in that scene with the fire alarm, it does make sense that kids would intentionally try to trigger him to have a meltdown using one if his twitches (my family has used the terms for years, I'm not sure if they're accurate, but they're what I know.). But, it's even more likely that seeing him meltdown, the teachers and some of the students wouldn't leave him there- they'd freak out. When you meltdown in a class, people get panicked. Other teachers will likely find out, and teachers will be asking you if you're okay all day... If they care. And if the staff is good at they're job, they'll try to figure out what caused the meltdown too.

"There's just something about Olivia Munn naked, . . . and cowering in fear." Yeah, you should have left those last few words off.

9:21 "Miranda.... will bang ok" Commander shepherd.

Thanks for uploading this when I’m drunk

Gotta love the Predator Pimpwalk. Seriously sometimes it looks like they're wearing uncomfortable underpants but don't want to show it so they just waddle around trying to look buff.

Since the first five seconds I hoped that you'd reference Miranda Lawson. Thank you.

This was actually my first Predator movie and I really enjoyed it. Maybe going in without any expectations or franchise knowledge really helped me out.

"I heard you wrote the book on X." What a weird line, makes a great double edged compliment.

Why tf do they call it "the Predator" when the species is actually called Yautja?

I just keep thinking of that moment from one of RLM's videos, "how does it feel to live long enough to see all your favourite franchises go down in flames?"

I already forgot this movie existed, thanks for reminding me lol.

I feel like the Predator and Terminator franchises are in a never-ending contest to see who can make the worst sequel.

The sad thing is that the Loonie taking a picture of the kid could have actually been really important if they had the characters get split up and the group without McKenna had to be able to recognize their new friends kid.

that “WHAT?!” was the highest I’ve ever heard your voice go and I love it (also, “not” a furry, but I really want to see him get a fursuit)

I think Shane actually wanted to keep the title of the movie and make it about his friend who was kicked off of set

Do people know cynical reviews has done a face reveal before

4:10 the guy from Moonlight did a great job as usual, he's like the only believable character in the movie. It almost felt like he was spliced in from a different and much better film about PTSD. I'd like to see that film, like take PTSD, traumatic head injuries , suidical thoughts, survivor's guilt that combat veterans face... oh, well.

A sigh of relief when you didn't just laugh about autism and were actually sympathetic and seemed to understand it. I have a severely autistic relative and find myself afraid that everyone on the internet is going to make offensive jokes when they bring it up.

13:17 Bass are delicious... also I guess predators are bulletproof now

The Predator should've really been made as an alternate continuity/crossover with Expendables, instead.

Please stop reminding me this failed abortion of a film exists. I’m all for a good chuckle, but this one just hurts me.

Yo thanks for the subtitles. Im hard of hearing and youtubers putting accuracy and personality into the subs is really appreciated. Doesn't get enough praise and yours are boss