Is the "Magic Flower" in Prey Really That Bad?

[Winter]

Is it even supposed to be real IR in Prey? It sees a cold-blooded snake just fine.

Well remember it did that in the day and one can see a snake in IR more clearly even if they don't have any body heat. With Naru, the likely reason it didn't see her after ate the flower and it was night so she was basically invisible to the Predator's IR at that point.

[Frustration]

As it happens, my local game store had Predator showing in the background a few days ago, and I managed to catch about the last third of the movie.

The complaints about the mud are quite valid: for most of the film in which Schwarzenegger had it on, it was only a thin slurry. I got the impression the script writer would have been cringing while the director didn't want a thick coating of mud to cover up the mug of his big star.

So the execution was weak at best, but the basic idea is sound. Flowers with drug effects that ought to kill a mammal are a fundamentally-flawed idea.

[hammerofglass]

Frustration I highly recommend watching the first half, if only so you'll know where about a dozen different memes and cliches come from. It's 80's action cheese raised to an art form.

Also one of the mercs has an M134 Minigun as a personal weapon that he fires from the hip, it's so stupid but it's great.

[Frustration]

I've seen the entire movie multiple times, hammerofglass.

The second film is far superior, although it still has plenty of Hollywood shortcuts used to convey information rapidly but aren't truly realistic. (Mass spectrometers don't have alarms that go off when encountering unknown elements, for example.)

[hammerofglass]

Ah, you made a big deal about catching the end so I assumed that was relevant.

[Riedquat]

As it happens, my local game store had Predator showing in the background a few days ago, and I managed to catch about the last third of the movie.

The complaints about the mud are quite valid: for most of the film in which Schwarzenegger had it on, it was only a thin slurry. I got the impression the script writer would have been cringing while the director didn't want a thick coating of mud to cover up the mug of his big star.

So the execution was weak at best, but the basic idea is sound. Flowers with drug effects that ought to kill a mammal are a fundamentally-flawed idea.

Pretty much this, the mud was enough to shove suspension of disbelief out of the way in what wasn't exactly a cerebral film anyway. Flowers though sound like they go too far for that, although again with the proviso that I've not actually seen it.

I think mud has a vague impression of plausibility if you don't try to think about it. Flowers with those effects are trying to sound scientific, which just calls it out.

[McAvoy]

Ehh the magic flower didn't bother me.

It's better than the threat of her covering herself up with mud. Which is what my fear was when she fell into that quicksand/mud pit thing earlier in the movie.

Oh and his vision can't see below water either. Which is an actual weakness of thermal vision.