Godzilla and King Kong Stuff (Mike Dougherty, Adam Wingard)

[Kurosawa Fan]

You've never heard of hunting for sport, Duke?

[Dukefrukem]

You've never heard of hunting for sport, Duke?

I have many times. However, that's not prey .

[Kurosawa Fan]

Yes, it is. While prey often means food, it doesn't always have to. Here's Merriam's definition. While the first mentions food, the second just mentions something that is easily harmed by something else.

There's more than one definition for a word, Duke. You are well aware of this. Why be purposefully difficult when our point is obvious?

[Kurosawa Fan]

In case Merriam isn't good enough, here's another site:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prey

The second definition here:

2. One that is defenseless, especially in the face of attack; a victim.

[Dukefrukem]

There's more than one definition for a word, Duke. You are well aware of this. Why be purposefully difficult when our point is obvious?

Whatever KF. I've obviously never heard it used this way before. It didn't make sense to me in the movie and it doesn't make sense to me now after reading this or whatever definition is on the internet.

Although this sentence makes more sense:

"Too often elderly people are easy prey for swindlers and other criminals."

[Kurosawa Fan]

Whatever KF. I've obviously never heard it used this way before. It didn't make sense to me in the movie and it doesn't make sense to me now after reading this or whatever definition is on the internet.

Although this sentence makes more sense:

"Too often elderly people are easy prey for swindlers and other criminals."

I just don't understand why you're combative about something like this. And if you weren't, then my apologies for misreading the tone of your first reply to Meg. Why not just be inquisitive about what doesn't make sense to you rather than call it out as bullshit, and then brush those aside who are trying to explain it to you? Seems to be the much easier route to understanding.

[Dukefrukem]

Because it still doesn't make sense in the context it was used. I doubt Ken Watanabe was using it to describe a monster harming and not eating the other monsters. How would he even know that?

[number8]

This is a really weird argument, but off the top of my head, three famous movie quotes involving the word being used in a non-cannibalistic manner...

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? I ask that to all my prey. I just like the sound of it." - Batman

"Do not come between a Nazgul and his prey." - Return of the King

"Being a black man in America isn't easy. The hunt is on, and you are the prey." - Menace II Society

[Dukefrukem]

I've already accepted the fact that there are two definitions of prey, but I stand by the context in which Watanabe uses the word. Just because it fits both definitions of the word, doesn't make me wrong.