Predator: Badlands

[TangledThorns]

It's not your typical PREDATOR film but it looks like a great sci-fi flick altogether. Sign me up! 

[electric indigo]

Same here - I like the look and the tone.

[Black Valkyrie]

Awesome.  At least you are in one piece, look what happened to me (C3po - TESB). 

[Hikuro]

could be fun. who knows!

[TangledThorns]

I showed the trailer to my wife and she said... "isn't the predator supposed to be invisible?" lol!

 

[Bolt]

2 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

I showed the trailer to my wife and she said... "isn't the predator supposed to be invisible?" lol!

 

Lol. Junior here ,doesn't  have the upgrades yet.  
I'm expecting a good time . Definitely watching this on the big screen.

[sh9000]

I'm interested in seeing more of Elle Fanning's character.

[Black Valkyrie]

On 7/22/2025 at 1:52 AM, Black Valkyrie said:

Awesome.  At least you are in one piece, look what happened to me (C3po - TESB). 

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/predator-badlands-director-confirms-the-whole-predator-carrying-an-android-idea-was-inspired-by-chewbacca-carrying-c-3po-in-star-wars-sdcc-2025

 

[Bolt]

Went to see the opening show of Demon Slayer on the big screen with my son. The Predator Badlands trailer on the big screen just looked awesome. I'm definitely hyped for it now.

[Graham]

Don't have high hopes for this, but will probably still go to see it.

 

[TangledThorns]

 

 

 

[Tking22]

Still looking pretty good to me, might make the splurge and go actually see this one in IMAX. 

[Seto Kaiba]

 

Hmm... I dunno, my hopes are not high for this one.

After rewatching the first couple Predator movies, I feel like it's not a great idea to make a Predator the protagonist of the movie.  IMO, what makes the Predators work as the sci-fi horror movie monsters they were/are is that they're inscrutable.  They couldn't be communicated with or understood.  They were just these aliens hunting people for sport because they could.  Once you give them dialog and have them explain their culture and the context of their actions to the audience... they're just rubber forehead aliens like in Star Trek and there's no pivoting back to horror after that.  

Basically the same mistake Alien: Earth made by revealing you can absolutely just talk to Xenomorphs and control them with language.

[pengbuzz]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

 

Hmm... I dunno, my hopes are not high for this one.

After rewatching the first couple Predator movies, I feel like it's not a great idea to make a Predator the protagonist of the movie.  IMO, what makes the Predators work as the sci-fi horror movie monsters they were/are is that they're inscrutable.  They couldn't be communicated with or understood.  They were just these aliens hunting people for sport because they could.  Once you give them dialog and have them explain their culture and the context of their actions to the audience... they're just rubber forehead aliens like in Star Trek and there's no pivoting back to horror after that.  

Basically the same mistake Alien: Earth made by revealing you can absolutely just talk to Xenomorphs and control them with language.

Villain Decay™, brought to you by the Borg.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Basically the same mistake Alien: Earth made by revealing you can absolutely just talk to Xenomorphs and control them with language.

Not only that, but an android communicating and making buddies is kinda a bit too soon. The next movie will be a buddy movie where androids aliens and predators are just on a road trip

[sh9000]