Predator: Badlands

[Big s]

33 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

It looks like a confused teenager who got lost at the mall or something...

Yeah, those parents never came back 

[Dynaman]

The predator looks bad.  I wonder if it was some kind of money saving problem.  From what little I remember this has more screen time for the predator and from the look of it that facial mask might be easier to work with than earlier ones.  It looks like the mechanical bits could be worn from more angles while filming.

[sh9000]

Prey is coming to theaters for the first time as a double feature with Predator Badlands in AMC theaters on November 5.

[Bolt]

9 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Prey is coming to theaters for the first time as a double feature with Predator Badlands in AMC theaters on November 5.

That could be fun!

[sh9000]

International Trailer.

 

[Big s]

On 10/7/2025 at 10:34 AM, Seto Kaiba said:

Makes you wonder how they can even understand each other, since the Predators don't exactly speak English and have tried to avoid contact with Humanity except on the hunt.

Was just doing a silly rewatch of the first couple Predator films and oddly they seem to understand more than I remember. Mostly in the second film where one definitely understands cuss words are tied to horrible things happening and the chief actually seems to know a bit more by telling Danny Glover’s character to take the pistol. Can’t really say that they know enough to order a burger, but by the second movie it does seem like there’s a bit of an attempt to learn English, although hunting is definitely the main priority and like most people on earth, the first thing they really start to learn are the bad words

[Thom]

Even in the first one, the Predator was learning how to speak. Admittedly, a lot of mimicry, but that's how it starts, and by the end it was using it's copy/paste vocabulary appropriately.

 

 

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Thom

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

Even in the first one, the Predator was learning how to speak. Admittedly, a lot of mimicry, but that's how it starts, and by the end it was using it's copy/paste vocabulary appropriately.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I didn’t realize until the rewatch that they were picking up English, even though in the first it was mainly hunting Spanish speakers. The chief in the second kinda surprised me there and I guess in a few more decades, maybe they could learn to have a basic conversation 

[Seto Kaiba]

12 hours ago, Big s said:

Was just doing a silly rewatch of the first couple Predator films and oddly they seem to understand more than I remember. Mostly in the second film where one definitely understands cuss words are tied to horrible things happening and the chief actually seems to know a bit more by telling Danny Glover’s character to take the pistol. Can’t really say that they know enough to order a burger, but by the second movie it does seem like there’s a bit of an attempt to learn English, although hunting is definitely the main priority and like most people on earth, the first thing they really start to learn are the bad words

They clearly understand Humans are intelligent... but that doesn't necessarily mean they understand English or even care to.

Most animals make a variety of noises for communication and with contextual clues a Human can easily tell the calls of a distressed animal from an aggressive one from a hungry one and so on.  We make fishing lures that are designed to imitate the movements and sounds of injured prey, we make duck calls designed to imitate the sounds of the mating calls and feeding calls of various duck species.  If Humans can figure that out for tons of different animal species on our own planet, a spacefaring species like the Preds can definitely figure out the context behind the sounds we make without needing to actually understand the language and imitate them the same way we do.

 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They clearly understand Humans are intelligent... but that doesn't necessarily mean they understand English or even care to.

Most animals make a variety of noises for communication and with contextual clues a Human can easily tell the calls of a distressed animal from an aggressive one from a hungry one and so on.  We make fishing lures that are designed to imitate the movements and sounds of injured prey, we make duck calls designed to imitate the sounds of the mating calls and feeding calls of various duck species.  If Humans can figure that out for tons of different animal species on our own planet, a spacefaring species like the Preds can definitely figure out the context behind the sounds we make without needing to actually understand the language and imitate them the same way we do.

 

The chief in the second movie actually understood the phrase he was using. It didn’t mean he totally understands English, but he seems to understand the phrase and how it’s used when he hands over the pistol. I kinda doubt he learned that in distress. It shows they probably picked up a bit of the language and may understand more than what’s even shown in the movies. So it seems that they may actually care a little about what humans are saying beyond the words used when humans are in trouble or just as a lure

[Dynaman]

The predator species is far more technologically advanced than humanity and clearly consider us nothing more than dangerous game.  The ones who have to prove themselves would be the humans - and learn the predator language.  The predators probably have computers translate everything for them just like we are very close to having now.