Predator: Badlands

[Big s]

7 hours ago, Thom said:

Someone did make all their tools and weapons and ships. so they can't be all hunter/warriors. I was wondering if that was why Dek looked different from other Predators, in that he started from another caste? Didn't address it though, but if they do another with these characters, 'Id hope to see some of those answers.

When Thia... 

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...went onto the ship, did anyone else notice the ID4 alien head on the wall..?

 

I was kinda wondering why the tentacles were in a different arrangement on this predator. They were on the area around the top of the head in the majority of designs, but this one only has them on top of the head. Like he’s a mutation or something or the designer here forgot how they’re supposed to be.

as far as that spoiler, it’s unfortunately been spoiled in the thumbnails all over the place. I hadn’t even tried looking for info on this movie and people just have to throw it right up front as the header.

[Thom]

39 minutes ago, Big s said:

I was kinda wondering why the tentacles were in a different arrangement on this predator. They were on the area around the top of the head in the majority of designs, but this one only has them on top of the head. Like he’s a mutation or something or the designer here forgot how they’re supposed to be.

as far as that spoiler, it’s unfortunately been spoiled in the thumbnails all over the place. I hadn’t even tried looking for info on this movie and people just have to throw it right up front as the header.

I'm assuming, without explanation that they just wanted to make him different, as the hero-predator.

And sorry someone (everyone) spoiled that for you, dude, At least I tried.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

I'm assuming, without explanation that they just wanted to make him different, as the hero-predator.

And sorry someone (everyone) spoiled that for you, dude, At least I tried.

I kinda gave up on most of the spoilers this weekend after seeing way too many without even clicking on the thumbnails

[kajnrig]

10 hours ago, Thom said:

Someone did make all their tools and weapons and ships. so they can't be all hunter/warriors. I was wondering if that was why Dek looked different from other Predators, in that he started from another caste? Didn't address it though, but if they do another with these characters, 'Id hope to see some of those answers.

That's the issue with exploring these things too in depth (which is to say, almost in any depth at all). The mystique breaks down almost instantly and they stop being the fearsome movie monsters they're supposed to be. Which, again, isn't exactly a BAD thing to do... It just isn't specifically what I want from a Predator movie.

As for Dek, I didn't think much about it. I figured they just wanted a unique look.

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I kinda gave up on most of the spoilers this weekend after seeing way too many without even clicking on the thumbnails

Weirdly, I have the opposite problem of basically seeing zero videos on my feed at all, spoilers or otherwise.

[Bolt]

Just watched it on the big screen with my son. We both liked it. I don't mind a different take on this Yautja clan , personally. I'm looking forward to another installment.

[jvmacross]

Just came out of an IMAX showing....was a fun movie start to finish....

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Maybe I was reading too much into it, but did it seem that humans seemed to be thoroughly aware of the Predator species at this point in the Aliens-Predator timeline?  

 

[Bolt]

7 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Just came out of an IMAX showing....was a fun movie start to finish....

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Maybe I was reading too much into it, but did it seem that humans seemed to be thoroughly aware of the Predator species at this point in the Aliens-Predator timeline?  

 

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Yes, i believe. At least Mu-Th-Er does. So that would certainly imply the top humans of Weyland Yutani do also  .

 

[Thom]

13 hours ago, kajnrig said:

That's the issue with exploring these things too in depth (which is to say, almost in any depth at all). The mystique breaks down almost instantly and they stop being the fearsome movie monsters they're supposed to be. Which, again, isn't exactly a BAD thing to do... It just isn't specifically what I want from a Predator movie.

As for Dek, I didn't think much about it. I figured they just wanted a unique look.

Weirdly, I have the opposite problem of basically seeing zero videos on my feed at all, spoilers or otherwise.

Personally, if the species/character is going to be reused, esp to the amount the Alien and Predators are, then they need to get more in-depth on them. Being used once better allows the mystique to endure, but if they are going to be used a lot, then that 'unknown danger' still tends to wane, for me anyway.

[tekering]

23 hours ago, jvmacross said:

humans seemed to be thoroughly aware of the Predator species at this point in the Aliens-Predator timeline

22 hours ago, Bolt said:

At least Mu-Th-Er does. So that would certainly imply the top humans of Weyland Yutani do also

Ms. Yutani gained possession of all the Yautja tech retrieved after the events of AvP:R and The Predator (as depicted in both films), long before the Weyland-Yutani merger even happened... and of course Peter Keyes (in Predator 2) explicitly explains everything the CIA had known since 1987.

[TangledThorns]

8 hours ago, tekering said:

Ms. Yutani gained possession of all the Yautja tech retrieved after the events of AvP:R and The Predator (as depicted in both films), long before the Weyland-Yutani merger even happened... and of course Peter Keyes (in Predator 2) explicitly explains everything the CIA had known since 1987.

They should make a movie about the Weyland-Yutani merger, it'll have political intrigue and androids and aliens and predators!!

[Thom]

3 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

They should make a movie about the Weyland-Yutani merger, it'll have political intrigue and androids and aliens and predators!!

Maybe that should have been the plot of the  Alien: Earth series!

[Bolt]

I was very curious, during the movie, to try and figure out the timeline this story falls into. I couldn't help but wonder if it was right before Aliens Earth.

[Big s]

7 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

They should make a movie about the Weyland-Yutani merger, it'll have political intrigue and androids and aliens and predators!!

Can’t forget the odd Blade Runner stuff

[tekering]

10 hours ago, Bolt said:

I was very curious, during the movie, to try and figure out the timeline this story falls into. I couldn't help but wonder if it was right before Aliens Earth.

Dan Trachtenberg has stated that Predator: Badlands is intended as a far-future scenario, closer to the Alien: Resurrection setting than any of the other films in the franchise(s).

[Bolt]

8 minutes ago, tekering said:

Dan Trachtenberg has stated that Predator: Badlands is intended as a far-future scenario, closer to the Alien: Resurrection setting than any of the other films in the franchise(s).

Thanks for that clarification 

[sh9000]

[Duke Togo]

I'm in a weird place with this movie. It was both good, but also not what I wanted out of a Predator film. There's room for this, though. I was just hoping after Prey we'd get more like that.