Spoilers Predator: Badlands

[FPAlpha]

I get the impression the Yautja we see are the remnants of more advanced society that fell. They're like the Mad Max of whatever society built space ships and computers.

Doesn't have to be. Their society could also be similar to Samurai/Japanese society in that the vast part of the Yautja are not hunters but workers, engineers and scientists that serve the ruling class of the Hunters, kind of a caste system with the top being the ones born to hunt.

We just never saw this in the movies because that was never the focus so the field is wide open for speculation.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

That and alien species aren't monoliths. Who is to say all Yautja are the same united society?

 

[kevinc]

That and alien species aren't monoliths. Who is to say all Yautja are the same united society?

Well there are Yautja clans, so I don't think they are all united. I think Thia actually mentions studying Yautja society extensively, and doesn't mention much else about them other than they are hunters.

Of course that's not dispositive.

 

[kevinc]

Doesn't have to be. Their society could also be similar to Samurai/Japanese society in that the vast part of the Yautja are not hunters but workers, engineers and scientists that serve the ruling class of the Hunters, kind of a caste system with the top being the ones born to hunt.

We just never saw this in the movies because that was never the focus so the field is wide open for speculation.

Well of course it doesn't have to be. The Yautja are so I'll defined each entry in the franchise can drop in whatever lore it wants about them.

The Mad Max thing is just my impression.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

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[Caretaker]

To be honest i really dislike attitudes like this because it creates a creative standstill. Every story that turns into a franchise because the initial movie story turned out to be very popular can quickly find itself with a heavy weight around its neck if it doesn't break out of that rut.

Terminator has this problem, how many times do we need to see Skynet sending a Terminator back in time to prevent the rise of the Resistance by killing someone? How many times do we need to see a Predator go on the hunt only to be defeated by the movie hero?

How much can a franchise be kept afloat if it repeats the same story over and over and only varies the details?

Yes, this was not a Predator movie in the same mold much like Prey was. Prey to me was the template Predator movie but it also was kind of a jumpstart to something else. It was followed by Killer of Killers that tried something new ( and introduced a very controversial subject at the same time) and Badlands continues this trend by going completely off the beaten path and i really like this boldness.

The movie was quite good, not original Predator level awesome but what is? I loved that they are now expanding the universe and for the fist time in a canon project they call them Yautja and give them a culture beyond just being hunters for the most dangerous prey. The production value was appropriately high ( how the hell did they pull off Dek's face, was that all CGI or practical effects? It looked amazing), the story good enough ( dragged a bit in the second act) and it opened a door to possible follow up projects.

I hope Trachtenberg gets to continue with his Predatorverse projects, Badlands has been very positively reviewed across the board and the audience liked it including me.

Exactly why I was bored with the Alien franchise. A lot of it is just a slight variation of the same. I give credit to the people running the Predator franchise - they are mixing it up, like the MCU did in it's first few years (a variety of genres).

 

[Charlie Xmas]

All Aliens has been good for lately is fodder for drinking games. Bet on who died first or who survives to the credits (that's not an appealing kid - c'mon, you knew Newt wasn't gonna die) or some such.

 

[jaime]

Tess and Thia being so different is kinda explained, but it did not really seem like a satisfying explanation. The Synths as synthetic beings should be in radio or wifi transmission of each other on some network, and should not be unaware of each other's encounters or status (this becomes particularly ridiculous at the climax).

I have a pet theory that an explanation got cut about the planet generating interference that makes such wireless communication difficult to impossible, thus we get Thia and Tess when separated developing independently. It's just a theory.

Maybe one of them burnt their modem

 

[JoeZhang]

Loved the film but experience ruined by how terrible and dim image was in cinema - my mistake for not going to IMAX or Dolby Cinema where standards enforced!

 

[Saul]

Loved the film but experience ruined by how terrible and dim image was in cinema - my mistake for not going to IMAX or Dolby Cinema where standards enforced!

I had the exact same issue and I went to the Dolby surround version. It was so dim that it made my eyes tired and almost put me to sleep. Why is it so dark?

 

[JoeZhang]

I had the exact same issue and I went to the Dolby surround version. It was so dim that it made my eyes tired and almost put me to sleep. Why is it so dark?

Cheap cinema owners - I rewatched the trailer at home and this is not a dark film!

 

[Neb Lleb]

Calling it: the sequel to this movie is gonna be a reboot of Alien vs. Predator.

 

[Starkers]

I liked it and suspect I'll like it even more second time around. I thought the first half was perhaps a little generic, but I had a lot of fun once Tessa turned up and the film had an actual bad guy. (full disclosure I'd had a bit of a nightmare parking so was a bit more distracted that I'd like to have been during the first half, which is why I suspect it'll go up in my estimation.)

Dek was great, Bud was great and Fanning was fantastic playing two very different roles.

For me Trachtenberg has succeeded in what Shane Blak failed to do in The Predator, make it a family friendly franchise movie.

Trachtenberg, has now made three enjoyable Predator films. Hopefully he'll get to do a fourth.

 

[kevinc]

Extra image of a Yautja colonized planet in AVP: Requiem.

 

[Booji]

Meet the Philly-Born Director Changing the Predator Universe

 

[valkyrie013]

The Only way the Yautja works is if there home planet is filled with many many big things that can kill them. That through out there history, hunting was the primary way to get sustanance, and that it wasn't easy. Many die. So a successful hunter is held up in society.
They continue on, get technology, tame there world, so they go looking for more spirited hunt. The hunt is an ingrained part of there culture. You don't hunt, you don't survive.

 

[Set Harth]

"We haven't cracked FTL yet"

WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY



why do they keep doing this

 

[Mage]

Exactly why I was bored with the Alien franchise. A lot of it is just a slight variation of the same. I give credit to the people running the Predator franchise - they are mixing it up, like the MCU did in it's first few years (a variety of genres).

Really?
Every Alien movie is a distinctly different type/style of movie to me.
Alien is a classic 70's horror flick.
Aliens is a classic 80's American action movie.
Alien3 is half film noir/half arthouse ATTEMPT (not saying it worked 100%).
Alien Resurrection is very similar in tone and concept to action movies being made by American studios but with European influences because of being filmed in Europe.

While the first Predator all follow a similar plot. Bunch of people gettting hunted untill only one (maybe two) remain. Only the setting is different.

Mind you, HUGE fan of both franchises here!

 

[Jedi Marso]

I still wish they would adapt the very first crossover for film: The Dark Horse Comics Aliens Vs Predators comic limited series that they put out in the mid-80's. i still have them boxed in mint condition.

 

[Starkers]

Really?
Every Alien movie is a distinctly different type/style of movie to me.
Alien is a classic 70's horror flick.
Aliens is a classic 80's American action movie.
Alien3 is half film noir/half arthouse ATTEMPT (not saying it worked 100%).
Alien Resurrection is very similar in tone and concept to action movies being made by American studios but with European influences because of being filmed in Europe.

While the first Predator all follow a similar plot. Bunch of people gettting hunted untill only one (maybe two) remain. Only the setting is different.

Mind you, HUGE fan of both franchises here!

But you could flip that.

The first Predator film is a war movie, the second Predator film is a cop movie etc.

And certainly the first four alien films are the same in that they all follow a similar plot. A bunch of people (space truckers, soldiers, prisoners, mercenaries) battle a xenomorph (or xenomorphs) until only one or two of them are left.

I get that tonally Aliens is more different to Alien than Predator 2 is to Predator but plot wise not so much.