Spoilers Predator: Badlands

[Set Harth]

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.

TPB over here.

 

[Mage]

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.

That is a fair point.

 

[kevinc]

It's probably a mistake to binge the Alien or Predator movies because they were released years apart and never meant as a single viewing experience. The fact that the movie plots can be reduced to certain similar plot points could be applied to almost any franchise. (I remember somebody's complaint about the MCU was the movies all boiled down to the same hero's journey)

That said, I agree that the first 4 Alien films feel much different to each other stylistically (particularly Alien 3 which has a really bleak helplessness about it), and it probably due to the quality of the production. Prometheus and Covenant seem very different due to David and the variety of creatures.

Constrast that with the Predator "franchise", after Predator 2, the Predator movies have always felt like this thing the studio was trying to figure out what to do with, so each movie felt like some cheap attempt to continue - Predators and The Predator sorta missed, and Prey finally hit a mark where the movie felt VERY different but succeeded with a new vision.

...and obviously, Badlands is just a Conan movie.