Is Predator Badlands Badass Or Just Bad? - Hack The Movies (#437)

Predator: Badlands is finally here and it is a big departure from previous Predator films. Dan Trachtenberg tried something very different for his third film. Did he stick the landing or is it a total miss? Tom joins me once again to find out the answer to this question!
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, Tony from Hacka Movies here and today we're
talking about Predator bad Lands. Is this movie badass or
is it just bad man? Find out today on hack
the Movies. That was clever what I did there, Tom,

(00:21):
wasn't it? It was?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It was very clever.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Tom.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I thought you're gonna do some weird like youcha rhyming.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
No, No, I don't know the Yaoucha language yet.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
You don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't know Yaoucha yet. In my defense, they just
made it for this movie. I don't think anyone. This
isn't like Elvish and Tolkien. They didn't. No one's really
translated in or anything. Sorry, I will learn all of Yaucha.
I don't know if I can. Actually, there's a lot
of clicking noises involved.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Figure it out. I'll figure okay, get some like mandibles, yeah,
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'll wear this ask all day long. Perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You have to embody?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I do?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I do?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes? This is the god what number Predator movie is this?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hold on? Okay, okay. So there's this like the seven
or hold on and so there's like the four solo ones,
the two avp Ones, Pray Predator, Killer of Killers, the
animated one. So then this is the ninth one. That's it.
This is the ninth movie.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Ninth one. Well, yes, I mean it's definitely different from
the other movies.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
When you hit part nine, it's time to try something different.
There are times when you should play it safe and
there's times when you should do something different. And Dan
Trachenberg I think has been doing really well with the
Predator movies. If you don't know, we actually reviewed all
the previous Predator movies. We did a full episode on

(01:59):
the first first one, and then when Pray came out,
we did all the sequels, including Alirisus Predator.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, I totally loved binging all of those in three
or four days, having not seen half of them, I
want to say.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And of course, of course, of course we did that
with Casey, who couldn't be here today. Tom. You know, Tom.
We got together the weekend this came out. We made
a point to see this, and we're like, we have
to see Predator. Casey thought that there were more important
things like being the maid of honor in her sister's wedding.
I don't think that was as important as Predator. Padlands personally,
I agree.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I mean when it comes to the whole Predator line
of movies. I just isn't there a person sitting next.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I don't know, She's just not as dedicated to us
for some reason. Silly things like her sister's wedding are
more important than seeing the ninth Predator move the nine.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's like, go in the movies to see Jason X
because it's like it's ten right.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
By the way, the second Predator movie this year, I
also did Predator Killer Killers on one of the wrap ups.
Did you end up checking that out? Killer?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I did not have a chance.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I think you'll really like it.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, it was fun. I understand like the premise.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, I had to the animation I wasn't totally blown
away with at first, but then I kind of dug it.
So Dan Trashierberg he had the task of bringing it
back Predator in this New Disney era, and of course
the Predator movies before this. There was Predators in twenty ten,
which was okay, and then the two before that were
the Alien Versus Predator movies, which and then the one

(03:36):
after that was the Predator, which we talked at length.
How it was a mess.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I still enjoyed it, but not like because it was good.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm starting to see like a lot of people were
having the same opinion because people have gone back and
rewatch it and everyone kind of shares kind of what
I thought, where it's like it starts off really good
and then when you get to where they ended up
rewriting the whole movie, it goes to shit because they
didn't know what they were doing. So Dan Strachenberg, he
came back with Prey, which was kind of what I

(04:07):
what I wanted them always to do, just like just
kind of do the Predator formula in different time periods,
and it worked really really well. It was very very good.
Predator looked weird, you know. It's it's funny when I

(04:27):
complained about the digital Predator face in that movieland yes,
I am going to defend the digital Predator Badlands face
in a minute, don't worry about it. But uh yeah,
it was just funny because that one looked worse. No,
it was very fun safe kind of movie. Back to basics,
changed it up here and there, and then Killer of Killers.

(04:49):
Is that idea just anthology form where it's like Norse
feudal Japan, World War Two? There's actually an aerial battle
with like fighter pilots with a predator in a ship.
So the predator is actually fighting like World War two planes. Yeah,
wouldn't that end pretty quickly? No?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, okay, I figured that the predator's technology will be
a little bit more advanced than well.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Remember they remember, depending on what their prey is, they
will like scale down their weapons. Good point because remember
at the end of the first one, Arnold has no weapons.
So the Predator gets rid of everything and just uses
his like fist in his blade and then pray he
doesn't use any of his advanced weapons on the Natives
until the French show up and they have firearms. Like okay, cool,

(05:33):
now I can use this thing. Yeah, actually, fun thing
about the World War II sequence. Michael Bean does a voice,
and now we have another alien and predator crossover.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of course, just tie that together and then that.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Movie gets a little crazy at the end. We spoiler
the predators can freeze warriors uh huh and keep them
on ice for centuries and unfollow them for big ladiator
games if they want. What I guess, if you kill
a predator. I don't know if they all do this,
because I remember, we don't know how big the Predator
Empire is. I assume they're all kind of different, but

(06:09):
the ones in this movie they will put you on
ice and they'll bring you back and thaw you out
and have you fight in a big arena.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
So that almost sounds like predators.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Kind of yeah, but it's just the humans are fighting
like different monsters and stuff. It's pretty much okay. Yeah,
they another spoiler. They went back a week after that
movie came out in Hulu and they added another ending
to show who else is on ice. You're gonna want
to watch that. You're gonna want to watch it. It's
pretty good. It's pretty good. Yeah, So it's funny how

(06:41):
he isn't like this is his third film he co
directed Killer Killers, but he's not really like making a trilogy.
I'd like that these are just what they might connect
at some point. But I like that it's not trying
to build a franchise really wrong and not. It is
obviously built a franchise, but it's not trying to do

(07:02):
this like one overarching story. It's just like, hey, here's
a predator here. Now there's here's what they did over here,
and then this one is like, here's a predator from
the predator's point of view. But it's not just like
Star Wars where they're like, we have to get this
right because all these movies are gonna connect to this,
and we better not drop the ball, and then they
drop the ball.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
That dagger saved everything, saved everything.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Again, that's the good thing with Predators, like the twenty
eighteen one where they're like they genetically engineer themselves, they're
worried about global warming, and then that one sucks and
they're like, you can just be like, that's just what
those predators did. We're gonna focus on these predators.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Over Yeah, they don't want to talk about them.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
The hybrid thing. Yeah, that's just what those guys over
there do. Here's one fight in Native America. It's just
like you can just separate them. Uh huh. But yeah,
So speaking of franchise, this one is planning the seeds
oh to an eventual alien versus Predator film.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I mean it's like, there's there's no I don't think
it's only in their best interest to bring them back
together and try to do it for the third time. Yeah,
but maybe it'll just be a you know, it's weird,
be a TV series. You know what I mean, the
set of a movie. That way they can like.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
This is the weird thing. Dissey's never confirmed it, but
there are people who worked with Fox pre merger. Yeah,
who said that there is a completed Alien Versus Predator
like anime, like American anime style animated series.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
That would be awesome. I'd watched that.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I can't. No one could confirm it's true, but a
bunch of people said, yes, we worked on this, and
it's just the merger happened and then we never heard
of it again. It's a vault somewhere.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's disappointing.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
I want to see what it looks like. But it's
like one of those things like now that they have
these new franchise off, do they not want to release
it because it might not jive what they're doing. I
don't know, like The.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Cat or whatever. One movie, No, the one with Brendan Frisher.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, bat Back Girl. How they got the Back Girl? Yeah, yeah,
that Backgirl movie in the Backgirl. Yes, they're like, we're
not that was a bad plan. Yes, I know, it'll
fix our franchise, getting rid of Ben Affleck and getting
an elderly batman. Like, what the fuck that's cool for
one movie you were gonna really you're gonna have Michael
Keat be Batman into his eighties. It's stupid anyway. Seeh

(09:30):
I think they're planning the seeds for something bigger. But
this is the first Predator movie where the Predator is
the protagonist. Yes, which we talked about in Are What
is the Worst? How each movie kind of like parodies
what's going on in like films and how he fights
the hero of the day. But now we're in this
new era of the traditional villain is now the protagonist

(09:55):
and the story. So you were not even the antire
you have like Joker, the Peng Wind Show. Yeah, Marvel
tried it like five times with Venom and Orvius. Those
are bad example, but this is like, like, hey, you're
used to seeing this character as the bad guy. I
guess Predators are still bad, but it's like he's the

(10:15):
protagonist of his stories. They're like, Okay, that's kind of
cool that they're now doing that because that's what's popular
at the moment. True. So yeah, I was excited to
see that because I've read a lot of Predator comics
and like a bunch of lore and I mean from
the two thousands and nineties. I don't know what's going
on now. I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's whatever you tell me.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think over the summer there was an Alien's Avengers
comic and a face hugger jumped on Spider Man's symbiot
suit and then absorbed it, and he had a cool
face hugger logo.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I thought you were going to go symbio face hugger, but.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, I think the symbia overwrote the face hugger and
then merch it. I didn't read the comic, I just
saw the picture.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
You did to come here with the facts. All right,
do a little more research.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm sorry. I did a lot of research for you
didn't learn I did learned. Yacha, Okay, all right, controversy time.
What I you know? I hate film Twitter so much.
I hate it because and I know some of you
watch would probably fall into this. People just like to

(11:27):
see people shitting on Hollywood and like movies and complaining
that they're woke and everything. The problem is, like a
lot of those guys, they're just they didn't branch out
into anything else, and now like movies are gonna start
getting less woke aus too. Many things flop. So they're
like struggling to find outrage in anything, and they're trying

(11:49):
so hard to like make this a thing.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
But why because the character makes friends that are all women.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Uh well, yeah, that's the feminization of the feminization of
the predator because by the way, the girl in this
isn't even really a woman. It's a robot.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
There's technically the no females.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, there's no humans whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
There's no humans in this movie.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, so there's that shit. And like it's one of
those where it's like, yeah, you know, Hollywood put a
bunch of like cringe girl power stuff, but like not
everything is that. Yeah, we used to have that before
and then again Hollywood went a little too crazy with it.
They're like female ghostbuses, this is, this is this. Yeah,
but like before that we get movies like that, no
one would care because like, okay, that one's a girl whatever. Yeah,

(12:33):
so there's that. But the yaucha thing people are like, well,
of course they gave them very racially motivated, like some
kind of name name. Yeah, they gave a name to
the species, and they're implying that it's racially motivated. And meanwhile,
Tom didn't know where Yaoucha comes from?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I would sure, where's it come from?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
The nineteen ninety four novelization of the comic book Alien
Versus Predator. They took the comic and a guy did
a novelization and he added a lot more detail to
it and page eight, chapter two, where is it here? Uh?
To sean day, they would hate that name and walk

(13:12):
slowly down the dim corridor toward the kr write the
room where the training Yaucha learned blade and simple unarmed combat. Oh,
because obviously they wouldn't call themselves the Predator. So people
back then expanded Universe like Star Wars did that. When
you watch a New Hope, you don't know any of
those fuckers have names. Then you go to the expanded
universe and it's like Walristman, who has a dumb name.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's like, oh, exact bands, Yeah, fucking do you know
Tavin felth No, the stormtrooper that goes looks air droids,
He has a whole pack story.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
He was he was instrumental in designing the AT eighties
and the Death Star, but he pointed out the Oh no,
he was instrumental in designing the AT eighties, but he
pointed out the leg weakness, and they demoted him to stormpture.
So anyway, it's a holdover for that. It's never been
in the movies. I've always known the term. I don't
say yaucha.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I never I did not know it. I just thought
I did know it.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
But I was like, yeah, I don't say, I'm not
gonna use yaucha. But at the same time, I'm like
not mad. I'm like, yeah, well, it's kind of like
in Aliens when they introduced xenomorpha. It's like, yeah, because
that's what the that's what it's called. Yeah, because if
you're in space, you can't just be like aliens like
which one. There's a lot of them aliens in the spacecraft.

(14:27):
So yeah, that didn't bother me. And like people again,
they were like just grasping for anything, and like a
lot of the complaints I see. I'm like, you guys
didn't watch the movie. They're like the romance between them,
Like there wasn't a romance.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
There was no romance at all. They was anything like
a light comedy. Yeah, it's like a funny.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thing like a ship, I guess, but like they're like, yeah,
this romance was again these guys, they don't actually watch
the movies and they but because a lot of people
are monetized on Twitter and you get more money from
like yeah, so they're just like trying to get out
ahead of yep, blah blah blah. They were predicting it
was gonna bomb. I think the movie's doing fine, great.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Actually, yeah, did really well. Like in I think the budget, like.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think We're of Mouth helped because I think there
were low, like lower pre ticket sales, but I think
people saw them. They're like I was actually good and
people are Actually I'm hoping they stopped listening to those guys. Yeah,
here's the thing. I'll never rate theater we went. Yeah,
I promise I will never rage bait you. Okay, I'll
complain about movies before they come out or anything, but
like I will let you know what I really think.
I'm not gonna make up lies about anything. You Know,

(15:32):
when I say that the Super Mario Brothers movie is
terrible and offensive because it erases Italians by hiring Chris Pratt,
you know that I'm telling the truth and I'm not
trying to rage bait.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah what you said.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Tom, Yeah, they're bringing Chris Pratt back as married.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, that's unfortunate. But I love Charlie Day.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
So I do too. I just I just don't want
Chris Pratt is Marrio. It's it upsets me.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well, like a really good thing helps me get past
the bad.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Thing, you know. No, it was really sad about I was.
I saw the trailer on Twitter, and I'm like, there
he goes Italian eraser. Then I scrolled up and someone
posted about like Italian birth rates being low, Like oh
my god, actually no, like this is a terrible day
to see those two things back to people are fleeing
the country anyway. All right, So Predator bad Lands, this

(16:25):
star youcher bad land Lands.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That should be like the unofficial title yaoucha bad Lands.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I think one of the original ideas they were gonna
do was World War two.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
That still would have been fun, like a fool where
I'm glad they put a little bit. It would have
been a lot more invisibility clue. Yeah, but I just
like I this one was severely lacking in invisibility.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well you didn't have that, ye, here's the thing. I
just like watched it. I just watched two things that
had way more Nazis in it than I thought they would.
If I had to do a third one, I would
have just rolled my eyes the whole time the Gen
ed Gen show.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh I didn't. I started and then I got distracted.
I didn't make it past the first time.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's like, yeah, he was. He did like read comics
about that one Nazi like skin people. But the show
decided to show all of that and then make up
scenarios where he's calling the not. There was so much
Nazi stuff and I'm like, all right, we gotta scale
this down a little bit. And then Peacemaker season two yes, yes,
so like, yeah, it was good, but I'm like, I
don't know if I needed a third one in a row.

(17:28):
But they ended up changing this to a future story
and that's how you get El Fanning as THEA and
Tessa the Robot twins who are Whalen You Tanny Corporation,
uh androids, synthetic people.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
It's like some sort of yes crossover.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yes, and Dan Trachenberg said, this is the furthest in
the timeline any of the series have gone. The movies
never really the Predators did because they're on Earth, but
the alien ones were kind of just loose with whatever
the times were. So that's why Alien Earth there was
like controversy over like when it's actually set, and the
showrunner was kind of like, I don't care before one

(18:08):
who knows.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's the best reaction.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
So Dan Treshburg did the opposite. He's like, it's the
furthest ever And I know, Tom, you're staring at me
right now and you're going, but Tony, how does Whalan
new Tanny exist? If the deleted scene from Alien Resurrections
said that they were bought out by Walmart? I know
that's what you were thinking. I was thinking you were
probably you were probably gonna be very very upset. Tom.

(18:33):
I'm going to assume that at some point Walmart hit
financial struggles and they had to sell off the Whalan
new Tanny Corp. And that's how we get Walen, because
otherwise it wouldn't make sense based off that deleted scene,
which I think was just a joke that they thought
it was stupid and cut it out of the astrical cup.
But I swear to god, it's cat into my mind.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, Tony, Well, in your version of the Predator Alien Universe,
we'll just go with that.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Tom. If I were if I were ever to make
a alien or Predator movie and they said, Tony, what
do you want to do with this? I'm gonna be like,
I'm gonna be like, right, everything up until no no.
I would be like, I really want to explore how
Walmart took over the Whaling Your Tanny Corp. And then
somehow got it back, And they'd be like, what are
you talking about. I'd be like, do you guys not
know all the deleted scenes from Alien m And then

(19:21):
they would ask me to leave.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yes they would, yes, they would that that sounds like
a great accurate outcome.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Honestly, that is a funny deleted scene in the Alien
Resurrection because it was like two hundred years after she
died and they're like, they're like, yeah, Waitaling Taddy, they're
not around or bought out by Walmart. In my head, Cannon,
I'm like, fuck you.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
It's just always that's almost like the Army of darkness,
like when they throw back to when the alternate ending.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeap years ago. I did make a Walmart logo look
like Whaling New Tandy uh Se Ellie Fanning as the twins.
We have Temetrius Shoes Kola Matagani, but I'm not sorry,
familiar as Deck, the young predator in this who is
our hero. Uh and then Ruben Dejon played all the

(20:15):
other predators, your apex predator father. Uh yeah, I guess
even uh No, Mike Comick was Quhi I think his
name was.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't, Yeah, I probably I didn't.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Is not you know what's funny. The guy who played
the other predators, Demetrius, who plays Deck, voiced all like
those predators, so it's him doing the voice for all
of them. Yeah. And then we have like one guy,
Cameron Brown, who's just Waylon Drone.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
He was the other the male.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yes, and I think if I remember right, I think
he is one of the Alien and Sued actors or
the main one in Alien Earth. Uh So I guess
he's just bouncing around all over this franchise.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Why not be the next Oscar Isaac?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Dip your feet in a little bit of everything. But yeah, sorry,
they started out honestly just like hey boom, information about
predators that you did not know. We are just gonna
give like yeah, not, I wouldn't say they jammed it
down your throat, but yeah, they it was. It was
very typical in the flow of a normal movie. You're

(21:33):
introducing new characters by having them like do the actions.
It's like, okay, you know that the he has a brother,
which means they can have siblings. That's interesting, yes, but
immediately the fact that they're putting that in your face
and they're just like, Okay, that's how we're gonna tell
you that they're gonna have family. They're gonna deduce to that.
Then obviously they're gonna have a dad and such like, well,

(21:54):
I'm not obviously, but you can now assume a family
structure exists.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yes, And I the opening where he's fighting his brother
in the cave, yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I didn't see that, Like I was this just like
a I kind of predicted it was going to be
like a training.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, but based on the trailers I saw, I kind
of predicted that too. But yeah, we can see all
the cool weapons that Deck is not allowed to use yet.
But yeah, he's got like the weapon tees.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah, it was definitely something this movie happened.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
He's got a grappling cook, which I thought was cool.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
It was cool he didn't get to so many cool
kills could have happened with that grappling, I know, and
they were just like, we're just gonna use it in
the scene and that is just not allowed to.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Ever use it. Well, even teas that he has it,
but he can't like make your work or something. It's like, so,
I'm guessing you have to prove yourself as a hunter
before you can get things like the shoulder cannon where
he specifically is trying to get a cloak.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yes, which you have to. You have to be worthy,
you have to.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
And this is kind of like Alien versus Predator, where
like they were to go in and get their guns, yes,
but then the humans fucked it up, so they're fighting
without the guns. So the whole things they're gonna get
her guns. Yeah, but they hadn't earned him yet, so
this is kind of the same thing. He hasn't earned
his cloak. He's gonna go hunt. So him and his
brother they face off a little bit. Deck is small
for a predator, which people were complaining. They're like, well

(23:18):
look at that. It's like, no, that's kind of the
point of the movie is that he's underdog. Yeah. So yeah,
they're they're talking about like things that they can hunt,
and they're looking at all the different options, and I
swear to god they showed what's her face from Prey.
They show a girl with a bow and arrow at
one point in the.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Holog I feel like you probably did see that.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think so. But he gets u He lasers in
on the callousk the Callous, which lives on Genna plot Live. Yeah,
and apparently this prey is the most vicious thing. Like
he said, they say that even their.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Fathers father fears the Callous.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
They say, it can't be the one. It can't be killed,
they claim. And two, it's on a planet that's just
medt to murder everyone. And this is not a planet
that the Predator's own, not like the one in Predators,
where like that was their hunting planet. They like ship things. Oh,
we actually could see a lot of Yucha Prime as
they call it, which is the predator homeworld.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay, oh yeah, I mean do we though.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean we only ever see a desert in it.
The only other time we saw it was the beginning
of the second Alien Versus Predator. Okay, we see that
city and stuff. I'm expecting to be hotter because the Predator.
You make a big point of the Predators, like he
I guess they're in a desert.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Maybe I just figure the fish net like maybe like
they don't want to like have clothing, like yeah, their
skin needs to breathe or something.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
I've always imagine them reptilios.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
I would just see when I first see I think
jungle like almost immediately, and I'm like, oh, these are
like ohle like tropical is their go too.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
But now they just they just hunt wherever. But it
was cool seeing more of the world. I wish we
saw just a little bit more of it. But yeah,
so he's like, I'm gonna go fight the callusk.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Uh well, immediately after what happened that made him have
to go fight the callous, Well.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
We're getting to that. He picks the callous first. But
then uh yes, they they look at this little toy
that they say, like broke his fang when he was
a kid. Yeahs like, oh, that's why we have his
broken factories. I always appreciate. Look like a little bit more. Yeah,
it's a little bit more I always appreciate. And we
talk about this in Hot fuzz I like a bunch
of setup and ending that pays off, like everything, because

(25:44):
there's so many little details in this first act that
they introduce us to, and they all just beautifully come
back in the final battle and I'm like, oh, that's
actually I actually really like and appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, so you just got to pay attention for a
little bit in the beginning and then full circle.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
But his brother Kui really loves QUI really loves Deck.
I'm sorry, my Yaucha's rusting on that man.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Get on that.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
He like sympathizes for his brother. His brother did save
him at one point, yes, so he really wants to
help him. And then we meet their asshole. Dad's name
your joor n j o h r R. The dad
will call him Dad. He shows up this awesome antler alfin.

(26:33):
I mean he looks cool, well quite badass. Yeah. I
love the premiere for Predator bad Lands. Whenever they were
premier in it, they just had an actor in that
full suit walking around. Oh sorry, predator faces.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yes, predator face. I mean I'm more about the hair,
but predator faces.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah. They went digital with the face, which annoyed me
in pray. They didn't need to do it in pray,
which is why it had annoyed me. Here there, ye here,
I got one. It doesn't look as bad as the trailer.
I'll be the first one who had made it looked
really bad in the trailer. Cut to my reaction video.

(27:20):
I had a very negative reaction upon seeing it at first,
but it actually doesn't look that bad in the film,
and eventually you get invested in the story and you
tend to not care. What did help is that they
had the full suit. Yeah, when they shot, they had
had the mask and everything.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Do they need to be like uglier for you?

Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, I'm just it's just I'm so used to seeing
it as a practical effect.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
And looking great, like there's not like blemishes.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
But here's the thing, here's the thing, this again is
supposed to be. This isn't just the thing hunting them,
that's the man for most of it. Yeah, this is
a character that needs to emote and speak. So and
they literally they had Alec Gillis on the Red Carpet,
who does all the effects for a lot of these movies,

(28:12):
been doing Predator stuff on and off since if the
first AVP, which they look terrible. Luckily he got better
at it, and they basically apparently directors like do you
think we can get all of the and he described
all the emotions and he's just like, I don't think
it's physically possible with animatronics to go through all those emotions.
So I get why they went digital with the face

(28:34):
for this one. Pray I still think was stupid, but
also Pray, they threw it on Hulu, and I don't
think they put enough budget in the CGI. The CGI
looks way better in this one.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well, I don't think they knew what They didn't know
if Prey was going to do well or not.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, well remember it was like during COVID and stuff,
so they're probably like, eh, but this one, like compared
to Prayer, which again, Pray is great, but the effects
in this movie compared to Pray are so much better.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
There's an actual budget behind it.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, I kind of want them to like go back
to Pray and touch it up a little bit, because
those deer look really bad. That snake looked bad.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
There's a couple of things that they sacrificed.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
But you know, so the digital faces didn't bother me.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
It didn't bother me. Basically, the Uncanny Valley, Yeah, isn't
there because it's not trying to replicate something that I'm
familiar with. It's an alien. It's it's able to be
a little bit different. It might not need the spots
and the speckles and the wrinkles and the scars and
the scratch, but like.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I do like people. So some of the complaints are
just like, uh, they humanize the predator.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Make them a smooth skin.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, well, they humanized the predator, but remember the original movie,
he was supposed to be a big beetle man. Yes,
and then they were like, this looks terrible. Make them
look like a Rastafarian hunter. So the humanizing predator kind
of started in the first film. Yeah, so there's that,
and uh, Cobbo was the other thing I wanted to
say about the predator design. Uh.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
I wanted to talk about the hair, but oh.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
It doesn't have a lot of hair. They have ears.
We learned that they have ears. Oh yes, because since
his hair doesn't come all the way down his little holes, I'm.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Like, so they do have ears. Oh.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
The predators talk well, obviously we always knew that they
could talk. We didn't really hear their language, but we
don't have the ability to talk. People were complaining, They're like,
if they haven't language, why are they always clicking and
making sounds and.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
That's part of their language.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, usually when they're just walking around. Here's what I think. Yeah,
I lived with a parrot briefly. I think you remember
those years I had lived with a parrot briefly. Predators
are kind of like parrots. They mimic things. They can
mimic humans and.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Other some can what some candy want, some candy other.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
So they can mimic y and like, I don't know
if you know what's about parrots. But this one parrot
I lived with, it knew like what some words meant
and when to say it. But sometimes it would just
be on an autopilot and hanging out by itself and
just cycling all the words and sounds that I knew.
Imagine predators are the same way, where they're just like
tuning out there. They're just kind of just saying all

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the different sounds. That's what this fucking bird would do.
We would sit there and be like hello, like no
one was talking to it. It would just talk to itself.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
It's just like low key stimming, just like oh okay, interesting.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Exactly they stimm the predators. So anyway, back to the plot.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Back to the plot, I want to talk about the hair.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
What do you want to say about the hair? What why?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's not bad? But it was distracting to me because
why why why did.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
They give it the the it?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
To me, it just feels a little bit updated and forced,
like they I think they wanted to stylize it. And
I don't think it's that bad, but it was just
very distracting.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I think it was fine because remembery, he's the whole
point is like he looks like a weak predator.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Because he's the runt, so he has the stylish hair.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I guess maybe his hair is just that it didn't
cover all his hair and so he puts it back.
It's just I think i'm design Yeah, I remember killer
for killers, there might be a bald predator. Uh yeah,
I want to check that out. But yeah, the dad
shows up with this nice white treadlock, so who knows
how long that fucker has been alive, And he's just like, hey,

(32:19):
Deck is like, what's up, Dad, I'm gonna cut myself.
How you doing? And he's just like he's like, by
the fuck is he still alive? Told you kill this dude?
And the brother's like I don't want to. He's like
he deserves a good hunt. So yeah, the dad has
like execute him and uh Quay decides not to. He
risks it. He sacrifices himself to save his brother because

(32:41):
he loves his brother. He has compassion, even though they're
taught not to have that, he has that.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
There's no honor in what he did, no in their
traditional ways. And the dad decapitates him, which is and
then he lets deck go.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
No, the brother sent him off.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, but like there's nothing he could have done for that,
like thirty seconds that he was just like staring at
his son and he was just banging on the door
like nothing.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Ad.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, the dad was just to me, there was just
like well the dad cut there was a short little
window where he could have done anything, well, just stop
his other kid from leaving.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I think the dad cut off his arm so he
couldn't control the ship. But then he was able to
pick up his own arm and hit the button. I
think at that point there was nothing he could do.
It was already set to go okay until like warp speed.
Oh that's the other thing. PG. Thirteen. Movie and people
who didn't look up what the movie was about through
hissy fits like just just disneyfying the movie. Meanwhile, the

(33:45):
guy who did his two previous ones were the most
violent thing ever. But because the NPAA is so fucking
messed up because there weren't humans and the blood wasn't red,
it's totally fine.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
This movie's gory as hell. It's how like the Avengers
got away with it too, you know, and bleeds blue.
So it's fine.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, literally literally, So it's like right away we have
a decapitation that things arms cut off, and it's like, yeah,
it's more annoying in an alien movie when they have
to kill humans. Yeah, that's why people are remembering ADP, Like, yeah,
that was a bad time to go PG thirteen.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Financially, I want radioactive looking blood, yeah, just said I
want lots of the lots of that.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, but this looked cool. This whole sequence was awesome.
But yeah, he crashes on Ghenna because there's a big
asteroid field around the planet.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Little you know. Oh, but he doesn't have a show.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
This little bike is sith speeder that he's like AUTI
one point when he crashes I loved this where he
has all the weapons, he's like, yes, I've got this,
and he's like suiting up and within ten minutes he's
living like vines attack him and he loses like every

(34:59):
everge everything. I think the only thing he has.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
He has is like the disc blade handblade kind of
a thing, and what was the other one. I think
he just had this and the sword, right sword, which
could be like a baton. Yeah, so it's like.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
A he has the sword, and I guess you're right, man,
I think he oh, yeah, he has the disc. Yeah,
that's but he loses a star. He loses like the
bow and arrow and the bone er. I'm just like
that was like this movie, just like he's like a
bunch of explosives and this tentacle just picks it.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Up and takes it away like James bonded us. So
they were just like, hey, look, you know how you
love how he has weapons and they're all cool.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, here they are gone. But I like to it
set more. There were more stakes because it's like, yeah,
he is the weak one and now he doesn't even
have weapons.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, I know, and it works out later in the
context of the movie. But it's just like I want
but I wanted that. I wanted the grappling hook. I
want it, like come on.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I want Killer Killers as a giant predator. I don't
know if it's an upgrade like four, but it's a
giant predator, has a like an arm that shoots on
a chain and he can like recoil it. It's cool.
It's like hell Boy kind of. Yeah. Yeah, it's like
the guy and hell Boy too. It's literally a big
predator with that. Uh so, yeah, he gets out of
the vines. He's walking around the planet. He finds beetles

(36:15):
that explode immediately because it's just like, oh, look, it's
a bug.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Maybe I can eat, Like, can I eat this?

Speaker 1 (36:20):
And it starts lighting and he throws it and it
blows up and again I like, yeah, I like his
face reaction.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
He goes, yeah, all right, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna trust those next thing, so he.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Comes across and android, this is a THEA, right, that's
the nice one. Yes, THEA who's been cut in half,
and she's trying.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
To watch as a reveal because she's in like a vultures.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yes, there's some. So there's a big bird that's hovering.
It doesn't attack you. It drops rocks to make the planet.
The plants shoot darts at you.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
So that you get paralyzed so it can then eat
you come down. So it's been doing this apparently.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
For presumably it might have tried to kill thea, but
then it was like this isn't real.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, she was only there for about a day, I.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Think, so yeah, yeah, but yeah, she's like she could
talk to him, because again, this is so long in
the future that they probably have interacted with the Yaucha
many times. Yes, I don't know. I don't think they've
I don't think they've re interacted enough for like a
full out war, but they've come across each other, like
they Wayland knows about these things enough to speak they

(37:32):
even after that, I'm sure they've like brought some into
study and learned their language. Yes, maybe the friendly predators
who got cut out of The Predator, you know, the
ones in the Military Guard that they made toys of, Yes,
and then DLC for a video game and then they
cut them out of the movie. Maybe maybe they taught
everyone how to speak yaoucha.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
See I missed that, like they needed like a prologue
of sorts, like come on.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
There were two predators that taught everything. We cut him
out of a movie one day I hope we get
to see what the hell that original cut was. We
we won't, we won't, but I would like to. I
would like to. Apparently I was. I saw some quote
apparently Shane Black, who was in the first Pretitter and

(38:20):
directed the op writer, he apparently did go to Dan Tratcherberg.
He's like, I just want to thank you. I think
I killed the franchise and you brought it back.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
I think if that was real, that's a compliment.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
So yeah, he ends up getting He ends up like
helping her get free. He gets it with the dart.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
And strange for his honor. Yes, but she convinces him
by saying, oh, use me as a tool.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yes, because he's just like we hunt alone. Although sometimes
he's like.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
No, no, no, but.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I like that. She's just like, oh no, I'm not
technically alive. I'm not like a thing. You could use
me as a tool. I got all this knowledge and
that's why he's like, oh, okay, I'll accept a two. Yeah,
And this is your classic like lone warrior having to
protect something like you see it in like Samurai films

(39:12):
and stuff where you get like the professional it was
it modern stuff. Mandalorian with the dumb baby Yoda, not.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
That dumb, but okay, I'm a Pedro Pascal fan and.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Date me right now. You heard it here. He loves Lizzo.
No oh no, you love Lizzo because you like the Mandalorian.
He loves Lizzo. He's excited to see Lizo in the
new in the new Star Wars Lizo movie that comes
out in May.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Pedro Pascal, I'm currently I like him, I hate him.
I might change my opinion in two years because, like
my opinion of Chris Pratton now are way different than
they were several years ago.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
So you should look up Patro Piscal's dad. Opinions can
change everyone. Look up Pedro Piscal's dad. Look it up
it he's insane whenever he talks about having to live
in Argentina. Look up why his dad had to flee
the country. So he has THEO. She convinces him, and

(40:13):
I love like the whole like her trying to like
be friends with him because she's programmed to be friendly
and have feelings. We learn why later, which is like, yeah,
by way, what can I call you? The whole time
she's like, what can I call you? What can I
call you? I like the universe. How they did the
universal translator.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, which we've.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Seen in like Star Trek and stuff. But I like
that he like we hear English. I was afraid we
were gonna hear the predator speak English. Oh, like normal English,
not like their usual Like like, I'm like, no that
I would have hated. I like that he keeps doing
predator language and chasing yes youcha yaoucha language and she

(40:55):
speaks like regular but yeah, I like they're going through
the whole planet. We see again things that will come
back later. And one of them is these little snakes
that shoot darts. Yes, yeah here.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
So happens to be going down this small damp cavern
that you needed to travel.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Through, and there's these things shooting darts. But you can
stop them, but just give them a treat, which I
gotta find out. His tool helps him and he goes
to fight ah buffalo, a big buffalo with like a skull.
That's what's open. But it's in this maybe like cringe.

(41:33):
It's in a field of razor.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Glass, razor grass.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
It looks horrify. Yeah, it's terrifying. So like he's got
to figure out how to hunt it. And meanwhile there's
this little thing that they would end up calling Bud
little blue monkey guy blarp.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
It looked like bar immediately like that was the first
thing we walked out of theater. I'm just like, why
why did they put blarp in this film? I don't
understand we.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
I reviewed Lost in Space with movie Dumpster last year
and I talked about the big blarp that was cut
from the movie. Do you know there was a big blarp?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh, I'm sure it would have.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Looked I have the it was a big giant like
Jim Henson puppet.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Did they have gone puppet?

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah? Okay, I have the novelization over there, And when
I was a kid, I would read the junior novelization.
I'm like and I would be like, where was the
big blarp in the movie? I didn't see it in
the movie. God, they never finished the scene, so it's
not even like they can put it back. But yeah,
well Blark was supposed to be a puppet, and they're like,
make it cgi. That was that was a bad idea.

(42:35):
So yeah, they are going to attack this buffalo thing.
They cut it in half, which is pretty cool. That
probably the most violent scene. Yeah, I would say yeah,
But then they get in they Yeah, oh, we see
that Bud could just walk through the grass. Fine, he
has like he can make like rock armor on him. Yeah,
he's got like weird pimples or something that a rock hard.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
It's okay, uh.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
But yeah, they get attacked by this weird tree starfish thing.
This tree.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Oh yeah, I think that's a great way to describe it.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah. They have to work together to kill the thing,
which is cool because he has to end up like
cutting a tree down to make a pathway to like
fight the thing. So the three of them are working together,
and what do you call it? Bud spits on deck.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yes, yes, which is pretty it's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yes, which they are unsure if that's uh, Like he
thinks it's an insult, as most would. Yeah, but she's
like no, no, no, that she could just be marking you
for your family as family. And I like that, like
Bud was like trying to mimic the predator's movement.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Was that that was a little bit hokey. I wouldn't
say I did not enjoy it, you know what I mean.
I did enjoy it, but it felt a little bit like, Okay,
this is a little forced I don't mind.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
And I think that night where her that's like around
the campfire sees. I think it's hard to tell. We
weren't able to take notes in I have like all
synopsis here, but it's obviously skipping a lot. I did
like the one device he has where he like sucks
up a little bit of his blood and puts it
in a dish and it turns into a lamp. I
thought that was cool. Yes, like, oh, that's cool. They

(44:21):
use their blood and it's like a lamp. You know
what we were missing?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
What the ears?

Speaker 1 (44:28):
No, we didn't. I don't think we got any POV
of the heat vision.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
And I know he's not wearing a helmet, but they
have it. Without the helmet, it just doesn't work as good. Yeah,
but yeah, we never see anything from his point of view.
I think. I don't think we get any helmet stuff,
even from the dad or anything.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
No, that's even if we did get his POV, it
was without anim Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I would have liked to have seen what he was seeing.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Or maybe it was out of the other makeshift. Hell,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
No, no, no, no, because that one didn't have anything. But no,
they naturally just see heat vision. Yeah, remember the first one.
He takes the helmet off, but it looks worse and
I don't think cites that important to them more than
their other senses. But THEA talks about how she misses Tessa,
her like companion robot.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Her sister.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
She's like, I guess it is like a sister now
that I think about it. And then we see Tessa
all fucked up being stitched back together, and then Mother
the Evil like the computer that waylan U Tanny uses
is like, the corporation's very upset with you. You haven't
gotten the callus yet. There's by the way, they haven't

(45:37):
learned anything in like hundreds of years. I guess they're
done with the alien. They're like, you know what, the
xenomorph never works out, Let's try this new thing.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Seems like they're almost waiting around as more gaucha to
continue to come because he's not the first gaucha.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yeah yeah, So basically they're like, you will be decommissioned
if you fuck up again. So this is your last shot.
Oh get them. So that's when we get Evil Tessa
uh trying to hunt them.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
You can tell because of the eyes and the legs.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
But uh. They he leaves Bud behind and they continue
to track the Callusk.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Or so they think, because it's actually that's when she
did like the not the double cross, but yes, the double.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's leading up to that.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Yeah, okay, sorry, I mean she.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Is leading it to the Callous. We're probably missing some stuff.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Sorry, sorry if I just I did tell the chapter there.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I did tell Casey that we me and her might
do a commentary track like we usually do, so maybe
then I'll remember all the things that happened.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, we give it a rewatch once you're able to. So.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, they track it to like the whaling station where
they got into the fight with the cala.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
She finds her legs, yes she does, which is a
whole scene. She's just trying to get her legs on.
And yeah, Deck is just fighting the Callous and he.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Talks about like they talk about like alpha.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Wolves, yeah, wolves, and she's like, yeah, like I will
be like the alpha.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
And first off, I'm just like, wait, he doesn't know
what a wolf is. He doesn't alpha, he doesn't know
what a wolf. I fear they like studied like what
other hunters have killed over the year.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
But like that's I guess not not really much of
a threat.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Maybe that's why the dad killed him. It's like he
just doesn't learn anything. He doesn't study.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
At all, go back to school.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
But she's like, yeah, the alpha is and what kills
the most, it's what protects the pack. I don't know
if that's true. I don't care, but I do like
that he's so in predator mode. He's like, then I
will be the one that kills the most. And it's like, no,
that's not exactly what it is, but I like that.
She tells like, you need to get out of here. Yeah,
as soon as we plug that in, they know we're here,
they're gonna come and get you two. But the callous
shows up. Yeah, and he gives it the old college try.

(47:56):
He like, fights this thing.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
And he does a pretty good college.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yes, it's gigantic. It has all these spikes and everything,
huge massive, it's huge, and he cuts its tail off,
It cuts its head off, and then it grows back.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
And then it immediately grows back.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
It immediately grows back.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Kind of stuff. And it's just like, so, now that
that's what killable, that's what.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Thing doesn't look like it'd be that hard to kill me. Yeah,
he kills it. It's like, oh, I guess you would
have to like separate the pieces for a while if
it's too fresh, and they just go back like you.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Just because it it automatically attached back to it. It
was very much separated. Yeah, it wasn't like right next
to it. It wasn't like it was definitely a distance away.
And it's just like I'm just gonna.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
And I think while this is happening, I think, do
you think we intercut with Tessa and her team like
fighting the vines and everything, and I like that. It
is the guns from Aliens, but they're like more streamline
now and they have flamethrowers built in more efficiently. It's
the thing where it's like, no, they've been fighting these
for a while, so like these things are upgraded. Yeah.

(49:07):
But yeah, so the Callous gets an upper hand on deck,
but then it's about it's about strike, but it smells
something on it and then this actually I did not
see this coming. When you actually look at the Calas face,
it looks exactly like Bud. So it's like Bud's mother. Yeah,
it's a big blarp. It's big bar.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
You got big blarp you're welcome childhood.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
And I genuinely didn't see that coming.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
I was like, oh, I didn't see it either, Like,
which is the only reason I didn't see it coming
is because baby Blarp whatever the hell that things looks
so different. It does not look anything like the adult one.
Like it has like pimples that are the armor versus
the actual armor of like the sharp bliz.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Well. I guess it's implied as it gets older it
will row all that. But yeah, I was like, Oh,
that's really cool. But they freeze it. Whalen's able to
like freeze it. I think they put in the box
and they capture it. They capture Deck and THEA and
then the and Tessa. They're like with Deck in the
ship and they're just arguing over what to do with them.

(50:14):
So like Thea's feelings that were programmed into them, so
they knew how to manipulate organisms. It kind of backfired. Yeah,
we're learning that the androids have always been a problem
for Whalen utanny, especially in an alien earth. They they
put children's brains inside androids.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
That must go great.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
It doesn't. It doesn't go great. It turns out they
have a lot of problems, and also they're living with
five different alien species. It causes a lot of problems.
They just renewed Alien Earth, which I'm excited for. Alien
Earth was so fucking weird, Tom, I loved it. It
was weird in the good way, all right. It was
weird that they didn't do any crazy lore breaking for

(50:56):
me with the alien biology, and they introduced just different aliens.
There's an eyeball alien, which is like become the standout
star of the show. It can go into any living
or dead and go into any organism that has an
eye and take it over. But then it's like for
a lot of the show, it's inside a goat and
it's just this goat, this big bloody eye. It's cool.

(51:17):
It's an eye eye octopus thing.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
At one point it fights the alien. It's actually sorry,
it fights the alien. So it's in Actually, you know
who possesses tires from space? The bike messenger from Space.
He's eight Alien Earth. So the one episode, the eye
alien goes into him. So the xenomorph alien doesn't know
that this is a little eye alien in the zombie body.

(51:42):
So the xenomorph is like stabbing the guy's body and
biting its neck and it's not tying, and then the
eye alien jumps on the Xenomorph, but it doesn't have
any eyes, and then they end up just running. It
was pretty awesome. It was pretty awesome. I did live
recaps with Gil and his brother as they were airing
an I campile them all into one mega review, so
check those out. I got shit on for liking the show.

(52:05):
I can't fucking win. I finally found an alien, finally
found a new alien thing I really like. Formulus was
just okay, found a new alien thing I really liked,
and the Internet's like, fuck you for liking, Like, god,
damn it.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Of course you can enjoy Romulus then, right.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
It's okay. It's a highlight reel the first four. Rather,
it's better than Covenant, it is, but just a highlight
reel the first four. The girl's cute, I guess. But anyway, Yeah,
so thea freeze deck, Yes, I like, the children's toy
comes back into play children's toy. Yeah, because that's the
whole thing. They're just like, tell ask the yaucho how

(52:41):
to use these weapons. Why they expect him to be legitimate?
I don't know. And she's like, yeah, he says, hit
this and then it blows the things head off and
I like that. She's like, that's a children's toy. He's like, yeah,
that's a common yauchin yeah for kids. Yeah. Yeah, he escapes.

(53:02):
I think he makes it back to his ship, which
there's nothing there. Yeah, because they they found I forgot. Yeah,
they found the ship at one point and they like
cleared out. I think he does have a helmet, but
he doesn't wear it.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
He makes a helmet.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
He ends up making them. But I think there was
a helmet there one Yeah, I think, yeah, but I
guess because it was his brother's he didn't use it.
So yeah, they they have the she's decommissioned. She's in
a box, gonna go out somewhere and this I kind
of like this moment here where he has to go

(53:37):
in and he's just gonna go in and save them. Yeah,
but it's like now we're seeing the predator do everything
Arnold did. He's like going in. He's like he's remembering
everything she taught him. He makes his own arms, he
gets the exploding bugs, he gets the eels, he tempts
them with the thing. He's making his own armor, much

(53:59):
like Predator, Arnold was like sharpening the.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Sticks some razor grass and yeah, that and turns that
into like, yep, weapons, which is actually very bad.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Also like Danny Glover at the end of Predator Too,
where he's just suiting up and putting every single gun
on like it was going the Predator's doing it. That's awesome.
Uh yeah, and I like that he like he goes
back and gets her legs because the legs will just
automatically walk to where he needs to go. So the
legs and this scene was awesome. He's going in just

(54:34):
wiping out all the robots.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Huh with legs that are fighting people. Just a pair
of legs is fighting people. And interesting.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
What I loved is that because he gave the eel
a little treat, it's now basically his cannon his shoulder.
It like sits on his shoulder and it just shoots
the needles whenever he needs. Like that's so cool. Oh yeah.
He finds the calyx tooth that broke and he ties
it to him to be like his blades. Uh, it
was awesome.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
I was that that was a good way to what
you go.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Dan Trasberg really likes video games. We learned from Prey.
Like the shield, He's like I was playing a lot
of God of War with that shield, And this felt
very video game like. This felt like I would have
loved to have. I would love to play a Predator
game like this, not the multiplayer shooter that they have.
I want a Predator game like this that was a

(55:25):
lot of fun, like an actual like a little bit slower. Yeah,
like like Horizon, you know what, I want Horizon, but
with a Predator that sounds great and just less fucking
side missions and just like a shorter Horizon but the
same idea. But there's like monsters everywhere and you can

(55:45):
level up and do all this stuff. That'd be cool.
But yeah, they all kick ass together. I love where
he baits them all in like he's got all those beetles,
He's got the beatles with the plants that shoot the
nee uh huh, just fucking kills all of them. Yeah,
it was so cool. I like Thea gets her legs

(56:05):
and she's trying to be Tessa to free the Callusk. Yes,
and at one point she like puts a jacket on Bud,
and Bud it is like pretending like that's his disguise
or her disguise. Yeah, and it's just like it doesn't
work at all, But it all builds up to a
big face off between Tessa and all of them, and
Tessa is in waitling new Tanny has made bigger powerloaders.

(56:29):
It seems this one is gigan.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
It's at least I want to say, three stories tall.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah. Yeah, and again this also feels like a video
game where she's like in the big robot.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
It's not a lot faster, it's not going by Pacific
rim so I disagree.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
It reminds me of a freaking uh Batman Arkham Night
with a riddler shows up in a giant robot suit
at the end. Uh yeah. So they're all working together
to fight it. The poor eel dies, the poor god
very upset, very yeah, it's very upset about his good eel.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Fraight just made that. That's like one of his first
few friends. You're gonna be upset when your first eel
dis yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Uh yeah. They're all fighting her. At some point, the
Callous eats her, Yes, eats her, rips her right out
of the thing like as it's being chainsawed. It manages
to eat her and then he heals.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
And then just like in Men in Black.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Just like and Men in Black, there's like a nice
moment where they're all like, he like touches it, but
she's inside. She has the freeze thing, so she's able
to freeze it and then explode him from the inside. Uh,
and then deck kills her. But I forget he like
cuts her head off. I think.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I forget.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
I can't remember how he definitely cuts her head off.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Well, then he used the whip then, right, I.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Don't remember when he used to actually cut her head off.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
It was that impactful.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Guys, I was sad about the callous died.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Yeah, I was a little surprised that. I'm surprised it
did die. I'm getting to burn the pieces too, I
think it.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
I think there must be like a timer. If you
freeze it and explode it into that many pieces, it
doesn't have time to regenerate. I think maybe that's what
it is. That's what I assume. But uh, yeah, he uh,
he technically finished his hunt and now it's time for revenge. Yes,
he doesn't care about the Yaucha clan. He's making his

(58:22):
own clan with robot girls and blue monkey dudes. Or
I think it's also a monkey whatever it may be creatures,
blue monkey, creature, blarps. He's got blarps and blonde robot le.
So they go back to Yaucha Prime, to their village

(58:43):
and dec or. The father or whatever this is like,
fuck you, what what are you doing here? He's like, look,
here's my trophy. He throws a Tessa's skull. There he's skinned.
I did like that he skinned the android skull because
he's still a predator.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Yeah, there was a skull spine scene I remember, but
I forget. Oh yeah, did was that the little blarp
that did that?

Speaker 1 (59:09):
I can't remember. I do think they did.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
There was homage to the.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
I think there was some kind of spine rip thing.
But yeah, he comes asking for his cloak, but yeah,
he I like. The Dad sends the two others to
fight him, and he kills them right away. He's got
the cool like spear, and the Dad tries to use
the cloak, and I like, I do like what he
he knows he hit the button on the jet to

(59:33):
make all this the dobum so.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
He can see him, which, just like in the other
Predder movies, he learns adapts.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Yeah, uh, it bleeds, we can kill it.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
We can kill it.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
So he shoots him like through the head, but he
didn't get quite get his skull. He rips the mask
off and then he slices his head off when and
then we end on a cliffhanger.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Yes, you were very excited about this cliffhanger.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Yes, a big ship is coming and all the predators
are standing around and he goes, oh, that's my mother. So,
as of yet, we have not gotten female predators in
the movies lators. Here's the thing. Since it hasn't been
done in a movie, there's multiple different ways they lady.

(01:00:22):
I know. I think the pred alien in n AVYVR was
turning into a queen, So I think that was a
lady pred alien. We haven't gotten a male pread alien.
There's time, there's time, no, so so the predator. I
actually think with this book, since the writer had to
add so much backstory that the comic didn't have originally,

(01:00:43):
I think it was implied that the women were actually
in charge of the society, and they were bigger and
more threatening and terrifying. And that's kind of one of
the reasons that men did so much hunting was to
earn their life, get out of house or jet me
out of here. But there. I think there was one

(01:01:04):
comic where there's a lady predator who looks basically like
a male predator but just bigger, called Big Mama. But again,
none of this is it hasn't been in a movie.
Nothing's ken yet. Sometimes they just look like male predators
with boobs, okay, which is stupid. I'm like, they're reptilling.
They don't need boobs like that looks like I know
the Predator Hunting Ground game. Yeah, it's like it's a skinny,

(01:01:26):
tiny predator lady with big boobs. I'm sure that's cosplay friendly.
So I feel like they're gonna go that way so
girls can cosplay as lady predators, I guess, I mean,
which they can already do, because the.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
People that want to cosplay as child predators.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
I don't think they're allowed. What do you mean, do
you mean child yaucha? Yeah? Yeah, okay, we should probably
say child.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Ye child gaucha.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
You're right, I already told the story of the first episode.
But when I won the costume contests for being sexual predator. Anyway,
I think they're gonna go just regular predator with boobs.
That's it. But in my heart, of Hearts. I really,
I'm really hoping all like snooz snow like, although there
is still an option because they have shown that there

(01:02:16):
are giant predators, so I guess whatever the breed of
giant predators are, maybe they also have giant women predators.
But I'm hoping we get like, no, they're terrifying. We're
all afraid of that. That's why we hunt so much,
not just the house, not just to get out of
the house. I guess now they see they have like

(01:02:38):
a whole village there. But again, they're spread all I
assume that they're spread all over the galaxy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
And you know there's gonna be a different type.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
There's a cool fucking guy at the end of a
Killer of Killers. He's got like just bones everywhere on
him and all these different tales that everyone thinks they're
xenomorph tails. It's cool. Check that out. Okay, So yeah,
fun cliffhanger has been a couple of cliff every one
of these movies, these last three movies have had cliffhangers.

(01:03:10):
We had the predatorships coming for Nauru in Prey. Yes,
we had the previous surviving members of predator movies on
ice for Killer of Killers, which you're gonna love, You're
gonna love, And now we have this with the mother
showing up at the end. It looks like he's on
board to just keep making these. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I mean I enjoyed it. I honestly like I had
a good time. It's a good newcorn flick.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
No one was. No one would have been happier if
they just stopped making Alien and Predator movies more than me,
and no one was expecting these movies to be worse
than me. Yeah, So the fact that I'm liking some
of this new stuff should speak volumes, which is why
I'm upset that there's disingenuous people trying to like, I'm

(01:03:58):
fine if you genuinely don't like the movie, like I
would get it, like I would totally understand. But I
feel like people are just pretending to shit on it
and then just saying stuff that is just factually untrue
for clicks. That's when I get annoyed.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
But Bridge bait, you know, huh Ridge bait people.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah, that's it. Remember I used to remember I used
to parody that a lot of Hack the movies was me,
like making fun of that stuff. I did, fake babe.
But at least that was parody. These guys are doing
it for real. But no, it is a fun time.
It's not what I would have done with Predator, I guess,
but it was just a cool thing to see.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Yeah, the plot was a little bit linear in a way,
like it wasn't you could you could come half into
the movie and not really be worried like, oh what
did I miss?

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Like I kind of assume. I mean they're an inner
galactic species. I assume they did have families. And again,
as someone who's read a lot of The Sorcerer, I've
seen like they have families and they have different cultures
and stuff. People are like, oh, why are they talking?
I'm like, I assume that's what they did when they
weren't quietly stalking people in the jungle. They're probably chatterboxes s. Yeah,

(01:05:10):
I'm excited to see what they do. You know what,
I'm really excited for what I can now watch a
different Predator movie with my nieces instead of Alien Versus
Predator over and over again.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
How old are they they're three?

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Well I showed it to them when they were two.
What you were Oh you haven't, Oh you weren't. On
the episodes where I explained this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
I accidentally showed my son evil dead. I just don't
really think that raining blood is something I want him
to have as a first.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Time showed be Okay, here's the thing. They know what
They didn't know what the Predator is. But when Killer
for Killers hit Disney and Hulu, it showed up. My
sister went to put something on and it showed up,
and she like texted me. She's like, they saw that thing,
and they immediately they just kept saying, bad guy. He's
a bad guy. We want to watch that. We want

(01:06:01):
to watch that because they they'll walk around here and
they'll just ask what things are. I'm like, that's Predator.
He's a bad guy, and they just recognize the face.
I think I showed him that toy, the one in
front of you. Yeah, this one because you hit the
button in his mouth screams, and they liked it. So
they wanted to see it. And obviously she's like no,
and I told her, I'm like, no, for love God,
do not show him the animated one. It's like the

(01:06:22):
most violent one, yeah, because yeah, because it's animated, dude,
it is blundy as fuck. So when I was babysitting
them over the summer. I was gonna put like Moana
on for them, and they saw The Predator and like,
we want to watch that. I'm like, no, you can't
watch that. I'm like, that's rated R. And then I'm like, hey,
versus Predator's PG thirteen and I'm like, what terrible logic? Well,

(01:06:47):
we watched all the Jurassic parks and they're PG thirteen
and they love them. What fuck? Our families are different, Tom,
all right, yeah, that's fine. What are you showing your
kids rastic Park? What age are you waiting for.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
I'm waiting for him to like probably be a tablet kid,
whatever age that is, because then I will just watch
whatever he wants and I won't have control over it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Well, I just started earlier. Man, look look at all
this stuff down here. They're gonna keep it. They're gonna
want to watch this stuff eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
So I put Alien Predator over them, and I thought
they were gonna get They also watched that stuff, okay,
but I was gonna put Mawaa on, but they kept
saying they wanted to watch a Predator, Like, what's the
only one I could show them? That's not too scary,
and I thought they were gonna be too scared, and
they asked me to turn it off. Yeah, no, no,

(01:07:39):
even when they were hiding their face, they wanted to
still hear what was happening. The Queen Alien scared amount.
Now they love it. Now they want to watch it
over and over again. They love the Alien.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
You know what I do, show them what the Batman
film fan film Predator dead End or No Batman dead
End where he fights the Alien and the Predator. You've
seen that, right, No, that's one of the most famous
fan films ever because it's it's from the early two thousands.
It shot really well, and it's people who actually like
worked in Hollywood, so like the Predator looks like the Predator,
the aliens look straight out of the second movie. The

(01:08:11):
Jokers makeup looks great. And actually that's why fan films
are kind of annoying, because everyone wants to be on
that level. I'm like, those were Hollywood guys who just
fucked around for a week and you don't have that budget.
So whenever they want to watch like like Batman, Alien
or Predator, I'm like, let's just watch this eight minute
movie and you get.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
It all out of your Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
So now I'm like, good, there's another one. I could
show them that the one. Yeah, like god Zillain stuff.
This isn't any worse than the Godzilla versus Kung and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
No, I don't know. I feel like those are giant
monkeys and giant lizards are but those are a little
different than like murderers. Yeah, but those are also like
they're both murderers by like, but I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
It's monsters fighting.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Yeah, I guess the size of them is what makes
me think.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
What I mean, they're also like monster violins. There's yellow
blood in that, there's green blood in me. Anyway, I'm
excited that I could be like, here's a new and
by the way, there's twins in it, so you'll enjoy
perfect people show them. I wouldn't show them any of
the other ones, especially because they're in their mimic phase
and the last thing I need is them dropping like

(01:09:18):
f slurs after watching Jesse Ventora im Predator, Like, it's
the last thing I need. So I'm like, yeah, you
girls aren't allowed to watch that one. It's too scared.
That's their code. It's like too scary. Oh, it's too scary.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Well that's good at least at least you know there's
there is some boundaries.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Of course, Tom, I'm not a monster. I'm not a
crazy guy. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Well, it's not just like showing them like Evil Dead.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
No God, no, okay, I show them the universal monsters,
like Dracula, the Old Ones. That's funny. I started with
Van Helsing Hugh Jackman. Yeah, and they liked it enough,
but they like the Old Ones more.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
It's not a scary film. It's an action film, but.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
I thought they would like it was action. But they
liked it, but not as much as the Old Ones
When Shock. Anyway, Predator bad Lands, I think it's badass.
We're both badass.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Oh can we do it one more time?

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
Okay, Predator bad Lands. I think we both agree it's badass, badass. Tom. Yes,
where can we find you?

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
You can find me at crit hitpro dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Nice. Yes, awesome. You've been going all around lately. I
saw you in l A and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
I was just in l A, Yeah, I was. I
was shooting some content out there, you know, some fun
stuff and MDAs.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
But yeah, obviously it's still a good time. You know
you're gonna help me film secret thing that we've been
developing for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
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Stuff is almost built and I'm very much I gotta
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There we go.

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What a scary world we live in? To love it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Well, don't worry, we have predators with woke hair to
save us.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
That's the thing. People are like, can you believe the
predators woke? Like, dude, my livelihood might be gone tomorrow.
But yes, let's discuss them. Because because a robot went no,
because it misinterpreted something and a human didn't look at it.
Uh huh see, that's these are unrealistic in the future.

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It was like, yeah, we don't use any of those robots.
They suck.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Yeah, really, I want to say goodbye and youcha, but
like I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
We don't know the language yet.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Yeah, you you manage just to defend somebody, but.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Yes, I'm sorry if I did. Uh yeah, hopefully we
get an ali risk predator one day. I know they're
doing the Romulus sequel feeddi Aures is not directing it,
but he's still producing it. And I said, Alien Earth,
which so far hasn't tied into anything. Yeah, I don't
know if that's supposed to be its own isolated cannon.
I'm not sure we shall see, but uh yeah, I

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like where it's going, so let's do it. All right.
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