November 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Alright, buckle up, because Buz and Features just went full thermal-vision on Predator: Badlands—and yes, they somehow survived long enough to talk about it. In this review, the guys break down everything: the story, the kills, the jungle chaos, and whether this movie actually deserves to carry the Predator name or if it should be hunted down and tossed into a volcano.
They cover the creature design, the action, the vibe, and of course, the most important question of all: Did anyone yell “GET TO THE CHOPPA!”?
If you're into sci-fi monster carnage, 80s-style intensity, or just want to hear two dudes roast and praise this movie like it owes them money, this one's for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments: Did Badlands slay? Or is this franchise getting skinned alive?
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They cover the creature design, the action, the vibe, and of course, the most important question of all: Did anyone yell “GET TO THE CHOPPA!”?
If you're into sci-fi monster carnage, 80s-style intensity, or just want to hear two dudes roast and praise this movie like it owes them money, this one's for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments: Did Badlands slay? Or is this franchise getting skinned alive?
Like, subscribe & all that good stuff so the Predator spares us another week.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bad comic podcaster.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Bad Folks to another episode of that comic podcast. I
am your host features. I am joined with the one,
the only, the horror host of you know what, My
alliteration is off right now, but I got you next time,
buzz we got the buzz up.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Round, still cutting it up with features here, Yes, sir,
my favorite guy.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, and so uh, you know, we had the fans clamoring.
I did to have second review to get people to
get people's mouth watering for our bad Lands review. And
here we are to talk Predator bad Lands.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The movie itself is about a little over a week old.
Over a week old, so there are some people that
have probably seen it, some that haven't. And I guess
where would I want to start off? Because this movie
is it does play off a lot different than the
other other Predator movies, whereas we get to actually follow
(01:03):
the Predator itself as the main character, right whereas before
we've only come to see the Predators as the hunter
species that comes to Earth. Bucks it up. And that's
a great point.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, you know, when you have a series like this
has been around as long as it has. It's been
in toys, it's been in comics. You know, the monsters
eventually become the main character. It's not anything that you
haven't seen in other stuff. But I think, you know,
as for fans of you know, the Predator, the Alien,
the Warrior, the Hunter, and all all its inceptions and
all the versions of it, you know, because they all
(01:37):
have merit, and some of them are great, and I'm
not as great as others, but you know, with this one,
you know, it's taking it into you know, sort of
your Marvel Verse version of you know, or Star Wars
verse version of Predator.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, yes, And I love that fact because again, the
thing I was I was, I was saying that this
Predator movie does more than the other Predator movies. Is
it expands on the Predator lore. Yeah, I think that's important,
especially building into a franchise nowadays. But before it's like,
and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm
(02:11):
going to kind of make this loose analogy. Right before,
you could kind of view Predator movies almost like slasher movies, right, yeah,
where you only had to yeah, you only had to
change the villain, you know, slightly a little bit. But
you could just keep doing these movies because the premise
was all right, it comes to earth, it hunts. There's
one person that's going to be able to fend it off,
(02:32):
maybe you know. But I love the fact that now
we get to explore deep dive or start a deep
dive into who or what the predator species actually.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Is now absolutely ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Sorry, no, you're because I'm about I'm about to slide
over to you at a moment because what I'm going
to say is, uh. Whereas for me, like I I
would say that I'm I'm a Predator fan, I'm not
gonna say super fan. Because I reached more recently, maybe
in the last year or so, really got into the lore,
which was I think kind of on accident, maybe maybe
rout around the town when pray started, because I was like,
(03:07):
oh this is this is amazing. Yeah, but there are
people who really only notice it or acknowledge it as
like this is the predator. He's a warrior, he's a hunter.
That's it. Why are they doing this with the Predator?
So and I get there there may be some confusion
amongst the fans as to what the change is or
(03:30):
why the movie was this way.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, the intellect behind the Predator race, the altia at
this point is I mean it doesn't It all really
sort of come out of part two when Danny Glover
gets the rifle.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And it's like a little bit before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, not all the you got all the Easter eggs
in the back, the skulls and stuff. Yes, you know,
creating the Alien versus Predator lare primarily because you know,
ad I Effects is like working both on Alien and
Predator movies, and so somebody on the set thought it
was cool, you know, to put the alien skull up
on the thing and having no intention of a crossovers,
just something that fans pick up on. So you know,
(04:07):
Prey comes out of this idea, you know that, well where.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Did the gun come from? The Danny gotten too?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's like you have all these answers, you know what
I mean, and like so there's your opportunity to start
to be inquisitive. Yeah, what have these guys done before?
What are they capable of? What is their like motive behind?
Why they do we do?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know? And that is all very on display in
bad Lands.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, yes, and you know what, I'm glad that you
did sprinkle that that little bit information about Prey there,
and also because you were telling me earlier about the
director and he's the director for both right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Trackten Berg, who is a Philadelphia native right in your town, brother,
You know what I mean, Like no more love. I
can't come up with any more love, you know what
I mean? Like that's it's awesome, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I love that he is everywhere. Yeah, low keid Sidebar
Philly is actually in the New X Men Age of
Revelation books at all the stories.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Please post that stuff, man, and now you want me,
I gotta read it. And I just saw an ad
for it in bad Lands. Yeah, I'm like, I got
to catch up with features on Revelation.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's it's it's pretty dope and we'll talk about it.
But back to Predator though. Uh so I've seen I've
seen some people complain about the the new Yacha deck
As as he's called in the film.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
They they're things that I don't agree with, obviously, but
you know, I understand people's confusion or apprehension to it. Uh.
They're saying he looks a little bit more feminized or
he's not as big as the other Predators, and they're like,
why does he look like this? And the thing from
from what I what I know is that there are
(05:46):
so many clans and different types of predators in the
lore that the ones that we've seen in previous movies
where they were all like like, uh, wolf is uh.
He's the first one we saw. They called him the
jungle hunter predator.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then you had the city hunter predator, which I
forget his his actual code name, but there's there were
so many and they're all from different tribes or different
clans as you would. And then the city hunter predator.
Like you said, at the end of the Danny Glover film,
you had other predators come out, and it was mostly
because that particular predator went off the rails when he
(06:24):
came to Earth. He was just slaughtering people and that's
not a part of the youcher colk. Yeah, So that
that that that uh, that group of predators we see
at the end of the Predator to film, they were
actually coming. They were a hunting party for that predator
because part of their code is, you know, their code
is like we hunt, but we we we we hunt
(06:45):
people of equal threat, like if they have to be
worthy of hunt, because it's all part of their it's
like a part of their uh. Oh my goodness, what's
the word I'm looking for. It's uh, they're like spartans
in a sense. Once the baby is born, they send
them out. Yeah, yes, they're right a passage. They're right
a passage. So they send them out and they hunt
(07:08):
and they have to come back with the trophy from
their hunt. Uh, city hunter, predator crazy. We don't want
that kind of predator back word the one where we had, Yeah,
but the one we had in in Prey and then
in bad Lands that it's totally different. Those those are
predators that and you can tell and in bad Lands
(07:28):
they were heavy into the code, but you could also
see how uh how to code affects ones who they
would consider weaker predators. Why.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, you're going to their world. You're at their house now.
I mean you know that I'm not going to get
right to the end end of the movie. But you know,
more more show up, if you know what I mean. Yeah,
you're in their world, and I think moving forward, like
you know, there's you know, talks of Arnold coming back
obviously for stories and stuff. You an expanding universe, there's
(08:01):
infinite potentials, there's infinite potential predators. You know, the way
bad Lands does it. I think it's kind of like
it's opening a door for you know, for what tracting
Burg can obviously do next, and for what others could
do as well. You know, we don't need ten Predator
spinoffs yet, but like, okay, you know, we're getting into
(08:21):
their world now. It very much reminds me of like
as Klingon's got popular in Star Trek, he started to
get more lore as they got more popular, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and you never know what's going to take off.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know, Part one did so well obviously with Arnold
star power, but it's really a good movie. This is
a survival film, you know, watching him do it, he
has to adapt all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I think that's what tracting Berg's trying to do with
bad Lands is we're seeing Deck like have to adapt
as a runt.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You know, they talk about him being a run. You know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
If it was like if feminization is really hit as
much as it's more like you get a bad egg man.
It's called bad Lands, you know what I mean, Like,
it's pretty obvious what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's the run.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
He's literally a runt in any litter. You know, there's
probably one that's like it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
As big as the others.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So it creates this dynamic for Deck to almost sort
of fulfill a similar storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
For Dutch and the first movie.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's what I immediately saw was this like I'm in
this situation, you know, let me adapt to it or
it also follow the code like.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You're mentioning, and I gotta mention. I can't. I can't
help it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You know you've seen all the graphics with like you know,
the the Android.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, yes, I can't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Always compare it to C three po and Chewbacca and
then prior strikes back. I'm sorry that maybe that's why
it works already, you know what I mean. It's like
you this buddy, this buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Top movie, and it works so very well as a
buddy cop film because to your point, h the codex
at the in the beginning of the film, it pretty
much says, you know, yaucha are prey to none. Uh,
they are friends to none. They hunt alone like this.
It's pretty much a it's a me versus everybody type
of thing with them.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That opening scene that is ten ten opening scene alone, Like, yeah,
it's set up what is going on you know, and
some of the complaints again kind of talking about the
way Deck would sort of uh sympathize with some of
the other elements in the interaction with what he was
(10:25):
considering tools or helping him for his goal. You know,
if he's a run, then you know there's potentially that
element there, right that it's like, yeah, well, you know,
maybe these are these are aspects that they would consider
it a flaw, but obviously if.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You sell the movie, it's not so. But yeah, yeah,
you know, he is the run.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, and you know what I think, I think with
tracking verse starting on bad Lands or just a predator
not starting to predator lore with Deck, but continue with
Deck from Prey, I think it was great and the
sense to show a pint sized predator and how now
he has to maneuver in his own.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
World, right, absolutely, because the more different the predators are,
like you know, and I don't want to humanize him
like too much, but like, you know, having a little
bit of that in Deck as a learned trait in
his own just a life experience, like he's learning it
as he goes. He's not one hundred percent sure the
(11:28):
whole time. If this is like wait, a minute. I
don't know if I want to, you know what I mean,
take them all, take them the whole movie to lock
in on like what what he what he really thinks
and feels about everything and and he doesn't and it
kind of doesn't even at the end is kind of
like a ship.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
What's next? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And there it is, and you know, it was it
was so great seeing him having to he had to
come outside of the predator codecs and the things that
they believed and fault because of you know, because he
was the runt. Because most of the other predators are
are are huge, and there are other predators called super
(12:04):
predators who are actually bigger than the ones we saw,
and which is the Yaucha lord gets crazy?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah yeah, Like I was saying with the Klingon stuff,
it's it's so similar with.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Battle and like you know, honor and code and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know, I you know, I don't think we want
to watch like a bunch of predators sitting around playing
a card game on a pirates you know, a spaceship.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Right now, that's when it that's when it gets ridiculous,
Like you guys have nothing else to show us for
this but like the things they did. Things that they
did do to expand upon the lare like one UH
have having us introducing us to the Yaucha language, right.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
When you said klingon, That's what it reminded me of.
I was like, I feel like I'm watching war for
and screen. This is great. So that that was cool.
So now we have an established language amongst the Yaucha,
which is awesome. Right, that brings us further into Laures
like because now I give it about not even the
whole year, but the next time we get to get
into a con, you're going to see somebody dressed up
(13:02):
as a Predator. They're probably going to know all the
linguistics to the lore and to the language. It'll be
it'll be great. So I think that's one one really
great way to bring us into the law. Aside from now,
we also got to experience things on Yautcha Prime, which
is the Predator's main planet, and even even seeing how
they pick and choose like their first hunts, where like
(13:25):
they're there right of passage. We saw Deck having to
uh to fight against his brother for the right for
for his first hunt, whereas you know, once you we
can do spoilers say spoiler yeah, yeah, which is which
you know, after you get that fight, which was actually
(13:46):
pretty cool see him going against his brother and you
hear like in the beginning his brother goes use the cave.
He's like, use your surroundings to help you out because
he says, I'm gonna mess you up your past this doing.
But then to find out that, you know, once his
dad shows up at that end part of that that
that begin that training, he's like, what are you doing?
(14:07):
Why did why didn't you kill him already? And you're like,
whoa wow.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's it's like if you're gonna personalize them, right, and
you're gonna get into like who they are, and you're
gonna get into like these individual predator characters, then if
as long as it doesn't lose you know, too much
of that, like you know, it's like, oh, you disagree
with me, fight to the death. And if you're gonna
fight to the death, there is no like back and forth,
like you've already you're lying in the stand is already drawn, right,
(14:34):
so as they are called predators, so it's like, yes,
they hunt.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know, yeah, and then so I think two and
this is this is great too about about the predator law,
which I also think. Uh, so I do have another
question after the double check on this, was Track the
Bird working on Alien Earth as well.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't know, I don't know that I know he's
involved in uh what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Uh, Killer of Killer, Killer of Killers, Yeah, which was
also great and pray I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I don't know if he was on Alien Earth or not.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But so the only reason I'm even asking is because
what Alien Earth? And we talked about this on one
of our previous shows. How they really introduced us into
other aliens on that show. Because Zenomorpho is cool. We
already know what they can do and what their cable love,
but having those other alien show was great, and it
(15:27):
also introduced something else interesting in these xenomorph floor Like, Okay,
so you guys have been around these type of things
all the time. This kind of gets into like how
they've they've kind of chosen their final form, how they exist.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I saw an interview with Tracktenberg before bad Lands came out,
and somebody had asked him about an alien predator crossover already,
and I think he was caught off guard by it
but also expected it. He didn't deny it. He didn't
also like you know, confirm it either. It was he
didn't want to talk about it at a hall. I
can tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So that that that tells me that with both.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Companies owning kind of everything, you know, as long as
they do, it's like take the ten years to do.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Listen, you know, I mean, I have this theory right
because I and I have to double check, uh, I
have to double check the facts on this one. But
I believe they have taken the Alien Versus Predator films.
It's it's no longer cannon for predators.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's a lot of different stuff happening there. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But now with uh that we know like in whaling
you Tani, the the corporation that's you can find in
both both films or both franchises, that's going to be
the linking piece I think. Yeah, I mean, and you know,
and obviously you know we've seen the ships have like
alien skulls on, so we know they exist in that world.
(16:56):
But now I think we might even get a even
better VERSEI should know, Alien versus Predators.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, absolutely, we may get something that might even spark
like a threequel. You might get like an Alien Versus
Predator one, two, three, to tell this big story that
they could be building to. I'm giving them a lot
of credit that they're planning it so far in advance
and it's working behind the scenes. But you know, when
you own everything and it's all under one house, it's
kind of easy to do. And you know, I think
(17:23):
it's when it's good and slow, you know what I mean,
it kind of builds up to it. Yeah, and don't
rush it just to make money, like not really work
on the lore. You know, the same way Rogue one
was for Star Wars. It's like not planned, but somebody
did it and it did well, and it's like, Okay,
here's a new way to think about things. Then you
get the Mandalorian season one. It's like bang, another bull's eye.
(17:45):
So you gotta appro you gotta look at it like that.
You know, maybe they're you know, maybe they are they're
starting to see like, you know, we have to bring
in these like new young geniuses you've never heard of,
who are so del toro about everything.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know, Yeah, they live with it, man, they live
with it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They don't there is no separation between them and the work,
and that's how you're getting the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And you know, I I appreciate that. It's it's it's funny.
I'm trying to remember. We were at a Super Jersey
con and one one of the voice actors, uh said,
you gotta let the nerds handle the things that they love,
because they're going to give it to you just right. Yeah,
and you know what he's he was so right. I
agree with them one hundred percent because the way again,
(18:33):
the way they're the way they're they're putting, uh, the
pieces together for this Predator lore. I'm sold you have
me for whatever happens next, because everything from Prey to
Killer of Killers up until bad Lands has been so good.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, they're sending they're sending them off to us like tails, yes,
like like war tales, and they work in the visually
and they can they should lay over, but they don't
have to like connect like ten years of Marble, you
know what I mean to be good? Right, you see
a little bit with the DC stuff, it can be
good and not like hard connect you know, like legos
(19:13):
to everything.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So but yeah, the lore, but the lure is coming out,
you know, I text you the night I went. You're like,
it's lore heavy in Predator, and I'm like, awesome, Like
that's why I want it. This whole thing started, you know,
with Danny Glover, you know, right, get getting that rifle.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's like what else is going on?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So you get these ideas, you get these young creators
who were like hard pitching these ideas to try to
make them happen, and people saying that it wasn't as
like macho as like the nineties stuff. You know, it's
a different era. You know, you're in it. You're in
an era now of like high intellect mythology franchise type stuff.
(19:50):
There's there's books and games and and things all connected
to the films now and the lore and you know,
if you're into Avatar, if you're into this or whatever,
you know, there's so much to file now with it.
So there's a little something for everybody. Yeah, And I
don't think moving forward to be successful, you know, you
fall too much in one lane and you cut out
(20:11):
another crowd. So it's like you got to make it
good for everybody at.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
This point, right, And and honestly, I think what what
Tracking Bird is doing with it? It will bring people
back to like the books.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, like a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A lot of this lore has already explained in Predator
comics and Alien comics as well.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
The Predator comics as far back as probably dark Horse
in eighty nine with Race War. Yeah, man, like the Predator.
So before these movies were even popping, before Alien Earth
was popping, Befriendings popping, you've got dark Horse running with
these characters, putting out awesome serieses, you know, Aliens versus
(20:51):
Batman and Superman, and I mean not Predators all over
the Marvel you and this stuff is good man, like
craving Lincoln up with Predators.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'm ready to throw my hand in the ring. Dude.
I'm like, bro, this needs to be standard, you know
what I mean? Like this is right.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I thought they were gonna kill him for sure, and
now he's leading them. Really, it did so much for
his character.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know. Yeah, I'm going on a tangent with the comics,
but yeah, there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It is, and there's so much they can do with it.
So and I'm happy that they're actually they are expanding
on that lore. Now, if if we go back to
the movie, I would say, like, uh, things things that
that caught me outside of the low right things that
catch your attention, right, you know, there there has to
be a hunt, but because of because of who Deck
(21:38):
was and and and his need to prove himself like
it which you know, even that itself was like kind
of like dang, man, you want to prove yourself to
to your dad who just killed your brother because he
didn't kill you. I would just leave, but but you
know that that in.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The Blood man, it's DNA, you're not you know, And
and that's what makes it a good movie is they
didn't you didn't lose what the predator is exactly, And
it's an interesting dynamic between their species, how they survive,
like they're I would say, operating this way. You know,
there could be thousands of them or hundreds of them,
but it's interesting. It's almost like it's like the race
(22:19):
is sort of the way the alien is the perfect
parasite m h.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The predator is the perfect killer.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So it's like basically breeding the perfect killer through every story.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, and you know what else is actually really really
cool about it too, is we already kind of briefly
touched on there being different predator claims, Like can we
talk about like some of the weapons that we saw
in this movie. I think that's also like one of
the really good, like really awesome parts of Predator films,
the different kinds of weapons you see that come out. Dude,
(22:52):
I don't think I've ever seen a Predator with a
bow and arrow that just you just laser bow and
arrow everybody. I was like, this is cool. And I
think it also doubled as his sword as well, which was.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, it flipped around a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And I've always been a fan of like the the
the energy bow from like the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon
in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, like the flame bows.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As soon as you projectile like pretended to pool it,
like the magic developed around it.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know. It's yeah, awesome. Yeah, unlimited arrows.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right, just you play like games like elden Ring or
something like that. You got the Archer character, you kind
of want unlimited arrows that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Dude, I was gonna say when you mentioned the weaponry,
I immediately thought, like, this is a video game player's dream.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm getting all these items. Having all these items someone
can do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, if you're going to go this far into the lore,
it's like, yeah, do anything you want to do at
this point, like, you know, you're making a story so imaginative.
The movie kind of keeps unfolding and giving you more, Yes,
giving you more all the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh you know, you know what, since we know that
the creature that he chose to hunt was supposed to
be unkillable, which it kind of really is, I still
feel like they kind of like they x mocking that situation.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But yeah, they did.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The big thing I would say at the the end
of the movie was there's this this really terrific fight
he has with his dad when he comes back and
he's like, I came back. I just want to get
my cloak. And he's like, oh yeah, all right, let's
have it. And they fight, they fight, they you know,
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he defeats his dad. And then this is the big
moment ever you see. You see laser swords shine up
and they're like, oh, he's friends of yours, right, and
then everybody turns around. His ship comes up and in
the what's what's the name? Uh the time? Yeah, she
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goes friends of yours. He's like, no, that's my mom.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, dude, I can't wait to see that. You know,
you're getting the bad Lands too, now.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Dude, seeing seeing that, Seeing a female Yaucha at this
point I think is groundbreaking, not just because it's it's
a female version of a Predator, but because again what
it does for the Lord, how it expands things.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They got to come from somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh yeah, So, like I remember, I'll never forget the
alien queen showing up in the movie, and it's just like, well,
the super super alien with the big head bro. You know,
no doubt the female Yaucha is probably like shehawk better
than the original.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
There is one. There is one in The Lord that
I've heard repeatedly. There they call her big Mama, which
is hilarious, love that, and she so so in The
Predator Lord, the Yaucha, the female Youchas sometimes are shown
to be bigger than the male youcha's, but their primary
thing is to like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Their wookie wookie forms.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It's like, yeah, head's taller and there. Their primary thing
is to like they have to control kind of like
everything that's happening on the planet between the clans they
keep man yeah yep. And and what they're saying is
the the Yaoucha society is is more or less so matriarchal,
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so when when someone a predator dies, which is also
against the code of all the predators, like a yaucha
is not supposed to kill another yaoucha unless it is
is deemed so. So that's the other The other thing
that that could happen or which I think probably should
happen in in bad Lands too, if they go to
make one, which they should, is now do we is
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is Deck now a bad blood predator possible?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think I hate to say it, but I think
the lovable nature of Deck, yeah, is going to keep
Deck around for a while.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, the first look on on on him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Not a lot of people were stoves. But I think
the underdog aspect of the character is a rightable, a
continually rightable character, almost like Conan, you know what I mean,
Like until you get to King Conan the King and
you know, like it's these adventures to get to this
max place. And Deck is kind of like level one
(27:20):
character NPC. Like now he's becoming he's getting experience points,
it's like he's building now. Yes, Yeah, I don't know
if he'll be the best predator ever, right, but he's
certainly going to be a character that you're gonna see
again with the way this movie ends.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, And I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure if
if I had heard of of Deck before in a
Predator loare when I was like like looking up different
the different kinds of predators that were there are specific
ones that have been named after like their specific location
or where they're at. Like, so I in my head
(27:56):
and this is it's probably just head Cannon. But I
was like, is there a bad Lands predator because I
vaguely remember there they're being talked about a predator that
had to use the surroundings to be uh, to be
better like you. But I think instead of it being
he went to this planet to hunt and to prove himself,
he was stranded on the planet.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, I am so book or something. Did you read
this somewhere? Again?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This is why I'm saying it's probably head Canning, because
I thought, I think I did. I have to find
it so that that's gonna be my mission after the
I gotta find it.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Probably in a comics.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
We're pretty the commic has been coming out for a while,
especially this dark Horse one.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, and I thought it was so dope and what
made me think of him as a bad Lands Predator
specifically was like the way he adapted to to to
the land itself using the little snake creatures that spit venom. Yeah,
and that was that became his shoulder cannon. I was like, oh,
that is so awesome. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Like this is where I was like, this is almost
like Dutches's story. Yeah, like there's an archetype over overlaid
here where you're watching like Arnold as Dutch, like Survive
the Predator. Now you're watching Deck you know, yeah, eight
years later like a Predator survivor Predator dude.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Oh man, And if if we had to start from
the very beginning for like Predator with Dutch, people would
lose their minds to go like what this is insane?
Yes it is. So if you don't know, to the
audience listening, if you are unaware of all the things
that happened in Predator lore, I be seat you go
back to the first Predator and just follow Dutch's story
(29:34):
path and and it'll lead you all the way up
until I want to say at least about it'll get
you a predator too, and you'll get to Harrigan. And
then after that you're you should be stuck. You should
be just as stuck as I was, Just like.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, man, what, Yeah, they're all good. The classics hold up,
they're rewatchable, you know. Yeah, re release, put them back
in theaters or something, do another four K release. But yeah,
I mean going forward with bad Lands, if we're doing
a bad Lance too, and we see the yaucha mother,
you know. I don't know if we'll get a bad
Lands three, but I'm sure it'll be bigger and better
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because I don't know how successful it was in the theaters,
but I feel like it's doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I feel like it'll do good in streaming as well.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
So do I, so do I. And it's to your point,
I think Pray Pray didn't come out in theaters. That
was that was straight right.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, it's like long darts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Like they're just like taking shots to see if stuff works,
and it's building.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's building, man, listen.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And I do believe that all these things are working,
and I want them to continue to work because again,
like even I don't think, like to your one, I
don't think bad Lands will get like a trilogy. We
can stop at two, but after two we're still I
think the Predator franchise is going to boom from here.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, they're gonna do something else.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There's probably a lot of conversation around it right now,
Like you know, I mean, everybody's got a ten year plan,
you know, like what they'd like to get out there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
A lot of times with these movies too.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
As long as they make their money back, you know,
they'll take another crack at it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, And I mean and again, like there's so many
stories to tell, It's like you can't really go wrong.
It's almost like like a uh something Like sometimes I
complain about the Marvel movies and I go like, why
didn't they they use this storyline or do that? Because
there's so many you know what I mean a lot
and it'd be great to see on screen. But with Predators,
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like they are specific predators. I would really like to
see you on screens to see how how that goes.
And you can you can make that and it can
all them, all of them can be one off movies.
They don't even have to connect, which.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Grace it's such a the universe is so big to
connect it all is like Dune.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, like you need like.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Forty years and and you know, fifteen novels to do it,
so you know when you roll with it, like Mangalorian
was Outer Rim, you know where it's like not directly
connected to the it's not supposed to be directly connected
to the Skywalker soccer, but right, they got an outer
Rim story.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
These are all just out of Rim stories.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know, like, keep it going like that and you
you probably won't fail, right, trying to make everything connect.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You know, it only really worked.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
For Marvel because those characters had already been around for
seventy years, right, I mean like they were already connected.
They were connected on your pajamas. So with this stuff,
it's like they're taking more risks. Yeah, it's like keep
them loose and keep them tight and far apart, and
you know, have the right motivation from the concept and
(32:31):
the idea to tell that story. Pray is that Pray
is that as an expansion to the Rifle from two Yes,
part two and then now bad Lands is sort of
that as well when it comes to because the new
design of the Predator you got in Prey kind of
opened it up for them to be like, oh, we're
gonna keep We're gonna keep doing like different versions of
these guys.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Right, and they should. They should Like the Faraalh Predator
and Prey was awesome, Deck in bad Lands is awesome,
and then you've seen Killer of Killers, right yeah, yeah,
the the King, the King, Predator, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The Predator. Yeah yeah, I mean there's ably a Predator planet.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah. So it's like you you can do whatever you
want with it, and I honestly believe they should because
this is how you build upon a law, not even
the lore. This is how you make a franchise. Everything
they're doing right now is how you make a franchise work,
I believe, because every little thing that they're putting in
and even the little easter eggs that that makes the
connections to other films, it's like, oh, okay, this is
(33:32):
all right, Boom, I get it. This is how they connect.
But this is where this is going. I'm sold. I'm
learning more about the thing that I already love. This
is crazy and I guess I didn't know before.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
There's a lot to add to it, you know with
the comic that just dropped. Yeah, so it's not a
serious quick read. Dex on his on on Another Planet
with Qua's brother, he's basically telling me how you got
to earn your keep, you got to show you're worth it.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And uh, you know it's.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
A technology based planet and he has to like bring
something back for his dad and uh.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know, you know, a quick, quick little tidbit.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You know, you might see a technology predator if you
read the comic book, which is what Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That is cool. That is cool.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So that's what I mean. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You gotta you got a nice design. It does well
and uh, it's obviously outlived. It's probably original inception longer
than they thought it would. And now you're here and there's.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
All these things you can do with it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So yeah, and and honestly, we're we're at this this
point now where I think, you know, with people with
the superhero fatigue, which again I'm not I don't, I
don't really believe in that, but okay, uh but now
we have we have options. We have options now, and
I think it's great. Oh my goodness. Bus you just
what if, question Mark, what if they actually give us
(34:53):
a live action like a live action version of those
Predator versus uh Spider Man or Predator Versus Wolverine movies.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
So when Marvel Zombies came out, I would have met
the comic. I would have never guessed in my wildest
dreams that we would be seeing in animation on a show,
let alone, be one that would get its own series
and be actually like good, even though it wasn't like
a direct from the comic.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Right, but like I just the.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Concept alone Marble Zombies, Right, it's so out there, It's
it's right up my alley. But it's so out there.
I didn't see it being made into a show. So
I think you're right, Like, who knows what they're going
to do?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The more you know, I guess I just got to
They got to pay attention to what we post and
what we talk about to get the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, But okay, so I want to ask you from
from your from your lens, how would you rate Predator
bad Lands?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It will be doing five stars?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, we could do five stars.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I would definitely give it like a four point five,
you know what I mean. I think the only really
thing that made it soft was like the cuddly creature asked.
But you know, when you're going to other planets and stuff,
it's like there's a unique opportunity to fill those gaps
with things that would be Disney related, you know, and
that you could sell as a plushy. But you know,
(36:14):
Predator was still tough, still badass. Loved the underdog story,
loved the connection to the adapting and the surviving like Dutch,
love the technology opening sequences ten to ten. For me,
I could watch that on a loop and I am
stoked to see what is on that mother ship quite literally,
like I'll be there opening weekend again if they do
it same and.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Shout out to Dan Philly guy. You know, sir, you know,
not just always sunny.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
There's some sci fi guys out here too, But yeah, man,
four point five. I'm ready for more anything new Predator.
I'm probably gonna check it out. Just picked up the
latest issue of Predator versus Marvel Universe, so I've been
loving that too.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I want to get that book. I've just been so
I've been trying to. There's a lot deep but yeah,
I'm with you. I'm I'm probably not. Probably. I am
giving Predator bad Lands a four point five because again,
like you said, I think uh And that was another
another complaint I heard, and I get it, like the
(37:13):
disneyfication of Predator, of predatory. But I don't. I don't
think that made it bad. It gave it. It gave
it an element to where it's it's kind of okay
for the kids to come see. And it wasn't too crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Definitely, you know, and if it you know, if if
there's enough backlash.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Maybe the next one be rated R. You have no idea,
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Listen, if the next one is rated R, it doesn't
make bad Lands a bad Predator movie at all. And
I know people who had those negative beliefs and still
gave Predator bad Lands an eight point five out of ten.
So yeah, I mean, was it is it PG thirteen like.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I think it was, which you know, again, not even bad.
And for PG thirteen we got a sizeable amount of action,
got turned and twists.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Here, there's a story in it. It's not just action.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
There's a lot of story and character development that he's
I mean, obviously it's easily a cliffhanger, but the story
and character development into the Predator lord like you were saying,
I mean, it's it's flowing over at the brim of it,
you know what I mean. There there's no there's no
lacking in it. I was engaged the whole time.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yes, you know what. But before we go, what I
will say about Predator bad Predator bad Lands is if
if for some reason, as as a moviegoer or a fan,
you did not like Predator bad Lands, it would make
me think that you don't really like Predators.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
True. Yeah, I would agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You know, because it was it was just too much
and like involving the predator lore, the home world, the language,
all these things that expand upon the lore of it,
that that stem from the other movies. So if you
if you look at Badlans like this wasn't good, I'm
done with you. You could not have been a fan
because your interest, your interest could not have just stopped
(39:09):
at Predators, because there there are Predator movies that are bad. Yeah,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Not adding to it? Why do it? Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
You want to strip it away, strip away from what's
good about it. You want to add to what's good
about it. Yes, and that's what I think they did.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yes, I think I'm trying to remember. Minty usually says, uh,
it's always you always get the best work from people
who don't try to make their own mark on a
franchise instead of adding to it again.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
The fill in on why Danny Glover got that award
in the end of two is why we're here. It's like, what, Yeah,
they probably were like, you know, this would be cool
to do this to kind of show they have been around,
you know. Yeah, and so it's like they didn't really
probably have They might have had a plan for a
three or something to do something like that, but all
these years later, you know, pray coming out the gate
(40:04):
hot it really it was the the dreamer of dreamers
on ideas, you know, the fan that wants more, that
fills it in. You know, when I read comics, I
was done. I thought they were real. I was like,
Captain America is like a real guy, you know what
I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
My total escape from everything. I was like, all right,
I'm home now I need my comics.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Right totally, So we're here. This is it bad Lands?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Is it bad Lands as you're basically your comic book
version of Predator?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, Hey, you know what, it's a it's a great
starting point for anyone who hasn't seen anything previous of Predators.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
It's a super great starting point and honestly, you can
jump off, jump off, jump on from there and just
continue forward. I think that's also what makes bad Lands
as good as it is, at least for me and
for everybody out there. If you have a difference of opinion,
please leave it in a comment. I'll make time for you.
We can talk.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Predator. The more we talk, the more predators they make.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Oh man, well buzz. It's always awesome, always a pleasure man,
Thanks for sure. But we're gonna wrap it up here.
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Round, still cutting it up with features here, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, and so uh, you know, we had the fans clamoring.
I did to have second review to get people to
get people's mouth watering for our bad Lands review. And
here we are to talk Predator bad Lands.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The movie itself is about a little over a week old.
Over a week old, so there are some people that
have probably seen it, some that haven't. And I guess
where would I want to start off? Because this movie
is it does play off a lot different than the
other other Predator movies, whereas we get to actually follow
(01:03):
the Predator itself as the main character, right whereas before
we've only come to see the Predators as the hunter
species that comes to Earth. Bucks it up. And that's
a great point.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, you know, when you have a series like this
has been around as long as it has. It's been
in toys, it's been in comics. You know, the monsters
eventually become the main character. It's not anything that you
haven't seen in other stuff. But I think, you know,
as for fans of you know, the Predator, the Alien,
the Warrior, the Hunter, and all all its inceptions and
all the versions of it, you know, because they all
(01:37):
have merit, and some of them are great, and I'm
not as great as others, but you know, with this one,
you know, it's taking it into you know, sort of
your Marvel Verse version of you know, or Star Wars
verse version of Predator.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, yes, And I love that fact because again, the
thing I was I was, I was saying that this
Predator movie does more than the other Predator movies. Is
it expands on the Predator lore. Yeah, I think that's important,
especially building into a franchise nowadays. But before it's like,
and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm
(02:11):
going to kind of make this loose analogy. Right before,
you could kind of view Predator movies almost like slasher movies, right, yeah,
where you only had to yeah, you only had to
change the villain, you know, slightly a little bit. But
you could just keep doing these movies because the premise
was all right, it comes to earth, it hunts. There's
one person that's going to be able to fend it off,
(02:32):
maybe you know. But I love the fact that now
we get to explore deep dive or start a deep
dive into who or what the predator species actually.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Is now absolutely ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Sorry, no, you're because I'm about I'm about to slide
over to you at a moment because what I'm going
to say is, uh. Whereas for me, like I I
would say that I'm I'm a Predator fan, I'm not
gonna say super fan. Because I reached more recently, maybe
in the last year or so, really got into the lore,
which was I think kind of on accident, maybe maybe
rout around the town when pray started, because I was like,
(03:07):
oh this is this is amazing. Yeah, but there are
people who really only notice it or acknowledge it as
like this is the predator. He's a warrior, he's a hunter.
That's it. Why are they doing this with the Predator?
So and I get there there may be some confusion
amongst the fans as to what the change is or
(03:30):
why the movie was this way.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, the intellect behind the Predator race, the altia at
this point is I mean it doesn't It all really
sort of come out of part two when Danny Glover
gets the rifle.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And it's like a little bit before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes, not all the you got all the Easter eggs
in the back, the skulls and stuff. Yes, you know,
creating the Alien versus Predator lare primarily because you know,
ad I Effects is like working both on Alien and
Predator movies, and so somebody on the set thought it
was cool, you know, to put the alien skull up
on the thing and having no intention of a crossovers,
just something that fans pick up on. So you know,
(04:07):
Prey comes out of this idea, you know that, well where.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Did the gun come from? The Danny gotten too?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's like you have all these answers, you know what
I mean, and like so there's your opportunity to start
to be inquisitive. Yeah, what have these guys done before?
What are they capable of? What is their like motive behind?
Why they do we do?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know? And that is all very on display in
bad Lands.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, yes, and you know what, I'm glad that you
did sprinkle that that little bit information about Prey there,
and also because you were telling me earlier about the
director and he's the director for both right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Trackten Berg, who is a Philadelphia native right in your town, brother,
You know what I mean, Like no more love. I
can't come up with any more love, you know what
I mean? Like that's it's awesome, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I love that he is everywhere. Yeah, low keid Sidebar
Philly is actually in the New X Men Age of
Revelation books at all the stories.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Please post that stuff, man, and now you want me,
I gotta read it. And I just saw an ad
for it in bad Lands. Yeah, I'm like, I got
to catch up with features on Revelation.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's it's it's pretty dope and we'll talk about it.
But back to Predator though. Uh so I've seen I've
seen some people complain about the the new Yacha deck
As as he's called in the film.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
They they're things that I don't agree with, obviously, but
you know, I understand people's confusion or apprehension to it. Uh.
They're saying he looks a little bit more feminized or
he's not as big as the other Predators, and they're like,
why does he look like this? And the thing from
from what I what I know is that there are
(05:46):
so many clans and different types of predators in the
lore that the ones that we've seen in previous movies
where they were all like like, uh, wolf is uh.
He's the first one we saw. They called him the
jungle hunter predator.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then you had the city hunter predator, which I
forget his his actual code name, but there's there were
so many and they're all from different tribes or different
clans as you would. And then the city hunter predator.
Like you said, at the end of the Danny Glover film,
you had other predators come out, and it was mostly
because that particular predator went off the rails when he
(06:24):
came to Earth. He was just slaughtering people and that's
not a part of the youcher colk. Yeah, So that
that that that uh, that group of predators we see
at the end of the Predator to film, they were
actually coming. They were a hunting party for that predator
because part of their code is, you know, their code
is like we hunt, but we we we we hunt
(06:45):
people of equal threat, like if they have to be
worthy of hunt, because it's all part of their it's
like a part of their uh. Oh my goodness, what's
the word I'm looking for. It's uh, they're like spartans
in a sense. Once the baby is born, they send
them out. Yeah, yes, they're right a passage. They're right
a passage. So they send them out and they hunt
(07:08):
and they have to come back with the trophy from
their hunt. Uh, city hunter, predator crazy. We don't want
that kind of predator back word the one where we had, Yeah,
but the one we had in in Prey and then
in bad Lands that it's totally different. Those those are
predators that and you can tell and in bad Lands
(07:28):
they were heavy into the code, but you could also
see how uh how to code affects ones who they
would consider weaker predators. Why.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, you're going to their world. You're at their house now.
I mean you know that I'm not going to get
right to the end end of the movie. But you know,
more more show up, if you know what I mean. Yeah,
you're in their world, and I think moving forward, like
you know, there's you know, talks of Arnold coming back
obviously for stories and stuff. You an expanding universe, there's
(08:01):
infinite potentials, there's infinite potential predators. You know, the way
bad Lands does it. I think it's kind of like
it's opening a door for you know, for what tracting
Burg can obviously do next, and for what others could
do as well. You know, we don't need ten Predator
spinoffs yet, but like, okay, you know, we're getting into
(08:21):
their world now. It very much reminds me of like
as Klingon's got popular in Star Trek, he started to
get more lore as they got more popular, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and you never know what's going to take off.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You know, Part one did so well obviously with Arnold
star power, but it's really a good movie. This is
a survival film, you know, watching him do it, he
has to adapt all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I think that's what tracting Berg's trying to do with
bad Lands is we're seeing Deck like have to adapt
as a runt.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You know, they talk about him being a run. You know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
If it was like if feminization is really hit as
much as it's more like you get a bad egg man.
It's called bad Lands, you know what I mean, Like,
it's pretty obvious what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's the run.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
He's literally a runt in any litter. You know, there's
probably one that's like it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
As big as the others.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So it creates this dynamic for Deck to almost sort
of fulfill a similar storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
For Dutch and the first movie.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's what I immediately saw was this like I'm in
this situation, you know, let me adapt to it or
it also follow the code like.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You're mentioning, and I gotta mention. I can't. I can't
help it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You know you've seen all the graphics with like you know,
the the Android.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, yes, I can't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Always compare it to C three po and Chewbacca and
then prior strikes back. I'm sorry that maybe that's why
it works already, you know what I mean. It's like
you this buddy, this buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Top movie, and it works so very well as a
buddy cop film because to your point, h the codex
at the in the beginning of the film, it pretty
much says, you know, yaucha are prey to none. Uh,
they are friends to none. They hunt alone like this.
It's pretty much a it's a me versus everybody type
of thing with them.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That opening scene that is ten ten opening scene alone, Like, yeah,
it's set up what is going on you know, and
some of the complaints again kind of talking about the
way Deck would sort of uh sympathize with some of
the other elements in the interaction with what he was
(10:25):
considering tools or helping him for his goal. You know,
if he's a run, then you know there's potentially that
element there, right that it's like, yeah, well, you know,
maybe these are these are aspects that they would consider
it a flaw, but obviously if.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You sell the movie, it's not so. But yeah, yeah,
you know, he is the run.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, and you know what I think, I think with
tracking verse starting on bad Lands or just a predator
not starting to predator lore with Deck, but continue with
Deck from Prey, I think it was great and the
sense to show a pint sized predator and how now
he has to maneuver in his own.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
World, right, absolutely, because the more different the predators are,
like you know, and I don't want to humanize him
like too much, but like, you know, having a little
bit of that in Deck as a learned trait in
his own just a life experience, like he's learning it
as he goes. He's not one hundred percent sure the
(11:28):
whole time. If this is like wait, a minute. I
don't know if I want to, you know what I mean,
take them all, take them the whole movie to lock
in on like what what he what he really thinks
and feels about everything and and he doesn't and it
kind of doesn't even at the end is kind of
like a ship.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
What's next? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And there it is, and you know, it was it
was so great seeing him having to he had to
come outside of the predator codecs and the things that
they believed and fault because of you know, because he
was the runt. Because most of the other predators are
are are huge, and there are other predators called super
(12:04):
predators who are actually bigger than the ones we saw,
and which is the Yaucha lord gets crazy?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah yeah, Like I was saying with the Klingon stuff,
it's it's so similar with.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Battle and like you know, honor and code and.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know, I you know, I don't think we want
to watch like a bunch of predators sitting around playing
a card game on a pirates you know, a spaceship.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Right now, that's when it that's when it gets ridiculous,
Like you guys have nothing else to show us for
this but like the things they did. Things that they
did do to expand upon the lare like one UH
have having us introducing us to the Yaucha language, right.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
When you said klingon, That's what it reminded me of.
I was like, I feel like I'm watching war for
and screen. This is great. So that that was cool.
So now we have an established language amongst the Yaucha,
which is awesome. Right, that brings us further into Laures
like because now I give it about not even the
whole year, but the next time we get to get
into a con, you're going to see somebody dressed up
(13:02):
as a Predator. They're probably going to know all the
linguistics to the lore and to the language. It'll be
it'll be great. So I think that's one one really
great way to bring us into the law. Aside from now,
we also got to experience things on Yautcha Prime, which
is the Predator's main planet, and even even seeing how
they pick and choose like their first hunts, where like
(13:25):
they're there right of passage. We saw Deck having to
uh to fight against his brother for the right for
for his first hunt, whereas you know, once you we
can do spoilers say spoiler yeah, yeah, which is which
you know, after you get that fight, which was actually
(13:46):
pretty cool see him going against his brother and you
hear like in the beginning his brother goes use the cave.
He's like, use your surroundings to help you out because
he says, I'm gonna mess you up your past this doing.
But then to find out that, you know, once his
dad shows up at that end part of that that
that begin that training, he's like, what are you doing?
(14:07):
Why did why didn't you kill him already? And you're like,
whoa wow.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It's it's like if you're gonna personalize them, right, and
you're gonna get into like who they are, and you're
gonna get into like these individual predator characters, then if
as long as it doesn't lose you know, too much
of that, like you know, it's like, oh, you disagree
with me, fight to the death. And if you're gonna
fight to the death, there is no like back and forth,
like you've already you're lying in the stand is already drawn, right,
(14:34):
so as they are called predators, so it's like, yes,
they hunt.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You know, yeah, and then so I think two and
this is this is great too about about the predator law,
which I also think. Uh, so I do have another
question after the double check on this, was Track the
Bird working on Alien Earth as well.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't know, I don't know that I know he's
involved in uh what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Uh, Killer of Killer, Killer of Killers, Yeah, which was
also great and pray I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I don't know if he was on Alien Earth or not.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But so the only reason I'm even asking is because
what Alien Earth? And we talked about this on one
of our previous shows. How they really introduced us into
other aliens on that show. Because Zenomorpho is cool. We
already know what they can do and what their cable love,
but having those other alien show was great, and it
(15:27):
also introduced something else interesting in these xenomorph floor Like, Okay,
so you guys have been around these type of things
all the time. This kind of gets into like how
they've they've kind of chosen their final form, how they exist.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I saw an interview with Tracktenberg before bad Lands came out,
and somebody had asked him about an alien predator crossover already,
and I think he was caught off guard by it
but also expected it. He didn't deny it. He didn't
also like you know, confirm it either. It was he
didn't want to talk about it at a hall. I
can tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So that that that tells me that with both.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Companies owning kind of everything, you know, as long as
they do, it's like take the ten years to do.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
It, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Listen, you know, I mean, I have this theory right
because I and I have to double check, uh, I
have to double check the facts on this one. But
I believe they have taken the Alien Versus Predator films.
It's it's no longer cannon for predators.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's a lot of different stuff happening there. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But now with uh that we know like in whaling
you Tani, the the corporation that's you can find in
both both films or both franchises, that's going to be
the linking piece I think. Yeah, I mean, and you know,
and obviously you know we've seen the ships have like
alien skulls on, so we know they exist in that world.
(16:56):
But now I think we might even get a even
better VERSEI should know, Alien versus Predators.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, absolutely, we may get something that might even spark
like a threequel. You might get like an Alien Versus
Predator one, two, three, to tell this big story that
they could be building to. I'm giving them a lot
of credit that they're planning it so far in advance
and it's working behind the scenes. But you know, when
you own everything and it's all under one house, it's
kind of easy to do. And you know, I think
(17:23):
it's when it's good and slow, you know what I mean,
it kind of builds up to it. Yeah, and don't
rush it just to make money, like not really work
on the lore. You know, the same way Rogue one
was for Star Wars. It's like not planned, but somebody
did it and it did well, and it's like, Okay,
here's a new way to think about things. Then you
get the Mandalorian season one. It's like bang, another bull's eye.
(17:45):
So you gotta appro you gotta look at it like that.
You know, maybe they're you know, maybe they are they're
starting to see like, you know, we have to bring
in these like new young geniuses you've never heard of,
who are so del toro about everything.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know, Yeah, they live with it, man, they live
with it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They don't there is no separation between them and the work,
and that's how you're getting the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And you know, I I appreciate that. It's it's it's funny.
I'm trying to remember. We were at a Super Jersey
con and one one of the voice actors, uh said,
you gotta let the nerds handle the things that they love,
because they're going to give it to you just right. Yeah,
and you know what he's he was so right. I
agree with them one hundred percent because the way again,
(18:33):
the way they're the way they're they're putting, uh, the
pieces together for this Predator lore. I'm sold you have
me for whatever happens next, because everything from Prey to
Killer of Killers up until bad Lands has been so good.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, they're sending they're sending them off to us like tails, yes,
like like war tales, and they work in the visually
and they can they should lay over, but they don't
have to like connect like ten years of Marble, you
know what I mean to be good? Right, you see
a little bit with the DC stuff, it can be
good and not like hard connect you know, like legos
(19:13):
to everything.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So but yeah, the lore, but the lure is coming out,
you know, I text you the night I went. You're like,
it's lore heavy in Predator, and I'm like, awesome, Like
that's why I want it. This whole thing started, you know,
with Danny Glover, you know, right, get getting that rifle.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's like what else is going on?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So you get these ideas, you get these young creators
who were like hard pitching these ideas to try to
make them happen, and people saying that it wasn't as
like macho as like the nineties stuff. You know, it's
a different era. You know, you're in it. You're in
an era now of like high intellect mythology franchise type stuff.
(19:50):
There's there's books and games and and things all connected
to the films now and the lore and you know,
if you're into Avatar, if you're into this or whatever,
you know, there's so much to file now with it.
So there's a little something for everybody. Yeah, And I
don't think moving forward to be successful, you know, you
fall too much in one lane and you cut out
(20:11):
another crowd. So it's like you got to make it
good for everybody at.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
This point, right, And and honestly, I think what what
Tracking Bird is doing with it? It will bring people
back to like the books.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, like a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A lot of this lore has already explained in Predator
comics and Alien comics as well.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
The Predator comics as far back as probably dark Horse
in eighty nine with Race War. Yeah, man, like the Predator.
So before these movies were even popping, before Alien Earth
was popping, Befriendings popping, you've got dark Horse running with
these characters, putting out awesome serieses, you know, Aliens versus
(20:51):
Batman and Superman, and I mean not Predators all over
the Marvel you and this stuff is good man, like
craving Lincoln up with Predators.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'm ready to throw my hand in the ring. Dude.
I'm like, bro, this needs to be standard, you know
what I mean? Like this is right.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I thought they were gonna kill him for sure, and
now he's leading them. Really, it did so much for
his character.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know. Yeah, I'm going on a tangent with the comics,
but yeah, there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It is, and there's so much they can do with it.
So and I'm happy that they're actually they are expanding
on that lore. Now, if if we go back to
the movie, I would say, like, uh, things things that
that caught me outside of the low right things that
catch your attention, right, you know, there there has to
be a hunt, but because of because of who Deck
(21:38):
was and and and his need to prove himself like
it which you know, even that itself was like kind
of like dang, man, you want to prove yourself to
to your dad who just killed your brother because he
didn't kill you. I would just leave, but but you
know that that in.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The Blood man, it's DNA, you're not you know, And
and that's what makes it a good movie is they
didn't you didn't lose what the predator is exactly, And
it's an interesting dynamic between their species, how they survive,
like they're I would say, operating this way. You know,
there could be thousands of them or hundreds of them,
but it's interesting. It's almost like it's like the race
(22:19):
is sort of the way the alien is the perfect
parasite m h.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The predator is the perfect killer.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So it's like basically breeding the perfect killer through every story.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, and you know what else is actually really really
cool about it too, is we already kind of briefly
touched on there being different predator claims, Like can we
talk about like some of the weapons that we saw
in this movie. I think that's also like one of
the really good, like really awesome parts of Predator films,
the different kinds of weapons you see that come out. Dude,
(22:52):
I don't think I've ever seen a Predator with a
bow and arrow that just you just laser bow and
arrow everybody. I was like, this is cool. And I
think it also doubled as his sword as well, which was.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, it flipped around a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And I've always been a fan of like the the
the energy bow from like the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon
in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, like the flame bows.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As soon as you projectile like pretended to pool it,
like the magic developed around it.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know. It's yeah, awesome. Yeah, unlimited arrows.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right, just you play like games like elden Ring or
something like that. You got the Archer character, you kind
of want unlimited arrows that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Dude, I was gonna say when you mentioned the weaponry,
I immediately thought, like, this is a video game player's dream.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm getting all these items. Having all these items someone
can do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, if you're going to go this far into the lore,
it's like, yeah, do anything you want to do at
this point, like, you know, you're making a story so imaginative.
The movie kind of keeps unfolding and giving you more, Yes,
giving you more all the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh you know, you know what, since we know that
the creature that he chose to hunt was supposed to
be unkillable, which it kind of really is, I still
feel like they kind of like they x mocking that situation.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But yeah, they did.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The big thing I would say at the the end
of the movie was there's this this really terrific fight
he has with his dad when he comes back and
he's like, I came back. I just want to get
my cloak. And he's like, oh yeah, all right, let's
have it. And they fight, they fight, they you know,
(24:34):
he defeats his dad. And then this is the big
moment ever you see. You see laser swords shine up
and they're like, oh, he's friends of yours, right, and
then everybody turns around. His ship comes up and in
the what's what's the name? Uh the time? Yeah, she
(24:55):
goes friends of yours. He's like, no, that's my mom.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, dude, I can't wait to see that. You know,
you're getting the bad Lands too, now.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Dude, seeing seeing that, Seeing a female Yaucha at this
point I think is groundbreaking, not just because it's it's
a female version of a Predator, but because again what
it does for the Lord, how it expands things.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They got to come from somewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh yeah, So, like I remember, I'll never forget the
alien queen showing up in the movie, and it's just like, well,
the super super alien with the big head bro. You know,
no doubt the female Yaucha is probably like shehawk better
than the original.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
There is one. There is one in The Lord that
I've heard repeatedly. There they call her big Mama, which
is hilarious, love that, and she so so in The
Predator Lord, the Yaucha, the female Youchas sometimes are shown
to be bigger than the male youcha's, but their primary
thing is to like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Their wookie wookie forms.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It's like, yeah, head's taller and there. Their primary thing
is to like they have to control kind of like
everything that's happening on the planet between the clans they
keep man yeah yep. And and what they're saying is
the the Yaoucha society is is more or less so matriarchal,
(26:22):
so when when someone a predator dies, which is also
against the code of all the predators, like a yaucha
is not supposed to kill another yaoucha unless it is
is deemed so. So that's the other The other thing
that that could happen or which I think probably should
happen in in bad Lands too, if they go to
make one, which they should, is now do we is
(26:44):
is Deck now a bad blood predator possible?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think I hate to say it, but I think
the lovable nature of Deck, yeah, is going to keep
Deck around for a while.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, the first look on on on him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Not a lot of people were stoves. But I think
the underdog aspect of the character is a rightable, a
continually rightable character, almost like Conan, you know what I mean,
Like until you get to King Conan the King and
you know, like it's these adventures to get to this
max place. And Deck is kind of like level one
(27:20):
character NPC. Like now he's becoming he's getting experience points,
it's like he's building now. Yes, Yeah, I don't know
if he'll be the best predator ever, right, but he's
certainly going to be a character that you're gonna see
again with the way this movie ends.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, And I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure if
if I had heard of of Deck before in a
Predator loare when I was like like looking up different
the different kinds of predators that were there are specific
ones that have been named after like their specific location
or where they're at. Like, so I in my head
(27:56):
and this is it's probably just head Cannon. But I
was like, is there a bad Lands predator because I
vaguely remember there they're being talked about a predator that
had to use the surroundings to be uh, to be
better like you. But I think instead of it being
he went to this planet to hunt and to prove himself,
he was stranded on the planet.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, I am so book or something. Did you read
this somewhere? Again?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This is why I'm saying it's probably head Canning, because
I thought, I think I did. I have to find
it so that that's gonna be my mission after the
I gotta find it.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Probably in a comics.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
We're pretty the commic has been coming out for a while,
especially this dark Horse one.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, and I thought it was so dope and what
made me think of him as a bad Lands Predator
specifically was like the way he adapted to to to
the land itself using the little snake creatures that spit venom. Yeah,
and that was that became his shoulder cannon. I was like, oh,
that is so awesome. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Like this is where I was like, this is almost
like Dutches's story. Yeah, like there's an archetype over overlaid
here where you're watching like Arnold as Dutch, like Survive
the Predator. Now you're watching Deck you know, yeah, eight
years later like a Predator survivor Predator dude.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Oh man, And if if we had to start from
the very beginning for like Predator with Dutch, people would
lose their minds to go like what this is insane?
Yes it is. So if you don't know, to the
audience listening, if you are unaware of all the things
that happened in Predator lore, I be seat you go
back to the first Predator and just follow Dutch's story
(29:34):
path and and it'll lead you all the way up
until I want to say at least about it'll get
you a predator too, and you'll get to Harrigan. And
then after that you're you should be stuck. You should
be just as stuck as I was, Just like.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, man, what, Yeah, they're all good. The classics hold up,
they're rewatchable, you know. Yeah, re release, put them back
in theaters or something, do another four K release. But yeah,
I mean going forward with bad Lands, if we're doing
a bad Lance too, and we see the yaucha mother,
you know. I don't know if we'll get a bad
Lands three, but I'm sure it'll be bigger and better
(30:08):
because I don't know how successful it was in the theaters,
but I feel like it's doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I feel like it'll do good in streaming as well.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
So do I, so do I. And it's to your point,
I think Pray Pray didn't come out in theaters. That
was that was straight right.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, it's like long darts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Like they're just like taking shots to see if stuff works,
and it's building.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's building, man, listen.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And I do believe that all these things are working,
and I want them to continue to work because again,
like even I don't think, like to your one, I
don't think bad Lands will get like a trilogy. We
can stop at two, but after two we're still I
think the Predator franchise is going to boom from here.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, they're gonna do something else.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There's probably a lot of conversation around it right now,
Like you know, I mean, everybody's got a ten year plan,
you know, like what they'd like to get out there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
A lot of times with these movies too.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
As long as they make their money back, you know,
they'll take another crack at it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, And I mean and again, like there's so many
stories to tell, It's like you can't really go wrong.
It's almost like like a uh something Like sometimes I
complain about the Marvel movies and I go like, why
didn't they they use this storyline or do that? Because
there's so many you know what I mean a lot
and it'd be great to see on screen. But with Predators,
(31:25):
like they are specific predators. I would really like to
see you on screens to see how how that goes.
And you can you can make that and it can
all them, all of them can be one off movies.
They don't even have to connect, which.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Grace it's such a the universe is so big to
connect it all is like Dune.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, like you need like.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Forty years and and you know, fifteen novels to do it,
so you know when you roll with it, like Mangalorian
was Outer Rim, you know where it's like not directly
connected to the it's not supposed to be directly connected
to the Skywalker soccer, but right, they got an outer
Rim story.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
These are all just out of Rim stories.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know, like, keep it going like that and you
you probably won't fail, right, trying to make everything connect.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You know, it only really worked.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
For Marvel because those characters had already been around for
seventy years, right, I mean like they were already connected.
They were connected on your pajamas. So with this stuff,
it's like they're taking more risks. Yeah, it's like keep
them loose and keep them tight and far apart, and
you know, have the right motivation from the concept and
(32:31):
the idea to tell that story. Pray is that Pray
is that as an expansion to the Rifle from two Yes,
part two and then now bad Lands is sort of
that as well when it comes to because the new
design of the Predator you got in Prey kind of
opened it up for them to be like, oh, we're
gonna keep We're gonna keep doing like different versions of
these guys.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Right, and they should. They should Like the Faraalh Predator
and Prey was awesome, Deck in bad Lands is awesome,
and then you've seen Killer of Killers, right yeah, yeah,
the the King, the King, Predator, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The Predator. Yeah yeah, I mean there's ably a Predator planet.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah. So it's like you you can do whatever you
want with it, and I honestly believe they should because
this is how you build upon a law, not even
the lore. This is how you make a franchise. Everything
they're doing right now is how you make a franchise work,
I believe, because every little thing that they're putting in
and even the little easter eggs that that makes the
connections to other films, it's like, oh, okay, this is
(33:32):
all right, Boom, I get it. This is how they connect.
But this is where this is going. I'm sold. I'm
learning more about the thing that I already love. This
is crazy and I guess I didn't know before.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
There's a lot to add to it, you know with
the comic that just dropped. Yeah, so it's not a
serious quick read. Dex on his on on Another Planet
with Qua's brother, he's basically telling me how you got
to earn your keep, you got to show you're worth it.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And uh, you know it's.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
A technology based planet and he has to like bring
something back for his dad and uh.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You know, you know, a quick, quick little tidbit.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You know, you might see a technology predator if you
read the comic book, which is what Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That is cool. That is cool.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So that's what I mean. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You gotta you got a nice design. It does well
and uh, it's obviously outlived. It's probably original inception longer
than they thought it would. And now you're here and there's.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
All these things you can do with it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So yeah, and and honestly, we're we're at this this
point now where I think, you know, with people with
the superhero fatigue, which again I'm not I don't, I
don't really believe in that, but okay, uh but now
we have we have options. We have options now, and
I think it's great. Oh my goodness. Bus you just
what if, question Mark, what if they actually give us
(34:53):
a live action like a live action version of those
Predator versus uh Spider Man or Predator Versus Wolverine movies.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
So when Marvel Zombies came out, I would have met
the comic. I would have never guessed in my wildest
dreams that we would be seeing in animation on a show,
let alone, be one that would get its own series
and be actually like good, even though it wasn't like
a direct from the comic.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Right, but like I just the.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Concept alone Marble Zombies, Right, it's so out there, It's
it's right up my alley. But it's so out there.
I didn't see it being made into a show. So
I think you're right, Like, who knows what they're going
to do?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The more you know, I guess I just got to
They got to pay attention to what we post and
what we talk about to get the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, But okay, so I want to ask you from
from your from your lens, how would you rate Predator
bad Lands?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It will be doing five stars?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, we could do five stars.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I would definitely give it like a four point five,
you know what I mean. I think the only really
thing that made it soft was like the cuddly creature asked.
But you know, when you're going to other planets and stuff,
it's like there's a unique opportunity to fill those gaps
with things that would be Disney related, you know, and
that you could sell as a plushy. But you know,
(36:14):
Predator was still tough, still badass. Loved the underdog story,
loved the connection to the adapting and the surviving like Dutch,
love the technology opening sequences ten to ten. For me,
I could watch that on a loop and I am
stoked to see what is on that mother ship quite literally,
like I'll be there opening weekend again if they do
it same and.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Shout out to Dan Philly guy. You know, sir, you know,
not just always sunny.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
There's some sci fi guys out here too, But yeah, man,
four point five. I'm ready for more anything new Predator.
I'm probably gonna check it out. Just picked up the
latest issue of Predator versus Marvel Universe, so I've been
loving that too.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I want to get that book. I've just been so
I've been trying to. There's a lot deep but yeah,
I'm with you. I'm I'm probably not. Probably. I am
giving Predator bad Lands a four point five because again,
like you said, I think uh And that was another
another complaint I heard, and I get it, like the
(37:13):
disneyfication of Predator, of predatory. But I don't. I don't
think that made it bad. It gave it. It gave
it an element to where it's it's kind of okay
for the kids to come see. And it wasn't too crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Definitely, you know, and if it you know, if if
there's enough backlash.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Maybe the next one be rated R. You have no idea,
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Listen, if the next one is rated R, it doesn't
make bad Lands a bad Predator movie at all. And
I know people who had those negative beliefs and still
gave Predator bad Lands an eight point five out of ten.
So yeah, I mean, was it is it PG thirteen like.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I think it was, which you know, again, not even bad.
And for PG thirteen we got a sizeable amount of action,
got turned and twists.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Here, there's a story in it. It's not just action.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
There's a lot of story and character development that he's
I mean, obviously it's easily a cliffhanger, but the story
and character development into the Predator lord like you were saying,
I mean, it's it's flowing over at the brim of it,
you know what I mean. There there's no there's no
lacking in it. I was engaged the whole time.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yes, you know what. But before we go, what I
will say about Predator bad Predator bad Lands is if
if for some reason, as as a moviegoer or a fan,
you did not like Predator bad Lands, it would make
me think that you don't really like Predators.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
True. Yeah, I would agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
You know, because it was it was just too much
and like involving the predator lore, the home world, the language,
all these things that expand upon the lore of it,
that that stem from the other movies. So if you
if you look at Badlans like this wasn't good, I'm
done with you. You could not have been a fan
because your interest, your interest could not have just stopped
(39:09):
at Predators, because there there are Predator movies that are bad. Yeah,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Not adding to it? Why do it? Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
You want to strip it away, strip away from what's
good about it. You want to add to what's good
about it. Yes, and that's what I think they did.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yes, I think I'm trying to remember. Minty usually says, uh,
it's always you always get the best work from people
who don't try to make their own mark on a
franchise instead of adding to it again.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
The fill in on why Danny Glover got that award
in the end of two is why we're here. It's like, what, Yeah,
they probably were like, you know, this would be cool
to do this to kind of show they have been around,
you know. Yeah, and so it's like they didn't really
probably have They might have had a plan for a
three or something to do something like that, but all
these years later, you know, pray coming out the gate
(40:04):
hot it really it was the the dreamer of dreamers
on ideas, you know, the fan that wants more, that
fills it in. You know, when I read comics, I
was done. I thought they were real. I was like,
Captain America is like a real guy, you know what
I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
My total escape from everything. I was like, all right,
I'm home now I need my comics.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Right totally, So we're here. This is it bad Lands?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Is it bad Lands as you're basically your comic book
version of Predator?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, Hey, you know what, it's a it's a great
starting point for anyone who hasn't seen anything previous of Predators.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
It's a super great starting point and honestly, you can
jump off, jump off, jump on from there and just
continue forward. I think that's also what makes bad Lands
as good as it is, at least for me and
for everybody out there. If you have a difference of opinion,
please leave it in a comment. I'll make time for you.
We can talk.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Predator. The more we talk, the more predators they make.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Oh man, well buzz. It's always awesome, always a pleasure man,
Thanks for sure. But we're gonna wrap it up here.
I want to say to everybody that's made it, made
it this far with us, thank you for watching us
and listening to us and being part of the conversation.
Uh find us everywhere on all social media forms. That
(41:26):
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Join the conversation, everybody.
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