Predator: Badlands

I’ve reach a point in my life where I honestly hate it when people go “they could have done this better”… I respect a producer’s/director’s/screenwriter’s artwork, as it is their creative work done under the strict rules and budgets imposed by an employer who will ruin the rest of your career if your work doesn’t deliver the numbers you were paid to deliver.

It is what it is. So far, so good. Everyone will always dislike something. I was there at some point too, but I’ve just grown tired of the bitterness it brings to be complaining about something always and striving for a non-existent perfection and improvement.

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im just happy we got a pred movie ngl

IMO, the only Disney film ever done to near-perfection for a “general audience” was TRON: Legacy, and I’ll double-down on this.

ngl i think im the only one who liked dek lol his mask is cool

that movie was indeed awesome: story, music, vfx, Olivia (mmmm)

I’m watching Tron: Ares tonight. I downloaded it a few days ago but haven’t had the time to sit down and watch it. Based on the reviews doesn’t seem like is gonna be bad, but also not great. Plus I don’t like Leto’s acting in any movie, so we’ll see

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I’m believe you, when you say Dek and his mask are cool, and I’m not entirely criticizing the film. I’m tryna point out it’s expected to have bad reviews, bc most of us are too familiar with almost two generations of absolute badassery from previous films.

oh i know the movie was meh to a lot of people only part i really liked was dek and his mask lol

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I religiously listen to the soundtrack in my car.

NGL, after Shane Black’s shitshow and illfonic, the franchise fanbase is screaming for better discernment on production teams in film and gaming. Simply put, we deserve better than what’s been handed to us lately.

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ngl i wonder if this game will still be alive if the other pred/alien games were still alive

If Concrete Jungle was refined and remastered, or we got a new AVP game, Unc Deez wouldn’t exist in these parts.

waitt your unc??!

I’m damn near 50, so yeah.

bro whaT!??! i thought you was like 30 or in ya 20s

I get that a lot when ppl see my actual PFP or hear me in game chat 😂

Forever young, I suppose.

man you been liveing the life huh?

When you put it that way it does make sense up until certain formulas they (disney) seem to implement in thier movies as of late, which never work out in thier favor at least so far, but they contnue to do it. I dont mean strictly the “woke” formula but just poor decisions that they should have learned from, but persist to do it anyway. I feel like there is a pattern and we may disagree on that and thats fine but, disneys movies werent always what they are now(meaning most stuff they put out suck) and if you grew up from the late 80s til now than im sure you can agree “summer blockbusters” was a term used because of how much seemingly good and hindsight are good and hold up still. Recently it was mentioned that now that term as gone away because of the stats of how poor movies, shows, etc. do now it was a new piece on the topic.

Now that disney has monopolized a bunch of IPs thier same formulas used in thier movies that. It just basically seems like flops werent as prevalent as now a days. Sure theres the variables to take into account like someones taste in movies, actors, directors,producers, executive meddling, culture from then til now, writing, quotas, and combinations of all the above and more, but generally speaking things werent always like how it is now both with quality of a product and ppl who voice opinions on those products and when you scale out theres a majority and a minority. Cus putting it like how you did, i get it and can agree but like i said theres inconsistencies and patterns (that we may not agree on) where i have to start questioning.

I appreciate art in many forms, but when its art that is being sold to me its different vs art like for example if i go to an art gallery im going lookin or observing it an appreciating it, but if its art being sold to me and tryin to sell me on something i then have to think am I getting a good product or not. Maybe too deep to go in on something like predator but im a lil high literally waiting to go see it so yea…

It all depends on the person. I never found Thia annoying, quite the contrary, very endearing and a nice balance of Dek’s blunt and to the point ruthlessness that you know a Predator would display. The family soap opera thing, idk what people mean by that, it’s internal clan conflict and it’s all on Dek to prove himself that he is a worthy Predator. Super hero comedy? Shit honestly I just think people always go to Marvel films because its the big thing dominating films now and I bet my bottom dollar that if this was released decades ago, people who would normally be against this would soften a bit. There is alot to like, if one thing I hear consistently from Predator purists is that at least they like the first half of the movie. I get the turn is too different for lots of people after the other half, but to me it feels like it worked. Somehow, they found a way to make it work mostly.

At least you’ll love the intro, everyone I heard talking about the film at least loves the intro.

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Well its almost my time to see what its all about. Im set for 8:15pm central so almost time. I can respect that but cant really say much til after ive seen it so might come back tonight depending how the rest of the night goes but here goes nothin lol

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Not really, all he says is: “sensitivity is weakness”

You Goobers love this movie!!! 🍿