The Reel Rejects - Extended Version: PREDATOR: BADLANDS (2025) IS A HUGE SWING THAT WORKS! MOVIE REACTION! Yautja | Elle Fanning

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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She was like a Dutch film, you know what? Callbacks. Quetz. Gletcha. Ah. It looks like a black head. I don't like it. Oh, me kidding. No.

Fucking Lord of the Rings, babe. Yeah. Fellow citizen of the reject nation, we are here to watch a movie. I am so jazzed. jazzed to finally be watching this is honestly a hard one for me to skip i'm a huge fan of this franchise huge huge fan of this franchise we are watching what do we watch today erin we are watching we are watching predator badlands baby now look i did a reaction to pray a couple years ago thank you guys for all who watched and of course erin and terra they did the predator franchise we even

ended joining forces for a killer of killers yeah unfortunately it's december and it's kind of a complicated month and scheduled this week with Tara is just not going to line up so she can't be here for this one. We are going to figure out something where we can get a reaction because it just doesn't feel right to not have her have any reaction to this movie. So maybe we'll have her to do us hold or we'll pair up with someone else who hasn't seen it. Maybe a new person we find off the streets here. Ooh, yeah. Get a homeless person. Bring them in. Hey, they're called bums. Be respect. satire i noticed i was called uh yeah so she can't be here this week unfortunately but she's fine

she's fine just uh it's not lying anyway enough of that it's gonna be us and we're gonna have a great time absolutely love this how are you feeling buddy i'm feeling good man i'm really excited for this did like a little recap right beforehand had a great time reacting to all the predator and alien movies before this one uh over in the last year we're all up on the channel so i'm excited and yeah killer of killers was great it's probably my top 10 of 2025 so let's see if this join the ranks. It's about the same guy who did Prey and Killer of Killers. So, yeah, I'm genuinely really excited. How are you, man? Thank you. I'm good. Just making sure. We're going to be, you know, mutually cordial here. Of course. And I'm reciprocate the same questions. I'm good. I'm

really, I'm really excited about this. And yeah, Dan Chackenberg is like the perfect man to helm this franchise. Let's thank ourselves and reward ourselves by watching Predator the Badlands. Netflix should buy them. Oh, gosh. Yeah, man. I just want everything owned by one company. One, one voice, one family. Ooh.

Oh, creepy. In a world. Yachtah are prey to none. Friend to none. I like that they actually use the Yachtah name now. Predator. to all. 2,025, they said that.

Whoa. Cool, wide with instant dread. Well, this music too. Yeah. It's like Yacht Chaw music? Like a chant. Sweet. Yeah, it's reminds of Dune.

thought it was a baby xenomorphic Oh, are we doing the thing like in a Predator? Yeah. Cool. Oh, damn. That was awesome. Alien Dominant. Oh, the instant like register of history

they're showing us. Great CGI, damn. Ooh, I like the editing of the pan-ins that they're mirroring, one from close, one from behind. So many just great wide shots. Oh, the planets in the background, the stars, the moons. This is beautiful. It's a painting, man. It's going to be such an interesting experience. Yeah, with us following the predator as a character.

I'm to earn yours. Is this an actual hunter or a training? I think it's a training session. Yeah, it's his brother. It's like, I gathered. That's probably what's happening. He used to earn his, it's almost like a coming of age kind of thing. Oh

My dick Holy crap This is dope These dragon shots are incredible Sounds are somewhat Star Wars reminiscent Yeah 100% Yeah because almost like a lightsaber

With those blades there I love it. It's very traditional. The first shot of his face to let it be kind of vulnerable, like instantly establishing the kind of arc this predator will happen. Yeah, and I'm making it very clear off the back. He's an underdog. You have to earn it. You have to earn it. Oh, interesting. Unrelenting brutality.

Whoa, that looks like the Predator 2 room. Yeah. Toy. Toi. Kluza kai? Oh, it's too no, dight fish. Jackson's Ringich, how? Mm-hmm.

So fascinating to capture it with such tenderness with them. Never before done. It's also the most human where they've looked. Sequish, kai? About a what? We're at a few jean-uh-chu-a-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hry-hong-h. We're at a passage. It's cool because, pray, that he did, had that indigenous tribe, and this is evoking it, but with the Yachta.

I think I'm saying that, right? No, you just offended somebody. Oh, I said, it's like the N-word, but for prayers. But you only learn from failure. But you only learn from failure. I love the childness to the deck character, the way they did the makeup on them and the eyes where he's more aged. Yeah. And potentially, like, tolerant and feels like there's more years.

feels like there's more years and experience, like, on his whole face. Ah, so well done. It's like, you've got to communicate all that just visually. Yeah, because I think the predators are typically somewhere between, like, seven to nine feet tall. So for them to showcase, he's like the runt of them. Plus, he's young. Like, yeah, really, really great makeup detail. I wonder if there's a mixture of CGI and, uh, impractical here with their facial expressions.

There's definitely feels like a Star Wars. inspiration oh 100% little star wars some dune as well oh white they're white braids slash locks Ha, ha, the brother's way more protective. Damn, so cold. Oh, no, what's going to happen with the brother? That's intense. oh no shit this brother's gonna free him yeah i have to yeah i think i'm i'm sensing the same thing you are and i'm gonna try to protect him whoa

cool way to give a generational element it's also it's also great when like action isn't there for just action's sake but it's also continuing the story and giving us details learning about them in real time through how they behave oh wow man that sucks is the father the bad guy of the movie that is crazy You hear that? You got to honor your brother now, dude. Sina pals. That's so cold.

Literally torturing him. But I love how quickly the movie is able to get you on deckside, both through the damn. Actual beheading of the sun. That is merciless. Oh. What a lonely-ass character, man. Yeah, hated by his people. His brother, the only man who wanted him alive, is now dead.

So many long takes. Yeah, let's see a really feel it and breathe it in. great way to hide a cut that's cool oh what a great reveal jeez damn that that blend of cgii into real to go from this falling from the sky to the ground all in a deceptive oneer so well done Have we even had a title? We haven't had a title sequence now. Yeah?

Or like, he's no smashed the title yet. Oh, cool. I think the father knew exactly what he was doing. Oh, you must mind your surroundings. You don't know where you are, man. You gotta be careful. just blurt in the background, yikes. Ha ha ha.

Oh. Literally just fighting like an element right now. Fighting the trees. oh nicely done yeah mess it up i love the depth of emotion in the eyes there's a combination of like fear and courage and anger like whoever this actor is and whatever digital they did is so good Ha ha ha ha ha ha he's a good fight he's adapting but yeah even going back to what you were saying about his facial expressions it's just really impressive that the action this is so visceral it's not action for action's sake but

Obviously, to help us advance the character and understand the character, what he does in trying situations. Whoa. What the hell? Just on the other side of the jungle. There it is. There it is. We're in, baby. It doesn't have any of his crazy healing stuff.

No. He doesn't have a kit. Didn't get time to prep. A leach for the blood? I don't know about that, dude. Oh, it explodes. Yeah, I love like analyzing character design. So I think it's, yeah, it'd be really interesting after watching this to see how they've humanized his face to make him really feel like a person while still maintaining those features that are prominent or a.

identifiable as the Yachtra. Whoa, it looks like a blackhead. I don't like it. Oh, it looks like a pimble. Chill. Don't pop on us. A lot of these environmental creatures appear normal and that they expand.

So unique and clever the way they take things that are familiar to us, but make it just enough to feel alien. change it enough to fill you lean i was confused no it's broken i was saying he's confused i wonder if they're gonna do a thing where he's speaking english No, I doubt it. The needles to paralyze you and eat you while you can't move. Well, it's like not true English.

We'll see. He isn't spoken yet. I could help you, but I need a hand. So, we'll see, yo, yo, yo. Okay, yeah. They die alone, too. True. As you just witnessed it.

You're hunting the callusk. How did you know that? How are you avoiding all of those spikes? oh yeah finally if you had a weapon you know i could use it like a video game helper yeah totally oh it does have the visceralness of like a video game cut scene

Oh, good save. Hell yeah. Jesus. You feel right as rain. How about a lift? She's cheeky. How did you jump? I'm synthetic.

I was built and deployed by the Wayland Utani Corporation for research. There it is. Their humans wouldn't last a day on this planet. We found that... Many yautja have come for the great callusk. None have survived it. Or Gena. But...

I've seen the callusk. I survived it. Here's my proposal. He looks sussed out. You take me along with you. I'll guide you to it's den. I got my legs. You get your trophy.

She said a few sentences ago, yeah. Good luck with your journey. I'm just going to go on my journey. I've already shown you that I can be useful to you. Well, the consistency of the distortion of audio is cool. Yes, the only way to survive Gena is to work with it. And I know how. Chish, each late.

You may call me thief. Hmm. I've never been thrown before. What a throw! Unique to your plan And what may I call you? These wides are so good Because he keeps showing how small

Our predator is In such in these environments Just constantly surrounded By huge threats Every corner there's danger You just got a snack You've proven yourself useful Predatory organisms

Are my specific area of expertise oh that's great ask me anything i bet i have the answer damn it's a cool riff on the loader rogue male character hanging out with a childlike girl yeah yeah the childish energy the uh what's it called the the lone wolf and bear cub yeah the joel and ellie Mm-hmm. How on you? Two years ago and we built a base. Then I was in the vultures nest for 13 days.

7 hours. 43 minutes and 2 seconds of my life. Skoffed. No, you will come. Say ye, dear one. The company. Oh. Our crew is made up entirely of synths.

Oh, interesting. We have a higher sensitivity than the others. You'll learn your square. No, you will learn its strength. Sensitivity is what allows us to understand the creatures on this planet he is sensitive and that's going to come into play as a strength that's cool we were exploring genna and then the callus attacked us separated me literally separated the last sound i remember hearing was tessa calling out my name reaching for me

forlorn with the rain and the darkness of the shadow oh wow jesus solid match cut wow what an image that was stark oh oh oh yeah they're doing riffs on tropes but in the world of of the pov of these types of characters like that was like the flashback trope of like distortedness did weapon retrieval new life oh okay that's where it is what hello tessa the company is not pleased that company continued failure will result in your decommission where's the Oh, no, but it's not an enemy. God, beautiful landscapes.

This is awesome. I would love to see the storyboard to this movie. Bone bison. They're callousk food. What a cool tease. I call it callousk food when that thing is already massive. Just a warning. Eidly.

Quiet, tool. Razor grass. Damn. Oh, jeez. It'll cut you to ribbons. We'll just go around. Ah. And the hide is super thick of the creatures so they can just take it.

What an odd critter. I've never seen you before. Oh. What a weird monkey. It looks like a rhino mix with a woolly mammoth and something else. I'm like a crab or something. Are you just running into that thing? Oh, smart. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

Careful up in these trees. There are luna bugs. Yikes. Mission impossible. Ooh. Nice. stronger than it looks a lot more quirky than I expected yeah yeah the I'm talking with the creature of the movie the movie

yeah no that's the the mix of action and comedy is really impressive it doesn't feel unnatural at all I was going to say couldn't you just eat the little monkey guy instead of trying to hunt the big thing. If you're looking for food anyway. Straight down the letter. Oh, geez. Perfect slice. Wow.

You're getting launch. That is brutal and gnarly. Oh, no. Doesn't it? Not a callus. This is a Luna bug. Oh, wow. Oh, what a great plan for that.

You say Luna bug you don't imagine a... Does your bug you imagine something tidy? Yeah. That's so smart. Save our friends. Oh, with the teeth! All right, he's cool. All right, he's cool.

You better not kill this monkey, y'all. Don't kill this monkey. I swear. I know I said kill him a second ago, but I lied. I take it back. I love how they keep encountering bigger, bigger creatures, and he keeps going, callous, callous, but it's like, what the hell is this callous going to be? Oh, God, it's like Starro.

It was freaky. Yeah, it's like a path, monkey. He's just set a path for you. Why'd you stop? Let's get out of here. Can you show you all? Oh, you can run on the log. Yeah, it's like a walking star like bit.

Now return the favor. Return the favor. Yeah, it has like an octopus beak. Yeah. Oh, nice. Stepping backwards, use the leverage. This should get CGI consideration, like visual effects nomination consideration. Oh, 100%.

looks incredible they've literally built a world i don't think 99% of this is real i like how she's she's more traditional synthetic the way they're doing the herbert trail yeah tougher i said they're both sensitive mission driven by the company sort of thing but also the fact that her sister is in danger at least he perceives her to be at this point that was the the best hunt i've ever been on this is the dream team right here the dynamic three the dynamic trio the dynamic trio no thanks i don't eat but that's very sweet good to know our little bud here looks hungry it's a bold move to take both a predator and a synthetic and make them the most heartfelt they've had

ever been she wants you to be a part of her clan maybe she's lost you see not you tight you do now they're the dynamics for you so you never had anyone looking out for you what happened to him snarl of the gills or whatever you're grieving oh you have to feel dude you're just in the anger stage i'm here because traveling with you is the best way to get back to tessa that's honest i was in that vulture's nest i was so afraid i would never see her again i can survive on my own but who would want to survive on their own i will save this sibling dynamic if i couldn't save my own i guess she is i guess you wouldn't

think of it in those terms i need to find her she's twice oh was that a joke predator with a sense of humor wow he's got wonder protect and now we're he's got this monkey who looks up to him story's really about the friends we made along the way aaron oh do not kill this monkey oh it doesn't feel this monkey oh it's cool because it doesn't feel like directly like an alien and predator crossover. He does adopt the vibe of when you're with the synthetics and stuff in a way that feels like straight out of the alien movies. Yeah, no, I like the way he was able to find his unique sort of pocket

within while adapting and honoring both of those worlds. They also come with a unique kind of unsettling quality about them that feels kind of icky. Yeah. They really knew how to bring that vibe here. and like marry the worlds use his own weapons against him his goblin bombs

I think this looks better than Avatar I buy it too if I buy it it looks more real it looks more real stuff what the hell Ah, a tooth

Very big tooth Uh, less gone Yes, he's got to have one win Kalesk Everything he picks up I wonder what he'll call her When he's not calling her a tool But saved us

Hopefully her name She spit on you to claim you as part of her family That's a weird way to claim Uh, you don't do that in her house? Ugh, well, we used to, ever since the incident. Yeah, even though you're hurt by its tradition to claim respect by conquer. There's a predator known as the wolf. They hunt in packs. They're very loyal.

And we saw him prey, the predator kill a wolf. The leader of the pack is the alpha. And you do. And you do. The alpha is actually the one who best protects the pack. Tohuis, I will hwak, whine you. Of course. It's testosterone on this guy.

You know, it's like the sense of... It's like, fucking Lord of the Rings, man. Yeah. I remember Andrew saying that. This is like Lord of the Rings. He said that. He said that. Nuts.

No, I don't see what he means. Like the wide scopes. The grassy mountain hilltops and stuff. Oh, let's go. They've really done a great job of making this planet a character in and of itself. Whoa. Is that where things went down while you're messed up? Waylon Utani since the callus destroyed most of our mission team.

There I am. My legs! Hey! I thought she was hotter when she didn't have legs. Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh? Chin hornflicks air. It's about to be.

Yeah. You need to leave now. You used him. The location will be inactivated. I call Tessa. The company is on its way. You can't be here. they arrive what the hell wow all yes oh yeah so did i deck the company sent us here to

capture the callusk the competition's on you could alesco you can't kill it all that betrayal in his eyes turns out deck was the tool trying to help you dick you think your brother saved your life just so you could die here God, it's everything, it's his culture. This movie's really well-paced as well. It's very different than I expected it to be, too. Oh, totally. It's wild that's the same guy that made prey.

Two very different films, even though they're both kind of about underdogs, but still, the way they execute it is very different. Well, they're tonally completely different. Yeah. Yeah. Bad ass. Yeah.

Explosion and everything. Cool guys, don't look back to explosions. Is that it? Is that it? Ooh. If that's it, that was very quick. Oh. Similar type of jaw opening.

Oh, wow. Already. Sheesh. Did his signature move work? He's doing a pretty good job so far. Yeah, that's why I can't be it. Oh, what? That sucks.

That is stupid fast. Take out the heart. No. Oh, fuck. That sucks. She was so close. She looks so happy, too. That's so funny.

You need her. They're a team. Oh, damn. It's so interesting because the predator always comes with their own type of weaponry. This is the first time we're seeing the predator use human tools. We still really using human tools. Go for it. Nuts.

I can't grow that back. Nice. Feels very like mythological. What? Oh my god. Don't just watch, keep slicing. There is no killing this freaking thing. freaking thing.

Just keep cutting its head off. I mean, if you cut its head off and then run away with it. But he can't carry that head, can he? The marking of the, oh, the marking of the, of the spit. Oh, is he become fond of you? Are you joining the team? No. Not the freaking goblin bombs.

I use his own weaponry it is an interesting contrast the fact that you know we see them in this dangerous environment but yet it feels cruel when no he's frozen too yeah it feels cruel when when Wayland's doing it like when they're burning down the forest you're like no not the forest but even though it's obviously attacking our protagonists Asked for healing her the yautja cull there we why were you spared exactly specific words call It's what the father exactly the exact thing father said to do I read Thea's logs you never told her why your brother protected you This is not the way to her heart you are now property of the Wayland Utani corporation Wow we made it I've seen so much a lot of awesome visual storytelling you were right about the cow The creature is a regenerative miracle. Humanity will thank us. Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

Somehow mine the DNA, so that way you can apply it for medicine. Ah, what the hell? The Alcha is not an ideal specimen. Speaking her language. But its technology is valuable. We can salvage its weapons and leave the Alcha. That's not gonna work. But it's so malformed, we're going to need a sample.

How big of a sample. She's studying her reaction. He was not the goal of our mission. Yeah, see, our El-Fanning has a heart. Tessa's not sensitive. Tessa don't have a heart. Or she's sensitive in a way, but we'll still manipulate. This is what is asked of us.

We can be more than what they ask of us. What can we be? Sisters. You will not find it with her. The... Oh, no. We can never. I'm going to break her synthetic heart.

Oh, the Colts Witch. Ooh, and the music with it too. Do you know why Mother gave us feelings so we could understand the creatures on this planet? But they represent two different feelings. And exploit them. The oucha is different. Yeah, I was trying to get out. The feelings were generated to how they can use.

When we first face the callus, I tried to protect you. And that almost cost me everything. Wow. brothers. I almost made the same mistake the Yautja's brother made. Way ahead of you script. Oh no. You're broken. No.

I didn't think she'd actually go for calling her. Incoming message from mother. Motivate the Yautja to explain its weapons. And the unit box are up. They're both outcasts of their tribes. All they have is each other when they're monkey. Many of the monkeys on board. This is the cat the monkey?

No, the monkey's on board. why are you speaking its language you heard the orders what is the device this synthetic can't understand i was just going to say yeah you know the ability to translate Right. What did it say? It's going to just... He says it's a map. That's funny.

How does it work? Twy tan ah, Rechliu. You put your face really close to it. And it's a yowden chin, ha-on-chaten. And it's a way to emulate the predator killing humans. without the Predator killing humans.

Woo! Just like it Dodge fell on the line. Cullbacks. Quixing. Okay. Well, I guess they did capture the actual creature. I thought it was a mislaid.

The callusk? Yeah. Yeah, they froze it. I know they froze it, but when I was talking earlier, I was like, oh, that can't be. They showed it too early. it was too quick but no it was it was it because we were talking about like the rhino thing i expected it to be like much bigger i wonder if he like dawn armor by the end

put the mask on become the predator yeah then he travels to earth bumps in a scorny weaver yeah come on man we got to heal up for the finale Very few handheld shots in here, but it's good for driving home the drama. It makes you feel really real, and you're able to utilize the real feeling when it's all dark like this. So it feels more human, especially because of how vulnerably is physically right now. There's emotions are clashing. Use it, dude. That's why we were handheld.

Yeah, I like the cinematography a lot. this is really cool someone watching this feels like someone's watching oh never yeah he'll have the armor now hell yeah you will honor him your death will not be in vain He's doing the Arnold shit, and the Adrian Brody shit. It was awesome. He's setting the traps and everything. But it's also cool because, you know, he's using the environment against them, but he's learned to embrace the environment because of what Diaz taught him.

Yeah, that's a good point. Do the mud. Yeah. Yeah, do that human shit. Honestly. Ah, buddy. Yeah, that's why the spit and everything, the marking reminded him. I spit on you. I'm part of your tribe now.

The thing he came to hunt, he is now part of the clan. Hmm. That's cool. Yeah, she's like slumped again. yeah spit on them oh acid spit oh dude oh lord amulating the xenomorph yeah we are one with the planet it's cool because it's not like the other predator mass that are more feel very tech it just feels primal literally carved together in some way yeah i think the one in pray was kind of like that but yeah what you mean

that's even more so nice oh nice nice nice yeah little dude protect your neck oh it looks so sick it's the coolest monkey ever hello mother Tessa we're about to load the callusk Priority 1 Complage The specimen has been acquired Thank you, Chasa Nice

We truly are building A better world And what is the status of the Yauja Are you The Yauja is a defective specimen What is the status of the Yauja

I'm sorry mother The Yautja is dead Oh now we're off center Then the Yalchin is no longer A Thread The company will be pleased Someone's a little liar That's awesome

This is very much a video game Oh, because she's right there Woo Nicely done Oh hello Oh I love the weaponry Very sick Oh

Oh the branch thing From outside Oh Hey, you're right Everything he went up against Is now becoming an ally This is so unique I've never seen

With just a separate torso And hands and just legs You That was sick Good job High foot This is the thing of the thing is from aliens. Nah, get away from her, you bitch.

It's a great time. Mm-hmm. Jack. Hey. Go, ah, so much. It's great time because fans can actually make these now. You came back for me. Mm-hmm.

Heck. When exactly are you wearing? Oh, so it really was the thing that was just handcrafted. Yeah, okay. deck of the ouch you and i we need to hurry more of them will be here any minute what are you doing here

save his mom we need to go still deck no we need to free it oh listen bud wow what a flip what a flip what's the plan

what's your trophy I thought the calusk was the trophy what's the trophy yeah that's what i was saying i don't know you roll in there you're not exactly going to fit in i have an idea oh oh you're gonna hide back i think you might hijack the thingy oh that's cool over headshot ah the exploding bugs nice bringing them back smart I love it I love how clever this is man

oh man set up and payoff nothing is done in here for no reason oh you're right what are those things called again I don't know they're like are they called a trans are they called I don't remember oh no it's the sister

oh no I was wrong that is the sister oh no oh no I'm using the predator beams against them that's so cruel his brother's tack against him wow little bug guy little slug dude oh oh wow he's gonna fight this that is so awesome that's amazing talk about fan fulfillment oh shit awesome awesome what are you doing here i told you to get to the yautja aha mess up the eye you said to prepare the ship for takeoff in 20 minutes

then what are you doing here i gave you an order what should we do about the creature what creature oh no it's a baby it's a callus you can't do anything about it oh that's true yeah because it's gonna heal itself i don't know that's funny because that's a motif at the alien movies hmm hi jack how does it feel to be hunted a yes damn you know you can't stop it it just regenerates

yeah it's true maybe there's like a core if you like get its heart you can't heal itself or something Something. Nice. Nice interception. Everything is coming back to be reversed. Wow. It's like having a Pacific Rim fight.

He smiled. Hmm. This is the plan, yeah? Hey. No. Nope. A little Godzilla roar for you. Alfany did a really good job

of playing both characters. Yeah. Oh. Do we do that? Is that what we do? You're in my new family. My dad sucks. We do that now.

Apes together, strong. What the hell's wrong with it? Oh, it's freezing from inside. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, that sucks. Oh, my God. She's liquid terminating this thing.

Shit. That's cruel, man. Very. Oh. Oh, no, she's gross now. oh no those are moms betrayed by my own sister

it's nebula and gomor using that against her so cruel where are you deck get her decks you're not sisters yeah

whoa if the ice dries down if the ice dries down yeah trophy oh

top trio deck of the oucher you and I gotta kill your dad that's what's up you guys are fucking awesome Look at that.

Their place is just built on skeletons. That's right. It's what he wanted this whole time. Ah. Yeah. Show what's down to chish. You know, each great ton. Yeah.

Do not speak of him this way. Show him everything you've learned. Oh, sweet. Oh, yeah, he's got a sphere. Yeah, not sphere. The hell's that called. Dual blade. But like the predator staff.

See your dad's face. Woo! That's where I cover him in dust, smart. Nice. That's tough. That's cool. That's really cool. Woo.

What's you looking for? Uh. Do it everything. Yeah, that's great. Oof. Oh. Yeah, it looks like old school predator. i love you son no no shut the hell up me see child deep tight yeah you do

who killed by the very thing he's got so much bigger nice very thing he feared yeah i got the cloak Hell yeah Snarl Yeah Hell yeah Cool That was awesome

Oh Made credit What is this Oh yeah It's all people It was in front of a lot of them What the hell More friends of yours

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we need a balance of scales too many five stars and also leave a like on this video while you're here Aaron you have binged alien here you have binge predator here we'll keep a predator focus primarily of course since this is a predator film now this is the first one to focus on the predator as a protagonist with that they also changed kind of the genre and experience and structure what did you think of the changes uh i thought the changes were really smart i feel like utilizing the mythology and then and the history of what we already know about predators and flipping it on its head to allow a story type and structure that allows the predator to be the protagonist was really smart you know not changing what we know as the predators as a whole but focusing on the fact that

obviously with with a race of of beings there will be people that are stronger and considered more weak and we follow somebody who is essentially an underdog of his own society and by giving him something to prove really gets us on his side especially in a setting that seems so dangerous and allowing it to breathe in a way that doesn't feel like it's rushing by too fast but feels authentic for the type of story that we're in. I thought it was really well done. Yeah. I thought it was great.

What about you? Oh, thank you. Yes. I feel like he kind of did the, I feel like they kind of did something that's, seemed a little bit unfathomable i i expected it to just pretty much be a predator movie but flipped you know like the predator would be the main character and he'd be up against something else and it would just be like a predator movie you know because a predator movies the general structure of it is they go into an environment some foreign creature shows up they got to fight they got to figure out

how to kill this foreign creature yeah they learned their ways and they have a big showdown with it that's not this movie no no not at all it It's a found family movie. It's kind of a buddy comedy movie. And it's like a video game meets anime meets comic books with all kinds of sci-fi inspirations. Star Wars, Dune. And you got like the fantastical side of like Lord of the Rings, even a bit of like a Skull Island vibe. Yeah.

A little guardian to there. Yeah, yeah. When Yacha has his walkman out. he's hidden on thea the whole time yeah yeah i mean it's got that because it's got that humor as well so it surprised me because it's it's essentially utilizing a lot of the tropes you see in this kind of story with you know you could just take a brooding guy on a mission who's like do i don't have a heart you know i'm weak i don't need nobody yeah i don't need nobody then you got like you know sensitive precocious child character yeah yeah exactly and they they really mess with

the the trope so it was a little bit um it was it was a little trope heavy in this sense so sometimes it was a little bit um i don't want to use the word generic because that sounds like an an undercut of the experience it was nor was it by the numbers because it seemed like it was honoring tropes and it also seemed like it was having fun with it because a lot of times we would point something out or say something then the character would say exactly you know so it was there's a sense of familiarity about it yeah yeah but but it was earnest in its execution it was it was having fun with the way they handled it so i thought it was cool because it had the tribal holistic survival, elemental side.

When you see the predators are often known for their weaponry, their armor, their tech. And you literally, it's weird to do the movie where you take the yacha and you strip him from everything we kind of associate with the predator. And you focus on the skills and the heart that one must accrue from observation. And that's how you find a way to make your predator human whilst being through the eyes, you know? Yeah, no, I think they did a great job of that. And also, it's our first time spending with a predator that hasn't, not like the world's most, like, proficient dialogue. And he's not having whole monologues, but you are having a way in to be able to talk to him and understand him that makes sense within the framework. or what we know a predator to be.

And I feel like being able to do that and capitalizing on the fact that he is our main character by giving him a sense of humor and giving him something to fight for was really well done and got you to sympathize with him. Yeah, I like the fact that this movie's plot was simple, which allowed there to be room to explore

these these big set pieces while also allowing those set pieces to give character and understanding into our our main guide deck and without having him necessarily to talk a whole lot like obviously he has dialogue scenes but it's more so the action that speaks to his character more more than it is the words that he's saying yeah absolutely and whoever plays deck let's look that up let's go to It's go to Imba. I have the IMDB right here. Look up the IMD Bizzle. Predator Badlands.

There's a computer right in front of me. We're a phone society. What are computers? Oh, he also played the father, the voice of the father. Oh, cool. Okay, so I wonder if they're separate, if there's like a voice actor and a performance actor. So there's the deck, father voice, this guy, Demetrius Schister. but who did the body of deck?

I think he did it too. Really? Oh, he's the voice of the father. That's what they're saying. Yeah. And he's the actor of him. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah, I thought he did a really, really good job.

And I imagine they had to probably do some VFX, obviously with the face, with the mouth and the eyes, but the enhancements were very seamless. And they were smart to give him big eyes. That way you can really get into the eyes or the soul. character that's that's the thing that i often talk about where with avatar work and kind of lose me a little bit when you have actors in mocap or not mocap but performance capture and then you digital their eyes it's like oh you you kind of lose some of the actor then when you do that

you know because that's the that's the that's the that's the that's the way to the soul is the eyes yeah and they utilize his eyes so well and the agenness of like the brother the distinguishedness and the flip of not having like a cane and able thing but also driving home kind of the ruthlessness and having a bit of that change of generational trauma

yeah he's gonna change the ways here it was smart along with like this we kept talking about how beautiful the effects are it was gorgeous looking film and it's actually shot like composed you know what I mean I think a lot of the times movies are now lacking this kind of dynamic flourishes

and the way they're shot, and especially a movie like this, CGI-heavy, this could just look like a volume movie, but it actually, you know, had a lot of good contrast and a lot of good pop and a lot of good environment usage and very composed, calculated shots on when to go handheld, when to go wide, when to go close-up,

when to go extreme with your close-ups. You know, I thought the usage of conveying emotion, in those subtler ways was really, really well done. How'd you feel about El Fanning as A Thea? I thought she was great. I think she was a really

fun counterbalance to a character like Deck who was largely serious in one-tracked mind. And she brought this, for lack of a better term, humanity to the movie. And giving him a sense of companionship, teaching him there are

ways outside of the ways he was necessarily taught and challenging his views which is you know within this sort of setting is one of the few ways you can get someone like that to grow and even though they didn't have a ton of heart-to-heart scenes I feel like the experience of what we went through makes it believable how he would go from wanting to hunt this thing's one-track mine to then embracing it as its new clan yeah I thought that was very beautiful I think that yeah she definitely did a good job representing that that hopeful sort of optimistic or sensitivity to the situation and to dex yeah yeah they're both they're both shades of learning to accept their feelings because you have tessa you have tessa on one side who also is

imbued with feelings but rejects the process of learning from the feelings yeah instead shuts off the heart the way how deck kind of was and both deck and and the uh are all about learning to understand the power of the emotions yeah because they woke up our predator fucking making the sissy pussy predator this way he's got that mouth shake it with the flaps dude we're our rated while this movie's

yeah that was fun man I mean if I had a couple of criticisms because I don't I don't feel like the movies without these criticisms like I like the arc of deck I like the I like the arc of deck I like the heart I love the and I think the action's really well done you get a variety of actions

oh for sure like different action set pieces often of fighting the environment learning how to use the environments I think is really cool and the different types of hand-to-hand combat versus creature combat like a really good usage a lot of this feels birth from imagining action sequences and lacing a plot throughout you know and really huge credits of Dan Tractonber for able to do three predator films and all feel completely different from each other you know like they're they would think they all there's like thematic something similarities but they also feel like they could be directed by three different directors true you know yeah there are thematic similarities especially between our girlfriend pray and a dude with uh with with deck here both of them being like underestimated having to go on some sort of adventure yeah yeah and then uh i don't think there's like a thing she pray feels pretty complete as a story but obviously this kind of teasing the idea of a sequel but them going

on some major journey to then come out chains on the other side. And I'm like, is there any of that in Killer of Killers? Maybe some. I think the last guy was a bit of an underdog, if I remember correctly. Yeah. The plane guy. A little binneets.

Yeah, the plane guy and the other guy was the brother who was rejected and ostracized away from his clan. Well, his brother was emperor. That's right. That's right. But yeah, I think that even watching it, I didn't feel like the sense of lack per se because obviously with animation you get this you get so much

room to play and then obviously play with physics and the way the predator can move in the environment and i didn't feel um any sense of like oh this is limited i felt like it was even more grounded in a sense even in its fantasticalness but yeah i think it's really impressive of Dan Tracking Bird's both love for this franchise and his diversity as a filmmaker in his visual visual, visual presentation along with the makeup as well. That part. Phenomenal, like phenomenal, but very, it was very believable.

And it's so hard to pull off this cell, honestly. Predator is a main character after a franchise where they're not. It's really hard. And now it's like, oh, it kind of puts the predator in a different light, you know? Like you really see the humanity. And I'm like, oh, it's a main character.

it would be cool to get more of it of of the predator as this is how you keep the franchise fresh if you're able to do that you know i've never read any of the predator comics but i got to imagine there's comics there's got to be yakcha who are main characters right like this is the only way you can really pull that off can't all just be human fighting a predator and the predator dies but i do however i do think there are some things that i do wish were enhanced okay as i do like el fanning's portrayal i do think though that because there was never really a villain that actually felt truly threatening or imposing to our main character, I never really got a sense of true danger or feeling.

And I think that's kind of essential, even though it's a completely different thing, I feel like that's kind of essential for a predator experience. You know, that's the whole point when a human versus a predator is like, oh, man, it's going to be really hard for this human to kill this predator. That's how that makes it effective and stakes and danger. yeah and while it was constantly fun and i always appreciated the storytelling and i really did think this was a great experience i do think it lacked in the stakes department after it fights the calisk and then it doesn't really feel like there's much i don't i didn't really feel the

danger for this guy he's fighting synthetics you know he's going to defeat this robot yeah like of course he'll come out on top it's like you it's like the way you know how the human will come on top of the Predator movies, but you still got to feel that of those stakes. And I don't really, I didn't really feel the stakes or the physical, he didn't really seem like he was getting physically hurt,

you know? Like he would have the times where he has to heal, but like when the human gets hurt in these movies, it's like, fucking they're limping and shit. And so I do think it kind of liked in that, and then by the time you know he would have to kill his father, it was like a cool setup, but I think it didn't have that much attention or focus on that.

So then it just felt like they had to bookend it, to that and get to there and I wish there was a little bit more of a cathartic build and maybe you guys felt it maybe you felt it I mean I thought it was a really good scene and a good moment and requisite however I do think there's a little bit of lack of narrative build to that yeah you know so I think that's for some of its shortcomings come into play that I do think can be perfected in a sequel yeah I agree with your your points here I feel like the callusk the way it was introduced felt a little abrupt and I was like oh he just like made a fire and now already it's here we could have done that really at any point I guess but the fact that it was done at this site and I feel like maybe to add to some of those stakes is like maybe you know we could have had that battle it could have been losing the wayland utani people could have came in earlier before they had that moment of recognition he then fights calis again in the third act before real in the shuffle of that

realizing that oh this is actually the mom and there is a sense of kinship here because that's something that was only real threat to him in the entire film yeah that's what I mean after it killed after fought the callus and then you realize oh the real bad guy is going to be these whaling people like

I don't really feel like anyone's in real danger it's just kind of just being a fun movie you know but I do I did crave the stakes so I would actually this is going to sound like a slight against it because I really did think this was a great movie and to my understanding

this is I think this is the highest critic rotten tomatoes rating of the three oh really oh wow I would actually but I would still probably put this at number three for me really I really liked it a lot I thought it was really great and it's definitely one of the higher predator movies for me and you know like again Dan Tractorberg three out of three fucking killed it that I definitely didn't have is like My quam with Killer of Killers is like it lacked in the horror department, you know, and I wish it had a little bit more of that horror. This, but so I think Prey is just like perfect in that. I think Prey is the best one he's done.

And I love that he brought stuff to Killer and Killers that was not in this or Prey. And same for this. There's so much, like they're so different. Like I love as like as Tractonburg Trilogy so far. I think as a as a total story though I would probably put this at number I would probably put this at I don't know actually it would be it's either two or three it's definitely not about it's definitely not about prey it's either is either second or third um but right now I'm kind of feeling third even though I really did think this was an awesome fucking movie yeah and then that's then that's by by default as well because obviously we've had other predator movies that Dan track andberg didn't do you know I feel like this is probably a problem above Predator 2 for me and, um... Yeah, there's like Predator 1

than the Dan Tracken members. But I praise my personal favorite. I, you know, I know some people call it, call it like a fucking sin to say, it's not above Predator. But I like Pray more than Predator 1. I would agree with you. I think Predator 1 is still a great film, but yeah.

I feel like, Prey is a great film. It's a great underdog story. It's a great, uh, cultural story. It's a great, yeah, underdog story. but yeah all of them are all of them are great honestly i feel like for me killer of killers may be the most impressive one because of the way that they're all able to to rope in those stories the diversity of the different

type of predators the way it brings in other things from the franchise as like a love letter to people that are fans of the the predator franchise so i think it's it's definitely really awesome in this department i think the greatest thing that dan trachtenberg did for both prey and badlands is he made it accessible for newer fans to come into this world without feeling like they need to know all of this more you don't even know any of anything yeah yeah yeah it's sure you can go into either one of them at any point yeah it doesn't you can watch them at and there's no order you got to watch prey or predator to bad that's it's a good point yeah I think yeah I think you could probably do the same for the most part for killer of killers except for like the end

of it but those are like more easter eggs for fans than it is like narrative importance yeah I mean, where would you put this one amongst it three? It's probably two for me. Okay. Probably two. And, yeah, I haven't watched that. I prayed at a minute. But I remember really, really, really liking it.

I think it's great. All three of them are great. But, yeah, I would say this is probably two for me. I feel like I would sooner put this on just because of the pure action of it, then I would pray. Okay. All right. That's fair. That's fair.

Yeah. A lot of people consider this your favorite. And the other thing, too, is, you know, and he's working with themes and familiarity a lot more with the Predator franchise, the strengths in prey and in Killer of Killers. Whereas this, it is, what I love about this one, it's the biggest swing.

As much as it's very trope-heavy and its beats and stuff, and its execution, it's very trope-heavy, it is the biggest swing. And the biggest thing where you tell someone, I don't know if you can do that. And he proved you can do that. do it and so yeah i i think it's it's incredibly impressive that he pulled that they pulled this off him and his whole team and i would love this i would love to see a sequel this as i think they can make

that i think they can make one i i didn't really find this one like suspenseful you know no it's more like it was more fun than it was suspenseful yeah and i think you could do a sequel that is very suspenseful for sure or or a little bit more intense you know yeah and that i and i kind of love that emotion for that so yeah these are our thoughts on predator badlands i would like to know before we completely walk out of here what i want to see like what all three were i'm going to guess you want to just guess the um badlands i guess badlands i guess badlands yeah uh what do you want to guess for critics and i already i know i've seen it before so i don't really want to guess but what do you i'm going to say badlands is a 90th no

I want to say a bad one is at 89. Okay. And for critics, and then for audiences, I'm going to say 95. Let's find out. Oh, I was close. Oh, it was right for audiences. Hell yeah. And I was close for critics.

I said 89. It was 86. So what did Pray get? I don't know if Pray would have his men. Pray probably have more audience reviews. Does it how? He was streaming. Yeah, there's 10,000.

And there were a fucking idiots back then. were like no they were they were they were literally like woman funny predator how should do that yeah i remember that but that was like the thing uh yeah and let's see predator killer of killers i can't imagine there's anywhere near the out there's only a thousand for reviews so great though god it's such a good underrated film damn all three great predator movies he's the man to spearhead this franchise man is guys what did you think about predator killer of killers that's a good one too what do you think about a predator badlands your thoughts down below aaron thanks for joining m wall or letting me join you however you

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