Predator: Badlands

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"Predator: Badlands is an audacious exercise in reinvention that takes a risk and triumphs. The movie excels in every technical department, featuring a spectacle of creature design and sound work, and offering a new thematic vision for the saga's longevity.

Elle Fanning's superb performance and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi's powerful physicality ensure Dek's journey the creature who forgoes the Yautja code of honor in search of a deeper, collective capability won't leave anyone indifferent. If there were still doubts that Dan Trachtenberg deserves the keys to the franchise, they...

Predator: Badlands is the first Predator film since 2022s Prey. It is also the second Predator-related media released this year. Hulus animated anthology film, Predator: Killer of Killers, is now streaming. All three titles were directed and/or written by Dan Trachtenberg.

Badlands follows Dek, a young Predator who yearns for his father's approval but struggles to escape the shadow of his bigger and older brother Kwei. Their father, viewing proud Yautja lineage as something reserved for only the strongest, sees Dek as weak and uselesswanting him dead to preserve the familys honor. Deks perceived weakness, being the runt, drives both his fathers harsh stance and Deks desperate need to prove himself.

However, Kwei believes Dek deserves ...

Dek is the runt of the Yautja clan so his militaristic father has asked his elder brother Kwei to get rid of him. Luckily, his brother isnt so brutal and so with an impossible task on his hands to prove his worth, Dek manages to escape to a planet where he seeks to make a trophy from the menacing Kalisk. Thing is, this place is riddled with all sorts of flesh-eating monsters and plants so his own survival chances arent especially high until he encounters the top half of synthetic Thia (Elle Fanning) who is quite hot on keeping him alive and who agrees to work with him to achieve his task. It turns out, though, that she and her mission doppelgänger Tessa are on this world for a similar reason and him getting back home is not in their plans, ...

Director of his 3rd Predator project, I think3 times a charmDan Trachtenburg , obviously understands Alien. I think he brought the aliens in Cameron style to this pg13 Disney + friendly film. So maybe for a newer audience that wants to understand and identify with the originals. Movies now get universe in comic book format is how we lay film work. New normal. So get with the program, ya hard-to-please Treky Boomers. If you watch Badlands with all things considered, you find it delivers well. The originators of Alien and sci-fi alike also started woke back then. The real kind . It was green peace hippie and comic book loving pc building movie magic woke nowadays, so its not hard to see how the concepts and themes in the Badlands plot an...