John Hansen

Disney's Predator Badlands: Emotional Family Drama Cute animal sidekick Comedy Relief characters Road trip-like adventure Buddy Film An evil Queen villian, complete with henchmen. Rated Pg-13 A premise that runs in direct odds with Yautja principals and changes Yautja culture to fit this new premise. This REEKS of Disney. It follows the same format as many disney projects, particualry the mandolorian. Even the fucking poster for the movie looks like a starwars/indiana jones film. I really wanted to like it, and like Alien Earth, and Romulus, it's a product that captures the iconography of the franchise, but fails to understand what made its original predecessors so good in the first place. It's better then alien earth, for whatever thats worth haha. At least the new lore it introduces isn't completely contradictory to previous works besides the questionable aforementioned Yautja culture regarding how runts are dealt with. The Synth is by far the worst part of the movie, she comes off as pixar comedy relief character, constantly cracking jokes and really fucking up the vibe after she is discovered. Before she is introduced there is no dialogue, and just the predator solo surviving on an extremely hostile planet. If this was the movie we got I would have been pretty happy but the plot quickly converges on the synth and she becomes the focal character of the story, rather then Dek, the PREDATOR. It's done in service of trying to set up a shared universe and fast tracking a new Alien Vs Predator film. I'm not saying it can't work...but looking at the track record of Cinematic universes I'm not about to hold my breath lol. This is not the worst predator movie, but it's not nearly as good as predator 1, 2 or even prey. It does clear "the predator" which was one of the worst pieces of crap I have seen in the Alien or Predator franchise haha.

Absolute rubbish. The people writing 5 star reviews need their heads checked. Even taken on it's own terms it's just a bad TV show. Flimsy intrigue that is solved early on, very telegraphed story beats that offer no real substance and absolutely cringe worthy dialogue. “The Jedi are bad!” prompting Osha to say, “The Jedi are good!” Wow guys. After saying she won’t let Osha leave, the sister asks Mae, “It’s not up to you. You can’t stop me.” Mae then says, “Yes, I can,” Osha replies: “How?”, Mae exclaims “I’ll kill you.” I get that these are kids but holy hell that is grade school writing. It's better then The last Jedi, and Rise of Skywalker, and better then Obiwan kenobi series, but just barely and arguably does just as much damage to the brand as those movies/show All the people throwing up the blanket defense of accusing people hating on these projects are just misogynistic or transphobic or whatever I implore you. Really look at the writing and direction of these shows. We are nerds, we don't care if a show has a main woman lead or trans or gay we want GOOD STORIES. GOOD WRITING. I almost want a show with a trans/gay/not white main character that is immaculately written and executed so we can finally put this stupid blanket defense away and have real discussions about the merit of good writing and direction in our loved franchises.