The flexible Predator franchise has changed alongside its longtime Alien counterpart, with fewer classics but more eccentricity.
Badlands is certainly made for the general audience. The story doesnt have the scary feels like Prey did. The issue i had is It felt safe. The core parts of the movie have been done before and werent ground breaking.
like i was thinking this could have been a 40k plot. Just have a Neophyte drop off on a death world befriends a catachan to hunt a monster to earn is place but find traitors or something along the way.
Also someone in the studio blatantly forced some decisions on this movie.
From the very beginning Predator was made for general audiences.
Even Prey was quite weak as a horror movie.
And when you break down story plots, there are really only 1 or 2 dozen. At all. Literally every good story could be told in some other setting with different characters. And they are. There are no original stories. People have been telling stories for 100,000+ years. We found all the good ones millennia ago, and have recycled them endlessly since.Yeah they break it down In literature class all the story tropes. Even James Cameron avatar is very much retelling of other stories. I liked badlands but I didnt leave theaters high fiving everyone like I did Prey. I would point out specific issues I had but im keeping vague to avoid spoilers. But I will say for everything I would harp on they did more things I liked about the movie.
Personally i think some executive forced the bad choices. Cause it felt like Disney influences at the end of the movie.
Cool story, decent last couple of entries, still should have evolved into Predators 2: Brody Hunts Back.
It “evolved” into M@rv3l sl0p
