40 million didn’t seem like a record breaking box office weekend. Sure enough, it’s only record breaking for the franchise.
It’s actually in 443rd spot of the opening weekend charts. These are probably preliminary numbers and if they can add just another 50k to that total when the numbers are all in, they can move up to beat Chicken Little.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_opening_weekend/?offset=400
I’m sure the movie is fine, but these “xx breaks records!” headlines are so tired and fucking BS. As inflation carries on, OFC new records for static numbers will be set. Same for population for the most part. It’s literally inevitable.
In broad terms, sure, but we’re talking about the business of theatrical exhibition here, which over the past several years has had a real rough go of it. In some ways, this is because the industry is addicted to shooting itself in the kneecaps at ever opportunity, and in some ways because COVID accelerated the trend of people waiting for VOD rather than seeing something in the theater. So, a movie smashing box office records in today’s environment is still newsworthy.
But predator far predates all that as a franchise. This one’s also not doing big numbers compared to all movies of the time period you say is rough. It’s just beating its own franchise records, which is still nigh inevitable.
It’s like being surprised that the newest Fantastic Four beat its older movies. All they have to do is deliver something that’s not obvious junk.
Sounds promising but I gotta say… That predator looks like shit.
One of the worse redesigns of a science fiction creature. Better then alienhuman but worse then Godzilla 98’.
Strongly reminds me of the JJAbrams Klingon redesign.
Oh record setting for Predator franchise films. I was trying to figure out why 40 million would be enough to break a box office record. Well okay then, don’t think there’s a lot of really super stiff competition in that record but okay good for them.
Those who have seen the recent releases of predator and alien movies, is it worth doing a marathon of them?
I mean Romulus, and the other time period predator movie, and this one.
I do recommend Prey as a great movie in the same setting but different time period. I also Romulus as a well made Alien movie that doesn’t really do anything new but does hit the right notes for the franchise.
Prey was also directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
+1 it is a solid movie.
Im definitely going to watch Prey. Lots of good feedback on that one
Its good, but predator 1 and 2 are better. Just to manage expectations.
very hard to beat the originals. but Prey was true to form and a worthy sequel.
Prey was pretty good.
absolutely.
Rom is probably the best Alien movie since Aliens.
Prey is EXCELLENT, as is Killer of Killers.
Alien and Predator having a resurgence right now in quality.
Rom is probably the best Alien movie since Aliens.
Which says fuck all, everything after Aliens was crap and so is Romulus.
Sorry you didn’t like it.
I enjoyed it. Nice setting, some nice work with gravity, good use of Facehuggers, cool uses of synths, great AV, very moody.
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The weird alien human hybrid at the end pushes the film to a level comparable to Prometheus or Alien Resurrection.
i understand that comparison, though i find how Rom handled that better than the others.
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the Prometheus line of movies are canon so I do enjoy this connective tissue.
I liked Prey a lot. A very basic plot summary
a young Comanche woman trying to prove herself as a worthy warrior and hunter while a feral Predator visits Earth for the first time.
I havent followed the franchise tho. I watched this one bc it is disconnected from the other movies. The predator is not really the main story.
Prey was solid.
Romulus was cool imo, but not mind blowing. To me it was good enough to warrant more. Was it as good as 1 or 2? No. Was it better than everything else? Yes, because unlike every Alien sequel, it is not a few good scenes in a bad movie. For better or worse, it is consistent.
I actually had my internet down for like 10 days and only had a handful of movies available to me and no books as I had just moved and was still awaiting their arrival. I ended up watching Romulus three times. to me it is the perfect example of “swimming in sevens.” I had only a month prior marathoned all other Alien movies though, so maybe my brain was affected.
I cannot speak to the most recent 2 predator movies, but I liked Prey enough to watch it twice in a year. I think the same person did the John Goodman bunker movie, and I just think they are a competent person running the show for Predator stuff now.
I share your opinion of Romulus.
The characters weren’t bad, I really liked the setting and how it managed to bind the original and Prometheus together. It’s a good Alien film and perhaps could’ve been even better, if they had just stuck with the horror tone instead of going full action in the third act. I got the feeling that the director/writer really wanted to blend the best parts of 1 and 2 into a single film.
Very cool, thank you
Recently watched Romulus, like two weeks ago. Personally, I loved it, thought it was great.
I had also tried to watch Aliens (plural, the sequel) holy shit it is so trash. And yet it was considered a hall mark of the time. It takes over an hour for the aliens to show up, and in the meantime you have to deal with dumbfuck marines who are supposed to be the best of the best but are undisciplined fuckwits that make the term “crayon eater” sound like a compliment. Then they do show up, and the marines are just the biggest idiots. I cannot stress enough just how trash this supposed classic is. Also, probably a hot take, but Weaver is just a product of her time and heavily overrated.
I also watched AvP and AvP: Requiem, and both of those movies were a much more fun watch, though Requiem really does drop the ball with way too many dark shots, its a common complaint about the movie for a reason. There’s a lot of complaints about lack of character depth too, but my own response is who the hell cares when most are just going to wind up dead. I’m definitely not watching Alien or Predator movies to be enamored with the basic humans. And they’re all better than the trash Marines of Aliens.
Having hung out with Marines, the movie depiction may be too accurate…
Alright, let’s say it is true, lets just take your subjective experience as fact. Afterall, the crayon eating meme likely has its grounds in some truth, right. So lets say that is totally how they really act. It changes nothing in making the team in the movie an absolute cringe worthy cast to watch. I dunno, maybe the thought was that helps make you root for their death. But over an hour in and I was just sick of the movie, and couldn’t even get into them getting come-uppance. It was a genuinely frustrating movie to sit through.
Lol Aliens is a thing of it’s time.
Most people don’t like the AvP movies, so it’s interesting reading your point of view. Thank you!Yeah, I’m pretty aware of the general trend, I did read up reviews and scores and all that. Like I said, people consider Aliens a hallmark, but it’s just… not. It’s terrible. And while AvP franchise is nothing great, more like very expensive B-movies, they were more entertaining than what James Cameron shat out as far as I’m concerned. They were fun. Aliens was a slog. I will die on that hill.
To each their own. I can respect that.
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… do you realize that this is a predator movie…
It is already the tenth sequel and the product has been milked to death and there is absolutely nothing original about this…
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Not really. They turned a tense sci fi action thriller into what is now a buddy cop movie. Yeah, everyone likes it, but they didn’t really take\use anything good from the original movie.
THIS is the movie that makes you think of originality and craft? 1. The predator and human character teaming up has already been done. B. This movie isn’t even that good. It’s formulaic, generic. The twists were predictable. Too many conveniences. Too many tropes. Too many things that just don’t make sense story wise. The girlfriend and I were both disappointed.
It’s not a good movie. Not the worst I’ve ever seen but nothing to get excited over. It’s definitely spectacle over story. Wait for streaming.
He grew up working on an online show all about media, his passion for movies always showed. He respects what he works on.
I mean, it wasn’t bad, but there was nothing really great or original about it, and certainly nothing in it that warrants a record breaking opening…
So many here were shitting on this and its PG-13 rating.
Anyone willing to raise their hand and say they were wrong?I’m actually about to see it in an hour.
me!
I was skeptical about it but I saw it anyways. I was wrong, It was really good, I enjoyed it.
I’ve always been a fan of the Alien vs Predator Darkhorse Comics and videogames from the 90s. I loved the world building, how it all took place in the Alien future timeline, the lore was great. The human interactions with the Predators was awesome. Badlands reminded me of that and god damn do they kinda set it up for another swing at Alien vs Predator that would be set in a similar timeline to the old comics and games.
That’s what this movie, for me at least, was. It felt like a love letter to the very small fanbase of Predator fans from the 90s. The Badlands story has been told before on the pages of Darkhorse comics so for me it made complete sense. And it utilized a very important aspect from the Alien franchise without incorporating Xenomorphs. But man does it set up the potential for another AvP that DOESN’T have to take place on Earth and DOESN’T have to involve humans which I really hope they do.
Good on you! Thank you. You may have liked it more than me.
I wasn’t a fan of how much they humanized the predator. He has a human family structure, and a human pronounceable language. But that’s minor stuff. It’s absolutely fun and engaging. Totally recommend.
Never heard of this movie until this moment.
I don’t like to yuck others’ yums but I’ll be your huckleberry.
Fuck this movie. It looks like the kind of trash that Marvel fans would gobble up.
So you haven’t actually seen it?
How is anyone supposed to take your opinion seriously?This man does not understand the grind of a hater. Point at him and cast magic missile.
I use my reaction to cast Shield
You hadn’t seen the movie either before going after people saying it’s shit lol
Fair point.
Doesn’t make me wrong in this though.
Hating on haters who’ve not seen the movie, doesn’t logically mean I have an opinion on the movie.
Doing the lord’s work.
I don’t know how exactly pg-13 works but i can say there were no humans harmed during this movie at all, and a lot of carnage otherwise.
Yah, that’s how they were allowed to include so much explicit violence. The blood was all green and white.
