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This week on the Everything Actioncast, the hunt is on as Zach and Chris discuss 2010's Predators as Predator: Badlands is now out in theaters.
Produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal, Predators finds a group of killers and soldiers dropped onto an intergalactic game preserve, where they realize they are the prey for a trio of intergalactic hunters. Zach and Chris discuss Adrien Brody as an action star and clearly doing a Christian Bale-style voice, Laurence Fishburne's unhinged appearance, the classic Predator vs. the new Predators, the insane cast, including Walton Goggins and a pre-famous Mahershala Ali, the sequel comic, and more.
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Introduction and Predator Badlands Discussion
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast week of November 3rd, 2025. I'm your host Zach. I'm your co-host Chris. And this week the hunt is on and we're talking about twenty ten s Predators.
Predators (2010) Overview and Setting
00:00:30
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Because, if you're hearing this, we have a new Predator movie in theaters, Predator Badlands. And ah Predators is... ah was the first movie to take place entirely on an alien planet. And that's what we were getting in Predator Badlands. It kind of thematically makes sense.
00:00:47
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And obviously had to talk about so some sort of Predator movie, because there's a new Predator movie coming out. And plus we're a big fan of just how silly the first two acts are of this movie. Yeah.
00:00:59
Speaker
And i think the big selling point when it was coming out was that it was a Robert Rodriguez produced movie. That was like, and everyone was like, oh man, Robert Rodriguez is producing a Predator movie?
00:01:09
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And even then, it was like, the only influence he had was just Danny Trejo being in
Robert Rodriguez's Influence and Casting
00:01:16
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it. yeah Yeah. Well, i think I think he wrote like an early, like, he wrote the like the early story it was based on, the early script it was based on.
00:01:25
Speaker
When he's making Desperado or something, he's like, gonna become Predator, I'm gonna write a Predator script. I mean, the first two parts are solid that someone like Robert Rodriguez could make an action movie based on the tension and the build-up of a sinister force, like an alien force that you don't see yet.
00:01:45
Speaker
you know It's like the mythos of the Predator gets kind of and thrown around. Well, it's definitely actively trying to throw back to the original, the first Predator, Especially especially at coming off of like the the two Alien vs. Predator movies, because they those came out before this one.
00:02:02
Speaker
And especially Requiem, which is like so terrible. i don't know. i I like it a lot more than the first one.
Homage to Original Predator
00:02:10
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Well, I mean, yeah, but yeah it's but at least because that one's R-rated. The first Alien vs. Predator is just PG-13. Just nonsense Antarctica.
00:02:18
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doesn't make any sense. nonsense antarctica doesn' make any sense But yeah, but this I think this is definitely like a like conscious effort to like make a Predator movie that feels more like the first Predator.
00:02:35
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it ah Especially with like lots of elements and lines, and ah you know they're back in like the jungle, even though it's an alien jungle. and got miniguns, you got people saying, get lines from Predator.
00:02:49
Speaker
Do you remember the lines from Predator? I mean, there's like... i feel I feel like they they didn't do like a lot of like the big ones. They didn't do like, if it bleeds, we can kill it. Like, get to the chopper because there's no chopper.
00:03:01
Speaker
yeah but If it bleeds, we can kill it. Did they drop that one?
Theatrical Experience of Predators
00:03:05
Speaker
I don't think they did. no that's that's like a very classic one without any context. And they don't use that.
00:03:12
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Like, the ones they use are just not great. And then even in what is supposed to be... the Dutch character that they got going on, Adrian Brody. Adrian Brody, yeah.
00:03:28
Speaker
It's just so forced. Because I remember...
Adrian Brody as an Action Hero
00:03:32
Speaker
and I saw this movie in theaters. Did you see this movie in theaters? I think I did, yeah. Okay, that's kind of important because when I saw this with sci-fi fans and just a decent community of of just like you know Predator fans because...
00:03:48
Speaker
You don't wander into like Predator movies. like That's an act of choice, right? like you just You don't get tricked. or That's not a date movie. I remember when the like ah like kill me quote kind of gets shoehorned in, and like everyone Sarah were just laughing.
00:04:07
Speaker
Yeah, that was that was that that's live like the big, like, Agent Brody tried to be Arnold. Come on, kill But not even in a good way where it's like he can just take his own, like make it his own.
00:04:22
Speaker
He's already like Adrian Brody's doing his best like Christian Bale. he Yes. Like tough guy, deep voice. But because it's he's kind of generic for a while.
00:04:39
Speaker
There's nothing that's like, ooh, that's so cool. At least Dutch was a stereotypical 80s, 90s action hero. Like, 80s. Peak muscle-bound 80s. You just saw him in Commando a few years prior.
00:04:54
Speaker
So if you liked him in Commando, check this out. It's Commando versus an alien. Cool. Adrian Brody had nothing in the follow-up. There was no pre-action movie where Adrian Brody was...
00:05:08
Speaker
a commando or even just like a one man army. Like I know now you could basically make an Adrian Brody action movie and you can sort of play with the John Wick formula and it would make sense.
00:05:20
Speaker
Yeah. i mean, yeah. Now, now anyway, like you can give anyone an action movie. You can give, you know you can give Bob Odenkirk an action movie. Yeah. yeah It's like, well, not oversaturated, but it's the, it's sort of like the career like boost that,
00:05:36
Speaker
Do an unconventional action movie. But that was that was definitely it was definitely a weird choice like when this movie was coming out. of like Adrian Brody's going to be an action star? Like an Arnold Schwarzenegger? A pianolist? No, action star.
00:05:47
Speaker
The dude from The Pianolist is going to be in this?
Supporting Cast and Early Appearances
00:05:50
Speaker
Well, I think the movie he made right before this was Splice. The movie where the guy fell in love with his alien... Yeah.
00:05:59
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don't know, like, foster daughter? then i would i mean, i would I would say arguably... The biggest like action movie he was in was King Kong, but i mean he was kind of doing action-y stuff, but he was like a soldier. I think was like a but was he an author like a poet or something, an author, script writer. Yeah, I think he was just like one of the like movie guys, and then he just steps up into action. If anything, that movie action hero should have been boat captain.
00:06:26
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Mm-hmm.
00:06:30
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And the Terminator Salvation definitely came out the year before, so i think a lot that that was definitely like very noticeable. that He was definitely trying to do like ah like a Christian Bale, like, I'm the tough guy. merciless. I don't care about any you guys. Follow me if you want.
00:06:44
Speaker
Don't get me killed. Yep. That exactly is the problem, because at that point, you white-noised that action role where there's no personality, and This is before someone figured out the, like, cold, calculated killer, like, suave type, but, like, in military fatigues.
00:07:07
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Because I can't name how many action movies there were where they're wearing, like, army garb. Like, you know, they're all in their tactical clothes. And they're not gonna be, like, jockey.
00:07:23
Speaker
They're not gonna be the, like, kooky, funny guy to kind of break up the tension. You know? Mm-hmm. I'm thinking like someone saw Tears of the Sun and was like, let's all be that.
00:07:38
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Or, you know, Navy SEALs, you know, it has that like everyone's like high testosterone or everyone is on edge, but they all have work together.
00:07:50
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But even then, like this, there should have been more like infighting with the group because they suddenly just like follow Adrian Brody. why i I forgot how crazy the cast actually was. like I forgot Mahershala Ali is in this movie.
00:08:05
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Yeah, there's a lot of surprised cast. A lot of their careers. Yeah, like this was super early to Mahershala. I think he was on like Crossing Jordan or something. That was like his only big role.
00:08:16
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like This was his first like big like movie role.
00:08:21
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It's like, yeah, future future two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali,
Opening Scene Analysis
00:08:25
Speaker
slumming in this Predators movie. It's like, dude number two three.
00:08:32
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i mean, listen, when people think about this movie, I sometimes forget Lawrence Fishburne's in this movie. Yeah. And then you got, like, you got like right right before he really blew up Goggins, like Walton Goggins. like I think Justified season one just wrapped up before this movie came out.
00:08:51
Speaker
That makes sense. And he was on the shield, obviously, before the justified, but yeah, think but like he wasn't like at the level he is like now, where he's just like he's everywhere. He's in he's like Pedro Pascal level of he's in everything.
00:09:05
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yeah I mean, it's one of those like well-earned recognizes recognition for just acting and just kind of just playing roles and keeping his... personal life out of news and then just like having fun you know like i feel like when an actor takes these roles he doesn't know what's gonna happen but as long as it's like he's having fun he's getting paid like he's got no problem i'm just thinking does anyone tell him that like is one gone to like comic-con like i loved you in predators he said
00:09:41
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as your iconic character stands
00:09:45
Speaker
Remember when you showed people ah your tattoos?
00:09:54
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And obviously, like Robert Rodriguez movies, obviously Danny Trejo's in it. ah It's like a he's like a cartel enforcer.
00:10:07
Speaker
Was this around the same time he appeared Breaking Bad? so i feel like those if it was, it's it's like a bad time for Danny Chara to be like in stuff and get horribly killed. ah No, he wasn't in Breaking Bad yet. Breaking Bad was like... I think like three years later. Breaking Bad happened, but I think for he was in like season two.
00:10:34
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I forgot when Breaking Bad came out. Well, this this this is the year that Machete came out, so he, like, this like I'm sure, it seems like he was busy with that, and then he's like oh you know like, I'll pop over to Predators for, like, a couple days.
00:10:47
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Yeah, I can see that. Especially when I think some of that jungle scenery was in Hawaii. He's just like, oh I'll come to Hawaii.
00:11:03
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But yeah, um, great ah great but like Just jumping into the plot the movie. Great, great intro. like I think like a lot of people... It's got such a super high-impact intro where it's just the Adrian Brody falling out of the sky You have no context for it.
00:11:17
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And he figures he figures out the parachute and then he slams in the ground and it's just like, Predators!
Multiple Predators and Tribal Dynamics
00:11:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, again, this is why I keep praising how well that first part is just because...
00:11:29
Speaker
it it just drops you into the mix. it It doesn't try to do anything cute. It's just get ready for action and your hopes are just high. You know, even when I rewatch this, knowing what's going to happen, I forget how well that opening shot is and just sort of, you know, explanation would be told as the characters, like, figure it out just like us.
00:11:52
Speaker
Yeah, it does a good job, like, slowly, like, building up, like, introducing everybody, like, they kind of, like, like, Gage and they find, like, he finds Danny Trejo, and they find another person, then they find another person, and they kind of like, all finally group up, come together.
00:12:06
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But is it is, it strange how it kind of, it kind of plays up, you know, like, the reveal like, oh there's Predators, it's, like, a reveal, because everyone going into this knows there's Predators, we're kind just, like, waiting for them to show up.
00:12:19
Speaker
But it plays more like the first Predator, where, like, it's, if you went to that, like, like, Because the first half of a Predator is like just like a normal action movie. And it's like, oh shit, there's an alien.
00:12:30
Speaker
And this one's just like, what's going on? Where are we? where the like What's hunting us? is's like It's Predators.
Predator Game Reserve Explained
00:12:37
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We know.
00:12:39
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Show them. Yeah, it does take a while because I think the lead up was that there was going to be more than one Predator in this Predator movie. Which a lot of the times has not done well.
00:12:54
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yeah there's like Yeah, there's like a trio this time of like the yeah other tribe. like you got There's the classic Predator who hasn't... like That design has didn't appear since the original Predator.
00:13:05
Speaker
so basically like they basically i did... like It's like the original OG Predator. But then... there's another tribe of Yautja who are bigger and stronger and they're like in a blood feud with the the original predators. So they's that's the ones that like, I guess, bring people to the their planet and hunt them instead of going to another planet and hunting them on their planet.
World-Building and Franchise Expansion
00:13:28
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It's interesting just because that's like a new thing. Like, you know, they're introducing that there is like a hierarchy, I guess. Yeah, different like look different species or different like tribes within the predators.
00:13:45
Speaker
Which, it's different because like, where where are these predators doing? they they They don't hunt humans, they just hunt like the other smaller Yautjas. Well, it's, it's he I mean, obviously, they've been, based on, like, you the clues we get of, like, you know, there's, like, samurai armor and samurai swords and all that kind of stuff. They've been, like, bringing, like, other creatures to, like, that this planet for, you know, thousands of years, apparently. Well, I don't here and don't think it's that specific Yautja clan.
00:14:18
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Like, I think it's, they all dump here, and then, like, whoever shows up gets to hunt there.
00:14:28
Speaker
Because the Lawrence Fishburg, when he finds like a Yautja helmet, it's not as big as the other Yautja helmet.
00:14:36
Speaker
Yeah, but well, I guess Lawrence Fishburg calls it a game so gate preserve. So like I guess yeah i guess it's maybe just like
00:14:44
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it's maybe just like... It's like you go to hunt, you get to a safari plant or something they for the the predators who are supposed to go there. yeah yeah but you gotta bring your own ah prey. You gotta capture your prey and bring it there, and then you can hunt there.
00:14:57
Speaker
Yeah, that makes more sense to me. you know't i don't you know You don't really need to show that. I kind of understood that as I watched it. I was like, oh, maybe this is their hunt.
00:15:08
Speaker
So when they showed up and there's just like a rival Yeltsha thing, they like drop whatever they're doing. And then like, okay, we see that guy. We'll mess him up, but we're going to hunt the thing we brought.
00:15:21
Speaker
That's how I understood it.
00:15:25
Speaker
But, again, um maybe I know it gets further explained in that Predator comic that came out after this, there's the follow-up, but, like, I was too lazy to read it.
00:15:39
Speaker
And i'm sure I'm sure, like, all the like Dark Horse stuff, there's, like, I'm sure there's like gaves all all different tribes and what they've all been doing. and Well, no, I read a good amount of the Dark Horse stuff, and they don't mention, like,
00:15:56
Speaker
this. Like, they don't mention that there's bigger predators. There's always, like, you know, the bad bloods, and then there's just, like, rival clans within the hierarchy. But that's just, like, a respect thing, not a, like, I'm a bigger, diesel, more youcher than the other guy.
00:16:12
Speaker
But it's, like, the same weapon. You know, you figure one clan is the superior, their their shit would be different. And obviously, then, would they follow this, the predator...
00:16:24
Speaker
Like, there was, like, what was like the super predator? or was The genetically modified predator. Yeah. The GMO predator.
00:16:36
Speaker
Which, um... I do respect that some predator movies do recognize other predator, like, things. What I don't like is that there's just no clear, like, canon between anything.
00:16:53
Speaker
Yeah, like like so sometimes there's a little like nod to like the comics, but they they're not they're not not bringing characters from the comics into like the movies or anything. They're their own separate thing. The games are their own separate thing.
00:17:06
Speaker
but The dam games, definitely. But at least in this movie, it does recognize the first Predator movie. Yeah. That's, I think, the big thing. They specifically mention Alice Braga ah like goes into like the whole backstory. It's like Guatemala, 1987.
Predator Comics and Crossovers
00:17:25
Speaker
like the the which it's It's weird that the IDF knows about that. like The Israeli Defense Forces know about Gutch's mission. Yeah, that is weird. But they picked him up. and I think he just told them what happened.
00:17:37
Speaker
Even though... did the ideaf fake i don't think I don't think the IDF picked him up. I think it's like the CIA or like the the military. So they picked him up. But then how the hell did they hear about it? That's what I wonder. They just infiltrated sort of like us US agency and like learned about the Guadalajara mission.
00:17:58
Speaker
You know, maybe I'm thinking Dutch was just telling everybody about what happened. yeah'm like um like um Like a lunatic on the street, just like yelling about predators.
00:18:09
Speaker
And then eventually like the IDF is like, all right, we're going to put a pin on that just in case that does actually be true.
00:18:17
Speaker
What was it in um like the like the first the first big like Predator comic? was was the Was it Concrete Jungle? It was like it was like Dutch's brother?
00:18:34
Speaker
Maybe. I feel like that was like the big... that was like the big like This is how we tie into the comics. like it's It's his brother, who's also like ridiculously jacked, and also but also a cop, not like a military guy.
00:18:50
Speaker
I think it was just called Predator. And then, even then, it was just
00:18:58
Speaker
from 1989. Yeah, you're right. Concrete Jungle. Yeah. Do you remember? This is another tangent. Do you remember where before they were serious about a series, they would just be like, this company presents this. Mm-hmm.
00:19:20
Speaker
So, yeah, it just first time they just had the comic, which was almost like a close tie in to the movie, because I think the movie was like coming out a year or two from then. Of Predator 2.
00:19:32
Speaker
But then in 1990, they did Dark Horse Presents Predator, like just a Dark Horse Presents line of just like a small things. And they just had a preview of ah what if story of Aliens versus Predator.
00:19:47
Speaker
And then after that, i just they they went loose. They went nuts with it.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yeah, I think I started reading it basically by the 2000s. i miss i missed one or two like early Predator stuff, but otherwise, dip in now and then. But then... I read most of like the like crossovers. So many crossovers, like Alien vs. Predator vs. Superman, Predator vs. Terminator.
New Elements Introduced in Predators
00:20:14
Speaker
like all all those like All the crazy crossovers.
00:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, well... You know... There's a new one... Called The Predator vs. Spider-Man... Where the Predator... Instead of taking skulls... He starts wearing skins.
00:20:33
Speaker
His name is The Skinner. cause they yeah cause like Because it's all it's all one universe now... Because this Disney owns them all. ah But yeah... At least they played it safe... In...
00:20:46
Speaker
in this world. Like, you don't need much to know about the Predator if you choose not to really look into it. You understand that these Predators are alien.
00:20:57
Speaker
They're on an alien planet. They like to hunt. And they really like to play, like, Home Alone traps on their prey. Well, the other planet reveal is also, like, pretty far into the movie, where it's just, like...
00:21:09
Speaker
they play it like this. I can't remember. Was that in the trailer was that supposed to be like the bigger reveal in the movie of like, they're on another planet. Oh my God. can't remember it was on another planet. It was just because they showed too much.
00:21:23
Speaker
And then they showed you like alien ships and stuff. i Do you remember there was a thing about the trailer where like like, there's that scene where Agent Brody like stands up and like they they have like the laser on him. But then the trailer had like a million lasers on him.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah. And then we watched it. It was just like, it's like one. Yeah. Like, oh,
00:21:42
Speaker
Yeah, I remember that. I was thinking, oh wow, they're going to show you like an army, they're going to show you something new. Yeah, it's like, there's so many predators, oh my god.
00:21:52
Speaker
It's like, oh, no, there's like three. And then like, two of them are really gimmicky. Yeah, they well, they introduced some new some new like
Samurai Duel Scene Highlight
00:22:02
Speaker
predator stuff. So they introduced the predator dogs, the hunting dogs.
00:22:08
Speaker
Which they kind of bring back in the predator. Yeah, which was terrible way where like they like give it brain damage and it makes it friendly. It's like, oh, we shot in the head and now it's nice.
00:22:22
Speaker
We gave it a lumbotomy, so now not leaflet.
00:22:26
Speaker
And then, um like, one one of the predators is, like, the Falconer predator, so it has, like, a robotic drone that it can fly around and, like, you know see where people are. Which doesn't really, it only uses, like, once.
00:22:37
Speaker
Yep. It's like, I saw them! Alright, good, let's go get them. Now let's walk on our, let's walk there.
00:22:46
Speaker
Well, I they're called, like, Tracker, Falconer, and Berserker are, like, the predators for this movie. And Berserker is like the big like main ah ah predator.
00:22:59
Speaker
Which that's fine. I mean that predator is like a beefy version of the regular predator. other thing about it screams Berserker I guess. Like if it didn't fight with a mask on that would make it Berserk.
00:23:11
Speaker
Just all the light sensitivity. Yeah when I think of Berserker I think of like he should have like like a double like double axes or something. Like a Viking Berserker and like just go like go nuts. Yeah, he's all about, like, smashing through shit.
00:23:24
Speaker
But this one's not. This one is very... I don't know, like... He's more like a Wolverine?
00:23:33
Speaker
He just uses his claw. I don't remember seeing him do anything else. Yeah, he mainly uses, like, the... They mainly use, like, the laser cannons and the claws. There's no other, like, crazy... like There's no, like, nets or discs... You know, the discs or spears. Yeah.
00:23:49
Speaker
I don't know. It's like, I totally forget that there was a robotic bird. Yeah. Because it yeah cause it doesn't... They used to, like, one scene, like, fly around, and then it's like... Like, goes back on, like, Falconer's back, and it's like, alright, we found him, we got him, and then it's just like... Does it attack people? Does it shoot lasers? Like, can you do anything else with it?
00:24:11
Speaker
Can it, like, paint the target?
00:24:16
Speaker
And then fcon and Falconer is the one... who in like arguably the movie's coolest scene, ah fights Hanzo, the the yeah Yakuza enforcer, in like the samurai duel.
Survival Strategies Discussed
00:24:27
Speaker
Dude, did you read up on how important that Yakuza dude is?
00:24:33
Speaker
Well, he so cool yeah the cool thing is that he came back for Predator Killer of Killers this year, and like but like basically i voiced like the ancestors of his character for Predators. Yeah, so they tied in this movie. At least doesnt mean like they recognize this movie.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yeah, hmm.
00:24:51
Speaker
That's cool that basically it's like a legacy character or like this family has been fighting predators for a while. Yeah. And that samurai scene, I think is like what people remember for this movie.
00:25:02
Speaker
It's like, that's like the most memorable scene. Well, okay, granted, he took on the Falconer. Yeah, he didn't fight Berserker, he didn't fight the giant dude, but it's still pretty cool. I mean, it's clearly like a Kurosawa, like, we're the field of reeds, we're fighting each other like samurai.
00:25:23
Speaker
Thank God that this planet has a Japanese setting. Yeah, the perfect field for fighting samurai style. Mm-hmm. but like Where the wind and blows perfectly, too. Also, do the predators know to grab everyone's like preferred weapon?
00:25:44
Speaker
this i was i i wondering, like do they they grab them with whatever weapon they had? Or do they like just assume, like here, we'll give them this weapon? like like Because Goggins got screwed. This is this is like the weapon of his people,
00:26:01
Speaker
I think he just had it on him, right? Yeah. I assume they just, like, sucked them up, like, they, like, abducted them, and then whatever weapon they had is, like, what they, like, dumped them with, which, man, like, Nikolai, like, the Russian guy, like, he had a minigun. Yeah, like, where did they grab him from?
00:26:21
Speaker
I think he said he was fighting in Chechnya. Because a lot of them, a lot of them, like, got pulled up when they were, like, in the middle of battle.
00:26:29
Speaker
But I love Nikolai is like an even worse shot than like anyone in the original Predator which I guess is like an homage the original Predator because they couldn't hang anything in the original one either but he fires so many shots it's like even closer range than the original movie he'd still get hit anything.
Laurence Fishburne's Character Analysis
00:26:48
Speaker
Like he barely hits like one of the hunter dogs when it's like like two feet in front of him. Well I mean maybe they've got it's a comment on the Russian training. Maybe. think it's just like an homage to like when they like the the first movie just like blew up the forest and didn't hit anything.
00:27:07
Speaker
Well, they did that the beginning where he just lands and starts unloading that machine gun. Yeah. To like Adrian Brody and... Dane Trey Ho. Yeah, Dane Trey. I forgot. He's like the second character to appear.
00:27:20
Speaker
And you think he's gonna be around longer. Mm-hmm.
00:27:25
Speaker
I did like the cool creepy like when they like they kill him but then they like make they rigged up some sort of like weird voice things and like like he's still talking but he's dead. Oh he's the talk man. He's like the he's like the trap.
00:27:36
Speaker
Yeah essentially the predators set up a talk boy to just replay back some set like voice uh I guess effects to lure them into an obvious trap um yeah there I couldn't figure out, like, did they electrify the field or they just electrify like that one spot?
00:27:56
Speaker
Well, they had they had like like electric like electric bear traps, it seemed like, because like Topher Grace steps into one like late late in the movie. It's like an electrified bear trap because it's like.
00:28:08
Speaker
spring They spring up and they you have like shock in them, but it's also just like a normal bear trap where it like clamps on your leg. I like how it's just a bag bear trap, but then it also electrocutes you.
00:28:19
Speaker
It's just like a double like insult. so so I think they like have rigged like the like area around Dane Trayle's corpse with like those bear trap things to catch them.
00:28:32
Speaker
It reminded lot of like the Jurassic Park 3 scene, where the raptors had that guy maimed. Oh, such crap. Yeah. It's going to show you how like vicious and intelligent these things are. I'm always going to assume that an alien that can fly a spaceship is also going to be very smart.
00:28:52
Speaker
yeah
00:28:55
Speaker
I also believe that ah no one tried to figure out how to use alien tech in this movie. like It's very weird that
00:29:07
Speaker
no one was like, all right let's steal an alien weapon.
00:29:12
Speaker
yeah but I guess because it takes them a while to kill them, but yeah, still, like... Well, I mean, the person does is like Lawrence Fishburne, because he's been there for however long he's been there, but he had like a weird predator gun, and then he had like the cloaking tech and everything. He rigged up like that samurai helmet slash predator mask.
00:29:34
Speaker
Oh, he was like... Yeah, he's dressed like the Shredder. and these game's got like He's got like that special armor...
00:29:43
Speaker
But his his's like gun like doesn't really do anything. We don't really get to see it like do anything. And then no one takes it. like Because it's sitting in like his like ah like drilling machine.
00:29:55
Speaker
When they all get out of there. like it's like take Take his gun. He's got like a Predator gun.
00:30:06
Speaker
Which, yeah, Lawrence Fishburne in this movie is just like... so Like, every once in a while, Lawrence Fishburne is like, I'm just gonna be a crazy guy. yeah he's a little wasted, this because just he's just... I don't know.
00:30:21
Speaker
Not his usual character acting. And then... He's trying new stuff by having the schizophrenia.
00:30:32
Speaker
And then... I don't know. I just feel like I kind of want a little more action sequences with him because besides the one part and then being a guide, he just keeps running away.
00:30:46
Speaker
i think maybe that's how he he doesn't actually fight. He just survives by basically being a scavenger. I mean, they mentioned something like that, but yeah, it's funny because that means he's been just doing this for 10 years.
00:30:58
Speaker
ac And he sees like new people get dropped in. He's like, I'm not going help them. um but i like Or I'm just gonna raid their, like, steal all their stuff when they're dead.
00:31:08
Speaker
But i do I do like that he, like, learned, he sort of learned how to do, like, the predator, like, voice thing. It was, like, throwing his voice around.
00:31:17
Speaker
just like, over here, over here, over here. I don't know that's just, like, the tech, or does he just, as he runs around the jungle.
00:31:29
Speaker
i I also want to know, like, who who is using those
Plot Progression and Tension
00:31:33
Speaker
mining machines? Because he like his his base is like an old abandoned, like, mining or drilling machine. Were, like, the Predators drilling for something?
00:31:40
Speaker
Or was, like, the Predators, like, killed, like, ah this, like, company that was, like, drilling on this company? And, like, this is our game reserve now? Wait, what?
00:31:52
Speaker
Like, because, like, Lawrence Fishburne, like, his base is, like, a drilling machine. Like, ah like a giant alien drilling machine. How do you know was drilling machine? they they so He says it's a drilling machine. and oh I missed that.
00:32:06
Speaker
So I'm going to tell like, who was drilling? Like, were the predators drilling? Was there, like, a Whale and Yutani company that was like, drilling on this planet, and then the predators, like, wiped it out? It's like, we're making this, like, game preserve now?
00:32:19
Speaker
I'm assuming it's another alien, because... Well, okay. So if you notice that ship, it's perfectly sized for a human... So, it had to be a humanoid alien, and then it's, like, derelict.
00:32:33
Speaker
So, it's been there for a while, but it's been weathered. But the power still works but the powers thing still works. Like, the power core still works. still like power like the and It can't drill anymore, but it can, like, have lights and stuff.
00:32:46
Speaker
And then, it's it's funny that, like, and guess ah I well, no, I keep the word funny, but It's little weird that where they were bunking in that room, it's not a bedroom, right? No. It's quarters. It was just sort of like the armory they got stuck in.
00:33:05
Speaker
i don't even think it was an armory. I think, like, think it was made in an armory because this restores all the stuff. But it's just, like, a ah random, like, area, a maintenance area or something on that drilling machine. And it's, like, it's, like, crawls for, like, the ducks to get to, like, that spot, too. It's, like, get the get get in the machine. Well,
00:33:23
Speaker
climb into like the tiny hatch, and then crawl through a dock to then get into like the weird like maintenance area.
00:33:32
Speaker
I mean, he did say that like it's a good place to rest because you can't see in it too well, so it's cloaked. It have been a cool Easter egg if that was if it was like a Wailing Yutani thing.
00:33:44
Speaker
They just had the logo on the machine or something. That would be very confusing of the timeline and just like what tech Wailing Yutani had.
00:34:01
Speaker
And then it's and it's fun that he, like, he goes nuts and turns them and like tries to, like, smoke them out and kill them all. Yeah, his tactic is just smoke inhalation.
00:34:12
Speaker
And then tries to make it seem like it's, like, his other, like, his invisible friend is the one who came up with it. like, I told you, man! Yeah, his reasoning is that, basically, it's his own survival. With six of them, have been too many.
00:34:26
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I like that there's a little bit of character development and reasoning, but you have to pay attention very well to, I think, like, all the subtle details.
00:34:42
Speaker
Because,
Character Dynamics and Plot Twists
00:34:43
Speaker
like, I like how in the beginning he's introduced as kind of nuts. And Agent Brody gives them a look like, hey, should we follow this guy? It's like, we kind of have no choice, but yeah, this guy's kind of nuts.
00:35:03
Speaker
Well, it's interesting, like, everyone kind of gets, like, ah well and because at a certain point, like, they kind of play they play off of the title where it's like, like we're we we were the predators in our world, with monsters in our world, now where they brought us here like, you know, fight them.
00:35:18
Speaker
and they're all kind of, like, like terrible people. They're all, like, you know, mercenaries or soldiers or cartel enforcers. But then they all kind of like, a bunch of them get like a kind of redemption moment.
00:35:29
Speaker
Even like Goggins gets like a redemption moment. He sacrifices himself to like like stab like the one one predator.
00:35:38
Speaker
yeah I don't know why he stepped up. I think he did it because he didn't like being chased anymore, but at least he went out fighting. And then Nikolai like sacrifices himself with like the claymore. He blows up, I think it was Tracker.
00:35:52
Speaker
Tracker Predator.
00:35:57
Speaker
But Nikolai just making like terrible choices all around because he also is like looking out for Topher Grace, which we find out is like the worst movie he could possibly do. It doesn't quite make sense how fast they became friends.
00:36:09
Speaker
It's not like he reminds him of someone. he doesn't... doesn't like have like a bonding moment where maybe he gets saved by Topher Grace. And then that's why he puts his whole trust in him.
00:36:20
Speaker
It's so like, you are a small man. I shall protect you. like Yeah. It comes out of nowhere. I'm large Russian bear. I protect you. You are a American. We'll see. Okay.
00:36:32
Speaker
I feel like should have had Topher Grace, like do something medical. Cause he's, cause he he says he's his doctor when they, they first find him. Like half of, he should have treated someone's wounds or did something to like earn their trust and that that makes the twist like eat bigger later on.
00:36:51
Speaker
there He just like runs around it's like and is like, oh my god, i don't belong here! like and like just like and then like making me everyone like protect him and then you find out, but know he's the worst one he's the true monsterster
00:37:09
Speaker
Yeah, but his, like, move is so dumb. Like, he did it right when everything's getting worse. Yeah. And Overgrace is like, I'm also a predator, too. And it's like, okay.
00:37:20
Speaker
This is the worst time. Yeah, he chooses to reveal, like, his true nature when he's, like, relying on people. needs to rely on, like, Ellis Braga like, carry him because his ankle's destroyed. Yeah.
00:37:34
Speaker
It's like, oh, um I'm going to paralyze and kill my ah the person that's going help me get out of this pit. We're in a pit. i can't I can't climb out. My foot is like fucked up from this like bear trap.
00:37:47
Speaker
But I'm just going to killless kill this person anyway because I'm a serial killer.
00:37:56
Speaker
and he and just he he kept like that scalpel with like the ah the weird flower... ah or plant toxin on it the entire time
00:38:09
Speaker
yeah I'm surprised that toxin like was still good after like two days yeah I guess maybe just the residue of it's unlife is enough, but like it was definitely dried up by that. it wasn' it like because like you When you first like ah scoop stuff, it's all goopy. which You'd think that would be like when it's like most potent. It's like, oh scratch him when it's all slim and goopy.
00:38:32
Speaker
Or maybe he'll refine that plant and then like dip his thing back in.
00:38:40
Speaker
But it was a nice like callback. I thought maybe later on would be something that they threw out the Predator. yeah would Yeah, that would make sense too.
00:38:52
Speaker
um Wasn't he also the one that like detects the plant and then he's like, oh, careful. It's got like a paralyzed agent. That's kind of like, I think that's why he and Nikolai are becoming friends because Nikolai is like doing another stupid thing and just like, I'm going poke this weird plant.
00:39:09
Speaker
and And he's like, oh nope, nope. Don't touch that plant. It's like a crazy, like poisonous plant. Is that just because the colors he recognized like the bright colors of it?
00:39:20
Speaker
Well, what, on INDB, the trivia, it says that that's like an, and like an extinct plant. So it's, I don't know how Toferdurus like would like recognize it in nature, actually in nature and be like, oh yeah, this it's like this, this flora and fauna scientific name for it.
00:39:40
Speaker
Hmm. So the predators were like also gardeners, and they're like, we must save... We are also fans of predator plants. Yeah, they have like they have like a Jurassic Park thing going on where they're like bringing theyre but like harvesting i have like old prehistoric plants from Earth on their planet, too, on the game reserve.
Alien Ecosystem Insights
00:40:08
Speaker
there's There's also that's there's that weird alien. but they also it's like They brought like however many humans, like a half a dozen humans, and also like this weird one weird alien dude. The alien dude attacks them and they have to kill it.
00:40:23
Speaker
like The thing with like bugs crawling in it. Yeah, I forgot about that guy. I think... ah Wasn't that thing close to what the original Predator like? Yes, I think that's supposed to be like it like like but what the original Predator was supposed look like. Yeah, just some like long, weird, thin-necked alien.
00:40:43
Speaker
the the The Van Damme Predator. That'd be cool if they got Van Damme back. Oh my god, yeah. I mean, it was just a small cameo, just as that alien running around, basically.
00:40:54
Speaker
you could have been to Laurence Fishburne. I've been here for so many years.
00:41:01
Speaker
Hey, one time I did go in the jungle. And then I did a lot of drugs and they had to kick me out. The only way to defeat the Predators is to do a split. You have to punch them in the gonads.
00:41:15
Speaker
You know, I'm surprised. I haven't seen that move. You never see the Predator... like
00:41:22
Speaker
They're always wearing pants, right? Yeah, they're like leg cloths kind of... so so someone just Yeah, just kick him in the nuts. See what happens? yeah Predators got nerds!
00:41:36
Speaker
Because they do have, like, female and male predators, so they're not, like, asexual reproducing.
00:41:48
Speaker
Maybe in Prairie Badlands, we don't know yet, but that's move.
00:41:59
Speaker
like Arnold just like... Just like punches him, kicks him in the nuts.
00:42:10
Speaker
Oh, speaking of Arnold, I do like the homage to all the traps he built, where they like stumble onto that one guy, like the like guy who got killed, like his traps, and it's all like the... it's like oh Which that guy, man, he... had lots of time to build lots of traps. He built like spike pits, and spike...
00:42:28
Speaker
like ah spring traps and logs and all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Like darts that fly down. Yeah. Tons of like wooden darts that fly down and pale people.
00:42:41
Speaker
And I'm pretty sure he got killed by like a blaster from long range. Yeah. The wounds he has is like a blaster like impact. It's like like just prayer just like look at this idiot.
00:42:54
Speaker
It's like targeted him and shoot him.
00:43:01
Speaker
It's like, well, um get the next group in here. He's done. like how they parachute basically like cargo containers or cages. Yeah.
00:43:12
Speaker
So is are the dogs also like kidnapped and dumped on this planet?
00:43:20
Speaker
like Yeah, I feel like those cages are for the dogs, but then the dogs are like their trained hunting dogs, so...
00:43:30
Speaker
ah yeah I don't know why they would like drop just draw air drop them in. Unless they opt on or some sort of like code where it's like, alright, you want to have like your dogs? You have to drop them in hope they survive the transportation process.
00:43:43
Speaker
or or Or it's just like quicker to drop them like where the hunt is going to be like instead of carrying them on their ship.
00:43:52
Speaker
It's like, air drop the dogs in.
00:44:03
Speaker
And the dogs are kind of cool, like, they're kind of like, kind of dogs, kind of like wild boars, like, a little bit. They have, like, they kind like, they have giant tusks, and they kind of like, run around like boars.
00:44:16
Speaker
Yeah, that was cool. I do appreciate that ah they spent a lot of time in the creature effects, so they aren't just predators in the jungle. Mm-hmm. There's a whole ecosystem of creatures and and then ah this game world is dangerous to many things.
00:44:40
Speaker
But it's supposed to be like a whole planet, right? I don't think... Do you think that other hunts are going on other parts of the world, right?
00:44:53
Speaker
right
00:44:59
Speaker
Yeah, not sure because, like, it's, like, much fish for it's, like, I tried to, like, find the edge of the preserve and i could I could never find it. So it's, like, but I don't know if it's, like, like ah if there's, like it's like, a shield or, like, some sort of barrier where, you like, you if you get to the, like, eventually if you get to the edge, it's, like, closed off or if it's just, like, you you walk to like, the entire, like, circumference of the planet. That's why it's so big.
00:45:23
Speaker
Like, the entire planet is, like, the reserve. Yeah.
00:45:30
Speaker
Or maybe it's like one of those like Twilight zones where the planet just it's like hell. I do. I do love um they they had this discussion about like, oh, maybe we're all dead.
Build-up to Final Confrontation
00:45:44
Speaker
i try to remember when like, like when loss like, i feel like Lost was definitely like going on still at this time, I think.
00:45:54
Speaker
but that seemed like definitely a nod to like oh lost the final season lost just ended so that that's definitely seemed like a big like uh like a lost thing of like hey maybe we all died and we're not now we're in like purgatory yeah
00:46:08
Speaker
because like they're like oh well we all we all all of us were like in battle and like walter gaga was gonna get executed so maybe like maybe we yeah maybe like this is hell we died and we we're in hell and this is just like weird alien valhalla yeah
00:46:33
Speaker
So, uh... We should probably jump into, like, like tor to the ending. Um... Which is, um... Where the movie takes a dip. Yeah.
00:46:45
Speaker
So, so that they you know that they've gone... They've met Morris Fishburne. He betrayed them. They escaped. A bunch... A lot of them get killed in quick so succession. like It's like Goggins, Nikolai, Hanzo, they all get killed within like a couple minutes of each other.
00:46:59
Speaker
and I think Morash Ali gets killed. like It's like a plasma blast. He's sounds Alice and plasoplassi's dead like
00:47:11
Speaker
um yeah so basically hes he sound like el braga and agent brody and topher grace and then agent brody is like like because like topher grace gets injured and he's like well he's he's dead weight i'm i'm going to the ship because like agent brody's plan is i'm gonna go the ship i'm gonna free that that like other predator that we we found like earlier like strung up on this weird like altar thing or like this like uh in the in their predator camp and because i rescued him he'll have to help me like s escape on the ship yeah Except he doesn't follow through that plan completely, because he does free that predator, and then he just leaves that predator behind.
00:47:48
Speaker
yeah yeah you got you kind of uses it more as like a distraction, like, oh, they're going fight? I'm going to steal the ship then. And then I'm just going to hit a bunch of buttons and hope it flies. Yes!
00:48:00
Speaker
His plan should have been, he should have teamed up with the predator to take on the berserker.
00:48:07
Speaker
Yeah, because his original thing was like, well I know someone can fly that that ship, that captured predator. like he he'll probably He hates ah those predators as much as we do, so like he'll help us. And then he just like he's just like, well, peace out, man. I'm out.
00:48:20
Speaker
like Good luck. I think it's because he keeps abandoning his teammates. That's what he had to learn, is teamwork. Teamwork makes the dream work.
00:48:30
Speaker
But does it? Because guess what? In the comic, he abandons Elisabella later. who's also pregnant.
00:48:42
Speaker
With Agent Brody's baby? or just say oh sos ok So they they become like a couple? And then I think when he realizes that it's to be so much harder to fight with a pregnant companion, he abandons her and then tries to... So he learned nothing. Well, it's supposed to be like he he decides to like be the bigger threat in the jungle so that like whenever there is a hunt, they go after him. Mm-hmm.
00:49:07
Speaker
It sort of makes sense, but like not in the way they present it. I work better alone. Kind of. you know it's like He's like, oh, it was cool to be a couple on the off-season, but but it's time to kill.
00:49:21
Speaker
You slowed me down.
00:49:25
Speaker
yeah classic Classic Predator puts up a decent fight, but he yeah he gets like absolutely destroyed by the Berserker. so quick. I really wanted more time.
00:49:36
Speaker
it's it's that It's that classic, we got ah they they introduced like the old thing, and then but then it's like, oh, the new thing kills it easily to show how cool the new thing is. It's like another Dressperg 3 thing. It's like the Spinosaurus kills the T-Rex.
00:49:56
Speaker
which it's it was It's so crazy, too, because like we they introduced the classic Predator hung hung up like so early in the movie, and then it's they finally come back to it, and the third act is like, oh yeah, classic Predator's back, baby. It's just like, he got his head cut off. He's dead.
00:50:11
Speaker
Yep. They might as well have just left him. They might as well have just left the Predator there to like scream at the other Predator.
00:50:24
Speaker
And during this time, I think, yeah, the Topher Grace portrayal happens. Yeah, he reveals he reveals he's a serial killer that and then and like he's the worst one of them all. And he's yeah and he wants to stay here because he's now he's like on a planet full of monsters and he be himself, be like a monster.
00:50:46
Speaker
But then Brody comes back because he you know feel you've yeah he feels the guilt. he He gets the character arc and then um he comes up with like his crazy plan of Um, which is kind a cool twist on the original what where, like, Arnold used mud, but Agent Brody uses
Final Battle Breakdown
00:51:03
Speaker
fire. Like, he creates all these, like, crazy, like, fires and explosions around, so it's like the thermal vision of the work as well for the for Berserker.
00:51:10
Speaker
Well, he also puts mud on himself. Yeah, he does both, yeah. but But then you find out, oh, Berserker has, like, a heartbeat detector, so so it's fine. He knows exactly where he is. it was a good plan, but who knew that the Berserker would have one more precautionary tech?
00:51:26
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:51:29
Speaker
I will say, Adrian Brody is actually fighting more like a berserker a berserker is. Because he's got a crazy axe, and then he's just running at him and slashing at him. So, it's supposed to maybe show that he's true berserker?
00:51:45
Speaker
Maybe, yeah. The other berserker is just a fake alien berserker until he gets a shirtless Adrian Brody. You can't handle the actual hero Adrian Brody.
00:51:59
Speaker
Kids, tell your parents you want the Adrian Brody Predator toy. i don't know I don't know if like any of the human characters from this movie got toys. I think like the Predators got toys.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah, ah all the the like new Predators got action figures from NECA. Yeah. where's my Where's my Royce? My Royce from Predators figure.
00:52:22
Speaker
Where's my Mud Royce camo Predator?
00:52:32
Speaker
Oh, did you know that Isabella was a DLC character in Predator Hunting Grounds? Yep. Again, they acknowledge some decent parts about this movie.
00:52:49
Speaker
Although besides um beside's like the ah the Hanzo ancestors, there wasn't like anything like else in the Killer of Killers. because but They had obviously like the cameos at the end.
00:53:01
Speaker
and like all Everyone frozen.
00:53:05
Speaker
No, they chose not to freeze this group.
00:53:09
Speaker
We're not gonna... Yeah. They're like, we don't we don't want that Royce guy we're We're good. but We have Dutch. We have the OG Royce. Mm-hmm.
00:53:25
Speaker
yeah he is But yeah, he does this crazy berserker thing. he yeah made us like... cause that's that It also kind of plays up with the interest earlier where learns that like they're bigger and stronger but also slower.
00:53:41
Speaker
So he uses like his speed against him because they're faster.
00:53:46
Speaker
so he just has all these like quick attacks and then wears them down and like then there's a big coup de ta the end and chops his head off.
00:53:56
Speaker
What'd you think about ah
00:54:01
Speaker
the fact that it's not a classic Predator explodes from a device?
00:54:08
Speaker
You know, like, usually the Predator's... he like
00:54:12
Speaker
I think the original Predator, he self-destructs. The second Predator movie, he just gets, like, killed. i there he i think he tries to, and then Naitreo cuts his arm off with, like, the disc, I think.
00:54:26
Speaker
Danny Glover. Danny Glover, yeah. Yeah, so like none of the Predators try to self-destruct in this movie. but then But I think alien like both Alien vs. Predator movies end with nuclear explosions. Well, there's like a explosion in them.
00:54:39
Speaker
Yeah. Requiem is not at a Predator explosion, although it's like a human explosion. It's a nuke. The government nukes like whatever town it was, like a Raccoon City style.
00:54:53
Speaker
And that's one thing we're missing in this is that like there should have been
00:54:59
Speaker
ah explosion. But like I guess the self-destruct ship counts? Yeah, kinda. I guess that's the only qualification because a ship explodes. That's like a thing. That becomes a thing later on.
00:55:14
Speaker
A prayer used their wrist thing to blow something up. Yeah. I guess that counts.
00:55:22
Speaker
But overall, the pacing, the story, it's decent. The only thing that the third act lacks is that you introduce an OG Predator.
00:55:35
Speaker
doesn't do anything. And then... Yeah? ah was it he yeah The OG Predator gets, like, murked by the new one. and To, like, show how cool the new is. i mean, they do that again and The Predator,
Film Ending and Sequel Potential
00:55:47
Speaker
so that's not new.
00:55:48
Speaker
So I think that's just hilarious that they just did it again. It's not a surprise. ah
00:55:55
Speaker
Royce isn't bad but there should have been more like hinting that he will abandon them because he was totally willing to abandon them like earlier in the movie so you can't be surprised he's willing to do it again
00:56:12
Speaker
Yeah, he's got yeah he's kind he's like a bit work better alone. like, we don't have time for breaks. Keep up. umll I'll leave you behind. I'm not doing this like like Boy Scout thing.
00:56:24
Speaker
They don't take him serious.
00:56:27
Speaker
But in the end, he does come back because Topher Grace is sort of like, haha, my evil plan of trying to be a serial killer on this planet. and So cool.
00:56:38
Speaker
Wouldn't it make sense that they would get on the ship, then he betrays them? than to do it in a pit. Yeah, like, that but like yeah he's doing it in, like, he's just, like, leaving himself, like, in a no-win situation. He's just like, well, you killed Isabella, like, how are you gonna climb up that pit now, dude? like Like, you have a busted leg, you can't do anything.
00:57:00
Speaker
um that's right, he's got a busted leg, so that's why he's just like, might as well get one more kill in, I guess. got it Yeah, I gotta, like, sate my bloodlust. You think maybe, like,
00:57:12
Speaker
he's just been waiting for the time or like he just thought I'll just join this killing the end and I'll be one of them it's weird like I feel yeah I feel like he should have I mean I guess they were like they're saving the reveal for the end but but then I feel like they like if they reveal it earlier and like he like like picked like one or two people off himself which like like made them disappear like he killed like Daytrail or something and then and then we know but they don't know
00:57:40
Speaker
That's actually like a better thing. where like you can't heat It's like you think a predator got to Danny Trejo, but it turns out it was actually Topher Grace and his scalpel. Yeah, so so like the audience knows that he's like a some sort of weird serial killer, but then the rest of the group doesn't know that?
00:58:01
Speaker
And then it's too late, and then it's like he's actually like a predator among the predators. He even tries to appeal to the Predator. I think Berserker is like, I'm one of you. I'm a Predator. Yeah, they just blow him up or something.
00:58:17
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Oh, no, okay well the part where the predator stabs him the back. Yeah. And then he's like, I'm like you. then you find out Agent Brody, like, ridden him up with, like a bunch of grenades. He made a dead man's trap.
00:58:29
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which he's Which is funny, because he says, like, he says, um it's like playing off when Topher Grace first, like, steps in that trap. it's It's like one of Agent Brody's, like, plans. It's like, well, yeah, you can't walk on it. He can't, he slows down.
00:58:44
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Like, we can just, like, we can make him, like, a ah like a trap. We could stab a bunch of grenades to him. We could blow up a predator. Well, it's the same like tactic I think they did with Nikolai.
00:58:56
Speaker
Yeah. So it's only fair that he basically gets the same exit.
00:59:03
Speaker
Also, it's funny because feel like and Brody definitely heard Topher Grace doing all his serial killer talking about the pit. He shows up above the pit right after, like, Topher Grace, like, does, like, his, like, crazy monologue.
00:59:17
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And Topher Grace is like, oh, hey, buddy! like, Topher, then he pulls up and, like, does, like, the cool, like, scalpel of the chin move to kill him.
00:59:28
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Or, like, to paralyze him.
00:59:34
Speaker
Which I think was a great send-off for Topher Grace, because it's like, that's what you get for not being in That's not what you show anymore. Stay on. You're too big for it. You're a movie star now.
00:59:49
Speaker
Time for your close-up.
00:59:54
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Oh, I forgot to mention, I think Goggins gets the classic spinal rip. Oh, yeah. Goggins gets, like like, I think, stabbed and then tossed over and then from the back gets a spinal rip because his front has the body armor.
01:00:13
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Yeah. He stole that from when it's Fishburne. But that spinal rip, his whole like skeleton and spine are like clean. Or as clean as you think for being ripped out. Like a Mortal Kombat movie. Yeah, it's it's straight out of Mortal Kombat.
01:00:29
Speaker
Unless Goggins had osteoporosis that like made it all detach from the muscle and tendons. Yeah, it comes out like it's read obviously from blood, but yeah, it's it's a very like clean, like just rip. and he's the eight And he's the only one that we see like them like take take a trophy from.
01:00:55
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Yeah, everything else was like, yeah, but Goggins, he got the respect. You know, you try you try to shake me. I respect you, human. I think also because he had like a tiny prison shank instead of like a gun.
01:01:07
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hmm. I also don't know if ah getting your spine ripped out is an honor to the Yalcha, or it's not.
01:01:18
Speaker
Because you figure they want to collect the part to remember, like, the worthy kill. But if it's like, oh, that was just a thing I killed, whatever.
01:01:27
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Yeah, I feel i feel like it's like ah they only do that if it's like a a really worthy like opponent or prey.
01:01:39
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And Gagin showed him some chutzpah and started to stab him.
01:01:54
Speaker
But yeah, overall, Predators, I think it's i think it's solid. like It's like firmly in the middle of the of the Predators series.
01:02:03
Speaker
like I would probably ah pipe a definitely put this behind obviously the original and definitely behind Prey I'm trying to think would you put this above Predator 2 or behind Predator 2?
01:02:17
Speaker
I'm behind Predator 2. I'm behind Predator 2, yeah. Because Predator 2 has like a bunch of fun stuff in Predator 2 is consistent. like it It doesn't dip, and it doesn't rise more than it needs to. Because you still cheer on like some people getting killed by the Predator for just you know being kind of like dicks.
01:02:36
Speaker
And then ah there's like a detective story in Predator 2. But here, there is no mystery. You're just watching these people survive as best they can but it doesn't end on a satisfying note like even if they um even if they didn't leave the planet i kind of want them to do the like all right like gear up for the next hunt and it ends on a like more optimistic they're going to like get ready for the next round like
01:03:10
Speaker
and you know maybe see you in the sequel kind of thing. But this movie, it's kind of like a downer. because Well, this there's more people parachuting in, so they're going to have like another group of people maybe to help them.
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01:03:24
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But, yeah, there's it's likes like, mean I guess there's been more predators showing up. Like, they killed like this hunting party, but there's gonna be a new hunting party, I guess, showing up, because there's other hunts being dropped in.
01:03:36
Speaker
And then, we still have no way of getting off the planet, because, alert for the comic... They're still on the planet. They are just waiting.
01:03:47
Speaker
The Predators are listening. not put your ship don't put Don't park your ship right next to the hunting camp. Move it to other side of the planet. Get over there. A lot of times, a lot of the Predator ships are just hovering in the air. They don't need to land.
01:04:03
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make sure and Make sure it's cloaked.
01:04:11
Speaker
But but definitely definitely better than The Predator or or both Alien vs. Predator movies.
01:04:21
Speaker
And then well we yeah we haven't seen Predator Badlands yet as as a recording this, but we'll have to see how how that ranks soon. i have high hopes just because Predator, Killer Killers, and Predator were both ah pretty fantastic. So same director, Dan Trachtenberg.
01:04:39
Speaker
So, hopefully there'll be another asymmetry in the franchise.
01:04:49
Speaker
So, yes, that'll do this week. Come back next week, we're going to be on the run with Arnold and talking about the original Running Man, because the new Running Man be in theaters. The Edgar Wright, Glenn Powell ah adaptation it's going to be more like the Stephen King book.
01:05:05
Speaker
And... um But then that not quite the like the crazy arena game show of the ah ah the Arnold movie. but but We're diving into all the crazy Arnold... What are the ah like the enforcers? or the ah the The hunters? or I forgot.
01:05:26
Speaker
What are Sub-Zero all those guys? like Predators? The Predators, yeah.
01:05:33
Speaker
yeah But yeah, we'll get into all that ah next week as as we get ready for the new one, which I don't i don't know if we have as many colorful characters as as this one, but we'll see. and you can over to the site, we all
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