# Predator: Badlands: Huzzah! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 22, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203 "2025-07-22T22:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/1 "2025-07-22T22:04:17Z")
I haven’t watched a Predator movie since the second one (or an Alien movie since the 4th) but I’m looking forward to this one, because half an Elle Fanning is still much better than no Elle Fanning. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Rav-aQM7jLQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Predator: Badlands - Official Trailer (2025) Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rav-aQM7jLQ) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/2 "2025-07-22T22:15:31Z")
Yeah, that is a great trailer. Predator franchise has been on a comeback kick lately. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/3 "2025-07-22T22:20:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I haven’t watched a Predator movie since the second one I highly recommend Prey then. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/4 "2025-07-23T00:24:04Z")
So do I. **Prey** is outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/5 "2025-07-23T02:31:30Z")
I used to quote all the dialogue of the original Predator from when Arnold lights the bonfire with a jungle shattering, “AAAAAHHHHHHHH” to “Get to the choppa”. Of course it’s an Arnold movie show so it wasn’t much. “He couldn’t see me”. “C’mon. c’mon, keell me!”. “What the hell are you?” ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/6 "2025-07-23T03:54:49Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I highly recommend Prey then. Me too. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/7 "2025-07-23T14:04:54Z")
4th-ing Prey, it was excellent. This new one looks very exciting. My one complaint that jumped out at me from the trailer is that the predator actor’s physical movements seem too human to me. He looks and moves like a generic action-hero in a mask. Most previous predators have emphasized slow broad deliberate movements that felt imposing, strong, dangerous, and most importantly, alien. This guy’s physical acting seems miscast/misdirected. Perhaps I’m preemptively nitpicking too severely, but I’m a superfan, it’s what we do. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/8 "2025-07-23T14:55:57Z")
I am probably not the audience for this, because I thought that trailer looked pretty dumb, and I completely agree with this: > [@GargoyleWB](#): > > He looks and moves like a generic action-hero in a mask. Maybe I am misremembering/romanticizing the original, but this Predator _really_ doesn’t look like an alien at all. This will be a pass for me. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/9 "2025-07-23T15:26:20Z")
From the trailer, it seems like the predator is purposely disarmed, not having his usual assortment of fancy gear? Looks like a more down to earth take, kinda like the Dark Knight series of “humanized” Batman. Could be interesting, but yeah, he does fight more like Khal Drogo in this one than a proper Predator. I’d still watch it, or course… loved every Predator and Alien vs Predator movie, even the really dumb ones 😂 Anyone ever play the old AvP first person shooter PC games? They were actually really excellent, letting you play as the predator, the aliens (xenomorphs), and the colonial marines in a 3 way conflict. Each species played really differently and it really helped flesh out the movies, mechanically, in terms of seeing how different it was for the predator to hunt an alien vs a marine, or for the xenomorph to hunt a predator. The movies are so much richer after having played that game. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/10 "2025-07-23T15:47:06Z")
This is true but the first two predators moved like a guy wearing a giant monster suit, this is definitely an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/11 "2025-07-23T19:46:19Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > I am probably not the audience for this, because I thought that trailer looked pretty dumb As with a lot of twenty-first century movies, I look at this and say “why? Why do I care what happens to a predator? They’re the baddies! I hope he gets torn to shreds, and it hurts a lot.” John Wick can just fuck right off and die, too. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/12 "2025-07-23T21:03:02Z")
Specifically watch the scene at about 22-24 seconds where he is readying his space-bow. In my minds ear, the dialogue sounds like “Let’s rock, yo, I’m locked and loaded bruh!” rather than “Grrrichchchigrr…graggglllee…grrrowlwlwlgghh” coming from the actor’s generic human action movements. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/13 "2025-07-23T21:49:40Z")
I figure he’s a hybrid of some kind. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/14 "2025-07-23T22:28:05Z")
Per the director, this Predator has been outcast from his clan for being a runt. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/15 "2025-07-23T22:33:31Z")
Yes, he’s the Predator DJ Qualls. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/16 "2025-07-23T23:13:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I figure he’s a hybrid of some kind. Wasn’t there an end scene in one of the previous movies where there was a xenomorph-predator hybrid? Doesn’t explain why it looks more human, though. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/17 "2025-07-24T01:58:47Z")
“What if predator, but from the predator’s perspective” isn’t something I particularly care about. Same director as Prey, which I liked, so I’ll pay attention to reviews, but I’d bet against it being good. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/18 "2025-07-24T13:40:01Z")
Yeah, the problem with the Predator movies is that the more you make the less threatening they get because they keep losing. If you want to make a movie with a Predator protagonist in which he actually wins you don’t make them sympathetic, you just make his prey despicable. I’d love a Predator hunts Nazis movies. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/19 "2025-07-24T14:34:49Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’d love a Predator hunts Nazis movies. Would you buy…Russians? Imagine if you will, an alternate explanation for > **[Dyatlov Pass incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)** > > The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: Гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: Gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') was an event in which nine Soviet ski hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains on 1 or 2 February 1959 under undetermined circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov \[ru\], had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, somethin... Predator v Commies. It sings! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203/20 "2026-03-20T16:05:49Z")
Finally saw this. Absolutely excellent sci-fi film. Best in the series IMO. Beating out Prey, but only just, you could argue Prey is a better predator movie but Badlands is a better sci-fi movie I like that it revealed a little of the backstory of Predators without ruining the mythos by try to explain every last detail (though a little bit sad my own personal head canon didn’t prove true. Where predator society is actually super rational and stable, they just send their crazy “manosphere” types to get killed on hunts while everyone else just goes about their business) I thought the ending was a bit silly but it’s a predator movie, what do you want? And how the hell does the full grown Kalisk fit on the Predator space ship? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-badlands-huzzah/1021203.md?page=2)