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Predator: Badlands (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]
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Not really, they will just rerelease it down the line with the decent art.
Disney have been doing it for years.
As a long time predator fan who’s spent thousands on collectibles over the years I thought it was horrific. It was a kids disney film complete with the cute comedy side kick. I thought changing the winning formula was risky but they essentially made it a marvel movie for kids. All the characters even did an action pose at the end lol. I loved his last two movies too. Most people seemed to love it though so you might also.
I agree with all of this but I did still really enjoy the film. Interesting to see which path Disney take moving forward in regards to the tone of future movies
I think it’s because the original movie is so close to my heart. If you go and watch that and badlands back to back the tonal shift and, well everything in fact, is so different. The target audience has changed entirely also. I just want a predator movie with the original formula with a new setting and protagonist. I’d have taken Alan Richardson in the desert with a squad of commandos thinking the predator’s stealth camouflage is a mirage. A WWII movie with a Predator. If they wanna go nuts and mix franchises up, make a horror movie with colonial marines trapped somewhere with a predator hunting them. Just keep the winning formula. Maybe have the Predator win and walk away for a change if anything.
It’s one thing trying something new, but I’m of the opinion Disney were whispering in the directors ear to make this appease the kids and bring new, younger fans in. What I think is a shame though, is that they could have done just that with the right marketing without changing it all up so much. It felt more like guardians of the galaxy than Predator. The character designs and cgi faces were insultingly bad to the original practical effects work also.
Disney can make it right by giving us a full bloodied adaptation of the 'Bad Blood' Dark Horse comics. Absolutely love that story arc from back in the day!
If they’re gonna go for it they may aswell! I’m just an old man yelling at the clouds I guess lol.
I think they missed the opportunity to show us the Predator hunting during the Viking Age. There could be great fights between our beloved alien hunter and Viking warriors. And why not a hunting campaign in antiquity against hoplites? Or against Zulu warriors in the 19th century? Or against Samurai or Ninjas from the feudal Japan?
The best thing Disney could do for Predator is sell it off to literally anyone else.
I don't understand laying any failures of this franchise at the feet of Disney?... The Predator series was perfectly good at pumping out lacklustre movies prior to Disney acquiring Fox.
And since then? Well Prey was under Disney and that was fantastic. Killer of Killers (even though not necessarily to my taste) was also widely praised.
Furthermore, Alien Romulus was under Disney and whether you liked it or not it was still a sci-fi/horror and stylistically within the realms of the franchise as a whole.
And before I forget, The First Omen (2024)... That's also Disney, and although it didn't find its audience it was a well reviewed, solid horror movie, and more than worthy addition to that franchise.
Prey gets so much love simply because we've been abused by gems like AVP, had it not been under the Predator brand it'd already be long forgotten as a middling action scifi so you're not convincing me Predator is in safe hands because of it. Sure, I'd take it over most anything past Predators but that's not a compliment.
I've yet to see Killer of killers but Alien Romulus? There was a lot to like there but I can't get away from some of the appalling memberberries and the terrible finale, is that really the best I can hope for?
Given Disney's string of failures in creative vision over the last decade I don't know why anyone would want something they like involved with them, pooping out a Deadpool v Wolverine in desperation is not ultimately a good thing for the industry or the audience even if people think it's what they want in the short term and that's Disney at its most desperate under Iger, the moment they get comfortable they're going to sabotage things, again and they're still undermining things to prop up the black hole that is D+.
So yes I stand by the earlier comment, it doesn't mean they can't occassionally get it right (I hear Zootopia 2 is good) but I'm tired of seeing them fumble the strongest position for a decade straight.
Zavvi are teasing a midnight launch, money’s on it being this.
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