Predator Badlands Review - Violent Spacefaring Species Can They Exist? {Explained}

Welcome to the most dangerous planet in the universe, where everything is trying to kill you. I need a hand. You're here to prove your— Guys, welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to review Predator: Badlands, and we're going to do something, um, a lot of reviews don't do, and that is explain some of the big questions you have about some of these franchises and movies, uh, We did Tron: Ares, and we explained how the teleportation device worked. So, uh, if you like deeper meanings and understandings to some of these, uh, some cinema franchises, make sure you like, uh, subscribe to the channel, share the videos, and so on. And so we'll get right into Predator Badlands. So first, before we get into how the movie was and, um, if you should go see it, let's talk about that big question of these advanced spacefaring races where you have, uh, these violent creatures and, um, you're trying to understand, uh, how could an advanced civilization just be based on a war culture as such? And does it even make sense? I guess a similar species we could compare this to would be like the Klingons of Star Trek. So let's talk a little bit about the possibilities of that in cinema or in these franchises, in these movies. And does it make sense? when you're watching films like this. All right, so looking through history, do we find any civilizations, right, that would be advanced for their age that would fit the criteria for an idea like this, right? And so we land, we land at the Spartan Warriors, right? And so this will be a spoiler, you know, filled video as well, so we can explain, um, you know, in detail some of the relevant events. Um, and, uh, so if you don't want to be spoiled by the film, uh, this won't be the video for you. After you watch, come back and check us out, but The Spartans, what you got to understand about the Spartan warriors is they're very much connected to the Greece, the Grecian city-states, right? And at that time, Greece would be the most advanced civilization on Earth, right? Weaponry is such. And if you look at people like the Greeks, you go back thousands upon thousands of years, They're still wearing togas and they're still having these philosophical questioning of the world they're part of. And they don't seem to have a prehistoric or, you know, beginning, right? They just seem to always be doing that, right? And so I think it would be appropriate to say the Grecian city-states were quite advanced and had a very well-connected relationship with Spartans, although Sparta was based on warrior culture, right? Now, what's interesting about Predator: Badlands is what you get to see, you know, as part of the story is that, uh, Deck is, uh, you know, he's the, the main character. I believe they call him Deck. Uh, he's basically the runt of the litter, right? So what you got to understand about in comparison, Spartan culture, if you were deformed, which is brought out in the movie that Deck is a deformed, uh, uh, Yaja, right, of the Yaja race, right? Um, so what, what would typically happen and, and what they're following in the film is that Spartans would— I believe if history serves me correct, they would throw their babies, like deformed babies, off, off ledges, off cliffs, right? So a very brutal society, even though they were well connected with the Grecian states, right? Which means that civilization, philosophy, music, art, they all, they had access to all of these things. They had advanced weaponry, armor, and such, but they didn't seem to embrace the other elements of the advanced civilization of Greece. And so they could be comparably in advance civilization, but hold to these warrior might makes right, only the strong survive ideas, which is pretty much the predator culture. So I think that's quite interesting that that can exist. Now, some scientists don't believe it can. You know, we get the idea of the benevolent alien race that is so far advanced than us in, you know, science and technology that psychologically they are compared to think on levels that we don't think on, maybe even a far greater morality-based observance And so all these ideas kind of go out the, you know, the window of they could be this violent spacefaring race of species, what have you. But there are other comparisons in history, right? We could go back to something like, you know, World War II under Germany, and we can have, um, I don't know if we could say those words or not. I guess we could say Nazi Germany and Hitler and stuff, right? Because sometimes I think those words can demonetize, you know, certain channels. But, uh, if you go back to that, you have one of the most advanced nations on the earth, and what are they doing? They're doing atrocities. They have ideas like might makes, uh, you know, the what would be a kind of eugenics-based, uh, ideology moving through its ranks and where you stand in society as such. And this is all kind of observed in, in the warrior culture of the, of the Yaja, right? If I'm pronouncing it correctly, the predator species race. Um, so now that we know those type things can exist, and we can also go to America, right? America, the most, you could say, single, the most single advanced nation on Earth, right? Riches and such. But then there is a complaint about America not even granting universal healthcare to all its citizens and thus missing the mark on what would incorporate an advanced civilization. Of people. Some people believe that United States of America misses the mark on that. And that tendency or those ideas to almost exist in a type of barbaric-like state on a scale in comparison to maybe other nations who have universal healthcare, and, uh, feel that it should be a right, right, not a privilege, not a capitalistic seeking. But on a scale, right, dialed up, you could, uh, even make comparisons like that about the mental state of how people think, uh, about their fellow man, right? So again, we're just trying to— not criticizing political systems or anything, we're just trying to draw parallels of how a species, a civilization like this, could even be possible, right? So now let's just get into the details of the movie a little bit and, uh, talk about that. All right, so what is my viewpoint of this movie overall? Does it score high, right? I believe some people are saying that it, uh, it, uh, is gonna bomb at the box office, right? And I haven't really paid attention to that. But then there are a lot of people who actually like this movie, right? Says it's a pretty darn good movie. Uh, for me, it fits into a good film, right? Um, not the best of the Predator series, but for me, uh, for me, I For some reason, right guys, my— I, I like the, the, the, the first Predator, right? Um, that's, that seems to be the go-to for everybody, right? The first Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger and such, right? But that film, right, uh, even though it's a good film as well, probably not my most favorite Predator film. My most favorite Predator film I think is Alien vs. Predator. I know a lot of people gonna be like, are you are you kidding me? How is Alien vs. Predator your best, your favorite film, right? But I just liked how it does the history of the Predator creatures, how it involves the Xenomorphs. To me, it is a complete Predator story film, etc. And then maybe after that, I would probably say, uh, the first Predator and, uh, Predator 2. Now, um, The, uh, the other Predator films, um, you know, uh, maybe Predators, right, would be next. Uh, and, and there are some I haven't seen yet, right? So I have to kind of stop the list. But I did see, uh, the Predator animated series, uh, the, uh, oh geez, how's this, Killer of Killers, right? I believe it's called Killer of Killers. And that will probably be next right after that because Even though it's animated, that is a great film. It does a lot with the Predator Prime planet, and I just thought that was interesting. But the reason I found this to be a great film, because of the character development, right? Now this, this movie does— I think this would hold a lot of people— it does a great job of, uh, making you care about the characters in it, right? And that is something that you probably wouldn't think would be possible with the Predator, who's always been a, you know, the— I guess you could say the antagonist of the film. He's always been the threat, you know, the monster you got to face at the end. And now he's kind of like, I guess, an anti-hero. He's not really a hero. He's certainly the protagonist of the film. But he is the main character, right? He's on our— what would be, I guess, our hero's journey, so to speak, right? And so the emotional connection you have to Deck, right, and these characters is what pulls the film, what makes it a good film. You know, it's like the author who wrote, uh, there is no story worth telling unless it involves the human heart. And that's what I always say about these films. That, you know, you can have the greatest looking film, you can have the best looking CGI. This is a problem I have with a lot of the Zack Snyder, um, fans in the Snyderverse when I do the Superman videos. But the character development on most of those characters and how they're written, right, even though it's a good looking film, even though I like the action of the film, like the look of the film, it misses something very important there. And the Predator series gets it right. Uh, so the good thing is working for this film, that the character development, story, the, um, the how it looks. I thought it looked pretty darn good. Uh, not a perfect film, not a, not perfect CGI in every case, but overall pretty darn good, right? Uh, some people complained about how the Predator species looks, that particular character. But again, it is told to us that he is deformed, right? He's malformed. He doesn't look like your standard predator, right? He is— he has a lot of things working against him. He's not as big as your standard. He's so small, right? He's the runt of the litter. And so he would be like a version of a deformed person who's that scrapper, right? That's fighting against the odds. And, uh, that's another thing, right? Him kind of being the, the, I guess you could say, the underdog to the Predators, right? Everybody likes to cheer on the underdog. So all that stuff is working in this film. Uh, you have a lot of tie-ins to just the overall Alien universe, right? With the synthetic beings, right? The, uh, Weyland Corporation, Weyland-Yutani, right? Uh, you're seeing all those things connected through even like the television series, right, that just came out. Uh, overall, just, uh, uh, uh, an excellent film, but especially good if you're interested in the backstory of the Predator creatures, right? And again, Killer of Killers kind of, you know, goes into, uh, the what they call Predator Prime, right? Uh, you know, their planet, their, their, their main planet or their homeworld, right? And of course, it, it, it, it looks like you would picture it, or look a very desolate, like, wasteland planet. Um, and so, uh, the, the, the way that the, the film ends, it does set, sets up sequels. And I find that a lot of people would be interested in exploring it. I feel the same way about it. It It feels very similar to how Killer of Killers ends with the humans being frozen in cryogenic sleep, right? Whereas you're going to get more of the Predator world and it's a pursuit or it's a big cliffhanger at the end, right? And the same thing happens in this film, you know, where he has to face the big bad guy in the film, which I think is his father, right? Uh, his father, who is the worst— who is the worst father of the world. But this is the— this is a Predator species, so I, I can't hardly expect it to go any other way. And, uh, and, uh, some say it's the synthetic being, right, who's basically another version of, uh— I believe her name is— is it Tessa? I think it's Tessa, or Tessa may be the bad one. I think it's Stia. Uh, but, uh, there's a good one and there's a bad one, similar to— and that kind of, you know, harkens, uh, to the, uh, basically the Alien, you know, franchise, uh, you know, with David the synthetic being who kind of had a— it was kind of this good version of David, bad version of him, right? And they, they kind of have this going back and forth. And, and, uh, even, um, uh, the Elle Fanning, you know, who plays the synthetic being She even talked about how she got a lot of inspiration from David, from the alien, the synthetic being from the Aliens, since played by Michael Fassbender, such, right? So overall, I thought this was a good film. Look forward to them following up with a sequel. Some people say it was like a Disney, you know, Disney-fied version of the Predator series, and some people didn't like that. Uh, you know, whereas it was, um, you know, they were doing things that make it more so. And I'm pretty sure this was a rated R film, so I don't— I kind of don't understand why some people believe it's, you know, Disney fight to sell merchandise. Yeah, I don't think like kids would be able to watch this, right? This is rated R film, right? So I don't think that really works that great to say it was that. But I think what was happening in this depiction of the Predator was that you got a more, I guess you could say, humanoid-based Predator. And that's probably so he could identify more with humans for the story. It's kind of like how we try to make robots look like more human so we could relate to them more, right? Because if he came in looking like a bug on the wall, people might not relate to the character as much. Uh, also, I think to cover over that, just for the people who it is kind of a pet peeve of, I guess you could say him being deformed, a malformed Predator, maybe he could be more humanoid. Maybe he could come off more human. Maybe he could have a bit more emotional, uh, uh, uh, you know, displayed in a standard Predator because he, he is not all the way that, right? He's very similar to the other Predator, I believe it was— was it Predator Requiem, where he was kind of mixed up with human DNA? So he's like a hybrid Predator, right? So all those things you can— I guess you could kind of use as a, as a crutch, right? If you're one of those people who just want to see the no-nonsense— and he was a no-nonsense Predator as well, to a certain degree, right? But all things considered, I thought it was a great film. Uh, you can tell me all what you think in the comment section. Have you seen the film, right? Are you going to see it? And what type of things are you hoping to find in the movie? That's all I got to say in this, uh, particular video. If you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe. Until next time, as always, take care of yourselves and each other.