EPISODE 448- PREDATOR: BADLANDS

About this episode

The episode discusses the film PREDATOR: BADLANDS and its implications in the context of the Predator franchise.

The 21st century has graced us with many questionable or misguided (or just fucking awful) PG13 sequels, reboots, or remakes to the pantheon of 1980's scifi/horror/ action hybrid classics: 2004: Alien Vs Predator 2009: Terminator Salvation 2012: Total Recall 2014: RoboCop 2015: Terminator Genisys There's also quite a few which retained the R ratings of their predecessors, with varying results: 2003: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2007: Aliens Vs Predator- Requiem 2010: Predators 2012: Prometheus 2017: Alien: Covenant 2018: The Predator 2019: Terminator: Dark Fate 2022: Prey 2024: Alien: Romulus This episode we discuss PREDATOR: BADLANDS, Dan Trachtenberg's follow up to Prey and the animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers, both of which the three of us enjoyed quite a bit. Is it ruined by the Disneyfication? Does Trachtenberg pull off this PG-13 Predator film, the first to feature a Yautja as the protagonist, or does it join the trash pile of some prior attempts? "Welcome to the most dangerous planet in the universe, where everything is trying to kill you", it's the Who Goes There Podcast Episode 448! Join our Patreon to support the show! As a Patreon member you get the…

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Host: Who Goes There Podcast

Topics covered

• film reviews
• scifi
• horror
• action
• sequel analysis
• Disneyfication

Keywords

• Predator
• Dan Trachtenberg
• PG-13
• sequel
• Disneyfication
• scifi
• horror
• action

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, Prey, Predator: Killer of Killers, Alien Vs Predator, Terminator Salvation, Total Recall, RoboCop, Terminator Genisys, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Aliens Vs Predator- Requiem

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