Predator: Badlands

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I pirated this tonight expecting trash but it was better than I expected. A Yautja actually hunting a target the whole time. Not saying it's the best pred but it's better than the dog shit AVP movies, at least.
 
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Runnen

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Rajaah said:
It's a really good movie IMO. Obviously T1/T2 are better because they're better than pretty much everything. TS is the only sequel to actually do something new with Terminator, though, by trying to retell the Future War. They started early - John Connor isn't a major player yet (just a guy who fights in the Resistance, has a small and loyal squad, and does inspiring radio broadcasts), there are no battlefield T-800s or HK Tanks yet, no plasma weapons, the T-800 they encounter during the movie is the first prototype they've met - and that's both good and bad.

Bad because people wanted the Future War we saw in the flash-forwards of the previous movies, not this Mad Max looking situation. Good because starting at an early point in the war gave them a lot of storytelling freedom to develop new scenarios and flesh things out, so to speak. Like it would have been cool to see a sequel where they reverse-engineer the new plasma weapons that the machines have started using, and so forth. TS was supposed to begin a trilogy and I assume the other two would have led up to the 2029 defeat of Skynet. It didn't do well enough to get any sequels greenlit though. So we're left with this solo movie that's kind of a curiosity more than anything else, someone's imagining of the early Future War and what it might have looked like.

Also, Anton Yelchin plays an amazing young Kyle Reese. Like he absolutely captures all of Michael Biehn's facial ticks, mannerisms, everything. He's probably the highlight of the whole movie.
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That's a good analysis of the Terminator Salvation situation, yeah.

I also think the ending they had originally planned would have made it more memorable, but they chickened out after some early audience reactions.

In the released version, John Connor receives a mortal wound near his heart and they manage to save him by doing a heart transplant with Marcus' cyborg super-heart, making it so John Connor lives only thanks to a machine which is a bit ironic.

The initial idea was that Connor would actually die from his wounds, but only very few would know about it (his wife and a select few high ranking resistance members), and they transplated his face onto Marcus so that the symbol of John Connor would live on for the resistance, ironically a machine leading the resistance against Skynet.

I think both ideas work in the end, but a "bad ending" would have been more memorable.
 
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