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Predator: Badlands Explained

• Oski, xFer, & Merc • Season 5 • Episode 160

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to another episode of the WBM podcast. This is one of your hosts. It's your boy Merc. It's your boy XFAN.

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And it's your boy Oski in the middle.

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Guys, we got a fun one for you today. A quick little burger. That's right. We're gonna go ahead and talk some Predator Badlands that just dropped. Some chainsaw. And then we're also gonna talk some One Piece, right?

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They got so many like little announcements lately.

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Bro, so much is happening in the world of One Piece right now, and I love it. I'm so excited. I hope you guys are too. It's been a little bit since we got a chance to nerd out on it.

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Yeah, but this is gonna be a quick and dirty, just quick and dirty way.

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I am the devil. You know what I mean? That is hilarious.

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I mean, some of those heavy metal bands or death metal go hard, don't you? Yeah, bro. And the way they do it, they can do it on a nightly basis.

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Like your mom is crazy.

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Every nightly ever so rightly.

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You know who also could do it on a nightly basis? Bingling? Alright, so Badlands, right? Yeah, who's I thought that was a setup. I think it was too. Oh, that was great. Well, before we get into Badlands, okay, here's my hot take. Hot take, hot take. If you follow the show, you know I'm a big nerd nerd about basically every franchise out there. This is true. But Predator is one of the franchises that I'm not too excited about. I've never been a big fan of Predator. To me, it just never like a good comparison is against the alien franchise. Yeah. To me, it just doesn't meet those heights of alien franchise. You know, those those 80s, the movies from the 90s, I'm sorry, it just never met those heights.

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Yeah.

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That's not an outrageous statement. So that's my hot take. Now the latest movies I feel like have come up. But then you had those early arts movies that just didn't know where to take the franchise.

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Well, was it Alien vs. Predator? Didn't know what to do with the franchise, in my opinion.

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The Predators were a they put a bunch of like commandos in uh in an alien planet. Do you remember that one with Adrian Bordy? There's like five of them or something like that. And then The Predator, where like it was kind of a comment. No, I actually really like the Predator because they had like humor in there. You know? But at the end of the fucking movie, they have a mechanical predator suit for no reason. I don't know if you guys remember that. No, I don't remember that.

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That's interesting. A mecha suit?

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Yeah. They have like a the predator, the plot of the well, you want to go through the history of the franchise? If you know it, yeah. Yeah, let's fucking nerd out. Okay, I you know when I hate, I gotta hate something. Absolutely. You're like, I'm gonna hang with research. I'm gonna hang with research. Okay, so I went back and rewatched the first one, right? Arnold Schwaxneger. Now, here's the thing. Me watching that as a kid.

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Oh I just want to say that one of my favorite things about The Predator, which is because you're you're hitting that butt that movie, it's just the gadgets. I just want to nerd out real quick on the gadgets, because I always love that. Just before you move on, I always thought that was cool with like the his his components, his grenades, his little like slasher, and of course the little gun thing. I always thought that was like genius, because like mechanical genius, but I at the end of the day, I always thought it was cheating, because I was like, bro, that's not hunting, puss. You know, grab a knife or bare handed, right? But being lazy, but being cloak, like one thing as to like like Arnold, like with the mud, that's cool. Right. But like to do that technology, that's kind of like alien kind of like it's cheating, bro. Yeah, right? It's cheating. Okay, sorry, okay, on pause. I just thought it was cool though, because even the scenes that she like I just found that cool, like the alien's gadgets, I always found that fascinating. And I I wish they showed more. Alright, that's enough.

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No, no, no, that's a good point. Because you know, that one when the first movie came out.

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80 something.

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80 something. Bro, in the beginning of the movie, they showed a ship like coming to Earth.

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Yeah, from Spain.

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Oh, I forgot. Yeah. I was like, holy shit, this is pretty good for an 80-something movie. And he's right. At one point, the brothers heard and he pulls out a first aid kit alien first aid med kit. He pictures himself. I was like, oh, that's dope. Yeah. But one of the things, one of the reasons I hit it as a kid was that this guy had invisibility and a fucking hit ticker gun. Thermal building was crazy, bro. He's not hurting shit. Arnold he took out the whole team, everybody died, but Arnold took him 1v1 and won. With the tree. With a fucking alien. And you know what's worse?

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When that fucking alien died, that predator died, instead of saying, Oh, you got me, you know what he did? You muck them.

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I was like, what the f so I did not like the first movie just because I was like predator hater.

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Like, like, I hate the predator because of those logics. Like, you depend on all this advanced technology, where honestly the human will beat your ass. Like, get Mike Tyson. Run the ones with Mike Tyson. See what you know, do that, but no technology.

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Aliens, bro, they're not monsters, Joe.

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I'm a hater towards the predator, as in like human pride.

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Same, same, brother. And here's the thing, bro. I did rewatch it and I enjoyed it more as a as a as a as an older. Like, I get it now. Like, I see how it's become so much part of the culture. And not only that, that movie was such a manly like movie, you know?

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Oh, everybody was fucking jamming, bro. You son of a bitch. I forgot what the guy's name was. Just Carl Weathers. Yeah, yeah.

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Just Ventura had the fucking gallery slicing treason highlight, brother.

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Everybody was just I remember that one guy who had a whole scene. He like fucking, I don't even know, he liked slashed somewhere on his body. He fucking did the hell headband. Immediately, as soon as he goes, cuts up a guy.

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Bro. I thought they were gonna at least because I didn't, I hadn't seen the movie in so long. He fucking prepared. You know, if the one that's been with nature the whole movie, yeah, dice off scream.

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With a horrendous scream, bro. They were hyping him up the whole time. The silent one, the dangerous one. You guys go. I got this.

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I'll cover you. Then that one other one, I forgot who he is, but that black guy that was all bold, and he kept like shaving his face the whole time. They also hyped him up because he was like crawling, he's like, I'm gonna sneak up on this predator. And then the predator just comes up on on top of him.

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And just like cheating. Yeah, you can't think her.

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That guy was funny, he kept shaving his face.

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So that was that was the uh the first predator.

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And at the end of the movie, they all like have like a memorial pose in the Oh yeah.

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With the muscles and the guns, yeah, bro, sweaty as fuck, shirtless for no.

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It was like G.I. Joe versus a monster, it was, bro. But that was like a thriller style last movie, bro.

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Yeah, but here's my take. I always I always consider Predator more of an action movie. I never thought it was scary at all. Nah. Nah, the Predator alien himself, I mean, I guess it's pretty like Rose and taking off the mask.

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What's the name of the corporation?

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Weyland Utani. There you go. Weyland Utani.

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So Whalen Yutani plays a very important role in that in the Badlands movie. And I without give you any spoilers, Tico. One of the things is like the spoilers. Okay, it's pretty much like a mirror like the original one.

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Spoiler alert for everybody. Oh, I don't know. I want to do the spoiler free or spoiler. No, spoil the shit out of it. Spoiler alert.

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So it's kind of like a mirror of the original one, right? Because the original one takes in the jungle, so does this one, right? Yeah. And then in like this one, is instead of being an experienced hunter, it's everything we talk shit about, but finally the juggler having like a okay. If you think, well, actually, even the sword is cheating. Okay, okay.

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But he does but he gets nerfed immediately, though. He gets nerfed. Because he's the runt. He's not a badass. That's the whole thing in this movie, is that like there are other badass versions of predators.

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I saw an extended preview, yeah, that like his dad like puts him out because he's a runt or something.

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Yeah, exactly. And he sends his brother, he's like, we gotta call the week in our family. He sends his brother to kill him? Yeah, and the brother's like, well, I'm not down for that. It's my brother, right? Interesting. And that's when the brother ends up sacrificing himself. He ends up fighting the dad in order to save the brother. Oh shit. Okay. And like you're spoiler.

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Inspiring the brother, you know, to like fuck this. Yeah, I'm a brother.

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Bring back the trophy.

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I like I do like that in this movie we're seeing it from the predator's perspective. Yeah, and that we're getting way more of uh ja ja culture.

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Well, in that movie. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but wait the Wayland, the Wayland found Wayland, what is it called?

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Utani. Or you could just say Weyland.

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So what's the timeline here? Because Weyland here are in par in pretty much in technology with the predators. So this is way after the 80s.

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Yeah, I'm thinking this is like already like in alien timeline, where it's like 24, 21, 22, 100.

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Yaocha, that's what they're called. Sorry, Yaucha.

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Yaucha. Yeah.

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Hunting with the Yaucha.

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That's the thing about the old predator movies. Like in the second movie, we skipped to the 90s, but we're still in the 90s. So the predator's fighting Donald Glover, right? Yep. But he's fighting Donald Glover, and old Donald Glover has his uh fucking uh revolver. That's it, bro. That was crazy. And he takes him in the concrete jungle this time. Yeah, that's right. I haven't watched the second one in forever, man. It's been forever. Is that what I remember?

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That one at the end of the at the end one, Donald Glover gets kidnapped by like 20 aliens and they take him off predators, yeah.

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Oh, they can't take him off of the ship and they give him that trophy, which is that pistol for the parents from 17th to one of the Native Americans. Oh no, it's actually from a pirate that was uh that he appears in Prey. Oh, that's cool. That's how they connected all those movies. The climb. After Predator 2, then we have Predators, which is completely disconnected, where they take all the commandos to an alien planet and you know free-for-all. And then we had the Predator, which is again completely kind of disconnected. They want to take the franchise on a more action vibe. It is. And then we have Prey. Prey went back in time. Yeah, Prey was like Native American aspect.

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That was supposed to be a movie, but then it went straight to Hulu, right? It was supposed to get a theatrical movie.

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It came out during the pandemic. Yeah. Had the pandemic not happened, Prey was gonna go to theater.

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Yes, that's right. Because we we saw the trailer for it during Comic Palooza. Remember, we're like, oh, extended trailer, this shit looks crazy because it fights the grizzly, remember? Yeah. When it goes toe-to-toe with the grizzly, you're like, oh shit, it broke its back. That was sick. Yeah. You know?

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And speaking of the predator being like, there's y'all remember, obviously in Prey is the is the girl that beats the predator. Yeah. But there's that one dude that takes him on 1v1. Yeah. And fights him. Yeah.

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Not in their nature. Alright, alright.

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But Prey was really good, but it was also short. It was only like 90 minutes. Not even 90 minutes. Yeah. It was like 75 minutes.

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I mean, they gotta be short movies because there's not much to it.

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Yeah, there's it's it's a big badass fight.

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Inspred are hunting down a group of like.

SPEAKER_00:

I wonder if that's why they hunt us. Because they know, like, oh fuck, these humans are so dangerous. I'm gonna go ahead and go invisible.

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If I didn't have my gear, is that why we're worried about the hunt? Yeah, it's interesting because the whole culture is like they send the predators to like that's this is your proving grounds. This is you testing yourself. Because over time they kind of like adapted the retro feed retro back in the canon. They send predators to Earth. The predators that they sent to Earth are actually young links. Trying to get their fucking bearings, trying to get trying to get their trophies or whatever.

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That's what it is, they're trophies. Remember, that's what they're talking about. Yeah, and badass too.

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So the the ones that they send to Earth are are small ones. Because as the movies go on, then the predators, you know, we start seeing all these predators fucking huge.

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They get to select their prey in the very beginning. Remember, that's what remember the brother, the older brother is showing the younger brother, like on the certain planets have certain creatures or whatever, and he goes to point to one specific badass one that nobody's been able to kill. And that's when he's like, I want that one. And he's like, nah, bro, you're not. Is it the one that most recently? Which is Badlands, yeah, which is the plan that Badlands. Yeah. So that's how it plugs into that of like, oh, well, the younglings go there, they're like, well, no matter what, the only way you're gonna be a part of the clan is you have to claim your trophy. So you come back basically with the skull of whatever you've killed.

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Big ass fucking monster looking thing.

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But for them, they're like, if you kill a human, it also counts. So I could see that that's why the younglings will go and get to Earth.

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And they're like, I wonder like they thought they oh, these motherfuckers are tough, bro.

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Don't understand.

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You let small part, he won't hit you.

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He running wrong. But a little Dicky video, Earth go hard.

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That'd be it, bro, right there.

SPEAKER_04:

But then after Prey, the same director also came out with the animated movie, Killer Killers.

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I didn't get a chance to watch that, but I heard it was fucking dope, man. For an animated movie, it's really good. They have like samurais and shit like that that they go against, whichever was.

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Which again show you that they've been hunting, well, fighting against us for like in Vikings era, yeah, that's cool as shit.

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And they connect uh and then at the end of Killer Killers, we see uh Homegrow from Prey, we see Arnold, we see Donald Glover, all in like freesting capsule.

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Whoa. Yeah that's cool. So like these are our champions, basically.

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Pretty much, but they've been captured, like they say Yeah, they say that that's eventually gonna connect to some kind of storyline, like where they put all the champions, like all the best of the best that have killed predators.

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That's epic, bro!

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Did they make a movie like that with Adrian Brony? Remember it was Adrian Brony, it was Danny Trejo.

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Yeah, that's the one I've been bringing up. The one with Adrian Brony, where they put them all in the alien planet. Oh, okay. I didn't even think about that.

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You think about something else? Yeah, I was. I wasn't my bad. Is that predators? Is that what the one you were talking about? Where's it the favorite?

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With the plural.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

That one's pretty good too. It wasn't that bad. On that one, it's like supposed to be the best of the best of like Earth's like tactical teams.

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Yeah.

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But they haven't killed predators. So these are actual killers of predators. Yeah. Killer of killers. Yeah. That's dope. Down the line. Well, I don't know, because it'll be hard, because obviously you're not gonna, who's gonna play Arnold again? No, you have to see G3D, bro. Yeah. So if it's animated, yeah. But they put the predator killers in in like a gauntlet or something, and they send predators in. Connected, bro. And these are people, these are people that have already taken predators, so it's like, you know, it's not outrageous, yeah. For them scared of predators.

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Look, what be crazy? Look, the predators give them their weapons. They're like, hey, you guys are pretty dope. Here's our shit.

SPEAKER_00:

Wait, it can work out. It can work out. I can see how. Because like this is part of it. In the bringing the circling back of why the name of the alien companies cause Wayland, Wayland Corporation Oh shit.

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Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Spoilers. Okay. So they want to capture theories for the next one.

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They want to capture a monster, just new Bad movie. And the reason when they capture this monster is because it has very fast regenerative features, right? Crazy bad. And so that I win it to humanity.

SPEAKER_04:

Is it the same monster that Homeboys hunted?

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Yes, which is that one, which is the call the impossible monster to kill, right? That's what they're really trying to hunt it. So Wayland wanted to capture this animal. Now here's where this is what I'm gonna connect it, right? These regenerative features may be applied to like the Arnold character or the uh Donald Glover character. For if they do live action killer of killers, that's for that's my theory. And then Wayland technology will be the one because they show you how they're like they put like like little putting like organic things back together. Yeah, that's how I figured they'll do it.

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I love how they like running the the Weyland uh homegirl. Oh, she's a sim? Yeah, she's synth? A synth? Yeah. A synth. Yeah. I love how they run it as synth, and I haven't seen the movie, but it perfectly fits in the universe. Yeah.

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Right.

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Because of Alien and stuff like that. I like that. I like that. Like it doesn't melt it so quickly. Does it even explain it at all? Or is it like just trust the audience, hey, this is a synth. We're in the same universe as alien.

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At this point, yeah, that's it. That was all they gave you. They're like, I'm a synth, all my whole group here is synth. We work for the Wayland, whatever, Utani Company or whatever. And even if you didn't but there's nothing on Expo Dump.

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But even if they didn't, it was like the the the structure of the of the uh of like of the humans, like the purpose of the humans, even if you didn't know who they were, you know, that's a corporation will organize with the secret of agenda, with the secretive agenda. Like even if you did it, like it was well written where you didn't even have to know it. Yeah, it was well written. It was good.

SPEAKER_04:

It was good. Yeah, bro. Watching it, I heard that uh what's her name? Something fanning. She gives like a really good performance. She's phenomenal. The robot chick, the synth, she's she's funny.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, she did a great job. She was really, really good.

SPEAKER_00:

L fanning? I forgot.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know. No, Thea. Thea is the character's name. Yeah, Thea's. But yeah, Thea's character, she was very, very funny. She was like very witty on top of it the entire time. She added to the entire and she was thick, her lower half was thick. It's crazy. Way Lane Corporation. Shout outs. Come on, guys. Come on.

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They took their time.

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And you know, it was actually features. I saw the behind-the-scenes feature or image. So she has her stunt double for the upper half, and then she actually has somebody who does the lower half. It's a totally different person. It's not even her.

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So that ass belongs to somebody else. You guys are dumb. Just saying. But I was uh I know she communicates from what I think on the trailer, she communicates with the predator, right? Yes. Uh does the predator speak English? No, he still speaks his language. Portuguese. How do they understand each other?

SPEAKER_02:

Uh universal translator is what she has. He speaks his language. Yeah. Yeah. Universal translator, that's true. That's what she says. That's what she says. Chacha? Yeah, she says, You hear Cha. Jar Jar.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, pretty much a Jar Jar. Like with that concept, there's like, oh Jar Jar. You know, a Jar uh Jar J was his task. I was gonna think Chewbacca, same shit. No, no, Jar Jar's job as in the in Star Wars was a universal translator. Is that really what he did? He knew all the languages. What? Yeah, so he'll be like, oh, they're they're telling I tell you this, you know? Yeah, Jar Jar makes sense why Janet translated for everybody. It makes sense why he was at the council shit then now, you know. Okay, bro. I totally fucked this up. C3PO. I'm so sorry, C3PO! Oh like there.

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C3PO was at. Yeah, no, but she C3PO.

SPEAKER_00:

C3PO, C3PO.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it does, actually. Anyway, but that's what she does. She was funny, man, the entire time. I liked her. My dog was in the movie. My dog Venom was in the movie. It was hilarious. It's uh it was funny because like there's uh like a little alien, bro, and it looks really ugly, but it's adorably cute at the same time. Like my dog. Yeah, it looks like a pug, bro. And he spits on the predator at one point, and he's like, What the fuck? And the girl's like He spits at like your mom's Right. Your mom does it on me. She hucked two on that thing, and she's like, You're a part of the clan now, right? Later on, he's about to get killed by the callus because he did everything he could. He fucking cut his head off, bro. Spoilers. Cut his head off, it grows back because he's like, It's that fucking dope. And it immediately pins that down. He's about to kill him, but he smells the spit. And unbeknownst to him, it was the child of the actual callus. Oh yeah, so that's how they connected in later on in there.

SPEAKER_00:

So essentially, if you're gonna be a big thing.

SPEAKER_04:

So he turns around and kills his still.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, more like Wham, Wham, singling, and the sad. It's Guardians of the Galaxy. It's family. He taints. Guardians of the Galaxy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Nigga's gonna pull up on his dad with a callus.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, okay.

SPEAKER_03:

That's pretty much the family.

SPEAKER_01:

No, he's like, man, you can join our clan now. He's like, I have my own clan now.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01:

I have family.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, then you gotta get some.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, he had to dress just like everybody.

SPEAKER_03:

Everybody, bro. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_00:

He had a ride and everything. He had it, bro. He had the dog, the blonde girl, bro. He had the ride.

SPEAKER_02:

That was it, bro.

SPEAKER_00:

And he got the keys to the car, bro. He got the dude.

SPEAKER_02:

And he got all right. We're gonna fit. Let's get there. We're gonna get there.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, you guys get the little. That's how I ended, actually.

SPEAKER_02:

So he ends up growing a heart, right? Because uh the the synth ends up telling him she's like uh there are alphas, blah, blah, blah, whatever, whatever. And he's like, Yeah, alpha, I'm sure gets the most kills. She's like, nah, he's actually the one that takes care of the group the most, right? And he's like, I'm gonna do both. Watch me, I'm gonna do my own thing, right? So uh he ends up uh leaving the little animal behind. He dips out on the girl and then realizes like ah I fucked up. These people were actually here to fucking help me. Oh, actually, the girl fucks him over. The robot, he was like, because she was like, you can use me, you know, I'm very useful for you in this area. And he's like, Oh, like a tool. He's like, Bet, no worries, you know, bitch, I'll use you like a tool, it's not a big deal. And then he finally gets her to the base and she starts fixing herself from her legs and stuff. She's like, she hits the alarm. She's like, You gotta get out of here, my people are on the way.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, she still works for Wayland.

SPEAKER_02:

At the end of the day, he's like, nah. She's still got her own up here. You don't use me, tool. I use you.

SPEAKER_03:

What are you talking about, bro? He loses.

SPEAKER_02:

I am cop to and then he causes a big ass explosion, he gets the the callus to come over, he has a gangsta ass fight with it. I thought it was like a like a boss game, like a like a boss match. Immediately came up, bro. Immediately came up. Boss music played.

SPEAKER_00:

You know how like in a boss fight, you gotta hit objectives that the objectives damage the boss. It was that kind of boss fight, and I was like, damn, this is like a video game. Like it's been a badass video game.

SPEAKER_02:

It was cool, dog. It was cool. So they end up kidnapping it. They kidnap said creature, they kidnap him. What else? As I said, he grows the heart after being separated from everybody. He goes back with the group, he learns everything that he's uh acquired over the that time of the discovering the jungle, because it's like the planet of death. So he like uses a little fucking uh what was it, like that eel thing, bro? It's like a shoulder cannon.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, he had a so okay, so I was talking shit earlier about technology. So this guy, respectfully, actually uses nature as his weapons, you know? He's in like spikes or like a whip of grass he found. Like he's interested.

SPEAKER_04:

That would be like a reversal of like the first one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. So he honored Schwarzenegger's the robots.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

unknown:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but the human, yeah, yeah, perfect. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, absolutely. Uh I like it. I like it. Okay, real quick.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's all actually because it's pretty much all like one versus a hundred, so he's going full fucking John Claude Van Dam on them and shit. He made a valid point.

SPEAKER_04:

Y'all want to know a little Easter uh tidbit? Sure. On the original Predator, Jean-Claude Van Damme was supposed to play the alien. What and actually film scenes, so there's some footage of it, and the alien costume looked completely different because Jean-Claude Van Damme is a short 5-2 dude. Right. It was a full costume, and he looked kind of like an insect type thing. But they're in the fucking jungle of Central America, so it was fucking miserable and hot in the fucking costume. So he quit. And they and after a few days of filming, they were like, no, this shit looks kind of silly. It's not gonna work. And it's when they switched to like a six-foot dude, honest watch nigga, badass. Made more sense. No, no, no, the alien. Oh, the scary one. John Club was gonna play the alien, and it was an insect type suit. Are you talking like alienated or the predator alien? The predator. Oh, okay, okay, I'm sorry. John Club and now was supposed to play the predator. Uh he got casted as the predator. They went to the jungle, they filmed some scenes, he was in like an insect type thing, but it was hot and miserable, so he quit. And they thought that the scenes look silly because it was like an insect in the in the jungle. Oh, that makes sense. And that's when they switched to the six-foot predator, and it was just like, you know, what you know now. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. The rest is history.

SPEAKER_02:

That's interesting. So John Black, if he could have been that, that'd have been insane.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, John Club and Dam.

SPEAKER_02:

I bet you the fights probably would have been way more hand-to-hand, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, that's what he thought. He was like, they hired John Club Madame, and he thought he was going to be able to showcase his martial arts because that's what he's known for. Yeah. Well, he really wasn't able to showcase it because he's in a fucking rubber suit. Oh, dude, that sucks.

SPEAKER_02:

I can imagine in the fucking jungle. That would have changed the lore of everything. That would have changed everything.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, that's wild. That was a whole different timeline.

SPEAKER_02:

But there was a certain scene where they were where the aucha was giving himself up on the base of it. Remember, everybody was walking up and they had all those badass scents working in unison to come and hunt him down. That moment, bro, in the movie, he was like, bro, they can totally make a Metal Gear solid movie, dog. And when I saw it, I was like, this is Gundam. Deadass. I was like, that's Hido Yui in the middle. You know what I'm saying? Everybody's getting ready. And he's about to hit the bombs of fucking doo doom doom doom. I was ready for it. But I was like, when I saw that, I was like, there's no reason why they can't make movies like that now, dog. Yeah. Especially like it just it looks so good. It looked just like out of the world.

SPEAKER_00:

Predator showed a lot of potential, not only in like for movies, but other movies as well. Like a mecha fight happened. Yeah. The story life, the even the villainist, the villain of the story, felt like an actual game antagonist. Like her wardrobe, her her look in her eye, like she looked legit as fuck, like as a villain. Even like her motive as a villain was legit. The bad guys, everything, bro. It was like a great movie, bro. I recommend it.

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Isn't it? Yeah. Action. All action. All action. I haven't seen it, but I definitely gotta watch it. The last thing I wanted to mention is that it's all the same director. The same director that did Prey, did Killer Killers, and did uh Badlands. Oh, that he's he's like he's single-handedly saving the show. Same in the franchise. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

On top of that, he's already giving you a sample that I alright. We could do a Viking movie. We can do a samurai movie.

SPEAKER_04:

It could work and I would watch the fuck out of Samurai, you know.

SPEAKER_02:

I would watch it out of Vikings pro fucking 6'5 blonde dude with axes coming out. Oh, that'd be insane, dog.

SPEAKER_00:

In a historic moment.

SPEAKER_04:

So he can like actual fight like a berserker dude and that would be Badlands probably sets up some seats for some sequels, right?

SPEAKER_02:

So it ends with uh he kills his dad, right? He ends up like learning everything. He and like expert said, he comes back with his cyborg chick, with his dog that's now advanced because the mom died. She's like fucked up crazy way. But she dies, but you know, it gets its little revenge. It gets older, but now it looks more badass, and it's just him by himself. He ends up the whole thing is like earning your cloak. Once you've claimed your trophy or whatever, you you earn your invisibility cloak. His dad has it. He goes and fights his dad one-on-one. His dad fucking hits the invisibility cloak. He uses his ship to like blow the sand and dust so he can actually see his dad through the invisibility shit. Bam, kills his ass, takes his cloak, and he's about to bounce, and out of nowhere, he turns around and his mom's ship's about to pull up. He's like, oh shit, yeah, it's the queen.

SPEAKER_03:

And do you actually see the female Jonathan?

SPEAKER_02:

No, no, we don't get to see it. We just see their ships in the distance that are pull up.

SPEAKER_04:

TikTok that said that the females canon, the females are. They're towering. Yeah. They're bigger than the males, bro. Okay. And it's actually, you would think that it would be a patriarch culture. But no, the females are stronger. So the men do the hunting. The men do the hunting. The females are like, they don't even bother because they know they're damn more stronger. It's like the like the male lion in the pikes.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_03:

I did see that. Dead by Schnoo Snoo.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, so this is what I In order to like fuck, you gotta be able to take her on in a fight. Oh, wait, for real? I didn't know that. Yeah, because they're stronger, so they gotta prove themselves. So these motherfuckers are out here, like getting trophies to get that trophy.

SPEAKER_02:

I'll kill an unkillable thing for some pussy.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh I mean, we don't know. I mean, that's that canon is kind of establishing the comics and books. So the movies are maybe gonna do their own thing.

SPEAKER_00:

But the females are supposed to be like one thing I want to bring it back because like bringing it to Prometheus, or probably bringing I don't know which was the most recent movie. I know it's a series of alien out. Yeah. But I'm talking about movies. Romulus was the last one. Romulus. There you go. So circling back, which is the one where like the theory is from Berks earlier, they're like, hey, the mom's here to pick you out because we're gonna do the great hunt. It's time. So my theory is like the aliens have like kind of overtaken Earth or something because of the uh Sims, the one that went crazy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, remember the one that brought him back to Earth still? Remember for the mission or whatever? So hey, they got out. Hey, uh, we're gonna go ahead and start of him like starting to shit with his mom, she's like, I was just about to get your dad, but you just capped his ass, so you gotta be somebody now.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I need you. Hey, yeah, you leave the crew now.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, I mean, I do like okay, the alien vs. Frederick movies might not be the best movies, but I like them.

SPEAKER_00:

I like them. I'll never forget that scene where it was, I forget what was that movie where it was like the queen and she was chasing this one girl.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, yeah, the first one. That's the thing. And the motherfucker doesn't.

SPEAKER_00:

He does a 360 No Sco 520 four spin on the fucking back.

SPEAKER_05:

And then somebody else, yeah!

SPEAKER_04:

That was so dumb because the girl gets an alien head as a shield. Yeah, pyramid out of an alien tail.

SPEAKER_03:

And then at the end, he stars her like he marks it with the tears and shit like that. I thought I was like, yo.

SPEAKER_02:

I want to be.

SPEAKER_04:

But uh now that the movies have gotten so good, like Romanus was so good. It was phenomenal. Went back to like scary basics and like added so many more to the to the to the lore. And predator is just on the up and up. If they actually connect and make another ABP movie, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Because the lore is so much more filled out this time now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

They're not just like feeling it.

SPEAKER_02:

Here's my thing.

SPEAKER_00:

Here's a third one though. They say I'm not, I'm not, I gotta do my research on it, but if hey correct me if I'm wrong, chat. The the the uh the the Blade Runner movies are connected to the same corporation. It's the corporation that makes the robots. It's the same one. That's the way because you see their logo throughout the movie, and this is like this supposedly takes like before Alien Blade uh Blade Runner. Blade Runner Alien. So can I see Blade Runner Alien? Oh wait, Predator, Blade Runner, Aliens.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, that's so Waygo.

SPEAKER_00:

Because you see, if you see Blade Runner, the logo is everywhere of that company, the Wayne company. Right now, the new trailer? In the new movie? The 80s one, the one from the Harrison Ford.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh yeah, I didn't know that. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00:

So we've seen, yeah. So that's where they're the whole story takes place about these androids are looking to live longer. Because these were like the earlier versions. So they're looking for the scientists to like, hey, make me a wait to live longer. They're scientists are like you expire in three days is how I made you, and then like they go mad at the scientists and they kill them. And to Harrison 4, when you shut these crazy ass androids down. And that's where the story takes place about Blade Runner.

SPEAKER_04:

You brought up the Alien series. I haven't watched it but heard nothing but good things about it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, my dad's seen it. Oh, Alien Earth, right? Alien Earth.

SPEAKER_04:

I haven't had a chance to watch it. They say that it explores like synths. It explores sense. And like the call the uh the sense versus like uh hybrids and versus androids.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, yes, and and and it's not to spoil anything, but uh it does take place like in a time of Badlands. Like it's all connected in the future.

SPEAKER_04:

I think so, yeah. But Alien Ern does take place before the alien movies somehow. I haven't seen any, so I don't know for sure. But it's it's weird the way it fits into the time of movies. Is it on HBO? Is it on Hulu? It's on Hulu. I gotta check that out. Yeah, yeah, I gotta watch it, man. Especially I gotta I gotta catch up on this Badlands thing. I didn't think it was gonna be good.

SPEAKER_03:

I didn't know what yeah, it was really good, man.

SPEAKER_02:

Like I said, I didn't know. Oh, we saw it in 4D, bro.

SPEAKER_03:

You saw it in 4D? I saw it in 4D, but it was really fun.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, bro, like the spaceship crashes. You convinced this guy. This guy to watch it 4D. Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_02:

It was actually just I was like, hey, we're we're going. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But I was like, okay. I was fine.

SPEAKER_02:

It was dope, man. It was a really, really good time. So yeah, got a recommendation. Go watch it in Regal 40. We are 35 minutes in. All right, we said 50 minutes. Let's get the fuck out of here. All right, yeah. Uh, what to say One Piece is the greatest anime, we'll talk about it in the next one, guys.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh Chase O Man VC Arc. Go watch it.

SPEAKER_02:

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