Ah yes, the franchise beloved for its extreme violence and awesome practical effects is doing something without extreme violence or practical effects.
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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We must expand the tech of this film full of murder, carnage, and brutality against humans.
What if we removed those 3 aspects? Then we can lower the age rating to envelope a wider audience.
Wouldn't that alienate the existing fanbase?
Well, think about the new fans we will make.
Yes, because theres nothing teens like more than a long dormant (until recently) 80s action movie franchise.
The other thing young people famously like is paying to go to movie theaters.
I hope I'm wrong. Prey was pretty cool, but I dont see myself going out of my way ro see it and I would consider myself a pretty big Predator fan.
I welcome seeing something new in a largely one dimensional franchise.
I haven't cared about MPAA ratings since I turned 18.
The only time I look at ratings are for horror movies. A PG13 horror movie is usually not something worth my time. There are exceptions to every rule bit still.
Usually I want something to move up to PG13 rather than down from R.
Is this supposed to be a horror movie?
I saw nothing in the trailer that seemed like a horror movie.
Is it? Or is the ratings board just being lax so that the studio can bring in cash from teenagers?
I mean its possible. I wonder if they will get to use their 1 legally allowed F word, and who will say it.
My bet is on a Predator saying it because that is meta and edgy; it hits all demographic targets.
The Predator will call a human "one ugly motherfucker". God of course. Meta, edgy, flipping the script just to be different without justifying it in the story. Hollywood perfection.
Yep, it’s a Hollywood layup, they’d be made fun of within their fart-sniffing sphere of influence if they didn’t do it.
Also too, no human characters are apparently hurt in it, only synths, Predators and other monsters killing each other.
Violence against humans requires a more restrictive rating and because the movies lacks human deaths the violence can still be the same but at a PG-13 rating.
It's a romance between a predator and a human this time.
“We'll see where it ends up, but our hope for it is that it can be a PG-13 that feels like an R,” Rosenblatt said. “That's kind of our hope. And really, what that's about is just being able to broaden out the audience for a movie like this.”
“We don't have any humans in the movie and so we don't have any human red blood,” Rosenblatt continued. “So we're hoping that's gonna play to our advantage. We're going to go as hard as we possibly can within those constraints, and we think we'll be able to do some pretty awesomely gruesome stuff. But in colours other than red.”
I'm still reeling from how bad The Predators was.
Badlands [...] focuses on synthetics, the Yautja (the name of the race of aliens who assume the Predator role), and various other monsters, rather than humans. Indeed, not a single human character is hurt during the movie.
not a single human character is hurt during the movie.
Then what is the point? That is like 80% of the reason to watch.
It's ok for a franchise to explore a different aspect and flesh out its world. The synths are an interesting thing to expand on. Alien Earth went this route too... Hopefully Badlands has better writing and direction though.
I agree. There is a set formula people are expecting from a Predator movie; various other Predator projects have attempted to put their spin on it.
Prey was the most successful for me and I am willing to expect more from this story than I would otherwise give a new Predator movie because it is from the same crew that made Prey.
I am cautiously optimistic on this one.
The first one is great the rest of the franchise is utter dogshit so I guess this won’t make it worse…
Prey was pretty good
Put some respect on Predator 2's name. A movie with Danny Glover and Gary Busey can't be completely without merit.
Is it good though.........I'll get back to you.
It is an utter mess that isnt worth watching.
“We'll see where it ends up, but our hope for it is that it can be a PG-13 that feels like an R,” Rosenblatt said. “That's kind of our hope. And really, what that's about is just being able to broaden out the audience for a movie like this.”
No one wants you to “broaden out the audience” for this franchise. Or for any franchise ever. The only people who want this are the investors. Incorporating investor ideas and demands has historically never spelled success for any movie ever. But sure, this time will be different.