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‘Predator: Badlands’ Set for Box Office Record Amid Series Best Reviews
Newsweek ^ | 11-8-25 | Samantha Novak

Posted on 11/09/2025 7:56:24 PM PST by MarlonRando

Even more impressive is that Predator: Badlands" has the highest rating for a film in the franchise, as its current Cinemascore is an A-. This is huge news for the future of the franchise, and the latest chapter in the saga that Trachtenberg is building. As stated, "Prey" helped to revive the franchise when the story took audiences on a journey where a Predator faces off against the Comanchee Nation. The idea of an alien hunter taking on historical warriors was further explored in "Predator: Killer of Killers," which

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Pets/Animals; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; predator; scifi
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I saw the movie today in Imax and I must say that it’s one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen. I gave it a ten. One swear word, and no sex/nudity. Great special effects and good story. Well done
1 posted on 11/09/2025 7:56:24 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando

Only in theaters right now? Sounds like a good sci fi premise.


2 posted on 11/09/2025 8:11:48 PM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: MarlonRando

The first one was enough for me


3 posted on 11/09/2025 8:28:06 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MarlonRando

Moving pictures? There is a place where they are shown?


4 posted on 11/09/2025 8:59:50 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: MarlonRando
The Critical Drinker's not too fond of Disney mucking up franchises, but his main beef with this movie is that it cleaves too close to formulaic tropes and wussifies a classic monster.

Predator: Badlands - Disney Consumes Another Franchise

Had he not said the last Predator movie,"Prey", was surprisingly good I would have missed it.
Thanks for the positive opinion.

5 posted on 11/09/2025 9:16:18 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (ain't got time to bleed.)
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To: tumblindice
Moving pictures? There is a place where they are shown?

Mr. Edison has done it again! Just put on your boater and head to your town's hub for base entertainments. There you'll find these marvelous machines that you put a coin in, crank the handle and observe pictures moving before your very eyes just like real life!

OldNickelodeons

You can even slow the cranking for the hootchie-cootchie girl parts but be ready with your next coin when the time runs out.

6 posted on 11/09/2025 9:41:07 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Back in my day Tick Tock came from the clock - and we LIKED it that way!)
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To: MarlonRando

Do you think that it is better than PREDATOR movie with Governor Arnold? You know the one from 1980s...


7 posted on 11/09/2025 11:06:56 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

Predator is one of those go-to movies...can always watch.

The 4th(?) one with the boy and the loony bus is pretty good, too.


8 posted on 11/09/2025 11:31:14 PM PST by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: MarlonRando

It’s got the highest rating in the franchise history cause no one wants to go to a movie theater anymore. It better have a higher rating....probably fake rating...
One will not be set back in life if movie not seen.


9 posted on 11/09/2025 11:31:36 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: citizen

Predator

Alien/Aliens

Die Hard

Lethal Weapon

Terminator

Although I can’t watch most of them anymore, seen em too much...


10 posted on 11/10/2025 12:23:06 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

I don’t take Drinker too seriously as a movie reviewer. He plays a ‘character’ on the internet, which is, embarrassingly enough, as is, but all his reviews are through the prism of the culture war. That’s not how random people consume movies.


11 posted on 11/10/2025 12:33:30 AM PST by goodolemr
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To: L.A.Justice

I’d say it was comparable to the Arnold version. Maybe a little better in my opinion


12 posted on 11/10/2025 2:28:34 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: Bob434

I saw the preview for it when I went to the local theatre to watch Back to the Future. It didn’t look good in the preview but happy to hear it was better than it looked.


13 posted on 11/10/2025 3:02:39 AM PST by Rural_Michigan
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