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joshsquash729 said:
Great list, Niko. I'd happily watch any of those. I'd also (only half-jokingly) be morbidly curious to see:

- A Homeward Bound-esque movie of a dog and cat trying to make their way home from getting lost, only to run into the Predator.
- A Mr. Magoo/Baby's Day Out/Home Alone type movie where they humorously and impossibly avoid all attacks by the Predator
- A Sinners-style sequel where instead of vampires, they go up against the Predator, and music plays a big part/is a metaphor
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-A Predator accidentally gets invited to an office Christmas Party that is attacked by terrorists.

-Two male Predators are hired as ranch hands to herd xenomorphs. One night they get drunk and have sex. They begin a passionate affair that they will struggle with the rest of their lives.

- A young Predator is bit by a radioactive xenomorph. He develops powers and becomes the superhero Xeno-Yajuta.

-An uptight female Predator from another continent falls for a bad-boy Yajuta at school. Can she loosen up in order to win her man? Musical numbers abound.
 
Niko (protozoalord) said:
I almost had this in my list of ideas, but I couldn't figure out a reason the Predator would be hunting a kid that's not even past middle school. With a CW Drama type thing, you can just have the football team and bad boys all have switchblades or something. Maybe the dumb kid broke open his parents' firearm safe?
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Perhaps the Predator came back in time, because clearly Kevin McAllister was going to grow up to become one of the most influential warlords of his time and nearly wiped out the Yautja with his hijinks. Or everyone always wondered how Kevin's parents afforded their house- maybe we finally learn that he was a one of the higher-ups at Weyland-Yutani and Kevin stole some Yautja tech that the Predator wants back.

TheGillMan said:
-A Predator accidentally gets invited to an office Christmas Party that is attacked by terrorists.

-Two male Predators are hired as ranch hands to herd xenomorphs. One night they get drunk and have sex. They begin a passionate affair that they will struggle with the rest of their lives.

- A young Predator is bit by a radioactive xenomorph. He develops powers and becomes the superhero Xeno-Yajuta.

-An uptight female Predator from another continent falls for a bad-boy Yajuta at school. Can she loosen up in order to win her man? Musical numbers abound.
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Perfect. Don't because this is Disney, don't forget about the other kid-friendly spin-offs with their other properties-

- the Jungle 2 Jungle spinoff, where a young Yautja is brought to the concrete jungle of NY by Tim Allen and has to learn to adapt.

- The Predator Wears Prada, where the Yautja starts an internship at a high-profile fashion magazine and learns that they're not the ultimate Predator. Meryl Streep is, obviously.

- the Predator Princess Diaries, where a young Yautja, just before its first hunt, learns they're the heir to a European kingdom and must learn proper manners or else forfeit their claim to the throne.

- The Predator Clause, where the Predator accidentally kills Santa Claus and must become the new one before Christmas is ruined forever.
 
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My only issue with Badlands is that their planet should be simply 'Yaut', with the 'ja' suffix denoting 'the people of...'. Not a single, solitary species anywhere throughout the universe would name their homeworld 'My Species Prime'. It's stupid.

Aside from that, THANK GOD we finally get to learn something about these people. I don't give a fig about it being the millionth iteration of the Hero's Journey we've seen this last month, if it's told well it's always an exciting tale.

Whose got the popcorn bucket? Gimme pics of the figure so I can know if I can bash it up properly.
 
I gotta force my existential crisis ass to sit down and watch Frankenstein this weekend. Haven't been able to focus on anything for more than an hour in weeks unless I'm running a TTRPG game and can hyperfocus and I really want to take that film in.

altcunningham said:
I wish Avatar and the ST were as fun as Badlands was for me. A lot of the mystery and cool factor faded for me decades ago with the Dark Horse comics and Batman crossovers.
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Somehow as a lifelong sci-fi fan and someone who literally makes part of my living from sci-fi writing I have not seen any of the Avatar movies. I'm fascinated by their lack of cultural impact - like their entire impact is economic and technical, but leave no trace in the zeitgeist for rabid fandom. I've never heard anyone say they really didn't like them, but neither do I see crazy cosplay/fanart/obsessive forum posts about them. It's such a strange thing for a sci-fi franchise.
 
docsilence said:
Somehow as a lifelong sci-fi fan and someone who literally makes part of my living from sci-fi writing I have not seen any of the Avatar movies. I'm fascinated by their lack of cultural impact - like their entire impact is economic and technical, but leave no trace in the zeitgeist for rabid fandom. I've never heard anyone say they really didn't like them, but neither do I see crazy cosplay/fanart/obsessive forum posts about them. It's such a strange thing for a sci-fi franchise.
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Because Avatar is a giant fat nothing. It's soulless and exists ONLY as spectacle. Fucking 'unobtainium.' The absolute fucking audacity to even put that in the world with a straight face and expect to be taken seriously. So yeah - people go see it. They say it's really pretty. Everyone describes it as an 'experience' to see it. No one gives a fuck about it a week later, though, because there's nothing TO care about. Utter garbage.


docsilence said:
I gotta force my existential crisis ass to sit down and watch Frankenstein this weekend. Haven't been able to focus on anything for more than an hour in weeks unless I'm running a TTRPG game and can hyperfocus and I really want to take that film in.
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Me too. I THINK me and the fam are going to watch it over the weekend. That's the current plan.
 
Avatar is... sure a movie I've watched once. Like, it's complicated because it's Jim Cameron and he's undoubtedly putting in the work on it on a technical level, but the plot is just... meh. It's the most expensive 'meh' movie I've ever seen. And the sequel felt the same. Like, I should either love or hate it and the best I can do is, "it's fine". It feels weird to see a movie that has that much hard work put into production and the writing just feels totally phoned in.

The unobtanium is funny because in the sequel they pivot away from that entirely into space whales who have an organ that makes eternal youth goo. Which, ok, are we going to keep doing that for every new movie? Find a new cliche thing to fight over? I guess we have to because the movie has set up no better stakes for why humans keep coming to this incredibly hostile planet otherwise.

It does always look cool, but Jurassic Park happened 30 years ago now. Looking cool isn't a baseline anymore. Now you actually need to go backwards to the days where you *couldn't* make anything you wanted and you actually had to create drama people want to see resolved.
 
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