😈 Watch Out Boy, She'll Chew You Up... Last week I had occasion to watch the new Predator: Badlands and I gotta say... it did not work for me. I'm not saying it's a bad film, just that I didn't care for it. I watched it at the insistence of my wife, who had already seen it and was itching to watch it again. She thoroughly enjoyed it. And she usually has a pretty good barometer for how much I'm going to like a movie, too. But this one was a miss, and it was a miss for reasons that I can very clearly point to. I know exactly what I didn't like about this movie. For one thing, it barely feels like part of the franchise. They didn't bring back Martin Sheen or Sissy Spacek, there was no mention of the murders, not even a stylistic nod to Terrence Malick and... hold on, I'm being told that this is actually a Predator sequel, not a Badlands sequel. Recalibrating... Anyway, I felt like talking about what I thought didn't work, because it comes down to ...
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