WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:32.200 Preach, we can kill it up. What hella. 2 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.039 It's my understanding that the Yaucha are friends and none, 3 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.520 but they are creditor to all at least that's what 4 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:45.640 my Yaucha codec says. That's for twenty two, twenty five, 5 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.280 in case you're wondering, if you want to look it up, 6 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:52.280 the page numbers jack for twenty two is my birthday. 7 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:53.920 So oh that's handy. 8 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:57.600 Yeah, so I'm hoping that they celebrate my birthday over 9 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.000 there on Youcher Prime. Welcome back, midnight viewers to Yaucha Fest, 10 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:07.599 the Ultimate Yaucher Fest, the finale of Yaoucha Fest for now, 11 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:12.439 in that we're here to talk about Predator bad Lands. 12 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:17.079 We've reached the top of the Predator Mountain. HP. Hey, 13 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:18.560 don't buddy, I'm great. 14 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.560 We made it father alone. Can you believe it? How 15 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:25.239 many movies? Seven movies? It almost forty years. 16 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.359 You know, forty years. No, that's funny, it is forty years. 17 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:30.280 But yeah, I thought you were saying like it took 18 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:31.359 us forty years to get here. 19 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.200 No, it was very pleasurable getting here. But I just 20 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.439 can't believe we reached the as you said, the finale 21 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.719 for now, it's just it's gone by so fast. 22 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.400 The feeling is bittersweet because I've had a really good 23 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:46.560 time to spending time with the Yaucha Loath these twenty weeks. 24 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.640 I hope you've all enjoyed it as well. And oh 25 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.680 my god, it's a day of review. This movie just 26 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:53.879 came out today and we're on the air. That's because 27 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.120 we're VIPs. Now, that's right. We had early access screenings. 28 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.560 HB and I velvet rope everything. 29 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.920 And what we are here to talk about Predator bad Lands. 30 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:04.480 Here's the motherfucking trailer. 31 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:40.080 Welcome to the most dangerous planet in the universe, where 32 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.680 everything is trying to kill you. 33 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:56.199 I need a hand. You're here to prove yourself hunting 34 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:21.439 something that can't be killed. We might not be alone 35 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:22.080 in this hunt. 36 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:57.360 Your swan, so bitch digit youlightish. 37 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:01.599 Predator bad Lands was released today, directed by Dan Tracktenberg, 38 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:05.159 screenplay by Patrick Ason from a story by Dan Tractenberg 39 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.400 and Patrick Ayson. They are the team behind Prey, based 40 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:09.800 on characters by who HP. 41 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.840 I don't have that written down. You'll have to pick 42 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:13.439 that up for. 43 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.000 Me, Jim and John Thomas. 44 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.800 I thought you were going to say, Glennon Les Charles Hey. 45 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:25.879 I remember Okay starring El Fanning, Demetrius Schuster, Kalohamatangi, and 46 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.839 El Fanning. It's a dual role. 47 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:28.759 HP. 48 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:30.680 Can you believe we're here? 49 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.000 I can't believe it. I'm so excited. This is thrilling. 50 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.839 Did I already say the feeling is bittersweet because I 51 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:38.279 don't want this world to end. 52 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.439 Well, but you know what, I think not to get 53 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.279 ahead of ourselves, but I think we can agree, and 54 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.800 we've made reference to this in the past couple episodes. 55 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.759 The series is in has never been in better hands 56 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.000 than in Dan Tractenberg's hands. So it is bittersweet, but 57 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.680 there's plenty to look forward to going forward. 58 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.000 Not only is the series in good hands, they're actually 59 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:00.839 feels like there's a Now. 60 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.680 Yeah, really, I let's just let's get into it. There's 61 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.319 so much I want to say about this movie, and 62 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.040 there's so much I want to get into, but I 63 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.360 don't want to bury the lead. You know what I mean? 64 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.000 Okay, go for it. 65 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.319 So do you want me to go into the plot 66 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:15.800 a little bit? 67 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.600 You want to talk about that long a look? I 68 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.160 think we should say. I think we're going to spoil 69 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:22.319 this movie. But oh yeah, it's not going to be 70 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:25.279 till the end of the review. They'll be in the 71 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.079 show notes. They'll probably be a spoiler warning if you 72 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:29.519 want to jump to that. Because I don't want to 73 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.759 spoil this movie for anyone, I'll bury the lead. I 74 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.199 loved the movie. I did too, Okay, Okay, we'll just 75 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.560 leave it at that, and then we'll just go through 76 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.800 the movie and talk about it. I could not. I 77 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.079 haven't had that good a time in a theater in 78 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:45.040 a long time. 79 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:45.920 It was. 80 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:52.399 It was a wonderful experience. I going into it. I 81 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.079 was reading a lot of articles about it. I know you. 82 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.639 I think you tried to keep yourself isolated from all 83 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.959 of that because you wanted to go and fresh, but confess. 84 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.160 I looked up a lot of information and there was 85 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.519 a lot. There seemed to be not really a backlash, 86 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.959 but there's a lot of people, I think, who got 87 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.759 hung up on this idea that Predator is a Disney property. 88 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:19.240 And there have been comparisons made for this movie comparing 89 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.600 it to The Mandalorian, which I don't think is entirely 90 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.839 unwarranted when you really think about it, because you have 91 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.879 this main character, this stoic tough main character who has 92 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.480 a sidekicker, in this case, sidekicks that are in some 93 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.879 ways cut the tension a little bit. They're a little cutesy, 94 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.319 they're a little funny. So I don't While I don't 95 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:46.240 necessarily think that's intentional, I do think that in this case, 96 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.399 it just underscores for me the risk taking of Dan Trachtenberg, 97 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.839 because it would have been easy to give us another 98 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:58.240 movie where the Predator is on yet another safari, and 99 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.079 we've seen that many times now for the past again 100 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:07.879 forty years. This is so refreshing. This is the he 101 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.759 jettison the horror elements, which are great, and that's one 102 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.360 of the things I loved about the series up to 103 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.800 this point. But it's really it was so much fun 104 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:19.439 to go into it and really have him embrace this 105 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:25.160 sci fi action adventure ethos. That's what I got excited. 106 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:26.160 Just for that reason. 107 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.600 I would say to people who are unfavorably comparing this 108 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.839 to the Mandalorian, this is a better than the Mandoloren 109 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.800 and b I suggest you go watch a film series 110 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.399 from the sixties called Lone Wolf and cub Oh. Yeah, 111 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.079 so everyone just shunt the fuck up. If it is 112 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.720 if people have a problem with this movie echoing another movie, 113 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.839 then they're probably not fans of Terminator two, because that's 114 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.639 what this movie felt like to me, Terminator two. If 115 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.240 you watch Terminator and Terminator two back to back, you 116 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:02.079 will realize very quickly Terminator two is just a remake 117 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.560 of Terminator, almost beat for beat, just with a bigger 118 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.480 budget and higher stakes. That's what this is here, folks. 119 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.160 Yeah. I didn't walk out of Terminator two thinking to myself, Oh, 120 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.480 it was just it was this gambit to make Arnold 121 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.439 because now Arnold's a big star and he can't be 122 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.959 the villain anymore. I walked out of it saying, damn it, 123 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.560 James Cameron, he totally subverted what I thought I was 124 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.199 going to get with a Terminator movie. And that's exactly 125 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.879 I mean. Subverted. Maybe isn't the right word in this case, 126 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.200 but it again for a movie that's a PG. The 127 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.120 first I believe it's the first PG thirteen in the series. 128 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:40.720 Was it PG for something? 129 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.200 It was PG thirteen for Something engrossed. 130 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.000 Me out in places. There's no shortage of action, Although 131 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.320 they did they did something extremely clever. I say this 132 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.480 every review of Attracted Berg movie. They did something extremely clever. 133 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:57.320 There are no humans in this movie. 134 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:01.399 Yeah, and that's why they could make PG thirteen because 135 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.279 all of the violence, most of the violence is directed 136 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:08.840 towards either of these synthetic humans, and they don't have 137 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.919 the same milky blood that we've seen in like the 138 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:13.919 alien pictures. 139 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.039 They just these aren't androids. This is not Ash or Bishop. 140 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.159 These are Sins, which is a whole sani. 141 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:25.480 So when it's not when it's not those synthetic creatures 142 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.480 being destroyed, it's just a bunch of crazy creatures on 143 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.440 this planet Jena. So that's why he can get away 144 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.879 with making this a PG thirteen movie, even though there's 145 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:40.960 no shortage of violence and real and gore. But it's again, 146 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:42.840 it's tempered by the fact that none of it is 147 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.840 directed towards any actual humans. 148 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:49.200 HB takes the Yaucher prime. Look, this is the first 149 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.960 I guess in Killer of Killers they put the word 150 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:55.279 yaoucha on screen, which is really the first time we 151 00:09:55.360 --> 00:10:00.559 see it, but to have it very stamped onto the 152 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:04.159 screen yaoucha prime. Here we are, this is their home world. 153 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.679 There's no two ways about it. Like even when we 154 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:09.960 saw what we might have been the Yaucher Prime home 155 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:14.720 world on in Alien Versus Predator Requiem, it wasn't clear. 156 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.679 It was just here's a planet, here's a predator picking 157 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:19.279 up a call, and off he goes. That might have 158 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:20.480 been a colony somewhere. 159 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:22.240 We saw a little bit of it at the end 160 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.240 of Killer of Killers too, in the gladiatorial arena. That's 161 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.639 I would presume that's also a part of Yaoucher Prime. 162 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.919 But see I also did not want to presume at 163 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:35.399 that point that was Youcher Prime, because they hop around 164 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.720 to so many planets for so many different activities, that 165 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.799 might just be arena planet for them. 166 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.039 Yeah, so this is our really you're right, this is 167 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.279 our first real look labeled as such as the I 168 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.879 presume it's the Yaoucha homeworld Youcher Prime. 169 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.519 Can I just say one thing about the sub title? Yeah, 170 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.480 the subtitle was very neatly displayed in the lower right 171 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:01.159 portion of the screen instead of gigantic and across the 172 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.879 entire screen, which every fucking movie does. Now, please everyone 173 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:05.720 stop doing that. 174 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.440 Yeah, it's have. 175 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.960 You noticed that like that started like in The Avengers, 176 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.000 Like I noticed that was like it would say, like 177 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.559 Los Angeles and it fills in the and like and 178 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.159 now every TV show does it, every movie like we 179 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:21.559 can just put it in the low. You don't even 180 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:23.240 need to put it, honestly, if you're showing us a 181 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:24.000 shot in New York. 182 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.559 Yeah, some of that, some of the subtitling, and some 183 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.559 of those title cards for they reminded me actually of 184 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:32.919 because I've been watching a lot of Star Trek movies 185 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.360 because of Star Trek Fest, a lot of that, Buddy, 186 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.279 A lot of that reminded me a little bit of 187 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.840 that too, And that to me, that underscored the sci 188 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.799 fi thrust of this movie, I guess more than anything. 189 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.000 So what happens, man, come on? So in the more 190 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.919 general impressions, because I got a lot, you know, let's. 191 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.679 Get into this because it's all gonna all of our 192 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.240 impressions are going to come out. And due course, I 193 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.840 think as we talked about this movie, but and I 194 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:03.519 ges forgive if there's any spoilers, well hopefully those will 195 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.120 be left to the end here. But I don't think 196 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.519 we're spoiling anything at this point that wasn't in the trailer. 197 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.039 What we're dealing with here, it's a family of yaouchcha 198 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.039 and the main character that we're going to follow in 199 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.080 this movie is a Yaoucha named Deck. And by the way, 200 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.200 the actor I'm not going to butcher his name, his. 201 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.159 First name is Demetrius. Let's call him Demetrius Demetrius. 202 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.360 He is the first actor to play the predator who 203 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:31.639 is shorter than seven feet tall. And that's important because Deck, 204 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.840 the main character of this movie, is basically the runt 205 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.759 of his family of Yaucha. He has a brother named Quay, 206 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.559 and he has this father, this stern patriarch of the 207 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.480 klan or the family and horns. 208 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:48.600 So he's important. 209 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:53.080 And supposedly the same actor played both roles, played Deck 210 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.519 and played the father, or I think he was the 211 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.120 most capture. So Deck is the runts of his family. 212 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:05.279 And what we see happen is the father has ordered 213 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.759 him to be killed by his brother Quay, because that's 214 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:13.240 the Youcher way, weakness cannot be tolerated in the family. 215 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.960 He actually he basically says, because by the way, another 216 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.559 big thing is we have seen or heard Yaoucha speak, 217 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.559 but we haven't seen it to this degree. There's actual 218 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:29.639 conversations between Yaucha throughout this movie, and it's so the 219 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.960 father is talking about how he actually wanted the brother 220 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.799 to kill the son in his sleep because he can't 221 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:41.039 tolerate this runt being in the family and leave. 222 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.480 To the family he's so worthless as a predator shame. 223 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:49.200 Prior to the father showing up, the Deck has announced 224 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.200 his intention to his brother that he wants to go 225 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:55.559 to this planet of Jenna, which is the most hostile 226 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.639 planet apparently that the youcher know of, and his intent 227 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.840 is to kill this creature called the Callusk, which is 228 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.399 supposed to be the apex predator of all apex predators. 229 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.759 He every predator fears, every youch of fears. 230 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:16.000 Even their father is afraid of the Callusk. So that's 231 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.519 what Deck wants to do it. And by the way, 232 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.919 Deck is almost immediately a sympathetic character. Now the thing is, 233 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.399 I believe he's one of the first predators where he 234 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.399 wasn't actually wearing a mask. It's all done with CG. 235 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:36.720 It's remarkable the performance that this actor gives through this 236 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:41.480 CG makeup, if you will, is astounding because the sequence 237 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.799 where he's basically at the father's mercy and he's a 238 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.279 heart beat away from getting killed by his brother, who 239 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.080 eventually turns on the father, and it becomes this battle 240 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:57.440 where the brother essentially sacrifices himself. But through this whole sequence, 241 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.039 it's almost heartbreaking to watch Deck screaming for his brother, 242 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:04.440 for mercy, for his brother. 243 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:09.080 You see, starting at the very beginning, where he's trapped 244 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.159 and the brother is going to sacrifice him. You see 245 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.320 every emotion playing on this CG character's face. He's wounded, 246 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.679 he can't believe it, he's terrified, he's filled with rage. 247 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:22.120 And I thought this was going to be the most 248 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:28.039 awkward part of the movie, watching Yaucha speak, and I 249 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.799 was used to it so fucking quickly. And to your 250 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:36.759 point about this subtitling. In The Predators, the first time 251 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.519 we got to see a predator actually speak, and what 252 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.240 we got was the predator language, and it would decode 253 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.960 in into English, and they carried that into Killer of Killers, 254 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.679 Like even though we were seeing it in English, the 255 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.759 edges of it were still the Yaucha language that sort 256 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.879 of many lines, the kind that they have on their 257 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.799 detonators on their arms. This one it's just straight, here's 258 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.440 their language. And I admired that so much. I admired 259 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.279 the fact that they spoke in Yaucha and it is 260 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.639 some title as much as it is, and we'll eventually 261 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.080 get some English and a very clever reason for it. 262 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.360 But I just thought it was amazing how quickly I 263 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:20.759 got used to Yaucha speaking, and and as you said, 264 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.600 the visual effects going on here for his face are 265 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.200 fucking ridiculous. 266 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:26.919 They're incredible. He's I thought it was. 267 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.519 I thought it was practical for a lot of the movie, 268 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.120 and then to find out none of it was. 269 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.200 You just forget to even think about that. Because as 270 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.399 he's speaking, they have these of course, they have these 271 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:39.799 famous mandibles. They kind of expand as he's speaking you 272 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:44.440 can see the skin of the mandibles vibrating with his breath, 273 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.559 and it's so compelling and it looks so real that 274 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:53.840 again I thought that maybe it was CG aided practical effects, 275 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.639 but it's my understanding it was all CG. I haven't 276 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.879 seen any behind the scenes footage, but I assume he's 277 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.440 just wearing some kind of green thing on his head 278 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.599 and they just mapped it all in after the fact. 279 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:06.960 But it's very realistic. 280 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.960 And the process of the voice, by the way, because 281 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.599 first of all, the language is great, it's jump it's 282 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.880 right up there with Klingon Baby, But the thing is 283 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:22.240 they've they seem to have made accommodations for the fact 284 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.640 that there are there's a mouth and then mostly a guttural. 285 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.519 We've always heard them speaking from deep in their throat 286 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.599 to begin with, and there is these mandible flaps outside it. 287 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.720 So you're getting not just this alien language, but how 288 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.359 an alien would speak in their alien language, which was 289 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.319 remarkable for this ninety minute action movie. 290 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.680 Yeah, a lot of care went into a the language 291 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.960 and b as you said, how they speak and how 292 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.480 that all, how their anatomy works as they're speaking. I 293 00:17:55.480 --> 00:18:01.240 thought it was fantastic. So in his last dying breath, 294 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.039 essentially the brother who's going to be killed by the father, 295 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.680 he's turned on the father effectively, and the father just 296 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.200 wastes him almost immediately. But in his last move as 297 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:16.160 he's dying, he sends deck, he sets a course for 298 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.960 the planet, this planet Jenna, and he takes off before 299 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.440 the father can kill him too. And as you said, 300 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:28.920 just the emotions that play across this CG character's face 301 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.920 it you already you were saying, how quickly you got 302 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.720 used to the language and all that. It's amazing how 303 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:39.759 quickly you already feel sympathy and you feel for this 304 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.000 character and you're rooting for him. How could you not, 305 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:47.799 because he's everyone loves an underdog. Now, obviously the predators 306 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.759 over the course of the film's history are pretty brutal, 307 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:53.920 and it would be I'd be hard pressed to express 308 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.640 sympathy for any of them. You almost immediately you can't 309 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.680 help but be rooting for this guy. It's amazing. 310 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.519 We imagine we've sided with some predators before, we liked them. 311 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.440 During the first Alien Versus Predator that one dude, what 312 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:08.240 was his name. 313 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:10.480 Wolfe, the one who communicates with. 314 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.559 A Lathan man and then he gets killed by the 315 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:16.440 Alien queen and then all those other cool predators get out. 316 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.079 We were cool with them. I know they look if 317 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.599 there had been no Xeno morphs in that temple, they 318 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.119 would have been full on villains. 319 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.279 But sure, but this it, I guess said. Rooting for 320 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.880 them is one thing, but they have sympathy for them. 321 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.799 I don't think even in that sequence with Sona Latham, 322 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:35.559 you ever have sympathy. You have a respect for the 323 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:40.880 predator because he recognizes that she's a warrior. 324 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:47.240 In that movie, I agree, this is unlike anything we've 325 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.400 seen before. We're not only taking him as our protagonist, 326 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:54.799 but we're taking him now as a very sympathetic protagonist 327 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:58.240 because he's got family trouble and we've all been there. 328 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.000 And he's there's a the fact that he's basically bullied 329 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:04.960 and he's rejected by the father, and he has a 330 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:11.640 lot to prove and and he's not only I mean, 331 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.000 he's picked the worst of the worst as his goal 332 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.640 to prove his honor. And by the way, the whole 333 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.640 thing of it is he has once he proves that 334 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:27.200 he's worthy of the Klan, that's when he is presented 335 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:30.880 with the cloak, with the invisibility bit that we've all 336 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.759 gotten used to. So by the way through this whole movie, 337 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.000 he doesn't have the ability to become invisible. He hasn't 338 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.880 earned that yet, which I thought was also an interesting 339 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.000 because because it was about I don't know. Shortly after 340 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.319 he landed on this planet, I went, why isn't he 341 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.240 just oh, because he hasn't earned his armor. He hasn't 342 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:53.519 earned the ability to become an actual Yaucha. There are 343 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.240 many times in the movie where we'll talk about el Fanning, 344 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.240 but she says deck of the Yaucha, and he says, no, 345 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.319 not yet. I haven't proven myself yet, so he's got 346 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.319 that code too. But it's almost comical. The ship takes 347 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:11.000 off automatically and arrives on this planet, and almost immediately 348 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.200 he is under attack, and it really doesn't stop for 349 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:15.319 the whole movie. 350 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:18.720 Hey, remember when we reviewed Predators, and the thing that 351 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.720 we really liked about Predators was we pulled all our 352 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.240 human characters off of Earth and got them into an 353 00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:26.839 alien world because the Predators are aliens and we want 354 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.880 to go to alien worlds. And then it seems like 355 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.240 they were running around Hawaii. 356 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:33.319 Right, This isn't Hawaii. 357 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:38.079 This is not Hawaii. This is an alien world and 358 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:40.440 it's not just a pink sky with a couple of 359 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:45.039 planets floating in the atmosphere. This is a strange universe 360 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:46.680 to be to find oneself in. 361 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.720 Yeah, and it becomes obvious almost immediately. Excuse me that 362 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.079 he's really overmatched, because I think the first thing that 363 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.680 he runs into are these sort of like tree creatures. 364 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:03.720 It looks like how Groot can like elongate his body. 365 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:07.519 It's these tree roots that encircle and attack him, and 366 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:10.559 he goes through a thing with them, and then he 367 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:12.799 comes across these pods. 368 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:15.319 That This is my favorite part. Well, or at least 369 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:17.000 I'm gonna say that a lot. This is one of 370 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:19.359 my favorite parts because when I'm saying that this is 371 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.160 an alien world, not only is this look, here's a 372 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.440 bunch of weird stuff that you would find in an 373 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:28.079 alien world, but there's some thought behind it. The avatar 374 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:33.440 ain't got nothing on Genna, because he finds himself in 375 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.319 this field with these like cat of nine tails looking things, 376 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.000 like oversized cata nine tails looking, and if you get 377 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.319 close to them, they start to swell up and they 378 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.720 have like little darts and spikes. Yeah, so clearly you 379 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:49.200 can get through them if you take your time and 380 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:52.319 do it, but obviously don't go near that field. But 381 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:55.319 he finds himself in the middle of it, and then 382 00:22:55.559 --> 00:23:00.240 a flying predator circles overhead and then drops something into 383 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.200 the field, which sets off a bunch. 384 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.680 Of them a bowler. 385 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:05.960 So not only are we given this alien world, but 386 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.640 we're given like like an ecosystem at play, Like this 387 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:12.079 animal has figured out if it sees something down in 388 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.319 that field, if it drops something, that plant will attack 389 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.440 that thing, knock it out, and then it's easy pickens. 390 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.440 Yeah, And in the midst of that sequence where he's 391 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.079 trying to edge his way, because you can if you 392 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:28.039 edge back from these pods, they will shrink back. But 393 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:29.640 if you get too close to them, it's like they 394 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:32.400 know the proximity. But in the midst of this, he 395 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:38.000 this synth Fea is in like the vulture's nest. She's 396 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:40.079 been entangled there. She's been there for we don't know 397 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:44.000 at that point how long. And she starts to communicate 398 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:47.200 with Deck and everything. 399 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:53.480 Yeah, and she's like, hey, yaucha, you're fucked down there. 400 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:58.400 Yeah. She's a synth that has basically been created to 401 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:02.720