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We score Predator Badlands, argue whether a simple hero’s journey helps or hurts, and celebrate a creature-forward approach that finally trusts the predator. We toast new “listeners,” confess our vices, and then drop into lore, tropes, and ridiculous self-inserts that break the universe in fun ways.

• fan acceptance over fan service
• acting under prosthetics landing real emotion
• CGI and practical effects blending cleanly
• soundtrack as functional atmosphere
• shonen-style growth arc and clan worldbuilding
• plot simplicity vs desire for narrative ambition
• predator culture, toxic norms, matriarchal hints
• rewatchability drivers and franchise future
• wild crossovers and inserting ourselves into the hunt

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We rate Good Fortune a 3.5 while praising Keanu Reeves and questioning the film’s soft landing on class. Humor and heart land, but the “rich learns a lesson” wrap leaves us hungry for real stakes, worker power, and change that lasts.

• Keanu’s performance as a near-human mirror
• Why mid-tier cinematography still works
• Soundtrack energy without memorability
• The ending’s rich-savior problem
• Class, shareholders and who the system serves
• Gig work, recession fallout and flooded labor markets
• What meaningful change might look like
• How we’d rewrite the boardroom for workers

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We rate Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing a clean three, then pull apart why it moves fast but leaves a faint aftertaste. The cast delivers competence, the camera delivers polish, and the story leans on old tropes that drain the emotion it tries to spark.

• rating the film across acting, cinematography, soundtrack, story, rewatchability
• Austin Butler’s strengths in stylized roles versus interior drama
• Matt Smith’s scene-stealing energy and Regina King’s dialed-up cop
• trailer shots versus cinematic surprises in set pieces
• Guy Ritchie echoes in pacing and needle drops
• the fridging trope and why it blunts character stakes
• nihilistic ending and symbolic accountability
• how chaos films earn meaning when choices drive consequences
• our fixes: go full absurdist, or deepen moral cost
• a final consensus at three out of five

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