‘Frankenstein’ & ‘Predator: Badlands’ Reviews + The Top 10 Movie Monsters

Project Big Screen

Barstool Sports

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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On this episode of Project Big Screen, we review two movies: ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ and ‘PREDATOR: BADLANDS’. Is Guillermo del Toro’s latest attempt as good as it’s hyped up to be? Is Dan Trachtenberg taking the Predator franchise in the right direction? Stick around for our ranking at the end of the episode to find out where we’d rank Frankenstein and the Yautja in our Top 10 Movie Monsters. We also dive into some of the bigger news stories of the week including a massive trailer for the new Michael Jackson biopic and Timothee Chalamet’s Oscars campaign. Make sure to like and subscribe — and if you want to be a part of our fan rankings, listen for Gooch’s instructions in this episode on how to join! Timecodes: Intro - (0:00) Frankenstein Review - (2:52) Frankenstein SPOILERS - (14:36) Ad - (28:59) Predator: Badlands Review - (30:04) Predator: Badlands SPOILERS - (39:25) Ad - (49:12) Michael Jackson Trailer - (50:19) Chalamet’s Oscar Campaign - (57:16) Potential Doomsday Trailer - (1:00:45) Lionsgate Conspiracy - (1:02:52) Running Man Reactions - (1:05:30) I Love LA - (1:06:17) Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair - (1:07:16) Weird Box Office Coverage - (1:09:09) Shelby Oaks - (1:11:13) Sentimental Value - (1:14:08) Die My Love - (1:14:41) Truth & Treason - (1:15:09) What Else Is On TV - (1:16:22) Top 10 Movie Monsters - (1:17:36) Follow us on Social Media: barstool.link/pbs X | Twitter | Letterboxd: @ProjBigScreen IG | Tik Tok: @ProjectBigScreen Our Personal Letterboxds: Jeff: @JeffDLowe Gooch: @Bobby_Gooch Kenjac: @Kenjac Klemmer: @ChrisKlemmer Kirk: @KirkMinihane

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0:00.0	Hey, Project Big Screen listeners.
0:01.5	You can find us every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
0:05.6	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:12.7	All right, Project Big Screen Time.
0:18.9	Jeff D. Lowe, Kirk, Ken Jack, Clemer, Gooch coming at you today with two movies that we may not rate 60 or below.
0:28.9	We'll see.
0:29.5	This could be, we are.
0:31.0	We started out with maybe the best picture winner, and we've just done a run of mediocre, unmemorable movies since.
0:39.1	What a start.
0:39.9	But we have today two pretty big movies in terms of name recognition.
0:47.4	Frankenstein from Guillermo del Toro, which is released in theaters, but is now on Netflix.
0:53.6	And then Predator Badlands, the ninth Predator movie, the third from Dan Tractonberg,
0:59.9	who has now done three insanely different predator movies.
1:03.6	Excited to talk about both of those.
1:05.3	Have a couple pieces of movie news, one piece of movie news that nobody in the world,
1:09.6	except for one person on this podcast, is going to care about. But we will talk about it because, you know, we have to, we, you'll, you'll get it and we, I didn't put it on the rundown. I saved it. I saved it. We have more Rocky News this week again. I think we're finally out of Rocky News. I think finally the well is dry. I saw Rocky 4 at the theater.
1:27.8	They had the Stallone cut again for the second time in four years. I played again. I went and saw it. It was great. Fantastic. Wait, Stallone cut. Well, yeah, he redirected, he directed Rocky 4, but he has a whole new cut of Rocky 4. It's like 80% different. Oh. I mean, the plot is right. There's tons of shit in there.
1:44.5	I think it's available on Amazon.
1:45.7	But go ahead, Jeff.
1:46.2	They got that killbo one coming to theater soon, too. It's like 80% different. Oh. I mean, the plot is, but there's tons of shit in there.
1:44.5	I think it's available on Amazon.
1:45.8	But go ahead, Jeff.
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