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It is almost without question that this is the best Arnold Schwarzenegger film that doesn't have the word "Terminator" in the title. A film that seems to get better with age. Other action films try to top it, but nearly always fail.
It features probably the second greatest movie monster design of all time, just slightly behind the xenomorph from Aliens.
This was the beginning of director John McTiernan's "God Mode" phase. He followed up this film with "Die Hard" and then "The Hunt for Red October."
Predator takes its time building up to the reveal of the title monster. It features a monster so badass, it hunts and kills Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, AND Jesse "The Body" Ventura all in ONE MOVIE! But, the Predator was stupid enough to take on 80's Schwarzenegger.
Let's take a look at some highlights form the film, starting with the cast:
Dutch's team. Would you really want to fuck with them?
The Austrian Oak
Apollo Creed comes to the jungle to escape Rambo
After being eaten for breakfast by Arnold in Commando
A Goddam sexual tyrannosaurus.
The first character to figure out what was up.
Wait, didn't you write Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout?
Yeah, I don't remember you from anything else
First, we must begin the film with the single manliest handshake in the history of cinema.
Going into the jungle on a bullshit rescue mission, Dutch and his team finally get to let loose.
Ole Painless is waiting.
But things start going wrong once the Predator joins the scene, hunting our heroes. They don't respond well to losing some team members.
Landscape management. Schwarzenegger style.
One after another, Dutch's team falls to the superior hunting skills and technology of the Predator.
But Billy is going to go out on his own terms.
Dutch runs, and the Predator pursues.
And he hates swimming.
Dutch realizes that his nemesis relies on infrared vision to see.
With minimal weapons and no one left to help, there is only one option left for Dutch:
The only option is to go native.
He succeeds in wounding and slowing down the monster. But the Predator is taken aback by a worthy opponent.
There is only one option. Honorable combat.
And the Predator does not take kindly to being called an "ugly motherfucker."
Although this is one of the only films in which Arnold gets his ass kicked up one side and down the other, he still defeats the Predator. But not before he uses his final weapon. A small, wrist mounted bomb.
But did anyone really think a small nuclear explosion could kill Arnold?
Important lessons learned from watching Predator:
Chewing tobacco will turn you into a goddam sexual tyrannosaurus.
You ain't got time to bleed.
If it bleeds, you can kill it.
Get to da choppa!
More Arnold love from this week:
Conan the Barbarian love
Commando love
