Predator 8/10

[Invincible]

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Predator 1987

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Sent to eliminate a gun running camp in Central America, United States Major Dutch Schaeffer and his commandos get more than they bargain for when they cross paths with a mysterious assassin.

As members of their unit begin to disappear, Dutch, Dillon (Carl Weathers), Blain (Jesse Ventura) conclude that whatever is hunting them is not of this earth. Every attempt at a tactical defense is a defeated for Dutch and company and it is only in the end stretch of their race to safety that they’re suspicions are confirmed and they encounter the alien nimrod face to face.

A summer box office smash, 1987’s PREDATOR re-ignited an old trend of movies depicting aliens invading earth (it began decades earlier with films like WAR OF THE WORLDS and INVADERS FROM MARS). McTiernan does a miraculous job of directing the "invisible" Predator. Furthermore, the special effects which are both stunning subtle, never boisterous, make PREDATOR a contemporary sci-fi even amongst today’s techno thrillers.

OK first of all! The movie basically kicks LOTTA ASS! especially the part when Mac starts shooting with a huge machine gun and the palm trees fall! then th rest cuts in to shoot! and after all that "We Hit nothing!" That gave me chills !!! When i watched it for the first time as a kid I was pretty scared! but now as i watch it these days I LOVE it! yeh basically every Arnie movie is cooL! I actually watched it last night on AMC = American Movie Classics (Predator's Day)

The thing that made this movie more creepier is the good Orchestra music playin in the background! OOOOH YEAH Always love the ol' orchestra!

Arnold Schwarzenegger Is unstoppable! nothing can change his mind when he says "You're one ugly bastard!" Or "If it bleeds we can kill him!"
Sir, here's your ugly BASTARD! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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I really liked Arnies performance in this movie! As well as Bill Duke's his attitude was very well fit in the movie especially towards Carl Weather's character in the movie. When Mac almost couldn't stand his actions http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif That was pretty cool I thought! too bad both of 'em had to die! Well of course Arnie gets a paycheck! Who else? he got the big one Screw all of you, thank you very much! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Here's the real HERO! Oh boy Look adat Muscles
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OK nuff Arnie

SFX Ohh I loved how they have managed to do Predator "invisible" at that time! And I also liked how they made the "infro-redvision" or whatever it's called. Basically all I gotta say is that SFX in the 80's maybe were not as good as nowadays' but it's enough not to fuck up the whole movie! which is what every single movie does these days. "Too much GRAPHICS!" I wish that people made such good movies right now as they did in the 80's!!! I WISH I WISH I WISH! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

8/10 - WORTH SEEING THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T!!!
BTW John McTierran (or something) was much better in those days than now....He made such POOR SHIT as ROLLERBALL to screw his carrer over! No wonder it didn't have a premiere!

Sorry I donno why pics don't work but just copy and paste

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[Philip Marlowe]

Predator
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There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.

Action Mystery
The Story is simple a Special Unit takes a mission to recover people that went down with a helicopter somewhere in the jungle. Once dropped off there's no turning back. they find the place were the helicopter was shot down certain things don't add up, for one a heatseeker was used to nock down the helicopter which doesn't make sense considering the weaponry the gurrilla's are suppost to have. another thing there's no tracks from any men telling of an ambush plus they find three men that have been skined to the flesh.

So they head off to were the captive men have been taken there they realize that there are no surviors so they proceed to blow-up & Destory the every loving sh!t out of everything that moves or breaths. Knowing they have to get out they hit the bushes and this atlasted brings us to the Cat-a-Mouse game that slowly dissolves the number in the Unit while there trying to work out who could be doing it.
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Blain: Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here! This stuff will make you a god damnned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me!

Aside from the obvious fact that the Predator is one of the greatest action movie every made it's just as much apart of the Sci-Fi Genre as it is the Action Genre. Some of the extreme lenghts it goes to make the audience turn away at the gore it make you more wanting to look and find out what this think is that's going around hunting man in the thick forest of the jungle.

The Dancing Helicopters

The helicopter ride into the depths of the jungle acts as a plot device and character set-up. The Plot device part of it is were you know that some of these guys are not coming out of this thing alive, the character set-up part shows you the inner workings of the team and what type of men your dealing with wacko's ,crazies ,loose canons and many other words could be used to discribe these men.

The Team

Dutch - You realize fast that he is the most serious of the unit. He has no time for fooling around once givin is mission and objectives it all straight faced do the job right. He's the oil in the engine without it it ain't movin nowheres.

Dillion - The outsider which makes his character the hardest to like. Goes through most of the movie being the most unliked but just when you start to feel comfortable with his placing in the unit it's too late. Most of the time he's either trying to show-up the other or trying to convince them that he's as good or better for Dutch's team.

Blain - The grizzly bear tobaco crew hard-@ss of the men that doesn't have time to bleed amoungst mean other think such as making friends or liking people in general. He only has one friend true friend which is Mac.

Mac - You can see him working out everything in his head Situations, Looks, Words, Reactions everything But these things soon strat to dissolve into madness and his failure to interact with the group for the simplest thing becomes evident.

Billy - Tuff man to talk too, communication skills are the pits. but I also consider him to be one of the smartest in the team his tracking is great and his sense of his surroundings is phenomenal. Billy seems to have more than a few things going around in his mind but never seems to share them with the rest. Sometimes he's the most sane at times other times I think he the most insane of them.

Hawkins - The joker, that takes the most serious of thing lightly once he realizes something is quite wrong it's all too late for him. I dig his jokes and he was the comic relief for the movie and he was used to good use.

Puncho - always adding a few words of wisdom trying to fit some where within the team in some scenes he comes in at the end other times in the middle of what's going on. He's the pefect middle man you could say.

Director - Mctiernan has greatly improved the genre with such greats as The Predator, The Hunt for the Red October and Die Hard he has also done stuff that didn't effect it one bit. He brings a unconventional editing style and seems to have his shoot struture to a tee he also keeps the level of humdity & claustropbia at a high stand point throught-out.

Crew - Alan Silvestri has his score down with some very entusastic parts espically the Jungle Trak, Preparations, The Chase and the main title all are great & inspirational to listen too. Donald McAlpine really did a nice job. Great use of the slow pan to set-up three shot in one with no edits and it just amazing considering what this guy did in the type of extremes he was dealing with. The Editing was one of the most intresting things about the movie that owes a lot to Mctiernan way of filming.

Here's another thread on Predator
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