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Seriously, it has so many things going for it. The cast is basically perfect, Arnold and Carl Weathers are at their most jacked. It's filled with quotable one-liners. TWO future governors are in it. Then you get to the story and it's a bitchin' special operations war movie. But wait! It's not actually, it's really a sci-fi slasher flick. It's also the first appearance of the minigun that would then become used in videogames for decades. The best part is it's really just a setup for both Gary Busey and Danny Glover's finest work, which may be its most important quality of all.
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:no it's big trouble in little china too comedic and it's a film focusing on the sidekick rather than the hero still amazing, though
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The making of doc is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpo6jHy4n_Q Basically, a bunch of muscle heads in the jungle trying to out do one another. Also shows the original and awful costume.
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Not my Predator! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GfUoB0kog
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canned from the band posted:The making of doc is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpo6jHy4n_Q The original and awful costume that was going to be played by Jean Claude Van Damme, I might add e- goddamnit beaten with a link and everything by mere seconds
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One half '80s action movie, one half slasher horror, all around awesome. http://i.imgur.com/YNNHEUV.mp4
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One of my favorite RiffTrax lines: "Think I'll snap hatless this time."
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I disagree, Robocop is the best action movie ever. Predator is still like 2 or 3 at worst
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I mean Predator is super-great but Arnold also made True Lies so I have a hard time accepting the premise that it's even the best action movie starring him
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Dec 3, 2016 00:20
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The Shaw Brothers alone made like 30 better action films than Predator unless you don't think Kung fu movies count as action
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LGD posted:I mean Predator is super-great but Arnold also made True Lies so I have a hard time accepting the premise that it's even the best action movie starring him True Lies is also Tom Arnold's best movie THE GUY IS A GODDAMNED USED CAR SALESMAN
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LGD posted:I mean Predator is super-great but Arnold also made True Lies so I have a hard time accepting the premise that it's even the best action movie starring him Again, True Lies is too comedic. Proper action movies need some comedy, but you need to keep most of it in the first 30 minutes or so. marioinblack posted:I disagree, Robocop is the best action movie ever. I feel like this is a good substitute and you could feasibly interchange the two, but for my tastes Predator is just set to 11 where Robocop just never reaches those heights FishBulb posted:The Shaw Brothers alone made like 30 better action films than Predator unless you don't think Kung fu movies count as action. Kung-fu movies are awesome, and certainly a subgenre of action movies, but I feel it's unfair to compare the two styles. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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Apparently Sonny Landham was such a maniac that the studio had to pay a bodyguard to follow him around and make sure he didn't kill anyone during filming.
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I just looked him up and he was an ex porn guy and this happened lmboquote:On June 25, 2008, Landham announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Mitch McConnell on the Libertarian line.[5] The same day Landham called for genocide against Arabs and referred to them as "ragheads". His comments were made on the political radio show The Weekly Filibuster.[6] Three days later, on June 28, the Kentucky Libertarians voted unanimously to withdraw Landham's nomination, citing his comments were not in keeping with the party's platform and values
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my bat mitzvah ROCKED posted:I just looked him up and he was an ex porn guy and this happened lmbo Holy poo poo if the Libertarians disown you, you know you hosed up big time.
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Dec 3, 2016 01:49
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Nah, it's probably Die Hard.
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FishBulb posted:The Shaw Brothers alone made like 30 better action films than Predator unless you don't think Kung fu movies count as action bs dude. pure bs. shaw bros movies are ok but they're all the exact same movie with boring rear end plots except for a few gems (36 chambers mos def the best).
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:bs dude. pure bs. shaw bros movies are ok but they're all the exact same movie with boring rear end plots except for a few gems (36 chambers mos def the best). I'd rather watch the fighting in any of them than the action in Predator, and I mean I like Predator, it's cool and good. And Crippled Avengers is better than 36 Chambers
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Yoooouuu son of a bitch!
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Aliens is better. Predator is cool though.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Nah, it's probably Die Hard. this is actually a Christmas movie disguised as an action flick BillBear posted:Aliens is better. Aliens is definitely top 5 but the first one crushes it so bad purely on atmosphere alone that it kinda drags the rest of the franchise down the problem both of these have is a hero that is almost too relatable for the viewer proper action movies need an almost cartoonish hero
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my top 5 is Predator Robocop Die Hard Aliens Dredd you really can't go wrong with those e- I just realized I have no Mad Max movies in the top 5 and while that feels wrong upon reflection I'm comfortable with it
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Malibu Express Hard Ticket to Hawaii Savage Beach Hard Hunted Do or Die
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Malibu Express Andy Sidaris is under appreciated
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Predator Fury Road Die Hard Raiders of the Lost Ark Aliens
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Predator Dredd The Road Warrior Terminator Mongol Dredd is profoundly underrated and deserves its own thread. quote:“Buncha’ slack-jawed faggots around here. This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus"
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idk about a top five but I would probably try to fit Fury Road and The Raid in there.
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Mad Max: Fury Road Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max Babe 2: Pig in the City
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So, is a "better" action movie in this case describing the action scenes, or the overall filmmaking?
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PianolasonMars posted:So, is a "better" action movie in this case describing the action scenes, or the overall filmmaking? I guess in the spirit of this specific subforum as opposed to CD, it's more about which movie kicks rear end for whatever personal reasons you might have for liking the film. Which is pretty cool.
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'predator'? man that's a funny way to spell 'total recall' no really predator is loving great
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I measure movies by governor count, making Predator equal to The Running Man.
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Tom Gorman posted:I guess in the spirit of this specific subforum as opposed to CD, it's more about which movie kicks rear end for whatever personal reasons you might have for liking the film. drat straight and Predator kicks a lot of rear end cmon how great is this scene
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