Looking back on this scene from Predator, changes alot...

[Archie Goodwin]

Original Predator is the unquestionable GOAT action movie

 

[crabmeat]

My biggest worry would be sinking in mud in the jungle with that much weight strapped to your back.

That, and the venomous shit that's everywhere. You're constantly moist/wet. Imagine swamp ass in that shit. Fungus eating your body... I'm glad I never had to go to Gonslaves for JWT.

 

[Cher Dawg]

Weird ...that happened to me after watching porn.

Spoiler

 

[Iron Mang]

... it's because of the echo...

 

[Long Dark Blues]

We all owe JCVD a debt of gratitude for telling the director the original costume looked like shit.

Holy shit, is that legit?!

I knew about JCVD, but never knew about any shitty OG Predator design.

 

[Monkadelic]

Predator is such a macho movie that it even made Little Richard sound straight.

 

[Henry Swanson]

Holy shit, is that legit?!

I knew about JCVD, but never knew about any shitty OG Predator design.

Yeah it’s legit. IIRC, the stories surrounding how it ended up getting changed, differ. JCVD claims he told the director the suit looked dumb and that it was a contributing factor to him leaving. Other sources say the director decided himself, to change it because he thought it looked dumb.

 

[ChickenBrother]

Holy shit, is that legit?!

I knew about JCVD, but never knew about any shitty OG Predator design.

Yeah it’s legit. IIRC, the stories surrounding how it ended up getting changed, differ. JCVD claims he told the director the suit looked dumb and that it was a contributing factor to him leaving. Other sources say the director decided himself, to change it because he thought it looked dumb.

To think the Predator was almost some dancing asshole hiding behind trees, stalking the soldiers and executing them at close range by dropping into the splits and punching them in the balls. Whew. Instead of the manliest movie ever made that would have been... something else entirely.

 

[crabmeat]

Predator is such a macho movie that it even made Little Richard sound straight.

The word "macho", will never quite sound the same to me. A friend told me about an incident from when he lived in a college dorm. He went home for Thanksgiving and his roommate stayed in the dorm. When he returned, he decided to watch a movie with his VCR. He ejected a cassette that was already in the VCR. He saw the spine was titled "Macho Donut". I guess his curiosity got the best of him, and he pushed it back in. It was right at a scene with two dudes banging.

My friend asked his roommate about it when he came back from a class. He said he didn't immediately reply, like he was thinking about how to respond. Then, he tried to play it off as if it was a prank. My friend tossed the tape in the trash. When my friend woke up the next day, the tape was gone, but the trash was still there. He asked his roommate if he fished the tape out of the trash. The roommate said he wanted "get" someone else with the same prank.

 

[KnightTemplar]

That was a hell of a lot more than 200 rounds.

IIRC, the mini-gun was battery operated. And they had to bury the battery in the ground, then run a wire up Ventura's pant's leg to the gun itself.

 

[Nihongi]

We all owe JCVD a debt of gratitude for telling the director the original costume looked like shit.

That’s fucking trash

 

[crabmeat]

I thought it was pretty clearly Jesse's blood from an initial shot that hits him in the shoulder/trapezius area and splatters blood. It does seem a little off that he then turns away from the direction of the tracer shot, but I chalk that up to him being staggered (he forgot that he doesn't have time to bleed) before the second shot hits him center of mass and offs him. It's debatable whether the Predator missed the first shot or purposely wanted to get his attention before finishing him. But I'd lean toward the latter.

The original Predator used a harpoon gun. That is what hit Blain's shoulder.

I guess it wasn't as accurate as the plasma caster, necessitating two shots, or something? The editing was muddy and I always found that scene confusing.

 

[ShinkanPo]

Watching old movie scenes and came across one of my favourites in Predator and had some different observations that when I was younger.



It never really occurred to me how close the Predator was to being ripped into pieces here and how it literally runs for its life, from its perspective what the fuck just happened? You are an apex predator that travels the galaxy and have been hunting humans here for sometime without any resistance and then all of a sudden you get your ass handed to you like that.

Really changes the whole perception of unstoppable alien, huh? I'd argue that from this scene the fate of the Predator was sealed and it was as much on the run as the soldiers were.

A modern elite marine Unit with infra vision would have bust him bad.


Like the the Marines in "The Rock"
"I take pleasure in gutting you boy"

 

[PaleMoonlight]

A modern elite marine Unit with infra vision would have bust him bad.


Like the the Marines in "The Rock"
"I take pleasure in gutting you boy"

The Marines were cans. Got beat by senior citizen James Bond and a dork.

 

[Oooxente]

Spoiler

but whatever floats your boat champ.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

I got the predator 3d for xmas...

I copped the first one on 4k blu ray a month or so ago

It is legitamely an impressive transfer and improvement from the old blu ray

 

[RandyCouture>U]

Never saw the last one, was it ass?

 

[clutchCAT420]

I copped the first one on 4k blu ray a month or so ago

It is legitamely an impressive transfer and improvement from the old blu ray

Interesting. Ill have to buy that one too. I also got T2 on 4k for xmas. I haven't opened it yet.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Good catch, bro. Arnold fights technology with guile and the natural elements and emerges victorious.

I always believed the mind is the best weapon.

 

[BisexualMMA]

I dont prefer the second movie,but I still LOVE it with all my heart.

Predator 2, from a healthy line of underappreciated sequels - Death Wish 2, Jaws 2, Conan the Destroyer, Jewel of the Nile, Ghostbusters 2 - from before we learned how awful a sequel can truly be and how bean counters and activists can truly stomp a mudhole in a franchise.