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Top 10 action movies of all time...? Made me a Godd*mn sexual Tyrannosaurus!! 8) And I f**king love Blu-ray....
"Predator review – Arnie's back, with a slice of classic 80s jungle alien mayhem
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a gung-ho special-forces commando up against a creepy extraterrestrial in John McTiernan’s rereleased thriller
If idd bleeds, we can kill it…” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gung-ho commando announces his crucial insight in this classic slice of 80s action mayhem – now on rerelease – about a bunch of US special forces guys facing an extraterrestrial monster deep in the Central American jungle. The movie emerged 30 years ago from the deepest thicket of Reaganite America’s subconscious, just when the nation was anxious about Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The guys’ rude jokes, together with an apparently duplicitous female insurgent and the alien creature’s row of teeth may also point to a Freudian explanation.
In movie terms, it arrived via Jaws, Alien, The Terminator and Rambo, and recent comedies such as Tropic Thunder have paid affectionate homage to director John McTiernan’s unselfconsciously forthright style and his passionate love of automatic weaponry going off deafeningly and interminably.
Schwarzenegger plays Dutch, an alpha-warrior called in, along with a roistering band of brothers, when the government claim they need him and his crew to rescue some hostages from the jungle. But someone or something is flaying its victims alive. Dutch and his men find themselves being tracked by a creepy, murderous alien way up in the branches. Dutch isn’t going down without a fight.
Veteran screenwriter Shane Black has an acting role, as the wisecracking guy who loves bad jokes, the sort of character who is traditionally earmarked for an early exit."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/guy-john-mctiernan-thriller-alien (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/guy-john-mctiernan-thriller-alien)
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why? just watch the original...
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why? just watch the original...
Because it's now HD, and a cinema viewing will have a load of other true fans...
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Because it's now HD, and a cinema viewing will have a load of other true fans...
Will it have added state-of-the-art CGI?`
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Will it have added state-of-the-art CGI?`
Nope (thank God), it's just a digital re-mastering.... no George Lucas type f**kery here....
"Gettoo da choppaaaa!" ;D
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Will it have added state-of-the-art CGI?`
No, but they put a musical number right in the middle of the movie and it’s fantastic.
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Love the original movie, loved it.
Wil you go and watch the anneversery version with me Taffin?
I will bring my son so he can meet you.
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No, but they put a musical number right in the middle of the movie and it’s fantastic.
Love it! Just what the movie needed! ;D
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Shane Black's new Predator film is out next year.
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Shane Black's new Predator film is out next year.
I believe he did un-credited rewrites of the 1987 script.
I think that's why he was initially hired.
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Starring Kevin Spacey......
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Predator, Aliens, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Hunt for Red October
Greatest action movies of all time in no particular order.
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Predator is the g-f-o-a-t.
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I fell in love with gatling gun scenes after this...
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Great film that should be compulsory viewing for all men.
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Great film. One of his best. I have it on DVD but will look for it on 4K and if not there get the standard Blu-Ray.
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I fell in love with gatling gun scenes after this...
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Jesse Ventura became the first actor in cinema history to fire a hand-held Gatling gun.
He mentioned in an interview that a power cord ran from the gun, down his pant leg, and to a prop guy out of camera view who touched the ends to a car battery to power the thing.
Bill Duke became the second actor to fire the weapon on screen, and Stallone would have been the third in the last Rambo movie, but the gun was too heavy for him. Sly reportedly was able to hold the gun, but couldn't maneuver it quickly enough for the scene's requirements.
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Because it's now HD, and a cinema viewing will have a load of other true fans...
Yes ok will watch it..when release ?
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Love the original movie, loved it.
Wil you go and watch the anneversery version with me Taffin?
I will bring my son so he can meet you.
What a truly humbling invitation - PM me.... :)
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Yes ok will watch it..when release ?
I only know it's 9 Nov in the UK - does that help?
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Predator, Aliens, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Hunt for Red October
Greatest action movies of all time in no particular order.
X2....These flicks are like no other, pure cinema enjoyment like no others! ;D
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X2....These flicks are like no other, pure cinema enjoyment like no others! ;D
You put Lethal Weapon ahead of the Rambo movies?...... :o
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You put Lethal Weapon ahead of the Rambo movies?...... :o
Have to back you up there Brah - the escape from custody sequence for Rambo: First Blood, has to be right up there with the Mini-gun jungle clearing sequence from Predator.... good call 8)
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You put Lethal Weapon ahead of the Rambo movies?...... :o
Shit, you're right!...How could have forgotten such a Manly Gem!...The 80's was just a decade of pure indulgent!
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Yes, First Blood has some EXCELLENT scenes. Brian Dennehey is fantastic! His hard ass sheriff is one of my favorite characters. It's hard not to include it except that Lethal Weapon took the buddy action movie to a new level. The end fight scene with Mel and Busey, the jump off the roof scene. Mel's Xmas scene about to eat a bullet. Riggs showcasing the 16 round Berreta 92 for the first time in a movie...emptying it at fleeing copter, reloading and emptying it again....come on!!
Glover/Murtaugh is one of the best written and acted action characters of ALL time. It's funny but dark. Perfect leading actor chemistry that holds up over four movies.
Of course Rambo driving the army truck is fantastic, taking out the cops and falling off the cliff.
Both movies are so good :D
Fuck...and how can I forget about Robocop and Big Trouble in Little China....
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Jesse Ventura became the first actor in cinema history to fire a hand-held Gatling gun.
He mentioned in an interview that a power cord ran from the gun, down his pant leg, and to a prop guy out of camera view who touched the ends to a car battery to power the thing.
Bill Duke became the second actor to fire the weapon on screen, and Stallone would have been the third in the last Rambo movie, but the gun was too heavy for him. Sly reportedly was able to hold the gun, but couldn't maneuver it quickly enough for the scene's requirements.
(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Arnie_T2_minigun_6161.jpg)
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Predator is tied with Terminator as my favourite Arnie movie.
Utterly classic. Have watched it countless times.
Other cinematic love-affairs: Die Hard, First Blood, Rocky (all), The Hunt For Red October, Roadhouse ... and several others.
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Predator is Arnold's best action movie hands down. Terminator is really good. Yet from an action standpoint Predator offers an element of real fear for the unknown enemy. Predator is a man's action movie. Males rule in this film, and share a comradery unlike any of his other films.
Also if you guys have not yet done so. I recommend travel to Puerto Vallarta Mexico. It is there where Predator was filmed. My wife and I went over 20 years ago and visited the set. The building that Arnold threw his big knives into the soldier and said stick around is now or was at the time turned into a cantina. I drank tequila with Mexican federales here. I sat in the actual helicopters used in the film. Hiked the jungle trails and went to the water fall used in the film. Really cool to do this.
Also it must he noted. This movie represents an era of male supremacy in cinema. After the wimpy 70s it was refreshing for movie goers to have Arnold, Stallone, Chuck Norris lead the way with real action sequences using real people real stunts and reAl explosions.
Today women are the heroes in movies doing all the ass kicking and conquering. Yet because it's not possible in reality the movie industry has to cgi all of the women's heroics due to the impossibility of these actions ever taking place.
The 80s where a great time for men. Now it's pussified with all these so called tough women.
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Predator is Arnold's best action movie hands down. Terminator is really good. Yet from an action standpoint Predator offers an element of real fear for the unknown enemy. Predator is a man's action movie. Males rule in this film, and share a comradery unlike any of his other films.
Also if you guys have not yet done so. I recommend travel to Puerto Vallarta Mexico. It is there where Predator was filmed. My wife and I went over 20 years ago and visited the set. The building that Arnold threw his big knives into the soldier and said stick around is now or was at the time turned into a cantina. I drank tequila with Mexican federales here. I sat in the actual helicopters used in the film. Hiked the jungle trails and went to the water fall used in the film. Really cool to do this.
Does sound cool. But I'll pass.
Mexico is a lawless and quickly-imploding country.
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Predator is Arnold's best action movie hands down. Terminator is really good. Yet from an action standpoint Predator offers an element of real fear for the unknown enemy. Predator is a man's action movie. Males rule in this film, and share a comradery unlike any of his other films.
Also if you guys have not yet done so. I recommend travel to Puerto Vallarta Mexico. It is there where Predator was filmed. My wife and I went over 20 years ago and visited the set. The building that Arnold threw his big knives into the soldier and said stick around is now or was at the time turned into a cantina. I drank tequila with Mexican federales here. I sat in the actual helicopters used in the film. Hiked the jungle trails and went to the water fall used in the film. Really cool to do this.
Also it must he noted. This movie represents an era of male supremacy in cinema. After the wimpy 70s it was refreshing for movie goers to have Arnold, Stallone, Chuck Norris lead the way with real action sequences using real people real stunts and reAl explosions.
Today women are the heroes in movies doing all the ass kicking and conquering. Yet because it's not possible in reality the movie industry has to cgi all of the women's heroics due to the impossibility of these actions ever taking place.
The 80s where a great time for men. Now it's pussified with all these so called tough women.
Good stuff
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(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Arnie_T2_minigun_6161.jpg)
Damn, I forgot about that one.
Guess he had to upstage Jesse.
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Keeping it BB related.... 8)
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