#20

The only film I’ve watched more than this is Aliens. Fucking love it to pieces.

Once remember watching this wasted with my ATD and sending my Dad a text message saying “so you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meat grinder” at 2AM. He called me cause he was worried :smiley: would love to know what type of situation he thought I’d be in to necessitate that sentence.

McTiernan ended up in jail right?

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#22

never seen it

have seen the Adiren Brody one though

#23

He wrote Lethal Weapon on set basically! Which rather sets him apart from what all the other guys were doing!

#24

cool. What were the other guys doing? Arm wrestling and bench pressing I assume?

#25

Watched it last year, wasnt as good as i remembered. Takes fucking ages for predator to show up.

#26

This is interesting (if you didn’t know already)

#27

I think it had a fairly well-documented atmosphere of rivalry and one-upmanship, and Sonny Landham had to be separated entirely from everyone else because he was batshit crazy!

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#28

Yeah, weren’t half the cast working out on their own in the early hours of the morning, but doing it in secret so that it looked like they weren’t?

#29

Yeah, basically a machismo overload! Pretty sure they did stuff to sabotage each other as well.

#30

The Wikipedia page is kind of a goldmine. The making of is pretty hilarious as well :grinning:

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#31

The making-of’s great! Just adds to the film’s preposterous allure!

#32

I love that era of movies, say 60s to mid-90s, where budgets were blown, deadlines extended, coke and ego just pumping everything up to 1000. Some amazing stories from it all.

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#33

Seeing as @colossalhorse has already mentioned the ancient Austrian folk tales of Arnocorps, here’s Allo Darlin’ side project Mustache of Insanity:\

I watched Predator last night
It was better than alright
Yeah it was awesome
So fucking awesome

#34

Never seen it

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#36

Just wanted to say that in Brisbane, there’s a free boat service that goes up and down the river in the centre called the CityHopper and whenever I see someone running to catch it, I always say “GET TO THA HOPPA” and people always laugh (if there are people there, I say it even if I’m alone for the benefit of strangers)

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#37

People who haven’t seen Predator* : Dead to me.
People who have decided Predator isn’t that good on reevaluation: Deader to me than they already were**

*who were previously aware of this film and enjoy this sort of movie, etc.

**hard to imagine Eric @ericthefourth the Fourth disappointing me any further in terms of cinema but there you go.

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#38

Sorry theo!

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#39

This is spectacular