Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

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#25

PREDATOR

John McTiernan
1987
United States
(361 points, 15 votes)

despite his many detractors, one of my fave Ahnuld acting bits is the horrified look of desparation after he falls into the lake and drags himself thru the mud. There's an excellent shot of him from behind when he realizes something has fallen into the lake behind him.

― kingfish

Predator. I mean, it's not an emotional blockbuster or anything, but it's a beautifully edited, beautifully conceived action movie.

― amateurist

Predator vs. Predator 2

"kids like space stuff right?"

the alien 12" toy scared the shit out of me as a kid but it did make a worthy adversary to ROM and the Shogun Warriors.
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Re: Friday the 13th, The Series, for whatever reason, I realized I could watch that even though I couldn't watch slasher flicks and there were some FUCKED UP episodes of that.

There was one in particular where this angry nerdy girl got ahold of a cursed compact that would make dudes fall in love with her if she flashed them with it, only she would eventually have to kill them. She killed one of the dudes by taking his head by the ears and forcing it down on a circular saw. I still can't believe the editing involved that made it okay to show even on late night non-cable television.

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Was awesome and like 7 feet tall, btw

I remember at the time wanting to see Predator more than any other movie, ever. I used to watch the trailer over and over again, which I caught when I taped SNL. Then the day comes when my dad is going to take me to Predator ... and it's out of the theaters! So we saw RoboCop instead. Everything worked out in the end.

btw Predator is such an awesome, awesome movie

I still think we need to make Carl Weathers governor of Washington so we can have a trifecta of Predator governors

#75 APOCALYPTO
#74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
#73 GOLDFINGER
#72 VANISHING POINT
#71 DIRTY HARRY
#69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
#69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
#67 (TIE) CON AIR
#67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
#66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
#65 SIN CITY
#64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
#62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
#62 (TIE) TAKEN
#61 MAD MAX
#60 JAWS
#59 THE FUGITIVE
#58 CASINO ROYALE
#57 COLLATERAL
#56 THE INCREDIBLES
#55 ENTER THE DRAGON
#53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
#53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
#52 GET CARTER
#51 AKIRA
#50 LA FEMME NIKITA
#49 DISTRICT 9
#48 TOTAL RECALL
#47 THE WILD BUNCH
#46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
#45 COMMANDO
#44 THE KILLER
#43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
#42 SPEED
#41 BULLITT
#40 YOJIMBO
#39 LE SAMOURAI
#38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
#37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
#36 THE MATRIX
#35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
#34 CRANK
#33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
#32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
#31 THE WARRIORS
#30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
#29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
#28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
#27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
#26 THE DARK KNIGHT
#25 PREDATOR

Carl Weathers did a commercial on snl to that effect. xpost

i have no recollection of what the commando team is even doing in the jungle. it's kind of a fake beginning right, like they're there on some kind of secret noriega-ish business, and the alien happens to be there?

Can I? Okay I will

GET TO DA CHOPPAH

speaking of the matrix taking a while to catch on, i remember this being the case with blade runner. i made my dad take me to see blade runner and i talked about it all day in school on monday and nobody knew what the hell i was talking about. it took me a long time to find someone who had seen it! i don't know what its box-office was at the time. then much later - or so i seem to remember - it was everyone's fave movie. this might have been a home video phenomena.

I just saw Predator sometime in mid-to-late 2011 so I can say, yes, they're...busting some rebels?

oh and i think i had the blade runner marvel comic before i saw the movie? i'm pretty sure i did...

Carl Weathers is the governor of my heart so

Predator is awesome. It has a brilliant script. Absolutely nothing unnecessary or non-essential happens. The characters have enough detail to get the audience to care about them, OTOH there's no l-o-n-g exposition top slow things down. We get dropped straight into the action along with Dutch and company in the intro helicopter ride. The film makes use of the old horror movie trick of never showing the actual monster until the third act. And when the Predator is finally revealed, it's not a disappointment.

Blade Runner comic

damn i dont think ive ever seen predator either!!!!!

just about the only one from the 80s and 90s on this list so far i haven't seen is Predator. it just looked like Commando In The Jungle With The ALIEN so i never bothered. should rectify this it seems.

xp Sounds like your next few weekends are going to rock!

you really really should

Even Predator 2, which was terrible, was awesome

just about the only one from the 80s and 90s on this list so far i haven't seen is Predator. it just looked like Commando In The Jungle With The ALIEN so i never bothered. should rectify this it seems.

― piscesx, Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:57 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait, and this made it LESS desirable?

pred2 is great

I saw Pred2 before seeing Pred1 and my instant reaction was "holy shit I HAVE TO SEE PRED1 NOW"

pretty much hate Arnold so never bothered with Predator, Commando etc. altho I've seen bits of each

saw Blade Runner around 1985 or so on VHS iirc...? Well before I saw Alien that's for sure.

predator one of those movies where people are just spazzing out left and right in the movie theater.

Blade Runner was released in 1,290 theaters on June 25, 1982. That date was chosen by producer Alan Ladd, Jr. because his previous highest-grossing films (Star Wars and Alien) had a similar opening date (May 25) in 1977 and 1979, making the date his "lucky day".[71] The gross for the opening weekend was a disappointing $6.15 million.[72] A significant factor in the film's rather poor box office performance was that it was released around the same time as other science fiction films, including The Thing, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and, most significantly, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which dominated box office revenues that summer.[73]

should rectify this it seems.

Yep. Actually there's very little overlap between the three movies - both in terms of subject matter and style.

so I must've seen blade runner in the same month I saw ET and poltergeist, what a month!

def saw Blade Runner well before I saw the Thing or Alien. saw STII and ET in the theater, of course.

I saw the thing in the theaters too! man I must've had my mind blown so bad that summer

Hah, I remember reading the novelisation of Ghostbusters long before the film made it's slow way over to Ireland, and some of the extra details were lovely, such as the fact that she checks the countertop, and it's perfectly cool.

"Blade Runner was released in 1,290 theaters on June 25, 1982."

okay then it wasn't school the next day! maybe camp. definitely remember going over the entire movie with other kids and it was really hard to describe. and they hadn't heard of the movie.

also remember we had to go one town over to new milford to see blade runner because it wasn't playing in our town or in any of the big theaters in danbury.

Two states elected Governors who had starred in that movie.

I think we had to hoof it all the way from red bank to south amboy in jersey to see blade runner, that's like 20 miles one way

sorry this has turned into the action water cooler thread, maybe the water cooler will explode

RUN TO DA COOLER!

Oh, come on. Dutch and his Predator team are down in the jungle to rescue some hostages. It turns out they were not hostages, but that the CIA tricked them down there after a CIA team vanished on a recon/spy mission rather than a search and rescue.

"You set us up! It was all bullshit! The diplomats, the hostages, all of it!"

Yeah, something like that.

Hence the tension between Arnold and Carl.

I havent seen Predator since I high school, I need to revisit

lol Predator reunion

xxp does anyone else find that there's a homoerotic subtext between the two characters, at least until CW's real mission is revealed?

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Well, specifically in the handshake/arm wrestling scene when AS/CW first meet in the film.

Don't forget that Predator 2 is entirely responsible for bringing us the Pred ship debate, Predators vs. Aliens, and all that has resulted.

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