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Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch
Elpidia Carrillo as Anna
Carl Weathers as Dillon
My Recommendation: See It
With the highly-anticipated (amongst horror fans, anyway) Predators arriving in theaters this Friday, I thought it would be nice to revisit the films that have led us to this point. Starting from the beginning seemed like the best approach and, thus, I sat down to watch Predator...which, I realized shortly before my viewing, I had never seen in its entirety. I know...I know...I know, what kind of schmuck has never seen Predator all the way through before? Well, now, I have...and I'm just sorry I waited this long. A slam-bang action thriller with loads of big guns and even bigger explosions, it works quite well as a masterfully-suspenseful horror movie as well. What more could you ask for out a film? Basically, Predator is simple in its thought process: take a bunch of tough-as-nails military men, throw them in a jungle, add one high-tech alien, and blend into a puree. According to Wikipedia (So who really knows?), the idea for the film came from a running joke during the release of Rocky IV that said, since Rocky had run out of earthly opponents, he would need to fight an alien in the next sequel. Well, in Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger fights that alien for him, and that alien is one of the most impressively-crafted science fiction creatures ever brought to screen. Let the war begin!
