Predator (1987)

[Bazooka]

Predator, along with Aliens and the Terminator films, is also partly horror. The action horror seems to be a subgenre that doesn't exist anymore.

Great point.

[mothman]

^ Transformers?

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^ Transformers?

Nah, that's more in the category of action-shite.

[mothman]

But all these horrible robots pretending to be cars and household objects! That's pretty horrifying.

[greenman]

Predator, along with Aliens and the Terminator films, is also partly horror. The action horror seems to be a subgenre that doesn't exist anymore.

Probably due to the shift towards making every major blockbuster avoid an R rating.

[popcorn]

One thing I wonder about the film is how it would seem without the opening shot of the spaceship. If there was no indication that it was sci-fi until the Predator is revealed for the first time, much like From Dusk 'Til Dawn.

I thought exactly the same thing last time I watched it. I think it would have improved the film, adding a slow-drip mystery element.

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But all these horrible robots pretending to be cars and household objects! That's pretty horrifying.

Not if they are dishwasher safe.

[mothman]

There's an untapped well of horror to be found in the everyday. For instance, that nice Hackett jumper I picked up reduced in John Lewis? Hand-wash only! Can you imagine?!

[Pinckle Wicker]

I thought exactly the same thing last time I watched it. I think it would have improved the film, adding a slow-drip mystery element.

Yep, I am another one who as often though that the spaceship scene at the beginning's removal would have enhanced the film and added a whole wtf to 1st time viewers.

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Has anyone bothered to watch or comment on the film I mentioned and provided a link to in the third or fourth reply.

[DukeDeMondo]

Has anyone bothered to watch or comment on the film I mentioned and provided a link to in the third or fourth reply.

I haven't watched it any time recently but I've seen it dozens of times. Cracking stuff.

"I come in peace."

"And you go in pieces!"

[mothman]

I nearly - nearly! - saw Dark Angel in the cinema. Saw something else instead. Can't remember what, tip of my tongue... I was unemployed and living in a squat in London in '90, I recall going to the cinema a hell of a lot.

[colacentral]

Has anyone bothered to watch or comment on the film I mentioned and provided a link to in the third or fourth reply.

Thanks for drawing my attention back to the first page, where Shit Good Nose confessed he liked Predator 2 better. Staggering.

[Rocket Surgery]

I'm not reading 7 pages to see if this has already been posted, but every Predator fan should see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM

(preferably while bollocksed)

[Shit Good Nose]

Thanks for drawing my attention back to the first page, where Shit Good Nose confessed he liked Predator 2 better. Staggering.

Yeah, but that is very much like me saying I prefer Sorcerer over The Wages of Fear - I still think Wages is a masterpiece, just as I still think Predator is a stone cold classic.  2 just happened to tick every single box for me at the particular time I saw it, and the fondness has stayed with me ever since.

But, if I sit down to watch one, I typically watch both back-to-back.

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But, if I sit down to watch one, I typically watch both back-to-back.

Who with?  And don't you find it stops one of you from properly seeing the screen?

[Shit Good Nose]

Who with?  And don't you find it stops one of you from properly seeing the screen?

Mirrors, mate.

[monkfromhavana]

Brilliant film, the sequel is not as good, but still very enjoyable.

Endlessly quotable

"goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus"