Predator - Get to the Chopper!

“Shit, you trying to tell me Blaine and Hawkins were killed by a fucking lizard? Don’t listen to her. It’s a psych-job! Two, maybe three of them, that’s all. We keep our cool, out-think them ’til we’re across the border…” (http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/predator.txt)

-“Dillon” as portrayed by the thespian talents of Carl Weathers in the 1987 John McTiernan Cinematic Opera, Predator

Predator forever changed the way we processed an ‘action flick.’ It introduced a new dynamic that had not been seen previous: A special forces team, gritty jungle warfare, invisible lizard, shoulder mounted laser, dismemberment, mud cameo, a mythical chopper, hand to hand combat, bows and arrows, booby traps… and all of it boiling down to a glorified game of duck hunt.

What’s not to love?

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