Posted on 04/29/2009 7:13:46 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
You've probably heard the news about the upcoming remake, but there is still so much in the original Predator that has gone unappreciated. Below is a list of the life lessons we could learn from Dutch and his crew as they try to take on the Predator himself.
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“I don’t have time to bleed”.
Lol. Someone has way too much time on their hands.
Recharging would be a bear. Would a small alternator with a belt help to keep up the charge?
They’re remaking Predator? Which metrosexual queerboy are they going to get to take Arnold’s place?
Also in my opinion the single most impressive 30-second show of hand-held firepower ever on screen when firing blindly into the jungle.
Jesse ventura and the indian were by far the two most likeable characters in that team. The black guy that WASN’T apollo was pretty cool too.
I rank it like this:
indian
cowboy (jesse ventura)
gritty black guy
everyone else
Hell, that movie was darn near a john wayne flick...but without a john wayne or a suitable substitute.
When we learn it: The situation is beyond FUBAR, but the superiors refuse to authorize air transport out of the suck. Why it's important: Self-reliance is a valuable trait to have, whether you're in the jungle or trying to get something on a really high shelf at Home Depot.
It’s NOT a chain gun!
Mark
They’ve narrowed it down to ben stiller and owen wilson. Which one do you favor?
LOL!
"Do you have time to duck?"
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Mark
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When we learn it: After his first encounter with the Predator who has just killed his squad-mate, Mac picks up old painless and peppers the nearby shrubbery with bullets. The rest of the team soon joins in.
Why it's important: It takes a whole hell of a lot of bullets, but one finally catches the Predator, spilling some of his blood and providing an important clue. It's not the most efficient model for getting things done, but it's a lot better than sitting back and doing nothing.
I liked this bit in the movie, but I get a different lesson from it. If your buddy starts shooting into the woods, don't interrupt him to ask what he saw or what's going on. Just get out of his line of fire by standing next to him, fire at what he's aiming at, and then when its over, then you can ask him what it's all about. But in the meantime, trust him, its important.
Probably Shia Lebouff or Aston Krucher.
they forgot the best one:
GET TO DEE CHOPPA....NOW!
**this would mean a lesson in making haste!**
They were going to remake Conan with Triple-H
It was fun to watch, but a little demented. For the same weight, I'd rather have an AR-15 with 1250 rounds of ammo than a minigun with 200 rounds of ammo. Of course, the minigun does look a lot cooler.
it used to be "when in doubt, empty the magazine..."
200 rounds would be about maybe a few seconds at most? No thanks, I wouldn't want to be stuck with that out in the middle of nowhere with no support or resupply.
I'm kind of torn on a substitute. Call me old fashioned but maybe an M-14 and a few LAWs or modern equivalent?
Without a doubt, there will be one or two females on the team.
You know, the cliche “fighting femout the incompetent male members on her team, and evenale type” that is just as tough as the boys, and always ends up bailing though she weighs less than 100 pounds, with one punch she can take down men weighing 250 to 400 pounds.
Unfortunately the PC fighting female has all but ruined sci-fi. Expect more of the same, Predator is way to masculine for today’s Hollywood
I have no Idea how the words got re-arranged when I pressed "Post"
Try again, though the joke is lost
You know, the cliche “fighting female", that is just as tough as the boys, and always ends up bailing out the incompetent male members on her team, and even though she weighs less than 100 pounds, with one punch she can take down men weighing 250 to 400 pounds.
I recall vaguely that they were carrying these huge packs on their backs. Maybe the idea is that the batteries were in the packs.
I'm kind of torn on a substitute. Call me old fashioned but maybe an M-14 and a few LAWs or modern equivalent?
When I'm running around in the woods with no resupply, I'd want to carry as much ammo as I could. For the equivalent weight of an M-16 and 1250 rounds of ammo, I'd only get 500 rounds with the M-14. And against an adversary that I can't even see - meaning there's a fair amount of spray and pray - I'd want to increase my chances of a hit simply by having more lead available to throw at him, in the direction of suspicious noises.
Actually, given that the enemy was invisible, I think I’d want to pack a few more claymores for tripwire ambushes.
Here’s another good read displaying the abundance of time some of us have....
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/10/the_5_reasons_luke_skywalker_is_a_complete_idiot.php
“I don’t have time to bleed”.
I don’t have time to read!
I had an opportunity to talk to the guy that owns THAT mini gun at the Knob Creek shoot. He told me how they had to rig it to be fired by hand. First of all, blanks have no recoil. No one can hand hold a mini gun being fired because the recoil is something like 600lbs continuous. AHnold could have pointed the gun at the ground, and if loaded with live rounds, taken off like a rocket. The gun ran on 28v aircraft batteries, they just ran the power cable down the actors pant leg to the huge battery next to him. He said it also took some technique to fire blanks from the gun, because the damned thing ate 1000 rounds in ten seconds! Your back pack of ammo goes from heavy ass hell to empty like someone just ripped it off your back, all while you are trying to act and fire a very intimidating weapon.
I was also told that the director believed that the audience would not believe what the gun actually sounds like. (a big chainsaw) So they recorded the sound of the gun being dry fired with no ammo, then mixed in the sound of an M2 fifty caliber. Because that’s the sound he thought the audience would associate with a big machine gun.
OK, name the novel, which has a theme highly apropos of this discussion:
Yo's proud Thunderbolt gun was nowhere in sight, and the corpse was not wearing the powerpack that energized it.
Nope, Ellen Degenerate & Oprah. It’s a “New World”.
I learned don’t ever vote for anyone that was in the movie.
Great flick.
Epic.
I forgot, “POL”.
Puke Out Loud.
I think it’s going to be called “Predator: The Government Bailout.”
Running around in the jungle, I would opt for night vision, ballistic armor a lightweight 223 caliber carbine. And only about 100 rounds of ammo. And about 50 buddies of massive size carrying belt fed m60s and 2500 rounds each.
ROL
ralph out loud.
I’m not sure how you “ralph” any way BUT out loud though.
When I yack you can hear it for miles so POL is relative. If I see those two in the same room? I “POL”.
Funny piece, thanks for posting.
I would add
“Mud is your friend”
Only 1250 rounds? For that weight (weapon + battery) you could carry an M-249 SAW, spare barrel and 2000 rounds.
Nothing says "I love you" like sustained automatic fire from a white hot barrel.
1) Not Joining the Dark Side
No, seriously! Luke gets dumped on his whole life—his adoptive parents get killed, all his friends get injured or killed, the girl he falls in love with turns out to be his sister, his father turns out to be one of the most evil people in the galaxy, his hand gets cut off. Then he gets a chance to co-rule the galaxy. Who wouldn't take that offer at that point?
What has Luke had to look forward to after the original trilogy? Mostly trying to start up the whole Jedi Order by himself, which is a ton of work, and watching Han have almost constant sex with Leia. Between that and ruling with Vader, it's not unlike a choice between working in your local library and becoming President. Not really much of a choice there. And ou can comment all you want about the Dark Side being a path to pain and suffering and a loss of humanity, but let’s face it—the Dark Side is simply cooler. Members of the Sith have neat custom lightsabers, get to slap everyone around, and just plain look cooler. For Halloween, how many Luke costumes do you see people wearing nowadays? Zero. How many Darth Vader costumes do you see? Still too many to count. Bad is good, baby.
>>>Jesse ventura and the indian were by far the two most likeable characters in that team
The Indian was a rare fellow. One of the very few professional male porn stars who made the transition to legitimate films. He also played Billy Bear in “48 Hours” with Nick Nolte. Good actor back in the 80s..
>>>Also in my opinion the single most impressive 30-second show of hand-held firepower ever on screen when firing blindly into the jungle.
I enjoy it also, but we aren’t supposed to. That scene was intended to be satirical of American gun culture, a video sneer. The director was amazed when audiences loved it.
“you got time to duck?”
Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky"
And the moral of that part of the book was: having a big gun is counterproductive, if it makes you so overconfident that you let somebody sneak up on you from behind...
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