It took 13 cuts for Liam Neeson to jump that fence when it should have only Taken 3.

And even later, when Arnold gets the upper hand and the predator can't see him, the Predator starts firing in all directions. Their roles had switched places.

"Some people don't like Predator."

We call those people wrong where I come from.

"Shane Black, you can't go wrong"
Quotes that did not age well...

Dutch may have killed a Predator, but Shane Black killed its entire franchise. Now that's impressive!

My theory: Predator is the distillation of a decade of Vietnam movies.
Fighting an enemy they don't understand in the jungle

Man, 1987 was an awesome year for movies!  This, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, Full Metal Jacket, Evil Dead II, Princess Bride, etc.

People forget that Jesse Ventura actually WAS a Navy Seal (UDT-Vietnam), and pulled strings to get a REAL army training officer to the locations to train the rest of the actors both in fitness and, more importantly, weapons handling and operational movement... This made a big impact on McTiernan and the overall feel of the film, as the actors really had to work hard, not just for the film, but for learning HOW to portray their characters!

Predator 2 happens in 1997 because 1997 was a predicted "El Niño" year. El Niño is  a semi-regular phenonom in which warm air currents move across the pacific ocean, causing extreme heat waves and drought. This repeatable event has been noted for hundreds of years. 1715, the date on the old gun, was also an El Nino year.

Predator is the PERFECT example of a B-movie made with A-movie quality. Those are my favorite types of films: shameless genre scripts written with passion and made with excellent direction, cinematography, editing, and music scoring.

They showed off Arnold's muscles not just to show off but to impress upon the audience how that Dutch was a pinnacle of a human specimen so when he fights the Predator mano a ma·no, the audience is that much more impressed with the Predator's strength.

Oh my gosh I thought I was losing my mind - every time I try to talk about Predator people roll there eyes as if it's a dumb action movie. This is the only discussion that talks about the high level craftsmanship involved in making that movie.

What I also like about Predator, when you consider the "slasher" elements, is that these men are no fools. They investigate their environment and ask questions most audience members would. The answers often vaguely and cryptically offered by "Billy" ("We're all gonna die.") It's the same reason Jaws was so beloved. These are not idiots being stalked by a super predator. They're cunning, strong, and completely understand the FUBAR elements of their predicament.

"It's Shane Black, it's Predator. You can't go wrong."
Narrator: "But it did go wrong. It went very wrong."

"Can't go wrong with Shane Black." Roundabout plays

Predator 2 is filmed in "concrete jungle." And no one can convince me the makers of the movie didn't think of it like that.
Also watching this re:View... yeah, Van Damme most likely didn't want to be in a rubber costume, because notice there is not a single mention of Kevin Peter Hall in this 30 min video, despite the fact he played in both of the Predator movies and basically made the monster what it is.

Watching this movie will turn you into a sexual Tyrannosaurus!

Governor of California: "If it bleeds, we can kill it."

Governor of Minnesota: "I ain't got time to bleed."

So, my girlfriend and I recently watched Predator for the first time.  We were streaming it, and right around the "girl almost gets away from Carl Weathers" scene, the audio got caught in a loop -- nothing but jungle noises and ominous music that somehow was looping peefectly.  Neither one of us was sure if the audio was glitching or not for a good while, because the non-verbal storytelling was just so goddamn good.

"If it bleeds... we can kill it"
Talking about greatest one-liners in film history