Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

I just saw Predator sometime in mid-to-late 2011 so I can say, yes, they're...busting some rebels?

oh and i think i had the blade runner marvel comic before i saw the movie? i'm pretty sure i did...

Carl Weathers is the governor of my heart so

Predator is awesome. It has a brilliant script. Absolutely nothing unnecessary or non-essential happens. The characters have enough detail to get the audience to care about them, OTOH there's no l-o-n-g exposition top slow things down. We get dropped straight into the action along with Dutch and company in the intro helicopter ride. The film makes use of the old horror movie trick of never showing the actual monster until the third act. And when the Predator is finally revealed, it's not a disappointment.

Blade Runner comic

damn i dont think ive ever seen predator either!!!!!

just about the only one from the 80s and 90s on this list so far i haven't seen is Predator. it just looked like Commando In The Jungle With The ALIEN so i never bothered. should rectify this it seems.

xp Sounds like your next few weekends are going to rock!

you really really should

Even Predator 2, which was terrible, was awesome

just about the only one from the 80s and 90s on this list so far i haven't seen is Predator. it just looked like Commando In The Jungle With The ALIEN so i never bothered. should rectify this it seems.

― piscesx, Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:57 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait, and this made it LESS desirable?

pred2 is great

I saw Pred2 before seeing Pred1 and my instant reaction was "holy shit I HAVE TO SEE PRED1 NOW"

pretty much hate Arnold so never bothered with Predator, Commando etc. altho I've seen bits of each

saw Blade Runner around 1985 or so on VHS iirc...? Well before I saw Alien that's for sure.

predator one of those movies where people are just spazzing out left and right in the movie theater.

Blade Runner was released in 1,290 theaters on June 25, 1982. That date was chosen by producer Alan Ladd, Jr. because his previous highest-grossing films (Star Wars and Alien) had a similar opening date (May 25) in 1977 and 1979, making the date his "lucky day".[71] The gross for the opening weekend was a disappointing $6.15 million.[72] A significant factor in the film's rather poor box office performance was that it was released around the same time as other science fiction films, including The Thing, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and, most significantly, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which dominated box office revenues that summer.[73]

should rectify this it seems.

Yep. Actually there's very little overlap between the three movies - both in terms of subject matter and style.

so I must've seen blade runner in the same month I saw ET and poltergeist, what a month!

def saw Blade Runner well before I saw the Thing or Alien. saw STII and ET in the theater, of course.

I saw the thing in the theaters too! man I must've had my mind blown so bad that summer

Hah, I remember reading the novelisation of Ghostbusters long before the film made it's slow way over to Ireland, and some of the extra details were lovely, such as the fact that she checks the countertop, and it's perfectly cool.

"Blade Runner was released in 1,290 theaters on June 25, 1982."

okay then it wasn't school the next day! maybe camp. definitely remember going over the entire movie with other kids and it was really hard to describe. and they hadn't heard of the movie.

also remember we had to go one town over to new milford to see blade runner because it wasn't playing in our town or in any of the big theaters in danbury.

Two states elected Governors who had starred in that movie.

I think we had to hoof it all the way from red bank to south amboy in jersey to see blade runner, that's like 20 miles one way

sorry this has turned into the action water cooler thread, maybe the water cooler will explode

RUN TO DA COOLER!

Oh, come on. Dutch and his Predator team are down in the jungle to rescue some hostages. It turns out they were not hostages, but that the CIA tricked them down there after a CIA team vanished on a recon/spy mission rather than a search and rescue.

"You set us up! It was all bullshit! The diplomats, the hostages, all of it!"

Yeah, something like that.

Hence the tension between Arnold and Carl.

I havent seen Predator since I high school, I need to revisit

lol Predator reunion

xxp does anyone else find that there's a homoerotic subtext between the two characters, at least until CW's real mission is revealed?

https://www.google.com/search?q=predator%2Bhomoerotic%2Bsubtext&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&safe=active

Well, specifically in the handshake/arm wrestling scene when AS/CW first meet in the film.

Don't forget that Predator 2 is entirely responsible for bringing us the Pred ship debate, Predators vs. Aliens, and all that has resulted.

search fanfiction.net

wait, don't do that

the Most hilarious fanboy message board debate of all time

Well I did think there'd be slashfic, but then there's Top Gear slash, so by itself it proves little.

predator 2 also gave us some great rave soundbite samples

I mean all of that all because some prop guy/set dresser was like "lol Alien"

http://images.wikia.com/avp/images/f/fa/P2-the_alien_skull-1-.png

I think I saw Predator twice in the same weekend.

"You set us up! It was all bullshit! The diplomats, the hostages, all of it!"

The broadcast edit of this "It was all BALONEY" became a meme among my friends and I in highschool.

i was just googling predator ship the other day b/c i couldn't remember if it was an ilx meme or general internet meme

...Top...Gear...slash?

*cries*

Rich4rd Hamm0nd embraces his confusing feelings for J3r3my Clarks0n; in particular, J3r3my's hands. ...Mild slash.

also,

Hamm0nd, Cl4rkson and M4y have to share a hotel room but what happens when their drink gets spiked?

;_;

noooooooooooo

i hate u snoball

we are slowly transitioning from action into "action"

The word 'top' in the thread title is taking on a new meaning...