The "Billy" laugh at the end was creepy and i LOVED it. It was a cool way for the Predator to say goodbye.
I like the laugh at the end too. I mentioned it though because it seems to me that it confirms that the Predator thought it was going to wipe out Dutch with the blast.
Toddlers (compared to most other newborn species) are the most DEFENSELESS babies on the face of the earth. If it wan't for their parent, the human chaild has ABSOLUTELY NO cHANCE OF SURVIVING ON IT'S OWN.
This movie's cast was one of the most muscle bounds casts ever assembled...the only rival is Universal Soldier and Pumping Iron
this cast is far from
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I'm not say that Dutch and his crew are children, but in relative terms, when pitted against the Predator, I'd say they are. It would be the same as if Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, someone of his size, were to pick a fight with Zac Efron. No one's going to say, 'Wow, that Arnold sure is a badass,' particularly if Arnold fought him while invisible and with a self-aiming gun on his shoulder... And yet that's a frequent compliment we see paid to the Predator.
Toddlers with their inability to run so quickly was not a good example, but to say a ten-year-old, that fits better with what I was trying for...
What did their muscles add? What did they do, with their musclebound bodies, that a ten-year-old in the same situation couldn't also have done?
As to the honor in the Predator putting down its weapons: If I shoot children with a gun and then in the end, alone, decide to try hand-to-hand combat with a child, that doesn't make me honorable, heh. The Predator lifts him off the ground with one hand and his punches do nothing, he's clearly not a match even in the slightest.
nope, when i really think about it, the predator's behavior makes sense and is very well-conceived for the little screen time that he has. sorry u can't get it.
I agree that it makes sense and that everything is fitting, I'm making no argument against that. What I don't understand, and what I'm wondering about, is how people can watch the original film and come away talking about the Predator having 'skills' and an 'honor code' and being a 'badass' and so forth. I watch that film and I see the exact opposite. How can one call the Predator honorable and skilled when its entire method/sport consists of it standing invisible in a tree and shooting people from afar?
What I see in that film is a creature in line with a cat hunting mice, there's no bravery there, no honor, no real risk. It's just a creature killing people with no regard for whether they're even paying attention. The film is still great, with these people trying to evade this creature, but as far as the creature being 'honorable,' etc, and it hunting them because it's a challenge or test of strength, there's nothing like that on screen that I can see. It takes nothing for the Predator to kill people in the way it does.
WRONG. poncho was armed. he pointed his weapon at the predator. so he became fair game and got his head blown off. go watch it again and you'll see.
Yeah, I saw that before. I flicked through it after the other person said the Predator was aiming for Dutch. Still, shot in the back of the head... To the claim that he was aiming for Dutch, the situation still would've been that a man was shot in the back of the head be an invisible creature in a tree…
I feel I'm going too much into this now and so I finish here if others will let me... I began first just wondering if there was any discussion about the Predator blowing itself up, whether that was seen as like a childish tantrum on its part, and then got too much into all after re-watching the film with these sort of thoughts in mind. To end my thoughts/argument here, it is a great film, the creature design is great and how the creature behaves is fine for the film, but when you truly consider some of the things the creature does, and couple that with people saying they are attracted to the Predator because of its 'code of conduct' and 'sense of honor' and 'skills,' it's kind of funny, it seems to me. Going solely by what I see in the film, it seems as illogical as saying, 'What I like about Predator is their gentlemanly nature and their appreciation of a good coffee.'
