Name 1 movie better than predator 1987

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Predator is probably the perfect action movie. And this is a point that is lost in the modern day due to pop culture osmosis, but the best part of Predator is that you don't KNOW it's about an alien hunter. It starts off presenting itself as a typical Arnie 80s action flick where they go kill generic badguys in the jungle somewhere. But then after the first act, this whole scenario gets flipped on its head and the predators become the prey.

That shit blew my mind first watching it way back in the day before I had any preexisting knowledge of what the predator was.

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>muh kidnapped daughter plot

No. Even John Wick is superior.

Except they show a fucking spacecraft heading to the Earth in the opening scene. Would have been better without that shit.

>typical Arnie 80s action flick where they go kill generic badguys in the jungle
There literally wasn't an Arnie movie with this plot before that. The whole vietnam flashback jungle action movie was spawned by Rambo II

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Empire Strikes Back

Nah, Commando is still too goofy, might as well be starring Leslie Nielsen

>John Wick is superior
The state of gen z
Wick doesn't pick up a phone booth or take on a dictator's private army

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I met the guy who wore the Predator suit in the 80s.. He was over 7 feet tall and said in the mornings he was Harry from Harry and the Hendersons and in the afternoon he was the Predator. Bit of a mood swing there.

Rambo II was 1985. Predator was 87. And regardless, I'm talking about 80s action movies broadly, rather than just ones set in a jungle. The point is that Predator is a clever subversion of what seems like a more typical genre flick.

Is that the case? I don't remember that but if so, it's certainly a mark against. I still stand by what I said though. Predator is kino

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you were pleb filtered if you didn't like it
Its Arnolds best movie

>hurr durr its funny
leddit is elsewhere faggot

You can't pick something that's been murdered try again

I kinda knew Verne when I was in LA years ago. Saw him walking the office dog. I stop and say hey to him, chat a little bit before I went to the store. Fuckin comfy times.

Ok zoomer.

He also doesn't drive his car with 60 against a telephone pole (without seatbelts) without anything happening.
Or jumping out of a plane at 5 miles height into a foot deep swamp.
Or throw a pipe through someone.

Commando is silly, yes, but it's the epitome of all the ultra action-y action movies ever and that is what makes it the best. It is pure Arnold kino, distilled to its essence.

Robocop 1987

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Calm your tits down, please. Commando isn't a bad movie at all. We are saying it isn't as good as Predator. Take off the nostalgia goggles, boomer brother.

>We are saying it isn't as good as Predator
And I happen to disagree. As said it is quite literally the purest Arnold movie.
I like Predator, but it is not Commando

Predator 2, her you go

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the intro to commando is the cheesiest shit ive seen for a long time its like a spoof movie and the intro gives off massive pedo vibes, I bet you arnie was fuckin her on set.

c0mfier but n0t better

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>a father caring about their daughter is pedo vibes
k. You want actual pedo vibes watch lion heart. Jean Claude is walking around in a hoodie hiding behind stuff watching his neice

Watch We Die Young. He is grooming some chicano twink for sex and drugs.

I thought that was in 2. I don't remember it being in 1.

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Its crazy how that bad guy played the main bad guy in the best season of power rangers ever

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There is only one possible challenger. And while both are nigh-perfect, I believe they share the same single flaw, that each would be improved by removing the opening scene showing a spaceship arrive at Earth.

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I cannot. perfect movie. greatest men on a mission movie ever made. the only things that come close are die hard and conan. which share a star and director with predator.

predator is my favorite film of all time.
bill dukes performance is GOAT supporting character.

Roasties btfo.

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My two favourite movies.

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conan.

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Disregard females, acquire trophies

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That scene is only like 15 seconds anyway. There's so much going on and so many characters introduced in the following 20 minutes, there's no way anyone should remember the ship.

Pepperidge Farm remembered.

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Predator is a perfect action movie because it's a highly focused story while still being high-concept. You couldn't put a movie like that out today because everybody would say the trailers "gave the whole movie away", but what continuously makes it memorable and worth revisiting is that it's only trying to do one thing and executing that one thing perfectly.

*fucks your sequels*

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I was a kid and I remembered the ship, its also called fucking PREDATOR so I immediately expected some alien/gov experiment or some shit to show up as the predator

Predator>Conan>T1>T2

Bullshit, you see the ship from the start and there's already skinned bodies in the first half hour of the movie

>What's your name, son?

>Murphy.

Music starts. Right in the feels.

What a bunch of shitty "posters". Post the originals or GTFO.

Predator
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80s action movies are peak kino

only 1985 forward

It didn’t matter back in 1987. You saw the spaceship and thought WTF but then the movie went on as a typical Arnie vs bad guys in the jungle. The internet wasn’t a thing and magazines like Fangoria would show the special fx and get you hyped to see the movie but wouldn’t spoil it for you. The only movie spoilers came by word of mouth and were fairly unreliable.

The internet has ruined movies for younger generations.

the internet has ruined everything

Nahh...I would say Robocop 2 was better since it does have that nice ironic touch.
Also, that Cain scene killing people in the dark was great.

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The ship was a minor thing that passed by quickly. The skinned bodies could be chalked up to crazy beaners in the jungle. Same shit real life beaners do.

The best thing about Predator and other John McTiernan movies like Last Action Hero and Die Hard is that they're subversions of action movies of the time made by someone who actually appreciated those movies. Nowadays, when someone wants to twist tropes, they usually do so because they dislike what they're dealing with. The Last Jedi is a perfect example of this.

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