Hi everybody and welcome to another installment of the Reel Film Nerds! Bottom line up front, awesome legacy cast of a classic movie! This week we review Predator (1987). Spoiler alert, Mike and Matt both love this movie and have seen it many times! Pay special attention to Matt’s random facts about this movie and find out about an interesting 80’s star who was originally cast as the Predator. The guys also discuss many of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic quotes like “Get to the Chopper.” Mike continues his rein of connecting our reviewed films to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Matt brings up an interesting topic of could this movie be made today and it is now a new segment for our Legacy Cast’s. Lastly the boys talk about the political correctness of society today along with snapdicks and tacograms! What an episode!
Mike loves Predator like the child he never had and gives it a 4.5 out of 5 Reels. Matt tried to keep nostalgia out of his rating and just go by the film’s merits and awarded it a 4 out of 5 Reels. Thanks again for listening and we will chat at you real soon!
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Predator
Director: John McTiernan
Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Shane Black and Jesse Ventura
Release Date: June 12, 1987
Storyline from IMDB
A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major “Dutch” Schaefer, are ordered to assist CIA man, Colonel Al Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.