Film 8 (10/01/2011) - Predator

If it bleeds, we can kill it. Lines like this sound corny in today's action films but when they come out of Arnold Schwarzenegger's mouth dang they are cool. He was the ultimate action man. He kicked ass and had a line after each takedown. They sure don't make them like that anymore.

Predator is one of my favourite Schwarzenegger films, alongside the Terminator, True Lies and my guilty pleasure The Last Action Hero. Predator is a film that after watching Aliens recently I realised they are very similar (obviously Aliens came first). Both feature a group of soldiers hunting an alien life form and in the end one is left to battle the alien. But despite these similarities Predator manages to rise above comparisons because the battles between the Predator and Schwarzenegger are so exciting and epic that it just makes the film stand alone.

I just love the Predator and Predators was a great homage to it, as a matter of fact I might just watch that now.

Format: Bluray
Venue: The couch
Degrees of Separation: 7, Schwarzenegger starred in Predator but also End of Days alongside Gabriel Byrne who played Satan. Byrne also starred in The Usual Suspects alongside Kobayashi himself, Pete Postlethwaite, who also played Maurice Fischer in Inception. (This was a really tough one and I'd love it if anyone can think of a better one for me.)