The Movie: Predator, directed by John MacTiernan
Recommendation: Dee
Reason: It's been awhile since she's seen Predator.
This is a movie that probably shouldn't have been good. It's a followup action vehicle for a rising star not known for his knockout acting ability. It's a movie about big men with big muscles and big guns shooting things in the jungle. Basically, it's simple.
Simple is all it needed to be, though. Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled out a genuinely decent performance as the commander of a massive pile of muscles and guns. His scenes facing off mano-et-alien against the Predator were actually pretty intense, helped along by the acting ability he managed to summon up. The rest of the cast was cliche, but they did it the right way, going full bore rather than trying to pretend they weren't a collection of genre tropes.
The creature that was created for this film is now fairly legendary. What was originally supposed to be some goofy ostrich-dog-cyclops thing became a musclebound hunter with ninjalike capabilities, a destroyer of xenomorphs and a truly formidable foe for anyone who faced off with it. This movie deserves to be the legend it is.
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