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On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are tearing the jungle a new one with the 1987 film from John McTiernan, Predator.

If you\u2019ve spent any time on the internet in the last half-decade or so, you\u2019re probably more familiar with this film than you realize. That was the case with me, at least. Large portions of online language are borrowed directly from it. That bicep-flexing, hand-clapping handshake that Arnold and Carl Weathers share? Oh yeah, that\u2019s from this film. \u201cGet to the choppah!\u201d This film right here. Um, pretty much everything else that Arnold says? Yeah, you know where to find it.

Because of its prevalence, you\u2019ll probably find yourself feeling a bit of d\xe9j\xe0 vu while watching it. The thing has made its way into the global zeitgeist as few other films have.

For a film with such remarkable displays of machismo and clear compensating for small \u201cegos,\u201d it\u2019s amazing to see that it\u2019s also far more than the sum of its parts. It\u2019s all too easy to go into this film for the first time and think that you\u2019re just going to get a balls-to-the-wall, blow \u2018em up action fest, but that\u2019s not the case. You\u2019re going to get a piece of film work that has stood the test of time for a good reason.

Not to toot our own horn, but you don\u2019t get featured on this podcast for no good reason. Even the truly terrible films we\u2019ve seen (and there have been a few) were talked about because there was something special about them. In the case of our B-movie bonus episodes, are those movies special because they\u2019re truly god-awful? Oh yeah. We\u2019re looking at you, Sharktopus.

With Predator, you have a monster movie (well, an alien movie, but that\u2019s a different franchise) that transcends its action movie tropes. It goes beyond bullets, explosions, and greased-up pecs. By the end of it, you\u2019ll have watched a thrilling cat-and-mouse adventure between one of the great action stars and a murderous, yet respectful monster.

Now, who doesn\u2019t want to watch that?

(Recorded on July 12, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Predator - IMDb

Predator trailer - YouTube

Arnold Schwarzenegger - IMDb

Carl Weathers - IMDb

BROFORCE

Shane Black - IMDb

Bill Duke - IMDb

A Fish Called Selma | The Simpsons - IMDb

Superman II - IMDb

Alien vs. Predator - IMDb

Big Game - IMDb

Jesse Ventura - IMDb

Sonny Landham - IMDb

M. Night Shyamalan - IMDb

The Happening - IMDb

Blockbuster (Bend, Oregon) - Wikipedia

(Turns out that the last Blockbuster is in Oregon, and not Alaska. The second to last Blockbuster was the one in Alaska. There can be only one and now the Oregon Blockbuster is the Blockbuster Highlander.)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - IMDb

Predator 2 - IMDb

Danny Glover - IMDb