# Predator (1987): a masterpiece of testosterone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253 "2009-10-09T23:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/21 "2009-10-10T03:24:29Z")
The mid-to-late 80s was truly a golden age for awesome, entertaining action flicks. I don’t think any other movies will ever give me more enjoyment than Aliens, Predator, and Robocop have. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/22 "2009-10-10T04:03:29Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Indeed, [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLKjcOehW_I) is the most perfect depiction of anger I’ve ever seen onscreen. It’s also this scene that made me wonder, “Just how the hell much ammo are these guys hauling around the jungle?” ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/23 "2009-10-10T04:04:22Z")
No more than I typically carry in my usual CCW load. (Some cargo shorts have a LOT of pockets). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/24 "2009-10-10T04:53:38Z")
Wats da matta? CIA got you pushing too many pencils?! > [@spoke-](#): > > It’s also this scene that made me wonder, “Just how the hell much ammo are these guys hauling around the jungle?” Looks like all of it. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Calm yourself. This probably has something to do with Arnold dipping women’s heads into toilets and you getting your hair wet. > Chill out. [So you saw Terminator 3?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGZP-W25U) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/25 "2009-10-10T04:54:52Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I forgot to add: > > It was reported that actor Sonny Landham was so unstable on the set that a bodyguard was hired; not to protect Landham, but to protect the other cast members from Landham. This wasn’t a joke by the way. It was an actual requirement from the insurance company. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/26 "2009-10-10T04:59:58Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Indeed, [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLKjcOehW_I) is the most perfect depiction of anger I’ve ever seen onscreen. You’ll like this [YTMND](http://ultimateduckhunt.ytmnd.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/27 "2009-10-10T06:15:55Z")
The scene where Arnold and Carl slap hands and flex should be a poster in every gym and gun range. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/28 "2009-10-10T06:23:04Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Indeed, [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLKjcOehW_I) is the most perfect depiction of anger I’ve ever seen onscreen. Cue the “slow clap” beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/29 "2009-10-10T06:26:31Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Before somebody fixes it, I’m going to post part of what it says about Sonny Landham in Wikipedia. It was obviously edited by a prankster. Another great quote currently in his wiki page is the following: “On September 19, 2006, Landham injured four cars in an “accident” in Ashland, Kentucky.” Damn. I wish I could injure cars too, but I’m afraid they might hire lawyers to sue for medical expenses. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/30 "2009-10-10T06:28:15Z")
> [@Gary\_Baldy](#): > > Another great quote currently in his wiki page is the following: “On September 19, 2006, Landham injured four cars in an “accident” in Ashland, Kentucky.” Damn. I wish I could injure cars too, but I’m afraid they might hire lawyers to sue for medical expenses. Both quotes were added by the same person, FTR…or the same IP, anyway, starting at about 11:30PM Oct 9 in whichever timezone Wikipedia’s timestamps use. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/31 "2009-10-10T06:42:13Z")
[The Making of Predator](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drm4BxZDnuY&feature=related) Full of macho goodness, as the actors are interviewed on and off set. A testosterone treat. It’s rumored that the sweat from their daily workouts in the gym formed a lake which the locals now use for swimming and yachting. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/32 "2009-10-10T14:29:37Z")
“I’m a sexual tyrannosaurus” This movie is one of the top 5 action movies of all time. Special forces, South American guerrilla rebels, a big honkin’ alien bad-ass warrior, and guns…oh the guns. Predator 2 on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/33 "2009-10-10T17:00:54Z")
_Predator 2_ wasn’t that bad a movie - you had the new predator inspiring a similar semi-religious awe in the Jamaican boss as the first did in Billy. It could have done without Maria Conchita Alonso and the “Get your people out of there!” ripoff from _Aliens_, but it wasn’t nearly as fucked up overall as _AvP_. Plus Bill Paxton got killed, completing his Terminator/Alien/Predator trifecta, approached only by Lance Henrickson. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/34 "2009-10-10T17:17:03Z")
Maybe this needs its own thread, but the cast of the third Predator movie, **Predators** , was just revealed. The cast seems OK, but no one screams “Predator” quite like Arnold, Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura do. > [@](#): > > Adrien Brody (KING KONG) who recently starred in Dario Argento’s GIALLO has been tapped to topline the cast, with negotiations underway for SPIDER-MAN 3’s Topher Grace (THAT 70’s SHOW) to join him, according to The Hollywood Reporter. > > Brody will play “a heroic mercenary”, while Grace would play an accountant leading a dual life as a serial killer. > > Other cast includes Alice Braga (“I Am Legend”), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (“The 4400”), Walt Goggins (“The Shield”), Rodriguez mainstay Danny Trejo and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov. > > Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer. > > Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, Goggins is the loose canon of the group and Taktarov is a former Russian special ops agent. > > Trejo, already cast, is Cuchillo, a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back. [http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/9-film-news/4198-predators-cast-fills-up.html](http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/9-film-news/4198-predators-cast-fills-up.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/35 "2009-10-10T17:28:20Z")
> [@](#): > > loose canon Tell me about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/36 "2009-10-10T17:41:03Z")
Adrien Brody? _Topher Grace_? Why not just throw in Elijah Wood in his Hobbit getup while you’re at it? These are not men to replace Arnold and Jesse! At least Trejo, Ali, and Taktarov are suitably badass. Throw in Vin Diesel and you’ve got yourself a deal. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/37 "2009-10-10T17:42:54Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > At least Trejo, Ali, and Taktarov are suitably badass. Throw in Vin Diesel and you’ve got yourself a deal. Watch Pitch Black if you haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/38 "2009-10-10T17:49:03Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Watch Pitch Black if you haven’t already. I haven’t seen it yet, although I own it. Chronicles of Riddick was pretty slick, though. Vin’s a good replacement for Arnold in the funny-talking badass category. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/39 "2009-10-10T18:01:01Z")
> [@2ply](#): > > 7 people from that movie went on to be governors. It’s only 7 if you are counting Anna (Elpidia Carrillo). After the operation, she went on to become the current governor of Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253/40 "2009-10-10T19:22:02Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Adrien Brody? _Topher Grace_? Why not just throw in Elijah Wood in his Hobbit getup while you’re at it? These are not men to replace Arnold and Jesse! > > At least Trejo, Ali, and Taktarov are suitably badass. Throw in Vin Diesel and you’ve got yourself a deal. Sounds to me (at the risk of a whoosh) that the film described has nothing to do with the Predator (Alien) universe, but is about a group of “cereal killers” (c.f. Sandman’s _A Game of You_). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predator-1987-a-masterpiece-of-testosterone/513253.md?page=3)