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OneMetal Movieclub Next Wednesday – Predator
Fresh from the barnstorming brutality of the Masters Of The Universe tweet-fest, the expendable assets at OneMetal Movieclub are returning to bring you their unique and unwholesome Twitter-powered take on another oily ‘80s classic, Predator. Make sure you join our crack team of film commandos and lend your support by hunting down a copy to watch and tweet on next Wednesday 31 March at 20:45GMT.
Released in 1987, John ‘Die Hard’ McTiernan’s action sci-fi romp fused the best bits of Twentieth Century Fox’s Alien and Aliens by pitting a team of elite warriors against a technologically-advanced, seemingly invincible extraterrestrial hunter. Starring the ‘Austrian Oak’, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a stogie-smoking, super soldier, the cast list reads like a who’s who of buff bad boys, the way they used to make ‘em! If gloriously over-the-top performances from Jesse Ventura, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke and Sonny Landham aren’t enough to entice you, then there’s always the ultra-hard, intergalactic assassin with a penchant for freshly plucked human skulls!
From left to right: Shane Black, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke and Jesse Ventura
When a presidential cabinet minister is kidnapped by guerrilla forces in Val Verde, CIA officer Dillon brings in Dutch and his team of absolute badasses to rescue the politician in peril. Dropped deep into the heart of the jungle, it soon becomes apparent that they’re not the only ones looking for a scrap. The hunters soon become the hunted as an otherworldly adversary stalks, slashes and blasts its way through the military men, one-by-one. Can they turn the tables on their alien pursuer and survive the most bloody and brutal battle of their lives? The hunt is on!
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With Robert Rodriguez’ sequel, Predators, due for release in July, there has never been a better time to revisit the original Predator. Make sure you grab a copy and join us on Twitter next Wednesday, 31 March, at 20:45GMT to tweet your thoughts @Onemetal on this bonafide classic as it unfolds right before your lucky eyes.
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Philip Whitehouse says:
My men are not expendable!
I’m actually really looking forward to this one – Predator vies with Aliens, Die Hard, Terminator 2 and Hard Boiled for top place in my list of favourite action movies ever. The sheer testosterone pumping through every frame of this film should be more than enough to ensurewe’re Tweeting with one hand and doing arm-curls with barbells with the other fifteen minutes into proceedings.
Graham Gough says:
There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. We’re all gonna die.
Substitute Terminator for T2 and swap Mad Max 2 for Hard Boiled, and we’ve got a deal, Whitehouse.
I reckon I’ve watched Predator at least once-a-year ever since I first set eyes on it as a 10-year-old lad in 1989. The cast, the attitude, the action, the effects, the direction, the design and the dialogue are all priceless in wildly different ways, but somehow it always works. Can’t bloody wait!
Philip Whitehouse says:
*sharp intake of breath* While I do love the lean, low-budget, down-and-dirty original Terminator movie, I still prefer the T2! And seriously – Mad Max 2 over Hard Boiled? Really? Hard Boiled is the over-the-top apotheosis of John Woo’s entire career – a glorious celebration of slow-motion, balletic violence, over-the-top pyrotechnics, and sheer Chow Yun Fat badassery. Compared to Mad Max 2′s scowling bondage-gear-clad vehicular-manslaughter fest – well, give me an on-fire Chow Yun Fat being extinguished by a micturating infant any day of the week. :D
Graham Gough says:
A passionate endorsement, Phil. I used to love Hard Boiled, but now it wears me out a little. As the death toll rises, it becomes so delirious that it pops out of the other side into acceptable. Granted, Woo was at the peak of his powers and the opening scene in the tea house has to rank among the finest action sequences of all-time, but I think it’s exhausting to the point of being boring by the end. It might be shorter on action, but I’ll always go Full Contact over Hard Boiled for a bit of Chow. More flamboyant and less doves.
As for Mad Max 2, what can I say? I like a bit of bondage with my brutality. Give me Mad Mel, leathers, chain-mail, mutant bikers, mongoloid children, a hulking great big truck, barely concealed homosexuality and some of the most intense vehicular action sequences of all-time and I’ll be a happy boy.