Worst part of the movie
Is Dillon. He's so annoying and Carl is such a *beep* actor
sharebut.. but.. he was Apollo Creed! and Action Jackson!
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He was cool and a good actor.
shareHe played the "sell-out" role well, I'm pretty sure he was meant to be annoying ;)
shareI felt his character came through at the end. Loved that part with him and Mac at the end.
shareI really struggle to find anything genuinely bad about this movie, but if I have to I'll nominate Dutch sliding over the chasm and into the river. It's staged pretty poorly and edited even worse, not to mention the obvious difference in film stock. But aside from that it's a nearly perfect film experience for me, up there with Jaws as a movie I will never get tired of for the rest of my life.
shareMake the rescue believable - The idea was to go to a remote jungle hideout, with no extra food, water, or medical supplies, rescue an unknown number of hostages and get those to an evacuation an unknown distance from the guerrilla base on foot? Ummm…huh? The plan was already a bad one, even before they got to the rebel's base, and it just grew worse.share
Lose the scenes where Dutch is angry at Dillon - Dutch is a big boy. He knew Dillon is an intelligence operative and there might be more to the mission than he was led to believe. Also, the general doesn't need to lie to Dutch, as you don't have to like the orders that you are given to obey them. Make Dutch and Dillon's interactions more believable.
Give a little backstory on the guerrillas - The fim has them hanging out in a remote jungle camp for no good reason. With a helicopter, no less. Even a few throwaway lines couldn't have hurt, as the film made them just faceless targets.
Make the raid at night or early in the morning - Attacking a fixed position in broad daylight, with inferior numbers, is the first step toward losing. Attacking at night would have provided the group with the element of surprise, while making the appearance of The Predator even more frightening.
Have Dutch die in the end - The creature sets off a nuclear explosion to prevent its capture and Dutch is able to escape by diving underwater? Really? The film is robbed of its dramatic tension because it's clear that almost nothing was at stake. Dutch wasn't going to die, so the ending was “Meh". Dutch's death, along with that of his group, would have been a fitting denouement to the film.
Decent film that works if you don't think about things too hard.
Would all that make it a better, more entertaining movie, or just more realistic though?
As you say at the end it's a decent film if you don't think about things too hard.
That guy clearly did not watch the movie.
shareThe lighting does change drastically. He goes over the waterfall in daylight. When he is at the bottom it almost looks like a set the way the lighting is set up and the light completely changes.
shareThink of him much like the mayor in Jaws. He was supposed to be annoying until he gets converted to the cause.
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I'm a big fan of this movie so I don't see many bad parts to it. The one part that does bother me is how Mac's head is blown off when he is shot by the Predator, and it's largely intact in the next shot. A small thing but whenever I see it I'm always left questioning the continuity of it.
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