8 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From 'Predator'

Premiere.com ^ | 4/29/09

[Malone LaVeigh]

You've probably heard the news about the upcoming remake, but there is still so much in the original Predator that has gone unappreciated. Below is a list of the life lessons we could learn from Dutch and his crew as they try to take on the Predator himself.

[Chode]

it used to be "when in doubt, empty the magazine..."

[wally_bert]

Demented is being kind figuring the sheer weight of everything invloved. That doesn't count the car batteries to run the minigun that were never shown.

200 rounds would be about maybe a few seconds at most? No thanks, I wouldn't want to be stuck with that out in the middle of nowhere with no support or resupply.

I'm kind of torn on a substitute. Call me old fashioned but maybe an M-14 and a few LAWs or modern equivalent?

[qam1]

Without a doubt, there will be one or two females on the team.

You know, the cliche “fighting femout the incompetent male members on her team, and evenale type” that is just as tough as the boys, and always ends up bailing though she weighs less than 100 pounds, with one punch she can take down men weighing 250 to 400 pounds.

Unfortunately the PC fighting female has all but ruined sci-fi. Expect more of the same, Predator is way to masculine for today’s Hollywood

[org.whodat]

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/GE_XM214_Minigun.htm

[qam1]

You know, the cliche “fighting femout the incompetent male members on her team, and evenale type” that is just as tough as the boys, and always ends up bailing though she weighs less than 100 pounds, with one punch she can take down men weighing 250 to 400 pounds.

I have no Idea how the words got re-arranged when I pressed "Post"

Try again, though the joke is lost

You know, the cliche “fighting female", that is just as tough as the boys, and always ends up bailing out the incompetent male members on her team, and even though she weighs less than 100 pounds, with one punch she can take down men weighing 250 to 400 pounds.

[Zhang Fei]

That doesn't count the car batteries to run the minigun that were never shown.

I recall vaguely that they were carrying these huge packs on their backs. Maybe the idea is that the batteries were in the packs.

I'm kind of torn on a substitute. Call me old fashioned but maybe an M-14 and a few LAWs or modern equivalent?

When I'm running around in the woods with no resupply, I'd want to carry as much ammo as I could. For the equivalent weight of an M-16 and 1250 rounds of ammo, I'd only get 500 rounds with the M-14. And against an adversary that I can't even see - meaning there's a fair amount of spray and pray - I'd want to increase my chances of a hit simply by having more lead available to throw at him, in the direction of suspicious noises.

[Zhang Fei]

Actually, given that the enemy was invisible, I think I’d want to pack a few more claymores for tripwire ambushes.

[EAGLE7]

Here’s another good read displaying the abundance of time some of us have....

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/10/the_5_reasons_luke_skywalker_is_a_complete_idiot.php

[mark3681]

“I don’t have time to bleed”.

I don’t have time to read!

[Boiling point]

I had an opportunity to talk to the guy that owns THAT mini gun at the Knob Creek shoot. He told me how they had to rig it to be fired by hand. First of all, blanks have no recoil. No one can hand hold a mini gun being fired because the recoil is something like 600lbs continuous. AHnold could have pointed the gun at the ground, and if loaded with live rounds, taken off like a rocket. The gun ran on 28v aircraft batteries, they just ran the power cable down the actors pant leg to the huge battery next to him. He said it also took some technique to fire blanks from the gun, because the damned thing ate 1000 rounds in ten seconds! Your back pack of ammo goes from heavy ass hell to empty like someone just ripped it off your back, all while you are trying to act and fire a very intimidating weapon.
I was also told that the director believed that the audience would not believe what the gun actually sounds like. (a big chainsaw) So they recorded the sound of the gun being dry fired with no ammo, then mixed in the sound of an M2 fifty caliber. Because that’s the sound he thought the audience would associate with a big machine gun.

[dr_lew]

I recall vaguely that they were carrying these huge packs on their backs. Maybe the idea is that the batteries were in the packs.

OK, name the novel, which has a theme highly apropos of this discussion:

Yo's proud Thunderbolt gun was nowhere in sight, and the corpse was not wearing the powerpack that energized it.

[liberty or death]

Nope, Ellen Degenerate & Oprah. It’s a “New World”.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I learned don’t ever vote for anyone that was in the movie.

Great flick.
Epic.

[liberty or death]

I forgot, “POL”.

Puke Out Loud.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I think it’s going to be called “Predator: The Government Bailout.”

[mamelukesabre]

Running around in the jungle, I would opt for night vision, ballistic armor a lightweight 223 caliber carbine. And only about 100 rounds of ammo. And about 50 buddies of massive size carrying belt fed m60s and 2500 rounds each.

[mamelukesabre]

ROL

ralph out loud.

I’m not sure how you “ralph” any way BUT out loud though.

[liberty or death]

When I yack you can hear it for miles so POL is relative. If I see those two in the same room? I “POL”.

[ASOC]

Funny piece, thanks for posting.

I would add

“Mud is your friend”

[Centurion2000]

It was fun to watch, but a little demented. For the same weight, I'd rather have an AR-15 with 1250 rounds of ammo than a minigun with 200 rounds of ammo. Of course, the minigun does look a lot cooler.

Only 1250 rounds? For that weight (weapon + battery) you could carry an M-249 SAW, spare barrel and 2000 rounds.

Nothing says "I love you" like sustained automatic fire from a white hot barrel.