Predator (1987) - #Movie #Review

A fantastic classic!

Ok, so before Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) became the, 'Governator' he was this huge actions/sci-fi star that had a ton of great movies that he released between the early 1980s, and roughly the mid 2000, (He has been in some good movies lately, but nothing like the movies that came out before his tenure as the, 'Governator'!)

With that said, there are a couple of movie series that he sort of technically helped to begin that are still running to this day, one of them being, 'The Terminator' (A series that he recently returned to,) 'Conan: The Barbarian' (A series that is about to be brought back to life,) and, 'Predator' (A series that may not have seen him back in since the beginning, but still a great series!)

And we will get in to, 'Terminator', but the one that I wanted to discuss today that I think actually is a pretty awesome movie is, Predator (1987)!

A great poster!

Written by:: Jim Thomas (Mission To Mars), John Thomas (Batman: Dead End) and Directed by: John McTiernan (Die Hard). Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers (Rocky), Elpidia Carrillo (Solaris), Bill Duke (Battledogs), Jesse Ventura (The Running Man), Sonny Landham (Mental Scarls) & Richard Chaves (War Of The Worlds).

"You're one... 'ugly' motherfucker!" - Dutch (A quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger from, Predator (1987)!)

Now one of the great things about this movie is it's timeless story, you see this movies tells the story of Dutch (Schwarzenegger) and a group of soldiers who are sent in to the central American jungle on a rescue mission, when they end up encountering more the they bargain for!

Dutch and his team...

You see, they had been sent out on what they believed was going to be a rescue mission, but in this case what they literally, 'don't know' is definitely going to kill them, when these highly trained hunter/killers, become the prey for an unseen warrior!

In the end, this is one trip in to the jungle that these fearless warriors are never going to forget!

Now as far as this movie goes, I have to say that it is timeless... I mean seriously, if you want a fantastic man vs. alien film, you really can't get much better then this... I mean even the few plot holes that are in this movie don't detract from how awesome it is!

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American Battleship (2012) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

Recently there was a movie that came out on the big screen that was loosely based on the board game called, Battleship (2012)… The truth is, is I have never actually seen this movie, but I can see how people can confuse this movie with, American Battleship (2012), and can even call this the B Movie attempt capitalizing on the success of that movie!

Now the reason that I feel confident about saying that is between knowing the story line (to some extent), and having seen the trailer for the movie, I can see that both movies appear to have very similar story line concepts, it looks like American Naval Vessels both end up going up against some sort of Alien threat, (although, since I haven’t seen Battleship, I can’t say rather it is a space born Alien menace that is attacking the Earth, or if it is something from Earth (like in, The Abyss (1989)).

But other than that, I can see that there are certain differences in the two movies, first of them being is that, for as good as American Battleship was (and this maybe one of the best Science Fiction movies that I have seen in a while that utilizes the modern Military). It definitely does have that Sci-fi Channel movie feel to it, (which is not a bad thing).

Unlike Battleship, which has A list first string actors and actresses, American Battleship has some great second string talent to it.

[caption id="attachment_2829" align="aligncenter" width="225"] A truly awesome b movie![/caption]

In the end, American Battleship, a movie that was Written & Directed By: Thunder Levin (Soulmates) and which stars, Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City), Carl Weathers (Predator), Johanna Watts (The Falls), Nikki McCauley (Busting Out), Elijah Chester (The Box), Sean Patrick Smith (Tainted Love).

This movie tells the story of the U.S.S. Iowa, a ship that had been designed and built for the U.S. Navy during World War 2.

Now during that time that ship had seen a lot combat, but after just about 80 years of service, this ship is being moth balled and is on its final mission to arrive from the South Pacific back to the United States west coast, so that it can be mothballed and become a museum ship… This all until the Captain of the ship decides to go off and check on the U.S.S. Enterprise and her carrier group, so that they can find out what happened to those ships…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] The bridge crew of the Iowa as they head in to the history books![/caption]

Well when they get to the area, the crew is attacked by an as yet unseen force that is secretly trying to push the world in to a nuclear war, and as the world gets closer, it looks like the U.S.S. Iowa is going to have to go to war with this unseen entity and stop them before the scales are tipped!

In the end, I thought that this movie had great special effects, a fun story, and a great cast, all rolled in to one, with some cheesy one liners that just simply rock! Definitely one that I enjoyed and you might to!

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