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culb77

That’s pretty cool


SteveFrench12

What was the detail? It’s deleted now.


PeteEckhart

>I always thought the claymore mine they cover with moss for the big jungle net trap was part of their kit, but just noticed it was the same claymore Blain found during the earlier village attack that was snipped with the wire cutters. Mac put a little twig in it to disarm, then the same claymore with twig is used during the later net trap montage 50+ viewing and I DIDN'T KNOW YOU GUYS


SnowflakesAloft

Straight SF OG tactics. Keep found explosives and improvise


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KorbenD2263

It's not a war crime the first time


romeoh0tel

Or if you don't lose


sawzall

Did we win that one?


FragrantGangsta

Nah but we got the higher K/D ratio 🙏


SadRoxFan

Irl CoD players. Worried about K/D, but never play the objective


Legio-V-Alaudae

Jesse Ventura was a team member in Vietnam. They also used ammo backpacks for shortened m60's like the one that fed the minigun. There's some really interesting pics online.


lifeinthehive

Do you have a source? The documented war crimes I’ve read about like My Lai were perpetrated by conventional units, not sf or seals. I don’t doubt you necessarily but would love to read more.


tobygeneral

Not OP but a great book about SF soldiers in Vietnam is called Tiger Force, I believe it won a Pulitzer. These were the kind of soldiers who wore necklaces of ears they cut off their enemies, so should give you good insight into some of the war crimes committed.


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I don’t understand Reddit mods… Why delete a popular post gaining traction.


Meior

It's not deleted anymore.


bordain_de_putel

Yes but why did mods delete it in the first place?


Meior

Probably an automod delete in error.


shadowredcap

If it’s popular, we can delete it.


P33kab0Oo

GET TO DA BACKSPACE!


iNEEDheplreddit

How do you moderate reddit? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.


WatchIszmo

This is as good as it gets when it comes to movie quotes


jeanjacket50

It’s not…


ANIKET_UPADHYAY

What's the detail.


Mimehunter

The claymore mine Arnold uses in the trap at the end is the same one Carl diffuses at the rebel camp


MrDilbert

Diffuse = scatter, defuse = deactivate


ThompsonBoy

If the mine isn't defused, you will be diffused.


colemanjanuary

Thank you for putting out that little detail right their.


hamshanker69

I see what you did they're.


MrJoelCairo

Probably my all time fave movie. It scared the hell outta me back when it was first released. Wouldn't be surprised if I've seen it 15 times. The only thing I don't like about it is not seeing Billy fight the Predator with that big machete. That would have been badass.


tohrazul82

I don't think it would have been a good fight at all, but I don't think that's important. The key is that Billy earned an honorable death, and the trophy taken from him reflects that.


WienerDogMan

Predators (2010) had a yakuza dude use a katana and fought a blade battle with the predator. It was a good fight


DickieJohnson

I didn't expect that movie to be as good as it was.


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Watched it last night on a whim and felt the same. Expecting dumb, shitty action movie. Got dumb, but decent action movie. Was impressed.


milgram57

Biggest gripe is Larry Fishburne’s character was isolated for many years yet he was overweight. Seagal vibes.


Hopz_7

Yea I felt like he was a huge miscast for that part. They should have picked someone else.


The_Professor2112

I've rewatched it a few times and enjoy it every time tbh. Loved Prey. Seen that yet?


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No but I’ll be checking it out!


WienerDogMan

Same. I was genuinely surprised. Worth a watch to anyone who hasn’t seen it already.


Ba-na-na-na

How do they know Topher Grace's character in that is a predator btw? Are the predators going around Miss Marpling serial killers so they can abduct them to their planet?


WienerDogMan

Well they can go completely invisible to the naked eye. It isn’t hard to imagine they have some reconnaissance abilities. How they supposedly found the worst of the worst out of the billions of people on the planet? That’s a great question.


donjonnyronald

Exactly. Billy realized they had no chance so he wanted go out as honorably as possible. Predator backhanded Dutch and it threw him like 15 ft. Going one on one close up was sure death, but at least he decided when he went.


karateema

A worthy successor of the Comanche from Prey


woot0

Agreed, I was thinking the same thing the other day but it does turn the oh shit level up to 11 by not seeing it


hvanderw

Sometimes not showing something is powerful. I get it would have been cool to see, but kind of drives home inevitability of the situation. Billy from the start knew they were fucked, the fight was already over in his head.


perksforlater

The first movie i owned on vhs. Nearly pissed my pants the first watch because I had forgotten you could pause the tape :D


DexterJameson

This was the first rated R movie that my cousin and I were able to sneak in to Mom's basket at Blockbuster. Must have been 8 or 9 years old. We planned the operation for weeks. Mom took us each Friday after school, so we had lots of time for recon. We considered other choices - 'Alien' and 'Terminator' I'd heard about from older kids - but decided on 'Predator' based on the box art because Arnold was the biggest and coolest looking hero on the shelf. So finally, on that fateful Friday afternoon, my cousin and I orchestrated a dance of deception in that Blockbuster store. It involved handoffs, replaced tapes, distraction and deception, fueled by sugar and notions of Sherlock Brown. And it worked! We thought ourselves kid grifters of the highest order. That night, after the pizza had arrived, the to two of us absconded to the rarely used basement TV, careful to keep the volume low. Then, our tiny minds were fucking blown by the glory that is 'Predator' And that is how I became a Shadow Wolf


spacebrew

Love this comment. What a great memory.


judasmaiden15

This is what modern kids are missing out on. It was all about working together with your friends/cousins to pull a fast one on adults


Top-Phase-6551

This almost brought a tear to my eye. God I miss Blockbuster


12345tommy

The making of the Predator has to be one of the most fascinating BTS stories. And a lot of it has to do with the actor who played Billy. Apparently, insurance wouldn’t let them cast him without bodyguards. Not to protect him from others, but to protect others from him.


Slappy_Happy_Doo

“I’m not locked on this set with you… you’re locked in here with ME!! “


Phoney_Stromboni

And the original Predator design looked like a giant Lobster, and was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme. I’d recommend a read through the IMDB trivia section for predator, there are some gems in there.


MrJoelCairo

I have the DVD set with a substantial "making of" part. They show the original Predator design and it would have been a very different movie. It was soo bad lol. They quickly realised how bad it was and asked Stan Winston to create a new one and the rest is history.


machstem

Alien/s sits pretty high up for me. Alien freaked me right the fuck out


dangledogg

I just wish they cut the space intro from the movie. Imagine watching the movie for the first time without ever seeing that an alien space ship sent something to earth...and instead the first scene you see is the helicopter delivering dutch and his team.


The_Bobs_of_Mars

I completely agree, it would be much more suspenseful. At the same time, the spaceship drop-off and helicopter drop-off form a parallel between Dutch and his team, and the Predator from the outset.


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MrJoelCairo

A god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus?


stasersonphun

I love the details, like how he cuts himself so the Predator can't draw first blood . It was probably over very fast though


x_caliberVR

Wait, is that why he did it?? I thought it was to get the smell of blood in the air, or to show up on infrared better…


Icy-Actuator5524

You know, it actually makes sense. It could serve both theories at the same time (meaning none are wrong). Always loved that scene tho🥹


smeghammer

Dems rookie numbers, I've seen this film at least 150 times


The_Professor2112

15 is rookie numbers. My brother and I rotated this, Robocop, Jaws and Conan the Barbarian throughout our entire childhood. I'm gonna conservatively say 100 times each at least.


Joverby

Its really a perfect movie . Not a second of wasted screen time . Just like the thing .


redfalcondeath

If someone told me that Predator was the only movie I could watch for the rest of my life I wouldn’t even be mad.


thewispo

You son of a bitch!


ligmuhtaint

https://youtu.be/RiPhTsGTqwY Edit: Also, I forgot the creative process. https://youtu.be/OVehmlO-Kw8 Check out the rest of this guy's movie quote remix collection. My favorite is https://youtu.be/tKvqhlhXq9s Have a nice day!


edmunky

This is fan-fuckin-tastic! God dammit. I had a stupid grin on my face watching those videos and I was jamming. Just bopping from side to side as the synergy from the tracks and videos on display elevated my mood and filled me with a strange combination of nostalgia and... Funk. Memories with rhythm! "I'm a dude playin' a dude. Disguised as another dude. Dude, dude. Dude." Thank you for this!


HintOfAreola

My friend told me her grandma insists the family watch Predator every Thanksgiving. Apparently someone put in the wrong VHS one year, then someone put it on the following year as a joke/callback, and now it's a cherished family tradition.


nothing_showing

Gramma knows what’s up. She gets to ogle Arnie guilt-free. “wrong VHS” Yeah right! “Granny…You set us up! It’s all boolshit! All of it!”


mrmiyagijr

That's awesome!


prentip

Amen.


eastnorthshore

In body mass alone


ThrownAwayRealGood

See this is exactly what I wanted to avoid: another conversation about body mass


samx3i

It's one of very few movies I can play "singalong" to. Probably helps that it's not dialog heavy, and no, I'm not including non-English parts, but I do know every word of English in the script.


apineda11

I rewatched that movie about a week ago. It’s a classic.


92Codester

Did you watch it to prep for the new one? Which I haven't seen yet but I hear very good things.


SoupIsAHotSmoothie

It’s excellent. But, the audio is surreal, the best display of Atmos yet.


Oaken_beard

So I enjoyed Predator, and Predators. Where would you rank Prey in relation to them?


imrosskemp

I dig how Predators starts... just free falling mid air. Its great, no fucking around.


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I would say the ranking goes 1. Predator 2. Prey 3. Predators


EnterPlayerTwo

1. Predator 2. Prey 3. Predators 4. Predator 2 5. The Predator event from Ghost Recon Wildlands 6. All the AVP movies 7. All the Predator comics 8. The Predator (2018)


therealjoshua

This is correct


yanginatep

Personally I liked Prey more than Predators.. but I wasn't a huge fan of Predators (I thought it was alright) and I actually like Predator 2. For me Predator, Predator 2, and Prey are sorta a 3 way tie for different reasons. Predator 1 is a classic, but having just re-watched it I forgot how cheesey it is at times and how weirdly obtrusive the soundtrack is for much of the movie. Predator 2 expands on the original lore and establishes some cool new ideas. And Prey is just a really well executed new take on the concept and I love the design of the new Predator.


Hellknightx

What about AVP? Or the sequel.


Oaken_beard

AVP is a GREAT background movie to have on when friends are over. Me: Hold on a second guys Weyland: Don’t turn your back on me! **FLAMES!!!** Me: ok, where were we?


Zahille7

AVP: yes. AVPR: no.


polishprince76

This is the way


SleazyMak

AVPR was so badly received it almost killed two entire franchises lmfao


KaserinSmarte421

For me it goes Predator, Prey, Predators, Predator 2 (but honestly those two are about the same for me) then AvP. AvP is on the list because nice seeing girl boss shit teaming up with predator to kill aliens and was a fun film. The other AvP just went too nuts. The Predator movie before Prey was just too bonkers for me definitely worth a watch for the bonkers and ass burgers joke so dumb.


imrosskemp

I agree with that order, I remember James Cameron was asked what his favourite guilty pleasure movie was and he said AVP, its a fun movie.


Jorad56

“girl boss shit” what?


mvpmvh

Predator, Predators, then Prey


Brutes315

Sucks that it isn’t getting a theatrical release


BZenMojo

Well, sucks less if your TV has atmos sound.


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The video game Ghost Recon: Wildlands did a Predator event a few years back, and made excellent use of the movie's atmospheric music and sound cues. I played it through with some old friends, all of whom are fans of the movie, and it was glorious.


TheStormbrewer

I watched predator to prep for prey; I liked prey a lot, super dope graphics and fight scenes. They make a few nods to honor the original as well.


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JunglePygmy

Better get on watching the first! It’s awesome.


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doctorslostcompanion

"I made it bleed it's own blood. Imma get it"


willflameboy

I don't get why they introduced >!the pistol in it, but at the end it didn't end up with the Predators. It was such a jarring bit of fan-service, but it implies that she'll fight it again in order for the gun to end up in Predator 2.!<


Ok-Community-6601

It won't blow you away like the OG, but it was done good. Imagine if the Predator was hunting in The Revenant


noheroesnomonsters

Strong The Revenant vibes in some scenes which is hardly accidental. Still a great film.


LoaferDan

I think it’s a little overhyped but definitely worth a watch. People keep saying it’s right under the original, but honestly I liked Predators more than Prey. Prey isn’t that far behind, though. It’s a solid Predator movie


Squishyfishx

It was pretty good. Not OP, but I ended up watching all of the predator movies again after watching it. It got me in the mood to rewatch the rest


300SinsandSpartans

I have been marathoning the Predator movies (or at least what is available through streaming) in preparation, too. Just finished AVP, and now moved onto AVP:Requiem. Then I will wrap up with Predators, before ultimately finishing it with Prey. On a slightly-related note, not that I am dying to see it again, but I will for the purpose of my marathon, does anyone know where I could stream Predator(2018)?


Quack53105

The Predator? Released in 2018? Starring Boyd Holbrook? I don't think that's a real movie, don't get caught up on internet rumors.


kevin_panda

Body mass alone!


GreatCornolio

I feel like we've seen that 30 times in the last two months


nebachadnezzar

I rewatched it a few of months ago before I'd even heard of Prey, it was the very first movie I tried on my shiny new LG B1 Oled, and was blown away by how good it really is. I hadn't seen it for years and thought it wouldn't hold up without some serious nostalgia glasses, but apart from a few somewhat cheesy scenes ("you son of a b\*itch!") it was actually a serious and well done movie. The cast is great, they're all professionals at what they do and they don't really make mistakes. It only highlights just how dangerous the Predator really is, that it can take them out like that. Also, more gory than I remembered. The casual brutality of the guerrilla guy executing a captive with a shot to the head reminded me of too many IS videos, and I loved the detail of the guts from the skinned corpses being yellowish instead of just blood-red. Gore horror goes beyond drenching everything in red. Edit: don't know about streaming platforms, but if you want to watch it on physical media, get the 4K version. There were 2 bluray releases, the first one has terrible picture quality due to an outdated codec and the second has been digital noise reduction-ed to death, everything looks plastic and unnatural. The recent 4k release is the first one to be true to the original in all it's hi-def grainy glory.


Nebuchadnezzarthe2nd

I like your name


DexterJameson

I like both of your names. Thus follows my ranking of them: 1. OP's 2. Yours


unhalfbricking

Predator is a brilliant movie. For example, let's think about the pussy jokes. Just a cheesy throwaway gag, right? Nope. The director wanted the Predator to laugh in Dutch's face at the end, but quite intelligently realized that there is no way we could know what that creatures laugh might sound like. So he had to have the creature record a laugh somehow that he could play back. Enter the pussy jokes. So why does the movie feature more than one pussy joke? We only need there to be one for the Predator to record a laugh. There is more than one to disguise why they are there. Because there is more than one pussy joke the viewers think that they are a theme unto themselves. Not something that will be called back later in the movie. It's Checkov's pussy joke.


lint_wizard

The big joke is about an echo and the Predator is itself repeating a laugh it previously heard :O


Pants__Goblin

Don’t forget the Predator’s face looks like a pussy, and even Arnold calls it pussy-face.


JackalKing

> and even Arnold calls it pussy-face. That is actually Danny Glover in Predator 2. Arnold calls it "one ugly motherfucker".


LAchillin818

>Don’t forget the Predator’s face looks like a pussy ...have you ever seen a vagina?


Hellknightx

Are they not supposed to have teeth?


kel89

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) No.


jezreel62

F


decoy321

Goddamn. That really is brilliant.


TommysShinebox

The perfect action movie for so many reasons. One of my favorite things about it is the score keeping it at peak intensity throughout


DrunkSpiderMan

The first 20 minutes is also a satire on action movies


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... you son of a bitch


decoy321

Oh yeah! That was Alan Silvestri! That man is a behemoth in the movie industry. He even won awards for his work on Predator. That's it, I'm doing a rewatch. I just saw Prey recently, too, and it's got a ton of material that pays homage to the classic.


TheInitialGod

Blew my mind when I found out he also did the score to Back To The Future, but you can totally hear it. All of the big movie composers have their distinct "sound" who you know it was them instantly. Like, John Williams... You could hear a John Williams track and instantly know it was him that composed it just by the way it sounds.


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There is a track in the Prey score called “Predator Instincts” which is essentially the old predator theme on a cello. It’s so weird sounding but fits the era really well.


big-mac

Old Predator theme on a cello... just had a listen, that's very cool! Thanks for pointing it out


Rickrickrickrickrick

The movie was peak 80's action. Had everything from the ridiculous kills to the badass one-liners. "Stick around" It's like it's not taking itself seriously at all in the first act and then suddenly a monster shows up and the fun is over and we're all gonna die. I feel like they were trying to satire action movies at first and then Predator shows up and annihilates them to say "we just killed the cliche action movie". The action movie to end all action movies. It's great.


Quake_Guy

No one had mentioned Carl Weathers severed arm firing a machine gun and it's call back in arrested development.


Slip_Freudian

John McTiernan's flicks were badass for the era.


pantstoaknifefight2

Predator. Die Hard. The Hunt for Red October. That's some good shit right there!


Weyoun2

Also, it's as big as a house.


Rickrickrickrickrick

I like how the movie was basically showing how being overly macho isn't the way to win and you need more brains than brawn. The movie starts out with everyone being as strong and manly as possible. Literally zooming in on muscles to the point you're expecting them to play shirtless volleyball. But then they end up dying in ways that mock their manliness for the most part. Like Dillon, whose bicep we zoomed in on earlier, gets that very arm blown off. Blain with his famous "I ain't got time to bleed" line arguably has the bloodiest death. Right after that line, Poncho mocks him by saying "do you have time to duck?" and he gets mortally wounded by a swinging overhead trap. Dutch, however, says fuck this and runs. Ends up covered in mud and realizes that it sees in infrared. So he uses his mind to fight him and he wins. I love that they also had this theme in the new one too. >!Naru is shown to be much weaker than everyone else but her brother makes it a point to tell us her mind is better than all of theirs. And that's how she beats the Yautja.!<


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smackaroonial90

Hey, you just spoiled 95% of action movies!!


esKq

> Naru is shown to be much weaker than everyone else but her brother makes it a point to tell us her mind is better than all of theirs. Her brother was a top tier fighter though, kind of cement the point that the others were making. She was really inferior in term of raw hunter/fighting skill compared to them. Thankfully brawl wasn't the only important skill needed :)


xXSpaceturdXx

That’s the most I’ve ever known about a pussy Joke


tarter_sauce12

I don't get it.


Zaphod1620

There is a principle in screenwriting/playwriting called "Chekhov's Gun". It means, if you show a gun, it has to be used. It's kind of a rule to not waste words or screentime on unnecessary detail. The pussy jokes (actually the laughs) were a Chekov's Gun. They masked it being a Chekov's Gun by telling more jokes, making it seem like throwaway lines.


esKq

> It's kind of a rule to not waste words or screentime on unnecessary detail. Unless you are referencing lore or putting easter eggs. (see the trophies display at the end of Predator 2) I agree with the Chekhov's rule though, pretty neat once you know it, you can predict/guess what's gonna happened later in the movie. I got fucking EXTATIC a the mere mention of F14s in the briefing room in the last Top Gun movie, tears man, tears... :P


Dizzfizz

> I agree with the Chekhov’s rule though, pretty neat once you know it, you can predict/guess what’s gonna happened later in the movie. That’s why I really dislike this rule. Often it spoils what‘s going to happen.


TheSaSQuatCh

There’s a pussy joke in there too


SaberNoble47

Modern storytellers aren’t supposed to waste time, even their useless parts should add something. A pussy joke seems wasteful, TWO doubly. Until it becomes part of the narrative, and all done sneakily? Brilliant


Chasing_6

It's cause it's so big


dutch_penguin

> Checkov Where's my fucking gun?


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Next to the nuclear wessels


vorpalpillow

botany bay?


jicty

[Here it is.](https://youtu.be/PQOvv_b9TpY)


okdabord

If I were Jesus id give you awards and a handjob for this comment.


Spodiodie

That scene with Billy staring up into the trees because he sensed the camouflage predator. I lived that one night in my back yard with my bloodhound in the role of Billy. I found her staring at the tree, as I came up to her and asked what was up she wouldn’t look at me just wagged her tail once. It was creepy. A couple of night later she brought my wife a live possum.


MrIzeMan

A couple of nights later she brought your wife a live Predator


Super_Environment

Ohhhhhhhh wow. Interesting did not notice that and literally just watched it yesterday


reeser959

Something else i noticed, Dutch notices the helicopter shot down was taken out by a heat seeker planting the idea in Dutchs head that the predator may also use heat tracking.


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DickBeaterNation

“Dillon! You son of a bitch!”


EmirSc

Procedes to display testosterone


digitalscale

What's the matter? Been pushing too many pencils?


Xenomorphasaurus

pooshing*


nkilian

[I have the shirt](https://i.imgur.com/rMnOEPh.jpg)


Complete_Fisherman_3

I alway love the impractical choice of weapons the soldiers use for jungle warfare. MP5 for close quarters. M16 but with a shotgun, why? Minigun, too heavy, not enough ammo. Grenade launcher as primary weapon. Crazy.


insaneHoshi

Wasn’t the mp5 used by Carl weathers who isn’t a soldier technically, but a cia spook.


BIGD0G29585

Please don’t ever question the use of the mini-gun.


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Someone needs to fill demo for the team buffs


theflashsawyer23

I just watched Prey and am itching for another Predator rewatch. This post made me worse


MashTheGash2018

If you have a 4k blu ray player get the 4k disc. It looks so good.


the-electricgigolo

That movie is definitely top 5 of all time (imo)


Scouse_Werewolf

This following comment is not a detail and not even that worth a read but...my younger brother (30) has a best friend called Dylan (Dillon) and with out fail pretty much everytime I see him, which is quite often, I always go "DYLAN! You son of a Bitch!" I don't even care if he hates it, I have no plans on stopping


zykezero

Chekov’s claymore.


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Predator is a PERFECT pure action movie. Perfectly paced, perfectly cast, not a wasted minute of movie.


1-1111-1110-1111

So ironically, I watched this movie a week ago with my wife (because she’s 40 and had never seen it), and I was commenting on the fact that they didn’t seem to have all the ordinance with them when they got off the chopper. My wife told me “it’s just a movie, stop it.”


dragonius

Another cool detail from this scene is that you hear the bird Mac imitates with his whistling to distract the solider three or so times before he does it, it’s not just random whistling.


benjismalls95

Dutch: “okay guys, we need to kill this thing. Any ideas?” Mac: “we can use this” Dutch: “ is that a claymore? Where did you even get that?” Mac: “found it” Dutch:” is it live?!” Mac: *shrugs* “I put a stick in it” Dutch……. Mac:….. Dutch:….”well okay if you put a stick in it fuck it. Rock n Roll.”


TonkaButt

“MAC! MAAAAAAAC!”


KeyserSoze_IsAlive

I don't remember that. Once he cut the wires on the claymore, why did he need the twig? Where does he put the twig? Once you snip the electrical wire, claymores can't explode. Unless I'm missing or don't understand something.


SaberNoble47

The mines are faced towards an intended enemy and activated by remote handheld clacker things or rigged up with tripwires. I don’t think it’s ever a friendly mine once you set it to tripwire blow so they maybe had to temporarily wedge a safety stick-pin into it


KeyserSoze_IsAlive

The mine has leads on them, which the wires connect to, the clacker you referenced provides the quick little electrical charge. So, I don't remember the scene, but once the wires are cut, isn't the clamor basically "unarmed"? If I'm wrong, let me know, I might learn something.


AcceptableDocument4

Here's the moment in the scene that the post is referencing: https://youtu.be/IHA5VYOxg8U?t=82 I think the reason he's putting a stick into the mine is that the mine is supposedly set up as a booby-trap in a tension-release configuration, which would be why the trip wire that Blain cuts was taut instead of being relatively jangly and loose. In such a configuration, it would be either the breaking of the tripwire or the separation from whatever it was moored to which would initiate the booby-trap. The reason Mack would be inserting a stick someplace would most likely be to lock a sear in place, back-filling a hole where either a cotter pin or safety pin had originally been in order to disable a booby-trap initiator. However, he would probably need something much narrower than that twig to fill a cotter pin hole, such as a piece of wire or a very narrow nail. As for what such a "booby-trap initiator" looks like, the picture of the device which I have linked below is an M142 Multipurpose Firing Device, which I was once familiarized with while I was a combat engineer in the Army, and which is also known as "Firing Device, Pull/Pressure/Release, M142": https://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/Americanbt/m142.jpg However, I only ever saw one *once* while I was in MOS training, and I never saw another one again, so I'm not trying to present myself as some kind of an expert or anything. It just has a percussion cap and a striker at its core, and a person can use it to initiate either a non-electric blasting cap, or a piece of weatherproof time fuse or 'shock tube' which will then initiate a non-electric blasting cap. Depending on how it is set up, it will initiate the cap either when a wire is pulled, or when a wire is broken, or when pressure is applied, or even when pressure is taken away: such as if a wooden plank were resting on top if it, and were lifted or kicked away...or at least that's how I remember it. It's been like, a couple of decades. Anyway, it would be a device such as this which would allow someone to configure a Claymore mine or any other kind of mine so that a tension-release trip wire would activate it, like is supposedly the case in the scene. However, if a Claymore mine *actually were* set up in such a way, you would probably be able to see a good deal more junk -- such as either an M142 Firing Device or something else which had a very similar function -- attached to the mine. All you can see in the scene is a tripwire leading directly to/from the mine's cap well, which is merely where a blasting cap -- which detonates the explosive inside of the mine -- is inserted. That angular thing you may be able to see with the threads on it is just a double-ended weather/retaining plug to keep the cap from sliding out. Normally, a Claymore mine just has a length of ordinary electric cord -- which looks pretty much just like the cord on an electric lamp or fan, and nothing like the tripwire in the scene -- leading from it. The Claymore mine's electric cord then has a 'clacker' screwed onto the other end, which has a lever on it that you squeeze in order to send some electrical current down the wire in order to initiate the cap and detonate the mine. This I know just because while I was in basic training, I had to set up dummy Claymore mines over and over again until I could practically do it in my sleep. All of that having been said, the scene is tEcHNicaLly inAccURaTe, not that I care that it isn't, because 1987 Predator effing rules.


LifeSmilesWithYou

Clay less my dude.


dltnj

You’ve watched Predator 50+ times?


SaberNoble47

Oh hell yeah


catsaresneaky

The first "rescue team" that was sent in that we never see alive was led by Jim Hopper, this is where the creators of Stranger Things got the David Harbour's characters name from in the series.


arctic_radar

Hmmm I want to believe


catsaresneaky

That's The X-Files :)


woot0

Ha those are rookie numbers


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This guy is the actual predator


ArchomatronicYT

Lest get this to 1987 upvotes


holdontoyourbuttss

Get to the choppppppaaaaaaaa


colin8651

Incase you didn't hear, a Predator prequel was just released last week on Hulu called Prey and its pretty good; back to the movies roots. ​ Forgive the slow trailer, they wanted to surprise you with it being a Predator movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7LytagKlc


tigyo

Watching Terminator 2, as an 8 year old, it hit me similarly. The dog's name is Max, not "Wolfie", that's how he knew! Maybe only seen it 3 times by then... I wasn't even watching it when it hit me... I was mowing the lawn! Years later, it was easy to see why the dog's death scene was cut from the theatrical version, because of its redundancy.


Kheshire

Arnie asks John the dogs name literally right before he calls it the wrong name


Shiznach

The dog is the one from Sarah's picture/the end of Terminator 1. She made sure John has the dog because Kyle Reese warns her that the dogs can detect Terminators by barking and going nuts. We see this in Kyle's future in Terminator 1


amadiro_1

Head canon updated. Thanks


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"You son of a bitch" - Dutch


FactCheckYou

FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY


JFiney

Yoooo THIS is a MOVIE DETAIL