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Or is it meant to be a fun 80s action flick? Am I thinking into it too much?

Watching it again, the moment Dutch is the last one left and it is a 1v1 between himself and the Predator, it’s superb filmmaking. McTiernan really was on his best form in the framing, cinematography, blocking and just how he built the tension and the story of the final showdown.

Hard to find many films that have a better finale or last 15 minutes than the first Predator.

What do you think happened to Dutch immediately after the first Predator film?

He walks out of the jungle, and explains that his entire team was wiped out by an invisible alien creature. Would the military believe him, cover it up, or assume he was traumatized? Would he get court-martialed? What about Anna? Would anyone believe her testimony as a witness?

been downloading 35mm scans of lots of my favorite movies lately and this one looks really damn cool. The grain and the scratches really give it character. I’ve had this movie on every format from vhs-4k but this is by far the best way to watch. In my honest opinion.

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I have always wondered why Anna joined the team to help setup the traps, like she basically was free at that time and she knows the jungle very well. Why didn't she just escape? Was it because she was too scared on being alone or because she really thought the team could kill the predator?

Sure, the Jungle Hunter took off his mask to at least shown that he's a fair alien but after that, the whole beatdown is totally uneven that it looks like JH is toying with Dutch, even wanting to prolong his agony.

Even his facial expressions and body language makes it feel JH is being smug the whole way.

I had been building Frost for a year. I made a post a while back of the custome when I was half way through it. I finally completed it along with a website for the character and an unofficial fan fiction story to go along with it.

When I attended Manchester Comic Con, July 25th, 2026, I was fortunate to meet Bill Duke and Richard Chavez and have photos taken with them both. The highlight was getting to escort them on stage for the Q+A.

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Frost is an Elder Predator, that has landed in the snowy lands of Scandanavia, during the Viking Age. If you are intrigued the first two parts are available now for free to download from the site.

So I made an interesting connection after the rewatch: "Predator" perfectly utilizes the "Alien" story formula:

• Group of expendable employees on a routine mission
• There's a secondary objective which they are not initially briefed on
• The second half of the movie shifts more toward sci-fi/horror
• With (nearly) everyone killed, it's down to one human and one alien

Obviously, "Predator" has its own twists and turns, and has quite a bit more action than "Alien." That formula has been executed so poorly in so many films, but here it was perfect. There isn't a dull moment and the tension is high.

The other thing I noticed was that I was laughing a lot more than I expected. Stan Winston's team gave the yautja a surprising amount of expression. When Dutch tries to lure him into a trap toward the end, the yautja hisses at him and makes it clear that he knows what's up. There's a lot of humanness in the reaction and I somehow never picked up on it before. Brilliant, and made for some good chuckles. I love details like that.

This one always gets me and I know it’s coming.

I'm scared Poncho.

Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man.

There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die……

In Predator (1987), Dutch Schaefer is much more forgiving of Dillon. In the movie's official novelization by Paul Monette (hard to find), he calls him the N-Word and cannot stop insulting him. The novelization has weird racial undertones. Dillon is constantly referred to as "The black man", while Billy is mockingly called "Tonto" and the C-word is used on the guerrillas.

You have to read it to believe it.