You'd struggle to think of a better action movie than Predator. It may have come out 30 years ago but - featuring Arnie in the prime of his career, alongside Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura - it still beats most of the stuff that gets released nowadays.
There's also an exclusive new trailer for the re-release to celebrate it being three decades since it came out:
Credit: 20th Century Fox
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If you're wondering how the film came about, it actually started as a joke. Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke going round Hollywood that since Rocky Balboa had run out of opponents on earth, he would have to fight an alien in the fifth instalment of his boxing series.
Screenwriters (and presumably massive banter merchants) Jim and John Thomas took the inspiration from the joke and wrote a screenplay based on it.The movie was made on a $15 million budget but absolutely smashed it in theatres, where it grossed $59,735,548.
Although it received mixed reviews at the time, it has since become recognised as one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Empire's Ian Nathan describes it as: "Proof that the unremarkably generic can be elevated to ridiculous greatness by the right director and cast. A mash-up of the men-on-a-mission war movie and an alien / then-there-were-none slasher horror, McTiernan slips in some sly swipes at the action genre along with some groan-worthy homoeroticism - but more-or-less keeps a straight face.
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"It's full of iconic moments like the Ol' Painless jungle destruction and the final one-man-army mud fight. And Arnold was, arguably, never better."
As you can imagine people on social media were hyped it's coming back to cinemas:
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The movie is being screened in loads of cinema in the UK on 9 November, exactly 30 years to the day that it first came out: so just Google your local cinema listings and get the fuck down there.
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