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Predator The Rewatchables
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Research covered the miserable jungle shoot, arm-size prank, Predator blood/sound, Sunny Landham’s required bodyguard, screen time, Seiko watch, and Kevin Peter Hall’s death.

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  • The cold, wet, leech-filled shoot and weightlifting culture were described.
  • The cast staged an arm-size prank at Jesse Ventura’s expense.
  • Predator blood used Mountain Dew, glow sticks, and lubricant.
  • The Predator’s vocal sound imitated a dying horseshoe crab.
  • Insurers required a bodyguard to protect other people from Sunny Landham.
  • The Predator appears on screen for roughly eight minutes.
  • Arnold’s Seiko watch became a collector model nicknamed for the film.
  • Kevin Peter Hall died at 35 after contracting HIV through a blood transfusion.
Predator The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

Predator was called the apex Arnold movie though not Arnold’s personal apex; Carl Weathers, Ventura, Landham, helicopter drops, jungle aliens, body butter, death scenes, self-sacrifice, Alabama ticks, and closing-credit smiles were assessed.

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  • Predator was distinguished as the apex of Arnold’s films, while Terminator 2 remained his personal apex.
  • Carl Weathers was assessed separately as an apex case.
  • Jesse Ventura was assessed as an apex case for his movie career.
  • Sunny Landham was assessed as an apex case.
  • Helicopter insertions were assessed as an apex action-movie device.
  • Aliens in jungles were assessed as an apex premise.
  • Body butter on action stars was assessed as an apex styling choice.
  • Rocky IV beat Predator for Carl Weathers’s apex death scene.
  • Alabama ticks were jokingly declared an apex.
  • Billy’s final stand and Bruce Willis in Armageddon were compared as self-sacrifice peaks.
  • The smiling character-credit sequence was celebrated as an apex closing-credit device.
Predator The Rewatchables
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Picking Nits

Dutch’s name, the missing team dinner, mud thermodynamics, absent extraction, restored bodies, Arnold’s durability, and Old Painless’s stealth value were questioned.

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  • The origin and full form of Dutch’s name were unclear.
  • Sunny Landham’s character could simply have been named Sunny rather than Billy.
  • The film could have used a pre-mission team dinner to deepen the ensemble.
  • MythBusters reportedly found that mud would not conceal body heat.
  • The lack of extraction effort for an elite team was questioned.
  • Mac’s destroyed head later appears restored.
  • The same weapon that removes Dillon’s arm barely harms Dutch.
  • A galaxy-traveling alien failing to understand mud camouflage seemed implausible.
  • Old Painless seems poorly suited to stealth extraction.
Predator The Rewatchables
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Questions covered Billy’s perception, Predator biology, the Rock’s missing equivalent, the Predator’s mission, the opening spaceship, the creature’s perspective, and a Sunny Landham documentary/life story.

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  • Did Billy have supernatural perception or only elite tracking skill?
  • How did the Predator handle bodily functions?
  • Is Predator the movie the Rock most wishes he had made?
  • Was the Predator on a hunting trip?
  • Was the Predator on an exploration mission?
  • Did the Predator have a larger plan for humanity or the jungle?
  • Did the opening spaceship shot reveal too much?
  • Was the Predator’s echoed “what the hell are you?” evidence that humans were equally alien to it?
  • Did the invisible-Predator effects arrive at exactly the right point in visual-effects history?
  • Would a documentary about Sunny Landham’s volatile life be compelling?
  • What position did Sunny Landham play during his year at the University of Georgia?
  • Landham played football for one year at the University of Georgia.
  • Landham served in the Army and later worked in an oil field.
  • Landham worked as an ordained Baptist minister and model and appeared in adult films and Playgirl.
  • His cited film run included The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Predator, Action Jackson, and Lock Up.
  • Landham later ran for governor of Kentucky.
  • The discussion reported five marriages and a federal conviction for threatening phone calls to his wife.
  • A four-car crash badly injured Landham before his death at 76.
  • How should the darker parts of Landham’s political and personal record affect the documentary?
Manhunter The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

The FBI note relay, Graham’s first Lecter meeting, and the final assault are the strongest choices in a broad scene field.

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  • The opening beach sequence and Graham’s reluctant return are nominated.
  • Graham walking through the first victim’s house is nominated.
  • Graham and Lecter’s first prison conversation is a leading choice.
  • The airplane nightmare is nominated.
  • Dolarhyde’s torture of Freddie Lounds is nominated.
  • Reba touching the sedated tiger is nominated.
  • Graham discovering the home-movie clue is nominated.
  • The final In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida assault is Bill’s choice.
  • The FBI team relaying the note under time pressure is Chris’s choice.
  • The final preferences split among the note relay, first Graham–Lecter scene, and ending.
Manhunter The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Best?

Profiling, Mann’s style, the soundtrack, Tom Noonan, Brian Cox, and the procedural details lead the aged-best discussion.

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  • The film’s early criminal-profiling and forensic-procedure material remains compelling.
  • The Red 7 heartbeat device is praised.
  • The soundtrack is praised.
  • The Captiva beach house and coastal setting are praised.
  • Tom Noonan is highlighted.
  • Lecter’s quoted verbal precision remains effective.
  • The movie’s color design is praised.
  • Brian Cox’s later career strengthens appreciation for his Lecter.
  • The recurring “time is luck” line is highlighted.
  • Mann’s use of Miami Vice repertory actors adds texture.
  • Dante Spinotti’s cinematography is praised.
  • Blue, green, and red are read as a simple, effective visual code.
  • William Petersen’s Will Graham is considered among the notable 1980s movie cops.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

The title history, missing backstory, comparison with Silence of the Lambs, and several period details draw criticism.

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  • The title was reportedly changed after Year of the Dragon underperformed.
  • The film’s omission of the earlier Graham–Lecter attack is debated.
  • The Silence of the Lambs prison cell is judged less effective after comparison with Manhunter’s.
  • The absence of a Miggs cameo is jokingly called a miss.
  • Petersen and Noonan’s later CSI reunion in an episode titled Abra Cadaver is mocked.
  • Smoking in elevators is an unmistakable period detail.
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Casting What-Ifs

Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Paul Newman, and several Lecter possibilities are discussed.

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Manhunter The Rewatchables
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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Jim Zubiena, Chris Elliott, Stephen Lang, and FBI-room performers are nominated; the likely choice is not confidently identified in the transcript.

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  • Jim Zubiena is nominated.
  • Chris Elliott is nominated.
  • Stephen Lang is nominated.
  • Several actors in the FBI briefing room are nominated collectively.
  • The panel appears to favor an early Miami Vice-linked actor, but the machine transcript does not support a confident name.
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The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

William Petersen and Stephen Lang split the overacting discussion.

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  • Petersen’s visibly tormented Graham moments are nominated and debated.
  • Stephen Lang’s Freddie Lounds is nominated for operating at a different intensity.
  • The panel compares Lang’s performance to Judd Nelson in a different movie.
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