Predator “detested”?15936

Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town
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Originally Posted by Towmater
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
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Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town
I always wondered if that chain gun that the one guy carried was factual..if so thats one serious piece of hardware. Unsure how we could ever lose a firefight if thats a real weapon the US currently deploys

@Darkseid_of_town - it is real, but by no means is it practical or feasible as a hand carried weapon.

A M134 is a mounted weapon. It isn't something troops carry around. It requires an external power supply and the cycle rate on it makes carrying the ammo it would require impossible. Mac's cutdown M60E3 would have been the logical light machine for that team to be carrying and using.

The thing that drives me nuts is that you have several members of the team carrying MP5's. A totally useless firearm in the jungle. A 9mm round would not penetrate the foliage.

Right, you hit on the thing that always made me wonder about that weapon. I dont do much with guns, and just keep a 9mm for perimeter defense here at home....but when that dude would fire up that gun, it would level everything in front of it in a sweeping motion for like fifty feet outwards it looked like. It had to be firing a stupendous number of rounds...and I kept wondering how they were being stored and carried.

Originally Posted by lawguy1977
This thread reminded me of a show I've been watching on Netflix -- The Movies That Made Us. It's a really well done (and funny) docuseries. Just watched the episode on the making of Robocop last night, which is still one of my favorite action movies of all time. Other episodes include Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and Die Hard. Hopefully they'll do one on Predator soon!

Originally Posted by Murmonster
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Originally Posted by 50AE_DE
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
Don’t get me wrong, I did like P2 and AVP. To me though, they didn’t stand up to the original. AVP 2 and 2018 The Predator were forgettable.

Thanks. When I searched aliens v predator 2 all I got was a video game, not movie.

What??? There was an AVP2? I did not know about that.

@50AE_DE It's actually called Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem it came out in 2007.
It was pretty lame the night scenes were so dark they were practically unwatchable.