I DVR a lot of stuff for workouts and this was on HBO the other day and recorded it. And after I rewatched it, something hit me.

In the summer of 87 I was 13 and somehow we got a friends mom to buy us tickets to see this rated R film. Me and my friends were completely blown away. At the time it was slick as hell, top of the line for Hollywood and would eventually become known as an Arnold/80's classic. The special effects don't hold up well and the spin offs and reboots suck (at least the couple I have seen). But in the summer of 87, Arnold and the gang of spec op guys with MP5's, drum fed 40mm grenade launchers, an M203, 240, an infantry mobile GE mini-gun, etc, killing commies in central America and fighting an alien on safari was seriously cool AF.

What's the point? Me and my lilly white early teen buddies walked out of the theatre completely jacked up, like testosterone pumping young men should be, about a kick ass movie. Not one of us ever considered having a discussion about the topics that absolutely permeate the minds of like aged young people today.

The cast of 1987 Predator:

Arnold/Dutch - White (please note, extra points for being an immigrant from a formerly commie controlled country)
Carl Weathers/Dillon - (aka Apollo Creed - extra 'Murica points) - black
Some hot no name latina/Anna - hispanic
Bill Duke/Sgt Mac - black
Richard Chavez/Ramirez - hispanic
Ventura/Blain - white (and also future whackjob gov of MN)
Sonny Landham/Billy - Native American
Some no name white guy/Hawkins - obviously white

John McTiernan, despite his personal problems, was a great director. Epic. And this was the mid 80's. I can't believe for a moment that the guy gave a sh** about being woke at a time when woke didn't exist. He put together what he thought was a badass cast for a badass movie (also see Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October).

No one cared. No one showered praise on McTiernan, Schwarzenegger, Fox, anyone, for this incredibly diverse cast.

And before anyone says "yeah well it was still Arnold" I feel like I need to point out that the #3 box office grossing film of 1987 was Beverly Hills Cop 2, starring Eddie Murphy.

When Gen X says "we had this all moving in the right direction" we are not lying. We kids of the 70's, 80's and 90's didn't care. We didn't even notice. We just had a lot of fun. We laughed all the time. I tell my teenage sons this all the time. I'll shut up now.

you have a predator, who is an illegal alien just here trying to practice his culture.

Then you have this mob of military-industrial complex war ******s lead by a prime example of the Aryan master race, doing everything to prevent him from doing it.

It gets even worse. The Aryan master race guy goes full on black face by using mud to change his looks so that he can then assault and injure the illegal alien.

C@LAg said:

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you have a predator, who is an illegal alien just here trying to practice his culture.

Then you have this mob of military-industrial complex war ******s lead by a prime example of the Aryan master race, doing everything to prevent him from doing it.

It gets even worse. The Aryan master race guy goes full on black face by using mud to change his looks so that he can then assault and injure the illegal alien.

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C@LAg said:

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you have a predator, who is an illegal alien just here trying to practice his culture.

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Racist! Nobody is "illegal"!

Bigot! Alien is a slur!

The lifeform is an undocumented extraterrestrial.

Transphobe! How dare you assume the undocumented extraterrestrial's gender identity!

F the left for self service of purposefully reversing decades of progress. They want the division and hatred.

It is amazing how progressives have caused us to regress so much over the last decade or two. It's almost as if Obama being elected had the reverse effect of what everyone claimed it would.

On MLK day I saw someone post a quote from his famous Dream speech. I was saddened thinking that at some point we were very close to his dream coming true, only to realize that we are now further from it happening than probably at any time since his death.

Obama had the reverse affect of what was sold to them to get their vote, then he and his cohorts went exactly the direction they had laid out which was to create racial division, in order to implement Class Warfare, which is a political pillar of the Left/Marxists. Obama and his cohorts set the U.S. back 40 years and that was just the first, intentional I might add, step. Destruction of this country as it was founded is the real prize with that bunch.

Tanya 93 said:

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Game over man, GAME OVER!


You are canceled

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Wrong alien movie.

I saw this movie in the theater in 6th grade. So many good lines.

"Buncha slack jawed fa**ots around here"

"You're bleedin'." "I ain't got time to bleed." "You got time to duck?"

and perhaps the most famous:

Old Sarge said:

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Obama had the reverse affect of what was sold to them to get their vote, then he and his cohorts went exactly the direction they had laid out which was to create racial division, in order to implement Class Warfare, which is a political pillar of the Left/Marxists. Obama and his cohorts set the U.S. back 40 years and that was just the first, intentional I might add, step. Destruction of this country as it was founded is the real prize with that bunch.

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Obama and the people who brought him to power accomplished what they set out to do. Dividing the country on race was a goal. He never missed a chance to advance this cause.

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Urban Ag said:

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The cast of 1987 Predator:

Arnold/Dutch - White (please note, extra points for being an immigrant from a formerly commie controlled country)
Carl Weathers/Dillon - (aka Apollo Creed - extra 'Murica points) - black
Some hot no name latina/Anna - hispanic
Bill Duke/Sgt Mac - black
Richard Chavez/Ramirez - hispanic
Ventura/Blain - white (and also future whackjob gov of MN)
Sonny Landham/Billy - Native American
Some no name white guy/Hawkins - obviously white

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The no name white guy who played Hawkins is Shane Black, became a prolific writer and accomplished director.

Directed Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang & The Nice Guys. Played a lot of bit parts as actor but found his wheelhouse directing.

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Gen X was so right on, even the white guys were Black and no one knew.

I was 17

and we all loved it.

can anyone imagine a movie like Red Dawn being made today where American teenagers take their guns to go and kill Russian invaders?