consider that so many of the role that arnold schwarzenegger take on be so similar and include predator and and yet this film be so much good than most of the others . i enjoy watch his movie just because he such a watch able guy and even in his bad movie ( which be many ) and but i think the thing that really make predator stand out be it simplicity . the movie start and the guy get drop in the jungle and lot of blood and carnage fly across the screen and and the movie simply end . no romance and no complex back story and no soldier struggle with problem in his past or even trauma cause by the horrible thing he experience during the movie . this be one of the thing that make first blood so good . it may turn out to be a movie about a lot of muscle bound meatheads in the wood and but it doesn not insult the audience or try to apply complexity to a story that can not support it . interestingly and the movie feature two eventual governor . jesse ventura even write a book which be release while he be the governor of minnesota and he use his favorite line in this movie a the title . and the book actually pretty interest while there be some funny story in it about thing that go on while they be film this movie . arnold and on the other hand and be actually ( and thankfully ) give a relatively small amount of stupid one liner and which be an idiotic byproduct of hard action movie that i have never really understood the necessity for . they do not reveal anything about the character who say them and they do not add to the story or far the plot and and with rare exception and theyre not funny . but i guess comic relief have to come from somewhere and and since complexity be not a requisite for movie like this and i can not really expect a lot of thought be put into the comedic content either . i watch predator have never see it from begin to end and have just re watch the original alien . i be currently in the process of re watch both series and for obvious reason . one thing that i notice about both of them be the way they take their time in introduce the enemy which and in both film and be alien . predator doesn not waste much time dwell on the origin of the alien and we pretty much assume it come from a space ship that flash across the screen at the opening of the movie . alien and on the other hand and go into remarkable detail about where it alien come from . what predator do do and very effectively and i think and be that it have the guy fight some very human enemy and which allow the movie to later take it sweet time in have them realize that the new enemy be not human at all . this be also and incidentally and weakly rehash in the sequel and use the secrecy of this mission and team a an excuse to have more guy who do not know what go on . the death scene be actually pretty tasteful and give the genre . they be just gory enough to illustrate the violence of the enemy without be gratuitous . just enough be show to show how vicious the alien be and and there be some strange thing do to and with the body that make you wonder about the alien intention or need . the first death suggest vengeance if not some sort of ritual and but later one suggest that the alien may be feed off of his ( or her ) victim . oddly enough and it be not until the awful predator 2 that we learn that it kill for sport . yes and the movie occasionally get embarrassingly macho and but the skill with which it be put together far overshadow any tough guy goofiness . consider and for example and the ease with which the movie switch from show the guy hunt the alien to their realization that they be the one be hunt . in some case and this transition take place during a single shot and with virtually no movement in the shot at all except a change in someone expression . it be truly a fight between a group of predator and which we understand because they be human like u and and a single predator whose power and weakness be unknown . it not oscar material and needless to say and but it a great action movie in part because it already know that .