Pinky has six older brothers so hanging around the sausage Fist some days can be like a return to my childhood, albeit some strange, fucked-up bizarro version. Given that my father was also in the military you can imagine the majority of movies I watched growing up: yes, shit with a lot of fucking explosions, murders, military themes, brutality, more blowing up shit, lots of fucking guns, always fucking drinking and drug-use and motherfucking swearing. And probably a few naked bitches. More than a few most likely and if they were in distress all the better.
Predator came out in 1987 which would have made me nine years old. Now, I’m not trying to say anything about how I was raised…but I don’t know if that’s a movie any nine year old should be watching, let alone a young girl. Because watching the video below (which I think is cool as fuck) and seeing the Predator at the end reminded me exactly how scared shitless of that fucking thing I was for weeks, nay months, at night. Yet, I couldn’t get enough; anytime my next two eldest brothers wanted to watch the movie again (and again), I sat willingly and wide-eyed next to them waiting for that shit to play out and make me piss my panties (hyperbole, of course). It was the same thing for all kinds of movies like this: Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, RoboCop, Good Morning, Vietnam…you get the picture. It’s a wonder I turned out all right.
Or did I?
P.S. I would have rather seen this version of the movie back then, methinks. Or at least I prefer it now. Kudos to these guys. Bad-ass.