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Predator (1987) - 33 corrections

Directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Jesse Ventura, Kevin Peter Hall (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Body count: 64. [Unless there's some significance to the number of dead (most ever, etc.) this isn't really trivia.]
Edit Corrected by jhoffman100@yahoo.com
Towards the end of the movie, when Anna is now trusted by Dutch and the team, Anna tries to help by wanting to carry a weapon. Dutch warns her not to carry a weapon because he's figured out that the Predator does not think it's sporting to kill an unarmed person and said this why the Predator did not kill her before. Since Dutch believes this, he should have ordered his men to drop all their weapons and then they all could simply walk out of the jungle safely. [There's a difference between "unarmed" and "disarmed". If they'd never had weapons, then, by Dutch's logic, the Predator wouldn't have gone after them. If they'd had weapons but disposed of them, that makes the men foolish prey, but still fair game.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
The helicopter wreck in the trees is only a junk fuselage. If you study it there is nothing in it at all; even the instrument panel is nothing but mounting holes. This was obviously done to save film costs over using a real unit. The script adds the line "they stripped the s**t out of it" to cover the discrepancy. [If the script logically explains the "mistake", then it isn't a mistake! The helicopter was stripped of everything that wasn't nailed down, and that is what we see on screen. Not a mistake.]
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When Dutch and his team find the crashed helicopter they use a grappling hook to climb up, on the interior shots you can see the grappling hook attached to the bottom of the helicopters doorway (it almost skewers Poncho in the stomach as he climbs in) but in the exterior shots you can see that the rope is attached to the helicopter well above the doorway. [Pancho was the first one in. He just tied the rope off to make it more secure for the others to climb in and look.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
When Arnie's team are assaulting the village you will see that in one part Poncho takes cover behind a tree while the tree get riddled with bullets from a terrorist. The problem is that all the terrorists were carrying AK-47's, now an AK-47 is so powerful that the bullets it fires can go through brick, concrete and wood. So if Poncho did that in real life he would be dead [You can not say this for certain, there a dozen different types of AK-47s, and just as many different kinds of ammunition, without knowing the exact model and type of ammunition this can not be a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by pross79
It's impossible to shoot a minigun while standing on the ground because: that was a six barreled rotary American minigun, that weights 110-120kg unloaded. It shoots 4000-10000 rounds per minute. For about that 20 seconds it uses 2000-3000 bullets (those weigh about 50kg) and it needs a 4KWt electrical drive (provided in this case by a cable hidden from view - hard to come by in the jungle). Altogether, it's about 200kg. Even the strongest man won't be able to carry this load, much less fire it with any chance to hit, due to extremely powerful recoil and possible injuries from the fast and violently ejecting empty cases. Jesse Ventura had to wear a bulletproof jacket even when firing blanks for that reason. [The XM 214 microgun doesn't weigh 110 kg, it actualy only weighs around 15kg, with a 1000 rounds of 5.56 ammo it would weigh around 60kg total.]
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Early in the movie, Mac throws dog tags to Dutch. As he catches them, Dutch has his hand closed in a fist, and the dog tags are at the top of his wrist. But in the close-up shot where we can read the name, Dutch's fingers are clutched around the tags and they're in the center of his palm. [I watched this scene carefully and although the camera angle changes, the dog tags are in the same position on Arnold's glove. They are certainly not in the center of his palm.]
Edit Corrected by Mobrien316
After Dutch busts into the village hut and says "Knock Knock", he shoots one of the bad guys with the grenade launcher on his machine gun. The guy flies backwards out of the window but the grenade never explodes. [He does not shoot him with a grenade. He shoots him with a short blast from his rifle. Besides, an M203 grenade doesn't arm itself until after several meters of flight and rotation. Much shorter than the path it would have taken.]
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In the scene when they find Harper's body skinned in the trees, they throw Dutch the dog tags. They make a large noise when he catches them - But when he looks down, the dog tags are wearing silencers (plastic around the edges). A good soldier would be wearing silencers to keep their approach a secret - the adviser knew that. The foley guy didn't know it and must have added the sounds later. [It is very possable that it was the longer and shorter chain rubbing up against itself and the tags themselves making the noise. This would not be an issue when being worn 'cause the tags would be hanging down.]
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in Predator 2 we are told that the predator's mini nuke destroyed enough rain forest to be equated with X amount of city blocks. From what I saw, Arnie certainly didn't run that far - not even 2 suburban blocks. [But Arnold was behind cover when the bomb went off - a slight dip in the land - so most of the explosive force blew over him and carried debris past rather than hitting him.]
Edit Corrected by Phoenix
In one shot where Mac is firing the minigun and screaming, it's very clear that the ammo belt isn't feeding into the gun, just sticking out the side motionless. [The ammo feeder is fixed and doesnt move. The ammo is on his back in the box and is fed through the feeder. It is just a guide for the ammo.]
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When we first see the helicopters taking the squad in, the rotor discs distinctly show 4 blades. After the interior "red-light" shots, the final exterior views of the helicopters, show them with 2-bladed rotors. [This isn't a continuity mistake. The helicopters are bog standard UH-1 'Huey' helicopters, with a single, twin bladed rotor. When filming a rapidly spinning object it is possible to photograph it twice or more when exposing film at 24 frames per second, giving this weird effect. If the rotor blades were spinning at 48 revs per second, it would appear as if the helicopter had a four bladed rotor.]
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When Dutch is battling the Predator one on one and he is in the tree, after he shoots the explosive tipped arrow the Predator starts shooting off plasma bursts very rapidly. After a minute or so of these bursts causing sparks to shower down on him, Dutch is either ejected or falls from the tree and when he lands on the ground if you watch closely you can see the ground bounce where he lands. [He doesn't really hit the ground, he lands on some very thick bushes that are covered in leaves. Naturally the bushes will give a little, but they are so dense that they can support his weight.]
Edit Corrected by Phoenix
Arnie covers himself in cool mud because the Predator sees heat. But, they are in the middle of hot jungle. The jungle's temperature would surely be hotter than 98.6, or at least close to that. That means that the Predator would see all the air around him as red, not just the humans. [1) Whether the heat-vision is the predator's natural vision, provided by the helmet, or the former enhanced by the latter, it would surely be able to compensate for the 'baseline' air temperature. 2) Even for a jungle, 98.6F is pretty hot. 82-94F day and 62-73F night would be the range of temperatures to expect (see http://www.go-south-adventures.com/go-south-weather.htm). Even though it's meant to be warmer than normal, it could still be below 98.6F. Of course, the humidity would make it feel hotter, but that would not affect heat-vision.]
Edit Corrected by J I Cohen
Watch when Mac shaves himself. He digs the razor into his face and the razor breaks. Look at the blood on his face. After the razor breaks the amount of blood decreases. That is because the prop razor contained the blood and was released when pressed down. [Ever get cut while dry-shaving? Blood flows like wine when you get cut with a razor. What happened to Mac was actually very close to what happens when you dry shave. His face was not lubricated, and the razor caught his skin, and severed it rather cleanly. You can even see that his face is pracically changing color from the irritation. When the razor broke, the cut wasn't being pulled down anymore, and all the blood ran off his face with his sweat. You can see the cut on his face has a small line of blood on it. I'm actually just surprised that he didn't bleed profusely a few moments later.]
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After Dutch has defeated the Predator, right before the 'What the hell are you?' exchange, the Predator spits some neon blood onto its face which immediately disappears. [Not so. It's still there, but it isn't glowing. The glowing effect on the blood occurs when it is in large amounts. The blood it coughed up on its face ran down and dissipated, which made it lose the glow effect.]
Edit Corrected by furious1116
When Arnold is rushing down the river and over the waterfall its daylight and you can see the blue sky as he swims out of the water. But just after he gets out of the water and sits down under the tree roots, with the Predator after him, it suddenly gets very dark then it's night time in a matter of seconds. [Actually, its dusk. Its beginning to get dark as Arnold approaches the river bank, and the fog around the bank area is making it appear darker.]
Edit Corrected by furious1116
In the scene where the soldiers are attacking the guerilla camp, Jesse Ventura fires his minigun at a sniper's nest, which subsequently explodes in a massive ball of flames. I point this out because the minigun he uses fires full metal jacket rifle rounds, and they are not explosive, nor would they cause a structure comprised of wood to suddenly explode in the way it does. [It wasn't necessarily Blaine's minigun that set off the explosion. You can see that the explosion is already occurring just after he begins firing. Considering that Billy was seen throwing grenades into the nests, he could've done the same to the nest Blaine was firing on. Its also feasible to assume that Blaine may have hit a stockpile of explosives; explosive shells can be triggered by a high-velocity impact. Since Mini-guns have a high rate of fire, and could have easily penetrated the nest, it may have also hit and detonated some explosives.]
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When Blaine is shot from behind by the Predator, it blows a large hole through his chest. How did it go through the ammo backpack for the minigun without damaging it? [Simply because it didn't go through his ammo pack. The Predator is smart and was probably able to tell that the backpack housed Blaine's ammo, so took care to avoid it. If you watch closely, the trajector of the shot that the Predator fires leads one to beleive that the Predator shot over the backpack, toward the top of his back, and since it was arcing downward, blew through the middle of his chest upon exiting.]
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When Bill Duke picks the scorpion off Carl weathers' shoulder with a knife, you can blatantly see some gum or similar that's been used to stick the scorpion onto the tip of the knife. [It isn't gum, its literally the scorpion's guts.]
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