Corrected entry: 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.
Grumpy Scot
6th Jul 2007
Predator (1987)
23rd Jan 2003
Predator (1987)
Corrected entry: When the guy with the minigun is shot, it has a forward scene of him falling down and the wound is fairly small. When they flip him over after they've shot the hell out of the trees, it looks like a small comet hit him.
Correction: Its possible the Predator is using a plasma weapon. Plasma (kind of like super-napalm) would continue to vaporize flesh and bone until it finally burned out, greatly enlarging the wound.
It is indeed a plasma weapon known as the Plasma Caster.
25th Feb 2003
Predator (1987)
Corrected entry: Arnie takes a 40mm M203 grenade, removes the projectile and ties it to an arrow to fire at the predator. This would not work. The M203 is a rifled launcher (the barrel has grooves to make the grenade spin for greater stability). In order to prevent accidental detonation, the shell has an internal safety pin that relies on the centrifugal force generated by the spin to deactivate it.
Correction: An earlier scene shows him using his knife to open the grenade. He removed the gunpowder propellant and used it to improvise the explosive arrow.
Correction: In researching the mechanism of said grenade, it is clear that within the munition is means to cause detonation. Removing only the gun powder and placing it in a makeshift arrowhead would not create an explosive weapon.
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Correction: 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.
Grumpy Scot