Is Predators one of the greatest movie of all time? Yes

Where in the hell did this movie come from? I was watching TV last week and saw a preview for Predators, a movie dripping with awesome, that I had never heard of and was due out this week. How in the fuck did I miss this? My first thought was: it's probably low budget. But I quickly learned that it starred Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, so it's at least got a decent sized budget. My next and final guess was that it must be awful. Also wrong, because after watching it yesterday I learned that it's fucking awesome. In addition to Brody and Fishburne it stars Eric Foreman from That's 70's Show, some hot Brazilian chick, Boyd Crowder from Justified and Danny Trejo. That's an A+ cast, considering that the movie is set on another planet, and there are zero other humans (actually there is a nameless Chinese guy, African guy and Russian guy, but you can guess what happens to them).

My blood got pumping during the opening credits actually, when I saw that the film was produced by Robert Rodriguez and Trouble Maker studios, the studio that has brought us such legendary films as From Dusk to Dawn, The Faculty, Sin City and Machete. There was actually a Machete Preview before the movie, and holy shit that looks awesome as well. The general premise of Predators is that the predators kidnap soldiers, hit men, mercenaries and psychos from earth, transport them to some alien planet and hunt them for sport. Just typing that made me tear up. So a bunch of loner whack jobs must team up against predators, their creepy alien dogs and booby traps set by other now dead humans in order to stay alive. That's it. No big "twists", love themed subplots or boring dialog. A day after watching Predators, I still can't think of one thing about it that isn't awesome.