PREDATOR was released 39 years ago today. Among the most popular science fiction/action movies of the 1980s, and one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s biggest movies, the behind the scenes tale ain’t got time to bleed…
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[1988] Hulk Hogan’s entrance to the ring to take on “Ravishing” Rick Rude in Boston Garden.
Just look at the aesthetics. Everything is so simple, but beautiful. No overblown production, no 20 ads on every square inch of the arena, not even colorful mats on the outside. Gorgeous.
THE ROCK premiered on this day in 1996. I had left for Navy Boot Camp a few days earlier, so I missed opening night. I remember hoping it would still be playing when I finished Boot Camp later that summer. Luckily for me, the movie was such a hit that it was still in theaters that August. I’d eventually watch it with three friends at Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence “A” School, Dam Neck, Virginia on our first weekend of liberty. We would all go to BUD/S together that January after graduating from intelligence school. All three of us made it through.
“Welcome to The Rock!”
On this date in 1996, “The Rock” starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage opened in theaters.
BITE-SIZED FACT | The film became one of the defining blockbusters of the 1990s and earned over $335 million at the worldwide box office.
Sure, 4K is nice, but there was nothing like sitting two inches away from one of these sweet bastards while your mother predicted you’d be as blind as Ray Charles by the following Thursday.
(1996) The time Kevin Nash gave Eric Bischoff a BRUTAL Jackknife Powerbomb off the stage and through a makeshift table after he and Scott Hall demanded to know which three men he had lined up to face them.
WCW The Great American Bash
June 16, 1996
THE UNTOUCHABLES was released 39 years ago today. One of the most acclaimed gangster films of the 1980s, the behind the scenes story is full of fascinating facts.
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The canal chase in TERMINATOR 2 features the truck’s roof being ripped off—a moment improvised on set when the crew realized the truck was too tall for the bridge, so James Cameron decided to film the roof being sheared off for real.