Long before the phrase toxic masculinity first stomped its way into our lexicon, there was a great movie about the idea it represents. That movie was Predator, a movie about a band of absolutely gigantic, utterly badass dudes stalking an even bigger, even more badass alien hunter in the jungle. The dudes included steroidal man-mountains such as Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, and Jesse Ventura, who somehow wasn't even the most notable of the movie's future governors.
That would be their leader, a cigar-chomping, quip-dispensing Arnold Schwarzenegger, in as fine a form as he's ever been. Predator was one of the best Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies (ASM) back when ASMs were a genre unto themselves. Directed by John McTiernan in 1987, the year before he'd make Die Hard, it was essentially a science fiction reimagining of "The Most Dangerous Game," in which a group of elite hunters become the hunted.
