10 Movies Much Better Than The One Thing You Remember Them For

5. Predator

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What You Remember It For: "GET TO DA CHOPPAAAA"

As a result of its immense meme-ability, everyone has heard Arnie's famous line, but casual movie-watchers won't be aware that it's taken from Predator.

This makes the moment just another funny quote embedded in the endless amounts of Arnie compilations circulating YouTube, and it's easy to forget that the movie itself - and this whole scene - is anything but funny.

Predator is a great action movie, a solid thriller and a chilling horror all at once. Of course, it contains the quotable lines, colourful characters and oiled-up muscles synonymous with other '80s actioners (and most Schwarzenegger flicks), but it's also genuinely terrifying, with many bloody deaths and a raw feeling of desperation that's palpable each time our heroes encounter the titular hunter.

And while "get to da choppaaaa!" is indeed a great line, let's not forget "I ain't got time to bleed", "you are one ugly motherf****r" and the criminally-overlooked "this stuff will make you a god damn sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me."

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