How the hell is Predator a "bad movie"? It's the favorite of PLENTY of people, myself included. A Sci Fi classic.
To answer your question, which I hope is not your reason for thinking the movie is bad, mud keeps your skin cool. Swine are best known for rolling in mud to keep cool. Same principle applies to Schwarzenegger in "Predator".
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hate to tell yea but when cold mud is on warm things it takes awhile for the mud to warm up so for awhile the mud would make him invisable to the alien. but if he had it on for awhile then it would start to heat up and he would become visable.
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okay... about the mud... I haven't seen Predator myself. But rolling in cool mud would not make you invisible to heat-seeking devices/beings/whatever. Yes, pigs roll in mud to cool down. It doesn't lower their body temperature, because they're warm blooded. You would have to be hypothermic for your body temperature to actually lower, which doesn't happen because of a thin layer of mud.
A spoof is the same as a parody, which "UHF" was neither. "Zoolander" is a take off of male model fashion, where as "UHF" was a comedy about a zany television station, which did not already exist.
There's a difference, trust me, I am probably one of the biggest spoof fans on this board.
The mud acted as camoflague as well. That's why Arnold stuck to tight to trees and hollow spots in the cliffs, as to blend in with the rest of the mud, so he couldn't be traced.
While UHF is not entirely a parody, it does spend enough of its 97 minutes in various vignettes that spoof other movies and TV shows. So, it should marginally fit the category.
Compare it with "Top Secret"; its plot is more or less original, despite the fact that it attacks every chestnut in conventional WWII and Elvis movies. But I regard it as much of a spoof as, well..."Airplane", which is one of the earliest of our era.
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Predator was about an alien race who could make themselves invisible coming to earth to hunt humans - and facing AHNOLD, a normal man who could dodge bullets, jump 20-30 feet with no problems & overall take more of a beating than a truck and keep on going.
And you are arguing about whether the "Mud" plot device is realistic? Predator is a ridiculous Sci-Fi B movie, and a work of genius. Case closed.
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