With Predators just around the corner now, we've realized that we ain't got time to bleed -- nope, we're too busy catching up on the original Predator movies from back in the day. The first film in particular has aged very nicely, which got us thinking about what it is exactly that we so love about the series.

And so this feature was born: Our Favorite Predator Movie Moments. Listed in roughly good-to-great order, these are the moments that we always seem to go back to. From ugly mothers to sexual tyrannosauruses, you can't go wrong... as long as you don't have a Predator on your tail, that is.

As cool as the extraterrestrial Predator is, that's not the only reason why the original 1987 film is so beloved. The crack team of Special Forces soldiers led by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch is a truly memorable lot, bad-asses for sure but also funny and real in their way. This is established early in the film as the group -- Dutch, Carl Weathers as Dillon, Bill Duke as Mac, Jesse Ventura as Blain, and the rest -- helicopter in to their landing point. While Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" rocks on the soundtrack, we get a taste of each character's personality, leading up to the following pronouncement from the chew-happy Blain to his fellows: "A bunch of slack-jawed f@$$#!s around here! This stuff will make you a god@#n sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me!"

That's right, Billy -- and it ain't no man. A part of Dutch's crew, Billy (Sonny Landham) is an American-Indian who, in very stereotypical Hollywood fashion, "is in tune with nature." So he knows things are not right when the Predator begins its hunt in the first film. As things begin to look more and more bleak for the group, Billy decides to face the Predator rather than run, making a stand armed only with his knife and his penny-store philosophy. You don't even see what happens to him -- though you hear it. It's basically awesome.

While most of this list is made up of moments from the original Predator, the 1990 sequel which starred Danny Glover certainly had its moments -- with perhaps the most memorable being the glimpse keen-eyed fanboys got of an Alien skull onboard the Predator ship near the end of the film. It was the stuff that nerd dreams were made of, the notion that the Predators and the Aliens not only existed in the same universe, but had actually done battle at some unknown point in the past. A shame then that the reality of that dream wound up becoming the unfortunate AvP movies. It was much cooler to just imagine it.

The first film has a singular charm due to its, uh, singular Predator, but the filmmakers essentially had to up the ante in the sequel and give us more alien action. So when a whole series of Predators show up at the end of Predator 2 (after freakin' Roger Murtaugh defeats the main creature!), it's an undeniably great moment. This is also where we start to get a sense of the respect and honor and all that jazz that the race has since become known for -- they give Glover's character a centuries-old pistol, as if to say, "Riggs would be proud, man." And yet, they're still ready to blow the crap out of the guy if he doesn't get the heck off their ship but fast.

The first film in the series has more than one future governor of our great United States in its cast, but possibly the coolest of the group is Ventura's Blain. He ain't got time to bleed, you see, even when he is bleeding. Alas, an energy bolt through the heart (and his MTV t-shirt) proves that given enough blood, even Blain has time to bleed.