Merry Christmas everyone and welcome back to the The Film Arsenal. The Gatling gun or the mini-gun; the most powerful machine gun ever created. In most films it’s used in helicopters, tanks, and other military vehicles; mostly just a turret weapon. But as far as I know, in 1987 all that changed in the film Predator. Used by the character Blain (played by Jesse “The Body” Ventura) to mow down groups of enemies in sight. Though the Gatling gun was made to be a handheld gun for the film it’s not exacting lightweight and controllable, one squeeze of the trigger and it’s like you’re in a rodeo. Not to mention carrying around a 1,000 rounds in a backpack. This gun is so awesome in the film that it even has a nickname Old Painless. The handheld mini-gun was used in other films that followed such Terminator 2: Judgment Day used by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger. And in Resident Evil Apocalypse where the antagonist Nemesis uses a one handed mini-gun that fires 5,000 rounds. In 2010 Old Painless makes an epic comeback in the sequel Predators also in 2010 a shoulder mounted mini-gun is use in the film Iron Man 2 by the armored hero War Machine.
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