Speaking of deleted scenes...
There's one shot in particular that I believe was missing from early VHS copies of Predator ( I think it's been in all the DVDs available to date, can't say for sure ).
It's always struck me as odd...
When the Predator shines its targeting lasers onto its wrist blades, and they start to glow.
WTF?
Is it cleaning blood off, heating them up, or sharpening them maybe?
If so, why the targeting laser? I dunno, I just don't like the idea of the mechanism there being anything other than "Pred moves head to point laser, caster follows dots til locked... boom."
Making the target dots themselves powerful enough to be a weapon... Nuh uh, sorry.