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Yeah, rule of cool is important for entertainment. The problem is that you stretch reality too far you end up ruining the suspension of disbelief. For me, people flying backwards through the air after they've been shot ruins movies, because that's just not what happens.
IMO, the best part of the scene from Predator is that they showed just how freaked out the guy was by having him hold down the trigger after he'd fired every bullet he had leaving the audience with just the sound of the barrels spinning. That's just really good storytelling, and not something you can do with another type of machine gun.