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The Mythbusters part is really bad, they are notorious for faking their "myth busting" videos, many RUclipsrs have tried the cold mud and heat vision thingy and it actually works really well, its very hard to notice someone unless they go out of their way to reveal themselves.
For Native American Warriors, Drawing First Blood in battle was considered an Honor. By cutting himself, Billy was denying his enemy of it... The ultimate DIS.
I've been seeing people saying that a lot, lately. I think it's BS. For one thing: After a huge gunfight, and then a long trek through the jungle, EVERONE is already gonna be bleeding from somewhere. If the point is just denying the enemy first blood, it doesn't matter whether you did it deliberately or not. first blood is still denied. It's also a terrible diss. The Predator isn't going to give a shit that you already had a minor ouchie. Especially when he's carrying away your severed head. I think that one, is in the same vein as the, "The "predator" in the title, refers to mankind" one. The people who made 80's action movies just weren't thinking about stuff like that, and nor were the people watching them. I think a lot of it has been tacked on by fans who just wish it was true, cus they feel guilty for enjoying a movie that's simple, and not full of complicated bullshit. Basically, film school nerds who are too pretentious to admit to liking anything that doesn't have a plot within the plot within the sub-plot about the dream within the dream that's revealed in the twist to be the cause of the plot about the dream within the sub-plot. I mean...you never heard anyone saying any of these things when the movies were released. So I'm gonna assume that all the filmmakers intended was to have Billy do something to make him look badass before he died, unless I find a first-hand source to the contrary.
@@vincegamer Its mentioned in several documentaries about the lives of native American people as well as those about other cultures that existed on other continents.
@@HansMcGruber It was, an effect they follow up with in the next movie, but kind of forget after. There's nothing quite like a villain who speaks in the heroes' own words to send a chill down your spine.
@@alexkaen1701 I always found it more funny,, given that it was Billy's voice doing an exaggerated version of his laugh, that the predator recorded earlier from Hawkin's telling pussy jokes haha
I really like the scene where the Predator is firing wildly into the trees after Arnie tags him with the exploding arrow. It's a cool callback to the scene where all the soldiers are firing wildly into the forest just hoping to hit something. Up until that point basically everything the Predator does is calculated, and he is always one step ahead. This is the first time we see him acting erratically. For a brief moment Arnie is the one doing the hunting and it's the Predator that is confused and reactionary.
Have you seen Predator 2 yet? The bio helmet issue seen in this movie is corrected in that one near the end of the movie. The Predators learn and adapt to past failures correcting any issues for later hunts. Same thing happens in Predators that is set on a game preserve planet in the predator home system.
@@thedugout5192 In predator 2 they try the same trick of hiding their heat but the city hunter once it sees that it can't detect anyone touches a button on the left gauntlet which starts changing the view on the helmet to it locks on ultraviolet lights revealing the people trying to capture the city hunter alive. As you might have guessed at that point it does not end well for the humans once they are discovered. ruclips.net/video/C3_dkJICHAk/видео.html In predators the mud trick is attempted but the predator's helmet again changes and picks up on the electrical impulses given off by the main characters heart as it beats
True, but it's also not as random shooting as it initially appears. When Mac and the others were shooting, they were blindly shooting in the general area where Mac had seen the Predator heading, pretty much focusing on the area immediately ahead of them. When the Predator was shooting, you notice he's shooting at roughly the same height and trajectory each time but he's never shooting at the same place twice, meaning he had a pretty good idea at the trajectory and angle that the arrow had flown at and was just going to use a process of elimination on each tree in that area to find where Dutch was hiding.
@@CDRhammond don't forget the Predator in 2 could hear their footsteps, so it knew a threat was there and general area where that threat was. In this movie, this Predator had no clue where the attack came from.
What Mac was saying when you didn’t understand him was, “Gonna have me some fun…gonna have some fun..” This is a callback from the chopper scene, where Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ is playing, with the chorus being, ‘Gonna have some fun tonight.’
When the woman says "Only in the hottest years does this happen", the implication is that the Predator's home planet is hot, so they only come to earth during very hot tropical cycles when they will feel more comfortable and more at home.
Hmmmm... that's an interesting point. I always thought that the Predator tracked by heat vision. But if the body is 98.6, and the jungle is in the 90's at least, and it hunts in the hottest summers, that means the ambient temperature would be higher than that of humans skin. So he must be using some other type of vision.
I always took it to mean they only came to Earth at times when Earth's orbit brought it closest to their own planet, or closest to an outpost from which they depart for Earth. Which happens to correspond to hot years.
@@danielsmith5088 The regular variations in the earth's orbit (which are comparatively tiny) don't affect temperature like that. The Preds planet is around another star, any small variation in earth's orbit would make no difference to those vaster travel distances. Even if they had an outpost around Mars or Jupiter, it still wouldn't matter.
One of the things I find interesting is how Arnold basically becomes the Predator toward the end. When he uses his mud to become "invisible," and starts jumping from tree to tree, the Predator starts shooting blindly in all directions (like the humans did earlier). I think this is the point where the Predator sees Arnold as an equal, and wants to fight him hand to hand.
Makes you wonder what their life is like when they aren't hunting. Based on their technology they must have an advanced society. So there must be predator scientists, predator engineers etc. Not to mention blue-collar predators like predator plumbers and such to keep things working.
I'm still waiting on someone else to spot the Predator is NOT the alien, its' a Hunter (the only name given it in this film, by Billy) not a Predator, the Predator is man represented in the impressive form of Arnie, the ultimate Predator. The alien Hunter loses to the Human predator.
This production was insane through and through. the fact the film turned out so Legendary is not only a miracle but a testament to all involved. Love this damn movie : D
the best quotes ever "if it bleed's we can kill it " these films were epic back in the day. "GET TO THE CHOPPER". the predators goal is to Hunt other Apex predators.
Two lines I have always used when I want to get my kids moving to the car. "Get to the Chopper!!" from Predator and "Drake, We are Leaving!" from Aliens
18:30 -- Their species is called "Yautja" --- They are a hunter / warrior race that live by a code.. As you get through the movies, you'll understand more...
I went to the cinema with my brother and we saw this legendary movie. When we came out, we went straight to the ticket booth and got tickets for another new movie. That movie was the legendary Robocop........................it was a good day!
Billy is my favorite character in Predator. Such an understated performance by Sonny Landham, and I love that he faces the Pred hand to hand, though we don't see them fight ☹. As stoic as he is, even Billy screams as he dies... which really ups the stakes for Dutch's showdown.
Oddly, he gave such an understated performance on camera but off camera he was such a dominant force that a bodyguard was hired to follow him around, not to protect him but rather to protect everyone else for when he couldn't/wouldn't control himself. There is some expanded universe lore in print that shows what Billy likely would've done during that stand off.
The way he delivers the line "We're all going to die" without sounding scared or fatalistic is perfect. You can almost hear him thinking "But I'm going down fighting!".
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I liked the Billy character but I didn't like how he went out off screen.
Shane Black (who played Hawkins) is a screenwriter. He is responsible for the Lethal Weapon franchise, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and others. All great action flicks from the late 80s and early 90s. I've got three requests for you, The Last Boy Scout, Predator 2, and Strange Days -from 1995.
Kevin Peter Hall, who played the predator, can also be seen as the black helicopter pilot that picks up Arnold at the end. This was the producers' way of thanking him for wearing the heavy suit, by allowing him to appear in the movie without it.
Why would anyone fight you about that? I can't imagine anyone else suggesting any other Arnie performance as being better than this. Conan was okay, but his delivery was cheesy as hell in a lot of parts. The Terminator was great, but mostly because he wasn't speaking. In everything else, he's just Arnie. I could imagine people arguing in favour of the first Terminator movie, but you said "naturalistic", not "most convincing". And I still think Summer Glau gave the best ever performance as a Terminator. She looked like there was nobody at home in there whatsoever. Even in Terminator, Arnie sometimes had at least a look of determination. And Robert Patrick, just looked like a sadistic maniac who enjoyed inflicting pain. Arnie also squinted and blinked a lot when he fired guns or exerted himself. I think Terminators work better - whether they're good guys or bad guys - with zero emotion. Like they don't hate you. They don't even dislike you. They don't even truly understand why they're trying to kill or protect you, they just know they were programmed to do it, and have no opinion on the matter either way, or even any choice.
The first sequel, right? Because while Predator 2, Predators, and Prey are all fantastic to varying degrees (Prey being arguably the best film in the series), THE Predator was a train wreck.
Shane black who played Hawkins (the commando with glasses) is now a actor, producer, writer and director who went onto write and direct one of the predator franchise films and that was "The Predator" from 2018.
@@ShanelleRiccio some silly info for ya: They actually had to tell Jesse Ventura to tone it down haha & he & Arnold had a contest to see who had the biggest biceps, & the winner got a bottle of champagne, & the wardrobe lady was going to measure their muscles, so before they measured, Arnold told the lady to tell Jesse "Oh, your muscles are SOOOO much bigger than Arnold's are!" & Jesse thought he was going to win easily, then they had the contest & Arnold's biceps were 1 inch bigger than Jesse's, so Arnie won the champagne but Jesse still says today: "The lady measuring our arms told Jesse the Body that his arms were bigger than Arnold's! & that made Jesse the Body very happy!" which is true... sort of. he won't admit that he lost 🤣 ...and there was a huge log that was in the way, so they asked Arnold to move it, & he said, "No! It's heavy!" & they said, "but you're Arnold!" & he said, "No! That's stupid! It's heavy!"
One of my favorite connections between Die Hard and Predator is Gary Goldman. He was an Army Ranger who went into the private sector teaching mercenary tactics. He consulted on both movies as an expert in military tactics. One day he was walking by a yoga studio in Santa Monica and thought, "I'd rather teach that than how to kill people." Now he's a vegan writer and yoga instructor in Los Angeles, and happier than he's ever been.
The guy making the bad pussy jokes was played by Shane Black, who became a great director in his own right, doing movies like Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Nice Guys, the last two definitely worth reacting to on your channel. Also, the Corridor Crew channel just tested the mud thing using real thermal goggles and it totally works.
@@iisanulquiorrahara8 yeah...imagine he and bis co-directors, cocaine and Studio interferencio, made a predator movie. Glad we'll never know how this could turn out. We'll never know. Never. 😌
Shane Black wore out his welcome. He was involved in some good movies, but that Predator movie of his was the worst in the entire franchise. It was stupid and completely uninteresting. And he also hired his buddy who was a registered sex offender. I think most people just pretend like that movie of his doesn't exist because it doesn't. It was all just a dream.
I just recently watched a video where they tested the mud thing, predicting it to be BS, but were surprised that it actually did fool all the different heat cameras they had.
If the mud is layered and caked on, and the environment is humid enough (like a swamp), the outer layer will stay cooler than the part in contact with your skin. It can't be tested in a sterile lab.
Mack shaves as a sort of nervous tick. Towards the end when he was saying "I'm going to have me some fun" that was a call back to the song that was playing in the chopper. The alien was originally supposed to be much more like a praying mantis. The alien's culture revolves around the hunt. In its society, the bigger the prey you manage to take down, the higher your status, so the species spends a great deal of time traveling the galaxy looking for challenging things to hunt.
Such a well made creature feature action movie. Slow build so you get to know the characters so no death is meaningless, and a awesome monster reveal. One of the best. Thanks for all your hard work lady, you're always a must watch.
I saw this in the theater, and it was an absolute mind blowing movie in 1987, especially to a 17 year old who had no idea how anything was done in movies. :D
I was 16 years old, with my dad in the RAF, and me and a couple of friends knew an American GI who lived on the same housing estate that we used to talk to. He had a copy of this movie on VHS which he invited us to watch, as it was brand new. It was not on general release, and wasn't going to be for a few months in the UK. It was my first experience of Mountain Dew.
I was 13/14 years old and my Uncle took me and my brother to the theatres to see it. And we had a BLAST. I think I told my parents about the WHOLE movie. SEVERAL times. LOL. IMO, this was, is and ALWAYS will be THE BEST PREDATOR movie. EVER! Great reactions to a GREAT movie, Shanelle. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Saw this in theaters with my high school friends. It instantly became one of the coolest action movies ever. Love the predators tech and weapons. That concept of a species just a little more advanced than humans.
Saw this in theatres with my friends on Sat night. Didn't know anything other than Arnold S. was in it. Such a good surprise as to what the movie was about. We LOVED it so much!
Never clicked a reaction so quickly, Shanelle watching Predator? Sign me up! Mac was singing "I'm going to have me some fun", when you couldn't understand what he said, lyrics from "Long Tall Sally" played in the ( get to the ) Chopper at the start of the film on the tape deck.
I think this is such a unique film. It starts out as a typical 80s war movie and then changes genre and becomes a horrific gore monster film who also happens to be an extraterrestrial! -OG
0:50 - Then you should also do Commando. Also starring Rae Dawn Chong and a very young Alyssa Milano. Over-the-top '80s action with so much cheese you'll be constipated just by watching it! 😉
Two state governors in this film. Arnie was California's governator, and Jessie Ventura had one term as Minnesota's governor. They were both also in "The Running Man."
This is original Predator, followed by P2 in LA, then AVP. Arnie's ancient caveman methods versus alien technology are paramount when he yells at night with flaming torch, covered in mud!
This was the first film my parents purchased on VHS after buying our first VCR player in 1988. I was eight years old and I liked it a lot. My childhood movie binge was triggered by this movie. We lived in a small rural town in the middle of Finland. These times made me a huge fan of movies and music, and I also began to learn and understand English through them. When I got my first computer as a birthday gift at the age of ten, I was able to learn to code from thick manuals on my own because I could understand English so well. It made me eager to learn anything and everything. That is why this movie holds a special place in my life.
I love how over the top it is with its masculinity. That first scene with the friendly muscular “high five” always makes me laugh and really sets the tone for the film.
@@HonzoRich The movie literally frames it that way to show how little all the muscles and bravado do for the squad. It's only when Arnold is stealthy and thoughtful that he wins. You know, like the scene that focuses on a tiny scorpion almost stinging Carl Weathers to death?
The secret is that this is a sports movie. It's hiding beneath layers of action and sci-fi horror, but it's really just a sports movie. I'm serious, now: Every single scene is some kind of competition.
Great reaction Shanelle! It's wild among this great cast that Shane Black created the Lethal Weapon franchise and also wrote The Nice Guys which was one of the great screenplays in movies in recent times.
This is why you're great. You judge a movie based on what it's trying to achieve and not "is this dialogue or action better or worse than this other movie."
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but downright scary! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
This is like two movies in one.The attack on rebel base would not be out of place in any of a 100 action movies, after it shows these "Alpha" males for the first time not being biggest and toughest in the room and are scared for the first time years.
This movie is special. Yes, it's done in the 80's where they knew how to keep the ball rolling, but it was so far from the standard mold of mindless action. Yes, we get some of that, but we also got a lot of development in the hour 45ish with so many little nods and cues that I still see something new each time.
Hey man, did I see you at Big Red's penultimate Twitch stream? I'd been lurking for a while and when I got back I thought I saw you just as you were leaving.
@@ShanelleRiccio if both of ya thought The Wilderness Predator in this Film was a total badass then wait 2 ya get a load of the Concrete Jungle/Urban Jungle/City Predator that/who has far more variety of Weaponry & far more other options as well (very Batmanish in a way)!
sort of: it was James Cameron who just looked over at the design drawings on the plane & said, "it should have manibles like a bug." then he went back to drinking his Coke 😆
I was in my late teens when this movie first came out and I saw it with friends at the theater. Being big sci-fi fans, we loved it! The Predator is one of the best designed aliens, up there with the Xenomorphs from Alien/Aliens. Watch Predator 2 next. While not nearly as good a Predator, it does a good job of giving some background to the Predators, which helps when you watch Prey, which you have to see.
I was gonna suggest the same thing! Prey doesn't have anything to do with the Predator series apart from the alien race of predators. But I loved that movie too!
Predator 2 explains how it appears nearly invisible. It's able to bend the light around it that makes it appear almost invisible. In predator 2 its vision problem is also fixed. They try the same idea of blocking out their body heat from being seen in the Infared spectrum. The city hunter however can change the way its bio helmet works at the end fixing on the ultraviolet spectrum that reveals the lights the team was using while trying to capture the city hunter alive. As you might guess it does not go well for the humans from that point on.
"Was there only one?" Well, there is a Predator 2. It doesn't have any Arnold, but I think it's good enough for a sequel anyway. Same writers, new director, a 1990 Danny Glover and the predator loose in the city. Doesn't that sound good?
Ok right off.. Arnold tells the commander they work alone. Then shortly later he wants to know who their back up is? Yep. Definitely lone wolf stuff there. I love it when Arnold tells the guy to clear out the area and leave "no traces" after they literally sprayed thousands of rounds and launched grenades. Wonder how long it will take just to clean up all the brass they dropped lol. The predator races come to earth to hunt. We are their trophies.
Hi Shanelle. The term "heat seeker" is military slang for a surface-to-air, anti-aircraft missile (SAM) which is fired from the shoulder of one soldier and is guided (seeks) to the target by the infrared emissions (heat) of the aircraft's engine.
Mac was singing "Long Tall Sally" when he was getting hyped up. It's the same Little Richard song that was playing in the helicopter at the beginning of the film.
The heater seeker refers to a type of missile they suggested must've shot down the chopper. Not finished your reaction yet, but hoping you do Predator 2 and the prequel "Prey" as well 😀
Shanelle is the first reactor that seems to understand when they unload into the jungle that anything “on this earth” at that range is normally dead. Everyone else- “you’re wasting ammo!”
I like Predator 2 (some don't) but it does provide some background information for Prey which is an awesome film. Some people laugh at Arnie surviving a nuclear explosion. Simple thing: It wasn't nuclear - any explosion big/intense enough can cause a mushroom cloud. So, it just wasn't.
Agreed, i dont know if this reactor is naive or something defending the woman, but she tried to shoot Arnold from behind, and he like other men have the right to defend themselves even if that person is a woman if they put their hands on them first
Me and a friend caught it on cable when it was first available. For weeks afterward we would do an Arnold impression saying “do it I’m here! Kill me now!” Now and then we still say it to one another for a laugh.
Alan Silvestri had a bit of an anonymous career because everyone kept mistaking him for John Williams. He's had a bit of recognition recently after doing the Avengers theme.
Saw this at my Daad's house one weekend when I was visiting. Child of the 80's with divorced parents. Things took a lot longer to premiere on HBO from theaters back then so it probably didn't premiere until late '88 or early '89. So I was 11 or 12. A little older than when I saw Robocop for the first time (in the theater at age 10)! They never checked ID's then and I was always tall for my age. My dad was 6'5 and my mom. 5'9
Billy decides not to wait for the "demon" at the bridge. He removes his medicine bag from his neck and places it in his hand holding the knife. He draws blood to draw the "demon" to him and force the conflict.
Predator is one of those movies I'll watch over and over... never seen a reaction like this. "COOL! I FREAKIN' LOVE GUTS." This is the correct reaction.
Fun fact: the helicopter pilot at the end was the guy who played The Predator: the 6’09” Kevin Peter Hall! Fun opinion: The movie is very much like a supernatural slasher horror movie, but using muscle-bound commandos instead of scantily-clad coeds. This would make Dutch the non-archetypal “final girl” of the movie.
I remember someone working on this film, and then on another movie. I'm almost certain the other movie is "Clear and Present Danger", and the guy was Donald McAlpine (cinematographer). They used the same location in Mexico, but the guy was shocked that the whole jungle they spent time shooting Predator in was just GONE just ten years later when they went there for the other movie.
I saw it in the theaters. I saw it had Arnold and Carl Weathers and knew I would like it. The Terminator and Apollo Creed, what a good cast, plus it was sci fi action. It did not disappoint
The Predator did answer Arnold's question with the same question. A human asked an alien, "What the are you?" An alien answered a human by asking,"What the hell are you?" With inflection
2 bits of info, the helicopter pilot is the Predator actor and Corridor Digital recently did a Mythbusters type experiment of hiding from thermal optics with mud and it totally worked. They had a ton of "gun channel" RUclipsrs and they absolutely could not spot the guy, even with very advanced optics.
Saw Predator in the theater when I was 11. My dad was stuck with me for a Saturday afternoon and his attitude was "Guess I have to entertain my weird son, might as well go to the movies and see what's playing..." Which was a romantic comedy, a children's film, and Predator, which I think he thought was going to be a war movie. When the spaceship appeared in the opening I thought oh no, he hates sci fi, and when it got gory early I really thought he'd walk out, but he stuck with it and I was enthralled with the film. I'll never forget when it was over he turned to me and said "Don't tell your mother I took you to this movie."
I only recently realized that the general knew what was going on and you could see that he was hiding that information in his eyes from Arnold's character.
Seeing this on release (to VHS) was one of the joys of being a teen in the 80s. We honestly did not know what we were looking at. This film raised the bar for action and sci-fi and remains a high bar to this day. We were blessed back then.
What I really like about Predator is that in 1986 the mashup of the Action and Horror genre subverted the tropes of action movies at the time. Arnold at the time, was the quintessential action hero and had gained enormous popularity for his role in "Commando." The raid on the guerilla camp plays out exactly like an action movie at the time did, especially one with Arhold in it. Cheesy one-liners, explosions and people flying everywhere, and Arnold being so good at using violence to get the job done. Then it shifts into horror and the people just shown being hyper-competent at using violence are afraid for their lives because whatever is stalking them is so much better at violence than they are. In a normal action movie of the time Billy and the Predator would have had an epic fight that would have bought Dutch a lot of time. Instead, he's killed off in what must have been 10 seconds, at best, and the only thing you hear is his impotent death scream. His sacrifice was utterly meaningless. The end of the movie was supposed to have been a normal fight between Dutch and the Predator with Dutch coming out on top. Arnold was the one who objected to that since that would be unbelievable since, as he said, "I'm just a man, I have no chance against a Predator." The ending was changed according to this and he uses cunning and violence to fight the Predator. All of these changes and the horror subversion of the then tropes of the action genre make the movie really interesting to analyse with the knowledge of the feminist film theory of today. Dutch and his crew are masters of violence. Violence is in traditional (toxic) masculinity solely on men. When they come against something better than them at using violence they start dying. This mimics how toxic masculinity literally kills men and makes them do stupid shit that places them in danger. This makes Billy's death especially poignant as it's the useless self-sacrifice of toxic masculinity to satisfy a narcissistic urge to matter and be special. At the end of the movie, Dutch realises that violence alone is useless so, he uses cunning in combination with it. Cunning is in toxic masculinity seen as a feminine aspect, men are violent and women are cunning. In essence, he's realising that to have a chance he needs to embrace the feminine aspects of humanity since the purely masculine ones are useless. The initial traps they do are to display their superiority, a display of violence. By doing so, Dutch mirrors the character's journey that Anna has already had before the movie where she went with the value of using cunning until she realised that cunning alone was inadequate to do anything so, she mixed it with violence. "Predator" was woke literally decades before the term became fashionable to use in the culture wars. While "Alien" is explicit with the metaphors of pregnancy and a penis monster I personally prefer Predator for the fact that the elements in it are massively "woke" without the creator even realising it and it only being spottable several decades later.
5:22 - Yeah, I like that kind of slow reveal too. Kinda like what they did on Raiders where we first see Indy from behind and only a few cuts later he walks into the light, though slower here.
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Right away, your hair looks amazing. Secondly, great action pick. Looking forward to the reaction.
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The Mythbusters part is really bad, they are notorious for faking their "myth busting" videos, many RUclipsrs have tried the cold mud and heat vision thingy and it actually works really well, its very hard to notice someone unless they go out of their way to reveal themselves.
Billy was a Native American.
I wasn't going to say anything, but a desk chair has never seemed like the comfeyest way to watch movies. Try the bed. Jammies and slippers optional.
The helicopter pilot at the end was the actor that played the Predator. He wanted his face to be seen. I love this movie!
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For Native American Warriors, Drawing First Blood in battle was considered an Honor. By cutting himself, Billy was denying his enemy of it... The ultimate DIS.
Dm straight. Too bad there was no fight scene between Billy and the predator. I liked the one with the Yakuza vs predator. Awesome sword fight.
Do you have any real examples of that, or are you pulling that out of?
I've been seeing people saying that a lot, lately. I think it's BS. For one thing: After a huge gunfight, and then a long trek through the jungle, EVERONE is already gonna be bleeding from somewhere. If the point is just denying the enemy first blood, it doesn't matter whether you did it deliberately or not. first blood is still denied.
It's also a terrible diss. The Predator isn't going to give a shit that you already had a minor ouchie. Especially when he's carrying away your severed head.
I think that one, is in the same vein as the, "The "predator" in the title, refers to mankind" one. The people who made 80's action movies just weren't thinking about stuff like that, and nor were the people watching them. I think a lot of it has been tacked on by fans who just wish it was true, cus they feel guilty for enjoying a movie that's simple, and not full of complicated bullshit. Basically, film school nerds who are too pretentious to admit to liking anything that doesn't have a plot within the plot within the sub-plot about the dream within the dream that's revealed in the twist to be the cause of the plot about the dream within the sub-plot.
I mean...you never heard anyone saying any of these things when the movies were released. So I'm gonna assume that all the filmmakers intended was to have Billy do something to make him look badass before he died, unless I find a first-hand source to the contrary.
@@vincegamer Its mentioned in several documentaries about the lives of native American people as well as those about other cultures that existed on other continents.
@@CDRhammond if that's true, provide them. Otherwise you're still just making up something to bolster something else you made up.
That laugh at the end, absolutely chilling
That's how a villain should always go out
It was Billy's laugh
@@HansMcGruber It was, an effect they follow up with in the next movie, but kind of forget after. There's nothing quite like a villain who speaks in the heroes' own words to send a chill down your spine.
@@alexkaen1701 I always found it more funny,, given that it was Billy's voice doing an exaggerated version of his laugh, that the predator recorded earlier from Hawkin's telling pussy jokes haha
I really like the scene where the Predator is firing wildly into the trees after Arnie tags him with the exploding arrow. It's a cool callback to the scene where all the soldiers are firing wildly into the forest just hoping to hit something. Up until that point basically everything the Predator does is calculated, and he is always one step ahead. This is the first time we see him acting erratically. For a brief moment Arnie is the one doing the hunting and it's the Predator that is confused and reactionary.
Have you seen Predator 2 yet? The bio helmet issue seen in this movie is corrected in that one near the end of the movie. The Predators learn and adapt to past failures correcting any issues for later hunts. Same thing happens in Predators that is set on a game preserve planet in the predator home system.
@CDRhammond what do you mean?
@@thedugout5192 In predator 2 they try the same trick of hiding their heat but the city hunter once it sees that it can't detect anyone touches a button on the left gauntlet which starts changing the view on the helmet to it locks on ultraviolet lights revealing the people trying to capture the city hunter alive.
As you might have guessed at that point it does not end well for the humans once they are discovered. ruclips.net/video/C3_dkJICHAk/видео.html
In predators the mud trick is attempted but the predator's helmet again changes and picks up on the electrical impulses given off by the main characters heart as it beats
True, but it's also not as random shooting as it initially appears. When Mac and the others were shooting, they were blindly shooting in the general area where Mac had seen the Predator heading, pretty much focusing on the area immediately ahead of them.
When the Predator was shooting, you notice he's shooting at roughly the same height and trajectory each time but he's never shooting at the same place twice, meaning he had a pretty good idea at the trajectory and angle that the arrow had flown at and was just going to use a process of elimination on each tree in that area to find where Dutch was hiding.
@@CDRhammond don't forget the Predator in 2 could hear their footsteps, so it knew a threat was there and general area where that threat was. In this movie, this Predator had no clue where the attack came from.
What Mac was saying when you didn’t understand him was, “Gonna have me some fun…gonna have some fun..”
This is a callback from the chopper scene, where Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ is playing, with the chorus being, ‘Gonna have some fun tonight.’
When the woman says "Only in the hottest years does this happen", the implication is that the Predator's home planet is hot, so they only come to earth during very hot tropical cycles when they will feel more comfortable and more at home.
Except when they hunt Xenomorphs in the Arctic 😬
Hmmmm... that's an interesting point. I always thought that the Predator tracked by heat vision. But if the body is 98.6, and the jungle is in the 90's at least, and it hunts in the hottest summers, that means the ambient temperature would be higher than that of humans skin. So he must be using some other type of vision.
@@michaelgordon3552 The sequels ruin the trope lol
I always took it to mean they only came to Earth at times when Earth's orbit brought it closest to their own planet, or closest to an outpost from which they depart for Earth. Which happens to correspond to hot years.
@@danielsmith5088 The regular variations in the earth's orbit (which are comparatively tiny) don't affect temperature like that. The Preds planet is around another star, any small variation in earth's orbit would make no difference to those vaster travel distances. Even if they had an outpost around Mars or Jupiter, it still wouldn't matter.
One of the things I find interesting is how Arnold basically becomes the Predator toward the end. When he uses his mud to become "invisible," and starts jumping from tree to tree, the Predator starts shooting blindly in all directions (like the humans did earlier). I think this is the point where the Predator sees Arnold as an equal, and wants to fight him hand to hand.
Exactly 🤣💯
Like Cat and dog
Finally! A reactor that gets it that the predator is hunting only for sport.
It's a hunting trip. "Be back in a few weeks, hon!"
Makes you wonder what their life is like when they aren't hunting. Based on their technology they must have an advanced society. So there must be predator scientists, predator engineers etc. Not to mention blue-collar predators like predator plumbers and such to keep things working.
@@keijoolavi2796 Sure, they have interstellar travel, so they're pretty advanced
I'm trying to imagine predator dentists.@@keijoolavi2796
I'm still waiting on someone else to spot the Predator is NOT the alien, its' a Hunter (the only name given it in this film, by Billy) not a Predator, the Predator is man represented in the impressive form of Arnie, the ultimate Predator. The alien Hunter loses to the Human predator.
This production was insane through and through. the fact the film turned out so Legendary is not only a miracle but a testament to all involved. Love this damn movie : D
It has a realistic grittiness to it and the sequel shares this also
Also the minimal dialogue is great your forced to concentrate on the visual
the best quotes ever "if it bleed's we can kill it " these films were epic back in the day. "GET TO THE CHOPPER". the predators goal is to Hunt other Apex predators.
"I ain't got time to bleed" is right up there. I've used that myself more times than I can remember, lol.
Predator 2 showed that. See his trophy room. Alien skull. awesome.
He didn't kill you because you weren't armed. No spoat.
Two lines I have always used when I want to get my kids moving to the car. "Get to the Chopper!!" from Predator and "Drake, We are Leaving!" from Aliens
"Choppa" 😂
Saw this at 9 years old in 87. Seen it countless times since. It never gets old.
18:30 -- Their species is called "Yautja" --- They are a hunter / warrior race that live by a code.. As you get through the movies, you'll understand more...
I went to the cinema with my brother and we saw this legendary movie. When we came out, we went straight to the ticket booth and got tickets for another new movie. That movie was the legendary Robocop........................it was a good day!
Billy is my favorite character in Predator. Such an understated performance by Sonny Landham, and I love that he faces the Pred hand to hand, though we don't see them fight ☹. As stoic as he is, even Billy screams as he dies... which really ups the stakes for Dutch's showdown.
Oddly, he gave such an understated performance on camera but off camera he was such a dominant force that a bodyguard was hired to follow him around, not to protect him but rather to protect everyone else for when he couldn't/wouldn't control himself.
There is some expanded universe lore in print that shows what Billy likely would've done during that stand off.
The way he delivers the line "We're all going to die" without sounding scared or fatalistic is perfect. You can almost hear him thinking "But I'm going down fighting!".
I liked the Billy character but I didn't like how he went out off screen.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439Billy was the only one from start to finish that Knew full on Well, something is up 😢
The only other film I ever saw Sonny Landham in was Poltergeist (1982). I loved him here.
A 'heat seeker' is a missile that homes in on a heat source, hence its name. Typically they are fired at aircraft, that tend to have hot exhausts...
Shane Black (who played Hawkins) is a screenwriter. He is responsible for the Lethal Weapon franchise, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and others. All great action flicks from the late 80s and early 90s. I've got three requests for you, The Last Boy Scout, Predator 2, and Strange Days -from 1995.
Last Boy Scout and Strange Days are such underrated gems!!!! And no one ever reacts to them.
@@staciemiller7465”Where’d you get this suit? Gangsters-R-Us?” 😂
He's also responsible for the horrible the Predator.
@@remliqawe don’t talk about that… thing
@@CoffeeMatt10I was so happy to see he was making it and so infinitely sad after watching it. You couldn't miss the mark more.
Saw it on VHS with my brother. It instantly became one of our favorite movies. It's an action classic. A must watch.
Fun fact: Because Blade Runner and Alien are set in the same universe, the Alien Vs Predator crossover means these movies are also in that universe.
The score is so awesome. As soon as the opening theme kicks in, I get so hyped.
Kevin Peter Hall, who played the predator, can also be seen as the black helicopter pilot that picks up Arnold at the end. This was the producers' way of thanking him for wearing the heavy suit, by allowing him to appear in the movie without it.
That was so cool of the producers especially back in the 80s to do: to honestly give 😢 credit when its Respectfully due 🙏🏼 💳 💰
Without doubt Arnie's most naturalistic acting performance.
Fight me.
Why would anyone fight you about that? I can't imagine anyone else suggesting any other Arnie performance as being better than this. Conan was okay, but his delivery was cheesy as hell in a lot of parts. The Terminator was great, but mostly because he wasn't speaking. In everything else, he's just Arnie. I could imagine people arguing in favour of the first Terminator movie, but you said "naturalistic", not "most convincing".
And I still think Summer Glau gave the best ever performance as a Terminator. She looked like there was nobody at home in there whatsoever. Even in Terminator, Arnie sometimes had at least a look of determination. And Robert Patrick, just looked like a sadistic maniac who enjoyed inflicting pain. Arnie also squinted and blinked a lot when he fired guns or exerted himself. I think Terminators work better - whether they're good guys or bad guys - with zero emotion. Like they don't hate you. They don't even dislike you. They don't even truly understand why they're trying to kill or protect you, they just know they were programmed to do it, and have no opinion on the matter either way, or even any choice.
I stupidly say "CHOP TO THE GETTA!" wayyy too much
I need help
or I just do it to annoy my sister..
well, Arnie didn't know he was making a movie
not many people know this
The sequel is immensely underrated and I'd recommend it.
The first sequel, right? Because while Predator 2, Predators, and Prey are all fantastic to varying degrees (Prey being arguably the best film in the series), THE Predator was a train wreck.
@@davidmcleod5133 Oh yeah, I was talking about Predator 2.
Agreed! Predator 2 might be a cheesy '80s film, but it's so good! Great cast, too.
As a kid I was hugely disappointed that Arnold wasn't in it, and barely gave it a chance. Now a days it's one of my favourite action movies.
Shane black who played Hawkins (the commando with glasses) is now a actor, producer, writer and director who went onto write and direct one of the predator franchise films and that was "The Predator" from 2018.
Shane also wrote Lethal Weapon 1 and helped on the Sequel
Someone should create an academy award category for cheesy one-liners so we’ll get more of these gems.
“Stick around”
Agree!!
@@ShanelleRiccio
some silly info for ya:
They actually had to tell Jesse Ventura to tone it down haha
& he & Arnold had a contest to see who had the biggest biceps,
& the winner got a bottle of champagne,
& the wardrobe lady was going to measure their muscles,
so before they measured, Arnold told the lady to tell Jesse "Oh, your muscles are SOOOO much bigger than Arnold's are!"
& Jesse thought he was going to win easily,
then they had the contest & Arnold's biceps were 1 inch bigger than Jesse's,
so Arnie won the champagne
but Jesse still says today:
"The lady measuring our arms told Jesse the Body that his arms were bigger than Arnold's!
& that made Jesse the Body very happy!"
which is true...
sort of.
he won't admit that he lost 🤣
...and there was a huge log that was in the way, so they asked Arnold to move it,
& he said, "No! It's heavy!"
& they said, "but you're Arnold!"
& he said, "No! That's stupid! It's heavy!"
One of my favorite connections between Die Hard and Predator is Gary Goldman. He was an Army Ranger who went into the private sector teaching mercenary tactics. He consulted on both movies as an expert in military tactics.
One day he was walking by a yoga studio in Santa Monica and thought, "I'd rather teach that than how to kill people."
Now he's a vegan writer and yoga instructor in Los Angeles, and happier than he's ever been.
Dude that dry shaves. He out-acted the entire cast and had so little screen time! He's the superior predator!
I haven’t used shaving cream in at least a decade, too much work and messy.
Bill Duke, a very under rated actor.
Bill Duke is also in Commando
The guy making the bad pussy jokes was played by Shane Black, who became a great director in his own right, doing movies like Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Nice Guys, the last two definitely worth reacting to on your channel.
Also, the Corridor Crew channel just tested the mud thing using real thermal goggles and it totally works.
Wrote Lethal Weapon as well, amongst other things
And he would never direct a single film in The Predator franchise. Not a one whatsoever.
@@iisanulquiorrahara8lol, wish that were true.....
@@iisanulquiorrahara8 yeah...imagine he and bis co-directors, cocaine and Studio interferencio, made a predator movie. Glad we'll never know how this could turn out. We'll never know. Never. 😌
Shane Black wore out his welcome. He was involved in some good movies, but that Predator movie of his was the worst in the entire franchise. It was stupid and completely uninteresting. And he also hired his buddy who was a registered sex offender. I think most people just pretend like that movie of his doesn't exist because it doesn't. It was all just a dream.
I just recently watched a video where they tested the mud thing, predicting it to be BS, but were surprised that it actually did fool all the different heat cameras they had.
If the mud is layered and caked on, and the environment is humid enough (like a swamp), the outer layer will stay cooler than the part in contact with your skin. It can't be tested in a sterile lab.
Mack shaves as a sort of nervous tick. Towards the end when he was saying "I'm going to have me some fun" that was a call back to the song that was playing in the chopper. The alien was originally supposed to be much more like a praying mantis.
The alien's culture revolves around the hunt. In its society, the bigger the prey you manage to take down, the higher your status, so the species spends a great deal of time traveling the galaxy looking for challenging things to hunt.
"If it bleeds, we can kill it!" is probably my favorite badass quote there is.
Such a well made creature feature action movie. Slow build so you get to know the characters so no death is meaningless, and a awesome monster reveal. One of the best.
Thanks for all your hard work lady, you're always a must watch.
I saw this in the theater, and it was an absolute mind blowing movie in 1987, especially to a 17 year old who had no idea how anything was done in movies. :D
YES!!
MY #1 FAVORITE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIE OF ALL TIME!
A worthy choice. Conan is right up there in my opinion. ❤
I was 16 years old, with my dad in the RAF, and me and a couple of friends knew an American GI who lived on the same housing estate that we used to talk to. He had a copy of this movie on VHS which he invited us to watch, as it was brand new. It was not on general release, and wasn't going to be for a few months in the UK.
It was my first experience of Mountain Dew.
I was 13/14 years old and my Uncle took me and my brother to the theatres to see it. And we had a BLAST. I think I told my parents about the WHOLE movie. SEVERAL times. LOL. IMO, this was, is and ALWAYS will be THE BEST PREDATOR movie. EVER! Great reactions to a GREAT movie, Shanelle. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Saw this in theaters with my high school friends. It instantly became one of the coolest action movies ever.
Love the predators tech and weapons. That concept of a species just a little more advanced than humans.
Saw this in theatres with my friends on Sat night. Didn't know anything other than Arnold S. was in it. Such a good surprise as to what the movie was about. We LOVED it so much!
Never clicked a reaction so quickly, Shanelle watching Predator? Sign me up!
Mac was singing "I'm going to have me some fun", when you couldn't understand what he said, lyrics from "Long Tall Sally" played in the ( get to the ) Chopper at the start of the film on the tape deck.
I think this is such a unique film. It starts out as a typical 80s war movie and then changes genre and becomes a horrific gore monster film who also happens to be an extraterrestrial! -OG
Listen to the music from this and "Back to the Future" and it'll blow your mind! There's trivia about that by the way.
0:50 - Then you should also do Commando. Also starring Rae Dawn Chong and a very young Alyssa Milano. Over-the-top '80s action with so much cheese you'll be constipated just by watching it! 😉
One of the most iconic movie lines ever: "Get to Da Choppers". Predator II is really good as well.
No way you didn't watch this before!?! WOW! Eager to see your reaction (writting this before I see your actual reaction hehe) 👍
Yeah, I'm reading a few comments before pressing play, haha.
Two state governors in this film. Arnie was California's governator, and Jessie Ventura had one term as Minnesota's governor. They were both also in "The Running Man."
I think Sonny Landham ran for some kind of office as well.
This is original Predator, followed by P2 in LA, then AVP. Arnie's ancient caveman methods versus alien technology are paramount when he yells at night with flaming torch, covered in mud!
This was the first film my parents purchased on VHS after buying our first VCR player in 1988. I was eight years old and I liked it a lot. My childhood movie binge was triggered by this movie. We lived in a small rural town in the middle of Finland. These times made me a huge fan of movies and music, and I also began to learn and understand English through them. When I got my first computer as a birthday gift at the age of ten, I was able to learn to code from thick manuals on my own because I could understand English so well. It made me eager to learn anything and everything. That is why this movie holds a special place in my life.
@tommimensonen - And for years thought everyone spoke English like Arnold!
This movie bleeds one liners, but it ain't got time to bleed.
A prime 80's Arnold movie tough guys vs. monster tough guy.
I love how over the top it is with its masculinity. That first scene with the friendly muscular “high five” always makes me laugh and really sets the tone for the film.
The world needs more of that masculinity.
@@HonzoRich The movie literally frames it that way to show how little all the muscles and bravado do for the squad. It's only when Arnold is stealthy and thoughtful that he wins. You know, like the scene that focuses on a tiny scorpion almost stinging Carl Weathers to death?
21:35 He's singing Long Tall Sally by Little Richard. The song that was playing in the chopper on the way on. "I'm gonna have me some fun".
The secret is that this is a sports movie. It's hiding beneath layers of action and sci-fi horror, but it's really just a sports movie. I'm serious, now: Every single scene is some kind of competition.
Mac was saying, "I'm gonna have me some fun." It's a call back to the music in the helicopter at the beginning of the movie.
Great reaction Shanelle! It's wild among this great cast that Shane Black created the Lethal Weapon franchise and also wrote The Nice Guys which was one of the great screenplays in movies in recent times.
He also wrote Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
This is why you're great. You judge a movie based on what it's trying to achieve and not "is this dialogue or action better or worse than this other movie."
One of my mom's favorite movies and mines as well, cool reaction as always Shanelle, you take care and have a nice day sweetie 🥰❤️
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but downright scary! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
This is like two movies in one.The attack on rebel base would not be out of place in any of a 100 action movies, after it shows these "Alpha" males for the first time not being biggest and toughest in the room and are scared for the first time years.
This movie is special. Yes, it's done in the 80's where they knew how to keep the ball rolling, but it was so far from the standard mold of mindless action. Yes, we get some of that, but we also got a lot of development in the hour 45ish with so many little nods and cues that I still see something new each time.
So happy that you’re doing these reactions. Always a great time watching these classics with you. Thank you, thank you.
Glad you like them!
Hey man, did I see you at Big Red's penultimate Twitch stream? I'd been lurking for a while and when I got back I thought I saw you just as you were leaving.
@@TheJamieRamone Maybe, I tend to pop up from time to time. 😊
@@ShanelleRiccio if both of ya thought The Wilderness Predator in this Film was a total badass then wait 2 ya get a load of the Concrete Jungle/Urban Jungle/City Predator that/who has far more variety of Weaponry & far more other options as well (very Batmanish in a way)!
@@jrobwoo688 Kewl! They're pretty fun, huh?
The guy that designed the Predator did so on an airplane. He drew it out. Can you imagine being in the seat next to him and seeing that?
sort of:
it was James Cameron who just looked over at the design drawings on the plane
& said, "it should have manibles like a bug."
then he went back to drinking his Coke 😆
I was in my late teens when this movie first came out and I saw it with friends at the theater. Being big sci-fi fans, we loved it! The Predator is one of the best designed aliens, up there with the Xenomorphs from Alien/Aliens. Watch Predator 2 next. While not nearly as good a Predator, it does a good job of giving some background to the Predators, which helps when you watch Prey, which you have to see.
I was gonna suggest the same thing! Prey doesn't have anything to do with the Predator series apart from the alien race of predators. But I loved that movie too!
Predator 2 explains how it appears nearly invisible. It's able to bend the light around it that makes it appear almost invisible. In predator 2 its vision problem is also fixed. They try the same idea of blocking out their body heat from being seen in the Infared spectrum. The city hunter however can change the way its bio helmet works at the end fixing on the ultraviolet spectrum that reveals the lights the team was using while trying to capture the city hunter alive.
As you might guess it does not go well for the humans from that point on.
"Was there only one?"
Well, there is a Predator 2. It doesn't have any Arnold, but I think it's good enough for a sequel anyway. Same writers, new director, a 1990 Danny Glover and the predator loose in the city. Doesn't that sound good?
Heat wave in the urban jungle, it's a clever use of the little lore that was created in first one :) love how it expands the lore too
Predator 2 was boss. I love that movie.
I was in the service when this came out. An instant hit on the base. By the second week. We were all yelling " Get to the Chopper "!.
Ok right off.. Arnold tells the commander they work alone. Then shortly later he wants to know who their back up is? Yep. Definitely lone wolf stuff there. I love it when Arnold tells the guy to clear out the area and leave "no traces" after they literally sprayed thousands of rounds and launched grenades. Wonder how long it will take just to clean up all the brass they dropped lol. The predator races come to earth to hunt. We are their trophies.
23:30 Billy is challenging it to combat and denying it the privilege of drawing first blood in the fight.
Hi Shanelle. The term "heat seeker" is military slang for a surface-to-air, anti-aircraft missile (SAM) which is fired from the shoulder of one soldier and is guided (seeks) to the target by the infrared emissions (heat) of the aircraft's engine.
Mac was singing "Long Tall Sally" when he was getting hyped up. It's the same Little Richard song that was playing in the helicopter at the beginning of the film.
The heater seeker refers to a type of missile they suggested must've shot down the chopper. Not finished your reaction yet, but hoping you do Predator 2 and the prequel "Prey" as well 😀
Shanelle is the first reactor that seems to understand when they unload into the jungle that anything “on this earth” at that range is normally dead. Everyone else- “you’re wasting ammo!”
I like Predator 2 (some don't) but it does provide some background information for Prey which is an awesome film.
Some people laugh at Arnie surviving a nuclear explosion. Simple thing: It wasn't nuclear - any explosion big/intense enough can cause a mushroom cloud. So, it just wasn't.
Busey is awesome in it!
Predator 2 is frickin awesome. 💪💪
"One of these days I need to react to a movie from my bed, what do you guys think???"
Shanelle/Popcorn In Bed crossover confirmed! 😂
What a great movie to react to.
What a great movie to react to.
I didn't type that twice...
I like how everyone is sympathetic to the woman like she is a victim. They grabbed her from a drug cartel that executed people.
Yeah because a woman couldn't possibly be a victim of a drug cartel. [sarcasm]
Agreed, i dont know if this reactor is naive or something defending the woman, but she tried to shoot Arnold from behind, and he like other men have the right to defend themselves even if that person is a woman if they put their hands on them first
That wasn't a drug cartel, they where insurgents.
Me and a friend caught it on cable when it was first available. For weeks afterward we would do an Arnold impression saying “do it I’m here! Kill me now!” Now and then we still say it to one another for a laugh.
Other great movies not to miss include Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, and The Right Stuff.
Alan Silvestri had a bit of an anonymous career because everyone kept mistaking him for John Williams. He's had a bit of recognition recently after doing the Avengers theme.
Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black played the guy in the glasses with the bad jokes (told to try to get stoic Billy to laugh).
In the whole end part of the movie, Arnold has like three short lines.
One of which is one of the most iconic. Your wish has been granted. :D
Saw this at my Daad's house one weekend when I was visiting. Child of the 80's with divorced parents. Things took a lot longer to premiere on HBO from theaters back then so it probably didn't premiere until late '88 or early '89. So I was 11 or 12. A little older than when I saw Robocop for the first time (in the theater at age 10)! They never checked ID's then and I was always tall for my age. My dad was 6'5 and my mom. 5'9
"Arni, you survived a nuclear(?) explosion! Amazing! Are you hurt?" Arnie: "Of course! I got a scratch on my knee! Ow!"
Shout out to Kevin Peter Hall who played the Predator and also played Harry on the TV show Harry and the Henderson's. A 7' 2" gentle giant. RIP
Also was the helicopter pilot at the beginning and end
I didn't realize that Shan-Shan was so bloodthirsty 🤣
Shan-Shan Tsung says, "Finish him!!"
Billy decides not to wait for the "demon" at the bridge. He removes his medicine bag from his neck and places it in his hand holding the knife. He draws blood to draw the "demon" to him and force the conflict.
24:22 - Like you was Joan Wilder and Jack T. Colton in the colombian rain forest! 😉
Predator is one of those movies I'll watch over and over... never seen a reaction like this.
"COOL! I FREAKIN' LOVE GUTS." This is the correct reaction.
Fun fact: the helicopter pilot at the end was the guy who played The Predator: the 6’09” Kevin Peter Hall!
Fun opinion: The movie is very much like a supernatural slasher horror movie, but using muscle-bound commandos instead of scantily-clad coeds. This would make Dutch the non-archetypal “final girl” of the movie.
Fun fact he was 7’2 not 6’9
Shanelle: "I don't like the little cuts - head blown off is much better". Predator: "Okie dokie"
I remember someone working on this film, and then on another movie. I'm almost certain the other movie is "Clear and Present Danger", and the guy was Donald McAlpine (cinematographer). They used the same location in Mexico, but the guy was shocked that the whole jungle they spent time shooting Predator in was just GONE just ten years later when they went there for the other movie.
I saw it in the theaters. I saw it had Arnold and Carl Weathers and knew I would like it. The Terminator and Apollo Creed, what a good cast, plus it was sci fi action. It did not disappoint
The Predator did answer Arnold's question with the same question. A human asked an alien, "What the are you?" An alien answered a human by asking,"What the hell are you?" With inflection
2 bits of info, the helicopter pilot is the Predator actor and Corridor Digital recently did a Mythbusters type experiment of hiding from thermal optics with mud and it totally worked. They had a ton of "gun channel" RUclipsrs and they absolutely could not spot the guy, even with very advanced optics.
Saw Predator in the theater when I was 11. My dad was stuck with me for a Saturday afternoon and his attitude was "Guess I have to entertain my weird son, might as well go to the movies and see what's playing..." Which was a romantic comedy, a children's film, and Predator, which I think he thought was going to be a war movie. When the spaceship appeared in the opening I thought oh no, he hates sci fi, and when it got gory early I really thought he'd walk out, but he stuck with it and I was enthralled with the film. I'll never forget when it was over he turned to me and said "Don't tell your mother I took you to this movie."
I was in my room 40 minutes ago when I first saw this movie 😂
Rest in peace to a beloved actor, Carl Weathers (Dillion, Apollo Creed).
1948-2024
We love you
I only recently realized that the general knew what was going on and you could see that he was hiding that information in his eyes from Arnold's character.
Seeing this on release (to VHS) was one of the joys of being a teen in the 80s. We honestly did not know what we were looking at. This film raised the bar for action and sci-fi and remains a high bar to this day. We were blessed back then.
What I really like about Predator is that in 1986 the mashup of the Action and Horror genre subverted the tropes of action movies at the time. Arnold at the time, was the quintessential action hero and had gained enormous popularity for his role in "Commando."
The raid on the guerilla camp plays out exactly like an action movie at the time did, especially one with Arhold in it. Cheesy one-liners, explosions and people flying everywhere, and Arnold being so good at using violence to get the job done.
Then it shifts into horror and the people just shown being hyper-competent at using violence are afraid for their lives because whatever is stalking them is so much better at violence than they are. In a normal action movie of the time Billy and the Predator would have had an epic fight that would have bought Dutch a lot of time. Instead, he's killed off in what must have been 10 seconds, at best, and the only thing you hear is his impotent death scream. His sacrifice was utterly meaningless.
The end of the movie was supposed to have been a normal fight between Dutch and the Predator with Dutch coming out on top. Arnold was the one who objected to that since that would be unbelievable since, as he said, "I'm just a man, I have no chance against a Predator." The ending was changed according to this and he uses cunning and violence to fight the Predator.
All of these changes and the horror subversion of the then tropes of the action genre make the movie really interesting to analyse with the knowledge of the feminist film theory of today.
Dutch and his crew are masters of violence. Violence is in traditional (toxic) masculinity solely on men. When they come against something better than them at using violence they start dying. This mimics how toxic masculinity literally kills men and makes them do stupid shit that places them in danger. This makes Billy's death especially poignant as it's the useless self-sacrifice of toxic masculinity to satisfy a narcissistic urge to matter and be special.
At the end of the movie, Dutch realises that violence alone is useless so, he uses cunning in combination with it. Cunning is in toxic masculinity seen as a feminine aspect, men are violent and women are cunning. In essence, he's realising that to have a chance he needs to embrace the feminine aspects of humanity since the purely masculine ones are useless. The initial traps they do are to display their superiority, a display of violence.
By doing so, Dutch mirrors the character's journey that Anna has already had before the movie where she went with the value of using cunning until she realised that cunning alone was inadequate to do anything so, she mixed it with violence.
"Predator" was woke literally decades before the term became fashionable to use in the culture wars.
While "Alien" is explicit with the metaphors of pregnancy and a penis monster I personally prefer Predator for the fact that the elements in it are massively "woke" without the creator even realising it and it only being spottable several decades later.
5:22 - Yeah, I like that kind of slow reveal too. Kinda like what they did on Raiders where we first see Indy from behind and only a few cuts later he walks into the light, though slower here.