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Predator (1987) - Movie Reaction - First Time Watching
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A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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You find out alot more about the predator lore as you watch the other films
Most people don't notice at first, including me, but when the predator blasted Arnold after Poncho dies, it mostly hits Arnold's gun. If you watch it again the gun breaks into two pieces and the blast wave puts him on his ass. That's why he is only slightly injured, probably from shrapnel. Also, the narrative of the movie came full circle when Arnold goes after the predator. You'll notice that after the predator gets wounded by the first arrow it begins shooting in all directions. That was what the green berets did before the predator wiped them out because they couldn't see it. Arnold completely turned the tables.
@@odinsahn7648 it grazes his arm
Yall are gonna make a cute family. Cherish her bro. The most beautiful woman in the world is the mother of your babies.
Hey just letting you guys know that the shot on his arm wasn’t a direct hit…….the predator actually shot the gun and the plasma splashed on his arm. Go back and watch it properly…..for years I always thought it was an inconsistent scene until I rewatched it and slowed it down. Then it clearly made sense.
What Billy was doing cutting his own chest was actually an ancient act of defiance found in multiple cultures. By cutting himself, he was denying his enemy the privilege of drawing first blood. He knew he was going to die, so he chose to go out on his terms fighting, not running. That's why the Predator took Billy's spine and skull. It was so impressed that he chose to go out that way that he considered him the best trophy possible.
Not gonna lie. That would infuriate me. Now they're taunting us. Everyone stay calm, don't rise to the bait. Even I want to, but we are professionals.
very primal
Spoiler:
Same thing with Jerry in the second film. Jerry chooses to sacrifice himself by fighting to the end to save Leona and the passengers, earning the respect of the city hunter.
Correct. Blessings and honor
Well said
Billy isn't insane. He just didn't want to die running. He knew, early on, that they weren't going to make it out alive. So he chose to die on his feet with a machete in his hand rather than die scared.
A warriors death. Protecting his brothers at the cost of his death even it only bought little extra time..
He also drew first blood. Denying predator change and it meant, fight was to the death, if first blood was already drew. Warrior mentality.
@@thejamppa Any chance you know what tribe(s) practiced that? I hear repeatedly that Native Americans would sometimes draw first blood as an insult, like you're not good enough for first strike, but I don't get a source on it.
And by doing so, he could buy some time at the cost of one life.
@thejamppa Makes sense. Billy knows it's wounded. Now he's wounded too. Fair fight.
There is a palpable reason for the Predator's laugh before its self-destruction sounding like a human: it was the recording that the Predator made of Billy's laugh earlier in the film.
Thank you, glad someone said it
I mean sure, except that the predator was shown visibly laughing while it was happening.
@@onemuststand7353 many hunters are good mimics, as the Predator just proved by croaking Dutch's own words back at him. As far as the he knows, that laugh is just the sound humans make when the killing is over.
It really annoys me how almost no reactor ever realises this. I got it first time I watched it when I was 14.
@@Enthymene I wasn't talking about the reason or purpose of the laugh. It could've been what you proposed, it might not. I was pointing out that it wasn't the recording of Billy, like the poster said. It was the yautja mimicking and actually making the sound.
When this came out, the mystery of the Predator was one of the big appeals of the movie. Sometimes too much explanation can bog a movie down. Just like Jaws it’s the suspense that fuels the story.
This movie wouldn't be as good if the Predator didn't use thermal vision.
Ambiguity is key.
I remember when the trailer came out, everyone thought the picture of Arnold covered in money was the Predator.
Before CGI, they had to be tricky about what they showed because most of the practicals looked bad if you kep them onscreen too long.. An unintended consequence was that there was mystery and the opportunity for the audience to use their imagination to fill in the blanks or even imagine things that never appeared on screen.
Early CGI was so expensive that the filmmakers would use the same tricks of showing flashes of an effect, with the same results.
Once cgi got cheap, they started showing too much and it ruined the ability for the audience to use their imagination.
I hope they figure this out someday and turn film back into both a visual and imaginative medium.
@@oscardiggs246 One of the reasons why the reboot of Clash of the Titans was so bad.
His laugh at the end sounded like Billy laughing... This movie never gets old.
It actually was Billy's laugh. The Predator just used a recording of him from earlier.
You actually learn everything in this movie. It’s a hunter from another planet that takes skulls as trophies. It respects strong prey and won’t just slaughter weak prey. It’s all there. Hope you’ll watch Predator 2 next!
Precisely, they follow the motto "don't explain, show".
Indeed. Most everything you needed to know about the predator was there. From the beginning where a spaceship comes to earth, to Anna's exposition about past encounters and the results.
No need to spell things out at every turn. Not giving respect to audience intelligence.
(I guess they feel today's audiences need to be coddled and guided.)
@@DocMicrowave The spaceship part was too much and it ruined a huge part of the mystery about the movie. The first half of the movie was an old fashioned 80s macho flick and the audience would have been caught off guard once the hand holding scorpion scene came up. The fact that it showed the ship drop at the beginning pretty much already told the audience that an alien is involved early on. That's the one flaw I believe this movie has in storytelling. Without that, it could have been one of the biggest plot twists in cinema. That it wasn't an macho action movie, but a scifi horror.
@@onemuststand7353 I would agree. The opening space shot could have been left out. It W
would have deepened the mystery and given the first hint/reveal more punch.
Likely the only flaw in the whole movie.
@@onemuststand7353 Wasn't it same with the Thing? No point in showing the space ship at the start, or am I remembering wrong.
The black guy in the helicopter at the end is the actor who played 'The Predator' he did such a good job they gave him a cameo role in the the film. Great reaction guys
This movie was so ahead of its time. Like the automatic popping open of the pred's medicine kit seemed so futuristic, its camo was the weirdest thing ever seen on screen. It actually blew my mind and never have i expected an action flick to be THIS good. The cast, screen magic between actors, story, script, location, music...
Wish i could go back in time and watch it in a theater;
Must have been an awesome experience for that time. I watched it in ‘94 as a kid and was blown away.
@@southlondon86 Yeah the 80s in general had this electricity hanging in the air in regards to movies, it was really special the entire decade. But it would be really, very hard to name one movie that was this intimidating at least to me personally.
Edit: Yes maybe the movie Tron. I didn't understand the story line i was too young but the screen trickery was just as 'way beyond' as is with Predator.
When the Predator shot Arnold, it actually hit squarely on the gun and knocked the gun out of his hands.
It blows the stock off the stock then cuts his arm.
Not only that, the gun had fired several shots in a row and it being a form of energy weapon it probably was not at full charge anymore!
@@RandomNPC001 very possible.
Also, I was thinking it didn’t use the 3 red dot sight when it short him. So it might have just missed instead of hit his arm straight up like Dillion’s
@@RandomNPC001 You put in a lot of thought into that one.
The predator was imitating Billy's laugh at the end. It figured it was taking Dutch with him after getting mortally wounded. Also you hit the nail on the head about not knowing back when this came out. Its the backstory with Dillon's cover up and the predator involvement in Hopper's death that gave it that suspenseful edge. It just gives the creature reveal at the end that much more weight.
I will always love that final close up shot of Arnie's face at the end. It's clear he's already suffering from PTSD. This was the mission that broke him....
And it took an Alien to do it.
His glassy-eyed look in the "chopper" after... "Winning?"... is unsettling.
He's just not able to deal.
😮
I saw this movie at a movie theater on Times Square back in 1987 with some friends and was scared crap when I saw the Predator unmasked. Back then no internet to know ahead of time just film reviews read or see Siskel and Ebert that was the limitation of knowing about a movie. And it was $5 bucks for a movie ticket at the time. Enjoying your RUclips reaction
That was Jesse Ventura who spat on Carl's boot. He was Governor of Minnesota for 4 years, and before that was a Pro Wrestler in the WWF. He was also a US Navy UDT diver.
Predator is an example of a film working with the "less is more" approach to filmmaking. The film was so superbly directed and written and well-acted that the viewer can figure out for themselves key plot points and relate to the characters and the Predator without exposition or over-explanation. There's a ton of non-dialogue scenes by necessity since the commandos need to be stealth so as not to give away their position. So the film relies heavily on the non-verbal acting and reactions by the actors, all of whom excelled in this movie.
You don’t need an explanation. The mystery of the the alien is what makes the movie so cool.
The actor who played the Predator was Kevin Peter Hall, he was also the black chopper pilot at the end. The director wanted to give him some face time. He was also Harry in Harry And The Henderson's. A comedy about a family who befriends Bigfoot while camping and brings him back with them to suburbia. In 1992(?) he was in a bad car crash in Los Angeles and rushed to the hospital. During surgery he was accidentally given contaminated blood and passed away. RIP Kevin Peter Hall
I saw this opening week when it came out. One of my favorite movies of all time. Set the bar of badasserie! I remember walking to the school bus with a buddy who saw it with me, and he kept looking in the trees, all scared, lol! Love the lore and had a bunch of the comics (Pred fought everyone; Batman, Superman, Terminator, Aliens and more; so many crossovers). Hawkins (soldier with glasses) is Shane Black who directed The Predator (which is strangely not good). Claude Van Damn was the original Pred (different alien, bug looking costume) but got fired and replaced by Kevin Peter Hall (who was bigfoot in Harry and the Hendersons). Minigun guy is Jesse the Body Ventura. Theory on Billy is he is a decendant of the tribe from Prey (don't think it was confirmed but would be a perfect tie in).
MY #1 FAVORITE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIE!!
Thank you for watching this one!
I remember so much of this movie was its mystique. The little-to-no explanation (for me) was what made it so eerie. You go in expecting an “Arnold action movie” and you get that, along with an incredible “space monster” movie as a bonus.
Hi Christian & Madison!😊 The films that help flesh out The Predators character are: "Predator 2" (1990), "Alien vs Predator" (2004), and the prequel "Prey" (2022). You can really ignore the rest of the films as many are hit or miss, and they don't really contribute to The Predator lore. Great reactions to your first Predator film, Kids!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
Predators and more to the lore
The other films that add to the character of a Predator are: Predator 2, Predators, and Prey. Skip the others and I would say to skip Aliens vs Predator. It adds a little but basically a bad film.
How about them watching every movie and forming their own opinion instead of following the NPC path?
@@Gurra88its exactly what I do I make my own opinions the only predator movie I don't is the 4th one
How about you post your own opinion and leave mine alone.@@Gurra88
Just like the classic Alien, the ambiguity of the origin of the creatures is part of the mystique. If you ask alot of people who are fans of the original alien/s and predator movies, alot of the charm was from the mystery of it all. You tend to lose something when you over-explain and reveal all the details of something that was only enjoyable BECAUSE of its mystique.
I like Prometheus in a few ways, but it really didn't need to be an Alien prequel-origin story at all. It was better when we didn't know what or where they came from, much scarier as a horror plot device imo.
Same with The Thing, it works so well because you have no idea what the hell the beastie is or where it came from.
and i'd perhaps go a bit further and say that in addition to the mystery (or before the origin was spoon-fed to us), I like the potential that this was just an alien species that we simply happened to stumble across and it proceeded to devastate us. that really contributes the feeling of dread stemming from the simple fact that no matter how much we think we know, there's always something else that we don't. it also staggers the imagination if you consider that these things would have had to evolve acid for blood, and the ability to gestate inside another living host. imagine the conditions on its own homeworld if it had to do that in order to survive. i find that so much more interesting that simply saying "oh, these things were designed to kill us."
@@elzibiel Yes, and to counter-add to yours, the implications of something like that being found on a derelict craft of immense technological advancement purely as invaders/hitchhikers having massacred the original crew (who are also huge unknowns) crashed on a completely inhospitable rock lightyears from Earth, are pretty disturbing. It's one of the best examples of cosmic horror ever conceived i think.
Yes i agree, having them be just an analog for just another very humanlike bio-weapon tech-atrocity really kills the magic of it.
Kevin Peter Hall (May he rest in peace), portrayed the preditor, AND, the helicopter pilot in the ending shot. They wanted him to be seen.
I have watched the film countless times.
Glad to see you enjoying it so much.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
"You're hit, man. You're bleedin'."
"I ain't got time to bleed."
"Oh... okay."
Fun Fact: Theatrical film debut of Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.
Don't Drink It Fact: The Predator's (Kevin Peter Hall) blood - a goopy substance with the color of Mountain Dew - was made on-set using a mixture of the liquid from inside glow sticks and KY Jelly.
Practical Joke Fact: Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger. You're going to have to get up much earlier in the day to get one over a professional practical joker.
Practical Effect Fact: The invisibility cloaking effect was achieved with a bright red suit (because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and the blue of the sky) the size of the Predator (Kevin Peter Hall). The red was removed with chroma key techniques, leaving an empty area. The take was then repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. When the two takes were combined optically, the jungle from the second take filled in the empty area. Because the second take was filmed with a wider lens, a vague outline of the alien could be seen with the background scenery bending around its shape.
When the alien was laughing, he was mimicking Billy's laugh.
Arnold didn't get killed with the predators blast because the blast itself hit the gun first instead of him. You can see that if you look closely.
Nice reaction.
Christian, when they all started shooting into the jungle and you stated, “No questions asked!”, you may not realize just how true that statement is. I’ve never served in the military myself, but from everything I’ve heard from people who have, when one of your squad mates goes down, asking questions is the LAST thing you do. Your job at that point is to put as much lead downrange as possible.
My dad was in Vietnam with the Marine Corps, he says the tactic the team uses in the big jungle demolishing scene is called Spray & Pray. The only thing they get wrong is only half the men should have been shooting, then the other half starts shooting when they have to reload.
The "predator lore" could have been expanded afterwards, BUT one thing had to exist for this movie to begin with: the MOTIVATION of the predator ... as a TROPHY HUNTER!
25:42 - It is hard to see, but he doesn't get shot in the arm. The predator shot Arnold's rifle & the shrapnel of the rifle exploding is what hurt Arnold.
Alan Silvestri's brilliant score is one of the main reason this movie aged so well. Like in Jaws the score embodies the off screen predator during the first two acts, it keeps the narrative tension up.
Oh this has me stoked to see you guys watch predator
I'm a sixty year old movie buff. I literally grew up in a theater house. Meaning my father owned two movie theaters. The first was a huge single screen Drive In theater in South West Texas. It was called the Winter Garden Theater. And he mostly showed, what im those days were X-rated movie. Now they are all reclassified as Rated R.
Then we moved to Austin in 1969 and he purchased the Harlem Theater. It was a single screen indoor theater that proudly displayed on an outside wall that we had air conditioning!
So I grew up watching movies. And Yes watching the same movie over and over again ever two or three hours every single day, sometimes for two or three weeks. Got pretty old. Especially when the movie sucked! There was no HBO, no Internet and only three channels on the televisions. So going to the movies was a much bigger event than it is now.
So I developed a real love for the movies. I saw Predator when it first came out. There was no " Predator Lore". As far as anyone else knew as good as it was. It was just another great Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie. Just one of many one off block busters. There was not even a hint of a second movie, which really sucked btw. But after watching the very first one I knew that the Predator was some kind of intergalactic Big Game hunter. And he just saw the human animals as a great species's to hunt and collect. And then he met Arnold! I remember being very grossed out as well as awe struck by the Predators first unmasking. I thought he was a really cool alien creature concept. But that was about it and I really didn't give it much thought afterwards unless asked about the movie. But no. 'Lore" as you called it was a term pretty much reserved for the comic book geeks in my time.
I actually hope y'all watch Predator 2. Adds on to the lore and some cool action.
Predator 1 and 2 along with Prey are super fun and totally worth a watch : D
... and all the rest (later sequels + alien crossovers) are mediocre unworthy movies
Prey is disgusting garbage.
So the predators hunt humans obviously for trophies but they always try to find the strongest opponent and in this case it was Arnold hence why he revealed himself at the end for a 1v1. And that’s why he grabbed him to have a look closely at his skull. Pretty cool🤣
It's hard to see the first time you watch it, but the Predator shot at Dutch's weapon to disarm him. The Predator takes his prey out depending on how good they are. The weakest first, the one with the biggest gun shot from behind and Dutch earned himself a fight one on one. Not invisibility, no guns, just muscles and skill.
This movie was a lot of show and little tell. Many details you have to pick up yourself.
Differently from many movies today you are also shown how good Dutch and his team are. You are not just told that they are the best of the best, they show it and what it takes to shock them.
The shot hit Arnold’s gun that’s how he survived.
11:31 the Predator isn’t mimicking, he records and plays back audio that he likes or can use to his advantage. Probably packing a thousand Terabyte CPU 💯
Fum fact Sonny Liston who played Billy was so crazy they hired a body guard to protect the cast and crew from him. Also the Predators laugh at the end is Billy's laugh.
When Arnie was shot, if you look carefully the bolt strikes the rifle and blows it in half, the wound on his arm is from the rifle detonating not a direct hit. I think a lot of people miss that first time though and think it's just Arnie being uber-tough
25:44 - the laser hits hits the rifle first which im guessing took most of the impact, before hitting his arm
When I was a kid my neighbors dad had this in his VHS collection and i remember wanting to watch it so bad.
The music score for this movie is so good, it's another character in the movie.
The composer simulated animal sounds during certain scenes. If you listen to the music when they are all mowing down the jungle trying to shoot the Predator, you can hear the trumpets sound like elephant trunks.
Predator is one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Thank you for watching it.
Helicopter pilot at the end is the predator actor. Laugh was a recording of Billy
They didn't waste any time finishing up the 2nd act. Perfect pacing so we get the breather as we transition into the final act.
@30:02 the tables have turned if one remembers what was determined about Hopper's crew. 'In a firefight . . . Shooting in all directions . . . '
You're right - this was the first - and anything that follows will add to the lore/etc. Books, movies, games, all take a shot at the title and want to bring something new to the table.
Movies back then left a lot of things unexplained and left it up to the audiences imagination to fill in the blanks. It's a great technique because it sparks conversations about what you think really happened or what you think was going on. You'd talk to someone else who had different thoughts that you hadn't thought of, it's great.
Whereas modern movies feel the need to explain absolutely everything so no one is left confused, and it sucks because there's nothing to contemplate or think about.
One of my favourites since childhood. Thanks for watching. Some interesting facts about this film:
1) Jean Claude van Damme was originally supposed to be The Predator, but backed out after one day of shooting (he was in a full body suit, completely different from the Predator's design in the final film, and you would have never seen his face at all).
2) Arnold actually LOST weight for his role in this movie, to look less bulky, and more like a trained soldier.
3) The actor who plays Billy (Sonny Landham) was a real trouble maker in real life, always getting into fights, so the movie company actually had to hire a bodyguard to protect the OTHER people on set from him.
4) The actor who plays Hawkins (Shane Black) isn't actually an actor, but a screenwriter/director, and he wrote all the Lethal Weapon movies' screenplays, as well as other movies like The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero, and directed Iron Man 3 and The Predator from 2018.
5) The crackling sound of The Predator was done by veteran voice actor Peter Cullen, who is mostly known for voicing Optimus Prime in nearly every Transformers animated series and all the live action movies.
Yall's appreciation of the actors' swoleness and the 'son of a b***' meme is greatly appreciated lol
''That's the meme!'' First reaction everybody has watching this movie the first time! Lol!
The scene where they all join Mac firing blindly into the woods, laying waste to everything, is one of the greatest scenes in movie history. This is an almost perfect movie. One of the must see Arny movies.
Story of Predator is that Predator, whose ship launched from mothership in the beginning of the movie. Predator's species are known as Yautja. Yautja species are known as warrior species. This Predator went on a hunting expedition for honor and trophies. He kills and collects bones, mostly Skulls from his conquests. Arnold's Dutch is a worthy opponent for Predator. Interesting fact is Jean Claude van Damme had the role as Predator, but he was too short for the role. Predator went to an actor, who stand at 7Ft 2In. His name was Kevin Peter Hall. KPH also did a cameo as Helicopter Pilot at the end. Legendary makeup artist, late Stan Winston and his team created Predator's design and prosthetics.
When Dillon & Hutch slapped hands, an infinity stone was created.
What a cast! Jesse Ventura was an ex operator and actually bigger than Arnold, and they were never filmed standing together! Bill duke was an amazing actor...juliard trained and amazing in American jiggolo! Billy was a complete wildman and had 2 guys for 24/7 security. Not for his protection but to keep him out of trouble!! The helicopter pilot is the Predator! They gave him one speaking line, so he could get a film credit and his sag card! There's many more predator films and Alien vs Predator! There's also a much larger tie in here. Aliens predators humans Replicants and Terminators are all related by a race of beings called Engineers, discussed in the movie Prometheus! In the 80-90s, Arnold was the absolute movie king of the one liners/memes! So many to repeat, but the most repeated line and meme in history is, " I'll be back!". Hard to believe this movie is almost 40 years old!
The Predator mimics sounds like real human hunters use sound to lure in their prey.
36:04 - the Predator was using billy's laugh from when after they blew up that camp site
"If it bleeds we can kill it." is a line used in several Predator movies. Prey is good and so is Predators.
Prey is ok, but the main character appears to have acquired ninja training, and awfully far from Japan...
The first time I saw this was in '89😳. My cousin bought it on VHS, you remember those? 👍🏽, great movie, never gets old.
The actor who played was so crazy and he knew it that he hired somebody to watch over him during filming
I had to smile at you guys trying to understand the plot at the beginning of the movie.. the writers were just trying to get the soldiers into the jungle for their scenes with the predator (the plot is irrelevant) 😊
I just had this thought, when Dutch sets that truck crashing into the mess tent, to explode, Gimli in ''The Return of the King'': "That still only counts as one!''
In the scene where the Predator shoots his plasma weapon at Dutch, the shot was deflected by Arnie's sheer awesomeness! Lol!
MAC React I'm glad you enjoyed this movie, you should check out the sequels
The predator sounded like human because he mimicked the voice of Billy laughing on that dirty joke down at the rebel camp
35:55 -- The Predator was mimicking Billy's laugh when he laughed at Hawkins' joke.
LOL, because of this movie, whenever I walked into another friend's college dorm room, I would never knock (their doors were usually open, anyway) but I'd just go, "Knock Knock". I love how Schwarzenegger's voice heard by the Predator sounded like a little child, at least when he was running away, LOL! You wanna see a real fun, good 80's movie with Carl Weathers, see the movie, Action Jackson. His short-lived tv series, Street Justice, was 1 of my favorite tv shows. I think Predator 2 is a pretty underrated movie sequel. Yes, not as good as this original movie, but I still had lots of fun with it. I think the movie, Predators, was also very underrated. Still not as good as this original Predator, but I had lots of good fun with it and thought it had more potential for other sequels in that same "world". IMO, I think some fans are way too harsh on the Predator vs. Aliens movies. Yes, I'd say they are more action than horror, but I still enjoyed them. On just a very slightly related note, Jean Claude Van Damme was originally hired to be in the Predator costume, but got replaced. I am a HUGE Van Damme fan, so count me in as a strong vote for you reacting to any Van Damme movies, LOL! As a HUGE Schwarzenegger fan, I'm game for any Schwarzenegger movies too.
Predator is the sweatiest celebration of blood and testosterone ever put on screen. This is cinema.
Somebody said this, but the actor who played the Predator (Kevin Peter Hall) was the chopper pilot. The original actor who was cast as the Predator was Jean Claude Van Damme. Lastly, Hawkins was the writer of Lethal Weapon and did the same and directed Iron Man 3
GET TO THE CHOPPA!
When the predator shot Dillion, he was using smaller guns, leaving his arm exposed to a direct hit, blasting it off. When Dutch's gun is destroyed, you can see his arm has taken a scorch burn from the blast.
Classic action flix with so many memorable quotes. Aside from Arnold's, the one I say the most is "I ain't got time to bleed".
I love watching people who havent seen this movie before or its been so long that they forgot, this is the movie where THE MEME came from 😂
I have to commend you two on paying attention and catching every detail as well making commentary but it never causes you to miss anything. Alot of other reactors ive watched before miss all kinds of things while talking constantly. Appreciate you both.
For context, when this came out, Arnold had done a bunch of pure action movies, thin on plot which was an excuse to see him wreck a bunch of baddies. So everyone went in expecting something like that (I think this is after Commando). The movie subverted expectations, in a good way, by having Arnold and his team of SpecOps badasses get wrecked by this thing. We get an inkling that its not from earth, and keeping in mind, most alien movies are whole scale invasions. Not a single alien coming to earth to hunt humans for sport. For all its campiness, this movie still delivers on so many levels.
I saw it back in the day and thought it was this really good combat movie that morphed into this far-out, nail biter being hunted by this bad-ass creature. Totally unexpected.
Billy is native american. Some native american tribes their warriors would cut themselves to show they had no fear, also as psychologicall warfare. "Look what that guy did to himself, what the hell will he do to me?" The bag he had around his neck was a 'medicine bag' a talisman to help protect himself from evil spirits.
Billy was denying his adversary first blood by cutting himself. If you watch it again, you will see that the blast Arnold took was actually ricochet. The blast actually his his gun, so the wound to his arm was much less severe. It was neat how Arnold made the Predator visible with the fire, which then damaged it.
The Predator's vision is in the infra-red spectrum and they do an excellent job of showing this. Also, the faceplate on its helmet acts to correct its vision, like glasses combined with telescopic sight and targeting reticule.
People need to stop saying to skip things. I feel like the experience is the whole reason for the reaction!
You know I've watched this movie for years every since it came out, and I NEVER thought of the call back to his moral code as to why he didn't finish it off, figured it was just because it was already dying, thank you for bringing something new to this for me.
2:52 yes the meme and finally you saw from where it come! XD
Predator 1987 still an incredible masterpiece and its amazing how it still works even after so many years, also the way that they didnt gived such explain about this Predator was still scary °°
I believe this was a one-off film at first, just an action monster flick, but the popularity demanded sequels, so they had to flesh out the backstory and lore some more.
I like the theory that everyone in the movie die from something that define them:
Hawkins: joke about sex => die running after the woman
Cooper: chew tobacco => had his ribs exploded
Poncho: explosive expert => badly injured, indirectly, by the predator explosive's weapon
Billy: silent guy with a 6th sens for invisible stuff => killed off-screen screaming
Elliot: shave his head all the time => headshot
Dillon: loose the epic handshake => get his arm cut
The Predator : hunt from the trees => die from a hug log
Wow, amazing to go back and watch this knowing that there are not one, but TWO future state governors in this movie!
a classic that NOBODY dared to remake! however, I have seen a copy of the movie that repeats it almost scene by scene, and the villain was an escaped cyborg military lab. would you be surprised if I said the movie was damn weak?
That was Billy's laugh the Predator did at the end.
No Pussycat Jokes in this
The dude that pilots the rescue helicopter at the end played the Predator role also.
Nobody in the commando crew realized that The Predator was using infrared until Arnold used mud to cover his body heat.
Here's a bit of trivia for you... Stan Winston who created the Predator creature suit for Kevin, he wanted them to be a race of really tall like Rastafarian Warrior's called the Yautja that live for the hunt and only hunt the most deadliest of prey such as Human's Aliens etc, cause that's how they command the most respect from their tribes back on their home world, whichever Yautja has the most skulls as trophies commands the most respect... now because of the Yautja's size and height they got a great actor called Kevin Peter Hall to play the Predator, you may of also seen Kevin play Harry the Bigfoot in the movie Harry and the Hendersons staring John Lithgow... well Kevin Peter Hall in bare feet without the suit on he was 7 foot 2, but with the Predator suit on and wearing the feet that added a couple of inches plus the Predator head itself being bigger and higher that Kevin was inside, it made Kevin Peter Hall around 7'5 to 7'6, and Arnold is only 6'2 and the scene where Kevin as the Predator grabs Arnold and slams him up against that rock by his throat to where you then see Arnold's feet dangling in the air as the Predator holds him there before dropping him just shows the utter size of Kevin when he played the Predator.
Another piece of trivia for you is you know at the end when the Predator has blown itself up with it's self destruct weapon and you then see the choppa pilots and you see the black choppa pilot say... WHAT DA FUU...???... well that black choppa pilot is actually Kevin Peter Hall who also played the Predator, John McTiernan the Director of the movie Predator wanted Kevin to have a cameo appearance in the movie as a Human also as a thank you and a sign of respect for playing the Predator creature and for spending hours and hours in makeup and in the suit and not complaining once while in the suit for sweating and being able to barely breath and stuff while inside the Predator suit, John McTiernan the director said in an interview that Kevin was an absolute star and legend for never complaining once while in the Predator suit because it was so hot and sweaty in the jungle while shooting the movie on location. 😎👍
I'd like to add that this movie has 2 future state governors!! Also, this mission takes place in the fictional country of Val Verde. This makes Predator apart of the same Universe as Die Hard!! BTW, MAC Reacts to Mac!!
In the 70s and 80s when all of these sci-fi beings and worlds were brand new, there was ZERO expectation from the audience to get in depth histories and bios. Any bit that we got, we were happy with of course, but there was no expectation to get more. All of this interconnectivity and cross media world building is something that really took flight post Y2K. Before that, the extremely self motivated consumer could learn more about a character's world through comics/novels, but for the most part the general public was happy with what they saw on screen.
Fun facts! Arnold got someone in wardrobe to lie to jesse ventura that he had bigger arms than Arnold. I forget the stipulations but this led to arnie winning a bet with jesse, it was specifically bicep size tho. Also Carl weathers would wake up extra early to work out because he wanted the other guys to think he was just naturally like that.
Predator 2, and Predators are the only movies you need to watch.
Yes. The one with Broady and “Johnny 23”
a bit of trivia in case you didn't know- the helicopter pilot at the end was the guy in the Predator suit- Kevin Peter Hall.
The best, the scariest "movie monster" ever made. The facial makeup and prosthetics were magnificent.
Scary, yes. but xenomorphs, It and The Thing are definitely scarier :)
I saw this movie in 1992 in VCR..... no internet, no mobile, no wattsapp.... Enjoy old days
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"It Looks Like The Inside Of A Glow-Stick"
It's interesting that you should mention that, Christian
Because that's exactly what was used for the Predator's blood
I love how hyped they got when the meme happened lol
5:25 Fun Fact the Duffer brothers are big fans of this movie and used the name for their sheriff character in StrangerThings. Yes it was an entirely intentional and conscious decision. Glad you noticed it.
too bad couldnt keep jokes lol...thats was billys laugh at end