@@spikeinmadness5005Carl will always be known for Apollo. When Dillon and Dutch lock arms. Whew!! Between Rocky and Predator. Carl had this hate to love charisma
Also RIP to Sonny Landham who played Billy Kevin Peter Hall who played the predator and RG Armstrong who played the general at the beginning of the movie and was in the helicopter at the end
They should totally do some research after watching it and include the ode. So many cool trivia about this movie. The original predator costume with Jean-Claude Van Damme looked totally different and comical
My favorite thing about this film was how they established the skill and history of Dutch's team. They wore Vietnam era webbing and flak jackets, they mentioned Cambodia, we saw their skillset, their familiarity with the Special Forces units lost in the jungle, all to establish that they were an exceptionally lethal and well organized team without any long exposition. Then, immediately, they established how outclassed they were by the Predator. Masterfully done.
Exactly. The whole point of the absolutely overkill action scenes in beginning is to make us realize that they can do that, and they're still more or less helpless against the Predator.
@@kennyteeology3526 Jesse was an old school UDT but probably without real combat experience, everyone sleeps on Richard Chavez, but he is a real Vietnam vet 196th Infantry Brigade, Have a nice day.
The thing I really loved about this movie is how Arnold truly struggled with the predator, and in the end he just got lucky. Most movies with Arnold in this time period made him an unstoppable force with no competition. It was a pleasant surprise.
I read that the original script called for Arnold straight up wrecking the Predator by using his upper body strength… Arnold himself vetoed that stating it would be highly unrealistic.., and it was his idea for him to hunt the Predator and set the traps…
That's the thing that makes this movie great. It's not bruteforce unrealistic nonsense like many other action movies but it's about showing courage when even Arnold is absolutely terrified of the predator.
Good reaction, guys. Btw, this 1987 movie featured 2 actors who many years later would actually go on to be Governors. Arnold became the Governor of California...and Jesse Ventura (the guy with the huge machine gun who upon being told he was shot, replied with "I ain't got time to bleed!") became the Governor of Minnesota. And a 3rd guy in that group ran for the Governor of Kentucky. Also, Governor Jesse Ventura was a former US Navy Seal who ran covert operations like these. After his military career he eventually became one of the biggest WWE wrestlers, and then transitioned into some acting roles, and then successfully campaigned to be the Governor of Minnesota.
Most savage line in the film: "I don't care who you are back in the world. You give away our position one mo' time, an I'll bleed you... real quiet like... leave you here. Got that?"
@@Mr.Ekshin can't forget the first line of the quote! "Yer ghostin' us, muthaf***a!" Also he doesn't say "Real quiet like...", he just says "Real quiet..."
The youngsters nowadays are cracking up when the jungle theme starts playing. It's just funny to them. They just don't understand that that's exactly how atmosphere was achieved in movies... It's sad.
When the Predator uses recordings of their talking to trap them I liken it to a hunter using a duck call. He doesn't even know what he is saying, he is just making "human sounds" instead of "duck sounds".
Yeah. The novels refer to it simply as "the animal loop". Just a digital hunting call that can record whatever you're hunting to try to lure it, or to cause confusion when hunting intelligent prey.
The replicated sounds are related to certain events. "Over here." Call someone over "Turn around" Look over there. "Anytime" Death (the scorpion) "What the hell are you." You lose.
So for clarification on Arnold’s character (Dutch) in the scene where he gets shot in the arm. The Predator didn’t actually hit Dutch’s arm, he instead shot Dutch’s gun, causing it to explode. That’s why Dutch’s arm got a bit bloodied, but not too heavily damaged. It’s a subtle miss, but it does put on that illusion that Dutch’s arm is so big that it can tank a shot from the Predator’s gun. lol
@@Gunnar001 If it was calibrated as such. The Plasmacaster can be adjusted for shot strength. It's possible for the lower end to cause burns, but perhaps not outright limb loss.
I love how we see how good these guys are that they take out a camp with no issues what so ever, just to hammer down how advanced the Predator actually is with how easily it disposes of everyone. This movie's cinematography is so good, I really feel like no shot is wasted.
6:14 Billy mentioning "six men wearing U.S. issue army boots" reminds me of one of the "brilliant" ideas tried in Vietnam. The U.S, military jungle boot (the iconic 'Nam boot) had a unique tread pattern which worked extremely well for trekking through the mud in the jungle, but it left a distinctive, easily recognized track which could give away the movement of American troops. Someone came up with the idea of shaping the sole of the boot like the sole of a human foot so the tracks it left would look like it was made by some barefooted Vietnamese peasants. However, the average G.I. shoe size was about 2 or 3 sizes larger than the average Vietnamese shoe size, so when the boot stepped into soft soil, it left a perfect imprint of a human foot with a perfect larger outline of a combat boot around it. Also, having a smaller 3 dimensional foot sticking out of the bottom of a larger boot made these boots very unstable to walk in. The human footprint boot idea was abandoned, but it was replaced (at least in one area) by a simpler, more effective idea. Bunches of average sized U.S. jungle boots were dropped into the area, and people there were happy to have durable, very protective boots to wear when walking through the jungle regardless of whether they were a couple of size too large, and so soon everybody and his cousin was wearing U.S. jungle boots and leaving tracks that were basically indistinguishable from tracks made by U.S. troop.
The late great Stan Winston designed the Predator costume among other classic creatures. The Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands.
@@maplenutsreact if both of y'all love birds thought the Wilderness Predator in this Film who only has Wrist Blade, Medical Kit & Shoulder Mounted Cannon (Extremely/Very Advanced Gun) was a completely total badass then wait till y'all get a load of the Concrete Jungle/Urban Jungle/City Predator in Predator II 1990 who has so much more Options at their disposal (Very Batmanish in a big/huge way)!
Great reaction! 👍🏻Always loved this movie, I remember watching this as a kid when my parents rented the VHS from the local shop. Those were the days, walking around the store checking out all the new releases. Seemed more exciting back then.
This released a year prior to Die Hard and the same year as The Running Man. Arnold Schwarzenegger reunited with director John Mctiernan for Last Action Hero. After this are three sequels, a prequel, two crossover films, comics, graphic novels and videogames. The titular creature was originally played by Jean Claude Van Damme, but was replaced by the more physically imposing Kevin Peter Hall. Other Arnold Schwarzenegger films to watch include Pumping Iron, Conan the Barbarian, Commando, Raw Deal, The Running Man, Red Heat, Twins, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2, Last Action Hero, True Lies and Eraser
I knew she reminded me of someone and I couldn't for the life of me figure out who, or why. It was one of those little annoyances in the back of my mind, like a tiny itch. Thanks for scratching it.
If you two haven't seen it yet, Conan The Barbarian (1982) is a must see! Arnold's breakout role, plus a truly surprising, unique film of adventure like no other! As for the Predator movies. None are on par with the original, but Predator 2 is well worth the watch, and a really fun and interesting movie. The most recent, Prey, is well liked. It's not a franchise that had many winners, but it is still fun to watch through them, if/when the mood strikes. The Predator vs Aliens movies are even worse - BUT, ya know, they're all we've got for that scenario and have some dumb fun, I suppose. Arnie has some more great movies to watch though. Total Recall, Running Man, Twins, True Lies, Commando, Kindergarten Cop, The Last Action Hero... Take your pick! And, don't forget Conan!! ❤❤
I just rewatched this a couple nights ago! With a big bowl of popcorn and the windows open to let in that early summer breeze... doesn't get much better than that 😃
With the big, sweaty muscles bit - Jessie Ventura who played Blain (the one with the mini gun) would find out when Arnie was going to be working out and would get to the gym 5 minutes before him and splash water in his face so it looked like he’d built up a big sweat and would keep working out until after Arnie left the gym and it drove Arnie nuts that it seemed Jessie was working out harder than him
"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.
Also Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original Predator (in unused rough footage) before he chose to leave the film altogether (due be being very, very, uncomfortable in a hot jungle in a stuffy suit), later he would be replaced by Kevin Peter Hall. Jean-Claude would go work on other films instead and became a big action star himself.
Really? A good movie no doubt... I'd even probably agree it's underrated... But a masterpiece? I'm not so sure about that, but of course, it's only my opinion.
Not a masterpiece, but it is a very underrated sequel. Gets a lot more hate than it should, by people who don't seem to know what a bad movie really is. It doesn't quite live up to the original for epicness, but that's stiff competition that very few sequels can ever achieve. It's certainly one of the sequels that doesn't suffer from sequilitis as much as most other franchises.
The composer for this, Alan Silvestri, is probably now most famously known for the Avengers theme from all those films (and reused in other MCU films). It's always wonderful finding a composer that can land hit after hit over a large span of years.
He also composed the soundtracks to the Back To The Future trilogy, Romancing The Stone, Summer Rental, Flight Of The Navigator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Overboard, The Abyss, Forest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Lilo & Stitch, Stewart Little 1 & 2, Eraser, Cast Away, G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, Night At The Museum trilogy, The Polar Express, Ready Player One and many many more...
He got a couple seconds cameo at the end of the movie. He was the helicopter pilot. At 7'6 Kevin was a great Predator. I have heard working in that costume in those conditions was extremely grueling. He had to spend many hours in it.
Right now what I love most about you two is that you always RESPECT THE INTEGRITY of the movie that you're watching. You allow yourselves to feel what the movie (piece of art) is trying to convey. It's reactors like yourselves that allow me to feel like I'm watching the movie for the first time again. That is something special. THANK YOU. 🙏 👍
My favorite behind the scenes story of the friendly rivalry the cast had was told by Jesse Ventura. He said he and Arnold used to trash talk each other about who was stronger when they hit the gym during the shoot, so this one time Arnold convinced one of the crew to measure their biceps and lie that Ventura was bigger, so that he could later challenge him again but after they had made a bet involving some high-end bottle of booze or something like that. Ventura, knowing he had won the previous time and trusting there was no way Arnold could have gotten that much bigger in such a short amount of time took the bet and lost. He was laughing telling the story remembering how Arnold exploited their egos and played the long game to troll him knowing full well he had always been bigger.
I'm glad this movie reached the status it so richly deserved. Though a sequel was made a few years later, it wasn't really until the late 90's that this film really became appreciated for how excellent it was. It is also notable for being the first film where 'Arnold' is nearly defeated and does mark a shift into movies where he pushed his acting range more.
Hey guys! Fun fact - Shane Black, who played the guy with the glasses and dirty jokes, went on to write or direct many notable action movies, himself! - wrote "Lethal Weapon" 1&2 (Chandra needs to see 😉) - wrote & directed Iron Man 3 - even wrote and directed "The Predator" (2018) Great job! 🤘😄👍
This movie also had two state governors in it. It's a really good thing they changed the creature design from whatever Jean Claude Van Damme was wearing before he quit the film. This design has stood up for nearly forty years.
Another John McTiernan movie that doesn't get enough love is The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas. It's an adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel "Eaters Of The Dead", which itself is a riff on the classic story of Beowulf. VERY different from both Die Hard and Predator, but also very enjoyable.
Growing up in the 80's was the most magical time, enjoying the Action 80's. Bruce Willis may have proven that you don't need muscles to fight off bad guys, but you just can't help but love the Schwarzenegger era. So glad you guys got a kick out of 1 of my Top 3 favorite Arnold movies!
I've watched this movie a bunch of times, and never picked up on the role reversal with Dutch camouflaged in the trees, and the Predator firing wildly like its previous victims... well done Chandra!
He quit the movie because it was so very difficult for him to be in that original stuffy bulky suit in such hot jungle in the heat season....did hurt his career any because he would later become a huge action star himself.
The sound design and sound editing for Predator was outstanding. In movies theaters with good sound systems, you got a sense of where the Predator was located when camoflaged by the sound of a tree branch or other forest material. You also knew when the Predator was above or to the right or left of a character. Very smart filmmaking that enhanced our appreciation of the stealthiness of the alien creature.
They were stumped well into production at how to depict the predator. On a plane flight with someone involved with the film, I forget who, James Cameron gave a suggestion: "mandibles". Even in the movies he wasn't making in the 80s and 90s he was helping to save the day. It was a bit of a mistake to show the alien ship at the start because it was a huge spoiler. But the rest of the movie - great. Get to the choppah!
I totally agree about showing the spaceship at the start. When I first caught this movie on TBS in the 90's, I was flipping through the channels and entirely missed that opening scene. When I rewatched it later on, I thought the opening shot of the spaceship would've ruined the experience for me.
A couple other movies to check out. Another Arnie movie, "True Lies", lots of action, not many explosions but lots of humor. Another really good action movie "The Kingsman The Secret Service". There are some amazing fight scenes in it.
This was filmed here in México, the intro scene at the beach and the military base was in Mismaloya town, near Puerto Vallarta , and there is a atractive park called EL Edén where at this day is there a part of the chopper they blew out and a predator statue
Fun fact: This was filmed down in Mismaloya, Mexico and the actors hated it because of the heat,insects and other stuff. They were miserable the whole time. The mini gun is electric so there was a battery cable hooked to it that was hidden by special affects.
Great reaction, as often with you guys. "I ain't got time to bleed" remains to this day the most badass one-liner ever written, imo. But but but, no comment on Shane Black?! Come on!! :D
Shane Black, did the Leathal Weapons movies and other films. Think he was a writer and producer. Jean Claude Va Damme was in the actually Predator costume to begin with filming, but quit or was replaced. The guy at the end flying the chopper to pick up Dutch was the real person in the costume. I was 7 seeing this film and it is one of my all time favorites. Rip Carl Weathers. (Dillion)
We're all gonna die. Great action movie from a decade of great action movies. The 80's really kicked that genre up a gear, and Arnold was THE MAN. For younger folk, it's hard to convey just how big he was (in every sense) through the 80's and 90's. World Champion bodybuilder, Barbarian, Terminator and then into the stratosphere.
Alan Silvestri also did the score for Back to the Future which is very similar except for the main theme. Once you know this, you'll always hear the music of one in the other. ;)
I look back in awe that I watched this with my dad when I was 10 back when it came out on video. Can't imagine letting my kids watch this nowadays lol.
You guys are too cute. Great movie, I was a young teenage boy when it came out and it checked all of the boxes. Really still a good film a fun film. The predator design and actor that played him did an amazing job.
One of the weird bits of trivia that I always like to point out when someone reacts to this movie is that two of the actors - Arnold, obviously, and Jesse Ventura, who played the guy who chewed tobacco - both later become governors in real life. Arnold was governor of California and Jesse Ventura was governor of Minnesota. And the guy who played Billy apparently ran for governor of Kentucky, but lost.
I'm always happy when a new video of yours is online. And the nice thing is that you watch it in the right order. First the alien films 1 - 4. Then the Predator films 1,2. Then the alien vs predator films is in my opinion the right order. Greetings from Germany
@@dallesamllhals9161 depends on what expectations you have when you approach the films. I don't compare the new films so much with the old ones. Just watch them. I think Alien vs Predator part 1 from 2004. That was even better than Alien vs Predator 2. I didn't like the other newer films.
There is a really cool theory that was somewhat backed up by cannon that the T-800 model terminators that skynet uses are modeled after Dutch . After defeating a predator 1 v 1 the govt took Dutch and they started preparing for a predator invasion . They used tech recovered to advance our tech and even gave Dutch some cyber parts so he could live longer because he took a radiation hit from the explosion. Dutch would come to be one of the founders of Cyberdyne systems which was originally created to combat predators. Cyberdyne /Skynet saw Dutch as the greatest human warrior so they used his image on the T-800 I wish i could remember where I read this , it was from a newer Predator graphic story . It also included Dutch's brother who basically spent his life searching for Dutch after this incident.
Fun Fact Kevin Peter Hall plays the helicopter pilot in the 1987 film Predator and also plays the Predator in the film. Director John McTiernan gave Hall the role of the unnamed pilot as a thank you for his weeks of grueling work in the Predator suit. Hall also makes a cameo as the pilot who comments on the view of the mushroom cloud in the Guatemalan jungle.
Shane Black, reading the comic at the very end credits, is the writer of Lethal Weapon. He has also written and directed other movies including a favorite of mine, Nice Guys.
The fact that you realize smaller species of scorpion are often more potent. Coolness. I actually have that species as a pet and they glow insanely bright under UV. Anyhow, I like the chemestry you two have, oh how I wish I had friends to watch movies with. All my friends are not so local or not into movies, etc. Most of them don't even watch my videos or know I have even been on TV , lol.
Never seen Chandra so animated - I guess she liked it - LOL. Please go on to Predator 2 sometime in the not too distant future. Set in a different jungle, that one. With Danny Glover. Thanks guys. AVP is well worth a spin, trust me.
Jesse Ventura was a professional wrestler in his younger years and then later was elected as the governor of Minnesota. So there are two future governors in this movie, the other of course being Arnold as the future governor of California.
What make this 80s classic Arnie movie so special at the time was subverting expectation in an actual refreshing great way from a typical action fest beginning into a surprising effective horror movie. Yes indeed its from the same filmmaker that also did classic Die Hard :-)
Predator, Alien, Terminator are all just some of the great movie monsters special effects legend Stan "The Man" Winston and his effects company brought to life. Also, the Predator's sounds and voice at the end are from Peter "Optimus Prime" Cullen. The chopper pilot was played by the guy who played the Predator, as a way of them letting us see him outside of the suit, for all of the suffering he had to go through. Additionally, some of the cloaked Predator effects are left over from when Jean Claud VanDamm was playing the Predator prior to its rework. Since it's hidden by the cloaking effect, you can't really tell that it's more lithe than the uncloaked one. I believe there's a mockup somewhere of what the Predator was originally intended to look like (more slender, reptilian), that you could look up. We do see some of VanDamm's work in the making of stuff on the special editions.
Sonny Landham (Billy) worked in Adult Films before going mainstream. He also played another character called Billy in "48 Hours." That is a great film which was Eddie Murphy's first movie.
Predator and Die Hare are 2 of the best action movies. Also you might want to try: T2, Under Siege, Planet of the Apes trilogy, Road House, Tombstone, The Mummy, Rush Hour 1 and 2, Equalizer trilogy, Air Force 1, Blade, Running Man, Ronin, the Verhoven sci-fi trilogy, Elite Squad 1 and 2, Point Break, Taken, 300, Spiderman 1 and 2 (Raimi), Assault on Precinct 13, The Fugitive, Minority Report, Bourne trilogy, Face/Off, First Blood, Gladiator, Leon, Heat, Indiana Jones trilogy, Matrix 1 and 2. wildcard: Upgrade.
12:33 the creature studies their skills most Predators use infra-red to track their prey, so the mud made it impossible for the Predator to see Dutch. that roar Dutch gives is legendary...it's become a meme on the internet 🤣 31:02 Primary Rule of the Predator...NEVER let their technology fall into human hands...so they blow themselves up.
RIP Carl Weathers.
Commando next !
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@@happyapple4269Apollo Creed 🥊
@@spikeinmadness5005Carl will always be known for Apollo. When Dillon and Dutch lock arms. Whew!! Between Rocky and Predator. Carl had this hate to love charisma
I was about to say R.I.P. He's also Chubbs in Happy Gilmore and also in Rocky movies as Apollo Creed. ❤
Also RIP to Sonny Landham who played Billy Kevin Peter Hall who played the predator and RG Armstrong who played the general at the beginning of the movie and was in the helicopter at the end
That helicopter pilot at the end is Kevin Peter Hall, the guy who played the Predator!
They should totally do some research after watching it and include the ode. So many cool trivia about this movie. The original predator costume with Jean-Claude Van Damme looked totally different and comical
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He went on to play the Predator again in PREDATOR 2 (which sadly was his last role, as he died the year after)
My favorite thing about this film was how they established the skill and history of Dutch's team. They wore Vietnam era webbing and flak jackets, they mentioned Cambodia, we saw their skillset, their familiarity with the Special Forces units lost in the jungle, all to establish that they were an exceptionally lethal and well organized team without any long exposition. Then, immediately, they established how outclassed they were by the Predator. Masterfully done.
Masterful case of show don't tell. Using the scenarios to bring us up to speed.
Exactly. The whole point of the absolutely overkill action scenes in beginning is to make us realize that they can do that, and they're still more or less helpless against the Predator.
Jesse Ventura was a former Navy Seal so he could bring real-life expertise to the set.
@@kennyteeology3526 Jesse was an old school UDT but probably without real combat experience, everyone sleeps on Richard Chavez, but he is a real Vietnam vet 196th Infantry Brigade, Have a nice day.
The thing I really loved about this movie is how Arnold truly struggled with the predator, and in the end he just got lucky. Most movies with Arnold in this time period made him an unstoppable force with no competition. It was a pleasant surprise.
I read that the original script called for Arnold straight up wrecking the Predator by using his upper body strength… Arnold himself vetoed that stating it would be highly unrealistic.., and it was his idea for him to hunt the Predator and set the traps…
@@johnkelly90 He made a great call.
Man this is where Arnold is different from Stallone@@johnkelly90
That's the thing that makes this movie great. It's not bruteforce unrealistic nonsense like many other action movies but it's about showing courage when even Arnold is absolutely terrified of the predator.
“If you lose it here, you’re in a world of hurt” … so many great lines here!
When I’m hiking in remote places I use this quote a lot. Unreal!
Good reaction, guys. Btw, this 1987 movie featured 2 actors who many years later would actually go on to be Governors. Arnold became the Governor of California...and Jesse Ventura (the guy with the huge machine gun who upon being told he was shot, replied with "I ain't got time to bleed!") became the Governor of Minnesota. And a 3rd guy in that group ran for the Governor of Kentucky.
Also, Governor Jesse Ventura was a former US Navy Seal who ran covert operations like these. After his military career he eventually became one of the biggest WWE wrestlers, and then transitioned into some acting roles, and then successfully campaigned to be the Governor of Minnesota.
"If it bleeds, we can kill it." One of the best Onliners in Movie-History. John McTiernan is the King of Action-Movies.
Nahhh.... it's "stick around" or "I ain't got time to bleed", lol.
Perfectly referenced in Prey
"if it bleeds we can kill it." "I ain't got time to bleed."
The best line from this movie: Get to the choppa!. And you cut it out! Missed opportunity!
I guess they didn't get to da choppa.
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If you loved Terminator and Predator you'll totally flip for "Total Recall" (1990). It's one of my favorite Arnold films.
Only is you mean the 2012 version
Brilliant film.
I still have a hard time following Total Recall. Amazing film. Going to watch it again. When i watched it younger it was for the 3 chest woman.
They should wait 2 weeks
sorry but that one was too campy
You people are so intensely FOCUSED, I love it! It really makes your reactions stand out, since you take it all in and then delightfully process it...
Everyone's gonna recommend Commando or Total Recall after this, but I wanna Recommend "Conan the Barbarian". It's the role that put Arnold on the map!
"I ain't got time to bleed"
The most savage line of all time.
I'd say "The only thing you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is: We're both about to die." is on the same level, but yeah...
Most savage line in the film: "I don't care who you are back in the world. You give away our position one mo' time, an I'll bleed you... real quiet like... leave you here. Got that?"
@@Mr.Ekshin can't forget the first line of the quote! "Yer ghostin' us, muthaf***a!" Also he doesn't say "Real quiet like...", he just says "Real quiet..."
@@Mr.Ekshinlove that Mac line, lol
they had to tell Jesse Ventura to tone it down LOL hilarious
Those Terminator, Commando, and Predator themes are always popping up in my head, such good pieces of music.
The youngsters nowadays are cracking up when the jungle theme starts playing. It's just funny to them. They just don't understand that that's exactly how atmosphere was achieved in movies... It's sad.
I like the joke "That makes one of us" . Funniest thing he ever said so far
When the Predator uses recordings of their talking to trap them I liken it to a hunter using a duck call. He doesn't even know what he is saying, he is just making "human sounds" instead of "duck sounds".
I'm pretty sure that was the idea behind it. Really cool concept, I think =)
Never noticed before
Yeah. The novels refer to it simply as "the animal loop". Just a digital hunting call that can record whatever you're hunting to try to lure it, or to cause confusion when hunting intelligent prey.
Yautja have translator from human languages so he understand what they talk. They rare speak to humans but they can.
The replicated sounds are related to certain events.
"Over here." Call someone over
"Turn around" Look over there.
"Anytime" Death (the scorpion)
"What the hell are you." You lose.
Predator 2, absolutely!
Big time , it's 1 of the best sequels ever made along with die hard 3 lethal weapon 1 2 & 3 & beverly hills cop 2
So for clarification on Arnold’s character (Dutch) in the scene where he gets shot in the arm. The Predator didn’t actually hit Dutch’s arm, he instead shot Dutch’s gun, causing it to explode. That’s why Dutch’s arm got a bit bloodied, but not too heavily damaged. It’s a subtle miss, but it does put on that illusion that Dutch’s arm is so big that it can tank a shot from the Predator’s gun. lol
Yep. He got hit with superheated shrapnel from his exploding rifle. A direct plasma hit to his arm would’ve probably blown it off.
@@Gunnar001 If it was calibrated as such. The Plasmacaster can be adjusted for shot strength. It's possible for the lower end to cause burns, but perhaps not outright limb loss.
I love how we see how good these guys are that they take out a camp with no issues what so ever, just to hammer down how advanced the Predator actually is with how easily it disposes of everyone. This movie's cinematography is so good, I really feel like no shot is wasted.
It's like two different movie. A pure action movie slowly turns into a scifi horror lol
6:14 Billy mentioning "six men wearing U.S. issue army boots" reminds me of one of the "brilliant" ideas tried in Vietnam. The U.S, military jungle boot (the iconic 'Nam boot) had a unique tread pattern which worked extremely well for trekking through the mud in the jungle, but it left a distinctive, easily recognized track which could give away the movement of American troops. Someone came up with the idea of shaping the sole of the boot like the sole of a human foot so the tracks it left would look like it was made by some barefooted Vietnamese peasants. However, the average G.I. shoe size was about 2 or 3 sizes larger than the average Vietnamese shoe size, so when the boot stepped into soft soil, it left a perfect imprint of a human foot with a perfect larger outline of a combat boot around it. Also, having a smaller 3 dimensional foot sticking out of the bottom of a larger boot made these boots very unstable to walk in. The human footprint boot idea was abandoned, but it was replaced (at least in one area) by a simpler, more effective idea. Bunches of average sized U.S. jungle boots were dropped into the area, and people there were happy to have durable, very protective boots to wear when walking through the jungle regardless of whether they were a couple of size too large, and so soon everybody and his cousin was wearing U.S. jungle boots and leaving tracks that were basically indistinguishable from tracks made by U.S. troop.
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The late great Stan Winston designed the Predator costume among other classic creatures. The Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands.
Oh wow, those are all super famous characters! He was obviously very talented!
Originally planned to have Jean Claude van Damme in the costume, but settled on the excellent choice of 7ft 2" Kevin Peter Hall.
Yes. Stan Winston...Su-per Gen-ee-us!
@@maplenutsreact if both of y'all love birds thought the Wilderness Predator in this Film who only has Wrist Blade, Medical Kit & Shoulder Mounted Cannon (Extremely/Very Advanced Gun) was a completely total badass then wait till y'all get a load of the Concrete Jungle/Urban Jungle/City Predator in Predator II 1990 who has so much more Options at their disposal (Very Batmanish in a big/huge way)!
The Thing wasn't Stan Winston. That was Rob Bottin, and he was only 22.
Great reaction! 👍🏻Always loved this movie, I remember watching this as a kid when my parents rented the VHS from the local shop. Those were the days, walking around the store checking out all the new releases. Seemed more exciting back then.
‘If it bleeds, we can kill it.’ Truly iconic.
This released a year prior to Die Hard and the same year as The Running Man. Arnold Schwarzenegger reunited with director John Mctiernan for Last Action Hero. After this are three sequels, a prequel, two crossover films, comics, graphic novels and videogames. The titular creature was originally played by Jean Claude Van Damme, but was replaced by the more physically imposing Kevin Peter Hall. Other Arnold Schwarzenegger films to watch include Pumping Iron, Conan the Barbarian, Commando, Raw Deal, The Running Man, Red Heat, Twins, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, Terminator 2, Last Action Hero, True Lies and Eraser
Didn't know Julia Stiles' sister had a TH-cam channel.
I knew she reminded me of someone and I couldn't for the life of me figure out who, or why. It was one of those little annoyances in the back of my mind, like a tiny itch. Thanks for scratching it.
Damn you got it! First I thought Anna Friel but quickly no wrong!
Hahaha true
If you two haven't seen it yet, Conan The Barbarian (1982) is a must see! Arnold's breakout role, plus a truly surprising, unique film of adventure like no other!
As for the Predator movies. None are on par with the original, but Predator 2 is well worth the watch, and a really fun and interesting movie. The most recent, Prey, is well liked. It's not a franchise that had many winners, but it is still fun to watch through them, if/when the mood strikes. The Predator vs Aliens movies are even worse - BUT, ya know, they're all we've got for that scenario and have some dumb fun, I suppose.
Arnie has some more great movies to watch though. Total Recall, Running Man, Twins, True Lies, Commando, Kindergarten Cop, The Last Action Hero... Take your pick! And, don't forget Conan!! ❤❤
I just rewatched this a couple nights ago! With a big bowl of popcorn and the windows open to let in that early summer breeze... doesn't get much better than that 😃
This film is an absolute masterclass in building tension. Over hereeee
With the big, sweaty muscles bit - Jessie Ventura who played Blain (the one with the mini gun) would find out when Arnie was going to be working out and would get to the gym 5 minutes before him and splash water in his face so it looked like he’d built up a big sweat and would keep working out until after Arnie left the gym and it drove Arnie nuts that it seemed Jessie was working out harder than him
"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.
You got time to duck?
For nearly 40 years I've said that I ain't got time to bleed anytime I cut or scratch myself. Even if it's just a paper cut.
Hahaha I wouldn't have taken either of them for practical jokers!
Also Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original Predator (in unused rough footage) before he chose to leave the film altogether (due be being very, very, uncomfortable in a hot jungle in a stuffy suit), later he would be replaced by Kevin Peter Hall. Jean-Claude would go work on other films instead and became a big action star himself.
@@maplenutsreact haha! Arnold has a wicked sense of humour.
Predator 2 is an underrated masterpiece as well
You damn right it is , top 3 greatest sequels
Really? A good movie no doubt... I'd even probably agree it's underrated... But a masterpiece? I'm not so sure about that, but of course, it's only my opinion.
@@FilthTribeFTP it is, because the predator in a city with new weapons is awesome
Not a masterpiece, but it is a very underrated sequel. Gets a lot more hate than it should, by people who don't seem to know what a bad movie really is. It doesn't quite live up to the original for epicness, but that's stiff competition that very few sequels can ever achieve. It's certainly one of the sequels that doesn't suffer from sequilitis as much as most other franchises.
@@vladyvhv9579 mucho texto, it is a master piece
The composer for this, Alan Silvestri, is probably now most famously known for the Avengers theme from all those films (and reused in other MCU films). It's always wonderful finding a composer that can land hit after hit over a large span of years.
He also composed the soundtracks to the Back To The Future trilogy, Romancing The Stone, Summer Rental, Flight Of The Navigator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Overboard, The Abyss, Forest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Lilo & Stitch, Stewart Little 1 & 2, Eraser, Cast Away, G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, Night At The Museum trilogy, The Polar Express, Ready Player One and many many more...
Otro gran compositor es jhon Williams
@@MLJ7956 The Delta Force.
I like how Dutch says my men are not expendable and many years later he makes a movie where him and his men are the expendables in 1,2,3
Well, in this movie he really meant it - his expression at the end in the chopper says it all.
Props to and ROP to Kevin Peter Hall. He really brought the predators scale to life...
He got a couple seconds cameo at the end of the movie.
He was the helicopter pilot.
At 7'6 Kevin was a great Predator.
I have heard working in that costume in those conditions was extremely grueling. He had to spend many hours in it.
Right now what I love most about you two is that you always RESPECT THE INTEGRITY of the movie that you're watching. You allow yourselves to feel what the movie (piece of art) is trying to convey.
It's reactors like yourselves that allow me to feel like I'm watching the movie for the first time again. That is something special.
THANK YOU. 🙏 👍
My favorite behind the scenes story of the friendly rivalry the cast had was told by Jesse Ventura. He said he and Arnold used to trash talk each other about who was stronger when they hit the gym during the shoot, so this one time Arnold convinced one of the crew to measure their biceps and lie that Ventura was bigger, so that he could later challenge him again but after they had made a bet involving some high-end bottle of booze or something like that. Ventura, knowing he had won the previous time and trusting there was no way Arnold could have gotten that much bigger in such a short amount of time took the bet and lost. He was laughing telling the story remembering how Arnold exploited their egos and played the long game to troll him knowing full well he had always been bigger.
I'm glad this movie reached the status it so richly deserved. Though a sequel was made a few years later, it wasn't really until the late 90's that this film really became appreciated for how excellent it was.
It is also notable for being the first film where 'Arnold' is nearly defeated and does mark a shift into movies where he pushed his acting range more.
Hey guys! Fun fact - Shane Black, who played the guy with the glasses and dirty jokes, went on to write or direct many notable action movies, himself!
- wrote "Lethal Weapon" 1&2 (Chandra needs to see 😉)
- wrote & directed Iron Man 3
- even wrote and directed "The Predator" (2018)
Great job! 🤘😄👍
Shane Black also wrote another one of my favorite 80s films 'The Monster Squad' (1987) 😉
Yeah, the Lethal Weapon series is one of the best!
Too bad the 2018 Pred was utter crap...
@@gambarBut then we got Prey!
Terminator, T2, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Robocop, and Starship Troopers are all so good in a very similar way.
This movie also had two state governors in it.
It's a really good thing they changed the creature design from whatever Jean Claude Van Damme was wearing before he quit the film. This design has stood up for nearly forty years.
Another John McTiernan movie that doesn't get enough love is The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas. It's an adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel "Eaters Of The Dead", which itself is a riff on the classic story of Beowulf. VERY different from both Die Hard and Predator, but also very enjoyable.
Yes! I love that movie! Honestly I'm just a Michael Crichton fan in general, but this was an excellent adaptation of an otherwise middling book.
Growing up in the 80's was the most magical time, enjoying the Action 80's. Bruce Willis may have proven that you don't need muscles to fight off bad guys, but you just can't help but love the Schwarzenegger era. So glad you guys got a kick out of 1 of my Top 3 favorite Arnold movies!
Many iconic lines, but my favorite is
"I can't tell".
I've watched this movie a bunch of times, and never picked up on the role reversal with Dutch camouflaged in the trees, and the Predator firing wildly like its previous victims... well done Chandra!
Classic movie 🎥! Enjoy guys .. Fun FACT Jean Claude Van Damme was originally in the suit before they redesigned it.
He quit the movie because it was so very difficult for him to be in that original stuffy bulky suit in such hot jungle in the heat season....did hurt his career any because he would later become a huge action star himself.
@@MLJ7956 & because he was dancing around the jungle & i think he was high on drugs too?
The sound design and sound editing for Predator was outstanding. In movies theaters with good sound systems, you got a sense of where the Predator was located when camoflaged by the sound of a tree branch or other forest material. You also knew when the Predator was above or to the right or left of a character. Very smart filmmaking that enhanced our appreciation of the stealthiness of the alien creature.
Peter Cullen the original voice actor for Optimus Prime was the voice of the Predator.
Predator gave me nightmares when I was little but DAMN this had the best action ever
They were stumped well into production at how to depict the predator. On a plane flight with someone involved with the film, I forget who, James Cameron gave a suggestion: "mandibles". Even in the movies he wasn't making in the 80s and 90s he was helping to save the day. It was a bit of a mistake to show the alien ship at the start because it was a huge spoiler. But the rest of the movie - great. Get to the choppah!
I totally agree about showing the spaceship at the start. When I first caught this movie on TBS in the 90's, I was flipping through the channels and entirely missed that opening scene. When I rewatched it later on, I thought the opening shot of the spaceship would've ruined the experience for me.
Yeah.... I think both opening scenes for Predator AND The Thing, should've never made it into the final cut.
Get to da choppa.
When I went to an Arnold meet & greet as he left the stage he turned back & yelled this 😊
Sweaty Jungle muscles was my college band name 🤣.
Another fantastic reaction.
Twins with Danny DeVito... great comedy movie with Arnold
I can’t say how good this was in the theater! Yes, keep going with all of them…they are a blast!!😄
A couple other movies to check out. Another Arnie movie, "True Lies", lots of action, not many explosions but lots of humor. Another really good action movie "The Kingsman The Secret Service". There are some amazing fight scenes in it.
Your reaction to the skull/spine rip of Billy was excellent, lol
4:09 The guy that caught the ball of tape and is reading is Shane Black. He directed one of the sequels, "The Predator".
Predator 2 is a pretty good sequel IMO, same basic concept in a totally different environment, and it has Danny Glover. :)
I wasn't really in the mood to watch Predator tonight but your enthusiasm hooked me in
One Of My All Time Favorite Action Movie's, Great Reaction Guy's,See You Both At The Next One,Katy & Otis
Thoroughly enjoyed you guys enjoying this movie!!
This was filmed here in México, the intro scene at the beach and the military base was in Mismaloya town, near Puerto Vallarta , and there is a atractive park called EL Edén where at this day is there a part of the chopper they blew out and a predator statue
Best creature ever made. Now still looks absolutely amazing!
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Will blow you away!
LOVE The Predator!!! Good to see you watching this ❤
Fun fact: This was filmed down in Mismaloya, Mexico and the actors hated it because of the heat,insects and other stuff. They were miserable the whole time. The mini gun is electric so there was a battery cable hooked to it that was hidden by special affects.
You people are so intensely FOCUSED, I love it!
Great reaction, as often with you guys.
"I ain't got time to bleed" remains to this day the most badass one-liner ever written, imo.
But but but, no comment on Shane Black?! Come on!! :D
If you can find the behind the scenes special features you can really tell everyone had a blast making this movie, also see all the friendships made.
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Shane Black, did the Leathal Weapons movies and other films. Think he was a writer and producer. Jean Claude Va Damme was in the actually Predator costume to begin with filming, but quit or was replaced. The guy at the end flying the chopper to pick up Dutch was the real person in the costume. I was 7 seeing this film and it is one of my all time favorites. Rip Carl Weathers. (Dillion)
We're all gonna die.
Great action movie from a decade of great action movies. The 80's really kicked that genre up a gear, and Arnold was THE MAN. For younger folk, it's hard to convey just how big he was (in every sense) through the 80's and 90's. World Champion bodybuilder, Barbarian, Terminator and then into the stratosphere.
Superb reaction as always with your channel! 🙂
Keep up the good work! 👍🏻
Alan Silvestri also did the score for Back to the Future which is very similar except for the main theme. Once you know this, you'll always hear the music of one in the other. ;)
Watched this loads as a kid, but also loved the sequel Predator 2. 👍
Finally someone else who knows that the smaller the scorpion the more dangerous it is lol.I keep telling people that but they never believe me
Yes. Big scorpions use their muscles. Little scorpions use Venom.
Learned that fact early on in the USAF
@@christopherplummer1299 that just gave me a mental image of R lee emery telling a bunch of guys what to do if they encounter flying scorpions.
I look back in awe that I watched this with my dad when I was 10 back when it came out on video. Can't imagine letting my kids watch this nowadays lol.
Oh my gosh, that's so young! This was waaaay too intense to see at that age!
You guys are too cute. Great movie, I was a young teenage boy when it came out and it checked all of the boxes. Really still a good film a fun film. The predator design and actor that played him did an amazing job.
One of the weird bits of trivia that I always like to point out when someone reacts to this movie is that two of the actors - Arnold, obviously, and Jesse Ventura, who played the guy who chewed tobacco - both later become governors in real life. Arnold was governor of California and Jesse Ventura was governor of Minnesota.
And the guy who played Billy apparently ran for governor of Kentucky, but lost.
Gears of War developers saw the giant muscles in this movie and thought "Hold my beer"
I'm always happy when a new video of yours is online. And the nice thing is that you watch it in the right order.
First the alien films 1 - 4. Then the Predator films 1,2.
Then the alien vs predator films is in my opinion the right order.
Greetings from Germany
"Then the alien vs predator films" Bist du ganz sicher!??
This Däne can live with Alien vs Predator 1 & 2. on x86! BUTT those shitty films...NEIN!
@@dallesamllhals9161 depends on what expectations you have when you approach the films.
I don't compare the new films so much with the old ones.
Just watch them.
I think Alien vs Predator part 1 from 2004. That was even better than Alien vs Predator 2.
I didn't like the other newer films.
And I didn't like knowing where the aliens came from in the newer alien films either.
Because that was a disappointment for me.
There is a really cool theory that was somewhat backed up by cannon that the T-800 model terminators that skynet uses are modeled after Dutch . After defeating a predator 1 v 1 the govt took Dutch and they started preparing for a predator invasion . They used tech recovered to advance our tech and even gave Dutch some cyber parts so he could live longer because he took a radiation hit from the explosion. Dutch would come to be one of the founders of Cyberdyne systems which was originally created to combat predators. Cyberdyne /Skynet saw Dutch as the greatest human warrior so they used his image on the T-800
I wish i could remember where I read this , it was from a newer Predator graphic story . It also included Dutch's brother who basically spent his life searching for Dutch after this incident.
Chandra welcome to the Predator and Alien Universe, place your bets on who will win. Also check out Predator 2. It’s just as badass as this movie.
Fun Fact
Kevin Peter Hall plays the helicopter pilot in the 1987 film Predator and also plays the Predator in the film. Director John McTiernan gave Hall the role of the unnamed pilot as a thank you for his weeks of grueling work in the Predator suit. Hall also makes a cameo as the pilot who comments on the view of the mushroom cloud in the Guatemalan jungle.
One of the all time greatest action movies ever made
Shane Black, reading the comic at the very end credits, is the writer of Lethal Weapon. He has also written and directed other movies including a favorite of mine, Nice Guys.
The fact that you realize smaller species of scorpion are often more potent. Coolness. I actually have that species as a pet and they glow insanely bright under UV. Anyhow, I like the chemestry you two have, oh how I wish I had friends to watch movies with. All my friends are not so local or not into movies, etc. Most of them don't even watch my videos or know I have even been on TV , lol.
Can I just say I've watched a few of your reactions and Sir, you have a magnificent mustache. 😉😊🥰
I can't believe you cut the "get to the chopper" moment ^^
Never seen Chandra so animated - I guess she liked it - LOL. Please go on to Predator 2 sometime in the not too distant future. Set in a different jungle, that one. With Danny Glover. Thanks guys. AVP is well worth a spin, trust me.
Jesse Ventura was a professional wrestler in his younger years and then later was elected as the governor of Minnesota. So there are two future governors in this movie, the other of course being Arnold as the future governor of California.
He was a Navy SEAL before becoming a wrestler too
What make this 80s classic Arnie movie so special at the time was subverting expectation in an actual refreshing great way from a typical action fest beginning into a surprising effective horror movie. Yes indeed its from the same filmmaker that also did classic Die Hard :-)
Great reaction, fellow canadians. You have yourself a new subscriber
Predator, Alien, Terminator are all just some of the great movie monsters special effects legend Stan "The Man" Winston and his effects company brought to life. Also, the Predator's sounds and voice at the end are from Peter "Optimus Prime" Cullen. The chopper pilot was played by the guy who played the Predator, as a way of them letting us see him outside of the suit, for all of the suffering he had to go through. Additionally, some of the cloaked Predator effects are left over from when Jean Claud VanDamm was playing the Predator prior to its rework. Since it's hidden by the cloaking effect, you can't really tell that it's more lithe than the uncloaked one. I believe there's a mockup somewhere of what the Predator was originally intended to look like (more slender, reptilian), that you could look up. We do see some of VanDamm's work in the making of stuff on the special editions.
Sonny Landham (Billy) worked in Adult Films before going mainstream. He also played another character called Billy in "48 Hours." That is a great film which was Eddie Murphy's first movie.
first time I watched I was in suspense the whole time. good movie
10 years after this movie, Blaine was the governor of my state, lol. Not as famous as Arnold and California but it surprised a bunch of people.
Predator and Die Hare are 2 of the best action movies. Also you might want to try: T2, Under Siege, Planet of the Apes trilogy, Road House, Tombstone, The Mummy, Rush Hour 1 and 2, Equalizer trilogy, Air Force 1, Blade, Running Man, Ronin, the Verhoven sci-fi trilogy, Elite Squad 1 and 2, Point Break, Taken, 300, Spiderman 1 and 2 (Raimi), Assault on Precinct 13, The Fugitive, Minority Report, Bourne trilogy, Face/Off, First Blood, Gladiator, Leon, Heat, Indiana Jones trilogy, Matrix 1 and 2. wildcard: Upgrade.
I love you two! I will have plenty of movie recommendations! I'd start my own channel, but I've seen too many films!
Come for the predator... Stay for the sweaty jungle muscles 💪😎
Actually, both were able to make me come...
ok mom calm down
12:33 the creature studies their skills
most Predators use infra-red to track their prey, so the mud made it impossible for the Predator to see Dutch.
that roar Dutch gives is legendary...it's become a meme on the internet 🤣
31:02 Primary Rule of the Predator...NEVER let their technology fall into human hands...so they blow themselves up.
Can’t wait for your reaction to THE Easter Egg in Predator 2!