21:06 "Billy has a death wish." No, no. It's just that Billy has recognized that their circumstances are hopeless, they're _all_ as good as dead, and he has resolved to die on his own _terms._ He makes it a point to slash his body to deny the alien the honor of drawing first blood.
@@stigkenobi7525 "Wrong. He is facing his own fears." 🤔 Mmm... yes. By facing the Predator, like I said. "He was afraid of the Predator from the get go." 🤔 And I didn't say anything that ran _contrary_ to that. What part did I get wrong?
A bunch of military veterans did a test on the mud thing. They covered a guy in mud and had him hide in the woods and get in a bunch of branches. Then the guys who have experience shooting with night/thermal vision, tried to find the guy with their scopes. They could not find him. So it can work for a while at least. Great reaction as usual!!!
The Predator is basically what we would consider a thrill-seeking big game hunter here on earth. On whatever planet the Predator is from (they flesh out the species a little more in the underrated sequel), he's probably a rich elite who wants to decorate his mansion with the skins and skulls of the most dangerous game. From the Predator's perspective, the most dangerous game is unfortunately humans. He took Billy's skull as a trophy because Billy tried to 1v1 him with only a machete once he realized that the Predator was just in this for the sport, and the Predator saw Billy as a worthy adversary. When the Predator sees that Dutch (Arnold) actually became a challenge for him, he decided to try and 1v1 Arnold w/o weapons because of pride. You probably didn't need all of that information, but I just love how much they revealed about the creature and its motivations without force-feeding it to the audience through clunky dialogue or exposition. Hell, I think the director didn't even want the opening shot with the space ship in the film because he wanted the audience to be as confused as the troops were in the beginning, learning throughout the movie that they were being attacked by an ET, but the producers insisted on the space shot because they doubted the intelligence of the audience.
The Predator being a rich elite implies there’s a whole class of Predators who are just 9 to 5 working class schlubs stuck in the daily grind of boring office jobs. I find that a hilarious image: Office Space, but with Predators.
@@BoboftheOldeWays Tbf, from what I remember of the Robert Rodriguez film "Predators" (which I don't consider a spectacular film, I also think it's underrated), there is a lower class of "yautja" featured that is subservient to the type of predator from this movie and is much more the 9-to-5 to the elite hunter that exists to hunt humans. The lore of it all kind of gets mixed up through all of the movies that they tried to get off the ground, but it all kind of makes sense when you just look at the first movie and try to determine the motives of the original Predator.
@@BoboftheOldeWays "Predator schlubs..." lol! good one! Why not, though? If you have high tech, someone had to build the tech and it was probably the SMARTER aliens, which implies that if there is smarter, than there might be stronger, and bigger, and more successful, and RICHER. Why not? There are bigger bears and prettier peacocks and faster cheetahs, so why not more of ANYTHING (strength, smarts, or MONEY). Thanks to you, I like to think of schubby predator having trouble with the COPY MACHINE. "Load letter? what does load letter mean?"
Kevin Peter Hall played the preditor. But he was also the helicopter pilot at the end of the film. They wanted the audience to know him. Great reaction Aria. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
"Get to the CHOPPA!" Every time I hear that I look around in a panic, and there is no helicopter to be seen. I mean, this is quintessential Arnold. He'll be back.
The trip wires did not give off heat but it would present a straight line in the middle of a crooked patterned jungle and as a hunter, the predator is supposed to look for these patterns the same way Billy did when he was observing the jungle, tracking patterns (I.e. footprints, leave disturbances, straight lines, etc.)
@@buckmeredith1720 I was just about to add something about the heat signature of metal vs vegetation, but you beat me to it. Also, I think the metal would be WARMER than the vegetation b/c the specific heat of metal is lower than the specific heat of water and water-based life. If you leave a metal coin in the grass in the sun, the metal coin will get scalding hot, the surrounding grass barely changes temperature despite BOTH being exposed to the same sun and ambient air temperature. Either way - hotter or colder - the metal tripwires, metal claymore mines, metal ANYTHING - would definitely be easier to spot with the predators thermal vision. Arnold probably had a winning move when he took the gun powder out of the METAL grenade launcher shells and wrapped them in leaves for his 3rd act home-made weapons. ( "Bleeed,, baastahrd")
Aria! Love your soft-spoken delivery of your reactions to what you're watching! Please consider watching the "Rocky" movies, if you'd like to see more with Carl Weathers. If you do venture into that series, you will most likely be pleasantly surprised. Every reactor who's done that initially stated they didn't really want to watch a "sports" movie. After seeing them, they all loved the movies because they were about more than sport.
While there are multiple Predator films, this is the very, very best of the franchise. Sadly, studios try to capture lightning in a bottle when a film is successful, but they so often fall short. Like Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers is also great in comedic roles. Carl had a small cameo role on the classic American comedy show called "Arrested Development." He played a weird version of himself as a washed up actor willing to do anything for money. A very, very funny series, especially Seasons 1 through 3. 😊
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating but downright scary! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
Now that was a reaction right there, you killed it girl, and I loved every second of it, especially your soft spoken, comments and smooth,calm demeanor. This is my favorite movie ever, there was nothing like it back in it's day when it first dropped. Still watch it every now and then 30 yrs later. Part 2 and Prey, other Predator films are definitely worth a watch.
Great reaction Aria. You were perfectly in tune with this film. You noticed and understood many details and nuances that many reactors did not on the first watch. Carl Weathers is legendary in the Rocky franchise! As to not remembering what the original mission was after the Predator showed up, I think that Dutch (Arnie) felt the same way afterwards.
Today, Carl Weathers might be more recognizable to Gen-Z as Greef Karga from the Mandalorian. Gen-X and Millennials know him as Apollo Creed from the Rocky movies - definitely his most famous and recognizable role.
Great Reaction Aria like always, this movie brings me back to my childhood i remember watching this movie when it came out and its pure action cinema at its most efficient and charmingly unpretentious, Predator remains a lean masterpiece over three decades. There are some fun facts about it, Shane Black was cast for his script expertise, not his acting chops, Shane Black, who plays Hawkins, had previously written the screenplay for Lethal Weapon; he was covertly cast in the film so that he would be available to make on-the-fly and uncredited script changes while on set. Which makes it even more befitting that Black wrote and directed The Predator, the latest installment in the series. This was professional wrestler Jesse Ventura’s first movie. The GE M134 Minigun wielded by Ventura’s character didn’t shoot live rounds, but for safety reasons, the cast and crew were required to stand at least 50 feet away when it was fired. Sonny Landham who played Billy, the team’s expert tracker was known to have such a short fuse that the studio hired a bodyguard to protect people from him. This bodyguard followed Landham everywhere he went to make sure he didn’t get into any trouble on the set. On this, McTiernan said: “We had this 6’8″ tall giant who had to follow Sonny around 24 hours a day the entire time he worked on the movie and make sure that he never misbehaved.” The Predator’s heat vision isn’t actually heat vision, the filmmakers attempted to use actual heat vision for the Predator, but the specific camera proved impractical for the on-location shoot. Instead, normal footage was made into a negative image in post-production and exaggerated “heat vision” colors were added to create the effect. Originally used an orange substance for the creature’s blood, figuring they would spiff it up with special effects in post-production. But the orange goop looked so bad on camera, they decided they had to make a change. They wound up using the luminescent liquid from the inside of glow sticks, which they bought over the counter. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original guy in the predator suit. The “Muscles from Brussels” was reportedly fired from the movie because he complained too much about how uncomfortable the suit was, he was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall. The original design for the predator was scrapped in the middle of production, the original suit resembled a lanky, bug-eyed insect, but McTiernan didn't think it was scary enough. He halted production on the entire movie so it could be redesigned. Arnold Schwarzenegger personally tapped effects wizard Stan Winston to revamp the Predator design. The break in production was a blessing in disguise. The stop in production to redesign the Predator allowed the filmmakers to edit an hour of the movie together to show to the studio. They liked it so much that they gave the production more money to create bigger action sequences in the last third of the movie once filming picked back up again. Optimus Prime and the predator have the same voice. Peter Cullen, who is uncredited in Predator, provided the voice for both. Keep up the good work!
I'm glad they don't reveal too much about the Predator in this movie. They say less is more. The less you know about the Predator, the scarier he becomes. But it's also twofold. The less you know about the Predator, the more we want to know what makes him tick! This is the perfect formula for making a sequel! -OG
Great reaction. Had to say I loved Mac. I served in the Army and we had the same attitude. We stuck up for each other. Im a little ashamed to say my attitude was if you kill my friend, im taking 10 of yall in return. God bless you and keep up the good work.
It's Alien on Earth, and Arnold is Ripley. For what it is, is was really well made and the Preditor itself makeup is among the best I've ever seen since Alien. It only made sense to put them both in the movie together. Fun reaction.
Great choice, Aria. It's often called "Alien" in the jungle. Jean Claude Van Damme was actually originally cast as the Predator and the costume initially looked very different, almost like a praying mantis monster. If TH-cam let us share images in the comments, I'd show you.
First time watcher of your channel. Predator reactions get me every time. Glad to see how engaged with it you were. There are many more movies in the franchise, but IMO the only one that rivals this one is PREY, the 2022 prequel that released on Hulu. It was a return to basics with some new twists & a couple of call outs for the old school fans.
I've watched and re-watched this movie since it first came out, but it just occurred to me that the Predator taking off his shoulder cannon to fight Dutch mano a mano reminds me of when a magazine article about American martial arts movies said that Steven Seagal would always show off by putting down his gun to fight the bad guys barehanded.
Non-spoiler info: I think this info will actually help you enjoy the movies more for various reasons. When the movies came out, they actually released some of the lore info in other ways like posters and magazines in between the first two movies. Still extremely mysterious, but one aspect they don't explain out right, but is very obvious when you think about it is, the Predator does this due to culture and ritual. Even religion. It does this for honor. It's a warrior-based society. This is just one of many who hunts on Earth, or anywhere it can find challenging prey. Its not stuck here. Its not evil. It doesn't eat humans. It's a ritual to gain honor and rank amongst its own society. It enjoys the thrill, but it is not a thrill-seeker. In it's culture, like the Dothrakki in Game of Thrones... or The Mandalorians from Star Wars... the warrior is the highest ranked. The skill, courage, and achievements are honored, and prey who challenges you is respected. Im sure in their culture, its also essentially what gets you the best females. It's always all about the women. Part 2 is well done and worth doing on your channel. I'll wait to say more until you do it 🙂
Love your reaction to this awesome movie! If you want to get more into the Predator/Yautja lore watch: Predator 2, then Alien v Predator (AvP), then Predators, and finally Prey. That should fill in the major questions you might have.
I like the way they play on Billy's Native American heritage related to his ability to track and his "nose" for sensing things beyond the standard senses. Billy didn't have a death wish. Carl Weathers found fame as Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
I have an IR camera, and patches my cat’s fur become temporarily “invisible” when he’s been grooming himself. As soon as his fur dries, it shows up again. Dutch’s mud would only conceal him as long as it stayed nice and wet. My only real quarrel with the mud camouflage is that Dutch’s eyes would have stood out like two light bulbs.
21:06 Billy does NOT have a deathwish. Women never understand this scene, Billy is a proud warrior so he's choosing to die on his own terms because he knows his death is certain. He cuts himself with the knife so that his enemy cannot draw first blood.
Arnold dominated the action movies of the 80s. We knew he'd win because he was always so much bigger and stronger 💪 than his opponents! But Predator was different. We actually wondered if he'd make it out alive. It certainly helps to have 7' 3" tall Kevin Peter Hall to play the Predator to intimidate Arnold with his stature! Kevin Peter Hall also played Bigfoot in Harry and the Henderson's. A fun family film. -OG
The only other movie I enjoyed from this series is the 2010 movie called "Predators" starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace and Lawerence Fishbourne. Carl Weathers was also in the "Rocky" movie series.
I'm very excited to see you reacted to this one. Absurdly awesome movie and we may not get another quite like it ever again. Also I second what a lot of others are saying here. You should watch the Rocky movies!
You have got to watch Predator 2 right after this. Because that movie is pretty solid. After that "Prey" should be next in the franchise. Prey is awesome. In my opinion, you can skip "Predators" and "The Predator" not the best movies, especially "The Predator". Great reaction btw 👍. I am a new viewer to your channel.
Something that took me years to notice, but we foreshadowed Mac's death when Blaine said "You lose it out here, you're in a world of hurt." Then later, Mac getting so unfastened that he's cutting his own face and doesnt know it, chasing after the predator **by himself**, singing to himself ("Long Tall Sally, she's built reeal sweet..." and then reverting back to childhood ("I seee youuuu.") Mac lost it. And later...was in a world of hurt.
This movie triggered a lot of fan arguments over who would win in a fight: the Alien or the Predator. This in turn lead to the AvP video game, which lead to the Alien vs Predator movies.
Great reaction! i love this movie glad you enjoyed it🥰 Oh and i just saw your reaction to tucker and dale vs evil and you mentioned watching the grudge...i would love to see your reaction to it, its a good but scary movie 🤗❤️ Ps that sweater looks so good on you🥰
about the mud, I was just listening to the director's commentary of this movie, and he mentions that arnold was actually freezing cold from being covered in that mud while shooting. so funny enough since they shot this movie in an actual jungle, that proves that it would have worked. I really love this movie, and I love the way the Predator seems kind of like a dark parody of 80s action heroes. He's not fighting to survive, he's fighting to look cool, and feel cool. he stops using his weapons when Dutch runs out of his, because he wants to always have a slight risk of danger, but still be much stronger than his enemy. Otherwise, he could just snipe people from orbit with a laser cannon. Every soldier in the movie is a different type of action hero, and they all try to win by being tough and looking cool, but the only one who wins is the one who admits that he's powerless in comparison to his enemy, and that just being tough isn't enough.
The movie is supposed to take place in the Guatemalan jungle but is actually filmed in the Mexican jungle. Either way you look at it, they're in a real jungle. -OG
In answer to your question in your intro, yes, it's the same Predator species and the same alien species in the Aliens vs Predators movies. Classic popcorn movie. Tons of fun.
Aria, if you’re curious about the Aliens vs Predator bit, in the second movie (little to no relation to this one) the main character finds the Predator’s trophy wall, and on it is a xenomorph skull, thus forever tying the two franchises together.
For Carl weathers playing the main character, consider watching him as police Sgt. Jericho Jackson in 1988's "Action Jackson." It's a maverick cop action movie with some interesting casting choices including Bill Duke (Mac in "Predator") as Jackson's by-the-book boss who is constantly angry at Jackson for breaking the rules.
PLEASE react to the Rocky movies! Carl Weathers is awesome and I guarantee you will LOVE these movies. Stallone himself says that the movies aren't about boxing, they're about the love between Rocky and his wife Adrian
Glad you enjoyed it, even with a small spoiler. More information about the Predator in the next movie. Probably not really heat vision that as know it (why mud does not really work, movie stuff). Team was to rescue people, but that was a setup to stop a small invasion. Something happened to Hopper's team so Dylan tricked them to go there. (cute onesie, also your hair looks fabulous! Hope Minnie is having a good time!)
You're correct, thermal vision 🙂 And yes, in Alien vs. Predator it's the Predator species & the Alien Xenomorphs. Predator is a hunter alien breed & it was hunting the main characters for sport. They do have a code, they don't hunt If the pray has a flaw or If the pray isn't a challenge. Carl Weathers is also known as Apollo Creed in Rocky. And Aria, GET TO DA CHOPPA! 😜😉
Another neat thing about this movie is that Arnold & Jessy went on to be governors of California and Minnesota. Sonny Landham would have made it three, but lost election bid in Tennessee.
In the novel, the Predator was a shape shifter instead of invisible. It would touch an animal, absorb the information it needed to imitate it, and then the animal would die. I remember there was part in the book describing the Predator flying through the jungle after assuming the form of a bird. Honestly, it seemed kind of silly when you considered that the Predator was normally bigger than a human being which meant it either had to shrink itself down to the size of a real bird or turn itself into a ridiculously giant bird.
There is a movie from way back, called " look who's talking" where two babies, a boy and a girl, " talk " while being voiced by Bruce Willis and Roseanne Barr 😅 needless to say, its hilarious!! And YOUR VOICE would be PERFECT for that kind of stuff, voice acting etc 🥹 like some Pixar picture where your deep, rich, silky smooth yet still sultry and feminine is like a LADYBUG or some ish!! Lmfaooo kind regards!!
23:16 well my Theory is that because the cool mud hid Dutch's heat signature and therefore The Pred couldn't see him, i think The Predator probably felt that Dutch died in The Waterfall
I am animator inspired by things and franchises I grew up with and I like so much, the AVP franchise is an example of them. I even got an idea of an AVP adventure on Predator's hunting planet.
26:40 "Ooh, gonna take his mask off. I want to see what you look like." I thought "No she doesn't." _Seven seconds later_ "Ew ew oh oh. Put the mask back on!"
I was stung by a scorpion when I was 5. I live in Texas and all sorts of bugs and snakes etc were an everyday part of life. The scorpions in Texas aren't as bad as some others.
19:49 You would think this man would recognize the mark from _targeting_ lasers, when he sees 'em. This is not _identical_ to the targeting lasers with which he is familiar, but _I_ recognized it when I first saw it.
Carl Weathers, has been around a long time,..he was Apollo Creed in the original Rocky movies,..think he did 3 or 4, of them opposite Sylvester Stallone,..and after Predator he did another movie with Bill Duke(Mac'), and Sonny Landham(Billy), Action Jackson, with Sharon Stone, which I also went to see, it was for me fun to see them kinda have a reunion with some of the cast from Predator,..and Landham was also in 48 Hrs. with Eddie Murphy, and Nick Nolte,..lot of good action movies along with scifi,..the 80's were jumping,..and the thermal imaging, you notice, also, after Dutch and his team left the area, afrer the gun fight and Predator came down to,..I guess survey the area, he passes all these dead bodies,..which he can see, but there's no bright red color, they've no body heat, and as he holds the scorpion in his hand,..you see it go cold as it dies,..it really is an interesting premise for a movie,..the one thing they haven't truly in depth explored, or showed is Predator's home planet,..not even in Predators movie with Adrian Brody,..in Alien Covenant I believe there's a (spoiler), brief look at where the "Engineers" are from if I'm not mistaken,..and in the next Predator movie, first sequel,..you understand why it really wouldn't have made a difference whether Dutch smashed Predator's head in or what actually happened as it seceded defeat and blowing itself up,..he was not the only one,..this is a recurring event, carried out on different planets,..not just Earth, he wasn't the first, and he wouldn't be the last Predator to visit Earth,..in the sequel,..you see its a community if you will, of hunters,..and yess do check it out, Gary Busey who was in first Lethal Weapon is in it,..loved the cast in this one,..Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bill Duke were also in Commando before this,..and this was really filmed in jungle, I remember Arnold got sick,..not sure if it was Malaria, but he ran a fever,..Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, filmed in the Amazon, was a hardship, Hepburn said everyone on set was sick,..except for Bogart and Houston (Angelica Houston's dad), the director were the only ones unscathed by vomiting, dysentery because they were heavy drinkers, and drank Red Eye,.Whiskey,..lol,..do keep going, so glad you enjoyed, great reaction,..
This is not the only one, it hasn't been hanging out on Earth all this time. It's from a race of aliens that sometimes visit for hunting trips, thus the rest of the movies.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Was Originally The Predator But He Quit Because He Would Not Be Seen On Camera So It Went To The Late Kevin Peter Hall And He Was In Predator 2 RIP Kevin Peter Hall 😊
Great reaction! I love your reactions. Please react to Prey, it's a prequel, it's awesome. It's not necessary to watch predator 2, but Prey ties into the end of predator 2. Remember Billy, the Indian tracker.
This is my favorite Arnold movie. I like how they reacted when seeing the skinned men. Although they WERE macho men, when seeing other men skinned, they didn't act like it didn't affect them any. Billy got scared and had to run away to the clearing and we clearly affected by what he saw. Little things made a fun movie just seem more real.
Yes, Alien v Predator is about this movie's Predator species against the alien xenomorphs you saw with Ellen Ripley aka Sigourney Weaver. They are all in the same universe. -OG
10:50 "I'm happy to say I've never seen a scorpion in real life and I hope I never see one." Yeah, but do you eat shrimp? Same thing really, except scorpions are a bit dryer and have a venomous sting.
"It" is obviously a Hunter/killer that visits other planets to hunt (and has been on Earth before as long ago as the 17th century, according to the worthy underrated sequel) Sport is the Predator's only mission, as suspence is the main point of the film it's the classic not explaining everything, because the more you know the less frightening the creature becomes , just as is true of- ALIEN, & THE THING speaking of which, this is another Sci Fi horror cross over film, not quite as awesome as those, but very effective and different
Great reaction to a great film! On the mud/thermal vision thing I recently watched some guys on TH-cam testing the idea and it actually worked better than they expected. Cant recall the channel but surely cant be hard to find if anyone wants to watch it 😊
What we shouldn't forget, it's basically a predator hunting other real or imaged superior predators. It just turns around OUR view on nature and prey and it doesn't feel nice to be on the receiving end.
Predator 2 is a decent movie, so definitely worth a watch. AvP (Alien versus Predator) is okay as a movie with good effects and performances but, if you know the books it is based on then it is a big disappointment (have a look for "The Machiko Noguchi Saga" series if you are interested). If they had made it as written then it would have fitted in, as it was meant to, with the Alien franchise timeline. It's one of those franchises, like Terminator, where the first couple of movies are great but the film-makers just can't seem to realise that if they just shoot what has already been created then they will have a winner! One core fact that never really seems to come out in the films but is solidly part of the fictional lore is that the Predators *breed* the Aliens to give them something exciting to hunt. Aliens versus Predator takes place in our future, around Ripley's time, and it is basically a Predator training course gone wrong - they seeded a planet with Alien eggs with the intention that they would create slow and dim creatures from impregnating the local fauna. What made it go wrong was that humans colonised the planet in the meantime so the teenage Predator trainees ended up facing fast and smart Aliens and all got killed other than their teacher. He teams up with the surviving human and they fight the Aliens together. It's a much better story than the movie. As to the Predators vision and the mud-effect, the filters are sort-of infra-red and sort-of ultraviolet but of course their normal vision is not the same as ours in the first place. So it's a bit of cinematic license that the mud blocked it so effectively but not too much of a stretch.
30:00 "I don't know why it only attacks when it's very hot." Probably because the Predator world is very hot. Imagine if you wanted to go hunting in, say, Ladakh - would you go there in an average winter at -40 degrees celsius, or would you wait for an unusually warm summer when the temperature rises over 25 degrees? Maybe the Predator's world is so hot that the only time it can be comfortable on Earth is during a hot summer near the equator - everywhere else is too cold. The first two Predator movies followed this pattern, in fact, they established it, but then the AVP movies and Prey just kind of totally forgot about it, so maybe it was only a coincidence. Or maybe the later writers didn't want to be limited by rules created by the first two writers. Who knows.
And one more thing. as a music lover, I would really like to know what kind of track you are using in the background, in the part where you summarize your reaction. I will be glad if you leave a link to this song in the answers to my comment. Kisses, hugs, thanks for your reaction
You know what!!!!???? I must be a STUPID MAN…. I done watched this movie umpteen times and NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED it… when Arnold told the girl that the alien didn’t kill her because she wasn’t armed you whispered “yeah, so maybe you guys should drop your guns.” I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. I was still thinking “we need to shoot this thing” EVERY SINGLE TIME I WATCHED IT. VERY GOOD!!!
32:05 "Do tripwires have heat in them? Because it was able to see them." No. Have you ever touched a metal car on a hot sunny day? The metal holds heat very well; it might even be hot enough to burn you a little bit. Have you ever touched the same metal car at night? The metal feels cooler than other things around it like trees and leaves and the ground. The Predator uses thermal vision and those traps they set at night were made of metal trip wires and metal explosives. That metal would have been cooler than the environment around it and if its vision is sharp enough, that's how it could see them. Of course, the movie made it look like its vision was just big blobs of color but that wouldn't be very practical. This is an intelligent spacefaring race of aliens; they must be able to read and write to do math and science and engineering or they couldn't build space ships. They can't very well do any of that if their vision is just big splotches of color.
@10:50. I don't like scorpions, either. But here is a fun fact: scorpion venom is the most expensive fluid in the world, it's used a lot for medical research.
I was 16 when this popped in theater. I was around for Arnold in his first role as Conan The Barbarian & liked him much before he did silly comedies but I still can't get into this one!😅 I always try & revisit my yesterday's crap cause can always turn out to be your today's Jam so tried rewatching a few months back on cable & as soon as saw Jessie Ventura talking about p***y I just couldn't keep watching, & BELIEVE ME, I love said p***y!!! 🤣🤣🤣 This out of envy friends, not spite! I suppose I'll try again before my days are done if get a chance, but will have to skip the cringe locker-room helicopter talk & hope whole movie not full of it by the time I see a damn Predator!😅 Rock On!!! 🤘🌎❤️
21:06 "Billy has a death wish."
No, no. It's just that Billy has recognized that their circumstances are hopeless, they're _all_ as good as dead, and he has resolved to die on his own _terms._ He makes it a point to slash his body to deny the alien the honor of drawing first blood.
Wrong. He is facing his own fears. He was afraid of the Predator from the get go. The director said so too.
@@stigkenobi7525 "Wrong. He is facing his own fears."
🤔 Mmm... yes. By facing the Predator, like I said.
"He was afraid of the Predator from the get go."
🤔 And I didn't say anything that ran _contrary_ to that.
What part did I get wrong?
I always took it as him buying them time with a self sacrifice.
Great!! I never knew why he did that! Perfect!
This is one of the best action movies of the 80s, shotout to the running man
A bunch of military veterans did a test on the mud thing. They covered a guy in mud and had him hide in the woods and get in a bunch of branches. Then the guys who have experience shooting with night/thermal vision, tried to find the guy with their scopes. They could not find him. So it can work for a while at least. Great reaction as usual!!!
don't forget the water would have lowered Arnie's body temp a couple of degrees too.
Duh! Arnold took out a predator w the mud! Of course it works!
My absolute favorite movie. The only movie I actually wore the VHS tape out until it couldn't work anymore
The Predator is basically what we would consider a thrill-seeking big game hunter here on earth. On whatever planet the Predator is from (they flesh out the species a little more in the underrated sequel), he's probably a rich elite who wants to decorate his mansion with the skins and skulls of the most dangerous game. From the Predator's perspective, the most dangerous game is unfortunately humans. He took Billy's skull as a trophy because Billy tried to 1v1 him with only a machete once he realized that the Predator was just in this for the sport, and the Predator saw Billy as a worthy adversary. When the Predator sees that Dutch (Arnold) actually became a challenge for him, he decided to try and 1v1 Arnold w/o weapons because of pride.
You probably didn't need all of that information, but I just love how much they revealed about the creature and its motivations without force-feeding it to the audience through clunky dialogue or exposition. Hell, I think the director didn't even want the opening shot with the space ship in the film because he wanted the audience to be as confused as the troops were in the beginning, learning throughout the movie that they were being attacked by an ET, but the producers insisted on the space shot because they doubted the intelligence of the audience.
The Predator being a rich elite implies there’s a whole class of Predators who are just 9 to 5 working class schlubs stuck in the daily grind of boring office jobs. I find that a hilarious image: Office Space, but with Predators.
@@BoboftheOldeWays Tbf, from what I remember of the Robert Rodriguez film "Predators" (which I don't consider a spectacular film, I also think it's underrated), there is a lower class of "yautja" featured that is subservient to the type of predator from this movie and is much more the 9-to-5 to the elite hunter that exists to hunt humans.
The lore of it all kind of gets mixed up through all of the movies that they tried to get off the ground, but it all kind of makes sense when you just look at the first movie and try to determine the motives of the original Predator.
@@BoboftheOldeWays lol, you just invented a new sitcom, "Office Spaaaaaaace"
@@BoboftheOldeWays😅😅😅😅 Genius!!
@@BoboftheOldeWays "Predator schlubs..." lol! good one! Why not, though? If you have high tech, someone had to build the tech and it was probably the SMARTER aliens, which implies that if there is smarter, than there might be stronger, and bigger, and more successful, and RICHER. Why not? There are bigger bears and prettier peacocks and faster cheetahs, so why not more of ANYTHING (strength, smarts, or MONEY). Thanks to you, I like to think of schubby predator having trouble with the COPY MACHINE. "Load letter? what does load letter mean?"
Kevin Peter Hall played the preditor. But he was also the helicopter pilot at the end of the film. They wanted the audience to know him.
Great reaction Aria.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Fun fact: it was originally jean claude van damme in a very different lookin costume
IF IT BLEEDS, WE CAN KILL IT
Best line ever
I AIN'T GOT TIME TO BLEED, is another one.
@@georgemarko8403 “oh, okay” throws grenade “you got time to duck?”
"Why did you say that twice?" 😂
'Because of the echo".
@@sebswede9005 Ruh huh huh ha ha ha ha ha 😂
I didn't
See... because... The echo...where the
"Get to the CHOPPA!" Every time I hear that I look around in a panic, and there is no helicopter to be seen. I mean, this is quintessential Arnold. He'll be back.
The trip wires did not give off heat but it would present a straight line in the middle of a crooked patterned jungle and as a hunter, the predator is supposed to look for these patterns the same way Billy did when he was observing the jungle, tracking patterns (I.e. footprints, leave disturbances, straight lines, etc.)
The metal in the wire is also colder than the vegetation around and would show up darker, adding to the ease of seeing the straight line.
@@buckmeredith1720 I was just about to add something about the heat signature of metal vs vegetation, but you beat me to it. Also, I think the metal would be WARMER than the vegetation b/c the specific heat of metal is lower than the specific heat of water and water-based life. If you leave a metal coin in the grass in the sun, the metal coin will get scalding hot, the surrounding grass barely changes temperature despite BOTH being exposed to the same sun and ambient air temperature.
Either way - hotter or colder - the metal tripwires, metal claymore mines, metal ANYTHING - would definitely be easier to spot with the predators thermal vision. Arnold probably had a winning move when he took the gun powder out of the METAL grenade launcher shells and wrapped them in leaves for his 3rd act home-made weapons. ( "Bleeed,, baastahrd")
Also it used the trees to get around
Aria! Love your soft-spoken delivery of your reactions to what you're watching! Please consider watching the "Rocky" movies, if you'd like to see more with Carl Weathers. If you do venture into that series, you will most likely be pleasantly surprised. Every reactor who's done that initially stated they didn't really want to watch a "sports" movie. After seeing them, they all loved the movies because they were about more than sport.
Will do:)
I fully agree! Plus the series gets more nostalgic and memorable the further it goes. Though Rocky 5 was the lowest point in the franchise.
While there are multiple Predator films, this is the very, very best of the franchise.
Sadly, studios try to capture lightning in a bottle when a film is successful, but they so often fall short.
Like Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers is also great in comedic roles. Carl had a small cameo role on the classic American comedy show called "Arrested Development." He played a weird version of himself as a washed up actor willing to do anything for money. A very, very funny series, especially Seasons 1 through 3. 😊
While not as good as this one, I still think that Predator 2 is a very good movie and does its job very well. I would definitely stop there though...
@avtomatt554 The studio interfered with the original intent of the story, plus they plastered crappy CG over perfectly good practical monster effects.
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating but downright scary! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
A ‘heatseeker’ is a heat seeking missile. It locks onto the heat generated by the plane’s (or helicopter’s) engine & exhaust.
One fun fact... "Predator" has TWO U.S. governors in the film... Arnold and Jessie "I Ain't Got Time To Bleed" Ventura.
Almost a third.
@@brucechmiel7964Billy.
“How does that thing know where to go?” Either the alien assassin follows their foot prints, or the drops of blood. 😳
Now that was a reaction right there, you killed it girl, and I loved every second of it, especially your soft spoken, comments and smooth,calm demeanor. This is my favorite movie ever, there was nothing like it back in it's day when it first dropped. Still watch it every now and then 30 yrs later. Part 2 and Prey, other Predator films are definitely worth a watch.
Great reaction Aria. You were perfectly in tune with this film. You noticed and understood many details and nuances that many reactors did not on the first watch. Carl Weathers is legendary in the Rocky franchise! As to not remembering what the original mission was after the Predator showed up, I think that Dutch (Arnie) felt the same way afterwards.
Today, Carl Weathers might be more recognizable to Gen-Z as Greef Karga from the Mandalorian.
Gen-X and Millennials know him as Apollo Creed from the Rocky movies - definitely his most famous and recognizable role.
Great Reaction Aria like always, this movie brings me back to my childhood i remember watching this movie when it came out and its pure action cinema at its most efficient and charmingly unpretentious, Predator remains a lean masterpiece over three decades. There are some fun facts about it, Shane Black was cast for his script expertise, not his acting chops, Shane Black, who plays Hawkins, had previously written the screenplay for Lethal Weapon; he was covertly cast in the film so that he would be available to make on-the-fly and uncredited script changes while on set. Which makes it even more befitting that Black wrote and directed The Predator, the latest installment in the series. This was professional wrestler Jesse Ventura’s first movie. The GE M134 Minigun wielded by Ventura’s character didn’t shoot live rounds, but for safety reasons, the cast and crew were required to stand at least 50 feet away when it was fired. Sonny Landham who played Billy, the team’s expert tracker was known to have such a short fuse that the studio hired a bodyguard to protect people from him. This bodyguard followed Landham everywhere he went to make sure he didn’t get into any trouble on the set. On this, McTiernan said: “We had this 6’8″ tall giant who had to follow Sonny around 24 hours a day the entire time he worked on the movie and make sure that he never misbehaved.”
The Predator’s heat vision isn’t actually heat vision, the filmmakers attempted to use actual heat vision for the Predator, but the specific camera proved impractical for the on-location shoot. Instead, normal footage was made into a negative image in post-production and exaggerated “heat vision” colors were added to create the effect. Originally used an orange substance for the creature’s blood, figuring they would spiff it up with special effects in post-production. But the orange goop looked so bad on camera, they decided they had to make a change. They wound up using the luminescent liquid from the inside of glow sticks, which they bought over the counter. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original guy in the predator suit. The “Muscles from Brussels” was reportedly fired from the movie because he complained too much about how uncomfortable the suit was, he was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall. The original design for the predator was scrapped in the middle of production, the original suit resembled a lanky, bug-eyed insect, but McTiernan didn't think it was scary enough. He halted production on the entire movie so it could be redesigned. Arnold Schwarzenegger personally tapped effects wizard Stan Winston to revamp the Predator design. The break in production was a blessing in disguise. The stop in production to redesign the Predator allowed the filmmakers to edit an hour of the movie together to show to the studio. They liked it so much that they gave the production more money to create bigger action sequences in the last third of the movie once filming picked back up again. Optimus Prime and the predator have the same voice. Peter Cullen, who is uncredited in Predator, provided the voice for both. Keep up the good work!
It's amazing Hawkins kept telling those jokes under such dangerous circumstances!
I'm glad they don't reveal too much about the Predator in this movie. They say less is more. The less you know about the Predator, the scarier he becomes. But it's also twofold. The less you know about the Predator, the more we want to know what makes him tick!
This is the perfect formula for making a sequel! -OG
If you want more Carl Weathers, watch the first three Rocky movies. That's what put him on the map.
The first four, actually.
He was good in the movie,"Action Jackson" too
So awesome seeing someone love one of my favorite movies. Predator 2 with Danny Glover was my first Predator movie.
Great reaction. Had to say I loved Mac. I served in the Army and we had the same attitude. We stuck up for each other. Im a little ashamed to say my attitude was if you kill my friend, im taking 10 of yall in return. God bless you and keep up the good work.
You were so much fun to watch this with. 😂 I've never seen someone so soft spoken. Classic film and so glad you enjoyed it.
It's Alien on Earth, and Arnold is Ripley.
For what it is, is was really well made and the Preditor itself makeup is among the best I've ever seen since Alien.
It only made sense to put them both in the movie together.
Fun reaction.
Great choice, Aria. It's often called "Alien" in the jungle.
Jean Claude Van Damme was actually originally cast as the Predator and the costume initially looked very different, almost like a praying mantis monster. If TH-cam let us share images in the comments, I'd show you.
First time watcher of your channel. Predator reactions get me every time. Glad to see how engaged with it you were.
There are many more movies in the franchise, but IMO the only one that rivals this one is PREY, the 2022 prequel that released on Hulu. It was a return to basics with some new twists & a couple of call outs for the old school fans.
Such a classic that still holds up today and balanced great atmosphere, characters, pace and storytelling
I've watched and re-watched this movie since it first came out, but it just occurred to me that the Predator taking off his shoulder cannon to fight Dutch mano a mano reminds me of when a magazine article about American martial arts movies said that Steven Seagal would always show off by putting down his gun to fight the bad guys barehanded.
Non-spoiler info: I think this info will actually help you enjoy the movies more for various reasons. When the movies came out, they actually released some of the lore info in other ways like posters and magazines in between the first two movies. Still extremely mysterious, but one aspect they don't explain out right, but is very obvious when you think about it is, the Predator does this due to culture and ritual. Even religion. It does this for honor. It's a warrior-based society. This is just one of many who hunts on Earth, or anywhere it can find challenging prey. Its not stuck here. Its not evil. It doesn't eat humans. It's a ritual to gain honor and rank amongst its own society. It enjoys the thrill, but it is not a thrill-seeker. In it's culture, like the Dothrakki in Game of Thrones... or The Mandalorians from Star Wars... the warrior is the highest ranked. The skill, courage, and achievements are honored, and prey who challenges you is respected. Im sure in their culture, its also essentially what gets you the best females. It's always all about the women.
Part 2 is well done and worth doing on your channel. I'll wait to say more until you do it 🙂
Lol That same ole "GET TO THE CHOPPA!" line is too iconic
Right up there with "I'll be back" 😄
I love that JCVD was the predictor for a minute and ghosted them to do blood sport 🥋
Love your reaction to this awesome movie! If you want to get more into the Predator/Yautja lore watch: Predator 2, then Alien v Predator (AvP), then Predators, and finally Prey. That should fill in the major questions you might have.
I like the way they play on Billy's Native American heritage related to his ability to track and his "nose" for sensing things beyond the standard senses. Billy didn't have a death wish. Carl Weathers found fame as Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
I have an IR camera, and patches my cat’s fur become temporarily “invisible” when he’s been grooming himself. As soon as his fur dries, it shows up again. Dutch’s mud would only conceal him as long as it stayed nice and wet. My only real quarrel with the mud camouflage is that Dutch’s eyes would have stood out like two light bulbs.
I watched this in the cinema a fortnight ago and the crowd reaction was great, shouting quotes and cheering classic moments.
This is such a great movie! I love the slow reveal of The Predator; it adds nicely to the growing sense of dread in the jungle.
21:06 Billy does NOT have a deathwish. Women never understand this scene, Billy is a proud warrior so he's choosing to die on his own terms because he knows his death is certain. He cuts himself with the knife so that his enemy cannot draw first blood.
Plenty of women understand this concept. We're just not reactors 🤣
Arnold dominated the action movies of the 80s. We knew he'd win because he was always so much bigger and stronger 💪 than his opponents! But Predator was different. We actually wondered if he'd make it out alive.
It certainly helps to have 7' 3" tall Kevin Peter Hall to play the Predator to intimidate Arnold with his stature! Kevin Peter Hall also played Bigfoot in Harry and the Henderson's. A fun family film. -OG
The only other movie I enjoyed from this series is the 2010 movie called "Predators" starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace and Lawerence Fishbourne. Carl Weathers was also in the "Rocky" movie series.
I'm very excited to see you reacted to this one. Absurdly awesome movie and we may not get another quite like it ever again. Also I second what a lot of others are saying here. You should watch the Rocky movies!
Minnie has got stronger nerves than you. She hasn't blinked once, and kept smiling throughout the whole movie.
That’s why she’s always here for support:D
"I'm in love with this movie"
I can't wait to be invited to the wedding between you two!
I won’t forget to invite you😂
The reason the Predator picks up the scorpion. Is to show the view. The Predator relates to the scorpion and not the humans.
You have got to watch Predator 2 right after this. Because that movie is pretty solid. After that "Prey" should be next in the franchise. Prey is awesome. In my opinion, you can skip "Predators" and "The Predator" not the best movies, especially "The Predator". Great reaction btw 👍. I am a new viewer to your channel.
Something that took me years to notice, but we foreshadowed Mac's death when Blaine said "You lose it out here, you're in a world of hurt."
Then later, Mac getting so unfastened that he's cutting his own face and doesnt know it, chasing after the predator **by himself**, singing to himself ("Long Tall Sally, she's built reeal sweet..." and then reverting back to childhood ("I seee youuuu.") Mac lost it. And later...was in a world of hurt.
In Predator 2 you will see the connection to the Alien universe and to the prequel of the first Predator movie which is Prey.
This movie triggered a lot of fan arguments over who would win in a fight: the Alien or the Predator. This in turn lead to the AvP video game, which lead to the Alien vs Predator movies.
Great reaction! i love this movie glad you enjoyed it🥰
Oh and i just saw your reaction to tucker and dale vs evil and you mentioned watching the grudge...i would love to see your reaction to it, its a good but scary movie 🤗❤️
Ps that sweater looks so good on you🥰
about the mud, I was just listening to the director's commentary of this movie, and he mentions that arnold was actually freezing cold from being covered in that mud while shooting. so funny enough since they shot this movie in an actual jungle, that proves that it would have worked.
I really love this movie, and I love the way the Predator seems kind of like a dark parody of 80s action heroes.
He's not fighting to survive, he's fighting to look cool, and feel cool. he stops using his weapons when Dutch runs out of his, because he wants to always have a slight risk of danger, but still be much stronger than his enemy.
Otherwise, he could just snipe people from orbit with a laser cannon.
Every soldier in the movie is a different type of action hero, and they all try to win by being tough and looking cool, but the only one who wins is the one who admits that he's powerless in comparison to his enemy, and that just being tough isn't enough.
"Put the mask back on."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The movie is supposed to take place in the Guatemalan jungle but is actually filmed in the Mexican jungle. Either way you look at it, they're in a real jungle. -OG
In answer to your question in your intro, yes, it's the same Predator species and the same alien species in the Aliens vs Predators movies. Classic popcorn movie. Tons of fun.
Aria, if you’re curious about the Aliens vs Predator bit, in the second movie (little to no relation to this one) the main character finds the Predator’s trophy wall, and on it is a xenomorph skull, thus forever tying the two franchises together.
Corridor Crew here on TH-cam tested out the mud trick and it actually kinda worked!
17:59 in high humidity environments, thats a way to remove sweat from your face so you cool off (because its not gonna evaporate on its own)
Carl Weathers is in "Rocky". That's a good movie too.
Awesome reaction. You're very intelligent. Carl Weathers is Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
For Carl weathers playing the main character, consider watching him as police Sgt. Jericho Jackson in 1988's "Action Jackson." It's a maverick cop action movie with some interesting casting choices including Bill Duke (Mac in "Predator") as Jackson's by-the-book boss who is constantly angry at Jackson for breaking the rules.
PLEASE react to the Rocky movies! Carl Weathers is awesome and I guarantee you will LOVE these movies. Stallone himself says that the movies aren't about boxing, they're about the love between Rocky and his wife Adrian
I think this is such a unique film. It starts out as a typical 80s war movie and then changes genre and becomes a horrific gore monster film! -OG
Glad you enjoyed it, even with a small spoiler. More information about the Predator in the next movie. Probably not really heat vision that as know it (why mud does not really work, movie stuff). Team was to rescue people, but that was a setup to stop a small invasion. Something happened to Hopper's team so Dylan tricked them to go there.
(cute onesie, also your hair looks fabulous! Hope Minnie is having a good time!)
"Why are they blasting everything...?"
1980s: yes
You're correct, thermal vision 🙂 And yes, in Alien vs. Predator it's the Predator species & the Alien Xenomorphs.
Predator is a hunter alien breed & it was hunting the main characters for sport.
They do have a code, they don't hunt If the pray has a flaw or If the pray isn't a challenge.
Carl Weathers is also known as Apollo Creed in Rocky.
And Aria, GET TO DA CHOPPA! 😜😉
The Predator comes out in the hottest summers because heat brings forth aggression in mammals and the Predator sees that aggression as a challenge.
Even Aliens don't even want to come to The cold climates on Earth, That's why you rarely hear of UFO reportings in Canada
Another neat thing about this movie is that Arnold & Jessy went on to be governors of California and Minnesota. Sonny Landham would have made it three, but lost election bid in Tennessee.
Really enjoyed your reactions 🎉🎉❤
your distrust of dylan/carl weathers early on was very funny ... ; )
In the novel, the Predator was a shape shifter instead of invisible. It would touch an animal, absorb the information it needed to imitate it, and then the animal would die. I remember there was part in the book describing the Predator flying through the jungle after assuming the form of a bird. Honestly, it seemed kind of silly when you considered that the Predator was normally bigger than a human being which meant it either had to shrink itself down to the size of a real bird or turn itself into a ridiculously giant bird.
"Heat seeker" is a small rocket that searches for heat, like from an engine or jet engine, to track and destroy.
There is a movie from way back, called " look who's talking" where two babies, a boy and a girl, " talk " while being voiced by Bruce Willis and Roseanne Barr 😅 needless to say, its hilarious!! And YOUR VOICE would be PERFECT for that kind of stuff, voice acting etc 🥹 like some Pixar picture where your deep, rich, silky smooth yet still sultry and feminine is like a LADYBUG or some ish!! Lmfaooo kind regards!!
23:16 well my Theory is that because the cool mud hid Dutch's heat signature and therefore The Pred couldn't see him, i think The Predator probably felt that Dutch died in The Waterfall
I am animator inspired by things and franchises I grew up with and I like so much, the AVP franchise is an example of them. I even got an idea of an AVP adventure on Predator's hunting planet.
Oh you should DEFINITELY watch Prey (2022)!
26:40 "Ooh, gonna take his mask off. I want to see what you look like."
I thought "No she doesn't."
_Seven seconds later_
"Ew ew oh oh. Put the mask back on!"
I was stung by a scorpion when I was 5. I live in Texas and all sorts of bugs and snakes etc were an everyday part of life. The scorpions in Texas aren't as bad as some others.
19:49 You would think this man would recognize the mark from _targeting_ lasers, when he sees 'em. This is not _identical_ to the targeting lasers with which he is familiar, but _I_ recognized it when I first saw it.
I'm not so sure they were that common in the eighties
@@davidladjani108 Maybe not, but they've been around since '79.
Carl Weathers, has been around a long time,..he was Apollo Creed in the original Rocky movies,..think he did 3 or 4, of them opposite Sylvester Stallone,..and after Predator he did another movie with Bill Duke(Mac'), and Sonny Landham(Billy), Action Jackson, with Sharon Stone, which I also went to see, it was for me fun to see them kinda have a reunion with some of the cast from Predator,..and Landham was also in 48 Hrs. with Eddie Murphy, and Nick Nolte,..lot of good action movies along with scifi,..the 80's were jumping,..and the thermal imaging, you notice, also, after Dutch and his team left the area, afrer the gun fight and Predator came down to,..I guess survey the area, he passes all these dead bodies,..which he can see, but there's no bright red color, they've no body heat, and as he holds the scorpion in his hand,..you see it go cold as it dies,..it really is an interesting premise for a movie,..the one thing they haven't truly in depth explored, or showed is Predator's home planet,..not even in Predators movie with Adrian Brody,..in Alien Covenant I believe there's a (spoiler), brief look at where the "Engineers" are from if I'm not mistaken,..and in the next Predator movie, first sequel,..you understand why it really wouldn't have made a difference whether Dutch smashed Predator's head in or what actually happened as it seceded defeat and blowing itself up,..he was not the only one,..this is a recurring event, carried out on different planets,..not just Earth, he wasn't the first, and he wouldn't be the last Predator to visit Earth,..in the sequel,..you see its a community if you will, of hunters,..and yess do check it out, Gary Busey who was in first Lethal Weapon is in it,..loved the cast in this one,..Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bill Duke were also in Commando before this,..and this was really filmed in jungle, I remember Arnold got sick,..not sure if it was Malaria, but he ran a fever,..Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, filmed in the Amazon, was a hardship, Hepburn said everyone on set was sick,..except for Bogart and Houston (Angelica Houston's dad), the director were the only ones unscathed by vomiting, dysentery because they were heavy drinkers, and drank Red Eye,.Whiskey,..lol,..do keep going, so glad you enjoyed, great reaction,..
This is not the only one, it hasn't been hanging out on Earth all this time. It's from a race of aliens that sometimes visit for hunting trips, thus the rest of the movies.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Was Originally The Predator But He Quit Because He Would Not Be Seen On Camera So It Went To The Late Kevin Peter Hall And He Was In Predator 2 RIP Kevin Peter Hall 😊
Great reaction! I love your reactions. Please react to Prey, it's a prequel, it's awesome. It's not necessary to watch predator 2, but Prey ties into the end of predator 2. Remember Billy, the Indian tracker.
In my opinion it's awful way to try and link the lore together. There's only 2 predator movies in my head cannon. The first two.
This is my favorite Arnold movie. I like how they reacted when seeing the skinned men. Although they WERE macho men, when seeing other men skinned, they didn't act like it didn't affect them any. Billy got scared and had to run away to the clearing and we clearly affected by what he saw. Little things made a fun movie just seem more real.
The Mythbusters tested that rubbing mud wouldn't work
The mud thing absolutely works against infra-red vision. Not hard to find videos of people testing it out.
suggest watching Predator 2 before watching Alien vs Predator
Yes, Alien v Predator is about this movie's Predator species against the alien xenomorphs you saw with Ellen Ripley aka Sigourney Weaver. They are all in the same universe. -OG
10:50 "I'm happy to say I've never seen a scorpion in real life and I hope I never see one."
Yeah, but do you eat shrimp?
Same thing really, except scorpions are a bit dryer and have a venomous sting.
"It" is obviously a Hunter/killer that visits other planets to hunt (and has been on Earth before as long ago as the 17th century, according to the worthy underrated sequel) Sport is the Predator's only mission, as suspence is the main point of the film it's the classic not explaining everything, because the more you know the less frightening the creature becomes , just as is true of- ALIEN, & THE THING speaking of which, this is another Sci Fi horror cross over film, not quite as awesome as those, but very effective and different
Great reaction to a great film! On the mud/thermal vision thing I recently watched some guys on TH-cam testing the idea and it actually worked better than they expected. Cant recall the channel but surely cant be hard to find if anyone wants to watch it 😊
What we shouldn't forget, it's basically a predator hunting other real or imaged superior predators. It just turns around OUR view on nature and prey and it doesn't feel nice to be on the receiving end.
It makes sense, how many hunt animals to keep their body parts as trophies. It’s essentially the same thing
Predator 2 is a decent movie, so definitely worth a watch.
AvP (Alien versus Predator) is okay as a movie with good effects and performances but, if you know the books it is based on then it is a big disappointment (have a look for "The Machiko Noguchi Saga" series if you are interested). If they had made it as written then it would have fitted in, as it was meant to, with the Alien franchise timeline. It's one of those franchises, like Terminator, where the first couple of movies are great but the film-makers just can't seem to realise that if they just shoot what has already been created then they will have a winner!
One core fact that never really seems to come out in the films but is solidly part of the fictional lore is that the Predators *breed* the Aliens to give them something exciting to hunt.
Aliens versus Predator takes place in our future, around Ripley's time, and it is basically a Predator training course gone wrong - they seeded a planet with Alien eggs with the intention that they would create slow and dim creatures from impregnating the local fauna. What made it go wrong was that humans colonised the planet in the meantime so the teenage Predator trainees ended up facing fast and smart Aliens and all got killed other than their teacher. He teams up with the surviving human and they fight the Aliens together. It's a much better story than the movie.
As to the Predators vision and the mud-effect, the filters are sort-of infra-red and sort-of ultraviolet but of course their normal vision is not the same as ours in the first place. So it's a bit of cinematic license that the mud blocked it so effectively but not too much of a stretch.
30:00 "I don't know why it only attacks when it's very hot."
Probably because the Predator world is very hot.
Imagine if you wanted to go hunting in, say, Ladakh - would you go there in an average winter at -40 degrees celsius, or would you wait for an unusually warm summer when the temperature rises over 25 degrees?
Maybe the Predator's world is so hot that the only time it can be comfortable on Earth is during a hot summer near the equator - everywhere else is too cold.
The first two Predator movies followed this pattern, in fact, they established it, but then the AVP movies and Prey just kind of totally forgot about it, so maybe it was only a coincidence. Or maybe the later writers didn't want to be limited by rules created by the first two writers. Who knows.
Great movie and great reaction , my favorite is the II but this one is great
Wait!!!! You haven't seen the Rocky movies? OMG, you have to watch the Rocky series!!!! Carl weathers is in the Rocky movies.
And one more thing. as a music lover, I would really like to know what kind of track you are using in the background, in the part where you summarize your reaction. I will be glad if you leave a link to this song in the answers to my comment. Kisses, hugs, thanks for your reaction
Modern Time - An Jone
I found it on youtube’s music library:)
@@ariachanson01 Thank you very much, girl)))
You know what!!!!???? I must be a STUPID MAN…. I done watched this movie umpteen times and NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED it… when Arnold told the girl that the alien didn’t kill her because she wasn’t armed you whispered “yeah, so maybe you guys should drop your guns.” I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. I was still thinking “we need to shoot this thing” EVERY SINGLE TIME I WATCHED IT. VERY GOOD!!!
32:05 "Do tripwires have heat in them? Because it was able to see them."
No.
Have you ever touched a metal car on a hot sunny day? The metal holds heat very well; it might even be hot enough to burn you a little bit.
Have you ever touched the same metal car at night? The metal feels cooler than other things around it like trees and leaves and the ground.
The Predator uses thermal vision and those traps they set at night were made of metal trip wires and metal explosives.
That metal would have been cooler than the environment around it and if its vision is sharp enough, that's how it could see them.
Of course, the movie made it look like its vision was just big blobs of color but that wouldn't be very practical.
This is an intelligent spacefaring race of aliens; they must be able to read and write to do math and science and engineering or they couldn't build space ships.
They can't very well do any of that if their vision is just big splotches of color.
@10:50. I don't like scorpions, either. But here is a fun fact: scorpion venom is the most expensive fluid in the world, it's used a lot for medical research.
I was 16 when this popped in theater. I was around for Arnold in his first role as Conan The Barbarian & liked him much before he did silly comedies but I still can't get into this one!😅 I always try & revisit my yesterday's crap cause can always turn out to be your today's Jam so tried rewatching a few months back on cable & as soon as saw Jessie Ventura talking about p***y I just couldn't keep watching, & BELIEVE ME, I love said p***y!!!
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This out of envy friends, not spite! I suppose I'll try again before my days are done if get a chance, but will have to skip the cringe locker-room helicopter talk & hope whole movie not full of it by the time I see a damn Predator!😅
Rock On!!!
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