They really dumped the actors in the middle of nowhere and made them hike to the filming sites, just to build up team camaraderie so that when they shot the film everyone would act like they were a real special ops team.
I was a college student in the late 80s. Watched the summer blockbusters with my high school friends, and the quirky non-summer comedies with my movie buddy Nancy. It was a wonderful time to see movies.
i'd argue it's a better time to see movies now. the average home TV is now 42-50" in size versus 20-25" in the late 80's. so most homes bassically have a mini theatre top watch at home. back then a 40-55 inch tv would have ran you several thousand dollars. today they (40-55" TV's) can be had for $250-600 dollars , depending on how big and what features you want on the tv. plus these spoiled kids today have greater access to every great movie ever made . when i was a kid in the 80's and a teen in the 90's getting new movies or evern seeing old ones required a trip 30 miles in the car to town and the you were limited by what your store or video rental offered. (granted i miss going to rent movies at a phsycial location) it wasn't always easy to find a movie you wanted to see, old or new.
The preditor was played by Kevin Peter Hall. He is also the helicopter pilot at the end of the film. They wanted people to know. Sadly he passed away a few years after this film. One of the best sci-fi action films ever. You provided a great reaction / commentary. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Back when they made actors work. They all went down to Mexico to film in a real jungle. They had people quit the film because they couldn't handle it. Very little CGI back then, so they had to use real stuntmen and explosions.
Another favorite that came out in my teenage years. I love the music by Alan Silvestri; he has made some awesome music for a wide variety of films. The actor who played the Predator, the late Kevin Peter Hall, also played the helicopter pilot at the end of the movie.
Fun fact the real danger of the movie was the actor that played Billy the tracker. They had to have a handler / body gard to keep people safe from him at all times because he was known. To just turn violent for no reason so he was physically strong and mentally unstable. Then this was the 2nd design for the Predator. The original one had it looking like a big lizard. It was quickly dropped after arriving on the filming location. Because the design made it impossible for the person in it to movie around. In the jungle so it was changed to the one you see in the movie. Thats why in the movie it has the line it looks like a big lizard. Because when the screenplay or script was written it looked like a big lizard. So the creatures look was changed but the line in the script was not changed. This comes from the audio commentary an other bonus features for the movie. Also the feet of the original design was used as the feet. For the creator in the movie Pumpkin Head so clearly those feet would not work in a jungle setting. .
"Yeah, Arnold... way to do some landscaping." That's actually called "grazing fire," Belle, because it cuts the vegetation low as though a herd of cattle had been grazing there. It's gunfire approximately parallel to the ground where the center of the cone of fire does not rise above one meter from the ground, often performed by machine guns. It is tactically advantageous when attempting to cut off an infantry ground assault or counter-attack. Depending on the caliber of the round being fired and the slope of the terrain, as well as the distance to the target, the bullet will maintain a semi-flat trajectory. The optimal height of fire should be at knee height. In addition to keeping the enemy pinned down, anybody wounded or going to cover will fall into the line of fire, not out of it.
you know about "get to the choppAAAHH!"? IMPRESSIVE! 😁 it was COOL watching you enjoy one of arnie's FEW good movies 😉 thank you for a FUN REACTION! 👍☺
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I saw this way back in video rental days. If you like big muscles and weird monsters in your movies, this one is for you. Have you considered watching any of the Godzilla movies? The classic 1st one is a great one to watch.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one. It's always hot down here in the MS Delta. In Texas it was always a dry heat. I guess it's like the people that love a hot coffee when it's 90 degrees outside.
Jeezo. You're almost 42? I don't know what you're doing, that i'm not. But, i turn 44 in a week. And, look like i could be in one of these films. ha ha
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions A belated Happy Birthday to her. I honestly thought you were late 20s, 30 at a push. Congrats on those genes. ha But, i feel you on the 80 thing. A few random film suggestions: Wargames (1983), After Hours (1985), Over The Top (1987), Midnight Run (1988), Parenthood(1989), Matchstick Men (2003), District 9 (2009), All Is Lost (2013). That last last one has no dialogue, but worth watching.
Ha... I love music. It's hard to throw anything my way that I'll hate. I grew up with Elvis Presley, Lynard Skynard and jamming classical music on my walkman and bobbing to "Baby got back" and "Rump Shaker." In my teens loving Alanis, Korn and Marilyn Manson to now loving Tool, Primus, and vibing to everything my parents loved like "The Black Crow's," "Bad Company" and "George Michael," I am all over the place. That's wha I love more than movies... Music and cooking :)
cutting down the jungle scene is a legitimate battle tactic. At this point they still believe they're up against guerilla forces and that they were victims of an ambush. In order to regain the battlefield initiative, they overwhelm the enemy with superior firepower and take back control of the engagement
The music for Predator was composed by Alan Silvestri, who also composed the music for Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Back to the Future Part II and III, Forrest Gump, and The Avengers movies.
Before he became an 80's action star, Jean Claude Van Damme was originally hired to play the Predator, but that was a differently designed Predator than what ended up in the movie, so he didn't end up getting the role. RIP Carl Weathers.
Jean Claude Van Damme backed out when he found out the theater audience wouldn't see his face or hear his voice. That & running around in tropical jungle heat wearing a cheap rubber lizard suit was too much work for him for the pay off. It wouldn't make him a leading man, an action hero, a Hollywood star like his idol Arnold. He quit.
Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas had originally written the script for Predator under the title "Hunter." The plot was partially inspired by the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," and originally involved a band of alien hunters of different species hunting humans, which was eventually streamlined to a single alien. It was also partially inspired by a joke that was circulating around Hollywood following the release of Rocky IV, that if Sylvester Stallone made another Rocky movie he'd have to make Rocky fight an alien because all human opponents had been used up.
Predator director John McTiernan would go on to direct two more action movie classics, Die Hard in 1988 and The Hunt for Red October in 1990. His career sadly went downhill after directing the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger flop, Last Action Hero, and after a series of commercial failures he retired after directing his last film in 2003. He later pleaded guilty to perjury in regards to hiring a private investigator to wire-tap two people involved in one of the films he produced, and spent a year in jail and filed for bankruptcy.
Fun Fact: For the fight scene between Dutch and The Predator, actor Kevin Peter Hall had to memorize the fight choreography because he had to act out the entire sequence blind. The Predator mask prevented Hall from being able to see anything, so Hall had to remember everywhere he was supposed to stand and how he was supposed to move, and on one particular take, he accidentally smacked Arnold Schwarzenegger in the face with his prosthetic claws.
Actor Kevin Peter Hall, who played the Predator, also has a small cameo appearance out of the suit as one of the pilots of the helicopter that arrives at the end of the movie.
Thank you Karl. Bugs first on screen (cameo) was throwing up a cricket in December last year. haha. There is also a Binx (a sassy black cat who's momma died - Hedoesn't speak much unless there is wet food and Lulu (Luna Lovegood) who's momma got hit by a car... Lordy.. I was never a cat lady.. now they rule the house.
Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator, but the design for the character was very different. The suit looked like a cross between a lizard and a grasshopper, and required the use of stilts. Director John McTiernan thought that the suit (especially the red suit that was used for the cloaking scenes) looked ridiculous, so the production was halted for nearly a year, and special effects master Stan Winston was brought in to create an entirely new creature design. Winston had previously worked with James Cameron on The Terminator and Aliens, and Cameron had suggested a new design to Winston, which Winston used as the basis for the Predator. Jean Claude Van Damme was fired from the production and the 7'3" actor Kevin Peter Hall was hired to play the Predator instead since he fit the costume and didn't need stilts.
I saw you lusting after William "Sonny" Landham at 24:22 Belle. 😂 It might interest you to know that he appeared in several porno films in the 1970s, such as The Love Bus, The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann, Slippery When Wet, The Trouble with Young Stuff, etc. He had small parts in mainstream films like The Warriors and Poltergeist, and finally got his big break in the 1982 action-comedy 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.
Interesting Fact the studio wanted to add some romance and sex scene with the girl and Arnold... but Arnold said "fuck no" well he said that didn't make any sense for the movie to have romance or sex scenes....
Billy was Denying the Predator of the honor of drawing first blood... For Native American Warriors, it's the ultimate Diss.
Never saw it that way. Very interesting
Yup Apache pride😎
They really dumped the actors in the middle of nowhere and made them hike to the filming sites, just to build up team camaraderie so that when they shot the film everyone would act like they were a real special ops team.
I was a college student in the late 80s. Watched the summer blockbusters with my high school friends, and the quirky non-summer comedies with my movie buddy Nancy. It was a wonderful time to see movies.
i'd argue it's a better time to see movies now. the average home TV is now 42-50" in size versus 20-25" in the late 80's. so most homes bassically have a mini theatre top watch at home. back then a 40-55 inch tv would have ran you several thousand dollars. today they (40-55" TV's) can be had for $250-600 dollars , depending on how big and what features you want on the tv. plus these spoiled kids today have greater access to every great movie ever made . when i was a kid in the 80's and a teen in the 90's getting new movies or evern seeing old ones required a trip 30 miles in the car to town and the you were limited by what your store or video rental offered. (granted i miss going to rent movies at a phsycial location) it wasn't always easy to find a movie you wanted to see, old or new.
The preditor was played by Kevin Peter Hall. He is also the helicopter pilot at the end of the film. They wanted people to know.
Sadly he passed away a few years after this film. One of the best sci-fi action films ever.
You provided a great reaction / commentary.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Amazing movie!!! Thank you of watching ❤️ Howdy Texan! What part of Texas are you from? I lived in Central for 17 years.
I swear every time I watch this movie, the song "Welcome to the Jungle" pops into my head. 🤘🏿
Stuck in my head now haha
Back when they made actors work. They all went down to Mexico to film in a real jungle. They had people quit the film because they couldn't handle it. Very little CGI back then, so they had to use real stuntmen and explosions.
Another favorite that came out in my teenage years. I love the music by Alan Silvestri; he has made some awesome music for a wide variety of films. The actor who played the Predator, the late Kevin Peter Hall, also played the helicopter pilot at the end of the movie.
When I was in 6th grade, my teacher would play the soundtrack to this movie during our Math speed tests. 🔥🔥
That's insane!! hahaha
Fun fact the real danger of the movie was the actor that played Billy the tracker. They had to have a handler / body gard to keep people safe from him at all times because he was known. To just turn violent for no reason so he was physically strong and mentally unstable.
Then this was the 2nd design for the Predator. The original one had it looking like a big lizard. It was quickly dropped after arriving on the filming location. Because the design made it impossible for the person in it to movie around. In the jungle so it was changed to the one you see in the movie. Thats why in the movie it has the line it looks like a big lizard. Because when the screenplay or script was written it looked like a big lizard. So the creatures look was changed but the line in the script was not changed.
This comes from the audio commentary an other bonus features for the movie.
Also the feet of the original design was used as the feet. For the creator in the movie Pumpkin Head so clearly those feet would not work in a jungle setting. .
Oh, that’s really cool to know especially because I just finished pumpkin head but very disturbing about the guy
"Yeah, Arnold... way to do some landscaping."
That's actually called "grazing fire," Belle, because it cuts the vegetation low as though a herd of cattle had been grazing there. It's gunfire approximately parallel to the ground where the center of the cone of fire does not rise above one meter from the ground, often performed by machine guns. It is tactically advantageous when attempting to cut off an infantry ground assault or counter-attack. Depending on the caliber of the round being fired and the slope of the terrain, as well as the distance to the target, the bullet will maintain a semi-flat trajectory. The optimal height of fire should be at knee height. In addition to keeping the enemy pinned down, anybody wounded or going to cover will fall into the line of fire, not out of it.
I learned something new from you almost every day now
Arnold's primal scream was an adlib too 🔥
Still so powerful. He made his point there.
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions absolutely
Most beautiful reactor, who's also smart and funny doing this? Absolutely!
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Classic SCFi horror movie from 1987 . 😊
Best Predator film ever!! Great choice SSB!! 👌🏻👏🏻
Yup when they mowed down the jungle Predator watched from up in the trees while drinking Colombian coffee.
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Do you think he takes cream or sugar in his coffee?
Two future governors in this movie, which is an odd coincidence.
Who was the other?
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactionsJesse Ventura became Governor of Minnesota
you know about "get to the choppAAAHH!"? IMPRESSIVE! 😁 it was COOL watching you enjoy one of arnie's FEW good movies 😉 thank you for a FUN REACTION! 👍☺
Thank you! I had only heard it a million times in documentaries. Absolutely loved this movie!
That was a Plasma bomb
Good reaction darlin
Thank you! An excellent movie
For Arnold's first big movie check out "Conan The Barbarian " from 1982. 👍❤
Lusting now....
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First commentary 🤗
Waiting for your reactions to my list 🎬
CONAN THE BARBARIAN 🎥
CONAN THE DESTROYED 🎥
JINGLE ALL THE WAY 🎥
COLLATERAL DAMAGE 🎥
THE RUNNING MAN 🎥
KINDERGARTEN COP 🎥
TERMINATOR lll 🎥
TOTAL RECALL 🎥
COMMANDO 🎥
LAST STAND 🎥
RAW DEAL 🎥
TRUE LIES 🎥
RED HEAT 🎥
ERASER 🎥
TWIST 🎥
Arnold Schwarzenegger best movies 💪📽🎞
Kiss for you princess 💯♥
You're trying to make me "visually" cheat on my husband now, aren't you? hahaha
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions yes sweetie 😃😘
I saw this way back in video rental days. If you like big muscles and weird monsters in your movies, this one is for you. Have you considered watching any of the Godzilla movies? The classic 1st one is a great one to watch.
I have yet to watch a Godzilla Movie. I guess I have to dip in then!
Love action.... watch District B13... an action movie so he man, they didn't bother with hiring actors. They just had the stuntmen read the linres.
Well, well, all right then
The first and still the best.
Two future US Governors in this film!
Why would you not use water you can get in the jungle, so you can save what you have in your canteen?
All right then. You got me there. But I definitely would not see you drinking water out of a tree or a vine. I can bet on that. 😂😂
I hope the one you sort of saw on HULU wasn't Predators, because that is a must watch in the future.
It was a movie set in what I felt was the past.
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Yea, smoking where it's hot as hell. I don't get it. A friend moved to Vegas way back and stopped smoking for that reason.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one. It's always hot down here in the MS Delta. In Texas it was always a dry heat. I guess it's like the people that love a hot coffee when it's 90 degrees outside.
Why is the video upside down?
You mean flipped? I don’t care to be fined for copyright infringement (also see disclaimer at beginning of video)
Jeezo. You're almost 42? I don't know what you're doing, that i'm not. But, i turn 44 in a week. And, look like i could be in one of these films. ha ha
Yep 42 December 15! I feel like I'm 80 though. My oldest daughter literally turned 26 today.
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions A belated Happy Birthday to her. I honestly thought you were late 20s, 30 at a push. Congrats on those genes. ha But, i feel you on the 80 thing. A few random film suggestions: Wargames (1983), After Hours (1985), Over The Top (1987), Midnight Run (1988), Parenthood(1989), Matchstick Men (2003), District 9 (2009), All Is Lost (2013). That last last one has no dialogue, but worth watching.
You can dance to anything....
Let me know if you decide to do a music reaction channel.... I can recommend music you never imagined even existed.
Ha... I love music. It's hard to throw anything my way that I'll hate. I grew up with Elvis Presley, Lynard Skynard and jamming classical music on my walkman and bobbing to "Baby got back" and "Rump Shaker." In my teens loving Alanis, Korn and Marilyn Manson to now loving Tool, Primus, and vibing to everything my parents loved like "The Black Crow's," "Bad Company" and "George Michael," I am all over the place. That's wha I love more than movies... Music and cooking :)
cutting down the jungle scene is a legitimate battle tactic. At this point they still believe they're up against guerilla forces and that they were victims of an ambush. In order to regain the battlefield initiative, they overwhelm the enemy with superior firepower and take back control of the engagement
Thank you for that information and also thank you for watching
The music for Predator was composed by Alan Silvestri, who also composed the music for Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Back to the Future Part II and III, Forrest Gump, and The Avengers movies.
Before he became an 80's action star, Jean Claude Van Damme was originally hired to play the Predator, but that was a differently designed Predator than what ended up in the movie, so he didn't end up getting the role.
RIP Carl Weathers.
Jean Claude Van Damme backed out when he found out the theater audience wouldn't see his face or hear his voice. That & running around in tropical jungle heat wearing a cheap rubber lizard suit was too much work for him for the pay off. It wouldn't make him a leading man, an action hero, a Hollywood star like his idol Arnold. He quit.
Oh, that’s very cool. I’m actually a fan of his as well.
Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas had originally written the script for Predator under the title "Hunter." The plot was partially inspired by the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," and originally involved a band of alien hunters of different species hunting humans, which was eventually streamlined to a single alien. It was also partially inspired by a joke that was circulating around Hollywood following the release of Rocky IV, that if Sylvester Stallone made another Rocky movie he'd have to make Rocky fight an alien because all human opponents had been used up.
You probably watched Prey. That movie was trash
Yes.. that was probably the one... Seeing as how I cam't remember the title, it probably didn't impact me haha
Predator director John McTiernan would go on to direct two more action movie classics, Die Hard in 1988 and The Hunt for Red October in 1990. His career sadly went downhill after directing the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger flop, Last Action Hero, and after a series of commercial failures he retired after directing his last film in 2003. He later pleaded guilty to perjury in regards to hiring a private investigator to wire-tap two people involved in one of the films he produced, and spent a year in jail and filed for bankruptcy.
Fun Fact: For the fight scene between Dutch and The Predator, actor Kevin Peter Hall had to memorize the fight choreography because he had to act out the entire sequence blind. The Predator mask prevented Hall from being able to see anything, so Hall had to remember everywhere he was supposed to stand and how he was supposed to move, and on one particular take, he accidentally smacked Arnold Schwarzenegger in the face with his prosthetic claws.
Actor Kevin Peter Hall, who played the Predator, also has a small cameo appearance out of the suit as one of the pilots of the helicopter that arrives at the end of the movie.
The Patreon is sooo worth it, btw! The cat and I have had some issues, but it always works out. I see you, Bubs!
Thank you Karl. Bugs first on screen (cameo) was throwing up a cricket in December last year. haha. There is also a Binx (a sassy black cat who's momma died - Hedoesn't speak much unless there is wet food and Lulu (Luna Lovegood) who's momma got hit by a car... Lordy.. I was never a cat lady.. now they rule the house.
Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator, but the design for the character was very different. The suit looked like a cross between a lizard and a grasshopper, and required the use of stilts. Director John McTiernan thought that the suit (especially the red suit that was used for the cloaking scenes) looked ridiculous, so the production was halted for nearly a year, and special effects master Stan Winston was brought in to create an entirely new creature design. Winston had previously worked with James Cameron on The Terminator and Aliens, and Cameron had suggested a new design to Winston, which Winston used as the basis for the Predator. Jean Claude Van Damme was fired from the production and the 7'3" actor Kevin Peter Hall was hired to play the Predator instead since he fit the costume and didn't need stilts.
I saw you lusting after William "Sonny" Landham at 24:22 Belle. 😂 It might interest you to know that he appeared in several porno films in the 1970s, such as The Love Bus, The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann, Slippery When Wet, The Trouble with Young Stuff, etc. He had small parts in mainstream films like The Warriors and Poltergeist, and finally got his big break in the 1982 action-comedy 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.
Intrigued..... hahahha I'll be looking these up later... ;)
Interesting Fact the studio wanted to add some romance and sex scene with the girl and Arnold... but Arnold said "fuck no" well he said that didn't make any sense for the movie to have romance or sex scenes....
I don’t think it would’ve made sense to have that type of scene so I’m glad our man said no