I was reading that John McTiernan fought for Carl Weathers to be in this film, against studio demands. McTiernan saw how Arnold watched and admired Carl. As both men came from athletic backgrounds, a nervous Schwarznegger (who hadn't really found his footing as an actor) found a role model in the remarkable Carl Weathers. RIP to another legend.
I like to imagine that offscreen they fought for a few minutes and Billy was beaten honorably. Billy's skull was probably his most prized trophy for the few hours he had it.
Best ist that you have to IMAGINE the fight, he is the only one you dont see the way they get killed. And imagine these huge and fearless indian tough guy with that incredible knife for to fight mano a mano
@@justateach8217if you've never seen the movie Predators, it is really good! In it one of the predators was challenged like Billy challenged this one. That Predator fought hand to hand. I feel Billy got that same chance. He threw down his gun, there would have been no sport.
@@maxsparks5183 true. But she gets to discover so much treasure so often, almost if she was only reading books and discovered movies for the first time.
20:57 "How do we kill it?" I love that this young lady is so engrossed in this movie that she feels like she is literally living the story with the other characters. No wonder her reactions are so emotionally attached to every scene. It puts a different light on watching an action movie like this. Interesting and entertaining for sure! 👍
@@mooncritter721 Somehow I missed your comment but no I haven't seen that yet. I do like scary movies so I will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@mooncritter721 btw if you like scary movies then I recommend 'Annihilation'. It is free on TH-cam and it has some really good jump-scare scenes in it with an excellent plot line also.
Kevin Peter Hall, who played the alien Predator, also played the Bigfoot, Harry, in Harry and the Hendersons. He also had a recurring role on the 80's TV sitcom, Night Court. He was a nearly 7 foot tall, African American actor, who also had a cameo as the helicopter pilot in the rescue chopper that rescues Dutch at the end of the film. Sadly, Kevin is no longer with us, as he passed away decades ago. I believe, he also portrayed the Predator again in the sequel, Predator 2. From what I've heard he was one of the kindest, friendliest people you could ever meet.
The Predator laughing in the end is actually Billy's laughter that the Predator mimicked. The fact that the Predator mimics their voices at all is creepy and that much more taunting for his kills. -OG
I was never really clear on whether or not it was technological, or whether their species has something like a sarynx...similar to various corvid species and related birds. Given their mouth structure, it would be almost impossible for them to have any practical spoken language without it.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Yeah, that is interesting to note. I can definitely understand the purring clicking sounds. The mouth structure for actual speech, though, seems like a whole other beast in itself to figure out. But I do love the roar when he took his mask off to fight Arnold. -OG
Fun fact, that was not the first Predator design used. The first one was Jon Claude Van Dam in a rubber suit. They fired him about a week into filming and decided to redesign the whole costume. There are set pictures of the first one with JCVD in it.
The actor who played the Predator was Kevin Peter Hall. He also had a cameo at the end as the black chopper pilot (the director wanted to give him a little face time for all his efforts). Kevin Peter Hall was over 7 feet tall and frequently played various creatures due to his unusual height. He was Harry in Harry And The Hendersons. A movie about a family that befriends Bigfoot and brings him home. You would probably really enjoy that movie. Kevin peter Hall was a super nice guy in real life. He was in a bad car accident in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. During surgery he received contaminated blood and passed away. RIP KPH
Fun fact JCVD was supposed to play the predator but he hated the outfit and parted ways with the production...they completely overhauled the costume and the new predator was born
My friends and I came to theatre to watch whatever was available. Predator was just out and about to start. None of us knew anything about it, other than what was on poster. Figured it was another "commando" type movie with Arnold. We were so surprised and blown away by this movie, so much better than some of the others Arnold had been making. Just a happy memory of friends all together talking and excited about movie afterward.
You must see SILENT HOUSE. It is the most terrifying film in human history. Most people don`t have the guts to deal with this film. If you have a channel, you should do a reaction to this horror film. No one yet has had the guts to do a reaction. It is a hard film to get through due to the jump scares and the horror of being left alone in a boarded up house with no electricity and realizing that someone or something is in the house with you. You have only a flashlight to guide you through this terror. If you think you have the guts to watch this film, please do a reaction to it.
The respect Cassie has for Billy is adorable 🙂 Btw, the actor playing Billy, Sonny Landham, was not a very friendly guy. During shooting, he had a bodyguard to protect others FROM him. He was known to be violent and short tempered.
The Cassism of saying I can't watch, while covering her mouth and going b-b-b-b ... while NOT covering/closing her eyes... is so Cassie. Adorable. I watched this pre re upload... and still enjoyed. Every sound the predator makes is mimicry of the team/humans. even the laugh. Predator is a "trophy hunter" it wants the best prey, and you said it yourself, Dutch and team are the best.
You owe it to yourself to rewatch this classic in the remastered 4K version on a 70" tv screen! It looks like they filmed it last year, that's how great the 4K quality is.
I saw it on a Saturday night on HBO probably at 7:00 pm, shortly after it had been released to movie channels. I was either 12 or 13. My mother and I spent weekends at her boyfriend's apartment and he had cable, we didn't. I also watched Aliens for the first time by myself on HBO, after they had gone to sleep.
...and another thing: this is the perfect movie "why?" because McTiernan (one of the best action directors, in the vein of James Cameron) decided to drop the audience, along with the "crew" right smack dab in the middle of the fun, without telling us a thing about the creature. Genius film-making. A action/horror movie where the audience has to play along and guess "what the what?" We have to play the detectives and action heroes along with the crew. Who gets it next. But your reactions are money!!!
You can thank James Cameron and Stan Winston for coming up with the Predator creature. The original design was really silly looking and was played by - Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Van Damme was just in the SFX costume, which was some blue foam thing. The actual creature was going to be superimposed. He was fresh off the plane and it wasn't explained to him how it worked and he thought the "monster" was stupid.
@@Cheepchipsable The original suit was indeed stupid looking and they also shot him in a prototype monster costume as well as the red effects suit. Many of the shots with the redesigned Stan Winston creature were 2nd unit as they had already filmed a lot of the cast footage that had nothing to do with interacting directly with the creature.
My favorite character, aside from Billy, was Mac. Great script defines the friendship between Mac and Blaine without so much as a montage. Toasting to his "bro" with a flask and declaring what he would do to avenge his death...brilliant writing. Then the desperation Mac shows when he finally "corners' his prey. So well written and one of my favorite scenes of the movie.
Huge respect to the director John McTiernan. He did just a few movies, but they were awesome. Predator, Die Hard,Hunt for the Red October, Die hard with a vengeance. Those are cinematic gems.
A TH-cam channel named Corridor recently tested the theory that mud does _not_ mask the thermal signature of a person. They used cheap thermal imagers to really expensive ones. Spoiler alert: their theory was proven wrong with all thermal imagers they used. A person covered in mud was undetectable while attempting to locate them with the imagers exactly how this film depicted. The only person who was able to locate the test subject was the dog they had with them.
The Predator and Alien universes were not officially the same until the sequel Predator 2, where there is a scene in the Predator spaceship showing an Alien xenomorph head mounted as a trophy. This momentary other-movie-homage became a whole series.
@@ashleywilliams1060 Not so. The Aliens were made by the engineers as shown in Prometheus. The Predators found them and planted them in various places for the "Great Hunt", as they were the most dangerous things to hunt. There is some thought that the engineers made the Predators as well, and also humans.
You should react to more Arnold Schwarzenegger films… "Conan the Barbarian", "Conan the Destroyer", "Commando", "Twins", "Total Recall", "Kindergarten Cop", "True Lies" 🎥🍿
Predator 2 is also worth a watch. Different location/set-up and cast. You wondered when this film was set - essentially 'present day', late 80's for the first one, the 2nd one is meant to be 'near future'.
Cool trivia: this came out in 1987. Arnold became governor of California in 2003, and "Blain" (the guy with the big machine gun, played by Jesse Ventura) became governor of Minnesota in 1998.
I learned the other day that Sonny Lindham (the actor for Billy) ran in 2008 for Governor of Kentucky first as a libertarian, then later as an independent on a hard-right platform.
@@robbob5302 I'm not so sure which way it would have gone. Jesse Ventura was one of the first SEALs, and he's known to be a genuine tough guy (although not anymore, of course).
@@GetMeThere1 Ventura tried out for the SEALs. He did not make it through Hell Week. However, he was part of an underwater demolitions unit. Which was later folded into the SEALs.
Predator affected me as a kid. I saw it when I was 6 and there was thick forest behind my house. The amount of times my child's mind saw the camouflaged predator in the tree line.
Excellent reaction!! They explain much more about the Predators in "PREDATOR 2". So, you can react to that one for further info and action. But, as a warning, it is probably more gory than this one.
like I said in my comment above, Cassie should watch PREDATOR 2 before watching ALIEN vs. PREDATOR, in order to understand the connection between the two species.
Right in the middle of the famous bullet shooting into the forest scene: "Maybe save some? (Bullets)" you should make a T-shirt of that. It's such a perfect quote!
Thank you for paying tribute to the movies that made my summers awesome as a teen. So many your age think our old movies sucked. I love your reactions and your genuine innocents when it comes to this stuff.
“He’s killing them so easy ….” It only seemed easy because the Predator was smart. He studied them before he acted. He waited until they were separated and took out the biggest and most heavily-armed soldier first, which was Blaine. After that, he carefully took the rest out individually, when he had the right opportunity. If he had taken on the squad as a group, they probably would have killed the Predator first.
Only because Hawkins was technically the most OP character in the cast(He was played by author/screenwriter Shane Black) so he needed to die first to prevent plot armor. 😁
@@johnlloyddy7016 The producers hired Black mostly to help work on the film’s script. He said no so they did away with his character prematurely then kicked him to the curb.
Born in '83 but I remember watching this with my older cousins while I was still less than 10 years old and thinking of mind-blowing it was. Almost 40 years later it still stands the test of time. Truly a legendary movie.
Cassie: "It's like home alone ... but more demonic." Unintentional comedy gold. Should have been the tag line on the theatre posters. Fun fact: For the heat mode view of the Alien they purchased a state of the art (at the time) actual IR camera to do the shots, but they couldn't get any decent footage out of it because their shoot location environments were so warm, so there was very little variation between human body heat and the ambient temperature. The images were just a melded indistinct haze. So they just ended up using much cheaper chemical and costume techniques and got a much better result.
I saw Alien alone in the theaters when it came out and was also the first 'scary' movie I had ever seen. I was 9 and I enjoyed every second of it, so much so that I dragged my mom and grandma to watch it for a second viewing. They did not have the same reaction to it as I did.
@@ct6852 I wasn't even accompanied. Back then the board of censors in the Philippines only gave a toss about the R rating when it involved nudity and sex. But gore and violence? Bon appetit.
23:45 Reaction reminded me of my little sister doing her tough girl act, which I always thought was adorable. This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. My friends and I had it on VHS and we watched it over and over and had the lines memorized. We would go out in the woods and pretend we were Dutch and his team. I was fascinated by all the different guns and equipment that each of them had, their different cool guy personalities. This movie contributed significantly to my conceptualization of special operations as being cool and alongside Full Metal Jacket, one of the bigger media influences that would lead to my commissioning as an officer when I graduated college. Loved watching your reactions and thanks for the memories.
Favourite action one liner Blane “ I ANT GOT TIME TO BLEED!!” It ranks beside Autobot Springer’s one liner in Tranformers the movie!! “ I GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO TONIGHT THAN DIE” 👍👍👍😊
@@Cheepchipsable That was also an inside joke...Arnold was competitive with Stallone.Stallone was doing the Rambo movies and Rambo was an ex Green Beret.
Everybody gets a laugh from the big "shooting everything blindly into the jungle" scene, but in Vietnam the "mad minute" was a real thing. The Kong and the NVA were masters of creeping up on your position without being detected and attacking from up close (they even had a saying: "To fight the Americans, you hold them by the belt buckle" to describe the strategy of fighting up close to negate the advantages of air support and artillery), and former NVA have admitted that shooting the hell out of the surrounding foliage and darkness could be effective at making them back off.
Thank you. So many have said that scene was the guys wasting ammo and just a macho scene. It was an actual military tactic used on an enemy you can't see. I think the British actually used it first. It was also done with artillery and tanks at times. Basically just decimate an area.
Jesse Ventura became of Minnesota. He wrote a book "I have no time to bleed" giving homage to that line on this movie. This movie blew my mind when I watched it the first time and I love it. Lots of things to re-watch next time.
If you remember the spaceship at the very beginning, it dropped a pod of some sort that landed. Basically, alien got dropped off on Earth.for a hunting trip. Where ever the aliens are from, it must be hot because the girl said they come on the hottest years. And, it seems like they hunter for skulls, and it wanted Arnold's because he had a nice skull lol
I just love your reactions, Cassie. And this one might just have jumped into the top five. Ever! Haha! Thank you! P.S. True Lies has all the excitement and none of the really gross monster mania!
- "You could have had Billy help you out." (while Arnie is making a bow and arrows). That might be the funniest line I've heard all year, my sides are aching.
Billy was a highly trained and skilled scout/tracker. The Alien was hunting them for sport, just like big game hunters do in Africa. It's all about the thrill, challenge and the prize. Most small teams usually have a scout/point man, comms guy, sharp shooter/sniper and if lucky a medic.
Yes, that was true about the trophy hunting to an extent, because you come to find out in later Predator movies that the hunting is a test of manhood. The Predators are advanced but tribal, so if you think of it that way the reason he is hunting these human, (Oomans as they call humans), soldiers is more understandable.
The thing i like most about this film is that Dutch used the Predator's own tactic against him. Prey comes out next month and I'm curious to see how it will be because the last few were lame. None has been able to be better than the first which is an outstanding film!!!!
Always pulling up your blankey to protect yourself! Then Christmas caroling!! Your reactions are ALWAYS UPROARIOUSLY HILARIOUS!!! LUV watching you, and your sister, in scary/hideous reactions! Have fun with all the other Predator movies!!! Watching you or you both in these will my sides splitting!!
initially, Alien and Predator were two totally independant films/ideas (the alien skull was just a prop gag), but when they made AvP they decided to merge those universes and now its kinda considered Canon. This is the 3rd time I've watched Predator this week.
I discovered your channel just yesterday and ive been bing watching for 10 hrs now . I love you and your sisters charisma. You should do an episode on the movie stand by me . Love your content keep up the good work
In the wristwatch fan space the watch Arnold wears is a Seiko dive watch that has both hands and a digital display. It came out in 1982 and was remade in 2019. To this day it’s known as the Arnie.
I have my own interpretation of this movie. See I think the title Predator, is referring to Arnold, and not the alien hunter. It's the man who is the ultimate predator here. Think about it: an advanced alien hunter arrives on a new planet. We never see it killing it's own species, so we don't know how their civilization operates, but the alien in this film seems to value honor (not killing unarmed people). Meanwhile it observes a bunch of big guys, killing 50 or so of their own kind, with scary big weapons, while making funny remarks about it. So they are worthy prey for him, until Arnold taps into mans natural survival/killer instinct, and becomes the Predator of this movie. He preys on, outsmarts, and takes down the professional hunter. So when Arnie asks What the hell are you, I feel like the Predator has the exact same question on his mind. So yeah, I think Arnold is The Predator.
It's more like both. It's kind of like if the movie was called Warrior and umm... the alien observed them, picked out Dutch as the best one, abducted him, took him to a giant spaceship and then they had a gladiator duel with alien and human weapons, Dutch gets lucky and kills the alien and escapes but he passes out as the ship leaves and he loses all memory of the last two days.
I actually read some long ass treatise about how this movie was actually about the AIDS epidemic. Zero clue if that's even remotely true...but the video was convincing. Prob written by the same guy that did Quentin's Top Gun monologue.
The pitch for this is essentially "You know how when you have a monster movie, it's always about some person or group of people that aren't at all cut out to fight this monster? Either some random campers, or some fun-loving college kids, or some poor dude just driving along a remote highway? And these people are not equipped for a fight, or expecting a fight, or trained to fight, and are completely overmatched? Wellll.... What if in this movie the people facing the monster are all world-class badasses? Guys who ARE expecting a fight, who ARE prepared, who ARE trained, who ARE literally carrying as much weaponry as they can physically lift, and when the monster comes after them they're STILL getting killed one by one? (And yet the 'monster' isn't supernatural, it isn't unkillable, just very skilled and strong and tough)." The way this changes the setup is great; everyone on this team knows they are dangerous killers, and when something starts taking them out (and making it look almost easy) we see that they struggle to keep it together and keep going. And at the end, that last shot of Arnold, in the chopper; that man will never be able to fully move past this. He'd already seen some shit, but now he's REALLY seen some shit, and I think it will always haunt him. I'd expect that he quietly retires to his ranch in some remote corner of Montana, and raises horses or something, and tries not to drink too much, and has a lot of trouble sleeping at night, when all those stars are shining down from a cold and threatening sky.
The Predator movies take place in the times they were made, except Predator 2 and Prey. The Alien movies take place in the future in the 2120’s. But the they are in the same universe.
It's ingenious that they used the first part of this movie to show you how skilled this group was, just to show how easily they get taken apart by the Predator.
Fun fact no one pointed out with the laugh at the end. The Predator was mimicking what he heard from others, it was Billy’s laugh from when Hawkins told him the joke after the compound raid.
Can you imagine how much better this would have been without the little spaceship scene right at the beginning? No one would have had a clue until the reveal.
The name Dutch recognizes on the dog tag is Jim Hopper, which is also the name of David Harbour's character on Stranger Things. A fun little '80s reference the show snuck in.
20:37 Cassie: "The mud..." Arnold: "He couldn't see me!" Cassie: "He needs to live in the mud. He needs to... never come out of the mud. He needs to... make a mud home." Arnold: "So I guess that's my life now"
Couple quick notes the Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall who was 6'9'' who was the Predator in this and Predator 2. He also play Big Foot in the movie and TV show Harry and the Hendersons, and he was teh Mutant Bear in the 1979 horror film The Prophecy, Shane Black who played Hawkings was originally hired to rewrite the script, but made no changes he said it was perfect as is, and then he auditioned for and got the part of Hawkins. He also wrote Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3 and the 2018 The Predator also directing these last 2.
Hulu has a new original Movie called Prey. It's a Predator prequel. It takes place about 300 years in the past and involves a Cherokee tribe. I highly recommend this movie.
9:36 That's Shane Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and Iron Man 3 among other things. They hired him so he could punch up the script as they went along, but his only contribution that made it into the movie was either that joke or the other one of the same ouvre.
Billy the guy who seemed to always know the predator or something was watching, is a Native American tracker, so in the story he’s very keen on picking up little things the other guys don’t notice. Part of it is superstition (like him having a bad feeling something’s watching) but part of it is that he’s very aware of his environment and can notice something as simple as the birds acting differently (since the predator is in the trees)
I think it's actually a satire of the classic action movies of the time. The gratuitous muscle shots are a sign, and the plot shows how their masculinity and weapons count for very little. The unarmed woman walks away completely unscathed. Dutch only wins through using his wits (although his muscles helped setting up the traps).
I can assure you NOBODY thought this movie was a satire in 1987. It was a " meek shall inherit the Earth, because they aren't worth hunting" kind of movie.
It's only a satire to lady boys of today. In the 80's everyone on screen was ripped like gods, even quite a few women. Very few people come close to that today. Both Chris's (Hemsworth and Evans) and Hugh Jackman come to mind. This is why the 80's beat every other decade in the 1900's and even the 2000's.
RIP Carl Weathers a true 80’s icon
Holy .....!! I had no idea he passed! I found out via this comment..
I was reading that John McTiernan fought for Carl Weathers to be in this film, against studio demands. McTiernan saw how Arnold watched and admired Carl. As both men came from athletic backgrounds, a nervous Schwarznegger (who hadn't really found his footing as an actor) found a role model in the remarkable Carl Weathers. RIP to another legend.
@@Psilocybin77😎👍🏽
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jessie Ventura both served as Governors.
Action Jackson!
Billy knew they were 99.9% all dead so he was determined to go out HIS way. Gotta respect that!
I like to imagine that offscreen they fought for a few minutes and Billy was beaten honorably. Billy's skull was probably his most prized trophy for the few hours he had it.
Best ist that you have to IMAGINE the fight, he is the only one you dont see the way they get killed. And imagine these huge and fearless indian tough guy with that incredible knife for to fight mano a mano
well not all of them died Dutch and Anna lived
@@drhkleinert8241 I like think when the alien stepped out onto that fallen tree, it revealed itself to Billy before the fight.
@@justateach8217if you've never seen the movie Predators, it is really good! In it one of the predators was challenged like Billy challenged this one. That Predator fought hand to hand. I feel Billy got that same chance. He threw down his gun, there would have been no sport.
She's so lucky she gets to watch all these classics for the first time!
We all watched these classics for the first time sometime.
@@maxsparks5183 true. But she gets to discover so much treasure so often, almost if she was only reading books and discovered movies for the first time.
Oh, man to go back to the 80's summers and enjoy them all for the first time. Man I miss the 80's.
I wanted to lose my memory, just to have the feeling I had as a child
I prefer her channel rather than others who sort of look like they were born yesterday and never had seen action movie before.
20:57 "How do we kill it?"
I love that this young lady is so engrossed in this movie that she feels like she is literally living the story with the other characters. No wonder her reactions are so emotionally attached to every scene. It puts a different light on watching an action movie like this. Interesting and entertaining for sure! 👍
Have you seen SILENT HOUSE? IT IS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING FILMS IN HUMAN HISTORY! I DARE YOU TO WATCH IT!
8:56 "is she CIA too?" No, she was one of the badguy team, probably the clerk/typist for the camp
@@mooncritter721 Somehow I missed your comment but no I haven't seen that yet. I do like scary movies so I will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@mooncritter721 btw if you like scary movies then I recommend 'Annihilation'. It is free on TH-cam and it has some really good jump-scare scenes in it with an excellent plot line also.
Isn't that the whole point of movies?
Kevin Peter Hall, who played the alien Predator, also played the Bigfoot, Harry, in Harry and the Hendersons. He also had a recurring role on the 80's TV sitcom, Night Court. He was a nearly 7 foot tall, African American actor, who also had a cameo as the helicopter pilot in the rescue chopper that rescues Dutch at the end of the film. Sadly, Kevin is no longer with us, as he passed away decades ago. I believe, he also portrayed the Predator again in the sequel, Predator 2. From what I've heard he was one of the kindest, friendliest people you could ever meet.
They were going to use Jean-Claude and you can even tell when he's running while cloaked.
misfits of science too. ironically, he was the shrinking man 😝
The Predator laughing in the end is actually Billy's laughter that the Predator mimicked. The fact that the Predator mimics their voices at all is creepy and that much more taunting for his kills. -OG
I was never really clear on whether or not it was technological, or whether their species has something like a sarynx...similar to various corvid species and related birds. Given their mouth structure, it would be almost impossible for them to have any practical spoken language without it.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Yeah, that is interesting to note. I can definitely understand the purring clicking sounds. The mouth structure for actual speech, though, seems like a whole other beast in itself to figure out. But I do love the roar when he took his mask off to fight Arnold. -OG
My favorite is Predator 2 “Want some candy”.
Yes, he used that trick by using Mack's whisper on Billy Dee Williams as a distraction.
@@Cheepchipsable I know. Except, Billy Dee Williams?? I think you meant to say Carl Weathers. He played Dillon. -OG
"His Buzz Light-year panel seems fried." I love watching your reactions.
I was going to add that, too!! That was perfect!! She's so awesome with her reactions!!
@@bad2000ta same. XD
To Infinity and, no wait. It's fried.
Cassie's comment actually made me laugh out loud. Pure Popcorn in Bed gold right there.
"Maybe save some!"
"his buzz-lightyear panel is fried" had me dying lol. Great reaction!
Haha yeah
“It’s worse than I could have imagined under there…”
This made me laugh out loud, 😂
I still can't get over how good the predator's effects are for '87. Like, they still look good for today, almost 40 years later.
thats quality for you man, it never fades
Practical effects always hold up much better than CGI.
Fun fact, that was not the first Predator design used. The first one was Jon Claude Van Dam in a rubber suit. They fired him about a week into filming and decided to redesign the whole costume. There are set pictures of the first one with JCVD in it.
@@LancerX916they made the right choice, that version was soo bad!!
@@LancerX916 Yeap, the costume they ended going with is definitely more gritty and realistic.
The actor who played the Predator was Kevin Peter Hall. He also had a cameo at the end as the black chopper pilot (the director wanted to give him a little face time for all his efforts). Kevin Peter Hall was over 7 feet tall and frequently played various creatures due to his unusual height. He was Harry in Harry And The Hendersons. A movie about a family that befriends Bigfoot and brings him home. You would probably really enjoy that movie. Kevin peter Hall was a super nice guy in real life. He was in a bad car accident in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. During surgery he received contaminated blood and passed away. RIP KPH
Fun fact JCVD was supposed to play the predator but he hated the outfit and parted ways with the production...they completely overhauled the costume and the new predator was born
I loved Harry and the Hendersons as a kid. And probably still would if i could find a source to watch it again :)
Yes he contracted AIDS from the. Transfusion and died not ling afterwards
@@11DNA11 It holds up surprisingly well. Yet another example of practical effects standing the test of time.
@@meridianline4022 He was right too. The pics of the alien were atrocious at that time haha
"I ain't got time to bleed. "
"Get to da choppppa!!!"
Two of the greatest lines in movie lore all in one film.
Stick around.
Stick around... greatest...
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Also "One Aagli Madafaka."
Son of a bitch is dug in like an Alabama tick. Good line too. Along with "stick around" and "get to da choppa" and " I ain't got time to bleed".
My friends and I came to theatre to watch whatever was available. Predator was just out and about to start. None of us knew anything about it, other than what was on poster. Figured it was another "commando" type movie with Arnold. We were so surprised and blown away by this movie, so much better than some of the others Arnold had been making. Just a happy memory of friends all together talking and excited about movie afterward.
You must see SILENT HOUSE. It is the most terrifying film in human history. Most people don`t have the guts to deal with this film. If you have a channel, you should do a reaction to this horror film. No one yet has had the guts to do a reaction. It is a hard film to get through due to the jump scares and the horror of being left alone in a boarded up house with no electricity and realizing that someone or something is in the house with you. You have only a flashlight to guide you through this terror. If you think you have the guts to watch this film, please do a reaction to it.
Sure, but Commando is a banger as well.
The respect Cassie has for Billy is adorable 🙂
Btw, the actor playing Billy, Sonny Landham, was not a very friendly guy. During shooting, he had a bodyguard to protect others FROM him. He was known to be violent and short tempered.
Sonny Landham had a very very bad and sad ending.
@@drhkleinert8241 Funny they gave him the same screen name he had in "48 Hours," Billy Bear.
@@jimandaud It was 'Billy Sole' in this movie, not Bear.
Sorry for not being clear, I meant only his first name Billy was the same.
Dude ran for a senate position
The line from Dillon:
"what you gonna try next? Cheese?"
Gets me every time🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Cassism of saying I can't watch, while covering her mouth and going b-b-b-b ... while NOT covering/closing her eyes... is so Cassie.
Adorable.
I watched this pre re upload... and still enjoyed.
Every sound the predator makes is mimicry of the team/humans. even the laugh.
Predator is a "trophy hunter" it wants the best prey, and you said it yourself, Dutch and team are the best.
I saw this in theaters when I was 12. It was awesome. My mom took us and acted exactly like you did throughout the movie.
You owe it to yourself to rewatch this classic in the remastered 4K version on a 70" tv screen! It looks like they filmed it last year, that's how great the 4K quality is.
I saw it on a Saturday night on HBO probably at 7:00 pm, shortly after it had been released to movie channels. I was either 12 or 13. My mother and I spent weekends at her boyfriend's apartment and he had cable, we didn't. I also watched Aliens for the first time by myself on HBO, after they had gone to sleep.
...and another thing: this is the perfect movie "why?" because McTiernan (one of the best action directors, in the vein of James Cameron) decided to drop the audience, along with the "crew" right smack dab in the middle of the fun, without telling us a thing about the creature. Genius film-making. A action/horror movie where the audience has to play along and guess "what the what?" We have to play the detectives and action heroes along with the crew. Who gets it next. But your reactions are money!!!
I do think that they shouldn't have shown the spacecraft at the very beginning. It tips you off that something sci-fi is about to happen.
You can thank James Cameron and Stan Winston for coming up with the Predator creature. The original design was really silly looking and was played by - Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Stan Winston came up with the Predator design when he was on an airplane.He said the Predator needs mandibles and drew the Predator.
@@thedragonlee76 Cameron came up with the mandible idea as the two were discussing how this alien monster should look.
Van Damme was just in the SFX costume, which was some blue foam thing. The actual creature was going to be superimposed.
He was fresh off the plane and it wasn't explained to him how it worked and he thought the "monster" was stupid.
@@Cheepchipsable Yep.He was new to the industry,but he wanted a screen credit and a screen credit means alot in Hollywood.
@@Cheepchipsable The original suit was indeed stupid looking and they also shot him in a prototype monster costume as well as the red effects suit. Many of the shots with the redesigned Stan Winston creature were 2nd unit as they had already filmed a lot of the cast footage that had nothing to do with interacting directly with the creature.
I saw a cutting board some time back that had a picture of Arnold yelling "Get to da choppin'!"
That predator laugh at the end was EPIC
Billy’s laugh it was
My favorite character, aside from Billy, was Mac. Great script defines the friendship between Mac and Blaine without so much as a montage. Toasting to his "bro" with a flask and declaring what he would do to avenge his death...brilliant writing. Then the desperation Mac shows when he finally "corners' his prey. So well written and one of my favorite scenes of the movie.
And Bill Duke (Mac) was a personal friend of Arnold, which is why he also had him in Commando.
my favourite scene, brilliant writing and acting from bill duke
Huge respect to the director John McTiernan. He did just a few movies, but they were awesome. Predator, Die Hard,Hunt for the Red October, Die hard with a vengeance. Those are cinematic gems.
A TH-cam channel named Corridor recently tested the theory that mud does _not_ mask the thermal signature of a person. They used cheap thermal imagers to really expensive ones.
Spoiler alert: their theory was proven wrong with all thermal imagers they used. A person covered in mud was undetectable while attempting to locate them with the imagers exactly how this film depicted. The only person who was able to locate the test subject was the dog they had with them.
The Predator and Alien universes were not officially the same until the sequel Predator 2, where there is a scene in the Predator spaceship showing an Alien xenomorph head mounted as a trophy. This momentary other-movie-homage became a whole series.
True, by AvP they made it so the Aliens were created by the Predators to hunt for sport and rites of passages.
@@ashleywilliams1060 Not so. The Aliens were made by the engineers as shown in Prometheus. The Predators found them and planted them in various places for the "Great Hunt", as they were the most dangerous things to hunt. There is some thought that the engineers made the Predators as well, and also humans.
I want to see Spawn Vs. Predator
"If Billy's scared, I'm scared". Great comment
You should react to more Arnold Schwarzenegger films…
"Conan the Barbarian", "Conan the Destroyer", "Commando", "Twins", "Total Recall", "Kindergarten Cop", "True Lies"
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I recommend True Lies too. Literally one of my favorite movies.
Commando has some of his best one-liners.
Must watch
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these are a few of my favorite things
Hercules in New York is a must! 🤣
“We a rescue team. Not assassins.”
Immediately go in and assassinate everyone.
😂😂😂😂😂
Arnie’s best!!
omg cassie when you said 'he needs to live in the mud....' i died - great reaction lol
Predator 2 is also worth a watch. Different location/set-up and cast. You wondered when this film was set - essentially 'present day', late 80's for the first one, the 2nd one is meant to be 'near future'.
Predator 2 was released in 1990, film timeline takes place in L.A. 1997.
My sci Fi fan brain wants to believe predator 2 is happening in the same world as robocop.
Cool trivia: this came out in 1987. Arnold became governor of California in 2003, and "Blain" (the guy with the big machine gun, played by Jesse Ventura) became governor of Minnesota in 1998.
I learned the other day that Sonny Lindham (the actor for Billy) ran in 2008 for Governor of Kentucky first as a libertarian, then later as an independent on a hard-right platform.
At which point, people of California could go to people of Minnesota and say "My governor can beat up your governor!"
@@robbob5302 I'm not so sure which way it would have gone. Jesse Ventura was one of the first SEALs, and he's known to be a genuine tough guy (although not anymore, of course).
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Ventura tried out for the SEALs. He did not make it through Hell Week.
However, he was part of an underwater demolitions unit. Which was later folded into the SEALs.
@@robbob5302 Thanks for the clarification.
"It's like Home Alone, except more demonic and hardcore" HAHAH YES!
The burglars are also killing the McAllister family's neighbors and ripping their spines out. Not the Home Alone you remember!
Predator affected me as a kid. I saw it when I was 6 and there was thick forest behind my house.
The amount of times my child's mind saw the camouflaged predator in the tree line.
Excellent reaction!! They explain much more about the Predators in "PREDATOR 2". So, you can react to that one for further info and action. But, as a warning, it is probably more gory than this one.
Predator 2 is a great sequel - really expands on the Predator mythology...
Yeah the gore and violence in Predator 2 is turned up to 11, but it's easily the best out of all the sequels
Probably one of my favorite sequels
like I said in my comment above, Cassie should watch PREDATOR 2 before watching ALIEN vs. PREDATOR, in order to understand the connection between the two species.
There was one scene I really hated in P2. It was more of the joke than the build up. It was the bathroom scene
Cassie's reaction was hilarious, especially upon first seeing the predator's face.
It almost looks like she is making the sign of the cross when the helicopter gets blown up at the beginning 😊
Right in the middle of the famous bullet shooting into the forest scene: "Maybe save some? (Bullets)" you should make a T-shirt of that. It's such a perfect quote!
Now imagine watching this on the big screen from the front row with your buds!!
From an 80s action flick where the heroes never lose, to a straight up sci-fi horror where everyone dies!
not sure Cassie was ready for true 80's action 😂
I guess there’s nothing left to do but go shopping.
Shopping ?!
Not "go" shopping....it's "get to tha" shopping!
"That evil laugh" at the end was the Predator mimicking Billy.
An entertaining reaction, as always.
Thank you for paying tribute to the movies that made my summers awesome as a teen. So many your age think our old movies sucked. I love your reactions and your genuine innocents when it comes to this stuff.
“He’s killing them so easy ….” It only seemed easy because the Predator was smart. He studied them before he acted. He waited until they were separated and took out the biggest and most heavily-armed soldier first, which was Blaine. After that, he carefully took the rest out individually, when he had the right opportunity. If he had taken on the squad as a group, they probably would have killed the Predator first.
Except he killed Hawkins before Blaine.
Only because Hawkins was technically the most OP character in the cast(He was played by author/screenwriter Shane Black) so he needed to die first to prevent plot armor. 😁
@@johnlloyddy7016 The producers hired Black mostly to help work on the film’s script. He said no so they did away with his character prematurely then kicked him to the curb.
Good point!
The Predator was an actor??
Born in '83 but I remember watching this with my older cousins while I was still less than 10 years old and thinking of mind-blowing it was. Almost 40 years later it still stands the test of time. Truly a legendary movie.
"he needs to make a mud home"
"He is making a home in the mud"
Glad I covered myself in mud for this one, Cassie!
8:27 the "you're bleedin', man... / ...got time to duck?" section is pure comedic gold. perfect. 🙂
Cassie: "It's like home alone ... but more demonic." Unintentional comedy gold. Should have been the tag line on the theatre posters.
Fun fact: For the heat mode view of the Alien they purchased a state of the art (at the time) actual IR camera to do the shots, but they couldn't get any decent footage out of it because their shoot location environments were so warm, so there was very little variation between human body heat and the ambient temperature. The images were just a melded indistinct haze. So they just ended up using much cheaper chemical and costume techniques and got a much better result.
No one ever seems to get that when it laughed at the end, it was Billy's laugh. Exactly Billy's laugh. It could mock other's voices.
It was Billy's laugh that transitioned into Vincent Price laughing. Price was THE VOICE of classic horror.
It recorded everyone. It used Mack's voice to freak out BDW.
One of my favourite action movies of all time; especially for the musical score.
I really appreciate how genuine you are...
I saw Alien alone in the theaters when it came out and was also the first 'scary' movie I had ever seen. I was 9 and I enjoyed every second of it, so much so that I dragged my mom and grandma to watch it for a second viewing. They did not have the same reaction to it as I did.
Lol. Took me a while to figure out my mom, dad, and sister (and some friends) would not like the same movies I did.
Alien was rated R... you saw it at 9. Yeah, ok.
@@robertcartier5088 Kids of any age can see an R with an adult. I saw Seven at ten and I really f****ng shouldn't have.
@@robertcartier5088 You're making a lot of assumptions, one being that I live in a country where that matters.
@@ct6852 I wasn't even accompanied. Back then the board of censors in the Philippines only gave a toss about the R rating when it involved nudity and sex. But gore and violence? Bon appetit.
Arnold's scream still puts chills down my back. His battle cry shits all over Predators
23:45 Reaction reminded me of my little sister doing her tough girl act, which I always thought was adorable.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. My friends and I had it on VHS and we watched it over and over and had the lines memorized. We would go out in the woods and pretend we were Dutch and his team. I was fascinated by all the different guns and equipment that each of them had, their different cool guy personalities. This movie contributed significantly to my conceptualization of special operations as being cool and alongside Full Metal Jacket, one of the bigger media influences that would lead to my commissioning as an officer when I graduated college.
Loved watching your reactions and thanks for the memories.
Cassie: you’re the most talented at this job in the universe. Incredible reactor! “His Buzzlight year panel seems fried” 😅
Favourite action one liner Blane
“ I ANT GOT TIME TO BLEED!!”
It ranks beside Autobot Springer’s one liner in Tranformers the movie!!
“ I GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO TONIGHT THAN DIE” 👍👍👍😊
Ain't nobody got time for that!
That was an inside joke.Ventura was an ex Navy SEAL.The joke is that you keep going on with the mission regardless if you're wounded.
@@thedragonlee76 Totally cringe.
Ranks up there with "I eat Green Berets for breakfast!"
@@Cheepchipsable That was also an inside joke...Arnold was competitive with Stallone.Stallone was doing the Rambo movies and Rambo was an ex Green Beret.
Everybody gets a laugh from the big "shooting everything blindly into the jungle" scene, but in Vietnam the "mad minute" was a real thing. The Kong and the NVA were masters of creeping up on your position without being detected and attacking from up close (they even had a saying: "To fight the Americans, you hold them by the belt buckle" to describe the strategy of fighting up close to negate the advantages of air support and artillery), and former NVA have admitted that shooting the hell out of the surrounding foliage and darkness could be effective at making them back off.
Thank you. So many have said that scene was the guys wasting ammo and just a macho scene. It was an actual military tactic used on an enemy you can't see. I think the British actually used it first. It was also done with artillery and tanks at times. Basically just decimate an area.
The scene with the guns is in the movie because the director got notes from the studio for more scenes with guns so he said ok
Jesse Ventura became of Minnesota. He wrote a book "I have no time to bleed" giving homage to that line on this movie.
This movie blew my mind when I watched it the first time and I love it. Lots of things to re-watch next time.
Bless your heart my dear. Singing a Christmas Carol when the Predator showed his face made my day. Best wishes.
If you remember the spaceship at the very beginning, it dropped a pod of some sort that landed. Basically, alien got dropped off on Earth.for a hunting trip. Where ever the aliens are from, it must be hot because the girl said they come on the hottest years. And, it seems like they hunter for skulls, and it wanted Arnold's because he had a nice skull lol
I just love your reactions, Cassie. And this one might just have jumped into the top five. Ever! Haha! Thank you! P.S. True Lies has all the excitement and none of the really gross monster mania!
Yaaasssss, True Lies!
- "You could have had Billy help you out."
(while Arnie is making a bow and arrows).
That might be the funniest line I've heard all year, my sides are aching.
And yet again Stan Winston created another unforgettable movie monster ! R . I . P . my friend.
20:18 - the greatest shot in cinematic history.
Just a perfect movie in every way.
Billy was a highly trained and skilled scout/tracker. The Alien was hunting them for sport, just like big game hunters do in Africa. It's all about the thrill, challenge and the prize. Most small teams usually have a scout/point man, comms guy, sharp shooter/sniper and if lucky a medic.
Yes, that was true about the trophy hunting to an extent, because you come to find out in later Predator movies that the hunting is a test of manhood. The Predators are advanced but tribal, so if you think of it that way the reason he is hunting these human, (Oomans as they call humans), soldiers is more understandable.
"He needs to make a mud home."
I really like this channel.
"please not another body in a tree"... 😳 " oh God it's another body in a treeee" 🤯 what a heart - felt reaction 😎
The thing i like most about this film is that Dutch used the Predator's own tactic against him. Prey comes out next month and I'm curious to see how it will be because the last few were lame. None has been able to be better than the first which is an outstanding film!!!!
Always pulling up your blankey to protect yourself! Then Christmas caroling!! Your reactions are ALWAYS UPROARIOUSLY HILARIOUS!!! LUV watching you, and your sister, in scary/hideous reactions! Have fun with all the other Predator movies!!! Watching you or you both in these will my sides splitting!!
initially, Alien and Predator were two totally independant films/ideas (the alien skull was just a prop gag), but when they made AvP they decided to merge those universes and now its kinda considered Canon. This is the 3rd time I've watched Predator this week.
I've actually always loved the second Predator movie move even though that isn't how most people feel. You learn a bit more about them.
Predator 2 is great.
I discovered your channel just yesterday and ive been bing watching for 10 hrs now . I love you and your sisters charisma. You should do an episode on the movie stand by me . Love your content keep up the good work
In the wristwatch fan space the watch Arnold wears is a Seiko dive watch that has both hands and a digital display. It came out in 1982 and was remade in 2019. To this day it’s known as the Arnie.
Dropping the tree on the predator gives a whole new meaning to branching out.
I have my own interpretation of this movie. See I think the title Predator, is referring to Arnold, and not the alien hunter. It's the man who is the ultimate predator here. Think about it: an advanced alien hunter arrives on a new planet. We never see it killing it's own species, so we don't know how their civilization operates, but the alien in this film seems to value honor (not killing unarmed people). Meanwhile it observes a bunch of big guys, killing 50 or so of their own kind, with scary big weapons, while making funny remarks about it. So they are worthy prey for him, until Arnold taps into mans natural survival/killer instinct, and becomes the Predator of this movie. He preys on, outsmarts, and takes down the professional hunter. So when Arnie asks What the hell are you, I feel like the Predator has the exact same question on his mind. So yeah, I think Arnold is The Predator.
It's more like both. It's kind of like if the movie was called Warrior and umm... the alien observed them, picked out Dutch as the best one, abducted him, took him to a giant spaceship and then they had a gladiator duel with alien and human weapons, Dutch gets lucky and kills the alien and escapes but he passes out as the ship leaves and he loses all memory of the last two days.
I actually read some long ass treatise about how this movie was actually about the AIDS epidemic. Zero clue if that's even remotely true...but the video was convincing. Prob written by the same guy that did Quentin's Top Gun monologue.
Cassie - "sings jiggle bells"
Me - "snorts coffee out my nose" - "choking laughter"
Cassie, you're the best.
2:40. Yes. That is Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 - February 1, 2024) the actor who played Apollo Creed in Rocky 1 - Rocky 4.
“Deck the halls…with bows of holly”. Precious! 🥰
“That disgusting thing should not be able to laugh like that!” Lmao. Hilarious quote Cassie. 😉
You’re too precious for this world!
The pitch for this is essentially "You know how when you have a monster movie, it's always about some person or group of people that aren't at all cut out to fight this monster? Either some random campers, or some fun-loving college kids, or some poor dude just driving along a remote highway? And these people are not equipped for a fight, or expecting a fight, or trained to fight, and are completely overmatched? Wellll.... What if in this movie the people facing the monster are all world-class badasses? Guys who ARE expecting a fight, who ARE prepared, who ARE trained, who ARE literally carrying as much weaponry as they can physically lift, and when the monster comes after them they're STILL getting killed one by one? (And yet the 'monster' isn't supernatural, it isn't unkillable, just very skilled and strong and tough)."
The way this changes the setup is great; everyone on this team knows they are dangerous killers, and when something starts taking them out (and making it look almost easy) we see that they struggle to keep it together and keep going.
And at the end, that last shot of Arnold, in the chopper; that man will never be able to fully move past this.
He'd already seen some shit, but now he's REALLY seen some shit, and I think it will always haunt him.
I'd expect that he quietly retires to his ranch in some remote corner of Montana, and raises horses or something, and tries not to drink too much, and has a lot of trouble sleeping at night, when all those stars are shining down from a cold and threatening sky.
The Predator movies take place in the times they were made, except Predator 2 and Prey. The Alien movies take place in the future in the 2120’s. But the they are in the same universe.
It's ingenious that they used the first part of this movie to show you how skilled this group was, just to show how easily they get taken apart by the Predator.
Fun fact no one pointed out with the laugh at the end. The Predator was mimicking what he heard from others, it was Billy’s laugh from when Hawkins told him the joke after the compound raid.
Cassie: "He needs to live in the mud, he needs to never come out of the mud, he needs to make a mud home!"
Kramer: "His mother was a mudder?!"
Can you imagine how much better this would have been without the little spaceship scene right at the beginning? No one would have had a clue until the reveal.
The name Dutch recognizes on the dog tag is Jim Hopper, which is also the name of David Harbour's character on Stranger Things. A fun little '80s reference the show snuck in.
Also the first guy they lose is named Hawkins.
20:37 Cassie: "The mud..."
Arnold: "He couldn't see me!"
Cassie: "He needs to live in the mud. He needs to... never come out of the mud. He needs to... make a mud home."
Arnold: "So I guess that's my life now"
Couple quick notes the Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall who was 6'9'' who was the Predator in this and Predator 2. He also play Big Foot in the movie and TV show Harry and the Hendersons, and he was teh Mutant Bear in the 1979 horror film The Prophecy,
Shane Black who played Hawkings was originally hired to rewrite the script, but made no changes he said it was perfect as is, and then he auditioned for and got the part of Hawkins. He also wrote Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3 and the 2018 The Predator also directing these last 2.
Shane Black had no Audition. He got the Part as an Actor, to make him rewrite the Script.
This and Die Hard (same director) are absolutely perfect movies. Shame we don't get their like any more.
At 21:47, "if he's going to be invisible, you have to be too."
Cassie figures out the secret.. 😂
Seriously, one of the best 80s movie ever. Cute reaction.
"I think I appreciated it for what it was" C'mon Cassie, you loved it!
"He needs to live in the mud, make a mud home" priceless 🤣
Hulu has a new original Movie called Prey. It's a Predator prequel. It takes place about 300 years in the past and involves a Cherokee tribe. I highly recommend this movie.
9:36 That's Shane Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and Iron Man 3 among other things. They hired him so he could punch up the script as they went along, but his only contribution that made it into the movie was either that joke or the other one of the same ouvre.
Your reaction is so feminine, adorable, innocent and precious!!! Hahahaha!!!! I love it!!! Thank you, it was fun watching your reaction. 😂😂😁
Unlike my ex, who adored watching films where people got torn apart 😂
The laugh was the predator mimicking Billies voice at the end.this movie never gets old, unlike all these B's movies full of Mary sues nowadays.
Billy the guy who seemed to always know the predator or something was watching, is a Native American tracker, so in the story he’s very keen on picking up little things the other guys don’t notice. Part of it is superstition (like him having a bad feeling something’s watching) but part of it is that he’s very aware of his environment and can notice something as simple as the birds acting differently (since the predator is in the trees)
I think it's actually a satire of the classic action movies of the time. The gratuitous muscle shots are a sign, and the plot shows how their masculinity and weapons count for very little. The unarmed woman walks away completely unscathed. Dutch only wins through using his wits (although his muscles helped setting up the traps).
I can assure you NOBODY thought this movie was a satire in 1987. It was a " meek shall inherit the Earth, because they aren't worth hunting" kind of movie.
It's only a satire to lady boys of today. In the 80's everyone on screen was ripped like gods, even quite a few women. Very few people come close to that today. Both Chris's (Hemsworth and Evans) and Hugh Jackman come to mind.
This is why the 80's beat every other decade in the 1900's and even the 2000's.
"I don't want to see it!" to just the cutest Predator impersonation of all time in no time flat - brilliant! x
This was by far the #1 funniest reaction of them all.❤