Originally, Dutch was supposed to beat the Predator in their hand to hand fight, but it was Arnold himself who thought that would be ridiculous. He said "I can't beat him. He's a monster. I'm just a man." So the story was changed with the Predator dominating the fight and Dutch having to resort to his booby trap to defeat him. I respect that Arnold was willing to show his character get his ass kicked in a fair for the sake of a better story. Some action stars would have too much ego to allow that, let alone suggest, that.
That's what pissed me off about most of Steven Seagal's films. No matter how many enemies attack him, he just defeats them all with ease while they usually never even land a single hit on him. There's absolutely no feeling of jeopardy and you never feel like his character is in any real danger at all. Like you said, props to Arnie for not being like that.
Back in 87 we had no idea what the Predator looked like until it revealed itself. There was no backstory, no canon, no "Yautja", just pure mystery. That intrigue was a major part of what made the film such a success. It was a visceral merciless confrontation with the paranormal that was most likely going to end with another successful hunt for the Predator, if not for Dutch's strength perseverance and cunning. His thousand yard stare at the end in the choppa captures the shock of what he went through as a survivor and what we witnessed as the observer.
Also, why Predator 2 is an excellent sequel. We, the audience, know (pretty much) what the police are dealing with. The mystique is gone, and you've just got a cop drama/action movie. With a little bit of X-Files and a trophy hunting murder alien. ...and it is still a great movie nonetheless.
@@richardrobbins387 I love Predator 2 as well. The fight scenes are awesome especially the final battle in the ship. The designs, the trophy wall and the appearance of the other Predators, brilliant. Kevin Peter Hall was perfect as the Predator in both films. It's all garbage after that imo.
@@xxchaos315xx6 Hah yeah. It was a last minute thing eh. Jean-Claude was miserable in his bug suit and nothing was working out in screen tests. Then Stan Winston's genius saved the day and created a sci-fi icon. Funny how things work out.
I think what makes movies like this scary and impactful is when completely capable characters are still no match for the threat. They didn't lose because they made mistakes. They lost because they were completely overmatched.
@@Unicron3 what I enjoyed also about this movie, is that it’s not the stereotypical “government lying” about knowing nothing of the Predator. Dillon was after the weapon cache and those in the chopper and didn’t know about the Predator. Hopper (the first set of bodies found), were probably sent by Dillon to get the cache but didn’t receive any news from them which is why he brought in Dutch. 😁 This is one of my favorite Arnie movies.
Thats the problem with alot of horror movies now days. The characters dies simply coz they are written as incompetent morons. They die because they have to day. Not because the monster/villain completely out matches them
And Dutch didn't win because he was a physical match for the Predator, he won because he used his wit, was extremely lucky, and was underestimated to a degree by his enemy.
Fun act : the actor who played the Predator also made an Cameo appearance in one episode of STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION as an alien ambassador an also played as Harry in the 1987 comedy adventure movie HARRY AND THE HENDERSON'S
The Predator was on safari. He was like the big game hunters of old. The heads of lions, rhinos, etc. on their walls were proof of their courage. In the end, the Predator decided he had found a worthy foe, so he dropped his armor to fight mano a mano. Arnold wounded him mortally, so he decided to blow him up. That's what he was laughing about.
More like on proving grounds. Humans are a worthy prey to hunt because sometimes we just win and become the Predator, and the predator species has a wierd respect/honor for such things. I know the movies go into this some but there are some fantastic books that have been wriiten. Especially the books Steve perry wrote. Start with Aliens vs. Predator: Prey. He also did a bunch of great Alien books as well. I'd start with Aliens: Earth Hive, it's a trilogy of books that is freaking awesome.
Even though the Pred considered Dutch worthy of fighting him unarmed, it was never a fair fight. It knew that no human is a physical match for it. Dutch had demonstrated throughout the movie that he's as tough as our kind gets, but that alien manhandled him like a child.
The Predator is just enjoying some recreational hunting. Hunting is their culture. They are not really an evil race, just very dedicated to their craft. It sees in infrared (the multi-color images) using it's helmet technology. That's why it couldn't see Arnold covered in cold wet mud.
I don't think it their hunting could be called "recreational." There's a powerful ritual component to it, and a strong implication of status gained from successful hunts.
Eh, I don't know how much of the lore in the novels are actually canon, but the tiny males hunt the most dangerous of prey in the galaxy to earn breeding rights with the really really angry gigantic females.
Arnold swimming through the cold water lowered his body temperature, and then the cool mud covered him to remain cold and unseen, containing any remaining heat.
True but that explanation would create a big problem seeing as the second time he "mudded" himself up for the grand finale, he did so after essentially doing a full workout at the gym, in the hot tropical jungle he had to be hot as hell from setting up all the booby traps, building his weapons, and climbing up a big tree, you could literally see his face sweating through the mud when the predator shows up and the camera zooms in. 🤔
I thought you did a great job taking the movie as it was and appreciating the tactical situation particularly. Unusual for a reactor to really think about the motives and asymmetry of the battle like that. I enjoyed that.
The explosions and gunfire etc are so well done in this movie, really adds to the excitement, personally I enjoy all the Predator movies, not perfect but really entertaining, thanks
For me, the biggest WTF moment is just after the first predator kill... These guys are top notch jungle troopers and master trackers, and when Dutch asks "Did you find Hawkins?", the reply of "I... I can't tell..." always gets me.
@@danielmorency2242 Pancho meant that the body was so disfigured he couldn’t tell if was Hawkins or someone or something else. Also, no amount of training will prepare you for seeing a human body completely skinned.
I'm glad someone else finally noticed that. I think about who must have translated this for the close caption every time I see a reaction to this move and forget to mention it.
yeah, streamers often have incorrect subtitle files. I once caught a version of Big Trouble In Little China where the line "the bhodisattva of the underworld" was rendered as "the boldest satyr of the underworld" 🤦
The predators are a alien race called the Yautja. Their whole military and social hierarchy is based on honour and martial prowess. They prove their skills, go through rites of passages, and rise in rank/status by hunting and killing the most dangerous life forms in the galaxy. Which is why on earth the Predator stalked a team of armed special forces commandos. It will kill anyone armed but usually tries to go for the more dangerous humans/creatures.
The Predator did die in the end. He got defeated so he committed suicide so his machinery and body wouldn't get recovered by humans and get experimented on.
One of my favorite movies; I was 16 when Predator came out. One of the actors in this movie, Richard Chaves, who played Poncho, played a main character in a TV series a few years later, The War of the Worlds. It is set 35 years after the events of the classic 1953 film of the same name, which is based upon the classic story by H.G. Wells. The 1953 film is my favorite adaptation of the book. For 1953, the effects are still amazing and I love the look of the Martian war machines. And I will never forget the sound they make.
Well Amelia, did you know that Jesse The Body Venture, who played Blain in the movie with the big minigun, was a well known wrestler in the original WWF, and also a U.S. Navy Seal!! He also worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a movie called The Running Man!!!
He had a TV series 'Conspiracy Theory' (early 2010s or so) that was pretty interesting. A lot of it was rehash, but it had a couple really intriguing moments as well.
No one ever understands the razor. When the humidity is so high that your sweat cannot evaporate, but only covers your skin like a blanket, there's no cooling down. It's like being in a pool of hot water. Squeegeeing the water off and letting you pores restart the process of evaporative cooling offers some relief. You can also sop up the excess sweat with a dry paper towel, but who can carry rolls of paper towels with them on a mission? Está claro?
In that case, I'd carry a tongue scraper, not a Bic disposable shaving razor. And I do know what "hot and humid in a jungle" feels like. I do what I can with my OD Green face towel.
“We a rescue team. Not assassins.” Then immediately kill pretty much everyone in the camp. 😂😂 Such a classic! You can stop after 2. That one is criminally underrated.
In the beginning we're supposed to see how Dutch's team, and in particular Dutch, is the best ... aka a prize trophy for a "hunter" or predator. That laugh at the end is Billy's being mimicked. And yes it blew itself up, as it "refused" to be a trophy for humans.
Stan Winston is a very famous grimm and special effects artist, here is not a complete list of films he has worked on: Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Predator (1987), Pumpkinhead (1988), Predator 2 (1990), Terminator 2 (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Artificial Intelligence (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Time Machine (2002), Turn Not there (2003), Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines (2003), Konstantin: Lord of Darkness (2005), Transformers (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (2008), Terminator Salvation (2009), Avatar (2009) as well as Jurassic World (2015) but he I didn't work on this film because I died earlier, which is a pity. And Terminator Genesis (2015), but his students and Stan Winston's colleagues have already worked on this film.
This just buries any of the spinoffs or sequels. It has real intrigue with Dillon's betrayal and not realizing what really happened to the green berets that were originally supposed to take out the guerrillas. Then it takes a wild turn as the Predator uses this chaos as a hunting opportunity.
Another Golf Romeo Amelia. That’s Great Reaction. As a ex military guy I still talk like this . Civilians don’t find it amusing. 😊 Oh I loved your acting in the beginning, although you didn’t really kick any butt this time. 😊👏👏🥰
The director of Predator also directed Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance as well as many other action films before he passed away not too long ago.
McTiernan is still alive, homie. He's been in Director Jail for two decades now, and spent time in ACTUAL jail a little over a decade ago after allegedly lying to the FBI in a high-profile wiretapping case...but he *is* still alive.
@@kampfer3146 Yeah, a bunch of Guntubers tested it. And it's very effective. Who knew that mud was an insulator? ... I mean, it was common sense for thousands of years.
@@adibemaxwell6111 Even animals in the Sahara roll in mud for cooling and protection from the sun. The method of cooling through evaporation is known even to wild animals, long before people existed.
The symbol on the whisky flask is a Special Forces insignia (Green Berets). All these guys are veterans of Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, etc. The best of the best. Thats why they are worthy targets for the predator.
We are introduced to Arnold's team as a bunch of elite bad asses. They eliminated probably 50 rebel shoulders with barely a scratch. Then they get tracked by an alien with superior weapons, tactics, technology and strength. They get picked off one by one until it's just Dutch left. In most of Arnold's action movies, his character and the big bad enemy has a 1v1 fight fight and Arnold wins. In this movie we see how outclasses Arnold's character is compared to the Predator, further showing how terrifying the alien is. He only wins through luck and guile, not brains. This is a fun FUN action movie. The only Arnold action movie that is just dumber and more violent is Commando. That's the movie that you need to just turn off your brain and enjoy the senseless violence and explosions.
Mud blocking Dutch's infrared heat signature scene: It has been tested and proven that this actually works. They did it for the movie and others have recreated it on UA-cam.
Plus, the Predator's helmet is a fairly complex thing; it's tracking not just heat but movement and deliberately filtering anything that's "not important". As in 100+ weather, it would just see everything hot; instead it sees living things as brighter colors and non-living as darker. Which is one reason Dutch wearing mud that even dries still works; the filter is actually working against the Predator in that case.
i was probably 10 years old when i first watched this and understood what infared vision is. I can get into reaction videos and they are fun at times but when they act like infants it really throws it off. She literally watches the alien click some buttons on its arm, setting off a sort of (obvious) count down alarm....BIG EXPLOSION WHILE LAUGHING...."so did the predator blow itself up?" No honey, he ran for president shortly after and Dillon became his VP..
She is the slowest reactor I've seen on UA-cam, and that is quite an accomplishment given that most of the reactors below 30 years of age are invariably really dim.
I dont know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but the Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall. He also played Harry in Harry And The Henderson's. A comedy about a family that befriends bigfoot while camping and bring him back to the suburbs. Sadly, Kevin Peter Hall passed away during surgery after a bad car accident in Los Angeles. He was accidentally given contaminated blood. RIP Kevin Peter Hall PS ... Ive always wondered if Mac and Dillon's guns are still out there. I mean, Dillon had a badass HK MP5 (affectionately nicknamed The Room Broom) in the hand that got blown off. Ive always been a Thompson man myself, but thats some full auto, 9mm, German made, goodness out there in the jungle. Oh well, our tax dollars at work I guess.
I just have to also say that I absolutely love the fact that all these young reactors who don't know this movie still no the most famous line out of the movie, get to The Choppa!!! And the absolute glee they show wben they hear it is adorable!
The actor that played Billy, the Native American, had a horribly violent temper. The rest of the actors were assigned security personnel for their own safety from him.
Not temper so much as he was a juicer and suffered from roid rage. I went to HS with a guy like that(a football player). He could be laughing with you one minute and trying to break your neck the next. And I mean that literally. I once made a joke that set him off and as soon as I turned my back her grabbed me in sleeper hold from behind and we had a bit of a tussle.,.
It used infrared vision, which our timber wolf can also do. When he was covered in cold mud, it camouflaged his body heat. "There's its green blood" ... Spock would be jealous. Predators don't surrender, he self-destructed. Definitely watch the rest!
31:52 That is a targeting laser; or, rather, it's this thing's nearest _equivalent._ So putting his _head_ where those lights are is about the _biggest_ mistake Mac could've made.
26;29 was a star shell trip flair. Basically a flair with a little parachute to light up an area where an enemy hit a tripwire. The Predator didn't hit tripwires because (in the novel) his augmented vision could see the metal.
Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in Raw Deal prior to this and The Running Man immediately after. The actor playing Blaine, Jesse Ventura, served in the U.S. Navy, performed in the WWE and served as the governor of Minnesota. The story established in this is continued in Predator 2, Predators, The Predator, Predator: Stalking Shadows and Predator: Hunting Grounds. This has the same composer as Back To The Future. The primary firearms used in this are the M16A2 rifle, MP5 submachinegun, M60E3 medium machinegun, AK-47 rifle and the M134 minigun
the point of camo on the face isnt what you think it is, the stripes break up the shape of the face so when you glance you dont see a human silhouette, but rather see nothing, of course if someone is looking directly at you, youre cooked, then thats why ghillie suits are a thing but that shit is heavy and hot to wear
The alien's mission was to go to Earth and hunt predatory prey. in this case, the alphas (the army group). At the end when it knew it had lost the battle against Dutch, he used his self-destruct mechanism on his arm...that way it leaves no trace that it was there.
The importance of Poncho telling Billy the dumb Coochie jokes is not just silly comedy (although, I agree creating a character to do stuff like that is great for a movie) but it also gives us his laugh finally, after the second joke and that recorded laugh is what the Predator uses at the end as the evil laugh, once he sets the self destruct. Yeah, Arnold had big biceps, before he was an actor he was a body builder and won the highest award I believe, Mr Universe several times. I love Sonny Landham, Billy, in this but while he appears the calm cool Native American in the film, the actor had a temper and the Insurance company required a bodyguard be set to protect others from him. Just information, not judgement. Great film.
I thought this movies was interesting because of how it rolls out. We find out it has always been happening, and therefore must also happen again. This was an account of only 1 encounter where the human won. Might I say I loved your reactions, because it was genuine and you showednsome intensity. By all means I would only say yes to the rest of the series. You gained a new fan today.
Trivia: The helicopter pilot at the end that says "What the F****" is Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the Predator. Originally Jean Claude Van Damme played the predator but the original costume ( which looked more like giant bug) was very awkward and cumbersome. That along with JCVD not getting along with the director made him quit. They revamped the look of the predator to what we see and got Kevin Peter Hall, who if you couldn't tell, was much taller than Arnold. Hall played the Predator one in the 1990 sequel but died the following year from AIDS related pneumonia. RIP
They probably didn't want to go through that valley because if there were more rebels they could ambush the team easily and fire down on them from higher ground.
The Predator either sees in the infra-red, or it has infra-red capability built into its... helmet. Whenever you see the screen all in blue with red/yellow/white highlights you are seeing its POV. At the end, it can't see Dutch because (in the film universe; it wouldn't work in real life for more than 30 seconds or so) he's covered in cold wet mud. Then, after commencing his counter-attack, Dutch falls in the river again and all the mud gets washed off and now the Predator's infra-red can see him again. First time I saw this movie, when the predator leaps through the jungle with its cloaking device on, it took my breath away. Only cinema can do that.
The alphabet you were referring to is the "Phonetic Alphabet." During my 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force, I had to know it by heart. A = Alpha B = Bravo C = Charlie D = Delta E = Echo F = Foxtrot G = Golf H = Hotel I = India J = Juliet K = Kilo L = Lima M = Mike N = November O = Oscar P = Papa Q = Quebec R = Romeo S = Sierra T = Tango U = Uniform V = Victor W = Whiskey X = X-ray Y = Yankee Z = Zulu
Around 1990, my G.F. & I took a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mx. & rented a Jeep to drive down to where "Predator" (1987) was shot. At that time, you drove south to Mismaloya Beach & turned left into the jungle on a dirt road. About a 15 min. drive into the jungle you came to "El Eden" a restaurant on a river next to a waterfall. This was the location for the fire fight with the guerillas. The buildings in the movie are the open fire kitchen & dining areas. El Eden had NO electricity so they only served from late morning to afternoon. We parked & changed into our swimsuits in the jungle with all of the jungle sounds & memories of the movie. The waterfall is not the one seen in the movie. It's probably only 20' high. You can sit in the current on top & it will shoot you off of the waterfall into the pool below. All of the food was cooked over open wood fires & was excellent. I see on their website that they've turned it into a Predator tourist attraction. When we went there it was just like the Predator crew found it, no signs etc.
It should be noted Amelia that there are female variants of the Yautja (the predator). Although they've only been brought to light in comic books and in the game Predator: Hunting Grounds, thus far there have been no TV shows or films showing them in action. Apparently their clans follow the same rules as their male counterparts. Also if I had to choose between being made into a trophy (whether it's skinned alive and strung upside down or having my skull ripped out through my spinal column) or getting hived thus becoming breeding host for a parasitic xenomorph, I'd happily choose the former over the latter option.
"Get to the chopper" You said in the opening credits, you have seen this movie before. Dutch says these exact words later in the film. Too acurate for a guess.
According to some of the books, the Predator and Aliens came from the same planet, and the Predators were on top. The Predators normally put Alien-eggs on planets not populated with life with high intelligence, and come back later and hunt the Aliens when they have grown out of their eggs. Mostly they dont use the shouldergun, because that would be too easy, so they mostly just use their spear and knives. But it is allowed.
Ah - the phonetic alphabet. I kind of miss using that from the military. Thankfully the movie Predator 2 answers a few of the questions people had from Predator - but it also leaves you with so many more questions.
Manliest handshake in cinematic history.
@@SylviusTheMad 🤯
Originally, Dutch was supposed to beat the Predator in their hand to hand fight, but it was Arnold himself who thought that would be ridiculous. He said "I can't beat him. He's a monster. I'm just a man." So the story was changed with the Predator dominating the fight and Dutch having to resort to his booby trap to defeat him. I respect that Arnold was willing to show his character get his ass kicked in a fair for the sake of a better story. Some action stars would have too much ego to allow that, let alone suggest, that.
That's what pissed me off about most of Steven Seagal's films. No matter how many enemies attack him, he just defeats them all with ease while they usually never even land a single hit on him. There's absolutely no feeling of jeopardy and you never feel like his character is in any real danger at all.
Like you said, props to Arnie for not being like that.
@waterbeauty85 I highly respect him for that decision. The Rock would never do that.
@ComptonCool the Rock would probably demand that his character kills the Predator with a single punch
@@kingdamazo7266 Man, I hate to admit it, but I'd probably find that awesome.
@@kingdamazo7266 Facts lol
Alan Silvestri's musical score is absolutely perfect for this movie.
Fact
Silvestri's body of classic film scores ranks him among the all-time greats.
The greatest soundtrack. Worthy of The Greatest Movie Ever Conceived.
The black chopper pilot at the end was the predator actor, Kevin Peter Hall, 7feet-two inches
Oh really?! Cool! I love facts like this. 🙌🏽
Fun fact, he was also the biological half brother of none other than Danny DeVito, who also costarred with Arnold in the movie ‘Twins’!
Back in 87 we had no idea what the Predator looked like until it revealed itself. There was no backstory, no canon, no "Yautja", just pure mystery. That intrigue was a major part of what made the film such a success. It was a visceral merciless confrontation with the paranormal that was most likely going to end with another successful hunt for the Predator, if not for Dutch's strength perseverance and cunning. His thousand yard stare at the end in the choppa captures the shock of what he went through as a survivor and what we witnessed as the observer.
Also, why Predator 2 is an excellent sequel. We, the audience, know (pretty much) what the police are dealing with. The mystique is gone, and you've just got a cop drama/action movie. With a little bit of X-Files and a trophy hunting murder alien.
...and it is still a great movie nonetheless.
@@richardrobbins387 I love Predator 2 as well. The fight scenes are awesome especially the final battle in the ship. The designs, the trophy wall and the appearance of the other Predators, brilliant. Kevin Peter Hall was perfect as the Predator in both films. It's all garbage after that imo.
And to think, we almost had jean Claude van Damme in a dinosaur costume instead of the brilliant design of the predator that they actually used.
@@X-Gen-001 It's all garbage until "PREY " which is a very good movie
@@xxchaos315xx6 Hah yeah. It was a last minute thing eh. Jean-Claude was miserable in his bug suit and nothing was working out in screen tests. Then Stan Winston's genius saved the day and created a sci-fi icon. Funny how things work out.
I think what makes movies like this scary and impactful is when completely capable characters are still no match for the threat. They didn't lose because they made mistakes. They lost because they were completely overmatched.
@@Unicron3 what I enjoyed also about this movie, is that it’s not the stereotypical “government lying” about knowing nothing of the Predator. Dillon was after the weapon cache and those in the chopper and didn’t know about the Predator. Hopper (the first set of bodies found), were probably sent by Dillon to get the cache but didn’t receive any news from them which is why he brought in Dutch. 😁 This is one of my favorite Arnie movies.
Just like in the Thing.
@@davidladjani108 YES!! One of my favorite Kurt Russell movies ❤️
Thats the problem with alot of horror movies now days. The characters dies simply coz they are written as incompetent morons. They die because they have to day. Not because the monster/villain completely out matches them
And Dutch didn't win because he was a physical match for the Predator, he won because he used his wit, was extremely lucky, and was underestimated to a degree by his enemy.
R. I. P. Stan Winston. One of the greatest. His effects studio still going strong.
Anna's story about the hottest years is the only lore at this point. Predator 2 expands.
Fun act : the actor who played the Predator also made an Cameo appearance in one episode of STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION as an alien ambassador an also played as Harry in the 1987 comedy adventure movie HARRY AND THE HENDERSON'S
The late Kevin Peter Hall.
The Predator was on safari. He was like the big game hunters of old. The heads of lions, rhinos, etc. on their walls were proof of their courage.
In the end, the Predator decided he had found a worthy foe, so he dropped his armor to fight mano a mano. Arnold wounded him mortally, so he decided to blow him up. That's what he was laughing about.
More like on proving grounds. Humans are a worthy prey to hunt because sometimes we just win and become the Predator, and the predator species has a wierd respect/honor for such things. I know the movies go into this some but there are some fantastic books that have been wriiten. Especially the books Steve perry wrote. Start with Aliens vs. Predator: Prey. He also did a bunch of great Alien books as well. I'd start with Aliens: Earth Hive, it's a trilogy of books that is freaking awesome.
Earth Hive is based on comics from the 90s. They had to change some characters due to things that occurred in the movies
Each One of the species can live thousands of years
Even though the Pred considered Dutch worthy of fighting him unarmed, it was never a fair fight. It knew that no human is a physical match for it. Dutch had demonstrated throughout the movie that he's as tough as our kind gets, but that alien manhandled him like a child.
Your commercial at the start was great! You deliver those lines so quick and clear! Do you have an IMDB page? Do you also act in films and tv?
The Predator is just enjoying some recreational hunting. Hunting is their culture. They are not really an evil race, just very dedicated to their craft. It sees in infrared (the multi-color images) using it's helmet technology. That's why it couldn't see Arnold covered in cold wet mud.
I don't think it their hunting could be called "recreational." There's a powerful ritual component to it, and a strong implication of status gained from successful hunts.
Eh, I don't know how much of the lore in the novels are actually canon, but the tiny males hunt the most dangerous of prey in the galaxy to earn breeding rights with the really really angry gigantic females.
Arnold swimming through the cold water lowered his body temperature, and then the cool mud covered him to remain cold and unseen, containing any remaining heat.
True but that explanation would create a big problem seeing as the second time he "mudded" himself up for the grand finale, he did so after essentially doing a full workout at the gym, in the hot tropical jungle he had to be hot as hell from setting up all the booby traps, building his weapons, and climbing up a big tree, you could literally see his face sweating through the mud when the predator shows up and the camera zooms in. 🤔
@@MUSBFRANK he might have cooled off and taken a dip in the water after his hard work out? We don't know
Its been tested in many experiments that just mud itself is capable of blocking all infra-red (IR) emissions from being detected by ir scanners.
The skinny soldier with the awful girlfriend jokes is the legendary Shane Black.
His writing credits are indeed legendary. The jokes are either awful or legendary depending on the audience.
I thought you did a great job taking the movie as it was and appreciating the tactical situation particularly. Unusual for a reactor to really think about the motives and asymmetry of the battle like that. I enjoyed that.
💥💥I love this movie. You don't get too many Macho testosterone movies like this anymore. Long live the 80s, 90s, and even the early to mid 2000s
26:26 What plummeted to earth in the beginning was the Predator's pod. What went up at this point was a flare.
The explosions and gunfire etc are so well done in this movie, really adds to the excitement, personally I enjoy all the Predator movies, not perfect but really entertaining, thanks
There are two future governors in this movie. Pretty crazy!
Almost three.
@@goji8416 People forget that Sonny Landham ran for Governor of Kentucky.
For me, the biggest WTF moment is just after the first predator kill... These guys are top notch jungle troopers and master trackers, and when Dutch asks "Did you find Hawkins?", the reply of "I... I can't tell..." always gets me.
@@danielmorency2242 Pancho meant that the body was so disfigured he couldn’t tell if was Hawkins or someone or something else. Also, no amount of training will prepare you for seeing a human body completely skinned.
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I almost always skip them but I watched yours.
Well done!
The predator is just a big game hunter, it wants trophies, too bad we are the trophies.
22:11- Mac didn't yell SERGEANT! He yelled "CONTACT!"
I'm glad someone else finally noticed that. I think about who must have translated this for the close caption every time I see a reaction to this move and forget to mention it.
Indeed!
Well damn, unload an effing minigun at me, all this time I had no doubts in my mind that he had yelled "SERGEANT". 🤔
yeah, streamers often have incorrect subtitle files. I once caught a version of Big Trouble In Little China where the line "the bhodisattva of the underworld" was rendered as "the boldest satyr of the underworld" 🤦
the movie with JODIE FOSTER...?????🤔
The predators are a alien race called the Yautja. Their whole military and social hierarchy is based on honour and martial prowess. They prove their skills, go through rites of passages, and rise in rank/status by hunting and killing the most dangerous life forms in the galaxy. Which is why on earth the Predator stalked a team of armed special forces commandos. It will kill anyone armed but usually tries to go for the more dangerous humans/creatures.
RIP Carl Weathers.
Amelia, to answer your question around the 8:04 minute mark, that would be the phonetic alphabet
Specifically, the NATO phonetic alphabet.
The Predator did die in the end. He got defeated so he committed suicide so his machinery and body wouldn't get recovered by humans and get experimented on.
One of my favorite movies; I was 16 when Predator came out. One of the actors in this movie, Richard Chaves, who played Poncho, played a main character in a TV series a few years later, The War of the Worlds. It is set 35 years after the events of the classic 1953 film of the same name, which is based upon the classic story by H.G. Wells. The 1953 film is my favorite adaptation of the book. For 1953, the effects are still amazing and I love the look of the Martian war machines. And I will never forget the sound they make.
War Of The Worlds the TV series came out a year later after Predator 1.
Now you need to see Predatoe 2 it stars Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Bill Paxton.
predatoe sounds like a foot fetish porn parody made by dan schneider.
Well Amelia, did you know that Jesse The Body Venture, who played Blain in the movie with the big minigun, was a well known wrestler in the original WWF, and also a U.S. Navy Seal!! He also worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a movie called The Running Man!!!
And later he became the governor of Minnesota, just as Arnold became the governor of California.
Jesse Ventura also became Governor of Minnesota in 1998.
He had a TV series 'Conspiracy Theory' (early 2010s or so) that was pretty interesting. A lot of it was rehash, but it had a couple really intriguing moments as well.
No one ever understands the razor. When the humidity is so high that your sweat cannot evaporate, but only covers your skin like a blanket, there's no cooling down. It's like being in a pool of hot water.
Squeegeeing the water off and letting you pores restart the process of evaporative cooling offers some relief.
You can also sop up the excess sweat with a dry paper towel, but who can carry rolls of paper towels with them on a mission?
Está claro?
In that case, I'd carry a tongue scraper, not a Bic disposable shaving razor. And I do know what "hot and humid in a jungle" feels like. I do what I can with my OD Green face towel.
First time here. I love your reactions. Subbed. 👍👍
Welcome and thank you! Glad you’re enjoying! 😊
“We a rescue team. Not assassins.”
Then immediately kill pretty much everyone in the camp. 😂😂
Such a classic! You can stop after 2. That one is criminally underrated.
Your sponsor Aura that you made was amazing and hilarious 😂
Predator 2 is the first instance of the audience seeing that Predators and Aliens exist in the same universe. I won't say how it does it.
So blessed to have seen this on the big screen back in '87 upon its release.Cinema was packed and the reaction was amazing.Best film ever.
In the beginning we're supposed to see how Dutch's team, and in particular Dutch, is the best ... aka a prize trophy for a "hunter" or predator.
That laugh at the end is Billy's being mimicked. And yes it blew itself up, as it "refused" to be a trophy for humans.
The ad is really good acting to be honest
Thanks!
Stan Winston is a very famous grimm and special effects artist, here is not a complete list of films he has worked on: Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Predator (1987), Pumpkinhead (1988), Predator 2 (1990), Terminator 2 (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Artificial Intelligence (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Time Machine (2002), Turn Not there (2003), Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines (2003), Konstantin: Lord of Darkness (2005), Transformers (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man (2008), Terminator Salvation (2009), Avatar (2009) as well as Jurassic World (2015) but he I didn't work on this film because I died earlier, which is a pity. And Terminator Genesis (2015), but his students and Stan Winston's colleagues have already worked on this film.
The predator’s laugh at the end was Billy’s laugh, it just mimicked it.
This just buries any of the spinoffs or sequels. It has real intrigue with Dillon's betrayal and not realizing what really happened to the green berets that were originally supposed to take out the guerrillas. Then it takes a wild turn as the Predator uses this chaos as a hunting opportunity.
Another Golf Romeo Amelia. That’s Great Reaction. As a ex military guy I still talk like this . Civilians don’t find it amusing. 😊 Oh I loved your acting in the beginning, although you didn’t really kick any butt this time. 😊👏👏🥰
She used her lightning ⚡️ hands 🙌 this time!
Tango Yankee Sierra Mike! That’s Thank You So Much 😅 hahaha so glad you enjoyed!!!
Truly a classic.
The director of Predator also directed Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance as well as many other action films before he passed away not too long ago.
McTiernan is still alive, homie. He's been in Director Jail for two decades now, and spent time in ACTUAL jail a little over a decade ago after allegedly lying to the FBI in a high-profile wiretapping case...but he *is* still alive.
I don't think John McTiernan is deceased. He's retired from filmmaking and had some trouble with the law, but I believe he is still alive.
@@BigTone_1701 You're right.
@@11winn WTH are you talking about ? John McTiernan deceased ?
The Greatest Movie Ever Conceived.
Alas we’ve lost Kevin Peter Hall, Stan Winston, Carl Weathers and Sonny Landham. RIP ago all.
This is one of the movies that got me hooked on this franchise and comics :)
THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE. THAT LAUGH @44:29 IS THE PREDATOR MIMICKING BILLY'S LAUGH.
The mud from the riverbank coated his skin and hid/contained his body heat from being seen by the Predator's infrared sensitivity.
Interestingly enough. Mud is that effective against the most expensive modern thermals as well 😂
@@kampfer3146 Yeah, a bunch of Guntubers tested it. And it's very effective. Who knew that mud was an insulator?
... I mean, it was common sense for thousands of years.
@@adibemaxwell6111pigs. Pigs know. Pigs are pretty much the only animal besides humans that sunburn so they use mud to stay cool and as sunscreen.,.
@@adibemaxwell6111 Even animals in the Sahara roll in mud for cooling and protection from the sun. The method of cooling through evaporation is known even to wild animals, long before people existed.
The symbol on the whisky flask is a Special Forces insignia (Green Berets). All these guys are veterans of Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, etc. The best of the best. Thats why they are worthy targets for the predator.
Hands down the absolute best ad read I’ve ever seen!
Thank you! Our team tries hard to make it fun!
Predators don't just hunt humans.
Hawkins' jokes though! 😂😂
We are introduced to Arnold's team as a bunch of elite bad asses. They eliminated probably 50 rebel shoulders with barely a scratch. Then they get tracked by an alien with superior weapons, tactics, technology and strength. They get picked off one by one until it's just Dutch left. In most of Arnold's action movies, his character and the big bad enemy has a 1v1 fight fight and Arnold wins. In this movie we see how outclasses Arnold's character is compared to the Predator, further showing how terrifying the alien is. He only wins through luck and guile, not brains.
This is a fun FUN action movie. The only Arnold action movie that is just dumber and more violent is Commando. That's the movie that you need to just turn off your brain and enjoy the senseless violence and explosions.
Mud blocking Dutch's infrared heat signature scene: It has been tested and proven that this actually works. They did it for the movie and others have recreated it on UA-cam.
Plus, the Predator's helmet is a fairly complex thing; it's tracking not just heat but movement and deliberately filtering anything that's "not important". As in 100+ weather, it would just see everything hot; instead it sees living things as brighter colors and non-living as darker. Which is one reason Dutch wearing mud that even dries still works; the filter is actually working against the Predator in that case.
i was probably 10 years old when i first watched this and understood what infared vision is. I can get into reaction videos and they are fun at times but when they act like infants it really throws it off. She literally watches the alien click some buttons on its arm, setting off a sort of (obvious) count down alarm....BIG EXPLOSION WHILE LAUGHING...."so did the predator blow itself up?" No honey, he ran for president shortly after and Dillon became his VP..
She is the slowest reactor I've seen on UA-cam, and that is quite an accomplishment given that most of the reactors below 30 years of age are invariably really dim.
I dont know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but the Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall. He also played Harry in Harry And The Henderson's. A comedy about a family that befriends bigfoot while camping and bring him back to the suburbs. Sadly, Kevin Peter Hall passed away during surgery after a bad car accident in Los Angeles. He was accidentally given contaminated blood. RIP Kevin Peter Hall
PS ... Ive always wondered if Mac and Dillon's guns are still out there. I mean, Dillon had a badass HK MP5 (affectionately nicknamed The Room Broom) in the hand that got blown off. Ive always been a Thompson man myself, but thats some full auto, 9mm, German made, goodness out there in the jungle. Oh well, our tax dollars at work I guess.
I just have to also say that I absolutely love the fact that all these young reactors who don't know this movie still no the most famous line out of the movie, get to The Choppa!!! And the absolute glee they show wben they hear it is adorable!
The actor that played Billy, the Native American, had a horribly violent temper.
The rest of the actors were assigned security personnel for their own safety from him.
Not temper so much as he was a juicer and suffered from roid rage. I went to HS with a guy like that(a football player). He could be laughing with you one minute and trying to break your neck the next. And I mean that literally. I once made a joke that set him off and as soon as I turned my back her grabbed me in sleeper hold from behind and we had a bit of a tussle.,.
It used infrared vision, which our timber wolf can also do. When he was covered in cold mud, it camouflaged his body heat.
"There's its green blood" ... Spock would be jealous.
Predators don't surrender, he self-destructed.
Definitely watch the rest!
7:59 My mum’s a retired Australian Army lieutenant. The alphabet’s called the NATO phonetic alphabet
Saw this in the theater back when. Shocking is the only word to use. By the way, Amelia, your cup is almost as big as you! Adorable!
31:52 That is a targeting laser; or, rather, it's this thing's nearest _equivalent._ So putting his _head_ where those lights are is about the _biggest_ mistake Mac could've made.
26;29 was a star shell trip flair. Basically a flair with a little parachute to light up an area where an enemy hit a tripwire.
The Predator didn't hit tripwires because (in the novel) his augmented vision could see the metal.
Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in Raw Deal prior to this and The Running Man immediately after. The actor playing Blaine, Jesse Ventura, served in the U.S. Navy, performed in the WWE and served as the governor of Minnesota. The story established in this is continued in Predator 2, Predators, The Predator, Predator: Stalking Shadows and Predator: Hunting Grounds. This has the same composer as Back To The Future. The primary firearms used in this are the M16A2 rifle, MP5 submachinegun, M60E3 medium machinegun, AK-47 rifle and the M134 minigun
The Predator isn't trying to wipe out humanity, we're just game to hunt for it.
the point of camo on the face isnt what you think it is, the stripes break up the shape of the face so when you glance you dont see a human silhouette, but rather see nothing, of course if someone is looking directly at you, youre cooked, then thats why ghillie suits are a thing but that shit is heavy and hot to wear
The alien's mission was to go to Earth and hunt predatory prey. in this case, the alphas (the army group). At the end when it knew it had lost the battle against Dutch, he used his self-destruct mechanism on his arm...that way it leaves no trace that it was there.
Cool little clip they put in here! Great job Amelia!!!
The symbol on the flask is the Special Forces (Green Berets) unit crest.
The importance of Poncho telling Billy the dumb Coochie jokes is not just silly comedy (although, I agree creating a character to do stuff like that is great for a movie) but it also gives us his laugh finally, after the second joke and that recorded laugh is what the Predator uses at the end as the evil laugh, once he sets the self destruct. Yeah, Arnold had big biceps, before he was an actor he was a body builder and won the highest award I believe, Mr Universe several times. I love Sonny Landham, Billy, in this but while he appears the calm cool Native American in the film, the actor had a temper and the Insurance company required a bodyguard be set to protect others from him. Just information, not judgement. Great film.
Amelia, you were dazzling in that ad and it was very cleaver! Great job!
I thought this movies was interesting because of how it rolls out. We find out it has always been happening, and therefore must also happen again. This was an account of only 1 encounter where the human won. Might I say I loved your reactions, because it was genuine and you showednsome intensity. By all means I would only say yes to the rest of the series. You gained a new fan today.
First saw this movie on tv…the movie started after the alien ship scene…I was surprised when the predator first appeared…
Trivia: The helicopter pilot at the end that says "What the F****" is Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the Predator. Originally Jean Claude Van Damme played the predator but the original costume ( which looked more like giant bug) was very awkward and cumbersome. That along with JCVD not getting along with the director made him quit. They revamped the look of the predator to what we see and got Kevin Peter Hall, who if you couldn't tell, was much taller than Arnold. Hall played the Predator one in the 1990 sequel but died the following year from AIDS related pneumonia. RIP
26:57 "Why didn't she try to get away?"
Because she knows the jungle is _dangerous._
16:40 Fun Fact: The guy telling all those jokes to Billy is played by Shane Black, who goes on to direct "THE Predator"
A classic 80’s movie!
Ive never seen someone look so terrified while watching a movie. 😛
Predator is learning the language slowly by what he hears.
They probably didn't want to go through that valley because if there were more rebels they could ambush the team easily and fire down on them from higher ground.
Make sure you watch the other Alien and Predator movies too (in order of release), you're gonna get a lot more lore to delve into!!!
The "Phonetic Alphabet" it's called
I always found it ironic that the word "Phonetic" isn't spelt - Fonetic
Yes, that’s it! It was one of those “Ooooh yeah” recall moments when I looked it up after the movie haha
The Predator either sees in the infra-red, or it has infra-red capability built into its... helmet. Whenever you see the screen all in blue with red/yellow/white highlights you are seeing its POV. At the end, it can't see Dutch because (in the film universe; it wouldn't work in real life for more than 30 seconds or so) he's covered in cold wet mud. Then, after commencing his counter-attack, Dutch falls in the river again and all the mud gets washed off and now the Predator's infra-red can see him again.
First time I saw this movie, when the predator leaps through the jungle with its cloaking device on, it took my breath away. Only cinema can do that.
Predator 2 explains a bit more of their culture. I learned the most from the Dark Horse comics.
The alphabet you were referring to is the "Phonetic Alphabet." During my 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force, I had to know it by heart.
A = Alpha
B = Bravo
C = Charlie
D = Delta
E = Echo
F = Foxtrot
G = Golf
H = Hotel
I = India
J = Juliet
K = Kilo
L = Lima
M = Mike
N = November
O = Oscar
P = Papa
Q = Quebec
R = Romeo
S = Sierra
T = Tango
U = Uniform
V = Victor
W = Whiskey
X = X-ray
Y = Yankee
Z = Zulu
Around 1990, my G.F. & I took a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mx. & rented a Jeep to drive down to where "Predator" (1987) was shot. At that time, you drove south to Mismaloya Beach & turned left into the jungle on a dirt road. About a 15 min. drive into the jungle you came to "El Eden" a restaurant on a river next to a waterfall. This was the location for the fire fight with the guerillas. The buildings in the movie are the open fire kitchen & dining areas. El Eden had NO electricity so they only served from late morning to afternoon. We parked & changed into our swimsuits in the jungle with all of the jungle sounds & memories of the movie. The waterfall is not the one seen in the movie. It's probably only 20' high. You can sit in the current on top & it will shoot you off of the waterfall into the pool below. All of the food was cooked over open wood fires & was excellent. I see on their website that they've turned it into a Predator tourist attraction. When we went there it was just like the Predator crew found it, no signs etc.
Anna played the mother (or grandmother?) in the new Blue Beetle film. It was great to see her in something again 👍
Recommend Predator 2 - great sequel!
The guy who played the Predator, Kevin Peter Hall, is also featured at the end of the film as the chopper pilot.
It should be noted Amelia that there are female variants of the Yautja (the predator). Although they've only been brought to light in comic books and in the game Predator: Hunting Grounds, thus far there have been no TV shows or films showing them in action. Apparently their clans follow the same rules as their male counterparts.
Also if I had to choose between being made into a trophy (whether it's skinned alive and strung upside down or having my skull ripped out through my spinal column) or getting hived thus becoming breeding host for a parasitic xenomorph, I'd happily choose the former over the latter option.
Prometheus 2012 Starts linking the whole universe together. Besides Aliens vs Predator 1 and 2. 👌 Awesome Reaction! 😎👍👏💯
This movie features two different governors. Arnold and Jessie Ventura.
"Get to the chopper" You said in the opening credits, you have seen this movie before.
Dutch says these exact words later in the film. Too acurate for a guess.
According to some of the books, the Predator and Aliens came from the same planet, and the Predators were on top. The Predators normally put Alien-eggs on planets not populated with life with high intelligence, and come back later and hunt the Aliens when they have grown out of their eggs. Mostly they dont use the shouldergun, because that would be too easy, so they mostly just use their spear and knives. But it is allowed.
Ah - the phonetic alphabet. I kind of miss using that from the military. Thankfully the movie Predator 2 answers a few of the questions people had from Predator - but it also leaves you with so many more questions.
You do know Cark weathers (the guy arm wrestling Arnold in the beginning) is Apolo Creed in the Rocky movies?!
Great reaction to my favorite movie, thank you!!!
Straight lines work fine for camouflage. Tigers never complained about their stripes 😂
34:00 he did draw blood first, robbing the predator of a „flawless victory“
The black guy in the helicopter at the end is the actor who played "The Predator" Kevin Peter Hall, RIP.