Please beware of scammers. I am not on Telegram nor do I do giveaways in my comment section. Also, just to note, I forgot about the spaceship scene at the very beginning which is why I had those questions about the origin of the Predator. :)
Miss, I hate to put this to you but I don't think you were told exactly what movie you're watching. This is blood, guts and carnage! The Predator or Yauja wants to go against the most dangerous game to earn honour and glory. Humans are called Pyode Amedha - the Soft Meat That Fights with Weapons in their language. Hunting humans is a privilege only few Yauja earn. This one is not just a full-blooded hunter, he has a full trophy cabinet of skulls at home of some of the most dangerous beings in this galaxy. Meaning he is an Elite Hunter. Strictly speaking, this should not have happened. Arnie got insanely lucky! Billy kicked the bird because it was eating the strung-up soldiers! Dillan is a CIA field operative. They are soldiers. This is the field. It is not a matter of out ranking. It's a matter that he did something stupid in enemy territory and Sgt Mac gave him a short sharp lesson in reality. The team is a special rescue group of the Green Berets. Category A badasses! And they are in Colombia. Wires under tension vibrate, which creates heat, making them visible to the Yauja's infrared vision. Jim and John Thomas came up with the idea of a hunter whose species evolved on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Something like the dinosaurs if they had survived to evolve; half mammal, half reptile. Combining the best of both. They were taken off Earth as slaves by an alien insectoid species. They were hunted and used as gladiators for generations as amusement for their captors. Although, what they were actually doing was a pure Darwinian process, that created the first Predator, as only the strongest got to mate. This larger, more powerful, more aggressive Yauja led a rebellion that freed his people. They were irrevocably changed by their experiences at the hands of this alien species. This Yauja became the first king and his dictates became the laws of the Yauja people. They became hunters, first of their world's most dangerous prey and in so doing they repeated that Darwinian process. Only those who survived; the strongest, the most powerful, most aggressive Yauja got to mate. Their children continued those traits and took them out into the galaxy with their enslavers technology. For thousands of years, this process continued. The Yauja took their own evolution into their own hands and bent it to their will. The reason why they tearout spines isn't just a claim the trophy, it's in order to take the spinal fluid from the most dangerous species across the galaxy and return them to Yauja Prime to be studied. They want to take the best of every species and make it their own. Billy understands the Yauja, his ancestors encountered them. He knows the Yauja wants to fight the ultimate prey. To face someone when its own life is on the line. That's the glory part! Billy sacrificed himself so his friends had time to get away, knowing the Yauja couldn't refuse something this honourable. It's against their nature. This is also why the Yauja has marked Dutch. He has seen the honour, the respect and the skill. He understands that Dutch is the superior warrior and everything he is looking for. To take Dutch in combat, would be the highlight of this hunt. His glory would be great! He knows the females will go nuts for him when he returns! You keep asking, where did it come from? You saw the ship drop him off at the beginning of the movie! The Yauja Shift-Suit/camouflage is affected by water, yes. Once it's dry, it returns to full functionality. What you are witnessing at the end of this movie is tribal, powerful combat. Dutch is offering to go one-on-one to distract the Yauja, so it doesn't go after Anna. That level of honour and sacrifice is not something that can be refused Dutch is giving the Yauja everything he longed for on this hunt and the Yauja honours him by preparing his weapons as if he is going against the most dangerous being on this planet. Fun fact: the Yauja's self-destruct took out enough rainforest to cover a hundred city blocks and the jungle grew back thicker and fuller within 10 years. You need to watch Predator 2. It's based on the novel, Concrete Jungle.
This is a good thing! I think many people do kind of just skip over it, and it's probably the one change I'd make to the movie, almost putting a spoiler right at the beginning.
@@wingnut5404I've heard people bring this up and it's a nice debate for sure. Myself because of how committed this film is to the B plot of the with the gurellia camp I think you need the ship there so the Predator reveal doesn't come completely out left and make the audience go wtf but in the bad way of totally lost now.
Billy cutting himself that way is an old native American tradition. The warrior spoils the game by taking first blood himself, thereby denying the enemy any glory.
26:05, Billy is cutting himself to deny the Predator the honor of drawing first blood on him. It may be at this moment that Billy finally realized what the Predator is and figured stop running like prey. Notice Billy wrapped the cord of his medicine bag around his knife. Perhaps that allowed him to get in one good lick before he died. I can't remember if the novel tie-in specified. Adhering to their twisted sense of honor, the Yautja admired Billy's bravery by making sure to remove and clean his trophy later.
Drawing first blood is an honor thing, but it's also a huge confidence boost for the person who draws first blood. Not to mention a big morality debuff to the person who gets injured. By starting the fight out with a self-inflicted scratch, you can sidestep losing the advantage in a fight.
My take on it is that he knows he's going to die, but he'd rather die with his knife in his hand. Also with blood on his knife. If not the enemy's then at least his own.
The reason Arnold's shoulder was fine is because the Predator's shot mostly hit his gun, if you look closely you can see it split in half from the shot. Hence Arnold's shoulder was only kind of burnt instead of completely missing like Dylan's.
33 minutes in - the alien has decided that Dutch is a worthy opponent and so he chooses to go more hand to hand. It's a question of respect and honour.
Yes that is Carl Weathers who played in Rocky as well. Also at the end of the movie after the Predator detonates his bomb the chopper pilot looking down at the explosion is the actor who played the Predator.
The opening scene shows the Predator arrving on Earth, ejecting from its spaceship. Anna's monologue implies that this isn't the first time something like this has happened. The Predator (or one of its kind) periiodically comes to Earth to look for a worthy fight.
@@bunnytailsREACTS I always wondered if these little hunting safaris are broadcast back to their planet like pay per view fights or reality tv. Imagine back on the Predator homeward, you got tubby dad bod Yautja watching this while eating sugary snacks and drinking their version of beer. 🤣😂
Lots of people miss this scene, or don't understand what's happening. It should probably have been made more obvious because it's setting up the premise for the whole film. Still a great reaction by bunnytails, but I felt a bit sorry for her confusion during the movie...
Billy's actions are those of a native spirit warrior. He rips the spirit bag from his neck wraps it around his hand and then draws a wound across his chest. This is to show his bravery and to deny the enemy's first blood.
This is arguably my all time favorite movie, and the"aawww, that was the pu$$y joke guy" line was worth watching the reaction in itself, I laughed my ass off at that one.
@@mikerodgers7620Braveheart. Aliens 2. Scar face. The big lebowski. Good will hunting. Once upon a time in America. The exorcist. The unforgiven. Jurassic park. Rocky. The godfather and part 2. A boy and his dog.
Fun fact: the Predator was played by the late Kevin Peter Hall, who stood at a height of seven feet 2 inches, and played many similar monster characters during his career. Loved your reaction to this stone cold classic!
Why do people talk about peoples' height like it's an achievement? It's more of a handicap to be above average height. It gives no advantages, only lots of disadvantages. Especially freakishly tall people: only a handful can use it as a way to make some money in the movies (no more than talented normal-height people can though) or back in the day in the circus.
I think you are the only woman I have seen react to this that laughed at and enjoyed the one character's jokes. Just one of the many reasons I love watching your reactions! Looking forward to seeing you watch the second one.
This film has the distinction of having three politicians in the cast. Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to become governor of California (2003-2011). Jesse Ventura went on to become governor of Minnesota (1999-2003). Sonny Landham ran for governor of Kentucky but was defeated in the Republican primary. Sonny then ran for the Kentucky state House and was defeated. Sonny then ran for US Senate of Kentucky and was defeated.
He was my governor and whatever he accomplished (a total centrist in office, really) calling out the 2 parties on their mutual complicity in the corrupt duopoly of the current US electoral system. I was there that night and did a lot of the image capture of the late campaign. img.apmcdn.org/28d57a8949097430cfb87ce047bbbecf11d0637a/uncropped/3e994b-20170112-ventura.jpg
This movie could have been called "The Governors" because both Jesse Ventura and the Schwanzenegger became governors of their respective states: Minnesota and California. The second Pedator movie does answer some, but not all, of your questions. And it has some fun twists. Definitely recommended if you enjoyed this one. It's cool that you drew some parallels between Predator and Alien. Consider watching Alien vs. Predator (aka AVP). It's not the greatest movie in the world, but it does develop both stories in interesting ways.
That's why Carl Weathers once (jokingly) announced his candidacy for governor of his home state of Louisiana, because as it stands now, "Predator" and "The Running Man" are tied for most future governors in a movie, both with Schwarzenegger and Ventura. But if Weathers had become Governor of Louisiana, it would have put "Predator" on top. He was joking about running, of course, but I think he should have done it.
AVP 2 the fps game on PC in the early 2000's was great though, although short lived compared with Halo and Unreal. It was so much fun playing as Predators with their various weapons, cloak, and physical skills, and as a variety of Aliens, and of course the humans(Marines and Corporates) too... host's would call a ban on the SG(Smart Gun) because it kind of ruined things. Knife fights were fun tho. Sadly, the servers went down and no more online support after about 2007 or so....still fun in single player to some extent, despite the dated graphics by today's standards. They need to make a new version. The diversity of gameplay depending on race(alien, predator, and human) really made AVP 2 a good game.
Most reactors miss this, since it goes by so fast - the Predator split Dutch's gun in half with his shoulder cannon (right before the "Get to the choppa!" line.) That's why the shot didn't kill him outright.
Not just a great action film…a great movie of any genre. Sensational writing and even acting…Arnold has never been better 🎉❤. (Thanks, Bunny 😊). Filmed in Mismaloya, Mexico
26:05 Billy cuts himself as a taunt. Denying his enemy the honor of drawing his blood. 26:28 kicked, not shot. As "Dutch" observed earlier, the Predator did not shoot her because she was unarmed. She doesn't look like she really has much, if any, experience with military rifles, and the Pred already killed an experienced team one by one. She would only be redesignated as a target if she fired a gun, and die as well.
Yes you were right, that is indeed Carl Weathers who plays Apollo Creed in Rocky. Dutch kicked the gun out of her hands so she wouldn't get killed for being armed. Dutch didn't actually get shot in that scene. The plasma bolt hit his gun which broke apart and subsequently turned to shrapnel, wounding him in the process.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a teenager. This was the movie that started to separate Arnold from Stallone. It's part action, part horror, part science fiction and all 80s😁
I always say that the big difference is Arnold deferred to others in terms of film making. He didn't know Jack about screenplays or cinematography or the auteur theory. All he knew is if he had any say he wanted to work with quality people and let them do their jobs. Sly came to the biz with bigger ambitions. He wanted to act, write and direct. When you look at his filmography you see Sly when he's not directing himself he's often working with journeymen types. Rarely did he team up with any director with a following, especially in his prime years. Arnold on the other hand when you think of his prime he's just usually paired with a director with a strong vision or sense of style that understood exactly how to use Arnold best or get him to bring his best performances out of him. Milius, Cameron, Hill, Verhoveen... Arnold in his prime worked with a murderer's row of directorial talent. Sly? Not so much. And it's why, now decades later we see that Stallone, while still iconic and with characters like Rocky and Rambo under his belt, his truly stand the test of time entries into the pop culture canon pale next to Arnold's. The quality of Arnold's films began to wane when he started just showing up for the paycheck and didn't fuss about who was at the helm.
Stallone is weak. Outside the Rocky movies, almost everything he does is humorless power fantasy. I love that Arnold can take roles where he doesn’t look good all the time, but stumbles, fails or is made fun of throughout the story.
@@maxducoudray For whatever reason, his personality, his input on set, Arnold's films do have self aware elements. Just think of how he has a catch phrase across different films with "I'll be back". They parodied it in LAST ACTION HERO. Stallone has "Yo Adrian" but that's for one character. That said I think Sly's best work is his earliest on the scene. ROCKY, FIRST BLOOD and the less well known NIGHTHAWKS. Sly shows A LOT of range and is doing character work for real. None of those characters look, act or speak the same. I think in terms of raw acting ability Sly outclasses Arnold. The ending scene of FIRST BLOOD is a tour de force. Like Rocky in the third film Stallone got too comfortable, he wasn't the hungry newcomer anymore. Once he is established the effort is either not there or it's put into the oddest projects. When he was coasting you would get a lazy Rambo sequel or TANGO AND CASH. When he was oddly passionate you'd get COBRA or OVER THE TOP. I think another thing that hurts Stallone's output was he eschewed anything high concept or Scifi or fantasy for the most part. Sly has almost nothing like CONAN THE BARBARIAN, TOTAL RECALL or THE TERMINATOR in his body of work. The closest are JUDGE DREDD and DEMOLITION MAN. And that's on Sly himself because he really chose his projects poorly for a long stretch. I think some films Arnold did could have easily started Sly. Sly could have done either PREDATOR or TOTAL RECALL easily in his prime. But just as SciFi and Fantasy was taking off Sly basically rarely if ever dipped his toe into those kinds of movies.
Predator is all about the contrast between the first and 2nd parts of the movie. In the first part, the Special Forces team couldn't see him and were shooting blindly into the jungle. After Arnold figured out how to camo himself, the roles reversed. He was hitting predator with explosive arrows from the trees. Predator couldn't see Arnold and began firing blindly into the jungle.
Billy is a Native American tracker, who can read the ground like a book. Again you see Arnie’s real-life good friend Sven, who kills one of the hostages, then kills him with “knock knock”. Blasting away with every gun into the jungle were often done by troops after being ambushed, just hoping you would hit something or at least make the enemy keep their heads down or withdraw. Names in this film like ‘Jim Hopper’ would appear in the TV series ‘Stranger Things’ as a tribute to how popular this film is. Metal and other man-made objects would stand out from the jungle environment in the Predator’s infra-red visions. Mac died with a hole through his head. The Predator would not blow up a skull and be denied a trophy. Bunnytail! Finally someone said it! “Who’s camouflaged now, M………r!” With the situation reversed, the ambushed Predator fires blindly at the jungle hoping to hit something! Actor Kevin Peter Hall who was in the Predator suit was also the helicopter pilot who rescued Arnold. He played Harry the Bigfoot in the film and series ‘Harry and the Hendersons’. All your questions will be answered if you continue with the sequels.
@@tehawesomeface1337 He also wrote for the comicbook Sgt. Rock which is why we see him reading the comicbook in the end credits, and reading the comic while in the helicopter.
I did not know that. I grew up reading Sgt Rock with Joe Kubert and later Russ Heath. I taught myself to do my own comic books in my teens by copying Russ Heath’s Sgt. Rock illustrations. Shane Black (PussyJoke Guy) went on to write and direct ‘The Predator’ 2018.
The predators are a bit of an enigma, but some hints as to their motivation were put in this film. Predator 2 clarifies it a bit more, and isn't a horrible movie. I haven't seen any of the other except for Prey, which is a prequel (and is fantastic).
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but downright scary too! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
Late to this show - via the algorithm recommendation, but worth the wait. So sad to hear the news of Carl Weathers' passing. May he rest in everlasting peace.
It's a macho action movie that turns into a slasher film halfway through, but with action heroes instead of campers. The thing is the Predator's honor is very self-serving. It's hunter's honor - they want a good game, a 'fair fight'... but they don't actually expect to lose. Just like lion hunters don't really expect the lion to get away or be hurt.
After seeing these guys' awesome tracking skills at the beginning (being able to identify the type, direction, and number of people in the jungle at the helicopter crash); the part after the first kill when Dutch says "Did you find Hawkins?", and Poncho responds "I... I can't tell...". Gold.
Fun fact: the Predator design was switched up during production, from a more insectoid looking creature to what we see in the final film. Also, Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original suit actor for the 1st design of the Predator, with some of his shots being used for the reference passes for the Cloaking fx, but they fired him after the redesign because JCVD was difficult to work with and was also too short for the new look Predator, so they got someone else in who better suited the size they wanted
When they had issues, Arnold recommended they go to Stan Winston. Stan didn’t really know what to do, but he remembered some Rastafarian artwork in JoelSilver’s office. He was on a plane to Japan sketching dreadlocks and quills. James Cameron was sitting next to him and he started making suggestions like, “oh I always liked creatures with mandibles” and other various things along the way. By the end of the flight they had much designed everything about the creature, weapons, and other stuff from just iterating on each others ideas.
The helicopter pilot at the end is Kevin Peter Hall. The preditor. They did that so he could be seen by the audience. Great reaction. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
This for me is underrated for the performance Arnold gives, and so much of it purely physical as the cast gets whittled down and there's less need for dialogue. By the final act we are almost in a silent film and Arnold gives his all letting us know everything going on inside of Dutch's mind. The atmosphere and the way they light Arnold to give focus to the whites of his eyes works with Arnold's movement and reactions to make for pure film language telling us a story we are invested in. There's far more to recommend with this film beyond just appreciation for supposed 80's cheese I think.
@@VilleHalonen Soderbergh the director of Ocean's 11 did this experiment where he took RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and turned it black and white, edited out the dialogue and replaced the Williams score with this Electronica style music. Whether any of that sounds like an improvement is besides the point. Soderbergh wanted to highlight Spielberg's mastery of film language, blocking and telling a story with visuals. I think PREDATOR getting a similar treatment would be interesting. McTiernen's film could also be stripped of dialogue and its iconic score and you would still be into the story being told just from the visuals.
@@miguelvelez7221 I’m familiar with that edit, it’s really fascinating! I fully agree, it’d be great to see a similar version of Predator. I think there’s a tendency to unfairly compare visual stories to literary ones. After all, we don’t (or at least shouldn’t) judge poetry through the criteria of novels or essays. While I do enjoy a well-written movie, the more I learn about cinematic language, the more I appreciate films that express things in ways unique to the medium.
@@VilleHalonen McTiernen's career highs are very worthy of getting a look over for how he crafts movies balancing both the visual story telling but also he knows how to make the characters and dialogue pop. What he did with PREDATOR, HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and DIE HARD stand for the ages. Also... Alot of mid tier dreck. 😂
You must not have been paying attention: in the opening of the film, a spacecraft flies past our POV. As it cruises above Earth's atmospher, it releases a pod which then falls to Earth. So, yes, the Predator is an alien. And he is on safari, hunting big game and collecting skulls as trophies. A rite of passage? An excuse to get away from the wife and kids? Who knows, but he's definitely here to do some hunting.
At 31:30 if you rewatch that scene you can see the predator using his helmet's targeting system to triangulate approximately where the rock was thrown from, and then just fires in that general direction.
This was the first Arnold film I saw and I was very surprised at the twist and progression of the plot. I'm not into dumb action movies and pointless shootouts and explosions, but this movie wasn't heavy-handed, it just got more and more exciting. And the alien had a fascinating mask. When it takes off its helmet and roars - that's one of the highlights for me.
Movie still holds up pretty well after all these years. Like the Alien movie, this started it's own franchise (in movies, books, video games, and comics) which has been both stand alone and mixed in with Alien. The knock off Contra sweatshirt I bought last year has a picture of Arnold from this movie on it, as well as one of Stallone from Rambo.
@bunnytailsREACTS to answer your questions what the good is talking about is ghosting be loud enough for the army to make your position if u do carelessly it could be seen as treason n u can be kill on the spot
I wish they would've actually done a Contra film with those two when they were both in their prime. I know they were also rivals at that time. But I think such a film would've been big. At least a big cult classic.
16 minutes in, when everyone starts shooting, they were responding to the first guy shooting - the rest didn't have a clue what he was shooting at but they assumed there was a good reason and no time to ask questions. After all, there might have been a dozen enemies out there.
@@bunnytailsREACTSYes. Once you have Predator 2 under your belt just go right to PREY. Yes there's other films, including the Aliens crossover but I can't recommend any of them to a great degree. Even when they try out interesting ideas the execution was lackluster. No, P1, P2 and Prey.
@@bunnytailsREACTSPredator 2 expands the background of the species a bit. They’ve just given a small tidbit in each movie just to keep the mystery alive (the fans imagination is always more powerful than what’s on film)
26:26 As Dutch deduced earlier; the Predator didn't harm Anna because she was unarmed, which was correct. a little bit of lore-dump: The Yautja(which is the name of their species) have some strict laws when it comes to their hunting. Only kill species that pose a threat or challenge, which ranges from deadly predators to armed warriors. Killing unarmed civilians, children, or pregnant individuals are deemed as acts of cowardice and are punishable by death or exile from their clan. Their hunts are recorded by their helmets, which are later played back to their elders to judge if they are worthy to rise in ranks.
One element of this movie that may not be obvious in 2023 is that it came out at a time when there were tons of generic action movies. So the first part of the movie plays off those expectations, setting it up as a typical genre entry. Then the predator subverts all that. It made the movie really stand out.
The Predator species hunt for sport, which is why he didn't attack the girl because she was unarmed and not a soldier etc.....therefore no sport. Predators with Adrien Brody is a decent movie too in the franchise
You did a sensational job with this reaction video. Unlike a lot of people you were able to follow along and understand what was going on throughout the entire movie. Great job.
I saw this in the theater back in 1987 and I also saw the sequel in the theater in 1990. Billy was a cool character and I hated to see him die way back in 87 lol. Predators (2010) was pretty good but I thought the ending to that one could have been much better. Prey was pretty good too. Great reaction Bunnytails!!
This movie is the source of several memes. The shot where Arnie and Carl Weathers clench hands, showing off their biceps is a visual meme. Also, the phrases, "If it bleeds, we can kill it," and "Get to the chopper" are well known phrases.
Dillon is CIA and Dutch and his team are ODA (US Army Special Forces(Green Berets)) - Dillon is a tag-along and has no authority directly - his top goes to the SECDEF (top of the DOD) and he goes to the top of the Army - the CIA commonly recruits from the teams - Dillon used to be a teammate of Dutch before the CIA recruited him - the team knows it so there's a shit ton of baggage there
The Predator race (Yautja) are like the Klingons.. they value honour and fair confrontation in the hunt. It came to Earth for sport, hunting us! And got very impressed by Arnie's crack team. It didn't kill anyone without a weapon (like Anna).. it probably fought Billy using its wrist blades as Billy chose to use a knife. Yeah they're intelligent, did you miss it being dropped off by a spacecraft at the start of the film? :) Predator 2 next, which is also excellent!
bunnytails, the soldier kicked the bird, a vulture because it was eating the remains of a dead U.S. serviceman. Although I think this is a great movie, I actually preferred Predator 2 even though it did not do as well at the box office because it explains a lot of things about the aliens not answered in this movie. I high encourage you to react to Predator 2 which I also think you will enjoy watching.
What the Alien, Predator and Terminator franchises have in common is that all three only consist of two films. Yes, despite rumors to the contrary, there are only two, respectively. (Personally, I've made my peace with Alien 3 and Terminator 3 and can accept them for what they are, but I understand everyone who can't, and no other entry in either franchise is even remotely bearable.) Predator 2, despite unfairly damning reviews at the time, is actually really good.
I will watch your reaction later, and then come back to make further comment. For now, I must say that this original Predator movie is one of my all time favorite movies of any kind. I love the cast. I love the location. I love the plot. I love how they did the Predator. I love the writing. I love this movie!
At first glance, Predator doesn't seem to be a deep and meaningful artwork. BUT, it is one of the most explicitly philosophical movies of all. The theme is "the human mind as our means of survival". And I can't think of another film that does it better.
@@NeilEvans-xq8ik It's not about intelligence per se. The defining value is how you use your mind and therefore how oriented to reality you are. Some thinkers in history will make a big deal about work, labour and "muscle" as the driving force behind human survival, progress and flourishing (Marxism for instance). But what is on-show in the film, is the obvious physical deficit that any human would have against a Predator, combined with a specific human that defeats it using his thinking rather than his physical ability. Dutch is trusted by his men, for a reason. He is the leader of an elite army rescue unit, for a reason. He works out how they are being hunted and how he can kill the thing that is trying to kill him. Throughout the whole film he is the most rational human there. It's not until the very end that the Predator realizes he's not hunting just another "dumb animal" by his standards.
"...why'd he kick the bird..." Because it was eating the dead people, and he was upset about that. "...I know you like working alone..." It's not that. Giving away their position is a threat to _all_ of them. If the enemy detects where they are because he made a stupid mistake like that, they could attack their small group with larger numbers, negating the _very needed_ advantage of surprise for a smaller force to deal with a larger one. In other words, what he's telling them is that if he threatens the safety of _all_ of them again, out here in the jungle where 'chain of command' is a mere nicety and _survival_ is what matters more, he'll kill the guy rather than letting him risk _all_ their lives with his incompetence. Remember that they were forced by higher-ups to take him with them. Now, Dillon has the option of just not following and hanging back until the thing is done, then he won't be giving their position away, but if Dillion _chooses_ to continue, he can't be allowed to threaten them all just because he wants to be there. You talk about a 'superior officer', but out there, on the battlefield, rank doesn't matter. That's what this shows. Dillion was in charge back at base camp because rules and regulations and so on mattered more than skills, but out in the jungle, when it's do it right or die, rank means _nothing._ This shows up later as well with saying Anna is Dillon's baggage, if they fall behind they're on their own. "...where is the Amazon even located..." South America. However they're not _in_ the Amazon. They're in a rainforest (believe it or not, there's more than one). This one is supposedly taking place in Guatemala in Central America. It was filmed in a tropical jungle in Mexico. "...automatic machine gun..." A minigun. And no one can use it like that. No one _human,_ anyway. You _can,_ if you are strong, hold it and fire in roughly a direction you would like, but only in _extremely_ short bursts. Each bullet fired is like getting hit with a three pound bean-bag. The minigun usually fires 3000 rounds per minute, or 50 per second. Even a full second on auto-fire would be like a 100 pound person jumping into you (reduced some because it's not all at once). When those guns are used in real life, they're almost always on a tripod, and that tripod has _hundreds_ of pounds of sandbags holding it down, _or_ it's _bolted_ to a something like a truck or helicopter or wall... and more often the sandbags because, let's face it, 100 pounds jumping into the side of a vehicle is _going_ to send it off course. If you want to see someone fire one for about half a second and get _shoved_ six inches or so backwards, sliding along the ground, and ending up twisting some, you can watch that here: ua-cam.com/video/H5FgePpGFWA/v-deo.html "...how you gonna look nonchalantly behind you at an explosion..." Experience. Lots and _lots_ of experience. After it's happened a few dozen times to you, you get to the point that you recognize which explosions behind you are a _threat_ and which ones you can ignore. ... The trick is surviving long enough to _get_ that experience. "...I don't know why I wasn't expecting this level of violence in an Arnold movie..." Maybe you watched Twins? Or Jingle All the Way? "...this guy and his pussy jokes... I wanna hear another one..." Ask and ye shall receive: What do the Mafia and a pussy have in common? One slip of the tongue, and you're in deep shit. What do you call a Roman soldier with a smile on his face and a piece of hair between his two front teeth? A Glad-he-ate-her. What do you call an Oscar winning film about a vagina? Lawrence Of A Labia. Boy: "Want to hear a joke about my dick? Never mind, its too long." Girl: "Wanna hear a joke about my pussy? Never mind, you won't get it." No Vagina Jokes. Those aren't funny. PERIOD. No Period Jokes either. Women might ovary act. One day on the farm, a little boy kicks a cow. His mama says if you kick the cow you get no milk. The next day the boy kicks the pig. His mama says if you kick the pig you get crappy bacon. The day after he kicks the chicken. His mama says if you kick the chicken you get no eggs. His daddy walks through the door and kicks the cat. The little boy says to his mam: "Should I tell him or do you want to?" A girl came to her mom and said "Mommy! I've got 5 dollars!" Her mom said "Where from?" "Tommy from down the road he dared me to do a cartwheel," she replied. "Dear that boy is just trying to see your panties!" her mom told her. The next day the girl comes to her mom and says "Mommy I've got 10 dollars!" Exasperated, her mom says, "I told you don't trust that boy!" The girl responds, "NO mommy! I tricked him! I didn't wear panties today!" Two women are standing on the bridge and one says to the other, "You know I want to pee off the bridge like men do." So she goes to the side of the bridge and squats over the water and pulls down her pants and says "You see that canoe down there, I'm going to pee on that canoe!" And the other woman says, "That's not a canoe, that's your reflection." "...I just wanna know how they move so quietly..." It's a lot easier when the camera isn't set to pick up sounds. ... ... In a more realistic setting, practice. "...so it hunts for sport and for fun..." Remember Anna saying that this thing, which has visited before, is called "The Demon That Makes Trophies of Man". Trophy hunters kill for sport and fun. Although (not mentioned in this movie, but in comics and maybe one movie), the species doesn't do this _just_ for fun. It's also a sort of 'coming of age' test. You have to hunt something _dangerous,_ using skill and tech to win. The more dangerous the prey you hunt, the more honor you get in succeeding. This is what leads to the movie 'Alien vs Predator' movie. "...you just wanna fight him with a knife..." Remember what I said above about honor? Same sort of idea here. Billy knows he can't win. He knows that running as he did won't work. So he's choosing to end his life honorably by facing it head on with as traditional a weapon as he has available (likely he'd have preferred a spear, but didn't have one on hand). The exact symbology of all of it... is most likely a mishmash of vaguely Native American things, without being really connected to any one of them (though I admit this is a guess on my part). "...why did he kick the gun out of her hand..." Remember earlier? "It didn't kill you because you weren't armed." He saved her life by _stopping_ her from _becoming_ armed. At no point during this did the Predator see her with a weapon. She is, thus, harmless. The Predator killed the one _injured_ soldier who _had been_ armed for the same reason a responsible hunter of dangerous prey (like hippos or lions or whatever) will track and put down any wounded animal, it's cruel to leave them. ... This makes less sense in their specific case, but it follows the same sort of idea. You don't leave wounded animals out there to suffer. Finish them off, even if they're no longer dangerous due to their injuries. But at _this_ point Anna can get away because the Predator doesn't _care_ about her. You see this same sort of 'hunter ethic' in the second movie, too, where the Predator refuses to kill a potential prey for reasons that every hunter would agree with (but not one that came up here). I don't wanna spoil it, just in case you choose to watch. "...it just kinda singed his shoulder..." It hit his _weapon_ instead of _him._ As such the weapon was destroyed (which is why he didn't try to find it), but he was mostly okay. "...does the mud help with the heat sensor, too..." It would... for about 30 seconds. Then your body heat would warm it up, and... no. But then, again in comics and so on, they're not using 'heat vision' exactly, it's something else. "...where did he come from..." In the opening moments of the movie, you see him get dropped off by a larger ship in space. So... yes, he's an alien. "...I feel like that thing is smarter than to walk into an obvious trap like this..." It fell for the _first_ trap with the net. It's really more about being overconfident. It likely figures there's just one left, and as far as it knows that one isn't even armed anymore, just injured. It may be expecting something closer to Billy's resignation and death. Plus... it's relying on its camouflage and armor to protect it. "...why'd he drop him..." Honor. Dutch is out of weapons, shown he's capable. Sure, the Predator could win _now,_ that's _easy._ But that's not a _fight_ anymore. That's Dutch running out of weapons. No, no, no. _Clearly_ this has to come down to something else, so that he can go back and admit, "Yeah, he got me with a few lucky shots, but then he ran out of weapons. So instead of shooting him, I took him down with my bare hands!" Much better story. "...I don't understand this thing's motive..." Yeah, neither do I. I mean... I use the word 'honor', but... honor makes no sense to me. I think it's kinda dumb. "...what you want me to watch next..." I'd recommend Spaceballs... because in order to watch it, you have to have seen a number of other movies which are _also_ awesome, and if you haven't, they'd be good for reacting to as well. Those movies are: Planet of the Apes (1958), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Alien (which you've seen), Raiders of the Lost Ark (or just see a poster of it), Star Trek the Original Series (which you've seen), and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (though if you haven't seen 'A New Hope' and 'The Empire Strikes Back', you should watch those first, especially if you can get your hands on the de-specialized editions where they don't have the 'improvement' made to make it more in line with the prequel trilogy). Great reaction! Have a nice day!
Special Operation teams train an insane amount so they can predict each other's moves and preferences this is key to their effectiveness; Dillon (Apollo Creed) has been running a desk so long he is out of practice throwing off their routines. These types of teams have and respect rank but in field and off they are brothers first rank second. They need to talk and act fast, so ideas need to be conveyed quickly to preserve the mission effectiveness and safety of team members. Jesse Venture the "sexual tyrannosaurus" who operates "old painless", was a Navy Seal in real life who served in Vietnam war.
This movie has a lot of IMDB value. First: There are 2 Governors in the movie: Arnold and Jesse "The Body" Ventura (the funny guy you like, also an ex Pro Wrestler and G.I Joe character "Sgt. Slaughter" , sharing one of his later wrestling monikers). Also, the guy with the Pu**y jokes is Shane Black, the writer of the original Lethal Weapon movie and director of one the sequals "The Predator".
Yeah, and everything about it was totally unexpected to me. I guess I had this idea of what I thought it would be like and it was completely different, which left me pretty bewildered throughout the movie. Really great stuff!
Fun fact: Jesse Ventura(big guy with the minigun) named his autobiography "I ain't got time to bleed", was also former governor of Minnesota.(funny because Arnie was also gov of California). But I won't get into politics here. That interracial bro fist handshake in the beginning has aged well, imo...it is so iconic, and a symbol of unity, and brotherly love! The Predator code of honor and cockiness in wanting a worthy opponent is part of what makes them so cool, but weak compared with Aliens, who have no such concept, and only care about breeding and spreading their insect-like race. So many clever things in this movie, like disguising the heat signature with mud. If you missed the UFO landing in the beginning, it starts off like any regular commando type movie, then your mind gets blown when you discover there's an alien creature hunting humans. 10/10 one of the best movies, and without the whole romance or womanizing of the only female character. (The pussy jokes were hilarious though...omg bunny, hot-dog down a hallway? Hahahahah! I'll keep my thoughts to myself on that comment) Anyhow, I loved watching this with you... Get to da Chopper! Have a happy New Year!
@@berranari1 Jesse the brains Ventura! Too bad he didn't run for president, some of his ideas were a little more moderate (like legalized/regulated prostitution) and wouldn't have popular with the far right voters, however...sigh. Now we have democrats funding human trafficking rings in pizza parlors, but I digress. =/
This is supposed to take place in Central America, during the Cold War. Dillion is supposed to be CIA. Soldiers and marines often dislike the CIA. The intelligence agencies provide them with information, but that information is often incomplete or they have agendas of their own that they don't make regular soldiers aware of. This tends to breed distrust and animosity. In the alien's society, rank and prestige is based on how well one does in the hunt. The tougher and more dangerous the prey a hunter manages to take down, the higher their standing in society. That means they spend a great deal of time traveling around the galaxy looking for the toughest prey possible.
Ventura's multibarrel ubergun is a Minigun (ironically, since its not mimi). Weapons like that seem unlikely to be human-carried in general, they are extremely heavy, go through lots of ammo real fast, and need a battery to power the motors that operate it. Kind of tough to carry all that through the jungle, but that's pretty much the core of Jesse Ventura's character. Ventura was a pro wrestler for a long while, and would become Governor of Minnesota as an Independent. Miniguns are usually mounted on a boat or chopper. Larger examples are mounted in aircraft, or as is the case with the A-10, the aircraft is mounted to the weapon. The Amazon is in South America, primarily Brazil. This is supposed to take place in Guatemala, so the river is likely the Motogua. Apollo's character is CIA, while Ahnold's team is paramilitary mercenaries, not active duty, and answer in no way whatever to the CIA.
The mini in minigun is a reference to the fact that is a much smaller but almost identical copy to the M61 Vulcan. The mini used 7.62mm rifle shells whereas the Vulcan was classified as a 20mm Autocannon which was considered a artillery shell And a “gun” was typically only used to refer to a fixed or partially mobile artillery, autocannon, or machine gun placement. Pistols, Rifles, and sub machine guns are firearms, not guns. The M134 minigun was initially manageable at a mere 84 lbs, unloaded. Ammo was about 150 shells to a pound, firing up to 600 a second. The M61 Vulcan was 248 lbs and required external hydraulic feeds. Ammo was 3-4 shells per pound, and also fired around 600 per second.
36:18 That's right, the original is the classic but the 2nd part is also good. BUT I definitely recommend Predators (2010) also, which was directed by a Predator fan, Antal Nimród. I think this is the best after the first and second.
Great reaction, that part in the helicopter at the beginning. That's just soldier banter. When things are about to get sketchy, dark humor and banter lighten up the mood.
Prey is also excellent (For me at least, second only to this original.) Predator is such a great subversion given how it starts and other 80s action flicks where the meat heads would just tear any threat up on screen. Here, all their strength and weapons are virtually useless, the Predator so far surpasses them that for the bulk of the time its just making sport of them. Its only through a mixture of luck and Dutchs cunning that the Predator is finally brought down. (Im pretty sure this was all very deliberate as well, even the subplot turns the whole action hero thing on its head.)
A Predator, a species FAR more advanced than humans, wipes out an entire modern day elite special forces unit, but a 90 pound sTrOnG wOmAn from the 1800s with sticks and stones can handle this one no problem because "they don't think she can" You would like that fuckin trash
The mini-gun in reality is always mounted on a pivot in the door of a helicopter or on a truck. If anyone tried to hold it while firing, the recoil would spin him around and he would strafe everyone in every direction.
Hi Babe! This was filmed in Mexico! When the Prediter was invisible, it was played by, Jon Cleud Van Dame wearing a pink body suit! At the very beginning, you saw an alien space craft drop a capsule to the Earth, so you know the Predators is an alien! Recommendation, Conan the Barbarian!
The first 2 Predictor movies are both good - but different - and the last one, Prey, is very different but also very good. This movie is set in Guatemala.
For the next Arnold movie check out his breakthrough movie that put him on the map .." Conan The Barbarian " ( 1982 ).. best soundtrack/ score.. real stunts and fight choreography..great cinematography..best narrator ..even with flaws..it's good..the best sword and sorcery movie fantasy in my opinion..because of the realistic feel ..all those others are fun only none have a more effort put into them to consistently have the realism ..no cgi everywhere..no claymation ..more sword than sorcery
I served in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, there were several common "in country" sayings. One was "rank don't mean shit!" How much time "in country" determined your status. If you were "short" or a "short timer", i.e., less than 30 days until you rotated home. Nobody screwed with you. Word was that inexperienced officers didn't last long unless they were smart enough to learn from the men in their outfit who had been their the longest.
You asked so nicely for people to leave comments, so I'll share this: The first time I saw this movie I was about 10 years old and at a birthday party. Apparently I was the wuss of my friend group, I spent a good portion of it covering my eyes because the idea of an invisible monster was terrifying. After it ended I had to walk home in the dark (relatively normal; it was a small, safe town and not a long way) but as soon as I stepped outside I started imagining those glowing eyes in the trees. I ran my ass home as fast as I could, lol. I waited until I was a more appropriate age before I watched it again and could appreciate how good it is.
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Also, just to note, I forgot about the spaceship scene at the very beginning which is why I had those questions about the origin of the Predator. :)
Miss, I hate to put this to you but I don't think you were told exactly what movie you're watching. This is blood, guts and carnage!
The Predator or Yauja wants to go against the most dangerous game to earn honour and glory. Humans are called Pyode Amedha - the Soft Meat That Fights with Weapons in their language. Hunting humans is a privilege only few Yauja earn.
This one is not just a full-blooded hunter, he has a full trophy cabinet of skulls at home of some of the most dangerous beings in this galaxy. Meaning he is an Elite Hunter.
Strictly speaking, this should not have happened. Arnie got insanely lucky!
Billy kicked the bird because it was eating the strung-up soldiers!
Dillan is a CIA field operative. They are soldiers. This is the field. It is not a matter of out ranking. It's a matter that he did something stupid in enemy territory and Sgt Mac gave him a short sharp lesson in reality.
The team is a special rescue group of the Green Berets. Category A badasses!
And they are in Colombia.
Wires under tension vibrate, which creates heat, making them visible to the Yauja's infrared vision.
Jim and John Thomas came up with the idea of a hunter whose species evolved on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Something like the dinosaurs if they had survived to evolve; half mammal, half reptile. Combining the best of both.
They were taken off Earth as slaves by an alien insectoid species.
They were hunted and used as gladiators for generations as amusement for their captors.
Although, what they were actually doing was a pure Darwinian process, that created the first Predator, as only the strongest got to mate.
This larger, more powerful, more aggressive Yauja led a rebellion that freed his people.
They were irrevocably changed by their experiences at the hands of this alien species.
This Yauja became the first king and his dictates became the laws of the Yauja people.
They became hunters, first of their world's most dangerous prey and in so doing they repeated that Darwinian process. Only those who survived; the strongest, the most powerful, most aggressive Yauja got to mate. Their children continued those traits and took them out into the galaxy with their enslavers technology.
For thousands of years, this process continued. The Yauja took their own evolution into their own hands and bent it to their will.
The reason why they tearout spines isn't just a claim the trophy, it's in order to take the spinal fluid from the most dangerous species across the galaxy and return them to Yauja Prime to be studied. They want to take the best of every species and make it their own.
Billy understands the Yauja, his ancestors encountered them. He knows the Yauja wants to fight the ultimate prey. To face someone when its own life is on the line. That's the glory part!
Billy sacrificed himself so his friends had time to get away, knowing the Yauja couldn't refuse something this honourable. It's against their nature.
This is also why the Yauja has marked Dutch. He has seen the honour, the respect and the skill.
He understands that Dutch is the superior warrior and everything he is looking for.
To take Dutch in combat, would be the highlight of this hunt. His glory would be great!
He knows the females will go nuts for him when he returns!
You keep asking, where did it come from? You saw the ship drop him off at the beginning of the movie!
The Yauja Shift-Suit/camouflage is affected by water, yes. Once it's dry, it returns to full functionality.
What you are witnessing at the end of this movie is tribal, powerful combat.
Dutch is offering to go one-on-one to distract the Yauja, so it doesn't go after Anna.
That level of honour and sacrifice is not something that can be refused
Dutch is giving the Yauja everything he longed for on this hunt and the Yauja honours him by preparing his weapons as if he is going against the most dangerous being on this planet.
Fun fact: the Yauja's self-destruct took out enough rainforest to cover a hundred city blocks and the jungle grew back thicker and fuller within 10 years.
You need to watch Predator 2. It's based on the novel, Concrete Jungle.
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This is a good thing! I think many people do kind of just skip over it, and it's probably the one change I'd make to the movie, almost putting a spoiler right at the beginning.
@@wingnut5404I've heard people bring this up and it's a nice debate for sure. Myself because of how committed this film is to the B plot of the with the gurellia camp I think you need the ship there so the Predator reveal doesn't come completely out left and make the audience go wtf but in the bad way of totally lost now.
I appreciate you dont talk over the dialouge. So i understand the movie. Your good at editing. Cheers. Ok hotdog down a hallway lol.
Billy cutting himself that way is an old native American tradition. The warrior spoils the game by taking first blood himself, thereby denying the enemy any glory.
Thank you for the added context of the action being a Native American tradition. I don't believe I saw anyone else point that out yet
Your constant cuts made you cut away half of the movie. Annoying. You might have got doubled the views if you didn't.
26:05, Billy is cutting himself to deny the Predator the honor of drawing first blood on him. It may be at this moment that Billy finally realized what the Predator is and figured stop running like prey. Notice Billy wrapped the cord of his medicine bag around his knife. Perhaps that allowed him to get in one good lick before he died. I can't remember if the novel tie-in specified.
Adhering to their twisted sense of honor, the Yautja admired Billy's bravery by making sure to remove and clean his trophy later.
Drawing first blood is an honor thing, but it's also a huge confidence boost for the person who draws first blood. Not to mention a big morality debuff to the person who gets injured. By starting the fight out with a self-inflicted scratch, you can sidestep losing the advantage in a fight.
My take on it is that he knows he's going to die, but he'd rather die with his knife in his hand. Also with blood on his knife. If not the enemy's then at least his own.
Billy has seen the others have been skinned,so he purposely ruined his own hide by cutting himself
The reason Arnold's shoulder was fine is because the Predator's shot mostly hit his gun, if you look closely you can see it split in half from the shot. Hence Arnold's shoulder was only kind of burnt instead of completely missing like Dylan's.
I never realized that.
@@mikerodgers7620 You can see the gun break apart after the Predator hits it.
At that point the Yautja didn't want to just shoot Dutch, he wanted a proper duel. He recognized a worthy opponent.
33 minutes in - the alien has decided that Dutch is a worthy opponent and so he chooses to go more hand to hand. It's a question of respect and honour.
Yes that is Carl Weathers who played in Rocky as well. Also at the end of the movie after the Predator detonates his bomb the chopper pilot looking down at the explosion is the actor who played the Predator.
The opening scene shows the Predator arrving on Earth, ejecting from its spaceship. Anna's monologue implies that this isn't the first time something like this has happened. The Predator (or one of its kind) periiodically comes to Earth to look for a worthy fight.
I totally forgot about the spaceship scene after like 10 seconds 😭
@@bunnytailsREACTS I always wondered if these little hunting safaris are broadcast back to their planet like pay per view fights or reality tv. Imagine back on the Predator homeward, you got tubby dad bod Yautja watching this while eating sugary snacks and drinking their version of beer. 🤣😂
Lots of people miss this scene, or don't understand what's happening. It should probably have been made more obvious because it's setting up the premise for the whole film. Still a great reaction by bunnytails, but I felt a bit sorry for her confusion during the movie...
Of the films in the franchise, I also like Predators (with Adrian Brody) and the movie Prey
@@UnderDriven17 Older movies were made for audiences with an attention span longer than 10 seconds
Billy's actions are those of a native spirit warrior. He rips the spirit bag from his neck wraps it around his hand and then draws a wound across his chest. This is to show his bravery and to deny the enemy's first blood.
This is arguably my all time favorite movie, and the"aawww, that was the pu$$y joke guy" line was worth watching the reaction in itself, I laughed my ass off at that one.
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My favourite movie too bro. Ever
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@@mikerodgers7620Braveheart. Aliens 2. Scar face. The big lebowski. Good will hunting. Once upon a time in America. The exorcist. The unforgiven. Jurassic park. Rocky. The godfather and part 2. A boy and his dog.
Fun fact: the Predator was played by the late Kevin Peter Hall, who stood at a height of seven feet 2 inches, and played many similar monster characters during his career. Loved your reaction to this stone cold classic!
He was also the pilot in the copper.
Why do people talk about peoples' height like it's an achievement? It's more of a handicap to be above average height. It gives no advantages, only lots of disadvantages.
Especially freakishly tall people: only a handful can use it as a way to make some money in the movies (no more than talented normal-height people can though) or back in the day in the circus.
Did anyone mention The Thing yet?
Women love tall men more than short ones.
Every UA-cam video has that "fun fact" guy who copies & pastes from Wikipedia 😂😂😂
"If it bleeds, we can kill it." My favorite Arnold line.
I think you are the only woman I have seen react to this that laughed at and enjoyed the one character's jokes. Just one of the many reasons I love watching your reactions! Looking forward to seeing you watch the second one.
I think Ashley Burton laughed too.
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Yes, she did. More to the second than the first, which is fine, because the second was much funnier.
I agree 💯 it's refreshing to see a woman with a real sense of humor.
This film has the distinction of having three politicians in the cast.
Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to become governor of California (2003-2011).
Jesse Ventura went on to become governor of Minnesota (1999-2003).
Sonny Landham ran for governor of Kentucky but was defeated in the Republican primary.
Sonny then ran for the Kentucky state House and was defeated.
Sonny then ran for US Senate of Kentucky and was defeated.
He was my governor and whatever he accomplished (a total centrist in office, really) calling out the 2 parties on their mutual complicity in the corrupt duopoly of the current US electoral system.
I was there that night and did a lot of the image capture of the late campaign.
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This movie could have been called "The Governors" because both Jesse Ventura and the Schwanzenegger became governors of their respective states: Minnesota and California.
The second Pedator movie does answer some, but not all, of your questions. And it has some fun twists. Definitely recommended if you enjoyed this one.
It's cool that you drew some parallels between Predator and Alien. Consider watching Alien vs. Predator (aka AVP). It's not the greatest movie in the world, but it does develop both stories in interesting ways.
That's why Carl Weathers once (jokingly) announced his candidacy for governor of his home state of Louisiana, because as it stands now, "Predator" and "The Running Man" are tied for most future governors in a movie, both with Schwarzenegger and Ventura. But if Weathers had become Governor of Louisiana, it would have put "Predator" on top. He was joking about running, of course, but I think he should have done it.
AVP 2 the fps game on PC in the early 2000's was great though, although short lived compared with Halo and Unreal. It was so much fun playing as Predators with their various weapons, cloak, and physical skills, and as a variety of Aliens, and of course the humans(Marines and Corporates) too... host's would call a ban on the SG(Smart Gun) because it kind of ruined things. Knife fights were fun tho. Sadly, the servers went down and no more online support after about 2007 or so....still fun in single player to some extent, despite the dated graphics by today's standards. They need to make a new version. The diversity of gameplay depending on race(alien, predator, and human) really made AVP 2 a good game.
Predator 2 was poorly written. Tacky dialogue and stereotyped character development.
@@mikerodgers7620 Val Kilmer wasn't nearly as fun as Arnie either, imo 💀💀💀
Sonny Landham, who played Billy, ran for governor of Kentucky in 2003
Most reactors miss this, since it goes by so fast - the Predator split Dutch's gun in half with his shoulder cannon (right before the "Get to the choppa!" line.) That's why the shot didn't kill him outright.
Not just a great action film…a great movie of any genre. Sensational writing and even acting…Arnold has never been better 🎉❤. (Thanks, Bunny 😊). Filmed in Mismaloya, Mexico
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26:05 Billy cuts himself as a taunt. Denying his enemy the honor of drawing his blood.
26:28 kicked, not shot. As "Dutch" observed earlier, the Predator did not shoot her because she was unarmed. She doesn't look like she really has much, if any, experience with military rifles, and the Pred already killed an experienced team one by one. She would only be redesignated as a target if she fired a gun, and die as well.
Yes you were right, that is indeed Carl Weathers who plays Apollo Creed in Rocky.
Dutch kicked the gun out of her hands so she wouldn't get killed for being armed. Dutch didn't actually get shot in that scene. The plasma bolt hit his gun which broke apart and subsequently turned to shrapnel, wounding him in the process.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a teenager. This was the movie that started to separate Arnold from Stallone. It's part action, part horror, part science fiction and all 80s😁
I always say that the big difference is Arnold deferred to others in terms of film making. He didn't know Jack about screenplays or cinematography or the auteur theory. All he knew is if he had any say he wanted to work with quality people and let them do their jobs. Sly came to the biz with bigger ambitions. He wanted to act, write and direct. When you look at his filmography you see Sly when he's not directing himself he's often working with journeymen types. Rarely did he team up with any director with a following, especially in his prime years. Arnold on the other hand when you think of his prime he's just usually paired with a director with a strong vision or sense of style that understood exactly how to use Arnold best or get him to bring his best performances out of him. Milius, Cameron, Hill, Verhoveen... Arnold in his prime worked with a murderer's row of directorial talent. Sly? Not so much. And it's why, now decades later we see that Stallone, while still iconic and with characters like Rocky and Rambo under his belt, his truly stand the test of time entries into the pop culture canon pale next to Arnold's. The quality of Arnold's films began to wane when he started just showing up for the paycheck and didn't fuss about who was at the helm.
@@miguelvelez7221 Wow! Eloquent said🙂👏
@@drewskull5181 Your mileage may vary but that's my take. I think WAY too much about this stuff. Be safe out there.
Stallone is weak. Outside the Rocky movies, almost everything he does is humorless power fantasy. I love that Arnold can take roles where he doesn’t look good all the time, but stumbles, fails or is made fun of throughout the story.
@@maxducoudray For whatever reason, his personality, his input on set, Arnold's films do have self aware elements. Just think of how he has a catch phrase across different films with "I'll be back". They parodied it in LAST ACTION HERO. Stallone has "Yo Adrian" but that's for one character. That said I think Sly's best work is his earliest on the scene. ROCKY, FIRST BLOOD and the less well known NIGHTHAWKS. Sly shows A LOT of range and is doing character work for real. None of those characters look, act or speak the same. I think in terms of raw acting ability Sly outclasses Arnold. The ending scene of FIRST BLOOD is a tour de force. Like Rocky in the third film Stallone got too comfortable, he wasn't the hungry newcomer anymore. Once he is established the effort is either not there or it's put into the oddest projects. When he was coasting you would get a lazy Rambo sequel or TANGO AND CASH. When he was oddly passionate you'd get COBRA or OVER THE TOP. I think another thing that hurts Stallone's output was he eschewed anything high concept or Scifi or fantasy for the most part. Sly has almost nothing like CONAN THE BARBARIAN, TOTAL RECALL or THE TERMINATOR in his body of work. The closest are JUDGE DREDD and DEMOLITION MAN.
And that's on Sly himself because he really chose his projects poorly for a long stretch. I think some films Arnold did could have easily started Sly. Sly could have done either PREDATOR or TOTAL RECALL easily in his prime. But just as SciFi and Fantasy was taking off Sly basically rarely if ever dipped his toe into those kinds of movies.
Predator is all about the contrast between the first and 2nd parts of the movie. In the first part, the Special Forces team couldn't see him and were shooting blindly into the jungle. After Arnold figured out how to camo himself, the roles reversed. He was hitting predator with explosive arrows from the trees. Predator couldn't see Arnold and began firing blindly into the jungle.
Billy is a Native American tracker, who can read the ground like a book. Again you see Arnie’s real-life good friend Sven, who kills one of the hostages, then kills him with “knock knock”. Blasting away with every gun into the jungle were often done by troops after being ambushed, just hoping you would hit something or at least make the enemy keep their heads down or withdraw. Names in this film like ‘Jim Hopper’ would appear in the TV series ‘Stranger Things’ as a tribute to how popular this film is. Metal and other man-made objects would stand out from the jungle environment in the Predator’s infra-red visions. Mac died with a hole through his head. The Predator would not blow up a skull and be denied a trophy. Bunnytail! Finally someone said it! “Who’s camouflaged now, M………r!” With the situation reversed, the ambushed Predator fires blindly at the jungle hoping to hit something! Actor Kevin Peter Hall who was in the Predator suit was also the helicopter pilot who rescued Arnold. He played Harry the Bigfoot in the film and series ‘Harry and the Hendersons’. All your questions will be answered if you continue with the sequels.
OH! I didn't make the Hopper connection to Stranger Things at all!!!
@@bunnytailsREACTSPussyJoke Guy Hawkins became the name of the town.
@@tehawesomeface1337 He also wrote for the comicbook Sgt. Rock which is why we see him reading the comicbook in the end credits, and reading the comic while in the helicopter.
UA-cam doesn't seem to have any problem with "pussy" or any variation of "fuck /motherfucker", etc., but OH NO! can't use that word fa**ots, can we?
I did not know that. I grew up reading Sgt Rock with Joe Kubert and later Russ Heath. I taught myself to do my own comic books in my teens by copying Russ Heath’s Sgt. Rock illustrations. Shane Black (PussyJoke Guy) went on to write and direct ‘The Predator’ 2018.
The predators are a bit of an enigma, but some hints as to their motivation were put in this film. Predator 2 clarifies it a bit more, and isn't a horrible movie. I haven't seen any of the other except for Prey, which is a prequel (and is fantastic).
The predator design is so iconic, and to think what it could’ve been if they didn’t bring in Stan Winston...
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but downright scary too! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG
Late to this show - via the algorithm recommendation, but worth the wait. So sad to hear the news of Carl Weathers' passing. May he rest in everlasting peace.
Corridor Crew recently tested the mud technique against infra red detection... it worked surprisingly well
It's a macho action movie that turns into a slasher film halfway through, but with action heroes instead of campers.
The thing is the Predator's honor is very self-serving. It's hunter's honor - they want a good game, a 'fair fight'... but they don't actually expect to lose. Just like lion hunters don't really expect the lion to get away or be hurt.
6:17 "Where is the amazon even located?"
It's on the internet. It's where you buy your goodies.
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After seeing these guys' awesome tracking skills at the beginning (being able to identify the type, direction, and number of people in the jungle at the helicopter crash); the part after the first kill when Dutch says "Did you find Hawkins?", and Poncho responds "I... I can't tell...". Gold.
By cutting himself Billy was stealing part of the Predators victory by drawing first blood.
You just watched an absolute masterpiece of the action genre.
Rest in peace to beloved actor Carl Weathers (Dillion (Predator) Apollo (Rocky), Chubbs (Happy Gilmore), to name a few.
1948-2024
We love you 💐
Fun fact: the Predator design was switched up during production, from a more insectoid looking creature to what we see in the final film. Also, Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original suit actor for the 1st design of the Predator, with some of his shots being used for the reference passes for the Cloaking fx, but they fired him after the redesign because JCVD was difficult to work with and was also too short for the new look Predator, so they got someone else in who better suited the size they wanted
When they had issues, Arnold recommended they go to Stan Winston. Stan didn’t really know what to do, but he remembered some Rastafarian artwork in JoelSilver’s office. He was on a plane to Japan sketching dreadlocks and quills. James Cameron was sitting next to him and he started making suggestions like, “oh I always liked creatures with mandibles” and other various things along the way. By the end of the flight they had much designed everything about the creature, weapons, and other stuff from just iterating on each others ideas.
But it didn't matter cause Jean Claude went on to be a star in the 90s
Him being on a predator suit was beneath him with his good Athleticism talent
@@earth7551 Very narcissistic saying that.
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Don't understand how he proved he was worth more then just a stunt man was very talented
This movie was conceived with a joke. "Is there anyone Rocky can't lose to?" "IDK maybe an monster or an alien."
the late Sonny Landham (Billy) was an incredibly underrated actor.
The predator in this movie on his planet it's a well respected dentist. He was on our planet just for a safari.
The helicopter pilot at the end is Kevin Peter Hall. The preditor. They did that so he could be seen by the audience.
Great reaction.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Thanks!
Rumour has it they ran out of trees to kill
This for me is underrated for the performance Arnold gives, and so much of it purely physical as the cast gets whittled down and there's less need for dialogue. By the final act we are almost in a silent film and Arnold gives his all letting us know everything going on inside of Dutch's mind. The atmosphere and the way they light Arnold to give focus to the whites of his eyes works with Arnold's movement and reactions to make for pure film language telling us a story we are invested in.
There's far more to recommend with this film beyond just appreciation for supposed 80's cheese I think.
YES. A thousand times this.
@@VilleHalonen Soderbergh the director of Ocean's 11 did this experiment where he took RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and turned it black and white, edited out the dialogue and replaced the Williams score with this Electronica style music. Whether any of that sounds like an improvement is besides the point. Soderbergh wanted to highlight Spielberg's mastery of film language, blocking and telling a story with visuals. I think PREDATOR getting a similar treatment would be interesting. McTiernen's film could also be stripped of dialogue and its iconic score and you would still be into the story being told just from the visuals.
@@miguelvelez7221 I’m familiar with that edit, it’s really fascinating! I fully agree, it’d be great to see a similar version of Predator. I think there’s a tendency to unfairly compare visual stories to literary ones. After all, we don’t (or at least shouldn’t) judge poetry through the criteria of novels or essays. While I do enjoy a well-written movie, the more I learn about cinematic language, the more I appreciate films that express things in ways unique to the medium.
@@VilleHalonen McTiernen's career highs are very worthy of getting a look over for how he crafts movies balancing both the visual story telling but also he knows how to make the characters and dialogue pop. What he did with PREDATOR, HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and DIE HARD stand for the ages.
Also... Alot of mid tier dreck. 😂
10:28 Watch when Mac squishes the scorpion. It's placed tail first beneath his boot, but Mac lifts his foot, suddenly the scorpion has turned around.
You must not have been paying attention: in the opening of the film, a spacecraft flies past our POV. As it cruises above Earth's atmospher, it releases a pod which then falls to Earth.
So, yes, the Predator is an alien. And he is on safari, hunting big game and collecting skulls as trophies. A rite of passage? An excuse to get away from the wife and kids? Who knows, but he's definitely here to do some hunting.
At 31:30 if you rewatch that scene you can see the predator using his helmet's targeting system to triangulate approximately where the rock was thrown from, and then just fires in that general direction.
This was the first Arnold film I saw and I was very surprised at the twist and progression of the plot. I'm not into dumb action movies and pointless shootouts and explosions, but this movie wasn't heavy-handed, it just got more and more exciting. And the alien had a fascinating mask. When it takes off its helmet and roars - that's one of the highlights for me.
The Predator took off its mask because audiences would have pissed off at being denied a full reveal.
Movie still holds up pretty well after all these years.
Like the Alien movie, this started it's own franchise (in movies, books, video games, and comics) which has been both stand alone and mixed in with Alien.
The knock off Contra sweatshirt I bought last year has a picture of Arnold from this movie on it, as well as one of Stallone from Rambo.
Oh that sweatshirt sounds awesome!
@bunnytailsREACTS to answer your questions what the good is talking about is ghosting be loud enough for the army to make your position if u do carelessly it could be seen as treason n u can be kill on the spot
I wish they would've actually done a Contra film with those two when they were both in their prime. I know they were also rivals at that time. But I think such a film would've been big. At least a big cult classic.
a heart warming story of a kind hearted alien trying to save a kid napped woman from a group of soldiers 😅
Billy was challenging the predator to a fair one-on-one combat.
Billy cut his chest to deny his opponent drawing first blood in the fight.
16 minutes in, when everyone starts shooting, they were responding to the first guy shooting - the rest didn't have a clue what he was shooting at but they assumed there was a good reason and no time to ask questions. After all, there might have been a dozen enemies out there.
If you're curious about completing the franchise, I suggest Predator 2 (1990) and Prey (2022)
Thanks for the suggestion!
Definitely Prey !@@bunnytailsREACTS
@@bunnytailsREACTSYes. Once you have Predator 2 under your belt just go right to PREY. Yes there's other films, including the Aliens crossover but I can't recommend any of them to a great degree. Even when they try out interesting ideas the execution was lackluster. No, P1, P2 and Prey.
@@bunnytailsREACTSPredator 2 expands the background of the species a bit. They’ve just given a small tidbit in each movie just to keep the mystery alive (the fans imagination is always more powerful than what’s on film)
Completely agree. Great reaction.
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As Dutch deduced earlier; the Predator didn't harm Anna because she was unarmed, which was correct.
a little bit of lore-dump:
The Yautja(which is the name of their species) have some strict laws when it comes to their hunting. Only kill species that pose a threat or challenge, which ranges from deadly predators to armed warriors. Killing unarmed civilians, children, or pregnant individuals are deemed as acts of cowardice and are punishable by death or exile from their clan. Their hunts are recorded by their helmets, which are later played back to their elders to judge if they are worthy to rise in ranks.
One element of this movie that may not be obvious in 2023 is that it came out at a time when there were tons of generic action movies. So the first part of the movie plays off those expectations, setting it up as a typical genre entry. Then the predator subverts all that. It made the movie really stand out.
Also, like Aliens, doubles as an analogy to the Vietnam War. Overly confident Americans enter a conflict but are soon overwhelmed by a clever enemy.
Yep it quickly goes come action movie to horror movie. Dutch isn't the last man standing he is the Final Girl in a slasher flick.
The Predator species hunt for sport, which is why he didn't attack the girl because she was unarmed and not a soldier etc.....therefore no sport.
Predators with Adrien Brody is a decent movie too in the franchise
The voice of the Predator, like the clicking sounds, was done by Peter Cullen, who is also the original voice of Optimus Prime from Transformers.
A small amount of it gets explained in the sequel.
You did a sensational job with this reaction video. Unlike a lot of people you were able to follow along and understand what was going on throughout the entire movie. Great job.
Thank you
26:01 He's dying on HIS OWN TERMS. Billy knows he can't survive so as a warrior he's making a final warrior's stand.
I saw this in the theater back in 1987 and I also saw the sequel in the theater in 1990. Billy was a cool character and I hated to see him die way back in 87 lol. Predators (2010) was pretty good but I thought the ending to that one could have been much better. Prey was pretty good too. Great reaction Bunnytails!!
"Hotdog down a hallway" - best part of the reaction! lol
This movie is the source of several memes. The shot where Arnie and Carl Weathers clench hands, showing off their biceps is a visual meme. Also, the phrases, "If it bleeds, we can kill it," and "Get to the chopper" are well known phrases.
Dillon is CIA and Dutch and his team are ODA (US Army Special Forces(Green Berets)) - Dillon is a tag-along and has no authority directly - his top goes to the SECDEF (top of the DOD) and he goes to the top of the Army - the CIA commonly recruits from the teams - Dillon used to be a teammate of Dutch before the CIA recruited him - the team knows it so there's a shit ton of baggage there
Awesome reaction as always. Yes, the second one will answer questions and also make you keep wanting to ask more.
Thanks!
The Predator race (Yautja) are like the Klingons.. they value honour and fair confrontation in the hunt. It came to Earth for sport, hunting us! And got very impressed by Arnie's crack team. It didn't kill anyone without a weapon (like Anna).. it probably fought Billy using its wrist blades as Billy chose to use a knife. Yeah they're intelligent, did you miss it being dropped off by a spacecraft at the start of the film? :) Predator 2 next, which is also excellent!
bunnytails, the soldier kicked the bird, a vulture because it was eating the remains of a dead U.S. serviceman.
Although I think this is a great movie, I actually preferred Predator 2 even though it did not do as well at the box office because it explains a lot of things about the aliens not answered in this movie.
I high encourage you to react to Predator 2 which I also think you will enjoy watching.
I see. I guess I didn't see it correctly. I saw the bird on a log only.
What the Alien, Predator and Terminator franchises have in common is that all three only consist of two films. Yes, despite rumors to the contrary, there are only two, respectively. (Personally, I've made my peace with Alien 3 and Terminator 3 and can accept them for what they are, but I understand everyone who can't, and no other entry in either franchise is even remotely bearable.) Predator 2, despite unfairly damning reviews at the time, is actually really good.
Alan Silvestri did this score along with over 100 other films. He is most known for scoring the Back to the Future films.
And the Avengers movies. Also, mystifyingly, the movie Mac and Me. Proof that one mess of a film doesn’t doom a career.
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The Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil.
Predator takes place in Guatemala in Central America
I will watch your reaction later, and then come back to make further comment. For now, I must say that this original Predator movie is one of my all time favorite movies of any kind. I love the cast. I love the location. I love the plot. I love how they did the Predator. I love the writing. I love this movie!
It shows at the beginning of the movie a spaceship flying towards Earth and shooting a pod down to earth
At first glance, Predator doesn't seem to be a deep and meaningful artwork. BUT, it is one of the most explicitly philosophical movies of all. The theme is "the human mind as our means of survival". And I can't think of another film that does it better.
I'm not sure it works because the Predators are people too, and so would possess the universal capacities that any human would.
@@NeilEvans-xq8ik It's not about intelligence per se. The defining value is how you use your mind and therefore how oriented to reality you are.
Some thinkers in history will make a big deal about work, labour and "muscle" as the driving force behind human survival, progress and flourishing (Marxism for instance). But what is on-show in the film, is the obvious physical deficit that any human would have against a Predator, combined with a specific human that defeats it using his thinking rather than his physical ability.
Dutch is trusted by his men, for a reason. He is the leader of an elite army rescue unit, for a reason. He works out how they are being hunted and how he can kill the thing that is trying to kill him. Throughout the whole film he is the most rational human there. It's not until the very end that the Predator realizes he's not hunting just another "dumb animal" by his standards.
"...why'd he kick the bird..."
Because it was eating the dead people, and he was upset about that.
"...I know you like working alone..."
It's not that. Giving away their position is a threat to _all_ of them. If the enemy detects where they are because he made a stupid mistake like that, they could attack their small group with larger numbers, negating the _very needed_ advantage of surprise for a smaller force to deal with a larger one. In other words, what he's telling them is that if he threatens the safety of _all_ of them again, out here in the jungle where 'chain of command' is a mere nicety and _survival_ is what matters more, he'll kill the guy rather than letting him risk _all_ their lives with his incompetence. Remember that they were forced by higher-ups to take him with them. Now, Dillon has the option of just not following and hanging back until the thing is done, then he won't be giving their position away, but if Dillion _chooses_ to continue, he can't be allowed to threaten them all just because he wants to be there.
You talk about a 'superior officer', but out there, on the battlefield, rank doesn't matter. That's what this shows. Dillion was in charge back at base camp because rules and regulations and so on mattered more than skills, but out in the jungle, when it's do it right or die, rank means _nothing._ This shows up later as well with saying Anna is Dillon's baggage, if they fall behind they're on their own.
"...where is the Amazon even located..."
South America. However they're not _in_ the Amazon. They're in a rainforest (believe it or not, there's more than one). This one is supposedly taking place in Guatemala in Central America. It was filmed in a tropical jungle in Mexico.
"...automatic machine gun..."
A minigun. And no one can use it like that. No one _human,_ anyway. You _can,_ if you are strong, hold it and fire in roughly a direction you would like, but only in _extremely_ short bursts. Each bullet fired is like getting hit with a three pound bean-bag. The minigun usually fires 3000 rounds per minute, or 50 per second. Even a full second on auto-fire would be like a 100 pound person jumping into you (reduced some because it's not all at once). When those guns are used in real life, they're almost always on a tripod, and that tripod has _hundreds_ of pounds of sandbags holding it down, _or_ it's _bolted_ to a something like a truck or helicopter or wall... and more often the sandbags because, let's face it, 100 pounds jumping into the side of a vehicle is _going_ to send it off course.
If you want to see someone fire one for about half a second and get _shoved_ six inches or so backwards, sliding along the ground, and ending up twisting some, you can watch that here:
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"...how you gonna look nonchalantly behind you at an explosion..."
Experience. Lots and _lots_ of experience. After it's happened a few dozen times to you, you get to the point that you recognize which explosions behind you are a _threat_ and which ones you can ignore. ... The trick is surviving long enough to _get_ that experience.
"...I don't know why I wasn't expecting this level of violence in an Arnold movie..."
Maybe you watched Twins? Or Jingle All the Way?
"...this guy and his pussy jokes... I wanna hear another one..."
Ask and ye shall receive:
What do the Mafia and a pussy have in common? One slip of the tongue, and you're in deep shit.
What do you call a Roman soldier with a smile on his face and a piece of hair between his two front teeth? A Glad-he-ate-her.
What do you call an Oscar winning film about a vagina? Lawrence Of A Labia.
Boy: "Want to hear a joke about my dick? Never mind, its too long."
Girl: "Wanna hear a joke about my pussy? Never mind, you won't get it."
No Vagina Jokes. Those aren't funny. PERIOD. No Period Jokes either. Women might ovary act.
One day on the farm, a little boy kicks a cow. His mama says if you kick the cow you get no milk. The next day the boy kicks the pig. His mama says if you kick the pig you get crappy bacon. The day after he kicks the chicken. His mama says if you kick the chicken you get no eggs. His daddy walks through the door and kicks the cat. The little boy says to his mam: "Should I tell him or do you want to?"
A girl came to her mom and said "Mommy! I've got 5 dollars!" Her mom said "Where from?" "Tommy from down the road he dared me to do a cartwheel," she replied. "Dear that boy is just trying to see your panties!" her mom told her. The next day the girl comes to her mom and says "Mommy I've got 10 dollars!" Exasperated, her mom says, "I told you don't trust that boy!" The girl responds, "NO mommy! I tricked him! I didn't wear panties today!"
Two women are standing on the bridge and one says to the other, "You know I want to pee off the bridge like men do." So she goes to the side of the bridge and squats over the water and pulls down her pants and says "You see that canoe down there, I'm going to pee on that canoe!" And the other woman says, "That's not a canoe, that's your reflection."
"...I just wanna know how they move so quietly..."
It's a lot easier when the camera isn't set to pick up sounds. ... ... In a more realistic setting, practice.
"...so it hunts for sport and for fun..."
Remember Anna saying that this thing, which has visited before, is called "The Demon That Makes Trophies of Man". Trophy hunters kill for sport and fun. Although (not mentioned in this movie, but in comics and maybe one movie), the species doesn't do this _just_ for fun. It's also a sort of 'coming of age' test. You have to hunt something _dangerous,_ using skill and tech to win. The more dangerous the prey you hunt, the more honor you get in succeeding. This is what leads to the movie 'Alien vs Predator' movie.
"...you just wanna fight him with a knife..."
Remember what I said above about honor? Same sort of idea here. Billy knows he can't win. He knows that running as he did won't work. So he's choosing to end his life honorably by facing it head on with as traditional a weapon as he has available (likely he'd have preferred a spear, but didn't have one on hand). The exact symbology of all of it... is most likely a mishmash of vaguely Native American things, without being really connected to any one of them (though I admit this is a guess on my part).
"...why did he kick the gun out of her hand..."
Remember earlier? "It didn't kill you because you weren't armed." He saved her life by _stopping_ her from _becoming_ armed. At no point during this did the Predator see her with a weapon. She is, thus, harmless. The Predator killed the one _injured_ soldier who _had been_ armed for the same reason a responsible hunter of dangerous prey (like hippos or lions or whatever) will track and put down any wounded animal, it's cruel to leave them. ... This makes less sense in their specific case, but it follows the same sort of idea. You don't leave wounded animals out there to suffer. Finish them off, even if they're no longer dangerous due to their injuries. But at _this_ point Anna can get away because the Predator doesn't _care_ about her. You see this same sort of 'hunter ethic' in the second movie, too, where the Predator refuses to kill a potential prey for reasons that every hunter would agree with (but not one that came up here). I don't wanna spoil it, just in case you choose to watch.
"...it just kinda singed his shoulder..."
It hit his _weapon_ instead of _him._ As such the weapon was destroyed (which is why he didn't try to find it), but he was mostly okay.
"...does the mud help with the heat sensor, too..."
It would... for about 30 seconds. Then your body heat would warm it up, and... no. But then, again in comics and so on, they're not using 'heat vision' exactly, it's something else.
"...where did he come from..."
In the opening moments of the movie, you see him get dropped off by a larger ship in space. So... yes, he's an alien.
"...I feel like that thing is smarter than to walk into an obvious trap like this..."
It fell for the _first_ trap with the net. It's really more about being overconfident. It likely figures there's just one left, and as far as it knows that one isn't even armed anymore, just injured. It may be expecting something closer to Billy's resignation and death. Plus... it's relying on its camouflage and armor to protect it.
"...why'd he drop him..."
Honor. Dutch is out of weapons, shown he's capable. Sure, the Predator could win _now,_ that's _easy._ But that's not a _fight_ anymore. That's Dutch running out of weapons. No, no, no. _Clearly_ this has to come down to something else, so that he can go back and admit, "Yeah, he got me with a few lucky shots, but then he ran out of weapons. So instead of shooting him, I took him down with my bare hands!" Much better story.
"...I don't understand this thing's motive..."
Yeah, neither do I. I mean... I use the word 'honor', but... honor makes no sense to me. I think it's kinda dumb.
"...what you want me to watch next..."
I'd recommend Spaceballs... because in order to watch it, you have to have seen a number of other movies which are _also_ awesome, and if you haven't, they'd be good for reacting to as well. Those movies are: Planet of the Apes (1958), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Alien (which you've seen), Raiders of the Lost Ark (or just see a poster of it), Star Trek the Original Series (which you've seen), and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (though if you haven't seen 'A New Hope' and 'The Empire Strikes Back', you should watch those first, especially if you can get your hands on the de-specialized editions where they don't have the 'improvement' made to make it more in line with the prequel trilogy).
Great reaction!
Have a nice day!
Special Operation teams train an insane amount so they can predict each other's moves and preferences this is key to their effectiveness; Dillon (Apollo Creed) has been running a desk so long he is out of practice throwing off their routines. These types of teams have and respect rank but in field and off they are brothers first rank second. They need to talk and act fast, so ideas need to be conveyed quickly to preserve the mission effectiveness and safety of team members. Jesse Venture the "sexual tyrannosaurus" who operates "old painless", was a Navy Seal in real life who served in Vietnam war.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks piloto :D
Don’t forget Richard Chaves who plays Poncho was also a vietnam vet.
I'm old enough to remember when this movie first came out. It was a hit.
This movie has a lot of IMDB value. First: There are 2 Governors in the movie: Arnold and Jesse "The Body" Ventura (the funny guy you like, also an ex Pro Wrestler and G.I Joe character "Sgt. Slaughter" , sharing one of his later wrestling monikers). Also, the guy with the Pu**y jokes is Shane Black, the writer of the original Lethal Weapon movie and director of one the sequals "The Predator".
Some of the questions will be answered in Predator 2 for sure.
32:51 I always say that this is the best movie "monster" ever made. It's exceptionally hideous, terrifying and realistic.
Yeah, and everything about it was totally unexpected to me. I guess I had this idea of what I thought it would be like and it was completely different, which left me pretty bewildered throughout the movie. Really great stuff!
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The Jim Hopper they mentioned several times is also the name of the sheriff from Stranger Things
This is the best Predator movie.
The predator has never looked any better than in this film.
Fun fact: Jesse Ventura(big guy with the minigun) named his autobiography "I ain't got time to bleed", was also former governor of Minnesota.(funny because Arnie was also gov of California). But I won't get into politics here. That interracial bro fist handshake in the beginning has aged well, imo...it is so iconic, and a symbol of unity, and brotherly love! The Predator code of honor and cockiness in wanting a worthy opponent is part of what makes them so cool, but weak compared with Aliens, who have no such concept, and only care about breeding and spreading their insect-like race.
So many clever things in this movie, like disguising the heat signature with mud.
If you missed the UFO landing in the beginning, it starts off like any regular commando type movie, then your mind gets blown when you discover there's an alien creature hunting humans.
10/10 one of the best movies, and without the whole romance or womanizing of the only female character. (The pussy jokes were hilarious though...omg bunny, hot-dog down a hallway? Hahahahah! I'll keep my thoughts to myself on that comment)
Anyhow, I loved watching this with you...
Get to da Chopper! Have a happy New Year!
Jesse always jokes about Arnie getting the idea of being a state governor from him. There are many videos with Jesse Ventura on UA-cam.
@@berranari1 Jesse the brains Ventura! Too bad he didn't run for president, some of his ideas were a little more moderate (like legalized/regulated prostitution) and wouldn't have popular with the far right voters, however...sigh. Now we have democrats funding human trafficking rings in pizza parlors, but I digress. =/
This is supposed to take place in Central America, during the Cold War. Dillion is supposed to be CIA. Soldiers and marines often dislike the CIA. The intelligence agencies provide them with information, but that information is often incomplete or they have agendas of their own that they don't make regular soldiers aware of. This tends to breed distrust and animosity.
In the alien's society, rank and prestige is based on how well one does in the hunt. The tougher and more dangerous the prey a hunter manages to take down, the higher their standing in society. That means they spend a great deal of time traveling around the galaxy looking for the toughest prey possible.
Ventura's multibarrel ubergun is a Minigun (ironically, since its not mimi). Weapons like that seem unlikely to be human-carried in general, they are extremely heavy, go through lots of ammo real fast, and need a battery to power the motors that operate it. Kind of tough to carry all that through the jungle, but that's pretty much the core of Jesse Ventura's character. Ventura was a pro wrestler for a long while, and would become Governor of Minnesota as an Independent. Miniguns are usually mounted on a boat or chopper. Larger examples are mounted in aircraft, or as is the case with the A-10, the aircraft is mounted to the weapon.
The Amazon is in South America, primarily Brazil. This is supposed to take place in Guatemala, so the river is likely the Motogua.
Apollo's character is CIA, while Ahnold's team is paramilitary mercenaries, not active duty, and answer in no way whatever to the CIA.
I used a minigun when I played the original Unreal game! It was... quite mini compared to what you are describing lol
I wonder how many rounds per minute that weapon could fire.
The mini in minigun is a reference to the fact that is a much smaller but almost identical copy to the M61 Vulcan. The mini used 7.62mm rifle shells whereas the Vulcan was classified as a 20mm Autocannon which was considered a artillery shell
And a “gun” was typically only used to refer to a fixed or partially mobile artillery, autocannon, or machine gun placement. Pistols, Rifles, and sub machine guns are firearms, not guns.
The M134 minigun was initially manageable at a mere 84 lbs, unloaded. Ammo was about 150 shells to a pound, firing up to 600 a second. The M61 Vulcan was 248 lbs and required external hydraulic feeds. Ammo was 3-4 shells per pound, and also fired around 600 per second.
@@LogicalNiko So... a lot of people misname pistols as guns!? My whole life has been a lie. Good to know the differentiation, though.
@@awall1701 3000-4000 rounds a minute.
36:18 That's right, the original is the classic but the 2nd part is also good. BUT I definitely recommend Predators (2010) also, which was directed by a Predator fan, Antal Nimród. I think this is the best after the first and second.
They filmed this movie in Chiapas state Mexico. They supposedly were in a Central America country.
Great reaction, that part in the helicopter at the beginning. That's just soldier banter. When things are about to get sketchy, dark humor and banter lighten up the mood.
Thanks :)
Sadly this is the only Predator movie I like. It went downhill after this one. But it's wonderfully 80's. Great movie.
Agreed. I haven't seen Prey yet though.
Moral of the story:
If the stone-cold, not-easily-amused, native-american tracker of your squad is scared; you should be too...
Prey is also excellent (For me at least, second only to this original.)
Predator is such a great subversion given how it starts and other 80s action flicks where the meat heads would just tear any threat up on screen. Here, all their strength and weapons are virtually useless, the Predator so far surpasses them that for the bulk of the time its just making sport of them. Its only through a mixture of luck and Dutchs cunning that the Predator is finally brought down. (Im pretty sure this was all very deliberate as well, even the subplot turns the whole action hero thing on its head.)
I agree. Very different tone, but a fantastic film and a genius reimagining of the predator storyline
A Predator, a species FAR more advanced than humans, wipes out an entire modern day elite special forces unit, but a 90 pound sTrOnG wOmAn from the 1800s with sticks and stones can handle this one no problem because "they don't think she can"
You would like that fuckin trash
You're correct. Carl Weathers played Apollo Creed. He also played Chubbs in Happy Gilmore.
The mini-gun in reality is always mounted on a pivot in the door of a helicopter or on a truck. If anyone tried to hold it while firing, the recoil would spin him around and he would strafe everyone in every direction.
He ain't got time for spinning and friendly fire.
Hi Babe! This was filmed in Mexico! When the Prediter was invisible, it was played by, Jon Cleud Van Dame wearing a pink body suit! At the very beginning, you saw an alien space craft drop a capsule to the Earth, so you know the Predators is an alien!
Recommendation, Conan the Barbarian!
Yes Dillon is played by Carl Weathers who played Apollo in the Rocky movies.
Phew! I would have felt pretty dumb if I was wrong there
The first 2 Predictor movies are both good - but different - and the last one, Prey, is very different but also very good.
This movie is set in Guatemala.
For the next Arnold movie check out his breakthrough movie that put him on the map .." Conan The Barbarian " ( 1982 ).. best soundtrack/ score.. real stunts and fight choreography..great cinematography..best narrator ..even with flaws..it's good..the best sword and sorcery movie fantasy in my opinion..because of the realistic feel ..all those others are fun only none have a more effort put into them to consistently have the realism ..no cgi everywhere..no claymation ..more sword than sorcery
I served in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, there were several common "in country" sayings. One was "rank don't mean shit!" How much time "in country" determined your status. If you were "short" or a "short timer", i.e., less than 30 days until you rotated home. Nobody screwed with you. Word was that inexperienced officers didn't last long unless they were smart enough to learn from the men in their outfit who had been their the longest.
GET TO THE CHOPPAAAAA...
1:52
"He's Not Apollo From 'Rocky'?"
That is indeed Apollo Creed from the "Rocky" movies
A timeless classical 🎭
You asked so nicely for people to leave comments, so I'll share this:
The first time I saw this movie I was about 10 years old and at a birthday party. Apparently I was the wuss of my friend group, I spent a good portion of it covering my eyes because the idea of an invisible monster was terrifying. After it ended I had to walk home in the dark (relatively normal; it was a small, safe town and not a long way) but as soon as I stepped outside I started imagining those glowing eyes in the trees. I ran my ass home as fast as I could, lol.
I waited until I was a more appropriate age before I watched it again and could appreciate how good it is.
Thanks for sharing!
I think since you probably didn’t have a weapon on your walk home, you were safe! 😁
@@bunnytailsREACTS lol, good point!
That is indeed Apollo from Rocky. The actor's name is Carl Weathers.
Nice! Hopefully I'll get to see him in more roles in the future!
You'll definitely see him in Rocky II.
He died recently.
Your first instinct was correct: that black man WAS the actor who played Apollo in the Rocky movies.