The actor who played the Predator was Kevin Peter Hall. He was also the black chopper pilot at the end. The director wanted to give him some face time for being such a good sport during filming. Kevin Peter Hall also played Harry in Harry And The Henderson's. A comedy about a family that finds Bigfoot in the woods and brings him back to the suburbs with them. Its a fun family, G-rated, comedy. In 1992 Kevin Peter Hall was in a bad car accident in Los Angeles. He was rushed to the hospital. During surgery he was accidentally given contaminated blood and passed away. RIP KEVIN PETER HALL
His walk his mannerisms everything he did owned this film Without him and those movements etc this film might not have the same impact he sold it to us all as a real alien
Its even funnier that Jean Claude Van Damme was in a Predator suit at first, but was deemed too small, and the first Predator suit was build so poorly, it had bad movements, and became so hot he passed out a few times.
The reason the Predator took of his helmet and shoulder canon was because it saw Dutch as an extremely worthy opponent worthy of hand to hand combat. The Predators are basically a race of hunters, who go around the universe and collect trophies from the most dangerous prey they can find. They seek a challenge. Which is why the people who end up being an easy kill are just strung up, while people who put up a fight (like Billy) become a trophy. When Dutch managed to partly destroy the Predators gear and even wounded him, it was surprised that he managed to do that. Thats why it pressed him against the wall and examined his skull for a moment - it made sure that Dutch was truly just a normal human, because he was likely the first human ever to really hurt and challenge it. When it realized that yes, Dutch is just an ultra badass human, it decided to even the playing field´and go man against man, to show Dutch respect for his skills. They also dont hurt kids, pregnant women or generally unarmed people, because all of those cant really defend themselves, which means it would be extremely dishonorable and cowardly for a Predator to kill them. When a Pred ignores these rules and kills without honor, it is outlawed and its basically open season on it for the rest.
Where is the challenge in killing inferior species from stealth? There were only 2 moments when the predator fought with honor in this movie - when he killed a scout and when he faced dutch in the hand to hand combat, others he killed from the stelth
@@OMGtheykilledKenny42 Yes. Outlawed/exiled/banished/whatever. They are called "Bad Bloods" and are allowed to be killed by every Predator that sees them (normally, it is forbidden for one Predator to kill another, or intefer with the hunt of another)
Billy is a trained tracker. He’s so good at seeing footprints in mud, holes in plants so he can see what steps the person made, how heavy they were and what direction they ran.
In the original script, BILLY is the last survivor. He ends up fighting and defeating the predator. But, when Arnold was cast to play DUTCH, the script was rewritten so he is the last survivor.
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5:20 Guerillas are small and high mobile combat units which specialized in ambushes then make themselves disappear as fast as possible. 6:00 Billy is a Native American, not a clairvoyant but a tracker. 32:53 This helicopter pilot is the actor donning the Predator costume.
Billy was a truly great character. He sensed something beyond normal from the start. This was a hardened veteran of an elite team that saw the worst the world had to offer for likely decades. Never afraid of any man or situation, this encounter was something that terrified his very being. In the end, he realized there was no escape... the only question was if he was going to go down via an ambush.. or if he was going to stand his ground and make one last stand. Although it didn't buy much time for his team, it DID buy the predator's respect. Granted, the "prize" was to be made a trophy. But nonetheless, Billy made a real impression on the predator. It saw Billy sensed him and was looking at him. And he chose to fight him 1 on 1....hand to hand. Respect for this earth warrior.
the US army, in the 50s, actually did studies on Native American men and found that Native American men, when they don't cut their hair, act as an extremely effective early warning system for approaching enemies while in the field. that benefit was not deemed useful enough to make the Army allow them to grow out their hair. gas masks couldn't seal properly with long hair.
Also Billy is native and the reason Billy cut himself with the machete was its a old native warrior thing pretty much saying "this is my blood now I want your blood..."
I felt Billy's Last Stand was to prove he wasn't afraid . He would prefer to die than to run and meet his enemy face to face even though he could not win very heroic
Billy was a Native American. His Deep Connection to the Earth and Animals made him an Excellent Scout and Tracker. When Billy Cut himself across the Chest, it was a Native American Warriors way of Depriving the enemy the honor of drawing "First Blood". Billy's way of Giving the Predator "The Finger" before dying. The Cold water and Mud Masked Arnold's body heat from the Thermal Scanners.
What I love about this movie is that everything that's scary about the predator, its camoflauge, firepower, stealth and trapping- Are the same strengths the team has over their own targets. Billy especially has a kindred spirit in the predator. His honour prevented him from ever acting like prey.
Billy decided he wasn't going to run anymore and challenged the Predator to fight him face to face. Dutch did not set a double-tarp, he just realized thatthe Pred had moved under the weigh that was supposed to pull the trap closed so he set off the trap to relase the weight.
One of the greatest sci-fi horror action movies of all time :D Edit: Guerrillas not Gorillas :D Billy isn't psychic but he's spiritual, and he's a tracker so he can tell exactly how many people, what gear they have etc, just by their tracks. Also, the bullet spray and shells left behind, he can tell how a battle went down just by looking at the area. A Hook is the radiophone. The Jungle Salad scene wasn't exactly a waste of ammo though... all the team knows is Mac screams Contact and was firing... they join him, see that Blain is downed, and they open fire in the same direction Mac is firing. They don;t know yet that they're firing at an alien, all they know is Blain is dead, and there's enemies in the area. Definitely give Predator 2 a go, it's underrated. The rest of the Pred movies are garbage.
predator 2 is awesome because it goes more into the law, also the setting is totally different, a very good sequel. "Predators" was okayish but yeah, the rest was garbage, didnt even bother to watch this upgrade bs, the trailer was bad enough for me.
Blue just a little trivia about this movie. Two of the actors would later become Governors of two States, Arnold (California) and Jesse Ventura who played Blain (Minnesota)
"Ten years ago one of his kind stalked and eliminated an elite special forces unit in Central America. There were two survivors. They indicated that when trapped, the creature activated a self-destruct device that destroyed enough rainforest to cover 300 city blocks." Edit you'll like the second movie, some good info there... *information here would be a spoiler, so I'm going to wait till you watch it and post there*
Guerrillas is spanish meaning essentially "little warriors" it means a person who is an insurgent or rebel fighting using asymmetric warfare against an established and organized military force like a national army. The term originated in Central and South America and became widely adopted to describe this type of fighter.
The Predator is not invisible, it's using some advanced technology to bend light and camouflage itself to whatever background is available. As far as shooting and wasting ammo, they weren't. The sergeant shouted 'contact', which alerts the rest of the team that he's engaged the enemy. Until the order to break contact is given, they will usually fire until their weapons run out of ammo. They almost certainly have more ammo with them, so it's not a big risk.
This movie is a treasure trove of oft-repeated lines. "I don't have time to bleed." "If it bleeds, we can kill it." "Get to the choppah!" And more. The Predator's vision is infra-red based. Heat sources. It's not a "technology" that fritzes in and out because of water.
Arnold was actually 40 when he made Predator in 1987, which is three years after Terminator, but he had changed his fitness regime, because he was now appearing in movies, rather than body building competitions.
FUN FACT: The actor playing Hawkins, the joke teller, is Shane Black. He created the Lethal Weapon franchise. He wrote the first script. And a few years ago he directed The Predator.
Trixy's Q: "Does Billy have powers or what?" -- I think they wrote Billy as kind of a Ranger class in DnD, with super good perception, survival, nature skills, etc. ... it is kind of the Hollywood trope of a modern indigenous person that is as excellent at these skills as his ancestors... but we don't know Billy's background so he could have grown up using these kind of native skills.
I think the "second trap" that killed the Predator was not planned as a trap. It was just the weight that would actuate the only trap that Arnold made with the pointed sticks. It was pure luck that the Predator got under the weight and Arnold took the opportunity.
yep, exactly. it was meant to show that even with all his strength, cunning and traps, dutch still needed that little bit of extra luck to kill the predator, even after the latter discarded his OP gear.
@@Metzwerg74 no way. Dutch is obviously shocked to look up and see that Predator is right under the counterweight and must act quickly. The spike trap is the only one that works to funnel Preds into it, and there is endless area around the other side to stand that would leave trunk drop at like 1/500 odds to be right above him if he didnt go through the intended spike tunnel.
The song playing in the chopper was "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard. During Mac's meltdown, he was mumbling parts of it: "Well long tall Sally, she's built for speed, she got everything that Uncle John needs" and "I'm gonna have some fun tonight".
The "#if it bleeds we can kill it" is sheer brilliance as it serves to make the final fight so much more intense as they can both legit win. There's no need for a Deus ex machine for Dutch to win as the Predator has been shown to be vulnerable and the Predator has an equal chance of winning because it's oh-so-good at using violence.
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but down right scary too! Especially at the end of the film when the Predator uses Billy's laugh before he nuked himself! -OG
Jesse Ventura outshone Arnie with one-liners in this movie. "This makes you a sexual tyrannosaurus" "I ain't got time to bleed" "He's dug in deeper than an Alabama tick"
Quick clarification, but Billy isn’t clairvoyant, he’s a tracker, meaning he watches and listens to the environment around him to help him in the battlefield. He doesn’t spiritually sense the Predator, he observed his surroundings and felt something was off in the jungle. Think of a cat who smells prey, but also smells something dangerous nearby too. It’ll freeze up looking for what’s wrong around it before moving forward.
Don't know if it's fun, but here's a fact: Hawkins was played by Shane Black, who wrote and/or directed a ton of movies like Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3, and almost every other action movie set at Christmas. (Also, the one really disappointing Predator movie that doesn't involve Xenomorphs.) He was cast because they wanted to have a writer on set in case they needed lines. He wrote the two p***** jokes and gave them to his own character, probably because he didn't want anyone else to be held accountable for such crass humor. You should check out Shane Black's amazing and underrated movies The Last Boyscout, The Nice Guys, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in his 40s when he made this movie , Make up does wonders.. Also, the key to staying looking young is to stay fit.. As you get older, it increasingly gets more difficult to stay looking fit... And as you get older, the less food, you actually need to eat..
Besides the four films after this and the two crossovers with the Alien franchise, there are also comics, graphic novels and videogames. Arnold also starred in The Running Man later that year and preceded this with Commando and Raw Deal
The movie ALIEN VS PREDATOR is really well done and explains a lot about the Predator's 'warrior code', as well as having epic monster fight scenes. It's a fun one for you to check out. I told Magi the same. Many of these big. beefy men became politicians and made an impact off the screen as well. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to America as a penny-less Austrian immigrant, became a body builder, a 5 time Mr. Universe winner and 7 time Mr. Olympia titles, became an iconic Hollywood action hero, married into the prestigious Kennedy family, and served as Governor of California (2003-2011). Carl Weathers (Dillon) was a professional football player who went on to star in several action movies, most notably as Apollo Creed in the ROCKY movies and serves on the U.S. Olympic Committee. Jesse 'The Body' Ventura (Blain) was a member of the Navy Seals, a professional wrestler, served a 4 year term as mayor of a town in Minnesota and later was elected as Governor of that state from 1999-2003. Sonny Landham (Billy) ran for governor of Kentucky but pulled out of the race for lack fund raising and would have been the 3rd member of the cast to be a governor. Richard Chaves (Poncho) is used to the types of terrain seen in the movie as an actual Vietnam Veteran from the U.S. Army. Sadly, Kevin Peter Hall, the 7'2" actor who played the PREDATOR in the first 2 movies died of AIDS he contracted from a blood transfusion he received after a car accident.
Billy is a Native American. Some were known for their tracking of animals and that’s what he is here a tracker. Him being a warrior he refused to be hunted. So he dropped his gun and met his end in battle like a warrior.
Billy was a Native American, well into a spirit world. He felt the presence of the creature, not knowing what that creature is. Suspecting it's a hunter, Billy wanted to fight it, cutting himself to bleed, to pose as a "prey". And its a great connection between the last of the Predator franchise. :)
I love that the final battle was full of strategy and cat and mouse play, Arnold was still in great physical condition, big in height and weight, his character was a killing machine and yet the Predator made him look so defenseless as a slasher's final girl in physical comparison, the predator's face is unforgettable and it is honorable choosing direct combat without energy weapons, watch the sequel is a revenge story.
That horrible vision is infrared, so if you were hunting a warm blooded creature it would actually be very good. That's why modern militaries use it to see in conditions where our eyes would not be very good. And Billy just seems clairvoyant because his character is an American native so is very good at tracking and scouting and noticing things that are out of place in a natural setting. Also: Jesse Ventura went on to become Governor of Minnesota. 😅
23:05 -- Billy sacrificed himself to give the others time to escape. -- I've seen others point out that he was Native American and an experienced tracker so there's that... When he slices his own skin, he is denying the opponent "first blood". The honor of drawing blood in combat. -- Billy knew they were all going to die, but he chose to die in hand to hand combat and to give the others a chance to live..
26:13 I remember hearing that war cry 🗣️ when I was just a toddler. 👦 Both Bone chilling and spine tingling 😅 Always had a whole new respect for Arnie after and I started saying, sir, to everyone 🫡
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Legend has it that Trixy is naturally invisible to the Predator.
"I ain't got time to bleed!" That line turbo boosted Jesse Ventura's already sky rocketing career. It probably made him get elected as Governor of Minnesota as well.
Funny, as many times as I've watched this, I never noticed him being bandaged up as they were leaving the guerilla camp before. I guess this was because those bandages are gone by the time he get's zeroed.
@Afro Desiac - now she should probably do: - Commando, The Running Man, Kindergarden Cop, Total Recall and True Lies, all as a starting point (as something like "Conan the Barbarian" may not be for everybody).
Guerillas are anti-government soldiers who fight in small groups using hit-and-run tactics such as ambushes, boobytraps, snipers, etc. It's pronounced the same as a gorilla, the large jungle ape. Also, good call on recognizing the sound of the wild boar, Blue! 😉👍
Blue, you're really becoming GOOD at this!!!!!!!!!!! So enjoyable. Cheers from Paris There's a SHITLOAD of CRAZY TRIVIA about this film. Sonny Landham, Billy, had a bodyguard... to protect THE REST OF THEM from him. There are two future FREAKING GOVERNORS in this film and Billy also campaigned for it. The Predator was originally a silly lizard played by Jean-Claude Van Damme doing karate chops in a godzilla suit in the jungle but they soon realized it was stupid. The actors woke up at 5.00 am to train their muscles in secret to be bigger than the next guy. Jesse Ventura, Blain the one with the (ahem) "minigun" (that's how you call that revolving machine gun), was punched in the face by the guy American Sniper was about.
blu the guy who arnold shot after he kicked down the wall and said knock knock was played by his best/childhood friend and he was in a lot of arnold's movies in the 1980's and 90's
'He' was famous enough by then to get parts in Hunt for Red October and Gladiator (without Arnold). One place I didn't recognize him was The 13TH Warrior.
This film pulled the ultimate bait and switch. It started as a cold war action caper with related intrigue(I.E Dillion's deception of a 'rescue mission' that turned out to be an attack, much to to Dutch and the team's ire) then suddenly the Predator shows up and it turns into a slasher horror. Legendary.
If they cut out the space scene at the beginning like many criticize, then we would have been 100% in the dark till the 'switch' made itself known, yet that beginning gives it away.
What they did when they first made contact, spraying the jungle with bullets is a real tactic called defoliation. When a squad knows the immediate location of a threat without knowing the numbers they pound the area with overwhelming force. You cannot outrun a bullet. and a large portion of those rounds penetrated deep into the jungle. They don't know it's staying in the trees. Anything on foot would have been screwed.
Mac climbing the hill after the Predator sounding mad repeating "I'm gonna have me some fun" over and over are actually the words/lyrics to the rock 'n roll song 🎵 played on the chopper his buddy, Blain, was playing. Mac was really close to Blain. Mac reciting the lyrics was keeping him focused. Not mad. He had a score to settle for his friend. -OG
I think she thought the term gorillas actually ment the animal gorilla...lmao It's a term used Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars.. From the video it looks like you were confused about it, so I thought I'd help😊
I didn't know R2D2 had a Kitteh utility that would pop out of his head, I knew he had other tools but not a Kitteh. Love Kitteh BTW, need more Kitteh in the videos.
Billy wasn't necessarily psychic, but he was an absolutely masterful *top* tracker/stalker, who could 'read' even subtle signs, and who had an 'awareness' when something wasn't 'right'. He realized, near the end, that it wasn't going to be stopped, conventionally, so he took a stand - one-on-one - against it. Hoping that, maybe, he might slow it down? And give the others a chance to 'get to the choppa'! Unfortunately, he obviously didn't last long. I was impressed, over-all, with how you (at times) quickly picked-up on things, despite the fact that you don't have much, if any, knowledge of military tactics or equipment, or hunting. You really seemed to 'feel'/read the situation. His 'fuzzy vision' was because he was 'seeing' thermal (heat) emissions, rather than regular light. Thermal radiation is courser (especially at body-heat wavelengths) than regular, optical, vision. The advantage is that your target/prey will tend to stand-out (significantly) against a cooler background. Over all, very good reaction!
The flaw with the logic of this movie was that the predator killed poncho when he was badly injured and unarmed. And if they all threw their guns down it should been no sport thus it should have let them go. Fun fact; the General (played by RG Armstrong) was killed by an alien in the episode Panic of the 1960s TV show "The Invaders".
31:04 -- While I hate to call the Predator an "animal".. That's basically what everyone is.. Animals in our world hear things differently than we do and also have a different perception of time.. Cats and dogs hear in a slightly different frequency range than we do. So it makes sense the Predator does too..
The helicopter pilot is the Predator! He had a speaking line in the chopper, so he could have a film acting credit! There's lots of good Predator movies, aaaand Alien vs Predator!!😮😮😮" Get to the Choppa!". And from his movie before this," c'mon Bennett... Let's Party!" Engineers, from the movie Prometheus, supposedly developed Aliens, Predators, humans, and the technology for Replicants and Terminators.What a cast! Jesse was a total wildman ex contractor, bigger and taller than Arnold! The Indian guy was such an animal, he had round the clock security detail, to protect everyone and everything else, from him! The bald black dude was a classically trained, stage actor, I think even at Juliard! And always a badass, also in the movies, Arnold's Commando, and American Jiggolo!!! Also Arnold's comedies are hilarious! Specially Twins and Kindergarten cop!!
Compare Arnold in both of the Terminator movies and to that one, the first Terminator was from 1984 and the second from 1991. That one from 1987 is in the middle of them at the beginning of his career as a movie star. Nice to see you reacting to it.
When I was a college student and Arsenio Hall had a talk show in the evenings, I watched him often, and he had Schwarzenegger on to promote Terminator 2, and Arnold made the point to pronounce his name correctly for Arsenio, and I've always thought of the proper pronunciation when I see and hear his name. See if I can spell it. Shfatzen-ekka, something like that. I'm so impressed that he spent a good portion of his early years in Hollywood with an accent coach to speak english better. Also, you have to imagine in 1987, there hadn't been anything remotely close to the level of blood in this movie, even in the horror/slasher movies, so this was really next level gross/horrific.
Blain "I ain't got time to bleed" isn't always eating something. He's chewing tobacco. He offered his chew to everyone in the chopper on the way to their mission. None would take. Blain says this stuff would make you a "sexual tyrannosaurus. Like me." He chews. And he is fond of his music 🎶. The same song you liked that he was playing on his ghetto blaster on the chopper too. He also wore his MTV shirt right before he lost his life. -OG
3:33 DIMI DOWN! DIMI DOWN! Also kinda weird to be watching this decades later to realize we were actually watching two future American state governors lol.
It was originally Jean-Claude Van Damme as playing the Predator. But for JCVD the mask and body suit made him pass out out of dehydration. So he was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall
The Terminator (1984) was Arnold's 8th movie and it was the break that propelled him to frontline Hollywood status. Predator (1987) was his 12th film and he was by now already well established as a major Hollywood star.
Arnold really took charge of his career and was instrumental in choosing or acquiring movie/book rights, not being afraid to experiment with genres many didn't imagine him portraying.
the actor playing billy had a serious problem with drinking and fighting and had two or three huge black bouncers only to drag him away before he could cause trouble. also I love that when Arnold needed someone to fight in movies, they had to get his huge bodybuilding buddies to find someone to make it even seem real. I just imagine the director like "we need someone to stand next to Arnold and not look like a wimp" Arnold " ill hit up golds gym"
That's the point. Arnold was a deliberate choice of character as he's a reconstruction of the action hero. He can do all those things, and he's powerless against the Predator. The director, John McTioernan's, next movie was Die hard where he made it so obvious that no one could miss it by getting caught in their biases around the main character.
31:30 that wasn’t the plan, making even more genius as he had to improvise. The log is the counter-weight for the actual trap - the twine on the floor drops between 2 logs with spikes, the Predator triggers the trap and the twine pulls him up and impales him on the spikes.
Great reaction to an awesome movie. Scared the shit out of me as a kid and led to a lot of sleepless nights. The last trap wasn't a two-parter, though. The idea was that the predator would walk into it, knock the stick loose and when the log dropped, the vine would be jerked up into the Predator's crotch and pull him up into the spikes. Predator noticed the spikes and went around. It was just dumb luck that he stood under the log. It took me an embarrassingly long time to work that out.
The tree trunk was never a trap. It was apart of the deadfall trap in which when triggered, would act as a counter-balance weight to trap its victim. It trunk was NEVER its own trap. It was by sheer coincidence that the predator was standing right under the trunk so you could kick the trigger and drop it right on the predator.
(5:18) Guerrilla refers to a member of a small, independent, fast-moving combat unit that conduct hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, raids, and sabotage. Guerrillas are often made up of paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, and irregular military forces. Other terms that have been used to describe guerrillas include insurgents, partisans, rebels, mercenaries, terrorists, and resistance fighters. (6:00) No, Billy is not clairvoyant. He is a tracker. This means he is an expert in identifying and interpreting physical evidence left behind by other people. Trackers have to be highly observant as they provide valuable information that allows them to pursue and locate their target. This is likely a combination of his Native American background and military training. (10:22) The Predator uses infrared vision that allows them to detect the emissions of thermal heat. The advantage is that the Predator can more easily detect their prey as their body heat will stand out more. (29:33) The Predators are an alien race of trophy hunters. This is why they collected the skulls of their prey. So either the Predator was looking over Dutch’s skull for his collection, or he was seeing if there was anything unique about him since Dutch proved to be such a difficult prey to hunt. The Predator removed his mask and advanced weaponry not only out of respect for a worthy opponent, but also because of their code of honor which is further explored in subsequent sequels and novels.
"True Lies" stars Arnold Schwarzenegger AND was made by the same guy who made the first two Terminator movies. I just rewatched it myself a month ago and was literally blown away by it...the action is incredibly good, the story rocks, and the comedy is hilarious. Also on that same note, I think you had mentioned about watching the Terminator "trilogy" in those videos. I'm guessing people already told you but only the first two really matter, since those are the only two made by the original creator of the franchise. There are actually like 5 or 6 movies overall at this point, some of which feature Arnold and some don't but again, the first two are really the ones that matter.
Billy is Native American, he is very in tune with his surroundings. His necklace was a medicine pouch. His family could have been from a long line of Shamanic healers, or "Witch Doctors".
3:29 watching the cat slide back till he eventually falls was too funny 😂
I had to scroll back and watch it twice
Exactly what I wanted to write!
I love that we get the bonus of a cat video on top of the movie reaction!
That was the comment I was looking for.
Lol I didn't even know the cat was there 😂
Best part
That air arm wrestling was so powerful, it knocked your kitten off of R2D2 🤣🤣
The actor who played the Predator was Kevin Peter Hall. He was also the black chopper pilot at the end. The director wanted to give him some face time for being such a good sport during filming. Kevin Peter Hall also played Harry in Harry And The Henderson's. A comedy about a family that finds Bigfoot in the woods and brings him back to the suburbs with them. Its a fun family, G-rated, comedy. In 1992 Kevin Peter Hall was in a bad car accident in Los Angeles. He was rushed to the hospital. During surgery he was accidentally given contaminated blood and passed away. RIP KEVIN PETER HALL
His walk his mannerisms everything he did owned this film
Without him and those movements etc this film might not have the same impact he sold it to us all as a real alien
I never knew all that about Hall's death. I remember watching and liking Harry and the Henderson's.
Its even funnier that Jean Claude Van Damme was in a Predator suit at first, but was deemed too small, and the first Predator suit was build so poorly, it had bad movements, and became so hot he passed out a few times.
@@andrewlopez1906 Harry and the little terrier were excellent together.
They had to cut the bottom of the chopper so he could fit in the pilot seat
The reason the Predator took of his helmet and shoulder canon was because it saw Dutch as an extremely worthy opponent worthy of hand to hand combat.
The Predators are basically a race of hunters, who go around the universe and collect trophies from the most dangerous prey they can find. They seek a challenge. Which is why the people who end up being an easy kill are just strung up, while people who put up a fight (like Billy) become a trophy. When Dutch managed to partly destroy the Predators gear and even wounded him, it was surprised that he managed to do that. Thats why it pressed him against the wall and examined his skull for a moment - it made sure that Dutch was truly just a normal human, because he was likely the first human ever to really hurt and challenge it.
When it realized that yes, Dutch is just an ultra badass human, it decided to even the playing field´and go man against man, to show Dutch respect for his skills.
They also dont hurt kids, pregnant women or generally unarmed people, because all of those cant really defend themselves, which means it would be extremely dishonorable and cowardly for a Predator to kill them. When a Pred ignores these rules and kills without honor, it is outlawed and its basically open season on it for the rest.
Spot on
Where is the challenge in killing inferior species from stealth? There were only 2 moments when the predator fought with honor in this movie - when he killed a scout and when he faced dutch in the hand to hand combat, others he killed from the stelth
Outlawed.. you mean exiled/disowned?
@@fraisertinko Source on humans being an inferior species?
@@OMGtheykilledKenny42 Yes. Outlawed/exiled/banished/whatever. They are called "Bad Bloods" and are allowed to be killed by every Predator that sees them (normally, it is forbidden for one Predator to kill another, or intefer with the hunt of another)
14:49 There’s no such thing as “wasting ammo” in a 80s action flick. 😂👌🏻
Billy is a trained tracker. He’s so good at seeing footprints in mud, holes in plants so he can see what steps the person made, how heavy they were and what direction they ran.
Researching Native Americans used as scouts in the military might be of interest to Trixie.
In the original script, BILLY is the last survivor. He ends up fighting and defeating the predator. But, when Arnold was cast to play DUTCH, the script was rewritten so he is the last survivor.
5:20 Guerillas are small and high mobile combat units which specialized in ambushes then make themselves disappear as fast as possible.
6:00 Billy is a Native American, not a clairvoyant but a tracker.
32:53 This helicopter pilot is the actor donning the Predator costume.
Billy was a truly great character. He sensed something beyond normal from the start. This was a hardened veteran of an elite team that saw the worst the world had to offer for likely decades. Never afraid of any man or situation, this encounter was something that terrified his very being. In the end, he realized there was no escape... the only question was if he was going to go down via an ambush.. or if he was going to stand his ground and make one last stand. Although it didn't buy much time for his team, it DID buy the predator's respect. Granted, the "prize" was to be made a trophy. But nonetheless, Billy made a real impression on the predator. It saw Billy sensed him and was looking at him. And he chose to fight him 1 on 1....hand to hand. Respect for this earth warrior.
the US army, in the 50s, actually did studies on Native American men and found that Native American men, when they don't cut their hair, act as an extremely effective early warning system for approaching enemies while in the field. that benefit was not deemed useful enough to make the Army allow them to grow out their hair. gas masks couldn't seal properly with long hair.
Also Billy is native and the reason Billy cut himself with the machete was its a old native warrior thing pretty much saying "this is my blood now I want your blood..."
Yes, great character actor.
@@DSmith264 he was great in poltergeist. His finest performance.
@@happyapple4269 He was in part 2 as Taylor???? Idk it was him...
I felt Billy's Last Stand was to prove he wasn't afraid . He would prefer to die than to run and meet his enemy face to face even though he could not win very heroic
Billy was a Native American. His Deep Connection to the Earth and Animals made him an Excellent Scout and Tracker.
When Billy Cut himself across the Chest, it was a Native American Warriors way of Depriving the enemy the honor of drawing "First Blood". Billy's way of Giving the Predator "The Finger" before dying.
The Cold water and Mud Masked Arnold's body heat from the Thermal Scanners.
3:34 kitty falls off the beanie bag 😆
What I love about this movie is that everything that's scary about the predator, its camoflauge, firepower, stealth and trapping- Are the same strengths the team has over their own targets.
Billy especially has a kindred spirit in the predator. His honour prevented him from ever acting like prey.
Height also
Billy decided he wasn't going to run anymore and challenged the Predator to fight him face to face. Dutch did not set a double-tarp, he just realized thatthe Pred had moved under the weigh that was supposed to pull the trap closed so he set off the trap to relase the weight.
I think it was in fact his intention to trick the predator with the first trap.
That's because you are wrong@@nonconsensualopinion
One of the greatest sci-fi horror action movies of all time :D
Edit:
Guerrillas not Gorillas :D
Billy isn't psychic but he's spiritual, and he's a tracker so he can tell exactly how many people, what gear they have etc, just by their tracks. Also, the bullet spray and shells left behind, he can tell how a battle went down just by looking at the area.
A Hook is the radiophone.
The Jungle Salad scene wasn't exactly a waste of ammo though... all the team knows is Mac screams Contact and was firing... they join him, see that Blain is downed, and they open fire in the same direction Mac is firing. They don;t know yet that they're firing at an alien, all they know is Blain is dead, and there's enemies in the area.
Definitely give Predator 2 a go, it's underrated.
The rest of the Pred movies are garbage.
predator 2 is awesome because it goes more into the law, also the setting is totally different, a very good sequel. "Predators" was okayish but yeah, the rest was garbage, didnt even bother to watch this upgrade bs, the trailer was bad enough for me.
Imo Predators aint that bad, but yeah the rest aint good, dont even wanna talk about the AVP movies :P
Guerrillas not Gorillas joke is in captain ron(1992)
" Guerrillas not Gorillas " an excellent line from the movie " Captain Ron ".
Blue just a little trivia about this movie. Two of the actors would later become Governors of two States, Arnold (California) and Jesse Ventura who played Blain (Minnesota)
And Sonny Landham ran for Governor of Kentucky.
"Ten years ago one of his kind stalked and eliminated an elite special forces unit in Central America. There were two survivors. They indicated that when trapped, the creature activated a self-destruct device that destroyed enough rainforest to cover 300 city blocks."
Edit you'll like the second movie, some good info there... *information here would be a spoiler, so I'm going to wait till you watch it and post there*
Guerrillas is spanish meaning essentially "little warriors" it means a person who is an insurgent or rebel fighting using asymmetric warfare against an established and organized military force like a national army. The term originated in Central and South America and became widely adopted to describe this type of fighter.
The Predator is not invisible, it's using some advanced technology to bend light and camouflage itself to whatever background is available. As far as shooting and wasting ammo, they weren't. The sergeant shouted 'contact', which alerts the rest of the team that he's engaged the enemy. Until the order to break contact is given, they will usually fire until their weapons run out of ammo. They almost certainly have more ammo with them, so it's not a big risk.
There is a military system in the works for this kind of camouflage. But it doesn't stop infrared detection.
I think its odd that the Predators are so advanced it must be hard to work in a lab with thoose clumsy hands(Claws)!
Defoliation by overwhelming force. A real tactic.
This movie is a treasure trove of oft-repeated lines. "I don't have time to bleed." "If it bleeds, we can kill it." "Get to the choppah!" And more. The Predator's vision is infra-red based. Heat sources. It's not a "technology" that fritzes in and out because of water.
As a 'lizard' that hunts via infrared, most predatory snakes using it have a 'pit organ' - not eye vision. But then it's a movie - so there's that.
Anyone else watch a cat fall off of r2 at 3:34 or was it just me.
Arnold was actually 40 when he made Predator in 1987, which is three years after Terminator, but he had changed his fitness regime, because he was now appearing in movies, rather than body building competitions.
I love the kitten, just casual kitten stuff in the background...falling off things etc :D
FUN FACT: The actor playing Hawkins, the joke teller, is Shane Black. He created the Lethal Weapon franchise. He wrote the first script. And a few years ago he directed The Predator.
Trixy's Q: "Does Billy have powers or what?" -- I think they wrote Billy as kind of a Ranger class in DnD, with super good perception, survival, nature skills, etc. ... it is kind of the Hollywood trope of a modern indigenous person that is as excellent at these skills as his ancestors... but we don't know Billy's background so he could have grown up using these kind of native skills.
I haven't seen any posts referencing Billy's 'medicine bag' which he wears around his neck.
Arnold was born on July 30, 1947. Predator began filming late March 1986 so Arnold was 38 years old during filming.
@3:34 the cat in the background is the funniest thing on this channel
I think the "second trap" that killed the Predator was not planned as a trap.
It was just the weight that would actuate the only trap that Arnold made with the pointed sticks. It was pure luck that the Predator got under the weight and Arnold took the opportunity.
yep, exactly. it was meant to show that even with all his strength, cunning and traps, dutch still needed that little bit of extra luck to kill the predator, even after the latter discarded his OP gear.
i think that it was the real trap, to make the predator feel save spotting the obvious trap arni hid behind...
Yh cuz Dutch seemed surprised by it too
I never noticed that and I've seen this movie 20+ times... smh
@@Metzwerg74 no way. Dutch is obviously shocked to look up and see that Predator is right under the counterweight and must act quickly.
The spike trap is the only one that works to funnel Preds into it, and there is endless area around the other side to stand that would leave trunk drop at like 1/500 odds to be right above him if he didnt go through the intended spike tunnel.
This film is a great example of "Show it don't explain it", trusting that your audience will get it.
The song playing in the chopper was "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard. During Mac's meltdown, he was mumbling parts of it: "Well long tall Sally, she's built for speed, she got everything that Uncle John needs" and "I'm gonna have some fun tonight".
The "#if it bleeds we can kill it" is sheer brilliance as it serves to make the final fight so much more intense as they can both legit win. There's no need for a Deus ex machine for Dutch to win as the Predator has been shown to be vulnerable and the Predator has an equal chance of winning because it's oh-so-good at using violence.
@3:33 Kitty falls off R2 lol
Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but down right scary too! Especially at the end of the film when the Predator uses Billy's laugh before he nuked himself! -OG
Jesse Ventura outshone Arnie with one-liners in this movie.
"This makes you a sexual tyrannosaurus"
"I ain't got time to bleed"
"He's dug in deeper than an Alabama tick"
Quick clarification, but Billy isn’t clairvoyant, he’s a tracker, meaning he watches and listens to the environment around him to help him in the battlefield. He doesn’t spiritually sense the Predator, he observed his surroundings and felt something was off in the jungle. Think of a cat who smells prey, but also smells something dangerous nearby too. It’ll freeze up looking for what’s wrong around it before moving forward.
Don't know if it's fun, but here's a fact:
Hawkins was played by Shane Black, who wrote and/or directed a ton of movies like Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3, and almost every other action movie set at Christmas. (Also, the one really disappointing Predator movie that doesn't involve Xenomorphs.)
He was cast because they wanted to have a writer on set in case they needed lines. He wrote the two p***** jokes and gave them to his own character, probably because he didn't want anyone else to be held accountable for such crass humor.
You should check out Shane Black's amazing and underrated movies The Last Boyscout, The Nice Guys, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
3:33 Cat at background is best 😂
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in his 40s when he made this movie , Make up does wonders.. Also, the key to staying looking young is to stay fit.. As you get older, it increasingly gets more difficult to stay looking fit... And as you get older, the less food, you actually need to eat..
Besides the four films after this and the two crossovers with the Alien franchise, there are also comics, graphic novels and videogames. Arnold also starred in The Running Man later that year and preceded this with Commando and Raw Deal
14:57 Trix: "Shooting at nothing"
15:28 Poncho: "We hit nothing"
The movie ALIEN VS PREDATOR is really well done and explains a lot about the Predator's 'warrior code', as well as having epic monster fight scenes. It's a fun one for you to check out. I told Magi the same.
Many of these big. beefy men became politicians and made an impact off the screen as well.
Arnold Schwarzenegger came to America as a penny-less Austrian immigrant, became a body builder, a 5 time Mr. Universe winner and 7 time Mr. Olympia titles, became an iconic Hollywood action hero, married into the prestigious Kennedy family, and served as Governor of California (2003-2011).
Carl Weathers (Dillon) was a professional football player who went on to star in several action movies, most notably as Apollo Creed in the ROCKY movies and serves on the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura (Blain) was a member of the Navy Seals, a professional wrestler, served a 4 year term as mayor of a town in Minnesota and later was elected as Governor of that state from 1999-2003.
Sonny Landham (Billy) ran for governor of Kentucky but pulled out of the race for lack fund raising and would have been the 3rd member of the cast to be a governor.
Richard Chaves (Poncho) is used to the types of terrain seen in the movie as an actual Vietnam Veteran from the U.S. Army.
Sadly, Kevin Peter Hall, the 7'2" actor who played the PREDATOR in the first 2 movies died of AIDS he contracted from a blood transfusion he received after a car accident.
Billy is a Native American. Some were known for their tracking of animals and that’s what he is here a tracker. Him being a warrior he refused to be hunted. So he dropped his gun and met his end in battle like a warrior.
Billy was a Native American, well into a spirit world. He felt the presence of the creature, not knowing what that creature is. Suspecting it's a hunter, Billy wanted to fight it, cutting himself to bleed, to pose as a "prey". And its a great connection between the last of the Predator franchise. :)
He cut himself as a symbol of grief and mourning of his fallen comrades.
I love that the final battle was full of strategy and cat and mouse play, Arnold was still in great physical condition, big in height and weight, his character was a killing machine and yet the Predator made him look so defenseless as a slasher's final girl in physical comparison, the predator's face is unforgettable and it is honorable choosing direct combat without energy weapons, watch the sequel is a revenge story.
That horrible vision is infrared, so if you were hunting a warm blooded creature it would actually be very good. That's why modern militaries use it to see in conditions where our eyes would not be very good.
And Billy just seems clairvoyant because his character is an American native so is very good at tracking and scouting and noticing things that are out of place in a natural setting.
Also: Jesse Ventura went on to become Governor of Minnesota. 😅
Real infrared doesn't work like it does in the film, though. With real infrared tech you do not see any bright colors.
"big as a house" is a common American colloquialism
ha ha poor little cat on the R2-D2 Plush 3:33 =p
Fun fact - Kevin Peter Hall - who was the Predator has a cameo at the end as the chopper pilot
"Stick around." -- one of my fave Arnie one-liners of all time.
12:55 "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" they say that in the 2nd Predator, it applies here too. another great reaction Blue!
I remember that line from Alien vs Predator . . . .
@@terrylandess6072 yeah, i realized that after i'd finished typing. i was trying to picture in my head who said it, then remembered AvP. 😅
23:05 -- Billy sacrificed himself to give the others time to escape. -- I've seen others point out that he was Native American and an experienced tracker so there's that... When he slices his own skin, he is denying the opponent "first blood". The honor of drawing blood in combat. -- Billy knew they were all going to die, but he chose to die in hand to hand combat and to give the others a chance to live..
26:13 I remember hearing that war cry 🗣️ when I was just a toddler. 👦 Both Bone chilling and spine tingling 😅
Always had a whole new respect for Arnie after and I started saying, sir, to everyone 🫡
Legend has it that Trixy is naturally invisible to the Predator.
"I ain't got time to bleed!" That line turbo boosted Jesse Ventura's already sky rocketing career. It probably made him get elected as Governor of Minnesota as well.
Funny, as many times as I've watched this, I never noticed him being bandaged up as they were leaving the guerilla camp before. I guess this was because those bandages are gone by the time he get's zeroed.
Trixy is cranking out these reactions! She's like a reaction factory
She is a fresh ray of sunshine.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in his 40s When he made this movie
" Trixy is cranking out these reactions! " yes, she is. She's blue don't you know.
she really put the pedal to the metal didn
@Afro Desiac - now she should probably do:
- Commando, The Running Man, Kindergarden Cop, Total Recall and True Lies, all as a starting point (as something like "Conan the Barbarian" may not be for everybody).
"Billy" is a native American tracker from the Comanche Nation.
Others say Sioux. I'm always curious where people come up with this lore.
There is only one word needed to describe this epic movie.
FLAWLESS 👌
99% holds up according to Honest Trailers
He has a invisible cloak. This is not Harry Potter 😆
03:33 Couldn't take my eyes off your kitty in the background as he fell.
"He's always eating something."
That's chewing tobacco. Hence the spitting. It's really gross.
Guerillas are anti-government soldiers who fight in small groups using hit-and-run tactics such as ambushes, boobytraps, snipers, etc. It's pronounced the same as a gorilla, the large jungle ape. Also, good call on recognizing the sound of the wild boar, Blue! 😉👍
Blue, you're really becoming GOOD at this!!!!!!!!!!! So enjoyable. Cheers from Paris
There's a SHITLOAD of CRAZY TRIVIA about this film. Sonny Landham, Billy, had a bodyguard... to protect THE REST OF THEM from him. There are two future FREAKING GOVERNORS in this film and Billy also campaigned for it. The Predator was originally a silly lizard played by Jean-Claude Van Damme doing karate chops in a godzilla suit in the jungle but they soon realized it was stupid. The actors woke up at 5.00 am to train their muscles in secret to be bigger than the next guy. Jesse Ventura, Blain the one with the (ahem) "minigun" (that's how you call that revolving machine gun), was punched in the face by the guy American Sniper was about.
blu the guy who arnold shot after he kicked down the wall and said knock knock was played by his best/childhood friend and he was in a lot of arnold's movies in the 1980's and 90's
'He' was famous enough by then to get parts in Hunt for Red October and Gladiator (without Arnold). One place I didn't recognize him was The 13TH Warrior.
This film pulled the ultimate bait and switch. It started as a cold war action caper with related intrigue(I.E Dillion's deception of a 'rescue mission' that turned out to be an attack, much to to Dutch and the team's ire) then suddenly the Predator shows up and it turns into a slasher horror. Legendary.
If they cut out the space scene at the beginning like many criticize, then we would have been 100% in the dark till the 'switch' made itself known, yet that beginning gives it away.
What they did when they first made contact, spraying the jungle with bullets is a real tactic called defoliation. When a squad knows the immediate location of a threat without knowing the numbers they pound the area with overwhelming force. You cannot outrun a bullet. and a large portion of those rounds penetrated deep into the jungle. They don't know it's staying in the trees. Anything on foot would have been screwed.
Mac climbing the hill after the Predator sounding mad repeating "I'm gonna have me some fun" over and over are actually the words/lyrics to the rock 'n roll song 🎵 played on the chopper his buddy, Blain, was playing. Mac was really close to Blain. Mac reciting the lyrics was keeping him focused. Not mad. He had a score to settle for his friend. -OG
"Mac, clear the area - no traces". Two weeks later Mac is still collecting bullet casings . . .
I think she thought the term gorillas actually ment the animal gorilla...lmao It's a term used Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars.. From the video it looks like you were confused about it, so I thought I'd help😊
I didn't know R2D2 had a Kitteh utility that would pop out of his head, I knew he had other tools but not a Kitteh. Love Kitteh BTW, need more Kitteh in the videos.
The guy with kpkes is Shane Black. Wrote many movie screenplays on c Ludington the LETHAL WESPON seroes
Arnold was born in 1947. If you wanna see him in his youth, just watch 'Hercules in New York', when he was about 22
If you want REAL "classic Arnie", check out "Conan the Barbarian", "Commando", or, "Hercules in New York".
"Terminator" was '84, this was '87.
Another great Arnold movie is Total Recall (1990). Awesome Sci Fi action movie
Billy wasn't necessarily psychic, but he was an absolutely masterful *top* tracker/stalker, who could 'read' even subtle signs, and who had an 'awareness' when something wasn't 'right'. He realized, near the end, that it wasn't going to be stopped, conventionally, so he took a stand - one-on-one - against it. Hoping that, maybe, he might slow it down? And give the others a chance to 'get to the choppa'! Unfortunately, he obviously didn't last long.
I was impressed, over-all, with how you (at times) quickly picked-up on things, despite the fact that you don't have much, if any, knowledge of military tactics or equipment, or hunting. You really seemed to 'feel'/read the situation.
His 'fuzzy vision' was because he was 'seeing' thermal (heat) emissions, rather than regular light. Thermal radiation is courser (especially at body-heat wavelengths) than regular, optical, vision. The advantage is that your target/prey will tend to stand-out (significantly) against a cooler background.
Over all, very good reaction!
The flaw with the logic of this movie was that the predator killed poncho when he was badly injured and unarmed. And if they all threw their guns down it should been no sport thus it should have let them go.
Fun fact; the General (played by RG Armstrong) was killed by an alien in the episode Panic of the 1960s TV show "The Invaders".
Now for PREDATOR 2 into the Urban Jungle
Excellent job TrixyBlue! Billy wanted to take on the Predator in hand to hand combat, but the Predator proved to be too much for Billy to fight.
31:04 -- While I hate to call the Predator an "animal".. That's basically what everyone is.. Animals in our world hear things differently than we do and also have a different perception of time.. Cats and dogs hear in a slightly different frequency range than we do. So it makes sense the Predator does too..
The helicopter pilot is the Predator! He had a speaking line in the chopper, so he could have a film acting credit! There's lots of good Predator movies, aaaand Alien vs Predator!!😮😮😮" Get to the Choppa!". And from his movie before this," c'mon Bennett... Let's Party!" Engineers, from the movie Prometheus, supposedly developed Aliens, Predators, humans, and the technology for Replicants and Terminators.What a cast! Jesse was a total wildman ex contractor, bigger and taller than Arnold! The Indian guy was such an animal, he had round the clock security detail, to protect everyone and everything else, from him! The bald black dude was a classically trained, stage actor, I think even at Juliard! And always a badass, also in the movies, Arnold's Commando, and American Jiggolo!!! Also Arnold's comedies are hilarious! Specially Twins and Kindergarten cop!!
Compare Arnold in both of the Terminator movies and to that one, the first Terminator was from 1984 and the second from 1991. That one from 1987 is in the middle of them at the beginning of his career as a movie star.
Nice to see you reacting to it.
Blue.. Arnold was actually like in his late 30s early forties when you did this movie which is absolutely insane
When I was a college student and Arsenio Hall had a talk show in the evenings, I watched him often, and he had Schwarzenegger on to promote Terminator 2, and Arnold made the point to pronounce his name correctly for Arsenio, and I've always thought of the proper pronunciation when I see and hear his name. See if I can spell it. Shfatzen-ekka, something like that. I'm so impressed that he spent a good portion of his early years in Hollywood with an accent coach to speak english better.
Also, you have to imagine in 1987, there hadn't been anything remotely close to the level of blood in this movie, even in the horror/slasher movies, so this was really next level gross/horrific.
Blain "I ain't got time to bleed" isn't always eating something. He's chewing tobacco. He offered his chew to everyone in the chopper on the way to their mission. None would take. Blain says this stuff would make you a "sexual tyrannosaurus. Like me."
He chews. And he is fond of his music 🎶. The same song you liked that he was playing on his ghetto blaster on the chopper too. He also wore his MTV shirt right before he lost his life. -OG
3:33 DIMI DOWN! DIMI DOWN! Also kinda weird to be watching this decades later to realize we were actually watching two future American state governors lol.
Hey Trixy, "want some candy?" (watch Predator 2 to get that reference).
3:34 your kitten is overboard and missing in the jungle. loved it.🤫
It was originally Jean-Claude Van Damme as playing the Predator. But for JCVD the mask and body suit made him pass out out of dehydration. So he was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall
The Terminator (1984) was Arnold's 8th movie and it was the break that propelled him to frontline Hollywood status.
Predator (1987) was his 12th film and he was by now already well established as a major Hollywood star.
Arnold really took charge of his career and was instrumental in choosing or acquiring movie/book rights, not being afraid to experiment with genres many didn't imagine him portraying.
Fun drinking game... Every time it says "Oh my God" you down a shot...
The person who's kidneys have not failed within the first 30 minutes wins.
the actor playing billy had a serious problem with drinking and fighting and had two or three huge black bouncers only to drag him away before he could cause trouble. also I love that when Arnold needed someone to fight in movies, they had to get his huge bodybuilding buddies to find someone to make it even seem real. I just imagine the director like "we need someone to stand next to Arnold and not look like a wimp"
Arnold " ill hit up golds gym"
and they hired a black man over 7 feet tall, dwarfing Arnie.
"Is he gonna start worshiping that thing?" I'll always remember this from now on 🤣🤣🤣
That's the point. Arnold was a deliberate choice of character as he's a reconstruction of the action hero. He can do all those things, and he's powerless against the Predator.
The director, John McTioernan's, next movie was Die hard where he made it so obvious that no one could miss it by getting caught in their biases around the main character.
31:30 that wasn’t the plan, making even more genius as he had to improvise. The log is the counter-weight for the actual trap - the twine on the floor drops between 2 logs with spikes, the Predator triggers the trap and the twine pulls him up and impales him on the spikes.
Great reaction to an awesome movie. Scared the shit out of me as a kid and led to a lot of sleepless nights.
The last trap wasn't a two-parter, though. The idea was that the predator would walk into it, knock the stick loose and when the log dropped, the vine would be jerked up into the Predator's crotch and pull him up into the spikes. Predator noticed the spikes and went around. It was just dumb luck that he stood under the log. It took me an embarrassingly long time to work that out.
The tree trunk was never a trap. It was apart of the deadfall trap in which when triggered, would act as a counter-balance weight to trap its victim. It trunk was NEVER its own trap. It was by sheer coincidence that the predator was standing right under the trunk so you could kick the trigger and drop it right on the predator.
Such a manly handshake I think Trixy grew a moustache for a second there.
"Noooo the trees!"
...oh you're going to be REALLY unhappy in a few minutes XD
03:33 your cat dropped 😅
(5:18) Guerrilla refers to a member of a small, independent, fast-moving combat unit that conduct hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, raids, and sabotage. Guerrillas are often made up of paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, and irregular military forces. Other terms that have been used to describe guerrillas include insurgents, partisans, rebels, mercenaries, terrorists, and resistance fighters.
(6:00) No, Billy is not clairvoyant. He is a tracker. This means he is an expert in identifying and interpreting physical evidence left behind by other people. Trackers have to be highly observant as they provide valuable information that allows them to pursue and locate their target. This is likely a combination of his Native American background and military training.
(10:22) The Predator uses infrared vision that allows them to detect the emissions of thermal heat. The advantage is that the Predator can more easily detect their prey as their body heat will stand out more.
(29:33) The Predators are an alien race of trophy hunters. This is why they collected the skulls of their prey. So either the Predator was looking over Dutch’s skull for his collection, or he was seeing if there was anything unique about him since Dutch proved to be such a difficult prey to hunt. The Predator removed his mask and advanced weaponry not only out of respect for a worthy opponent, but also because of their code of honor which is further explored in subsequent sequels and novels.
"True Lies" stars Arnold Schwarzenegger AND was made by the same guy who made the first two Terminator movies. I just rewatched it myself a month ago and was literally blown away by it...the action is incredibly good, the story rocks, and the comedy is hilarious.
Also on that same note, I think you had mentioned about watching the Terminator "trilogy" in those videos. I'm guessing people already told you but only the first two really matter, since those are the only two made by the original creator of the franchise. There are actually like 5 or 6 movies overall at this point, some of which feature Arnold and some don't but again, the first two are really the ones that matter.
Billy is Native American, he is very in tune with his surroundings. His necklace was a medicine pouch. His family could have been from a long line of Shamanic healers, or "Witch Doctors".
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