Bill Paxton was the first actor in all three Terminator, Aliens and Predator but you also have Lance Hendrikson. He was in Terminator, Aliens and Alien vs. Predator. Great review lads
I watched this back when it first came out and had no idea who OSWReview were. I quit watching the vid when they got to The Predator because i hadn't seen it yet. Forgot to ever come back to finish the vid. However since then i stumbled across OSWReview and have watched EVERY video they have to offer! and then this comes along in my recommendations and i realize it was the OSW guys in this vid! Oh me meow! Happy days are here again! It was likely this video that made OSW pop up in my recommendations years ago! The circle of youtube life.
Poncho was for sure my favorite character in Predator as well, though I never knew why. I grew up in a family with multiple special forces soldiers in it so maybe he just seemed more like a real soldier to me watching this movie over and over as a kid. Come to find out as an adult that the actor who played him was a legit SF badass! Go figure!
Nice! I can say that the deaths in the second film seem quick or offscreen because the film was like the one of the first to get the (At the time) new NC-17 and had to be edited down like crazy to get an R, like i'm guessing with Bill Paxton's death and the Posse member entangled in the net.
This was totally worth the long watch Matt! Felt you guys were way too harsh on the recent Predator film and Predator 2, but hey to each their one I suppose. I just hope we keep getting more Predator games/movies in the future.
I remember that film having only seen it once many moons ago. It's the Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas and a killer lion in Africa film. I think it was based in a true story.
Predator 2 is a great movie, I hated it at first, probably because arnie wasn't in it, but it is good. Robocop and predator came out for rent on the same day at our local video rental shop. I think that the aliens v predator capcom game is based on the comics? Maybe worth a google.
Wish there was more affinity for Predator 2. There's no way The Predator is better than Predator 2. The Predator invented new ways of being dumb. And I think Predators is guilty of being a forgettable film.
Predators isnt so bad after a few viewings in my opinion but i hated it when i seen it in cinema . Predator 2 is under rated . They need to get a decent director and do alien vs predator some justice, personally i would love a movie with the yautja as the main character
I always liked to interpret the happy slideshow at the end of Predator as Dutch flashing back to moments either on the mission or in their career when they were happy. So it’s still kind of a downer, since Dutch is sitting in a helicopter covered in ash, staring into the middle distance and remembering the faces of people he saw get utterly ripped by a horrifying alien monster.
I was 6 when my dad took me to see this in the theater; it's stuck with me ever since, and is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watch it at least once a year. Own it on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4k Blu-ray. This movie always makes me giddy. Arnold is my childhood hero. I'll watch anything with him in it. He is absolutely the embodiment of the American Dream, and I wish he were my dad.
i followed the osw review lads here great reviews. my one grip is that in predator 2 review u say that he doesnt try set a nuke off like in predator 1 when he losing, he does just before he cuts off his arm
I didn't see any mention that one of the creatures they encounter at first is the original design that was going to be used in the first movie. The JCVD red bug suit
I'm probably way wrong, but I thought the last shot in Predators was to show that 1 season is just 1 day/night cycle on that planet. Meaning Lawrence Fishdaddy went nuts after 10 days.
There’s hints to say he’s been there since Vietnam. Not really sure what a season means, but I don’t think it’s just one cycle of people. I think it’s multiple groups until it’s done and they come back later.
Thanks for the Predator Podcast Matt! Disappointed Predator 2 got knocked down. Perhaps it’s the first film I ever saw all those tropes, so I don’t mind it. Found it as a fun film, silly, but fun. But hey, that’s what opinions are for. Everyone has them. Maybe I’m weird though as I can still find Alien 3 enjoyable. (Not as much as P2) Would you compare The Predator with Alien Resurrection? Both films are ALL over the place.
Personally I think the predators use the bomb to destroy there gear and prevent the races that there hunting from gaining there technology Edit 1: just watched more. I know for fact the certain scenes where cut out of newest movie as one the actor had a criminal past and they did not want his name attached to the movie Edit 2: don't know who the actor was
Pretty much. He doesn't pull out the bomb because he doesn't want to lose, he already lost and is seconds away from death anyway. He just wants to make sure there's no traces of him or his technology left behind.
I believe one of the games is actually based off the premise that the Yaujta failed to activate his bomb and got chased off/nearly killed by his attackers. His clan members/elders are pissed that he fucked up to such a degree and send him back to Earth to fix his mistake.
Predator came out the same time in the video shops as Robocop in the UK, personally the biggest and best two films of that era to then choose which film was best. They both are going to be legendary films for years to come just because they were just epically stunning.
Holy shit, bruh! My first Predator memory was back when the VCRs still had the remote wired to the deck. I walked in and my dad says "Son, you don't wanna watch this, it'll scare you". I saw the Predator come up out of the pond and he's sparking. I immediately said "..... OH MY GOD, THIS IS AWESOME!!" Good times!
Predator 2 was based on the Predator comic, Concrete Jungle where they weren't allowed to use Arnold's character, Dutch, for some reason. To make up for this, the comic writer said the bomb that blew up at the end of the first Predator, had some chemical component where it screwed with Dutch's face and DNA making him crazy so he jumped out of a hospital window and wound up "missing". In Dutch's place is a cop who happens to be Dutch's younger brother, John Schaefer. The comic itself was good up until the whole war of the worlds thing where you see a bunch of flying saucers. But yeah, if you get a chance, read the comic because you see where the story deviates and why they probably should have stuck with more comic elements than they did.
The reason the predator would activate their gauntlet bomb was to make sure no one got their technology/body. Predator 2 was also a very good movie. Danny Glover was excellent as Lt. Mike Harrigan and the movie even explored more of the lore behind the Yautja species. It wasn't the first one, but it still is a good time and watch.
Just ONE Alien in "Predators" is the difference between mediocre and greatness for that movie. Its a preserve with established multiple life forms in boxes so missed opportunity.
god damn it matt i had to turn on the closed captioning because for a second there i thought you said king woolie instead of king willie and as an osw/ super best friends fan my body is not ready for woolie to rock a king gimmick last thing i need is for you guys to have a crown vs crown match at the next rustlemania we do not need the king of kings vs the king of lairs
Also, It’s worth noting that they Replaced Van-Damme, who has a Martial Arts & Dancing Background, with Kevin Peter Hall, Who also had a Martial Arts and Dancing Background.
One of the best scenes in Predator is when Arnie swims out of the water, resting his head and then the predator hits the water. If I remember correctly that's the first time we get to see what it looks like.
Some behind the scenes knowledge for ya Matt. The cast of Predator would compete over who could work out the longest and the hardest. So examples of this was Jesse Ventura (i think it was him )would get up an hour earlier before the rest of the cast and spray water on his face and make it look like he had been working out. This would result in cast members trying to outdo each other by getting up earlier, which led some getting up at like 6 or 5 am just so they could act like they were making bigger gains. Another youtube channel goes into accurate detail about this, just type in fact fiend with Karl Smallwood.
Only just watched this. The production was a mess, the reshoots had them take out additional predators who were in the film. You can see shots of this online. Also, they filmed a sequence with Ripley coming out of the pod at the end. It was a different actress, you just saw who name on her suit as she came out the pod. They decided this wouldn’t be a great ending…..can’t imagine why…it doesn’t make any fucking sense. Great video lads
I like predator 2 on the sole basis they really expand the predator code of honor. Predators was fine except for the serial killer part. Because a serial killer is actually the weakest type of killer, they only kill people weaker than them through unfair method. It actually made more sense if he's a real doctor. The predators put him so the soldiers don't immediately die because of untended wound or something. And about the Olivia Munn character, you sure her gun proficiency is the only problem? At the last part, she appeared out of nowhere. To do that she basically had to jump a cliff and run through a forest at the same speed of an alien ship. You can't explain that with "yeah i used to serve in the military"
Ah but what you fail to take into account is that it’s a secret branch of the military where they gave her the captain America serum and turned her into the winter solider
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Brock being a serial killer in itself is it's own kind of Predator, and it makes sense he doesn't look like he belongs. Being a doctor would give him some knowledge of some natural poisons, acids and alkalines
I’m re-watching this because of the reveal of the Prequel for Predator called "Prey" and it looks promising if it can forgive for "The Predator" then I’ll take it.
Bill Paxton hams it up in Predator 2, but in a wonderful 90s cheese, Todd Pettengill kinda way. P2 is owns cus of Paxton and Busey alone. They chew the scenery and hotdog and grandstand like clint-hogan. Soooo violent. Nothing can top the jungle, but it really works in the urban jungle too. Had a great main event (brrrrrrggghh) and post-match bollix and backstage ska. I own it on laser disc. Doesn't deserve all the go away heat it gets.
The movie should've gone like this: One predator ship is being attacked by a larger one and it crashes on Earth. An area 51 style bunker houses the surviving predator and the military scientists are examining the tech. We are introduced to a mixed bunch of special forces types ( like in Predator 1 and Aliens) . Predator wakes up and starts his killing spree. The special forces team are given orders by their superior to do anything to stop this thing from getting off the base. Predator spends the rest of the movie picking off the team in order to regain his weapons and ship inside the locked down base. You can build up the characters and show how they get on with eachother or not as the case may be which will mean you actually care when they get bumped off. It gives you and enclosed space to work in and builds tension of will it escape or will they kill it? Big fight scene with the team leader vs predator. If you want to continue the wolves vs dogs thing from predators you can have the scientists accidentally set of the beacon for the larger predator from the larger ship at the start of the movie turn up after you think the action has reached its climax. How do you kill this one off? Guess who's been giving the orders the whole time. Enter Schwarzenegger, he's in charge of the base due to his knowledge of these things. You can leave it on a cliffhanger or have him revert back to his old ways and act as the ultimate predator killer.
Didn't the predator in Predator 2 try to blow himself up? The only thing that stopped it was because the cop guy fucking ninja threw the sharp Frisbee and sliced off the Predators forearm?
Years late but for what it's worth. the Predator nuking himself isn't to pull a Hogan. The Yautja (Predators) are VERY protective of their technology, and are to destroy or recover it if lost under ANY costs.
I wouldn't say I love Predator 2, but there is a lot of stuff I love about Predator 2, and like Matt says, I re-watched it not too long ago and it wasn't as bad as I remembered. I will say I have more respect for it than I do Predators, which just feels like a safe sequel. It tries so hard to be the first, it's almost adorable. But so much of that movie just makes no sense or doesn't work for me, it makes me think that a 14 year was in charge of the script or something. And not in a dumb fun way, just a dumb way.
I interpreted the end of Predators not as a sequel stinger but as a stinger to something Laurence Fishburne said earlier, he mentions he's been on the planet for 10 seasons, and the end is the revelation that each new day is a new season thus Laurence Fishburne has only been there for 10 days, showing the final survivors that they will die on the planet!
jungles of mexico would be an incredibly difficult to shoot movies. alot of cartel activity occurs there (smuggling, compounds and grow operations) villages of members armed just as heavily as government infantry federales, which dont even really go to most of those area as they would get gunned out of there so fast. it would be a huge liability to have a filming crew and cast be out there. perfect hostages , if their lives were spared. these cartels here have taken out small villages, moral standards are absent as children and women are found in mass graves tied to them pretty often.
It's a pity that when Arnie was coming face to face with the predator that you couldn't see Billy's knife stuck in his back showing that Billy got a hit in before being smashed
Not that this is going to change the collective shitting on P2, but the DVD commentary for the film with the Thomas Bros. stated that it was a hunting party of Preds hunting all over the surrounding area, the City Hunter being the young buck who's reckless.
Another behind the scenes story was that arnold schwarzenegger made a clothing designer trick Jesse Ventura into thinking he had bigger biceps then Arnold (Arnold knew he had bigger biceps cause the designer told him the measuements of his biceps and Ventura's). Once Ventura was told that he had bigger biceps then Arnold, he immediately walked up to Arnold saying that he had bigger biceps, Arnold placed a bet with Ventura over who had the bigger biceps knowing that he had bigger biceps then Ventura. In the end, Arnold had bigger biceps, and Ventura was tricked into bet he was always going to lose. Again FACT FIEND WITH KARL SMALLWOOD is where i got this knowledge from.
I was unfortunate/ stupid enough to go and watch predators in the cinemas, and during the scene revealed he was a sneaky serial killer, I shit you not, a lady on the other side of the cinema gasped..........................
