PREDATOR (1987) | First Time Watching! | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Carl Weathers | Reaction & Review 

The director felt sorry for the actor as the predator for wearing the suit in the heat during filming that he gave him a small role as the chopper pilot at the end when they pick up Dutch. 🚁

3:47 “I never knew how much I missed this, Dutch.” “You never were that smart.”

The Predator wasn't trying to kill Arnold when he shot at him, he was destroying his gun, look at how the gun falls apart.

Fun fact: 3 of the actors in Dutch’s 6 man team ran for Governor. 2 of them won.

This is my childhood favourite. Watched this movie umpteen times.

Billy said earlier on in the movie “We’re all going to die” because he knew that their fate was inevitable. He knows what the mindset of a hunter is because he was one, and that it would not stop until they were all dead 1 by 1. Him stopping to face the Predator was him taking is fate into his own hands and saying I know I’m going to die but I’d rather die on my terms fighting face to face instead of running away which is why he threw his gun away. A very noble death which is why the predator took his skull as a trophy and not anybody else’s.

Billy didn't want to die a coward so he made his last stand

“Miniguns” are so named because their size is relatively small compared with the size of the weapon upon which they were based: the Gatling guns.

24:03 The predators plasma caster actually hits Arnold’s weapon. So he doesn’t actually get hit with it, if you look closely you can see his gun shatter to pieces

Fun fact: Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally the Predator and the costume looked more like a big bug, but he quit during filming because it was too hot in the suit. They then went back to the drawing board and redesigned it. I think it’s safe to say it worked out for the best.

When the Predator “shoots” Arnold shortly after Billy’s death, he doesn’t actually hit Arnold. He misses Arnold and hits his gun, if you watch carefully the gun splintered in his arms. The effects made it look like he hit Arnold in the shoulder similar to Dillon, but he just shot his gun.

This movie is a masterpiece in mixing up genres. Its an 80s horror film disguised as an action film. It's like Jason hunting teenagers but instead its the predator hunting the most manliest men on earth.

I was lucky enough to visit the Predator filming location back in 2015. It's now a zip-line tourist attraction just outside of Puerto Vallarta. The base camp seen at 6:45 is now a restaurant. They even have a life-sized statue of the Predator there!

Arnolds character "Dutch" lives on in literature and ties into the latest predator game for the PS4. Predator 2 is underrated by many I watch it just as much as this film.

The predator didn't get lucky. He hit was he was aiming for - Arnold's weapon. He was toying with his prey like a cat with a mouse. At least that's what I think.

21:00 That wasn't an "ethnic" death. That was an "everyone dies in a Predator movie" death

I had so many nightmares after watching this when i was young. Kept imagining the the predator was standing outside in the trees, invisible, watching me.

21:07 I've seen this movie countless times and not once have I considered Mac's death, an "ethnic" death. I just thought of it as another guy dying. There are 7 people in this group. 2 white, 2 black, 2 Hispanic, and 1 native American. They all die except 2 of them. So in what world is it racist. My point: All your effort to be more tolerant and inclusive, has had the opposite effect.

"I thought the creature design stood up really well" Well It was made by the Stan Winston studios. He who made many, many top notch movies, including the Terminator series.

it's called a minigun because it's a scaled-down version of the mounted versions on planes and ships

"Good on you for not killing the ethnic people?" Two white guys were murdered first. This movie is feom the 1980s, we should be thankful that the black guys didn't die first. Also the Predator was played by a very good black actor who managed to create such a great character without words and pure body language. REST IN PEACE Kevin Hall!

Re: The “mini-gun” name. It’s called “mini” because that gun is not designed to be carried by hand but only mounted onto helicopters and that that model is a smaller model of a much bigger one. Again, that people use them by hand in movies is pure fiction as carrying the ammunition would be impossibly heavy and cumbersome and that it requires an external power source which also would have to be carried; hence why they are only mounted on helicopters (and maybe other vehicles I am not aware of)

From the moment Arnold hits the water till the end of the movie. So iconic.

"Dont aliens always land in America?" Yes. Unless its Doctor Who then its always Britain.

This film features the manliest handshake ever to grace cinema. I was seven when I first saw it, and instantly sprouted a 5 o'clock shadow.

The reason the blast didn't kill Arnold is because his weapon shielded him just enough

I love how focused Achara is with the skin colour and genitalia of the actors in the movie.

The mud doesnt actually hide Dutchs heat if you notice the Predator sees in Infrared normally all the helmet does is filter out the heat from the environment and since Dutch was covered in mud it thought he was part of the environment and filtered his heat signature out.

Alan Silvestri's soundtrack for this film was reminded to me in the last 2 Avengers films, also scored by him, especially in the confrontations with Thanos. When the trio confronted Thanos in Endgame, the music from that scene reminded me of the confrontation between the Predator and Dutch at the end of this film.

Billy chose a warrior’s death as depicted throughout history- mano a mano with one simple tool.

you managed to make predator about race! well done!

You guys - The Predators, with their tech, they are able to see "heat signatures" - when Arnold's character is all covered up in mud, it then prevents The Predator from actively seeing him: it is arrant camouflage. ✌😌

Billy’s laugh is my favorite part lol

Dutch's gun takes the blast which is why he didn't get annihilated. The shrapnel from the gun getting totaled is what bloodied him up. Great reaction. you guys are awesome. Subscribing!

This is a good example of how NOT to act if you’re reacting to a film you’ve seen with someone who hasn’t, IMO.

I hate how some reactors condescend to the Predator by calling it clever or being surprised it has a first aid kit. This species developed invisibility technology, energy weapons and space ships! COME ON!!!

Predator is my most favourite action movies of all time..Starring my most favourite action star ARNOLD

What an absolute classic! Glad you guys are reacting to this 😃

Glad Achara finally saw this masterpiece. She needs to see "Commando" for Arnold's classic cheesy one liners.

Billy didn’t want to die running away, he wanted to die fighting if he was going to die, he simply decided to make a stand

For those who may not know, the black helicopter pilot towards the end of the film is Kevin Peter Hall, the man who played the Predator.

As a child I wanted see this movie so bad, but neither of my parents would take to the movies to see it because of the rating and violence. A year later I still hadn’t seen it, then we went on a family trip to Disneyland and after a first evening at the hotel pool it came on Showtime-great memories.

Rest in power, Stan Winston, creature designer for the Predator, and one of the most influential creatives in Hollywood history.

5:20 -- Arnold is one of the few civilians who own both a military tank AND a GE-MiniGun.

(On Arnold only getting a flesh wound)- "He was such a good shot before; how could he miss him?" The Predator didn't miss- he deliberately shot Arnold's rifle splitting it in two because the weapon posed the only real threat, and the Predator wanted to draw this out. Toy with him for a bit before making the kill.

This should be a series "80's with Achara!" Watch "Commando" great film.

Predator 2 is beyond underrated

Whats interesting with this movie is the tone change midway. First we see a "classic" Macho filled with testosterone action flick, where US commandos brings Freedom to Locals in their own country, like we used to see in the 80's. And then... we see those same bad asses who can take a whole little army on themselfs, getting picked one by one, by an unknowned enemy, and you see them loose their shit for the first time. And the climax is the Hunted becoming the Hunter and vice versa, when Arny reverse the roles, of him laying traps and becoming invisible for its adversary, taking him by surprise. Its once again a terrific job By John McTiernan, who is also the director of Die Hard and Hunt for Red October.

Actually mud does block your heat signature..Even dry Depends how thick it is

We Indians have watched this movie more than 10 times 😂❤️

The line was: Dillon: I never knew how much I missed this, Dutch. Dutch: You never were that smart.

24:00 Let me explain, the reason why Arnold's wound was lesser from the plasma cannon compared to other people whose body parts were blown off, is because the predators plasma cannon has a charging mechanism. The more it charges its shot, the more power it has and the more damage it will inflict. So the predator only fired off a weak, uncharged shot on Arnold so that his wound is lesser.

Well this was unexpected 😂😂

30:32, Arnold just turned the table. The predator is now firing at the invisible enemy. Very well-made movie.

"Ohh, hi there!" Haha I love Achara. It would be awesome to watch movies she hasn't seen with her.

How in the actual Fcuk has someone born in the early 80’s not seen The Predator?

When the Predator removed his helmet, he was following Billy's actions just like Billy threw his guns away and took his knife for close combat

Some feel that the violence near the beginning was gratuitous because it was for a subplot that went nowhere and had nothing to do with the Predator, but I think the subplot was to throw the audience off in order to surprise us later as well as to get us invested in the characters before they are hunted, and the ultra-violence we were shown was to establish the characters as bad-asses among men, which provides a contrast with how they're mercilessly picked off one by one by the Predator. The latter makes the Predator seem even more impressively scary, of course. He was successfully hunting some of the world's greatest bad-asses, not just a bunch of random people.

The monster looks more realistic than modern creature effects because CGI looks fake and these are real costumes.

billy cut himself because he didn’t want to give the jungle hunter the satisfaction of drawing first blood

I swear to god I love Jabs laugh. ALWAYS makes me laugh every time he does lol.

From what I remember, Billy knew he couldn’t beat the Predator with guns, so he bet on knife to knife combat, since the Predator honors equal fights, he won’t bring a gun to a knife fight. So to even the odds, he went for the knife, but lost still…

I love it when he started smiling as soon as Arnold yelled DO IT NOW!

" You never were that smart " was the line in the chopper when carl weathers says " i missed this "

I thought Billy didn't want to be picked off or hunted down (like an animal). He told the predator to come get him, he's not afraid the be killed, rather to be killed fighting face to face. Predator fought Arnold because he was a formidable opponent and his skull would make a great trophy. How about The Last Starfighter next.

mini- +‎ gun, so-called because General Electric designers scaled-down the rotating-barrel 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannon for 7.62×51mm ammunition (in order to create a weapon with a higher and more reliable rate of fire). So it is the smaller ( mini version ) of a way bigger gun.

36:00 I liked that the effects people created something special for the self-destruct instead of using the regular gasoline fireball, since where would the Predator even have been carrying enough explosive material for that big of a blast. it makes sense that it's a sci-fi bomb that pulls energy from it's surroundings or something.

If you look closely at Dutch getting shot, the blast hits his weapon, not his arm. The blast burns his skin though that's why it didn't get torn off.

This lady seemed waaaay too preoccupied with what race died at what moment.

I'm definitely biased, but I'd highly recommend watching Predator 2 with her as well. It's definitely a different movie, as you said, but even though the first one is better as a film I still find the sequel a much more fun and rewatchable movie.

Achara is a classic example of when the "Progressive Attitude" goes far enough that it basically reverses the same Racism/Sexism problems. Kinda infuriating to watch at times.

Predators aka Yautja have multiple vision modes that they can use to see heat, light, metal etc.

OHH SHIZZNITT. FIRST TIME PREDATOR? "IF IT BLEEDS WE CAN KILL IT?"

the 'shells' at 28:05 are actualy 40 mm low velocity grenades, probably HE or HEDP based on the shape.....

Sonny Landham, who played Billy, was real life bad ass. He had bodyguards, not to protect him from others, but to protect others from him.

When Dillloohhnn (sorry using Arnold voice) was saying he missed going on secret ops and rescue missions Arnold says " you never were that smart"

With the laugh he was mimicking Billy.

5:12 it's called a minigun because it was conceived as a more portable version of the 20mm M61 Vulcan gatling gun used in fighter jets, so since this one fires 7.62mm rounds it is "mini" in comparison with the original design.

This was the 3rd Hollywood movie I watched for the first time in my life after Starwars and Aliens. And it will be the movie of my life, never understood the story and never thought the acting was great but I will watch this movie a thousand times and never get bored. I have watched it already 50times and every time I drink and get bored I will watch this. It was so cool and awesome and macho.

The reaction to the Anti hostage bullets was priceless.

When Billy scared we’re all scared

Disagree with the lady in that these characters were not your typical army action types. Each character brought something new and were cast well. She also said some of the movie looked dated in comparison today’s special effects, this movie looks better than most of today’s action movies. Take a look at Loki’s TV show, some of the scenes look like bad green screen shots. Anyway classic movie and one of the Best Arnold performances.

So the reason I think the Predator wasn't able to get a better shot on Dutch in the "get to the choppa" scene is because Dutch was unloading nonstop fire on him with his mini-gun, basically causing it to be distracted enough that it couldn't get off a clean shot. It was just able to clip Dutch, but that's all. It's hard to have perfect aim when a nonstop barrage of bullets are being fired at it. EDIT: Spot on about the acting. I really undervalued how good this film was growing up and dismissed it as another cheesy 80s action flick, but the acting is extremely convincing and lived in as well as the film has as strong horror atmosphere.

The helicopter pilot at the end is Kevin Peter Hall. Kevin was also the actor as the Predator.

Alan Silvestri also wrote “Portals” for Endgame’s final fight. I still get chills listening to it.

"Did they land in America? They didn't?! Aliens always land in America, did they not get the memo?!" Well, they landed in the Americas, so I guess close enough??? Shruggs shoulder, spits tobacco chew

At 3:50 - after Dylan said he never realized how much he missed this stuff - Dutch responded "You never were that smart."

this was a great react - good job on the editing and high quality :) 10/10

Predator and Commando are the two all time best Arnold Classics...T2 2

I would like to see more thriller movies with Achara.. more entertainment..

3:50 The line Arnold says is "You never were that smart."

The guy flying the helicopter at the end was the man in the Predator suit.

Achara should see Alien & Aliens if she hasn't already. Would love to see her reaction to those 2 movies.

Before everything went “woke”

It's called a mini-gun because it's a scaled down version of a 20mm Gatling gun usually mounted on vehicles and aircraft.

Greatest action sci-fi horror movie of all time next to RoboCop, released the same year too :D Trivia... - Sonny Landham (Billy)... had to have a bodyguard on set at all times. Not to protect himself though. To protect others from him. Considering he was surrounded by guys who were all over 20 stones, and athletes, his antics were legendary. His form of play fighting was actually just fighting. His bodyguard was apparently 3 times the size of Arnie and was ex-military :D - Predator's good tech first aid kit, was a real veterinary kit :D - Greatest handshake in history - Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original Predator... but he acted like a diva, moaned that he was the biggest star in the film even though he was unknown at the time, then moaned about not having his face seen on camera... then he caused a stuntman to get injured because he had a diva-tantrum, and then got fired. They then replaced him with Kevin Peter Hall, redesigned the Predator, and then also cast KPH as the chopper pilot at the end of the film so his face could be seen on camera as a middle finger to JCVD. The casting of Shane Black was so McTiernan could have an emergency writer on set when something didn't work.

24:00 it hits his gun, you see the gun break in half and fly in pieces if you really look.

Without knowing what Achara hasnt seen it will be difficult to recommend, but Robocop is a damn good one if she hasnt seen that, Predator 2 might not be as well praised as the first but its still a good movie, it adds a bit more of the Predator lore and it has Bill Paxton in it which is always a plus.

J . McTirnan shooted Predator at 1987 very difficultly in a jungle , the background is real jungle in Latin America . The film was shooted like a Horror- Stalker survival movie , with a little of sci - fi fiction momments. Yes, Alan Silvestri is the man behind scenes , with that epic soundtrack . Great composer !

i have put this in my IMDB watchlist....this is one of those big classics that i haven't watched yet.