Predator (1987) | Reaction | First Time Watching 

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R.I.P. Carl Weathers.

They tried to debunk the theory that you can hide with a layer of mud from heat vision and it turned out to be true. The best heat vision cameras in the world couldn’t pick him up.

by the mid 80's, special effects had gotten good enough to where they could make arnold look much more human

"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but you kill it in the process" ~ E. B. White

Think of the Preator as a trophy hunter, the more challenging the prey, the more valuable the trophy. The girl wasn't a challenge, basically killing her wasn't worth his time.

“I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. ” - Mitch Hedberg

Yes the predator being able to fairly easily end that whole team leaves one thinking there is no way Arnold's character can win, which makes the final outcome infinitely more satisfying for the audience.

23:24 most people miss this (I did for decades) but the Predator actually hit Arnold's gun and the shrapnel from the gun hurt his arm.

A lot of people, including myself, always thought, bullshit, that mud wouldn't work like that. There's a youtube channel where they tested it out. One guy covered himself with thick mud, and the other guys used thermal goggles and they were all pretty surprised that it worked pretty damn good. The channel is Corridor Crew, the video is Can Mud ACTUALLY hide you from Predator???. It came out about 3 months ago.

RIP Carl Weathers and Kevin Peter Hall the Predator.

Predator mimicking and taunting Dutch's men is not only intimidating 😳 but downright scary, too! Especially when the Predator uses Billy's laugh at the end of the film before the Predator nuked himself! -OG

I appreciate this channel because you know when to talk, and you're insightful. You don't ramble incessantly over dialogue and key scenes to the films you're reacting to. That may seem like a small thing, but it's extremely important.

Corridor Crew not to long ago tested mud against the best infrared vision available today, and it works surprisingly well. This was the first movie to feature a hand-held minigun. What you don‘t see is the car batteries it needs to operate. Also they had to use a quarter of the original rotation speed. With real ammo instead of blanks it wouldn‘t be controllable hand-held at all. In initial tests Jean Claude Van Damme played the Predator, when the suit still looked quite a bit different. He dropped out, because the part wasn‘t big enough. Kevin Peter Hall took over, who has a much more imposing stature. He can be seen in the end as the pilot of the chopper. The guy with the bad jokes is played by Shane Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon. Producer Joel Silver wanted to have him on set as an on-hand script doctor. Black later became a director, e.g. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, Iron Man 3, and one of the Predator sequels. This is one of two movies with the same two future governors in the cast. Arnold Schwarzenegger for California and Jesse Ventura for Minnesota. The other movie is The Running Man.

The helicopter pilot at the end of the film is Keven Peter Hall. He also played the part of the Predator in the film. Big man. May he RIP. Died very young, in his 30's. Great reaction / review. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

RIP Carl weathers and Sonny Langham 😢 thanks for making our childhood so wonderful 😢 ❤

Probably already mentioned, but the Predator monster in this movie proved to be pretty difficult to design. At an early stage Jean Claude van Damme (yes - him!) was hired to run around in a goofy orange foam suit for the camouflage scenes, (and a pretty poor creature suit). It just didn't work. Legend has it that Stan Winston later happened to be seated next to James Cameron on a flight, and asked him for advice. Cameron sketched the "crab/lobster face with dreadlocks" design for Winston, which then became the iconic design for the "ugly motherf*cker". Bonus trivia: the Predator was played by Kevin Peter Hall, who John McTiernan gave the role of the helicopter pilot in the end, so that he could appear in the film without suit/make-up.

Mythbusters tested if mud can hide you from heat sensors and what they found out is that yes it can hide you but only for a few seconds. Your body temperature will quickly increase the temperature of the mud and you will be detected. Dutch using mud for as long as he did is movie magic, however, the initial time when he came out from the water covered in mud might have worked because the Predator was there within seconds and quickly ran off. But, that was the only moment that it COULD have worked.

One very subtle detail from this movie that I really love is during the scene where Anna is explaining about how the Jungle Hunter had been stalking the region for years during the hottest months; Dutch (Arnold)'s face is out of focus and looking away while she is talking, which makes the shine from the sweat more visible and when she says that its Spanish name means "the demon that makes trophies of men", he looks towards the camera and the shine of the sweat looks like the shape of a skull overlayed on his face. It then of course slowly shifts focus onto him, symbolizing that he is the trophy.

This takes place in the jungle of the fictional country of Valverde which is also the same country portrayed in the Arnold movie Commando. The villain in Die Hard 2 is also from this make believe country so you could say all 3 movies are in the same universe

'I think it would have been better if we hadn't seen the spaceship at the beginning.' While on one level I do agree with you, I also know the spaceship was shown in order to inform the audience there would be a sci-fi element. Imagine you go to see this action movie, knowing nothing about it, and half way through the Predator is firing lazer blasts and turning invisible. If you're going to do something like that then you have to set it up, else risk your audience scoffing and saying, 'As if.' For the record that is the same reason they showed the spaceship at the start of The Thing.

R.I.P. Carl Weathers. My favourite slasher movie, Arnie makes such a great final girl!

A lot of, maybe most, RU-vid reactors think the blood in Predator somehow relates to the decision making process of the the Predator, and it leaves Anna alive because she has blood on her pants. This is not the case. She discovers the blood but the others can’t know about it yet so rather than having green on her hands she removes it with a quick wipe. If the others see it on her pants it doesn’t imply she purposely touched the stuff or that she is even aware she has green stuff on her. The Predator doesn’t attack her, because she’s not much of a sporting kill if she’s unarmed. He has a moral hunter’s ethic, which is completely established in ‘Predator 2’ which is to me, a great watch but also, very over the top, John Woo-ish kind of 80s violence. It’s ridiculous but pretty sweet. I think you’d like it judging by your reaction to this first one. The number one thing people don’t get in the first Predator film is that when Dutch gets shot at by the Predator, he actually gets hit in the gun. That’s why he survives that shot. He got lucky. Thanks for making videos eh.

The Predator was on holiday, on safari. The original actor to play the Predator was Jean-Claude Van Damme (before he was famous) but quit very early as he could not stand wearing the suit for 12 hours a day i9n all that heat, what a wimp 😊😊The black guy at the end of the film in the helicopter is the actor who played the Predator, Kevin Peter Hall (R.I.P) he did such a good job they gave him a small 5 secs in the film. He also played Bigfoot in "Harry and the Henderson's" A lot of peeps knock Predator 2, but i thought it was pretty good. Lots more interesting facts about this film but i will let you google them. Great reaction, loved it

The Big Guy with the Minigun, (I ain't got time to bleed) is Jesse Ventura. He was a WWE wrestler, and later he was elected Governor of Minnesota. He's also a good friend of Arnold.

Hey, Veronique! "Predator" is a Schwarzenegger action classic directed by John McTiernan, director of "Die Hard", "Die Hard with a Vengeance", "The Hunt for Red October", "Medicine Man", "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "The 13th Warrior". The Schwarzenegger-accented "Get to the chopper!" became a popular catch-phrase that entered into the general lexicon. The Predator species name is YAUTJA (YOWT-ja). They are interstellar sportsmen whose entire culture revolves around big game hunting. They test themselves against apex predators which often includes sentient beings like man. They have a code in that they do not kill the unarmed or the infirm as it is not challenging nor do they kill pregnant prey as a way of husbanding the livestock. If vanquished, they leave no trace of themselves behind by detonating a powerful bomb so as to leave the "preserve" pristine by not contaminating the indigenous culture with their technology. As a rite of passage, they must blood themselves by killing a xenomorph from the "Alien" series. If prey is worthy by offering good sport and defeating the hunter, the tribe will bestow the victor with a trophy. There's a pretty good Predator fan film on RU-vid set in the Middle Ages with knights called "Predator: Dark Ages" starring Adrian Bouchet (Steapa) from "The Last Kingdom"! The movie is an alien variant of "The Most Dangerous Game", the Richard Connell short story from 1924 which has inspired countless man-hunting-man movies like "Hard Target", "The Naked Prey", "Race with the Devil", "Southern Comfort", "The Running Man", "Surviving the Game" and "Beyond the Reach". The Central American guerrillas were probably Communists receiving supply and support from Russian advisors explaining the Soviet presence. Billy faced off against the Predator alone because he would rather die fighting than running; it was a matter of honor. He drew first blood with his machete so that the Predator would not have the privilege. It's a Native American custom. Anna was unarmed and, therefore, spared. Wounded Poncho was killed because he had already been marked as a combatant and was still holding a weapon. The Predator released Dutch, took off its mask and fought him hand-to-hand because it considered Dutch to be worthwhile prey. The Predator repeated Dutch's question back to him, "What the he!! are you?" as a way of expressing begrudging admiration for the puny meatbag that bested him. The last laugh was the Predator's mimicry. It was using a recording of Billy's laughter at Hawkins' lewd joke to express a fatalistic defiance to Dutch. Three of the cast went into politics! Schwarzenegger became Governor of California, former wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who played heavy-gunner Blaine, became Governor of Minnesota and Sonny Landham, who played tracker Billy, ran for Governor of Kentucky. Jean Claude Van Damme was supposed to be the Predator originally but he had difficulty with the alien suit as initially designed and was considered too small in stature to be threatening! Special Effects maestro Stan Winston was tasked with redesigning the alien to fit the 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall who appears, unmasked, as the helicopter pilot at the end. The dreds were inspired by a Rastafarian painting in producer Joel Silver's office and the mandibles were the contribution of a napkin sketch by director James Cameron who shared a flight and a brainstorming conversation with Winston by pure chance! Danny Glover stars in the underrated urban-set "PREDATOR 2" which has some memorable set pieces and provides more lore! Dark Horse comics capitalized on crossing the Predator franchise with the Alien franchise inspiring Hollywood to make TWO crossover "ALIEN vs. PREDATOR" films with moderately successful to excellent results. They're fun and exciting guilty pleasures with the second one, "ALIENS vs. PREDATOR: REQUIEM", being particularly lean and mean. There is also a "PREDATORS" film produced by Robert Rodriguez that is definitely worth a look. "THE PREDATOR" (2018) REBOOT, however, should be approached with caution as it very nearly killed the franchise! The 18th-century set "PREY" is an excellent prequel to the original film which was released on Hulu last August. The Alien films have a RICHER SUBTEXT while the Predator films are more ACTION FARE but they're both fun sci-fi thrillers. VIEWING ORDER: Alien Aliens (Special Edition) Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL] Predator (1987) Predator 2 Predators Prey Alien vs Predator Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (Unrated) Prometheus [OPTIONAL] Covenant [OPTIONAL] The Predator (2018) [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL] INTERNAL CHRONOLOGY: 1719 Prey 1987 Predator 1997 Predator 2 2004 Alien vs Predator 2004 Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (Unrated) 2010 Predators 2018 The Predator (2018) [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL] 2093 Prometheus [OPTIONAL] 2104 Covenant [OPTIONAL] 2122 Alien 2179 Aliens (Special Edition) 2179 Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) 2379 Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]

R.I.P. Carl. Now God’s got you pushing pencils in heaven. 🙏

The wholeheartedly believe the stunt actor was smoking a cigar as he was falling into the water 😂

"Oh! That's much bigger than I expected!" That's music to the Predator's ears...

Hawkins' jokes were off the charts!

They aren't expandable. That's a different franchise.

This movie is really creative in that they give you a perfect demonstration of how badass the team are and then immediately dismantle them. With the exception of Predator 2, they never really establish the heroes as being worthy opponents visually. Getting you in the mindset that you'll see invincible 80s Arnold and then outmatching him is such a great structure.

Arnold is the definition of one liners =P

Two former (future?) governors in this. Arnold, Gov of CA, and Jesse Ventura, Gov of MN.

"Verwy verwy quite!". Excellent! When the Predator shoots Arnie, he actually hits his gun. The helicopter pilot was Kevin Peter Hall, the Predator himself.

The helicopter pilot at the end with the sunglasses is the guy who played the Predator......he was over 7 feet tall

The Meme realization is always hilarious.

3:20 The Battle of Wei City was in 1968 not 72. But they did say "north of Wei" so they may not be referring to the battle itself.

In my opinion, the order to watch after this is "Predator 2" then "Prey"(a sequel).

"I think it'd be better if we didn't see the spaceship at the beginning" I always think this too!

Fun fact: the guy that says "I ain't got time to bleed" is Jesse "the Body" Ventura, former WWE Wrestler and Governor of Minnesota. He was also in the movie the Running Man with Arnold.

None of the advertisement for the film kept the alien bit secret. They were doing the opposite, selling the film under the guise that if nothing on this earth could defeat Arnold, here's something not of this earth for him to fight.

22:27 Disarming yourself wouldn’t work. Once the Predator has identified you as a combatant, you can’t undo that by dropping your gun. It only worked for Anna because she hadn’t been armed in the first place.

A good order to watch Predator movies: 1. This one. 2. Predator 2 (1990) - a fairly "mid" movie but it's a good setup for Prey which is a better movie. 3. Prey 4 Make sure you have seen as many Alien movies as you want to watch but at least the first 2 are recommended. 5. Alien vs. Predator - mediocre but has some cool stuff. 6. Alien vs. Predator 2 - ditto 7. Any other predator movies in release order. None of them are very good but if you got this far, might as well stay on for the whole ride.

The man piloting the helicopter that picks Dutch up at the end is who played the Predator..

I cannot be the only person who owes a great deal of gratitude towards dog tags and subtitles for letting us know the Arnold was saying "Jim Hopper" and not "Jim Harper"...

Alien, Predator and Blade Runner all take place in the same world

Classic Arnie action movie! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Finally someone who agrees with me that showing the spaceship at the beginning was a mistake! It would have been much better not to have any indication what they were up against until the big reveal.

It is a hunter. It fights the way its prey fights. Either with propulsion weapons or bladed weapons. The woman was seen to be a weak prey. It would skin the bodies to take the skulls and spines as trophies.

idk why but the "his arm got detached?" line killed me haha

"you remember Canada!?ᕙ⁠(⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕗ Lmao. 🤣

Fun fact: mud actually _does_ shield you from infrared vision (a RU-vid channel called Corridor Crew recreated the gist of the scene fairly recently expecting to debunk it and to everyone's surprise, it worked). Thing about infrared is, it's just light, not magic so can be blocked fairly easily. Even window glass does it to some extent so in theory you could also hide from a Predator in a greenhouse :). And yep, fairly meme heavy this one. Good, solid 80s cheese IMO - I doubt anyone's going to accuse it of being a masterpiece but it's plenty of fun (and I completely agree about the spaceship BTW).

Nice one! It's a pity that they kept the shot with the spaceship, it would be so awesome if there was a version without that scene!! I'd recommend to continue (in this order) with: Predator 2 (1990), Prey (2022) and Predators (2010).

Not trying to be contentious, just saying that Predator didn't "just" not kill the female because he viewed her as weaker (a bridge "maybe" too far, but she has to watch Predator 2 before I can adequately explain why), it was that she was a woman. As hunters, you go after the Bucks not the doe ( at least we didn't).

If you like explosions, watch Mad Max: Fury Road. Incredible movie with INCREDIBLE practical effects. One-of-a-kind movie.

If we hadn't seen the space ship at the beginning the part where the pedator watches them with that blue screen at the beginning wouldn't have made sense.

Your reaction as he said "Get to the Choppa" was my favorite part i can tell deep inside you was waiting to find out that reference for quite sometime hehe😋

Big as a house!

jesse ventura (Big guy) was an actual Navy SEAL. And he couldn't see him because the mud was masking his skin temperature.

Yeah, the mud/infrared was proven true, especially cold fresh mud.

At 9:31 in this clip, Arnold says, "Get Connor for the hook", to which I assume he means John Connor (or his mother). I knew he was still the Terminator, three years after the original movie came out!

Verowak, I hope you had fun. That was one of my absolute favs.

21:25 The full line is: "No, leave it - he didn't kill you because you weren't armed,... NO SPORT". The Predator is on safari. He's collecting trophies. This could be some rite of passage.

The Predator is an interstellar big game hunter, aliens and mankind are the most dangerous game

Predator was a big game hunter.

Superman can't see through lead. Predators can't see through mud. It's an extra-terrestrial thing.

This may be the only movie with two future state governors. Arnold & Jesse Ventura.

The predator and alien world has so much lore, it's fun to dive into.

"160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes" is one of the great early videos on youtube. This movie is in it several times.

Excellent catch on the CIA guy speaking Spanish but telling the other guy to question her

If you want to see a movie where Arnold has dialog, and has been hailed as one of his best, then... "Total Recall"

About the Spaceship in the beginning..See, I would agree with this perspective if it were not so reliant on the fact " we " are watching this almost 40 years after release. With that, comes a certain amount of fantastical expectation, so to speak, due to the cultural resonance that these early Sci Fi concepts established. Try to remember that when this movie was fresh to the screen, the entire idea that a 7 foot humanoid Warrior species using a " camo " of ambient light distortion, complete with an atomically charged pulse cannon, yet still nimble to traverse the diciest of this earths rainforest canopies WHILE skinning their corpses and taking spit-shined skulls as " trophies " WAS NOT crossing the mind of anyone, anywhere! It is rare you can say it's never been done before; this was exactly that!!!

@ 21:34 "coworker" 😂😂😂 I'm here for it good stuff, good stuff. Thanks for content

The predator was originally to be played by Jean-Claude Van Damme,, but during filming he turned out to be to hard to work with so they replaced with Kevin Peter Hall, who was also the chopper pilot at the end. Kevin Peter Hall also played Harry in Harry and the Hendersons

You've been eager to hear the "Get to da choppa!" line the whole movie, didn't you, Vero? ;) ;P RIP Carl Weathers

The helicopter pilot at the end is Kevin Peter Hall who played the Predator in this and Predator 2 & Harry from Harry and the Henderson. He sadly passed away in the early 90s due to a tainted blood transfusion. He was such a great creature actor. None of the predators after 2 could move the way he did. Except for Prey. IMO.

Super reaction. And you're right, the mud has some questionable effectiveness. But, it's a movie. Thanks.

Prey ,is the prequel to predator .good movie

Jim Hopper didnt make it to the chopper, but he did make Chief of Police in Hawkins Indiana...

Watch Predator 2 next before any of them or the Alien vs predator movies. The girl was protected because the predators are like human big game hunters, the ones who want to hunt large animal predators because it is a "challenging" despite the tech difference not really making it fair. So to the predator she was a deer when he wanted to hunt bears, so not worth his time. Fun trivia the pilot of the helicopter at the end is the same actor who played the predator when you could see the predator. They put him in as the pilot so his face would be in the movie instead of covered in movie makup etc.

Predator 2 , predators and prey

You need to watch Predator 2 for the unofficial/official cameo connection to the Alien universe. Danny Glover and more Bill Paxton!

I've watched Arnold Schwarzenegger, movies since I was a kid in the 80s and I didn't realized he did one liners until Batman and Robin. Now when I watch his movies all I hear are puns and one liners.

Agreed about not seeing the spaceship at the beginning it keeps the mystery, same goes for the spaceship at the beginning of "The Thing". Would've been great not to have any inkling> The predators vision wasn't necessarily heat, it was a frequency, infra red was assumed, so most nit picks about the mud was a bit muddied so to speak🙃

This was followed by three sequels, a prequel and two crossover films. There are also comics, graphic novels and videogames. Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in The Running Man immediately after this, while director John McTiernan followed this up with Die Hard. They both reunited for Last Action Hero

Carl Weathers was the guy that got his arm blown off he was Apollo Creed in Rocky 1-4 and was in Happy Gilmore with Adam Sandler but recently passed away at 76.

18:03 - 18:08 FUN FACT - The original name of this movie was "Hunter".

"23:20" Always love seeing those comedy reliefs. Glad you know all the memes.😂

The space ship at the beginning was to create intrigue, without it you're just watching a typical action movie for the first 40 minutes.

Regarding your doubts about the effectiveness of the mud... some military expert RU-vidrs were also dubious about this and they tested it out. They had one of their team covered in clay-like mud and had him go hide in a jungle environment. With no knowledge of where he was, the "seeking" team, equipped with thermal sensitive equipment couldn't see him, even when looking directly at him. They were shocked at the mud's effectiveness as a good insulator. The same reason ceramic tiles are used to line a kiln. Great reaction!

So the weakness of the Predator is his actual vision, even though he has thermal vision. If you get around his thermal vision you have a chance.

Fun fact. Even as thick as his accent is Arnold would rather use English than German. The reason is simple. In German Arnold also has an accent and it's the German equivalent to a backwoods hillbilly accent (though he may have gotten rid of it over the years) and was picked on as a kid because or it, so he prefers to use English instead of German

Turns out that Arnold is actually quite good at comedy as well. Check out True Lies (1994), it’s another collab with James Cameron and has a little bit of everything.

I'm so happy to see you reacting to this. This movie brings back so many pleasant memories for me. Good times ...

6:23 You're right It was one of the biggest mistakes in the movie 6:23 6:23 Tienes toda la razón Fue uno de los grandes errores de la película 6:23

Apologies if someone has commented this already- the Predator's Plasma Caster is pretty inconsistent in strength in the movie/movies- but kinda explained in the videogames. When you play as the Predator/Yautja you charge up the shot- so just fire and you'll knock someone over, charge it up and you'll explode them, haha.

I have an IR camera, and my cats become “invisible” where they’ve been grooming themselves and their fur is damp. The effect only lasts a few minutes until the fur is dry again. I would expect Dutch to stay invisible as long the mud stayed wet. More problematic is that his eyes would have stood out like two light bulbs. My cats’ eyes shine brightly in IR. Their noses look black.

I remember seeing this when it came out in the theater back in 87’ and it still holds up for me. This is a great representation of how good action movies were back in that era. Well paced, great characters and amazing design/tech for the predator! I would recommend that you watch (1990) predator 2, and (2022) Prey to round out the saga. (2010) Predators is not as bad as you’d think and would be worth checking out, but that’s just me. I really enjoyed watching this reaction with you! Keep ‘em coming!

I'm not a hunter but I know hunters so it was easy for me to catch on to the fact that this was simply a hunting trip. The predator didn't come to kill everyone, or helpless prey it just came to pit itself against inferior but dangerous animals and take trophies to hang on its wall. People expect sci fi to be about large scale world ending stuff but this was a refreshing twist