PREDATOR | MOVIE REACTION 

I am so glad that they didn't go with Van Damme and that original design. It was awful!

@@mermaid_at_heart213 another fun fact: Van Damme left Predator and went on to do a certain film called Bloodsport!

From what I hear, it's a little more than just a costume that translated poorly. There's a rumor that they were asking Van Damme to do stunts (while wearing leg extensions, because he's only 5'10") and he quit because some of those stunts would've broken his legs if even one tiny thing was wrong. How true that is, I don't know.

@@SpearM3064 it's very true.Van Damme confirmed that in an interview that he told them this and that even one of the stunt men got hurt.He said it's the best thing they did redoing the creature design from scratch and getting rid of that awful initial costume.

Peter Hall also played a lb alien in Without Warning

Well it lost, so it was correct in that assessment.

Similarly, it likely fought Billy blade to blade since he dropped his gun in the water and brandished a machete.

@@thepiousskeleton6046 Yep. That is why the Predator took Billy's whole spine and skull. Billy impressed him.

In the original draft of the story, Dutch was supposed to beat the Predator in the fistfight rather easily. Any other action star at that time would have been happy with that, but surprisingly, Arnold said to the director that it didn't make any sense. "He's a monster, I'm just a man," he said. Arnold proposed this scenario instead.

@@peterseaboldt1250 Arnold knows how to give the people what they want.

Never thought of it in that sense. Great call.

I'd say the Terminator was the best Sci Fi/ Action movie ever made because it broke new ground. But this was the one that solidified Arnold as the biggest Hollywood star of the 80s.

@@lewisner we all love T2, without a doubt it's an iconic movie. But Arnold Schwarzenegger is playing a cyborg, almost invincible and with no emotions. For me "Predator" is the best of all Schwarzenegger's movies because you could see a real, vulnerable human (not even a cliché hero). A soldier facing a fearsome and powerful enemy. And the very moment you see and hear his battle cry, you realize that he is no longer just a soldier. He turned into a warrior.

Agreed , T2 comes close though.

I can’t fault this opinion

prey better

Before the title "Predator", the filmmakers called the movie "Hunter".

A lot of the old school Predator comics would have, or.. COULD have, been an excellent cinematic universe. but it's all cocked up now

@@MC-zr6gc Turned a brilliant suspense-action thriller into a schlock monster franchise.

@@dudermcdudeface3674 the comics were always schlock. the novels on the other hand were great.

Which other comics have Dutch in them? I've read quite a few. Some having Dutch's cop brother. I don't remember Dutch actually being in them. Was it more recent?

No offense to her at all. But i was watching along as if i didnt know it was an alien and realized how trippy and confusing the first half of the movie becomes 😂

@@danielreyes2796 Yeah idk if she missed the beginning or what, but I think the original cut was supposed to not have the spaceship at the beginning? But it was too confusing. So kind of fun seeing this reaction.

@@NoelleMar well did she not see the spaceship in the opening titles that flies by and drops a pod off? lol

@@criticalmas7770 that’s what I’m saying, I guess she didn’t see it? Lol

@@NoelleMar If she is anything like my GF - she would have been all like 'oh look how pretty the earth looks"...and totally missed the entire spaceship/pod launch etc. lol I mean, I have never heard anyone comment how pretty the water is after Arnie has just fallen over a waterfall while being chased by a deadly alien hunting machine that kills for sport lol.

Yeah, the predator was taking their spines for their autism powers. What's not to get.

it's a damn masterpiece, with each year it passes this film just proves how much better it is than critics thought, it doesn't age either, 35 years old, one thing I've noticed after seeing it many times..other than it being the easiest film to quote, is the cinematography, the camera angles and scenery are very well done, and of course the music and costume, I can't think of a better costume, and they did this with a giant man climbing around in trees inside a hot humid jungle! there's a reason why no other predator film comes close

Yeah I know right? What's so confusing with this movie? I don't understand her confusion, it makes me confused. Haha!

Seriously! An alien comes to the planet, he hunts the soldiers, Arnold survives.... lol why is she so confused

first time watching this, you wouldn't know it's an alien or anything else. kind of hard to see movies like it's the first time after you've seen it a bunch. the only clue is the very beginning assuming you don't skip all that intro

Kinda hard to say "skill" when he can take a punch from Arnold like it's a slap and has the strength of 10 Arnolds himself. Still super lopsided.

@@GTRNights When the soldiers have weapons he uses weapons, when Arnie is unarmed he fights him unarmed, kinda fair in a way. Not sure that is respect, perhaps just the preferred method of predating for sport. I mean he probably has a spaceship to get here, he could probably just nuke everyone from orbit if he wanted to kill them, but where's the sport in that?

Not to mention Dutch was unarmed. No sport as far as the Predator was concerned. So he too disarmed to (sorta) come down to Dutch's level. Doing that would increase the value of his skull as a trophy.

predator : i see....sending your friend off to fight me all on your own........how gutless billy : what? how was that gutless? predator : because.... suicide is the coward's way out billy : can we fight now? predator: son of a.......YES!!!

I love this film but I would never say it has an overly complex script so her constant bewilderment regarding the basics of the plot was a little surprising. She usually seems sharper than that but I guess everyone can have an off day 🤔

@@eddhardy1054 For sure. No shade on her, obviously, I definitely have my "derp" moments now and then; everyone does. But this one really surprised me. Yeah, it's an almost laughably straightforward concept & story through & through. The 80's and 90's were the absolute zenith of the paradigm, successfully walking the precariously thin line between uncomfortable cheese & emphatic bad-ass 😅

I can see it. Man movies use alternative views as a way to help the audience differentiate between characters, for instance scenes only seen in black and white might indicate we are seeing the killer's perspective, or seeing everything in greyscale except for a single piece of clothing in red might indicate we are seeing the movie from a truly neutral perspective, or zooming in of the horror, for instance. We saw this in the Terminator when we witnessed that his point of view was all in red for example. It is a type of movie storytelling technique that does not perfectly translate. It also makes perfect sense if you are seeing this from the perspective of someone not understanding the alien technology + genetics. If the Predator is using heat vision googles, for instance, we might reasonably assume that "it" might not have them on at all times. I, as an active duty soldier do not walk around 24/7 with night vision googles one. And honestly, I would estimate I have them on maybe 0.001% of the time, favorably. Additionally, part of the point of the movie is to demonstrate just how unknown this thing is. A lot of us have the advantage of knowing some of the generic lore now, but if this is the first you have really seen of the . . . universe, it is very understandable.

LMFAOOOO

I will say though that I don’t think the mud would successfully mask that heat signature for very long lol. Plus there is the interesting question of how much is his vision vs the mask, which you don’t know until he takes it off. Even then, it’s sort of confusing. But I really like the contrast. I did think it was pretty obvious that the predator could see movements and vague outlines of shapes as WELL as anything giving off a heat signature. However, I see countless people completely unable to understand seemingly obvious metaphors, themes, and character motivations, often chalking it up to bad storytelling or completely misinterpreting it. I’m just noting this because I rarely see comments by people stunned at someone’s idiocy or whatever when this is the case.

Yeah, I was beyond frustrated!!!

Lol

She did ask if it was a device or what it naturally saw and then deduced that concealment didn't conceal. They could not do the heat vision shots in the jungle because it was so hot.

Omg...thank you. Its sci fi, just go with it lol

never watched movies like this with your GF? LOL

Would be hilarious if she makes the same sound as the predator roar

I've noticed with younger audiences they 'don't get' older movies. Apparently movies today explain everything in detail so there are no questions. But this movie as with most it is obvious what is happening on screen, I think younger audiences overthink things. And that isn't a slam I think it is just audiences in different eras view things differently as they've grown up in a different time and changed culture.

100% agreed. Whenever it was said, I was like 'What's not to understand'? I'm happy I grew up in the '60s and '70s...

That is not fair. This movie was specifically designed to not answer the many questions it presented. If you would have actually watched this at the time it came out, without all of the assorted lore that came out later, you would have also been just as confused, because the point was to have such alien, unknowable motivations.

@@josephbeckett2330 I actually DID watch it when it came out in the theatres - I was 23 years old at the time (58 now). It didn't confuse me one bit. Your move. ;)

@@josephbeckett2330 the only confusing thing in this movie is “what is the predator” that’s it everything else is self explanatory. It just so happens “what is the predator?” Was one of the only things she wasn’t confused by (she probably had knowledge going into the movie)

There is a scene where they are all trying to figure out its motivation and Billy mentions its acting like a hunter. That pretty well explains it. The movie could have easily been titled The Hunter. When humans hunt they usually hunt for large game or dangerous animals and many times keep the skulls/ bodies as trophies. Not hard to figure this stuff out.

@@cesarmedina7080 I think part of it is that many reactors' exposure to "alien culture with weird values" has been, until now, mostly "aliens are basically you except with improbably-successful communism, Arthur-Clarke magic, and everyone is gaaaaayyyyyyy!" It's almost never "they are gross, ugly, extremely violent, and don't see you as people until you prove otherwise."

@@cesarmedina7080 the original title was Hunter

unless a weak person uses an aerosol can as a flamethrower and gives the predator a bad hair day :)

@@thebluelunarmonkey 🤣🤣🤣

The predator shoots the injured character in the head. This was the last soldier killed by the predator probably because he was keeping Dutch too preoccupied from fighting the Predator. Looks like the predator will eliminate injured prey if they get in the way of their sport.

That is not exactly true. The technology to represent it was much more limited at the time, and it should be specifically noted, (we learn later), that the Predators specifically come to areas that are exceptionally so hot that it is noteworthy.

@@josephbeckett2330 What is not exactly true? That their vision is based on heat signatures or that they can detect movement in a limited capacity? Because both of those things are clearly represented in the film (Dutch being invisible to the Predator when mud masks his heat signature and the Predator shooting at moving objects when Dutch throws them to distract him).

When he couldn't see Dutch, that proved that the predator was relying too much on his equipment, instead of realizing that there's no way the human couldve ran off so quickly.

That's not true. They do prefer hunting humans over most species, but they consider the Xenomorph to be the ultimate prey.

@@JustSomeGuywithEpicGrasses Exactly that's why they were bred in the first place in Yautja lore and they used humans as sacrifices for the purposes of breeding more of them. Glad someone is out here spitting facts instead of drivelling pure shite and selling off false info to those who don't know any better.

Completely made up, literally nothing in the lore that supports this especially considering there's an actual scene in AVP explaining the lore between the Yautja and Xenomorphs where they are literally using Humans as sacrifices to breed more Xeno's who are the ultimate prey.

Noticed the similarities as early as like 5 years old watching these flicks

And the Avengers movies

Huh, that never occurred to me. It always made sense to me as particularly intense war paint

It could’ve been that. I just figured that because he was seeing soldiers such as himself being hunted and skinned he decided that if he was going to die he’s not going to be strung up and skinned. Of course no one anticipated the Predator just ripping out his spine and skull after killing him.

someone else commented that he did it so the Predator wouldn't draw his blood first

I always thought it was just a kind of warrior's challenge or spiritual thing- damaging the pelt could be a good reason, too. The first blood idea is very interesting, too. Maybe it's all that and more.

@@wunderbex8755 And possibly an element of "If the pain starts before the fight begins, I don't have to be afraid of pain."

She went in blind not knowing what a Yautja was and never watching anything predator related before so it makes sense that she would be clueless in the first two acts when the movie does not really tell you anything about the Yautja, it's purpose for being there or why it was doing what it was doing. Even after the movie there were definitely questions left unanswered but that was all apart of the beauty of this particular film. One of the best action flicks ever.

Well its not that good but no shit soo...

@Stephen Indeed. I still hold the sequel in high regard. Everything that came after doesn't hold a candle to Predator 1&2.

@@Supeerbiaa predator 1 will always be better but 2 wasnt bad at all, still an enjoyable thriller.

Predators is also good

@@Supeerbiaa I still love the fact that if it werent for Predator 2(even though it wasnt that great of a movie), Bill Paxton can truly say that in the movies he has the honor and distinction of being killed by... A PREDATOR, A TERMINATOR, and An ALIEN RIP William Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017)

Yep. Movies that were 100% worth watching nothing at all like we have now.

Yeah cos The VVitch and The Lighthouse were so easy to follow… there have always been audience members who needed shit explaining to them and there will always be stories that certain audience members struggle to follow, that’s no reflection on “modern movies” it’s just the way it is

It sure blew this youtubers mind. Clueless...

This movie has aged so well it's one of the best aged movies of the '80s in my opinion.

And not "Woke".

Had seen Predator when I was a child, can't remember what age, and was stoked to find out there was a sequel. Never came across it though, until one night I randomly flicked it on while channel hopping. Must have only been eleven or twelve at the time. Great film too I have to say.

Sequel wasnt that good to me, it lacked the thrill and unexpectation of the first one

I thought Danny Glover was miscast in the second movie. Good actor but didn't bring the correct gravitas to the film in my opinion.

@@fatalexception1269 I'd agree actually. However, with Glover as lead, the cheesy nostalgia is heightened for me, and I love it haha!

LOL. "the Yautja" :D Do you really think she cares? 🤣

But what happened to the pod it (presumably) came down in from its spacecraft ?

NERD!

@@lewisner You don't see it in this movie, but there were other Yautja on the ship. They were watching this one to make sure he didn't cheat and would have destroyed or recovered his body if he had died before he could activate his self-destruct.

McTiernan is great at reconstructing his movies on the fly. That's the mark of a true artist.

This movie's story and the hints in it are pretty straight forward - but the creators opted to show images instead of using characters to talk the audience through. There are no secrets in this film - all is made clear by actions, acting, and scenery. Nobody needs to tell the viewer what's going on, as it is deliberately made evident. People nowadays expect a movie to hold hands by explaining every detail with exposition - but in this case, the filmmakers expected the viewer to pay attention. 'Show, don't tell' is a well-known rule in cinema - but it seems to be a lost art, and many people seem to have lost their ability to use common sense to figure stuff out...

they call him "the gentle giant"

Well aid. Fully agree. And Yeah-No, they could not make Predator today. At least not the way it was. Today's fresh out of film school writers and film makers will feel a burning desire to "fix" and/or modernize the movie to their perceived social and cultural standards. 2018 "The Predator" was the lowest grossing movie in the franchise, loosing a great deal of money. I doubt 2022 "Prey" will do much better.

The jungle was creepi and scary I say the jungle was the best actor in this movie feels so alive

It's not cheese.

@@Nutrient-Gold Definitely NOT cheese

Agreed. Does it seem to anyone else like a significantly large group of movie reactors spend all of their time flailing about trying to figure out what is happening and asking endless questions instead of just watching the movie to find out the answers?

I agreed a Zillion %

Alot of movies from the 80s had great scores. Definitely Predator.

The original design they made Jean Claude Van Damme wear was awful

@@kd84afc although it does finally get some screen time in Predators as another alien they're hunting

me too brotha

I found it ironic to be fair