Predator (1987) | Reaction | First Time Watching

[@VerowakReacts]

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[@nathan8590]

“Come with me if you want to live”: Kyle Reese from the Terminator.

[@mahliz]

if it bleeds we can kill it. but my favorite one is. "And like that (blows immaginary smoke from his hand) he is gone"

[@ChrisReise]

One of my favourite quotes was when Hawkins tells Billy the joke and says "...'cause of the echo.."

[@TheCarterKent]

"By Grabthar's Hammer....You shall be...avenged!" -- Hamlet, act 2, scene 4.

[@TheCarterKent]

Did I "make you look"?

[@eastcoastaj5048]

R.I.P. Carl Weathers.

[@longfootbuddy]

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

[@Sandy-dd4le]

Under valued comment of the day right there!

[@kingkold]

Lol

[@dallesamllhals9161]

..OMG! Sry' GOOGLEAI! BUT! "FUCK YOU. ASSHOLE" = The terminator(1984)

[@radioroscoe]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I like that quote, it explains it perfectly!

[@jaws848]

​​@@VerowakReactsthe voice actor who did the Preditor growl is Peter Cullen....aka Optimus Prime From the Transformers.

[@passenthrualaska3293]

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.

[@bobbrown200]

And yet Prey happened before this. So the predator should have paid more attention to the girl.😊

[@oystermcnutty5081]

​@@bobbrown200prey breaks the lore. Predator 1 and 2 were the only good ones In my opinion.

[@oystermcnutty5081]

​@@bobbrown200the girl also did nothing the whole movie so their was no reason to attack her.

[@Whiskey0880]

That's fan fiction, not lore.

[@oystermcnutty5081]

@@Whiskey0880 nah it's lore, they actually are trophy hunters

[@PinkFloydsfan]

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

[@NemeanLion-]

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.

[@jimbowlan5804]

For a few minutes yes but after about 10 to 20 minutes the mud will heat up

[@NemeanLion-]

@@jimbowlan5804 just like in the movie. The predator could start seeing Arnold when he was in the cave looking for the blood because the mud was drying.

[@cassidywest5539]

an important factor is that moments earlier he was in cold water.

[@poolhall9632]

@@jimbowlan5804the test was fairly convincing. I recall the final test was "failed" only because a DOG found him down range of the thermal lenses.

[@noodle_fc]

Why wouldn't it be true? It's strange anyone would doubt it in the first place. Cold things absorb radiant heat, news at 11. If you touched a mud-covered person, you wouldn't expect to feel their body heat. Why, then, would you expect to see it in infrared??

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

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.

[@krisfrederick5001]

“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

[@dedcowbowee]

Nice!🤣

[@stevenalexander6713]

Hey, it's a quote from that one comedian I saw at the store!

[@Jay-r1d7q]

I thought Bigfoot was so elusive because he himself is out every freaking day and night trying to find evidence of the existence of UFOs in order for humanity to leave him the F alone! 🤔

[@chapo0815]

​@@stevenalexander6713 true Mitch fan right there. lol

[@peteg475]

@@chapo0815 When Bigfoot stops moving he just becomes stairs.

[@charles7836]

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.

[@genkigirl4859]

I agree there’s nothing worse than a reactor who won’t shut up

[@cassidywest5539]

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.

[@VerowakReacts]

Ahh, definitely missed that, thanks!

[@schwartzy65]

Naa i think he just took the blast to his chest like a man he is ;)

[@DylansPen]

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.

[@tonysaourn9220]

RIP Carl Weathers and Kevin Peter Hall the Predator.

[@michaelkonig530]

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.

[@buddystewart2020]

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.

[@jamesodonnell3636]

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

[@Bleckman666]

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.

[@suproliver]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I love the laugh at the end!!

[@mahliz]

Do you want some candy?

[@suproliver]

@@mahliz Yes! Give me candy 🍬 😋 you Predator! Lol. 😆 -OG

[@minnesotajones261]

We do the same things when we go hunting. Camouflage, deer scents, rattling antlers, deer calls, duck calls... all to bring our prey in. The Predator uses the same tricks.

[@suproliver]

@@minnesotajones261 Good point. -OG

[@merrylderrickson3147]

One of the best qualities about Predator is how timeless it is; one of the very few action movies that will always be as relevant as it is revered.

[@CryosisOfficial]

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.

[@HemlockRidge]

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.

[@VerowakReacts]

He stopped wrestling before I started watching it so I missed his wrestling career

[@johnscott4196]

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

[@WessyD123]

"If it bleeds, we can kill it" My favorite Arnold line. Also, at 22:42 thats an old native american tradition before combat. Denying the enemy the honor of drawing first blood by doing it yourself.

[@sammyingersoll8870]

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

[@x_trio_3_po333]

Would have loved to see John McClain take on the Predator (at least in the 90's). In a novelization series of the Predator, the main character is the brother of Major Dutch who is a city cop.

[@SwampusMcGarniglus]

The Meme realization is always hilarious.

[@VerowakReacts]

It's a meme I had no idea would be in here, but it was great!!!

[@robmann400]

A lot of, maybe most, KZbin 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.

[@FrancisXLord]

'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.

[@VerowakReacts]

I personally would have preferred to find out it's an alien partway through instead of at the beginning. But I know I'm not someone studios would try to appease lol

[@x_trio_3_po333]

I think I was late to the theater when I first saw the movie in '87 and thus missed the opening spaceship scene. But after seeing it later on VHS, I welcomed its inclusion.

[@TheReturnOfSak]

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.

[@schwartzy65]

Look the corridor crews video about it. Predator film also used real thermal camera for the predator vision that was challenging in the mexicqn jungle heat

[@crossbones13]

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

[@Dave3Dguy]

Regarding your doubts about the effectiveness of the mud... some military expert KZbinrs 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!

[@VerowakReacts]

I was told myth busters tested it out too but found different results. All I know is that I'll have to use this technique in one of my films just because lol

[@MarcoMM1]

Great Reaction like always, this movie brings me back to my childhood i remember watching this movie when it came out and its pure action cinema at its most efficient and charmingly unpretentious, Predator remains a lean masterpiece over three decades. There are some fun facts about it, Shane Black was cast for his script expertise, not his acting chops, Shane Black, who plays Hawkins, had previously written the screenplay for Lethal Weapon; he was covertly cast in the film so that he would be available to make on-the-fly and uncredited script changes while on set. Which makes it even more befitting that Black wrote and directed The Predator, the latest installment in the series. This was professional wrestler Jesse Ventura’s first movie. The GE M134 Minigun wielded by Ventura’s character didn’t shoot live rounds, but for safety reasons, the cast and crew were required to stand at least 50 feet away when it was fired. Sonny Landham who played Billy, the team’s expert tracker was known to have such a short fuse that the studio hired a bodyguard to protect people from him. This bodyguard followed Landham everywhere he went to make sure he didn’t get into any trouble on the set. On this, McTiernan said: “We had this 6’8″ tall giant who had to follow Sonny around 24 hours a day the entire time he worked on the movie and make sure that he never misbehaved.” The Predator’s heat vision isn’t actually heat vision, the filmmakers attempted to use actual heat vision for the Predator, but the specific camera proved impractical for the on-location shoot. Instead, normal footage was made into a negative image in post-production and exaggerated “heat vision” colors were added to create the effect. Originally used an orange substance for the creature’s blood, figuring they would spiff it up with special effects in post-production. But the orange goop looked so bad on camera, they decided they had to make a change. They wound up using the luminescent liquid from the inside of glow sticks, which they bought over the counter. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original guy in the predator suit. The “Muscles from Brussels” was reportedly fired from the movie because he complained too much about how uncomfortable the suit was, he was replaced by Kevin Peter Hall. The original design for the predator was scrapped in the middle of production, the original suit resembled a lanky, bug-eyed insect, but McTiernan didn't think it was scary enough. He halted production on the entire movie so it could be redesigned. Arnold Schwarzenegger personally tapped effects wizard Stan Winston to revamp the Predator design. The break in production was a blessing in disguise. The stop in production to redesign the Predator allowed the filmmakers to edit an hour of the movie together to show to the studio. They liked it so much that they gave the production more money to create bigger action sequences in the last third of the movie once filming picked back up again. Optimus Prime and the predator have the same voice. Peter Cullen, who is uncredited in Predator, provided the voice for both. Keep up the good work!

[@ClaireRedfieldKennedy-ld2lx]

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.

[@thefalloutshelter7799]

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

[@gromester1092]

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

[@fedevto]

Great reaction! Predator 2 and Prey are great movies too! Greetings from Argentina!

[@mattbiggs1992]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I sure did! And there's plenty more to see 🥰

[@AlexApproBAT]

The KZbin algorithm suggested this video to me and since I had time, I gave it as shot... very nice! I dig your personality and loved your reactions to this. Scanning your videos it seems you watch a lot of stuff I dig and you're not doing Shorts, so I'm now a new subscriber. I hope you will react to the other Predator films in the near future!

[@VerowakReacts]

Welcome!! What kind of movies do you like?

[@AlexApproBAT]

@@VerowakReactsThanks! I'm open to most things, but my tastes usually fall in the horror, sci-fi, suspense, action, drama, and superhero genres. Fantasy and Musicals are genres I tend to avoid, but there have been some exceptions.

[@VerowakReacts]

@@AlexApproBAT A lot of great genres there! I haven't dabbled much into musicals so I don't know if I'll like them, Disney movies are basically like musicals though lol

[@darthmaul13]

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.

[@babygeneral1985]

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😋

[@VerowakReacts]

I love finally hearing quotes that I know and use occasionally haha

[@babygeneral1985]

@VerowakReacts I noticed haha😁 I grew up watching these films on VHS 📼 as a lifetime movie buff & you're on the right path to discover the greatest movies and cult classics ever made even films no one has ever reacted to ti'll this day i've seen so i look foward to your reaction journey Vero

[@Blue-qr7qe]

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.

[@chocolate-teapot]

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

[@Drudenfusz]

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

[@klau5z]

As the next movies, I recommend True Lies and Escape Plan.

[@charlesleerae9023]

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

[@alexspindler1]

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.

[@SmartCarGuy]

The actor who gets taken out first (Shane Black), is the writer for the 'Lethal Weapon' films!!!!

[@burkeiowa]

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!

[@VerowakReacts]

It would be awesome if an actor can reference a previous movie in each of their movie :D

[@custer2449]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I did! It's a fun movie :D

[@custer2449]

@@VerowakReacts Excellent-a-mundo. Have you seen "Alien - Director's Cut"? Oooo, Oooo, Oooo. I have some great ideas for you. Trust me. Have you listened to The War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1939? ))) It's against the law for you to NOT listen to it. ))) All kidding aside, you will go nuts for it. It's a "slow burn" at first, but sooooo much fun. Trust me.

[@michaeldavis2001]

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

[@SoloArt8250]

4:31 great percussion work in the background (music) 5:00 yes Billy’s got a spiritual as well as army instincts going on 32:47 I’m thinking the mud kept Dutch’s body temperature down, and so the predator couldn’t heat seek him

[@StoriesThatSuck-pw1vi]

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

[@johnmason9655]

Kevin Peter Hall who played the Predator was also a Helicopter pilot at the end of the film.

[@damiandamn]

Predator 2 , predators and prey

[@willx8837]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I've loved some movies that a lot of people dislike, so I'll definitely have to watch the rest of the franchise to see for myself :D

[@talez5361]

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).

[@romans52345-cy3tq]

So why did Dutch tell her "This thing is hunting us, ALL OF US?" In which he was implying her as well

[@MrBreezeLI516]

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!!!

[@mousemacleod9184]

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

[@llamallama1509]

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

[@jimbowlan5804]

I mean we didn’t know what it looked like till the end in my opinion it doesn’t really make a difference

[@muldoone6920]

I think you miss the point. Seeing a spaceship, means aliens. It kind of ruins WHAT the predator is, until you see it shoot futuristic weapons, cloak, mimic voices. which would have more of an impact if we didn't see the ship.@@jimbowlan5804

[@Ilurk247]

The reason is, to show that it is from outer space, not a weird creature born in the jungle. Without the spaceship, that's what it is as there's no spaceship showing up at the end.

[@drunkassmonkey27]

I always figured it was a studio note that caused that, same as with the Thing. In a suspenseful movie, it answers a question before the audience even gets a chance to ask it.

[@noodle_fc]

@@Ilurk247 Don't you think the audience could intuit an extraterrestrial origin from its advanced technology? When you see something hunting with futuristic energy weapons and bending light around itself, which turns off at the press of a button, I'd think "evolved unnoticed in the jungle" was off the table. If that's not enough, give Ana a line about how people see and hear UFOs in the same years as the killings. Or have the soldiers say, "Nothing on Earth has weapons like that." The spaceship is a spoiler that keeps the audience from identifying with the mystery the characters experience.

[@alistairrobinson3865]

Thrilled to hear you’re getting the Arnold bug, he’s such a hero !!

[@VerowakReacts]

I'm just scratching the surface!! So much more to see 😀

[@jaredwiggins539]

@@VerowakReacts if ya thought the Wilderness Predator (who only has a Med Kit, the Shoulder Mounted Gun (Plasma Caster) & the Wrist Blades) in this Film was badass then wait till ya get a load of the Concrete Jungle/Urban Jungle/City Predator (who has far/way more Options) in the Sequel (Predator II 1990)!

[@jaredwiggins539]

@@VerowakReacts does watching this Film in anyway make ya want 2 get your own Camouflage Patterned Clothing?

[@kylereese4822]

@@VerowakReacts R.I.P... Kevin Peter Hall - Predator/Chopper pilot(end).

[@alistairrobinson3865]

@@VerowakReacts exactly- good times ahead!!! 😀

[@15blackshirt]

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

[@chapo0815]

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

[@batbrick3949]

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.

[@Flastew]

This is one of the best "Predator" movies in my opinion. Another one that I like is Alien vs Predator, it has a cool main character. I really enjoyed your reaction; it is so cool how great you are with action movies and well you understand or figure out things. You are such a cool reactor I had to sub so I can watch more of what you do.

[@VerowakReacts]

Thank you so much! I definitely did not think I would enjoy action movies so much, but I can't really say no to explosions 😂 I knew of Alien Vs. Predator before I knew of either Alien or Predator, which is a bit weird

[@Flastew]

Well AVP is a newer movie so perhaps that is why you knew of it before the other. It ties in the two fairly well and the main character is cool.@@VerowakReacts

[@stressed_daily]

I hope you continue to follow the remainder of the movies, and also look into the (Alien) franchise as well. These are pretty awesome movies, even if some may not have receive the same praise as others. Thank you, and it was so nice to see you after not being able to see you for a while. 🌹

[@c31irq]

predator: gives final bone chilling laugh on his way out v: smiles 😆 There's a pretty good number of times, where if someone is looking for me or I'm attempting to get them regrouped with me, I'll give a loud whisper of "ovuh here." ha

[@blakewalker84120]

31:25 "The blasters don't seem as powerful as I thought they would." Hmmm. We see it used several times: 1. A single blaster shot exploded Jesse Ventura's hest out like a hand grenade blew up in his rib cage. 2. A single blaster shot exploded Bill Duke's head like a watermelon. 3. A single blaster shot shattered Arnold's assault rifle like it was made of peanut brittle. 4. Several scenes where blaster shots shoot limbs off trees or even chop down a tree. Now, compare that to the blasters used by Storm Troopers, or even Han Solo. They don't blow anything up, ever.

[@Sol3UK]

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🙃

[@Csaba__]

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

[@blakewalker84120]

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.

[@mmsizzlak]

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"...

[@Mrvwcc11]

Hi, I’m new here but I will definitely answer any questions I can about this movie. I’ve seen it in a bunch of times and I know a lot of about predator.

[@shawnsmith2610]

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.

[@theylied1776]

Fun fact, four special forces operators recreated the Mud vs Inferred scene from Predator. Not only did it work, they brought in engineers to do a second test to make it more difficult. It worked again. The reason it worked is due to thermodynamics. Not only will the mud mask your body's heat signature the surrounding trees, grass, and rocks will radiate more heat than you do once you're covered in mud.

[@henrytjernlund]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

Exactly, movies have their own laws of physics and rules sometimes 😄

[@jamesodonnell3636]

"Shouldn't they just disarm themselves?" You said it, V! They figure out that their technologically-superior and amazingly deadly foe won't attack people who are unarmed... and retain their arms. Brilliant.

[@SathReacts]

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

[@TheWindcrow]

Arnold is the definition of one liners =P

[@VerowakReacts]

I am certainly learning that, and I love it :D

[@TheWindcrow]

@@VerowakReacts if you want a fun Arni movie, "True Lies" with Jamie Lee Curtis is great.

[@merrylderrickson3147]

6:23 Always thought this was out of place and I suspect it was Studio-driven.

[@georger.3489]

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

[@motelghost477]

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.

[@kyrosv1289]

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).

[@philmullineaux5405]

What a cast! RIP Apollo Creed, Dillon Carl Weathers, may u live on forever! Jesse Ventura was an ex operator and actually bigger than Arnold, and they were never filmed standing together! Bill duke was an amazing actor...juliard trained and amazing in American jiggolo! Billy was a complete wildman and had 2 guys for 24/7 security. Not for his protection but to keep him out of trouble!! The helicopter pilot is the Predator! They gave him one speaking line, so he could get a film credit and his sag card! There's many more predator films and Alien vs Predator! There's also a much larger tie in here. Aliens predators humans Replicants and Terminators are all related by a race of beings called Engineers, discussed in the movie Prometheus! In the 80-90s, Arnold was the absolute movie king of the one liners/memes! So many to repeat, but the most repeated line and meme in history is, " I'll be back!" Hard to believe this movie is almost 40 years old! A future governor of California, Minnesota and candidate for Kentucky in this!

[@jerrykessler2478]

There's a prequel that was done very recently called "Prey". It's very well done but you might want to watch Predator 2 first. Stan Winston was one of the best creature designers in the industry.

[@bradpriebe9218]

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.

[@UberDurable]

Hawkins' jokes were off the charts!

[@oxhine]

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 KZbin 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]

[@Rob_Infinity3]

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

[@VerowakReacts]

I much prefer predator :D

[@Rob_Infinity3]

@@VerowakReacts Yes, me too.

[@anonymes2884]

Fun fact: mud actually _does_ shield you from infrared vision (a KZbin 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).

[@richardhart5612]

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.

[@l.piloto7964]

Special Operation teams train an insane amount so they can predict each other's moves and preferences this is key to their effectiveness; Dillon (Apollo Creed) has been running a desk so long he is out of practice throwing off their routines. These types of teams have and respect rank but in field and off they are brothers first rank second. They need to talk and act fast, so ideas need to be conveyed quickly to preserve the mission effectiveness and safety of team members. Jesse Venture the "sexual tyrannosaurus" who operates "old painless", was a Navy Seal in real life who served in Vietnam war.

[@Sillydogification]

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

[@nemomarc7841]

I seen at the Cinema, what film we start with a commando film and it ends with the meeting of an extraterrestrial hunter. The PREDATOR a Masterpiece ☆☆☆☆☆

[@MM-pl5ed]

please, react to the Young Sherlock Holmes and Pyramid of Fear (a super classic from 1985)

[@shawnsmith2610]

The guy with the mini gun is WWE star and former governor Jesse The Body Ventura who was also in The Running Man with Arnold.

[@MarijnvdSterre]

I love the way your eyes emit an enthusiastic intelligence :D Unfortunately, I lost both because of a chronic disease. After a couple of years, my intelligence is now back. Working on my joie de vivre now. Your reactions help as they are both enjoyable and as setting a goal. Wishing you all the best and may you never lose it!

[@EnricoManachino]

Before Alien vs Predator, Arnold vs Predator 💪🏻

[@dedcowbowee]

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

[@randywebb2100]

The special effects are absolutely impressive. Verowak you are an absolute queen and shine as bright as a diamond 💎. Any content you post through the day I will squeeze my reaction into my life schedule even if I have to wait until after a day of work. I would definitely take you as a jedi apprentice if we were in the star wars universe. How did you get to be as gorgeous as you are out of curiosity

[@VerowakReacts]

I think I'm just very in tune with the Force and can use it to my advantage 😂

[@ChrisReise]

31:48 The chronology of the Alien and Predator movies are as follows: 1 Prey 2 Predator 3 Alien V Predator (Apparently this is no longer considered canon) 4 Alien V Predator: Requiem (Apparently this is no longer considered canon) 5 Predators (can actually be watched at any time AFTER "Predator") 6 The Predator 7 Prometheus 8 Alien: Covenant 9 Alien 10 Aliens 11 Alien 3 12 Alien: Resurrection

[@Fedorchik1536]

Well, actual Alien and Predator timeline is this: 1. The Predator end of the predator timeline 1. Alien. 2. Aliens 3. Alien 3 end of the alien timeline Every other sequel/prequel are uninspired cashgrabs that bring nothing new to the corresponding franchises. also, AvP 1 is a somewhat decent standalone movie.

[@ChrisReise]

And yet they are STILL sequels...your OPINIONS of them are irrelevant.@@Fedorchik1536

[@ChrisReise]

The timeline I mentioned earlier is the proper timeline. Your OPINIONS of the other films are irrelevant.@@Fedorchik1536

[@TheCarterKent]

....as with the Terminator movies, Watch Predator 1 and 2...and ignore the rest.