How did Dutch survive that explosion?

The reason Billy cut his chest was, not as most believe, a way to attract the predator but because it is an old native American tradition so the enemy cannot draw first blood.

Dutch was originally supposed to win that hand to hand fight with the Predator, but Arnold thought that didn't make sense. He said "I can't beat him. He's a monster. I'm just a man." So it was rewritten with Dutch getting his ass handed to him. I really respected that when I read it because, at that time, there were some action movie stars (and one in particular) whose egos would never tolerate losing a fight on scene.

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

Yeah, Jim Hopper in Stranger Things is indeed named after the corpse in Predator. Same with the town of Hawkins. it's named after Hawkins (the dude with the glasses telling the dodgy jokes). The Duffer brothers are just massive fans of the movie. 🤙

I noticed some confusion on Predators actions...he's a Hunter, like a trophy Hunter , he believes in honor and refuses to fight non armed non warriors (why he didn't fight the unarmed woman). In the end he wanted to confront Arnold "man to man" without any weapons as he saw him as a worthy opponent. I always found it funny he repeats what the hell are you back to Arnold...since we're the aliens to the Predator 😅

Fun facts- the pilot of the helicopter at the end of the movie is Kevin Peter Hall, who played the Predator. Jean Claude Van Damme was originally the Predator.

What I really like about this movie is that all the characters (Arnold included) are scared and frightened. They don't play heroes, they fear their enemy

That face reveal.... probably one of the best creature reveals in cinematic history

Arnold and Carl Weathers were two absolute icons. Such a good movie. Predators vision was heat based so the mud camouflaged his body heat at the end. He was a trophy hunter collecting literal skulls so he was examining Arnolds head because it's huge lol. So he 1v1'd him.

The actors said "Mowing" down the jungle with their guns was a 'visceral experience'. Something they would never forget.

Love how the Predator actor, the late Kevin Peter Hall (R.I.P.) also played the Bigfoot "Harry" in "Harry And The Hendersons". (He was also the black helicopter pilot at the end of the movie, not shown in your KZfaq reaction. ~ I was an Army "Huey" helicopter crew chief when this was first released in theaters. Camera work was on point.)

The guy with the mustache, tobacco, and mini-gun ("I ain't got time to bleed"), is Jesse Ventura. He was a former WWF pro wrestler, and later became Governor of Minnesota.

A short time ago I watched a KZfaq video where a group of guys tested out the “mud vs infrared”. A guy covered himself in mud and hid and they looked for him with infrared cameras. Much to their surprise it actually worked!!!

The reactions were great to every moment in the movie and just kept building. I kept thinking, "I can't wait until he removes his helmet and they get to see his face!" Great job!

The great thing about this movie is that it flipped the whole 80s action genre on its head.

A fun backstory on the character who is fixated on kitty jokes: During the shoot of the movie, the actor was supposed to wear a bright red beret. It was the "quirk" so to speak to set him apart from the team. Kind of like the one who is always shaving. He complained that the red beret made no se4nse in the context of a jungle and would have him stand out while trying to be stealthy. The people in charge agreed and instead gave him the role of the one who made tasteless jokes instead. Source: director commentary on one of the Predator DVD sets.

Something that people don’t realise, the trap at the end is improvised. The actual trap is a twine draped between two logs that Dutch has tied spikes to. The idea is the victim trips the twine which pulls them up into the spikes. The log is the counterbalance, which should be approximately twice the weight of the victim in order to have the strength to pull the victim up. Because the Predator saw the spikes, it decided to go around, unwittingly putting itself underneath the counterbalance. As soon as Dutch realises the proximity, he thinks fast and triggers the trap, the twine gets pulled up between the logs as planned, and the counterbalance log drops down. The scene where Dutch fires the explosive arrow and the Predator starts shooting in all directions is the reverse of what happened earlier on when the Predator killed Blaine and the squad tear the forest down. They couldn’t see what they were shooting at, so they just shot at everything and hope to hit something. He used the Predator’s own tactics against it. When Dillon says: “what are you gonna use next, cheese?”, Dutch literally does that… he becomes the “cheese” to bait the Predator.

This movie doesn’t get enough credit for the incredible sound editing.

Billy knew there was no escaping the Predator. He chose to stand his ground and die facing and fighting his enemy rather than to die running from his enemy.

Hey Hannah and Tori, it seems that James Cameron touches everything in 80's Hollywood. He even help come up with the look for the Predator and his facial claws. Stan Winston (practical effect creator) sat next to Cameron on a trans-Atlantic flight and told him about having trouble with a certain creature design... so Cameron drew him a sketch, and vwalla we have your favorite spork on and face ever created.

Here's a fun fact....the M134 rotary mini-gun that Sgt. Blaine uses is also the same one Arnold uses in T2. And the Predator also is learning how to mimic them,the same way hunters use animal calling devices like duck calls.

The mud is clay which is good insulator (that's why it's used for making ovens and kilns), and it's insulating properties are supposedly why it masks Dutch's infrared signature from the Predator (though in reality, that wouldn't work). I read the novel, and it may have had a better rationalization, but I can't remember. The two things I do remember from the novel are that the Predator was a shape shifter rather than invisible, and when Dutch finds the Predator's ship, he sees human skins next to the ship stretched on upright frames with the still attached scalps flapping in the wind.

I ain't got time to bleed...

I think this film is unique. Particularly for its day. It starts out as a typical 80s war movie and then changes genre and becomes a horrific gore monster film who happens to also be an extraterrestrial!! -OG

Billy on the tree bridge. Billy felt that he was going to die so he wanted to meet it warrior to warrior not running away. H cut himself as a warrior to deny his opponent the coup of drawing first blood in the fight.

Predators leave skinned victims to intimidate other potential victims. The skinned ones are also usually ones they considered easy prey I mean Stranger Things is inspired by 80s movies. Apparently before S2 came out, the Duffers did say it was an elaborate prequel to Predator, mentioning the soldier, but I’m pretty sure that was more of a joke. Oh my god, I didn’t realize there was more subtle references in Stranger Things! A Rick Shaefer gets mentioned, Arnold’s character is Dutch Shaefer, the town of Hawkins, Hawkins is the first of the team to be killed by the Predator! The effectiveness of the mud as a heat cover has been movie-fied. It would very quickly warm up. Maybe it worked better the first time because Dutch was just in the cold water, but after that, no way.

The actor playing the predator is the helicopter pilot at the end. They give him screen time so we could see him. Kevin Peter Hall was his name. As we say here Texas; Y'all be safe.

the soldier's jokes sound like the jokes I've heard as an 11 year old Army Brat

lol soon as they said "Jim Hopper" I was like *wide eyes* "just wait. dis gon b gud" lol

One of the predators abilities is mimicry. The scene of it walking through the aftermath of the raid is him first listening to the recordings of the rescue team, the after it picks up the scorpion, it’s the predator saying “anytime” itself

Billy cuts himself before the Predator can because he doesn't want to give the creature the honor of drawing first blood in combat.

That bomb wire attaches to a pin on the bomb. If you move the wire the bomb goes off, if you cut the wire the bomb goes off. He had to first block the trigger so that he could cut the wire.

27:32 Mac was "singing" some of the words to "Long Tall Sally", by Little Richard, the song from earlier in the chopper.

The Predator is the original ASMRtist - ‘anytime’ 😂

Good reaction, guys. Btw, 'Predator' is the action movie with not just one, but TWO future governors --- Arnold, the future governor of California, and Jesse Ventura, the future governor of Minnesota. Former Governor Jesse Ventura is the guy who upon being told he was shot, replied with, "I ain't got time to bleed'. And there was a 3rd guy in this movie who ran for governor as well...lol

I love how mobile that precious cat is! Just roving all over the place...

Billy cutting his chest is denying the predator first blood in a duel. in a duel you can claim victory by wounding your opponent and then offering them a chance to surrender. by entering a duel already wounded means he's in it to the death

Tori, your disdain reaction to the rude Locker room jokes were simply PRICELESS.

I always liked the cinematography in this film. The 'choppa' ride bathed in red light (to help keep natural night vision) changes to a cold blue green when they rappel down to the ground is a favorite.

I've had a variety of pets my whole life. When they make a sound, i can get pretty good at speaking the "word" back to them. If i just say their "words" out of the blue....they look at me, sometimes, unsure of what to do. I dont know what I'm saying to them, but I do know that certain sounds and words elicit specific reactions from them. In fact, to most dog owners, just the HUMAN word "walk" or "treat" elicits a very specific reaction from their dog. I get the impression that the predator is so smart, it can hear our sounds and realize that certain "sounds" elicit a reaction. He probably noticed that "over here" was the noise Mac made to get Dillon to come to him.

One of the best moments in the movie is when the Predator looks at the scorpion and growls "any time".

I think another misconception about Predators is that they are these amazing hunters who are infallible and super smart. They aren't dumb, for sure, since they have advanced technology. But I also think the technology they wield has made them "lazy". As soon as the odds are evened out, they are actually quite terrible hunters.

Love your stuff guys. Predator is one of Arnie's best performances, in my view. It's a Helluva thing to see "The Terminator" running scared.

fun facts , the actor who played dillion played apollo creed in rocky 1-4 and he was a ex nfl player . The actor who played the guy who got shot in his chest that put a whole in his chest became governor of minnesota for 2 terms . The actor who played hawkins the joke teller is shane black and he directed ironman 3 and wrote the scripts of the 1st 2 leathal weapon moves . And the actor who played the guy arnold's character said "knock knock" and then shot is arnold's childhood friend who was in every movie arnold did in the 80's and 90's

Fun bit of trivia, the eyes of the Predator that you see when he removes his mask are the actual eyes of the actor (albeit with contacts) underneath the prosthetics. After several facial designs and attempts, special effects master Stan Winston felt that leaving the actors actual facial features around the eyes gave the Predators face the final touch of menace and realism that brought the rest of the effects to life.

To answer Tori's question, it's a gatlin gun (but I've heard it's also called a minigun).

Easy to forget that when this movie was set, none of the main characters would have ever seen a laser targeting light - and certainly not a laser weapon like the one that took out Blaine. Thanks for a great reaction girls

My "fan theory" for why the Predator can't see Dutch when he is covered in mud. The helmet actually doesn't enhance the creatures vision, but acts more like a filter. When we see the helmet get taken off, the Predators vision changes to ... full InfraRed (i guess). So it's more like the surface the mud creates on Dutchs skin is automatically canceled out, no matter the heat radiating from his body.

Please watch Predator 2. You’ll learn even more about Predator culture. There’s also an interesting “Easter Egg” in the film.

41:20 It wasn't another trap, it was the counter weight of the trap. :)

I think the reason the mud hid Dutch is because the Predators helmet is designed to filter out the ambient heat of the jungle - which you can see when he takes it off and everything is shown as roughly the same temperature - and it couldn't distinguish the mud on Dutch from the mud of the surrounding area.

"What is that gun?! I love it!" That my dear is a minigun. Arnold also uses one in Terminator 2 against the cops outside the Cyberdyne building.

12:14 You are right, machine gun barrels do get hot. That’s why Gatling guns have six or more barrels. It rotates between them, so that each barrel can cool down before it fires again. Also, the spinning of the barrels helps dissipate heat.

Always love the two of you reacting together. The facial expressions on your faces, PRICELESS!!!!

the mowing down the jungle scene is not a waste of ammo. they believe that they have been ambushed. when caught in an ambush you've lost the initiative and in order to regain control of the battlefield you must overwhelm the enemy with superior firepower.

At the beginning it is all about how skilled this team is at their jobs. Billy is "elite" tracker and survivalist... he knows how to survive in the wild, and yes what vines to drink from... And then they get to the camp, and you see they can plan and execute an attack taking out the enemy... but when $#!^ gets weird they are not fearless, they still do their jobs but you can tell they are worried. Hannah's face when the skinned guys are found... first she has this "blank smiley" then hers eyes... The number of times one of both of you just sat there with your mouth hanging open, silent, and sort of... blank, was priceless. The "first aid" scene... Tori goes "what on earth is that?" and I'm thinking "wrong planet." Billy draws first blood, on himself, to deny it to the predator. Safety note, if you are ever falling into water from a height, try to land vertical, you break the water surface... a bit like a needle and suffer less harm, I still wouldn't do it like Arnie did but... The "cold: mud blocking the sight is... hard to believe... says the guy watching an Alien Predator hunt a gut in the jungle. I do feel that in the 80s/90s there was a bit more suspension of disbelief in movies we didn't go "that doesn't make sense" as often, we just accepted it was a movie and enjoyed. Sorry, long babble.

The Predator mimicking Billy's laugh at the end... 🥶🥶🥶 every time! On to Predator 2! 😎

Awesome reaction ladies 😊! I grew up watching these movies as a kid. Brings back such nostalgia!

9:43. That is a M18A1 Claymore. It's a mine used by the military 9:37. That is a tripwire connected to the mine. That's why he froze when he noticed the line.

The black guy in the chopper at the end of the movie is Kevin Peter Hall, the Predator himself :)

This is the second movie where Sonny Landham played someone named Billy. He also played a character named Billy Bear in the movie 48HRS with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.

"His eyes in the dark are kind creepy".... reminds me of Derek Zoolander in the mines.

Great pick, my favorite movie ever, and the start of a legendary franchise. Loved your reactions, Hannah is very perceptive, and both of you are sharp and smart as hell, well done. Loved the t-shirt Hannah, that's a good one, and really cute, and I just have to say, your smile is so so lovely, it lights up your whole face, absolutely beautiful. Tori, your facial expressions are priceless, and so damn cute. Oh yeah, the guy you thought looked familiar is Jesse "the body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler and governor of Minnesota.

Answering your question, line that Jesse's character cut was connected to explosive like a claymore. If he would have tripped the line, it would have triggered the explosive.

not sure if the ladies were aware that the laughter of the Predator at the end was a recording of Billy laughing at Hawkins joke right after the team finished their initial objective

He actually did ask Arnold the same question- "What the h* are you?" He is intelligent and prolly knows our language. The reason why he asked is that he isn't sure what Arnold is, cause he was invisible at one point. Humans can't do that! Remember, despite his thermal vision, his eyesight just isn't any good in this atmosphere, so he can't see anything else other than form and heat signature and outlines. He thinks he's human, but he's not sure- and now Arnold is standing over him- having won the fight. Humans are lower-level creatures- they're not supposed to triumph!? They're prey! So yeah- he is asking him - "What the h* are you!?"

Imagine how freaked out they'd have been if they saw their buddy hanging up there in the tree. They'd instantly know it was a monster that was hunting them. Fun fact, the mud actually did lower Arnold's body temperature a couple degrees, especially when wet. He was shivering much of the time later in the day and they had a really hard time keeping him warm. Also, Van Damme played the original creature but the costume was terrible and hot and he was too short. Him quitting basically saved the film because the creature ended up being way better, AKA a 7'2" monster man with mandibles...created by the great Stan Winston and James Cameron actually gave him the idea to give it that face. For the cloaking effect, the creature was a red suit they'd later remove with Chroma Key and by filming the same shot without the actor but with a much wider lens, they could fill in the area where the creature was. Sometimes it looks odd but other times it looks amazing. I think now they only use CGI and it just ends up looking bad. And the Hawkins actor actually wrote Lethal Weapon, the director directed Die Hard. You can see why it's so action packed. Imagine trying to sell this film to a studio..it would be such a hard sell and so easy to totally botch, but they made it work.

Fun fact: Arnold was a tank driver for the Austrian army before becoming Mr. Olympia and starring in movies. Jesse Ventura was also in an earlier version of the Navy Seals before becoming a wrestler.

I always thought that by cutting himself, Billy was attempting to deny the Predator the satisfaction of claiming a prestine "prize".. As though he was breaking the "trophy" that was his body..

Hawkins (man with the glasses) is played by Shane Black. Shane is also a screenwriter too. He has written screenplays for Lethal Weapon 1&2 plus Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis. Back in 2018, Shane co-written and directed a direct sequel to Predator 1&2. Predator was portrayed by late actor named, Kevin Peter Hall. KPH stand at 7ft 2inches tall. KPH also did a cameo at the end as Helicopter Pilot.

The gun at 12:09 is called a Gatling Gun aka MiniGun.

Kevin Peter Hall. The man who played The Predator was 7 foot 2 inches tall. While working on the TV series Harry and the Hendersons, Kevin Peter Hall announced that he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during surgery for injuries he sustained in a car accident. He died from AIDS-related pneumonia on April 10, 1991, a month short of his 36th birthday.

The mud retained Dutch's heat and the Predator sees heat signatures.

As a southerner I can tell y'all all kinds of southern terms. Like for example when we get a shit ton of rain we will say it's fixin to come a toad choker or it's sounds like a cow pissing on a flat rock.

fun fact you can make noise, but you can't make a lot of noise in the jungle. Jungle is naturally noisy so you constantly would hear either an animal noise, or twigs breaking.

"What kind of gun is that?" The M-134 Minigun. A rotary machine gun that shoots 7.62x 51mm rounds at 6,000 per minute. Note: It's called a "Mini-gun" because it's a smaller version of the much larger M-61 Vulcan.

Arnold told a funny story about this in his autobiography: one punch at the end of the movie thrown by predator actor Kevin Peter Hall did hit Arnold in the face and his nose bled. This was on camera (and seen in the movie) but being a good sport he didn't yell cut and pushed through it. Kevin always hung out with him for lunch but he began to avoid him. When Arnold confronted him to ask what his deal was, he told him he was afraid Arnold was gonna kick his ass because of that punch lol He was not mad and understood he couldn't see very well.

That big guy with the mustache is WWF legend Jessy The Body Ventura he was a wrestling legend until he retired and started his Hollywood career but was also the announcer for many years for the World Wrestling Federation. If you grew up in the 80s it was him and Mean Jean Okarland you would hear commenting on alot of 80s WrestleMania 😃

That Jim Hopper moment... was sort of intentional, Stranger Things took a ton of inspiration from movies and TV shows from the era this movie came out in. Hopper's name is indeed a nod to Predator. That was already confirmed.

the badass machine gun is the M-134 minigun. 6 rotating barrels, shoots 2000-6000 7.62mm rounds a minute. it is Arnold's favorite movie gun; he uses it in Terminator 2 & the Running Man.

Jean Claude Van Damme was the original predator. But, the original costume was more like a giant bug looking thing with a harpoon gun as one hand. It was so awkward and uncomfortable that Van Damme quit. He also had problems with the director. The Predator was redesigned into what we see and Keven Peter Hall was cast. He’s much taller than Arnold. He also plays the helicopter pilot at the end of the movie.

A lot of people will point out that this was directed by John McTiernan, who also directed "Die Hard", but I would point out another great film directed by McTiernan is "The Hunt for Red October". It has Sean Connery playing a Soviet submarine captain and Alec Baldwin as a CIA agent who is assigned to locate him. Another action film I recommend from that era that I hardly see anyone react to is "Backdraft", directed by Ron Howard. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin play estranged brothers in the Chicago fire department and Robert de Niro plays a fire investigator looking for an arsonist. It's great because all the fire in the film is REAL! No CG!

"Anytime"- LOL I love your reaction, please RUN to PREDATOR 2.

This movie is great for the several reasons, for me the main reason is that I could follow the plot without the need to understand what the people were saying through the movie. Everything is self explanatory and doesn't need any dialogues at all. The first Alien movie was almost the same. I've seen it on the vhs that was recorded from the German speaking tv channel.

42:31 Cat could not care less, doesn't even turn its head. :)

The helicopter pilot was actually the same actor as The Predator, Kevin Peter Hall. :-)

arnold's roar in this movie was the manliest roar in movie history. 😁

10:00 That’s a claymore mine. When triggered, it blasts a bunch of ball bearings in one direction, like a giant shotgun shell. In the novel, Blaine carefully turned it 180 degrees, so that it pointed at the rebel camp.

2:28. That man is the actor Carl Weathers. He played Rocky's opponent Apollo Creed in Rocky 3

The pilot of the helicopter at the end is the actor that played the predator out of makeup.

Just think, two of these guys went on to be Governors of two US States. Arnie, of course became Governor of California and Jessy was elected Governor of Minnesota.

GET TO DA CHOPPA!!! LOVE THIS MOVIE!! MY #1 Favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger film! Facts you didn't know about the movie: Jean Claude van Damme played the Predator in some parts of the movie, but quit production as he was tired of wearing the original suit, which looked like a lizard insect hybrid. He even wanted to kickbox Arnold but the producers refused. Kevin Peter Hall, RIP, was cast as the titular character, as he was more of an intimidating opponent for Arnold's character Dutch, being 7'2". The Predator Suit was designed and created by Oscar Winning VFX company Stan Winston Studios, whom later return to the franchise for PREDATOR 2 in 1990. Half the cast and crew got food poisoning except for Arnold and Director McTiernan whom ate Spaghetti O's and PBJ Sandwiches, like Spielberg and Ford on Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Schwarzenegger would later hire his own personal Chef to give the actors the food they needed, but couldn't eat any hot meals due to the heatwave in Mexico, so they ate protein bars instead. It was 110° in the shade while it was 42° at night. It rained for 2 weeks, making filming even more difficult. The stuntman who falls off the cliff and lands in the water blew out his kneecap. Shane Black, Hawkins, had rewritten the action scenes for the film. He even wrote the script to Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Iron Man 3, which he would directed as well. He also directed and co-wrote THE PREDATOR in 2018. It was a box office success, making $100 million dollars ($460 million dollars today) against an $18 million dollar budget. It was nominated for Best Visual Effects, but lost to InnerSpace. It's considered to be one of the best Sci-fi Action movies ever made.

That crazy laugh at the end was Billy’s laugh…

The helicopter pilot at the end of the movie is also the actor that plays the predator in this movie as well as playing "Ghost" in Predator 2.

Predator mimicing Billy's laugh best laugh in movies ever.

If you noticed in Happy Gilmore Carl Weathers is missing the same hand... Big lizard! lol

Special effects provided by the late, great Stan Winston, "Jurassic Park", "Aliens", "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", etc.

“Ohhhhhh let’emgo!” 😹

My dears, that part where Mack got shot in the head. You just witnessed one of the gnarliest headshots in movie history. Welcome to the jungle!