Too Scary; Didn't Watch - PREDATOR

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

Get to the chopper, we're recapping 1987's PREDATOR! Join us on a journey into the jungle with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and their huge, completely natural muscles! If you opt out, we'll have no choice but to think the CIA has got you pushin' too many pencils.  You can watch PREDATOR on Hulu TRAILER Recap begins @ 35:41 Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fm Podcast artwork by @EllaTalkinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I am also too scared to watch scary movies. So what are we gonna do? We're screwed. What are we gonna do?

We are really in a pickle. As you may know, if you are a return listener, Sammy's not here this week. Sammy is our brave person. She normally watches the movies for us to spare us from ever having to set our eyeballs on a scary movie. She is out of town this week and she is at a wedding.

Lots of weddings this year. Lots and lots and lots of weddings. So we have to do it without her. It's terrifying. We hate to so we have to we have to do it without her it's terrifying we hate to do it we're sad to do it we miss her you miss her listeners i know that's true look we know we know we know she is the best of us she's the best storyteller and we miss her and we're gonna do our best we're gonna do our freaking best emily you are such a good storyteller please do not sell yourself short.

I really am going to try. I'm like, really? I really I've thought about that this week. I was like, you got to do it. You got to just do your best. I mean, truly, Emily, you have like a freakish ability. Sorry to call it freakish, but it is. It is to remember the details in like gorgeous chronological order.

Oh, wow. I watch a movie. It flows right through me. In one ear, out the next. Like water, baby. Like water. Like don't remember any of it. None of it is retained. And I feel like you watch a movie and all of it's in there. Everything's in there. We'll see, baby. We're going to try. We're going to try. I'm so impressed all the time. Thank you. I'm going to try. We're going to try. We're going to try. I'm so impressed all the time. Thank you. I'm going to try

to impress you today, Henley. I really am. Okay. Because yes, I watched the movie this week. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. I don't even want to ask this fucking question. I know. I'm going to start crying. Did anything scary happen to you this week, Henley?

Did anything scary happen on today? June 25th, 2022? Has anything scary happened? Yes, something scary did happen this week. Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court. And we all knew that that was where we were headed. But I think, at least for me, I didn't want to believe that it was actually going to happen. I wanted to believe that something would save us. And, you know, I should have fucking learned my lesson when Trump was elected. No one's going to save us. No one's going to save us. Yeah, it is really also like I'm sure people are going to be Upset that we're talking about this and

To you I say I'm sorry skip ahead Skip ahead do whatever you got to do to Protect yourself from dealing with this shit I can't It's impossible to not address that this Is what is happening For me at least so You know we're all doing our Fucking best and

Yeah I think It's really it's been it was a fascinating experience for me to be to intellectually know that something will happen is not the same as feeling it when it does it just simply isn't and yeah I was

honestly shocked by how like emotionally affected I was given that I knew this was coming I didn't I hope something would save us I was coming i didn't i hoped something would save us i don't i didn't think anything actually would i felt yeah i'm really pessimistic these days for obvious reasons and i really really did think this was going to happen and still was like fucking catatonic all day yesterday until i finally let myself really cry and then I really cried and then I was like okay so

okay well what now we just live in hell I don't know I don't know I don't know what else to do yeah I don't know what else to do either and it's hard because I feel like we're drowning in all of the reasons why this isn't fair and I feel like

you know we can rehash all of those here like we can run through all the reasons why this isn't fair. And I feel like, you know, we can rehash all of those here. Like we can run through all the reasons why it's so fucked. And I heard so many personal stories from women yesterday, both on social media, both like, you know, who I work with friends, like this deeply, deeply affects people in ways that you wouldn't even imagine like in terms of just trying to get pregnant normally um yeah there are reasons why this affects that process too and it's like just confounding and i'm still processing it and I don't really know what else to say right now because I'm still in the middle of processing what's happened yeah I don't yeah it's like we I'm certain that anybody listening to our podcast knows how we feel about this

also I just feel like the majority of Americans don't want this to have happened. I'll say that too. It's not like it's not a fringe opinion to think that this is deeply cruel and makes no sense in any sort of like actual ethical way. It's really deeply fucked up.

That's not a unique thought to have right now um and i and we this isn't the place nor do i have the bandwidth to go into the myriad of reasons why this is so cruel but it's just a really hard it's hard it's hard day it's a really hard time it's really feels. Scary. Really scary and bleak in a way that like, frankly, I haven't totally felt since 2016 in terms of like the emptiness I feel to move forward that I haven't really felt in this acute way in that long.

And I guess. So why are we talking about it? Because sometimes you just have to say that you are broken and let people know that that's how you feel and that that's OK. And that. I don't know if any of you are broken. I'm sorry. If any of you are not. you are broken, I'm sorry. If any of you are not, I would like if you know, there are some people who I'm who I feel like are really fired up right now. And I think that that's great. And I hope I

will get there eventually. And if you have inspiration or thoughts or what, you know, that's great. And I and any resources, I'm always wanting to hear about. I think the most what I've been reading is the most effective thing to do right now is to find your local abortion fund or just donate to the people who can actually do something about exactly exactly. And if you don't have the means to

donate just to spread awareness, you never know. I mean, I often feel like when I post things online, that's like I am one of those people who's mostly screaming into the void and that like I don't have a lot of friends or family who don't agree with me on this. But you never

know. You never know who is going to need to see the options that they have. You know, a big thing that I'm all about right now is there are abortion pills out there that will ship nationally. There

are organizations that are doing that. They have a shelf life. You can order them. You can store them. You can keep them. They are effective in different doses at frankly every stage of pregnancy. I'm not a doctor, but like look into it, but they can be taken

safely. That is a great resource uh so that's the one thing that i'm holding on to right now is like i want to let as many people as possible know that you do not have to go into an abortion clinic to get an abortion um and if you have the ability to get those pills and you feel as you might need them or someone you love might need them, that's something we can do. That's an option. Yeah. I don't know what the details are with that. I don't know how to order those or like where you order them, because I feel like you do still need to do it through a doctor.

I think you do. So but there's like telehealth. I bet there's yes, there's going to be systems that are constructed to like patchwork this together. Yeah. And that is one thing that I hope can be some like very mild bomb on all of this is that

there are those pills, but again, we're not doctors. We're not doctors. So people who are doctors or who have more information about the resources, I'm going to do more research and spread what I can. But I just know that like that that is a real thing that exists and is also safe. Like those are safe.

That I know. One thing that I hope is changing with this is that something that has pissed me off for a really long time is how the anti-abortion movement has seemed to have like a monopoly on the moral high ground um literally getting to call themselves pro-life etc and now i i think we've known for a long time that's not like the full picture right like yeah if you this was really about saving lives really about saving like children and babies then um we'd have universal health care. We'd have.

They wouldn't have made it easier for people to conceal guns the literal day before they. Yeah. They being the Supreme Court. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right.

There would be a lot of other things that are happening if that was actually a legitimate place where a lot of these people are coming from. So I think that's hopefully changing. I really hope the fucking democratic party can figure out their messaging on this, where they are not just like capitulating to this, you know, quote unquote pro-life movement in the same way. Like someone needs to fucking get that shit together. And I don't, you know, I don't know what that will look like, but I think that this is a pretty drastic thing to have happened. And hopefully it really lights a fire under a lot of people. I know it will for me who has been checked out honestly for the past like 18 months, because

I just, I think, I think I was A little drained um and That's you know we're not We're not allowed to be drained Yeah but also I will say Too like We also sort of are in that Like this isn't a like It's an

Emotional it's an emotional thing it's heavy it's real We're people and also like I get so fucking... Yes, we need to be engaged. We need to do what we can. We need to be active participants in what's happening. But like I feel like Democrats always go back to like, this is why we have to vote.

I almost... The place I'm at emotionally is I got a thousand automated texts yesterday from every organization that I have donated to or subscribed to. the like I Democratic Party ACLU Planned Parenthood I got a fucking text From Joe Biden not really but a text from Joe Biden Being like please donate $15

To the Democratic Party this is why we have to vote And I almost responded to some like automatic text Being like fuck you I did Vote I did vote for you like this was Like what the fuck yeah sure We need to vote but also like I am Up you are in power You already have power so Like this was like, what the fuck? Yeah, sure. We need to vote. But also like I am up. You are in power.

You already have power. So don't tell me to fucking vote. That's not the answer. I know. Like do something. So the Democrats, for example, they were given the chance to override the filibuster and we literally have a majority. Don't tell me to fucking vote i know they were they had the opportunity to actually like codify roe in may and then they didn't because that's such a

political like hot topic is the filibuster and people are too scared to override it which is insane it's so stupid also a republican hasn't won the popular vote in over 30 years. This is not a democracy. Our system is fucking broken. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty broken. It's pretty broken. It's pretty broken. And I'm like stupid, right? Like, I don't even I don't I don't know how this shit actually works, but I I can see that much. Do you know what I mean like i don't feel

like it's that oh my god yeah emily first of all you're not stupid and then second of all if you are stupid i'm like really stupid and that's okay neither of us are stupid neither of us are stupid yeah people hate when we talk people when we talk about politics but honestly when it comes down to um bodily autonomy that's not political. And that's also the thing you were saying about pro-life, pro-choice. No, no, no. It's forced pregnancy and bodily autonomy. It's not anti-abortion. It is forced

pregnancy. Oh my God. Yeah, I want us to fully change the framing of this issue because that's like... Imagine being forced to be pregnant truly fucking imagine it even even before i went through it i really didn't understand and i've experienced it and it is life-consuming just you don't you're not able to be pregnant and just like be yourself in a normal way i mean it makes it makes you feel really sick. It's really painful.

Yeah, not everybody's bodies can or should do it. It is not always safe. If you don't have access to medical care, women die giving birth to this day, particularly women of color, particularly people

who are below the poverty line. It is so... I said we weren't going to fucking talk about it here we are talking about i'm sorry it's really it's really i feel um like part of me wishes that we'd just like written down bullet points because this is literally the first time i've like fully processed it and to be doing nobody but i've essentially talked to no one about it, except like a few sparse conversations. And so to be processing it in real time, like, yeah, I'm going to regret this. It's going to be a public situation.

I'm going to really regret this. I'm going to regret it. I already regret it. I'm going to just say I will point everyone to an article that Gia Tolentino wrote in The New Yorker that I found extremely illuminating. It's pretty depressing, but she is such a compelling, beautiful writer. And there's a part in it about like the surveillance system that's also cropping up around this. That's pretty alarming. up around this. That's pretty alarming. And there's just a lot of pieces to this that as I dig deeper, I'm discovering and it's complicated and complex and emotional. And there are

a lot of other things to say about it. So many other things to say about it. Emily and I are not doctors nor are we Smart No that's not we are Nor do we come to this podcast Equipped with facts We're not politicians We are Regular people

We are two White ladies We're two white ladies. We're two white ladies. Two white ladies. Which, you know, our white ladies are also very much to blame. The problem.

Um, so, instead what we're going to do is talk about something else. And it's going to be fun. Yeah, it's going to be so fun, you guys. Here's what I'll say, Henley. Right now, I'm very glad to be here with you. Oh, I'm really glad to be here with you, too. That's what I'm glad about.

And and to Sammy, who was just listening to this to edit this episode. Sammy, I love you. And I'm sorry. Sammy, I'm sorry. Sammy, we love you so much yeah so let's do this week's movie i am so excited i always cop out when it's my turn to watch a movie and i have done just that this week which is to say that i picked basically an action movie. But we're doing Predator. The original Predator came out in 1987.

I love this movie. We are doing this movie in part because there is a prequel to Predator called Prey coming out in August. Which I'm very excited about. So for anybody who has not seen Predator and wants to know the deal, we're going to talk about it right now.

It is an action movie, but it's action. It's sci-fi. It's horror. It's doing a lot. Arnold. It's Arnold. It is great. It has spawned many, many sequels,

none of which I've seen. Some of them apparently are quite bad. There's a whole alien versus predator situation that happens at some point, too. But this first one, this original Predator, totally fucking rules. And I can't wait to tell you about it. I've never

seen it. I can't tell you. You don't love action movies. I can't't wait to tell you about it. I've never seen it. I can't tell you. You don't love action movies. I can't tell how you'd feel about it. Just find them boring. That's crazy to me. Not not all the time. But I have to say, like for fight scenes where you like know who's going to win the fight scene and then it lasts like 25 minutes. I'm solidly bored

like five minutes in. I'll say bad action movies are boring because if you don't feel the stakes, that's what an action movie is all like. That's why I love Mission Impossible. That's why I love Tom Cruise because he's really, even though for the most part, yeah,

he's going to be fine, right? Ultimately. But because he's like really doing the stunts, he's really, even though for the most part, yeah, he's going to be fine, right? Ultimately. But because he's really doing the stunts, he's really engaged in the action, you feel the weight of what's happening, which that's what you need in an action movie. You need to feel the stakes of the moment. If you don't, then yeah, it's kind of boring.

Of course. Of course. I mean, there are some action movies I love. Like the first Mission Impossible is unbelievable. It's incredible. It's like the best movie I've ever seen. But there's just a lot of really bad action movies that I've watched with Tim where Tim I'm like, I'm going to bed. Yeah, fair.

Fair. I do love how it just reminds me that Vin Diesel has it in his contract that he can never lose a fight in a movie. So anytime you see Vin Diesel fighting in a movie, you're like, well, he's gonna win, which I think is so funny. It's such a funny way to be like, well, there are

zero stakes here. Like, 100% I'm not worried at all because Vin must win because he has dictated it. But, you know, there's something magical to that too. Okay, Predator. Directed by John McTiernannan The movie he directed just before Die Hard So pretty cool

Written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas The Thomas Brothers if you will Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers Elpidia Carrillo Bill Duke, Richard Chavez Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Shane Black and Kevin Peter Hall. And I believe it is streaming on Hulu, which is probably because Prey is going to be released on Hulu when that comes out.

But you can also rent it on Amazon Prime. And so Henley, how much do you know about this movie? I know zero about this movie? I know zero about this movie. I know literally nothing about it actually. I didn't even know Arnold was in it until Sammy brought up that we need to do his accent.

Is he ever. And then Tim said that too. He was like, are you going to do his accent? And I was like, I can't do that. When did you see it for the first time? Honestly, in the past four years or so. Maybe, no, more recently than that. Yeah, I had never seen it.

Joel loves this movie. Absolutely loves it. He has written a Predator sequel, a direct sequel to this movie that, he's going to be upset that I'm saying this, but it fucking rules.

It's so good and it is so violent and gnarly and like it's I'm obsessed with it and I want it. I want to be able to watch it. I want to be able to. I want you to be able to watch it and then tell me about it. Yeah, it fucking rules. But so we're a big Predator household.

So I have seen it since being with Joel, basically, and him writing his sequel because I wanted to know what the deal was. And since then, I've seen it several times. It's a great action movie. It's a great Arnold performance. The bodies in this movie, Henley,

oh my god, I can't wait for you to see. It's like, oh my god, it's a just a bunch of fucking dudes jacked to hell like peak steroids 80s insanity they look crazy oh my god it's impossible to watch this movie and not just like i truly last night was talking to joel was like as we were watching it like how the amount of growth hormones being used on these men is like there's got to be a documentary

about this right I want to see I want to know more about bodybuilders I need to know more about bodybuilders and I need to know more about steroids I really do because I'm like how how is this a thing that people do? I think, I mean, you definitely get addicted to it, but I don't know how

or why. It makes me think like I'm very curious, like they have to be this is what we're talking about. They have to be different now, right? Because like people definitely still do it. Like, I'm sorry, Hemsworth, that's not a God-given body. Like, no, and I do mean God. That is like nobody literally literally your arms can't be wider than your head by like three X.

That's like literally that's like doesn't that's not real. That's not real. You have done something. But it's like they can't be like like I feel like steroids are gnarly and like fuck you up. And it's like they can't be. I don't know I'm there Sammy recently sent us An article that was a series Of photos like every year of

Arnold she like went down a weird Schwarzenegger rabbit Hole I don't remember why I don't know Why she just did and sent it to us And you can see like it's It is so obvious The year I think it's like literally from age 19 to age 20 but it's like literally from age 19 to age 20. But it's like this year he hadn't taken steroids yet.

Oh, one year later, he fully had like his body just like balloons out in this crazy way. You're like, oh, my God. Like, obviously, they still work out. But it's like this is not this is not normal. Not normal. Not how a normal body looks with no adjustments. Yeah. not normal not how a normal body looks with no adjustments yeah no one you you could not build your own body to that size you simply couldn't um anyway i'm really fascinated by steroids and i'm probably gonna do i'm probably gonna look it up when we're done recording probably but you got to see these bodies and so on note, I am going to show you some photos because some of these things you just you simply must see.

For example, we're going to start here and listeners will post these on our Instagram. But, you know, here we go. Look at them. You know, what's so funny is that they're like war makeup. Their jungle is gorgeous, is really inspiring. Arnold's is beautiful. It's really inspiring. Arnold's is beautiful. It's like contouring. It's army contouring. It's also like on his skin it looks almost shiny.

It's like really beautiful. I think his army camouflage makeup is absolutely stunning. Yeah, he is looking great and those arms are doing a lot. His arms look like how a child draws a cloud. Do you know what I mean? It's like he's storing like three navel oranges between his shoulder and elbow. It looks, you know, it's crazy. It looks like a roast chicken Like spinning on a spit It's I mean that's what I mean right

Like that is Not human. Bodies don't do that Bodies don't do that And that's not even the most That's pretty subtle compared to A lot of steroid shit That happens. I feel like over time He gets bigger in his life

Hemsworth's arms I feel like are I really harp on him. I feel like over time he gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Hemsworth's arms I feel like are... I really harp on him. I feel like Chris Hemsworth looks... I don't like looking at him. It makes me uneasy to look at him. I find it to be unsettling. Have you seen his wife? Sorry, Hemsworth.

His wife is also super fucking ripped. Oh yeah, she's also stunning. She's in the Fast and Furious franchise, baby. Oh, yeah. She's also stunning. She's in the Fast and Furious franchise, baby. Oh, I didn't know that. Clearly, I need to brush up on my action movies. You need to brush up on your action movies. I'm excited for this crew.

I feel like a lot is going to go down. Yeah, I will say like it's a lot of men. But it is interesting. It's like. Are there any women actually one in this okay there's one um but i feel like it's sort of a condemnation of a certain type of masculinity like apparently mick this is all according to joel i have my at the end I have some Joel facts because I was like tell me everything That you think about this movie but McTiernan was intended This to be sort

Of like I think anti Military and a little bit Subversive in terms of You know I don't think these men Are really supposed to be Looked at as like smart heroes Definitely you can read this movie As it's just straightforward

action movie fucking badasses shooting guns in the jungle but i think it is a lot darker than that and and like it starts off more of an action movie and then it really turns into honestly like a true slasher um which is very cool and and uh so yeah we'll we'll get into that a little bit more but it has an 80 on rotten tomatoes a 45 on metacritic which i feel like is bullshit um and a 7.8 on imdb okay that's pretty good that's pretty good the budget was 15 million and the box office was 98.3 million. So, did pretty well. Some trivia here is that the filming process was really tough. They were literally in the jungle in Mexico, like filming on uneven terrain all the time.

Overnight, it was really, really cold. Kevin Peter Hall, who plays the Predator, he's the guy in the Predator suit, is 7'2, by the way. And he stated in an interview that his experience on the film wasn't a movie. It was a survival story for all of us. The water that they were filming in was described as foul, stagnant and full of leashes. Oh, no.

Venomous snakes and scorpions invaded their set at one point. The hotel they were staying at had a problem with its water filtration, and so all of them got diarrhea. Oh, my God. So it was tough. It was tough. This is why it's so funny to be an actor on the

red carpet for a movie like this. Where it's like, if you were, if this is what your day-to-day experience was like, where it's like you were just having diarrhea and like getting stung by scorpions and like literally in hell and then you like get all dolled up and you have to walk

the red carpet. It's so funny. It's so funny to think about. Also, apparently Schwarzenegger lost 25 pounds to shoot this movie because he wanted to be, in quote, lean. What? And he's the biggest man who's ever existed.

Zero percent body fat. Biggest man who's ever existed. The invisibility cloaking effect, which you'll see. Very advanced. It was achieved with a bright red suit because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and blue

of the sky, the size of the predator. The red was removed with chroma key techniques leaving an empty area. And then that technique was repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. Then they combined the two takes so that the jungle from the second take.

Filled in the empty area. So it's very. I mean it looks stupid now. It looks very stupid. But it is interesting to think about. Like how they achieved that. Yeah. What you're seeing in the like invisibility cloak.

Is a blend of. removed red suit and inserted extra like jungle footage, basically, which is cool. I listened to an interview with David Cronenberg after we did the future. And one thing he was saying about like because you know he's been making movies for so long he was like it's just changed so much it's so much easier to make these movies now like yeah it's so much easier to do the body horror stuff like they our technology has advanced drastically in the past 30 years where i'm sure it took them for they had to do two takes. It sounds like at least two takes for every,

every single shot that they do that. And yeah. Yeah. That's so much time. So much time. And it's just, we don't have to worry about that anymore. I don't understand what the technology is or how it exists.

I mean, I understand what volumes are, but like the stages that are like three 60 stages where you're just having video content, like on the floor to ceiling that's how they did like mandalorian and all this stuff but it's just crazy to think about how different it was in 1986 probably when they're making this so different and it still sort of looks like shit yeah it's cool to see like how they accomplish it and sometimes it's better.

Like when we've talked about this, when people do things practically, it's like really cool. Mm hmm. But yeah, some some things we just didn't quite have the technology for. No. OK, this is such a stupid trivia, but Arnold Schwarzenegger told the wardrobe department to tell Jesse Ventura that his arms were bigger, one inch bigger around than Arnold's. Wait, what? So then Jesse was like, alright, yeah, hell yeah,

let's do like an arm. He was so excited. He was like, my arms are bigger than yours. Let's do an arm measuring contest. And so then they did and Jesse Ventura lost because Schwarzenegger's arms are bigger. And it's like, what kind of prank is that? Wait, was it because he wanted his outfit to be looser? His costume to be looser and his to be tighter?

I think he was like, I'll get him. What a funny prank, Arnold. Also, it's like, imagine looking at this man's arms and having the audacity to think that yours were bigger. Yeah. Like, that's just very stupid. It's just straight up stupid. There's no way. They're also just in the photo that Emily is showing. They're

glistening and no one else's no one else's arms are out in the same way. He's wearing a full muscle tank. Yeah. Oh, yeah. His arms are out. You're not going to hide those arms. You all probably literally couldn't. They wouldn't fit. They're not going to fit anywhere. They're not going to fit anywhere.

Dutch's line. Oh, his character's name is Dutch, by the way, Schwarzenegger and his line. Get to the chopper. Get to the chopper is Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite personal catchphrase of all of his films that he appears in. What? His favorite catchphrase. Also, I'm going to do an Arnold accent

as much as possible. And so if I offend anybody, I am sorry. I just it's impossible to not do it. I thought that was really good. Oh, I'm gonna, there's more. So, speaking to the insanity of masculinity and of

a certain kind of man, in an interview, Carl Weathers said that the actors would secretly wake up as early as 3 a.m. to work out before the day's shooting. Oh, that'd be sad. Weathers Also stated that he wanted other actors to think that his

physique was naturally given to him so he would only work out in secret when no other actors were around. That's so sad to me. Yeah. Also, I'm sorry. As stated, that physique is impossible. I know.

What are you after? Absolutely crippling. Love. They just want to be loved. They just want to be accepted. This script got made. These two brothers was their first script they'd ever written. And they couldn't get any attention on it because they were nobodies.

And so they somehow managed to literally slide it under the door of a 20th Century Fox executive who read it and made it which is like yeah honestly that's insulting because that doesn't happen no no it doesn't happen anymore there's too many hoops too many hoops

damn but good for you good for you brothers Thomas brothers good for you as I said the predator costume weighed over 200 pounds so it was very hard to move in and Kevin Peter Hall who was inside the suit also couldn't really see

once he was in it so he had to like take have the helmet off to do all the blocking like memorize his location in physical space, and then do it all without really being able to see once they were filming. Oh, my God.

Just really crazy. The Predator was originally cast as Jean-Claude Van Damme. And about halfway through, they recast him because they wanted him to be able to do his like classic martial arts fighting style and be like really ninja like is how it was described as a predator. But the suit was just absolutely too cumbersome for that to come across. And Jean-Claude Van Damme is 5'9". So next to Arnold, it did not look formidable enough. It did not look formidable enough.

And apparently he complained the whole time that he was really hot in the suit and that he was upset that people wouldn't actually see his own face on camera, that he was going to be in this suit. So anyway, he got recast by Kevin Peter Hall, who was set to put two and they changed the creature design. So it's like even a different suit entirely. Wow. And a very sad fact that I don't know. It's just really sad that that actor, he died at 35 because he got a blood transfusion and got HIV from it and then got AIDS and died at 35. What the fuck?

Yeah. During surgery, he received a blood transfusion. That's really dark. That's really dark. It's really dark to think about the time when that was happening. Yeah. It's fucking awful. It's really sad. That is all the trivia I have. There's a ton of fucking trivia.

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week, it is stressful and hard. It's really hard. I've only done it a few times and I gotta say it's a lot easier. I mean What Lies Beneath was a breeze for me just because I love that movie. I know it like the back of my goddamn hand. But having to do it for new movies all the time.

How does she do it? She's a genius. How does she do it? Okay, Predator. First shot. We see a spaceship flying through space. We see it in the distance release a little like ejection pod, you know, Star Wars style.

And sometimes those little guys, new ships fly out and it's dropping down to Earth. Just like killer clowns from outer space. Just like killer clowns from outer space. Cut to a helicopter landing on a beach that is clearly an army base of some sort. There are other helicopters there. We see men in army fatigues, camouflage. And emerging from the helicopter is a group of cool

ass looking dudes. They're wearing jeans. They're wearing sunglasses. They look fucking like they're clearly army dudes, but they like, you know, they're their own vibe. They're not in uniform yet. They're not in uniform. And the last

to exit the helicopter is Arnold Schwarzenegger wearing a cool little cap, sunglasses, smoking a big-ass cigar. Oh my god. A cigar? He is smoking cigars like the entire movie. A cigar?

Yeah. Smoking a cigar as if it's just a regular cigarette is crazy, but honestly, it sort of looks normal. If he were smoking a cigarette, it would look too small. Comical. That man can't smoke a cigarette. He would accidentally swallow it. He would breathe in and it would go straight down his throat.

That's really funny to think about. That is Dutch. Arnold Schwarzenegger's character name is Dutch who goes over he's sort of is Dutch. Who goes over. He's sort of the leader. He goes over and he greets the general. Who he clearly knows.

And the general explains to him this mission. They have been called there because there is a group of guerrilla soldiers. Or, you know, guerrilla. Do you say guerrillas? That's just what you say. I'm going to say that. I think. Well, I don't know. Guerrillas. Not gorillas? That's just what you say I think Gorillas not gorillas

Just so everybody knows I mean people It would be pretty funny if they were A bunch of wild gorillas So smear out a bunch of gorillas So there's a group of gorillas who have taken The cabinet minister hostage Dutch and his crew

They are a rescue team The very best rescue team, the very best rescue team. So they've been called in to rescue the cabinet minister and Dutch asks why us? I guess this isn't totally the sort of thing they do

and so he asks the general why did you call us in? And we hear from the other side of the room, because somebody told him you were the best intro. This is Carl Weathers. His character name is Dylan. He and Dutch are old army buddies.

But now Dylan is in the CIA. Oh, okay. So they greet each other with, uh, they lock, they lock fists in arm wrestle position, their biceps positively bursting at the seams. And it looks like this Henley.

That makes me feel scared. It's crazy. That's all I'm going to talk about this whole retelling. It looks like his muscles are emerging from his body Like they're breaking through the skin Yeah it looks painful He doesn't have enough skin to cover He doesn't have enough skin

He doesn't have enough skin Yeah it's wild So they lock in a little arm wrestle And then they Hyper masculine ego driven Friendly but they start to like literally arm wrestle and then they click you know the hyper masculine ego driven they start friendly but they start to like literally arm wrestle and Dutch starts over overtaking

him and this is where he says a line that Sammy demanded we say which is what's the matter CIA got you pushing too many pencils that was terrible I gotta read it hold on what's the matter CIA got you pushing too many pencils. That was worse.

But anyway, that's the vibe. What's the matter? CIA got you pushing too many pencils. CIA got you pushing too many pencils. Yeah, that was pretty good. Push into many pencils.

Pansels. Push into many pansels. Thatcels push into many pancels that's perfect god that was perfect okay so this is where we find out that Dylan is going to go on the mission with him and Dutch says no my team

works alone Dylan says sorry we all have our orders so we cut to the whole crew, this rescue team in helicopters flying over the jungle, getting ready to drop down. This crew is Dutch, Mac, Poncho, Blaine, Hawkins, Billy and Dylan. You don't need to remember that, but that's the guys. That's the guys. And as they're in the helicopter, you know, they're playing music.

They're telling jokes. They seem pretty chill about this. You know, they've done it before. They're not all that stressed. They drop down then into the jungle. And start going through to find this gorilla camp. Billy is the tracker um of the group and this casting choices may be a little bit racist the safe bet is that it feels like it is he he is native american

and so he has presented a little bit of that trope of like knowing the land better than them, having like a sixth sense of understanding what's out there. And beyond that, it's not it's not overt. He's not he doesn't play a caricature, but it just feels like maybe a questionable choice. I'm not going to harp on it, but I just felt the need to address it. I'm not going to harp on it, but I just felt the need to address it. But so they're going through the jungle and they see a helicopter crashed up in the trees. So they climb up into it to see what the deal is. The pilot is dead.

And Poncho says, I think it's Poncho, that it looks like the pilot was killed by a heat seeker, which Judge says is a little. It seems too sophisticated of technology for it to have been the gorillas. Billy says that he looks and sees there were six pairs of army boots. So there were 12 men. And Dylan says, you know, maybe

that must have been another patrol, just a regular army patrol group coming through. I don't know who that was. But, you know, they don't see anyone except for the killed pilot. So they explore the surrounding area. And as they're looking around, Billy is following something that he suspects that he sees some tracks. And that is when he looks up and sees three uh bodies skinned hanging from the trees that's really gross with their guts on the ground below emily how dare you show me that photo how dare you they're like literally neon pink yeah they red, red. They've been skinned. Terrible. Okay.

They've been skinned. I don't like that. Yeah, so we see that. I'll show you instead these hot bodies. Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. Back to the crew. Back to the crew. Back to the crew. So we see that and

Dutch comes over, picks up their dog tags which are on the ground and he realizes that he knew these men and one of the dog tag he pulls up is of Jim Hopper which there's two stranger things like clearly two things that stranger things got from Predator

which is Jim Hopper and one of the guys names is Hawkins and those appear to be the only two references but they also like clearly came from this, which is just, that's crazy. Okay. I don't know why,

but anyway, so this guy's Jim Hopper. Sure. Um, and so Dutch says that he was a, he was a green beret. Okay. So he confronts Dylan saying like,

why were these guys here? You had to have known this isn't just a regular patrol group. And, and Dylan says he doesn't know as far as he knew there was nobody else called in for this mission um we're feeling a little bit suspicious meanwhile billy is trying to find tracks that would indicate who might have done this to these men and they can't find any tracks he says there's no other tracks other than these three guys. Also, they don't see tracks of the

they're supposed to be 12 men. We don't see the tracks. No, wait. Six men. Six pairs of boots. You said six pairs of boots. So that's 12 feet. So that's six men. Six pairs of boots on six men.

I'm stupid. So Billy can't find any other tracks. And it says it looks like the other men just simply disappeared. Okay. So they decide to keep going. So three have been skinned alive and three are missing. One pilot was dead. So two are missing.

Two are missing. Okay. Okay. Got So two are missing. Two are missing. Okay. Okay. Got it. But we don't know. We don't know where they went. So they continue on to this guerrilla camp. Because as far as they know, those are the people who did this.

That's all we can find out. We need to go get our hostages. Our hostage. And so they get there. And as they're walking through the jungle, we see other shots of them being watched from afar in thermal vision. So, somebody is watching them and tracking

them. It's the predator. It might be the predator. So, they arrive at the camp, the gorilla camp, and from the tree line, they're looking in and they see the gorillas shoot and kill their hostage. So, they just blow that From the tree line they're looking in and they see The gorillas shoot and kill their hostage So They just

Blow that Place to fucking hell They just shoot Blow it up throw bombs Throw grenades explosions people flying It's like this massive action Sequence of just like And the way it's treated which I think

Is to the sort of more subversive messaging of this movie it's like at one point Arnold Schwarzenegger throws a knife through some guy and makes a joke like stick around like it's like they are unfazed this is very light this is not a challenge for them

they are just going balls to the wall destroying this place without a second thought. Yeah. As they sort of move through that camp after they've killed everyone Dylan goes into one of the, it's like a

literal camp, so tents, but there are like rooms you know, and so Dylan goes in a room and finds a bunch of paperwork and he's looking through it and he's thrilled. He's like, oh, this is great. This is exactly what we wanted. And Dutch finds him and gets really pissed and is like, you set us up. This is what you were here for. This was not a rescue mission. And Dylan says, well, sorry, you guys.

And Dutch is like, why did you call us here? This isn't what we do. And he said, well, you're the only people who get us in. You're better than anyone. And like, yeah, you're the only people who get us in. You're better than anyone. And like, yeah, you better grow the fuck up. He's like, I used to be, Josh says, you used to be somebody I could trust. And Dylan says, yeah, well, I grew up and I learned

like, here's what we are. We are expendable assets. You and your team are expendable assets. You needed to, we needed a job to be done. You could do it. And that's just the deal. And Dutch says his team is not expendable. So they have two very different perspectives

on what they're doing here. Dutch very clearly earlier on, he says, we're a rescue mission. We're not assassins. So this is not the kind of work that they want to do. But they have been tricked and brought here to get you know some information it also to stop maybe a soviet invasion like this or oh no okay here's what he

here's what he says uh dylan says the soviets were going to be here any day they were going to get this information i see we needed to get it first so that's what this mission was. To beat the Soviets, getting whatever information is here at this guerrilla camp. Okay, of course. I mean, it's the 80s. The Soviets are... It's the late 80s, baby. Yeah. So the only survivor that they have there is

this woman. Ah, the one woman. Who Dylan decides to take with them. He says she's too vulnerable. We have to take her with us. Dutch doesn't want to because they need to get out. They need to get through the jungle and get out. But he's like, fine, whatever. She's on your hands. Let's just go. So

they have to go back through the jungle to get to an extraction point to be carried out because if they do it too close to... More gorillas are going to be coming and they'll be too vulnerable if they try to get extracted to more gorillas are going to be coming and they'll be too vulnerable if they try to get extracted here. So they have to go back through the jungle. Is he going to fall in love with that woman? No. Okay. Okay. Okay. There is not a not even a hint,

not even a hint of romance in this movie. Not even a hint of romance. Not even a hint. Just had to ask. Just had to ask. Now I won't be waiting for it. But no, this is a decidedly unhorny movie in case there was any question. Arnold didn't think so. He thought his arms were horny enough for everyone. The only thing sharp and horny is my arm muscles. It's a terrible impression, but I'm going to keep doing it. So at one point, as they're like leaving the guerrilla camp, Mac stabs a scorpion that was on Dylan's shoulder. And I think that they really killed this scorpion.

I don't know. I just wanted to flag that. It just seems like there's no way they didn't. And I don't know where we stand on scorpions. Scorpion. I'm kind of fine with killing a scorpion, but I don't know enough to really. I guess I'm fine with it. But it just felt like I was like, oh, that's that's gross. I'm kind of fine with killing a scorpion, but I don't know enough to really. I guess I'm fine with it, but it just felt like I was like,

oh, that's gross. I'm grateful I don't live in a place where I have to worry about scorpions. He stabs it and then he steps on it and we see it all smushed and it just felt real. Anyway, I think this is where Blaine got hit, you know, got a little fire and is

bleeding a little bit and I think it's Poncho that says, you're bleeding. And he goes, I ain't got time to bleed. These are some macho ass men. And as they're leaving, we see once again, they are being watched in thermal vision.

As he moves to jungle, I think before they leave the camp, Billy seems to sort of notice something that they maybe are being watched. His antenna are up in terms of sensing that something is off. They move through the jungle and

he is clearly on edge. The rest of them notice it. Dutch says, what's up with Billy? And comes up to him. Billy's sort of in the front looking at a spot in the trees that we cut to. We look at. We don't see anything, but Billy says there is something in those trees.

So they're all paused, trying to look, trying to see what the deal is. As this is happening, Anna, her wrists are bound, by the way. But she, you know, they're all stopped and nobody's really paying attention to her she manages to grab a log hits poncho over the head with it um he's kind of watching her and so she runs to try to escape okay hawkins goes after her manages to catch up to her

sort of pins her down um not again not in a sexual way but just sort of pins her down and it's like he got her we hear a little noise behind him we turn and we see an invisible weird outline cut to anna's face gets splattered with hawkins blood as something got him. And we see then we cut to his leg. We see an invisible hand grab his leg and drag him off through the jungle. Oh, and this likes to skin you alive.

So you do not want to get caught by this guy. But the girl is left. The woman is left. She is not taken or were killed by the predator. Poncho finds her. They catch up to her.

See that she's covered in blood, but that it is not her blood. And we see a trail of blood on the ground where Hawkins has been dragged away. Poncho follows it through the jungle, sees just a pile of guts on the ground. Oh, I hate it. Dutch and Dylan catch up and they come to and they find Anna. They ask Blaine, did you find Hawkins?

Sorry, they ask Poncho, did you find Hawkins? To which he replies, I don't know, which is so gnarly to be like, I found something. They go over, they see that it's just guts on the ground, but they don't see a body. And so they're

trying to find, they're like, okay, we gotta find his body. They ask Anna what happened because she's sitting there, fine. And all she can say is, this is all in Spanish, by the way, Poncho, who I guess is their best Spanish speaker, who has the worst Spanish accent in the world, keeps going, mujer mujer que paso mujer oh god and his name is poncho and his name is poncho um so

uh she says all she says is the jungle came alive and took him and they're like that's bullshit what are you talking about dutch looks over and sees hawkins weapon and radio still on the ground and he's like what the fuck why wouldn't someonekins' weapon and radio still on the ground and he's like, what the fuck? Why wouldn't someone take his weapon and radio? Dylan says, the same thing happened to Jim Hopper. So then they're like, okay, let's do a sweep. We have to find Hawkins' body. We have to find out what happened.

So they start sweeping the area. Meanwhile, the camera just pans up, up, up, up, up, up, up, way up a tall tree where we see Hawkins' body hanging upside down. Not skinned, but hanging upside down. Probably will be skinned at some

point. Oh my god. As they are... And he's dead. Oh, he's fully dead. No, no, no, he's dead. Because it was his guts they just found. Yeah, it was his guts for sure. As they're all fanned out, trying to find the body, all of a sudden we see Blaine, which is Jesse Ventura,

gets shot straight through the chest, fucking hole through his chest by something. Mac sees this, and we've established the two of them are closer friends, potentially, than the rest of them. So he sees this happen and clocks. He sees this invisible silhouette of the hunter because here I'll show you a picture. You can sort of see. Yeah, you can like see them moving or see it moving.

It's invisible but visible. Yeah. So it and it's so hard. Do you see what I mean? Yeah. It's kind of like blubber. It's kind of like blubber It's kind of like blubber Yeah

So you can like sort of see Something And so Max sees this And just And he sees the flash of two Like bright yellow eyes that then disappear And so he just opens Fire and just starts shooting like

Crazy in that direction everybody you know hears that happening joins up and it's this insane like two minute sequence of all of them just unloading every fucking bullet they have just

shooting at nothing they don't know what they're shooting at they don't know where it is it's just this is where I'm like, I can see the statement he's making. It's just like this is all these men know what know how to do. And this is all they will do is just shoot at nothing. And so they're all just shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. They run out of bullets. They all stand there. So they stop shooting. It's quiet. They go over. They find Blaine's body.

Just shot. I mean, he's super dead. A hole like right through the middle of his chest. And they see that there is no shrapnel. There are no bullets. And that the wound is cauterized. So they're like,

what on earth could have done this? Like, you mean there's no shrapnel just from that one? You're not saying like their bullets disappeared? Their bullets are still around. No, but yeah, on Blaine's wound, they're like, they don't see any evidence of what could have shot him and the wound itself is cauterized already. Are they out

of ammo, by the way? No. Okay, okay. Never. No, they have those like long, you know, things they wear bullets all the way or like basically like you no they have those like long you know things they wear bullets all the way or like basically like uh you know girl scout sashes but they're all uh bullets yes yes yes um but no just for that moment they like shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot and then

stop just be like what do we get it what happened um and so they go and they they find blaine's body are very confused by what could have gotten him and then they look at where they were shooting and they find Blaine's body. They're very confused by what could have gotten him. And then they look at where they were shooting and they see nobody. They just shot a thousand times in this direction, caught nothing. We do see, though, Anna walks over and sees a drop of bright green neon blood on a leaf.

And she sort of puts her hand in it, wipes it on her pants. So she notices it, but the rest of them don't. Okay. They decide they're going to take Blaine's body with them and going to set up a camp and like rig it with traps and just try to lure whatever the fuck this thing is over to them and get it that way. So they start to stake out an area.

They've got, you know, trip wires, flares. Mac says to Dutch, nothing's coming near this place without tripping on something. So Dutch then says to Mac about Blaine, he was a good soldier. As a comfort to him, to which Mac replies,

he was my friend. Oh. It's very sad. Sad. Cut to a log in the middle of the jungle and we see an invisible foot step on it and an invisible leg then sit on this log

and then the whole body materializes like he turned off his invisibility shield. Okay. We are not getting a full glimpse of it but we're seeing whatever this is has claws and some sort of high-tech suit he clicks some buttons on his arm which releases like a med kit which he uses to uh staple shut this leg wound that he has so he did get shot in the leg and

we see it's like goopy and has neon green blood and uh he tends to his own wound staples it shut and screams in pain at doing that i just didn't even really know what predator was and i didn't so well we don't yeah oh we still don't know we still don't know okay okay let's keep going i think we were meant to assume he's some sort of alien right with like a high-tech suit yeah um so this all they keep being like there's no shrapnel what kind of weapons could do this we i think we maybe have seen him shoot like a laser type gun so like that's what he's using yeah he's very high tech he has this thermal imaging and yeah so he has like a little med kit in his arm he's he's prepared he's absolutely prepared

but he did get he did get shot in the leg. And so he tends to his own. He screams, which echoes in the jungle. We see Anna look up, sort of hear that noise. She's absolutely fucking terrified. And it seems like she has a little bit more of an idea of what this thing is than the rest of them. She's not seen it before. Letting it on. Yeah, because she is basically a prisoner of war these

men have committed war crimes yeah so we also then pull back and we get our first sort of glimpse of the predator itself he's sitting on in a tree just like tending to his wound we sort of pan back and we see this dude which i'll show you a picture of in a little bit but it's a big alien with dreads basically okay okay i want to see i want to see meanwhile dylan is calls on the radio asking for extraction where they are he's like we you know we need to get picked up here the request is denied um because it's too dangerous they have they have to get further out of the jungle and And to this, that's where Dutch is sort of like, we're expendable assets. Remember? Like, you know, they're not going to risk themselves to get us out.

Got to keep going. They ask Mac. They're like, you saw what got Blaine. And he says, those eyes, they just disappeared. Like, he's trying to explain what he saw saw but he has no way of explaining it and he says he unloaded 200 bullets right at whatever it was and nothing nothing on this earth could have survived that so once again they ask anna what did you see before like but dutch comes to her and says you gotta got to tell me what you saw. And she says the same thing.

It was the jungle. The jungle came alive. They ask Billy what he thinks. He's like looking off in the middle distance. And they say, Billy, what do you think this is? What's going on? And Billy says that he's scared. Poncho says, bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man.

And Billy says, there's something out there waiting for us. And it ain't no man We're all gonna die Wow good writing Great writing Thompson Brothers Thomas Brothers That night

They're in this You know encampment they've sort of made Surrounded by their tripwires Just waiting for the thing to come in Mac sort of speaks to Blaine you know, encampment they've sort of made, surrounded by their tripwires just waiting for the thing to come in. Mac sort of speaks to Blaine, you know, as you do to a dead friend, just sort of being like,

this thing that got you, it's gonna come to us. I'm gonna cut your name into him. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna cut your name into him. Ugh. And then just then, something tripped the wires. A bunch of flares go off. It's near where Mac is. It's the middle of the night. It's pitch

dark, but Mac gets on top of it. He's got it. He is stabbing it, stabbing it. We see this knife coming up over and over and over again. He stabs it. They all come to him. They shine their lights on it, and it's a wild boar. So it's not the predator. It's a wild boar that tripped their wires. But as they're all over

by Mac they realize oh fuck we've left Anna unattended nobody was watching her she's gonna escape they run back to her and she has not even tried to escape she is sitting right there fucking terrified and they're like why didn't she try to escape then they see next to her was Blaine's body

wrapped up and then the body is gone and once again Billy says there are no tracks Then they see next to her was Blaine's body wrapped up and then the body is gone. And once again, Billy says there are no tracks. Like what could have come and gotten him? There are no tracks on the ground. But she saw. The next day, Poncho asks, you know, what came and took his body and why didn't it try to kill us? Dutch has a realization that whatever this was, wanted Blaine's body as a trophy. It came for its trophy for its kill.

And that this is a hunter. He and he it's like this. We're being stalked one by one. And this hunter wants trophies of its kills. And he realizes, too, he looks up and goes, it's using the trees. That's why there are no tracks it's coming from above so now Dutch

knows something is fucking up and it is not normal and it is probably not human so he asks Anna honestly for the first time that isn't like these guys can be like what did you see what happened and he goes like okay what is it tell me what it is also apparently so her name is Anna but this is the first time that we learn it she's been with him all the time he goes like okay What is it tell me what it is Also apparently so her name is Anna

But this is the first time that we learn it She's been with him all the time he goes What's your name oh Jesus Anna also we learn now That she speaks English she literally Just he asked her what she saw and she starts speaking So these fucking presumptuous assholes Don't even learn her name and have been screaming at her

In Spanish when the whole time she's understood everything And so he says what What is this And she says It uses the jungle It camouflages itself like a chameleon And Dylan is like What like a lizard

We're fighting with some lizard He doesn't believe it but Dutch clearly does And Dylan says Like and Dutch goes starts heading back the way they came to be like we got to fight this thing whatever it is like now we sort of know what its deal is and Dylan says fuck that what are you doing

we need to make it he doesn't say fuck that I said we need to continue the extraction point and Dutch says if we don't take a stand now none of us are going to be alive to get to be extracted like this is, we have to do this now. And he releases Anna.

Oh, okay. He's like, she's in this, like the rest of us, like it's going to be hunting her too. Yeah. Great.

So Anna then reveals to Dutch, maybe because she's finally being treated like a human being, that the hunter is wounded. She says, I saw its blood on a leaf. And Dutch says the iconic line line if it bleeds we can kill it jeez then we they all start building booby traps basically out of the jungle trying to trap the hunter i was trying to find a picture of this because there's a point where they're all like

pulling on ropes and their biceps are like breaking through their skin. It's absolutely insane. My God. Um, but they start building this booby trap. Um, and then this, then they just start waiting for the,

I mean, I call him back and forth, the hunter or the predator, same thing, but they called him a predator yet. No, they call him the hunter. Yeah.

They call him the hunter, which was the original title for this script. I think it was the hunter. Yeah, they called him the hunter. Which was the original title for this script I think was the hunter. But so as they're waiting Anna then reveals to Jett she says she's seen something like this before. There was a man in her town that had

come out of the jungle once saying that there was a, they called him El Cazador de los Hombres, which is, she says, the demon who makes trophies out of men. And that this happens on the hottest years only, and that this year, it grows

hot. Oh, wow. So this is a climate change movie. This is a climate change movie. This has a lot of messages, actually, if you really think about it. So I think they sense, they start to sense that the hunter is nearby so dutch like comes out into the clearing to try to lure the hunter to come to him and get in the trap which works the hunter does get caught in their booby trap but okay

fucking laser gun and shoots himself out of it okay this is this is what i so i thought that this was like a creature you know what i mean it? It's a creature. So it is a creature, but the creature has tech. It's a more advanced alien species, basically. Yes, yes, yes. And it is very creature. Like the creature design is, I think they said it was based on like a kind of crab. It's like he's very, you'll see later, he's like very like fleshy, you know, in a specific way. Crabs are terrifying.

But he is, but he's you know that just basically like the he walks on two legs like a human i mean it's a seven foot two man inside the suit so he like it moves like a human mixed with a like leopard kind of he sometimes like stalks on all fours and okay looks sort of crab like he has dreads the creature design is really cool he has mandibles which i'll show you in a little bit. But so they catch the predator in his trap. He shoots his way out of it. And in doing so, shoots

a log off a tree, like a big branch of a tree, which swings down, knocks Poncho, really hurting him. The hunter momentarily materializes, so they all see him and I guess it's time for me to show you what this motherfucker looks

like I need to see the mandibles well you're not gonna see those because he's wearing a helmet motherfucker but this this our predator baby so that's his little arm with like things and his suit and his dreads and his mask anyway that's the predator oh

my god that's the Predator. Oh. My. God. That's the Predator, baby. Holy shit. So he materializes for a second. Dutch gathers his men and says, get to the extraction point. Get the fuck out of here. I think at this point he's like, they're not going to survive this.

Dylan, who has now seen the Predator, knows believes it. He tells Dutch, like, get your men out of here. I'm going to go back and basically sacrificing himself to try to fight this hunter to give Dutch and his men more time. And Dutch says, well, that's not your style. And Dylan says, maybe I've picked up a few things from you. Oh, he's learned a few things.

He's had growth to be honorable, I suppose. Dutch says, you're not going to beat this thing. And Dylan says, but maybe I can get even. Wow. So Dutch tosses him another gun. So now he has one fucking machine gun in each hand. Goes back after the predator.

Dutch, Poncho, Anna and Billy all run through the jungle to the extraction point. Mac has also gone back after the hunter because he wants revenge for Blaine. He's really fucking beaten up over his friend being killed. So Mac and Dylan hang back. Mac calls Dylan over. He's like hiding under some brush and he like whispers to Dylan like, come here, come here, come here.

And they see up in the trees they can see an invisible cloaking the predator. And so Mac says to Dylan, do you see him? Do you see him? And he says, yes, I see him. And they devise a plan. Let's do this together. One of us will flush him out. The other one will get him from

behind. We could tag team this. So Mac starts forging ahead sneaks under this log to sort of like try to creep up on the hunter and as he's doing it he looks at his arm and he sees the three dots of like laser

pointer locked in on him those dots move from his arm to the middle of his head and he gets shot in the middle of the head alright that was Mac right That was Mac, right? That was Mac, yeah. So Mac is done. Okay, yeah. So we just got so, yeah, we've got

Dylan still trying to go after Predator. Then meanwhile on the way to the extraction point, Anna goes to pick up a gun she finds on the ground and Dutch tells her to leave it. He says it didn't kill you because you were unarmed. No sport. Oh, interesting. Which is why

at this point I'm like, okay, so all of you drop your guns. Yeah. Which I think, again, the point is all of them have too much fucking ego. Yeah. And this insane masculine need to prove themselves. Right. That they die because of it. Right, right.

But we cut back to dylan he sees mac's body and realizes he's mac is dead and then he starts hearing like the voices of he i think he hears mac's voice i think he hears blaine's voice the predator this is a weird thing that's never really addressed but the predator uses his technology to like record audio at certain times from each of them has like recorded their audio and plays it back sometimes which i think is like just to fuck with them i'm not really sure somebody i'm positive in the comments is going to explain this to me um and say why i'm wrong about it but it's just sort of like a weird detail that it seems in this moment like he's taunting dylan by playing back this audio yeah that's what it sounds like that that's weird

that's like a plot line in the shining girls which i just watched on apple tv with elizabeth oh yeah is it good it's good but similarly like not very thoroughly explained how it's happening yeah i mean i just don't really know why he does it, but he does it. I think he's taunting them. I think he's taunting them. It sounds like if it is for sport, then he's getting as much fun out of it as possible. Exactly.

So in this moment, Dylan looks up. He and the Predator lock eyes with each other and they both we see like sort of slow-mo. They both pull out their guns and go to shoot each other right at the same time. Predator laser shoots Dylan's arm clean off at the bicep. Oh, God.

You know, I hate this, but somehow I can again, I can handle it in action movies. I don't know what the fucking deal is with my brain. Well, you've been desensitized. Like there's so much gratuitous violence in action movies it's just like it's so similar to our point is like it's not obviously it it hurts but it's the point isn't the torture of it happening right it's like just like oh there it is shot his arm off and him showing pain is him being like whoa like yeah like outrageous screaming that's unrealistic that real life it's not yeah it doesn't feel torturous right it's just like happening but uh so he shoots

his arm off the arm on the ground because he had a machine gun in each hand keeps shooting it's like finger falls off on the trigger and it's just like and then this slow-mo crazy action shot carl weathers pulls the other gun around. Oh, my God. One arm. Only one arm left. One arm left. Shoots at the predator.

Jesus Christ. But he gets got. He is done. Oh, Carl Weathers. You were great in the film. You were great in the film. I loved everything you did. Carl Weathers, you were great in the film. And I do.

I forgot that I do have this one picture of his body, which is unfathomable in this moment. And it looks like this. Oh my. See, he has a machine gun in each hand. That's before he loses one of his arms. But it's like what is this? What is

this physique? The thing that's also so funny about it is that, you know, before each take, they were just slathered up with Vaseline. Like, their bodies were covered in baby oil and Vaseline. Absolutely. It must have been so deeply uncomfortable to be so hot and in the jungle covered in baby oil. Well, then, at night, I think it was

really, really cold. Like, it's one of the, you know, they just were, yeah. But, you know, that's the result. That's what we get. That gorgeous vibe. So, the rest of the crew that is, like like moving towards the extraction point, they hear Dylan scream. They know that's it. And Billy, in a, you know, moment of hubris, I don't know, decides he's going to try to fight this hunter. I think it's partially sacrificing himself so the rest can get out and partially like, all right, let me get a crack at this fucking thing.

so the rest can get out and partially like, all right, let me get a crack at this fucking thing. He steps out on a log over this water basically putting himself out in the open to be like, come and get me. He puts his gun down, gonna fight hand to hand, takes out a big fucking machete,

cuts himself a little cut across the chest just to be like, I'm a fucking warrior. Come at me. Oh my God. We see in thermal vision, the hunter has stepped onto that log and is staring right down at Billy cut to sort of the distance. The other three in the jungle and Billy gets fucking smoked.

He's like, of course, of course. But you know what? He died fighting the good fight. He died fighting the good fight. He died fighting the good fight. The pointless side of... He died feeling masculine as hell, which is all they can do.

Uh-huh. Then the hunter comes after the three of them in the jungle. Immediately, Dutch and Anne are carrying Poncho. He's really fucked up. And so they're sort of dragging him through. Poncho gets shot in the head poncho's dead okay in the firefight uh dutch also gets shot in the shoulder so he's wounded but not fatally and this is when he yells to anna his favorite line in all of his movies get to the choppa get to the choppa get to the choppa so anna goes to the choppa! So Anna goes to the choppa.

And Dutch starts running through the jungle in the other direction. The predator has him locked in thermal vision. And so Dutch is just running, running, running. The only place to run is off the edge of this cliff. Jumps off this cliff into some water. It's a pretty

big jump. And in this stunt, Arnold Schwarzenegger's stuntman blew out his knee. Ow. Owie. Dutch pulls himself to shore in the process, covering himself in mud. He means business. He means business.

He means business. Turns around, though, and sees coming up in the water behind him a very creepy shot. This is a place where the invisibility is cool. He can see through the water moving that the predator is coming after him. That's him. A very creepy shot. This is a place where the invisibility is cool. He like can see through the water moving that the predator is coming after him. That's scary. But it's invisible. So Dutch you know climbs up to

shore. Gets behind some branches. Tries to sort of hide himself. We see the predator stand up. He turns off his invisibility cloaking and walks right up to Dutch. We see thermal vision. Okay.

Okay. Looking around. He doesn't see him. And this is where Dutch realizes the mud, because it's cold, has camouflaged him from the thermal vision. Genius. Genius. Genius. Uses his smarts to outsmart the alien. Genius. Genius. Uses his smarts to

outsmart the alien. Yes. This is another thing Predator 2 reliant on his technology. Hailing himself. Hubris. Again. Hubris. The fragility of man. Alien male. It really makes you think. It really makes you think.

Apparently this was pottery clay that they slathered all over Arnold. And it was very, very cold. And all these shots happened at night. And he was miserable. And so he tried to drink schnapps to warm himself up and then got too drunk. Schnapps! That's so cute.

For some reason, I'm imagining schnapps are always small, too. So I'm picturing him inhaling cigarettes and tiny little schnapps tiny little schnapps shops swallowing cigarettes whole and drinking tiny little like hotel bar sized containers of schnapps but we see so that the predator walks away because he can't find Dutch and we see he's got

like a human spine slung over his shoulder just like a again like a girl scout sash that's the only thing I can think to call those. So Dutch realizes, okay, I've got an advantage here. And he decides he's going to set up another one of his classic booby traps.

Booby traps. We cut back to the predator. He goes back to Billy's body to collect his trophy. We know he loves to do that. So he goes to collect his trophy, We know he loves to do that. So he goes to collect his trophy which is to rip out

Billy's spine from middle of the back straight to skull. And Henley, I'm going to show you it. Okay. You're going to have to pull up this gift and I know you don't want to but you have to. It's not that bad. Okay, I'm looking it up. Spine and I know you don't want to but you have to it's not that bad

okay I'm looking it up spine to skull baby spine to skull oh oh my god yank okay that's really gross I gotta say you can't tell it's his back and um yeah you can tell more

in the in the movie but yeah and it's uh not easy too he's like it takes a few tries for him to get that spine out of there good grip you gotta like he really reaches his hand in until he like has a good firm hold and then goes yoink and those claws are doing a lot the fact that he's able to just reach right into a human body. A handful of knives. So easy. Okay. Yeah. We see then the predator has, we sort of go to his lair, if you will, and he has a bunch of human skulls

cleaned up, lovely, like how a hunter mounts deer heads on their wall. The predator has all of his skull trophies. So we cut back to Dutch has now wiping fresh mud all over

him to disguise himself, lights a fire, and screams out into the jungle to try to get the predator to come to him so he can use his trap. And here

we go, baby. Oh my god, he's really covered in mud. He's really covered in mud. That must have also been so deeply uncomfortable. Oh, it must have been awful. Because it dries. It's like drying on you constantly. Yeah, it gets like cakey on him. So he's covered in

cold, cakey, pottery clay. Oh my god. So Dutch climbs up into the trees and waits for the hunter to come and he does and Dutch realizes he's stalking down the branch like a panther right behind

him but doesn't notice him at all because he can't see him with his thermal vision so Dutch then when he gets far enough away he like climbs down the predator climbs down to the fire that dutch has lit to try to lure him in dutch pulls out a handmade bone arrow and a handmade arrow with like looks i'm guessing it's like has lighter fluid at the end of it shoots it into the fire it explodes so then the hunter just starts shooting

in every direction shooting lasers which I think they in order to make this look right in the film it looks like they just shot off a bunch of fireworks it's honestly very pretty like all of these laser shots are like like those fireworks that like

fall pretty you know like a willow tree is my favorite kind exactly what you're talking about so we're getting like a really lovely firework show um he does manage to hit and wound dutch but in all of the in the firefight of back and forth it seems to have deactivated the hunter's cloaking device so now we just see him his full body he can't make himself invisible okay um so So Dutch sees him, shoots another arrow at him, hits the predator, sets off a little explosion.

To which the predator goes, like the sound is very funny. I'm just getting shot, which I thought was funny. Also, the sound the predator makes is very, you know the sound that cats make when they see like a laser or light and they just go like

They do like little clickies Like open their mouths and go like That's like sort of what the predator does It's like a little bit of a like Clicky sound Okay That like Mabel does when she sees Light on the ceiling

Predator gets shot with another arrow So he's wounded And so Dutch now Sees a blood trail Predator blood trail and starts following It and goes like come on come on motherfucker Um and Follows this trail into like a

Dark small Hole which I feel like is a Terrible choice but yeah he Notices the Predators right behind him And is able to he like sets off a tiny little bomb type thing. It like sets off a little explosion, which gets the predator. But then he has revealed his location. So in order to get away from predator, he jumps into some water nearby.

So he gets away. But that cleans off all of his mud. So pretty immediately the predator has his sights on him, grabs him by the throat, pushes him up against a rock. Dutch is weaponless.

Dutch is had. There is nowhere to run. He is fully visible to the predator. So the predator steps back, drops his uh weapon decides he's gonna take off his helmet he's gonna fight Dutch face to face like

two proper uh evenly matched foes oh my god the respect the respect and this baby is our predator matched foes. Oh my God. The respect. The respect. And this baby is our predator. Oh my

God. The mandibles. The mandibles. And wait for it. That's not even the best mandible shot. I got you. I got another mandible shot for you, hen, and it is Oh, I hate that. That's so fucked up. i really don't like nasty little face nasty little face really really nasty face this to me is that moment in horror movies where uh the killer decides he needs to deliver a final monologue

rather than just ending it you know where you go like hey you could have you could have just fucking done it no but it nope we need a speech you need a speech you need to prove how superior you are and so that is what the predator does he goes you know what I'm gonna fucking fight you takes off his mask

and Dutch goes you're one ugly motherfucker oh my god and predator starts beating the shit out of him. He is so much stronger. He is so much bigger. Just Dutch is taking blow after

blow. Through this fight though, Dutch is crawling and making his way, basically getting beat up in the direction of this booby trap that he set for the Predator. And he makes it just so he's got he's made this like archway of blades that he's going to try to trap the predator in and he makes it just past that so that if the predator were to come at him he would be right in the perfect spot and so dutch does what any smart person would do, which is to go, come on, come on, come right here.

What did he say? Come on, do it. Like he's a dog? Do it, do it. Kill me. I'm here. Kill me. I'm here.

Come on. Come on. And it's like, maybe just chill. Like just he would have, but you made a big fucking stink about it. And it's pretty damn obvious that you want him to be exactly right there. And so the predator stops. He's like, hmm. Looks up, sees one of the blades and goes, nah, goes around instead.

But in doing so, he gets right in the range of a big, heavy log that Dutch had rigged up on a rope. Dutch cuts down the rope. The log falls with a thud, pins the predator down and like smashing his chest. He is very, very badly wounded and stuck. OK. Dutch comes over, picks up a big rock, stands over him, goes to smash this rock on his head, stares into his eyes, tosses the rock aside and just says, what the hell are you? Okay. To which the predator responds, what the hell are you?

Oh, my god. Starts touching the little deets on his arm and activates a self-destruct bomb. Dutch realizes this, makes a run for it away from the predator. The predator starts to laugh and

laugh. It's mixed in with a recording of Billy's laugh from earlier again, I think like a taunt. So it's like like a really crazy maniacal laugh. Boom. Big explosion. Okay.

We cut to the chopper. We see that Anna has been rescued. She's in the chopper. They see the explosion happen from afar. Cut back to the jungle. It's all smoke. Ash. As the smoke starts

to clear, we see Arnold standing triumphantly. He has survived. The chopper lands. Just standing. He gets in the chopper. We gets in the chopper we zoom in on his face

he looks absolutely wrecked fully traumatized catatonic destroyed by what he has seen and experienced end of movie

and immediately the music goes it's like not triumphant music it's like that's just it it's just sad it's just like kind of sad it's like I don't say I don't know if it's sad it's dark it's just like well yep

there you go there you go you just like watched all your men die and you saw an alien and almost died yourself and that's that. That's that. Oh my. So you're telling me

there's no romance after that with Anna. Are you trying to say there's this isn't a rom-com. And that's the thing too, Anna survived but she was like taken hostage. So it's not good. It's not happy. That's just it. That's the movie. That's Predator.

Oh my God. I can't believe that I'd forgotten. The second I saw Predator, I've definitely seen him, of course, in popular culture. But I'd completely forgotten.

And it's such an ingenious, terrifying image of an alien. It really is scary. Oh my god, I hate it. It looks like a spider. He's really scary. It's a combination of a snake and a spider head combined. And I hate that. combination of a snake and a spider head combined. Yeah. Like his mouth opens all like a rat, like almost Demogorgon like

where like it all opens, you know, it's not up and down like our jaw. It's like 360. Yes. It's nasty. Brutal. Wait. Okay. So have you seen the other predators and alien versus predator, etc, etc? None. I've seen none of them.

Oh my God. What does Joel think of those as a predator? predators and alien versus predator etc etc none i've seen none of them oh my god what does joel think of those as a predator i think he thinks some of them are good i don't think any of them compare to this one okay one of them is apparently pretty good i am very excited for for prey i think the idea it's like a a prequel that is goes back like way way way to when there were like indigenous populations in this jungle wherever predator is and it's about like the I think the like discovery of predator there

the origin or I don't know but that just seems like a very cool premise to me wow yeah I want to know about that I'm curious about that and I'm curious about the other movies holy shit i love arnold arnold can you believe what a star he was like what's up with our culture where like that's who we were like yeah that's the one honestly though henley watch the movie and you might

agree like there is something so compelling about him. He's magnetic. He is a star. Also like the Terminator movies fucking rule. He's so good in them. I do. I do enjoy the Terminator movies. But he's.

Yeah, man, he's he is a fascinating. He's fascinating. Bodybuilder, action star, governor. Governor. Now he owns donkeys and he posts a lot of videos with his donkeys like inside of his home. And I absolutely love it. That's life goals right there. Yeah, man. He's fast. He's fascinating. Emily, you once again knocked you out of the park.

Like, I don't know why you ever doubt yourself because you're so good. Maybe I'll be more confident moving forward. You got to be more confident. It's so hard. I know. It's really hard. It's really hard. It's like hard when it I like love this movie.

I think it's so good. I'm so worried that I'll have missed things or not done it justice or people will be upset. If anyone's upset, they can come speak to me directly. Okay, direct all complaints to Henley, please. Yes. I don't want to hear them. I don't want to see that. I'm going to come back, anybody?

Anyway. Oh, boy. That was fun. That was a fun one. It's fun. We needed a fun one. It was, you know, things have been tough and we needed a fun one. And I feel like Predator really pulled through. And I'm thrilled about it. Predator's great.

Predator's great. Arnold. Arnold will always pull through. I'm about to do a fucking deep dive into steroids. I am very curious. I am super curious, too. I want to know everything. I want to know everything.

Maybe I want to start doing them. I think don't. Can you imagine? No, I would be. For what purpose? Oh, this is OK. This check those fucking mandibles out. Check out that mouth.

OK, that was unnecessary you know what again crazy like slick slick wet like a sea creature sort of you know super and i'll show you this again this is what i wanted you know what i was looking for you know it's so funny okay we're looking at the picture of them carl weathers and arnold schrechneger locked in their arm wrestle pose. And truly, Arnold's bicep next to his regular arm, it looks like a butt. It just looks like a butt. And that's all I can see. It's like a butt.

A little butt on his arm. Yeah. The CIA got to push into many pasos. The CIA got to push into many pasos. I can't do it justice. I'm going to have to listen back but man alright should we close it out we should close it out and we should we should close it out

um in Arnold okay hold on fuck fuck what does he say what does he say what does he say go to the chopper go to the chopper from from all of us are too scared I sound like Dracula i can't do it i wish sammy were here god damn it um okay from all of us here all of us here from all of us here

too scary fucking what is this scary didn't watch it's dracula you know what? We do always kind of do Dracula. The CIA got to push into many parts. That also doesn't really do scary. I know. Fuck. Okay, hold on. This is like literally, this is going to bother me so

From all of us, Sarah, too scary, didn't watch, didn't watch. Goodbye. It's not going to get better than that. I just have to fucking call it. I think, I think it's great. I loved it. I loved it.

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