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Highly recommend Predator 2 and the newest movie "Prey", I think personally "Prey" is my favorite of the series.
MrLboyed Sir I have One question and one question only, What type of microphone do you use because the audio is great and i would love to know.
Bro you skip so many good parts🤦🏽♂️
Brother, LOVING your movie reactions! Your thoughts into technical data is different that any movie reactors! Love to see much more!!! SO many amazing military history movies, fiction and non fiction , comedies etc that your intellect would make SO much more interesting! 🙏
@@jindas4217 I also enjoyed the first AVP
I think the slow start without the Predator was necessary. The movie had to establish the credentials of the team as ultimate badasses and the bonds between them. They destroy the Guerrilla camp with impunity, they are human predators. But then the hunters become the hunted in an increasingly desperate struggle.
There is also foreshadowing of their difficulties. Harper's team was likely taken out by the Predator, given their grizzly death and the way they shot in all directions, hitting nothing.
The slow pacing at the beginning yields a lot of dividends over the course of the movie.
I agree. You cut out the opening part where they're fighting the guerrillas and you lose much of the slow burn.
Facts.
Defo - had to set up the credentials of the crew before sh!t really kicked off!
Bingo. also,it helped make the film feel like a real war movie.
That was Billy who's spine was ripped out up in the trees, since Billy stood up to the Pred 1v1 without a gun, this gave Billy alot of respect & made him a better trophy than they others & Dutch only learned about the mud after the Pred couldnt see him... You have to go forward with the sequels! This was alot of fun with ya
Dutch realized that the mud worked only after the Alien failed to see him when he was trapped against the river bank. You can see the look on his face as he works it out.
The "I don't care who you are back in the world . . ." bit isn't because Carl Weather's character was falling behind, it's because he was revealing their location.
Sorry I guess I'm a little slow?
explain please
do you mean he was making them easy to follow by not staying with the crew or was he literally/intentionally revealing their location?
@@LN-Lifer
Not intentionally. It's just he was bad at sneaking around, compared to the others. So, when he slipped and made some noise, he accidentally revealed their location to any enemies in the area.
@@jrm48220
okay thanks. Saw the movie many times but didn't remember and couldn't really tell watching the reaction
Billy was a native american. They are expert trackers if brought up I'm ancient ways. That's also why he kept sensing it. Right or wrong, there's a mysticism attached to the native and their senses acute. This also played into Billy's dropping of guns and just have his knife to face the predator. It's a warrior mentality.
Thanks for the representation. Also, their was a study done back I believe WW2 with native soldiers. They knew that natives had great prowess in tracking and hunting that they couldn't crack the code of. So they tried to push natives to help them. By training and putting them against other normal soldiers. They did about the same. And the native experts on these areas said, "okay, so don't treat them like normal soldiers. Train them however you want but let them keep their hair. Our hair is what helps us be such formitable trackers and hunters" so they took ten natives, cut five of their hair off, and the other five they let them keep. The native with hair cut were caught within a day, after five days in the wilderness, they only caught one long haired native after like the fourth day. And billys hair is long.
We also cut our chest because in our culture it means, I show no fear. The cutting of the flesh also releases endorphrines and adrenaline into the human body, especially across the chest because the body wants to protect the core where all your organs are. So your body reacts more aggressively, which makes you more aggressive. You cut you hand for a pact. You cut your chest for war.
Oh no this guy was literally just crazy and they had to hire two dedicated bodyguards to protect the cast from him or four different people said they refuse to show up to the set none of the cutting himself was in the script he really cut himself he really just had a moment and it's fantastic
@@davidhasselblad2898 The Bag around Billy's neck was a native American medicine bag, which the native's believed protected them. He wrapped it around his knife hand to give him power. Billy is a believer in the old ways.
@@davidhasselblad2898 Also, in the end he knew that they were doomed, so he stopped and faced the predator in a heroic fashion. Cutting himself was something native American braves used to do as a form of intimidation, showing that you feared no pain. Billy chose to die in an honorable way, which also gave his friends a little extra head start. We should all be that badass.
Kevin Peter Hall played the Predator. He was also the pilot of the helicopter at the end. Regrettably he is no longer with us. (May 9, 1955 - April 10, 1991)
The actor who kept making all the dirty jokes directed The Predator.
@@oldeskul Yep
Dutch didn't know about the mud. He accidentally covered himself in it and noticed he couldn't be seen when he was cornered.
I was lucky enough to visit the filming location for the Predator back in 2015. It's now a zip-line tourist attraction just outside of Puerto Vallarta. The enemy base camp early on is now a restaurant. They even have a life-sized statue of the Predator there!
Danny Glover makes Predator 2 a worthy sequel. I might even like it a tiny bit more than the first :)
that whole cast acted their asses off!
@@ElectrikNYCfunK I did not want to besmirch the rest of the great cast of course
There's a Danny Glover drinking game where you take a shot in any movie he's in when he says, "I'm getting too old for this shit!". It's not as well known as the Steven King drinking game.
@@mustakrakish123 Of course not lol, I was just adding onto your comment haha, it's a shame people say they are disappointed when they see there is no Arnold belittling Glover & the cast's efforts
I always felt the sequel was unerrated. Plus, who doesn't love a razor frisbee???
"Get to da choppa!" Is Arnold's memorable line for this flick brotha...
Also "Stick around!"
The first quater of the movie is introducing the characters on their "original mission" to free some hostages. During the fight in the camp, the Predator watches them and made Dutch his main target. Then he takes his buddies down to isolate him and finally want to defeat him in an honorful fight. That's the mentality of the Predator species, hunting for honor and trophies.
BTW, we see 2 later govenors in this testosterone flooded movie: obviously Arnold and Jesse "The Body" Ventura, at that time professional wrestler and later govenor of MInnesota.
Predator 2 is also pretty good, featuring Danny Glover and the one and only Bill Paxton, who is offically the only person fighting a Terminator, Xenomorphs and a Predator.😉
@@GhostWatcher2024 - He got his knife out, and maybe even caused some minor damage... which is more than you can say about most people who faced a Terminator.
Lance Henrickson also fought all three, Paxton is the only one killed by all three though.
I'd love to see you also do Predator 2 react. No Arnold but other than that I feel like it's still great.
@CK George1989 Sexual Tyrannosaurus' watch it thus every movie they watch becomes a Predator movie.
Apparently, you missed the whole back story part of the movie where the general fills dutch in on why they were called in. Its like you skipped 5 minutes of the film because you were having an Apollo Creed-gasm.
The film does a great job of 'show don't tell' - the first part establishes the heroes as BADASS, then the second part has them picked off with ease, showing the Predator as MORE badass, then the reversal where Arnie faces it, looses a fair fight and wins by cunning and luck. It hunts with an idea of honour, matching weapon to weapon and taking trophies from those that fight well. It's like a Trophy Hunter with camouflage, night sights and a rifle stalking a lion, the beast thinks its king but it's totally outclassed. The Predator doesn't talk directly, it seems the suit it wears has a translator that picks up peoples voices so it can mimic them (like hunters with a bird call) so at the end it was laughing at being beaten by a primitive with a log and the translator used Billy's laugh. One idea I've seen mentioned is Billy faced the Predator on the log to buy the others time and to get an honourable death - with no guns so it would use a blade, no trees overhead so it can't go round and he cut himself so it can't claim first blood.
I think the Predator also laughed because he thought he was going to blow up Dutch. I heard that the US gov used the evil sounding laugh at the end to intimidate criminals/enemies (can't remember exactly) by playing it over a loudspeaker.
My favorite '80's action movie.
The sequels add to the creatures back story and culture.
You go to a soldier movie and get a monster movie.
Oh man, you need the 'hostages' story at the start to build up the bonds between the men in the team, so you really feel for them as the Predator tears the team apart. Some of the later films don't work because we don't care about the people being killed.
I'm amazed you're surprised that a film from the 80s could be beautifully shot. They knew their stuff back then, didn't have CGI to rely on.
Predator 2 is pretty good; for the Alien crossovers, you'll have to know 'Alien' first. The brand new film 'Prey' is blinkin' excellent.
"Take your shirt and wipe your forehead" I had to laugh at that one.
The issue being here, is that they shot this movie on location. Which means all the normal issues came with it, because it was 95+ degrees in the day time and the night time could barely get any better. That's the jungle for you.
Billy's super badass tracking ability is basically just him being good at making observations. example- the footprints telling him where the soldiers came from and what type they are is as basic as looking at the treads and direction the footprints are in, if they're all military issued, they've all got the exact same tread. As far as the 'Firefight shooting in all directions.' bit, well, bullet holes are still visible in the jungle. Hard to find and all, but that'd basically tell you all you need to make that statment.
Not to mention the shell casings being scattered like the soldiers were swinging their weapons around and firing in all directions.
Keep the Classics Coming!!! So Many great movies from the 80’s-90’s!!!
Definitely have to follow this up with a couple other Arnold classics. The one liners in Commando and The Running Man are TOP NOTCH!
Running Man, definitely.
14:00 They're not wasting ammo even though they are expending a lot of it. They're being attacked by an unknown force in concealment that has already killed two of them. They are fighting back the only way you can in that situation. At the very least it is suppressing fire to stop the ongoing attack and they may be to take out some of the enemy.
The laughs the predator uses at the end are actually mimicking Dutch's teammates to taunt him! It recorded their voices earlier in the film.
I'm so excited you reacted to this movie, my husband and I watch your reactions a lot and his favourite movie is predator, he even welded his own mask and scares me all the time, hiding and when he comes out of no where he goes "anytime"we love your reactions and enjoy hearing your opinion on things, great job !
Your husband has good taste. A friend of mine lent me this dvd back in the day I watched it well over 50 times in the span of 8 months.
Not sure if you have watched alien movies Sigourney kicks ass
yeah... so does my grandma
Sonny Landham, the actor why played Billy, was a real life bad ass. If you locked all the cast in a room and had them fight to the death, Sonny Landham would be the one who walked out.
And his security guard haha
He always had a security guard. And the guard was to protect others from him.
@@Nyklonius yes welcome to the joke.
The novels are really good. It gets into their culture, and even goes back to their home world so you can see how they are raised, and trained. You get to see their society. There are novels of the Alien series too. Then the cross over Aliens vs Predator. You get a more complete picture of who they are. I highly recommend them.
"Get to the choppa!" One of the most recognizable lines from the 1980s, right up there with "I'll be back".
When they are firing "blindly" into the jungle it's called defoliation and it is a real tactic. It disperses and disrupts the enemy and disallows them from taking any kind of offensive position. It uses a lot of ammo but is very effective at disrupting an emplaced enemy.
The predator was actually saving the human skulls and backbones of the humans. Like a trophy.
Not like a trophy, they’re actual trophies for them.
It’s a horror/slasher movie disguised as an action movie. They set up how awesome and manly they are, but in the end it doesn’t even slow the predator down. It was only through ingenuity that Arnold could come out on top.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid. I have Probably seen it 100 times easily.
Dutch didn't know he was just scared shitless and happened to be covered in mud. Basically he froze and hoped the mud would mask him from sight. But seeing the predator standing right Infront of him and looking around clued him into his thermal vision. That ontop of how he was able to easily pick them off in a jungle. That's what I'd imagine at least
Just binge watch all these last night.This is the best one then Prey maybe 2 after that.
Fyi Arnold was crawling though the mud out of the water.Then he was cover in mud infront of the Predator.
Based on the era and the age of the characters, these guys were mostly special forces in Cambodia in the mid 70s. The actors and writer and others on the crew were real ex military and were able to conduct realistic movements for the film. The environment itself is south America which is sort of why Billy is so at home, although his tracking skills are a bit hyperbolized. To figure out the six men in boots thing would require a good half hour of sniffing and examining the ground to deduce that. If all six had different boot sizes it would have been easier but two or three guys with a size 10 would mean finding side by side tracks to compare the indents for gait. Like I said, a good half hour time cut there.
Tropic thunder definitely took from this, as have most movies set in Vietnam even though again it's set in South America and filmed in Hawaii or something. And this film also borrows a bit from Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now.
Its an older form of pacing. The first half was their to make you care for the cast; by making them feel like living people.
The creature was redesigned bassed on the voice actors work. He had hurt his throat and couldnt do the usual roaring for the audidition so he performed the chittering clicking sounds that led to the crustation insectile thing we got.
As to movies suggetions you cant go wrong with Arsenic and old Lace. Its an oldie, a goldie and no need for you to censor it to make it CZcams safe. It also famously doenst have Boris Karlov as they couldnt get him off of the stage show to film it.
I don't remember that backstory about the Predator design, but that Stan Winston wanted to create something with mandibles and drew his initial idea while on a plane.
The guerrilla base is now a restaurant and right next door to the waterfall. Just east of Puerto Vallarta, where the coast road turns inward.
You not gonna mention how that yell is the most alpha shit ever in action movie history
"This is probably the most masculine movie I have seen in the last 30 years!"
Because it IS the MOST MASCULINE movie MADE in the last 30 years!
You can tell which way a man is shooting a automatic weapon, by the footprints and the location of the ejected cartridge casings, relative to the footprints. Easy deduction.
Not to mention the damage to any foliage to their front. Much easier than tracking which I learned how to do many years ago. I've tracked where others gave up or never started and have had people say as soon as I found a trail that was it over since I would find it lol. Didn't always but tracking is an amazing art to learn.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
A sneaky horror movie pretending to be an action film.
The Predators belong to race called Yajuta. There has been backgrounds written for them, and there has been plenty of crossover between them and the Xenomorphs of Alien(s).
Creature/horror. It came out many moons ago. I’ve become a grandmother four times since this. We even recorded it on our VCR. Long time ago. Still love that movie. Look for the one with Danny Glover. It’s good too. Actually all of them were good. There we three I think.
Skilled trackers are impressive. You're looking for cracked or broken limbs, and twigs. Looking for crumpled leaves, and plants not sitting naturally. Along with impressions on the ground. How animals react around you. So many things that you take to put together what, if anything, came through the area. Any tiny clue. There are channels that can help you wrap your head around it. Of course there are a lot of B.S. out there, just like with anything else, but Aldo good info.
MrLboyd: Just start firing:
Mac: *starts firing*
MrLboyd: Stop wasting ammo! Why are you wasting ammo?!
This is one of the coolest action movies ever. I love how it starts out as an "army" movie and ends up being a sci-fi/horror movie in the jungle.
The only real issue with the beginning of this movie is they showed the alien ship. If they opened with Dutch and his team arriving it would have been an even slower burn, and bigger surprise when the alien was revealed.
Arnold had his own personal gym delivered to Mexico for the filming. And the cast also worked there. Carl Weathers said he would try to show up early to work out at 5am but Arnold was already there since 3am. Lol
Most of the cast got pumped before work.
Request for this Halloween season. "Ravenous" (1999); highly underrated film.
That's Carl Weathers. He played Apollo Creed.
Also, greatest handshake in all of cinema.
Dutch didn't know the mud hid him thermally. He was just trying to use old school camouflage.
The Predator also would not smell him they'd would mask his scent as well as have a scent of it's.
The continuity of Macs head was definitely skewed, I believe they did it intentionally. They wanted to show the accuracy of the Predators weapons, but in the end probably cut out the gore of showing Macs head wide open to get past the ratings.
The only movie starring two future governors. Arnold and Jesse Ventura (MN Libertarian)
This was film in Jalisco Mexico 🇲🇽 I’ve visited the set and it’s still there.
the second one with Danny Glover is great too!
Nice take brother!Ty...for something in a lighter vein,there is the funniest Kungfu movie ever made...called "Kungfu Hustle"...you will spill yer guts laughing brother...
One of my favorite movies from that time. I do see you doing what so many reactors do which is continually calling a character a name from another movie. We watch to see you react to Dillon not Apollo because he isn't Apollo.
You learn more about the Predators in later movies but many facts aren't told except in print. If you are skinned, not worthy, skull and spine taken (Billy) very worthy, hand to hand combat, most worthy.
In the stories Arnold's character dies several years later from the bomb emitting radiation.
Seen a reactor call him Chubbs from Happy Gilmore. It was better since his jokes abused that kinda crossover thinking of movies. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Reactors always try to call out an actor's name or what they've seen them in if the face registers and jogs the memory.
Ok, so… The reason the film was set up like it was (imo) was to establish that these guys were going in for a specific mission, but they find out that was a ruse. In any other movie, there would probably be some other special ops stuff, because Arnold!
The movie had to set up that nobody had any idea what was coming for them.
That and “GET TO THE CHOPPER!” are why I love this movie!
The second one is also a fun ride!😊
The juxtaposition of the alien shooting blindly because he couldn't see Dutch and them shooting blindly earlier because they couldn't see the predator. *chefs kiss*
The laugh was a magnified recording of Billy’s laugh
The new Predator movie that was adequate this year (called Prey), is absolutely fantastic.
It fights a badass Native American girl in the 1700s bro! And it's WELL made.
If you watch Prey (the new Disney+ Prequel) it kind of explains about Billy's knowledge of the Predator.
Is Billy supposed to be from the same tribe as Naru?
@@w1975b yeah supposedly mate
Also Dutch kinda just oopsie doodled his way into knowing about the mud blocking his vision because he fell into the mud. Completely luck based.
Not the girl, it was Billy's body.
Dutch didnt know.....he accidentally got covered in mud and figured it out
The original didn't have the spaceship intro, making the predator more of a surpirise
Do you mean when it aired in theater? Because I saw it for the first time on HBO in 1987 and the spaceship was in the movie opening scene.
I'm loving the movie reactions. My husband made me watch this movie and I reacted the same. It's so cheesy. You should definitely check out The Princess Bride. Love story? Yes. Sports? Yes. Mystery? Yes. Comedy? Yes. Sci-fi? Yes. Fantasy? Yes. It's so many genres, so in one.
Also, entry wounds tend to be much less damaging then exits wounds. So the plasma caster entered as a point, and when it existed the back of macks head it created one heck of an exit wound. Difference in piercing and breaking. Also if your wondering about the power of the plasma caster. It can charge. So when he hit Dutch, he used a single non charged shot. Like the one he used to kill poncho and mack. Through the head. The one he used on Dylan, or Apollo Creed, he used a charged shot to take out his arm. The predator is such a cool alien monster, and such a classic. Glad you enjoyed it!
Others have pointed out that the plasma hit Dutch's GUN, not his arm with a direct hit and that's why Dutch's arm only got a minor injury vs separation.
@@w1975b oh dang, all the times watching this movie never noticed that dang
And the Yautji aka the predator species is fucking awesome
The opening is there to setup a few things:
• Dutch will not do search and destroy missions, they aren't killers, but they don't mind killing to rescue people
• They then proceed to show how good this group is at killing people
They want to set them up as good guys that are good at killing to show how good the predator is at killing and that it kills for fun/sport.
Doing this shows a clear "Good" and "Evil" even though they are all killers
i really love your movie reactions. 'bro, put the mask back on!' i'm dying.🤣🤣🤣
"Stop wasting ammo guys..."
2 seconds later.....
THAT scene ! ! ! ! ! 😮
What Tropic Thunder was paying Homage to was Actually Apocalypse Now which I highly recommend you watch
"Jesse 'The Body' Ventura" ain't got time to bleed he was also one of my favorite wrestlers back in the day ..
I'd love to see you react to/review "Idiocracy". I think your commentary on it would be awesome.
agree!
Also we have plasma but we haven't weaponized it so yeah
This is a certified hood classic 👍🏆
Now you can skip all the rest until 2022's 'Prey' which is a Really Good addition to this franchise
"Alright, so this is a 'creature' movie."
Never in my life have I believed less in someone's sincerity. 🤣 You in your 30s, bro! Even if you haven't seen Predator you *know* what you're in for! Omg, lol.
Probably one of the most badass sci-fi action movies of all time. That much bad assness hasn't been seen on screen for a long time. Aliens would be about the closest one to it in terms of overall tone. 2 eh... could have been with that cast, but wasn't. Alien vs. Predator 1: without the R rated violence it didn't feel like its parent movies. AVP 2: fixed the action but suffered on plot. Predators was a nice sequel IMO. Predator 4: Eh..not bad but not right either...I didn't dislike it. Prey (aka Predator 5): not bad and a cool way to tell the story involving "natives" and their "tech" to go against a Predator. My favorite scene is the mowing the grass with the mini-gun!
My interpretation about Dutch sitting in the mud was that he had given up and braced himself in the branches with the anticipation of a painful death. But he quickly realized that the predator could not see him and wisely stayed still. It wasn’t until after the predator left that he scooped some mud off himself and realized it had somehow rendered him invisible.
Could be a Rambo callback? Mudman? Remember that move Rambo 2? Mud and just blending in with natural camo praying for the best as it's that or death. I dunno if they did a bit of spoofing or just friendly rivalry taking a part of a movie to put in theirs, posters or what not. Like Demolition Man calling out his 'presidential library' before he even got into politics.
I think the reason why the beginning of the movie seems different is because they were retooling the movie as they went along. For instance, the first guy to get killed, Hawkins, is played by Shane Black who is a writer they brought in to do rewrites on the script while they were filming. So they killed his character off first so he could focus more script revisions.
The way Shane Black told the story, he was hired for his acting. But they later wanted him to work on the script and he refused, so they killed him off first because he would NOT re-write the script.
@@w1975b Ah ok. It's been a while since I heard the story so I got it messed up. I thought he was ok with the re-write...Oh well
Great reaction my friend! Hope you do predator 2 and then Prey, the predator prequel, part two isn't necessary but the end of Prey ties into the end of predator 2. Each member of Dutch's team has a specific specialty, Billy is an American Indian, he's a tracker. The predator hunts for sport, looking for the strongest prey, he keeps their skulls as trophies! Remember Billy when you watch Prey!
Predator 2's alright in my recollection, Predator, Predator 2, Prey, that's the trilogy.
This and Alien were my favorite movies of all time because the monsters effects were so amazingly done still exceeds alot of movies coming out now
A masterwork on slowly doleing out info to the audience while building tension and dread.
FoR tHe AlGoRiThM
People always say this movie is longer as it has to be but remember this was in the 80's and this movie was kinda selfaware. The wohle point of the first Part is to set up your typical 80's action heros. GI Joe Musclemen who are the best of the best, near invincible like it was the trend back than. When the audience thinks they know what this movie is, because they have seen things like this more than enough you go swooosh and bring that Monster in.
Today it seems unnecessary but i gues back it was the best option to have that long start to suprise everybody in the middle.
Best Predator of all time
She's the smartest one there. If memory serves me correctly, her last name is yutani as in Wayland and yutani. But I could be wrong with the vast amount of content in the alien/predator universe
Did you know Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator, in a much weirder suit than the now iconic version.
The name Jim Hopper from the dog tags was the name Duffer brother's used for the sheriff in Stranger Things kinda like an easter egg/reference like they did throughout the whole series with many other franchises.
Where yes they did overdo it in the movie. For sure. But the shooting into the forest is a real tactics used in the military. When you're part of a unit you have to trust your squadmates. So if you hear someone screaming your rank and shooting. You trust their level of need and look where they are shooting. And just start shooting. It's a strategy of suppression by overcoming an ambush like circumstance by superior firepower. I remember when I was going through my training. I was chosen by my staff sergeant to lead an incursion on our own people as a training exercise in the middle of the night. I was not more then six feet away from a battle hole with two people in it. I had five people with me. And one of them stepped on a freaking stick. And he said the security question
Example:where you traveling? To the north.
Keywords: traveling in question; the word north in any kind of response.
And I just put my fist up telling my men to hold. They did. And I swear just like a video game, ten fifteen seconds pasted and he said like an fning skyrim guard, "huh, musta been nothing."
I think he screamed "contact" as in contact with the enemy.
The only thing I would do to change the movie is cut out the opening scene of the spaceship landing on earth. For anyone who hasn't seen the movie, they have no idea it's going to go from Generic Action Flick to Sci-fi Monster Film. And I think that surprise twist really adds something to the experience.
23:45 At this point the alien is doing what the squad was doing at 14:00. Suppressing fire.
Dutch got the mud on himself by happenstance when he laid face down in the mud. When the Predator didn’t see him he realized the mud hid him.
"Bro, grab the bottom of your shirt, okay, at the very least, and wipe your forehead." I'm dead. lmao
Great way to put it! This is a classic testosterone-fueled action ride, for sure. Just makes you want to go to the gym afterwards. Great suspense too. And I think Arnie's acting is really underrated, along with those perfect one-liners. The rest of the cast/characters were great, and the plot makes enough sense to hold your attention. Much like Aliens, this is a classic re-watch for me that never gets old.
Predator 2's a bit more campy, but for the purposes of nostalgia, I have to recommend it. I actually caught it before the first one on TV as a kid. Objectively, it's not as good as Predator, but Gary Busey and Danny Glover make it worth a watch. And seeing the creature hunt in the "concrete jungle" is pretty cool too.
Bizarre trivia - two members of the cast (Schwarzenegger, Ventura) went on to become governor of their state. A third, Sonny Landham (Billy), ran but then later withdrew from his independent bid in Kentucky.
You are absolutely right in that it’s Apollo creed! Lol the origin of this film was in response to the Rocky series. They made fun and said “what’s going to happen in the next one? Rockys going to fight an Alien?” And thus Predator was born. So yes That’s why Apollo creed is in this lol
"Now he's firing blindly." Yup, just like Harper's team, and just like Dutch's team. The shoe is on the other foot.
Grew up watching this and love it and I love AVP