WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.639 M weird way. 2 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:23.440 H read we can kill a. 3 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.159 Shot it out the way English language? 4 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.039 What the hell are you? 5 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:54.920 Yell? Everybody? 6 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.799 Look around? What is that thing that it looks like 7 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.880 it's I can see through it, but it looks like, 8 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.680 I don't know, like plastic, like a plastic shell. Maybe 9 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:07.040 it was three dots. I'm dead. 10 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:08.239 That was state of the art. 11 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:11.159 God wouldn't it You could be visible finally and we 12 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.719 would buy it as a patron. The year is nineteen 13 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:20.040 eighty seven, HB. And I are fourteen years old amongst us? 14 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:20.920 Is it? 15 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:21.480 Oh? 16 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:24.079 Yeah, no, we definitely are, because we're talking about June twelfth, 17 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.280 nineteen eighty seven. If you're tuning into oh man, right now, 18 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.519 it's Predator Fest. I don't like Predator Fest. I like 19 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.280 that we're doing fests. I like that it's a thing 20 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.000 we do now, but I don't like that it's called fests. 21 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.280 It reminds me of a festivus for the rest of us. 22 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.400 I don't know. I don't have any great pity reply. 23 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.239 I don't know. You have to have the word predator 24 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.040 in there, but I don't know where you go from 25 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:49.719 there other. 26 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:51.560 Than fest about predator party. 27 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.280 I you know, I was about to say Predator party, 28 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.200 but that sounds like yay, we're gonna have a predator party. 29 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.159 How about Predator Party USA? And we have hits of 30 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.159 the eighties and predators dancing in scantily clad and we'll 31 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.640 put it on USA Network. 32 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.599 With the USA Up all Night. 33 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:10.879 Remember that this was in the afternoon. What are you 34 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.520 talking about? Up all Night? Had many variations, by the way, 35 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.039 because I remember Gilbert Gonfried as a host. I remember 36 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:22.080 what's her face? And I remember Canda Sheer and Captain 37 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.120 Captain underpants guy with his cigar. 38 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.479 Captain underpants guy. 39 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:32.039 Remember what you're talking about, Captain Captain cigar guy, Captain 40 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:32.759 grizzle butt. 41 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.039 I have no idea you remember him? 42 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.000 Remember this famous catchphrase, Hey kids, what's going on in 43 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.400 the sewers? Remember that. 44 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.960 You're making this up, you're putting me on. 45 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.280 Actually, yes, all right, what we're talking about is Predator 46 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.800 everybody HP you know him from Night mister Walters and 47 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.120 from Noise Junkies fucking fantastic show. Hi, Ivan, and this 48 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.120 is Predator Fest for lack of a better term, where 49 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.439 you're looking at Predator HPSA Hi to everybody, how are 50 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:01.759 you there? 51 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:02.360 Hi? 52 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:05.000 I'm feeling very festy. Let's do this. 53 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.879 You're you a fan of Predator? What's your experienced with Predator? 54 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:10.719 Did you see Predator in the theater? I bet you 55 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:11.599 I did. 56 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.719 It was a sensation. That was the big budget movie 57 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.960 that I remember from nineteen eighty seven. That was the 58 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.199 summer blockbuster. And you'd better believe I was there. I 59 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:21.960 saw it in the movies. 60 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.000 Were a rescue team, not assassins. 61 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.520 Now what are we gonna do. 62 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.800 In a part of the world where there are no rules? 63 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.879 We pick up their trailer the chopper, run them down, 64 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:42.199 grab those hostages before anybody knows we were there. 65 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.479 What do you mean we deep in the jungle where 66 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.000 nothing that lives is safe. 67 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:47.960 You lose it here. 68 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.159 You're in the world to hurt Showtime, Jim. 69 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:57.599 Not an elite rescue squad. 70 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:04.439 You're pleading man. Time is being led by the ultimate warrior. 71 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.240 We need the best. That's why you're here. 72 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.439 But now, what's got Phillis has booked. 73 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:12.439 There's something else they're waiting for us. 74 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:14.719 Ain't no man. 75 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:20.439 They're up against the ultimate enemy God. Nothing like it 76 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:22.120 has ever been unearthed before. 77 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.759 She says, the jungle just came alive and took. 78 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.480 A fo We cannot see. 79 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:32.399 It, no blood, no bodies, we nothing. 80 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.160 But it sees the heat of our bodies and the 81 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.079 heat of our fear. 82 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:40.040 Whatever it is out there killed Happa, and. 83 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:40.800 Now it wants us. 84 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:42.600 It kills for pleasure. 85 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:45.360 He will sin alive. 86 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.399 It hunts for sports, skillless one at the. 87 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:54.959 Time, We're all going guy, But this time it's picked 88 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:56.600 the wrong man to hunt. 89 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:12.720 If it pleads, we can kill it. 90 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:21.959 Twentieth Century Fox presents Arnold Schwarzenegger Predator. The Hunt begins Friday, 91 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.800 June twelfth at theaters everywhere. 92 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:31.439 Not being a big horror fan, I remember being a 93 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.000 little bit trepidacious about the prospect. But then again, it 94 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.959 had Arnold and it felt like more of a sci 95 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.959 fi movie, at least from my judging of the commercials 96 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.120 and so forth. So yeah, I was excited to see it, 97 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.879 a little nervous, but it was fantastic. I'm sure you 98 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:49.560 saw it in the theaters that summer as well. 99 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.040 Oh yeah, many times of this movie. In fact, was 100 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.199 this the year, No, it was the year, this was 101 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.000 the year. This is the first year I started working 102 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.800 in a movie theater, so it was this summer. But 103 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.360 this did not play at my movie theater. I had 104 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.439 to go seek it out. I luckily was able to 105 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.240 go to a different showcase cinemas to see it. So 106 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:07.360 I did the one in Revere. 107 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.319 Why didn't it play it all of the showcase cinemas. 108 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.240 Because sometimes a theater would be too close that was 109 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.560 a competition theater, so not showcased or like a general 110 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.639 cinemas would be close by, and they got that, like 111 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.720 we didn't get die Hard when that came out. We 112 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:28.560 didn't get die Hard when it came out the action movie, 113 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.079 like are you kidding me? I was so angry that 114 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:33.680 I had to go to another theater. I had to 115 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.120 have my theater call another theater and then fucking get 116 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.319 a ride to that theater. So I go see die 117 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.000 Hard once and not see it a thousand times, which 118 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.639 was the plan because I was an usher and could 119 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:45.279 do anyway. 120 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.120 How many times did you see Predator? 121 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.839 Again? It was in another theater, but I did see 122 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.920 it three times, probably that summer cool No no, no, no, none, none, 123 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:56.959 And at least one of those times was probably, I 124 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.040 hate to say, it was probably a lie. I probably 125 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.680 told my parents parents I was going to see something else, 126 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:03.439 just so I could see Predator again and not be 127 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.600 embarrassed that I was going to see it again, because 128 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.040 I was, as you, obsessed with this movie. This was 129 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.439 perfect timing for a film. It was an action movie 130 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.240 with horror elements, it was science fiction. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger, 131 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:22.160 who had finally thrown off the shackles of Sylvester Stallone, 132 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.399 who was his self appointed action guy of the nineteen eighties. 133 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.560 Here was somebody who was charismatic and fun and you 134 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.639 believed him when he was out there fighting it. So 135 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.360 the fact that he was, as you said, in this 136 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.199 movie was not only comforting as far as the fact 137 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.000 that we were going to be delving into sort of 138 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.800 horror elements of it, but it legitimized the movie in 139 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.720 our eyes at least. I'm assuming like wholesale anything by 140 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.040 now Schwarzenegger was touching was fucking gold for us kids. 141 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.439 He was I'm trying to think he before this was Commando. 142 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.439 Of course, probably a bunch of other movies like Raw 143 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.120 Deal probably was for this. This feels I don't have 144 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.360 it in front of me, but this kind of feels 145 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:06.639 like this might have been hit one of his big 146 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:10.680 coming out pictures as far as being a big summer blockbuster. 147 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.959 You know draw right, because look, you and I both 148 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.040 knew him very well by now, because he was Conan 149 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:21.759 the Barbarian. He was also the Terminatorator. Yeah, so like 150 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.759 that one two punch alone. Not to mention, I'm sure 151 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.279 you saw the document Did you see the documentary by now? 152 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:27.800 Probably not? 153 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.079 I did not the one on Netflix. I haven't seen it. 154 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.879 No, I'm talking about like Stay Hungry, I'm talking about 155 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.399 Pumping Iron. I'm talking about Arnold. 156 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:42.279 Oh no, no, I don't get it. I don't misunderstand me. 157 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.759 I've seen Pumping Iron probably about one hundred and fifty times. 158 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.840 I love that because he is charisma incarnate in that movie. 159 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.200 I know years later he claims that a lot of 160 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.080 it was staged, and it might very well have been. 161 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.320 There may not have been that sort of rivalry between 162 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.879 him and Lou Farigno. You know, Lufaigno's dad didn't really 163 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.720 train him. I don't care. Arnold Schwarzenegger jumps off that 164 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.639 fucking screen with Pumping Iron. It's astounding how charismatic he is. 165 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.240 Agreed, But my question was, had you seen it by 166 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.120 the time you saw. 167 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.080 I'm sorry, no, I had not seen it before I 168 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.200 saw Predator, so but I think my knowledge of Arnold 169 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.399 at this point would have been Terminator. It would have 170 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.039 been Conan, of course, Conaner the Destroyer. I don't know 171 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.039 that I got into any of the other sort of 172 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:33.960 lesser pictures, but certainly he Commando was a big one. 173 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:37.960 Commando was huge on Cable at that point. 174 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:44.360 I think Commando settled him for like suburban white American 175 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:49.120 boys as an action here and then this movie is 176 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:51.440 the movie. I think this is the movie that actually 177 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:56.759 breaks him wide as far as crossover appeal for mass audiences, 178 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.279 because it isn't straight ahead action where they're just hopping 179 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:04.120 people's arms off, although it has that, it's got and 180 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:08.320 it's not just science fiction fair like we have to 181 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:13.399 buy into this far fetched plot like we had with Terminator. Instead, 182 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.360 it's like the best of all possible worlds. This movie 183 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:21.120 is a crazy mashup that works because it's a mashup 184 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.639 of things that hadn't yet really been done. 185 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:26.919 The first quarter of this movie, and I know we'll 186 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.720 talk about the plot of it, but essentially the first 187 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.320 quarter of this movie is has really very little to 188 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.720 do with the Predator himself. It's really about these Special 189 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.000 Forces operatives coming in to do a search and extraction 190 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.200 of somebody who's crashed in the jungle in central in 191 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:47.679 South America somewhere. So for that first quarter of the movie, 192 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:53.279 it basically plays like Commando or like any number of 193 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.000 action movies, like a Rambo type of movie. It's just 194 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.639 these guys in the jungle shooting an awful lot of 195 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.960 round said, a lot of faceless gorilla rebels. So in 196 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.159 that way, it was brilliant because it gave you what 197 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:12.840 you expected from a Schwarzenegger action extravaganza before it started 198 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.200 layering in all of the horror and science fiction elements. 199 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:18.679 I think that's so incredibly astute. 200 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.320 Not only that, not only did it feel like we 201 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.399 were getting the generic action movies that we had expected 202 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:31.240 from Schwarzenegger up until, but it's also the best directed 203 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.879 of any of them up until that. Not Terminator, not Conan, 204 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.720 those are separate. We're talking like when Schwarzenegger became an 205 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.600 action star and was now going to be doing action movies. 206 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.200 This one is so superior. Had this just been about 207 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.600 his team being hunted by another team and not a 208 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.480 predator from space, this was guaranteed to be an entertaining 209 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.919 film from beginning to end. It was guaranteed to be 210 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:02.039 better than like Raw Deal, his fora to the Italian Mafia. 211 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.600 This was going to be better than The running Man, 212 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.080 that was the other big one at the time. And 213 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.960 that's sci fi all the way. That's capitalizing on Oh hey, 214 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.559 he did the Terminator. Maybe people like in sci fi 215 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.919 like this guy, but that movie was garbage. People like it. 216 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.000 I know you enjoyed it. I'm sure I can watch 217 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.960 it ironically and enjoy it too, But that's a terrible movie, 218 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:25.159 certainly nowhere near the level of Predator. Predators feels like 219 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.279 a real fucking movie. Predator feels like it could be 220 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:28.720 nominated for awards. 221 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:33.919 Predator's got better action, it's got better direction, it's got 222 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.440 a better budget, and it's got it sure as hell, 223 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.360 has better music, and it's got better acting across the board. 224 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.519 This movie has it. It's like you said, it's like 225 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.240 he put everything together at this point, the sort of 226 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.279 the stuff that would translate to the white suburban kids 227 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.799 like myself. It's got just all of the heavy artillery 228 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.000 that people are looking for in a big action, you know, 229 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:02.440 adventure like this. But then what was so incredible, and 230 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.600 what still blows me away watching it even today is 231 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.559 the predator stuff, the sci fi stuff, the gore, the 232 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.639 horror is it blends so effortless, effortlessly it should you 233 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.720 would think there you'd see scenes where one ends and 234 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.919 the other begins, but it's so well done, and the 235 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:27.679 movie kind of morphs from that Rambo style, let's just 236 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.919 go into this rebel compound and kill everybody and rescue 237 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.440 the hostages to oh shit, we're being hunted by something 238 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.600 that we that's not from this planet. That it's one 239 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.960 creature that's wiping us all out, and we have to 240 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.639 figure out a way to Now we're hunted. God, what 241 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.559 a great movie, Jesus Christ. 242 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:47.879 And you know what's funny, because you and I are 243 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.799 of the same agent from this time period, the idea 244 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.360 that this kind of a mashup would work at all 245 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.440 is still foreign in our minds. I think audiences today 246 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.879 and younger kids today would go, yeah, of course, well, yeah, 247 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.519 a special he had a Forces team being hunted by 248 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.360 an alien creature. That makes total sense. But for us 249 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.399 growing up like that kind of high concept stuff was 250 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:13.320 always suspect in the greater sort of pop cultural scene 251 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:15.840 like I remember at the same time the movie RoboCop 252 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.039 coming out Johnson based on that name, people like scoffing 253 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.919 at it, like that's ridiculous, though, it's just gonna be 254 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.000 a robot cop. Okay, what else are they going to 255 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:26.240 fucking slam together? 256 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:27.000 You know? Oh? 257 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.480 How about this and this? You know, how about fucking 258 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.320 alien like and a special Forces thing? That's equally stupid. 259 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.879 And yet maybe they had a point because nobody was 260 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.799 actually taking it seriously. Nobody was John McTiernan going, We're 261 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.200 gonna make the fucking greatest action movie. 262 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.879 Of all time, And by god, he did that. 263 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.559 He let's talk before I'll let's speak for a second. Sorry, 264 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:52.399 but I just don't want to get the stats out 265 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.519 here because Predator released on June the twelfth, nineteen eighty seven. 266 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.759 Written by Jim and John Thomas. I've spoken about them 267 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.720 over on the Weekly Round. You can hear my thing 268 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.240 about one of the most recent Predator movies. Directed by 269 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:09.039 John McTiernan. This movie starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, 270 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:14.960 Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landam, Richard Chavez, R. G. Armstrong, Shane Black, 271 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.720 Kevin Peter Hall as of the Predator and Elpdia Carrillo 272 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:27.480 as Anna and uncredited Franco Colombo, savan Oli, Thorston. If 273 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.759 you're gonna have a Schwarzenegger movie, they're gonna show up somewhere. 274 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.080 They're going to be in your movie. And the voice 275 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.159 HP you and I were talking about earlier, the technical 276 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.720 voice of the Predators Peter Cullen, who is the voice 277 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:42.639 of Optimus Prime. He is also doing the vocalizations of 278 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.399 the Predator. So all of that clickety clacketting you're hearing 279 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:49.679 that the Predator is making, that is Peter Cullen attempting 280 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.879 to replicate the sound of a dying horseshoe crab that 281 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:53.759 he had once heard. 282 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.840 You know, a lot is made. I don't remember the actress, 283 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.519 but the actress who did the voice of the devil 284 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.320 in the Exorcist. Do you remember this when Reagan is 285 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.440 possessed and there was a lot made of the what 286 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.679 this actress, I don't remember her name, but had to 287 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.559 do to get this voice to come out the way 288 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.879 it did? Fuck that? I I until recently when I 289 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.039 found out that actor did the voice of the Predator. 290 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.480 If you had told me they did, like a wookie 291 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.159 thing where they just took sounds of random creatures and 292 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.000 processed them and mashed them together and did this. I 293 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.360 would have said, that makes perfect sense. I still have 294 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:35.960 no idea how that clickety clacketty sound came out of 295 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.360 a human throat. It's mystifying to me. 296 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:41.919 Well, I'm sure they've manipulated it in some way, but 297 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.720 you know that now. Yeah, I want to say now 298 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:46.720 that you know it, but it is still alien to 299 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.240 me sounding. It's still a great sound and they've just 300 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:52.759 been making variations on it ever since. Because it is 301 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.960 so specific. You know, when a predator shows up on screen, 302 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.279 we could be watching an entirely different movie. Speaking of 303 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.240 like mashups. If I was watching an episod out of 304 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:01.799 Sex in the City and I heard that sound and 305 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.399 be like, oh, fuck, a predator's about to show up 306 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:04.119 and kill some people. 307 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.119 It's chilling. When you hear that sound, you know that 308 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.279 somebody is probably about to die, that the predator has 309 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.559 the drop on somebody. It's brilliant. I don't know. I 310 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.039 think it's amazing that the idea that he had in 311 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.480 his head for this horseshoe crab business, but it fucking works. 312 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:22.359 It's amazing. 313 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.880 By the way, Mercedes McCambridge is the voice you were 314 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.160 talking about the Vice of Reagan and yeah in the 315 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.039 Exorcist and yeah, but I agree, this is much more 316 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:34.759 indelible now. This is in. It is inextricably linked to 317 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.720 the Predator and all thanks to mister Peter Cullins, our 318 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.920 once and future Optimist Prime. Now I'm gonna have to 319 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:42.759 pause here and go let my dog in because she's 320 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:44.319 standing at the door and whining. 321 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:49.480 Hold on, okay, face says something I can't even stand it. Oh, 322 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:50.599 she is adorable. 323 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.359 It's a very cute dog. Miss Ripley James making her 324 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.160 appearance here on Predator Fest for the first time the movie. 325 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.480 She cannot launch, by the way, because I fucking tried, 326 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:02.920 which is oh no. As soon as the fucking Predator 327 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:07.200 shows up, it's fucking barking Fest nineteen nineties, nineteen eighty seven. 328 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:10.279 It's just like, what is that thing? We gotta kill it. 329 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.160 This thing is menacing us. It's trying to get us 330 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.359 from the jungle. Yeah, it's bad news. 331 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:17.359 Really, Oh wow, that's crazy. 332 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:20.880 Oh, Pugs. Evidently I've been talking to Paul Waller over 333 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.920 on a year in horror podcast. He also has a pug. 334 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.799 He can't watch movies with horses because his pug, mister Puggles, 335 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:29.559 goes insane for horses. 336 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:33.359 Yeah, Lucy is funny. She just watches TV passively. She 337 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.319 doesn't seem to care what's on there. But like every 338 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.279 once in a while we'll get a mouse will be 339 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.039 in the house, Like right now, I think there's one 340 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:41.680 in the wall because I can hear it's critchy scrap 341 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.440 and if she catches like a if she hears it, 342 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.440 she's like she starts scratching the wall where it is. 343 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:49.920 I think if she could get to it, I think 344 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:51.599 she would probably like kill the thing in too. 345 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.200 Maybe she knows it's not a mouse but a tiny predator. 346 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.039 Maybe clicking Whish I could do the clicking sound, I 347 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:57.839 would have done it right. 348 00:18:58.079 --> 00:18:59.319 What's the story here? HP? 349 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:04.799 So the story is Arnold Schwarzenegger leads. He plays Dutch. 350 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.279 He leads a team of There are special forces. I 351 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.160 don't know the exact designation for his team, but there 352 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:11.519 are centers. 353 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.000 They're a black they're a Black Ops team. Obviously they're 354 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:19.240 sent into They're a Wetworks special They are the kind 355 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.640 of thing you'd been hearing about. 356 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.759 But at the same time he does say like, I 357 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.519 don't do that kind of work. It's a hostage rescue. 358 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.279 He's called in. Him and his team are called in 359 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:31.559 because he's been told by Carl Weathers's Dylan, who is 360 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:35.200 a former comrade who now works for the CIA. He's 361 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:37.200 been told that there was a helicopter crash in the 362 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.680 jungle and they have to go in and rescue these 363 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:44.279 like an emissary or something. So they have to who's 364 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:49.680 been captured by this gorilla rebel team. So Arnold and 365 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:54.839 his group go in. They to rescue these operatives, and 366 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:59.960 they soon find out that it's not alway isn't exactly 367 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.079 what it seems. First of all, they've been they've essentially 368 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.279 been lied to by the Dylan and the CIA. They're 369 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:08.039 not actually there to rescue who they thought they were 370 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:10.559 going to have to. But in the midst of all 371 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.160 of these sort of double crosses, it turns out there's 372 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.519 this creature, this predator, that is in the jungle that 373 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.960 is hunting for sport. And because these guys have the 374 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.559 biggest guns ever made, essentially they're on the predator's radar, 375 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.359 and the predator starts picking them off, and they have 376 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.119 to find a way to get to the choppa before 377 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:35.279 the predator kills all of them. That's the basic plot 378 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:39.160 of this movie. Lean and mean, predator trying to kill them, 379 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:39.839 got to get out. 380 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.519 What is Dylan's actual plot? Then spoil it for everybody. 381 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:46.240 Spoil this movie that's forty some odd years old. 382 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:52.039 Spoil it. So essentially, they were told that the advisor 383 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.039 was he was a cabinet minister and his aid. But 384 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:59.519 then it turns out the advisor on the chopper was 385 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:03.279 actually Cia. And there's also evidence that there's all these 386 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.759 dead Russian military advisors in the mix, so there's more 387 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:10.559 to the story. Dylan has left out all of this 388 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.119 because he told Dutch what he had to tell him 389 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:16.960 to get him into the jungle. But and I think, 390 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.039 don't if I'm not mistaken. Isn't this reference in another 391 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:24.559 Predator where they actually the real purpose for them to 392 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:26.759 go into the jungle was like an alien thing where 393 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.880 aliens think where they were trying to actually capture a predator. 394 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.799 So they used Arnold's team Dutch's team to try and 395 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.400 expedite this is. 396 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:42.200 That predator too. We discover that the shadowy government that 397 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.680 would employ a mercenary team like Dutches. I have known 398 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.240 about the predators for years and have been tracking their 399 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:50.400 movements here on Earth, and as you said, are now 400 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.519 trying to capture one. In Predator two, that the whole 401 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.400