Predator
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2018
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Considering all the obstacles that the cast and crew of Predator were up against during its production, the finished product could easily have been an unwatchable mess. Instead, it became a classic.
There are some incredible behind-the-scenes stories, a handful of truly knockout action set pieces, a subversive undertone we might have missed as kids, and one of cinema's most memorable movie monsters at the center of it.
Topics include: the original concept for the film's title character and how it nearly derailed the entire production, whether or not Billy was intended to be the main character at one point and how that might have helped the film, how little we actually learn about the creature and the strength of that simplicity, all the Alien vs Predator crossovers and the wasted potential of those films, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Predator? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Carlos. |
| 0:33.9 | And I'm Kristen. |
| 0:34.8 | And today we're revisiting Predator. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah. Carlos. And I'm Kristen. And today we're revisiting Predator. Arnold Schwarzenegger may be the headliner here, but it was actually Sylvester Stallone, |
| 0:56.9 | who inadvertently got the ball rolling on this film. After Rocky Four cleaned up at the box office, |
| 1:02.3 | industry types started joking that if there was going to be a fifth Rocky movie, |
| 1:05.9 | the Italian Stallion would have to fight some sort of outer space boxer because he'd run out of |
| 1:10.4 | human opponents to punch. |
| 1:12.3 | Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas ran with that premise and it eventually expanded into the idea |
| 1:17.0 | of a big game hunt where Earth's most elite soldiers are the prey. As fellow screenwriter and co-star |
| 1:23.1 | of this film, Shane Black put it, it was an idea so brilliant and simple that it was hard to believe |
| 1:28.1 | no one had thought of it before. But while the story was straightforward, production was |
| 1:32.3 | anything but. I guess 20th century Fox had never heard the expression, buy nice or buy twice, |
| 1:37.9 | because when it came to the alien hunter that's the centerpiece of this film, they tried to |
| 1:41.9 | save a few bucks by going with the special effects company |
| 1:44.4 | that had the lowest bid. Originally conceived as something more insect-like with incredible dexterity, |
| 1:50.1 | the finished costume was, well, it's hard to describe, actually. If a dog had sex with a rat, |
| 1:57.4 | and then that rat gave birth to a hybrid, which then went on to have sex with a radioactive |
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