When I first saw this in the theater the idea that the chick would be the hero was such a novel idea it didn't even dawn on me that was the direction the story was going until after Parker and Lambert are killed and I was like, "Oh, so the woman survives, that's really different."
@@d3l3tes00n Yep. Saw people complain that Naru in Prey was an example of 'wokeness'... yet she was a native american (already badass people) shown to develop and level up her fighting and hunting skills, make mistakes and learn from them to eventually take down the alien. And these same people seem to forget that a seemingly unstoppable killer robot from the future was taken down by a waitress in 1984. Yes, Sarah Connor had help from Reese (RIP) but Naru had help from her brother (RIP) and dog (thankfully lived :D ). I still find it amusing that Michael Biehn played the love interest of both Ripley and Sarah Connor. And neither of his characters lived very long to enjoy it (though at least he got to bed Sarah.... in a sex scene actually crucial to the plot for once). :D
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, it made $200 million dollars against an $11 million dollar budget, it put Sigourney Weaver on the map, it spawned 3 Sequels, 2 spinoff films, 2 crossover films, video games, comics, novels, toys, board games, novelizations and an upcoming live action TV series based on the movie, it's now considered to be one of the scariest motion pictures ever made.
She had to include Ash in her memoriam log at the end as to not let on that she knew that Ash was an android and about his secret mission. If she was picked up by a company vessel, hopefully soon after, it might make her "expendable" if she knew too much.
Presumably mother was sending constant updates back to the company. They would have at least known about her overriding the lockout and viewing Ash's secret directive.
@@nodak81 Their long range comms are shown to suck in the alien universe takes years to get a post card i imagine a status report that could very well be a couple of GB's or even a TB of data involving the alien's scans would take ages to be recieved even if mother was constantly transmitting.
The other thing that's really impressive here is the subtlety of the acting. A great example is the confrontation between Ripley and Parker after Dallas's death. They've all gathered together, frightened, freaked out, and angry. Parker can barely contain himself. Ripley yells at him "Will you listen to me, Parker? Shut up!" Watch closely what happens next. It's not cartoonish and simple: he doesn't immediately shut up. But their argument doesn't just escalate, either. Instead, what they do with their dialogue is much more realistic. It's only a few seconds long, and it's easy to miss. But it's incredibly nuanced acting. Evidently, it didn't come naturally, either. The actual words were easy. But Sigourney Weaver and Yaphet Kotto had to rehearse quite a bit, shaping it carefully, to get all the subtlety just right. That's very high level work. Extraordinary actors taking their art very seriously.
the entire exchange was improvised (at least intially). in the script there's no push back from parker- he just falls in line. Ridley Scott told Yaphet to challenge Sigourney - try to run her over in the scene... with second guessing and interrupting her. Ridley wanted Sigourney to TAKE command. She played it beautifully. And if you noticed other than a little push back at first, Parker does fall in line and they kind of become a team after that -especially when taking down ash. after they decide to blow up the ship and split up - Parker tells ripley "take care of yourself" a subtle but poignant moment from the alpha male on board... Parker showed she's finally earned his respect.
The shuttle might be physically able to fit four people, but the life support system onboard might not be able to sustain four adults' worth of oxygen.
The Narcissus (the shuttle) wasn't primarily designed for long duration travel and only had two stasis pods. That's why Ripley told Lambert the shuttle can't take four people. Presumably they would have had to either draw straws or rotate use of the pods. There was actually supposed to be a second shuttle, the Salmacis but it wasn't onboard due to being damaged in an accident at their last port.
I love how absolutely no one sees the Ash robot twist coming; the chestburster scene is the more iconic scene of course, but the subtle clues are there that Ash just isn't... normal. And it all comes to the fore once his head comes off, leaving everyone stunned and dumbfounded.
One of the very few and very minor gripes I have with this movie. At no point ahead of the twist is it established that robots like that even exist in that universe. Of course nobody saw it coming.
@@Dimetropteryx Good point. And yes the scene left my brain turned upside down for a couple of minutes while it tried to process what just happened. In fact, I felt the scene was so jarring I actually warned my friend when I took him to see it a few days later, explaining, one of the crew is a robot. I probably wouldnt do that today but I felt he shouldnt have to contend with the confusion I felt when Ash's head comes off. I knew he was going to have enough to deal with without that thrown into the mix as well.
True but the Chestbuster scene is where most people disagree with Ash even tho that's the one time he was right and everyone just seems to forget the whole Acid Blood thing
Lots of clues. (That something is wrong with Ash) Ash is explaining the motion tracker he's miraculously cobbled together; Ripley isn't quite buying it. "What's it key off of?" She asks. Later, in an almost throwaway line she mutters "Micro-changes in air density my ass" when his explanation proves to be bullshit after picking up Jones through a closed door. But as you said, it's so subtly done. Just fantastic filmmaking/acting.
where is the water from? most likely that is a heat venting chamber that uses the cold of space through the walls to cool air that circulates arount the ships power generation. the hot air would cause condensation on the cold ceiling/wall, resulting in rain.
@@jakobfromthefence No, Giger created the alien designs. Ron Cobb created the non-alien designs (Nostromo, space suits, etc). Dan O’Bannon wrote the original story in 1971, before Giger published Necronomicon in 1977. Ridley Scott created the atmosphere. And so on. It was a collaboration of the right creative geniuses coming together at the right time.
@@miller-joel Giger designed the alien spaceship and interior and the alien they did instruct him to change some of his art that already existed. Two other artists designed the human spaceships and interiors.
The "Ash is a robot" was one of the few ideas from the studio that the writers liked and it ended up being one of the defining moments of the movie. A scene that was discussed but shot down was one where Ripley escapes in the little ship with the alien and gets killed. The alien climbs into the pilot seat, hits some buttons and then makes a distress call....in Captain Dallas' voice!
oh they reworked the entire movie. you can find Dan and Ron's the original script online - it's called Starbeast. it was originally 6 male crew members. the names were all different...and there was no betrayer role. the alien was much different too. at least the grown up version. the face hugger was more like a squid. and the alien ship was actually Alien Pyramids and the eggs were in metal cannisters .... elements that ridley later revived for Prometheus.
@@penoyer79Interesting. It's not unusual for movies to go through many many changes from beginning to end, sometimes massively. Star Wars, for example, changed radically from the first draft of the script to the final creation.
A few comments to add here. (Keep in mind I'm making these comments as I watch the video; so some of these things you probably already figured out.) 1. If you're not going to re-enter atmosphere, the shape of the ship makes no difference. The Nostromo is basically a space tug with oversized engines, pulling a giant refinery. The refinery isn't going to land, so it's big and ugly. 2. The mainframe is MU/TH/ER, model 182. They just call her "Mother" for short. 3. In the Alien series, humans need to be in hypersleep while travelling at FTL speeds, or they will go insane. Basically, it's a form of suspended animation. (Yes, the cat was in hypersleep too.) Even if they didn't go insane, on a ship the size of the Nostromo, there's no way you're carrying enough food and water for 6 humans (and a cat) for 2 or 3 years. 4. The Nostromo's top speed is 0.12 light years per day (approximately 46 times the speed of light) while hauling the refinery. Even at that speed, the trip from the Thedus mining colony back to Earth would've taken nearly 2 years. The Nostromo launched from Thedus on June 12, 2120 and Mother woke up the crew on June 3, 2121... Just a few days short of a year! The rest of the trip would've taken another 10 months. 5. "What happened? From the outside it looked like a smooth landing!" ... It _was,_ but LV-426 has a _lot_ of dust. Dust entered one of the engine intakes, causing it to overheat and triggered an electrical fire in the engineering section. It almost happened again on takeoff. 6. "Where's the water coming from? It's raining in space!" ... actually, it's condensation from the ship's cooling systems. Here's something a lot of people don't know: It is true that space is _very_ cold. However, it is also very _bad_ at wicking away heat. That's why the International Space Station has 1,680 square feet (156 square meters) of ammonia-filled tubing, to wick the heat away and radiate it out into space. Any ship like the Nostromo is going to have an incredibly complex cooling system. And, just like your air conditioner at home, it's going to cause condensation. 7. "THREE explosions?" Yes. Remember that the Nostromo was re-attached to the refinery after getting back into orbit. Also, the Nostromo had _two_ shuttles, but the second one couldn't be used because it was being repaired. (However, I can't blame you for not knowing about the second shuttle. It wasn't mentioned in the movie, only in the novelization.) So: Nostromo goes BOOM (first explosion). The other shuttle goes BOOM (second explosion). The refinery goes BOOM (third explosion). 8. "What are you doing to it?" STEAMING it, like a big black acid-filled crab with way too many teeth. They don't like extreme heat.
The screenplay was written such that each character could be played by either a man or a woman. That's why they all had single, gender-neutral names: Ripley, Dallas, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Kane. There's a rather good documentary called The Beast Within: The Making of Alien. Behind the scenes clips, interviews with the cast, crew, screenwriter, producers, composer, H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, etc. Very worthwhile. (They didn't interview Jones, though, which pissed me off.)
the original script was called STARBEAST. you can find it online. it's a lot different. there's elements in the script that ended up in prometheus. (for instance- they find the Aliens eggs in giant pyramids... in metal cannsiters)
The face-hugger gross part is actually oysters. The dinner scene with the alien, wasn't known by the cast other than John Hurt. All they knew for the scene was that the cameras were covered as if the scene would be in the rain, and the crew were wearing raincoats. Of course, it's actually for the fact that the blood spatter would be pretty bad, and you can hear a loud thud during the scene, which is actress Veronica Cartwright tripping and falling over. Her reaction was genuine and she actually caught a lot of the blood spatter in the scene by accident. Yaphet Kotto has talked about long hours of shooting, and many times would come home and sit in his living room for more than 30 minutes, before getting up and being able to talk to his wife due to the stress and feeling claustrophobic all day. All of the cast faced a pretty hard toll due to the stress of shooting on set, which is several sections combined together to create the ship. So to get around through the set you have to actually walk through the corridors and bulkheads, as if you're really there on a ship.
There's a reason the Xenomorphs are so iconic dude what a classic. You should watch Aliens its common people either prefer the horror of Alien or the action in Aliens. You could probably skip all the sequels after that but maybe AvP would be a fun watch!
Jerry Goldsmith's score for this is a masterpiece. From the very first frame of the movie it starts to fill you with dread and loneliness and fills most of the sound space with ambience and accent sounds, reserving the real music for the important parts. Be sure to watch the sequel to this, Aliens, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest sequels of all time (along with Terminator 2. Both sequels were made by James Cameron).
Oh man! One of the best Sci fi/horror films of all time! H.R. Giger's design is so iconic. One of the best along side John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). Which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it. It would be a great one for the channel.
Yeah, it seems a lot of people forget that, at least in the moment, including the characters because your instinct is to stab it or something to that effect. Of course the scientist/android would immediately know not to kill (even if he didn't have an alternative motive)...
@brockbaby ..Everyone was already aware of the acid blood. The 'face hugger alien' had been on Kane and bled acid. Ash was saying "Don't touch it'....because it was "his mission" to ensure that the ALIEN bio-weapon was not injured or destroyed for the Company's future use. That was his stated directive.
My take on that was that trying to attack it with a plastic fork from the dinner table, would at best cause Parker to lose several fingers, because the Chestbruster already got some serious fangs on it
Aliens, the sequel, is the only other Alien movie worth watching. You both would like it. This is more of a horror film while Aliens is more of an action film.
@@OroborusFMA Totally agree. I’m an “older” gal, and Alien3 was just too violent for me; a couple of scenes, in particular. Alien was just perfect for me. The Cast, the music, everything.😉👍
Alien is my favorite sci-fi movie of all time. I love H.R.Giger's art style which makes this very unique from other sci-fi movies. The xenomorph is probably the most dangerous and recognizable aliens in sci-fi history. I love this franchise a lot and I'm glad you guys got to watch it for the first time. Definitely check out Aliens but get the Director's Cut because that has some important information that plays into Ripley's character arc. I know most don't like Alien³ but I have come to appreciate it over time and it was David Fincher's first big screen film he directed (get the Assembly Cut)
The Special Edition does have extra footage. None of it is as valuable to the story as it distracting from the movie. This person saw the real cut first and appreciated the bonus footage after… only after they experienced the better version.
I love your reaction! I saw this movie when it first came out in the theater in 1979 (I was 22 - yes I'm old!). The original trailer is excellent. People were really psyched to see it. I was SO scared as soon as the movie started. I reacted the same way you guys did! I've lost count of how many times I've seen it and I still love it after all of these years.
"She's cancelling it?" "I don't know why". Wow. OK, the ship is on Self-Destruct mode. Ripley is trying to get to the escape ship, but the Alien is blocking her way! Now she can't get off the ship, so she has to turn off the Self-Destruct. Does that make sense?
The water dripping down when Bret is looking for the cat (and gets killed) is because he is in the landing strut bay, where the landing legs of the vessel retract up into the body of the ship. All the moisture, ice particles, etc. the were blowing around on the planetoid that had collected onto the lending legs have melted, and all the condensation, etc. is then dripping off the legs in the form of "rain" inside the bay. The reason Ripley goes back to the try and shut-down the auto-destruct is because the alien is between her and the shuttle, blocking her way (when she panics and drops the box with Jones in it). So she goes back to try and buy more time. But fails, thereby forcing her hand to try and get to the shuttle regardless of the expected confrontation with the alien (which doesn't;t occur because the alien hides itself on the shuttle).
That's interesting - milky liquids such as "milk" and "semen" are how we all get a good start in life. So, I thought it would make sense if a bio-android (or "artificial person") was powered by such liquids - and not need fruit and veg everyday to survive like the rest of us.
An astronaut said that even the slightest miscalculation could be catastrophic when it came to connecting objects in space, like a ship part and a space station. I know at the point in the movie they had landed on a planet rather than within a vacuum when everything jolted. But I assume it was a similar thing, how even moving a ship or part of a station slowly and cautiously (though maybe not with Ash anywhere near them) could be very dangerous.
Why is it sooo many reactors to this movie constantly say they don't understand something? When it was basically explained to them 5 minutes earlier? "How do they know where to go?" She asks. Well, if you had paid a little ATTENTION, not 4 scenes earlier Ashe was telling them the source of the signal was 2 clicks (kilometers) away, and gave a general direction. The ship locked onto said signal from space, so a nanosecond of rational brainwork would tell you that they could also lock into that signal source (and it's general position) once on the surface. FFS, I think I'm watching too many reaction vids and expecting people who are not much younger than myself to have a modicum of logic, and a shred of an attention span.🤦🤦🤦
The ship they are on (The Nostromo) is essentially a tugboat. It's hauling an entire refinery processing 20,000,000 tons of ore. So that's actually the huge weird shape you see, not the ship itself. ... Also, who built this thing? The White Star Lines? A crew of 7 (and a cat) and a lifeboat that holds 3. Brilliant engineering.
It probably took a good 3 hours between Kane's death -- considering everyone was probably in shock -- getting his body ready for burial, and pulling together a plan to search for the creature, and the point at which Brett is killed by the Alien. No one ever stops to think about how much must have happened between the two points. The fact that the death was so horrifying and cleaning up after him/getting ready for burial probably took well over an hour by itself, probably 2. So, the Alien had time to grow. It's not that unimaginable!
Alien is my favorite movie ever! It was such an amazing thing to see growing up as a kid in the 80's. There was and still nothing quite like it. While most people like Aliens more there is nothing like the Cosmic Horror of the first one. The reason Ash bleeds "milk" (as people call it) is that in this universe Androids use a substance called "Fuel Blood" which is white and is what powers them. You can also see this in another Ridley Scott show called Raised by Wolves on HBO which is very good.
They had paint mixers under their chairs to make them shake. They have a cat as an old sailing tradition. In the age if Saul cats were brought on ships to deal with rats on board.
I'm surprised how many people don't understand why Ripley went back to try to cancel the self destruct. She couldn't get to the escape ship because the alien was in the way, so she went back to turn it off so she'd have time to do something about it or wait the alien out. She failed to deactivate it, so she had no choice but to try to get there anyway. The alien was drawn to the escape ship and climbed in there to rest/sleep/hibernate.
The wind/draft in the opening scene is caused by a pressure differance between the cryo chamber and the rest of the ship. The airtight door to the chamber was probably closed for a long time and during that time the pressure differential was created. The ship is towing a refinery. That's why it has an irregular shape. The ship itself (the Nostromo) detatches from the refinery to go land on the planetoid LV426 (small planet). The Nostromo is so large that even though it appears to make a really controlled landing the unevenness of rhe landing surface together with the ships massive weight is enough to cause the shaking and breaking of things apon touchdown. When they get back to orbit and dock with the refinery the whole thing is really big. The water falling like rain on Brets head is probably condensation forming high up in the tall structure (like a cooling tower) he is standing under. Once Ripley is on the shuttle after blowing up the ship she immediately starts to prep for hypersleep since the shuttle don't have that much resources for life support.
I hate how this all had to be explained. It made for a frustrating viewing experience cause their ignorance of the subjects made them think (for some reason) that they knew better than the filmmakers cause they perceived these "issues" as flaws of the film. Drives me nuts.
My understanding of the rough landing is that while it's not really shown on-screen, the landing foot that is shown is exerting so much weight that the surface partially collapses into an old lava tube. Also, the "structure" Bret is standing underneath when he's killed is that same landing foot. It's fully retracted with the toes hanging downward. The floor is actually the doors on the hull of the ship.
The wind in the spaceship comes from differences in air pressure. When the doors open the the pressure gets equalized throughout all the rooms, leading to some wind.
"How do you get a cat into space?" ... Easy, you use a cat-apult !! (Don't blame me, you asked the question. Someone had to say it so I'll take the hit for the team.)
The answer to your question: Jerry Goldsmith did the music for Alien. It's also one of his most infamous due to beef between him, Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings, the film's editor. Goldsmith wanted to create not only a bleak and dissonant soundscape for the movie but also sought to create a sense of romanticism and lyrical mystery. However, Scott did not like Goldsmith's original intended main theme and some other cues. So instead, he had to rewrote the cues. Goldsmith was NOT happy with how things worked out when he was composing the music for the movie. They kept editing and changing his stuff that was intended and when he first saw the film after it was finished, needless to say, he was PISSED. Goldsmith said that he'd never would work with Scott again after that. After listening to his intended musical score, I slide with him on that and I do not blame him for being so angry. Scott and Goldsmith never patch things up before the latter's death.
Yet Ridley Scott paired up with Goldsmith in 1985 for "Legend", starring Tom Cruise. This was even more divisive. The score was rejected and replaced by Tangerine Dream for US audiences, as test audiences responded more favorably to synth-heavy scores versus Goldsmith's, which is mainly orchestral. The Goldsmith score was used for UK audiences. Both have their merits.
I know I've said this before with other UA-camrs but I'm always excited when more people finally get into the alien franchise. Ripley is the most iconic character in sci-fi history! If you do continue the Alien series, I do recommend that you specifically watch the (extended versions) the remaining movies. Specifically the 2nd and 3rd film. A lot of good character development and backstory of Ripley. And yes, ignore the haters that say do not watch Alien 3. I still recommend it but, make sure that it's the extended version of Alien 3. It's called the "assembly cut". The theatrical cut is a mess.
Chest buster scene was a complete surprise to the cast in that scene. They weren't told what was going to happen. The reactions are genuine. Love this film. I first saw it as a child in the early 90s. Now I'm hooked on science fiction.
What's extremely cool about ALL of these movies is that they all explore different genres of horror. ALIEN = haunted house horror ALIENS = action-horror ALIEN3 = slasher-horror ALIEN RESURRECTION = body horror ALIEN PROMETHEUS = gore-horror ALIEN COVENANT = splatter-horror AVP and AVP: REQUIEM are just straight up action movies, there's no real horror there, unless you count watching in horror as the studio MANGLES the two franchises...
@@sirfijoe450 You can tell yourself whatever you want, but the director himself had nothing to do with the "assembly cut," he has never seen it, and he wants nothing to do with it. He did share that the studio told him "Look, you could have somebody piss against the wall for two hours and call it Alien 3 and it would still do 30 million dollars worth of business." And it shows. Fincher had his hands tied behind his back from the beginning, so it's not even his movie. Resurrection is garbage as a movie. It's a parody that doesn't know it's a parody. It's not as insulting as "3." It doesn't directly and personally try to undo everything that the first two movies built. It doesn't tell you "oh, you liked those characters? We are going to kill them off screen, before the opening credits. With a magic alien egg that comes out of nowhere, and no one can ever explain, because no one cares."
@@miller-joel No shit Alien 3 is well known for its absolute disastrous production. And the studio and producers treated Fincher like shit so he had a terrible time. I knew the Newt and Hicks complaint was coming because besides the behind the scenes stuff and the bad puppet composition that’s the complaint everyone uses lol. The setting and matte paintings of Alien 3 are amazing and while I wish the movie used entirely new characters instead of continuing Ripley’s story, I think it’s the most interesting way her story could have gone after that point. Hicks and Newt were cool but they were mostly just vehicles to drive Ripley’s character more than anything else. I’d rather not have a young girl alive and running around in a prison filled with murderers and rapists. (Also they would have had to recast Newt). The shots and actors are all amazing as is the score. There are many fair complaints you can have with the film, but most people just can’t handle the darker themes and so they cry about it.
17:36 Where's the water coming from? Apparently y'all haven't watched The Martian. It is possible to make water. And given this was set in the future with space travel and large spacecraft, it's not too much to believe that they would have created large condensers in order to have a continuous water supply for both consuming, agriculture and cooling the ship.
Meeeh. Stopped watching after they cut the helmet off, and there was no…..WTF this movie was made in 1979!!! This movie is ahead by a century!!! This is one of the greatest movies ever made. And this reaction was just watching two people eating popcorn, appreciating nothing.
@@jinxysaberkthis movies just a masterpiece. Nothing about “compared to the others” dont undercut the others like that, aliens is just as good or better entirely subjectively. Correcting someones opinion like that is kinda silly bro
If you watch Aliens, be sure to watch the Special Edition. To be sure of which is the right cut, the theatrical cut is 137 minutes while the special edition is 154 minutes
The ship shaking on take off was to convey how much power is used to get such a massive ship back into orbit as for the rain the ships engine's make a lot of heat and this is condensation off the heat transfer system....a total sci-fi horror classic.
You guys are way too critical of a woman under immense stress with limited survival options. A woman who if not for Ash, and the middle management style captain, would’ve prevented the whole catastrophe. The self-detonation countdown was the best choice given the circumstances-She was never going to defeat the Alien in a straight up fight, versus a creature that wasted her whole crew in like a day. When one’s stressed they fuck up, with things, like finding the cat. But in the end, she handled business.
I think they didn't realise the xenomorph was blocking Ripley's only route to the shuttle and that's why she tried to shutdown the self destruct. I know it's their first time watching, but it's not the only thing they have a weird take on
There are 4 original Alien movies. Ripley is in all of them. I like the second one the best, and the 4th, but that's because I'm a huge Brad Dourif fan xD.
Awesome! Saw at the drive-in in 79 with those big heavy window speakers so couldn’t really appreciate it till later when watching on tv, but what a classic! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and reaction!
God don't tell the film how space works or not. You're not giving them enough credit. The ship simply had air pressure. They wouldn't have hung the coats in front of the door unless they WANTED to make them move in the "wind" as the door opened. Don't be arrogant.
I always was confused by the landing like you guys…until I watched the film in a theatre. It is like night and day how much more you see and hear. There was a boulder that one of the ship’s landing feet hits. It crushes the boulder but the impact damages the landing gear. That is what happens. In the theatre it is so much clearer. Also all the shots you guys were talking about being great are just ten times better. If you ever get the chance to see Alien on the big screen I highly recommend.
Im sure others included this in comments, but the version you watched was not the original theatrical version. I dont believe Ripley was slapped in the theatrical and she did not locate Dallas as she was trying to eacape.
I understand why they might have flame throwers on a spaceship as these could be used to thaw machinery that’s frozen over 9mining ship after all) but what are the cattle prods for? Maybe to to do a jump start?
Loved your reaction. You guys should definitely check out Aliens next it’s so good one of the best sequels ever made and then check out Prometheus the prequel it’s really good it gets a lot of hate for no reason but great movie 💚💚
I watched all 4 Original movies and usually the first movie will always be the best one but in this case I liked the next one always slightly better than the last one. Now the one I've re-watched the most is the 4th, Alien: Resurrection. I've also watched the Prequel Prometheus, but can't really remember anything (I guess I was a little underwhelmed because of my own pretty high expectations). Haven't watched Covenant yet. The only Alien-related movie I actually saw in the cinema was Alien vs. Predator 1. I liked that one too. Never seen the second one though. Imo at least the next three Alien movies in line are worth a watch if you enjoyed the first one.
GUYS: for all that’s holy watch Aliens next. Do not wait. Do not think about any other aliens movie. James Cameron’s Aliens - what else do you need to hear?
Lol, you guys are so stuck on the cat. It’s a long haul, the journey likely takes months if not years. I can see how the crew might be allowed a cat for companionship, mental health. The spacecraft is massive to haul all that ore, small crew cuz much of its operation is run by Mother (motherboard?)
Ok. The flow of air at the opening scene is probably the ventilation/AC. While the crew are in cryo, the rest of Nostromo probably has lower air-preassure to conserve energy. No one needs a suit in space when docking, so the cat was perfectly alright. Kane WAS isolated. They just didn't have CCTV since that wasn't needed in a towing-ship where the 7 crew probably knew where the others were the whole time. And, if something would go wrong, like an electrical fire, Mother would immediatly inform where. Finally I disagree that Ripley was the only sensible character. Parker was totally on top of things too. The "rain" in the hall with the chains is probably condensation from the cooling system. Pure water. At the end when Ripley went to the shuttle the Alien was between her and the entrance. That's why she ran back to stop the self-deastruct. When the 5min had passed, too many systems had been overheated to stop the final meltdown of the engine and all the ore Nostromo was towing.
The reason that Ripley tried to cancel the detonation was because the xenomorph was blocking the only passageway to the escape shuttle. PS Jones getting swatted aside made me lol. 😂
"F**ked up my hair so I'm wearing a hat" - Me, everyday. 😂 Yeah, this movie traumatized me when I saw it as a kid. I was very young, like 5 or 6. I was SO scared.
For the most realistic reactions in the chest burster scene, none of the actors (except John Hurt) knew what was going to happen. Veronica Cartwright's (Lambert) reaction being sprayed with blood is real. The last ten minutes of this movie are among the best ten minutes ever, IMO.
When I first saw this in the theater the idea that the chick would be the hero was such a novel idea it didn't even dawn on me that was the direction the story was going until after Parker and Lambert are killed and I was like, "Oh, so the woman survives, that's really different."
One of the things I love about YT reaction channels is the appreciation it's brought back for classic movies like Alien, which for a long time was considered not as good as Aliens because it wasn't as fast paced and actiony. But it was a groundbreaking sci fi film of its time and in my opinion it still holds up and is a great movie, people just got used to slasher films in the horror genre. A good slow burn can be even better sometimes
About the shape of the the ship… The Nostromo is a towing vehicle (analogous to a tugboat). It’s towing a huge automated refinery behind it (the part with the large, tower-like structures. The Nostromo itself is small compared to the refinery, and it’s not really identifiable until it detaches from the refinery to land on the planet.
"I can't believe that guy wanted to freeze him" Literally the best thing they could have done, but then we wouldn't have a movie! (or it would take place on Earth).
"Ripley was a badass and everyone should have listened to her..." The whole Alien saga summed up in one sentence.
When I first saw this in the theater the idea that the chick would be the hero was such a novel idea it didn't even dawn on me that was the direction the story was going until after Parker and Lambert are killed and I was like, "Oh, so the woman survives, that's really different."
@@Lethgar_Smith Isn't it wild how that's even shocking? And now people would call this "woke."
@@d3l3tes00n 1979 was a very different time
@@GalaxDaws Disco was alive
@@d3l3tes00n Yep. Saw people complain that Naru in Prey was an example of 'wokeness'... yet she was a native american (already badass people) shown to develop and level up her fighting and hunting skills, make mistakes and learn from them to eventually take down the alien. And these same people seem to forget that a seemingly unstoppable killer robot from the future was taken down by a waitress in 1984. Yes, Sarah Connor had help from Reese (RIP) but Naru had help from her brother (RIP) and dog (thankfully lived :D ).
I still find it amusing that Michael Biehn played the love interest of both Ripley and Sarah Connor. And neither of his characters lived very long to enjoy it (though at least he got to bed Sarah.... in a sex scene actually crucial to the plot for once). :D
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, it made $200 million dollars against an $11 million dollar budget, it put Sigourney Weaver on the map, it spawned 3 Sequels, 2 spinoff films, 2 crossover films, video games, comics, novels, toys, board games, novelizations and an upcoming live action TV series based on the movie, it's now considered to be one of the scariest motion pictures ever made.
You must really be a major fan, I think this is the 4th time I've seen you write this. I saw this in '82 I think.
She had to include Ash in her memoriam log at the end as to not let on that she knew that Ash was an android and about his secret mission. If she was picked up by a company vessel, hopefully soon after, it might make her "expendable" if she knew too much.
I never even thought about that! Good catch.
Presumably mother was sending constant updates back to the company. They would have at least known about her overriding the lockout and viewing Ash's secret directive.
Ripley leaves a longer pause before acknowledging Ash as part of the crew. A small moment but also huge because of what he did.
Yeah but no b.c. of mother and all the data in the system that would have been shared with the shuttle and company :D
@@nodak81 Their long range comms are shown to suck in the alien universe takes years to get a post card i imagine a status report that could very well be a couple of GB's or even a TB of data involving the alien's scans would take ages to be recieved even if mother was constantly transmitting.
The other thing that's really impressive here is the subtlety of the acting. A great example is the confrontation between Ripley and Parker after Dallas's death. They've all gathered together, frightened, freaked out, and angry. Parker can barely contain himself. Ripley yells at him "Will you listen to me, Parker? Shut up!" Watch closely what happens next. It's not cartoonish and simple: he doesn't immediately shut up. But their argument doesn't just escalate, either. Instead, what they do with their dialogue is much more realistic. It's only a few seconds long, and it's easy to miss. But it's incredibly nuanced acting.
Evidently, it didn't come naturally, either. The actual words were easy. But Sigourney Weaver and Yaphet Kotto had to rehearse quite a bit, shaping it carefully, to get all the subtlety just right. That's very high level work. Extraordinary actors taking their art very seriously.
veronica cartright loosing her freaking mind is pretty good too. the look on her face.....
the entire exchange was improvised (at least intially). in the script there's no push back from parker- he just falls in line. Ridley Scott told Yaphet to challenge Sigourney - try to run her over in the scene... with second guessing and interrupting her. Ridley wanted Sigourney to TAKE command. She played it beautifully. And if you noticed other than a little push back at first, Parker does fall in line and they kind of become a team after that -especially when taking down ash. after they decide to blow up the ship and split up - Parker tells ripley "take care of yourself" a subtle but poignant moment from the alpha male on board... Parker showed she's finally earned his respect.
@@briandoornink7597 Veronica is pretty good at that. See: The Birds.
The phrase shut up Parker is something that has been yelled at me many times over the years lol 😂🤣
Right.
The shuttle might be physically able to fit four people, but the life support system onboard might not be able to sustain four adults' worth of oxygen.
Aliens clearly does away with that.
@ifly-fsx different type of shuttle
Ship, not shuttle. Also read other comment.
@@jameshunt9208 Different aliens intercepted Ripley after she went to sleep in the Narcissus, and put her on a different Narcissus?
@@jameshunt9208 lol, no
The Narcissus (the shuttle) wasn't primarily designed for long duration travel and only had two stasis pods. That's why Ripley told Lambert the shuttle can't take four people. Presumably they would have had to either draw straws or rotate use of the pods. There was actually supposed to be a second shuttle, the Salmacis but it wasn't onboard due to being damaged in an accident at their last port.
I love how absolutely no one sees the Ash robot twist coming; the chestburster scene is the more iconic scene of course, but the subtle clues are there that Ash just isn't... normal. And it all comes to the fore once his head comes off, leaving everyone stunned and dumbfounded.
One of the very few and very minor gripes I have with this movie. At no point ahead of the twist is it established that robots like that even exist in that universe. Of course nobody saw it coming.
@@Dimetropteryx Good point. And yes the scene left my brain turned upside down for a couple of minutes while it tried to process what just happened.
In fact, I felt the scene was so jarring I actually warned my friend when I took him to see it a few days later, explaining, one of the crew is a robot.
I probably wouldnt do that today but I felt he shouldnt have to contend with the confusion I felt when Ash's head comes off. I knew he was going to have enough to deal with without that thrown into the mix as well.
True but the Chestbuster scene is where most people disagree with Ash even tho that's the one time he was right and everyone just seems to forget the whole Acid Blood thing
They knew about the acid blood so that could of been the reason Ash says dont kill it, as far as the crew is concerned.
Lots of clues. (That something is wrong with Ash)
Ash is explaining the motion tracker he's miraculously cobbled together;
Ripley isn't quite buying it.
"What's it key off of?" She asks.
Later, in an almost throwaway line she mutters "Micro-changes in air density my ass" when his explanation proves to be bullshit after picking up Jones through a closed door.
But as you said, it's so subtly done. Just fantastic filmmaking/acting.
where is the water from?
most likely that is a heat venting chamber that uses the cold of space through the walls to cool air that circulates arount the ships power generation. the hot air would cause condensation on the cold ceiling/wall, resulting in rain.
H. R. Giger was the inspiration behind the whole thing. His "biomechanical" art of the 1970s was pure nightmare stuff.
A lot of inspiration came from a lot of different sources. They were already working on it before they hired Giger.
He wasn’t inspiration. He made it.
@@jakobfromthefence No, Giger created the alien designs. Ron Cobb created the non-alien designs (Nostromo, space suits, etc). Dan O’Bannon wrote the original story in 1971, before Giger published Necronomicon in 1977. Ridley Scott created the atmosphere. And so on. It was a collaboration of the right creative geniuses coming together at the right time.
@@miller-joel Giger designed the alien spaceship and interior and the alien they did instruct him to change some of his art that already existed. Two other artists designed the human spaceships and interiors.
@@humansrants1694 I already said that. In more detail.
“There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s offensive. No wonder they keep trying to invade you” -12th Doctor 😂
I’ll echo everyone else who said you NEED to watch Aliens next! Hands down, one of the best sequels ever made!
Special extended edition of course
@@jameshunt9208 Of course! Those extra scenes add so much to the story.
@@icha6od indeed.
🕯️ RIP John Hurt and most of the cast of this movie... Thank you for giving us such a AWESOME FILM🕯️
Sigourney, Vernonica Cartwright, and Tom Skerritt are skill kicking. the rest have past away.
27:30 she tried to stop the countdown because the alien was right in front of the door leading to the shuttle.
The "Ash is a robot" was one of the few ideas from the studio that the writers liked and it ended up being one of the defining moments of the movie. A scene that was discussed but shot down was one where Ripley escapes in the little ship with the alien and gets killed. The alien climbs into the pilot seat, hits some buttons and then makes a distress call....in Captain Dallas' voice!
oh they reworked the entire movie. you can find Dan and Ron's the original script online - it's called Starbeast.
it was originally 6 male crew members. the names were all different...and there was no betrayer role. the alien was much different too. at least the grown up version. the face hugger was more like a squid. and the alien ship was actually Alien Pyramids and the eggs were in metal cannisters .... elements that ridley later revived for Prometheus.
@@penoyer79Interesting. It's not unusual for movies to go through many many changes from beginning to end, sometimes massively. Star Wars, for example, changed radically from the first draft of the script to the final creation.
A few comments to add here. (Keep in mind I'm making these comments as I watch the video; so some of these things you probably already figured out.)
1. If you're not going to re-enter atmosphere, the shape of the ship makes no difference. The Nostromo is basically a space tug with oversized engines, pulling a giant refinery. The refinery isn't going to land, so it's big and ugly.
2. The mainframe is MU/TH/ER, model 182. They just call her "Mother" for short.
3. In the Alien series, humans need to be in hypersleep while travelling at FTL speeds, or they will go insane. Basically, it's a form of suspended animation. (Yes, the cat was in hypersleep too.) Even if they didn't go insane, on a ship the size of the Nostromo, there's no way you're carrying enough food and water for 6 humans (and a cat) for 2 or 3 years.
4. The Nostromo's top speed is 0.12 light years per day (approximately 46 times the speed of light) while hauling the refinery. Even at that speed, the trip from the Thedus mining colony back to Earth would've taken nearly 2 years. The Nostromo launched from Thedus on June 12, 2120 and Mother woke up the crew on June 3, 2121... Just a few days short of a year! The rest of the trip would've taken another 10 months.
5. "What happened? From the outside it looked like a smooth landing!" ... It _was,_ but LV-426 has a _lot_ of dust. Dust entered one of the engine intakes, causing it to overheat and triggered an electrical fire in the engineering section. It almost happened again on takeoff.
6. "Where's the water coming from? It's raining in space!" ... actually, it's condensation from the ship's cooling systems. Here's something a lot of people don't know: It is true that space is _very_ cold. However, it is also very _bad_ at wicking away heat. That's why the International Space Station has 1,680 square feet (156 square meters) of ammonia-filled tubing, to wick the heat away and radiate it out into space. Any ship like the Nostromo is going to have an incredibly complex cooling system. And, just like your air conditioner at home, it's going to cause condensation.
7. "THREE explosions?" Yes. Remember that the Nostromo was re-attached to the refinery after getting back into orbit. Also, the Nostromo had _two_ shuttles, but the second one couldn't be used because it was being repaired. (However, I can't blame you for not knowing about the second shuttle. It wasn't mentioned in the movie, only in the novelization.) So: Nostromo goes BOOM (first explosion). The other shuttle goes BOOM (second explosion). The refinery goes BOOM (third explosion).
8. "What are you doing to it?" STEAMING it, like a big black acid-filled crab with way too many teeth. They don't like extreme heat.
The screenplay was written such that each character could be played by either a man or a woman. That's why they all had single, gender-neutral names: Ripley, Dallas, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Kane.
There's a rather good documentary called The Beast Within: The Making of Alien. Behind the scenes clips, interviews with the cast, crew, screenwriter, producers, composer, H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, etc. Very worthwhile. (They didn't interview Jones, though, which pissed me off.)
the original script was called STARBEAST. you can find it online. it's a lot different. there's elements in the script that ended up in prometheus. (for instance- they find the Aliens eggs in giant pyramids... in metal cannsiters)
The face-hugger gross part is actually oysters. The dinner scene with the alien, wasn't known by the cast other than John Hurt. All they knew for the scene was that the cameras were covered as if the scene would be in the rain, and the crew were wearing raincoats. Of course, it's actually for the fact that the blood spatter would be pretty bad, and you can hear a loud thud during the scene, which is actress Veronica Cartwright tripping and falling over. Her reaction was genuine and she actually caught a lot of the blood spatter in the scene by accident.
Yaphet Kotto has talked about long hours of shooting, and many times would come home and sit in his living room for more than 30 minutes, before getting up and being able to talk to his wife due to the stress and feeling claustrophobic all day. All of the cast faced a pretty hard toll due to the stress of shooting on set, which is several sections combined together to create the ship. So to get around through the set you have to actually walk through the corridors and bulkheads, as if you're really there on a ship.
There's a reason the Xenomorphs are so iconic dude what a classic. You should watch Aliens its common people either prefer the horror of Alien or the action in Aliens. You could probably skip all the sequels after that but maybe AvP would be a fun watch!
Alien Resurrection and Alien³ over AVP and the prequels any day! There's no Alien without Ellen Ripley. 💪🏼
Jerry Goldsmith's score for this is a masterpiece. From the very first frame of the movie it starts to fill you with dread and loneliness and fills most of the sound space with ambience and accent sounds, reserving the real music for the important parts.
Be sure to watch the sequel to this, Aliens, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest sequels of all time (along with Terminator 2. Both sequels were made by James Cameron).
Oh man! One of the best Sci fi/horror films of all time! H.R. Giger's design is so iconic. One of the best along side John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). Which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it. It would be a great one for the channel.
Part of why Ash was saying "Don't touch it" is if it's stabbed it's acid blood will prob burn a hole through the ship.
Yeah, it seems a lot of people forget that, at least in the moment, including the characters because your instinct is to stab it or something to that effect. Of course the scientist/android would immediately know not to kill (even if he didn't have an alternative motive)...
@brockbaby ..Everyone was already aware of the acid blood. The 'face hugger alien' had been on Kane and bled acid. Ash was saying "Don't touch it'....because it was "his mission" to ensure that the ALIEN bio-weapon was not injured or destroyed for the Company's future use. That was his stated directive.
My take on that was that trying to attack it with a plastic fork from the dinner table, would at best cause Parker to lose several fingers, because the Chestbruster already got some serious fangs on it
Aliens, the sequel, is the only other Alien movie worth watching. You both would like it. This is more of a horror film while Aliens is more of an action film.
Yeah
I completely agree. Stopped after Alien3. I did not like that one at all. 😟
@@hak4890 The sequels after Aliens lacked all humanity. They were just cynical and heartless and gore fests.
@@OroborusFMA Totally agree. I’m an “older” gal, and Alien3 was just too violent for me; a couple of scenes, in particular. Alien was just perfect for me. The Cast, the music, everything.😉👍
To each their own; I thoroughly enjoyed all of the films in this franchise and have watched each of them countless times over the decades.
You would have to watch 'Prometheus' to fill in the blanks about the horse-shaped spacecraft.
Alien is my favorite sci-fi movie of all time.
I love H.R.Giger's art style which makes this very unique from other sci-fi movies.
The xenomorph is probably the most dangerous and recognizable aliens in sci-fi history.
I love this franchise a lot and I'm glad you guys got to watch it for the first time.
Definitely check out Aliens but get the Director's Cut because that has some important information that plays into Ripley's character arc.
I know most don't like Alien³ but I have come to appreciate it over time and it was David Fincher's first big screen film he directed (get the Assembly Cut)
The Special Edition does have extra footage. None of it is as valuable to the story as it distracting from the movie. This person saw the real cut first and appreciated the bonus footage after… only after they experienced the better version.
I love your reaction! I saw this movie when it first came out in the theater in 1979 (I was 22 - yes I'm old!). The original trailer is excellent. People were really psyched to see it. I was SO scared as soon as the movie started. I reacted the same way you guys did! I've lost count of how many times I've seen it and I still love it after all of these years.
A claustrophobic horror masterclass. Love this film.
Always a joy to see younger people preciate the classics!!!!
"She's cancelling it?" "I don't know why". Wow. OK, the ship is on Self-Destruct mode. Ripley is trying to get to the escape ship, but the Alien is blocking her way! Now she can't get off the ship, so she has to turn off the Self-Destruct. Does that make sense?
14:12 The BRILLIANT Jerry Goldsmith!
The OST is a masterpiece 🎧🔥👽
The water dripping down when Bret is looking for the cat (and gets killed) is because he is in the landing strut bay, where the landing legs of the vessel retract up into the body of the ship. All the moisture, ice particles, etc. the were blowing around on the planetoid that had collected onto the lending legs have melted, and all the condensation, etc. is then dripping off the legs in the form of "rain" inside the bay.
The reason Ripley goes back to the try and shut-down the auto-destruct is because the alien is between her and the shuttle, blocking her way (when she panics and drops the box with Jones in it). So she goes back to try and buy more time. But fails, thereby forcing her hand to try and get to the shuttle regardless of the expected confrontation with the alien (which doesn't;t occur because the alien hides itself on the shuttle).
The milk liquid was a lubricant, coolant for the fiber optics inside Ash , the robot .
That's late 70's fiber optic tech .used in the movie, cool !
That's interesting - milky liquids such as "milk" and "semen" are how we all get a good start in life.
So, I thought it would make sense if a bio-android (or "artificial person") was powered by such liquids - and not need fruit and veg everyday to survive like the rest of us.
An astronaut said that even the slightest miscalculation could be catastrophic when it came to connecting objects in space, like a ship part and a space station. I know at the point in the movie they had landed on a planet rather than within a vacuum when everything jolted. But I assume it was a similar thing, how even moving a ship or part of a station slowly and cautiously (though maybe not with Ash anywhere near them) could be very dangerous.
It’s never very clear, but she tries cancelling the self destruct to give herself more time because the Alien was blocking the door to the shuttle.
Why is it sooo many reactors to this movie constantly say they don't understand something? When it was basically explained to them 5 minutes earlier? "How do they know where to go?" She asks. Well, if you had paid a little ATTENTION, not 4 scenes earlier Ashe was telling them the source of the signal was 2 clicks (kilometers) away, and gave a general direction. The ship locked onto said signal from space, so a nanosecond of rational brainwork would tell you that they could also lock into that signal source (and it's general position) once on the surface. FFS, I think I'm watching too many reaction vids and expecting people who are not much younger than myself to have a modicum of logic, and a shred of an attention span.🤦🤦🤦
The ship they are on (The Nostromo) is essentially a tugboat. It's hauling an entire refinery processing 20,000,000 tons of ore.
So that's actually the huge weird shape you see, not the ship itself.
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Also, who built this thing? The White Star Lines? A crew of 7 (and a cat) and a lifeboat that holds 3.
Brilliant engineering.
It probably took a good 3 hours between Kane's death -- considering everyone was probably in shock -- getting his body ready for burial, and pulling together a plan to search for the creature, and the point at which Brett is killed by the Alien. No one ever stops to think about how much must have happened between the two points. The fact that the death was so horrifying and cleaning up after him/getting ready for burial probably took well over an hour by itself, probably 2. So, the Alien had time to grow. It's not that unimaginable!
This is the Directors cut extended version. The scene where Dallas was cocooned was not in the theatrical release.
16:06 something people forget about space… it’s a vacuum. All they did was open the airlock, space sucked his body out.
Alien is my favorite movie ever! It was such an amazing thing to see growing up as a kid in the 80's. There was and still nothing quite like it. While most people like Aliens more there is nothing like the Cosmic Horror of the first one.
The reason Ash bleeds "milk" (as people call it) is that in this universe Androids use a substance called "Fuel Blood" which is white and is what powers them. You can also see this in another Ridley Scott show called Raised by Wolves on HBO which is very good.
Glad you two enjoyed. Can't wait to see you get through this. Xenomorph are considered the perfect apex predators. Aliens is amazing
They had paint mixers under their chairs to make them shake. They have a cat as an old sailing tradition. In the age if Saul cats were brought on ships to deal with rats on board.
It’s Cody’s jump back for me, hands up with the “I don’t like the textures in there”. 😂😂
She tried to cancel the destruct because the alien was between her and the shuttles docking bay.
I'm surprised how many people don't understand why Ripley went back to try to cancel the self destruct. She couldn't get to the escape ship because the alien was in the way, so she went back to turn it off so she'd have time to do something about it or wait the alien out. She failed to deactivate it, so she had no choice but to try to get there anyway. The alien was drawn to the escape ship and climbed in there to rest/sleep/hibernate.
In those days, we were taught to put a spoon on the person’s tongue to prevent them from swallowing it. We’ve since learned better.
"why is there wind? I don't think that is how space works"....... forehead facepalm slap!
The wind/draft in the opening scene is caused by a pressure differance between the cryo chamber and the rest of the ship. The airtight door to the chamber was probably closed for a long time and during that time the pressure differential was created.
The ship is towing a refinery. That's why it has an irregular shape. The ship itself (the Nostromo) detatches from the refinery to go land on the planetoid LV426 (small planet).
The Nostromo is so large that even though it appears to make a really controlled landing the unevenness of rhe landing surface together with the ships massive weight is enough to cause the shaking and breaking of things apon touchdown.
When they get back to orbit and dock with the refinery the whole thing is really big. The water falling like rain on Brets head is probably condensation forming high up in the tall structure (like a cooling tower) he is standing under.
Once Ripley is on the shuttle after blowing up the ship she immediately starts to prep for hypersleep since the shuttle don't have that much resources for life support.
Exactly.
I hate how this all had to be explained. It made for a frustrating viewing experience cause their ignorance of the subjects made them think (for some reason) that they knew better than the filmmakers cause they perceived these "issues" as flaws of the film. Drives me nuts.
My understanding of the rough landing is that while it's not really shown on-screen, the landing foot that is shown is exerting so much weight that the surface partially collapses into an old lava tube. Also, the "structure" Bret is standing underneath when he's killed is that same landing foot. It's fully retracted with the toes hanging downward. The floor is actually the doors on the hull of the ship.
Yes the shuttle can fit 4 people, but there are only 3 suspension/hyper sleep pods built in the shuttle!
People say to avoid Alien³ but it's a David Fincher movie. He directed Se7en. It's different but brilliant
Can you imagine when people saw this movie at the cinema in the late seventies? Everyone was shocked, literally.
If you wanna know who the “other” aliens are that were giving the warning, watch the movie Prometheus.
The "wind" was the air supply recycling. When the crew were in cryosleep, the life support would have been off.
"Well there's enough room on the shuttle now." I lol'd.
The wind in the spaceship comes from differences in air pressure. When the doors open the the pressure gets equalized throughout all the rooms, leading to some wind.
"How do you get a cat into space?" ... Easy, you use a cat-apult !!
(Don't blame me, you asked the question. Someone had to say it so I'll take the hit for the team.)
The answer to your question: Jerry Goldsmith did the music for Alien. It's also one of his most infamous due to beef between him, Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings, the film's editor.
Goldsmith wanted to create not only a bleak and dissonant soundscape for the movie but also sought to create a sense of romanticism and lyrical mystery. However, Scott did not like Goldsmith's original intended main theme and some other cues. So instead, he had to rewrote the cues. Goldsmith was NOT happy with how things worked out when he was composing the music for the movie. They kept editing and changing his stuff that was intended and when he first saw the film after it was finished, needless to say, he was PISSED. Goldsmith said that he'd never would work with Scott again after that. After listening to his intended musical score, I slide with him on that and I do not blame him for being so angry. Scott and Goldsmith never patch things up before the latter's death.
Yet Ridley Scott paired up with Goldsmith in 1985 for "Legend", starring Tom Cruise. This was even more divisive. The score was rejected and replaced by Tangerine Dream for US audiences, as test audiences responded more favorably to synth-heavy scores versus Goldsmith's, which is mainly orchestral. The Goldsmith score was used for UK audiences. Both have their merits.
@@43nostromo while I was not aware of the Legend stuff, doesn’t mean that Goldsmith and Scott got along due to how they treated Goldsmith in Alien.
@@rodgill9376 I completely agree. This is a business first and foremost.
@@43nostromo which is unfortunate but it is what it is
I know I've said this before with other UA-camrs but I'm always excited when more people finally get into the alien franchise. Ripley is the most iconic character in sci-fi history! If you do continue the Alien series, I do recommend that you specifically watch the (extended versions) the remaining movies. Specifically the 2nd and 3rd film. A lot of good character development and backstory of Ripley. And yes, ignore the haters that say do not watch Alien 3. I still recommend it but, make sure that it's the extended version of Alien 3. It's called the "assembly cut". The theatrical cut is a mess.
Chest buster scene was a complete surprise to the cast in that scene. They weren't told what was going to happen. The reactions are genuine. Love this film. I first saw it as a child in the early 90s. Now I'm hooked on science fiction.
Stop repeating this myth
What's extremely cool about ALL of these movies is that they all explore different genres of horror.
ALIEN = haunted house horror
ALIENS = action-horror
ALIEN3 = slasher-horror
ALIEN RESURRECTION = body horror
ALIEN PROMETHEUS = gore-horror
ALIEN COVENANT = splatter-horror
AVP and AVP: REQUIEM are just straight up action movies, there's no real horror there, unless you count watching in horror as the studio MANGLES the two franchises...
3 = Garbage. Even Fincher hates it. He won't even talk about it.
@@miller-joel The assembly cut for 3 is actually pretty damn good. 3 is definitely better than the shit stain that is Resurrection.
@@sirfijoe450 You can tell yourself whatever you want, but the director himself had nothing to do with the "assembly cut," he has never seen it, and he wants nothing to do with it.
He did share that the studio told him "Look, you could have somebody piss against the wall for two hours and call it Alien 3 and it would still do 30 million dollars worth of business." And it shows.
Fincher had his hands tied behind his back from the beginning, so it's not even his movie.
Resurrection is garbage as a movie. It's a parody that doesn't know it's a parody. It's not as insulting as "3." It doesn't directly and personally try to undo everything that the first two movies built.
It doesn't tell you "oh, you liked those characters? We are going to kill them off screen, before the opening credits. With a magic alien egg that comes out of nowhere, and no one can ever explain, because no one cares."
@@miller-joel No shit Alien 3 is well known for its absolute disastrous production. And the studio and producers treated Fincher like shit so he had a terrible time. I knew the Newt and Hicks complaint was coming because besides the behind the scenes stuff and the bad puppet composition that’s the complaint everyone uses lol. The setting and matte paintings of Alien 3 are amazing and while I wish the movie used entirely new characters instead of continuing Ripley’s story, I think it’s the most interesting way her story could have gone after that point. Hicks and Newt were cool but they were mostly just vehicles to drive Ripley’s character more than anything else. I’d rather not have a young girl alive and running around in a prison filled with murderers and rapists. (Also they would have had to recast Newt). The shots and actors are all amazing as is the score. There are many fair complaints you can have with the film, but most people just can’t handle the darker themes and so they cry about it.
@@miller-joel Also the film makes the alien itself threatening again instead of just another space bug to be gunned down by the dozens.
"I'm so confused" "what's happening here?".. you two not the brightest bulb in the shed eh?
The ship shape is to be reminiscent of an oil rig sort of turned upside down. Supposed to convey the blue collar nature of their work.
17:36 Where's the water coming from? Apparently y'all haven't watched The Martian. It is possible to make water. And given this was set in the future with space travel and large spacecraft, it's not too much to believe that they would have created large condensers in order to have a continuous water supply for both consuming, agriculture and cooling the ship.
Meeeh. Stopped watching after they cut the helmet off, and there was no…..WTF this movie was made in 1979!!! This movie is ahead by a century!!! This is one of the greatest movies ever made. And this reaction was just watching two people eating popcorn, appreciating nothing.
We do love popcorn 🍿
Aliens is a superior sequel and a must see! Alien 3 on the other hand…not necessary lol.
a good sequel* this movies a masterpiece compared to everything after it.
@@jinxysaberkthis movies just a masterpiece. Nothing about “compared to the others” dont undercut the others like that, aliens is just as good or better entirely subjectively. Correcting someones opinion like that is kinda silly bro
If you watch Aliens, be sure to watch the Special Edition. To be sure of which is the right cut, the theatrical cut is 137 minutes while the special edition is 154 minutes
Nooo lol
Please don’t listen to this person. It is objectively an inferior experience for a first watch. Please don’t watch the Special Edition.
@@JulianP311 I always hate it when they watch that first. It ruins the reveal of someone & adds background info for another that isn't necessary.
@@d3l3tes00nThe special edition is honestly really good, and I think the scenes it added were pretty important, especially with regards to ripley
@@steviemcdonut I've never understood why people need that for Ripley.
The ship shaking on take off was to convey how much power is used to get such a massive ship back into orbit as for the rain the ships engine's make a lot of heat and this is condensation off the heat transfer system....a total sci-fi horror classic.
You guys are way too critical of a woman under immense stress with limited survival options. A woman who if not for Ash, and the middle management style captain, would’ve prevented the whole catastrophe. The self-detonation countdown was the best choice given the circumstances-She was never going to defeat the Alien in a straight up fight, versus a creature that wasted her whole crew in like a day.
When one’s stressed they fuck up, with things, like finding the cat. But in the end, she handled business.
I think they didn't realise the xenomorph was blocking Ripley's only route to the shuttle and that's why she tried to shutdown the self destruct. I know it's their first time watching, but it's not the only thing they have a weird take on
Watching yall snack during this movie made me so nervous that one of you would choke.
I expected that the "Popcorn In Bed" viewer was going to scatter popcorn everywhere when she screened "Alien.";)
Her Patreon voters were so Sadistic.
There are 4 original Alien movies. Ripley is in all of them.
I like the second one the best, and the 4th, but that's because I'm a huge Brad Dourif fan xD.
Am I the only one cant stop thinking of dark helmet with those headphones and glasses combo?
😂😂😂😂😂 noooo!!!
Alien is masterclass.
Aliens is god mode.
You started it.
Now you have to go for more.
"Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility"
Awesome! Saw at the drive-in in 79 with those big heavy window speakers so couldn’t really appreciate it till later when watching on tv, but what a classic! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and reaction!
When they landed it was not on a flat surface so the landing legs on the ship were bent up, pay attention !
It’s a some what dark movie and hard to see the ground . There definitely not the first to have trouble with not seeing the ground.
God don't tell the film how space works or not. You're not giving them enough credit. The ship simply had air pressure. They wouldn't have hung the coats in front of the door unless they WANTED to make them move in the "wind" as the door opened. Don't be arrogant.
I always was confused by the landing like you guys…until I watched the film in a theatre. It is like night and day how much more you see and hear.
There was a boulder that one of the ship’s landing feet hits. It crushes the boulder but the impact damages the landing gear. That is what happens. In the theatre it is so much clearer.
Also all the shots you guys were talking about being great are just ten times better. If you ever get the chance to see Alien on the big screen I highly recommend.
Jerry Goldsmith did the score.😊
'blow it the f*ck into space'. My favorite line of the film.
they actually didn't tell the cast about the chest burst scene, so what you see is a genuine reaction. which is pretty cool.
Im sure others included this in comments, but the version you watched was not the original theatrical version. I dont believe Ripley was slapped in the theatrical and she did not locate Dallas as she was trying to eacape.
I understand why they might have flame throwers on a spaceship as these could be used to thaw machinery that’s frozen over 9mining ship after all) but what are the cattle prods for? Maybe to to do a jump start?
They didn't just happen to have cattle prods.. they built the cattle prods
I don't understand why everybody hates Alien 3 it's a good movie.
@@FunnyVideoCollector well finally someone who likes it lol.
Loved your reaction. You guys should definitely check out Aliens next it’s so good one of the best sequels ever made and then check out Prometheus the prequel it’s really good it gets a lot of hate for no reason but great movie 💚💚
I watched all 4 Original movies and usually the first movie will always be the best one but in this case I liked the next one always slightly better than the last one. Now the one I've re-watched the most is the 4th, Alien: Resurrection. I've also watched the Prequel Prometheus, but can't really remember anything (I guess I was a little underwhelmed because of my own pretty high expectations). Haven't watched Covenant yet. The only Alien-related movie I actually saw in the cinema was Alien vs. Predator 1. I liked that one too. Never seen the second one though. Imo at least the next three Alien movies in line are worth a watch if you enjoyed the first one.
Aliens, the sequel, is fantastic.
17:36 to answer the question of probable design, it's likely an internal cooling tower, a way to cool the core somewhat
The follow up Aliens, is possibly the best sequel ever
The second film Aliens is on a much bigger scale....more of an action film....you will love it!!
Love your videos! Been a very stressful time lately and watching you guys somehow makes the anxiety go away almost immediately.
Aliens is an absolute nightmare and it’s even better than the first one.
GUYS: for all that’s holy watch Aliens next. Do not wait. Do not think about any other aliens movie. James Cameron’s Aliens - what else do you need to hear?
Lol, you guys are so stuck on the cat. It’s a long haul, the journey likely takes months if not years. I can see how the crew might be allowed a cat for companionship, mental health.
The spacecraft is massive to haul all that ore, small crew cuz much of its operation is run by Mother (motherboard?)
Ok. The flow of air at the opening scene is probably the ventilation/AC. While the crew are in cryo, the rest of Nostromo probably has lower air-preassure to conserve energy. No one needs a suit in space when docking, so the cat was perfectly alright. Kane WAS isolated. They just didn't have CCTV since that wasn't needed in a towing-ship where the 7 crew probably knew where the others were the whole time. And, if something would go wrong, like an electrical fire, Mother would immediatly inform where. Finally I disagree that Ripley was the only sensible character. Parker was totally on top of things too. The "rain" in the hall with the chains is probably condensation from the cooling system. Pure water. At the end when Ripley went to the shuttle the Alien was between her and the entrance. That's why she ran back to stop the self-deastruct. When the 5min had passed, too many systems had been overheated to stop the final meltdown of the engine and all the ore Nostromo was towing.
The reason that Ripley tried to cancel the detonation was because the xenomorph was blocking the only passageway to the escape shuttle.
PS Jones getting swatted aside made me lol. 😂
"F**ked up my hair so I'm wearing a hat" - Me, everyday. 😂 Yeah, this movie traumatized me when I saw it as a kid. I was very young, like 5 or 6. I was SO scared.
For the most realistic reactions in the chest burster scene, none of the actors (except John Hurt) knew what was going to happen. Veronica Cartwright's (Lambert) reaction being sprayed with blood is real. The last ten minutes of this movie are among the best ten minutes ever, IMO.
When I first saw this in the theater the idea that the chick would be the hero was such a novel idea it didn't even dawn on me that was the direction the story was going until after Parker and Lambert are killed and I was like, "Oh, so the woman survives, that's really different."
One of the things I love about YT reaction channels is the appreciation it's brought back for classic movies like Alien, which for a long time was considered not as good as Aliens because it wasn't as fast paced and actiony. But it was a groundbreaking sci fi film of its time and in my opinion it still holds up and is a great movie, people just got used to slasher films in the horror genre. A good slow burn can be even better sometimes
About the shape of the the ship… The Nostromo is a towing vehicle (analogous to a tugboat). It’s towing a huge automated refinery behind it (the part with the large, tower-like structures. The Nostromo itself is small compared to the refinery, and it’s not really identifiable until it detaches from the refinery to land on the planet.
"I can't believe that guy wanted to freeze him"
Literally the best thing they could have done, but then we wouldn't have a movie! (or it would take place on Earth).