Fact: Sergeant Apone played back Al Matthews was a legit marine served in the Vietnam war had thirteen combat awards and two purple hearts. During the filming of the movie he actually drilled the entire cast to act and think like marines.
Fantastic trivia that, the man was so good they made him twice. Like the other guy says I also got the "Real life soldier" vibe oozing off him, he's just got IT.
Other fact: Being a marine, he didnt like the other actors/actresses and stunt co-ordinators pointing the guns at him on the set. He was trained to take the gun and jam it down your throat if someone did that. They had to stop doing that for him because he showed no patience for them if they did.
Buen comentario, es la mejor secuencia de acción de la película, todo el equipo élite de marines intenta salvar su vida, se ven totalmente sorprendidos y aterrados por los Aliens, emprenden la huída despavoridos, el sonido que acompaña la escena refleja el caos de manera impresionante.
@@theramplocalI just made my wife watch this movie like two weeks ago I'm 36 she's 38 and being black female she didn't like or watch sci-fi movies. She loved it. I knew she would.
It is. Even after 37 years and huge advances in special effects, this movie is pounding and visceral and tense and exciting and only occasionally slightly cheesy. Cameron packed a hell of a lot of awesome into it.
Fun fact, the scream of the aliens dying was produced by the film crew going to the zoo, the crew walked past the elephant and peacock enclosures and they both screamed to produce the scream. Epic.
The first mistake was not taking Ripley's report seriously. They should have established a secure dust off site for the drop ship[those automatic guard guns would have secured the site], once the processor plant was determined to be where the ID's of the colonists were, only a three man scout team[a drone would have been better]should have gone in. Once the Marines had determined the colonists were all dead, they should have returned to the SULACO, informed the authorities and waited for reinforcements. Of course Gorman was a cocky tyro and Burke had his own nefarious plan.
@@rasikkom9605 Not an idiot, just inexperienced as well as unprepared. Probably by design, given Wey-Yu has such a hard on for getting their hands on xenos.
The confusion of the scene is really awesome you hear shots fired and you dont see the Aliens getting directly shot until the end this movie just gets EVERYTHING right
only JC can do it like this. If he ever decides to give it another whirl then we are in luck. He did say though that all those Alien vs predator movies ruined the franchise for him.
Suggests some damn terrifying things about the ecology these things evolved in. Not least that these critters weren't apex predators there, or at least for a long time evolutionarily speaking.
@@captainjeep-eep6180I remember seeing a comic on the xenos homeworld and that they were actually hunted by these bigger white aliens, there also being different breeds like the red xenos as well
So Dietrich (who found the woman with the chestburster and flamed the baby alien) gets grabbed first and accidentally flames Frost, then Frost flips over the railing and plummets several flights after being lit on fire and dies. His ammo/grenade sack he dropped before he fell blows up and the explosion hurls Crowe against a wall and kills him. Then Wierzbowski gets grabbed as he screams, the Apone gets grabbed. These 3 are cocooned, then Ripley rams the cooling tower wall and in the fall back maneuver Drake is rear guard and he was killed by Alien acid /blood...Then they call for evac and an alien kills Spunkmeyer the co-pilot and Ferro the pilot, leaving only 8 of the original 16 alive: Burke and Bishop from the company, Ripley and Newt the survivors, Hudson and Vasquez the privates, and Hicks the Corporal, and LT Gorman.
It's actually a lot like Starship Troopers, in the sense that the marines are clearly trained and equipped to fight human targets on earth battlefields. These marines were bragging about their firepower, probably because most humans would flee from them. But the aliens (and bugs) don't fear death. Big guns and bad attitudes mean nothing to them. Starship Troopers is the more evil movie though, as the government knows they are fighting bugs, but still train the military to fight humanoid targets. No bug training whatsoever.
I don't think they fully explain it in the movies but the way they had it running it would appear to have some sort of motion tracking or automated aiming system. It would also explain why they asked them to be front so they can spot any movements. I think a lost opportunity though from the filmmakers where they could get into the workings of these.
The Starship Troopers book has this suit they wear and that suit is very powerful fighting thing. I think the best portrayal of it would be the Starcraft games. The movies is loosely based on the book but the Starship Troopers novel has always been a read for military officers as it is a very good book about duty and the sense of leadership rather than the satire the movie made it out to be about joining the military.@@We_Are_Borg_478
My mum loved this movie from the first time seeing it at the movies in the 1980s.she carried on watching it once a month untill she passed away aged 87 from covid in 2021.im still watching it mum.❤❤
Ever watch videos on the making? 😃They tested tons of firearms searching for the loudest guns with the brightest muzzleflash. Once they deteremined that the M1 Thompson and the MG42 were the best for the job they got to work modifying them into futuristic looking weapons. Firing them in confined spaces also help amplify the sound; but damn that had to be a lot of fun
@@SheeanMcGuire-u5v kinda like a guardsman version of a boltgun, it was always my favorite to use in saints row 3 or 4 I'm not sure right now which, the pulse rifle will always be iconic
the idea could be good if it's done right because we're only told that they're complete bad asses a movie showing how good the Marines really are it would give more weight to the scene showing how terrifying the xenomorphs really are
Imo I think it would be a good decent film for a prequel if they showed what happened on lv426 with all the colonists there and how the aliens took over the place. Kinda how they did "the thing" prequel. Any opinions?
I was 11 at the theater and it was madness. No one was talking back to the screen, we were all riveted to the story overflowing with confusion, lost hope and violence.
@@thorntonmellon gotta say no on that one , because I remember the sounds from the speakers at the movie theatre was really loud and the screen was humongous , so no buddy lol
@@Ortiz8094I'm glad you enjoyed your theater experience. I prefer my home theater every time for every movie. Pause, rewind, unlimited food, no rude people (except for my wife :). Keep enjoying your theaters and I'll keep enjoying mine. Okay 'buddy'?
The whole thing was based on the American experience in Vietnam - arrogant political leaders who lied and ignored warning signs, inexperienced officers leading juiced up soldiers or Marines with misplaced faith in their technological advantages right into ambushes.
my favorite part of this movie was the fact that the xenomorphs were already there, merged into the structure of their hives, dormant and hiding in plain sight until any serious activity woke them up and their prey found themselves surrounded from all sides.
The thing that I always find so cool about this scene(s) is the music. Using trumpets(?) in that way, that was freaking great. It heightened the tension and make it ten more times melodramatic then any other music used in the movie. Sure, they could have use rock music, loud drumming or even synths, but this was spot on.
"DO SOMETHING!" Ripley becomes the all-time badass in that moment. She saves a lot of lives, including that of the lieutenant. If it wasn't for Ripley, they all would have died.
The legit terrifying thing about this scene is the Marines were looking at the aliens the whole time and didn't notice. They hide in plain sight. Yikes.
Movie Trivia: The actor playing Vasquez is the same lady that plays John Conners foster mom in Terminator 2 and she also plays the mother with the two kids on the bed in Titanic.
Also dressed inappropriately for her audition as she believed the script was about immigration, had to be painted to cover up her fair skin and freckles. And she wore brown contact lenses as well to play Latina.
When you send a team of soldiers deep into an unknown hostile territory with weapons that have no ammo in it, armed with only flame thrower & small cal weapons that equate to a .22LR weapon, you would (and should) know that the team is going to get toasted very soon no matter how "careful & tactical" they are. The LT should have abort the mission, recall all the troops back, and make a new plan for it. But if that happened, we will have no (great) movie to watch ;P
The trouble was that people didn't believe Ripley's stories about the xenomorph and how powerful/dangerous it was. Worse, they weren't expecting to find a whole HIVE of them. Up until this point, the only threat humanity had ever encountered was itself. The idea that there existed alien life that was more than a match for our technology and weaponry had just never occurred to the Marines/Corporations.
@@ftniceberg874 Yes, but their strength, speed, cunning and acid blood means that facing the Xenos on their home ground means they will almost certainly be more than a match for armed Marines, is what I'm getting at. If we were to use air power or tactical nukes to bombard them of course the Xenos are no match for us, but the aliens are also masters at infiltrating our structures and breeding rapidly to become a serious threat before we realize what's happening. (Especially in the Alien-verse, where the vast distances of space involved means that a colony can be completely overrun and infested because the nearest planet or system can even get a hint that something is wrong.)
Ironically all credibility Ripley asks from the Weyland-Yutani corp will end up turning against her and the humanity, as W-Y is eager to use xenomorphs as a bioweapon using marines as expendable means to get it.
@@ftniceberg874 Indeed. That and the Queens' intelligence. But that was enough. In the Alienverse, canonically the xenos DO manage to arrive on Earth in just a few facehugged victims. About 2-3 years later, Earth is COMPLETELY overrun and infested, and the last surviving humans wind up having to evacuate and flee Earth to their colonies. (A semi Deus Ex Machina plot device does manage to thin the xeno numbers back down to a level where the Colonial Marines and some of the Corporations are slowly starting to take Earth back however.)
This scene really depicts the chaos of what it’s like when things go awry in a combat situation. It’s really well done from the people involved to those viewing what is happening to their squad
The best sci fi film ever made !!! .........Only ones even remotely close are Predator and Terminator..........but people mostly like those better ; Mostly ;P
"I like to keep this for close encounters", probly my favorite line in the whole movie even tho ots before this scene and the eat this with the shotgun is one of my favorite alien kills of all time.
@@ftniceberg874 Thats why I am so glad there hasn't been a Jaws ramake. They would just make a big cgi shark like the Meg and they would show too mach of it. Turning the film from a horror flick into an action adventure
I was looking at some of carl weathers work he did on predator and ended up here as well, so they even make movies this good anymore, I mean such great actors, just created the mood, aliens and predator are simply the best, I take my hat off to such season actors, many are no longer with us but will never be forgotten at least not by me
Someone edited out Gorman saying "who's firing goddammit!" after Vasquez says "let's rock." They weren't supposed to be firing because of the nuclear reactor.
I always felt they should not have included the tiny bit at 0:33 where the camera movement makes that piece of foreground material look like an alien approaching. They should have cut to it a half second later. It's confusing because the soldiers haven't actually seen the aliens just yet. Or maybe that's why they left it in!
@@WeskerLogan No, it was not. Apone is looking right in that direction and doesn't react. It's just a piece of the nest material that is closer to the camera so parallax makes it seem like it's moving, like the railing. But it's just the camera moving. The first alien seen in the same shot as one of the soldiers is when the camouflaged one grabs Dietrich and lifts her up, causing her to panic and fire her flamethrower, frying Frost. Frost then tumbles down the stairwell and, because he was carrying all the ammo, explodes.
It's building the suspense. You can see something moving. You know they're in trouble and it's gonna happen soon. It's perfect. Apone sees it and knows it's about to go down
Given how well this still holds up 37 years later, it seems it would make perfect sense for movies to move back to practical effects (as much as possible within the needs of shots, at least). CGI is fine, but I understand that it's absurdly expensive and we always know it's CGI anyway. Great practical effects always look better than CGI, and they're cheaper. So why not, especially after multiple high-profile CGI heavy underperformers?
I totally agree with you and I've been saying it for years. I guess it's a case of time and money and that's not what the film industry is about these days. Apart from the odd blockbuster or old school film maker we ain't going to get them anymore. Just look at Disney churning out crap left right and centre. The big wigs at the top want fast turn over on projects. I also think too much of the budget goes on actors and not much left for practical effects puppets sets etc.
@@matthewmatthew9485 Also, prop-makers, puppeteers, set-designers and set-dressers, costumers, animal handlers, etc. are all unionized. They have specific rates and rules that the studios have to abide by. CG artists aren't, and the CGI is often farmed out to places outside of the US where the work ethic is in fact set at sweatshop. They can spend a minimum on that, instead of paying all the people needed to get practical effects completed. Unions are also part of why Disney only does 3D CG animation anymore, rather than hand-drawn 2D animation...it's cheaper, it's not unionized, and if they need to, they can farm the work out to countries that are even cheaper.
We now understand that concept but you could argue humans wouldn't need colonies to propagate planets to begin with if we have technology on the level in the movie. Mining colonies maybe but not trying to give planets atmospheres where it's not even a scientific possibility for what? The atmosphere will just collapse because there's no supporting star system.
This scene clarify soooo well how much the scenery they were in was underestimated by the company. They were absolutely NOT prepared and absolutely NOT in the proper number to afford that HELL. This kind of extensive hive reclaim a HEAVY use of Laser beam weapons and incendiary explosives. But we all knows what's the final objective of Weiland Yutani peak of the piramid's "gods"..
Awesome scene. And loved the fact they showed the aliens blending into their bio mech hive so well. Really fitting with gigers original works. What i never understood though is how the first alien grabs frost then seemingly flys up with him 😂
They don’t make movies like this anymore. Done today the cast would be ridiculous and they would blame the Aliens on climate change, yes even if another planet.
Fact: Sergeant Apone played back Al Matthews was a legit marine served in the Vietnam war had thirteen combat awards and two purple hearts. During the filming of the movie he actually drilled the entire cast to act and think like marines.
I had a feeling he really was a soldier IRL. He had the vibe big time compared to the rest.
Fantastic trivia that, the man was so good they made him twice. Like the other guy says I also got the "Real life soldier" vibe oozing off him, he's just got IT.
I know at least one Marine who uses the "like we got a purpose people" a lot
Other fact: Being a marine, he didnt like the other actors/actresses and stunt co-ordinators pointing the guns at him on the set. He was trained to take the gun and jam it down your throat if someone did that. They had to stop doing that for him because he showed no patience for them if they did.
@@scottythegreat1why would they point guns at APONE IF THEY WERE ON THE SAME TEAM. THE ALIENS DIDNT HAVE GUNS?
This scene is terrifying no matter how many times I watch it, or how old this movie gets. The chaos, the terror, it’s unrelenting.
Dude when they start coming out if the walls /ceiling it's absolutely terrifying. So claustrophobic
La mejor película de terror .
Buen comentario, es la mejor secuencia de acción de la película, todo el equipo élite de marines intenta salvar su vida, se ven totalmente sorprendidos y aterrados por los Aliens, emprenden la huída despavoridos, el sonido que acompaña la escena refleja el caos de manera impresionante.
@@theramplocalI just made my wife watch this movie like two weeks ago I'm 36 she's 38 and being black female she didn't like or watch sci-fi movies. She loved it. I knew she would.
@@LuisAlbertoPeresDiasy'all liked this movie where ur from? That's awesome.
“Let’s ROCK!!” One of the best lines ever.
Soon to be followed by " Marines we are leaving !!! ".
Vasquez was a badass
💯
Love it!
From one of the scenes ever
One of the best action films ever made.
Totally agree!! This movie is awesome
And perhaps the greatest of action/sci-fi (and horror) movies ever.
It is. Even after 37 years and huge advances in special effects, this movie is pounding and visceral and tense and exciting and only occasionally slightly cheesy. Cameron packed a hell of a lot of awesome into it.
Agreed. I still like the first one more, but Aliens comes real close.
A rare better sequel too.
"Eat this" is still one of my most favorite movie moments of all time. 😂
My dad still quotes that to this day.🤣
Did Hudson say it? I'm pretty sure Hicks was still holding the door.
@@bthorn5035 it was Hicks, Hudson got hit with the splatter after the shot
1:56 That “LET’S ROCK!” “YEAH!” gives me chills of adrenaline every time. Such a ‘amp’ you up for anything moment!
Even though the context is the Marines are panicking and getting slaughtered by the aliens _and_ their own actions?
@@dr4c0blade Even in their situation.
That's what we said in Iraq when we heard battery 4rounds, bringing the pain
Fun fact, the scream of the aliens dying was produced by the film crew going to the zoo, the crew walked past the elephant and peacock enclosures and they both screamed to produce the scream. Epic.
Fun fact indeed lol.
Nice
Tx for sharing the info
@@MsTapenade thanks for saying thanks.
Stop saying fun fact. Just tell us.
The first mistake was not taking Ripley's report seriously. They should have established a secure dust off site for the drop ship[those automatic guard guns would have secured the site], once the processor plant was determined to be where the ID's of the colonists were, only a three man scout team[a drone would have been better]should have gone in. Once the Marines had determined the colonists were all dead, they should have returned to the SULACO, informed the authorities and waited for reinforcements. Of course Gorman was a cocky tyro and Burke had his own nefarious plan.
Yeah unfortunately, the commanding officer was an idiot and learned the error of his ways a bit too late.
@@rasikkom9605 "how many combat drops?" "two... including this one"
Dude was in way over his head.
@@rasikkom9605 Not an idiot, just inexperienced as well as unprepared. Probably by design, given Wey-Yu has such a hard on for getting their hands on xenos.
@@DarkEcho119 BINGO.
@@rasikkom9605At least he went out with a bang 😏🫡💥💢💯😁
The confusion of the scene is really awesome you hear shots fired and you dont see the Aliens getting directly shot until the end this movie just gets EVERYTHING right
EXACTLY. It's the chaos and confusion that makes this one of the best movie scenes in history.
The multiple bullets being fired and the surround sound effects in this scene is totally wicked!!
Not one word of dialog wasted either. Perfect.
@@JackmG87 Also the soldiers camera views being watched from inside of the 'car'. Total chaos and confusion.
"LETS ROCK" What a line, what a movie. The Aliens look better in this than the 2017 version.
Yup, they are there, and it's tense
@@seanwhitehall4652 100% mate, the 2017 Alien had like a computer game feel to it, not for me.
@@Smokey2Mc During the on-ship part the back prongs clip horribly as it goes down a ladder. At the time I was just happy to see it on the big screen.
For me Aliens will be rewatchable at any give time until the day i die. It just doesn't get old.
Same with me, no film will ever beat it as far as I'm concerned
True that
Fucking A
In 2023 this movie still looks awesome.
Yes. Damn, it's cool when practical effects get used THIS well in movies.
Because it is awesome. It'll be awesome another 40 years from now.
It's because they didn't use CGI ...OR BLUE SCREEN...AMAZING
Dude they need to remake this one!!!
It was really peak cinema the cretans that make movies today are disgrace
Possibly the greatest sci-fi action movie ever made.
It is
Up there, too many to mention@@buttholebob
IMO that would be Terminator 2, but this is a good film
@@imcallingjapan2178, this film, Terminator 2 along with The Prediator according to me.
@@imcallingjapan2178 Love og Terminator but hate T2. Aliens and Predator are the best sci fi action.
Ripley is how you write a female action hero
So is Vazquez
Cameron with Sarah Conner as well he knocks it out the park.
They're going to do a remake with Ripley cast as a male, because, equality.
@@nihilistic7840According to who?
@googleuser7531 precisely
Take your CGI and shove it...this is legendary stuff with practical effects from '86. One of the best movies I ever saw at the theater.
"Marines, we are LEAVING", on of the best lines ever.
Its Drake we are leaving
Sgt Johnson used that line in halo combat evolved.
@@CMOT101. Drake went out like a soldier
I happen to agree, it's a shame we can't get more alien movies like this.
Yep. Badass Woman. OG.
We can, but it's hard to do something good like that again.
only JC can do it like this. If he ever decides to give it another whirl then we are in luck. He did say though that all those Alien vs predator movies ruined the franchise for him.
@@TheTTWT He's too busy making pocahontas in space
@@StewBedazzle Yep focuses on the blue hippi people its a shame really
Acid blood. Thats a horrific trait.
Suggests some damn terrifying things about the ecology these things evolved in.
Not least that these critters weren't apex predators there, or at least for a long time evolutionarily speaking.
one great natural evolution self-defense tactic, playing a great part of an horror sci-fi script
@@captainjeep-eep6180 unless you watch the Prometheus movies lol
@@captainjeep-eep6180I remember seeing a comic on the xenos homeworld and that they were actually hunted by these bigger white aliens, there also being different breeds like the red xenos as well
That shit ain't fair.
So Dietrich (who found the woman with the chestburster and flamed the baby alien) gets grabbed first and accidentally flames Frost, then Frost flips over the railing and plummets several flights after being lit on fire and dies. His ammo/grenade sack he dropped before he fell blows up and the explosion hurls Crowe against a wall and kills him. Then Wierzbowski gets grabbed as he screams, the Apone gets grabbed. These 3 are cocooned, then Ripley rams the cooling tower wall and in the fall back maneuver Drake is rear guard and he was killed by Alien acid /blood...Then they call for evac and an alien kills Spunkmeyer the co-pilot and Ferro the pilot, leaving only 8 of the original 16 alive: Burke and Bishop from the company, Ripley and Newt the survivors, Hudson and Vasquez the privates, and Hicks the Corporal, and LT Gorman.
This Reads as a fairly accurate account of the kind of mess that happens when everybody loses their cool, and wits, and everything else.
@@kextrz well, after all they did get ambushed by a hive full of belligerent aliens... that will ruin your day in fact...
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but hows the hamster
@@Stimor He ended up on the editing floor (theatrical cut).
Happy 37th Anniversary James Cameron's "ALIENS" (JULY 18, 1986) (R.I.P. Bill Paxton)
Bill had the best lines ever put on film in this
Hilariously impractical ginormous machine gun used in tight corridors where you can barely turn around
I love it
you are Rambo, Right?? idi..ot
It's actually a lot like Starship Troopers, in the sense that the marines are clearly trained and equipped to fight human targets on earth battlefields.
These marines were bragging about their firepower, probably because most humans would flee from them.
But the aliens (and bugs) don't fear death. Big guns and bad attitudes mean nothing to them.
Starship Troopers is the more evil movie though, as the government knows they are fighting bugs, but still train the military to fight humanoid targets. No bug training whatsoever.
It's a smartgun, it auto aims and turns itself.
I don't think they fully explain it in the movies but the way they had it running it would appear to have some sort of motion tracking or automated aiming system. It would also explain why they asked them to be front so they can spot any movements. I think a lost opportunity though from the filmmakers where they could get into the workings of these.
The Starship Troopers book has this suit they wear and that suit is very powerful fighting thing. I think the best portrayal of it would be the Starcraft games. The movies is loosely based on the book but the Starship Troopers novel has always been a read for military officers as it is a very good book about duty and the sense of leadership rather than the satire the movie made it out to be about joining the military.@@We_Are_Borg_478
I loved the scene with the automatic gun sentries
That's why I only ever watch the Special Edition these days.
if this happen in real life, its game over man
My mum loved this movie from the first time seeing it at the movies in the 1980s.she carried on watching it once a month untill she passed away aged 87 from covid in 2021.im still watching it mum.❤❤
I swear the machine gun sounds made in the alien series is unmistakable. Like you don't hear machines like this and it's super menacing.
Ever watch videos on the making? 😃They tested tons of firearms searching for the loudest guns with the brightest muzzleflash. Once they deteremined that the M1 Thompson and the MG42 were the best for the job they got to work modifying them into futuristic looking weapons. Firing them in confined spaces also help amplify the sound; but damn that had to be a lot of fun
I always loved how their MG are like what our actual machine guns could be instead of being some futuristic laser or energy weapons.
10mm explosive
@@SheeanMcGuire-u5v kinda like a guardsman version of a boltgun, it was always my favorite to use in saints row 3 or 4 I'm not sure right now which, the pulse rifle will always be iconic
Ant Soldier #1: where is everyone?
Ant Soldier #2: something's not right.
Barbados: don't be scared kid.
-Dreamworks Antz
"Look I'm telling you, there's something moving and it ain't us!".
I still respect Drakes sacrifice after all these years.
Saw it six times in theaters. Top three genre film ever made. It is perfect, beginning to end.
They need to make an Aliens prequel to show the backstory for these marines. And the title of the movie should be “Let’s Rock!”
no. Terrible idea.
No dude. No more prequels.
Wouldn't be able to find young actors to look like them and play them effectively. And I ain't about to entertain deep fake cgi.
the idea could be good if it's done right because we're only told that they're complete bad asses a movie showing how good the Marines really are it would give more weight to the scene showing how terrifying the xenomorphs really are
Imo I think it would be a good decent film for a prequel if they showed what happened on lv426 with all the colonists there and how the aliens took over the place. Kinda how they did "the thing" prequel. Any opinions?
The sound when the alien grabs the doornl and tries to pry it open is great..."EAT THIS"
0:48 I remember thinking 'Frost, that ain't gonna do shit against an alien bro.'
Better that than harsh words. 😂
That they managed to get anyone back from that hellpit is amazing. A testament to military training and experience.
Watching this movie in a movie theater is a experience I'll never forget 👍. I was in the 6th grade at the time too.
Watching it now, in my home theater is even better!
I was 11 at the theater and it was madness. No one was talking back to the screen, we were all riveted to the story overflowing with confusion, lost hope and violence.
@@thorntonmellon gotta say no on that one , because I remember the sounds from the speakers at the movie theatre was really loud and the screen was humongous , so no buddy lol
@@Ortiz8094I'm glad you enjoyed your theater experience. I prefer my home theater every time for every movie. Pause, rewind, unlimited food, no rude people (except for my wife :). Keep enjoying your theaters and I'll keep enjoying mine. Okay 'buddy'?
"DRAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!! ....WE ARE LEAVING!!!!"
The whole thing was based on the American experience in Vietnam - arrogant political leaders who lied and ignored warning signs, inexperienced officers leading juiced up soldiers or Marines with misplaced faith in their technological advantages right into ambushes.
So the Aliens are the menn in the black pajamas (Vietcong)? That makes sense!
1987 . NO CGI . LETS ROCK !!!
my favorite part of this movie was the fact that the xenomorphs were already there, merged into the structure of their hives, dormant and hiding in plain sight until any serious activity woke them up and their prey found themselves surrounded from all sides.
4:03 i never realized this but, this scene with the alien trying to open the doors is very similar to the elevator scene in Terminator 2
James Cameron, enough said.
James cameron did both movies at the same time. Probably though this would be a cool idea to incorporate
This and Predator are the 2 best sci fi movies of all time
Alien is the greatest sci fi horror, along with the first Teminator. Predator and Aliens are the best sci fi action movies of all time.
James Cameron is the best when it comes to creating badass female characters. Even Rose in Titanic didn't take shit
“ marines, we are leaving “
"Drake, we are leaving"
Oh shoot you’re right bro , he does say drake. Great catch.
I'll never forget the beaping noise of the radar
The best movie of all time.
FkN A. Truth.
Sci action yes. Best film ever no. Shawshank redemption or godfather
Dammit Apone & Frost!!! The only 2 black guys, killed in 1 scene!!!
Marines we are leaving,haven’t seen it for years,brilliant film must watch it soon
Hicks actually yells “Drake! We are leaving!” I use to think he said “Marines!”
I wish drake could've live longer, the movies only mistake.
The thing that I always find so cool about this scene(s) is the music. Using trumpets(?) in that way, that was freaking great. It heightened the tension and make it ten more times melodramatic then any other music used in the movie. Sure, they could have use rock music, loud drumming or even synths, but this was spot on.
Yeah! it makes it sounds very military too! I think Rambo had some trumpets too
Incredible cast and characters.
"DO SOMETHING!" Ripley becomes the all-time badass in that moment. She saves a lot of lives, including that of the lieutenant. If it wasn't for Ripley, they all would have died.
-Let's Rock!!
-Yeahhh!
I still get hyped over this scene and I've seen this movie at least 70 times.
C'mon sweathearts, lets play "Aliens Dark descent!
I love how Hicks calls out for a character that the audience has seen for a combined 10 seconds.
#ripwierzbowski
“DRAKE WE ARE LEAVING!!!!” Chills everytime
My first dark descent into a hive was similar.
>load save
Gotta play that game.
The eerieness of the music when it goes to Hudson and Hicks camera and the pure fear in their voices sends terror down the spine ...
Literally top 10 movies ever.
The legit terrifying thing about this scene is the Marines were looking at the aliens the whole time and didn't notice. They hide in plain sight. Yikes.
Movie Trivia: The actor playing Vasquez is the same lady that plays John Conners foster mom in Terminator 2 and she also plays the mother with the two kids on the bed in Titanic.
Correct!!!!
Jeanette Goldstein gets a lot of work in James Cameron's movies.
Also dressed inappropriately for her audition as she believed the script was about immigration, had to be painted to cover up her fair skin and freckles. And she wore brown contact lenses as well to play Latina.
What's the trivia question? Or just a random fact?
"Check them corners"
Sending 12 marines, well 3 ground Marines. 2 fireteams and a SNCO to investigate was the most government thing ever
When you send a team of soldiers deep into an unknown hostile territory with weapons that have no ammo in it, armed with only flame thrower & small cal weapons that equate to a .22LR weapon, you would (and should) know that the team is going to get toasted very soon no matter how "careful & tactical" they are.
The LT should have abort the mission, recall all the troops back, and make a new plan for it. But if that happened, we will have no (great) movie to watch ;P
The trouble was that people didn't believe Ripley's stories about the xenomorph and how powerful/dangerous it was. Worse, they weren't expecting to find a whole HIVE of them. Up until this point, the only threat humanity had ever encountered was itself. The idea that there existed alien life that was more than a match for our technology and weaponry had just never occurred to the Marines/Corporations.
@@Zaxaresbut they weren't a match for their weapons and technology. They got cut to ribbons in mass...they only had sheer numbers.
@@ftniceberg874 Yes, but their strength, speed, cunning and acid blood means that facing the Xenos on their home ground means they will almost certainly be more than a match for armed Marines, is what I'm getting at. If we were to use air power or tactical nukes to bombard them of course the Xenos are no match for us, but the aliens are also masters at infiltrating our structures and breeding rapidly to become a serious threat before we realize what's happening. (Especially in the Alien-verse, where the vast distances of space involved means that a colony can be completely overrun and infested because the nearest planet or system can even get a hint that something is wrong.)
Ironically all credibility Ripley asks from the Weyland-Yutani corp will end up turning against her and the humanity, as W-Y is eager to use xenomorphs as a bioweapon using marines as expendable means to get it.
@@ftniceberg874 Indeed. That and the Queens' intelligence. But that was enough. In the Alienverse, canonically the xenos DO manage to arrive on Earth in just a few facehugged victims. About 2-3 years later, Earth is COMPLETELY overrun and infested, and the last surviving humans wind up having to evacuate and flee Earth to their colonies. (A semi Deus Ex Machina plot device does manage to thin the xeno numbers back down to a level where the Colonial Marines and some of the Corporations are slowly starting to take Earth back however.)
Michael Biehn. Eat this !!!! The best line. (And let’s rock)
Ripley had more balls than Hicks, Vazquez, Hudson and Apone together
Na
Naw! Vasquez was the shit. “Let’s ROCK!!”
They were just higher up.
Just say you have a crush on Ripley, Jesus Christ
Not Vasquez she was equally tough as Ripley but as Vasquez was a all guns blazing kinda badass ripley used her intelligence as well as her toughness
This scene really depicts the chaos of what it’s like when things go awry in a combat situation.
It’s really well done from the people involved to those viewing what is happening to their squad
Man the way Hicks said Marines we are Leaving was straight Badass
“The walls! They’re coming out of the goddamn walls!!!”
The APC M577 Tank was actually a scaled down RC car in some of those scenes. 1:8 - 1:6 scale if memory serves.
Classic movie.
“Let’s ROCK!!!” 😂
When Hollywood actually wrote strong Women Characters. Vasquez, Ferro, Crowe, Ripley were all great characters.....
Hollywood now....😂😂😂
Crowe? You mean the dude who had 1 line of dialogue before he got killed 😂 How was he a great character, he was just a red shirt
it's Diétrich !😂
The best sci fi film ever made !!! .........Only ones even remotely close are Predator and Terminator..........but people mostly like those better ; Mostly ;P
You know they get out only couse they had loaded smart gunes...amazing weapons
"I like to keep this for close encounters", probly my favorite line in the whole movie even tho ots before this scene and the eat this with the shotgun is one of my favorite alien kills of all time.
“Let’s ROCK!!!!”
“EAT THIS!!!!”
Such 🔥🔥🔥🔥 lines!
The best one out all four movies. Alien 3 and alien resurrection were total garbage. Alien then first always a classic
What an awesome movie!
This one scene was better than all of romulus, prometheus and covenant put together lmao.
You can tell the Clone Wars took a ton of inspiration from this movie!
Its so damn epic and whats crazy is that if anyone tried to recreate it now it would probably look like crap with an over use of CGI
Yeah they would totally over do it with CGI.
That's what they did with the Thing prequel...too much computer generated cartoon nonsense!
@@ftniceberg874 Thats why I am so glad there hasn't been a Jaws ramake. They would just make a big cgi shark like the Meg and they would show too mach of it. Turning the film from a horror flick into an action adventure
I was looking at some of carl weathers work he did on predator and ended up here as well, so they even make movies this good anymore, I mean such great actors, just created the mood, aliens and predator are simply the best, I take my hat off to such season actors, many are no longer with us but will never be forgotten at least not by me
Still one of the best action sequence ever!
Vasquez truly makes the scene. When she yells. She speaks and she says, "Let's rock!". Perfect.
God this movie was perfect.
Someone edited out Gorman saying "who's firing goddammit!" after Vasquez says "let's rock." They weren't supposed to be firing because of the nuclear reactor.
You cut out the part where Ripley tells the incompetent Lt. Gorman to "DO SOMETHING!" and then gets in the driver seat of the APC.
@@jonp3890 must be for copywrite reasons
With the music the intensity is insane
How funny the tracker were able to track Newt and aliens but cannot track the marines" movement😂😂
I always felt they should not have included the tiny bit at 0:33 where the camera movement makes that piece of foreground material look like an alien approaching. They should have cut to it a half second later.
It's confusing because the soldiers haven't actually seen the aliens just yet.
Or maybe that's why they left it in!
indeed that was an alien
@@WeskerLogan No, it was not. Apone is looking right in that direction and doesn't react.
It's just a piece of the nest material that is closer to the camera so parallax makes it seem like it's moving, like the railing. But it's just the camera moving.
The first alien seen in the same shot as one of the soldiers is when the camouflaged one grabs Dietrich and lifts her up, causing her to panic and fire her flamethrower, frying Frost.
Frost then tumbles down the stairwell and, because he was carrying all the ammo, explodes.
It's building the suspense. You can see something moving. You know they're in trouble and it's gonna happen soon. It's perfect. Apone sees it and knows it's about to go down
Given how well this still holds up 37 years later, it seems it would make perfect sense for movies to move back to practical effects (as much as possible within the needs of shots, at least). CGI is fine, but I understand that it's absurdly expensive and we always know it's CGI anyway. Great practical effects always look better than CGI, and they're cheaper. So why not, especially after multiple high-profile CGI heavy underperformers?
I totally agree with you and I've been saying it for years. I guess it's a case of time and money and that's not what the film industry is about these days. Apart from the odd blockbuster or old school film maker we ain't going to get them anymore. Just look at Disney churning out crap left right and centre. The big wigs at the top want fast turn over on projects. I also think too much of the budget goes on actors and not much left for practical effects puppets sets etc.
CGI has ruined movies.
@@matthewmatthew9485 Also, prop-makers, puppeteers, set-designers and set-dressers, costumers, animal handlers, etc. are all unionized. They have specific rates and rules that the studios have to abide by. CG artists aren't, and the CGI is often farmed out to places outside of the US where the work ethic is in fact set at sweatshop. They can spend a minimum on that, instead of paying all the people needed to get practical effects completed. Unions are also part of why Disney only does 3D CG animation anymore, rather than hand-drawn 2D animation...it's cheaper, it's not unionized, and if they need to, they can farm the work out to countries that are even cheaper.
Burke was surprisingly competent with that fire extinguisher.
You would think that this far into the future the colonial marines would have had autonomous reconnaissance drones to scout ahead.
We now understand that concept but you could argue humans wouldn't need colonies to propagate planets to begin with if we have technology on the level in the movie. Mining colonies maybe but not trying to give planets atmospheres where it's not even a scientific possibility for what? The atmosphere will just collapse because there's no supporting star system.
Forget him! He’s gone!!
Arguably the best sequel to any movie ever made!
I wouldn't argue with you cause I love Terminator over T2, but the rest of the world would disagree with us.
This, T2, and Godfather 2... all great in their own ways. Hard to pick one because they're all so different.
John Connor’s foster mom Vasquez looking fit af
This scene clarify soooo well how much the scenery they were in was underestimated by the company. They were absolutely NOT prepared and absolutely NOT in the proper number to afford that HELL. This kind of extensive hive reclaim a HEAVY use of Laser beam weapons and incendiary explosives. But we all knows what's the final objective of Weiland Yutani peak of the piramid's "gods"..
Look I'm telling you somethings moving and it ain't us!
Love that line, used to haunt me when I was young.
Awesome scene. And loved the fact they showed the aliens blending into their bio mech hive so well. Really fitting with gigers original works. What i never understood though is how the first alien grabs frost then seemingly flys up with him 😂
They don’t make movies like this anymore. Done today the cast would be ridiculous and they would blame the Aliens on climate change, yes even if another planet.
Whoever even THOUGHT OF THE CONCEPT OF MAKING THIS MOVIE WAS A PURE VISIONARY.
Why is it that the further we go into the future in Movies the worse the video quality gets on body cams?
Marines man. Gotta make do.