The reason for sideways-facing eyes on either side is a matter of the importance of spatial awarenes versus depth perception. In aquatic and aerial spaces, side-facing eyes are typically a much better choice as threats can come from ANY direction. Even if a creature is a predator, there are also some "prey" species which can crush them... Why gators have said eyes: Hippos are maniacs.
I remember when this came out. A classic. I adore how you touched on all the old-school stuff with a sense of humor, especially the credit card imprinter. It makes me happy that younger moviegoers still watch these movies.
If my memory is correct, I believe you indeed were thinking of the second one because I too remember a scene where a male and female species were getting it on doggy style, and somehow the female was on the “scientist’s” side, so they somehow convince her to help them and she does by extending her spine spikes outwards, impaling the male species that was doing her from behind haha. That’s pretty much all I remembered from that movie.
Actually, in the second movie, the scientists from this movie create a second girl, that they call eve, but she willingly chooses to help them track down and kill a man who has become infected with the xeno dna (who also happens to be a senator’s son)
Oh that’s right. But then she has a moment where she possibly considers leaving them behind and going off with the male until the scientists convince her. I remember now.
I've been told panda's are a bit weird. They evolved from predatory bears into very specialized herbivores. How you manage that is anyone's guess, but their binocular vision is a throwback to a meat eating ancestors. They're weird because apparently their gut and teeth haven't changed all that much from regular bears. Still, good point about forward facing eyes.
I think pandas use specialised gut bacteria to break down the fibers/carbs in the bambo. They have skiped developing a gut that can procces the plants they eat and instead use symbiosis with bacteria in their intestines.
7:19 On that note some herbivores do actually eat meat time to time, like cows will nibble on a carcass or eat a small bird for phosphorus or extra calcium for their diet. Also horses do the exact same thing but they only go for small animals. There’s even one time a cow ate a snake (seriously a cow did that in Australia)
Most animals will take advantage of protein if it's available. Deer will actively search for bird nests to knock out of trees to eat the heads of the baby birds (not the rest of the bodies, just the heads). Grazing animals will gnaw on bones they find. There are usually very small invertebrates that live on or even inside leaves, including blades of grass, that will be eaten by any herbivores eating those leaves. In fact, that last point is why koalas in the care of humans need to have insectivore powders as a dietary supplement, since the invertebrates that live inside eucalyptus leaves leave the leaf when it starts to dry out from not being attached to the tree.
Yes, that’s how we did credit cards back then. They were called knuckle busters. Merchants hated them because you needed carbon copy paper and they didn’t get paid until they sent in the receipts to the cc company. Not like today where they just scan the card and get an approval number so they basically get paid immediately.
Old credit card tech: they often had to check if the card was good via phone and get an approval code they would write on the slip. That’s how cops could trace usage
@@SeanKula long story short this was Geigers passion project that he hedged alot of bets and creative talent on but In the end do to the little funding and corporate influence he didn't get what he wanted and the movie leaned more to being an alien clone. One example is how that demon train in the dream sequence was an actual prop that he made and almost wasn't in the movie, overall he also made some amazing concept art for what this movie could have been. There's alot of other stuff too but if you wanna get the full story you'll have to look elsewhere
Eh, gorillas aren't totally herbivorous they'll eat meat if they find it, and often eat insects and termites, judging from the massive canines i'd guess they likely had an ancestor that was more prone to eating meat then they are, similarly to humans. Alligators and crocodiles also don't just have their eyes on the sides of their heads, they have an area in in front where the vision cones from both eyes can overlap. Not sure about these 2 species specifically but in raptor (bird) species, their eyes have a similar set up where they're on the side of the head but with a small window of overlap in the front, and scientists theorize that this overlap gives them a telescope type magnification within that cone of overlap allowing them to notice potential prey movements with their side facing eye's while in the air and turn to face it with the magnification pinpointing it and zeroing in on it as they come in for the kill from extremely far off. Oh and pandas were meat eaters at 1 point as well, their brains have just devolved to the point where all they choose to eat is bamboo a plant that they barely get any energy or nutrients from leading them to live lives where all they can do is eat to get what little energy they can and sleep to preserve the little energy they get. Scientists have tried to feed them other things that their biology suggests they would still be able to digest and be more nutritious but the few pandas that are left refuse to eat anything that isn't bamboo.
"I'm a vegan and know Nothing of evolutionary biology, therefore I'll pull some pseudoscience out of my a..." Or some. I do know a lot about evolutionary science. All predators have stereoscopic vision even if it isn't "dead pan" like primates' climbing-adapted eye position. ... Many forward eyed herbivores recently transitioned from meat-eating to herbivory. Gorillas being an examples of an omnivore that has a "plant bias." ... Yadda yadda, true.
This is entirely correct, we've observed gorillas eating meat in the wild. In fact I was reading a very recent study that had recorded evidence of gorillas killing various small animals and eating them. The researchers noted that gorillas tended to eat anything available to them, and seemingly the gorillas simply ate whatever they could possibly get their hands on.
1:57 - Yes, that's how credit cards were recorded. I remember back on a job pre-2010 where they still had those as emergency backups when the credit card machines would fail. And they did fail quite a bit. Also remember them growing up in the 90's. Aaand now I feel old.
I like that none of the other nurses or doctors are concerned besides him. like they all just didn't question why a literal car crash victim just got up and left
Fun Fact: In Puerto Rico people who say they saw the Chupacabra might have been influenced by this film due to the similarities between the description of the monster and the alien in the film
I feel like this movie was meant to be a bit more complex when they were initially making it. Because, supposedly, one of the themes of the movie is existentialism. Like, many questions about Sil and the species (no pun intended) that she's a part of are either glossed over or not explained. Like, was Sil meant to be some kind of weapon and if so, why? Or was she not and if not, also why? Does Sil know why she wants to reproduce? Does she even know what she is and what her purpose is? I mean, it's obvious that being raised in isolation did not help, because it's been known that some mammals raised in captivity and isolation tend to be the least functional and possibly the most aggressive. After all, that's what the whole point of the Indominus Rex from _Jurassic World_ was, because Colin based the plot of that movie off of a documentary about an Orca raised in captivity at Sea World went berserk and 3 people were killed. But I guess the studio figured it wasn't turning out great and just decided to basically turn this into a porno disguised as a sci-fi B-Movie or something.
Its funny to hear young people when they see early technology. They sound like they believe tech just appears "as is" ready to go. For as much as Alteori like to talk about evolution, and I think she said her "partner" is in tech, you'd think she would know things aren't created in their most efficient state right out the gate and that they are steadily improved upon. Maybe it just sounds funny to me because I'm old, that's also a possibility.
The control systems for World War 2 era turrets on things like the Iowa class battleships or B-36 bombers are absolutely incredible feats of engineering.
As a person who grew up around these relics of technology, when you really think about the progress we've made in the past 30 years alone, it's just astounding. As a child, I thought wireless and touch screens were pure fantasy. When the first cellphones came out, it was like living in the future because they didn't need a wire from a wall, despite being giant bricks you held to your face. Now we have devices in our hands that are constantly connected via multiple methods to the collective knowledge of all man kind. The internet was something the government and large corporations used. Now kids take these amazing advances of human technology for granted and it's sad to see. Back then, that Sony video player was for rich people only too. It was incredibly uncommon to see a normal 9-5 man be able to afford one.
14:33 Imagine back near 20 AD and you legit watch Jesus Christ instantly heal a heavily crippled man and you witness something like this. Lol. I think those people would have the same reaction as that doctor honestly. I'd freak.
I'll always remember being into this on Cinemax channels. I'm still 100% sure the whole franchise is lowkey softcore porn to this day honestly. At least after the first two Species movies I think. Pretty sure it's what carried the franchise for long as it went on.
The Hospital Doctor with the believable delivery is Richard Fancy, has and IMDB credit page a mile long, but mostly played random side-parts here and there. I think he's best known for his reoccuring parts in Seinfeld and General Hospital.
Pandas aren't completely vegetarian. That's why they eat so much bamboo. It has so little nutritional value compared to what they're supposed to eat that they have to spend all day eating it. Yes, pandas aren't at all that smart. And yes, they do have the strength to do so. They're just bears that just don't want to bear.
I was in senior high when this film came out. I remember seeing it in the theater... nobody thought it was a high quality film at all. The movie's highlights were pretty much limited to seeing Henstridge (who was considered a "local girl" where I grew up) in the buff. And I doubt that even teenaged me gave the film better than 2 out of 5 stars... not that I hated it... it was still mindless fun bigscreen monster alien action, sooooo... 🤷♂😎
"Is that how they used credit cards back then?" Ha! Friend, I swiped credit cards over receipts like that back in the early 20-teens when I was working at an art gallery in Oregon! 😁 And yes, I thought it was weird, too!
I would recommend Dog Soldiers it's a good monster horror movie from 90's. Also it's got likable characters which I swear so many horror movies decide that having good characters is a bad idea but warning it does have a off screen dog death within five-ten minutes at the beginning.
I've seen that, when I was like 10ish I had a friend who was a proper horror movie buff, he got we to watch Alien V Predator 2 (he didn't have the first AVP so I saw them out of order) and he kept going on about Dog Soldiers until one day when I was holiday from school, I decided to look it up and jesus I was too young at 10 to watch that. It's pretty run of the mill in terms of horror, I know but I'm not a fan of horror and when I was 10 I got spooked by jumpscares in none horror movies XD. It's a fun watch though, if a wee bit cheesy.
I still remembered this movie from when I was younger. I think because it was one of the 1st times I realized. Grotesque alien forms did not deter me from being a truly cultured individual. Also never knew there were sequels.
the forward facing eyes thing......it is an evolutionary trait that is most common in predators and things that dont need to constantly be on guard as prey. There will always be quirks when it comes to evolution,things that dont make sense like gorillas having sharp canines yet still eat melons and the such ....it doesn't detract from what those shapes are actually designed for.... Using two examples which according to averages has to happen does not an argument make...you could state 100 ....it wouldnt scratch the number of species which eat meat or are hunters that have those characteristics...
True but the very fact that there are a few that don't, means having front facing eyes doesn't mean something automatically is a predator. You can say it's a high likelihood but let's put and alien thing into the mix that just takes a human form, the entire argument for human animals goes out the window since they don't know what the true form of the alien is at that point.
I am probably getting far too much amusement out of your reactions to the technology I remember. When it comes to gift horses always rememeber "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth but if you do check for file marks."
Gorillas and pandas eat mostly veggies but do eat meat as well. Also most predators with side facing eyes dont hunt with their eyes. Sight predators have forward facing eyes not all predators. Snakes hunt by smell bats hunt by sound. Your welcome for your basic zoology lesson. Also just like anything in nature nothing is absolute there is always a 10 percent.
I've seen this movie for the first time while I was a kid. And apart from the booba I also remembered how the doctor reacted. PS: That snack clip killed me.
All of us thought the species movies were low budget, they were not that popular with everyone, we all saw it to watch something weird but by no means was it considered good.
I remember my aunt working at key bank and giving me a 50$ prepaid card and going to the scholastic book fair in 4th grade with it and the lady sighing as she pulled that thing out to take it lolol
This movie used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. Nowadays it looks so goofy, shit. I'll try to give it a new try since now I know who's Giger. If he's involved in the movie, then I'll watch it again.
It's the first time I've seen one of your videos in a while and your new avatar looks so adorable! But I've been thinking of watching Species for a while and if it's as bad as this looks, then I'll definitely binge them all
I remember seeing glimpses of this whole series when my dad was watching it. I was so damn confused about what was going on. I remember walking in scenes I wasn't supposed to see. Softcore smex at its finest.
1:56 Yellow Taxis in Lubbock TX, were using this when i was in college in 2012. Its like a punch printer squeegee or something that presses on a slip against the card that has those indented texts of the card details.
10:04 okay, so yes you didn’t have card readers in most places in 1995. But retailers would carbon copy the information & put through the transactions later. Hotels on the other hand needed to make sure you can pay for your stay & it’s a valid card. So they had to call the credit card company by landline phone & confirm with the company that the credit card was real & could cover the transaction of a couple nights. I don’t know if they could ask for balance or not due to privacy, so they may have to do this every other day for extended stays. Credit cards were only backup back then if the patron didn’t have money or check bounced or just skipped out of the bill.
I heard the original plot to species was more of a Frankenstein like story (I suppose it sort of is already), in the sense that it was more of a single scientist growing her in his garage or private lab, rather than some secret government experiment.
I watched this movie with my dad since I was a kid and idk what to do but sit down on the sofa then creeped out and my dad is like "wtf are you doing???"
I wonder if she found a healthy mate, that didn’t refuse her, and didn’t panic, if she’d have killed them or allowed them to provide for the “family”. I think she might of honestly.
hey, loved the video, just throwing my two cents in, giving some context, and my own rational educated thoughts on the film, as someone who was alive when this movie came out, and had some highly telligible thoughts then, and now, about this film. 2:15 "a weird, made by sony, video player" wrong actually, that's a portable, analog television set, used in campers, or when traveling back in the day. if there were video player's back then(usually only people with stupid money had stuff like that) they'd be the size of a cooler at most, and play vhs tapes. you could use them to pick up tv radio signals, rather than hardlining it to a coaxle cable system, think of it like wireless streaming way back in the day. you could only get maybe 5+ channels on a set like that, but still better than nothing when out in the world away from civilization. 5:24 "he said it made the researchers anxious as well, knowing that she was having bad dreams so they made the decision to terminate the experiment. so kid has bad dreams like any other normal kid and your thing is to just kill them?" well, point of fact, i'm sure they poked and prodded the kid a number of ways, not seeing anything abnormal about her aside from the FACT she matured a decade in the span of weeks. so when she makes noises like an animal in her sleep that are almost blood curdling..... at that point they don't know what they're dealing with and logically, they're going back to formula on the project, and doing away with potential threats....... i'm no scientist but this is piss poor analysis on their part, and really they would have done the pure dna clone before making a hybrid with the girl in the first place.... so yeah, these guys are the steriotypical fuzzy headed smooth brained G-men most other movie's make fun of(Dark Angel/I Come In Peace, Live Free And Die Hard, ect) 6:09 yeah, i can't help but agree with your face palm here. i did the same thing when i first watched this film in the 90's once it came out..... soo many other predators in the animal kingdom past and present DID NOT have their eyes in front so i was having a WTF moment at this idea the movie brought up. 6:39 "gorilla's are completely vegetarians" not entirely accurate.... true they mostly eat fruits and whatnot when they can, but some troops have been known to devour whole nests of insects, and in some cases if there is a dispute in the troop from one of the beta males with the alpha, should the alpha lose the dispute(I.E. a fight to the death) the now alpha would often eat the remains of the slain to assert he is the new alpha. this varies like i said from troop to troop in gorilla groups, but is well documented, not saying you're wrong, but you're not entirely right. 8:34 "meanwhile the other characters are trying to recreate her" FALSE actually.... they're trying to make a clone of the pure alien DNA without adding the Human side, so they can better understand what they're dealing with, maybe identify how it moves and thinks in a controlled area, so they might better track Sil down...... why they thought this was a good idea i don't know, again, i'm no scientist or biologist, but i know enough about genetics, and instinctual sciences to know, IFFF they thought this was a good idea, no mishaps occured in this.... it wouldn't work, being the pure strain of alien wouldn't behave like the "HYBRID" that Sil is... and really they are a special kind of stupidity of scientist to even humor this idea for even working. had the same thoughts when watching this movie and i was 11 when this film came out. i also want to add.... supposedly as i rewatched this film not long ago, another brainfart in logic comes up i just wanted to point out..... they're using a university lab in the scene where they tried to regrow a new alien, and the two people almost get cooked.... i've been to a few universities on tour... not entirely sure but i don't think they have a biohazard function to TORCH the entire clean room like that in the average universities in this country.... unless they specialize in harmful substances like GROWING A HOSTILE ALIEN LIFE FORM IN A TEST TUBE!!!!.... again, herculean leap of stupidity for supposed scientists.... also, the dude yanked out the gas feed to the burners.... so how did they torch the room after they got out? i mean it's POSSIBLE the ignition system still worked, but very unlikely considering he cavemaned the shit out of it while yanking the gas line out. 9:55 "she uses her credit card, this gives everyone a ping to know where she is, really they had that technology back then?" i don't rightly remember if the guy had an electronic card reader for his hotel(which hotels did have them before most stores back then) but IF HE DID NOT he'd still have to call it in when the office for the hotel closed up, or when his shift ended, which coulda been soon after for all we know.... but generally they call in to verify it's an active card and to debit the card correctly, that'd ping the government/law enforcement of the stolen card, that's generally how they did it back in the day, and in some places they still use those roller machines when the digital network is down, recently left a job where i had to teach new kids how to use the machine cause they didn't understand how things were before computers took over. 12:35 "now they gather all of this because the guy's pants are still on" i'm with you on this, i mean, least they coulda checked to see if his wick was still wet or something. not just ASSUME nothing happened, but i understand, time of the essence, climax of the film, and whatnot. this is one of the many MANY reasons they need a R*P* test for men as well..... cause it does happen. and maybe she tiddied him up when she was done killing him, who knows if she learned modesty or not, and figured "i'd hate to die naked too, let's put some pants on him". once again, Massive stupidity from supposed scientists, and pro's in their fields. 15:34 yeah around this point of the film i'm thinking to myself why the hell was the nurse trying to hurry him away before Sil gets up and walks away, like he was with a patient, and she's trying to drag him off to another patient before he's done, i know Sil is walking away and all as she tried more to hurry him off, but she started while he was looking over Sil on the bed..... malpractice lawsuit in the making right there i think. 17:05 "Somehow they even though the pool is being pumped there's no evidence of semen in the pool" ACTUALLY Alfred Molina says after they discovered him in the pool, that they should "test the water for any evidence if they have had sex" but yeah, they kinda gloss over this in a hurry. especially in the next available scene some how Sil is able to read lips now??..... yeah i know she picks up on things fast, but it's highly unlikely she'd understand the subtle movements of the human face to denote what words are being used in order to understand the whole conversation, especially considering you have to know how a person's face moves when annunciating specific words and vocal tones... hell someone who's had a stroke, and their facial movements are impaired to a degree will make different movements to say words than someone who hasn't, the way i say "you're a nice fox girl" COULD be read differently from everyone else who says it. highly doubt she'd pick up on this unless the practiced a little before this scene. 19:45 yeah at the point of her faked death thing. one thing that bugged the shit out of me.... the whole crew of people aside from the main cast are basically soldiers, law enforement, feds and whatnot... and one of the main cast is pretty much a batmanesk character, thinks like people he hunts down and whatnot, outside the box thinker type dude. they find one severed thumb in the door that got ripped off and are like "yep, musta been her who turned into bacon in the passenger seat"....... PASSENGER SEAT, i'd automatically be sus of the body being in the passenger seat of a vehicle that just ran from you and blew up. she was tied down to the seat, doubt she moved much when the car blew so... yeah, i'd test the body as well as the thumb to confirm given that, but NOOOOOO. they're getting shots and hookers at the club after they clean up the human jerky in their second to last chase of the film. 23:17 yeah, 100% agree, like they went down there to kill Mother of the year, and her potential offspring too.... like to me, that's a "Weapons Hot, nuke the whole cave" kinda thought process is a simple assumption there.... yet he's like "it's okay little guy, no one's gonna hurt you" i was like "are you shitting me? he's a fucking pod person dude, throw a rock, shoot him, do something other than try to lure him out of his birth place with candy and light toned words" again.... high caliber stupidity. 24:02 "seriously.... only now does the mother get upset? when her child dies, where were you all this time?" yeah.... my only simple logic being is she had a baby, was probably healing up, catching a quick nap or something after birthing satan's ingrown pubic hair of a son. so she was out like a light till junior screamed in a painful death then came running.... obviously junior wandered away from where she gave birth at this point since she's not right next to him, in which like i said.... nuke the cave. as far as the ending teaser.... yeah... alien rat.... you know that raises alot of questions i dare not even utter cause, truth be told the world would die from the over population of alien rats, eating people and whatnot. especially considering the lore the sequel tries to put down. all in all, this film isn't too horrible, i mean, if you unplug your brain for the run time, it's enjoyable, but yeah, like alot of movies there are flaws, even jurrassic park which came out like two years prior had it's logic flaws in it so ehh. it is what it is, keep up the good work
Huh. i remember my dad looking over movies on Netflix, as one does on a late evening. Then my mom comes in, notices the thumbnail and description Netflix gave this movie and very passive agressively asked if he had watched it already. Funny innit
Hey Altie, I just remembered a movie I would like you to review/react to, it's called AXL, from 2018 I think; it's not a horror movie, but it got a, well, I guess you could say "creature", I guess one way to describe the movie is if Johnny 5 was a giant robot dog, and the people that help him were teenagers; it got a 80s/90s movie vibe, I guess, despite being made recently.
Guy is in bed with her.
Her: Turns into horrible monstrocity.
Him: Every time the beer wears off man!!!!
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@@TragicJade shame on you!!!! XD
That's what paper bags are for.
Me: Things just got better
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The reason for sideways-facing eyes on either side is a matter of the importance of spatial awarenes versus depth perception.
In aquatic and aerial spaces, side-facing eyes are typically a much better choice as threats can come from ANY direction.
Even if a creature is a predator, there are also some "prey" species which can crush them... Why gators have said eyes: Hippos are maniacs.
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I remember when this came out. A classic. I adore how you touched on all the old-school stuff with a sense of humor, especially the credit card imprinter. It makes me happy that younger moviegoers still watch these movies.
It is SOO frickin weird to see younger people who weren’t around when you were a little younger freak out over “old” tech and younger people
Yeah, seeing so many people clueless on basic survival reduces my faith in mankind's survival when society ultimately collapses.
Feelin very dated hearing her marvel at our ancient tech
@@erikwilliams1562 It's weird though, portable dvd players used to be a normal thing o-o'
“Is this for credit cards?” Oh… oh no… I’m OLD!
If my memory is correct, I believe you indeed were thinking of the second one because I too remember a scene where a male and female species were getting it on doggy style, and somehow the female was on the “scientist’s” side, so they somehow convince her to help them and she does by extending her spine spikes outwards, impaling the male species that was doing her from behind haha. That’s pretty much all I remembered from that movie.
Actually, in the second movie, the scientists from this movie create a second girl, that they call eve, but she willingly chooses to help them track down and kill a man who has become infected with the xeno dna (who also happens to be a senator’s son)
Oh that’s right. But then she has a moment where she possibly considers leaving them behind and going off with the male until the scientists convince her. I remember now.
Those movies seem to be made to convince teens to not have sex. I think I understand now where my fear of intimacy comes.
@@brunoverasferreira6263 or created the group of "jokes on you, I'm into that"
@@TheGuardianofAzarath how dare yo call it Xeno dna that word belongs only to The xenomorphs from Aliens how dare you mate 😤😤😤😭😭😭😭
I've been told panda's are a bit weird. They evolved from predatory bears into very specialized herbivores. How you manage that is anyone's guess, but their binocular vision is a throwback to a meat eating ancestors. They're weird because apparently their gut and teeth haven't changed all that much from regular bears. Still, good point about forward facing eyes.
Pandas are still very capable of defending themselves though. They got claws and teeth, and strength typical to the bear genus
I think pandas use specialised gut bacteria to break down the fibers/carbs in the bambo. They have skiped developing a gut that can procces the plants they eat and instead use symbiosis with bacteria in their intestines.
Pandas are still viscous carnivores, they drag rams into dens and kill em like nothing and rams aint the easiest prey.
pandas not panda's
@@mrliteral9347 their autocorrect is just used to them speaking about the possessions of pandas, yeesh, take it easy..
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On that note some herbivores do actually eat meat time to time, like cows will nibble on a carcass or eat a small bird for phosphorus or extra calcium for their diet. Also horses do the exact same thing but they only go for small animals. There’s even one time a cow ate a snake (seriously a cow did that in Australia)
Most animals will take advantage of protein if it's available. Deer will actively search for bird nests to knock out of trees to eat the heads of the baby birds (not the rest of the bodies, just the heads). Grazing animals will gnaw on bones they find. There are usually very small invertebrates that live on or even inside leaves, including blades of grass, that will be eaten by any herbivores eating those leaves. In fact, that last point is why koalas in the care of humans need to have insectivore powders as a dietary supplement, since the invertebrates that live inside eucalyptus leaves leave the leaf when it starts to dry out from not being attached to the tree.
of course it was in australia
Arctic work-horses: "Gimme steak pls."
Hippos also eat meat from time to time.
Yes, that’s how we did credit cards back then. They were called knuckle busters. Merchants hated them because you needed carbon copy paper and they didn’t get paid until they sent in the receipts to the cc company. Not like today where they just scan the card and get an approval number so they basically get paid immediately.
yeah it was because not all places that used cards at first actually had a line to hook up.
Old credit card tech: they often had to check if the card was good via phone and get an approval code they would write on the slip. That’s how cops could trace usage
... I have to watch some videos to understand
Bruh, I'm 38 and remember that tech.
Isnt that for checks ?
@@elaynaaubreygonzo3744 that too
@@Alteori ur response had me dying tho
This movie has a pretty interesting story behind it's production and wasn't what Geiger actually wanted for it to be
What's the story?
@@SeanKula long story short this was Geigers passion project that he hedged alot of bets and creative talent on but In the end do to the little funding and corporate influence he didn't get what he wanted and the movie leaned more to being an alien clone. One example is how that demon train in the dream sequence was an actual prop that he made and almost wasn't in the movie, overall he also made some amazing concept art for what this movie could have been. There's alot of other stuff too but if you wanna get the full story you'll have to look elsewhere
Actor conflicts, on-set affairs, production manager quits, time crunch, budget cuts = "the set is cursed and evil shit is happening."
@@nickolausafon5458 sounds like… the exorcist I think it was? And one with the skeletons in the pit
Oh boy,
Natasha Henstridge really brought something out of me when I was young.
No one wants to know what she may come out of you! LMAO
I really enjoyed this movie as a kid. Species 2 wasn't that bad either.
And this is the queen they created aliens that scream a lot
You see eyes It’s freaking terrifying
Bruh why did you watch this movie as a kid 😳😂
@@mrrandom6497 I was introduced to a lot of horror and sci fi horror as a kid from friends, neighbors, cousins. This was one of them.
@@hissatsu4937 me too but my mom had all the VHS tapes.
Eh, gorillas aren't totally herbivorous they'll eat meat if they find it, and often eat insects and termites, judging from the massive canines i'd guess they likely had an ancestor that was more prone to eating meat then they are, similarly to humans.
Alligators and crocodiles also don't just have their eyes on the sides of their heads, they have an area in in front where the vision cones from both eyes can overlap. Not sure about these 2 species specifically but in raptor (bird) species, their eyes have a similar set up where they're on the side of the head but with a small window of overlap in the front, and scientists theorize that this overlap gives them a telescope type magnification within that cone of overlap allowing them to notice potential prey movements with their side facing eye's while in the air and turn to face it with the magnification pinpointing it and zeroing in on it as they come in for the kill from extremely far off.
Oh and pandas were meat eaters at 1 point as well, their brains have just devolved to the point where all they choose to eat is bamboo a plant that they barely get any energy or nutrients from leading them to live lives where all they can do is eat to get what little energy they can and sleep to preserve the little energy they get. Scientists have tried to feed them other things that their biology suggests they would still be able to digest and be more nutritious but the few pandas that are left refuse to eat anything that isn't bamboo.
I know chimpanzees eat meat, hell they'll eat smaller monkeys.
Gorillas don't eat meat 😐
"I'm a vegan and know Nothing of evolutionary biology, therefore I'll pull some pseudoscience out of my a..." Or some.
I do know a lot about evolutionary science. All predators have stereoscopic vision even if it isn't "dead pan" like primates' climbing-adapted eye position. ... Many forward eyed herbivores recently transitioned from meat-eating to herbivory. Gorillas being an examples of an omnivore that has a "plant bias." ... Yadda yadda, true.
This is entirely correct, we've observed gorillas eating meat in the wild. In fact I was reading a very recent study that had recorded evidence of gorillas killing various small animals and eating them. The researchers noted that gorillas tended to eat anything available to them, and seemingly the gorillas simply ate whatever they could possibly get their hands on.
@@trence5 They also have war, which is kinda crazy. Jane Goodall proved that when she saw it first hand.
Species 1 and 2 (in my opinion) are the best ones of the entire 4 film series.
Wait, THERE IS 3 AND 4?
@@tobiasstephens388 yeah, there’s two more!
Fun fact, the girl who portrayed Sil as a child.. is a young Michelle Williams, who later on went to portray Anne Weying in the Sony Venom films!
Its was mildly interesting in the genre of aliens needing to breed with humans. But nothing can beat the classics like Mars Needs Women
Mars needs moms?
Oh god no
Well to be fair they used human and alien genes to make her.
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"so a kid has bad dreams.. so you try to kill them.."
Alteori 2021
Also Luke Skywalker in the last Jedi😂😂
I felt so old when you called this the 1995 classic. I remember see the in theaters at age 18🤦🏿♀️🤣🤣
1:03* Sir Ben Kingsley. He played Gandhi in the 1982 epic and SCHINDLER'S LIST, both Oscar Winning epics. He even played the Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
14:34* the VFX were done by Richard Edlund and Boss Films Studio, as the alien make up effects were made by Steve Johnson.
00:57, the actress is Michelle Williams, Eddie's girlfriend from the VENOM movies.
I’ve watched the first and second movies, they were both a good time
1:57 - Yes, that's how credit cards were recorded. I remember back on a job pre-2010 where they still had those as emergency backups when the credit card machines would fail. And they did fail quite a bit. Also remember them growing up in the 90's. Aaand now I feel old.
Im 19 and I remember seeing those things a few times :D
I like that none of the other nurses or doctors are concerned besides him. like they all just didn't question why a literal car crash victim just got up and left
Fun Fact: In Puerto Rico people who say they saw the Chupacabra might have been influenced by this film due to the similarities between the description of the monster and the alien in the film
No, my dude.
Obviously chupacabra was a dog or coyote possessed by a vampire, my josh. Do you know nothing, it's called bloodsucker for a reason
I’m pretty sure the chupacabra is older then this thing and would be more recognizable
The notion of chupacabra existed for a hell of a lot more than 30 years, so clearly, no.
I feel like this movie was meant to be a bit more complex when they were initially making it. Because, supposedly, one of the themes of the movie is existentialism. Like, many questions about Sil and the species (no pun intended) that she's a part of are either glossed over or not explained. Like, was Sil meant to be some kind of weapon and if so, why? Or was she not and if not, also why? Does Sil know why she wants to reproduce? Does she even know what she is and what her purpose is?
I mean, it's obvious that being raised in isolation did not help, because it's been known that some mammals raised in captivity and isolation tend to be the least functional and possibly the most aggressive. After all, that's what the whole point of the Indominus Rex from _Jurassic World_ was, because Colin based the plot of that movie off of a documentary about an Orca raised in captivity at Sea World went berserk and 3 people were killed.
But I guess the studio figured it wasn't turning out great and just decided to basically turn this into a porno disguised as a sci-fi B-Movie or something.
Lmaoooo I had no business watching this as a child.
Oh man. Me too. I made the same mistake.
Lmaooo
But altori nothing is stopping an empath from being a scientist
Its funny to hear young people when they see early technology. They sound like they believe tech just appears "as is" ready to go. For as much as Alteori like to talk about evolution, and I think she said her "partner" is in tech, you'd think she would know things aren't created in their most efficient state right out the gate and that they are steadily improved upon. Maybe it just sounds funny to me because I'm old, that's also a possibility.
The control systems for World War 2 era turrets on things like the Iowa class battleships or B-36 bombers are absolutely incredible feats of engineering.
As a person who grew up around these relics of technology, when you really think about the progress we've made in the past 30 years alone, it's just astounding. As a child, I thought wireless and touch screens were pure fantasy. When the first cellphones came out, it was like living in the future because they didn't need a wire from a wall, despite being giant bricks you held to your face. Now we have devices in our hands that are constantly connected via multiple methods to the collective knowledge of all man kind. The internet was something the government and large corporations used. Now kids take these amazing advances of human technology for granted and it's sad to see. Back then, that Sony video player was for rich people only too. It was incredibly uncommon to see a normal 9-5 man be able to afford one.
14:33 Imagine back near 20 AD and you legit watch Jesus Christ instantly heal a heavily crippled man and you witness something like this. Lol. I think those people would have the same reaction as that doctor honestly. I'd freak.
I'll always remember being into this on Cinemax channels. I'm still 100% sure the whole franchise is lowkey softcore porn to this day honestly. At least after the first two Species movies I think.
Pretty sure it's what carried the franchise for long as it went on.
Something similar was the hot teacher episode of Buffy that was a giant mantis
The Hospital Doctor with the believable delivery is Richard Fancy, has and IMDB credit page a mile long, but mostly played random side-parts here and there. I think he's best known for his reoccuring parts in Seinfeld and General Hospital.
"But she busts out with the power of love"... Hahahaha!
Pandas aren't completely vegetarian. That's why they eat so much bamboo. It has so little nutritional value compared to what they're supposed to eat that they have to spend all day eating it. Yes, pandas aren't at all that smart. And yes, they do have the strength to do so. They're just bears that just don't want to bear.
I was in senior high when this film came out. I remember seeing it in the theater... nobody thought it was a high quality film at all.
The movie's highlights were pretty much limited to seeing Henstridge (who was considered a "local girl" where I grew up) in the buff. And I doubt that even teenaged me gave the film better than 2 out of 5 stars... not that I hated it... it was still mindless fun bigscreen monster alien action, sooooo... 🤷♂😎
Yeah I agree with you Alteori,the movie was good and solid,but I can't say the same with the other Species movies.
"Is that how they used credit cards back then?"
Ha! Friend, I swiped credit cards over receipts like that back in the early 20-teens when I was working at an art gallery in Oregon! 😁 And yes, I thought it was weird, too!
One of your comments on another channel brought me here!!!
Edit: I feel a binge coming...
Yay! New Alteori video and now I feel old. Yes, Jurassic Park came out in 1993.
The empath's best line:
"Something bad happened here."
A better one liner at the end would've been "Get fucked" since that was her goal the whole movie.
The “without consent,” part of the title is just perfect
I would recommend Dog Soldiers it's a good monster horror movie from 90's. Also it's got likable characters which I swear so many horror movies decide that having good characters is a bad idea but warning it does have a off screen dog death within five-ten minutes at the beginning.
When the pets and children are allowed to die, you know it's gonna be good.
I've seen that, when I was like 10ish I had a friend who was a proper horror movie buff, he got we to watch Alien V Predator 2 (he didn't have the first AVP so I saw them out of order) and he kept going on about Dog Soldiers until one day when I was holiday from school, I decided to look it up and jesus I was too young at 10 to watch that. It's pretty run of the mill in terms of horror, I know but I'm not a fan of horror and when I was 10 I got spooked by jumpscares in none horror movies XD.
It's a fun watch though, if a wee bit cheesy.
There are dog men all over America they look just like them
Jaguar too, a jaguar will put a croc in a body bag FAST
Love new Atleori vids :D
The hair on my back she says hahahaha
It's "the hair on my neck stand up"
Mom raised no quitter
Empaths are probably the biggest excuse people use to assume the way others feel
I still remembered this movie from when I was younger. I think because it was one of the 1st times I realized. Grotesque alien forms did not deter me from being a truly cultured individual. Also never knew there were sequels.
I just learn about 3 and 4.
the forward facing eyes thing......it is an evolutionary trait that is most common in predators and things that dont need to constantly be on guard as prey. There will always be quirks when it comes to evolution,things that dont make sense like gorillas having sharp canines yet still eat melons and the such ....it doesn't detract from what those shapes are actually designed for....
Using two examples which according to averages has to happen does not an argument make...you could state 100 ....it wouldnt scratch the number of species which eat meat or are hunters that have those characteristics...
True but the very fact that there are a few that don't, means having front facing eyes doesn't mean something automatically is a predator. You can say it's a high likelihood but let's put and alien thing into the mix that just takes a human form, the entire argument for human animals goes out the window since they don't know what the true form of the alien is at that point.
Takes me without my consent and gives birth to a grasshopper? That'd be only like my fourth worst date.
I am probably getting far too much amusement out of your reactions to the technology I remember. When it comes to gift horses always rememeber "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth but if you do check for file marks."
We are so screwed when society collapses. These kids don't know how to survive without modern tech.
I watched Species on videotape in 1996 and when it ended I thought it was the best movie ever made - for about a day.
Gorillas and pandas eat mostly veggies but do eat meat as well. Also most predators with side facing eyes dont hunt with their eyes. Sight predators have forward facing eyes not all predators. Snakes hunt by smell bats hunt by sound. Your welcome for your basic zoology lesson. Also just like anything in nature nothing is absolute there is always a 10 percent.
Zoo zoos in her skeent skeent. That’s a new one from me.
Species
The first alien fetish movie
I've seen this movie for the first time while I was a kid. And apart from the booba I also remembered how the doctor reacted.
PS: That snack clip killed me.
7:35 i think the guy was mocking the psychic guy like "so you think you're a scientist because you watch discovery channel "
The scientist lady was part of the original cast on the first CSI.
I never watched that. I have no idea who she is but I definitely recognized the 4 guys.
@@Alteori It’s all good, just shows my age lol 👴🏽. All are great actor/actresses.
great movie i still watch it from time to time
Species is an amazing movie on so many levels.
All of us thought the species movies were low budget, they were not that popular with everyone, we all saw it to watch something weird but by no means was it considered good.
I remember my aunt working at key bank and giving me a 50$ prepaid card and going to the scholastic book fair in 4th grade with it and the lady sighing as she pulled that thing out to take it lolol
Utah? WE CANT STOP HERE. THIS IS MORM COUNTY
Another six months of therapy after this!!😎😎
She gave him major blue balls!!🤣🤣
This movie used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. Nowadays it looks so goofy, shit. I'll try to give it a new try since now I know who's Giger. If he's involved in the movie, then I'll watch it again.
"...goes spelunking...". Wow.
That's a Cruel Ploy.
Sign Me Up.
12:53 As a diabetic, I am both offended and grateful to not be put in that situation
It's the first time I've seen one of your videos in a while and your new avatar looks so adorable!
But I've been thinking of watching Species for a while and if it's as bad as this looks, then I'll definitely binge them all
Writers were not held to strict zoological standards in 1995.
Ah! I remember this movie. Crazy film.
The key to enjoying Species is watching it as a comedy
Follow that sholder, it can't escape.
I remember seeing glimpses of this whole series when my dad was watching it. I was so damn confused about what was going on. I remember walking in scenes I wasn't supposed to see. Softcore smex at its finest.
90s kid used to believe species is same universe with aliens and predator
1:56 Yellow Taxis in Lubbock TX, were using this when i was in college in 2012. Its like a punch printer squeegee or something that presses on a slip against the card that has those indented texts of the card details.
2:50 dammit. I laughed at the joke, and I felt bad.
10:04 okay, so yes you didn’t have card readers in most places in 1995. But retailers would carbon copy the information & put through the transactions later. Hotels on the other hand needed to make sure you can pay for your stay & it’s a valid card. So they had to call the credit card company by landline phone & confirm with the company that the credit card was real & could cover the transaction of a couple nights. I don’t know if they could ask for balance or not due to privacy, so they may have to do this every other day for extended stays. Credit cards were only backup back then if the patron didn’t have money or check bounced or just skipped out of the bill.
You dont have to drive her back. You kick her out the house lol
“Oh god this movies ass” hahaha great quote
9:44, was that sarcasm I detected, Fox Girl? Lol!
"i gonna be real with ya chief,she dosen't even need to be from this planet."
gorillas are not fully vegetarian. they can and will eat meat. fruit, veggies, berries, and seeds are just easier for them to get.
I heard the original plot to species was more of a Frankenstein like story (I suppose it sort of is already), in the sense that it was more of a single scientist growing her in his garage or private lab, rather than some secret government experiment.
So Splice
@@adamisajoker I imagine the producers behind splice drew inspiration from that, but yeah, I suppose
I watched this movie with my dad since I was a kid and idk what to do but sit down on the sofa then creeped out and my dad is like "wtf are you doing???"
I wonder if she found a healthy mate, that didn’t refuse her, and didn’t panic, if she’d have killed them or allowed them to provide for the “family”. I think she might of honestly.
And the scientist is Catherine Willows from CSI
hey, loved the video, just throwing my two cents in, giving some context, and my own rational educated thoughts on the film, as someone who was alive when this movie came out, and had some highly telligible thoughts then, and now, about this film.
2:15 "a weird, made by sony, video player"
wrong actually, that's a portable, analog television set, used in campers, or when traveling back in the day. if there were video player's back then(usually only people with stupid money had stuff like that) they'd be the size of a cooler at most, and play vhs tapes.
you could use them to pick up tv radio signals, rather than hardlining it to a coaxle cable system, think of it like wireless streaming way back in the day.
you could only get maybe 5+ channels on a set like that, but still better than nothing when out in the world away from civilization.
5:24 "he said it made the researchers anxious as well, knowing that she was having bad dreams so they made the decision to terminate the experiment. so kid has bad dreams like any other normal kid and your thing is to just kill them?"
well, point of fact, i'm sure they poked and prodded the kid a number of ways, not seeing anything abnormal about her aside from the FACT she matured a decade in the span of weeks. so when she makes noises like an animal in her sleep that are almost blood curdling..... at that point they don't know what they're dealing with and logically, they're going back to formula on the project, and doing away with potential threats....... i'm no scientist but this is piss poor analysis on their part, and really they would have done the pure dna clone before making a hybrid with the girl in the first place.... so yeah, these guys are the steriotypical fuzzy headed smooth brained G-men most other movie's make fun of(Dark Angel/I Come In Peace, Live Free And Die Hard, ect)
6:09
yeah, i can't help but agree with your face palm here. i did the same thing when i first watched this film in the 90's once it came out..... soo many other predators in the animal kingdom past and present DID NOT have their eyes in front so i was having a WTF moment at this idea the movie brought up.
6:39 "gorilla's are completely vegetarians"
not entirely accurate.... true they mostly eat fruits and whatnot when they can, but some troops have been known to devour whole nests of insects, and in some cases if there is a dispute in the troop from one of the beta males with the alpha, should the alpha lose the dispute(I.E. a fight to the death) the now alpha would often eat the remains of the slain to assert he is the new alpha.
this varies like i said from troop to troop in gorilla groups, but is well documented, not saying you're wrong, but you're not entirely right.
8:34 "meanwhile the other characters are trying to recreate her"
FALSE actually.... they're trying to make a clone of the pure alien DNA without adding the Human side, so they can better understand what they're dealing with, maybe identify how it moves and thinks in a controlled area, so they might better track Sil down...... why they thought this was a good idea i don't know, again, i'm no scientist or biologist, but i know enough about genetics, and instinctual sciences to know, IFFF they thought this was a good idea, no mishaps occured in this.... it wouldn't work, being the pure strain of alien wouldn't behave like the "HYBRID" that Sil is... and really they are a special kind of stupidity of scientist to even humor this idea for even working. had the same thoughts when watching this movie and i was 11 when this film came out.
i also want to add.... supposedly as i rewatched this film not long ago, another brainfart in logic comes up i just wanted to point out..... they're using a university lab in the scene where they tried to regrow a new alien, and the two people almost get cooked.... i've been to a few universities on tour... not entirely sure but i don't think they have a biohazard function to TORCH the entire clean room like that in the average universities in this country.... unless they specialize in harmful substances like GROWING A HOSTILE ALIEN LIFE FORM IN A TEST TUBE!!!!.... again, herculean leap of stupidity for supposed scientists....
also, the dude yanked out the gas feed to the burners.... so how did they torch the room after they got out? i mean it's POSSIBLE the ignition system still worked, but very unlikely considering he cavemaned the shit out of it while yanking the gas line out.
9:55 "she uses her credit card, this gives everyone a ping to know where she is, really they had that technology back then?"
i don't rightly remember if the guy had an electronic card reader for his hotel(which hotels did have them before most stores back then) but IF HE DID NOT he'd still have to call it in when the office for the hotel closed up, or when his shift ended, which coulda been soon after for all we know.... but generally they call in to verify it's an active card and to debit the card correctly, that'd ping the government/law enforcement of the stolen card, that's generally how they did it back in the day, and in some places they still use those roller machines when the digital network is down, recently left a job where i had to teach new kids how to use the machine cause they didn't understand how things were before computers took over.
12:35 "now they gather all of this because the guy's pants are still on"
i'm with you on this, i mean, least they coulda checked to see if his wick was still wet or something. not just ASSUME nothing happened, but i understand, time of the essence, climax of the film, and whatnot. this is one of the many MANY reasons they need a R*P* test for men as well..... cause it does happen. and maybe she tiddied him up when she was done killing him, who knows if she learned modesty or not, and figured "i'd hate to die naked too, let's put some pants on him".
once again, Massive stupidity from supposed scientists, and pro's in their fields.
15:34
yeah around this point of the film i'm thinking to myself why the hell was the nurse trying to hurry him away before Sil gets up and walks away, like he was with a patient, and she's trying to drag him off to another patient before he's done, i know Sil is walking away and all as she tried more to hurry him off, but she started while he was looking over Sil on the bed..... malpractice lawsuit in the making right there i think.
17:05 "Somehow they even though the pool is being pumped there's no evidence of semen in the pool"
ACTUALLY Alfred Molina says after they discovered him in the pool, that they should "test the water for any evidence if they have had sex"
but yeah, they kinda gloss over this in a hurry.
especially in the next available scene some how Sil is able to read lips now??..... yeah i know she picks up on things fast, but it's highly unlikely she'd understand the subtle movements of the human face to denote what words are being used in order to understand the whole conversation, especially considering you have to know how a person's face moves when annunciating specific words and vocal tones... hell someone who's had a stroke, and their facial movements are impaired to a degree will make different movements to say words than someone who hasn't, the way i say "you're a nice fox girl" COULD be read differently from everyone else who says it.
highly doubt she'd pick up on this unless the practiced a little before this scene.
19:45
yeah at the point of her faked death thing. one thing that bugged the shit out of me.... the whole crew of people aside from the main cast are basically soldiers, law enforement, feds and whatnot... and one of the main cast is pretty much a batmanesk character, thinks like people he hunts down and whatnot, outside the box thinker type dude.
they find one severed thumb in the door that got ripped off and are like "yep, musta been her who turned into bacon in the passenger seat"....... PASSENGER SEAT, i'd automatically be sus of the body being in the passenger seat of a vehicle that just ran from you and blew up. she was tied down to the seat, doubt she moved much when the car blew so... yeah, i'd test the body as well as the thumb to confirm given that, but NOOOOOO. they're getting shots and hookers at the club after they clean up the human jerky in their second to last chase of the film.
23:17
yeah, 100% agree, like they went down there to kill Mother of the year, and her potential offspring too.... like to me, that's a "Weapons Hot, nuke the whole cave" kinda thought process is a simple assumption there.... yet he's like "it's okay little guy, no one's gonna hurt you" i was like "are you shitting me? he's a fucking pod person dude, throw a rock, shoot him, do something other than try to lure him out of his birth place with candy and light toned words" again.... high caliber stupidity.
24:02 "seriously.... only now does the mother get upset? when her child dies, where were you all this time?"
yeah.... my only simple logic being is she had a baby, was probably healing up, catching a quick nap or something after birthing satan's ingrown pubic hair of a son.
so she was out like a light till junior screamed in a painful death then came running.... obviously junior wandered away from where she gave birth at this point since she's not right next to him, in which like i said.... nuke the cave.
as far as the ending teaser.... yeah... alien rat.... you know that raises alot of questions i dare not even utter cause, truth be told the world would die from the over population of alien rats, eating people and whatnot.
especially considering the lore the sequel tries to put down.
all in all, this film isn't too horrible, i mean, if you unplug your brain for the run time, it's enjoyable, but yeah, like alot of movies there are flaws, even jurrassic park which came out like two years prior had it's logic flaws in it so ehh. it is what it is,
keep up the good work
5:31 ah... Luke Skywalker logic
Doc Ock looks great!, also I never realized that was him!.
Huh. i remember my dad looking over movies on Netflix, as one does on a late evening. Then my mom comes in, notices the thumbnail and description Netflix gave this movie and very passive agressively asked if he had watched it already. Funny innit
Nice review, could you do a video on who would win between the Predator (Yautja) or Sil (Species)?
Yeah you watched the second one.. that's the .. "entangled" one
Species did death by snu snu before Futurama. 😂
The Doctor Questions all he Learned in his live
Hey Altie, I just remembered a movie I would like you to review/react to, it's called AXL, from 2018 I think; it's not a horror movie, but it got a, well, I guess you could say "creature", I guess one way to describe the movie is if Johnny 5 was a giant robot dog, and the people that help him were teenagers; it got a 80s/90s movie vibe, I guess, despite being made recently.
i feel like i saw this movie when i was 5 or7 when cable tv was something i still had
when the shoulder heals fast