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Burke didn't die from the alien, he was cocooned. Ripley finds him when looking for Newt and gives him a grenade. It's a deleted scene. Look up cocooned Burke.
The Xenomorph Queen is the largest puppet in the history of film. It's about 20 feet long and 14 tall, and is hung from a crane (part of the reason the head is so big is to hide the cables). It requires 12-16 people to operate the creature, a combination of rod puppetry, animatronics, and two stuntmen INSIDE the queen doing the arms.
Terminator 2 and Alien 2 are both in my personal top ten as all time classics. T2 is something special though it's subjectively my favorite Cameron film.
When filming began, The Terminator hadn't been released yet, so Cameron's only credit was "Pirhana 2." Cameron has always been demanding on actors, and a lot of the cast resented the way the nobody director was treating them, so they began talking about a mutiny. Then when Terminator came out, they all went to see it, and realized that he knew what he was doing.
this movie was so incredibly badass for 1986. Most influential film in my 80s childhood. I remember taking planks of wood and tying them together with electrical tape like a rifle, and then also tying on a flashlight.
In the Special Edition, there's an extended sequence where the Marines set up automated sentry guns to hold back the Xenomorphs. The sentry guns manage to kill a large number of the aliens, which explains why there are fewer Xenomorphs when Ripley returns to rescue Newt later in the movie.
I had always wondered how they could have survived as long as they did at the end with so few people left and the auto-turrets explained that when I saw the extended cut. The turrets and Ripley's daughter dying in her sixties before she got back are the two things I wish they had kept in the theatrical version. It helps explain why Ripley got attached to Newt, soooo fast and of course my issues with their survival I mentioned earlier.
Well, there would have only been 157 of the aliens at the absolute most, even if they successfully captured every colonist without having to kill any. Plus, it was a really long way from the nest to where the marines were.. Only the aliens carrying a prisoner would go straight back. The rest were probably spreading out and searching
they were one of the coolest parts of the movie, but got cut from releases, I suspect part of it was it's a long ass movie, and especially for tv stuff like that get cut. But sucked.
Yeah, i remember that scene. Years ago CBS aired the directors cut of Aliens and that scene showed the counter winding down while it was taking out the Aliens. I freaked out wondering if it was gonna finish them off in time or not.
I loved the SE version and first saw it on HBO. Then, for years later, I never saw the SE version (not realizing it was a different version) and thinking I was crazy the whole time 😂
You should watch the Special Edition, which reveals Ripley had a daughter, who was 11 years old when she left on the Nostromo. So her relationship with Newt is more heart felt.
Besides i really enjoy the automatic riffle scene and Burke death scene (the one he was cocoon and Ripley gives him a gun, for him to kill himself) it gives more deapth to the line "i dont know each species is the worst"
Sgt. Apone was played by Al Matthews; before he got into acting, he'd been a Sgt in the USMC, served in Vietnam, and recieved 13 decorations. Including 2 purple hearts.
Hudson is one of my favorite characters in movies. Yes he's scared, but most people would be. He's terrified, but he never loses his moral center, being the first to say it's time to frag Burke after he turned on Ripley and Newt. He leaps into the fire to save Newt. He stands his ground in the front fighting to the end to defend everyone else. Yes, he's scared. Yes, he whines. But he's believable and he's a good person who overcomes his faults every time he's called on to do it.
This movie absolutely kills it with secondary and tertiary characters. You get a sense for who almost everyone is, even Frost, Weirzbowski, and Crowe get a couple of lines and moments of humanity. Hell, Frost has some of the best one liners in the whole film. What are we supposed to use man, harsh language?
12:56 "Those weapons are intense." "NO, I think they're on ships, actually..." "They're what?" "In ships" blank stare. "You said, those weapons are in tents..." brilliant!🤣🤣🤣
"Looks like love at first sight to me," goes for the facehugger seeing Burke, but you can also see the dollar signs in Burke's eyes, so it works both ways.
Fun fact: After filming this, Bill Paxton (Hudson), Janet Goldstein (Vasquez) & Lance Henrikson (Bishop) went off to film the vampire movie Near Dark. Which you guys should absolutely watch!!!!
Thank you! When Ripley was relaying what happened to her, that's when Burke (who is human (lol)) contacted the colony and had them check out the ship not telling them about how dangerous it was.
@@MS-vi9ug Yeah I had thought that as the 90's came on us and movies started to tell more detailed and intricate stories, that Hollywood writers and directors had started to realize that the lazy "just because it's a movie or a TV Show" explanations were not enough anymore. But it seems like intelligent writers and directors are going extinct, in favor of the rise of activists who want to use Hollywood/Sports/TV/Video Games and just about anything and everything they CAN to promote their own social political agendas. And what makes it worse is they're actually succeeding.
@@patrickcromwell7554 That’s what art has always been about you absolute Buffon. Bet you also blame everything on the “woke mind virus” right? Fuck right off, lmao. You’re definitely a kid.
Because this is not the director's cut... Ripley's daughter, Amanda, dies before she gets back. She told her that she'd be back before her next birthday. Newt is a chance at redemption. Also, the scene where Ripley drops Newt down the air shaft up the explosion, During reshoots, James Cameron figured out that Carrie Thenn (the actress playing Newt) was blowing takes because she like sliding down the shaft.
@@alexp601scenes that were cut the entire colony subplot that shows Newt and her parents. The entire scene of Burke telling Ripley her daughter died. Some extra sentry gun scenes and some extra shots of the space ship and mostly little things. The two big cuts where the colony scenes and the scene about Ripley daughter.
In the first movie they wore suits and helmets, not because of any fear of contamination but because the atmosphere wasn't breathable. You might have missed that Van Leuwen tells Ripley that the colony is there to set up big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. That's why the marines didn't wear spacesuits or masks.
@@jmutube61191 The size of the ship. A lot of internal atmosphere. The ship was in space but Ripley wasn't in space; she was in a strong wind blowing into space. Although another 1/2 minute and she and Newt would have been in real trouble as the internal atmosphere was expended.
Both are two different movies , Alien is straight up cosmic horror while Aliens is straight up action, the only one who tried to mix the two together was David Fincher in Alien 3 and it didn't work so well
@@afroahmed3989 Aliens is a mix of horror/scifi/action yes there's more action but there's still horror especially where Ripley and Newt are being attacked by facehuggers also the marines getting picked off one by one like the crew in the first film that scene is very suspenseful and intense and Ripley had to take full control in this film and she kicked ass so did the marines and they even went down fighting!!!
One of the best Sci-fi Action movies ever made! Nominated for 7 Oscars: Best Actress Sigourney Weaver Best Film Editing Ray Lovejoy Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Visual Effects Stan Winston, John Richardson and Dennis Skotak Best Production Design Peter Lamont Best Original Score James Horner It won Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing. It made $190 million dollars against an $18 million dollar budget.
In the directors cut it's revealed that Newt and her family were out on a survey (it's been a minute but i believe because of Burke's message mentioned in the theatrical cut) and her father gets a facehugger attached to him. That's why they were in the lab, the colony wasn't there for the express purpose of finding the xenomorphs, they were directed there after Ripley recalled where they first encountered the eggs.
Personally I count Lance Henriksen. Detective Vulkovich killed by T-800 in Terminator. Charles Weyland killed by Predator in AVP. Bishop ripped in half by Alien Queen in Aliens (OK, 'technically' Ripley finishes him off in Alien 3, but only after 'bringing him back'.. he was essentially 'dead' in the scrap heap, and his death is fairly directly attributable to the alien ripping him in half). Also if we were getting 'technical', you never see Bill Paxton die in Terminator. He just gets tossed back into the fence and falls down.
Fun Fact: Some mirror trickery helped them save on the budget. When we see the sleeping quarters aboard the marine ship, there are 12 hypersleep capsules. Each capsule cost $4300 to make, so the budget only allowed for 4 to be produced. With some clever mirror positioning and green screen, the crew were able to make it seem there are 12 capsules in total.
They also only had twelve alien suits to work with, so how they cut the scenes had to give the illusion of dozens of aliens spilling in from the ceiling, and so forth.
Blue screen back then. Everybody forgets that green screen is only fairly recent (from near the turn of the century). Also, "Aliens" used a lot of front projection to AMAZING effect. One of my favourites is the scene with the drop ship rolling and exploding towards the running marines. They're on an actual set with the previously shot exploding miniature projected onto a giant screen behind them. It's a fantastic effect.
Fun Fact: There was initially talk of bringing H.R. Giger (who designed the creatures for Alien) back to do more design work. However, Cameron decided against it. There was only one major design to be done, the Alien Queen, and Cameron created her himself. Cameron passed his designs for the queen over to Stan Winston, and told him what he wanted to achieve. Winston said: “When Jim came to me with this idea of putting two guys inside a giant alien queen suit. I thought, ‘This man is out of his mind.’ Nothing like that had been done before. But I realized if he had imagined it, we could probably do it.” And do it, they did. Winston and his team built a basic mechanism as proof of concept and, from there, they built the whole creature. All 14 feet of her. Bringing the Queen to life would take 14-16 operators: She was supported on a crane arm to move the entire puppet. Her body was hydraulically controlled. Her legs were operated by puppeteers. Her neck was hydraulically controlled. The tilt and turn of her head was hydraulically controlled. Her face, lips, jaw and tongue were all independently controlled by cables. Winston called the Alien Queen, “the most complex construction I’ve ever created”
Giger was still consulted the alien hive was Gigers design there is a deleted scene in the first movie where Ripley finds Dallas in the hive that was Gigers design which he brought back for Aliens.
As much as I like the alien design giger would have elevated the alien warrior and maybe other aspects of the xeno life cycle so much better, he’s the reason alien had such an amazing and complex look, it’s weird not bringing him back but essentially changing or altering his designs
Bishop is such a great character and a great decision to include him after the chaos that Ash brought in the first film. Both movies are great but I love the characters and the action of Aliens.
7:44 Actually she's a space trucker and shipper essentially. Her and her crew from the last movie, they were hauling minerals from another planet to another.
In *Alien* , they were hauling the entire ore refinery. That massive construction that the *Nostromo* was attached to was an interstellar mineral and ore processing facility, refinery, and cargo transport all in one. The *Nostromo* was the "tugboat" hauling it back home.
Seeing it in the theater is one of the best experiences I've had. The audience screamed and cheered. Everyone thought it was over before the Queen is revealed. Brilliant movie and the fx hold up perfectly
I would argue that Terminator and T2 were a lot like Alien and Aliens in terms of shift to action from the original that was much more horror in the form of how are we going to survive in an almost hopeless situation. Also I think First Blood and Rambo 2 were different, and Army of Darkness was pretty different from Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2.
Fun fact: The little girl real name Carrie Henn who played Rebecka Jordan aka "Newt" in this move never wanted to act Even after the major success of this film she never acted in a major motion picture or film of any sort again. Married in 2005 to her husband, parents of one child.
I wish I had Ripley's Power loader... that way I could finally see what is on top of my fridge or put away my groceries without using my step ladder. 😄💗
The power loader is what inspired James Cameron to create those battle bots in the first Avatar movie he created. He also was writing the Avatar movies around the time he was directing Aliens. He was waiting until we had the technology to make the films.
James Cameron actually pitched the idea to the studio execs by writing Alien on a whiteboard, then putting an s at the end and finally putting 2 slashes through it to look like *Alien$*
It’s such a great Anecdote and such a comparison to today when back then execs were so hesitant to greenlight franchises and now hell they can’t say yes fast enough for a franchise.
Still to this day I can’t decide which alien film I like best. It alternates every time I rewatch the original or Aliens . Whichever I watched last is my favorite
As part of the pitch, Cameron sold them on doing the entire movie with only 6 Alien suits. They wound up making a dozen, but still managed to make it look like an army.
You first watched aliens 25 years ago which means you are at LEAST 35, if not 40, and you are using a made up slogan from 2022? "Rent free in my head".??? Pathetic.
So you really should watch the director's cut. It has some really interesting scenes with some automated machine guns that they put outside some doors and it kind of gives an explanation of how the xenomorphs got into their area. You see what happens to Burke because he did not die at that moment with the xenomorph. He's actually cocooned and she gives him a grenade to blow himself up. And when Bishop says they have 19 minutes if you start the clock it's actually 19 minutes in real time from the time. He says that until the time that processor goes thermonuclear in real life
9:05 - fun fact: Mirror magic = instead of building ALL the cryo chambers, they built a few and used mirrors to create the illusion of there being many
RIP Bill Paxton 😢 This is my all time fave of the series. I’m so glad you two kept going with it! The cast is just a team of James Cameron’s fave actors - a lot of them were in The Terminator as well.
Ripley is HOW to write a great female character. Inexperienced, out of her depth, went through some real experiences and learn what she needed to do to survive. She's a survivor a fighter and even though she's scared to death and you can see it on her face she is fearless. she had to learn how to utilize the weapons because she had no idea but she picked up on it very quick she's not a Mary Sue she didn't walk into the room and girl boss everybody and know exactly how to do anything and everything she came with scales but she also came with such a determination that she was not going to give up and that is what makes her a fantastic character
Well said! The key is that her character isn't written as a generic hero who could have been played by either a man or a woman, but she's actually written to be a woman, including her motherly protectiveness toward Newt.
She's is male gazed and a character that represents strong femininity (not every woman is obligated to be feminine or something they're not, just because you want them to), motherhood instincts, and faithfulness to men/husband. Aka she's a male oriented female character. For some reason you hate strong masculine female character, even tho masculine women exist. Everyone has masculinity and femininity inside of them, what differs is that some have more of one than the other.
@@charlize1253since when is motherly protectveness a woman trait? Me and every single woman I've met doesn't have that. It's a personality trait, not a gender trait. We aren't animals
@@アキコ2003 Maternal instinct, ever hear of it? And yes, women DO have that motherly protectiveness, it just may take a while or specific situation for it to rear its head. Just wait, you may get yours, or you may not. Science has proven that women are more sensitive to high pitched sounds because of how much it mimics a baby's cry. Also, we are animals, just very evolved ones with the capacity for higher thought. Deep down, when the trappings of civilization are stripped away, we're all savages and can and will go back to that when it's necessary. Ripley was in full Mama Bear mode from the moment Newt got taken.
I and a fellow Marine saw this when it arrived at the theater(s). To say we were blown away by just how *AWESOME* this sequel is, would do it an injustice! The following weekends, and for MONTHS after, the theater was *PACKED* with as many Marines as could get a ticket. It's remained forever a very close 'Best!' of any movie I have ever seen! Awesome 'Reaction' folks! Thank you!! :-D
Then there's Linda Hamilton's "Sarah Connoir," who went through her Hero's Journey in "The Terminator" (1984). With these two Action movie stars, who is this "Jennifer Lawrence"?
The Voice of Lance Henriksen aka Bishop is the stuff of legends! One in a Million. That goes for all the projects he ever took part in. Whether it was Terminator, most of the AvP Games or even Mass Effect 3 as Admiral Hackett. Fun fact: That awesome armored transport of the Marines was actually used on airports to pull airplanes in their final parking position. Also I agree with your opinion that practical effects are not just old school but a fragment of the time when movies where still a craft coming all along with movie sets an props.
@@hamhockbeans Not really. She isn't automatically able to heave no fear and kick butt right from the get-go, while putting down men the whole time. Ripley develops and overcomes her fears. These days its is different. I suppose you're right some idiots would cry woke no matter what, just because its a female lead. But its the hero's journey that makes it not woke. Anyway, don't want to dwell on the "w" word anymore. I think most of us are on the same page. Such a great character.
Great Directors - Alien - Ridley Scott -- Aliens - James Cameron -- Alien 3 - David Fincher. Although, Fincher has disavowed the movie as the studio meddled a LOT with the production.
Fun fact: You'll notice these xenomorphs look different than the original one. They were actually supposed to look the same but James Cameron liked the ridged design better. Some speculation is that this is what the xenomorph from the first movie would morph into and others are since these ones are closer to the queen, they are bred to be more warrior based
@@prpwnage9296Then laid laid all of those thousands of eggs in the first one? They never state it in the first one, so who's to say that there isn't a queen...
If you look closely, the lady pilot of the drop ship had the motto "fly the friendly skies" on her helmet...that was the slogan used by United Airlines since like 1964,,,,
Advise for if you do Alien 3. Watch the assembly cut. They didn't do a director's cut since David Fincher distanced himself from the movie due to the studio interference. Its a better story with a whole subplot that was removed from the theatrical cut.
Love that you two have finally watched it. Aliens is my most watched film as a kid and teen in the 90s. I'd watch it pretty much every week on VHS at times over the years 😂
James Cameron is a master at storytelling. He understands fully the concept of "Chekhov's Gun". Playwright Anton Chekhov once said if somebody shoots a gun in the third act, you must show it on the wall in the first act and then the person holding it in the second act. Early in this film we learn that Ripley is driving loaders in a dead end job, as she can't get anything else. Later in the film we see her offer to move some weapons with the power lifter on the Sulaco. Then here, at the finale Ripley uses one to fight and defeat the Alien Queen. As the guy says in this video, it feels SO satisfying because it is built up to and paid off. What was an insult to Ripley early in the film (having basically a debased forklift driver job) actually saves her and Newt at the end. THIS is how you write satisfying stories and EXCELLENT protagnoists. Nobody is over-powered simply by having a uterus. Ripley is a FUCKING LEGEND and DESERVEDLY SO.
This movie is so near and dear to my heart. I love how they really turn Ellen Ripley into a badass here, as well as have a touching mother-daughter relationship with Ripley and Newt. The action is great, so is the story and characters, too. I love Aliens much more than Alien.
Fun Fact: Bishop’s knife trick & how they pulled off the knife trick. One of the most memorable parts of the movie is when android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) performs a trick by moving a sharp knife between the fingers of Hudson’s hand. Lance Henriksen as Bishop performed it at a slow speed, and the footage was sped up. You can tell because if you take notice of Apone, who’s next to Hudson, he’s laughing and his head is moving far more quickly than looks normal. The knife trick scene was actually not in the original script. Cameron had the idea on the set. He discussed it with everybody except Bill Paxton (who plays Hudson) as he wanted to get real surprise and shock from Paxton.
Fun fact: Those Benny Hill ending chase sequences are actually performed at a slow speed and the footage is sped up. You can tell because humans don't actually move that fast.
I saw this at the local multiplex when it came out. I remember in the lobby in front if the particular theater where it was showing, there was a hand lettered sign on an easel that read. "You should get your refreshments before Aliens starts. You won't want to get up once it begins". I imagine the theater owner noticed no one was coming to the concession stand after the movie started.
It can be seen as slightly rude because one can see it as he's seeing her as a civilian only, thus she has little she can do. But as we see, when she jumps into the loader and shows she's capable, Apone is shown that she is indeed capable, so " _Bay Twelve, please!_ " Great character, great lines, great script ^^
@@Zeithri she was part of a crew on a ship so he knows she’s more than a civilian only. He just did not know her well enough to know what she can do, and that’s why he asks her “I don’t know can you?” More intrigued than rude. When she proves and he laughs saying “Bay 12 please”, it’s because she showed him and his interest became impressed.’ That’s how it comes off to me. Definitely great script. Looking forward to Alien: Romulus in theaters soon.
I've watched several reactions on this and something I haven't seen anyone mention in the comments what a ground breaking role Ripley was in this movie. When this movie came out, it was very, very rare for a female to be shown in a movie as tough, in charge, and able to take care of herself and others. Prior to this, women, even if they were survivors, were still mostly shown in a victim role. Ripley was in command and the marines respected her for that once she showed what she was made of. It wasn't a moment of strength, she was strong throughout the movie. There were a lot of news articles at the time on how different character of she was. This movie showed Hollywood that people wanted to see movies with strong action females. And from what I can remember of the articles, the image they almost always used was Ripley in the elevator going after Newt. :)
I did with their "Alien" reaction. I actually saw in the theaters at the time I was 7 and it was my first movies. Everyone just assumed it would be Dallas or one of the other guys as the hero. It was groundbreaking that they went with Sigourney who wasn't well known at the time.
@@jdogjohnson382it wouldn’t make sense though if they skipped 3 and went straight to resurrection because that one deals a lot with 3. I just hope they do all of them including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant
They reference Aliens in Avengers Infinity War as Peter askes Tony "Have you seen Aliens?" and then the proceed to throw Ebony Maw out into space which is shot in a way exactly how the queen alien got thrown into space.
The movie is my all time classic movie ; this movie is so good , no matter how many times I watch it , it's still so top notch and so exciting to watch🎉🎉🎉🎉😊❤
you guys should really check out the directors cut of this. It explains a lot more about Rebecca and her relationship with Ripley. The aliens look different in this movie because they have had time to mature and become full grown adults.
I remember it was a big deal that Sigorney Weaver said "bitch" in the movie. It was a cultural milestone...and yes, the theatre in NY was super crowded, every seat was taken and I couldn't sit with my sister. I had to sit in the very front and when she said "get away from her, you bitch!" The theatre erupted.
I love how Tara has the most difficult time remember any human’s name but the cat from the last movie? JONES-Y!!!! She knew that instantly! 😂 BTW, I’m LIVING for Tara’s headband! GET IT, QUEEN!!! 🫰 🎉🥰
Great reaction guys! You were so invested in the story that it was a blast watching this with you. As I've said before, you really should be watching the Extended Cuts. You get so much more background for the storyline of the films. Also, when you get to Prometheus and Covenant, keep in mind that those are Prequels. 😉❤❤
I saw this opening night in '86 and until the Mjolnir scene in Endgame, the loudest cheer I had ever heard in a theater was after Hudson's line about "Greasing this ratEff SOB . . ." about Burke. This is the ONLY movie after hitting the parking lot I decided to go back and IMMEDIATELY see it again. Unfortunately, after some quick math, the guy that drove our group couldn't see it again since he needed to get his parents car back home. We drove 45 minutes so we could see this on 70mm screen in a Large theater and it was glorious.
My favorite story from this movie was that Paul Riser went to the opening with his mother. She stood up and applauded when his character was killed. She was, like, "I hate that guy!"
Fun Fact: the Actor play Hendrickson used to be a plumber before he went into acting and one of his "jobs" was laying down Pipes underground... So when the Cameron was doing this scene and Bishop volunteers, he ACTUALLY CRAWL DID CRAWL INSIDE THAT PIPE... HE SAID THE ONLY PROBLEM HE FACED DOING THAT WAS WHEN HE WAS CLOSE TO END OF THE PIPE BECAUSE THE PIPE ACTUALLY BEND NEAR THE END....
Final Fun fact I promise: when Apone asks for all their ammo "clips" and Vasquez only gives a little cylinder type thing....that is a battery pack for her harness, because she literally CANNOT give him any ammo. It's a part of the entire rig and she would need to take several minutes opening and then removing all the ammo and then closing everything and it's too much of a hassle so instead she takes out the battery pack making the harness just dead weight. But then she sneakily give Drake a spare and uses one herself.
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Paul Riser is from Mad About You with Helen Hunt.
First one is a horror movie and the second is war movie.
I want to see alien vs the creatures from quiet place death battle
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There is also a What If? Aliens comic where Burke survives.
At the premier for this film, Paul Raiser brought his mother. When Burke got killed his mom leaned over and told him "You deserved to die" , LOL
That's awesome
“What’d you think of my character mom?”
“YES HE DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE HE BURNS IN HELL!”
A testament to good acting if I've ever heard one.
Burke didn't die from the alien, he was cocooned. Ripley finds him when looking for Newt and gives him a grenade. It's a deleted scene. Look up cocooned Burke.
@@damagar8 Sweet!
The Xenomorph Queen is the largest puppet in the history of film. It's about 20 feet long and 14 tall, and is hung from a crane (part of the reason the head is so big is to hide the cables). It requires 12-16 people to operate the creature, a combination of rod puppetry, animatronics, and two stuntmen INSIDE the queen doing the arms.
A marvel of practical special effects.
I quote "game over man, game over" and "they mostly come at night, mostly" way too regularly in my day to day life 😂
Every time I have to go to a kid's birthday party from now on, I'm gonna say "Oh yeah sure! With those things runnin' around? You can count me out."
We got Sharp sticks is my go to when people ask if we got eveything
The success of this helped Cameron get the confidence and the backing to direct Terminator 2 a few years later.
Terminator 2 and Alien 2 are both in my personal top ten as all time classics. T2 is something special though it's subjectively my favorite Cameron film.
When filming began, The Terminator hadn't been released yet, so Cameron's only credit was "Pirhana 2." Cameron has always been demanding on actors, and a lot of the cast resented the way the nobody director was treating them, so they began talking about a mutiny. Then when Terminator came out, they all went to see it, and realized that he knew what he was doing.
Two of the best movie sequels of all time.
this movie was so incredibly badass for 1986. Most influential film in my 80s childhood. I remember taking planks of wood and tying them together with electrical tape like a rifle, and then also tying on a flashlight.
There's an extended version that actually shows that newt's family finding the alien ship and her dad actually gets the 1st face hugger 😊
+ they show Ripley had a daughter at the same age as Newt, when she left for the Nostromo job.
@@billigmad3720Amanda Ripley From Alien Isolation plus there are more scenes between the marines like the guns nest
@@billigmad3720 I never understood why they cut the daughter part out in the original. It makes her connection with Newt so much more meaningful.
Spoilers...
@@Luchiville The movie is 38 years old.
I love how your first response was “THE ALIEN TOOK THE GUN?”
Immediately my brain went to one of the face huggers with the gun
"Hug this!"
Smoking a cigar.
In the Special Edition, there's an extended sequence where the Marines set up automated sentry guns to hold back the Xenomorphs. The sentry guns manage to kill a large number of the aliens, which explains why there are fewer Xenomorphs when Ripley returns to rescue Newt later in the movie.
I had always wondered how they could have survived as long as they did at the end with so few people left and the auto-turrets explained that when I saw the extended cut. The turrets and Ripley's daughter dying in her sixties before she got back are the two things I wish they had kept in the theatrical version. It helps explain why Ripley got attached to Newt, soooo fast and of course my issues with their survival I mentioned earlier.
Well, there would have only been 157 of the aliens at the absolute most, even if they successfully captured every colonist without having to kill any. Plus, it was a really long way from the nest to where the marines were.. Only the aliens carrying a prisoner would go straight back. The rest were probably spreading out and searching
they were one of the coolest parts of the movie, but got cut from releases, I suspect part of it was it's a long ass movie, and especially for tv stuff like that get cut. But sucked.
Yeah, i remember that scene. Years ago CBS aired the directors cut of Aliens and that scene showed the counter winding down while it was taking out the Aliens. I freaked out wondering if it was gonna finish them off in time or not.
I loved the SE version and first saw it on HBO. Then, for years later, I never saw the SE version (not realizing it was a different version) and thinking I was crazy the whole time 😂
You should watch the Special Edition, which reveals Ripley had a daughter, who was 11 years old when she left on the Nostromo. So her relationship with Newt is more heart felt.
@@aussieguy6908 Which was actually Sigourney Weaver's mom in the picture.
That's a great suggestion💯👍
Besides i really enjoy the automatic riffle scene and Burke death scene (the one he was cocoon and Ripley gives him a gun, for him to kill himself) it gives more deapth to the line "i dont know each species is the worst"
And her daughter was the main character of the really good spinoff game Alien: Isolation
I always felt out of all the deleted scenes they should have had that daughter one left in
Sgt. Apone was played by Al Matthews; before he got into acting, he'd been a Sgt in the USMC, served in Vietnam, and recieved 13 decorations. Including 2 purple hearts.
Absolutely Badass
Hudson is one of my favorite characters in movies. Yes he's scared, but most people would be. He's terrified, but he never loses his moral center, being the first to say it's time to frag Burke after he turned on Ripley and Newt. He leaps into the fire to save Newt. He stands his ground in the front fighting to the end to defend everyone else. Yes, he's scared. Yes, he whines. But he's believable and he's a good person who overcomes his faults every time he's called on to do it.
He was the most human character. Also he did not do the usual horror trope he said lets get the hell out of here.
This movie absolutely kills it with secondary and tertiary characters. You get a sense for who almost everyone is, even Frost, Weirzbowski, and Crowe get a couple of lines and moments of humanity. Hell, Frost has some of the best one liners in the whole film. What are we supposed to use man, harsh language?
12:56
"Those weapons are intense."
"NO, I think they're on ships, actually..."
"They're what?"
"In ships"
blank stare.
"You said, those weapons are in tents..."
brilliant!🤣🤣🤣
There should be an award! Such a good, bad pun delivered so quickly!😂
"Hah! GOT 'EEEEM!"
I love a bad pun so that got me :D
I noticed that too.
That knife bit at the start got so many 80's kids stabbed in the finger during school with a pencil
Unfortunate facts
hell yeah! one here
I still have a piece of the tip in my hand 😂
Some of us tried it with pencils in high school and I was in high school in the mid 00s.
I remember. I wasn't cool enough to try it though lol.
Fun fact: Did you know Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by a Alien, Predator, AND a Terminator 😉
And lance too.
HEY, Dying is his specialty!
Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) was killed by an alien and a Terminator so she comes in a close second. She was John Connors foster mom in Terminator 2
“Game over, man”. Bill Paxton is the goat on the stat.
@@manduheavyvazquez5268lance asked to be terminated in alien 3 by Ripley
One of my all-time favorite lines from this movie is Bishop complimenting Ripley by saying, "Not bad for a human."
"Looks like love at first sight to me," goes for the facehugger seeing Burke, but you can also see the dollar signs in Burke's eyes, so it works both ways.
Fun fact: After filming this, Bill Paxton (Hudson), Janet Goldstein (Vasquez) & Lance Henrikson (Bishop) went off to film the vampire movie Near Dark. Which you guys should absolutely watch!!!!
Another fun fact are those actors are also in Terminator 1( Paxton and Henrikson) and Terminator 2 ( Goldstein) 😊
I've never heard of near dark so thank you for the recommendation
Awesome movie!!!
Near Dark! One of my favorites. Always happy to hear it brought up. :)
I have no idea about this movie and is directed by none other than Kathryn Bigelow, before they were married!! wow
"They can bill me!!!" - Ellen Ripley
No. She's not second guessing herself. A planet is a big place. It just means the colonists havent FOUND the alien ship. YET.
Thank you! When Ripley was relaying what happened to her, that's when Burke (who is human (lol)) contacted the colony and had them check out the ship not telling them about how dangerous it was.
Honestly I've never seen two people misunderstand a film more. It was so frustrating
@@bethcushway458Yeah, it’s pretty telling of how people are now. Just can’t pay the fuck attention for important details.
@@MS-vi9ug Yeah I had thought that as the 90's came on us and movies started to tell more detailed and intricate stories, that Hollywood writers and directors had started to realize that the lazy "just because it's a movie or a TV Show" explanations were not enough anymore. But it seems like intelligent writers and directors are going extinct, in favor of the rise of activists who want to use Hollywood/Sports/TV/Video Games and just about anything and everything they CAN to promote their own social political agendas. And what makes it worse is they're actually succeeding.
@@patrickcromwell7554 That’s what art has always been about you absolute Buffon. Bet you also blame everything on the “woke mind virus” right? Fuck right off, lmao. You’re definitely a kid.
Because this is not the director's cut... Ripley's daughter, Amanda, dies before she gets back. She told her that she'd be back before her next birthday. Newt is a chance at redemption.
Also, the scene where Ripley drops Newt down the air shaft up the explosion, During reshoots, James Cameron figured out that Carrie Thenn (the actress playing Newt) was blowing takes because she like sliding down the shaft.
I didn't realise there was no mention of Ripley's daughter in the non-director's cut version?
I know they don't really play games on this channel but it would be fun if they watched/played alien isolation so they could see Ripley's daughter
@@alexp601scenes that were cut the entire colony subplot that shows Newt and her parents. The entire scene of Burke telling Ripley her daughter died. Some extra sentry gun scenes and some extra shots of the space ship and mostly little things. The two big cuts where the colony scenes and the scene about Ripley daughter.
Spoilers Man...
Also we find out her first name is Ellen.
In the first movie they wore suits and helmets, not because of any fear of contamination but because the atmosphere wasn't breathable. You might have missed that Van Leuwen tells Ripley that the colony is there to set up big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. That's why the marines didn't wear spacesuits or masks.
Exactly! At the outset they said their terra-farmers setting up air handlers to make the atmosphere breathable.
@@chelliebean5773 - Terraformers. One word.
@@chelliebean5773But how do you explain the scene when Ripley released the Alien Queen from the ship, that's literally in SPACE?
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The size of the ship. A lot of internal atmosphere. The ship was in space but Ripley wasn't in space; she was in a strong wind blowing into space. Although another 1/2 minute and she and Newt would have been in real trouble as the internal atmosphere was expended.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Nice excuse, except that really won't work in real life, isn't it?
Bishop was the MVP of the movie.
Hes also in AVP but many try to forget that one
MVAP ❤
@@HistoritorJimaldus good one.👍
I love him, but the mvp was Ripley, c'mon. Don't play
Fun fact: Paul Reisner (Burke) took his mother to the premier, and she cheered when his character was killed 🤣.
People argue which one is better. Alien or Aliens. They're both great.
@@grahayes yeah but this one is my favorite!
aliens is way superior. first one is a haunted house movie in space. second one made ripley iconic and inspired major trend in films and videogames.
Both are two different movies , Alien is straight up cosmic horror while Aliens is straight up action, the only one who tried to mix the two together was David Fincher in Alien 3 and it didn't work so well
@@afroahmed3989 Aliens is a mix of horror/scifi/action yes there's more action but there's still horror especially where Ripley and Newt are being attacked by facehuggers also the marines getting picked off one by one like the crew in the first film that scene is very suspenseful and intense and Ripley had to take full control in this film and she kicked ass so did the marines and they even went down fighting!!!
2 totally different movies. But for me it will ALWAYS be Alien.
One of the best Sci-fi Action movies ever made!
Nominated for 7 Oscars:
Best Actress Sigourney Weaver
Best Film Editing Ray Lovejoy
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects Stan Winston, John Richardson and Dennis Skotak
Best Production Design Peter Lamont
Best Original Score James Horner
It won Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing.
It made $190 million dollars against an $18 million dollar budget.
In the directors cut it's revealed that Newt and her family were out on a survey (it's been a minute but i believe because of Burke's message mentioned in the theatrical cut) and her father gets a facehugger attached to him. That's why they were in the lab, the colony wasn't there for the express purpose of finding the xenomorphs, they were directed there after Ripley recalled where they first encountered the eggs.
R.I.P Bill Paxton. Only actor to have been killed by a Terminator, an alien, and a predator.
❤😢
And he took down Tornado's for fun.
Personally I count Lance Henriksen.
Detective Vulkovich killed by T-800 in Terminator.
Charles Weyland killed by Predator in AVP.
Bishop ripped in half by Alien Queen in Aliens (OK, 'technically' Ripley finishes him off in Alien 3, but only after 'bringing him back'.. he was essentially 'dead' in the scrap heap, and his death is fairly directly attributable to the alien ripping him in half).
Also if we were getting 'technical', you never see Bill Paxton die in Terminator. He just gets tossed back into the fence and falls down.
Wrong, pass it on...
Fun Fact: Some mirror trickery helped them save on the budget.
When we see the sleeping quarters aboard the marine ship, there are 12 hypersleep capsules. Each capsule cost $4300 to make, so the budget only allowed for 4 to be produced. With some clever mirror positioning and green screen, the crew were able to make it seem there are 12 capsules in total.
They also only had twelve alien suits to work with, so how they cut the scenes had to give the illusion of dozens of aliens spilling in from the ceiling, and so forth.
Blue screen back then. Everybody forgets that green screen is only fairly recent (from near the turn of the century). Also, "Aliens" used a lot of front projection to AMAZING effect. One of my favourites is the scene with the drop ship rolling and exploding towards the running marines. They're on an actual set with the previously shot exploding miniature projected onto a giant screen behind them. It's a fantastic effect.
Aliens is a goddammed masterpiece!! Mostly because you don’t want any of the characters to die… we genuinely care for them!
Even Gorman redeemed himself!
Except Burke lol
Fun Fact: There was initially talk of bringing H.R. Giger (who designed the creatures for Alien) back to do more design work. However, Cameron decided against it. There was only one major design to be done, the Alien Queen, and Cameron created her himself.
Cameron passed his designs for the queen over to Stan Winston, and told him what he wanted to achieve. Winston said: “When Jim came to me with this idea of putting two guys inside a giant alien queen suit. I thought, ‘This man is out of his mind.’ Nothing like that had been done before. But I realized if he had imagined it, we could probably do it.”
And do it, they did. Winston and his team built a basic mechanism as proof of concept and, from there, they built the whole creature. All 14 feet of her. Bringing the Queen to life would take 14-16 operators:
She was supported on a crane arm to move the entire puppet.
Her body was hydraulically controlled.
Her legs were operated by puppeteers.
Her neck was hydraulically controlled.
The tilt and turn of her head was hydraulically controlled.
Her face, lips, jaw and tongue were all independently controlled by cables.
Winston called the Alien Queen, “the most complex construction I’ve ever created”
HR Giger has a museum in his hometown in Switzerland. There is an Alien bar inside. It looks amazing, google it :)
Giger was still consulted the alien hive was Gigers design there is a deleted scene in the first movie where Ripley finds Dallas in the hive that was Gigers design which he brought back for Aliens.
Had had drawn so much for Alien that there was still plenty to pull from for Aliens.
As much as I like the alien design giger would have elevated the alien warrior and maybe other aspects of the xeno life cycle so much better, he’s the reason alien had such an amazing and complex look, it’s weird not bringing him back but essentially changing or altering his designs
I just wish we'd got the Giger inspired version of Dune... If you haven't seem some of the props and artwork he made for it, well worth a look!
"What are we gonna do?"
"Die, I guess"
lololol
"Hicks" - The one and only MIchael Biehn, who was also in James Caneron's "TERMINATOR" and "THE ABYSS".
Bishop is such a great character and a great decision to include him after the chaos that Ash brought in the first film. Both movies are great but I love the characters and the action of Aliens.
Y'all's reaction to the Queen popping out and killing Bishop was hilarious. 😂😂😂
7:44 Actually she's a space trucker and shipper essentially. Her and her crew from the last movie, they were hauling minerals from another planet to another.
In *Alien* , they were hauling the entire ore refinery. That massive construction that the *Nostromo* was attached to was an interstellar mineral and ore processing facility, refinery, and cargo transport all in one. The *Nostromo* was the "tugboat" hauling it back home.
Seeing it in the theater is one of the best experiences I've had. The audience screamed and cheered. Everyone thought it was over before the Queen is revealed. Brilliant movie and the fx hold up perfectly
A Sequel that lives up to the original and arguably surpasses it and brings something new and fresh.
The fact that it switches the genre from horror to action is what is remarkable. When has a sequel ever changed genres before?
I would argue that Terminator and T2 were a lot like Alien and Aliens in terms of shift to action from the original that was much more horror in the form of how are we going to survive in an almost hopeless situation. Also I think First Blood and Rambo 2 were different, and Army of Darkness was pretty different from Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2.
Surpasses no, but nearly as good
@@yeeyeebubba1885Yes it surpassed.
@@yeeyeebubba1885Sigourney Weaver said it herself Aliens surpassed Alien .
These soldiers were the main inspiration for the Marines in the Halo franchise.
A lot of the Halo CE was inspired by it
A rare sequel as good as the first
Fun fact: The little girl real name Carrie Henn who played Rebecka Jordan aka "Newt" in this move never wanted to act Even after the major success of this film she never acted in a major motion picture or film of any sort again.
Married in 2005 to her husband, parents of one child.
I believe she's a teacher now.
I wish I had Ripley's Power loader... that way I could finally see what is on top of my fridge or put away my groceries without using my step ladder. 😄💗
The power loader is what inspired James Cameron to create those battle bots in the first Avatar movie he created. He also was writing the Avatar movies around the time he was directing Aliens. He was waiting until we had the technology to make the films.
James Cameron actually pitched the idea to the studio execs by writing Alien on a whiteboard, then putting an s at the end and finally putting 2 slashes through it to look like *Alien$*
My fav trivia about this movie ❤
It’s such a great Anecdote and such a comparison to today when back then execs were so hesitant to greenlight franchises and now hell they can’t say yes fast enough for a franchise.
James Cameron himself has said that that isn't true. It's a nice story though
@@dapeach06 watch “The Movies That Made Us” they said it was true,
Jenette Goldstein, the one that plays Vasquez, got killed by aliens, killed by a Terminator in Terminator 2 and was on the Titanic
And her two children
@@saltymisfit6566 also got bombed while swimming in Lethal Weapon:2.
@@MrBoyYankeeyep
@@saltymisfit6566 then became a bitchin vampire in Near Dark. 🧛♀️
Still to this day I can’t decide which alien film I like best. It alternates every time I rewatch the original or Aliens . Whichever I watched last is my favorite
As part of the pitch, Cameron sold them on doing the entire movie with only 6 Alien suits. They wound up making a dozen, but still managed to make it look like an army.
I worked as an usher when this movie came out theatrically, and it played like a rock concert.
It's been 25 years since I first watched this movie and _Get away from her, you B_ has lived rent free in my head since then.
Contender for best cheer-inducing line in cinema history
You first watched aliens 25 years ago which means you are at LEAST 35, if not 40, and you are using a made up slogan from 2022? "Rent free in my head".???
Pathetic.
So you really should watch the director's cut. It has some really interesting scenes with some automated machine guns that they put outside some doors and it kind of gives an explanation of how the xenomorphs got into their area. You see what happens to Burke because he did not die at that moment with the xenomorph. He's actually cocooned and she gives him a grenade to blow himself up. And when Bishop says they have 19 minutes if you start the clock it's actually 19 minutes in real time from the time. He says that until the time that processor goes thermonuclear in real life
9:05 - fun fact: Mirror magic = instead of building ALL the cryo chambers, they built a few and used mirrors to create the illusion of there being many
That's dope
Ripley isn’t a Science woman. She’s a warrant officer.
Specifically she was First Officer on the Nostromo (2nd in Command under Captain Dallas)
@@johannesbowers7467 incorrect. Kane was first officer. Ripley was warrant officer 3rd in the chain of command.
Game over man! GAME OVER!
- Bill "The Badass" Paxton
RIP Bill Paxton 😢 This is my all time fave of the series. I’m so glad you two kept going with it! The cast is just a team of James Cameron’s fave actors - a lot of them were in The Terminator as well.
Ripley is HOW to write a great female character. Inexperienced, out of her depth, went through some real experiences and learn what she needed to do to survive. She's a survivor a fighter and even though she's scared to death and you can see it on her face she is fearless. she had to learn how to utilize the weapons because she had no idea but she picked up on it very quick she's not a Mary Sue she didn't walk into the room and girl boss everybody and know exactly how to do anything and everything she came with scales but she also came with such a determination that she was not going to give up and that is what makes her a fantastic character
Well said! The key is that her character isn't written as a generic hero who could have been played by either a man or a woman, but she's actually written to be a woman, including her motherly protectiveness toward Newt.
She's is male gazed and a character that represents strong femininity (not every woman is obligated to be feminine or something they're not, just because you want them to), motherhood instincts, and faithfulness to men/husband. Aka she's a male oriented female character. For some reason you hate strong masculine female character, even tho masculine women exist. Everyone has masculinity and femininity inside of them, what differs is that some have more of one than the other.
@@charlize1253since when is motherly protectveness a woman trait? Me and every single woman I've met doesn't have that. It's a personality trait, not a gender trait. We aren't animals
@@アキコ2003 Maternal instinct, ever hear of it? And yes, women DO have that motherly protectiveness, it just may take a while or specific situation for it to rear its head. Just wait, you may get yours, or you may not. Science has proven that women are more sensitive to high pitched sounds because of how much it mimics a baby's cry. Also, we are animals, just very evolved ones with the capacity for higher thought. Deep down, when the trappings of civilization are stripped away, we're all savages and can and will go back to that when it's necessary. Ripley was in full Mama Bear mode from the moment Newt got taken.
14:38 “two, simulated.” It appears LT Gorman is a 2nd Lieutenant, which is the equivalent of a brand new private fresh out of training.
I and a fellow Marine saw this when it arrived at the theater(s). To say we were blown away by just how *AWESOME* this sequel is, would do it an injustice! The following weekends, and for MONTHS after, the theater was *PACKED* with as many Marines as could get a ticket. It's remained forever a very close 'Best!' of any movie I have ever seen! Awesome 'Reaction' folks! Thank you!! :-D
Today: We’ve never had women in strong lead roles…
Aliens, 1986: (Ripley, the DEFINITION of “ICONIC”, admired and loved by two generations)
Then there's Linda Hamilton's "Sarah Connoir," who went through her Hero's Journey in "The Terminator" (1984). With these two Action movie stars, who is this "Jennifer Lawrence"?
@@Otokichi786try Hunger Games there are 4 movies with her.
Check out the Swedish trilogy: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
@@gailseatonhumbert You're ignorant of the point the poster is trying to make.
“He got the juice on him!!” 😂 that was great
The Voice of Lance Henriksen aka Bishop is the stuff of legends! One in a Million. That goes for all the projects he ever took part in. Whether it was Terminator, most of the AvP Games or even Mass Effect 3 as Admiral Hackett. Fun fact: That awesome armored transport of the Marines was actually used on airports to pull airplanes in their final parking position. Also I agree with your opinion that practical effects are not just old school but a fragment of the time when movies where still a craft coming all along with movie sets an props.
Lance had a tv show called Millenium also. It was an X-Files spin off.
Will never ever get bored watching this film. An absolute masterpiece
THIS is how you write a strong female character without mocking femininity, protective instincts and vulnerability.
The original mama bear ❤
Not today any female protagonist is WOKE. If this movie was released today some idiots would cry WOKE!!
Exactly. You don't need "woke" that patronizes. Same thing with Sarah Connor in Terminator.
@@hamhockbeans Not really. She isn't automatically able to heave no fear and kick butt right from the get-go, while putting down men the whole time. Ripley develops and overcomes her fears. These days its is different. I suppose you're right some idiots would cry woke no matter what, just because its a female lead. But its the hero's journey that makes it not woke. Anyway, don't want to dwell on the "w" word anymore. I think most of us are on the same page. Such a great character.
Yes, 100% agree, the difference between this and all this woke bullshit and horrible woman characters now a days is insane
Great Directors - Alien - Ridley Scott -- Aliens - James Cameron -- Alien 3 - David Fincher. Although, Fincher has disavowed the movie as the studio meddled a LOT with the production.
There’s only 2 movies I went to see when they came out where the audience gave a standing ovation at the end. Aliens and The Fly
Fun fact: You'll notice these xenomorphs look different than the original one. They were actually supposed to look the same but James Cameron liked the ridged design better. Some speculation is that this is what the xenomorph from the first movie would morph into and others are since these ones are closer to the queen, they are bred to be more warrior based
Badass
no such thing as a queen. Cameon's aliens are not proper aliens. Ridley Scott films have the proper alien and the new one Romulus.
@@prpwnage9296 Not proper aliens? Heck you on about?
@@prpwnage9296Then laid laid all of those thousands of eggs in the first one? They never state it in the first one, so who's to say that there isn't a queen...
@@Carn_Is_Done They don't have the skull, they are short and fat, they don't have then dome on their heads. That's what I'm on about.
If you look closely, the lady pilot of the drop ship had the motto "fly the friendly skies" on her helmet...that was the slogan used by United Airlines since like 1964,,,,
Advise for if you do Alien 3. Watch the assembly cut. They didn't do a director's cut since David Fincher distanced himself from the movie due to the studio interference. Its a better story with a whole subplot that was removed from the theatrical cut.
Fun fact, Michael Biehn, who stared in 3 of Cameron's movies Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss, gets bitten in the hand in all 3 movies.
When Cameron was planning his Spider-Man movie, Biehn was supposed to play Peter Parker, so that would had been the fourth time.
Bill Paxton is a legend, RIP... The only person on earth to ever die to an Alien, a Predator, AND a Terminator.
…and a “Mimic” (“Day After Tomorrow”) !
@@frankenstein3526 Oh shit i forgot about that haha! Good call!, think you meant Edge of Tomorrow, but I knew exactly what ya meant.
Love that you two have finally watched it. Aliens is my most watched film as a kid and teen in the 90s. I'd watch it pretty much every week on VHS at times over the years 😂
James Cameron is a master at storytelling. He understands fully the concept of "Chekhov's Gun". Playwright Anton Chekhov once said if somebody shoots a gun in the third act, you must show it on the wall in the first act and then the person holding it in the second act. Early in this film we learn that Ripley is driving loaders in a dead end job, as she can't get anything else. Later in the film we see her offer to move some weapons with the power lifter on the Sulaco. Then here, at the finale Ripley uses one to fight and defeat the Alien Queen. As the guy says in this video, it feels SO satisfying because it is built up to and paid off. What was an insult to Ripley early in the film (having basically a debased forklift driver job) actually saves her and Newt at the end. THIS is how you write satisfying stories and EXCELLENT protagnoists. Nobody is over-powered simply by having a uterus. Ripley is a FUCKING LEGEND and DESERVEDLY SO.
This was probably my most anticipated reaction on this channel lately!
Okay a lot of people don't realize this but Vasquez the only female in this unit is also the Stepmom to John Connor in Terminator 2
She was also the Irish lady in titanic. The one who is telling her kids a bedtime story as the ship is sinking.
Foster mom
She isnt the only female in the unit. The pilot was a female and the one thats find the alive colonist that an alien burst out of. Ferro and Dietrich
She was also one of the bridge officers on the Enterprise B in "STAR TREK Generations".
Ripley using the load lifter was set up when Reiser visited her apartment. It didn't come out of nowhere.
This movie is so near and dear to my heart. I love how they really turn Ellen Ripley into a badass here, as well as have a touching mother-daughter relationship with Ripley and Newt. The action is great, so is the story and characters, too. I love Aliens much more than Alien.
Fun Fact: Bishop’s knife trick & how they pulled off the knife trick.
One of the most memorable parts of the movie is when android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) performs a trick by moving a sharp knife between the fingers of Hudson’s hand. Lance Henriksen as Bishop performed it at a slow speed, and the footage was sped up. You can tell because if you take notice of Apone, who’s next to Hudson, he’s laughing and his head is moving far more quickly than looks normal.
The knife trick scene was actually not in the original script. Cameron had the idea on the set. He discussed it with everybody except Bill Paxton (who plays Hudson) as he wanted to get real surprise and shock from Paxton.
Fun fact: Those Benny Hill ending chase sequences are actually performed at a slow speed and the footage is sped up. You can tell because humans don't actually move that fast.
Fun fact: you didn't watch to the end of the video. Tara spoke about the filming of the knife trick
@@ImBigDave79 I did just Tara beat me to it.
I saw this at the local multiplex when it came out. I remember in the lobby in front if the particular theater where it was showing, there was a hand lettered sign on an easel that read. "You should get your refreshments before Aliens starts. You won't want to get up once it begins". I imagine the theater owner noticed no one was coming to the concession stand after the movie started.
Tara saw Paul Reiser's name but couldn't remember his face then a minute later sees Paul Reiser's face but can't remember his name 🤣 I love her
Apone wasn’t being rude. He was legit asking if there was anything she could do. 😅
THANK YOU! Please school them!
Agreed! The late Al Matthews was fantastic in this film.
It can be seen as slightly rude because one can see it as he's seeing her as a civilian only, thus she has little she can do.
But as we see, when she jumps into the loader and shows she's capable, Apone is shown that she is indeed capable, so " _Bay Twelve, please!_ "
Great character, great lines, great script ^^
@@Zeithri she was part of a crew on a ship so he knows she’s more than a civilian only. He just did not know her well enough to know what she can do, and that’s why he asks her “I don’t know can you?” More intrigued than rude. When she proves and he laughs saying “Bay 12 please”, it’s because she showed him and his interest became impressed.’ That’s how it comes off to me. Definitely great script. Looking forward to Alien: Romulus in theaters soon.
Maybe the best Action Movie EVER! This is what real tent pole blockbuster movies used to look like.
1:01:28 lol i always loved how the Queen Alien dose a 360 spin there.
Hicks is played by Michael Biehn, The Terminator, The Abyss and Tombstone to name a few.
“EAT THIS!!”
Favorite part
I've watched several reactions on this and something I haven't seen anyone mention in the comments what a ground breaking role Ripley was in this movie. When this movie came out, it was very, very rare for a female to be shown in a movie as tough, in charge, and able to take care of herself and others. Prior to this, women, even if they were survivors, were still mostly shown in a victim role. Ripley was in command and the marines respected her for that once she showed what she was made of. It wasn't a moment of strength, she was strong throughout the movie.
There were a lot of news articles at the time on how different character of she was. This movie showed Hollywood that people wanted to see movies with strong action females. And from what I can remember of the articles, the image they almost always used was Ripley in the elevator going after Newt. :)
I did with their "Alien" reaction. I actually saw in the theaters at the time I was 7 and it was my first movies. Everyone just assumed it would be Dallas or one of the other guys as the hero. It was groundbreaking that they went with Sigourney who wasn't well known at the time.
With Alien: Romulus on the horizon -- Who else would you like to see helm an Alien Sequel / Spinoff next???
Gareth Edwards
I support this action
I'd like James Cameron to at least write the next sequel if nothing else but to retcon 3 and 4 😅
Don't watch alien 3 if you want a happy ending with Ripley Hicks and Newt just a warning!!!
@@jdogjohnson382it wouldn’t make sense though if they skipped 3 and went straight to resurrection because that one deals a lot with 3. I just hope they do all of them including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant
absolutely love you two reacting to this Tara getting scared is hilarious haha bless her 🤣🤣🤣 love the Alien films
They reference Aliens in Avengers Infinity War as Peter askes Tony "Have you seen Aliens?" and then the proceed to throw Ebony Maw out into space which is shot in a way exactly how the queen alien got thrown into space.
The movie is my all time classic movie ; this movie is so good , no matter how many times I watch it , it's still so top notch and so exciting to watch🎉🎉🎉🎉😊❤
This is so nerve wracking watching it with people who never seen it before! When Newt was in the water! But so much fun! Love you guys!
Sitting here wondering how long it takes for you to recognize Hicks as the guy that saves Sarah Connor in Terminator (and father to John)😉
Didn’t call him out at all. Disappointing
you guys should really check out the directors cut of this. It explains a lot more about Rebecca and her relationship with Ripley. The aliens look different in this movie because they have had time to mature and become full grown adults.
I remember it was a big deal that Sigorney Weaver said "bitch" in the movie. It was a cultural milestone...and yes, the theatre in NY was super crowded, every seat was taken and I couldn't sit with my sister. I had to sit in the very front and when she said "get away from her, you bitch!" The theatre erupted.
One of the best sequels ever made.
Loved your reaction to Alien...kinda sad you didn't watch the Director's Cut, which is the way Cameron wanted it.
I love how Tara has the most difficult time remember any human’s name but the cat from the last movie? JONES-Y!!!! She knew that instantly! 😂 BTW, I’m LIVING for Tara’s headband! GET IT, QUEEN!!! 🫰 🎉🥰
Great reaction guys! You were so invested in the story that it was a blast watching this with you. As I've said before, you really should be watching the Extended Cuts. You get so much more background for the storyline of the films. Also, when you get to Prometheus and Covenant, keep in mind that those are Prequels. 😉❤❤
They didn’t need masks because the atmosphere processor created air to breathe.
I saw this opening night in '86 and until the Mjolnir scene in Endgame, the loudest cheer I had ever heard in a theater was after Hudson's line about "Greasing this ratEff SOB . . ." about Burke.
This is the ONLY movie after hitting the parking lot I decided to go back and IMMEDIATELY see it again. Unfortunately, after some quick math, the guy that drove our group couldn't see it again since he needed to get his parents car back home.
We drove 45 minutes so we could see this on 70mm screen in a Large theater and it was glorious.
There a tale that Paul Reiser (Burke) took his mother to the premier and she slapped his face when his character betrayed the Marines.
My favorite story from this movie was that Paul Riser went to the opening with his mother. She stood up and applauded when his character was killed. She was, like, "I hate that guy!"
Keep ìn mind, Ripley lost her daughter, because she was gone for so long.
Fun Fact: the Actor play Hendrickson used to be a plumber before he went into acting and one of his "jobs" was laying down Pipes underground... So when the Cameron was doing this scene and Bishop volunteers, he ACTUALLY CRAWL DID CRAWL INSIDE THAT PIPE... HE SAID THE ONLY PROBLEM HE FACED DOING THAT WAS WHEN HE WAS CLOSE TO END OF THE PIPE BECAUSE THE PIPE ACTUALLY BEND NEAR THE END....
Final Fun fact I promise: when Apone asks for all their ammo "clips" and Vasquez only gives a little cylinder type thing....that is a battery pack for her harness, because she literally CANNOT give him any ammo. It's a part of the entire rig and she would need to take several minutes opening and then removing all the ammo and then closing everything and it's too much of a hassle so instead she takes out the battery pack making the harness just dead weight. But then she sneakily give Drake a spare and uses one herself.