Complaining about a spaceship not being aerodynamic even though it flies through space where there is no air and where aerodynamics are pretty much pointless. [DING]
Yep, saw it on opening weekend in 1979 and to this day it is my all time favorite movie. I'd never seen anything like it. It blew my little high school mind.
🤣😂 🎵🎶"Hello my baby, hello my honey Hello my ragtime, summertime gal Send me a kiss by wire, by wire Baby, my heart's on fire, on fire If you refuse me, honey, you lose me And you'll be left alone, oh baby Telephone, and tell me, tell me Tell me I'm your very own"🎵🎶
The bit that looks like a bouncy-penis-castle was the cargo; the actual towing ship is a fairly compact if unlovely-looking thing, but you can clearly see the huge thing in space is not what lands dirtside - the lander is the Nostromo itself.
Actually, I think the cat on the ship is a tribute or homage to the old tradition that sailors used to have of keeping a cat on the ship to hunt bilge rats and keep food stores preserved longer.
@@heartless604 Ahhh, defending your fellow nerd? Nice! I can tell you are one as well because your talking like that and you think you just beat him with the best person in the world.
4:58 - Actually, there was a deleted scene after the facehugger's acid blood dripping on the floor. In it, the whole crew arrives to check if nothing has happened to Kane due to the acid spill, only to find that nothing has happened to him. However, Ripley takes a look at Kane's X-ray scan and notices a stain on his lungs, which gets dismissed by Ash. Nevertheless, this scene was cut out so as not to ruin the suprise of the chest penetration. And boy, it surely fucking worked! Although yes, that still deserves a sin.
Apparently that chestburster scene was pretty traumatizing for the actors. They weren't told what the alien would look like or that blood would spray all over the place. The actress who played Lambert genuinely freaked out.
@theeverlastingspiral9617 People go to Haloween haunted houses knowing that their are jump scares to be expected and are still freaked out so there's that. You give actors too much credit.
@theeverlastingspiral9617The actors werent informed about what was gonna happen, beside a vague "something emerges", the director explicitly wanted that so their reactions were real and way more intense
@@dondee5439 People generally aren't "traumatized" by haunted houses. About the only truth to this urban legend was that Lambert's actress was surprised by the amount of blood and freaked out a little. That's it. People making it out like all the actors were genuinely terrified are ridiculous.
For some stupid reason, youtube thinks that the other comment is in another language. Except the language it thinks its in is just british english. And it doesnt even change what it says when it “translates” it. This is where ai has come to.
According to CinemaSins spaceships should look like submarines or airplanes. Because how else would they move through all that air in space? Maybe they should have headlights too, otherwise they won't be able to see where they are going since it's so dark. And a horn in case another ship gets too close.
you know that space ships have to go through the atmosphere, which la de da has air. So I get the joke you're trying to make but fyi this time CinemaSins has a point. Spaceships need to be aerodynamic.
Navarro Peck No they don't if they are built in space, either in orbit or at some kind of shipyard, or someplace like the moon with no air and far lower gravity. You could design it anyway you wanted without having to worry about it ever touching an atmosphere. That's what the smaller ships attached to it are for. You could make it as aerodynamic as you wanted, but you'd be limited to how big you could build your ships because of fuel costs just to get it off the ground. Just look at how much fuel it took to get the shuttles off the ground. The boosters and fuel tank were bigger than the craft itself.
The level of mastery in every aspect of this film never ceases to astound me. The insane level of realism in everything. The incredible sets alone, its astonishing to think it was made in 1979, its aged so well. No sci fi film before or since has ever really come close to it. The space jockey scene alone. The sense of wonder, mystery and just pure alieness of it. The sets have an organic, lifelike nightmarish quality. The Star Wars franchise by comparison has aged badly and just seems so amateur. Alien is peerless. Even modern sci fi can't hold a candle to it. Take Avatar for example. It just looks ridiculous and cartoonish, with terrible clunky dialogue and dull, uninspiring acting. Prometheus is still painful to talk about... The acting and screenplay in Alien is a masterclass. The cast are just playing average, working people. It's all so believable. There are no loud stereotypes. Even making a cat a part of the crew was a masterstroke not to mention the brilliance of making a woman the hero of the story. The sound and editing is flawless. The pacing of the film, the slow build up, the sheer sense of dread and impending doom, the intelligent , sparing filming of the alien itself, not revealing all until the end. Its hard to describe just how brilliant the score is too. Without a doubt one of the greatest and most terrifying soundtracks ever committed to film and imho Goldsmith's best work. So many aspects came together so perfectly for this film. The amazing level of creativity and originality despite being inspired by so much from the past. The nightmarish, twisted genius mind of the late great H.R Giger. Will we ever truly see a more terrifying alien design? Alien is a landmark of film that truly stands the test of time. TLDR: Alien is a fucking work of art.
My favourite movie of all time and it still holds up after all these years. The space jockey was a hard-fought battle by Scott. The bean counters considered it superfluous and wanted to delete it from the plot. Scott insisted that the few minutes the space jockey was to appear would be the movie's "Cecille B DeMille" moment; the Wow-factor scene, and goddamn, was he right. No amount of CG can compete with the super-detailed sets of Alien. And thank the Lord Jodorowsky's Dune got cancelled because that event led to the creation of Alien and the bringing together of all that artistic and imaginative talent. A Perfect Storm of creativity. We may never see such a combination again.
@9:52 She starts the self destruct sequence then runs for the shuttle. She's stopped because on the last stretch before the shuttle her path is cut off by the alien. So she runs back and attempts to disable the self destruct sequence, which conveniently can't be stopped when the counter's half way expired. (Implying that she has exactly enough time to get back to the shuttle as it should take her to run there). Since it's her last shot regardless of where the alien might be, she runs straight back to the shuttle. The alien was in the hallway in front of the shuttle, and gone missing 5 minutes later. The alien simply walked into it the same way she did. Based on the havoc in the hallway, you could assume its animalistic impulse was to run to where it was calm and quiet and tuck in a corner (a notion subtley introduced by Jonesy the cat), or it was intelligent enough to realize that's where Ripley was headed the first time, or both. tl;dr -- it makes perfect sense within the context of that scene for the alien to be in the shuttle when she arrives.
Kevin De Smet because Ripley figured the Alien was on the ship, and not wanting anyone to find said ship and Alien, and most likely retributive vengeance for her crewmates, she wanted to know the Alien was dead.
In the director's cut she also stumbles across the cocooned Dallas and Brett on her way from delf-destruct room to escape ship, eating up a minute or so.
Jones had no authorization whatsoever... Because he is a cat. Our feline overlords do not require our authorization. Quite the opposite... (At least that's how their strange little brains seem to perceive it)
@@Mr.Wpunkt I could try to explain that cats transcend authority completely, but i dunno if I can really make you understand. There is a difference between having the highest authorization and being completely beyond the need for any authorization. That's about the best I can do. But now that I've had to explain my joke, it isn't funny anymore.
If you want to understand all about cat authority in space and a Alien on a ship...watch the movie Lilly C.A.T. everything in the Alien..the Thing..looper..naruto universe will make sense. It's really pretty fun 80 horror anime movie to boot.
One of my friends was watching the movie, and he said that the cat is definitely scared of the alien, but seemingly “admires” it for being a fellow solitary hyper-carnivorous super predator like itself. Total bullshit of course, but I think it’s more interesting when you see the scene that way.
What about the final shot of the Alien being blasted into space when we finally got to see the entire creature revealed as the traditional guy in a monster suit? Oh, and the risible decapitated head of Ashe and the even more risible obvious cut to the no less risible real head of the actor covered in milk and with a rubber collar! No, I think that like "2001: A Space Odyssey", the film's reputation for effects that compare favourably with today's is a misty-eyed assertions that doesn't bear close scrutiny. They only compare favourably to the FX in contemporary movies that haven't spend enough time or money on them.
This movie is fantastic but the shots outside the ship during space travel really make you appreciate how a head of it's time Star Wars was 2 years earlier.
Dude, Star Wars has banking space ships. SPACE SHIPS CAN'T FUCKING BANK. BANKING REQUIRES AN ATMOSPHERE. Not to mention all of the space ships are aerodynamic. Space is a vacuum, the lack of an atmosphere. Star Wars WAS ahead of its time, but not in its understanding of science.
I love how most of the comments are people jumping on the aerodynamic 'sin', as if they feel the pressing need to inform the one person that somehow missed all the other comments about it.
it's not something a third-grader would know, js, and i never even knew much about aerodynamics and stuff, and i'm a graduated student :\ you can't just assume that everyone knows this. like, i major in psychology and childcare, why would i have to know about aerodynamics and stuff if i won't have to use that knowledge?
Just a space cat!? Just a space cat? Jonesy is a survivor just like Ripley! In fact I think they should do a reboot from the cats POV! Maybe Jonesy even aided in the overall survival!
Pubudub - You have to remember that this film is now coming up on 40 years old, And they had to work within the limitations that special effects had back then. It was an amazing movie when it came out, But I feel that we've become spoiled by the effects in big budget CGI enhanced blockbusters these days, And it's easy to watch something this old and think "Thats not scary, It's just some skinny guy in a rubber alien suit !".
Reman1975 actually, I watch plenty of old horror films and tend to dislike most modern movies. This one was something I had been wanting to see for a while. I watched it and it wasn’t that good even by older standards. It’s not the special effects or anything like that. It just isn’t a scary, or good, movie.
yes but we clearly see a melted helmet in the movie so how did it melt it and how only the helmet and why did he not in the time it most have taken to get through the helmet he did not throw that thing off of him and kill it or make a run for it
I always assumed it was just strong enough to bend and break through the plastic visor and maybe cut itself only superficially on an edge. The script is ambiguous on the point as well.
9:57 - The Alien literally walked onto the escape pod before it took off. It was guarding the escape pod door when Ripley saw it, prompting her to try and turn off the self-destruct system. It crept on board when she wasn't looking and hid until she startled it.
Also like to add that it didn't attack her in the narcissus until she attacks it is because of its short lifespan, it crept into the narcissus looking for somewhere to die according to Ridley Scott
@@samanson302 I came here hoping CinemaSins would sin this! The alien was a bloodthirsty killer for 1 hour (it didn't even EAT people, just killed them) and then at the end of the movie it's like "nah I'm just gonna chill in this duct in order to give the hero a sporting chance." Jesus.
@@samanson302 yeah, but i think james cameron retconned any chance of this being the case. we learn the xenomorphs become sedentary when hosts are no longer available, and become dormant. if they just died, then you probably wouldn't see the molted warriors from "aliens" running around so viciously.
@Clu Rosencrans Actually, in the director's cut, Dallas and the others were cocooned and transformed into eggs. This was cut from the theatrical release. Which is why James Cameron came up with the Queen egg-layer in Aliens.
You guys made a mistake... When Ash opens the door from outside the ship, it's because he has higher level clearance than Ripley. No one on the ship is aware that Ash is a robot, and he is there to ensure that the company's orders are carried out, and to bring back the alien specimen. Crew is expendable. I think Ripley is aware that Ash has a higher clearance than her, but was expecting him to observe the quarantine protocol. That would have contradicted his mission though.
When Dallas and Kane are off the ship, Ripley is the senior officer. Ripley says this when she and Ash discuss him letting the Alien on-board when Kane is still comatose with the Facehugger attached.
" I think Ripley is aware that Ash has a higher clearance than her, but was expecting him to observe the quarantine protocol. That would have contradicted his mission though." I think of Ash's going rogue as an homage to HAL in 2001 who developed a psychosis due to conflicting orders.
Saying he opened the door from outside the ship would imply that he was part of the scouting party. He opened it from the inside, clearly. "Inner hatch opened".
Another mistake he made is he says the Facehugger falls on her and then just dies..... When the movie shows us Ash using a metal prod to push it out onto her and it was dead long before he did that.
I love this movie, watch it every year on 4/26 (Alien day)... this year I noticed something new. When the facehugger fell on Ripley seemingly on its own, it was not an accident! Ash pushed the already dead alien onto her from the other side. He probably hoped it was still alive. Then he rushed over to pretend to help.
I had initially assumed that too, however I found that the only problem with that is that Ash was a meter in front of Ripley, pushing behind the screens on the wall, no where near Ripley. Why the facehugger fell on Ripley is unknown but it could have been a muscle twitch that pushed it onto Ripley.
People need to realize first that the Nostromo was a towing vessel and the four tower looking thing is the refinery and the payload. The nostromo is actually a quite nice looking ship.
@@Boamere The craft that separates from the mass and lands on the planet is the actual Nostromo. Its a space towtruck essentially. The rest is the orbital refinery complex and its ore load. Think of those big trucks that haul prefab houses down the highway. Same concept.
An explanation was given in the comic books (or one of their novelizations). The mission to get the xenomorph was thrown together last-minute. The Company had already deciphered the message and just needed a crew to check things out. There was a mission that was near the area, so they swapped science officers out and added a few directives to the mission profile. They were worried about another firm possibly getting there first, which is why The Company was willing to sacrifice the crew to get the xenomorph. The projected profit of the bio-weapons division would've easily eclipsed the loss of the ship, cargo, and crew.
I agree with all you said except I believe that the company did not calculate on the loss of the Nostromo and refinery. If the company lost contact with the ship and expected the crew to be dead, then the company would send out another expedition to claim the derelict ship and (hopefully) capture any aliens on board.
@Tim_Davidson63 There would've been potentially hundreds of other xenomorphs still inside the chestbursters which were still inside the ovamorphs (eggs) which were still inside the derelict.....all weyland yutani would have had to do to recover them is to find some way of retrieving the eggs without triggering the facehuggers within them especially not if they didn't want to sacrifice any other humans because as we all know that given enough time they evolve into fully grown highly uncontrollable & highly lethal xenomorphs.......the whole success of using them as bio weapons would have hinged on some way of keeping them in stasis until such time as they were needed....the rest of the story we already know about
Ryan Pack Or, it was built in space with pieces brought up to space to build it, like any smart engineer would do. So it was never meant to land or take off.
is ISS streamlined? Anyways Nostromo was commercial tug which is separated from the refinery. think it as oil rig. which is tugged around with tug boat. simple. The refinery was never designed to land on planets. only stay in orbit while the tugs/space trucks offload the refined ore.
@@theradgegadgie6352 Acid chews through things by inducing a chemical reaction. Laser cuts by heating up the material. Scalpel cuts by doing mechanical damage. You can be resistant to one of those, but completely vulnerable to other.
The xenomorph was more intelligent than it let on. It was in the escape pod with Ripley so it could escape too. It must have a sort of adaptability, considering how well it could even hide in the spaceship.
Have you seen the television series? It maybe dated by quite a few years now but still did a better reproduction of the books to moving picutres than the recent film did! Edit: A quick search and you can actually find the episodes on youtube. Lucky people.
The scene where Parker sees the alien kill Brett is in the Director's Cut, and so is the scene where Ripley burns Dallas to death to put him out of his misery
Real talk... the cat scene where he just watches the guy get killed is honestly one of the greatest shots of all time... it just.... you just know the cat has no ability to tell people about it, but it sees it all and just... it's such a good and well shot scene.
The "Nostromo" the towing vehicle is the ship that could and did land on the planet, it could land on any planet with a surface, the giant automated ore refinery it towed was built in space never to land or enter any atmosphere. The refinery was probably loaded with ore via large ore carrying shuttle crafts. once the the automated refinery is fully loaded it is towed back to Earth or wherever by a vehicle like the "Nostromo,"during the journey the ore is being processed and refined automatically to save time , and when it arrives at that destination you have a fully refined product ready to be unloaded and taken down by the shuttles waiting for it. think of it as a automated unmanned steel factory and refinery in space
Hey man,stop dissing the cat! That cat is one if the most important cats in cinema history. The members of the crew loves their beloved kitty so much they risked their lives to save him. If I was in that situation, I would do the same thing. So don't diss on Jonesey.
Ripley repeatedly going back into danger for the cat is one of my favorite bits of characterization in the movie. Is it stupid as fuck on her part? Of course. Is it something most cat lovers would do in this situation? I think I would. It greatly humanizes the character. Nobody acts on cold, calculated logic 100% of the time, especially not in a panic.
dunno if they said it in the movie, but I believe in some part of the alien franchise they do acknowledge that the blue field you see over the eggs is keeping them in stasis with presumably technology more advanced than earth's. also aerodynamic? AERO is in the word. and it means air. which isn't in space. cmon man. as far as I'm concerned this movie gets -5 sins just for you sinning that
The Alien knew it needed Ripley to survive. Ash did say it is a survivor. Perfect organism. In the first movie at least the creature seemed much more cunning, and intelligent.
"This is some iconic and amazing visual brilliance! Let's hope no one ever tries to explain it with a backstory movie." Damn, this reminded me how much I hate Prometheus.
The Twin Files One of the biggest disappointments i've had at the cinema. The only thing I liked was the visual style. And that wasn't enough to save it.
britbloc123 The visual style was literally the only thing going for it. Everyone was stupid and unless it was a cut scene, they didn't really explain why they thought all those symbols they randomly found related to some random planet.
"How fired are these people?" Me: "Well, considering property damage, disregard for protocol, endangerment of the crew, failure to retrieve the alien... I'd say the likeliness of them getting their last paycheck is imperceptibly small. Except the cat. The cat did his job impeccably. I didn't see a single rat this whole movie."
With Jones you are safe. The Alien is scared of the cat. The proof is in the film, because the Alien encounters Jones TWICE on camera and each time it left. First time is when Brett is killed the 2nd is when the Alien is blocking the way to the Narciuss (the escape shuttle).
@@bartonpaullevenson3427 no it's not, do the research and I mean multiple sources not just wikipedia's or a government owned or funded site says. But I will give you this, NASA has publicly said everything relating to the moon landing planning and schematics disappeared they have no idea apparently where it went and dont care...
@@stevenmacaulay8807 Steve, get ahold of an introductory physics textbook, read through it, and work the problems. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about going into space or to the Moon. I also don't believe the space agencies of several dozen countries are all cooperating to lie about what the US did, especially since many of them are enemies of the US, and not all space travel was by the US. Your conspiracy scenario really isn't plausible.
I think he might have referenced that in the last sin when he said "and now he got shot into a restaurant at the edge of the galaxy, but I might be wrong
For some of us, that first sight of the Nostromo in all its un-aerodynamic glory was the moment we realized we were watching a mature sci-fi film that actually had some basic understanding of how space works. Heck, they even knew that in space no-one could hear you scream ... although Cameron forgot that at the end of Aliens ;)
But the entire thing isn’t even the nostromo. The big bulky thing is the refinery. The nostromo is a towing vehicle, and the thing they land on LV-426 with. Which is much more aerodynamic looking.
@@appealtoreason7584 Yep. I meant the pair, tug and cargo. Obviously it makes sense that any vehicle capable of entering planetary atmospheres and landing would have aerodynamic qualities, such as the Nostromo itself. That's how Star Wars gets away with having such sleek and aerodynamic spaceships; because most of them also fly in planetary atmospheres. But once you're in space, it doesn't matter what shape the ship is. It could be a literal cube, like a Borg cube, for all the difference it would make.
6:06 Actually it's supposed to have taken at least 3 days, since (if I remember correctly) that's how long it took Cane to make the motion tracking device. Minus one sin.
A point from the movie that always bugged me was how did the face-hugger get IN the suit when it was OUTSIDE the suit to actually hug Cane's face? Re add that sin.
I think the cat is part of the "space is an ocean " theme that is common on every single sci-fi ever. It's common to bring a cat for a long voyage on a ship, so he can catch mice and provide a feeling of homeliness. Is it really that far fetch to think mice will invade a space ship?
Yeah, as 32,000 people pointed out, THE SHIP WAS BUILT IN SPACE. GOD JEREMY, DONT YOU FUCKING KNOW ANYTHING? So, yeah, how the fuck would rats get on the ship?
I'm looking and I'm surprised that the the third and fourth installment of the franchise has yet to receive a well deserved sinnin'. On a personal note; my heart will always belong to the first two entries in this franchise.
ehhh 4 was a nice popcorn flick but nothing more so yeah sin it! but sin the fuck out of 3!!!!! only seen it a few times since i was a child and it gets worse everytime.
Mikkel Jensen Goddamnit thank you for explaining the meaning of that word. My wife has taught my daughter to use the word and I thought it was basically gibberish.
To be fair tho, the pure terror of that scene is such a classic that there's really no other way I could imagine that scene happening. Anyone watching it for the first time who doesn't know it's coming does the exact same thing. Possibly also screams like Lambert.
A ship's cat is the maritime equivalent of a house spirit. Jonesy has a much greater role in this movie than 99% of fans realize. Notice that he detects the presence of the alien ship right before the away team actually sees it.
No, no, no, it is a button to replicate the latest version of the iPad, in the future, they come out with a new version every 36 hours, and then it is obsolete. It is the "iPad me" button, however because it gets used so much, the 'i' has mostly worn off.
That's what I first thought, but I think he meant how it get from Earth to Space? Unless it was built in space, overcoming Earth's gravity and friction would be very fuel inefficient.
same! a lot of people try to credit terminator 2 as the best sci-fi sequel but, while T2 is a great film, It doesn't follow the rules of the first movie which immediately makes for a bad sequel.
Noxious Didn't you think SAW 2 was super obvious though? The police set up in a SAFE making factory and he keeps saying 'He's safe' over and over. Saw was great, but making the point 8 times is surely just annoying. Did it offer any new perspective or point in any of the sequels? Or just new traps?
Figure it would apply to entering atmo, as well. But I also don't know shit about space. Also, the tug section that lands on the planet didn't look very aerodynamic, either.
It occurs to me that the reason the crew of the Nostromo was picked over, say, a trained military unit might be because their main goal was to trick them into getting it past quarantine. Weyland-Yutani could just pin the whole thing on a crew unprepared for what they were facing. Whereas if they'd sent a highly qualified team of soldiers or whatever, there would be a lot more questions
It's actually explained in detail in the novel this way. It was an illegal act on the Company's part and they used a commercial vessel in order to smuggle the Alien past the authorities. Full marks Michael!
Just to help with a few of the sins: 1) There is no wind resistance in space so ships do not need to be aerodynamic in the least (example- Borg cube), 2) Many of the sins can be explained by the fact that Ash was purposefully working to help the alien... from the beginning- fogging up the translator, fogging up the video feed, fogging up the med lab results, etc 3) That also includes the alien detector scanners and probably even the flame throwers (in the lab he says the creature is very immune to "adverse atmospheric conditions" so fire may not even hurt it).
If you want to give an example give a real example, Star Trek isn't real life, a ship doesn't need to be aerodynamic but it does need to be aerodynamic enough to make it into space.
@@DrWhom Still, you know that’s some nasty water. You make an interesting point.... Which is the more unexplainable... Gravity on the ship OR how did that critter get so big without some energy input (food)?
Majority of the world is also religious and they are all wrong. No, The Thing has a way scarier concept than Alien, you could stop aliens entirely with sensors and guns as they are little more than beasts with claws, the thing can be anything or anyone.
Sin 73: You don't know how the alien got onboard? It walked. When Ripley dropped Jones because the alien was right around the corner (the strobe light scene) she was at the entrance to the escape shuttle. That's why she tried to turn the self destruct off. When she couldn't turn off the self destruct she knew she'd have to go thru that area. Hence the reason why she was so sweaty and the scene was so tense.
Also, thanks a lot Jeremy. I will never be able to watch the air duct scene again without thinking "SURPRISE COCKFAGS!". That almost makes up for when you didn't put Ron Burgundy saying "You're a smelly pirate hooker" in your sins video of Hook (which had pirate hookers).
The lack of aerodynamics is what told me that this was probably going to be a great movie when I saw it in 1979. My friend had already seen it and warned me that there was a REALLY nasty scene in this movie, so I was really worried until that scene happened (it was obvious which one it was). I was pretty horrified. 1977 through 1982 was a GREAT time to be a sci fi fan. Star Wars; Alien; and The Thing! What great movies!
That about the eggs being there and suddently opening is the entire thing that you didn't seem to understand, the distress call was made to lure humanoids over there and into the basement where the eggs were layed to "sleep' in some icelike fog that you can even see in the video and movie, by entering that place they had activated the entire ship's mechanism to unsleep the eggs...
Not a distress call. It was a warning message that THE COMPANY knew about and sent a disposable uninformed crew to do their dirty and deadly retrieval work.
AmishRiot ah right I know what you mean it’s the planet where the crew discovered the Alien eggs and where one of the face huggers attacked that person (I forgot the name)
You know, aerodynamics don't matter when you're in a place where there is no aero to cut through. That's why a spaceship doesn't need to look streamlined. TAKE BACK THAT SIN FROM THIS GREAT MOVIE! ty.
Something that size would definitely be constructed in space and not on any planet. It just wouldn't be practical to try launching something that size off a planet, if not completely impossible.
But that would be way more expensive (because you'd need trained astronauts who are also into construction and health risks and just sending people up there at all) Weyland-Yutani seems way too cheap for that.
1:58 It was a maritime tradition to have a cat on board to bring good luck to a ship and keep the rats down. so think that's where they got this idea of cat in space.
i think there is a 'thing' about the creature 'reputation' that sting us when watching them... a kind of mystic of the supreme killer that got into us when watching the first movie... i must say i loved them all even the 4th one. i love when the creature appear from above the prison warden and pick him up as he is saying 'there is no reason to panic...' or someting like that... lol love it!.
The "space cat" is a play on the old naval traditions of having a "ship's cat" partly to control rats, partly as a good luck charm/mascot.
tommy cooper it worked out well for these guys 😂
Or else it's a Flerken.
"Ship's Cat's" were crazily outnumbered by "Ship's Rat's" Somebody had to eat
I wonder if the Navy still uses ships cat
@@raymondhamill8421 on the ships, no. On the bases, yes
From the Alien’s perspective, this movie is “Die Hard”
I saw this comment on another video
The accurate way to say it is, in "Die Hard" from the Germans perspective it's an Alien movie, lol just chronological basis.
You keep leaving the same Die Hard comment on all the Alien videos. We get it already.
That's Kinda True 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
or rambo
Complaining about a spaceship not being aerodynamic even though it flies through space where there is no air and where aerodynamics are pretty much pointless.
[DING]
he didn't know shit about space
But if they land on a planet that does have air and an atmosphere they're screwed
Well, in the case of re entering the atmosphere of a planet, it would be useful. But yes. Also, I love your videos!
Nerd. They don't use the main ship to land. They have an extra smaller vessel attached to it.
Anonymous yes but we're exploring planets and we can't land the main ship on them?
I saw this movie when it debuted. I was literally shaking when I left the movie theatre. No movie
before or since has done that to me.
Yep, saw it on opening weekend in 1979 and to this day it is my all time favorite movie. I'd never seen anything like it. It blew my little high school mind.
Lucky you!!!
interstellar?
I probably was, too, after seeing it in the theater. I was also shaking after seeing both SE7EN and Requiem For A Dream in theaters.
What about Samurai Cop? 😂
I love how they spoofed "Alien" in "Spaceballs" by bringing John Hurt back and having him say "Not again!" when the alien bursts from his chest.
🤣Fucking classic👏👏👍
Brilliant move on the writer's part.
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🎵🎶"Hello my baby, hello my honey
Hello my ragtime, summertime gal
Send me a kiss by wire, by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire, on fire
If you refuse me, honey, you lose me
And you'll be left alone, oh baby
Telephone, and tell me, tell me
Tell me I'm your very own"🎵🎶
Hated it and couldn't have been more forced "gag" - like the whole movie.
@@superwilliam6432 it is the greatest movie on earth
"aerodynamic"
in the only place where air has little-to-no impact.
What about take off on earth
+DieHardGamingClips What about it? Didn't you see the scene where they left that planet?
Built in a scaffold in space, maybe? It's a large ship. and the bulk of it is storage. The Nostromo itself is just a tugboat.
The bit that looks like a bouncy-penis-castle was the cargo; the actual towing ship is a fairly compact if unlovely-looking thing, but you can clearly see the huge thing in space is not what lands dirtside - the lander is the Nostromo itself.
"Space stations"
since NOBODY wrote anything about this im just gonna say it
there is no need for a space ship to be aerodynamic
dude i cant believe somebody FINALLY noticed that flaw!
really? NO ONE wrote this?? Did you even read the comments
+Paws ForHead you have not caught on to sarcasm get have you?
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Unless it needs to land on a planet with an atmosphere.
Actually, I think the cat on the ship is a tribute or homage to the old tradition that sailors used to have of keeping a cat on the ship to hunt bilge rats and keep food stores preserved longer.
It should be dead if it doesn't had a cryosleep for itseof
One of the crew mates probably shared their chamber with him, considering how he bunked with Ripley at the end @TheAdatto
“I don’t know s*it about space”
Yes, clearly.
Stop whining, nerd
Dorian Gray are you gunna cry? Oh dont kawhyy!
Complaining about aerodynamics in space which has no fucking air is supremely retarded
I'm just here because I like Alien.
@@heartless604 Ahhh, defending your fellow nerd? Nice! I can tell you are one as well because your talking like that and you think you just beat him with the best person in the world.
4:58 - Actually, there was a deleted scene after the facehugger's acid blood dripping on the floor. In it, the whole crew arrives to check if nothing has happened to Kane due to the acid spill, only to find that nothing has happened to him. However, Ripley takes a look at Kane's X-ray scan and notices a stain on his lungs, which gets dismissed by Ash. Nevertheless, this scene was cut out so as not to ruin the suprise of the chest penetration. And boy, it surely fucking worked!
Although yes, that still deserves a sin.
Apparently that chestburster scene was pretty traumatizing for the actors. They weren't told what the alien would look like or that blood would spray all over the place. The actress who played Lambert genuinely freaked out.
@theeverlastingspiral9617 People go to Haloween haunted houses knowing that their are jump scares to be expected and are still freaked out so there's that. You give actors too much credit.
She freaked out, because she slipped on the fake blood and fell ass over elbows. It’s in the extras; she wore cowboy boots in the scene.
@theeverlastingspiral9617The actors werent informed about what was gonna happen, beside a vague "something emerges", the director explicitly wanted that so their reactions were real and way more intense
@@dondee5439 People generally aren't "traumatized" by haunted houses. About the only truth to this urban legend was that Lambert's actress was surprised by the amount of blood and freaked out a little. That's it. People making it out like all the actors were genuinely terrified are ridiculous.
What won't actors say afterwards to hype up a movie.
7:31 "aktually" if you listen close to that scene you hear the door opening very quietly while ripley is typing
Aktually
For some stupid reason, youtube thinks that the other comment is in another language. Except the language it thinks its in is just british english. And it doesnt even change what it says when it “translates” it. This is where ai has come to.
In space , no one can hear cinema sins nitpick.
Incredibly underappreciated.
Ding
I wanna go to space then.
@@grug1343 yeah I’m I’d rather get slaughtered by a xenomorph
Cheers Ill drink to that bro
According to CinemaSins spaceships should look like submarines or airplanes. Because how else would they move through all that air in space? Maybe they should have headlights too, otherwise they won't be able to see where they are going since it's so dark. And a horn in case another ship gets too close.
you know that space ships have to go through the atmosphere, which la de da has air. So I get the joke you're trying to make but fyi this time CinemaSins has a point. Spaceships need to be aerodynamic.
Navarro Peck
No they don't if they are built in space, either in orbit or at some kind of shipyard, or someplace like the moon with no air and far lower gravity. You could design it anyway you wanted without having to worry about it ever touching an atmosphere. That's what the smaller ships attached to it are for.
You could make it as aerodynamic as you wanted, but you'd be limited to how big you could build your ships because of fuel costs just to get it off the ground. Just look at how much fuel it took to get the shuttles off the ground. The boosters and fuel tank were bigger than the craft itself.
Well one there was no implications that ship was built that way two even if that was true the ship still has to deal with photodynamics
But I see your point
seriously. like wtf
4:00 Our stomachs can hold acid by there being a layer of mucus that regenerates ever 2 weeks, maybe that's how
except I'm pretty sure our stomach acid can't eat through the floor of a spaceship in seconds...
MissKTonik actually i think it can, im gonna google it
It can't. There are very few acids that could do something like that in a fashion like that. And the ones that are would be super concentrated.
***** I'm dumb. I thought he was saying that our stomach acid couldn't go through a couple spaceship floors. Which it probably can but not in seconds.
FierceKoolAid you know a xenomorph's blood is composed of flueroantinomic acid right? The most corrosive substance ever.
The level of mastery in every aspect of this film never ceases to astound me. The insane level of realism in everything.
The incredible sets alone, its astonishing to think it was made in 1979, its aged so well.
No sci fi film before or since has ever really come close to it. The space jockey scene alone. The sense of wonder, mystery and just pure alieness of it. The sets have an organic, lifelike nightmarish quality. The Star Wars franchise by comparison has aged badly and just seems so amateur. Alien is peerless.
Even modern sci fi can't hold a candle to it. Take Avatar for example. It just looks ridiculous and cartoonish, with terrible clunky dialogue and dull, uninspiring acting. Prometheus is still painful to talk about...
The acting and screenplay in Alien is a masterclass. The cast are just playing average, working people. It's all so believable. There are no loud stereotypes. Even making a cat a part of the crew was a masterstroke not to mention the brilliance of making a woman the hero of the story.
The sound and editing is flawless. The pacing of the film, the slow build up, the sheer sense of dread and impending doom, the intelligent , sparing filming of the alien itself, not revealing all until the end.
Its hard to describe just how brilliant the score is too. Without a doubt one of the greatest and most terrifying soundtracks ever committed to film and imho Goldsmith's best work.
So many aspects came together so perfectly for this film. The amazing level of creativity and originality despite being inspired by so much from the past. The nightmarish, twisted genius mind of the late great H.R Giger. Will we ever truly see a more terrifying alien design?
Alien is a landmark of film that truly stands the test of time.
TLDR: Alien is a fucking work of art.
All of that. Yes yes and yes.
The answer is H.R. Giger - RIP
Hashpotato amen my friend!!!
So you didn't like it
My favourite movie of all time and it still holds up after all these years. The space jockey was a hard-fought battle by Scott. The bean counters considered it superfluous and wanted to delete it from the plot. Scott insisted that the few minutes the space jockey was to appear would be the movie's "Cecille B DeMille" moment; the Wow-factor scene, and goddamn, was he right.
No amount of CG can compete with the super-detailed sets of Alien.
And thank the Lord Jodorowsky's Dune got cancelled because that event led to the creation of Alien and the bringing together of all that artistic and imaginative talent. A Perfect Storm of creativity. We may never see such a combination again.
My face when he says the ship isn't streamlined when it's space and there's no air 😂
you have to get it into space first so it needs to be streamline for that
+Al B Ever heard of orbital construction?
Al B they made it in space
Church of Gingism yeah
+Al B if you have the ability to mine asteroids you don't have to launch from earth, you better off assembling crafts on spacestations
@9:52 She starts the self destruct sequence then runs for the shuttle. She's stopped because on the last stretch before the shuttle her path is cut off by the alien. So she runs back and attempts to disable the self destruct sequence, which conveniently can't be stopped when the counter's half way expired. (Implying that she has exactly enough time to get back to the shuttle as it should take her to run there). Since it's her last shot regardless of where the alien might be, she runs straight back to the shuttle.
The alien was in the hallway in front of the shuttle, and gone missing 5 minutes later. The alien simply walked into it the same way she did. Based on the havoc in the hallway, you could assume its animalistic impulse was to run to where it was calm and quiet and tuck in a corner (a notion subtley introduced by Jonesy the cat), or it was intelligent enough to realize that's where Ripley was headed the first time, or both.
tl;dr -- it makes perfect sense within the context of that scene for the alien to be in the shuttle when she arrives.
None17555 Why destroy the ship in the first place? Just take the shuttle and leave. No need to destroy anything.
Kevin De Smet because Ripley figured the Alien was on the ship, and not wanting anyone to find said ship and Alien, and most likely retributive vengeance for her crewmates, she wanted to know the Alien was dead.
Thank you 😍 I always wondered why would the alien be hidden in that possition as if sleeping. Your explanation makes a lot of sense.
Well played!
In the director's cut she also stumbles across the cocooned Dallas and Brett on her way from delf-destruct room to escape ship, eating up a minute or so.
The cat has the highest authorization on the ship because he's a cat
Jones had no authorization whatsoever... Because he is a cat. Our feline overlords do not require our authorization. Quite the opposite...
(At least that's how their strange little brains seem to perceive it)
dude.... cat = highest authorization. deal with it!!!
@@Mr.Wpunkt I could try to explain that cats transcend authority completely, but i dunno if I can really make you understand. There is a difference between having the highest authorization and being completely beyond the need for any authorization. That's about the best I can do.
But now that I've had to explain my joke, it isn't funny anymore.
If you want to understand all about cat authority in space and a Alien on a ship...watch the movie Lilly C.A.T. everything in the Alien..the Thing..looper..naruto universe will make sense.
It's really pretty fun 80 horror anime movie to boot.
@@nonner242 I actually saw that once, many years ago, when the SciFi channel still had Saturday anime.
"This hallway looks like ribs...I should keep going" lmao
>aerodynamics in space
Good lord.
Right? The prefect example in the real world is the Apollo Lunar Lander.
He meant when the ship escaped Earth's atmosphere.
No, I don't think he was smart enough to mean that. I think the statement was actually as dumb as it sounds.
I think something that size would have been built in space. :P
+Multi Colored Psychopath much more likely that the refinery was built outside of the atmosphere.
We were laughing so much because of the cats face when the guy died. He's a cat, he doesn't care
@Henry Ramsey
Rescue 911!
At that point I knew I was dead. Every episode someone said that.
Fuck that show was hilarious I forgot all about it.
Beth H if the Alien didn’t do it the cat had plans too
Forget didn't care, Jones lured the dude in by meowing and kept him distracted so he could be aliened.
Then he sat back and watched his work.
One of my friends was watching the movie, and he said that the cat is definitely scared of the alien, but seemingly “admires” it for being a fellow solitary hyper-carnivorous super predator like itself. Total bullshit of course, but I think it’s more interesting when you see the scene that way.
It should be a sin that the special effects are better then modern day effects.
@Destiny Rosales yes
What about the final shot of the Alien being blasted into space when we finally got to see the entire creature revealed as the traditional guy in a monster suit? Oh, and the risible decapitated head of Ashe and the even more risible obvious cut to the no less risible real head of the actor covered in milk and with a rubber collar!
No, I think that like "2001: A Space Odyssey", the film's reputation for effects that compare favourably with today's is a misty-eyed assertions that doesn't bear close scrutiny. They only compare favourably to the FX in contemporary movies that haven't spend enough time or money on them.
*than*
Yeah, fuck over abusing CGI. It's _Hollywood_ people, let's be _actors._
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 shut the fuck up kid dont try to talk shit about special effects they rule
It's sad to think we've lost more then half of this iconic cast just in the last 5yrs. Holm and Hurt died in 2017 and Kotto and Stanton in 2021 😣
Nobody gets out of life alive.
The movie IS pretty old, these people would eventually die
This movie is fantastic but the shots outside the ship during space travel really make you appreciate how a head of it's time Star Wars was 2 years earlier.
2001 looks even better, and that was 1968.
+Pierre Levtschenko Internal ship shots yes, but not space flight
why? star wars were ment to be flashy, this was ment to be dark and foreboding, apples vs oranges?
It's totally comparable, more like apples vs green apples.
Dude, Star Wars has banking space ships. SPACE SHIPS CAN'T FUCKING BANK. BANKING REQUIRES AN ATMOSPHERE. Not to mention all of the space ships are aerodynamic. Space is a vacuum, the lack of an atmosphere. Star Wars WAS ahead of its time, but not in its understanding of science.
I love how most of the comments are people jumping on the aerodynamic 'sin', as if they feel the pressing need to inform the one person that somehow missed all the other comments about it.
OMG. I know!
I know. It's fucking pointless.
Surprises me how none of them seem to realize that CinemaSins doesn't give any shits about how many people they piss off, by any manner.
When somebody doesn't know something that a third-grader should know, or a graduating student at the very worst, you kinda cannot sit silent.
it's not something a third-grader would know, js, and i never even knew much about aerodynamics and stuff, and i'm a graduated student :\ you can't just assume that everyone knows this. like, i major in psychology and childcare, why would i have to know about aerodynamics and stuff if i won't have to use that knowledge?
4:00 - 40 years and I never realized the floor was made of styrofoam and the "acid" blood was probably just acetone...
great comment!
Used to pour gas on Styrofoam when I was a youth, to watch it melt.
Good eye, lad
Acetone is bad. You need Toluene. Aromatic solvent dissolves aromatic plastic.
Really? Obvious
Just a space cat!? Just a space cat? Jonesy is a survivor just like Ripley! In fact I think they should do a reboot from the cats POV! Maybe Jonesy even aided in the overall survival!
😢Ty r y lol🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Dude in space making your ship streamlined doesn't make a difference.
Thank you
Lea to the rescue!!!!!!!!!!!! now please!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOOOUU THAT WAS KILLING ME
This spaceship is not aerodynamic! I LOL'ed
You have to get the thing out of the atmosphere first though, and for that you need an aerodynamic ship.
RIP John Hurt :'( This was the first movie I saw him in. We lost a true movie legend.
Even with flaws. This is the best movie of all time. I can't ever get over it or tired of it.
I watched it for the first time last night and it was awesome
I just watched it and I have to say that it really wasn’t as good as I had hoped. I’m not shitting on your opinion I’m just saying mine.
Pubudub - You have to remember that this film is now coming up on 40 years old, And they had to work within the limitations that special effects had back then. It was an amazing movie when it came out, But I feel that we've become spoiled by the effects in big budget CGI enhanced blockbusters these days, And it's easy to watch something this old and think "Thats not scary, It's just some skinny guy in a rubber alien suit !".
Reman1975 actually, I watch plenty of old horror films and tend to dislike most modern movies. This one was something I had been wanting to see for a while. I watched it and it wasn’t that good even by older standards. It’s not the special effects or anything like that. It just isn’t a scary, or good, movie.
I think they are stretching the whole "Flaw" thing now for desperation
Jones was the ship's cat
Its tradition
Keeps the space mice away
my question has always been how does the face-huger get through the helmet without melting his face off
the face huger healed his face and brain back, because he came from that black goo. TL;DR midichlorians
yes but we clearly see a melted helmet in the movie so how did it melt it and how only the helmet and why did he not in the time it most have taken to get through the helmet he did not throw that thing off of him and kill it or make a run for it
No
I always assumed it was just strong enough to bend and break through the plastic visor and maybe cut itself only superficially on an edge. The script is ambiguous on the point as well.
Yeah but in Aliens there were live facehuggers kept in plastic jars. If they can break/melt through helmets, why not jars?
9:57 - The Alien literally walked onto the escape pod before it took off. It was guarding the escape pod door when Ripley saw it, prompting her to try and turn off the self-destruct system. It crept on board when she wasn't looking and hid until she startled it.
Also like to add that it didn't attack her in the narcissus until she attacks it is because of its short lifespan, it crept into the narcissus looking for somewhere to die according to Ridley Scott
@@samanson302 I came here hoping CinemaSins would sin this! The alien was a bloodthirsty killer for 1 hour (it didn't even EAT people, just killed them) and then at the end of the movie it's like "nah I'm just gonna chill in this duct in order to give the hero a sporting chance." Jesus.
@@samanson302 yeah, but i think james cameron retconned any chance of this being the case. we learn the xenomorphs become sedentary when hosts are no longer available, and become dormant. if they just died, then you probably wouldn't see the molted warriors from "aliens" running around so viciously.
@Clu Rosencrans Actually, in the director's cut, Dallas and the others were cocooned and transformed into eggs. This was cut from the theatrical release. Which is why James Cameron came up with the Queen egg-layer in Aliens.
@@user__214it was literally chilling up in the chains in the cooling tower when it killed Brett. Not like we didn’t see it do this same thing before
You guys made a mistake... When Ash opens the door from outside the ship, it's because he has higher level clearance than Ripley. No one on the ship is aware that Ash is a robot, and he is there to ensure that the company's orders are carried out, and to bring back the alien specimen. Crew is expendable. I think Ripley is aware that Ash has a higher clearance than her, but was expecting him to observe the quarantine protocol. That would have contradicted his mission though.
Shane Shank Wouldn't someone think it's weird then that he opened the door instead of Ripley?
When Dallas and Kane are off the ship, Ripley is the senior officer. Ripley says this when she and Ash discuss him letting the Alien on-board when Kane is still comatose with the Facehugger attached.
" I think Ripley is aware that Ash has a higher clearance than her, but was expecting him to observe the quarantine protocol. That would have contradicted his mission though." I think of Ash's going rogue as an homage to HAL in 2001 who developed a psychosis due to conflicting orders.
Saying he opened the door from outside the ship would imply that he was part of the scouting party. He opened it from the inside, clearly. "Inner hatch opened".
Another mistake he made is he says the Facehugger falls on her and then just dies..... When the movie shows us Ash using a metal prod to push it out onto her and it was dead long before he did that.
I love this movie, watch it every year on 4/26 (Alien day)... this year I noticed something new. When the facehugger fell on Ripley seemingly on its own, it was not an accident! Ash pushed the already dead alien onto her from the other side. He probably hoped it was still alive. Then he rushed over to pretend to help.
I had initially assumed that too, however I found that the only problem with that is that Ash was a meter in front of Ripley, pushing behind the screens on the wall, no where near Ripley. Why the facehugger fell on Ripley is unknown but it could have been a muscle twitch that pushed it onto Ripley.
People need to realize first that the Nostromo was a towing vessel and the four tower looking thing is the refinery and the payload. The nostromo is actually a quite nice looking ship.
Thank you. I get tired of pointing that out, lol.
Thank god space has very little gravity otherwise they wouldn't be able to tow what is the equivalent to a Space station.
Bruh what
@@Boamere The craft that separates from the mass and lands on the planet is the actual Nostromo. Its a space towtruck essentially. The rest is the orbital refinery complex and its ore load. Think of those big trucks that haul prefab houses down the highway. Same concept.
@@stormtempterf8058 I was replying to Fenris.
An explanation was given in the comic books (or one of their novelizations). The mission to get the xenomorph was thrown together last-minute. The Company had already deciphered the message and just needed a crew to check things out. There was a mission that was near the area, so they swapped science officers out and added a few directives to the mission profile. They were worried about another firm possibly getting there first, which is why The Company was willing to sacrifice the crew to get the xenomorph. The projected profit of the bio-weapons division would've easily eclipsed the loss of the ship, cargo, and crew.
I agree with all you said except I believe that the company did not calculate on the loss of the Nostromo and refinery. If the company lost contact with the ship and expected the crew to be dead, then the company would send out another expedition to claim the derelict ship and (hopefully) capture any aliens on board.
@@tim_davidson6344 guess that's why aliens was made lol anyway I hear you 😆
@@tim_davidson6344 yep they had marines this time right lol
@Tim_Davidson63 There would've been potentially hundreds of other xenomorphs still inside the chestbursters which were still inside the ovamorphs (eggs) which were still inside the derelict.....all weyland yutani would have had to do to recover them is to find some way of retrieving the eggs without triggering the facehuggers within them especially not if they didn't want to sacrifice any other humans because as we all know that given enough time they evolve into fully grown highly uncontrollable & highly lethal xenomorphs.......the whole success of using them as bio weapons would have hinged on some way of keeping them in stasis until such time as they were needed....the rest of the story we already know about
The fact that he takes off five sins in the beginning was the best part of this video
The sin for how it isn't streamlined doesn't count because there is no friction in space
The dewdicks But it's designed to land on a planet with an atmosphere
it was never meant to land. That's why they have the shuttle that looks completely different to fly into planets with atmosphere.
Ryan Pack Or, it was built in space with pieces brought up to space to build it, like any smart engineer would do. So it was never meant to land or take off.
is ISS streamlined? Anyways Nostromo was commercial tug which is separated from the refinery. think it as oil rig. which is tugged around with tug boat. simple. The refinery was never designed to land on planets. only stay in orbit while the tugs/space trucks offload the refined ore.
No it's not.
Aerodynamic space ships? Fucking really?
leaving the atmosphere ?
Built in space?
***** Yeah that's what I though. There's no way that huge thing flew up from a planet.
A ship that size would be built in orbit, eliminating any need for aerodynamics
+Bob Builder Why would you land a spaceship on a planet? you have shuttles and landers for that
in all the movies no alien ever, ever dared to mess with a cat
drrsc Didn't Alf eat cats?
The cat has powers to keep the aliens away he’s too strong for them
In one of the AVP games there is a mission where you play as a Chestburster and in order to grow, you have to devour a cat.
Only with a dog or an ox.
CRO guys don’t man DONT
"Why don't you guys just freeze him?" "They ain't no doctors!" Case dismissed.
Clearly the cat was a Flerken. The alien knew it was outmatched.
I'm having trouble figuring out which theory i like more tbh
3:58 their skin doesn't need to be tough, just highly basic to neutralize strong acids inside. {DING}
Yeah like our fucking stomachs that have acid inside them, this guy is such a clown
@@benijager1372 yeah dude, there are quite a bit of flaws in this.
Ehhh...it needs to be non-reactive. A highly-basic skin would result in a constant output of chemical byproducts that could be potentially lethal.
Complaining about the skin being cut by metal yet it holds acid. Ever heard of your stomach?
a) It was a laser scalpel and b) not even stomach acid will chew through the deck plates of a star freighter in five seconds.
actually Stomach is burning little layers of stomachs, but every 2 weeks, our stomachs makes a new layer
A glass beaker might have been a better example.
@@Sin1s_ter our stomachs have a lining made of mucus.
@@theradgegadgie6352 Acid chews through things by inducing a chemical reaction. Laser cuts by heating up the material. Scalpel cuts by doing mechanical damage. You can be resistant to one of those, but completely vulnerable to other.
Should make a video called 'Everything Wrong With Plan 9 From Outer Space'. I've noticed a couple of things wrong with that movie.
Bro you late
Yes: everything between the first “Action!” to the last “Cut!”.
The xenomorph was more intelligent than it let on. It was in the escape pod with Ripley so it could escape too. It must have a sort of adaptability, considering how well it could even hide in the spaceship.
Dude, you're telling me you wouldn't fuck around and investigate mankinds first discovery of an alien ship?? Cmonnnnnn.
Dr. Manhattan Hell nah. And you see why
Dr. Manhattan if I had your fuckin super powers I would
SPEAKING OF RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. COME ON BRO. GIVE IT TO US. HITCHHIKERS GUIDE.
Nah, the movies suck, the books are where it's at.
IKR? Seriously, it sucks to see a great book made into a terrible movie. That way people dont make more, but WE WANT TO SEE A GOOD HITCHHIKERS GUIDE!
Have you seen the television series? It maybe dated by quite a few years now but still did a better reproduction of the books to moving picutres than the recent film did! Edit: A quick search and you can actually find the episodes on youtube. Lucky people.
Der be spaceballs in dat dere universe.
The movie was really good, you aren't British, you wouldn't understand.
The scene where Parker sees the alien kill Brett is in the Director's Cut, and so is the scene where Ripley burns Dallas to death to put him out of his misery
I swear there was a scene where they were looking for the cat and someone accidentally stumbled upon the hiding Chestburster. Did I imagine that?
Real talk... the cat scene where he just watches the guy get killed is honestly one of the greatest shots of all time... it just.... you just know the cat has no ability to tell people about it, but it sees it all and just... it's such a good and well shot scene.
The "Nostromo" the towing vehicle is the ship that could and did land on the planet, it could land on any planet with a surface, the giant automated ore refinery it towed was built in space never to land or enter any atmosphere. The refinery was probably loaded with ore via large ore carrying shuttle crafts. once the the automated refinery is fully loaded it is towed back to Earth or wherever by a vehicle like the "Nostromo,"during the journey the ore is being processed and refined automatically to save time , and when it arrives at that destination you have a fully refined product ready to be unloaded and taken down by the shuttles waiting for it. think of it as a automated unmanned steel factory and refinery in space
It’s also possible the ore it was mining was in space, like asteroids, and wouldn’t even require lift off from a high gravitational body
You know your lore! The Nostromo is somewhere between a dumptruck and a barge with mining capabilities.
Hey man,stop dissing the cat! That cat is one if the most important cats in cinema history. The members of the crew loves their beloved kitty so much they risked their lives to save him. If I was in that situation, I would do the same thing. So don't diss on Jonesey.
There's a fine line between 'owner of beloved cat' and 'crazy cat lady'.
That's why I like dogs. Dogs can handle themselves while you're off getting your face mauled by an alien.
So can cats. And cats are much more stealthy than dogs, who's very tail is a hazard to lamps and coffee mugs everywhere...
+Inebriated Skunk
Not my lamp you son of a bitch! Oh wait, your a dog.
Hm, what?! Cats can handle themselves far better than dogs.
Ripley repeatedly going back into danger for the cat is one of my favorite bits of characterization in the movie. Is it stupid as fuck on her part? Of course. Is it something most cat lovers would do in this situation? I think I would. It greatly humanizes the character. Nobody acts on cold, calculated logic 100% of the time, especially not in a panic.
dunno if they said it in the movie, but I believe in some part of the alien franchise they do acknowledge that the blue field you see over the eggs is keeping them in stasis with presumably technology more advanced than earth's.
also aerodynamic? AERO is in the word. and it means air. which isn't in space. cmon man. as far as I'm concerned this movie gets -5 sins just for you sinning that
and yes I typed that before the end of the video, so the number it ended up on was completely accidental
+Skyro Wat ships in space still require aerodynamics so they can enter a planets atmosphere without being torn to shreds
Except that ship is designed to go no further than the rim of the outer atmosphere ;P
Duskblade of Draktharr exactly what kryptic said, that's why they had to get into a landing craft to check out the signal.
nah man ships still need to be aerodynamic in regards to photo-dynamics.
The Alien knew it needed Ripley to survive. Ash did say it is a survivor. Perfect organism. In the first movie at least the creature seemed much more cunning, and intelligent.
"This is some iconic and amazing visual brilliance! Let's hope no one ever tries to explain it with a backstory movie."
Damn, this reminded me how much I hate Prometheus.
Just do a simple thing I do. Pretend it doesn't exist!
***** I know. I really hope it flops and will get forgotten.
I so regret paying for that movie. A good 50% of that movie were characters doing illogical things to forward a plot that didn't make sense.
The Twin Files One of the biggest disappointments i've had at the cinema. The only thing I liked was the visual style. And that wasn't enough to save it.
britbloc123
The visual style was literally the only thing going for it. Everyone was stupid and unless it was a cut scene, they didn't really explain why they thought all those symbols they randomly found related to some random planet.
"How fired are these people?"
Me: "Well, considering property damage, disregard for protocol, endangerment of the crew, failure to retrieve the alien... I'd say the likeliness of them getting their last paycheck is imperceptibly small. Except the cat. The cat did his job impeccably. I didn't see a single rat this whole movie."
So that's the reason the cat was exploring the ship It was hunting rats.
It’s implied that the little alien nommed on all the remaining rats. It had to grow quickly, of course!
I just saw this film today. It scared the crap out of me and was absolutely brilliant. One of my favourite movies.
You have a horror movie called "Alien"? That's offensive! No wonder you keep getting invaded!!
Brione stop it now
Brione i get this reference
Profile pic with that comment: Nice.
Brione Doctor?
doctor who!
I would have went back for the cat.
What's wrong with you?
With Jones you are safe. The Alien is scared of the cat. The proof is in the film, because the Alien encounters Jones TWICE on camera and each time it left. First time is when Brett is killed the 2nd is when the Alien is blocking the way to the Narciuss (the escape shuttle).
I would sacrifice myself for that damn cat
Don't worry the cat survives and is actually put on a safe ship in the second movie while ripleys away
I Would Go i Love cats
A "true" spaceship is never meant to land or take off and does not have to be streamlined. The lunar landing module is an example.
the Nostromo does land through an atmosphere and is not streamlined
you mean when the us faked going into space? well i mean the film and the landing were fiction.
@@stevenmacaulay8807 Nonsense.
@@bartonpaullevenson3427 no it's not, do the research and I mean multiple sources not just wikipedia's or a government owned or funded site says. But I will give you this, NASA has publicly said everything relating to the moon landing planning and schematics disappeared they have no idea apparently where it went and dont care...
@@stevenmacaulay8807 Steve, get ahold of an introductory physics textbook, read through it, and work the problems. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about going into space or to the Moon. I also don't believe the space agencies of several dozen countries are all cooperating to lie about what the US did, especially since many of them are enemies of the US, and not all space travel was by the US. Your conspiracy scenario really isn't plausible.
was waiting for a spaceballs scene cut into the ending montage :)
Same
I think he might have referenced that in the last sin when he said "and now he got shot into a restaurant at the edge of the galaxy, but I might be wrong
+Mark Butcher
That was a Hitchhikers' Guide reference.
I too was waiting for that.
I was expecting the outtake with the baby Alien to have the "Hello my baby, Hello my honey, Hello my ragtime gal!" music playing.
no air in space means no need for aerodynamics...
*atmosphere
They need to land dummy
+George Christidis why? are space stations too technologically advanced for people who build that giant space ship and refinery? *sin*
Sam Perry You nigga are too mentally advanced for me im outta here bruh
+trha2222 different set of problems. you need to be hydrodynamic to get over the immense friction.
Rapid growth? You're not gonna like Covenant!!!!!!!!
Right?! That xeno went from chestburster to fully grown in like 8 minutes.
I literally fell asleep during covenant so boring.
+mastershake42019 i didn't want to see cuz i didn't like alien now i do covenant was so boring compared to aliens alien3 and resurrection
Jacob Arner You’re right: I didn’t like “Covenant”. It sucked.
The Neomorphs are a bit different from Xenomorphs so of course their time of growth differs from them
For some of us, that first sight of the Nostromo in all its un-aerodynamic glory was the moment we realized we were watching a mature sci-fi film that actually had some basic understanding of how space works. Heck, they even knew that in space no-one could hear you scream ... although Cameron forgot that at the end of Aliens ;)
But the entire thing isn’t even the nostromo. The big bulky thing is the refinery. The nostromo is a towing vehicle, and the thing they land on LV-426 with. Which is much more aerodynamic looking.
@@appealtoreason7584 Yep. I meant the pair, tug and cargo. Obviously it makes sense that any vehicle capable of entering planetary atmospheres and landing would have aerodynamic qualities, such as the Nostromo itself.
That's how Star Wars gets away with having such sleek and aerodynamic spaceships; because most of them also fly in planetary atmospheres.
But once you're in space, it doesn't matter what shape the ship is. It could be a literal cube, like a Borg cube, for all the difference it would make.
Why would a ship be aerodynamic when there isn't any air?
you have to get it into space first so it needs to be streamline for that
+Al B Spaceships of this size would have been built directly in space and not in a planet.
+Al B Look at it's size and cargo. It was built in space dock.
+Al B OMG FUCK OFF ALREADY STOP CORRECTING EVERYBODY WHEN YOU KNOW YOURE WRONG
There is air when they take off.
6:06 Actually it's supposed to have taken at least 3 days, since (if I remember correctly) that's how long it took Cane to make the motion tracking device.
Minus one sin.
Fuck, not Cane.
The Android mofo.
I be fuckin' up
it's Kane.
A point from the movie that always bugged me was how did the face-hugger get IN the suit when it was OUTSIDE the suit to actually hug Cane's face? Re add that sin.
Josh Aponte I believe that it used its acid to melt the faceplate.
+Josh Aponte They already counted that as a sin dude.
I think the cat is part of the "space is an ocean " theme that is common on every single sci-fi ever. It's common to bring a cat for a long voyage on a ship, so he can catch mice and provide a feeling of homeliness. Is it really that far fetch to think mice will invade a space ship?
Well yeah, from where the mice should come? The only thing that could happen that the mice were on board when they were leaving earth.
Yeah, as 32,000 people pointed out, THE SHIP WAS BUILT IN SPACE. GOD JEREMY, DONT YOU FUCKING KNOW ANYTHING? So, yeah, how the fuck would rats get on the ship?
or packed with food that would have to be transported from space dock which would have to get it from either planet or spacestation hydroponics...
+Professor Tech I always thought the cat was just the ships "mascot" even though there's possibly no rats
+Asghaad I hadn't considered that. That seems somewhat plausible though, for sure. Good point.
I'm looking and I'm surprised that the the third and fourth installment of the franchise has yet to receive a well deserved sinnin'. On a personal note; my heart will always belong to the first two entries in this franchise.
ehhh 4 was a nice popcorn flick but nothing more so yeah sin it! but sin the fuck out of 3!!!!! only seen it a few times since i was a child and it gets worse everytime.
9:12 there's a button called "Yoni" - sanskrit for "Vagina". I'm pretty sure they had lot of fun making this movie.
Mikkel Jensen
Mikkel Jensen Goddamnit thank you for explaining the meaning of that word. My wife has taught my daughter to use the word and I thought it was basically gibberish.
im sure she taught her it so she could develop psychologically without wierd issues or self consciousness causing psychological damages
@@BrooklynBeTheBoro lol, your wife is funny.
@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid how so?
4:00 my understanding of it is that face huggers are immune to their own blood just like how snakes are immune to their own venom
That is correct. In fact, that was actually a plot point in AVP.
Venom and acid blood is not same.venom needs to get in the body trough bite or sting,but acid just need a contact with the surface of the body
So their tissue is some kind of ceramic?
John Doe Some types of plastics are also acid proof, alien skin does look kinda plastic.
Just coat your armor in the same material the alien skin is made out of
i came here to see if you would sin the part where they DIDN'T kill the baby alien
To be fair tho, the pure terror of that scene is such a classic that there's really no other way I could imagine that scene happening. Anyone watching it for the first time who doesn't know it's coming does the exact same thing. Possibly also screams like Lambert.
Well, they tried. Parker grabs a sharp object, presumably trying to stab it, but Ash (The Robot) holds him back.
Sadly, I already knew that happened before I watched it.
F***.
+johnnyphoenix74 never thought of it that way...huh
Um... Acid blood.
A ship's cat is the maritime equivalent of a house spirit. Jonesy has a much greater role in this movie than 99% of fans realize. Notice that he detects the presence of the alien ship right before the away team actually sees it.
Padme is a Tibetan word meaning wisdom or invisible wisdom or something like that. So obviously the nuclear control panel has an advice button.
Also there's a "yoni" button, I can't even...
Yoni and lingam, both female and male, as well as Fly agaric otherwise known as magic mushrooms.
if she was so wise, why did she hook up with a whiny baby of a jedi knight
No, no, no, it is a button to replicate the latest version of the iPad, in the future, they come out with a new version every 36 hours, and then it is obsolete. It is the "iPad me" button, however because it gets used so much, the 'i' has mostly worn off.
I don't think spaceships need to be aerodynamic...
Never mind ... Literally everyone else already said that... Never thought I would watch a cinema sins video and realize IM the one being a dick 😂
That's what I first thought, but I think he meant how it get from Earth to Space? Unless it was built in space, overcoming Earth's gravity and friction would be very fuel inefficient.
Naturally, it would have been built in space.
THANK YOU...god, that was literally driving me nuts for about twelve seconds.
It's like pointing out that the international space station isn't aerodynamic.
Nothing. There is no sin for this film
I never found her that sexy tbh
ANYBODY HUNGRY? moment killed me lol, and also, the suprise bitch moment
flat yes, but bonus points for being perky (see what I did there?)
+Gmaniac01 is that Neo From RWBY?
+Shadow07Warrior1989 holy shit calm doen
Who approved of bringing a cat to space?
I'm sure he invited himself.
And that is all the approval needed.
Possibly THE best film ever made followed by possibly THE best sequel
same! a lot of people try to credit terminator 2 as the best sci-fi sequel but, while T2 is a great film, It doesn't follow the rules of the first movie which immediately makes for a bad sequel.
Alien 3 is the best in the franchise. Fight me, Cameron fanboys! FIGHT ME!
ArnoldTohtFan Alien 3 is a flawed classic. I love it.
Noxious Didn't you think SAW 2 was super obvious though? The police set up in a SAFE making factory and he keeps saying 'He's safe' over and over. Saw was great, but making the point 8 times is surely just annoying. Did it offer any new perspective or point in any of the sequels? Or just new traps?
CarreraGT ikr
aero dynamics don't play a part in space only when exiting atmosphere because there isn't any air resistance
He DID say he didn't know shit about space... and immediately proved it. So...
Figure it would apply to entering atmo, as well. But I also don't know shit about space. Also, the tug section that lands on the planet didn't look very aerodynamic, either.
heh, yes. I made the exact same comment before bothering to read your comment. And I'm sure there are dozens of others calling them out too.
That ship was presumably built in space anyway.
no one cares to watch a video if you just spew stupid shit though
The movie turns 40 today!
Still a classic by Ridley Scott
Just played through alien isolation again to celebrate.
Quite a magnificent job from H.R. Giger! Ist gut!
@randy andy it looks like no one will ever made something that good in sci-fi horror movies a lot of time after ^^
And the franchise is STILL a masterpiece. Cinema is a fool to believe he can tear all down with just nitpicking.
It occurs to me that the reason the crew of the Nostromo was picked over, say, a trained military unit might be because their main goal was to trick them into getting it past quarantine. Weyland-Yutani could just pin the whole thing on a crew unprepared for what they were facing. Whereas if they'd sent a highly qualified team of soldiers or whatever, there would be a lot more questions
It's actually explained in detail in the novel this way. It was an illegal act on the Company's part and they used a commercial vessel in order to smuggle the Alien past the authorities. Full marks Michael!
I can't tell, was that a reference to "do androids dream of electric sheep" When the sin counter is 2? Cause damn that was really smooth.
Just to help with a few of the sins: 1) There is no wind resistance in space so ships do not need to be aerodynamic in the least (example- Borg cube), 2) Many of the sins can be explained by the fact that Ash was purposefully working to help the alien... from the beginning- fogging up the translator, fogging up the video feed, fogging up the med lab results, etc 3) That also includes the alien detector scanners and probably even the flame throwers (in the lab he says the creature is very immune to "adverse atmospheric conditions" so fire may not even hurt it).
If you want to give an example give a real example, Star Trek isn't real life, a ship doesn't need to be aerodynamic but it does need to be aerodynamic enough to make it into space.
@@aaron6087 Unless you build it IN space--- OOOHHH!!!!
lmao im still laughing at how the cat just was looking at that guy getting killed by the alien. he had that "better him than me" look
Yung Dynamic having the pleasure of watching another carnivore at work, ha ha
(1:05:55) Can water dripping inside a spacecraft ever be a good thing? Brett acts like its a light rain on a warm summer day. Refreshing.
given that there is gravity {which is the bigger mystery} it is not such a problem
@@DrWhom Still, you know that’s some nasty water. You make an interesting point.... Which is the more unexplainable... Gravity on the ship OR how did that critter get so big without some energy input (food)?
RIP
John Hurt
"He had a baby motherfucking xenomorph pop out of his chest!"
Do Aliens please. It's my personal favorite of the series.
... I read that as "Alien", and thought "uh... this IS Alien, dumbass!".
You said AlienS. I am the dumbass.
DUMBASS HE SAID ALIENS not ALIEN singular...fucking read
+telegraphrocks I did consider writing Alien 2, but your not a true fan if you call it that IMO.
i liked the first alien the most, the second one was great as well, loved the robot alien fight at the end :D
Going to agree, I like Aliens more than Alien, not by much though. one name.... Vasquez!!!
Dude chill out, in space no one hears you sins.
It's his favorite horror film
VladiSSius it's thee best horror film
The Thing is better.
the thing is great but alien is the best. its only majority of the world that agrees.
Majority of the world is also religious and they are all wrong. No, The Thing has a way scarier concept than Alien, you could stop aliens entirely with sensors and guns as they are little more than beasts with claws, the thing can be anything or anyone.
I can't believe I forgot how awesome Sigourney Weaver is
Sin 73:
You don't know how the alien got onboard?
It walked.
When Ripley dropped Jones because the alien was right around the corner (the strobe light scene) she was at the entrance to the escape shuttle.
That's why she tried to turn the self destruct off. When she couldn't turn off the self destruct she knew she'd have to go thru that area.
Hence the reason why she was so sweaty and the scene was so tense.
Also, thanks a lot Jeremy.
I will never be able to watch the air duct scene again without thinking "SURPRISE COCKFAGS!".
That almost makes up for when you didn't put Ron Burgundy saying "You're a smelly pirate hooker" in your sins video of Hook (which had pirate hookers).
The lack of aerodynamics is what told me that this was probably going to be a great movie when I saw it in 1979. My friend had already seen it and warned me that there was a REALLY nasty scene in this movie, so I was really worried until that scene happened (it was obvious which one it was). I was pretty horrified.
1977 through 1982 was a GREAT time to be a sci fi fan. Star Wars; Alien; and The Thing! What great movies!
Did people back then assume Lambert was raped?
I demand you remove the 'aerodynamic' sin and award it to yourself for being so dense. I DEMAND IT!!! (shakes fist)
you ship still needs to be aerodynamic if you land on planets with it....which that ship does. so it is a justified son.
+VeryDryBones sin
+VeryDryBones It was built in space. A ship that size couldn't and wouldn't be able to take off from Earth.
+James Bond but it still has the ability to land so therefore it needs to be at least somewhat aerodynamic or that ability would be useless
+Mr.62 There's lees air to break through making the process of doing so much more easy.
That about the eggs being there and suddently opening is the entire thing that you didn't seem to understand, the distress call was made to lure humanoids over there and into the basement where the eggs were layed to "sleep' in some icelike fog that you can even see in the video and movie, by entering that place they had activated the entire ship's mechanism to unsleep the eggs...
Yep👍🏻
Not a distress call. It was a warning message that THE COMPANY knew about and sent a disposable uninformed crew to do their dirty and deadly retrieval work.
“Least aerodynamic ships I’ve ever seen”
Because you don’t need aerodynamics in space.
And that’s a refinery, it doesn’t land on a planet.
Oh I thought the ship was a commercial can they be both?
AmishRiot Hm really what movie was it.. was it resurrection?
AmishRiot ah right I know what you mean it’s the planet where the crew discovered the Alien eggs and where one of the face huggers attacked that person (I forgot the name)
@AmishRiot Well, they landed on a "planetoid" it was only about 1200 km in diameter and had a little gravity.
@AmishRiot they didn't land the refinery, though, just teh tugboat
Dude, how many sins you've commited by making this video? By the way, cat is there in order to reduce stress in claustrophobic environment.
and pest control....nominally, lol
And maybe tradition. Ships cats are as ancient as the history of sail.
I doubt they spend long enough out of stasis for that to be an issue. It's the traditional ship's cat.
@davidjustdavid when has ANYONE ever pooped in a movie?
See?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Google "Worst Toilet in Scotland". Sorted :)
You know, aerodynamics don't matter when you're in a place where there is no aero to cut through. That's why a spaceship doesn't need to look streamlined.
TAKE BACK THAT SIN FROM THIS GREAT MOVIE! ty.
insrtcowjoke what about during takeoff
Something that size would definitely be constructed in space and not on any planet. It just wouldn't be practical to try launching something that size off a planet, if not completely impossible.
fair enough
But that would be way more expensive (because you'd need trained astronauts who are also into construction and health risks and just sending people up there at all)
Weyland-Yutani seems way too cheap for that.
Not a ship that big. It was definitely constructed in space.
1:58 It was a maritime tradition to have a cat on board to bring good luck to a ship and keep the rats down. so think that's where they got this idea of cat in space.
'Painful movies afterwards' ? Sure, the third and fourth were....ehh, But Aliens was a fucking masterpiece.
The third is a great one and the fourth had a few light moments too thought yeah otherwise the 4 is really bad
i think there is a 'thing' about the creature 'reputation' that sting us when watching them... a kind of mystic of the supreme killer that got into us when watching the first movie... i must say i loved them all even the 4th one. i love when the creature appear from above the prison warden and pick him up as he is saying 'there is no reason to panic...' or someting like that... lol love it!.
Seeing the Alien-human monstrosity get sucked into space through a 3 inch hole wasn't good enough for you guys? And come on, Wynona Rider.
He was talking about the pain in the subsequent films caused by the crew of the Nostromo's encounter with the Xenomorph.
Nothing worth shoplifting on the ship, I guess..