Sci-Friday #2: 'ALIEN' Reaction & Review - First Time Watching!
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It's Sci-Friday and we're reviewing 'Alien,' the classic scary movie that's sure to get your heart racing.
In this video, we discuss our first time watching the movie and give our reactions, thoughts and review. We definitely had a blast watching this movie and we can't wait to watch it again! If you're a fan of classic scary movies, be sure to check out our review of 'Alien' below!
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Ripley was always confident, capable, and cool under pressure; it's that no one listened to her in either the first or second movie. In this movie, if her command - and it was a command, for she was in charge of the ship - to obey quarantine had been observed, none of what happened would have happened. She had and expressed reservations about Ash, and Dallas ignored her. There's a popular meme about this: "Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman and then they all die, except for the smart woman and her cat."
HaHa I love that!
I think the biggest surprise for me was just how much luck was involved in her survival (at least initially). Do not get me wrong, I absolutely love Ripley. She is one of my all-time favorite characters but I didn't have all the pieces of the puzzle having not seen Alien. Now I feel like I finally know her...and I love her all the more :)
Thank you for watching and the laugh, my friend!
Many saw this originally in 1979. It was MIND BLOWING!! And it scared the shit out of a lot of us!
Wow I bet! I enjoyed Alien quite a bit but I can only imagine the terror when you don't have any info on the franchise.
That must have been an excellent night at the movies, my friend!
@WarpReactor if you don't want to be scared the trick is perspective. If you imagine yourself there it's scary. If you keep in mind that you're watching a show that is happening to other people and is fiction then it is completely different.
46:30 Ripley in Aliens is not super-confident. She's traumatized and she's determined to kill the aliens. She gets much more "confident" after finding Newt, because that gives her a much stronger purpose and reason to survive. She has a second chance at motherhood. She has someone to fight for. But look at her entering the colony. She pauses, she's jumpy, etc.
Yeah I definitely think I'm misremembering Ripley's character in the beginning of Aliens. Going to have to go back, now that I am properly armed with the backstory, and reevaluate her entirely.
Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts, my friend!
@@WarpReactor It sucks that you didn't get to experience the mystery (just like on a rewatch), but you can still appreciate the visuals, music, acting, art design, etc. It's not really about the alien. It's about how people react when confronted with the alien. That's why the first 2 movies are the best and the rest are...ugh.
There's a bazillion story parallels between the Alien and Aliens and we all recognized and appreciated them when Aliens came out, because it was clear that Cameron LOVED Alien so much (as did we all). He must have steeped himself so deeply in the Alien world and really conceptualized background and motivation for all the Alien characters and unfolding events, because the parallels (and continuation of story arcs, really) in Aliens make complete sense. No doubt Ripley is tons more heroic in Aliens (almost to a comic book heroine level), but it kind of makes sense that her character, which seemed more naive, more green in Alien, grows into her heroism after the unbelievable events she lives through by the end of Aliens.
I like this a lot and agree!
Like you, I don't see Cameron as 'copying' Scott but it more being an homage to this thing that he grew to love. Completely agree that that includes Ripley. I really like her journey through both movies but I am definitely going to have to rewatch Aliens now that I have the knowledge after having watched Alien.
Thank you for watching and dropping the knowledge, my friend!
And yet, Cameron went in with a very different approach (action-horror), instead of doing more of the same. Which is one of the main reasons Aliens was successful. Ripley is not a "hero," she's resourceful and determined. She does what she has to do to survive. She doesn't know everything, she gets scared, she's not perfect. She's not a Mary Sue.
John Hurt in this movie. . . It is honestly the most horrible death I've ever seen in any movie. So well acted that you can very easily imagine the pain he must be in to make the noises that he makes.
Right?!?
Another commenter told me that Scott didn't tell the other actors exactly what was happening and they had no forewarning about that first blood-pack 'pop'.
My friend, I literally could not agree more about his demise...just unimaginably awful, which I am sure Scott loooooved :)
Thanks for watching! Much appreciated
Completely ruined if you watch Spaceballs first. That's the real horror.
Hurt is a top tier actor.
The alien in the air shaft was the only jump scare that got me.
Just discovered your channel. Enjoying your reactions.
I saw Alien on the big screen when I was 14. Back then we didn’t have horror movies on VHS. I’d never seen anything like it. I left the cinema and my knees were shaking. It has such a profound effect that it remains in my top 5 films.
I could talk about this film for hours.
I envy you, my friend! This must have been one of THE singular cinematic/Movie going experiences in history. I've heard so much about the spartan ad campaign...must have been an amazing moment!
Despite knowing Aliens, I absolutely loved Alien! Exceptional direction, storytelling and acting across the board.
Thanks so much for watching and sharing, my friend!
The reason Ripley survived is that the Alien was trying to get her to take it somewhere. It didn't want to kill everyone. It could have killed her easily.
That's a great point. I always wondered why the xenomorph seemed so 'docile' in the escape pod. Your theory would definitely be a potential reason for that!
Thank you for sharing and for watching, my friend!
They deliberately didn't give the crew first names because the roles were all up for grabs when it came to gender. I like to imagine character swaps-- like what it would have been like if Sigourney Weaver were Dallas or Ash, or if Yaphet Kotto were Lambert and Veronica Cartwright were Parker.
Not sure which version of the film you watched. In some deleted scenes, Bret and Dallas were walled up much like the colonists in aliens, and Brett was being... consumed... and re-made into an egg; so the Queen and other parts of the lifecycle were put into place by Cameron. But I would say Ripley wasn't really confident in Aliens until her maternal instinct kicks in with Newt. The deleted scene in Aliens concerning her daughter makes that aspect all the more potent. She is a bit shaky in Aliens when giving her briefing to the Marines, and you can read her trepidation on entering the colony building. She isn't really gung-ho to travel there and wipe them out; she's forced to go to confront her literal and figurative demons, as she is constantly kept up by nightmares and the events of Alien are weighing on her soul.
Excellent points.
I need to go back and watch at least the beginning of Aliens. Now that I've seen Alien it'll mean a lot more but I want to observe Ripley like you have.
Great stuff, my friend! Thank you for watching
"The molecular acid oxidizes after the creatures death." -Bishop
Awesome!
I thought I remembered hearing somewhere that the acid loses its potency after a few moments, but with my swiss cheese brain, my memories are often suspect :)
Thanks again!
It’s hard to convey the total shock most of us experienced watching this in ‘79. The trailer gave nothing away, unlike trailers today. All we knew was that there might be an alien. In 1979 there had never been anything remotely like this movie. Of the thousands of movies I’ve seen, only “Friday The 13th” came close to being as big a surprise.
The water is condensation from the engines, similar to cooling towers in a power plant.
Ripley’s underwear is genius; almost everyone men and women, focuses on her tiny undies and miss the alien until he sticks out his hand.
I have never heard anyone say that there was little lead in to the action. This movie is a masterpiece of suspense.
Your take on Ripley is wrong. Obviously she doesn’t know much. She made decisions and stuck to them. She never considers herself an expert; that’s all on Burke. She even says that she would be of little use on the trip and didn’t want to go back. She only returns in order to stop the nightmare. Her strength is that, when TSHTF, Ripley acts. She may not be right, but she is decisive.
To quote Leah Organa in the introduction of the novel, “Star Wars:” ‘They were in the wrong place at the wrong time; naturally they became heroes.’
I find current audience’s obsession with lore and prequels annoying. Some details are unnecessary and should be left a mystery. Most times, when they try to over explain things, moviemakers mess it up. A couple of good examples are “Prometheus,” and “Covenant.”
I am honestly very jealous of everyone that had a chance to experience this movie when it came out...if only for the 'In space no one can hear you scream' tag, which is brilliant.
I need to go back and rewatch the beginning of Aliens now that I've seen Alien. Its been about 10-15 years so I am sure I am misremembering Ripley's character at the start of the sequel. I do agree that she is very committed to her decided course of action which I love about the character.
I think what threw me while watching Alien was how lucky she was (at least initially). Don't get me wrong, I give her full credit for her escape, its just that she could have easily been one of the first casualties had a few things broke differently.
Now that you mention it...the underwear was f'n brilliant!~
Great stuff, my friend! Thank you so much for watching and all the great info!
@51:40 The original idea was the victims were turned into the next generation of eggs. There was no queen required. Because this scene was cut, Cameron was able to invent the idea of the Queen laying the eggs.
And speaking of Paul Reiser - he took his mother to the premiere of Aliens. When Burke get's his just deserts his mother stood up and cheered.
HaHa That is awesome!
I read the novelization of Aliens and it included a scene where Ripley finds Burke impregnated on her way to save Newt. Much like the scene you mentioned with Dallas (which I heard about as well!), Burke asks Ripley to kill him. She doesn't but instead places one of those little 'lipstick' grenades in his free hand. As she is walking off the hallway behind her explodes after a minute or two.
I was so torn watching Aliens. I love Paul Reiser but f'n hated Burke :D
Great story, my friend! Thank you!
@@WarpReactor That deleted scene is out there on the blu ray and probably youtube
The Nostromo is like a tug boat: it's towing the refinery, which should be done processing the twenty million tons of ore by the time they get back to Earth.
That makes a ton of sense!
It also explains the massive explosion at the end.
Thank you for watching and the info, my friend!
The Alien Franchise: The series where Ripley has to clean up everybody else's mess because they keep NOT LISTENING TO HER! :D
HaHa 1000% correct, my friend!
Thank you for watching!
HaHa 1000% agree with you!
Thank you for watching, my friend!
The novelization of this fills in a lot of minor details, most notably that Kane is a fortune seeker. That's why he went into space in the first place. He dreams of stumbling across something to make him rich and/or famous. Something humanity has never seen before, that he can sell, or a crashed ship with a cargo hold full of diamonds, that he can sell. He's eager to go poking into things because in his mind this is just what he's been waiting for, the danger never registers.
OH...that is really great info to know!
I read the novel for Aliens which included a scene where Burke was 'walled-up' in the alien colony. Ripley finds him during her descent to get Newt but he has already been impregnated. She gives him one of those 'lipstick' grenades to end his own life (which he does).
Now I need to read the Alien novel as well!
Thank you for the information, my friend!
I would recommend reading it, it's the same author. Interestingly, he did the novelization not just for Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3 but also Alien: Covenant (Weirdly Prometheus didn't get one). Similar to the cut Burke scene, the novelization of Alien shows that the scene where Dallas "dies" was originally intended to be much larger scale, though it's easy to figure why it was compressed down to wandering around vents.
Collecting novelizations of random films is a hobby of mine. It's fascinating since they are usually working off the initial scripts and you find out that some line that seems weird or out of place in a movie is actually referencing something in the script that was cut. It really makes you appreciate how much a movie is made in the editing room.
My favorite detail: In the Aliens novel (and presumably script) Ripley tells Burke "Sorry to disappoint you" but in the film Sigourney Weaver says "Happy to disappoint you", which makes me think that was a sassy improv.
@@DynamiteRaven Love that potential improv from Sigourney Weaver!
Great stuff, my friend!
Thanks again!
51:35 An alien does not become a queen, it's born a queen. The life cycle was never cemented in stone. They made it up as they went along. Ridley Scott filmed some scenes where Dallas and the others were slowly being turned into the alien eggs (ovomorphing). Scott deleted those scenes, which gave Cameron the chance to create the alien queen.
The scene with the crew being turned into alien eggs is on one of the DVDs. It’s terrifying. It includes Dallas begging ‘please kill me’, which Cameron uses in Aliens.
@@afrancis1582 It's in the "special edition" of Alien, which is just an alternative cut the studio released as a marketing thing for the 30th anniversary. Ridley Scott considers his original cut the "official" version. Ovomorphing is never used again.
6:38 "Winds howling". Yes! Reminds me of this great Witcher series you did back in the days :D
Nothing particular to comment on, except that I almost unsubscribed because I was wondering what was this reaction channel UA-cam subscribed me to without my knowledge.
It took me way too long to recognize you! Glad to see you're back! I never really commented on your old videos but let me tell you I really enjoyed your TTRPG series (and your presence on other channels as well). And I'm gonna enjoy whatching your reactions from now on!
Cheers man!
Thank you so much for the exceptionally kind words...It means the world to me :)
Appreciate you watching then and now, my friend!
@BlackdOnuts DUDE, your cover of 'We Found Love' is f'n RAD, my friend! Holy smokes what a joy to listen to!
@@WarpReactor Oh, thank you so much! I can't help but cringe when rewatching these old videos haha. But I remember being especially proud of this one!
When I was 13 and it was new, Aliens was the most exciting thing I'd ever experienced or even imagined. But after a few decades of working for The Company irl, the original hits like nothing else I've ever seen. My #1 favorite film of all time, full stop
Lovecraft wrote that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown. Speaking for "the initial audience," the nameless thing later dubbed "xenomorph" terrified us because we knew so little about it. Could it become invisible? Could it regenerate? Was it intelligent? But everything we did know about it was horrifying. It's an endoparasite, it has acid blood, it grows very quickly without anything we'd call food, it has metal fangs, it descended upon Brett somehow, and it's strong enough to easily subdue Parker.
A second aspect to know is that before STAR WARS, sci-fi looked like Pal's The War of the Worlds or Roddenberry's Star Trek. ALIEN was the first post-STAR WARS science fiction film (overlooking cheap quickies like Battle Beyond the Stars, Star Crash, and so on.) We had never seen a spaceship interior like the Nostromo's.
Finally, today the Hans Giger style is a cliche, but in 1979 nobody had ever seen anything like it: organic, deathly pallid, yet elegant and graceful. This merging of the beautiful and the repulsive, the erotic and the industrial, is unimaginable to anyone who has yet to see an example of it, and unforgettable to anyone who once views it; a single Giger image, or even pastiche, forever changes the viewer.
The queens (which never was any idea at all when just the first film existed) come from specified facehuggers that lay specialized embryos. Since you have seen Alien 3, the one that Ripley had inside of her was a queen to be born. It's really very similar to bees & ants here on Earth in reality, some individuals are meant to be the mother of the hive. But they all still come from the same source.
OH I didn't know that about Alien 3!
So Ripley was 'housing' a queen...that's very interesting. Going to have to rewatch Alien 3 now :)
Thanks for the great info, my friend!
SUCH a classic, fundamental movie in scifi.
Very glad I finally saw it, my friend!
I can only imagine how badly it terrified an unknowing audience in '79!
@@WarpReactor I don't remember when I first saw it, I was just a kid in 79, but when I eventually did... hoo boy.
That is an "Engineer" that they found in the alien ship.
Yes and no. It was not an “engineer” in the Alien movie. It was just an unknown species. Many years later, the film Prometheus changed the unknown alien to an “engineer” to fit the Prometheus story line. The Prometheus story hoped, given the long interval between movies, that nobody would notice the differences between an engineer and the original unknown alien pilot.
The original is about twice the size of an engineer and that is his real head. Not a helmet. Not an exoskeleton. I’d say Prometheus used poetic license on steroids. I still enjoyed it very much.
Alien was Sigourney Weaver's big break - only the third film she had been in and her firat prominent role.
As far as Rpley's expertise on the Xenomorphs - there's also a scene in the director's cut where she finds Dallas - still alive. He's in a cocoon amd asks her to kill hom because he's "impregnated". So she has some idea of wat they're like and their habits and she's the only one who has any practocal experience with them..
From what I can remember in the correct order here. Prometheus. is the origin of Alien, so in order it would go Prometheus. Alien Covenant and sometimes years later Alien. Which is why the people knowing something about it and sent Ripely and her team to their death basically they were pawns in them learning about these creatures. If anyone else knows more, please explain more back history or the correct timeline please let me know. But I believe that's the order Alien theory told me. His channel here on UA-cam.
The best cut of Alien is still VHS. The lack of upscaled digital crispness leaves room for uncertainty and fear. Was that blurry thing in the background the Xenomorph? Did something move just to the side or was that a shadow? Dark and blurry, so good.
HaHa I was just mentioning to one of my friends how I sort of miss the entire VHS experience!
The tracking, rewinding...hell even the sound :)
I absolutely agree that anything to make the audience more 'uncertain' while watching Alien is a good thing.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the trip down memory lane, my friend!
i was viewing a youtube vid "alien: isolation", in one scene the alien is about to exit a roof vent, the plater dives under a table, you can hear it moving around, then its tail dropped down in front of you, it is on top of the table, i held my breath, i was totally scared to breath, then it jumped back into the vent.
As far as queens, there is a 'royal facehugger' that only produces queens, or praetorians (who can go through hormonal 'maturation' to become queens if one dies).
Amazing! I never knew about the 'royal hugger' or the maturation process. Awesome stuff!
Thank you, my friend!
You always should and MUST watch the original movie first! That's why your reaction was a bit "prejudiced". You expected some non-stop action like in "Aliens" (1986). The original Alien is one of the most imitated films ever. Almost every Sci-Fi/Horror movie takes ideas from it.
Ripley wasn't just "lucky". Why are ignoring the fact that she was the SMARTEST person from start to finish? She was right in every conversation but the crew didn't want listening to her. That isn't just a luck. Personally I adore all these long shots. I can watch them all day long - fantastic spaceship settings, brilliant planet moments. The "no sound" idea was phenomenal!
Completely agree!
I was still too young to go to the movie alone so I missed it in the theaters. For some reason we never got it on VHS so I ended up seeing Aliens in the theater first.
I'll blame my older brother for that one :)
Ripley is one of my all-time favorite characters! By lucky I meant that I was shocked by how favorably she negotiated some of those earlier encounters.
For example, I don't question Kane or Brett's intelligence for their deaths; they were just wildly unlucky. Ditto toward the end when Parker and Lambert split off from Ripley. At that point the Alien had two choices: the group or the lone person. Ripley had a little good fortune at that point too.
With that being said, I 100% feel and agree that Ripley was the smartest person on the boat...hands down.
She wasn't going to let Kane back on the ship which likely would've saved them all (save Kane).
She didn't trust the Ash-hole which I thoroughly appreciated :)
ah1016 commented earlier quoting the meme 'Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman and then they all die, except for the smart woman and her cat."
I love and wildly support that statement :)
Thanks for watching, my friend!
The Alien can cocoon its prey and form it into a new egg, this was a deleted scene in Alien, but if you follow the whole ridley Scott prequel films the engineers had access to a black goo that altered DNA which they may or may not have developed. So the queen alien may have been a new mutation or not...
I have to see this deleted scene!
Honestly I like the idea that the 'lifecycle' of the xenomorph is self contained and independent from the need for a queen. Don't get me wrong the queen is awesome but I think giving a 'drone/warrior' the means to replicate make the xenomorphs 10x scarier.
Thank you for the info and for watching, my friend!
If you ever want to start a social media food fight, go to an Alien fan group and ask what happened to Lambert off-camera at the end. You're welcome 😃
The scene where the chestbuster comes of Cane - Scott didn't tell any of the actors what was going to happen - so he got genuine reactions out of them.
You know you can tell when that first blood pack goes off!
Great note!
Thank you, my friend!
So they didn't read the script?
@@ifly-fsx It wasn't specifically stated in the script they read exactly what was going to happen - scripts don't go into technical detail about what the practical effects crew has decided to rig up - like the blood spraying all over them or that they would actually see the chestburster emerge from Cane in the fashion it did or how real and grotesque it would seem...
Yes, there's dialog but none of it is describing what is happening - the direction in the script probably read something like this:
While eating dinner Cane has a seizure, He's thrashing about so the crew try to restrain him. Parker gets a spoon to put in Cane's mouth to keep him from biting or swallowing his tongue. (at his point they cut and the actors take a break or even leave for the day. When they come back everything is set up for the continuation of the scene. Hurt's arms and head are above the table while the rest of him is under it and a false body is on the table. Pressurized sprayers and an alien puppet are under the table waiting for "Action!). The script merely said the alien energes from Cane's body and escapes. The OMGs and WTFs or whatever the actors said were probably unscripted They were meant to stare dombfounded at what just happened.
@JAYWALKER1000
"A red stain.
Then a smear of blood blossoms on his chest.
The fabric of his shirt is ripped open.
A small head the size of a man's fist pushes out.
The crew shouts in panic.
Leap back from the table.
The cat spits, bolts away.
The tiny head lunges forward.
Comes spurting out of Kane's chest trailing a thick body.
Splatters blood and fluids on its wake.
Lands in the middle of the dishes and food.
Wiggles away while the crew scatters.
Then the Alien being disappears from sight.
Kane lies slumped in his chair.
Very dead.
A huge hole in his chest.
The dishes are scattered.
Food covered with blood."
Revised Final
June, 1978.
Rev. thru Oct 4, 1978
I'm with you on all the 'I'm not doing X' items.
HaHa Good we can survive an extra 10 minutes the next time we are on a alien infested space ship!
Can I put in a vote to react to "Dark City"? I think of it as essential viewing for any sci-fi fan, but there are few reactions on YT. It deserves more... it was not a big studio film, but has top notch cast, writing, and production values.
Sure...it is on The List!
Appreciate the recommendation.
Thank you, my friend!
Harry Dean Stanton has one scene in Avengers infinty war. He plays a security guard who asks if Bruce Banner is an "alien".
Love this movie, but i never figured out what the Alien's MO was. Once the drone realizes there are no more facehuggers to implant new embryos, what is the alien doing? Is it hunting and eating the humans for food?
I had the exact same question/thought.
A few other commenters told me that there are deleted scenes of Dallas where he is 'walled up' like Newt in Aliens. The difference is the process is breaking Dallas down and converting him into...eggs.
Apparently that's what happened to the giant 'Space Jockey' on the egg ship (before Scott retconned it into an Engineer).
Not sure if I made that clear but I hope it helps a little :)
Thank you for watching, my friend!
A "seen-it-all" movie viewer is boarding the "Nostromo." He's seen "Aliens"? Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon have a roller coaster ride for you!;) I saw "Alien" in the same ex-Cinerama theater where I'd seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). TV and print ads gave NO clue as to what kind of movie it was. What would you make of: "In space, no one can hear you scream?" Watching movie backward of their production order is like watching "Star Wars" in "numerical/chronological order" (Whatever that is.). You miss the sequential impact of the series, but what do I know, I saw the "Alien" and "Star Wars" series in production order, over the years.
100% Agree.
I really enjoyed Alien but obviously had a ton ruined for me as to the nature of the xenomorph. I bet it was an absolute blast to see this in the theaters!
I approached Alien the same way I did the Star Wars prequels...I know a lot but not all of what happened.
I envy you, my friend! Thanks for watching!
Re: Paul Reiser
He's in Stranger Things season 2; if you haven't seen the series, it's amazing and references MANY things, particularly from the 80s. (Alien being one of maaaany)
LOVE Stranger Things! Paul Reiser's character is one of our favorites.
The Snow Ball in the final episode of Season 2 takes me back like very few shows ever have.
Have a great one, my friend!
@@WarpReactor Stranger Things and the animated series Infinity Train really reminded me of how much I love synthwave. heh
@@WarpReactor Loved “Sam Gamgee” in Stranger Things, too.
Re: Your lifecycle question - in the Directors cut you get the originally cut deleted scene where you see Dallas & Brett getting broken down into eggs, but Cameron retconned that by having a Queen.
I definitely need to see these deleted scenes. Honestly having as more 'viable' procreation path would make the xenomorphs even deadlier...and damn near unstoppable.
Thank you for the info and watching, my friend!
Cameron didn't retcon anything, because those are deleted scenes. They were not canon.
@@ifly-fsx Duh - have you not seen the Directors Cut of Alien?
@@Paul_1971 First of all, it's not really a "director's cut." Ridley Scott is happy with the version he put out in 1979. The alternate cut with the deleted scenes was a marketing ploy by the studio to increase sales when they released the alien quadrilogy in 2003. So it's an official release but not exactly canon. And Cameron still did not "retcon" anything. That's not what the word means.
@@ifly-fsx End of the day the Directors cut exists, it had a theatrical release and many people have reacted to it on UA-cam - get over it. The lifecycle was all planned & scripted for the original film and is shown in various making of books ect and the Dallas egg scene was actually shot, Cameron must've known that this existed so he changed the lifecycle as he wanted a Queen for the big bad, which is a retcon actually. You just make yourself sound like a patronising Cameron apologist who can't take truths.
dude... it literally says what the ship is in the opening text. Towing vessel Nostromo and its cargo, a refinery. its processing the ore on their way back to earth. and they land on a moon, not the gas giant. and i kind of wish you had seen this before Aliens. but im glad you did watch them both. theyre definitely two great movies with slightly different genres :)
If you really want some answers. Go to Alien Theory he has hundreds of videos on both Aliens and Predators from movies and from the comic series. And it explains a lot about what the movies are doing but the things they also left out and it there is a complete timeline as well. So, it's the best advice I can give.
The ship is a refinery. Lots of heat needs lots
of cooling
The point you made about Ripley being much stronger in the sequel is one of the reason I love the first three movies. They give her a great character ark. In the first movies she is the uncertain rookie. In the second she is the confident warrior. and the in the last one she is the girzzled veteran. Won't go into more detail cos of spoilers. But think of them as one long movie and her ark is fantastic. This is why I think resurrection should have never been made. Anyways really enjoyed the review. Just found your channel because of it. If you are going to watch aliens again on this channel may I recommend the special edition if you haven't seen that version. Its by far the better cut and completely changes the whole movie in my opinion. Extremely important plot points were cut out of the theatrical cut.
Great to know about the Special Edition!
I am planning an Aliens rewatch/review and will definitely use it as I am sure I've never seen it.
Thank you for watching and the kind words, my friend!
Your welcome man. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your Aliens review. @@WarpReactor
I saw a documentary on this movie years ago and the one thing I remember is sometimes the actress didn’t have a script and they were just supposed to react like guess like normal people they did not have a script when that thing came of his chest! their reaction was not acting they were in shock
I saw the same thing! I was told Ridley Scott didn't tell the cast what was going to happen to Kane, so when the first blood pack goes off, the reaction from everyone is 100% genuine :)
Thank you for watching, my friend!
@@WarpReactor I thought that that was so cool. 😊 Always loved scary movies. My beau took me to see alien and he said I probably wouldn’t be able to eat nor drink anything. when we got there he asked did I want anything so I just said a soda I took a sip as the movie started and when it ended I was still holding it to my mouth, I had never taken another sip. I fell in love with the Alien series. James Cameron and Ridley Scott are two of my favorite Directors. The Abyss didn’t have credits in the beginning of the movie and while I’m watching it I said this show seems like a James Cameron movie. Lol
@@user-no5gg6wh5k The Abyss is fantastic! Ed Harris is so darn good!
The othermone os the one they failrd to put the word Alien in the title - Prometheus
That's it! Thanks, buddy!!
Seeing you slowly realize that Ash is an android... THAT'S good stuff!
"How the fuck do you know that? You're having tea?"
I am confused. You never saw Alien but you've seen all the rest of the sequels?
This was the first woman hero ever in films. It did a great deal for the Women's liberation movement that you may have run across. It was amazing.
Weird right?
I was too young to go to Alien myself but all my older friends saw it in the theater. For whatever reason I never rented it when it came out on VHS and when Aliens came out, my older best buddy convinced me that I didn't need to see Alien to understand Aliens.
The old days before streaming :)
As for Ripley, she has always been one of my very favorite characters and the Aliens movie poster featuring her remains one of the very few possessions I still have from my childhood :)
As always thank you for watching, my friend!
You know when I first watched an alien movie, it was out of contacts I didn't know the storyline, I didn't know the plot, all I remember is my sister Dating this guy and they put on alien VS predator and I was like what just happened and it's scared me so for such a long time, it use to give me nightmares. I avoided these movies until I grew up a little bit more and it was the sound effects that really get to me in these alien movies. But I do like them now.
41:40 Ridley Scott ruined the mystery with Prometheus and Covenant. The questions were far more interesting than the "answers."
100% agree. I thought they were OK but they didn't do anything for my enjoyment of Aliens (and now Alien). Honestly I didn't really need to know the origin of the 'big guy' in the Alien ship. A few people have told me that he was originally thought of as a 'space jockey' and I find that makes him way more mysterious and the entire movie way more terrifying.
Thank you for all the great info, my friend!
@@WarpReactor They were visually amazing, but the story and characters were horrible. I can hardly remember any of their names. Compare and contrast with the iconic characters from the first two movies. Everyone knows their names.
"Ash Hole."
Good prediction and reaction.
The film is only an underlying allegory on sex, and more particularly on the theme of rape: the entrance to the vessel in the shape of a vagina, the machine in the shape of a phallus where the fossilized skeleton is located, the facehugger on the face of Kane, the alien adult with his double retractable jaw... and at the very end, Lambert's characteristic rape, which we do not see, but which we hear... And which we conceived.
Thank you so much!
I had heard about the Alien/Sex allegory but hadn't heard it explained. Fascinating!
Thank you so much for the knowledge and watching, my friend!
@@WarpReactor With pleasure, several UA-cam videos analyze it even better than me. And R. Scott himself never hid it.
Thanks again!
Yep. You knew too much. I saw this at the drive-in when I was 7 years old! My mother tried to cover my eyes during certain parts, but I could still see through her fingers!! Hehehehe! Also, movies were not as "tight" as they are expected to be these days........attention spans have changed dramatically between then and now.
I think you are misremembering "Aliens." Your memory was likely colored by your assumptions about the events in "Alien." She didn't claim to have any extra knowledge about the Xenomorph. She only spoke about the things that we saw her learn in "Alien." If you go back and rewatch "Aliens," I think you'll find that everything she said was consistent with her experience.
100%
I'm planning to watch Aliens again in the very near future. Its been over 20 years since I've seen it...which seems impossible but here we are :)
I fully expect to have my swiss-cheese memories corrected at that time.
Honestly I think my initial reaction was a combo of misunderstanding the events of Alien (which I hadn't seen) and misremembering the conversation with Ripley and Burke at the beginning of Aliens...which is a deadly combination :)
Regardless thank you for watching and placing me on the right path, my friend! Your input is greatly appreciated!
An excerpt from Aliens
Burke: "The and.. eh, synthetic person on Ripley's ship malfunctioned."
Of course you oshould have known it.
I know right.
I just got it in my head Ash was the 'corporate guy' and completely spaced on Ash being the synthetic Burke mentions. My mind literally redacted that part until I saw the 'milk' roll out of Ash's wound.
One of my bigger brain farts...captured for all time :D
In Spaceballs if you check the people with John Hirst there's at least a Signurney Weaver look-a-like - maybe more ot them..
And rhe dancing chestbuster is a shot at the WB frog - from and old WB cartoon. Hello my honey, hello mty baby, hello mu ragtome gal.
HaHa that's great! Now I need to go watch Spaceballs again :D
HOW the fuck have you not seen the first film?! Lol
Right?!?
I guess my only excuse is that my brother was older and he convinced me I could see Aliens without having seen Alien...and then I just NEVER saw it :)
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So look this is just my opinion... But I'm a hard core alien fan and no where in the movies do they call the parasite a facehugger... I'm sure why I hate that term but I think for me it takes away from the horror of what it really is. Facehugger sounds cuddly... They always refer to it as a parasite witch sounds horrible. Something that almost literally rapes your mouth, paralyzes you and impregnates your chest.... To give a violent and brutal birth to it's offspring. That all... 😊😊
HaHa I have to agree :D
Thanks for the laugh and for watching, my friend!
All of their names are just surnames. All of the parts were written as if the crew was all male.
Very strange. I feel the exact opposite from you in regards to Mr. Reiser. Aliens was my first introduction to the man and I have disliked him ever since.
Oh, and we call them Engineers, because they engineered us. ;)
Yeah see the difference between them and me I'll pass up my paycheck I'll go get a new job I'm not putting my life at risk for exploring and unknown world and secondly as soon as I saw that face hugger on that guy's face I would have been gone I would have stolen the shuttle and left with a cat.
Alien 3 SHOULD have been finding "The Alien's" HOMEWORLD, and seeing what other kinds of animals live on such a planet (200 different speices of alien tough fellas) We would even see the primary Host that "the alien" uses on its homeworld to reproduce.
oh well, no movie about that - just4-6 bad ones after Aliens instead.
A movie explaining the Homeworld would be DOPE!
I will always say and I don't expect men to understand but you can't overstate the importance and monumental jump ahead for women in cinema that Sigourney weavers Ripley brought to the world. There weren't female action stars. If there was a female fighter, she was generally A bitch or a man in a woman's body. Because it's like the writers and the producers could not fathom that a woman could actually be a strong fighter and not be a man or have male qualities. Yes I know there's linda Hamilton's Sara Conner. But she didn't become the bad ass until second movie. In the original she was kind of useless and annoying. But with ripley, she was a natural leader and fighter from the start. Tho you can definitely see the changes in the character from this to aliens. But even before the horrors that woukd later give her ptsd, she still was a take charge and stand up for what you believe even if you have an evil robot trying to undermine you all the time. Female role models are even today hard to find. What action stars there are tend to be cartoonish, but ripley was realistic. She was scared, she even froze a couple times. Not because she's a woman but human. She did what she had to anyway. That's realism. It's sad to me there's not more ripley type characters because since '79 when this was made, or was it 78? But you'd have hoped in that amount if time women in cinema would have grown. No. One reactor said once how annoying women were in cinema. It's not the women. It's how Hollywood chooses to write and promote them that's the problem. Sigh.
THIS ^
I could not agree with you more. Ripley is one of my all-time favorite characters and any criticism I offered was more my misunderstanding of the events of the first movie...and my misremembering of the beginning of Aliens.
Unfortunately I also agree that there have been far too few female cinematic role-models since Ripley.
I truly appreciate you taking the time to comment and watch, my friend.
yes to organic dialogue scenes and non-music....i think two of the major strengths of this movie that we've lost over the years. Too much music now that takes you out of the scene, and scripted interruptions where the person talking stops mid-word and then the next actor says their "interruption" line. Just terrible acting really...well terrible direction I guess.
IMO the Alien's reproduce only via other species (so its a perfect preditor, eats prey and inpregnates prey - thus killing the host while birthing the baby alien). It can't reproduce without another species (i.e. another competitor in Evolution's game of survival of the fittest).
1. eggs (laid by a Queen)
2. eggs grow face huggers
3. face huggers just sit on the eggs - for eons in status, until a hapless other type of animal shows up to wake the egg up.
4. face hugger impregnates animal
5. animal dies while birthing eunic "worker alien ants"........all of which die.........but one in a few thousand births a little queen, which grows up to lay eggs
back to 1 above.
Per the "Engineers" i think that whole storyline is bullshit and Ridley pull it out his arse 25 yrs after this movie as made, to make the worst movie ever mad, PROMETHEUS (a flatline full Zero of a movie). Back in 79 IMO there were no "engineers", the "big guy" inthe chair was what we called "the Space Jockey", he was an alien that was transporting alien eggs (alien eggs to him and us), probably for his alien companies weapon division!, and a few got loose and what happened to his crew and him is what we see happen to our crew later.
Ridely Scott used to be a one of the Greats - Alien, The Duelists are his two best and two eariliest works, today god no! this one out now "Napoleon" looks hammier/corny as fk than the worst Sand and Sandal 60's movie - i.e. Samson and Delila/etc.
The Duelists, check it out, its also the prettiest film I've scene (i.e. Cinematography), the story is good, theme is excellent "that is honour", and the point of the whole thing - well You'd have to ask Harvey Keitel.
P.S. Parker is Kofet Yoto(sp), he was in "Live and Let Die" and several other 60's and 70's movies, great actor! check out "Nothing But a Man" he is in it, but in this one Ivan Dickson, and Abby Lincoln seal the show. its here on YT in full BTW.
Holy sh-t! Awesome information blast, my friend!
Always looking for good things to watch and I haven't heard of The Duelists. Definitely going to check that out!
Thank you so much for all the juicy info, my friend!
Do yourself a huge favor and stop watching these after Aliens. Skip straight to Alien Vs. predator AFTER the next one.
Will do, my friend!
I've seen Aliens and I am unsure if any of the other Alien(s) movies make the Top 150. Regardless I will take your warning with me :)
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@@WarpReactorActually Alien3 is better than a lot of folks say.
@@eddhardy1054 No, it's not. It's worse. It's been 30 years. Give it up.
@@ifly-fsx Why would I give it up just because some twat with no taste asks me to...🤣
You should check them out either way and decide for yourself.