REACTING to *Aliens (1986)* THE GREATEST SEQUEL?? (First Time Watching) Sci-fi Movies
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The girls, Hayley and Stella, are reacting to the sci-fi classic sequel Aliens (1986) and it is possibly the greatest sequel ever made?? Enjoy this react to the classic film directed by James Cameron and starring the wonderful Sigourney Weaver. Enjoy this first time watching sci-fi movies reaction to Alien (1986)
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The debate rages on about whether the sequel is better than the original, but one thing that I think most people can agree on is that the first two Alien films are classic sci-fi films.
Yeah, exactly this!
Both great, the first one is slow burn sci-fi horror, atmospheric and more creepy, this one is like an action movie and faster pace, and a bigger production.
I like Alien for introducing the story and Aliens for taking it up a notch. One sets the other up so both are important. They definitely lost all momentum in A3 and onwards. Ended up becoming a purely nerdy thought experiment.
@ThaUltimateHunter It wasn't the editing that bothered me but the way they killed off Newt. It broke the lore of the story and didn't advance it at all. I understand if they did it because they couldn't use the actor in real life. That's a shame. Would have been better just not to do the movie at all. In the comics Newt lives on and has adventures of her own.
Agreed, Ridley Scott always seems to prefer the H.R Giger horror route, while Cameron here decided to do an action thriller.
Paul Reiser is the actor from this and "Stranger Things", and here's a fun fact: his performance was so believable in this that even his own mother was glad when he met his fate!
His entire character in Stranger Things played off the role from Aliens. You were supposed to be suspicious of him until it turned out that he's "an ok guy".
@@DzinkyDzink It's funny, because his role in this film was based on the same premise: he'd been known for TV sitcoms and was considered a likeable guy, so he was cast as the villain because people's initial reaction would be to trust him.
He also was the co-star of the sitcom Mad About You, along with Helen Hunt.
I believe he said that she cheered when he died.
Yes, it’s a fantastic performance by him, just as Joffrey did in Game of Thrones a few decades later. An excellent portrayal of a hate-able character.
Ripley learned to drive a power loader when she was working on the docks when they took away her flight officer status. Burke mentioned she was driving loaders in her current job.
They were talking over a lot of the little details...I hope they will watch it again.
Personally I always had a bit of an issue with this only because it had been many years realtime since she had used one and based on how things update and change in reality it only makes sense that the power loader would have had multiple updates and changes over 50+ years
@@stormywaters1565 she used them after they found her in space.
@@stormywaters1565 it hadn't been many years. She took a job at the docks because she could no longer be a flight officer (remember Burke saying he knew it was the best job she could get). She learned to use a loader for the job at the docks. So, she only used a loader for the time between when she lost her officer position and they came asking her to return to the planet. Though they don't specify how much time that was, it was obviously enough time for her to achieve a class 2 rating on the power loader.
@@richardb6260 ah yeah ok I was always puzzled by that but makes sense now. The movie doesn't do a great job of making it evident a good bit of time had passed between her return home and departure.
Ripley is what people should aspire to be: Strong, intelligent, and adaptive when they need to be, vulnerable enough to admit they need someone to help at times.
Ripley it's what all heros should strive to be.
Yeah, I'm so tired of Gen Z saying there are no strong woman characters. There always have been. Stop bitching just for bitching. Princess Lea was no wimp either
Lt. Ellen Ripley is the personification of a strong woman on film. She's a woman that doesn't need to beat the crap and kill men to prove that she's a strong woman. She's a leader and a protector. Men will follow her because they trust her leadership. That is a good example of a strong woman on film.
And Sarah Connor
Thank God Jennifer Lawrence was there with these roles first to teach Weaver 🤣 🤣
@@didamnesia3575wasn't Jennifer Lawrence the first woman ever born?
We need less Yaass Slaaaay Queens and more Ellen Ripleys.
@@lewas91 You mean where everyone is a competent person who does not do wildly stupid things? It is the age old battle of two starkly different philosophies. 1) A rising tide lifts all boats or 2) Life is a zero-sum game where in order for me to get a bigger piece of the pie others have to get less.
Too bad there were never any more movies in this franchise, but I'm happy knowing that Ripley, Hicks and Newt all had long, full lives after this.
I agree completely. 👍
😢
Oh gawd, the sarcasm! 😂
Alien 3 is actually great. Purely for Charles Dance’ performance. One of the greatest English actors of all time. And resurrection was ok.
We don’t talk about AVP though.
@@group-music Nope. After Aliens nothing exist in this (maybe except the alien skull in Predator 2).
FUNFACT about Carrie Henn aka Newt. It was her first and only camera role she ever took. She became a grade school teacher instead but from time to time she gets fan letters and kids tell her, her praent's loved her in Aliens.
James Cameron was more cautious about the film environment toward Carrie than her actual parent's, meaning he was on her side all the time making her as comfortable as possible. Also she said that Sigorney became like her actual 2nd mom for the time and she loves her.
Its all said in the cast reunion at comicon 2016. RIP Bill "Hudson" Paxton 🥺😢
Jenette also really didn't do much in hollywood after this movie. She was so great in it i expected much more out of her, but wasn't to be. She did a bunch of cameos and 2 bit roles but based on her in Aliens i would have thought she would have a much bigger career. Good looking, curvy, young, and her first role such a good one? Nope.
@@eolsunder at least James casted her for Terminator 2 again.
If Bill Paxton's gravestone doesn't read "Game over, man...Game over" that makes me even more sad
I bet kids are terriffied. Imagine YOUR parents told you "Tell your teacher i loved her in Aliens"
Sigourney Weaver's in another really fun Sci-Fi movie called, "Galaxy Quest". It is really funny.
Best Star Trek EVER!!!
God yes. Please do Galaxy Quest. NOT. Aliens 3!
Alien 3 was just plain sad. Nothing really exciting. Just depressing from the start to finish. I try to pretend it doesn't exist, lol...
@@shannanmuire The Dark Horse comics continuity makes it especially easy to ignore the following (comparatively terrible) later movies. Absolutely more enjoyable than the grim and repetitive story elements sprinkled into the later films. Would far prefer the Alien franchise had gone down that pathway rather than what we got from the horrific Alien 3 or even the prequel Prometheus. As it stands, the one movie I do like that feels like it belongs to the Alien/Aliens universe is a film starring Sean Connery called 'Outland.' Same set designer, so it matches the same industrial vibe. Obviously no Xenomorphs, but it tells a story that looks like it could have happened in that same universe.
Seeing this in '86 was the first time I'd experienced an audience cheering during a film. There were a number of moments that got a reaction but the two I remember are Hicks diving through the med-lab window and the reveal of Ripley in the loader.
The most iconic line of this movie and perhaps one of the most of all sci-fi was omitted in this reaction. "Game over man. Game over."
Stella, in the original film, the byline was "In space, no one can hear you scream". That movie was far more about the ominous atmosphere, and the suspense. That's why you hardly saw the alien in the first movie. They were going for more of an emotional reaction from audience in the first one. Whereas in this movie, it was more about the thrills, and the action; something James Cameron is known more than Ridley Scott who directed the first film.
The tagline for Aliens was “This time, it’s war.”
The first film is a horror film
the second film is an action film for the first alf, then devolves into a survival horror for the last half.
Although you see a lot of the queen in aliens, you see even less of the warrior aliens in Cameron's film than you do in the first film. You see that there are multiple aliens, but they're always shrouded in shadows and darkness. In the last third of Alien, you see a lot of the creature, especially right at the end when Ripley blasts it with the ship exhaust.
@@Aquascape_Dreamingthat was because they only had five actors in the warrior suits so they had to digitally replicate them. It’s much easier to do have them in shadow.
Totally watch the extended version. It fills in some things this left out and it makes more sense in the end.
The only issue with the extended version is that they show the colony prior. But if you've seen the film before then it's not such a big deal.
@@nutyyyy it also shows that she was a mom before she came to the planet. She lost her daughter and gains one with Nute
@staciepoole8161 the picture they show Ripley of her daughter when she passed away was of her (Sigourney Weaver's) mom to add the emotional touch.
@@nutyyyy That's not an "issue" in the real world. It's only an "issue" in your mind.
I loved the part where the Marine was saying how they were all toast and Ripley says, "This little girl survived here for weeks with no weapons and no training."
But see, I also think that had another meaning, much more sinister: I believed that the only reason Newt was left alone, was because, the Queen and the colony had taken every one else-- they didn’t need her… and when Ripley and the Marines came, it might have been the only thing that kept her from eventually being taken by them… as new eggs were hatched and new Xenomorphs were born.
How the queen got inboard the dropship is still a question untill this day 😂
In the early 1990s in my home city Glasgow//Scotland they had an attraction called 'Alien War' located in the massive caverns underneath our main railway station where the colonial marines would escort you around a cool mockup of the aliens-esq set trying to escape the Aliens was a pretty cool experience.
The extended version was awesome. It wasn't much longer but it was all worth while. Especially the action tunnel scene with the remote guns
I still prefer the theatrical version. I especially don't like the scene where Newt and her family go out to the derelict ship. It shows the facehugger too soon and it also makes it less surprising to find Newt later on.
@@nodak81 Same.
In my opinion they didn't just cut that scene for time - they cut it so that it was less obvious that Aliens is actually more of a remake than a sequel.
When you put that scene back in suddenly the cadence of plot elements looks a lot more like the first film.
@@nodak81 funny. acceptable point but i don't feel it. it's totally clear that they are going find aliens when they arrive later (and the we-lost-contact-scene is right after that scene), so no surprise to be spoiled (to me it rather builds up tension on what /exactly/ they are going to find). and it's also not clear that it is necessarily Newt to be found later on, could have just be a random family.
also Newt's scream in that cut scene is one of the best in whole cinema history.
For me, the missing scenes are the ones where Ripley and Burke discuss her daughter. It informs Ripley's reaction to Newt.
I like portions of both versions. My ultimate version would use scenes from both but especially delete the early family discovery, while leaving in that they went to check it out. So we'd see the colonists and know newts family went out there but we wouldn't see the family attacked.
I'm so stoked that you two are continuing on with the franchise! I absolutely love all these movies. They all have different vibes but are worth watching.
This was actually pretty groundbreaking when it came out 37 years ago.
and of course now every reactor just compares everything to a Marvel movie
@JohnnyXoz which are generally worse imo
Exactly. It provided the archetype so many movies copy.
Ripley is one of my all time favorite characters. She's a normal person whos afraid, but does what needs to be done anyways. Thats courage. Thats a hero.
There's a book that explains why she was lost for 57 years. The director's cut is better as it has more background on Ripley and Newt's family. I always thought these marines were specially picked by the "Company" because they were f-ups and not the top of the line..which suited the company's agenda. There is a cut scene that shows Ripley coming across a cocooned Burke.
17:59 In the extended version, the girl's family, alongside her brother, ends up finding the torus-looking ship from the first film, and her father gets caught by a facehugger. The rest is history.
I completely forgot that scene isn't in the theatrical version for some reason
You should’ve watched the extended cut. It would’ve filled you in on Ripley’s loss of her daughter who grew old and died waiting for her mother to come home. And why she’s attached to Newt
So many video games owe their existence to this movie.
Throughly enjoyed watching a younger generation of women discovering the Aliens series, specifically Ripley. She was my generations first woman movie hero. Her character really displays how to be courageous and bold, even when facing a monster.
16:40 In the Director's Cut there's extra scenes that show how Burke took the information from Ripley's hearing, and instructed colonists to go out to the alien ship, but without telling them what would be out there.
Right from the start, Burke was after bringing an alien back.
Every strong female lead in sci-fi in the last 30 years owes its gemesis to Sigourney Weaver’s portraysl of “Ripley” in the first 2 Alien movies…
And she owes it to Jennifer Lawrence.
She knew how to run the loader because that is what she was doing once awakened to fill her days.
One of you asked earlier in the video how Ripley knew how to operate power loader (mechanized exoskeleton). I believe she gained the experience from working at the cargo docks. When Burke and Gorman visited Rilpey's apartment Burke commented that it was the only work Ripley was able to find after she returned home.
I thought the same thing.
"They just told you where she’d been working!" 😅
the guy who played Hicks also played Kyle Reese in Terminator
The late composer James Horner wrote this score in a little over a week since they weren’t done filming/editing. His score garnered an Oscar Nomination.
Fun reaction! The facial expressions were gold lol. The director's cut is almost a different movie. So much more was put in. To me it actually moves faster than the theatrical. And the aliens are in it more.
The great thing about the Alien franchise is how different all of the films are. Overall, this is probably the best film in the series, production-wise at least but I'm sure you'll find plenty to appreciate in Alien 3 as well. Hope to see the reaction soon! Best wishes!
29:30 "You're allowed to freak out; just don't freak anyone else out!" This isn't soothing for someone with bad anxiety 😂
The extended cut starts with Newt's family and how the aliens were found and brought back. It also goes in deeper about Ripley's daughter passing away while she was in cryo, which is why she has such a strong maternal instinct with Newt. Like LOTR, the extended version is worth the extra run time.
I saw this in the theater when it came out. One of the best theater experences of my life with everybody cheering and screaming as it goes between horror and kick ass action.
This sadly is where the Alien movies end as far as being worth watching. Everything past this point is pretty bad.
I agree.
@@group-music ...said no one.
@@group-music Sure. Keep telling yourself that 🤣
@@group-music Stick with the voices in your head. 🤣 There are thousands of ratings and reviews to pick from, and not one of them will claim that turd "3" is better than Aliens
In the special edition she asked for he daughter, but they tell her that she died because was old like 70 years some like that , and she cried, that s why she feels some feelings for the child
Aliens is what happens when one of the best sci-fi horror films ever made gets used as the setting for one of the best sci-fi action films ever made.
Also, Jonesy is the only character in any movie I know of to be played by 5 different actors without the audience noticing.
While Ridley Scott started the franchise or laid the foundation for it, it was James Camaron that made the franchise. The fact people argue about which movie is better shows how good both movies actually are, but it also remains a fact that without the success of Aliens, Alien would have just been a one off and never turned into the franchise it has become.
A small detail that's great is how the Alien queen gets on the dropship. There's an explosion that buffets the dropship into the platform, then some debris catches on the landing gear and gets pulled into the bay suggesting subtly that something else could have gotten in there too.
Here’s some trivia for you… the actor playing the colony administrator in this plays Captain Hollister in Red Dwarf (Mac McDonald)
He was also a cop at McDonald's in the Fifth Element.
9:16 Vasquez - also the foster mother of John Connor in Terminator 2 :D
Newt got her nickname because while playing hide and seek with the other kids of the colony, she was so good in squeezing into tight spaces, which later saved her from the Aliens.
Easily one of my all-time favorite movies. I’ve probably watched it a few hundred times by now.
58:08 "I dont know if your arms are stronger than the vacuum of space" .. To give some physics answer here: its actually the other way around. Vacuum actually doesnt have any "force" (even when it seems like). Its actually the airpressure, which "goes" into space. That air pressure is 13 pounds per square inch. The wind speeds when that hatch opens are from the air molecules itself (which at room temperature moves around the speed of sound (thats actually also the reason for the speed of sound in the air) - meaning: the windspeed = speed of sound, when the hatch to the vacuum of space opens. And the force, as i said is 13 pounds per square inch of Ripley.. because her body is right laying in the direction of the windspeed - meaning thats around 100 square-inch of surface against the air.. 100 times 13 pounds would be 1300 pounds she has to hold with her arms.
So in conclusion: you are right... realisticly spoken, she would not be able to hold herself in that situation - not even for a second. And thats only if she would hold herself only. But the Alien queen is also holding on her.
But 1300 pounds on one arm exceeds by far even the strongest men on earth.
It would be at least enough to dislocate the shoulder... probably even rip the arm off.
So... very good observation about that movie-mistake.
Also - because the air would go out into space with the speed of sound, this also means : from that big door - the air from that spaceship - regardless how big it is, would be out in no time. And that would mean Ripley, Newt and Hicks would be unconscious in 15-20 seconds tops (and thats only if they were smart and exhale as much as possible, BEFORE the vacuum comes). If they hold their breath, the airpressure in their lungs would literally rip their ripcage apart, when the vacuum comes, and they would die from it immediately.
So the only very slim chance to survive for 15-20 seconds spacevacuum is: to exhale as much as possible, before the vacuum comes.
Saw this at the cinema twice when it first aired, queueing outside and a full cinema, atmosphere was electric for the final half hour.
Paul Reiser (Burke) used to star in a show with Helen Hunt called "Mad About You." In one episode their friend Mark was staying at a hotel because he was no longer happy with married life. When he tried to explain that to Paul & Jamie (Hunt), he said "I feel like something is just trying to burst out of me...did you ever see the movie "Alien"? Paul pipes up and says "Just the first one." A nice easter egg nod to this movie. LOL
Ripley is the embodiment of a strong, female character. Something Hollywood has lost sight of in the last few years.
Agreed. You can tell she is terrified but still extremely capable. I think some hollywood movies now think the protagonist has to be a machine that shows no fear. Also Ripley's attire is appropriate and functional, she's in tennis shoes, pants, and not wearing much if any make up which is realistic. She isn't running around in a skimpy outfit wearing stilettos cuz it's just not practical.
To be fair the reason that Hollywood thinks that is because that was their winning formula for male heroines and action stars for decades
half of 80s flicks and action films had stalwart invulnerable heroine figures who kicked ass, took no prisoners and never showed weakness or fear.
That’s why die hard was so game changing with Jon mClane and Bruce willis playing him, as a regular looking guy who got afraid and was vulnerable
Ripley was smart and ready to do what needed to be done. That made her badass without being a badass. It was the same for Princess Leia. New movies make the female a badass and we're supposed to think that everything she does is awesome. It doesn't work that way.
Ripley learned to use the loader, in her job before she agreed to come back.
33:30 In 90s was a case when killers sealed man into gas pipeline under construction. He managed to crawl few kilometers to end of built pipe and survived but gone crazy.
Nice reaction! This is such a classic film!
As you can see in the comments, alien 3 is going to be interesting. It's not my favourite alien film either, but it's not necessarily a bad film in itself. But it is a very different style of film to the rest of the franchise, which is jarring. There are other reasons too, but thats spoilers.
Its been a long time since I've seen it, but i look forward to your reaction!
Fun fact about the efficiency of the Xenomorph as a bio weapon: The facehugger can implant a host with one chestburster for every 50 kilos, a host weighs, So outbreak math is not a simple 1:1 ratio.
fun fact.... that knife trick was not meant to have his hand on the table, so his reaction of surprise was genuine. it was only meant for Bishop to do the trick over a fake hand.
Tears 😭 When Newt calls Ripley “Mommy!”
Ripley was a mother of a young child when she signed onto the Nostromo.
Her daughter grew old and died while she was in cryo.
12:30 Ripley worked on the docks at the space station before she went on the mission so that is how she learned how to use the loader. A few months went by from the time she got picked up from the time she went on the mission to LV-427.
This version missed out the automatic sentry gun scene and the scene where Ripley finds out the fate of her own daughter. (More Carter Burke sliminess). That's the missing minutes. The sentry gun scene does really ramp up the tension most effectively in a clever way and you feel how trapped they are and how many aliens they face. The daughter scene explains why Ripley is ready to sacrifice her own life for Newt. They both make the whole film even better and a complete story I don't know why they were ever cut.
It was long before movies with over 2h30m runtime were the norm. Cameron has to trim a lot of cool stuff, but I wish he had at least kept the scene where we're told about Ripley's daughter, as it changes the whole subtext of the film :I
@@KilljoyTDA I agree Killjoy
This is one of the best sequels ever produced. That said, I think “Alien” is the better of the two. I think it boils down to your personal taste, which one you prefer.
If I watch “Alien 3”, I always watch the director’s cut. I prefer that one because the pacing is much better. And I don’t consider neither “Alien 3” nor “Alien: resurrection” part of the Alien storyline, but that’s just me.
Great reaction video! You two did a great job!
(The special edition of “Aliens” gives you a little more background and gives you a better understanding of Ripley’s character, so if I were you I’d check it out at a later date.)
Alien 3 (directors cut) is a good movie on it's own, but I hate it as part of the overall story. Like you, I don't consider the other 2 in my personal canon, I prefer the comics.
Bill Paxton has played some of my most favorite "lovable assholes". His Chet character from Weird Science, is hysterical.
Paul Reiser also starred in the critically acclaimed Diner (1982) with Kevin Bacon, on My Two Dads in the '80s, then Mad About You with Helen Hunt on NBC in the '90s, recently revived on Spectrum TV for an 8th season. He went with his sister and mother to the premiere. His sister hit him. When Burke died on screen, Reiser's mother whispered very loudly, "Yes!"
That scene where Ripley found out her daughter died at the age of 68 two years before her escape pod was found really set up the emotional foundation for Ripley's relationship with Newt. She'd promised her daughter she'd be home for her 11th birthday. . . and now here's an orphaned girl about the same age needing her protection.
And the scene where Newt's parents went out to the alien ship, where a face hugger got her dad, established how the colonists had a lab with xenomorphs in specimen containers. The log said the doctors killed Newt's dad removing the face hugger.
Stop here - trust me, you won't want to see the next film in the series! Remember, if you go ahead, you were warned.
Yes, after appearing in The Terminator (1984), this was Bill Paxton's next and much bigger role. Jenette Goldstein (Pvt. Vasquez) later appeared in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lethal Weapon 2, Star Trek Generations, and Titanic. Her buddy had a major role in The Shawshank Redemption. Michael Biehn (Hicks) had starred in The Terminator and after this The Abyss, along with a cameo in the extended versions of T2: Judgment Day.
By the end, I had the distinct feeling you'd watched the theatrical cut that was missing a whole bunch of scenes and info, and you confirmed you were missing almost 15 minutes during your after-show review.
Seeing Hayley with the puppet history water bottle has me happy with the Watchers channels progress. I love the movie too. 😅
Fun fact. The voice saying the countdown time. It is in real time. When it says there is 15 minutes before the the explosion. The explosion happens at precisely 15 minutes.
Each movie in the Alien series embraces a different kind of horror.
Alien - Haunted House Horror
Aliens - Action Horror
Alien3 - Monster of the Week Horror
Alien: Resurrection - Body Horror
Alien: Prometheus - Gore Horror
Alien: Covenant - Slasher Horror
Great reaction. I love Hayley's soft heart for the little ones.
It gets skimmed over, but some months pass between the hearing and Burke recruiting Ripley for the trip to LV426. And in the conversation where he recruits her, he mentions she's been working 'down on the docks', presumably loading cargo with a powerloader.
45:30,sounds like someone saying ,"ripley help me"!
Forgot to add this before,the actress of Newt is cute here but after she did this movie she got teased at school for the lines her character had to say and so she never acted again after that. Also the part where she slides into the water was an actual slide they built and she had so much fun on it that she wanted to do it again so they told her she can after they are done the scene.
Aliens directors cut is even better they added a extra 45 minutes to this classic
When the girl on the left said "This is how ever sci fi movie goes" Nono mam.. this is how most sci fi films go NOW... BECAUSE of this movie. lol.
Greatest thing about Sigourney Weaver and her character? Weaver hates guns. She is anti gun, yet she was determined to show just what Ripley would do to save her surrogate child.
She told Cameron that she would only come back to the franchise if there were no guns in the movie - yet artistic preferences and her devotion to the character gave us Ripley diving head first into a facility crawling with Aliens, armed to the teeth with an automatic weapon, a grenade launcher and a flame thrower.
the vent scene where newt falls down the shaft. carrie kept accidentally messing ht e scene up so she could keep going on th eslide haha. the crewe played along and let her play for a while lol
That fluid that the aliens excrete is both the resin that makes up their nests as well as the cocoons around their victims. It is also what prevents their acid blood from killing them
Great reaction ladies, alien & aliens is peak A+ sci-fi, Ripley is a legendary character & Jones is my favourite movies cat😻keep up the great work 😊
"The area was NOT fricking secure!!" 😂
53:00 "The upper body strength of this woman." and "I don't know if your arms are stronger than the vacuum of space."
I'll tell you the science so this scene won't be so hard to believe:
There is no vacuum in space. Not the way you're thinking.
Space is just empty.
It doesn't "suck" like the vacuum cleaner in your home.
It doesn't have "strength" at all.
It's just empty.
When you are in a ship in space, the air pressure inside the ship is probably around 0.8 atm (atmospheric pressure).
That's about equal to the atmospheric pressure in Denver, Colorado, USA (this city is about 1 mile or 1.6 km above sea level).
The atmospheric pressure of space is 0 atm.
The difference between inside and outside is 0.8 atm.
Now, imagine you're on an ocean beach somewhere and you're sipping some delicious drink through a straw.
The difference between the air inside your mouth and outside your mouth is pretty close to 0.8 atm, give or take.
That's it.
Ripley is climbing that ladder against forces just about as strong as the force you put on your delicious drink when you suck it up a straw.
If your cheeks are that strong, I bet your arms are too.
OK, OK, it's not quite that simple.
Ripley opened a big door.
Space is not "sucking" the air out because space doesn't have any way to "suck" anything.
The air in the ship is going out the door because air ALWAYS flows from higher pressure areas to lower pressure areas.
All gasses and liquids do that.
With that much air blowing past Ripley, Newt, and Bishop, that's creating wind as the blows past them pretty fast.
How much wind?
I did some googling and the best info I could find from a bunch of science and math geeks is something like 100-120 mph winds.
But that's only during the first instant.
That number drops immediately as there is less and less air in the ship so the wind slows down.
Also, the door didn't open instantly. It slid open over a few seconds.
So the initial wind would be slower, getting stronger, up to a max of 120 mph but since some air leaked out while the door was slowly opening, it would never really hit that max.
So maybe 100, maybe 110 mph.
That is equal to a strong hurricane.
Strong enough to knock over fences and trees and maybe even flatten some houses.
That's a lot.
But those things are all like big sails and those winds are hitting a huge surface.
Ripley's head is not a sail and it's a much smaller surface.
More googling led me to a university meteorology site which told me that terminal velocity to lift an average person up and blow them away is around 120 mph.
If you're standing and get with with a wind roughly 70-110 mph, it will probably knock you to the ground but won't blow you away, unless you're a child or smaller than average adult.
That doesn't include holding onto things.
If you're holding onto a solid stationary object, it takes extra wind force equal to your arm strength.
If you can lift 50 pounds with one arm, then add that 50 pounds to the force it takes to break your grip and blow you away.
That takes us up to 170 mph.
But the actual force on Ripley is much lower than that, so she should be fine.
To summarize, the wind force blowing against Ripley is almost but quite not enough to blow her out the airlock if she's just sleeping on the ground.
And if she's holding onto something, no chance, it won't blow her out.
Is she strong enough to climb against that much wind?
Remember, the force is dwindling every second, so every second it gets easier to climb.
In that case, it seems believable.
Final thought: I'm much more worried about whether there's enough air in the ship for Ripley, Newt, and Hicks to breathe after so much blew out.
I'm sure the ship has extra air in tanks.
How fast can it restore atmosphere?
Scary thought.
But after consideration, this is a military ship.
I assume it has been built with the idea that other ships might shoot at it and make holes in it.
So it has systems to automatically close airtight doors and pump reserve air into any area that needs it.
Thanks for the question!
I had fun researching this; hopefully somebody has fun reading it.
The first movie was a jump-scare horror movie set on a spacecraft. This movie is a military action movie set on another world.
The extended cut contains more of Ripley's backstory and tightens the Ripley Newt relationship to a better degree.
So a quick note on the face huggers in the medlab. There were three in the jars. Remember in the beginning the family that investigated the ship? It was a husband/wife and two kids. Newt survived which hints at the mother father and brother all had face huggers attached and they were brought back to the medlab. Just my theory.
Ripley learnt to use the loader on earth, the only job she could get, as Burk pointed out, concentrate.
This is one of the greatest Sci-fi movies ever made period!!! Bill Paxton should have won the Academy Award for this!!!
The problem with saying a movie like this is more "run of the mill" is...this is one of the first prototypes developed for the mill to produce. Its like watching The Matrix in 2023 and remarking that the bullet time is cliché. Part of the reason the movie is predictable is, the movie became a blueprint for countless movies after it. Just something to think about when watching older popular movies.
The director's cut explains answers to some questions you raised
Kylie Reece from the Terminator movies was from the future, so is Lieutenant Dwayne Hicks? Could it be possible that Dwayne Hicks is actually Kyle Reese traveling back in time to meet up with Sarah Connor??
The Maternal instinct: the most powerful force in the universe. It comes down to mother v. mother. A deleted scene reveals that Ripley had a daughter who was a child when she left on her job, and grew old and died of old age while she was floating for those 57 years. So Newt comes into her life after having lost her daughter.
Good to see you guys having different opinions on the two films. It's an argument that has gone on since they came out. Being that I'm an older sci-fi fan, I also know that both films are based on 1950's sci-fi movies. Alien is base on an old movie called "IT, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE. Wherein a rescue mission to Mars has an alien sneak on their ship which hides in the air duct and kills the crew one by one. Dan O'Bannon (the writer) added the great characteristics of acid blood and the chest burster sequence and Ridley Scott added H.R. Giger's fantastic creature design to make a ground breaking modern film. ALIENS is based on a great sci-fi film called THEM! it has the little girl, Giant Ants, Queen Ant, and them hiding in the ducts of Los Angeles. Both were updated brilliantly. As an aside, Cameron wrote the script for Rambo 2, Stallone had to go back to face his trauma in Vietnam. Stallone rewrote a lot of the film, so Cameron took it back and used it as the basis for this film Great Reaction ladies. Looking forward to your next one. Peace Out!
I was in high school when this came out. My Pop and I never missed what he called "monster movies" and this one was five starts. Not before or since has a sequel been as exponentially better than the original than this. I like to think it's more to do with storytelling and performance rather than direction, but what do I know? One thing history has gotten right is that Lt. Ripley is widely recognised as the first proper action hero. I haven't seen her in much else. I'm just too struck by her performance as Ripley. It's wrong, but I can't help it. It's one you don't forget. RIP Pop.
Aliens is in my top 5 favourite films of all time, but I'd say that Terminator 2 is the greatest sequel of all time, but Aliens is supreme too. Thanks for the vid
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This was her job after she was decommissioned. Of course she knows how to use the equipment.
Fun fact: Bill Paxton has the unique distinction of being the only person to have been killed by the Terminator, the Predator and an Alien.
I saw this opening day, first show at midnight and it was a sold out theater. The best movie experience I've ever had. Every seat cheered when Burke got it.
Stella & Hailey. I guess your duo could be described as a stellar comet.
James Cameron's sequels Aliens and T2: Judgement Day are *chef's kiss*. In your own time, feel free to check out the Director's Cut with extra scenes. They provide a lil bit more context to certain scenes, but either version is great
I can't wait until they watch aliens 3! Newt really shines in that one.
One thing I will say is a lot of more recent director's cuts of movies seem to have a lot of stuff added back in that is unnecessary and you can understand why it was cut, but the extra footage in the director's cut of Aliens honestly all adds to the story.
0:24 "The remainder of the movies in this series"
There aren't any, this was the last one, tragically.
One thing to take into account, concerning decision making in the first movie, is that this is the crew of a tug boat. They were towing a refinery. They were completely untrained as to how to handle this situation.
There's an invisible background story in this film, just like in Alien. Note that Ripley makes her report, is dismissed as people have been living there for 20 years.
They then send a message to LV-426 to suggest looking at an area, giving it someone who has the vehicle and psychology to investigate, and 'bang' LV-426 colony overrun by Aliens.
No messages means success, so they send some expendable marines, Ripley who is the one who can put the story together, and an junior corp in a suit who's desperate for advancement.
They are expecting a ship they can control by remote (the Marine's ship Sulaco) to return with specimens to a carefully-chosen secure location.
They do all this because the destruction of Nostromo proves it's what the weapons division are looking for.
Behind all this: a robot mind, or computer that can plan and maintain such programmes over decades, somewhere within the company.
Intriguing, and not much supposition needed.
The destruction of the terraformer 'investment' delays the company, but not in the greater scheme of things.
I deduce that the old man in 'Alien Prometheus' has an duplicate, perhaps a robot like the one in that movie, running the company.
After all, something like this happens in Alien 3.
It only feels run of the mill because it set the action standard. Almost every action movie follows it’s structure
The man who portrayed Carter Burke in this awesome sequel to Alien is actor Paul Reiser.😉
Movies i recommend : Unknown 2006,Triangle 2009,Betrayed 2008,Break 2012,Nightcrawler 2014,Source Code 2011,Outlander 2008,Argo 2012,Accountant 2016,All the Presidents Men 1976,Straw Dogs 1971,Hero aka Accidental Hero 1992,Bang Bang You're Dead 2002.
People should watch the extended version where Ripley watch documentation of Ripley's daughter and not just missed birthday but whole life. It would explain why Ripley is immediately attach to Newt. Also they show Newt's family getting order to check the alien ship and how facehugger got in the colony.
There are only 4 alien movies, Sigourney Weaver is in them all.
I ignore Alien3 it's too heartbreaking.