How The Alien Movie Series Evolved
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2024
- The Alien series of films include six films, with the series' first entry in 1979 and its latest in 2017. Here I’ll be looking at those films and discussing how they’ve changed. I’ll also be briefly talking about the Alien vs Predator films. Now at the time of making this the latest film, Alien Covenant, has only recently been released, so if you haven’t seen it know that I won’t be talking about it and spoiling it until the end of this video.
Films mentioned: Alien (1979), HR Giger's Alien (1979) Aliens (1986), Predator 2 (1990), Alien 3 (1992), The Making Of Alien 3 (1992), Alien Resurrection (1997), Super Firepower: The Making Of Aliens (2003), One Step Beyond: The Making Of Alien Resurrection (2003), Alien Vs Predator (2004), Alien Vs Predator Requiem (2007), Prometheus (2012), Prometheus Behind The Scenes (2012), Alien: Covenant (2017).
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Reminds me of that guy with the big channel.. I can't remember the name, but he makes 30 minute videos on movies and 70% of it is boring, unfunny, forced skits. I'd honestly rather just listen about someone TALKING about the movie as opposed to doing skits.
@@810wasaninsidejob9 Are you maybe referring to Nostalgia Critic? I personally find him quite funny, (most of the time) and he clearly puts a lot of work into his content.
Wonder what his sub count was when you made your comment "1 year ago" cause he seems to be doing pretty well now, I reckon your prediction rang true.
The only truly great thing to come out of the franchise in 30 years (since Aliens) has been Alien: Isolation. That game made the beast respectable again.
I love that game. I play it with The Thing's (1982) soundtrack in the background. :)
So true, I wish I could like this 100 times
Alien Infestation on DS is also quite good
Seems you had missed Alien: Ressurection on Play Station.
That game legitimately made me too anxious to continue playing, and I'm someone who normally isn't phase by that stuff.
I've always found it cool how the Alien and Terminator franchises took the same path. The first films are both small and straight forward, while the second is a blockbuster. They both start out as sci-fi horror, while the second film is sci-fi action. The originals are both classic, but both sequels are two of the greatest sequels in film history and both are directed by James Cameron. Also, both franchises get ruined with the third film. I do like the original films better in both cases, though.
Unpopular opinion here. I actually like alien 3. Although it isnt the best one, i still enjoy it.
Joseph Jiran I agree, but in a B movie kinda way
Also both franchises got excellent videogames set in their respective universes: Alien Isolation and Terminator Resistance
Alien 3 didn't ruin the franchise. It was closer to the original than the overbloated second movie
Add mad max to that list. The first two were unique, the third was much more lighthearted and fury road while a decent enough film is not a true sequel in my mind.
Those pulse rifles are one of the best sounding movie guns ever, right up there with The Terminator's 45 long slide and Robocop's gun.
Good point, I agree. But I still believe Dirty Harry's 44 magnum owns that particular category. And I love how all guns sound in The good the bad the ugly.
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For me, Prometheus ruined what was one of the most alien things about Alien. The Space Jockey that "grew out of the chair" is such a weird thing, and now it's just a big blue dude in a funny space-suit. I remember Ridley Scott reportedly saying that he had to fight with the studio because they didn't understand the Giger concepts, but now I think that he maybe didn't get it either. I liked the way that the aliens were this implacable, hostile organism that was intent on procreating through a host, Covenant has turned them into something much less interesting. Also, if David hates humanity enough to go through a long process of destroying all animal life on an Engineer planet to create the xenomorphs, he could have saved himself a lot of time and effort if he had just flown to Earth and dropped the black goo there. The universe seems to be very small in these prequels, and very human-centric.
Yeah, they make the old mistake of trying to explain more than is necessary and destroys in the process the mystery. It's just a bunch of suits that don't know about filmmaking and old men that cannot think up new concepts anymore and relies on old classics.
@Therese Jardinier I have to agree that Rdily Scott and The Studios totally mis-interpreted Giegers work - But on the same not, fans had been wanting to see where the Aliens came from and how they were created etc... Fans wanted an Origin Story!!!
That comes into conflict with Giegers work... The design of the Space Jockey means it is Immobile - So that obviously was not the creator which then would leave fans saying 'Ah! But you never explained the Space Jockey!'... Long and the short - I don't think anything they would have tried would have been right!
I have been asking myself the question - Did we want more than could be delivered? Is that why Prometheus gets so much hate?
I mean - Take the Deacon... We wanted an Alien Origin for so long, So they gave us one... They EVOLVED to the creature they are now... BUT NOPE!!! That was an insult! NO NO NO The fans all cried! That's wrong, That's now how it happens...
Ummmmmmm... So why were the fans not sending an approved Script to Fox then???
Is the fan perception the biggest issue? For me personally - When I forts saw Prometheus I was BORED WITLESS... I hated it!!! But having rewatched it now... I find I was unfair... It is no where near as bad as I first though - I do NOT like the Trilobite in anyway (That was AWFUL!) but the Deacon was Interesting looking back...
So - Do I think they did a good job? Hmmmmmmm... I dunno - I feel they went back TOO FAR... But that would have led to even more prequels and even more spin offs and Fox just milking fans for the sheer hell of it...
I think they should have taken a look at Dark Horse Comics and what they did - They came up with MANY great Ideas, including an Actual Alien Homeworld where they are NOT the Apex Predator... Where other indigenous life is more than able to fight back and even KILL the Xenomorph..
They even created an Else-World Story where another Alien Race seeks Facehugger Eggs and they sell them as a DELICACY!!! Yup - A bunch of Alien Explorers find Facehuggers, Let them leap at their faces and EAT The Facehugger ALIVE!!!
So there have been many, many great concepts... But maybe thats why we were all so pissed off...
*Warren Marris*
The Alien universe didn't need an origin story, it had already established an interesting world where people are ruled by greedy and bureaucratic corporations. There was already a lot of potential for new stories with new characters, using the preexisting world that had been created in the first 2 movies. Ironically it's our real world's corporations that ruined the 3rd movie, which could have been Canon but failed to deliver due to too many suits involved, and after that, there's no point in continuing the story; it's never going to be Canon again.
Listening to the fans is a recipe for disaster, especially with serious movie franchises like the Alien movies. When you make movies for the "fans", you're commercializing your art, and in it, ruining what made the originals unique and compelling in the first place.
Daniel Nicklas
I respect the thinking behind Aliens, but I don't agree with it (not that I was massively consulted at the time!). For me, the egg-morphing concept was a lot stronger (and stranger) - the alien didn't need a queen to reproduce, it just needed victims. The difference between Alien and something like Starship Troopers is the slithering horror of something that quickly adapts to your environment, and then effectively rapes you to death. Creepy and horrific (it seemed to figure out the Nostromo's layout pretty quickly)
I also half-remember something Giger said in an interview. The idea was that the xenomorph was a mix of Space-Jockey and human. Presumably, that would be another weapon in its arsenal - as it keeps reproducing through the same species (human - egg - facehugger - Xeno and then more humans to turn into eggs), the aliens would become more and more like their victims with every generation and might even replace them entirely before moving on.
As far as the Space-Jockey species homeworld is concerned, surely Giger's biomechanical landscapes would be a good place to start.
I agree with everything you said, half of what made the alien creature interesting was the lack of how they came to be, and what exactly happened on that derelict ship. I don't care about where they come from they just are, and that's what makes them terrifying. The prequels (while well shot) do nothing but ruin the mythology by pretentiously over complicating things, and arriving at silly conclusions for the big questions.
This is the same as terminator. There is a lot to talk about, but they only made two great films.
I actually like the third
Correction: three good films.
Same as Predator
@@olenlotharjoo No! it was two
@@geemonster9179 No it was three
i worked in the "greens" and "special effects" department in alien covenant.. .. working on the movie was more exciting than watching it,,,
That's amazing! I liked the earlier ones, but Covenant is one of my top 3 movies of all time
I ended up liking Alien 3 as an adult. I remember that as a kid I liked 1 and 2 best.
What I liked about Alien 3, despite it's shortcomings, is the very dark and gritty portrayal it gives as a science fiction film. Even though it was probably done more for convenience to kill off Newt and Corporal hicks right in the beginning of the film, I think the move was a pretty bold one. Especially the autopsy of Newt.
It really maintains the dark and depressing tone of the entire trilogy and shouts out that "this is not some light hearted space opera for kids".
It works well for a horror film.
If only it was better put together. You can't really blame Fincher when the tools and materials were all on fire tho.
Having the child and the space marine alive would make for a very different setting indeed. They could have ditched all three, really. But Sigourney's fatigue with the films bleeding into the film (just kill me already) is amusing.
I appreciated what the film TRIED to do when it was released. With the Assembly Cut, I wholeheartedly sympathise with Fincher.
He probably would have done something really remarkable had they left him alone.
@@CTyler84 But Weavers fatigue works, because it makes Ripley more human.
Wanting to die when you're at the point where Ripley is in the third film would be understandable.
She's been living with massive PTSD since her experience im the first film. Then she's asked to go back and deal with xenomorphs once more (and is once again betrayed by a company rep once more), her own daughter died on her while she was floating through space for 57 years, and her surrogate daughter ended up dying too along with Hicks right after Riplry thought they hade made it out safe all three.
She had to go through seeing Newt getting an autopsy, and as icing on the cake, she discovers that she too has been implanted with an embryo, realizing that unless she commits suicide, she's gonna die in one of the most awful ways imaginable, which has haunted her nightmares ever since she escaped the Nostromo.
Any man or woman going through all of that in one lifetime is likely to feel pretty suicidal and weary too. So if Weaver was weary with the role, she could definitely use it to make Ripley more convincing.
@Seven Proxies - I agree with you completely: I love the bleak tone of the third movie, plus the music is fantastic. It’s more of a horror movie than an action film, which links it back to the first movie and in my opinion it’s a great way to end the trilogy (I ignore the other sequels). Ripley certainly would be weary from all the pain and horror she’s endured up to that point and on learning she is now host to an alien queen, suicide would be a very understandable conclusion.
I still haven’t fully made up my mind yet but I think Alien 3 could be my favourite of the trilogy.
@@stevebrizzle It's definitely not my favourite of the series (1 and 2 are my absolute favourites).
But I came to realize that the third film is one that grew on me and is a very good film in it's own right. But I didn't think so as a kid, because I had just come from the spectacle and thrills from Aliens, so going back to just one xenomorph in the film, and no cool guns and space marines, it made my younger self a little disappointed.
But growing up I came to appreciate it's qualities and I definitely consider it a worthy part of the trilogy, even if it's not my absolute favourite one.
Great thing about Alien, Aliens was the mystery, something that Prometheus and Covenant ruined.
I only watch Alien, then Aliens and blow the rest off - they're all shite.
@@FerDeLance06 I love them all.
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Prometheus failed at the first hurdle, it wasn't believable. Space truckers behaved more like scientists than the actual scientists of Prometheus. A trillion dollars and that's who they hired? Nope.
I had the exact same reaction. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.
"Space truckers behaved more like scientists than the actual scientists of Prometheus".
Ah ... no! The crew in Alien are by FAR the most idiotic morons in the entire franchise. They are completely and utterly stupid. For example, one of their crew members has an alien attached to his face. The alien came from a ship which they now know was sending out a warning signal. In the ship they discovered an alien who's chest had been burst outward. The crew member went down through a hole in the floor that had been created by acid, then stupidly stuck his head over an egg that clearly had a life-form inside it. That life-form attached itself to his face, even though he had a spacesuit on. They now also know that the life-form has acid for blood. Hey ... but when the thing suddenly disappears from his face, three of them go into the room, without weapons, and start poking around for it. Yeah ... they were real Einstein's those space jockeys...
As for the crew on the Prometheus, it was a secret mission, so not surprisingly they weren't able to recruit top scientists, because top scientists don't leave whatever thing they're currently doing to go off on an adventure that they know nothing about, especially when the person doing the hiring doesn't believe in the mission and consequently doesn't sell it. Of course ... it's made quite clear that they are there for the money, but that doesn't fit with your view does it? Not to mention that you clearly don't know any scientists because, contrary to popular belief, scientists do just as many stupid things as everyday people, especially when they are in a stressful situation and are dealing with things outside their speciality. None of them do anything especially stupid, but even the stupid things they do are within the bounds of believable for bottom of the barrel scientists who have found themselves on an alien planet.
My question is, why do people like you continue to watch movies in a franchise you don't like? I mean ... you obviously don't like Alien or Aliens, because heaps of stupid things are done in both movies, and clearly you don't like movies with stupid people; even though stupidity is a standard trope for horror films. So why are you watching Prometheus anyway? Or do you just give the first movies a pass for some reason? Or is it that you never realised how idiotic the crew in Alien were?
Sounds like a Millennial is in the house.
Well, Inflation exists. A trillion dollars to the Prometheus expedition wouldn't go as far as it would today.
I'm not saying Prometheus was a good movie...I guess I'm saying you need mental gymnastics to see past it's flaws
@@philsurtees Days since I've been exposed to a useless, overreacting, biased, "Love it or leave it" comment: 0
"How The Alien Movie Series Evolved"
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Easy answer: it went from great to good, average, then bad and finally disastrous.
Alien - fantastic suspense movie, one of the best ever, think I saw this 5 times and one of the first DVD's I ever bought.
Aliens - you know what's coming and you don't get disappointed - action packed and totally believable
Alien 3 - a bit claustrophobic and quite disappointing that Higs and Newt were dead.
Alien resurrection - nice comeback with dark humor and good action, and Ripley rocks again!
Prometheus - fantastic CGI - and that's it. Poor acting, terrible storyline, totally unbelievable
Alien Covenant - the final betrayal. Re-hash of previous Alien movies' scenes, totally unrealistic and unbelievable, I felt braincells dying just watching this monstrosity.
Although I enjoyed Prometheus and covenant, after watching them I felt a disappointment at the existence of an Xenomorph origin. That fear and powerlessness to the unknown is gone now. Now the Xenomorph is a bioweapon created by a deranged android :(
Canek Valencia the only reason to make prequels to Alien should be to look at the origins of the Space Jokey and I think Prometheus did that well.
Covenant just went the easy route to throw Xenos into it.
TheSorrowLives True, it was interesting to make Space Jockey one of many Engineers. It would of been cool if the Engineer's civilization got destroyed due to an uknowing host bringing a Xenomorph back to their home world.
Actually, Prometheus did it too, at least at the end, and even with some sort-of less obvious things earlier. The pre-release info and the marketing also gave most people the idea they would be watching an Alien prequel, and most people would then expect to see something-something-xenomorph. And then the sequel comes out and does just that, but still falls short.
Don't jump to conclusions yet! We have time to save the franchise. Think about it, the Engineers might not actually be the creators of the Xenomorphs. They are the creators of "the black goo" which might just be weaponized Xeno DNA (Don't make me explain how, I'm no scientist, movie magic). David doesn't actually have a Xenomorph, he only has the Proto- and the Neomorph, and I do not think the Ovomorphs (Eggs) look quite the same in Covenant, as in other Alien movies, which might suggest they're not fully the same species.
Just theory crafting tho'. Could be anything.
David couldn't have created the xeno. the eggs in Alien are old as shit given that the space jockey is fossilized.
I think the fundamental issue with the new movies is the concept. The original ' lovecraft ' cosmic horror of the creature and the universe should been left just as that. a mystery. The universe is beautiful, full, and is there to be explored in other stories, just maybe not with the ' Alien ' , and hopefully with far better scripts than either prequels
As for technology, yeah, there is a clear advancement in the prequels. But the Nestromo was a space freighter while the Prometheus was a state of the art research and exploration ship. If you were to take an oil tanker today and compare it with the most advanced ship in the Navy forty years ago then the naval ship would seem more sophisticated.
Yeah; Alien makes it pretty clear that the Nostromo is an old piece of junk that's barely hanging together, nearing the end of its lifespan. We don't know exactly how old the Nostromo is; it could've easily been many decades old, maybe even a century, and then you add on to that it was clearly always a bargain bin piece of crap only meant to transport cargo... and then things make a bit more sense.
+Saul Slendamann - Ah ... no ... NONE of that is true. There is NOTHING to indicate that the Nostromo is a piece of junk - in fact the very OPPOSITE of that is true - and there's nothing to indicate that it's anywhere near the end of it's lifespan. It most certainly is NOT a century old. The company sent the Nostromo to retrieve the xenomorph, and obviously they didn't send an old piece of junk to complete a mission that was so important to them that the crew were expendable. Then in Aliens they made it quite clear in Ripley's deposition that the Nostromo was extremely valuable. It makes sense that it isn't of the same standard as a ship used by the owner of Weyland Yutani, but there's no way known it was a bargain bin piece of crap.
preshlock No! This is not about crossing the Atlantic or whatever, but about exploring the universe which may have un conceivable challenges and threats; so you need very advanced technology. Your ignorance is appalling.
Saul Slendamann No!
I just watched the Star Trek Next Gen episode where Scotty makes an appearance. They talk about how a ship could easily still be in service even though its old. It wouldn't be a stretch to retcon any ideas about all ships being new ships. It's like that with cars. Yes, new cars appear everywhere on the road, but the old ones still hang around until they wear out, or are replaced, or ruined, or kept in someone's garage until they're trendy and classic/vintage.
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Covenant was too much of a reaction to the criticisms of Prometheus
Alien = a unique, genuinely terrifying, artistically brilliant and groundbreaking genre film.
Aliens = a thrilling, fun action movie and genius approach to making a sequel of a beloved original.
Aliens 3 = an intriguing but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to further exploit the series, obviously marred beyond repair by studio meddling.
Aliens Resurrection = a change of style and tone that nevertheless feels like a more coherent film than the previous installation. Benefits from taking influence from the more experimental comic books.
AvP = completely different in tone and, as you say, almost like a different beast. However, in my eyes it actually does what it says on the tin very well and provides the exact type of action and world-blending that it promises.
Prometheus/Covenant = pretentious, confusing, badly written tripe that is clearly the vanity project of an overrated hack who is labouring under the false impression that the cool sci-fi horror film he made 40 years ago about a space monster has philosophical profundity concerning the nature of man. In my eyes, these films have finally destroyed any lasting worth of the Alien series far more completely than the AvP films have been accused of.
Agree, the biggest problem with Prometheus - despite is being a visual spectacle - was the atrocious writing, lack of character development, and the fact that Noomi Rapace's character was annoying as hell in it
@@simonbarr9476 I am not trying to oversell this. But Prometheus is quite litterally the worst movie I have ever seen. Becides the nonsensical story and character motivations the cinematography, shots, editing, effects ect. ect. is trash! I could go on for hours on how poorly every scene was constructed.
Alien: Agreed.
Aliens: Agreed except I'd say "very smart" instead of "genius"
Alien 3: Also agreed, but I genuinely believe the intriguing aspects make up for a good part of the damage that was done by studio interference;
Resurrection: Agreed again, but I wouldn't call it more coherent. I feel that Alien 3 is more of "an Alien movie" than Resurrection can ever hope to be. However, I do agree that Resurrection is more coherent _with his own nature_ (rather than with the series it belongs in) while Alien 3 is more of a mixed bag and is also more unfocused.
AvP/AvP:Requiem: Yes, these are almost completely different beasts. I don't agree with the accusation of "destroying the franchise" - mostly, because I don't subscribe to the theory that Prequels/Sequels/Spin-Offs/Remakes/Reboots can "destroy" their source material. You can still enjoy the Star Wars original trilogy even knowing that Darth Vader was a whining brat and hated sand because "it's coarse, it's rough and gets everywhere".
Prometheus: Defintely _very_ flawed and, yes, pretentious and badly written but at least _does_ try something different. Granted, it (mostly) fails at it but - again - manages to be somewhat intrguing.
Covenant: Immediately retreads on the "trying something new" part and starts drowning on its own self-importance while rehashing more than familiar characters and situations.
This is a franchise that doesn't know what it wants to be: there are four thematically linked movies, two "entirely different things"-movies, and two semi-interestng, messy, pseudo-phliosophical sandwiches.
Totally agree with you Sonny!
AVPR: Error 404, movie not found.
Alien Covenant... I remember saying to myself "it can't be worse than Prometheus."
Looks like foot in mouth disease has got me once again :(
I really bought into Shaw. She was a perfect foil to David, but also she does enough in the first film for me to really believe in her grit. She's cute too.
Agreed. Her being killed off between films is such a massive waste, and kind of a slap in the face to the fans that actually enjoyed Prometheus. It seemed like she was being set up to be the new series lead. I have no idea what Ridley was thinking when they decided to do Shaw dirty like that.
@@dvt1393 lol, so true. If you walked away enjoying the film, she was definitely one of the things that made you forget a lot of other things. And in between films, smh.
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Brandywine produced the Alien franchise.
Ian Holm plays Ash in Alien.
Ian Holm also plays Bilbo Baggins in Lord of The Rings.
Peter Jackson turned down Alien: Resurrection.
Peter Jackson directed Lord of The Rings.
The Baranduin (Brandywine) river is from Tolkien's Lord of The Rings.
Coincidence?
George Hill there’s no responses so allow me to supplement one: woah.
Coinsidence, I THINK NOT!
This means that... uh... Ian Holm likes being in projects that contain references to Middle Earth? That's all I got.
alien isolation game is a very good tribute to the first alien film.
the whole time i was watching prometheus I thought it was a film related to the "History" Channel show Ancient Aliens. Then like 2/3 of the way through I went "holy shit is this an Alien movie?"
Exactly for all of it's claims to be smart it's simply a blatant rip off of a better concept.
I love how these documentaries feel like critical film essays. That is a brilliant and fresh approach. Also, I appreciate that you spend a lot of time examining what works and what doesn’t in the subsequent films, versus just bashing the sequels. The subtle humor is very effective as well.
I subscribed halfway through the Terminator video and have watched many of your videos since. Keep up the great work, Georg!
Thanks for the rundown. For me the first two movies were excellent, the rest a write off. Alien remains to this day one of the finest movies of it's type I've ever seen. It never ceases to entertain, part of that was the casting was perfect.
Hey Georg, great vid as always. I particularly like this format where you talk about how series' change over time. Hopefully there's enough inconsistent film series out there for you to keep making them
I don't think Wayland-Yutani knew about the Alien species on beforehand. The reason why Ash was planted among the crew was basically to serve the companys "hidden interests" which may sometimes conflict with the safety of their hired crews.
It is revealed during the film that Ash had special access to the Nostromo main computer (apparently access which not even the captain of the ship has clearance for). So I imagine that Nostromo's main computer had hidden sub-routines running as the ships crew was in hypersleep for the ship sensors to continually scan star systems and celestial bodies for particular items of interest which might prove lucrative to the company.
One such item being extra terrestial life forms.
"Mother" might even be programmed to actively decieve the crew in the sense that she wakes them up of hypersleep claiming that she's found a distress beacon in order to get the crew to investigate (whereas in reality she was scanning for alien life forms or other military applications) and the only one knowing the truth is the android company plant in the form of Ash.
This method would be more cost effective for a large corporate entity rather than sending manned expeditions everywhere to scan for items of interest, since they probably have several deep space faring vessels crisscrossing the galaxy as it is. So setting them up to passively scan for lucrative business interests with their crews kept in the dark would be useful, if not particularly ethical.
I believe Ash was a last minute addition to the crew, and that this was his first excursion with this particular crew. Presumably the Company had picked up the transmission, but he was only there to force a landing because they didn't know exactly what the signal was- presumably, they'd only know that it wasn't from one of their own vessels. If I recall correctly, his special operations info specifically assumed there were some sort of alien specimens to recover.
I think this is one of the best deconstruction and mini review of the ALIEN series. Georg you really address a lot of key points here. I enjoyed listening to it!
The new Ridley Scott movies are a way for him to make movies about other concepts. Prometheus is about ancient astronauts, Covenant is about AI. It doesn't bother me except that ancient astronauts is a little dumb, and there are better films about AI, like Ex Machina.
Thank you for your insights! You've articulated feelings I've had about the prequels (especially Covenant) but couldn't quite put into words.
Alien Isolation is great! I highly recommend play it if you are a fan of the first Alien.
How about no
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I always wondered about the xenomorph "skull" in Predator 2 : Do the xenos have bones? I thought they had an exoskeleton like an insect
jonesey251 I imagine so, considering how the very first Xeno in Alien had a faint humanoid skull beneath the dome on its head
You can see the skull on the big chap
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You should do one on the Dirty Harry pentalogy.
First two are excellent
Third is solid
Fourth is meh
Fifth was shit
I can agree with that
The first Dirty Harry is an absolute masterpiece I think, the 2nd one, while not as good, is still a solid movie. I haven't seen the 3rd one -with the female co-lead- in a while but it felt underwhelming the last time I saw it, way back when. The 4th one, by Eastwood himself, is a very nice effort, going back to the roots of the first 2 with a darker tone. The 5th one was just bad.
The Dirty Harry Movies are a product of their time... A bit Like Death Wish... Modern Audiences would not really get them or think they would be better with a reboot or remake, but they are culturally significant - To attempt a reboot of either of these would ruin their legacy!
I saw all of them out of sequence... LOL! But for the most part I enjoyed them all... They were very unashamed in simply giving us more of the same long before SAW came along. They never sought to do anything new or innovate - They were just what we wanted and expected...
Sadly, the later films did get weaker, but they are all good for what they are to their genre and their significance to the time period.
Warren Harris That's funny, as soon as Dirty Harry was mentioned I also thought of Death Wish.
I can't describe why, but the assembly cut of alien 3 is one of my favourite films
Agreed, it's fantastic. More people are beginning to realize this.
KlausBahnhof great performances, music, cinematography and tone. Just weak narratively and in the effects department
I think the more advanced tech in Prometheus isn't too far fetched; in Alien, we were following a mining and refinery craft, and in Prometheus we're looking at an expedition crew funded by presumably the wealthiest man on the planet. It'd be like comparing a coal mining operation to SpaceX or NASA and wondering why they aren't using comparable technology.
It's better to just admit the film is inconsistent with what came before it and move on.
I can't figure out why I enjoy these videos so much. Us Americans seem to love the British accent and your presentations are heavy on content that counts and little or no filler. Keep up the good work!!
I find Alien 3 to be underrated, it's flawed, but it won me over. H.P Lovecraft influences everything lol and yeah that Ash scene was creepy, seeing someone so human act in that way was very nerving. Aliens, I liked it, a great film in its own merits, but it's got nothing of the first film. I wish Razorfist did a video on Aliens, cause I know he's a propound Aliens hater.
He's a James Cameron hater, and not all of it warranted I think.
Although I will say I agree mostly with his assessment of Aliens, it cheapens the mystery and threat of the original Alien if you mow down dozens and dozens of them with pulse rifles and explain how they function, essentially making them Space Ants.
I loved A3. The only thing that I can't forgive it for is killing of Newt and Hicks.
I rate it above the car crash that is Prometheus and Covenant (which basically did the same to Shaw as A3 did to Hicks/Newt).
Kesyabasturd I hated Alien 3, was so bored
Knight Artorias Don't get me wrong, it has its faults, but I don't hate it. My hatred is saved for Alien: Resurrection.
Kevin Striker Is that why he hates it? I'm not the biggest fan of James Cameron, but I agree that the hate is hyperbolic.
Your takes on all of these films barring _Alien 3_ (which I really rate) are so similar to my own it's uncanny. Love your videos!
I love the first four Alien movies! All of them for different reasons, since they all are so unique and different from each other (and yes, Resurrection is a gory popcorn flick without any pretentions to be anything more than that - one of the highlights is definitely Brad Dourif and maybe one of the most disgusting antagonist kill-offs in cinema history, yeah I'm talking about the hybrid Alien/human and the tiny hole in the spaceship window - that scene will haunt me for the rest of my life..).
I also feel that Alien 3 gets more hate than it deserves. It's a step down from the action spectacle of Aliens and yes, it has the potential to be a much better movie than it turned out to be, but it has a very unsettling and raw atmosphere that I really can get into. There's also the concept of a group of lowlife criminals that nobody cares about, they don't even get a single weapon to fight against this unstoppable monster. All they have is Ripley. But she's doomed and barely human anymore. Are the prisoners even worth fighting for or better left for dead? Easily the darkest of all the four movies.
Then... and I hate to say it, but Prometheus ruined it for me. I haven't even seen Covenant and have no desire to see it or any other Alien related garbage that Scott puts out in the future. It's just doesn't do anything for me at all, this path Scott have chosen to take doesn't interest or concern me the slightest.
Georg Rockall-Schmidt Your videos are very informative and with a great sense of humour. Some videos from others are obnoxious in delivery. Not yours! Keep up the great work!
No one ever mentions Outland it shares a lot of the same elements from Alien, it maybe a western in space but I feel like it's in the same universe. Even the director Peter Hyams has admit he was heavily influenced by Alien.
Doesn't Blade Runner shear the same universe as the Alien franchise?
Thank you for actually explaining and not trashing Alien Resurrection like it is a habit on UA-cam.
Do "How the Scary Movie movies evolved."
qw000pz more like the Deevolution of satire
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this please!!!
This!!!
It would be called "How references replaced jokes", and would apply to _many_ more movies than just the Scary Movie series.
Easy, first one was sort of lightning in a bottle, second one tried too hard and fell flat and awkward, then original creators left series, went to Zuckers who ruined what was left and PG-13'd them 😑
So this is the coolest channel online & it only took me 43 years to both wait for it & then find it . . .
Better late than never.
Glad you did this, Alien covenant has such interesting ideas lurking in there, what is our relationship between our parents/creator?, is an intelligent machine intrinsically psychopathic? why do we need to create? but is ruined because you just can't believe people behave like that.
You're an intergalactic colonisation team and you don't have basic quarantine procedures while exploring a previously unexplored planet, seriously!? we put the Apollo astronauts in isolation when they went to the flipping moon for crying out loud.
It's not even as though this is tricky to write around, make the black goo spores have some sort of basic "intelligence" that can find a way through the seals of the suits or something, very alien, instead of a sequence of the goo flying into someones ear show it squeezing through a crack in the suit or using acid to burn a way through, then it actually becomes believable, not just idiots in space.
Anyhoo i just went into way too much detail there, but stupid plot holes that could easily have been written round and would have given the film so much more depth if they had been addressed really bug me, surely paying for another rewrite to correct these things wouldn't be expensive compared to the actors and filming that make up the bulk of the cost of a movie.
Great video as always, your public service announcement videos have been giving me nightmares, well done!
Couldn't agree more....I much prefer films that at least try to have the characters acting in a believable way even if the situations are unreal. Jurassic Park for instance, I can appreciate that movie because for the time it was made, it something you can immerse yourself in...the park isn't yet open and things go wrong in a way you think could possibly happen, etc. But then fast forward to Jurassic World and you have a fully functioning theme park with thousands of visitors and the most dangerous creatures on earth all on the same island....and you have extremely lax security measures that allow 2 children to easily disappear into the wilderness, only one helicopter, next to no weapons.....gah, I hated that movie.
Darth Revan i still think they did a really good job making the alien as interesting as possible for 37 years old idea
Here we go YET again, people complaining about stupid actions in Covenant, even though they do NOTHING that hasn't been done before, and the crew in Alien are by FAR the most moronic people in the entire franchise. Why do you people watch Alien movies when you don't like the franchise in the first place? Why do we never hear you complaining about the completely and utterly idiotic things that the crew of the Nostromo do?
In Aliens the base is open to the atmosphere of the planet and both the colonists and the marines walk around outside without suits. Don't come back with some bullshit about them having checked the planet out, because if you haven't found a giant alien ship filled with thousands of eggs, then you haven't checked the planet out well enough to know there aren't microscopic spores there.
So ... why do you give Alien and Aliens a pass, but not Alien Covenant?
@@philsurtees In _Aliens_ the Marines and Sigourney Weaver's character visit a settlement on LV-426 (the planet from the first movie) and that settlement is a terraforming colony. They know they can go without suits because they've had people living there, terraforming, for years.
As for _Alien_ and the Nostromo crew, the only real huge mistake they make is the way they handle (or, rather, *don't* handle) the quarantine and allow John Hurt to be brought back on board with an alien creature attached to his face.
However, the way that situation is handled is a plot point: Ripley wants the crew to follow the standard quarantine protocols but Ash overrides her and allows the crew back in.
The thing is, though, that the Nostromo crew is essentially a space truckers crew - and when they do stupid things, they're in a panic. In _Prometheus_ you have scientists and, in _Covenant_ there are terraforming colonists _and_ scientists and most of the utterly moronic things they do happen *before* they have any reason to be in some sort of panic. At the same time, when they _do_ have reason to panic and find themselves in the company of an obviously deranged android (who has _obviously_ been experimenting with crazy genetically-enhanced crap) they are absolutely cool about the whole thing, trust him on sight and even allow themselves to be separated and follow the psychotic droid around, often times in dark, underground rooms filled with suspicious looking eggs.
That isn't the worst thing, though: the biggest problem with _Prometheus_ and _Covenant_ is that the characters feel like narrative devices rather than like people.
Man I really like your takes on film and your approach to reviews
"Alien" was the only film where it got so scary I was going to leave the theater (I was a teenage girl and well, on edge anyway) but the theater was packed full and we were packed, every seat was full plus people sitting and standing at the back. The scene I wanted to leave for was the one where they are wandering in the lab looking for the alien that had shed its skin after having impregnated John Hurt, I think he had been exploded by the impromptu c-section. I think many women who get pregnant for the first time have a very basic terror of growing a creature inside them....but we were terrorised (I spelled that like YOU guys, intentionally) as little girls by Hollywood, while being pregnant by someone whose DNA is basically similar to yours is not awful at all....it's actually fun, except for swollen ankles and hives. Morning sickness.... BUT it was more fun than it wasn't, plus the fathers who are responsible feel such guilt they do everything for you. It's quite lovely. But John Hurt's "pregnancy" is the worst case scenario that women fear in our primal brain. Fear of the unknown. I should do a vlog on that, what do you think?
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Nice retrospective of the series although I haven’t seen all of the films. I was a bit surprised when they choose french director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
It was obvious that he would bring his universe with him (wide angle shots, sepia images, etc). I remember reading a sort of journal from him about
what it was like working in Hollywood. These «behind the camera» stories were really interesting.
So I think I saw the original film, the one from Jeunet and lastely Prometheus. Very disapointed by this latter… especially when it was made by
Scott himself. We could say that the Alien film made in 1979 was a bit cursed for it’s legacy on screen.
Problem with the first two films: if you can make a super-strong, super-intelligent replica of a human being that will obey all your commands and you want to bring an alien creature back to earth (which human crew members might not allow), why not just use the replicants as the crew, with no humans?
Maybe humans were just supposed to serve as a food for some alien lifeform?
Oooops, I keep forgetting to start my comment with the obvious fact that I should thank and commend the reviewer's own work and not just spew out my own opinions. This is an excellent and very professionally presented review. Thank you.
Making the Xenomorph basically a horde of bugs in "Aliens" is both a good and bad decision.
It is GOOD because that ramps up the tension. In "Alien", we saw one Xenomorph take on a small group of regular people on a huge ship, it was an unstoppable mysterious (yet sort of familiar with some human features (the skull in the dome still freaks me out after many years of watching the movie)) alien creature that was rarely seen. So having a large and seemingly unlimited amount of Xenomorphs taking on a group of Marines with lots of guns is the better choice instead of having something similar to the sequel.
But, it is a BAD choice due to changing the tone too much. Because of having so many Xenomorphs, it makes them less of a creepy creature and more so a squash able canon fodder.
Sir BigWater I kinda liked that though,
Like each part is it's own thing.
1- A horror.
2 - Action horror.
3- A bleak horror, kinda the most dramatic one to me.
4- A parody, some odd funny moments.
It’s not like the aliens become weaker, it’s more of just the humans actually being armed with futuristic weapons, although it’s mainly their fear of the threat and their initial cockiness that result in most of their gruesome deaths,
Ya know, I am a HUGE fan of the series.... this is a fantastic cover of it all in the big scheme of things. You make valid and logical evaluations of them all. You are awesome. Thank you for your work.
I actually really liked the aesthetic style of Resurrection.
For me personally, a big part of the horror in the first film was the mystery that surrounds the Alien and the derelict ship. When space was portrayed as vast, empty and as cold as it was in the first film, the discovery of the derelict and the xenomorph was creepy af.
The prequel films kind of destroyed that mystery for me. They were cool films by themselves, but I kind of wish it never had anything to do with Alien, and were just focused on David, AI, and the Engineers. While the ships and designs of the Engineers are cool, I honestly think they could have been designed as almost anything, and didnt have to be anything to do with the owners of the first Alien's derelict craft. It still could have existed in the same universe as Alien, but without anything to do with the Alien film, the same way that Bladerunner is said to exist in the same universe.
But thats just me. There's so much love I have for the first Alien, and the mystery in that movie was a part of the horror for me.
This is my all-time favorite movie series. The original trilogy is just amazing. Yes, I really love Alien 3 as much as Alien and Aliens. Resurrection was fun too. I expected more from Prometheus and Covenant but those 2 films were nowhere near bad.
The lava lamp really goes well with the topic. 6:58, Especially so when it cuts to Aliens and the dream sequence where the xenomorph bursts from her chest.
I love all the Alien movies, not counting the Alien versus Predator movies. Not only did I love Prometheus and Alien Covenant, Prometheus is one of my favorite movies of all time. Michael Fassbender is a large part of my reason for loving both of the prequels. The David character is fascinating. Like Walter said in Covenant, "When one note is off it eventually destroys the whole symphony." The prequels are a great character study, in my eyes, of narcissism, ego, faith, and conscience growth in intelligent species.
That is very interesting, albeit I don't know how intentional, making David from the prequel films into this sort of Villain Protagonist.
"eating cheese and discussing subtext"
What we learn from all this is that it is very hard to make a film series where the main characters are monsters. We still need human characters to be at core of the story. At first it seemed to be the story of Ripley, but then it changed to other people who could make a very different kind of story. I think Prometheus is its own movie that stands apart from the others. Ridley Scott knew this too which is why there is no Alien in the title. Scott wanted to make films that were sci-fi but were differently themed than the monster films he had started. Prometheus and Covenant are mythical-Biblical explorations of the creation of human life and the meaning of birth, death and procreation. Most film-makers never get the opportunity to make a film like that. The prequels are kind of like Blade Runner in that sense. They go beyond our standard notions of science fiction cinema. I hope we can see more of this.
There's a typo in your title; wasn't it supposed to say "How The Alien Movie Series DEvolved?" I think you missed the "D."
It evolved, just backwards.
Haha you want the d
Hi Georg! You make videos about my childhood favorite legendary movies!!! And you are really good!! Thanks Man! :)
I like eating cheese and talking about subtext, what's wrong with that? Joking aside (not joking though) they basically retconned quite a bit in my opinion. Mainly with the Alien Vs Predator which was at one point supposed to be canon. Which is stupid. Those movies are stupid. I don't mind a bit of silly fun as long as it is self aware, like the Evil Dead Movies. Anyway, I always imagined that the xenomorphs were a degenerate leftover from an ancient Lovecraftian species. I am a tad disappointed this is clearly not the case now. Still, Fassbender always puts in a solid performance. And watching James Franco get turned into beef jerky is always fun too.
George, this is an excellent, engaging and informative video. I really enjoyed this.
Alien Isolation, the game was really amazing. Just saying.
Dude, I appreciate the effort of thought you put into this franchise. You're very articulate and you're attention to detail and presentation is sub worthy indeed.
Great video
By "sub worthy I mean ...oh you get it"
My biggest pet peeve is how Ridley evolved from a badass character to just another sex puppet
The wonderful thing about Alien and Aliens is that they are both just related enough to where you get the sense that one is a true sequel to the other. But they are just distinct enough to where you can watch either depending on the kind of movie you want to see and have completely different experiences. Sometimes I want an adrenaline-fueled frightening bloodbath and watch Aliens. Other times, I want to feel creeping, tingling horror and watch Alien. They stand strong independently of one another, but also make marvelous companion pieces. There are very few franchises... If any that I can think of, that managed to capture this perfect kinship.
The Alien films devolved.
Never should have been a franchise. The first film was perfect as it is.
I think it should have ended at Alien 3. It would have been a nice trilogy, but yeah I agree that the first one was the best.
I’ll always love Aliens because I got to see it in the theater with my Dad the day after we rented Alien.
No way can you miss out no2.
1 and 2 are superb.... rest suck badly
I recall enjoying these but watching them when I was quite young. I've never been inspired enough to see them again, so this is a nice substitute, in an easily digestible video capsule.
the series actually only evolved twice; once with the 2nd movie, and once with the dark horse comic book series.
everything else is more accurately described as 'degeneration'.
Great observations in these videos. Keep them coming Sir.
'Aliens' is overrated; 'Alien 3' is underrated.
Aliens is great, and I think deserves some of its bloated ratings. I'll never understand the hate for Alien 3 though. It's a slower film, and truer to its 1979 predecessor.
Aw man, I was really hoping you'd finally mention a video game in this one! But you didn't even directly mention the AvP comics. Each differing medium provides several great ideas that the films (which I don't absolutely dislike, though I've yet to properly view them) just overlooked for the most part. In particular, the original AvP arcade game by Capcom is by far one of the most impressive games of its medium and era (Arcade, CPS2 era). It lovingly combines the mythologies of not only the Alien and Predator films but also the previous Capcom games in the same gameplay genre. Playable characters include two different kinds of Predators, making this game the closest thing to a film that explores Predator lore from a more positive angle. There are also two humans, one is a descendant of a classic Capcom character (basically, think if Ripley and a Street Fighter character had a love child) and the other is obviously supposed to be a descendant of Dutch from the original Predator film. So that also makes the game the closest thing to a film that shows Arnold and a Predator working together. :D
Most people get hard pressed when you ask them to provide examples of games from the 80s and 90s that could be considered art, but Capcom's AvP is a fine example in my opinion. Everything about it is lovingly crafted, and it's genuinely entertaining to watch someone else playing it thanks to the brilliant and detailed art direction combined with a surprisingly complex variety of character and enemy abilities taking place on some of the most gorgeous sci-fi action set pieces you've never seen. I mean, you know a game is good when it makes a long elevator ride interesting. That's pretty much a required genre element of any good Beat-Em-Up game. :P
You were an instant favorite, and you quickly wound up on my list of people I desperately wish to meet before I die. If I get diagnosed with some kind of terminal illness, just expect me to show up at your house with a pack full of films to watch and games to play. To quote my personal Bible, "And you will know my name is KOJIMA when I break thy fourth wall upon thee!"
In my opinion, each "Alien" movie beyond the original "Alien" cheapens the original movie. They're taking that original terrifying monster from the original movie and milking the snot out of it until powder comes out. I just wish Hollywood would let the "Alien" drop and leave it alone so they can just stop tainting such a classic horror movie character like they have by putting it in constant pop culture and action movies. It doesn't belong there. It's not Jason or Michael Myers, or Freddy Krueger.
BlackburnBigdragon .... I do agree. I feel the further u are from the original then the more stereotypes you begin to expect...the android, the slipping a face hugger in an enclosed space, badass shoot outs for example....yet all the time trying to add spin to the bigger picture. Prometheus could have been a Creator series severing the ties to Alien. comparisons would always be drawn but possibly because it's Scott at the helm. moving from a horror based movie series into a more philosophical format, cutting that tie and allowing us the viewer to experience something new. Arrival was a breath of fresh air in my book and it's a shame Prometheus lost a big opportunity.
Yes. Hollywood is just doing what it does best: Beating a dead horse for money. They keep making the movies and people keep saying, "OOO!!! AN ALIEN MOVIE!!!!" The thing is a pop culture slasher villain now, unfortunately. The thing is, I get tired of these types of movies after the first or second one. Prometheus, I thought was poorly written schlock that TRIED to be meaningful and intelligent. Don't get me wrong. It looked great, but the writing was AWFUL. They haven't had a semi-decent "Alien" film since the second movie and that one there didn't do the first movie any justice. It was just a popcorn action flick.
which was accepted back in the day of Friday 13th and Freddy as well as scary movie and perhaps final destination but to swap genres from horror/action into one where they expect the viewer to appreciate the deeper meaning, or maybe to miss the deeper meaning and just give us your money and watch it so the FEW can indulge themselves with studio money
Well if you like the first one the best (I do too) then I guess you can always watch that 1st movie and ignore anything that came out after like with almost any film series, as long as its always available to watch. unlike the original 3 star wars movies though, we don't have a choice on that for now.
It is the destiny of all great movie monsters to be milked (ew).
good video,,, but would you mind pausing a bit between the films being discussed, i often missed it when you shifted from one film to the next one
I didn't like Prometheus at all. Didn't have any horror feel to it. It felt more like some campy exploration film, taking itself a bit too seriously with it's attempt at an epic subtext.
Prometheus made me not wanting to watch Covenant at all. And to this date I haven't seen it.
LOVE, Your laid back approach!
Answer: Poorly.
Really enjoyed ur video and thoughts! I really enjoy the new direction that Prometheus and covenant take, and love the idea of David as the creator of the xenos as we know them now, how he feels he was restricted from his creator to himself create... the engineers are intriguing and I hope the new films include more of them! Again, thanks for your vid, this and the predator video were great!
Do the Hannibal films
Tommy Barnard - I like them but I think the tv series was better.
Your essays are great, man. Love watching these.
there needs to be more videos about the sexual imagery in alien
I like how Covenant brings back a lot of themes of body horror and brutal helplessness in the face of a cruel and uncaring universe. And while David is a fun and fascinating villain to follow the idea that the Xenomorphs are his “kill all humans” science project rather than a terrifying nightmare that evolved naturally in the cold wilderness of space detracts greatly from their ominous menace. Thus I prefer to think of the Prometheus series as an alternate timeline rather than genuine prequel.
"Ripley was written as a man"
I FUCKING KNEW IT!
I've really enjoyed your videos. Your dry delivery is brilliant. Entertaining and informative 😂
I'm not interested in films about the origins of the xenomorphs. Why ruin the mystery?
Ridley Scott says there's too much Xenomorph. Xenomorph had invaded Disneyland.
I've BEEN interested in their origins, but after I finally got to know them, I really wish I haven't.... the explanation they gave is stupid and offensive. Just as with the origins of space jockeys. They were just too lazy to come up with creepy and creative ideas.
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@@maciejkowalski2759 don't they say we are made in God's image? It makes sense that we look like them... As we share their DNA. Still need to find out why the space jockey had a chest buster coming out of it
I sort of agree. But the origins of the xenomorphs always made me curious.
That said, if they were going to explore their origins, then at the very least they could've gone with a Lovecraftian approach (since the concept of the xenomorph borrows so much from Lovecraft to begin with) and simply presented an origin of that species that's just downright strange, difficult to understand and possibly even raise bigger questions and mysteries than we had before.
Instead, they went with a boring human centric approach which ruined everything.
this guy needs more subs, I truly hope he becomes successful, intelligent and vocal
Hard to call Prometheus an intelligent movie when it started the infamous School of Running Away From Things.
I totally agree the scene that terrified me the most from watching the first alien movie as a child was the Android getting decapitated, and realizing that it's not human. That scene haunted my nightmares for weeks, much more than the alien itself
I really liked covenant. I can nitpick it if I want but I choose not to. Its probably the 3rd best alien film. 3, resurrection, avp, avp2 were all pretty terrible and didn't feel like alien films. Covenant did. Its not the best but I'm happy it exists. Its like Force Awakens. Not great, but we got rogue one after so Im happy.
Covenant was stupid but it was enjoyable.
I quite enjoyed AvP too.
Great dissection Georg. And the history on it. I personally believe that Scott missed an opportunity in Prometheus of making Noomi Rapace's character the next Ripley-esque character and diving deep into the Promethean culture and history. But this was the same man that also thought of an idea of ruining the first movie of killing Ripley and having the xenomorph mimic Ripley's voice in a voice log.
Space Rape is a great name for a hardcore punk band.
3 years later and I’m still waiting for those two sequels!
Alien 3 was the movie that killed the series. With such a bad treatment and development its a miracle it turned out as good as it was. But it follows two masterpieces and comes no way near them. It was a big dissapointment. Prometheus is a diamond in the rough. It has too many stupid characters, its a mix of different scripts and the religious motif seem like something tacked on and dont really do anything. + Space jockeys being dudes in a suit...not good.Covenant is also good but its a bit predictable and lacks punch in the second half. Ridley should have re-established the Alien creature as the perfect organism. Not a standard movie monster.
Great video, thank you! Liked and subscribed. I can't help but look at the lava lamp and notice how it doesn't change when you've cut your talking footage - mask?