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9:29 Fun Fact: They actually didn't tell the baby alien that there would be actors looming over him when he bursted out. They wanted to get his authentic horrified reaction.
Yeah, Veronica gets splattered in the face when the Chest Burster does his thing!
Her reaction is 100% genuine, she had no idea, when it came to anything but the basics! I think it's her voice you can hear, whimpering, "Oh my god", as the critter slithers away. They don't make em like this anymore
It's a top moment in horror history, for many reasons and this is just one!
I saw this when I was "too" young! And even with a blanket across my face, I held on to my babysitter for dear life!!!
Her and I still talk about it 35 years later! My Mom gave her shit for letting me stay up late and give me nightmares, for months. Lol
It's like Jay said at one point, I wish I could go back and see it again, for the first time!!
What a movie! And if you love action, there was an insane sequel, on the way!
Sometimes I wonder how we got through the "golden age" of horror sci-fi, slasher films and manly men, blowing shit up, Without having heartattacks ourselves!! Lol Good thing most of us were young and ready for anything :)
We don't have to mention the volleyball, if we don't want to ;)
Cheers from Canada
Ian Holm, really wanted him to stay, you can see him tell them not to touch him! (They kept that in), he's so terrified, then just ran off to his trailer.
@@steveharvey2102 I mean, she did actually have an idea. She had no idea that there would be so much blood squirted...but she knew what the scene entailed story-wise (she read the script and they had a unit call that day, obviously), and she saw the prop of the chestburster beforehand.
I hope the chestburster was offered counselling afterwards. Such a shock to the poor thing
You got it backwords
they better not make ripley garbage if they're re-making it in this time. being a strong woman doesnt mean you have muscles and kill everything instead of the men. just dont ruin herrrrr
know what id do for an alien sequel at this point? do what the alien game did and be her daughter while ripley is up in space. have her daughter try to look for her around space, like she joined a space mining team or delivery team so she could go to new planets to find her and she just happens to end up on the same planet as ripley did was at this point its after ripley left the ship at the end of the movie so shes not there. at the end of the movie maybe the daughter finds a clue about where ripleys caspule went but thats if you wanna do ANOTHER sequel. we know she dies at age 60 so we know she lives which is kinda shitty because there wont be tension but maybe they can do some shit to still make it scary even though we know she lives. i wouldn't involve any of the original cast except maybe the daughter finds like a video from ash talking about his betrayal or something. but nothing more than that. it would be a mix of alien and aliens, id want some action in there but not as much as aliens had but i want more than what alien had.
with the space jockey all i wanted to know was how he ended up like that. hes just frozen there with what seems to be a face hugger on his face? but again they're just frozen there. is the planet that cold? did he push a button on his vehicle to do it so it wouldn't get him or spread? because every other time after no ones frozen lol. but even then its not a big deal for it to be answered or not, it just bugged me everytime. it was like it was set up to just be there to be found.
strong women can't have muscles?? wat
@@gothgrrl8711 Try reading it again.
2:00 Holy shit I had the same exact reaction and even called the christmas lights board. I hated this. I hated shitting on a good film.
“Neill Blomkamp is attached to make an Alien 5!” *Mike’s giant hip flask music plays*
I made a .gif of that and find a way to use it every week somehow as my slow crawl towards death continues
Ooooo that’ll be good
I wish this was still true 😢
The leaked art and screen play sounded good but aliens is just done now and that hurts me to say
@@eliwilson1146 At the End by Monkeys Unkle
If Rich had said "Ripley Scott" they would have destroyed him.
That just means they actually listen to Rich
True. Rich is the human punch bag. Did Mike say ‘Scrawny Reever’?
Ripley is the name of the main character he was making a bad joke
Folding chable.
@@jwoahlnt Bullshit. I think he made a mistake.
The reason they don't go to the escape pods sooner is that its not guaranteed that anyone will rescue them. In Aliens, Ripley was floating for over 50 years and only got picked up by chance.
No it's because it only supported 1 or 2 people
"The shuttle can't take four."
I'd assume it has to do with a spaceshipload of cargo they are carrying with them
If I had a dollar every time they actually mentioned the original Alien in this highlight reel I'd have a single figure dollar amount.
If you listen to the whole thing it's basically two hours of mike and rich telling jay why Aliens is a better movie "coz action"
@@mikesanders8621that’s a major disagree from me. I like Aliens, but the original in my opinion is much better. The suspense and unease that it brings is just so good that it more than makes up for having no action. Plus the horror elements are much more satisfying.
Aliens explains the alien life cycle by saying “oh there’s just a queen that lays eggs”, which is fine but a bit boring. I desperately wish they had kept the deleted scene from the original cut of Alien where we see how the alien cocoons its victims and turns them into eggs. That is genuinely terrifying to see would have added a ton to the story. It’s a shame they cut that scene.
“This is Jonesie, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
Meow
Jonesy and Morse from Alien 3 just get put in a padded room together when all this is said and done.
Reply scoot is my favourite inconsistent director.
Just imagine what its like when he orders a drink.
Ripley scoots: horrible diarrhea
He has nothing on Stonley Kibrook.
"All these aliens want to get in my belly but I'm already too fat! Oh no here I go falling down again!"-Ripley as played by Mcarthy
I wish to be free of this pain
Oh no my laaaabia. Are these aliens coming out from the back or the front?!
Xenomorphs take on characteristics of their host so presumably if one parasitized Melissa McCarthy, we'd get a round xenomorph that can roll into things like Sonic.
@@barahng "Gotta go fat...I mean fast"
I’m literally a woman. Lol omg
When James Cameron pitched Aliens, he just walked into a boardroom meeting and wrote “ALIEN$” on a chalkboard… and walked out.
I've heard that story too and that sounds hilarious, although I've also heard that David Giler and Walter Hill came up with the premise, aka Ripley has to team up with a squadron of space marines to rescue a bunch of colonists and that was right up James Cameron's alley cause he's obsessed with marines for some reason so he got hired to write the script after Giler and Hill liked his work on The Terminator, so I really don't know which story is true, maybe they're both true
@@itsamechrispratt380 Cameron fought in Vietnam, so he wanted to put his experience in a scifi film, this was a great opportunity for him
@@apokos8871 "Cameron fought in Vietnam". really ? I don't think he did.
@@hanzkammler6388 yes, correction, he didnt fight himself, but he used it as an allegory for the war. the overly optimistic marines and their employers using superior technology, face a foe that uses unconventional tactics that overcome the difference in technology. he has stated this in a number of interviews.
then when he pitched Avatar he wrote “dances with wolves in Space meets Aliens”
since the entire plot is structured exactly like dances with wolves, he added Ripley, and all the company mercs are essentially written exactly as the marines from Aliens.
I can visualize what an Aliens cartoon made in the late 80s/early 90s would look like so distinctly, so tangibly, that it'd be really easy to convince myself it actually existed but is completely lost media that doesn't exist anywhere on the internet anymore. And I could probably reasonably gaslight others into believing it was a thing they saw once as kids too.
Please start the movement
I thought I remembered one but I think I am misremembering comic panels for stills.
can you please just go ahead and animate a 90s aliens cartoon for us?
That actually is kinda true, Kenner did plan for a cartoon show (it was titled Operation: Aliens) and a pilot episode was produced, but alllegedly after the subpar box office numbers of Alien 3 everybody involed stopped caring and the project was scrapped. All that is known from that cartoon are a few stills from the pilot (which probably do look exactly as you picture an Aliens early 90s cartoon to be like), but it MUST be stored somewhere, waiting to be found.
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I hadn't seen Alien for years. I sat down to watch it again, and when the camera panned around the space jockey room in the alien ship, I just thought to myself, wow, I love this movie.
I'm still mad about prometheus ruining the space jockey
Alien is still an incredible looking film and I keep forgetting that it came out in 1979. Alien/Aliens are masterpieces, it's such a disappointment at how awful everything after Aliens has been. The series has never recovered from the dumpster fire that was Alien3 lol
@@drlight6677 Unfortunate, but true. Still, I love these movies so much, I go to watch every single new Alien movie coming out opening night, even though I am 100% certain that they won't be as good as the first two. Has been going on for 3 decades now.
I always imagined the reason why they did not want to abandon the ship was because even if they made it back to colonised space they'd be held liable by the company for losing the space vessel and thousands of tons of precious cargo, and the company would not take "we had a murder alien on board" as an excuse. Of course, Mother would confirm to the company that was the case, but the crew doesn't know that until late in the film. At least it makes sense for me why they'd be relucant to just scarper.
Plus, if they are out in the middle of empty space, running away with an escape pod might be dangerous too. Who knows for how long they'd have to fly around before they get picked up?
How long? 57 years
And the sequel showed that to be true
They discuss the reason in the film, the Nacassius shuttle only had two cyrosleep pods and you'd most realistically be lost forever.
Okay but I still don't understand why a greedy corporation would even risk having a self destruct sequence on their trillion dollar space ship in the first place.
Insurance?
Worried about corporate sabotage?
Just doesn't seem cost effective.
@@joshstump3878 especially since the company sent them (and the Android) there under false pretences to get a sample of the alien life form. Why would they bother with self destruct in that specific instance? They wanted the alien.
"Ripley" Scott? 0:09
its right up there with "George" Lucas Skywalker
Reminder people who like Alien 3 more than Aliens or Alien are not to be trusted one iota
David Fincer did the best he could with the shit 20th Century Fox barfed up into his lap.
Good old Ripley Scott
thats what i heard too lol
The M.O.T.H.E.R. computer Christmas light room is the bomb. White is the theme for synthetic lifeforms and cold, calculating machines in this film, think ash' "blood". The inspiration was from oldie timey computers that didn't have screens for outputs. You can see these oldey time computers all throughout other films from the 50's and 60's.
Lambert mentions taking the shuttle earlier, and Ripley says "the shuttle wont take four". When they are down to three, they still need extra coolant in order for the shuttle to cope with three. So presumably the shuttle is designed for short term use (despite having a 'hypersleep' pod on board).
It does bother me that she sent Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright in get those scuba bottles but she didn’t need any scuba bottles when she finally escaped.
@@johnbarr7630 The coolant was to cope with 3 people, the shuttle works fine with one. There's one sleep pod, suggesting that the shuttle can be used for one person in the case of a longer term emergency.
The fact that you'd need to refuel an escape pod is still a massive design flaw though. But it is mentioned in Aliens that Ripley was extremely lucky in getting recovered. Knowing that, and if I were in their position I think it makes sense to try and deal with the alien (especially before realising how deadly it is) instead of risking floating off into oblivion and if I'm lucky, having to reimburse an entire multi million dollar space cargo ship.
@@R0guy It was extra coolant for the life support system as it would be overworked supporting three people. I assume they would put one person in hypersleep to minimise the strain on the system. The other two would remain awake for the six weeks they were expecting to last until rescue.
Funny going back to that because it’s an entire plot point in Romulus now
The toy line introduced me to the idea that the traditional xenomorphs we're familar with are only humanoid because they developed in human hosts. If a face hugger grabbed onto a bull or an eagle or a shark, however, the resulting xenomorph would have different characteristics based on those animals' genetics.
I remember the Bull Xenomorph toys having horns
@@manticorephoenix I had that toy. Totally forgot about it until your comment.
@@37Kilo2 I had the snake one
@@37Kilo2 whew, I thought I misremembered it having horns for years
NECA remade all those Kenner Aliens recently, they're very nice.
Yeah they're rubber suits, but they're suits of something so detailed, so mechanical yet biological, so unlike something EVER seen before in a film. Don't be giving us that shit Jay and then complain about CGI monsters in the next commentary lol
I love these guys, but cringe so hard when they talk about a classic movie... They sound like 12 year olds who have only watched Marvel movies.
@@Heavy_Metal1982 It's just Jay being a hipster. Alien 3 isn't the best film but it's behind the scenes stuff is gold for film nerds like him
You have to admit though, despite the absolutely jaw dropping special effects in this film, the Alien DOES still look like just a guy in a rubber suit near the end. It can't really be helped.
@@Heavy_Metal1982 more considering their films are a bag of feces
@@stream_gene Alien 3 is a great film. Gotta love how someone who can respect characterization and pacing is suddenly a 'hipster'.
Jay pulling out all the hipster opinions in this one. "Alien and Aliens? Pffft. I really like Alien 3. Now let me nitpick the 'rubber suits' in this movie for half an hour."
It is said whilst recording this commentary Jay's beard grew several sizes and he purchased several pairs of non prescription glasses with colourful frames.
I hate alien 3 apologists it's a meaningless movie, no action, alien looks like 90s cgi, and everyone dies
@@joeschmoe3665 But Alien doesn't have any action either, as the boys say it is a slasher film, Aliens is a war movie, problem with Alien 3 was it didn't know what it was. It's nowhere near on a level as the first two but I still find it more watchable than the AVP films.
Is Jay not always the hipster eccentric of the group though?
@@joeschmoe3665 Dude, just because someone likes it doesn't mean they're an "apologist". I don't like it either but you have to realize that other people have different tastes. Jay's tastes are incredibly hipsterish, but I really think he's sincere and he just likes weird uncomfortable shit. You just have to see how knowledgeable he is about weird movies. It's not pretense.
Hearing them talk about the Neil Blomkamp Alien movie that never happened is so depressing.
Considering every other movie he did after District 9....it is probably for the best.
@@justsomeguywithsunglasses8418spot on. A one hit wonder making a snotalgia bait reboot with some geriatric actors trying to channel their performances from 30 years ago. Had terminator dark fate vibes all over it
Sound design is, literally, half of the atmosphere of this movie. I had the chance to watch it in a cinema last year and it was an amazing experience.
If you love this movie and it's music, sound, and atmosphere you must play Alien: Isolation
VERY well made game and true to the design of the first film
Facts
Awesome game.
Actually got scared playing it
I love that rich and Jack played it and haaated it xD. I really like that game tho
@@melikeskalico3812 i didn't know that. Is there a link to that
...hasn't Alien become like a vending- machine that doesn't give you what it was you pushed for...?
No, that's Ripley Scat, former director of 7000 video commercials and world's biggest fan of Beavis and Butt-Head.
Watching this in the future it makes me sad knowing we actually thought we were going to get a Neil Blomkamp Alien 5. Instead we got Alien Covenant (waahhh waahhh waaaaahhhhh)
Meh, covenant is a better film than prometheus, probably much better than alien 5 would have been
I'm so disappointed that the Neil Blomkamp movie was never made. Alien Covenant kinda sucked.
I walked out
Great. Now hipsters are going to go around saying that Neill Blomkamp's movie totally would have been great. Yeah, well, it never got made, so no one knows if it would have actually been good or not.
@@gladspooky9455 I can’t say that it would have been good. But I still would have liked to have seen his idea put to screen. I think that what’s most people mean when they lament about the fact that it didn’t get made
Neil Blomkamp is a hack fraud.
@@gladspooky9455 Who the fuck said that? I just said I was disappointed his movie never got made.
I can't forgive Alien 3 for killing Newt and Hicks.
It spits on the resolution of Aliens.
womp womp
They weren’t going to be in the movie regardless. Get tf over it already
@@deadschooled
One doesn't have to get over a movie sucking.
@@charlesvan13It's been 32 years maybe you should get over
And Alien 3 doesn't suck
@@superdrinkingpepsi
Alien 3 does suck.
No one ever has to "get over" a movie sucking.
It's been 38 years since Howard the Duck came out. Does that make it good now?
Regarding Bill Paxton’s Hudson: I think a lot of viewers don’t realize, he is potentially more tenured as a solider than most of the others. That’s why he’s cocky and obnoxious. But, this is last deployment probably. He’s getting out of the marines in a couple months. That’s why he freaks out so badly. He’s realizing and trying to come to terms with he’s never going to see his friends and family again because of LV426’s problem.
great points - but also - when push comes to shove he does what is asked of him. He found the colonists in short order (not easy given the size of the facility, he kicks major ass taking out many xeno's before going out and yes - he did bitch a lot but alas...he went down fighting - good guy in my book ;)
@@bsgtrekfan88 he held threatened the fuck out of Burke and held a gun to him (i think) after finding out he tried to kill Ripley and Newt.
That Hudson moment really sticks out to me. I also like his dialogue with Vasquez after most of the Marines are KIA
Hudson's character is very important because he represents the audience's fear. This is exacerbated because in the early part of the film he is depicted as a very cocky character. He's also one of the few characters in the movie that has an actual arch. The last few moments of Hudson on-screen shows him trying to overcome his fear.
@@desoliver9712 💯
In space, no one can hear Rich scream…
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
What's wrong with your CHEEEEEEEEST?
laugh*
AAAAAIIIIIIIIDDDDDDLIENS!!!
Rich would laugh once and the decibels produced would be enough to crack the protective windows leading into outside space. The last thing the crew hears before their inevitable death is one of Rich's cackles.
Always thought the character Dallas looked like a perfect mix between Michael Keaton and Kurt Russel
It’s Tom Skerritt! Put some respect on the man’s name
I am just completely dumb-founded about their constant criticism of it "being a guy in a rubber suit"...Like, no shit. What else are they going to do? Did you know the walls of that alien ship are also plaster-cast? Did you know the space facehugger is just a bunch of rubber? Did you know that their space suits are just a bunch of hockey pads? Like what difference does it make that it's a guy in a rubber suit, when the suit looks convincing and detailed?
It's just the dumbest possible point of contention about the alien. Yes, I know movies are fake. Are you a 5 year old?
How did you manage to miss the point of what they were saying this badly?
@@Zero_Ninety apparently you're the one who did
@@bud389 I'm embarrassed for you.
In aliens bill, Paxton started off very cocky, yes, but it was also known that that was just bravado. When he got down to it, he was a real person with real fears. In the end, he died firing everything he had. He didn’t want to die, but he wasn’t gonna go down cowering. He f FOUGHT.
and was annoying as hell the whole time doing it
I like Alien 3.
It's not as strong a film as 1 and 2 but it has a very rich, very specific tone, and I think it succeeds in being what it's trying to be.
Dour as a funeral, yes, but I think it's a very atmospheric and intense film, and Sigourney Weaver is great in it as are a number of the prisoners!
Amen my brother
It's way worse than the movies that preceded it, but infinitely better than the shitfests that followed.
It's not that it's a bad movie, but I hate that they killed Newt and Hicks off screen. The story should have had them in it. Can't forgive the studio meddling.
Alien 3's problem is the story is complete shit. Otherwise it's a fine film haha
Aliens has that scary trapped-with-a-Facehugger scene to counterbalance the alien horde though, and it profited from our Alien 1 knowledge about the instant-death coming from a Facehugger. And the queen at the end is basically built up like the alien in Alien 1 except huge.
There was an anime rip off of Alien 1, called 'Lily C.A.T.' (1987). It was shown on the old SciFi channel at 3 am, so I bet that's the cartoon they are thinking of.
It’s free on RUclips
Cheers
There were plans to make an Alien cartoon, those Kenner toys from the 80s/early 90s were actually going to be tied into the cartoon.
What??!! Holy shit thanks for this post.
There's also an episode of Cowboy Bebop (the anime of course) that is basically a parody of Alien.
I used to think Jay was just into unique movies you know he just has different taste 🤷♂️ But then when I heard he thinks Bill Paxton was an annoying character in the movie Aliens 😐 that was the moment I realized Jay is just annoying 🙄 lol
Alien 5 was great, remember when it was released and everyone was blown away. Such an exciting time for Alien fans. I have the collectors edition on HD DVD.
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I loved the underlying message about mankind shouldn't try and exploit the xenomorphs for their own gains and they should be free to work low skilled jobs like fast food retail and have access to really long baseball caps with the company logo on.
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In our timeline we got two giant turds by Scott.
Isn’t Prometheus legitimately Alien 5 anyway?
In Hudson's defense: he is one of the best characters in the film (or any film) and has an arc. He served the longest, and was on his last assignment. Knowing the situation he was in after getting so close to getting out of the military scared him. We can all relate to this. The fact he was so Cockey and arrogant before finding out he and the crew vastly underestimated the creature's once again shows man's disrespect to the unknown. He was humbled quick.
In the end, however, his training kicked in & he went down in a blaze of glory. Jay got him all wrong. But I still love me some Jay.
Yeah I was a little disappointed in Jay at how he failed to appreciate that his character has a legit arc in the film.
Dude inwoulda been so pissed if I was in that situation. Its always the "last job" where you bite the dust, isn't it?
I'm in total agreement with Jay about the Space Jockey and how little it weighed in my mind of its origins, purpose, or why it was carrying all those xenomorph eggs. I like that it remains ambiguous and you had to derive your own story. Perhaps that species was at war with another and these eggs were to be dropped or planted on that plant as some sort of biological warfare to wipe out the enemy. It is anyone's guess. I saw this in '79 at a local last run theatre. In those glorious days when you went into a film cold and without any preconception about what you wete about to watch. It was thrilling. Today a film is hyped more than a year before its release and leaks are bound to find their way onto the internet. By the time the film is actually released you're already sick of hearing about it. Hearing a packed theatre simultaneously scream when the chestburster sequence happens is an unforgettable moment. We'd never seen anything like this before. But the most unnerving sequence still is when Parker and Lambert are attacked by the xenomorph, the former killed and the latter is assaulted that suggests that something disturbingly sexual is happening. It was only when I bought a plastic model of the xenomorph that I noticed how phallic its heaf was. I was unfamiliar with the works of H. R. Giger at the time and only later see how sexual they were. Since it was born of a man you'd think that it would have a penis for a head. Too bad the creature kind of got locked into that particular image. I imagine this species while incubating inside of its host body would adopt those physical characteristics which would assure its survival in whatever environment it found itself in. It's one of the most disturbing movie monsters ever created, but I never needed to know its origins and the film offered enough clues,especially my favourite sequence where Ash mocks their chances at defeating it.
Not sure I agree, I was always curious, but the problem is once you reveal the space jockey's back story, there always is a high probability of disappointment. The fact that they were eventually revealed as human-esque, the whole thing became so much less disappointing.
Agree. I like the mystery of not knowing, so does everyone I know who's seen the film. It makes it scarier. I don't like knowing it is man made or android made. That's why it's "A L I E N"
Nah, I always wanted to know about the space jockey. Keeping certain things a mystery does nothing for me. The ship, all the eggs in the containment field, and the space jockey itself all lend themselves towards something worth exploring or expanding upon. A movie like The Thing does a better job of not making me care about the ship or other alien creature from the beginning.
Is there a single person who didn't wonder what it was, where it was going, and why it wanted the eggs so badly? I know RLM stated they didn't, but they're hack-frauds. Saying it's "part of the theatricality" is a big-stupid argument. Clearly it was designed and set up that way on purpose to imply/suggest a greater story element. Whether that story element NEEDS to be explored is not the question, whether it SHOULD be explored is the question. The mystery makes the alien far more scary.
1979 Tom Skerritt would make a perfect Randy Marsh in a live action South Park.
Wow. Just…… wow. That is spot on my dude. Well played!
_What seems to be the officer, Problem?_
I thought this was America
I am Lorde yayaya!!
I'm just gonna get a little chestburster Sharon!
I love that when the RLM crew say what the producers/executives were thinking, they always talk like they're in a movie from the 50s
"which is better Alien or Aliens?" is an old debate I can clear up easily...whichever one you're currently watching...boom, I'm done. Evans is a god.
Well fucking said. I’m gonna start using that.
Jay: “I love Alien 3”
Me: “What!”
Jay: “I don’t love Aliens”
Me: “What!”
I'm convinced Rich Evans' laugh could be weaponised
“Wisconsin syndrome “
Its quite the weapon
Jay has some pretty bad takes on the Alien franchise.
Alien 3 your favorite? Don't like Hudson? Please explore inside the nearest live volcano.
yeah my fragile feelings were really hurt also.
@@frankmerker630 clearly they were frank that's why you felt the need to comment
Now I want to replay Alien Isolation.
AvP 2 is the best, but hard to find. I dont think its on GOG.
If it was 5 hours long... But it's dragged over 20 hours of hiding and door puzzles.
Use your Lion Brain…..NOT Crocodile Brain!!
@@Goldenspiderducck thats a deep cut
@@HiCZoK Absolute shit take
"Would you cast an all new Ripley, played by Melissa McCarthy?"
Only if she's the first to get eviscerated by the xenomorph!
Explains how the alien got so big so quickly.
Considering the current trend of eviscerating classic charaters I've no doubt that's the approach a studio would take. Kill Ripley in the first 5 minutes, replace with some racial/sexual minority.
In space noone can hear you fart
Hollywood Exec: "Who is the LEAST conceivable person we could put in this?"
Hollywood Exec: "And before you ask, Betty White and Carrot Top have already turned us down."
Now I just imagine her character “comically” screaming and running away from the Xeno, like in Identity Theft. Or basically every other movie she’s in.
She’s got a stupid wig on. Running and tripping on a pan, “Ooooowwwwwuhh”.
I've watched a few of these now and why is it no one highlights that Jay often misspronounces things more than Rich? He called the Director *Ripley Scott*
"We're Bologna on a cold roll, man!" - Bill Paxton, Alienses.
I disagree with them on one point; in Aliens, the Xenomorphs are getting mowed down by special ammunition, but it hardly matters because killing one only seems to bring two more to replace it, that they almost seem immortal despite the advanced weapons and "really tough hombres" weilding them. On top of that, most of the squad gets taken down in the first skirmish, leaving only Hicks, Hudson, and Vasquez alive of the twelve that went down into the hive. A 75% kill rate in a matter of minutes? Seems pretty damn effective to me.
Every time I see the chest burster scene now and it hisses I break out into “Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello my ragtime gal!…” Thank you, Mel Brooks!
"what did he have?"
"The special"
Lol 😅
Check please!
SHAME SHAME, HUDSON DIED A HERO SAYING FUCK IT AND LAYING WASTE TO MANY ALIENS WHILE DEMORALIZING THEM WITH INSULTS!
Just stop making Alien movies, I love 1st and 2nd one 10/10, 3rd one is deppresing end but its victory and i love that one too. You CANT make franchise out of horror, key element of any horror is UKNOWN.
I will say this, between A1 and A2. 50 years had past, and nobody really knows how Cryo sleep works in this Universe. For Rich to say that "it's only been 3 weeks" When Ripley could have been having nightmares for 50 years ! Shame on Rich ! He watch's Star Trek
Its weird to me to call out the rubber suits in Aliens as if its that much better in Alien. Yeah its better lit and has slightly longer shots in Aliens. But the glimpses they do use in Alien always looked goofy to me. They are burned into my brain. The hands awkwardly move as a clumsy big lump and it just sort of hug attacks people. I love the movie, amazing what they created for the time but the suit was just as obvious. Honestly the close up practical shots of the alien queen is more convincing of a creature than the regular suits in either movie.
Alien, much like The Terminator, will ALWAYS be the absolute best of the series… Both are amazingly original HORROR films with sci-fi DNA.
With that out of the way, I have a pretty decent grip that stems from the sequel, Aliens, that I’m posting here because this is the audience I feel would actually understand it…
In franchise canon, the titular “alien” has become known as a “Xenomorph” and that’s flat out wrong. When Gorman says “a xenomorph may be involved”, he’s using it as an umbrella term… Remember that no one but Ripley actually knows for sure what this thing is, and they’re calling it that because of how she described it: xeno means “of other (or alien) origin” and morph means “change”. The lifecycle and growth of the alien fall into that category.
But as big studios often do (Disney I’m looking in your direction), laziness and a total lack of faith in the audience’s intelligence prevailed and from then on, “Xenomorph” became the alien’s genus rather than a generic term to describe an unknown organism as it was meant, all because, “they said that word in Aliens”.
8:39 This is exactly what the director of Romulus said to himself when he got that gig
Incase anyone doesn't remember why Alien 3 was hated before it even hit the big screen.
There was a trailer that showed Earth and Aliens. It was implied we would finally get an Alien movie on Earth.
Instead we got Alien prison break.
LOL
Unwatchable review thanks to Jay.
NO plothole... the ship only takes three, so when Ash is killed the three remaining crew members attempt to board the escape pod.
I think this really solidifies my opinion against Jay-- sorry man, you've got some questionable tastes. "I hate Bill Paxton's character in Aliens-- he's so annoying!"
YES, that's the point!
"we're watching Ripley Scotts Alien" nice jay.
I was waiting for someone to call him out on that.
@@Ryfinius it was a joke...
@@frankmerker630 prove it...
The PC game Alien: Isolation was excellent. Could have been a worthy film.
Rich and Jack hated it. They did a review of it on Previously Recorded.
I agree with you though.
If the alien shot out acidic blood instead of being immortal it would've been good. Instead, it SUCKED.
The story of that game isn't interesting at all, though.
@@mayorofbagtown9097 Their game reviews were pretty bad in my opinion. Glad they stick to movies now.
Loved it until it got too scary, haha.
Awwww, Mike stole one of my favorite trivia questions to ask people:
"Who is the only one from the Nostromo who survives the first three Alien movies?"
Does everyone know that the cat cage gets sucked out into space when Ripley opens the space doors to suck out the alien queen? R.I.P. Kitty
how much time passes between aliens and alien 3? that cats dead man.
@@ebutuoy6782 Interesting question! I wonder if it is hinted at anywhere at how long they were in hypersleep between the two movies.
But, I guess the trivia question could be adjusted to "Who is the only one from the Nostromo who does not die onscreen during the first three Alien movies?"
@@MandleRoss after googling the passage of time between movies it seems like there was very little, but i didnt get anything concrete.
@@ebutuoy6782 So it is Schrodinger's Cat then.
While looking at Ash's android head
Jay: 'I think we are getting ahead of our selves.'
I see what you did there :D
Audio kinda blown out.
yeah, the sounds are horrendous
much like your mom's back walls
Jay is bass-boosted IRL
@@bazookajoe9864 I believe that's actually your dad.
@@emeraldcelestial1058 you would know
my controversial opinion is also that I quite like alien 3 its intense, grimey and close quarters, its brutal and has that edgy British edge to it. Being a British filmmaker myself I appreciated the direction it too and the stakes are high, the alien series really went wonky after alien 3 if you ask me.
David Fincher is American....
Alien 3 is a shit sequel but Fincer did the best he could with the shit 20th Century Fox barfed up into his lap. I do appreciate its tone, grittiness, & cinematography. The CGI is shit but the animatronics are spectacular. As a stand alone I enjoy it, as a direct successor to Aliens, it’s a major failure.
A3 reminds me of "Split second" aesthetcally speaking...
The face-hugger probably stays on the face for so long to prevent the host from regurgitating the eggs it is laying while they are still vulnerable.
Yeah I thought so too, it's a protection thing.
@@gargamellenoir8460 Yes, it tightens its tail around the neck if threatened while nesting.
Hmmmm, maybe it also has to feed the eggs with nutrients at first and that's why it dries up and dies.
I always thought it makes sure the fetus gestates and takes. Then once it reaches a certain size the hugger dies off. Never thought it laid an actual egg inside. Interesting.
@@Shatamx I'm just assuming the egg part as it puts a tube down the victim's throat. I guess the fetus could also grow in a protective sack at the end of the tube but, that's also a kind of egg lol.
I like to look at it like the spawn of a Lovecraftian monster, so it's fine if it's bizarre/incomprehensible to our human mind in some aspects.
I too prefer Alien 3 to Aliens, Jay.
It’s a tough opinion to hold.
Me too. Not that I have anything bad to say about Aliens
I feep like a feature of escape pods is that they should at all times be fueled.
And able to accommodate the entire crew...
@@claudiuzugravu6254 Why would you bother with that. Sounds expensive. You know how much the Company needs to earn to make a profit? If there's a disaster, it means people are dead, which means no need for more pods
I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but by god Jay's piss me off
The toy line for Aliens had a dark horse comic with each figurine which told a different story.. closest thing to a cartoon Aliens ever had
If those are the ones with Ripley and Vasquez dressed in ridiculously bright clothes, they were making a cartoon but it got scrapped.
@@tadpolegaming4510 sooo I had nearly all of them, Ripley had a purple shirt with a yellow bandana around her neck... and Vasquez had green/beige/brown atypical military colors if memory serves..
I'll never be able to admit anything positive about Alien 3, but to each their own.
Same. I couldn't stand that film then and still can't today. My old man gave up on Aliens after he rented Alien 3. I'll never forget him rippin the tape and chucking it in the trash. "honey I gotta pay for this stupid thing. brb".
Without repeating the same tired argument of "hicks and newt shouldn't have been killed", or complaining about some of the dodgy VFX, what is negative about Alien 3?
@@Snipurss I don't enjoy the triumphant feeling the previous movie left me with being ripped away, and the setting is drab and dull to me, culminating in just an overall unenjoyable experience. Everywhere is brown and dull, the characters are all equally boring, and I feel like nothing utilizes the idea of being in a science fiction future. The first Alien took place in a gray smokey spaceship, but I always felt like I was experiencing the story in a big junker cruising through the stars and trapped within accordingly. Aliens has a lot of fun technology and weaponry to give that fantastical feel to me, and I feel like they sell the locations well enough for me to buy it as a colony stranded on a foreign planet. Alien 3 does its job of feeling like a drab prison, though that is probably the least entertaining thing I would want to simulate being a part of. I understand the argument of that it's a horror movie like the first one and is ultimately supposed to be unpleasant and make you uncomfortable, but with a failed attempt at an interesting location, and having all the mystey sucked out of the movie by being the 3rd in a series and a rehash, it doesn't leave me intrigued in any way. It's just an alien again, in a less interesting place than it was before.
The effects I can always look past. I wouldn't know how to matte in a puppeteered alien any better than how they did. I can't find it now, but I saw a video of someone trying to fix the composite shots with simple color grading, and it really helped sell it, so I wish they did have that simple tool back then to help out, but it's of its time and I can never shame a movie for that.
Going with my first point of any sense of victory or reprieve being killed immediately, I don't think its unrealistic to complain about the likable characters being disposed of immediately. If you want to kill them off, that's fine, but to have them just croak in their sleep right as the movie starts is really lame and ruins any possibility to evolve those characters or bring them down to a point that killing them feels appropriate. As someone that very much an average Joe is not a writer, I don't think it's safe to say there was absolutely nothing to do with those characters in Alien 3.
Also, calling an argument tired because you have heard it before isn't really a fair criticism of that argument in my opinion, unless you offer some kind of rebuttal or solution to it. If a ton of people are voicing the same basic critique, it's not fair to discount that argument because it is shared by many or to just lump people together like cattle. It's not like RUclips rage bait grifting of "Movie Title is garbage because I don't agree with blank!", it's just people that came out of the movie saying "Wow I don't like that they got rid of those characters that I liked in the previous movie." which is not an unrealistic complaint in the slightest. It also has retroactive failures in that it makes Aliens a less enjoyable watch since I know all the exciting saves in that movie are completely for nothing, so it hurts a movie I do like in a similar way that Prometheus makes the first Alien feel stupid to me. That might not sound fair, but I can't watch any of the exciting parts in Aliens and not think "Oh yeah they all die. Why bother?" Ripley herself is a different story in that the trilogy is wholly focusing on her, and her sendoff is driven by what her character has been through, but the other characters didn't get that. I don't want everything to be ceremonious, but more than nothing would be nice. In the end, nothing ascends to anything worthy of praise to me, it just exists and I wish it was better.
Jay complaining about Cameron needing creative control over the Queen design when what he ultimately shit out was the single greatest creature design of all time is peak Jay.
Don't give James all the credit. A lot of talented people worked on the Queen
According to ripley the pod wouldn't fit more than three
Chris Pratt will play the alien
Ripley Scott is my favorite filmmaker.
Alien 3 and Alien 4 are from the multiverse. Same as the bad Halloween films, and the bad Terminator films. If the movie bombs, it's cast-off as a movie in another reality in the multiverse. Alien 5- the multiverse is opened and all the Terminators come through to the OG Terminator and T2 reality. Schwarzenegger fights another version of himself plus the other Terminators- and the audience goes bananas, because- multiverse! And... lots of Terminators!
in the movie, they comment 'there is not enough room for 4 of us....[in the escape pod]'
I like how the real concept of Alien 3 is a traumatized woman commits suicide after her last 3 months of being awake involves finding out her daughter is dead, losing her job, and constantly having her life being threatened.
If a space jockey dies before we know what it is, it doesn't need it's own movie.
They do explain that they can't use the escape pod because (at the time there were still four characters) it only has room for three people to hibernate... Then again, I suppose that opens the question as to why there's only one escape pod and not enough for the entire crew. Maybe you could blame it on the corporation doing everything on purpose to screw them, but eh, an extra line of exposition to explain or confirm that the corporation did it purposefully would not have hurt.
In the final log Ripley did say that they'll pick her ship up with "a little luck" so even if there's room for everyone it's still as hazardous as being on a lifeboat of a ship that sunk in the middle of the ocean. Space is vast and merciless.
They really titaniced the Nostromo
I mean, they *were* trying to get to the escape pod fairly early on, they had to get the fuel rods for it, which is when the remaining two characters besides Ripley get killed. But that’s my only “well acktchually”
We never got Jay's take on Aliens 3...please tell us!
I've heard that there was an "Aliens" comic book series. The main characters were originally going to be Hicks and a grownup Newt, but after "Alien3" came out, those comic book characters' names had to be changed to fit with the continuity that Hicks and Newt died.
That's true. They're a pretty fun read regardless
I had an alien's v predator comic when I was a kid
It's actually pretty good.
Heard there was a comic? I think the first series was around 1990 possibly a few years earlier. I think aliens comic books came out every year. I remember around 1992 I had a collection of about six different series. I recently looked it up and there were probably 30 different series of aliens comic books. They have subtitles like: hive, genocide, rogue, labyrinth, colonial Marines.
0:09 "Ripley Scotts"
Jay has the Rich syndrome
Jay's pronunciation is bizarre to say the least
Idk, if you walk into a modern server room you'll see lots of servers with ... lots of blinking lights.
Rich Evans: We're watching Ripley Scott's Alien film.
Jay: No, Rich, I said that.
Rich Evans: Don't you dare try that Mendela Affect bullshit on me. We're watching Ripley Scott's moopie!
Mike: This is like that time on Star Trek...
Jay and Rich: SHUT UP!!!
If I were to remake Alien, I would cast Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ripley. She looks like Sigourney and can act and do action.
I want an origin story for the knife game
Goes back several thousand years I'd imagine, knives been around for awhile
watch John Carpenter's Dark Star. the movie was written by the same guy who wrote Alien. the knife scene is in there. Cameron was probably already familiar with his work while writing his Aliens script, so he took the idea from there.
Give me the producer's chair and I'll make Alien vs Predator vs Dredd
Hey guys, in a thrift store I found a t-shirt replicating the original ALIEN movie poster, but instead says ALAN (in space no one can hear you in space).
A total gem, and no one notices alot of the time because the font is so similar
Jay is just wrong about everything
i remember seeing alien toys in toy r us in the 90s
I remember my parents showed me Alien when I was about 10. At the chestburster scene I was so traumatized I couldn't move, and my mom was just laughing at how fake it looked. I paused it and went upstairs - couldn't sleep for weeks.
I don't think I tried to watch it again for at least 3 years.
When I was 10 I spent the night watching all 5 Freddy movies that were out 5 or 6 by myself. You are weak
Good lordy
Man up
@@danbolt6003 Considering that was 20 years ago I think you're a bit late m8. But thanks for the 'advice'
@@ac8911 all part of the service, ask your mum 👍
Why did you pause it if you were leaving the room? That's a plot hole right there you hack
Controversial?? Aliens 3 sucked ass, and 2 was just an action movie like T2 Alien and T1 were actually scary suspense best films.
Why do people keep calling this Ridley Scott’s Alien? He didn’t write this.
they don't want to use the escape pod because they have like a billion dollars of cargo and they wont get paid or even get picked up for sure by a passing ship. its a game they don't risk until necessary. !ts like you guys didn't even watch the movie!