Miranda is "really good at reading people." lol Also Miranda: "I would like to see the alien survive *that*," when the Nostromo blows up. Ah, Miranda. My sweet, sweet Summer Child.
"Alien fans, what is wrong with you?" This is one of the finest horror movies ever made. Every scene, every shot, every angle is exquisitely crafted to heighten our tension and uncertainty. And H.R. Giger's designs for the alien are so outlandish that they still stand out today, 45 years after the film was made.
@wolf310ii - I reckon that Aliens is most definitely an action movie; but, for me, the first one is straight-up horror that happens to be set in space.
I was 22 yrs. old when this movie came out. My sister, a cousin and myself went to see it at theater. I can tell you there wasn't any clapping or whooping and hollering when it was over. I think everyone was in awe or shock. It was one of the most incredible movie experiences i have ever had.
@@xebex44 It was a different time. Movie audiences were more respectful of the fact that there were other people in the theater. Bear in mind that at the time, going to the theater was the only way to see the movie. Home video wasn't really a thing yet. So people weren't going to the theater principally for social interaction. They were going principally to watch the movie.
@@jonadabtheunsightlyNo video cassettes, but I saw it on Showtime not too long after it's theatrical release. My friend had an illegal Showtime descrambler box.
@@jackgilchrist I'm absolutely certain most people didn't have Showtime in the seventies. Most of the people I knew only got the big three (ABC, NBC, CBS) and maybe PBS, even five years later. Cable TV didn't become really common for working-class people until the nineties, and even then, HBO and Showtime were premium channels that a lot of cable-TV subscribers didn't have.
Imagine watching this movie for the first time, on VHS, being 10 years old, back in 1993, having no clue about absolutely anything related to the alien movies. That's the way I saw it and I tell you that 60% of the movie my head was under a blanket, sweating and trembling, I will never forget. Till this day it's my favorite movie.
Same. I watched it in the dark staying over at a friends place. When the alien jumped out we jumped back so hard we turned the couch over on its back. I couldn’t sleep for weeks after that. 😂
I had similar experience with the first Terminator movie. Nowadays it doesn't look that scary, i guess the effects did not aged that well, but back then it was terrifying and from that moment i was quite scared to go down to the basement. I was always expecting red robot eyes start to shine in the dark :D Second movie which got me actually really scared was Night of the Living Dead (1990). When i first saw Alien, i was a bit older and i remember myself being more fascinated by the creature, vastness of unexplored universe and space than actually being scared.
@@munkeypantsman "When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's a-moray!" Disclaimer: I didn't invent this joke, I'm just passing on a fairly well-known meme.
Jonesy the cat is a mouser, that takes care of any rodets that may sneak on the ship. This practice was used throughout maritime history. - Just wanted to add that I don't dispute that Jonesy also served for emotional support. He officially was a mouser on the ship, which is supported by the fact he had free roam of the ship and was not confined to the living quarters.
@@foljs5858 Space travel is common in this universe, like boats going port to port. Plus, mice seek out food, you can sanitize all you want, they will find their way in.
The irony is that he is lying about his sympathies, because, being a Robot, he has none. The human crew knows it, he knows that they know and that's why he grins when Ripley pulls the plug in anger. TERRIFIC writing, directing and acting indeed!
This movie has some of the most naturalistic acting I've seen, which is a great way to make a space movie so grounded. Apparently Ridley Scott wanted the cast to get to know each other before filming and he allowed them to improvise a lot of dialogue, especially during the breakfast scenes. It really makes this movie stand out, even today.
indeed. it also helped that the cast weren't informed ahead of time about certain scenes too...... so the reaction to the chestburster event is totally genuine.
Fun fact where Veronica Cartwright slaps Sigourney Weaver it wasn’t supposed to connect but it did. That wasn’t acting as Sigourney was properly caught off guard. Worked.
For me, the Dallas scene is absolutely the best jump scare ever put on film. So many filmmakers today use jump scares as a lazy shortcut - a quick way to get a reaction. But here Scott builds up to it and it's expertly done. Even if you've never seen the movie you know something's coming and, if you've much movie-watching experience, you can guess there's a jump scare in the offing, yet it still gets you. That's because Scott takes the necessary time to build the tension, with the claustrophobia, the darnkess, the shadows, the beeping of the motion tracker and Lambert's rising panic, so that when the scare finally arrives there's nothing cheap about it - it is thoroughly earned. This scene on its own is a masterpiece of filmmaking.
Back then, Tom Skerritt (Dallas) was the biggest actor on the cast list. His death so early would have unnerved contemporary audiences, as nobody was 'clearly' going to make it to the end.
His death scene is still one of the best in the entire franchise, in my opinion. When I first saw this I thought they were setting it up to psych us out and keep the tension up. But nope...it was in fact coming right at him.
We're talking about 33:05, right? It doesn't matter how many times I have watched it, that sequence never fails to make me tense, and the last moment is just so perfectly timed to catch you off balance.
Imagine that you're 8 years old and you're on your first foreign holiday. One day you come back from a shopping trip and your Dad and older Brother are watching a movie, called ALIEN. And you happen to walk in roughly 30-40 seconds before Kane (John Hurt's character) "gives birth". That happened to me in the Summer of 1982.
It has an R rating for a reason! 19:55 That was H.R. Geiger's intention! 26:54 That was ironically Mel Brooks motivation for studying comedy after World War 2.
I was also either 7 or 8, though not on holiday and I saw it from the beginning. Then I brought the picture book of it to my 3rd grade show & tell. I loved hearing the girls say "Eewww!" 😁
The guy who played the Alien was a graphic design artist called Balaji Badejo. He was 6 feet 10 inches tall, and was spotted by the Casting director in a London pub, and offered the part.
Sickle Cell Anemia is unfortunately hereditary and when one person has it, it’s likely the rest of their immediate family has it or carries the gene. It causes many complications such as fatigue, pain, and necrosis in parts of the body from not receiving enough oxygen. It’s very prevalent amongst Black and Desi peoples. One of the upsides is that people who have SCA can’t catch malaria which still plagues and kills millions in Africa and South Asia, so SCA was once seen as a good trait to inherit.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Really, it's STILL good to inherit, since malaria is still a major problem. Ideally you want to be heterozygous for it (one normal copy of the relevant gene, one sickle cell mutated one) so you can make normal red cells as well, for most of the time. The sickle-cell variant can still carry oxygen but malaria can't feed on them, so you won't feel great but you won't be dead if you get infected.
@@thomasjoychild4962 Interesting. Ideally the person wouldn't have SCA and be vaccinated for malaria, but we now live in an era of distrust and conspiracy theories. So I guess having SCA in a malaria endemic zone is better than no protection One of my close friends passed two years ago from SCA complications. Almost his whole family has it and I learned in his memorial half of them died from SCA complications He was always in agonizing pain since I knew him. He had a total artificial hip replacement at a young age after hypoxia caused necrosis there. He was always in and out of the hospital, requiring surgery and that racked up a lot of debt when he couldn't hold a regular job due to his disability. He was a great guy, and I miss him but at least he's no longer in pain.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Yeah, having two copies of the mutant version often leads to a really hard sick life. With heterozygocity you basically always make normal red cells so you don't get the complications, the sickle cells are only produced when you're put under physiological stress (like by getting malaria) and they only stay being produced for as long as you're under the stress, so you don't tend to develop the lots-of-sickle-cells-clumping-and-blocking-things complications too severely/for long even then. Awful diseases, both of them.
I disagree, the first watch of _Aliens_ should be the theatrical cut, as the director's cut spoils things early and make certain scenes less impactful. It's the definitive version once you're familiar with it though.
@@MLennholm Wrong. The special edition is the original story, before being chopped for theaters. It's preferred by the vast majority of fans, and Cameron himself. Cutting those scenes created plot holes, and your lame complains about "mystery" and "pace" are completely bogus.
The story of how that happened was also great. Evidently John and Mel knew each other and just happened to run into each other, and Mel told John he had this idea for a funny scene that he'd love to get him involved with.
@@Xeno426 Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man, which starred John Hurt (amazing performance as John Merrick), which is how they knew each other prior to making Spaceballs. I died laughing during that scene in Spaceballs - John Hurt was an outstanding actor but always had a sense of humor about his career, too.
"If I'd got a nickle every time I've died by having an alien organism burst trough my chest I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice." -John Hurt
John's acting in THE scene is amazing. His horrible coughing, wheezing noises are really distressing. Anyone who has choked on food will know how traumatic THAT is, and this is so much worse. Everyone getting in each other's way to try and help is also unpleasantly realistic, they are all panicking a bit even before they know what is really happening.
If I remember correctly the history behind this scene, actors wasn't fully warned and instructed about details of this scene, so their action and reaction was mostly genuine to the point where Lamberts actress almost lost it and cried for real because how well made and shocking it was, with a lot of sprinkling blood and Hurts' acting.
Nobody had ever seen anything like this film before. It was so different, so disgusting, so disturbing that people literally left the movie theatre in a state of nervous collapse.
These are such exaggerations. My dad took me to see it when I was 9. I don't remember anyone leaving or getting sick. I personally just thought it was really cool. Yeah people thought it was scary but not any more than Halloween which was the most recent big horror movie at the time.
Best comment ever:- "I love Ripley so much, omg I connect with this character, she's who I want to be, confident, self assured, doing the right thing, even if it means making hard decisions" I wonder how many thousand of young women thought exactly the same, saw this character and thought finally a female character done right! ❤
My daughter LOVES Ripley. She’s only allowed to see the first one as she’s only 9 but she keeps begging me to see the second one. I’m so proud of her. She wants to be a captain now 😂. I hope she lives her dreams.
It comes from an interesting phenomenon, where if you write the character male and gender flip, like they did with Ripley, you make a character a person not a gender. Even with female writers.
This might be my FAVORITE REACTION to THAT ONE SCENE I have ever seen in any reaction EVER!!! I feel for Miranda for having such a visceral reaction to it, but also the coping mechanism and Spaceballs reference was HILARIOUS! Miranda we love you, don't ever change! ❤
I was similarly traumatised by the original Dawn of the Dead movie so i understood her reaction completely. Even now if that movie comes on my reaction is visceral. I'm a 45 year old man but my body immediately goes back into a 7 or 8 year old fight or flight response...
The laughing / crying in the reaction as the alien emerged from Cane’s chest ….. bless your heart. I was truly concerned for you. 😂 My cousin took me (Age 7) and her son (Age 9) to see it when it came out in the movie theaters. We were both TRAUMATIZED. But in our defense there were adults male and female that left the theater in tears. 😂😂😂😂
When you'll rewatch Spaceballs, you will notice that the people talking to John Hurt are all lookalikes of the original crew of the Nostromo, which will make it even funnier, now that you know it 😊
The whole audience came out of the theatre silent, they got outside and opened up with excitement Thanks for reacting see the second Aliens, it’s a rollercoaster ride
I saw this way too young in the theater. People don't understand how much less jaded audiences were back then. The whole theater would literally scream in terror with a movie like this. It was truly a group trauma.
This movie absolutely PERFECTED the slow burn. The whole time you’re on edge thinking “This is when the scary thing happens” but the tension…..just….keeps….building!
By the time they got to the part with Lambert freaking out as Dallas was making his way through the air shafts, I was extremely stressed out. So when Ash's head was knocked off, I almost lost it.
This is part of why Alien Isolation is so good, it's over an hour before you really have to deal with the true horror of the game, it's such an authentic adaptation of the first movie... took me 4+ years to finish the game because it scared me senseless in the Clinic and I was too intimidated to return to it for ages
@@UNSCPILOT Ah yes. The clinic. I've seen a lot of horror, but playing through that part forced me to put the game on hold for a long while (maybe I'll continue it this Halloween).
@@Nebulous6 pretty sure it's the first section of the game where the Alien is fully set loose in the environment, when you finally get the flamer much later it's so very cathartic... for a time
I saw this opening weekend in 1979 at 1. The end of the film brought incredible relief. I was transformed by the visuals,. The most transformative cinematic experience of my life. Still feeling the effects of this film at 60.
The editor Terry Rawlings described the first screening in Dallas: "It was the most incredible preview I've ever been in. I mean, people were screaming and running out of the theater." Wikipedia explains: "The film had no formal premiere, yet moviegoers lined up for blocks to see it at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, where a number of models, sets, and props were displayed outside to promote it during its first run... Vandals set fire to the model of the space jockey, believing it to be the work of the devil."
Yes, I saw Alien upon its first release in a large pitch-black movie theater. We were warned beforehand that "in space no one can hear you scream." Well, there was sure a lot of screaming by the audience and some actually had to leave because the scenes were so nerve-rackingly intense. We had never seen anything like it before that even came close to the sheer terror and horror that we saw projected on the giant screen before us. One of the all-time great movies, for sure.
"It's a pity Ash didn't kill it when he had the chance." "Pity? It was pity that stayed Ash's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
Much respect for facing your fears! Also, Ripley is one of the best chracters in cinema history. She's a woman being hunted by a monstrous alien in a giant spaceship travelling tons of lightyears away from earth, yet she makes it feel so natural and real and believable in a way that hardly any actor/actress ever achieves in the most mundane of settings.
not tons of lightyears, the planetoid the Alien is found on, is LV-426 in Zeta Reticuli system approx 39 lightyears away, which is still relatively far, but that has been canonized later when J.Cameron made Aliens.
Nope, the Director's Cut is actually the Theatrical Release as per the Ridley Scott himself. You watched the Extended Version that was completely done by the Studio over Scott's objections solely for the purpose of making more money. While Aliens does have a true Director's Cut, that per James Cameron is the correct version, because the Theatrical Release had stuff removed by the Studio that is actually relevant to the actual Plot.
You should 100% play Alien Isolation on your gaming channel! It remains one of the best, scariest and true to the movies game I’ve ever played. It’s really great.
One of my favorite games ever, honestly. What it does so well is just its ability to FEEL the way this movie feels- that isolation, that cold distrust of your surroundings and your situation, the mystery, the doubt, the honest belief that any tiny action could lead to disaster. The Alien in that game is presented so well- so terrifying, so relentless, so utterly driven and unstoppable. Honestly, the Alien in Alien is a jumpscare-y horror monster, and although I love it and respect it for that, the Alien in Isolation is like an Alien and a Terminator had a baby. It doesn't give up, and it's astronomically fear-inducing.
@@octiantrys5090 very well put! And whoever designed the environments especially, really deserve an award for making the space station I believe? (It’s been a while..) feel so much like the Nostromo and so new. It LOOKS perfect, Right down to the creepy scraping metal apertures for duct hatches.
@@CrownlessKing88 Space station, yes, Sevastopol. The set design from the game was so directly inspired from the set design of the first two Alien movies, and mainly the first one, that it is stunning and rewarding to travel through the game and point out all the things you recognize.
The attention to detail in Alien Isolation is just insane. Take this, for instance: to get the analog VHS feel for some sequences they recorded cinematic onto an actual VHS tape, scrunched up the magtape inside and recorded it back digitally with all the resulting scratches and static.
@@octiantrys5090 I'm 39 and have been playing horror games since RE1 in 1996, and I still have a hard time playing Isolation. I never would have thought Alien would be the scariest horror game before it released. Don't get me wrong, the movie is a bit of a horror movie, but it never really scared me. Isolation on the other hand. That being said, it does rely a bit too much on jump scares (which suck ass).
That reveal of Ash being a robot was a bigger shock than the chestburster scene. Can’t wait for you to get to Aliens; more jump scares in there. Highly recommend the Special Edition of Aliens
My big brother snuck me in to the theatre in 1979 to watch it. I was 14 and it was an awesome experience. I loved being scared witless by it. Alien is still to this day, my favourite film of all time.
The FIRST Alien movie I was old enough to watch when it came out was Alien Resurrection (the 4th one), I BARELY remember the events of the movie, but I will FOREVER remember what happened in the Theater, The Theater (I'm assuming) had a dude dress up in a full on realistic Alien costume and in the middle of the movie the guy walked in one door of the theater, walked all the way to the front of the theater and across under the screen then up and out the aisle, I will NEVER FORGET THIS as I was sitting in the FRONT ROW pretty much all by myself.
Cats are also useful for disposing of small and weird vermin, plus dropping them off at the Captain's cabin. This way the Captain gets to see if there is anything new on board ship. Good thing the cat didn't try to eat this critter, or else it might have lost its fangs.
@@davidmendoza3519 I've seen more than a few reactors comment about this, usually remarking how dangerous fire is in a high oxygen environment. But, today, even on the IIS, the main reasons smoking is prohibited is due to health and contamination concerns. That's because they use a natural atmosphere up there that won't just up and explode due to an exposed flame. A high oxygen environment by itself is already dangerous to humans. It stands to reason that in 2120-ish (when "Alien" is set) that the atmosphere inside the ship would be earth-normal and smoking wouldn't be a problem. Well, at least in the eyes of writers who weren't aware yet how hard we would eventually lean into the concerns about related health hazards.
@@chatteyjIt's a southern bread that's very basic but can be good if it's not as dry as the Sahara Desert. It's also a stereotype linked with blacks so it's hilarious how they get a black guy to say "I guess she didn't like the cornbread either" in Aliens.
I've read that Yaphet Kotto (RIP) really pushed Sigourney Weaver during filming. He supposedly thought she was coming across as too timid (this was her first leading role) and not convincing as a badass. He pushed her to a point where she had enough, and she let him have it. After which Kotto supposedly told her now that's Ripley. She had some very nice things to say about him after learning of his death and said how much she learned from him about acting. The slap Veronica Cartwright gave her was real. It was scripted, but Cartwright wouldn't hit her very hard, and Weaver knew it was coming, so she'd pull back a little. It didn't look convincing, so Ridley Scott told Cartwright to slap her as hard as she could but do it a fraction earlier than she was supposed to. The shocked looks from everyone except Cartwright were 100% real. To her credit, she didn't cry.
Yeah, Ridley Scott basically told Yaphet to deliberately antagonise Sigourney in the scenes after Dallas' death, and it works, she's clearly showing genuine irritation with him, alongside the scripted irritation that she was supposed to act
IMHO, what makes this so immersive is the fact that music was used sparingly and you get to hear the atmosphere so much. There's a lot to be said for appropriate silence in movies. I usually find movies without a lot of music to be more immersive.
I commend you on confronting your childhood trauma and re-watching this movie. It's not so bad as an adult. I was 13 when I saw this movie in theater and it terrified my mom and I. I was covering my eyes with my hands and my mom was holding her purse in front of her face. My sadistic step father thought our terror was funny. It took about 20 years for me to watch this movie again, and now I enjoy it. Great reaction as always. Your humor makes it fun to watch along with you. I look forward to your next reaction. 🙂
I was exposed to Jaws at 5 (babysitter) and, being in Florida, it was interesting to live by the ocean while having zero interest in swimming. As an adult I did a rewatch which led me to loving and appreciating it as a classic. Still don't get in the water very much though. 🤣
same, they played it in my school theatre on the last day of term in Scotland - winner of student vote - i think i was about 14 and had my head in my hands after the dinner scene and didnt look again lol - school trauma!!!!! i did get over it and horror is my fav genre now lol
I saw it in the first week of release. At the end, the audience sat in silence, as I recall - shellshocked and blinking at the screen. It’s a movie that has never lost its edge. It still stands up as a fabulous production, and redefined the genre. The sequel, many say is even better, but to me Alien is an almost perfect thrill ride. Beyond the performances, editing, pace and screenplay, the art direction - based on the magnificent creativity of artist Hans Giger, whose distinctive visions foreshadowed the alien physiology. I had a book that traced the development of the art direction of the movie, and outlined the earlier visual styles - prior to Giger’s involvement. It’s certain that his input transformed the movie, elevating it to the marvel that can we still appreciate today.
@@MetalDog- The man could do it all. Apparently made a boss Napoleon too, whom he played multiple times. Got an Oscar for Chariots Of Fire soon after Alien here.
Fun/Scary Fact: The Xenomorph is actually based on a real life insect, the Tarantula Hawk which is a wasp from the southwest United States. It reproduces by hunting tarantulas, paralyzing them with it’s stinger, dragging them into the spiders hollow, laying an egg on the spiders belly, then the egg hatches and the larvae devours the spider from the inside out. Also the reason why so many of the doorways and halls look almost vaginal or even phallic it’s because the art director HR Geiger wanted to evoke psychosexual feelings of horror. Because when you think about it the Xenomorph reproduces by forcing itself onto an unwilling host, impregnating it, and then killing the “mother”.
"Maybe channeling (Spaceballs) will help..." Watching the Alien movies and imagining the xenomorphs in little pork pie hats, doing chorus line high kicks, and singing 'Ragtime Gal' does make the series infinitely funnier 🤣🤣🤣
What you will never get by listening to this on headphones is the low rumble that is in every inside shot. It's the throb and hum from the engines and it has a decent sub bass component - the frequencies that cause fear and anxiety. Watched this in a very well equipped cinema with a great audio unit. Whenever the rumble kicked in, the chairs were vibrating ever so slightly. Absolutely frightening, even when nothing was happening.
A proper set of headphones can cover those frequencies. The ones that emulate 5.1 or 7.1 could handle it. I had a set like that. The subs frequencies were fantastic.
@@chrismaverick9828 - Sub bass effect is not so much caused by listening but by receiving the low frequencies (20 Hz and below) with your body. And no, your headphones' sound is far too directional to have your entire body receive and react to these frequencies. So you can hear it (with a really good set) but you won't experience the same as when you have a good subwoofer with ample of air between you and it.
I saw this on the second day of its national opening at the giant-screen Uptown Theater in Washington, DC. Six or eight of us from the Disclave science-fiction convention down the street walked there to catch the day’s first showing. Perhaps because it was Sunday, there was no significant line. When my friends and I came out, the line of hundreds, waiting for the second showing, stretched down the block and around the corner. People today have no idea of the impact this film had then. In its own way, it was as innovative as “Star Wars.” The gritty, detailed set design, the horrifically stormy planet, the Hitchcockian suspense, and the working-class characters just doing a job---these were things never seen in earlier space movies. Today, people are jaded. The revelation of Ash was, I think, one of the most shocking moments in film history, and yes, the 1979 audience cheered at the end. The practical effects are still great today---some of the best ever done. To answer your question, the alien was resting or sleeping in the shuttle after having eaten a big meal, just like many animals do. BTW, the main idea was very similar to “It, the Terror from Beyond Space” (1958). Also, author A.E. Van Vogt sued the producers of “Alien” because of its similarity to his famous 1939 story, “Black Destroyer.” Van Vogt got a settlement, rumored to be half a million dollars.
You are so correct Miranda. Seeing it in '79 when it came out, was really something. Not only didn't you have all the years of cultural references, knock-offs, and parodies, but it was less than 7 years since the last Apollo landing on the moon. The video feed walking to the derelict was terrifyingly reminiscent of live videos from the moon. (P.S. I was also at Disclave in '79! Small world.)
Best. Screams. Ever. I saw this movie in the summer 1979 before my first year in high school. The theater was packed and I swear all the screams shook the theater. It was awesome.
The sound of you made the whole movie of each jump scare is so funny. You are the best reactors for this movie I have ever seen. Nothing compare to you.
Miranda, this was a great video. I laughed the whole time. I forgot to thumbs-up it when I saw it 2 days ago, so I came back to do it. Looking forward to seeing you do the rest of the series!
One of the best Sci-fi Horror Thriller Films ever made! It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. HR Giger, Chris Foss, and Jean 'Moebius' Girard were hired by Ridley Scott after Alejandro Jodorowsky's DUNE adaptation was cancelled in 1975. Most of the original art concepts for DUNE, namely the spaceship design and costume design, made it into the final cut of the movie.
The best thing about the jump scares in this movie, is that they're actually telegraphed to the audience if you pay real close attention beforehand. In the scene in the air shaft with Dallas, you can actually see light reflecting off the alien when he turns his light the wrong way, so you can see that the alien is there a full second before the jump scare. And at the end of the movie, you can see the alien hiding on the shuttle from the moment she boards it. If you pause it and look really close, you can clearly make it out while she's running around the shuttle. Then it's in the background of another 5 shots after the Nostromo blows up and before it jumps out again.
@@DanielEbeck that’s only in the directors cut. And I go back and forth with which version I like more. Showing the alien there does kinda spoil what the alien looks like, because that’s the first time we see it full grown and it’s a rather anticlimactic shot. But then again, if it’s your first time seeing the movie, you probably won’t recognize it so the scene still hits just as hard.
Parents took me to the theater for this... I was 3. I had nightmares of the Alien chasing down Luke Skywalker in the hangar for months after. My sister told me at the chestburster scene, "That's what happens when you eat too many chips." Good times.
Oh, I loved your reactions so much. They made me love this movie all over again… not that I stopped. I’m one of those fans who, it seems, need help and/or a hug. 😁
Oh wow! I cannot WAIT to see your reactions! ❤❤❤❤❤ Also, since you’re a gamer, play Alien Isolation. You play as Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley’s daughter. Plus, there is DLC featuring the likenesses and voices of the complete original cast.
In early filming, there was supposed to be a scene where the alien was discovered eating some of the stored foods, but it was dropped with other scenes linking Ash's betrayal of the crew.
Suspend disbelief? This is a sci-fi movie about a completely unknown organism - an organism that's later revealed to be a some kind of a biotechnical achievement of a highly advanced alien civilization! Why is believing it grows fast such a huge deal?
Out of all the reactions I have seen of this classic movie you were the first (that my fuzzy memory can recall) that pointed out the actor that played Bilbo, also John Hurt, I knew his face but never realized until now. You got my sub for that.
Ripley is what a strong lead character should be. They literally don't make movies like this anymore. Most of these scenes would be green screened in now, not fully practical sets. This movie is 45 years old and still has some of the most intense suspense, atmosphere and world building. The cast is incredible, including Yaphet Koto, the funny dude you loved who is amazing and Harry Dean Stanton, a 50 year career of amazing character acting. If you thought The Exorcist scared people, I wonder what theaters were like for this at the time. Aliens is directed by James Cameron and is much more an action movie, but once again, Ripley is amazing. Highly recommended as well.
I'm guessing you haven't seen Alien romulus then. Went back to basics. Proper sets. Practical effects. Practical everything. It's really good. And a worthy 3rd film
@@WhatAboutZoidberg yeah it's worth a watch. It's really solid. Does it beat the first 2 films. No. But it's a really fantastic movie. For a 3rd official installment. It takes place after the events of alien. But before aliens. So inbetween
@@harryballsak1123 its only relatively recently (2-3 years) that i realised thats where i knew her from. my entire life 'i knew that i knew her' from somewhere but could never figure out where, and i have always loved the IOTBS movie. such an incredible ending. an ending featuring Lambert, doh! which makes it all the more strange that i could never place her.
The thing about the Alien movies that scares me more than anything isn't the Aliens/Xenos-it's Weyland-Yutani. A supercorporation which absolutely does _not give a damn_ about its people. That recurring theme and the oppression it represents is absolutely crushing.
@@joshuajackson472 David saing "that's the spirit" when fighting Daniels is a nod... or possibly a connection? I've always though that _Outland_ fits perfectly in the Alien universe.
Exactly right, and this is what the people who complain about the fact that Alien 3 undoes the ending of Aliens don't get. The truth is that James Camerons Hollywood Happy Ending simply doesn't belong in the Alien universe
There are so many things I could write about from your reaction, from you initially rooting for “Bilbo” Ash to your awesome Airplane! and Spaceballs references, but in the end it all comes down to you being the most likable RUclips reaction personality IN THE COSMOS!!! Love your show! 😉👍
The reason the Alien is just chilling in the pod, is that it needs to rely on a human/Ripley to operate the shuttle, keep life support going, and get it to a destination in order for it to survive. The Xenomorph (alien) is extremely intelligent. It's just waiting out the arrival to the next planetary surface or space station. That's why it didn't just kill Ripley right away; it needs her.
Originaly the real reason was that it had reached the end of it’s lifespan, why it was also moving so slowly. It makes sense considering how rapid it’s growth is that their lifespan would be very short… but Romulus throwed that away, and not that other sequels had not been hinting at that either.
@@oliviawilliams6204 That original reason makes no sense, given all the other lore about alien so dont put that on Romulus, the eggs alone can survive for over 500 years, queens lives for thousands of years if they are not outright immortal as it has been stated that their body is structured on a bio level that makes their blood cells regenerate and replaced ''old'' cells keeping them constantly dangerous. It makes no sense that the ''perfect organism'' can't survive more than what appears to be maybe 24 hours? Maybe even less?
@@Vakaria-plays I don't know where i got it from but it's been in my head since the days of Usenet, but i like the idea that the reason the Drone was "Chillin" was because it was reverting back into an egg.
Hey Miranda, love your reaction to this classic. I was 16 when this movie came out in the theater, and I took my girlfriend to this movie. By the end of the movie, there was more soda and popcorn on the floor than was consumed by us. Funny thing, I have seen this movie numerous times and ironically I am eating spaghetti and watching the John Hurt birthing scene. Should've remembered. Some of the best space movies came out in the late 70's, Star Wars - A New Hope, Star Trek The motion Picture, Close Encouters of the 3rd Kind, but none were scarier than this. The original movie poster advertisement said "In space, no on can hear you scream." Aliens (part 2), I think is the best from this franchise. My Jack Russel passed away in 2018, and I have yet to get another pet. Jack Russel Terrors rule.
So much fun watching your reaction to this. I was only 9 when this was in theaters, so didn't see till later. I did see the 2nd one in theaters though. Can't wait for you to react to that one!
Ripley may be the poster child but you can look at most any film from the mid-70's to the 90's and still find competent 'strong' women. It's a shame we even have to bring it up.
Fun fact - Ripley wasn't written as a woman initially. Originally, the crew were all male, but the writers attached a note, that none of the roles are gender-specific, so if the studio wishes, any crew member can be made a woman. And then one of them said "why don't we make Ripley a woman?", and the rest is history...
"That is how you make a movie and write a strong female lead." Except Ripley wasn't written as a strong female lead, the character was written as a male.
@@carlgibson285 But that is how you wrote strong female characters - strong characters are the same, male or female. If there's no plot reason for gender to matter, they should both be written the same way.
Thanks for reacting to the first Alien movie, Miranda. Me and my mother watch these movies together all the time. The classic 1979 trailer for this is truly terrifying. Hope you're having a good day. Take care!
I remember an interview with Ridley Scott where he said that to increase a sense of anxiety in the actors he would move the walls of sets closer together to give a feeling of claustrophobia.
As a high-end home theater enthusiast for over 25 years, I can tell you this: there is NO big TV and NO home surround sound system that can ever match the experience of watching a movie in the big screen of a theater full of people. The energy of the audience takes the cinematic experience to a whole other level that no group of life-long friends can ever achieve. My home theater is for repeat viewings only. I watch my movies for the first time in the theater, on opening day.
Love that dog and give him the best. Cherish every moment with him. I just had to put my 12 yr old dog down this morning and it hit hard, i find solace in watching your videos to help take my mind off things. Even if its just for a little bit, thank you.
Me and my ex got ourselves an orange cat and I instantly knew we needed to name him after the cat from this movie. We're no longer together, sadly, but now every time someone asks her what her cats name is, she'll have to tell them the story of how her last boyfriend named him after the cat from Alien. I consider that a win for me!
My brother took me and 3 of my friends to see this for my 13th birthday. I was a huge Star Wars and Star Trek fan. Sci Fi was my happy place. I ended up in the fetal position several times. Traumatic experience took me a while to get over it but It's one of my favorites now such a great movie on so many levels.
I was 8 when I first saw this. my dad didn't believe in coddling so I was treated as an adult. I watched Jaws and The Thing at 7 yrs old, the thing traumatized me more than any other movie back then.for the first two movies of this franchise are the best and it can't be overstated how important Ripley's character is. She was the first real female action star that still remained human and s woman. Back in 70s there wasn't many strong women characters to follow for girls. Sadly tho there still isn't. A reactor once said she hated women in movies. I said it's not the women, it's how Hollywood writes female characters that's the problem.
One of the few movies I can guarantee is a 10/10 in my book! The sound design, the visual aesthetic of the Nostromo and the Xenomorph, the costumes, etc. It's like the perfect movie, and I absolutely love Alien too much! Love your videos BTW, Miranda!
What an iconic movie! Also knowing about the Ash twist and seeing you try to understand his actions because you know him as Bilbo was very fun. Such a great twist, like you can actually see him study the alien growing in Kanes chest and when Ripley walks in he switches of the monitor.
The writers specifically designed this movie to be FRIGHTENING. Its full of jump scares and it was a deliberate choice not to show the entire body of the creature till later in the movie. This made it even scarier. No one was specifically aware of what the alien looked like, as no pics were in the pre release publicity. We were given a few hints "It has a mouth within its mouth", "It has no eyes", "nothing like it has even been seen before".You had to go to the movie to see what it looked like. This was an extra element that made the mystery and fear more intense at the time.
7:45 "These are people going into deep space. Every person at the table needs a raise." When Parker said "Everybody else gets more than us." he meant everybody else at this table. All 7 of them to into deep space, but 5 of them get paid more than Parker and Brett. That's his complaint. 3 of them are officers, one of them is a scientist and doctor. It kind of makes sense that officers and doctors make more than mechanics. That only leaves Lambert, the navigator. I have no idea if or why she makes more.
At least in real life, navigator is either a billet that gets officer pay or at least higher than......whatever Parker and Brett are, since it requires extra certifications and such.
‘I like Bilbo Baggins I hope he survives.’ 😂
"Bilbo what did you do?" 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣😂😂
WeLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...
I admire Miranda’s purity.
MIRANDA: "Oh, I love Bilbo Baggins!"
THOSE OF US WHO'VE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE: "Uh oh"
AMEN 😁😁😁😁😁😁
For me he'll always be Sam Lowrey's boss
insert coughing fit
Homer Simpson Doh moment
Miranda is "really good at reading people." lol
Also Miranda: "I would like to see the alien survive *that*," when the Nostromo blows up. Ah, Miranda. My sweet, sweet Summer Child.
"Alien fans, what is wrong with you?"
This is one of the finest horror movies ever made. Every scene, every shot, every angle is exquisitely crafted to heighten our tension and uncertainty.
And H.R. Giger's designs for the alien are so outlandish that they still stand out today, 45 years after the film was made.
For me it isnt a horror movie, just a very good scifi action movie.
Movies like "Johnny got his Gun" are horror movies
@wolf310ii - I reckon that Aliens is most definitely an action movie; but, for me, the first one is straight-up horror that happens to be set in space.
19:55 That was H.R. Geiger's intention!
26:54 That was ironically Mel Brooks motivation for studying comedy after World War 2.
Remember the original 'the thing' movie?
HP Lovecraft & the unknown unseen creeping horror.
Speak for yourself, I'm just a weirdo.
I was 22 yrs. old when this movie came out. My sister, a cousin and myself went to see it at theater. I can tell you there wasn't any clapping or whooping and hollering when it was over. I think everyone was in awe or shock. It was one of the most incredible movie experiences i have ever had.
Same here. just silence.
@@xebex44 It was a different time. Movie audiences were more respectful of the fact that there were other people in the theater. Bear in mind that at the time, going to the theater was the only way to see the movie. Home video wasn't really a thing yet. So people weren't going to the theater principally for social interaction. They were going principally to watch the movie.
Got this experience watching Interstellar at the cinema. No clapping, just pure awe
@@jonadabtheunsightlyNo video cassettes, but I saw it on Showtime not too long after it's theatrical release. My friend had an illegal Showtime descrambler box.
@@jackgilchrist I'm absolutely certain most people didn't have Showtime in the seventies. Most of the people I knew only got the big three (ABC, NBC, CBS) and maybe PBS, even five years later. Cable TV didn't become really common for working-class people until the nineties, and even then, HBO and Showtime were premium channels that a lot of cable-TV subscribers didn't have.
Imagine watching this movie for the first time, on VHS, being 10 years old, back in 1993, having no clue about absolutely anything related to the alien movies. That's the way I saw it and I tell you that 60% of the movie my head was under a blanket, sweating and trembling, I will never forget. Till this day it's my favorite movie.
My mom had it on VHS and yes my first viewing was like this!!
@@SNUKS. amazing!
Same. I watched it in the dark staying over at a friends place. When the alien jumped out we jumped back so hard we turned the couch over on its back. I couldn’t sleep for weeks after that. 😂
@@mintoxace5571 cool, I can imagine what that was like😄😄 this movie is really terrifying.
I had similar experience with the first Terminator movie. Nowadays it doesn't look that scary, i guess the effects did not aged that well, but back then it was terrifying and from that moment i was quite scared to go down to the basement. I was always expecting red robot eyes start to shine in the dark :D Second movie which got me actually really scared was Night of the Living Dead (1990). When i first saw Alien, i was a bit older and i remember myself being more fascinated by the creature, vastness of unexplored universe and space than actually being scared.
Only in Alien can the phrase "Keep your mouth inside your mouth" make perfect sense. 🤣
Have a look at the jaws of a moray eel.
Sadly now a days most sci=fi horror movies are must CGI
@@munkeypantsman "When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside, that's a-moray!"
Disclaimer: I didn't invent this joke, I'm just passing on a fairly well-known meme.
Keep that little mouth in that big mouth
@@munkeypantsman That is what the 2nd jaw is based off of.
Jonesy the cat is a mouser, that takes care of any rodets that may sneak on the ship. This practice was used throughout maritime history.
- Just wanted to add that I don't dispute that Jonesy also served for emotional support. He officially was a mouser on the ship, which is supported by the fact he had free roam of the ship and was not confined to the living quarters.
Why would a spaceship have mice? You sanitize before leaving and that's it.
@@foljs5858 Space travel is common in this universe, like boats going port to port. Plus, mice seek out food, you can sanitize all you want, they will find their way in.
wrong jonesy was the main charecter. and captain of the ship.
@@lokieleven374 Jonesy was the OWNER. No cat would stoop to being a mere captain.
@@CTag81 one would expect future spaceships to be sanitized better than 19th century ships
“I can’t lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies” has to be one of the coldest lines in cinema!! It’s such excellent writing
The little smile he gives at the end, chef's kiss!
Yes, agreed. All of the acting in this film was absolutely mint.
Me seeing the characters at the start of an Alien movie:
**SPOILER** Ash returns in Alien: Romulus, and repeats that very line. He's still very much in league with the Wayland-Yutani company.
The irony is that he is lying about his sympathies, because, being a Robot, he has none. The human crew knows it, he knows that they know and that's why he grins when Ripley pulls the plug in anger. TERRIFIC writing, directing and acting indeed!
This movie has some of the most naturalistic acting I've seen, which is a great way to make a space movie so grounded. Apparently Ridley Scott wanted the cast to get to know each other before filming and he allowed them to improvise a lot of dialogue, especially during the breakfast scenes. It really makes this movie stand out, even today.
indeed. it also helped that the cast weren't informed ahead of time about certain scenes too...... so the reaction to the chestburster event is totally genuine.
Fun fact where Veronica Cartwright slaps Sigourney Weaver it wasn’t supposed to connect but it did. That wasn’t acting as Sigourney was properly caught off guard. Worked.
Yeah that breakfast incident is so horrific, the writhing, the noises, the (pretty real) complete surprise from the crew... visceral.
It's got the most naturalistic dialogue of any film I've seen.
For me, the Dallas scene is absolutely the best jump scare ever put on film. So many filmmakers today use jump scares as a lazy shortcut - a quick way to get a reaction. But here Scott builds up to it and it's expertly done. Even if you've never seen the movie you know something's coming and, if you've much movie-watching experience, you can guess there's a jump scare in the offing, yet it still gets you. That's because Scott takes the necessary time to build the tension, with the claustrophobia, the darnkess, the shadows, the beeping of the motion tracker and Lambert's rising panic, so that when the scare finally arrives there's nothing cheap about it - it is thoroughly earned. This scene on its own is a masterpiece of filmmaking.
Well the „jazz hands“ of the alien make it a bit silly after the first watch…
Back then, Tom Skerritt (Dallas) was the biggest actor on the cast list. His death so early would have unnerved contemporary audiences, as nobody was 'clearly' going to make it to the end.
His death scene is still one of the best in the entire franchise, in my opinion. When I first saw this I thought they were setting it up to psych us out and keep the tension up. But nope...it was in fact coming right at him.
For me, back then when i saw Alien, i only knew John Hurt and he was the first one to die, so yes i sure got that message as well!
@@Do0msday The Alien looked like he was giving him the "jazz hands".
@@Do0msday there a deleted scene where Ripley finds him cocooned alive
Hard to believe Tom is 91 now. I won’t make it that long 😭
45 years, still works.
Damn you knnow i feel so old!
We're talking about 33:05, right? It doesn't matter how many times I have watched it, that sequence never fails to make me tense, and the last moment is just so perfectly timed to catch you off balance.
@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3 That's a moment, yes , but i was thinking of Kane :( 26:00
That's good cinema
Kinda like me.
Remember, maybe you've seen a hundred films like this but this was the first. This film genuinely freaked people out.
Remember the only CGI in this movie is literally the computer displays.
Fun fact - 'Debbie Downer' - actress Veronica Cartwright - was the little girl who survived at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'
Imagine that you're 8 years old and you're on your first foreign holiday.
One day you come back from a shopping trip and your Dad and older Brother are watching a movie, called ALIEN.
And you happen to walk in roughly 30-40 seconds before Kane (John Hurt's character) "gives birth".
That happened to me in the Summer of 1982.
It has an R rating for a reason! 19:55 That was H.R. Geiger's intention!
26:54 That was ironically Mel Brooks motivation for studying comedy after World War 2.
You have had a lifetime of therapy bills too huh.
I was also either 7 or 8, though not on holiday and I saw it from the beginning. Then I brought the picture book of it to my 3rd grade show & tell. I loved hearing the girls say "Eewww!" 😁
@@rockinbells8351 I'm British, therapy is, was and never will be an option.
The guy who played the Alien was a graphic design artist called Balaji Badejo. He was 6 feet 10 inches tall, and was spotted by the Casting director in a London pub, and offered the part.
After this movie, he opened an art gallery in his native Nigeria. Sadly he passed away in 1992 due to Sickle Cell Anemia.
Sickle Cell Anemia is unfortunately hereditary and when one person has it, it’s likely the rest of their immediate family has it or carries the gene. It causes many complications such as fatigue, pain, and necrosis in parts of the body from not receiving enough oxygen. It’s very prevalent amongst Black and Desi peoples. One of the upsides is that people who have SCA can’t catch malaria which still plagues and kills millions in Africa and South Asia, so SCA was once seen as a good trait to inherit.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Really, it's STILL good to inherit, since malaria is still a major problem. Ideally you want to be heterozygous for it (one normal copy of the relevant gene, one sickle cell mutated one) so you can make normal red cells as well, for most of the time. The sickle-cell variant can still carry oxygen but malaria can't feed on them, so you won't feel great but you won't be dead if you get infected.
@@thomasjoychild4962 Interesting.
Ideally the person wouldn't have SCA and be vaccinated for malaria, but we now live in an era of distrust and conspiracy theories. So I guess having SCA in a malaria endemic zone is better than no protection
One of my close friends passed two years ago from SCA complications. Almost his whole family has it and I learned in his memorial half of them died from SCA complications
He was always in agonizing pain since I knew him. He had a total artificial hip replacement at a young age after hypoxia caused necrosis there. He was always in and out of the hospital, requiring surgery and that racked up a lot of debt when he couldn't hold a regular job due to his disability. He was a great guy, and I miss him but at least he's no longer in pain.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Yeah, having two copies of the mutant version often leads to a really hard sick life. With heterozygocity you basically always make normal red cells so you don't get the complications, the sickle cells are only produced when you're put under physiological stress (like by getting malaria) and they only stay being produced for as long as you're under the stress, so you don't tend to develop the lots-of-sickle-cells-clumping-and-blocking-things complications too severely/for long even then. Awful diseases, both of them.
Make sure you watch the director’s cut of the Aliens movie. It adds some context.
Yes, she HAS to watch director's cut Aliens!!!
I disagree, the first watch of _Aliens_ should be the theatrical cut, as the director's cut spoils things early and make certain scenes less impactful. It's the definitive version once you're familiar with it though.
@@MLennholm I'm also on team theatrical cut. The part about Ripley's past is good, but every other added scene is boring and makes the pacing worse.
Look up "Aliens: No Hope edition". It's the Director's cut, but minus the early Hadley's Hope scenes.
@@MLennholm Wrong. The special edition is the original story, before being chopped for theaters. It's preferred by the vast majority of fans, and Cameron himself. Cutting those scenes created plot holes, and your lame complains about "mystery" and "pace" are completely bogus.
Fun Fact: John Hurt "reprises" his role from this on SpaceBalls, hence his line of "Not Again" before dying.
The story of how that happened was also great. Evidently John and Mel knew each other and just happened to run into each other, and Mel told John he had this idea for a funny scene that he'd love to get him involved with.
@@Xeno426 Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man, which starred John Hurt (amazing performance as John Merrick), which is how they knew each other prior to making Spaceballs. I died laughing during that scene in Spaceballs - John Hurt was an outstanding actor but always had a sense of humor about his career, too.
Pretty sure Hurt was also in History of the World Part 1, which was before this.
@@tullymox Heck, our hostess sang the song from Spaceballs just a moment ago.
"If I'd got a nickle every time I've died by having an alien organism burst trough my chest I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice."
-John Hurt
Almost 50 years on and this movie is still visually stunning and effective with its scares. A true masterwork
John's acting in THE scene is amazing. His horrible coughing, wheezing noises are really distressing. Anyone who has choked on food will know how traumatic THAT is, and this is so much worse. Everyone getting in each other's way to try and help is also unpleasantly realistic, they are all panicking a bit even before they know what is really happening.
If I remember correctly the history behind this scene, actors wasn't fully warned and instructed about details of this scene, so their action and reaction was mostly genuine to the point where Lamberts actress almost lost it and cried for real because how well made and shocking it was, with a lot of sprinkling blood and Hurts' acting.
He did a great job recreating the scene in Spaceballs. I'll never have the space special again.
@@J0rdan912 Yup, you are right. They weren't told about the chestburster. So their reactions to it were 100% genuine.
@@LibrarianMichael Good move.
The twitching, fluttering hands are a nasty touch.
The face hugger is one of the most impressive practical special effects. It looks so organic yet completely alien, and you never doubt it.
Nobody had ever seen anything like this film before. It was so different, so disgusting, so disturbing that people literally left the movie theatre in a state of nervous collapse.
These are such exaggerations. My dad took me to see it when I was 9. I don't remember anyone leaving or getting sick. I personally just thought it was really cool. Yeah people thought it was scary but not any more than Halloween which was the most recent big horror movie at the time.
Great image of the alien: "Good luck. We're all counting on you."
The fact that John Hurt did the chest burster scene in both the actual film and Spaceballs was pretty legendary
Best comment ever:-
"I love Ripley so much, omg I connect with this character, she's who I want to be, confident, self assured, doing the right thing, even if it means making hard decisions"
I wonder how many thousand of young women thought exactly the same, saw this character and thought finally a female character done right! ❤
My daughter LOVES Ripley. She’s only allowed to see the first one as she’s only 9 but she keeps begging me to see the second one. I’m so proud of her. She wants to be a captain now 😂. I hope she lives her dreams.
It comes from an interesting phenomenon, where if you write the character male and gender flip, like they did with Ripley, you make a character a person not a gender. Even with female writers.
You guys have so many films for decades before this with amazing female characters to watch...
@@lustrazor44 come on, he needs to see the second one too. that's where she totally shines.
@@timkinss not many, and not like this one.
This might be my FAVORITE REACTION to THAT ONE SCENE I have ever seen in any reaction EVER!!! I feel for Miranda for having such a visceral reaction to it, but also the coping mechanism and Spaceballs reference was HILARIOUS! Miranda we love you, don't ever change! ❤
I was similarly traumatised by the original Dawn of the Dead movie so i understood her reaction completely.
Even now if that movie comes on my reaction is visceral. I'm a 45 year old man but my body immediately goes back into a 7 or 8 year old fight or flight response...
Agreed
@@nagillim7915 Seen Dawn of the Dead as well, original and remake!
“I’m sorry my intestines fell out of my butt.” 😂 Her one liners are gold.
that's the Trevor inside her 😍😍😁😁
@@rockero1313 Nobody wants or needs Trevor inside them!
After reminding everyone to not forget their diapers...
The laughing / crying in the reaction as the alien emerged from Cane’s chest ….. bless your heart. I was truly concerned for you. 😂 My cousin took me (Age 7) and her son (Age 9) to see it when it came out in the movie theaters. We were both TRAUMATIZED. But in our defense there were adults male and female that left the theater in tears. 😂😂😂😂
Awesome! I played Alien Isolation a while ago. It was really good and did a great job making it feel like the movie (with movie references as well!).
Isolation is getting a sequel 👍I’m sooo happy
I got bored of that game very quickly! I spent more time avoiding humans than the alien and when it finally turned up it just wasn't scary.
When you'll rewatch Spaceballs, you will notice that the people talking to John Hurt are all lookalikes of the original crew of the Nostromo, which will make it even funnier, now that you know it 😊
The whole audience came out of the theatre silent, they got outside and opened up with excitement
Thanks for reacting see the second Aliens, it’s a rollercoaster ride
Aliens is great. But it's got. Different feel.
I love that the marines don't do cliche screw ups, they're good; really good. they're just outmatched.
I saw this way too young in the theater. People don't understand how much less jaded audiences were back then. The whole theater would literally scream in terror with a movie like this. It was truly a group trauma.
This movie absolutely PERFECTED the slow burn. The whole time you’re on edge thinking “This is when the scary thing happens” but the tension…..just….keeps….building!
19:55 That was H.R. Geiger's intention!
26:54 That was ironically Mel Brooks motivation for studying comedy after World War 2.
By the time they got to the part with Lambert freaking out as Dallas was making his way through the air shafts, I was extremely stressed out. So when Ash's head was knocked off, I almost lost it.
This is part of why Alien Isolation is so good, it's over an hour before you really have to deal with the true horror of the game, it's such an authentic adaptation of the first movie... took me 4+ years to finish the game because it scared me senseless in the Clinic and I was too intimidated to return to it for ages
@@UNSCPILOT Ah yes. The clinic. I've seen a lot of horror, but playing through that part forced me to put the game on hold for a long while (maybe I'll continue it this Halloween).
@@Nebulous6 pretty sure it's the first section of the game where the Alien is fully set loose in the environment, when you finally get the flamer much later it's so very cathartic... for a time
Her nervous laughter and humor is amazing!!
I saw this opening weekend in 1979 at 1. The end of the film brought incredible relief. I was transformed by the visuals,. The most transformative cinematic experience of my life. Still feeling the effects of this film at 60.
Ian Holm is so good at playing characters who are protective of very bad things
Brazil...
@@TONE11111 George III. ;)
The editor Terry Rawlings described the first screening in Dallas: "It was the most incredible preview I've ever been in. I mean, people were screaming and running out of the theater." Wikipedia explains: "The film had no formal premiere, yet moviegoers lined up for blocks to see it at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, where a number of models, sets, and props were displayed outside to promote it during its first run... Vandals set fire to the model of the space jockey, believing it to be the work of the devil."
The devil later sued the vandals for defamation.
Yes, I saw Alien upon its first release in a large pitch-black movie theater. We were warned beforehand that "in space no one can hear you scream." Well, there was sure a lot of screaming by the audience and some actually had to leave because the scenes were so nerve-rackingly intense. We had never seen anything like it before that even came close to the sheer terror and horror that we saw projected on the giant screen before us. One of the all-time great movies, for sure.
What?!
"It's a pity Ash didn't kill it when he had the chance."
"Pity? It was pity that stayed Ash's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?"
Some people just can't appreciate the miracle of birth for the beautiful moment of joy it really is.
@@Mr.Ekshin You are both sick and twisted with your dark humor. And I'm here for it! LMAO!!! 🤣🤣
Nice! 😂
Ridiculous 😂
I understood that reference. 👍🏻
Much respect for facing your fears! Also, Ripley is one of the best chracters in cinema history. She's a woman being hunted by a monstrous alien in a giant spaceship travelling tons of lightyears away from earth, yet she makes it feel so natural and real and believable in a way that hardly any actor/actress ever achieves in the most mundane of settings.
not tons of lightyears, the planetoid the Alien is found on, is LV-426 in Zeta Reticuli system approx 39 lightyears away, which is still relatively far, but that has been canonized later when J.Cameron made Aliens.
@@RooperttiAnkka Good job completely missing the point.
Nope, the Director's Cut is actually the Theatrical Release as per the Ridley Scott himself. You watched the Extended Version that was completely done by the Studio over Scott's objections solely for the purpose of making more money. While Aliens does have a true Director's Cut, that per James Cameron is the correct version, because the Theatrical Release had stuff removed by the Studio that is actually relevant to the actual Plot.
You should 100% play Alien Isolation on your gaming channel! It remains one of the best, scariest and true to the movies game I’ve ever played. It’s really great.
One of my favorite games ever, honestly. What it does so well is just its ability to FEEL the way this movie feels- that isolation, that cold distrust of your surroundings and your situation, the mystery, the doubt, the honest belief that any tiny action could lead to disaster. The Alien in that game is presented so well- so terrifying, so relentless, so utterly driven and unstoppable. Honestly, the Alien in Alien is a jumpscare-y horror monster, and although I love it and respect it for that, the Alien in Isolation is like an Alien and a Terminator had a baby. It doesn't give up, and it's astronomically fear-inducing.
@@octiantrys5090 very well put! And whoever designed the environments especially, really deserve an award for making the space station I believe? (It’s been a while..) feel so much like the Nostromo and so new. It LOOKS perfect, Right down to the creepy scraping metal apertures for duct hatches.
@@CrownlessKing88 Space station, yes, Sevastopol. The set design from the game was so directly inspired from the set design of the first two Alien movies, and mainly the first one, that it is stunning and rewarding to travel through the game and point out all the things you recognize.
The attention to detail in Alien Isolation is just insane.
Take this, for instance: to get the analog VHS feel for some sequences they recorded cinematic onto an actual VHS tape, scrunched up the magtape inside and recorded it back digitally with all the resulting scratches and static.
@@octiantrys5090 I'm 39 and have been playing horror games since RE1 in 1996, and I still have a hard time playing Isolation. I never would have thought Alien would be the scariest horror game before it released. Don't get me wrong, the movie is a bit of a horror movie, but it never really scared me. Isolation on the other hand. That being said, it does rely a bit too much on jump scares (which suck ass).
That reveal of Ash being a robot was a bigger shock than the chestburster scene. Can’t wait for you to get to Aliens; more jump scares in there. Highly recommend the Special Edition of Aliens
My big brother snuck me in to the theatre in 1979 to watch it. I was 14 and it was an awesome experience. I loved being scared witless by it. Alien is still to this day, my favourite film of all time.
When I was 14, I saw this in middle of the night and alone at the TV of my betroom while vacation. I was really in horror for weeks, lot of weeks.
The FIRST Alien movie I was old enough to watch when it came out was Alien Resurrection (the 4th one), I BARELY remember the events of the movie, but I will FOREVER remember what happened in the Theater, The Theater (I'm assuming) had a dude dress up in a full on realistic Alien costume and in the middle of the movie the guy walked in one door of the theater, walked all the way to the front of the theater and across under the screen then up and out the aisle, I will NEVER FORGET THIS as I was sitting in the FRONT ROW pretty much all by myself.
Amazing
"I'm surprised they were allowed to bring a cat."
I'm surprised how many reactors miss the cat multiple times during the "breakfast" scene.
Cats have a real life history of being on ships as good luck charms. There are a lot of famous ship cats. This was a nod to that tradition.
Cats are also useful for disposing of small and weird vermin, plus dropping them off at the Captain's cabin. This way the Captain gets to see if there is anything new on board ship.
Good thing the cat didn't try to eat this critter, or else it might have lost its fangs.
"It's a long trip. I'm gonna need a snack" - 10' cockroach
"Roast cat with string beans, please" - Jackie Chan
It makes me laugh that wondered why they’re allowed to have a Cat onboard but didn’t bat an eye about the guy literally smoking on a spaceship 😂
@@davidmendoza3519 I've seen more than a few reactors comment about this, usually remarking how dangerous fire is in a high oxygen environment. But, today, even on the IIS, the main reasons smoking is prohibited is due to health and contamination concerns. That's because they use a natural atmosphere up there that won't just up and explode due to an exposed flame. A high oxygen environment by itself is already dangerous to humans. It stands to reason that in 2120-ish (when "Alien" is set) that the atmosphere inside the ship would be earth-normal and smoking wouldn't be a problem. Well, at least in the eyes of writers who weren't aware yet how hard we would eventually lean into the concerns about related health hazards.
Don't worry the cornbread comes back in Aliens.
Thank you for that :)
Ripley still doesn't like it :D
"I bet she didn't like the cornbread either".
What is it? Is it an american thing?
@@chatteyjIt's a southern bread that's very basic but can be good if it's not as dry as the Sahara Desert.
It's also a stereotype linked with blacks so it's hilarious how they get a black guy to say "I guess she didn't like the cornbread either" in Aliens.
I've read that Yaphet Kotto (RIP) really pushed Sigourney Weaver during filming. He supposedly thought she was coming across as too timid (this was her first leading role) and not convincing as a badass. He pushed her to a point where she had enough, and she let him have it. After which Kotto supposedly told her now that's Ripley. She had some very nice things to say about him after learning of his death and said how much she learned from him about acting. The slap Veronica Cartwright gave her was real. It was scripted, but Cartwright wouldn't hit her very hard, and Weaver knew it was coming, so she'd pull back a little. It didn't look convincing, so Ridley Scott told Cartwright to slap her as hard as she could but do it a fraction earlier than she was supposed to. The shocked looks from everyone except Cartwright were 100% real. To her credit, she didn't cry.
The actress was the 'sister' in the original Lost in Space TV series iirc. Long, long, time ago.
She was the little girl in The Birds.
Yeah, Ridley Scott basically told Yaphet to deliberately antagonise Sigourney in the scenes after Dallas' death, and it works, she's clearly showing genuine irritation with him, alongside the scripted irritation that she was supposed to act
"God, I love cornbread so much!" You're up for a treat in that franchise! 🤣
Yeah, it’s a shame a lot of these actors are no longer with us… 😢
IMHO, what makes this so immersive is the fact that music was used sparingly and you get to hear the atmosphere so much. There's a lot to be said for appropriate silence in movies. I usually find movies without a lot of music to be more immersive.
“I admire its purity”
- Ash
@rosario508 Me describing Miranda's channel🤣
"....unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality." 😎
😐"I can't lie to you about your chances but🙂... you have my sympathies"...😈😆
@@justjdnl RUclips Bot's replying to Miranda when she asks about her chances of not getting her video copyright claimed🤣
"I admire the purity of that flamethrower that is melting my face."
-Ash
I commend you on confronting your childhood trauma and re-watching this movie. It's not so bad as an adult. I was 13 when I saw this movie in theater and it terrified my mom and I. I was covering my eyes with my hands and my mom was holding her purse in front of her face. My sadistic step father thought our terror was funny. It took about 20 years for me to watch this movie again, and now I enjoy it. Great reaction as always. Your humor makes it fun to watch along with you. I look forward to your next reaction. 🙂
Yes; I was also covering my eyes, too. I was 10 years old. Extremely, terrified.
I was exposed to Jaws at 5 (babysitter) and, being in Florida, it was interesting to live by the ocean while having zero interest in swimming. As an adult I did a rewatch which led me to loving and appreciating it as a classic. Still don't get in the water very much though. 🤣
same, they played it in my school theatre on the last day of term in Scotland - winner of student vote - i think i was about 14 and had my head in my hands after the dinner scene and didnt look again lol - school trauma!!!!! i did get over it and horror is my fav genre now lol
Haha😂 I was 9. 9!!
Movie ratings came out after and I can still vividly remember seeing this on the big screen
@@Cherokeelion omg!!!! lol
Right 2037 isn't the year it's part of the computer system.
I saw it in the first week of release. At the end, the audience sat in silence, as I recall - shellshocked and blinking at the screen. It’s a movie that has never lost its edge. It still stands up as a fabulous production, and redefined the genre. The sequel, many say is even better, but to me Alien is an almost perfect thrill ride. Beyond the performances, editing, pace and screenplay, the art direction - based on the magnificent creativity of artist Hans Giger, whose distinctive visions foreshadowed the alien physiology. I had a book that traced the development of the art direction of the movie, and outlined the earlier visual styles - prior to Giger’s involvement. It’s certain that his input transformed the movie, elevating it to the marvel that can we still appreciate today.
"It is Bilbo!"
Also look for dear departed Ian Holm in The Fifth Element, with Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman. It's wild sci-fi fun.
OMG Yes Great movie!!!!!!!!!
Long before the movies, Ian Holme played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation of LOTR. He was really good.
@@MetalDog- The man could do it all. Apparently made a boss Napoleon too, whom he played multiple times. Got an Oscar for Chariots Of Fire soon after Alien here.
@@shugaroony My favorite Napolean of his is in Time Bandits.
@@captmurdockOh yes, totally agree!
Fun/Scary Fact: The Xenomorph is actually based on a real life insect, the Tarantula Hawk which is a wasp from the southwest United States. It reproduces by hunting tarantulas, paralyzing them with it’s stinger, dragging them into the spiders hollow, laying an egg on the spiders belly, then the egg hatches and the larvae devours the spider from the inside out.
Also the reason why so many of the doorways and halls look almost vaginal or even phallic it’s because the art director HR Geiger wanted to evoke psychosexual feelings of horror. Because when you think about it the Xenomorph reproduces by forcing itself onto an unwilling host, impregnating it, and then killing the “mother”.
One of the writers (I think it was Ron Shusett) has said that he thought it was amusing that no one seemed to realize the movie was about oral rape.
Its head is also deliberately phallic.
"Maybe channeling (Spaceballs) will help..."
Watching the Alien movies and imagining the xenomorphs in little pork pie hats, doing chorus line high kicks, and singing 'Ragtime Gal' does make the series infinitely funnier 🤣🤣🤣
I lol'd hard when she did that.
Love “One Froggy Evening”
Put Ragtime Girl in a Minor Key for the end of the movie for some extra Razzle Dazzle
I truly appreciate you using comedy and humor as your coping mechanism.
Right there with you, sister.
Best reaction to the chestburster scene I've seen. "Hello my baby" 🤣🤣
What you will never get by listening to this on headphones is the low rumble that is in every inside shot. It's the throb and hum from the engines and it has a decent sub bass component - the frequencies that cause fear and anxiety. Watched this in a very well equipped cinema with a great audio unit. Whenever the rumble kicked in, the chairs were vibrating ever so slightly. Absolutely frightening, even when nothing was happening.
A proper set of headphones can cover those frequencies. The ones that emulate 5.1 or 7.1 could handle it. I had a set like that. The subs frequencies were fantastic.
@@chrismaverick9828 Proper headphones, and a good source that can feed the headphones enough power to control the bass correctly.
@@chrismaverick9828 - Sub bass effect is not so much caused by listening but by receiving the low frequencies (20 Hz and below) with your body. And no, your headphones' sound is far too directional to have your entire body receive and react to these frequencies. So you can hear it (with a really good set) but you won't experience the same as when you have a good subwoofer with ample of air between you and it.
I saw this on the second day of its national opening at the giant-screen Uptown Theater in Washington, DC. Six or eight of us from the Disclave science-fiction convention down the street walked there to catch the day’s first showing. Perhaps because it was Sunday, there was no significant line. When my friends and I came out, the line of hundreds, waiting for the second showing, stretched down the block and around the corner.
People today have no idea of the impact this film had then. In its own way, it was as innovative as “Star Wars.” The gritty, detailed set design, the horrifically stormy planet, the Hitchcockian suspense, and the working-class characters just doing a job---these were things never seen in earlier space movies. Today, people are jaded. The revelation of Ash was, I think, one of the most shocking moments in film history, and yes, the 1979 audience cheered at the end. The practical effects are still great today---some of the best ever done.
To answer your question, the alien was resting or sleeping in the shuttle after having eaten a big meal, just like many animals do.
BTW, the main idea was very similar to “It, the Terror from Beyond Space” (1958). Also, author A.E. Van Vogt sued the producers of “Alien” because of its similarity to his famous 1939 story, “Black Destroyer.” Van Vogt got a settlement, rumored to be half a million dollars.
You are so correct Miranda. Seeing it in '79 when it came out, was really something. Not only didn't you have all the years of cultural references, knock-offs, and parodies, but it was less than 7 years since the last Apollo landing on the moon. The video feed walking to the derelict was terrifyingly reminiscent of live videos from the moon.
(P.S. I was also at Disclave in '79! Small world.)
Best. Screams. Ever. I saw this movie in the summer 1979 before my first year in high school. The theater was packed and I swear all the screams shook the theater. It was awesome.
The sound of you made the whole movie of each jump scare is so funny. You are the best reactors for this movie I have ever seen. Nothing compare to you.
Miranda, this was a great video. I laughed the whole time. I forgot to thumbs-up it when I saw it 2 days ago, so I came back to do it. Looking forward to seeing you do the rest of the series!
One of the best Sci-fi Horror Thriller Films ever made!
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
HR Giger, Chris Foss, and Jean 'Moebius' Girard were hired by Ridley Scott after Alejandro Jodorowsky's DUNE adaptation was cancelled in 1975.
Most of the original art concepts for DUNE, namely the spaceship design and costume design, made it into the final cut of the movie.
The best thing about the jump scares in this movie, is that they're actually telegraphed to the audience if you pay real close attention beforehand. In the scene in the air shaft with Dallas, you can actually see light reflecting off the alien when he turns his light the wrong way, so you can see that the alien is there a full second before the jump scare. And at the end of the movie, you can see the alien hiding on the shuttle from the moment she boards it. If you pause it and look really close, you can clearly make it out while she's running around the shuttle. Then it's in the background of another 5 shots after the Nostromo blows up and before it jumps out again.
You can see it up in the chains before it kills Brett too.
@@DanielEbeck that’s only in the directors cut. And I go back and forth with which version I like more. Showing the alien there does kinda spoil what the alien looks like, because that’s the first time we see it full grown and it’s a rather anticlimactic shot. But then again, if it’s your first time seeing the movie, you probably won’t recognize it so the scene still hits just as hard.
Parents took me to the theater for this... I was 3. I had nightmares of the Alien chasing down Luke Skywalker in the hangar for months after. My sister told me at the chestburster scene, "That's what happens when you eat too many chips." Good times.
I’m surprised your understood anything or retained it, I saw it at 5-6 and barely understood what was going on.
18:50, veronica actually did WALLOP sigorney in the face, the fight straight afterwards is basically real lol
Oh, I loved your reactions so much. They made me love this movie all over again… not that I stopped. I’m one of those fans who, it seems, need help and/or a hug. 😁
Oh wow! I cannot WAIT to see your reactions! ❤❤❤❤❤
Also, since you’re a gamer, play Alien Isolation. You play as Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley’s daughter. Plus, there is DLC featuring the likenesses and voices of the complete original cast.
LOL ! I knew you were thinking, " Spaceballs", when the ship goes by at the beginning! LOL
My fondness of Miranda went straight to plaid.
@@darthken815 Indeed !
I waited for her citing "We brake for nobody" there... unfortunately in vain.
Yeah, the Spaceballs scene is definitely referencing that exact scene from this movie.
"It grows fast"
Yeah, that's the major point in the movie where we have to suspend disbelief.
Go see Alien Romulus, it shows how the Alien gets so big in such a short time.
In early filming, there was supposed to be a scene where the alien was discovered eating some of the stored foods, but it was dropped with other scenes linking Ash's betrayal of the crew.
I never knew why they didn't just do a '6 months later' type fade and also show some deep food storage area.
Suspend disbelief? This is a sci-fi movie about a completely unknown organism - an organism that's later revealed to be a some kind of a biotechnical achievement of a highly advanced alien civilization! Why is believing it grows fast such a huge deal?
The thing that I have always wondered is how did Ripley get a bloody nose right before Ash attacks her.
Out of all the reactions I have seen of this classic movie you were the first (that my fuzzy memory can recall) that pointed out the actor that played Bilbo, also John Hurt, I knew his face but never realized until now. You got my sub for that.
OMG, thanks for the subtitles. Didn't realise how much Ripley disliked corn bread.
Ripley is what a strong lead character should be.
They literally don't make movies like this anymore. Most of these scenes would be green screened in now, not fully practical sets. This movie is 45 years old and still has some of the most intense suspense, atmosphere and world building. The cast is incredible, including Yaphet Koto, the funny dude you loved who is amazing and Harry Dean Stanton, a 50 year career of amazing character acting. If you thought The Exorcist scared people, I wonder what theaters were like for this at the time.
Aliens is directed by James Cameron and is much more an action movie, but once again, Ripley is amazing. Highly recommended as well.
"Buck ass nude...are you an alien?"
I'm guessing you haven't seen Alien romulus then. Went back to basics. Proper sets. Practical effects. Practical everything. It's really good. And a worthy 3rd film
@@itzbp9949 I haven't but its been on my backlog for awhile. Will have to check it out this Oct.
@@WhatAboutZoidberg yeah it's worth a watch. It's really solid. Does it beat the first 2 films. No. But it's a really fantastic movie. For a 3rd official installment. It takes place after the events of alien. But before aliens. So inbetween
@@WhatAboutZoidberg On your backlog? It was released less than a month ago, on August 16th.
Poor Lambert. Grew up after surviving the Birds just to be chased by the Alien.
(she was the little girl in Hitchcock's "The Birds")
How can you not mention Invasion of the Body Snatchers which came out the year prior
@@harryballsak1123 its only relatively recently (2-3 years) that i realised thats where i knew her from. my entire life 'i knew that i knew her' from somewhere but could never figure out where, and i have always loved the IOTBS movie. such an incredible ending. an ending featuring Lambert, doh! which makes it all the more strange that i could never place her.
The thing about the Alien movies that scares me more than anything isn't the Aliens/Xenos-it's Weyland-Yutani. A supercorporation which absolutely does _not give a damn_ about its people. That recurring theme and the oppression it represents is absolutely crushing.
IIRC, weyland-yutani is also connected to Blade Runner
@@joshuajackson472 David saing "that's the spirit" when fighting Daniels is a nod... or possibly a connection?
I've always though that _Outland_ fits perfectly in the Alien universe.
@@DoktorStrangelove definitely, loved Outland, something about that movie scratched all the right places
Hey, don't be so mean. Corporations are people too! tm.
Exactly right, and this is what the people who complain about the fact that Alien 3 undoes the ending of Aliens don't get. The truth is that James Camerons Hollywood Happy Ending simply doesn't belong in the Alien universe
There are so many things I could write about from your reaction, from you initially rooting for “Bilbo” Ash to your awesome Airplane! and Spaceballs references, but in the end it all comes down to you being the most likable RUclips reaction personality IN THE COSMOS!!! Love your show! 😉👍
Your perspective on this gives me hope for humanity. Great video.
The reason the Alien is just chilling in the pod, is that it needs to rely on a human/Ripley to operate the shuttle, keep life support going, and get it to a destination in order for it to survive. The Xenomorph (alien) is extremely intelligent. It's just waiting out the arrival to the next planetary surface or space station. That's why it didn't just kill Ripley right away; it needs her.
Originaly the real reason was that it had reached the end of it’s lifespan, why it was also moving so slowly. It makes sense considering how rapid it’s growth is that their lifespan would be very short… but Romulus throwed that away, and not that other sequels had not been hinting at that either.
@@oliviawilliams6204 That original reason makes no sense, given all the other lore about alien so dont put that on Romulus, the eggs alone can survive for over 500 years, queens lives for thousands of years if they are not outright immortal as it has been stated that their body is structured on a bio level that makes their blood cells regenerate and replaced ''old'' cells keeping them constantly dangerous. It makes no sense that the ''perfect organism'' can't survive more than what appears to be maybe 24 hours? Maybe even less?
The Alien Drones aren't intelligent, just hyper instinctual. The Queens are very intelligent however.
@@Vakaria-plays I don't know where i got it from but it's been in my head since the days of Usenet, but i like the idea that the reason the Drone was "Chillin" was because it was reverting back into an egg.
@@Tommy-he7dx say that to Big Chap who managed to decimate two crews.
Hey Miranda, love your reaction to this classic. I was 16 when this movie came out in the theater, and I took my girlfriend to this movie. By the end of the movie, there was more soda and popcorn on the floor than was consumed by us. Funny thing, I have seen this movie numerous times and ironically I am eating spaghetti and watching the John Hurt birthing scene. Should've remembered. Some of the best space movies came out in the late 70's, Star Wars - A New Hope, Star Trek The motion Picture, Close Encouters of the 3rd Kind, but none were scarier than this. The original movie poster advertisement said "In space, no on can hear you scream." Aliens (part 2), I think is the best from this franchise. My Jack Russel passed away in 2018, and I have yet to get another pet. Jack Russel Terrors rule.
"What the piss is that!!" Thank you!! As a brit, I've never learnt as curse word off a yank before.... That's my new fave!! 🤣🤣
The actor who plays " Dallas " was in a Stephen King film called : The Dead Zone
He was also Viper in Top Gun.
So much fun watching your reaction to this. I was only 9 when this was in theaters, so didn't see till later. I did see the 2nd one in theaters though. Can't wait for you to react to that one!
That is how you make a movie and write a strong fermale lead. And this is from 1979 I might add. 2024 is so depressing.
Ripley may be the poster child but you can look at most any film from the mid-70's to the 90's and still find competent 'strong' women. It's a shame we even have to bring it up.
Fun fact - Ripley wasn't written as a woman initially. Originally, the crew were all male, but the writers attached a note, that none of the roles are gender-specific, so if the studio wishes, any crew member can be made a woman. And then one of them said "why don't we make Ripley a woman?", and the rest is history...
"That is how you make a movie and write a strong female lead." Except Ripley wasn't written as a strong female lead, the character was written as a male.
@@carlgibson285 But that is how you wrote strong female characters - strong characters are the same, male or female. If there's no plot reason for gender to matter, they should both be written the same way.
@@MetalDog- I agree with you, I was just pointing out that Ripley wasn't written specifically as a female character.
Thanks for reacting to the first Alien movie, Miranda. Me and my mother watch these movies together all the time. The classic 1979 trailer for this is truly terrifying. Hope you're having a good day. Take care!
I remember an interview with Ridley Scott where he said that to increase a sense of anxiety in the actors he would move the walls of sets closer together to give a feeling of claustrophobia.
As a high-end home theater enthusiast for over 25 years, I can tell you this: there is NO big TV and NO home surround sound system that can ever match the experience of watching a movie in the big screen of a theater full of people. The energy of the audience takes the cinematic experience to a whole other level that no group of life-long friends can ever achieve.
My home theater is for repeat viewings only. I watch my movies for the first time in the theater, on opening day.
Agree whole-heartedly.
True- I saw ALIEN and ALIENS in packed theatres on opening night weekends.
I can't imagine watching alien or aliens in a theater
Historically, ships have cats aboard.
Love that dog and give him the best. Cherish every moment with him. I just had to put my 12 yr old dog down this morning and it hit hard, i find solace in watching your videos to help take my mind off things. Even if its just for a little bit, thank you.
I'm truly sorry for your loss.
@@pompidoudog thank you
Me and my ex got ourselves an orange cat and I instantly knew we needed to name him after the cat from this movie. We're no longer together, sadly, but now every time someone asks her what her cats name is, she'll have to tell them the story of how her last boyfriend named him after the cat from Alien. I consider that a win for me!
Growing up it seemed like we always had an orange cat.
Love your sense of humor and reactions lol new sub btw
My brother took me and 3 of my friends to see this for my 13th birthday. I was a huge Star Wars and Star Trek fan. Sci Fi was my happy place. I ended up in the fetal position several times. Traumatic experience took me a while to get over it but It's one of my favorites now such a great movie on so many levels.
I was 8 when I first saw this. my dad didn't believe in coddling so I was treated as an adult. I watched Jaws and The Thing at 7 yrs old, the thing traumatized me more than any other movie back then.for the first two movies of this franchise are the best and it can't be overstated how important Ripley's character is. She was the first real female action star that still remained human and s woman. Back in 70s there wasn't many strong women characters to follow for girls. Sadly tho there still isn't. A reactor once said she hated women in movies. I said it's not the women, it's how Hollywood writes female characters that's the problem.
One of the few movies I can guarantee is a 10/10 in my book! The sound design, the visual aesthetic of the Nostromo and the Xenomorph, the costumes, etc. It's like the perfect movie, and I absolutely love Alien too much! Love your videos BTW, Miranda!
What an iconic movie!
Also knowing about the Ash twist and seeing you try to understand his actions because you know him as Bilbo was very fun.
Such a great twist, like you can actually see him study the alien growing in Kanes chest and when Ripley walks in he switches of the monitor.
The writers specifically designed this movie to be FRIGHTENING. Its full of jump scares and it was a deliberate choice not to show the entire body of the creature till later in the movie. This made it even scarier. No one was specifically aware of what the alien looked like, as no pics were in the pre release publicity. We were given a few hints "It has a mouth within its mouth", "It has no eyes", "nothing like it has even been seen before".You had to go to the movie to see what it looked like. This was an extra element that made the mystery and fear more intense at the time.
45 years and still beautiful. What a film.
7:45 "These are people going into deep space. Every person at the table needs a raise."
When Parker said "Everybody else gets more than us." he meant everybody else at this table.
All 7 of them to into deep space, but 5 of them get paid more than Parker and Brett.
That's his complaint.
3 of them are officers, one of them is a scientist and doctor.
It kind of makes sense that officers and doctors make more than mechanics.
That only leaves Lambert, the navigator. I have no idea if or why she makes more.
Ripley is a glorified trucker... she should be more appreciative of the mechanics that keep her rig running.
At least in real life, navigator is either a billet that gets officer pay or at least higher than......whatever Parker and Brett are, since it requires extra certifications and such.
@@daveemerson6549 Parker is the chief engineer and Brett's his assistant.
In light of plot development, I do wonder IF Ash was getting paid at all :P