Dawn, if you believe, how about a film based on true accounts(Travis Walton Story) as opposed to pure fiction? " Fire In The Sky" (93) 🔥 1) Most slept on film ever, though now revered. 2) Most believable Alien film & story! 3) Watch Travis Walton on Joe Rogan 4) Co Starring Robert Patrick(T-1000 Predator 2) 5) Suggested to another reactor and he and subscribers all loved it ruclips.net/video/ZczgtOsK7WU/видео.html
Ridley (the character) was written with no sex, so could be played by a man or a woman. Face Hugger comes from the Egg, it "impregnates" its victim and then the adult alien burst out of its host. But who laid the eggs? ALIENS..... 😉
The 2nd movie in this franchise is called "Aliens" (with the "s" at the end that you were wondering about at the start of this reaction 😀) ... it's also a VERY good movie. It's a little less horror and a little more action!
Many people believe the second one is even better. And it's pretty much expected that you react to both. The 3rd one is easily the worst in the franchise and just a bad movies. but 4,5,6 are all entertaining but none are ever as good as the first two.
The second movie is a bit pants as a sequel to this, but a great movie in its own right. It's like super cool velvet pants. With explosions and quotable bits.
Because of peddlars like you, whrnever i visit an ALIENS react video i say something alike but for ALIEN to mock all of you who constantly peddle Aliens in a coment section DEDICATED TO ALIEN? Cant you people for once just dtop promoting a movie in a coment section about another? Its like drug addicts!!
@@carlossaraiva8213 You are correct Carlos. Now please give all of us, your e-mail address so we can check in with you before we make are next comment so we will be sure not to offend your delicate sensibilities. And you do realize if your recommending Alien during an Aliens reaction, One, no one knows but yourself that your mocking us. So basically your mocking yourself. Two, if they are watching Aliens, it's pretty much assured they have watched Alien already. So Carlos, when would you have us recommend to the reactor a movie we would like her to react to? Maybe a good time to recommend Aliens to her is while she is watching the Green Mile? Yeah that makes sense. So let me get this straight. Our friend Carlos here is complaining about us recommending Aliens because it is detracting from this movie reaction. Totally ignoring the fact that his silly complaint is doing the same exact thing. LOL.
@@DawnMarieX It was - and it shows how good a sport John Hurt was! He was a wonderful, classically trained actor, with a great, versatile range. You can see him as the wand seller in the Harry Potter movies, and as the vulnerable, tragic Elephant Man in the movie based on the play (in turn based on the real life of John Merrick). But I got to know him in the BBC mini-series, "I, Claudius", where he enjoyed himself immensely as the Emperor Caligula. I used to be able to find some nice YT clips from the series to offer in comments, but they're pretty much gone now. However, here's a full episode (it also features Patrick Stewart, aka Captain Picard of Star Trek, with hair and playing a villain). ruclips.net/video/cQQfCeSSoCk/видео.html The stuttering Claudius is played by the equally wonderful Derek Jacobi, and the old lady is the widow of the previous emperor, Augustus. The actress is Sian Phillips in tons of old age make up, and also enjoying herself as the evil, crafty Livia, who's gone down in history as a skilled poisoner of rivals. The parts with John Hurt are at: 11:15; 27:18 and 47:10. It's really frustrating to see things out of context and more than halfway through a 13-part series, but I hope you can enjoy what Hurt can do in these little snippets.
@@DawnMarieX John Hurt had worked with Mel Brooks in the past (Mel produced The Elephant Man, which Hurt starred in), and agreed to do the Spaceballs cameo as a favour! And like you, I saw Spaceballs before I saw Alien, so the reference was lost on me at first 😄
They did explain the facehugger - it died after it fell off Kane's face (remember the line from Ash: "I think it's safe to assume it's not a zombie"). The skin was shed by the big alien (called a xenomorph) as it was growing.. "Aliens" from 1986 is the next one!
One thing to keep in mind these people aren't scientists or our highly trained astronauts.. they are basically truckers (lorry drivers) in space or maybe tug boat workers. So don't expect them to always make the best decision for the situation
We are definitely not alone!!! I've been studying Aliens since I could crawl... i just turned 54... believe me... the truth is out there, and they are most def here! Like you said, theyve been with us since time immemorial and mixed their DNA with ours to give us a jump start in the evolutionary chain! We are their children!
Back in the 70s, there wasn't many films with 'gotcha' endings so we didn't come to the conclusion that it was 'too easy' at the end like you did. The modern-day viewer is so much more informed due to the internet, etc. Back then it was celebrity magazines and the beginning of VHS tapes and that was it.
@@CChissel I disagree, but that’s just individual taste. It is a completely different type of film though, and I’m not a fan of gung ho trigger happy soldiers. But that aside the artistry and brilliance of the suspense and fear in the first one wins out.
@@stephentaylor9900 A "haunted house in space" is what Ridley Scott calls it. "ALIENS" is a brilliant sequel ... and not the "gung ho trigger-happy" you're saying it is. Yes, it's about cocksure USA stereotyped soldiers going on a "bug hunt" ... but after just one battle with the ALIENS, they are reduced to a rump ... and it's "Game Over man! Game Over!" There are moments of sheer horror and terror as Ripley attempts to defend Newt (her adopted daughter) from hoards of Aliens and their queen. It's the perfect fusion of action and sheer horror! Having said all of that, ALIEN is the superior movie - a classic for all time. But when did anybody say we couldn't have both amazing movies?
I rember it very clearly also, big screen filling your vision surrond sound speakers blaring, not really sure what I was going to see, As soon as it started you knew you wee in for a ride, how many later movies refernce it in different ways. Small screen may be more common now but the special occasion of going to the cinema and the greater effect it has drawing you in is not the same, no pausing for instance. Same with movies like Star Wars Ghost Busters Back to the Future Lord Of The Rings and others, this is why so many remkes keep come out, They are trying to recaptue the magic and mostly failing..
I think my mom took me to this when I was a baby as I was born in 77 and she told me she took me to one of them and I think aliens came later. I could look up dates but let’s take a shot in the dark lol
'Like a poop.' I never thought that shooting Hurt's character into space could be compared to taking a dump... but here we are.... you are funny, Dawn.
"Why's she speaking like that?" I dunno, maybe because of the 7"+ alien creature dismembering people onboard? I actually thought her performance throughout this movie was amazing.
“what’s with all the buttons” Have you ever seen the inside of an airplane cockpit? There’s always a lot of buttons that do different things. It’s not like a car. You also asked how she knew what all the buttons did. It’s her job. She was part of the crew and knew how to operate all of the machinery on the ship.
The "milk" running down the robot's face was meant to represent its blood. If you rewatch that scene you will notice that Ripley was bleeding. That was to signal to the audience that he was bleeding too but he wasn't human. The next film in this series is Aliens. I saw Alien at a Drive-In theater in 1979 as part of a triple feature. The first film they ran was Disney's The Cat from Outer Space, then they ran Alien, followed by a rip-off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that I barely remember.
The Alien had fallen asleep in the shuttle. That's why it wasn't really doing anything at first. It was slowly waking up. Until she sprayed it with the cooling fluids.
*Egg > face-hugger > embyo xenomorf inside the body > little xenomorf outside the body > big xenomorf = different stages of one and the same creature.* In this movie there is only ONE alien, but it has different forms. First you see the egg, from where the face-hugger comes that attaches itself to the face. This face-hugger puts a young xenomorf into the (here human) host. It grows very fast and when it is big enoug it bursts through the ribs and leaves the human body. Outside it grows even faster, sheds it's skin (maybe even more than once), and quickly becomes the big xenomorf, first light skinned, later dark skinned.
Alien is one of the greatest films of all time; regardless of genre. I’ve written several pieces on the design of Alien. Had Dan O’Bannon & Ridley Scott not found HR Giger’s book ‘Necronomicon’, who knows what we could’ve ended up with. Scott was familiar with Giger’s work due to him being hired to work on Scott’s failed adaptation of Dune. Nothing will beat the time I got to see a special 70mm IMAX print of Alien…it looks absolutely stunning!! Fun Facts: The scene where Parker & Lambert die was originally much longer & Veronica Cartwright has even stated in interviews that what you see is a lot different. Basically, if you notice, as the tail goes between Lamberts legs, it isn’t actually Lambert; her costume featured cowboy boots…& the feet we see are actually Brett’s. Also, there’s a little know cut of the film that features Ripley finding Parker dead & Lambert naked from the waist down, suspended. Cartwright went on record & said that she spent part of the shoot suspended in a harness; but the scene was cut down to what we see in the theatrical cut. The Nostromo set was all connected; as it would’ve been had the craft been real. That combined with the fact it had a really low ceiling helps add to the hot, claustrophobic atmosphere & this helped drive the performance’s. Please ensure you watch the directors cut of Aliens & then onto the Assembly Cut of Alien 3. There’s not much to say about Aliens other than it’s just perfect. Alien 3 however is something of a flawed masterpiece. It was David Fincher’s directorial debut & due to studio meddling, rewrites etc, we were left with a semi coherent film that to this day Fincher refuses to talk about. The assembly cut, fixes a lot of problems & several cast members returned to record enhanced dialogue for the reintroduced scenes. Alien 3 still divides fans due to its bleak, post apocalyptic look. But it’s the perfect ending to an excellent trilogy of films. Fun Fact: The Nostromo model was restored a few years back & sold at auction to a certain NZ director for $500’000!!!
Director Ridley Scott is also known for the 1973 Hovis bead commercial "guy pushing a bicycle." In 2006 it was voted favorite British commercial of all time. The boy rides his bicycle up a steep hill to deliver a basket of bread. The he gleefully sides the bike down the steep street, returning home and has some Hovis bread. Ridley Scott also known for the Apple Macintosh computer "1984" advertisement, and directing many other commercials.
@@AlmightyCRJ Yes, in addition to films he ran an advertisement filming business. Numerous articles reference him as director for the Hovis commercial. Side note: Hovis Bakery delivery trucks are equipped with solar panels for the van lighting, lift gates, etc. The trucks are customized by Tiger Trailers, near Bostock UK.
Dawn Marie's subscribers deserve the truth: The cast DID ACTUALLY KNOW about the chestburster scene because they had all read the script and had done table reads and rehearsals. What Ridley Scott specifically kept secret was what the chestburster was going to look like and exactly how the scene was going to be shot technically. But Tom Skerrit (Dallas) was on set early, snuck in, took a peek and told Yaphett Koto (Parker) and at least one more of the cast. When they all walked onto set for the first time they saw the cameras and other equipment covered in sheet plastic as well as the crew wearing raincoats/plastic so they knew it was going to be messy. On the first take, the chestburster puppet failed to rip through Kane's (John Hurt) Tshirt so they all had to go out and wait for a reset. On the second take everything worked and blood sprayed everywhere so the reactions are genuine. Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) did indeed get sprayed directly in her face causing her to fall over backwards but she did not pass out. What we see in the final (screen) version of this iconic scene is a COMBINATION of the first and second takes as well as second unit closeups that were shot afterwards. It seems that practically every RUclips video on Alien has comments that the actors had "no idea" about the entire chestbuster scene and it was a complete/total surprise, which is a nonsense way of saying what really happened. Everything I wrote here is verifiable on the documentaries/interviews/publications. Thank you Dawn for yet another great reaction vid!
Blocking comments don't make his claim true. None of his statement is actually true and everyone can read the interviews with the original cast and producers stating clearly the cast didn't know what was going to happen in that scene to full extent.
@@jayplay1273 I can confirm everything the OP said. It’s all in the many, many interviews available to watch. The actors knew what the scene was about because it was described in the script, but they didn’t know exactly how it would be achieved. There was no rehearsal with the actors present so all they knew was what the script said, and what Skerritt might’ve told them after he snuck a peek (and even then, he only saw a bit of the prep work). The first time they saw the effect was when the cameras rolled, and their genuine reaction was what was caught on film. Even with the foreknowledge of what was written, they were shocked by the sheer visceral impact of what the FX guys achieved.
The Alien was designed by Swiss surrealist artist H R Giger. His art work was some of my favourites when I was at school. He is slightly sex obsessed though.
H R Giger inspired the same kind of Alien design in "Species" (1995) which also included a sex scene between aliens, and another sex scene between an alien and a human. (Though the alien is not the exact same as the Xenomorph in the Ridley/Cameron series). It was bio-engineered to look human on the surface, but was very much alien underneath, and just as deadly.
The true horror of the alien comes from the fact that we do not get to see the whole creature on screen right up until very near the end of the film but that, by that point, we've seen enough bits of it to have built up a very comprehensive picture of what it looks like in our heads by that point.
What we imagine is always much more terrifying than whatever can be created with practical or special effects. A few glimpses of the alien are enough to lead us to imagine a horrific monster. The movie is a masterpiece of horror for sure
In the chest bursting scene the screaming and horrified reaction were genuine from the cast. They purposely weren't told how much blood would come out and which way it would splatter. The local butcher provided blood and offal for the effect.
The tagline on the film poster was "In space, no one can hear you scream." One of the best ever, IMO. Pretty amazing effects considering it came out in the 70's. Older movies had to use real creativity to get around limitations of practical effects. Ridley Scott was a directors of commercials so he had a real visual style that comes thru in the movie. Amazing atmosphere and claustrophobia he created. Now you gotta react to the sequel, "Aliens". Directed by James Cameron (Terminator). Completely different movie but still amazing.
It's interesting you said something about the alien imitating the cat. One of the original endings had Ripley recording her message before going into hypersleep. The camera wasn't on her, though. It panned through the interior of the escape pod until just before she said, "This is Ripley, signing off." Only it was the alien saying it in Ripley's voice, implying it won. Wisely, Ridley Scott scrapped that idea for the ending we got.
So fun fact, in the chest busting scene nobody knew what was going to happen so those screams are genuine & you can see them looking at the crew for help
They knew. They all had scripts. They all knew their were people under the table operating the chest burster. They all knew it was going to be messy because everything not in camera frame was covered in plastic. And between the buckets of blood and offal and the smell they knew it was going to be disturbing. What they did NOT know was how violent the blood was going to spray during the initial burst through the chest. They were acting the scene but the surprise was real.
You were correct. The Alien was a man in a rubber suit. Riddley Scott outdid himself, in bringing artist H.R. Geiger's painting to life. My girlfriend and I, ended up seeing that movie 12 times, on the big screen. It was terrifying.
Something we meet in the sequel laid the Eggs. The Face-hugger stage hatches from the Egg. Lays something that gestates in a host. The Chest-burster bursts out of the host's body. Sheds its skin as it grows in size. Eating the ships food supply. In the shuttle, the adult Xenomorph is getting ready to hibernate. In the sequel, we learn they're like a colony of insects. The Alien is a Worker. The ones in the sequel are presumably Warriors. And mom, that lays eggs.
The Nostromo is essentially the space-going equivalent of a tugboat towing a barge. It's basically designed to travel from port to port, with nice landing fields and guidance markers and such...and in order to land it on the planet they're (to completely change the metaphor) having to take it "off-roading," which it is *so* not designed for. So it landed badly, banging the fenders and maybe bottoming out. The Alien (and the ship it was found on) was designed by H. R. Giger, also known for his "dead baby landscapes." Now you can watch "Aliens" (the second one). I'd ignore all other sequels after that, though.
There was an alternate ending to this classic that only the preview/test audiences saw. In that version the Alien actually kills the entire Nostromo crew. The movie ends with a rescue ship approaching the Nostromo, & the alien mimicking the voice of one of the, now dead, crew to draw it in. The audiences didn't like that version, so we got the ending we all know. Zack Snyders Justice League gives me hope of that alternate cut being in an archive somewhere, just waiting to be re seen.
Lies. That was never anything more than some deranged idea Scott was spitballing during filming, and was shot down by the producers. They have revealed almost every alternative take in the extras, even poorly shot dailies, and this has never been more than an urban legend.
The life of a Xenomorph are: 1. Egg 2. Facehugger (They die after laying embryo in host) 3. Chestbuster (Gestates and takes on D.N.A. from host and determines the characteristics of Drones or Warrior) 4. Drone Xeno or Warrior Xeno 5. Praetorian (Guards the Queen and if the Queen dies a Praetorian will take her place) 6. Queen 7. Queen-Mother 8. Empress
The alien has three phases to its life cycle. The facehugger attaches itself to its host to implant the embryo. It then dies. When it's finished gestating the chestburster emerges. It then rapidly grows into an adult drone. Definitely watch the director's cut of the sequel, Aliens.
Two things - the face hugger died after it layed its egg in John Hurt. The Alien then popped out and the 'Perfect organism' quickly grew to adapt and survive.
The Face-Hugger laid an embryo inside Kane's (John Hurt) chest. That became the "cricket" and that grew into the full-size Xenomorph (alien creature). 21:18 "Looks like he's been jizzed on. A lot." What other movies do you watch Dawn? 🤔🤣
1. Ripley says to Parker, "You'll get what's coming to you." is prophetic. 2. There's a COC in the civilian world too. Cooperation wanted access to the Alien. That becomes more clear in the second one. 3. Dallas/Tom Skerritt also played in "Top Gun" as Viper and "Up in Smoke" as Strawberry to name a couple. 4. Harry Dean Stanton(RIP) He had a very deep portfolio.😎 5. The hanging bodies at the end was not in the original release 6. That was a hell of a blast😲 Better than Star Wars. 7. Now that you're in this universe you MUST do Aliens next. (More action packed)
Harry Dean Stanton didn't want to be in "a monster movie" ... but he saw that this was no ordinary B-movie monster flick, and was quite happy to be the ALIEN's first proper victim.... and decades later, reprised his role for the "ALIEN:Isolation" Nostromo DLC Up until 1979, aliens were extremely cheesy B-movie monsters, usually accompanied by terrible B-movie actors. Maybe I'm wrong - Close Encounters (1977) presented aliens as wonderful friends, and the human actors - like Richard Dreyfuss - were anything but terrible ... and then Star Wars, where most of the aliens were sometimes naughty-but-cute. 1977: Let's reach for the stars and make friends with whatever's out there! 1979: Let's not.
@@williamjones6031 He was a wonderful actor. Long before ALIEN, he played the one and only black super villain, Kananga, in "Live and Let Die" (1973) His death was particularly memorable, as James Bond fought him underwater and stuffed a helium bullet in his mouth, causing him to explode ... "He had an inflated opinion of himself" quipped 007. In 1987, he played one of the contestants on sadistic future game show "The Running Man", where 'criminals' are hunted down in a maze for the entertainment of the masses! [I would love to see Donald Trump hunted down for my entertainment, probably by "VIXEN" - a superheroine with a flamethrower that grins into the camera and flicks her hair before every killl ...] "The Running Man" inspired "Gladiators" (or "American Gladiators") a very successful real-life primetime gameshow in which normal people took on former athletes in a contest of skill. The former athletes were styled as superheroes with names such as "Hunter", "Panther" and "Wolf" etc.
"Drama Queen" is the right name (in a good way) for Veronica Cartwright. She started being one in weird movies as early as THE BIRDS, where she played the little girl.
If I remember correctly, it was John Hurt in Spaceballs also (it's been a while since I saw it). And when he starts choking, he quotes "Oh no, not again". ? 🙂
Back in the 70’s, got word about upcoming movies reading about them in certain magazines. They were talking about alien a full year before it’s release. How it was a horror movie in space. No escaping from the haunted mansion (the spaceship). How space travel had advanced so far that it was like having “truckers” as astronauts. And how they wrote most of the characters initially as male but decided to make some women, but not really change the dialogue. Also about HR Giger (check out his art! It’s wild!) designing the life cycle of the alien and it’s various stages.
I might remind you that there were some aliens in Life of Brian. It also makes me wonder that somewhere in the universe, if Aliens were making films about Aliens... Are we a movie monster. Also the franchise nobody thought they needed. "Alien Vs The Knights Who Say Ni". I'd pay to see that.
There's a Japanese movie called _Aliens v/s Ninjas_ which is all sorts of silly Japanese fun. Another ridiculous one is _Battle Heater Kotatsu_ which is hilariously weird. A Kotatsu is a kind of electric heater that mounts to the bottom of those low tables you see in traditional Japanese homes to keep your feet and legs warm. This one gets possessed by a demon and runs around an apartment complex eating people. Very very weird.
Alien is my favorite movie. Aside from a few moments (such as the awkward transition from Ash’s prosthetic head to the actor) it holds up amazingly well. Please watch Aliens now. There are two versions of the movie. You can’t go wrong with either one but I recommend the special edition. As for your question, I do believe in aliens. The universe is so massive I can’t believe there isn’t other life out there somewhere. But I don’t think we’ve been visited.
There was the egg... the face sucker came out and attached itself to the guy.. the face sucker laid an egg in the guys stomach then died. The alien burst out of his stomach, and grew huge. The only unanswered alien is what laid the eggs... Great reaction. Thank you. 😊
Thank you for being one of the ONLY reactors who figured out WHY Ripley had to go back and try to deactivate the self-destruct! Everyone else is clueless.
It was going to hibernate in the shuttle until either Ripley went into the sleep pod or they arrived someplace where it could run amok again and build out a nest. As for the “sucker” thing. The Facehugger dies after it completes the embryo implantation process.
This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The suspense that is growing bigger and bigger as the movie goes on. Also; The music by Jerry Goldsmith is just fantastic!
Jerry Goldsmith's music definitely doesn't get enough love. Right from the very beginning of the movie it begins to fill you with dread and loneliness, and what's great about it is that it mostly is not really what you'd call "music" but just sort of ambient little groups of notes that instill some kind of fear, or loneliness or dread, suspense, etc. The real musical parts are reserved for the really important stuff like when Ripley finally destroys the alien at the end and it becomes hopeful.
Jerry Goldsmith was a fsntastic composer. He might not have been as keen to create memorable leitmotifs like John Williams or Alan Silvestri but he was excellent in creating mood for scenes.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere The end credits music is not a Goldsmith composition but from an existing piece of classic music. There's two music pieces in this movie that are not original compositions but reuse of Goldsmith music he had composed for the film "Freud".
@@carlossaraiva8213 No doubt about it. His 'experimental' soundtrack for 1968's Planet of the Apes won an Oscar I believe. [Just looked. He was nominated but did not win.]
@@carlossaraiva8213 That's interesting. I've never heard that before. It fits perfectly though. I wonder if he ran out of time or if it was a last minute request by Ridley Scott to have that uplifting music at the end.
My dad got me a foot tall action figure of the alien, and I had to put it in a drawer because it scared me so much. Still boggles my mind tat they made action figures for an R rated movie.
80's/90's had a few toy lines based on R-rated movies. Rambo, Robocop, Terminator, talking Freddy Krueger dolls. I know Alien was 1979 not 80's but close enough.
I didn't even want to watch this ... It was a Sunday night, I had school the next morning ... I flicked through the 4 channels on the TV, and my eyes lit up! A spaceman was exploring a planet - it was like Star Trek, but done really well! I settled down into the sofa .. ... the spaceman found a derelict spaceship with "eggs" in it. He looked into one of the eggs after it opened ... FUUUCKKK!!! - I have never been as scared in all my life!! And the rest of the movie just got worse and worse - but my eyes were glued to the screen. I was traumatised for life, but it was worth it! :)
Now they have plush toys of facehuggers with posable legs and tail… and the child in me wants one… to keep my face warm in the cold winter months of course… not to prank people or anything, because that would be mean 😂
The Facehugger (not sucker, it certainly wasn’t sucking), the horrific thing to think about is, when Dallas asks “what’s it got down his throat?”, and then a baby alien “births” from Kane’s chest, that’s when you realise what “it” was that was down his throat… and that it wasn’t there consensually. As I said, it was sucking, it was something that rhymes. 17:32 jazz hands 😂 You should definitely watch Aliens, but watch the special edition, it has scenes that were cut from theatrical release, but they give more depth to the story.
The alien, there's only one at a time, goes through several life stages. Its life cycle is informed by different kinds of parasitic insects. When the egg opens the face-hugger comes out looking for a living host. It then injects a larva into the host, which bursts out after feeding on the host from the inside. This echoes several kinds of parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the bodies of other insects and after hatching the larva feeds on the live host from the inside until it metamorphoses into an adult wasp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid_wasp The jaws within jaws is designed after the pharyngeal jaws of the moray eel. Many fish species have pharyngeal jaws, a second set of jaws deep in the throat, which help in chewing their prey. The moray eels are the only species that have extensible pharyngeal jaws which come forward into the mouth and help in catching the prey and pulling it back into the throat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_jaw The only thing which is never explained is how the alien grows so large so quickly after feeding on only some bits of John Hurt. Maybe there are other things on the ship it can feed on, such as space rats or leftover Chinese food, until it grows large enough to hunt people. Perhaps that is explained in the novel.
What everyone seems to miss is how much time has passed between the parasite bursting out of Cain and when Brettr was taken....Remember that in between those 2 events the crew had time to wrap up Cain in his burial shroud and then launch him into space and THEN for the crew to design and fabricate weapons and scanners to fight and track the alien so the alien would have had plenty of time to feed and grow to it's larger size. Maybe it broke into food stores on the ship while all that was going on.. It could have had days or even a week before they found it again and it attacked.
@@DawnMarieX My Dad was in the navy and told how the wharf rats were huge and would walk up and down the ropes tying the ship to the dock. I could see them going into space if space travel from earth becomes common. Well know Scottish actor Sean Connery was in a movie about space called Outland where he basically played a sheriff in space on a mining outpost and the miners brought all their problems with them, drug abuse, prostitution, crime. Watching the movie Outland, I realized that of course, if people were living in space they would bring all their human problems with them! (maybe even a few rats).
The actor you recognised from The Green Mile is Harry Dean Stanton. He's a fantastic actor, but has a reputation of being almost impossible to work with. Many stories of huge conflicts on set when he's around, but others say he's a great guy.
It goes like this: The Egg releases the face-hugger.. The face-hugger plants an embryo in the victim's body, and that bursts out of their chest (Chest-burster/Cricket thing). After a while, the chest-burster sheds it's skin and grows into the adult alien. Watch Aliens (Alien 2) to explain more.
The idea we come from Aliens is what the movie and tv show Stargate theme is all about. And I think HP Lovecraft had a story theme along those lines as well.
It absolutely is a 70s movie, it just doesn’t look it because it’s such a masterpiece, hell it still looks great today, imagine how amazing this looked in 1979!
@@DawnMarieX You won't be disappointed, great sci-fi action flick by James Cameron. Don't go researching before you watch it. Love your grey hair, by the way! Say, is that an Irish accent you're speaking with? Lovely!
@@DawnMarieX that was great, I think you're really going to love the sequel even though it's more of an action horror than pure suspense. Technically there were two aliens in this one, the face hugger and the chest burster. The shed skin was from the chest burster after it grew. I think one of the things that really makes the movie is that the monster keeps changing and growing so you never know what to expect next. Thank you for sharing, it was a great way to end the day.
The fact that Dawn's sole knowledge of this movie was based on Spaceballs filled me with such deep joy when I started watching this. I was so looking forward to her expectations of the alien being subverted and she did not disappoint!
This is a great movie!! love your reaction! Great catch seeing it towards the end most people including me do not catch that. The Face hugger did die after it implanted the alien in the crew member, the skin was shed by the small chestbursting alien as it was growing into the bigger one. Now you must Watch Aliens (the sequel) which is also great!
In the director's cut Parker and Ripley did see Brett being pulled into the airduct. This is why Parker says it was huge. Never understood why this part was ever cut. It's only a few seconds and explains how he knew how big it was.
"Why did they let Kane on the ship?" "Why didn't anybody notice the facehugger depositing a baby monster into Kane's chest on the x-rays?" "Why didn't they let Parker stab the thing with his knife as soon as it came out of Kane's chest?" "Why didn't the detectors work well enough to keep Dallas safe in the vents?" all have the same answer.
Very nice one, ma'am. EXCELLENT editing. You left all the pertinent/important parts to best cover all the excitement and needed info. So many other reactors edit out key components.
They were able to get the same actor when the Alien burst out of his chest in 'Spaceballs', that's why he says ''not again!' The 'face hugger' is dead, the 'chest burster' has grown massively after shedding its skin.
"Looks like he's been 💦 on... A lot..." 🤣🤣🤣 Poor Ian Holm, getting stuffed under a table for that scene with all that goo on his face and milk leaking from his mouth 😖 with hot set lights glaring down on him... I feel bad for him when I watch that scene (but not Ash... F that corporate stooge!)
@@davemcbroom695 and how many survive 40 plus years later? I have two theater ones from 1977 Star Wars. Any surviving posters in decent condition of the classics are hot collectibles
Take into account when you see the reactions of this crew about the alien, that they are supposedly the first ones encountering this alien, so everything about this creature takes them absolutely by surprise (except for one crewmember, by now you know which one).
In the book, they are hunting the alien chestburster for a week, it has been eating the rats that Jones the ships cat is there to deal with, then it gets bigger and breaks into the ships stores and is eating those. That is the full story of how it gets so big.
Incase you didn't catch it,. The actor where the alian shoots out of his stomach was the late great John Hurt from the Harry potter franchise. He was the wand seller.
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Yes, the "meal scene" was bit different than in Spaceballs, eh?
Dawn, if you believe, how about a film based on true accounts(Travis Walton Story) as opposed to pure fiction?
" Fire In The Sky" (93) 🔥
1) Most slept on film ever, though now revered.
2) Most believable Alien film & story!
3) Watch Travis Walton on Joe Rogan
4) Co Starring Robert Patrick(T-1000 Predator 2)
5) Suggested to another reactor and he and subscribers all loved it
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Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility?
Is he talking about Supermodels?
Ridley (the character) was written with no sex, so could be played by a man or a woman.
Face Hugger comes from the Egg, it "impregnates" its victim and then the adult alien burst out of its host.
But who laid the eggs?
ALIENS..... 😉
@edd7918 How about
" Fire in The Sky" (93) 🔥
Based on true acounts of Travis Walton as opposed to fiction?
ruclips.net/video/ZczgtOsK7WU/видео.html
You weren't expecting the alien to sing "Hello My Baby" right? 🤣
With a top hat and cane 😂
@@kampfer3146 yeah!
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There was another video of the alien coming out of his chest and this girl goes… “that’s my uterus whenever I’m on my period!”
Thanks for sharing 😳🙄
@@nsasupporter7557 👍🤣
You loved Ripley? After _Aliens_ you'll love her even more.
The 2nd movie in this franchise is called "Aliens" (with the "s" at the end that you were wondering about at the start of this reaction 😀) ... it's also a VERY good movie. It's a little less horror and a little more action!
Its shite! 🤣
Many people believe the second one is even better. And it's pretty much expected that you react to both. The 3rd one is easily the worst in the franchise and just a bad movies. but 4,5,6 are all entertaining but none are ever as good as the first two.
The second movie is a bit pants as a sequel to this, but a great movie in its own right. It's like super cool velvet pants. With explosions and quotable bits.
Because of peddlars like you, whrnever i visit an ALIENS react video i say something alike but for ALIEN to mock all of you who constantly peddle Aliens in a coment section DEDICATED TO ALIEN?
Cant you people for once just dtop promoting a movie in a coment section about another? Its like drug addicts!!
@@carlossaraiva8213 You are correct Carlos. Now please give all of us, your e-mail address so we can check in with you before we make are next comment so we will be sure not to offend your delicate sensibilities. And you do realize if your recommending Alien during an Aliens reaction, One, no one knows but yourself that your mocking us. So basically your mocking yourself. Two, if they are watching Aliens, it's pretty much assured they have watched Alien already. So Carlos, when would you have us recommend to the reactor a movie we would like her to react to? Maybe a good time to recommend Aliens to her is while she is watching the Green Mile? Yeah that makes sense.
So let me get this straight. Our friend Carlos here is complaining about us recommending Aliens because it is detracting from this movie reaction. Totally ignoring the fact that his silly complaint is doing the same exact thing. LOL.
Now you understand the diner scene with John Hurt in "Spaceballs," where he said, "Not again!"
Yes! I didn’t realise it was the same person though 😂
@@DawnMarieX It was - and it shows how good a sport John Hurt was! He was a wonderful, classically trained actor, with a great, versatile range. You can see him as the wand seller in the Harry Potter movies, and as the vulnerable, tragic Elephant Man in the movie based on the play (in turn based on the real life of John Merrick). But I got to know him in the BBC mini-series, "I, Claudius", where he enjoyed himself immensely as the Emperor Caligula. I used to be able to find some nice YT clips from the series to offer in comments, but they're pretty much gone now. However, here's a full episode (it also features Patrick Stewart, aka Captain Picard of Star Trek, with hair and playing a villain). ruclips.net/video/cQQfCeSSoCk/видео.html
The stuttering Claudius is played by the equally wonderful Derek Jacobi, and the old lady is the widow of the previous emperor, Augustus. The actress is Sian Phillips in tons of old age make up, and also enjoying herself as the evil, crafty Livia, who's gone down in history as a skilled poisoner of rivals.
The parts with John Hurt are at: 11:15; 27:18 and 47:10. It's really frustrating to see things out of context and more than halfway through a 13-part series, but I hope you can enjoy what Hurt can do in these little snippets.
@@DawnMarieX John Hurt had worked with Mel Brooks in the past (Mel produced The Elephant Man, which Hurt starred in), and agreed to do the Spaceballs cameo as a favour! And like you, I saw Spaceballs before I saw Alien, so the reference was lost on me at first 😄
@@melenatorr he was also the voice of the dragon in the Merlin TV series and the 'War Doctor' in the Dr who 50th special
They did explain the facehugger - it died after it fell off Kane's face (remember the line from Ash: "I think it's safe to assume it's not a zombie"). The skin was shed by the big alien (called a xenomorph) as it was growing..
"Aliens" from 1986 is the next one!
One thing to keep in mind these people aren't scientists or our highly trained astronauts.. they are basically truckers (lorry drivers) in space or maybe tug boat workers. So don't expect them to always make the best decision for the situation
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke.
We aren't alone
We are definitely not alone!!! I've been studying Aliens since I could crawl... i just turned 54... believe me... the truth is out there, and they are most def here! Like you said, theyve been with us since time immemorial and mixed their DNA with ours to give us a jump start in the evolutionary chain! We are their children!
Back in the 70s, there wasn't many films with 'gotcha' endings so we didn't come to the conclusion that it was 'too easy' at the end like you did. The modern-day viewer is so much more informed due to the internet, etc. Back then it was celebrity magazines and the beginning of VHS tapes and that was it.
The first alien film is brilliant. It’s essentially a horror film set in space.
I love the second one too, I think it’s just as good.
@@CChissel I disagree, but that’s just individual taste. It is a completely different type of film though, and I’m not a fan of gung ho trigger happy soldiers. But that aside the artistry and brilliance of the suspense and fear in the first one wins out.
@@stephentaylor9900 Fair enough. And yes, it is definitely a different type of film, on that I can agree.
@@stephentaylor9900 A "haunted house in space" is what Ridley Scott calls it.
"ALIENS" is a brilliant sequel ... and not the "gung ho trigger-happy" you're saying it is.
Yes, it's about cocksure USA stereotyped soldiers going on a "bug hunt" ... but after just one battle with the ALIENS, they are reduced to a rump ... and it's "Game Over man! Game Over!"
There are moments of sheer horror and terror as Ripley attempts to defend Newt (her adopted daughter) from hoards of Aliens and their queen.
It's the perfect fusion of action and sheer horror!
Having said all of that, ALIEN is the superior movie - a classic for all time.
But when did anybody say we couldn't have both amazing movies?
Essentially? It IS a horror film!
I saw this in its theatrical release. It is still one of the best science fiction horror movies ever made, along with John Carpenter's "The Thing."
I rember it very clearly also, big screen filling your vision surrond sound speakers blaring, not really sure what I was going to see, As soon as it started you knew you wee in for a ride, how many later movies refernce it in different ways.
Small screen may be more common now but the special occasion of going to the cinema and the greater effect it has drawing you in is not the same, no pausing for instance.
Same with movies like Star Wars Ghost Busters Back to the Future Lord Of The Rings and others, this is why so many remkes keep come out, They are trying to recaptue the magic and mostly failing..
I think my mom took me to this when I was a baby as I was born in 77 and she told me she took me to one of them and I think aliens came later. I could look up dates but let’s take a shot in the dark lol
'Like a poop.' I never thought that shooting Hurt's character into space could be compared to taking a dump... but here we are.... you are funny, Dawn.
"Why's she speaking like that?" I dunno, maybe because of the 7"+ alien creature dismembering people onboard? I actually thought her performance throughout this movie was amazing.
"maybe it's Just a cricket thing" Marie you're in for a treat😱😱
“what’s with all the buttons”
Have you ever seen the inside of an airplane cockpit? There’s always a lot of buttons that do different things. It’s not like a car.
You also asked how she knew what all the buttons did. It’s her job. She was part of the crew and knew how to operate all of the machinery on the ship.
The "milk" running down the robot's face was meant to represent its blood. If you rewatch that scene you will notice that Ripley was bleeding. That was to signal to the audience that he was bleeding too but he wasn't human. The next film in this series is Aliens. I saw Alien at a Drive-In theater in 1979 as part of a triple feature. The first film they ran was Disney's The Cat from Outer Space, then they ran Alien, followed by a rip-off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that I barely remember.
"How'd it get so big?"
"He looked like he got jizzed on"
"I saw his shiny head"
"HIs head is so big"
Dawn Marie out of context quotes...
The Alien had fallen asleep in the shuttle. That's why it wasn't really doing anything at first. It was slowly waking up. Until she sprayed it with the cooling fluids.
Yes, that guy was in The Green Mile! That's Harry Dean Stanton. He was also in The Godfather, Part II.
*Egg > face-hugger > embyo xenomorf inside the body > little xenomorf outside the body > big xenomorf = different stages of one and the same creature.*
In this movie there is only ONE alien, but it has different forms. First you see the egg, from where the face-hugger comes that attaches itself to the face. This face-hugger puts a young xenomorf into the (here human) host. It grows very fast and when it is big enoug it bursts through the ribs and leaves the human body. Outside it grows even faster, sheds it's skin (maybe even more than once), and quickly becomes the big xenomorf, first light skinned, later dark skinned.
Alien is one of the greatest films of all time; regardless of genre. I’ve written several pieces on the design of Alien. Had Dan O’Bannon & Ridley Scott not found HR Giger’s book ‘Necronomicon’, who knows what we could’ve ended up with. Scott was familiar with Giger’s work due to him being hired to work on Scott’s failed adaptation of Dune.
Nothing will beat the time I got to see a special 70mm IMAX print of Alien…it looks absolutely stunning!!
Fun Facts: The scene where Parker & Lambert die was originally much longer & Veronica Cartwright has even stated in interviews that what you see is a lot different. Basically, if you notice, as the tail goes between Lamberts legs, it isn’t actually Lambert; her costume featured cowboy boots…& the feet we see are actually Brett’s.
Also, there’s a little know cut of the film that features Ripley finding Parker dead & Lambert naked from the waist down, suspended. Cartwright went on record & said that she spent part of the shoot suspended in a harness; but the scene was cut down to what we see in the theatrical cut.
The Nostromo set was all connected; as it would’ve been had the craft been real. That combined with the fact it had a really low ceiling helps add to the hot, claustrophobic atmosphere & this helped drive the performance’s.
Please ensure you watch the directors cut of Aliens & then onto the Assembly Cut of Alien 3.
There’s not much to say about Aliens other than it’s just perfect. Alien 3 however is something of a flawed masterpiece. It was David Fincher’s directorial debut & due to studio meddling, rewrites etc, we were left with a semi coherent film that to this day Fincher refuses to talk about.
The assembly cut, fixes a lot of problems & several cast members returned to record enhanced dialogue for the reintroduced scenes. Alien 3 still divides fans due to its bleak, post apocalyptic look. But it’s the perfect ending to an excellent trilogy of films.
Fun Fact: The Nostromo model was restored a few years back & sold at auction to a certain NZ director for $500’000!!!
Director Ridley Scott is also known for the 1973 Hovis bead commercial "guy pushing a bicycle." In 2006 it was voted favorite British commercial of all time. The boy rides his bicycle up a steep hill to deliver a basket of bread. The he gleefully sides the bike down the steep street, returning home and has some Hovis bread.
Ridley Scott also known for the Apple Macintosh computer "1984" advertisement, and directing many other commercials.
Ridley Scott did the Hovis advert?!?
@@AlmightyCRJ Yes, in addition to films he ran an advertisement filming business. Numerous articles reference him as director for the Hovis commercial.
Side note: Hovis Bakery delivery trucks are equipped with solar panels for the van lighting, lift gates, etc. The trucks are customized by Tiger Trailers, near Bostock UK.
“Why is it just sitting there?”
“Well……it’s pining for the fjords!”
“What?!”
I used to enjoy doing the fjords. Liked the little nobbly edges. I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent.
@@AlmightyCRJ What is your name ?
@@Mnemonix8001 It's not important.
Dawn Marie's subscribers deserve the truth: The cast DID ACTUALLY KNOW about the chestburster scene because they had all read the script and had done table reads and rehearsals. What Ridley Scott specifically kept secret was what the chestburster was going to look like and exactly how the scene was going to be shot technically. But Tom Skerrit (Dallas) was on set early, snuck in, took a peek and told Yaphett Koto (Parker) and at least one more of the cast. When they all walked onto set for the first time they saw the cameras and other equipment covered in sheet plastic as well as the crew wearing raincoats/plastic so they knew it was going to be messy. On the first take, the chestburster puppet failed to rip through Kane's (John Hurt) Tshirt so they all had to go out and wait for a reset. On the second take everything worked and blood sprayed everywhere so the reactions are genuine. Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) did indeed get sprayed directly in her face causing her to fall over backwards but she did not pass out. What we see in the final (screen) version of this iconic scene is a COMBINATION of the first and second takes as well as second unit closeups that were shot afterwards. It seems that practically every RUclips video on Alien has comments that the actors had "no idea" about the entire chestbuster scene and it was a complete/total surprise, which is a nonsense way of saying what really happened. Everything I wrote here is verifiable on the documentaries/interviews/publications. Thank you Dawn for yet another great reaction vid!
Oooooh I’ll be sure to let them know if I see any comments that contradict yours.
Thank you so much for watching! 😁
I wonder how the story about no one knowing what to expect got started
If they are stupid enough to subscribe they don't deserve anything! 👎👎👎
Blocking comments don't make his claim true. None of his statement is actually true and everyone can read the interviews with the original cast and producers stating clearly the cast didn't know what was going to happen in that scene to full extent.
@@jayplay1273 I can confirm everything the OP said. It’s all in the many, many interviews available to watch. The actors knew what the scene was about because it was described in the script, but they didn’t know exactly how it would be achieved. There was no rehearsal with the actors present so all they knew was what the script said, and what Skerritt might’ve told them after he snuck a peek (and even then, he only saw a bit of the prep work). The first time they saw the effect was when the cameras rolled, and their genuine reaction was what was caught on film. Even with the foreknowledge of what was written, they were shocked by the sheer visceral impact of what the FX guys achieved.
The Alien was designed by Swiss surrealist artist H R Giger. His art work was some of my favourites when I was at school. He is slightly sex obsessed though.
Who isn’t 😂
H R Giger inspired the same kind of Alien design in "Species" (1995) which also included a sex scene between aliens, and another sex scene between an alien and a human. (Though the alien is not the exact same as the Xenomorph in the Ridley/Cameron series). It was bio-engineered to look human on the surface, but was very much alien underneath, and just as deadly.
Tom Skerritt (Dallas) said the first thing he thought when he saw Giger’s designs was “What the hell does this guy dream about at night?”
@@0okamino S*x and machines. :D
The true horror of the alien comes from the fact that we do not get to see the whole creature on screen right up until very near the end of the film but that, by that point, we've seen enough bits of it to have built up a very comprehensive picture of what it looks like in our heads by that point.
What we imagine is always much more terrifying than whatever can be created with practical or special effects. A few glimpses of the alien are enough to lead us to imagine a horrific monster. The movie is a masterpiece of horror for sure
Absolutely. Understanding that allowed the film's creators to make a more terrifying monster.
In the chest bursting scene the screaming and horrified reaction were genuine from the cast. They purposely weren't told how much blood would come out and which way it would splatter. The local butcher provided blood and offal for the effect.
And Veronica Cartwright's reaction to being sprayed with blood is priceless. I'm sure she really appreciated not being told! LOL.
The tagline on the film poster was "In space, no one can hear you scream." One of the best ever, IMO. Pretty amazing effects considering it came out in the 70's. Older movies had to use real creativity to get around limitations of practical effects. Ridley Scott was a directors of commercials so he had a real visual style that comes thru in the movie. Amazing atmosphere and claustrophobia he created. Now you gotta react to the sequel, "Aliens". Directed by James Cameron (Terminator). Completely different movie but still amazing.
It's interesting you said something about the alien imitating the cat. One of the original endings had Ripley recording her message before going into hypersleep. The camera wasn't on her, though. It panned through the interior of the escape pod until just before she said, "This is Ripley, signing off." Only it was the alien saying it in Ripley's voice, implying it won. Wisely, Ridley Scott scrapped that idea for the ending we got.
I saw this in a theater with friends when it came out. When the alien burst out of the man's chest, one of my friends said "Awwwww. Its cute!"
Well, I guess compared to the adult stage, it kind of is. 😄
This movie is a sci-fi/horror MASTERPIECE! This is "Alien". "Aliens" is the sequel. Much more of an action movie, but, still excellent.
The Face Hugger died after laying the Alien embryo inside Kane. Then the baby alien grew really rapidly.
So fun fact, in the chest busting scene nobody knew what was going to happen so those screams are genuine & you can see them looking at the crew for help
They knew. They all had scripts. They all knew their were people under the table operating the chest burster. They all knew it was going to be messy because everything not in camera frame was covered in plastic. And between the buckets of blood and offal and the smell they knew it was going to be disturbing. What they did NOT know was how violent the blood was going to spray during the initial burst through the chest. They were acting the scene but the surprise was real.
The robot was played by Ian Holm, the actor that played the priest in Fifth Element, and also Bilbo Baggins in the rings/hobbit movies.
The most Scottish thing I ever heard ...
"She got rid of it"
The perfect summing-up of one of the greatest movies ever made :)
Fun fact: John Hurt, the man with the "chest burster", reprised his role in Spaceballs. That's why he says "Oh no. Not again."
You were correct. The Alien was a man in a rubber suit. Riddley Scott outdid himself, in bringing artist H.R. Geiger's painting to life. My girlfriend and I, ended up seeing that movie 12 times, on the big screen. It was terrifying.
The jumpscare _after_ having already spotted the alien was priceless!
Something we meet in the sequel laid the Eggs.
The Face-hugger stage hatches from the Egg. Lays something that gestates in a host.
The Chest-burster bursts out of the host's body.
Sheds its skin as it grows in size. Eating the ships food supply.
In the shuttle, the adult Xenomorph is getting ready to hibernate.
In the sequel, we learn they're like a colony of insects. The Alien is a Worker. The ones in the sequel are presumably Warriors. And mom, that lays eggs.
LOL the face hugger, the cricket thing and the alien are all best buddies
The Nostromo is essentially the space-going equivalent of a tugboat towing a barge. It's basically designed to travel from port to port, with nice landing fields and guidance markers and such...and in order to land it on the planet they're (to completely change the metaphor) having to take it "off-roading," which it is *so* not designed for.
So it landed badly, banging the fenders and maybe bottoming out.
The Alien (and the ship it was found on) was designed by H. R. Giger, also known for his "dead baby landscapes."
Now you can watch "Aliens" (the second one). I'd ignore all other sequels after that, though.
Actually, the scene about jettisoning Kane's body is the space equivalent of a burial at sea.
There was an alternate ending to this classic that only the preview/test audiences saw. In that version the Alien actually kills the entire Nostromo crew. The movie ends with a rescue ship approaching the Nostromo, & the alien mimicking the voice of one of the, now dead, crew to draw it in. The audiences didn't like that version, so we got the ending we all know. Zack Snyders Justice League gives me hope of that alternate cut being in an archive somewhere, just waiting to be re seen.
Lies. That was never anything more than some deranged idea Scott was spitballing during filming, and was shot down by the producers.
They have revealed almost every alternative take in the extras, even poorly shot dailies, and this has never been more than an urban legend.
The life of a Xenomorph are:
1. Egg
2. Facehugger (They die after laying embryo in host)
3. Chestbuster (Gestates and takes on D.N.A. from host and determines the characteristics of Drones or Warrior)
4. Drone Xeno or Warrior Xeno
5. Praetorian (Guards the Queen and if the Queen dies a Praetorian will take her place)
6. Queen
7. Queen-Mother
8. Empress
What's the Queen Mother and Empress? Were those from the movies?
Some wasps here on Earth lay their eggs inside hosts which gestate and then tear out of the hosts body and fly away.
The alien has three phases to its life cycle. The facehugger attaches itself to its host to implant the embryo. It then dies. When it's finished gestating the chestburster emerges. It then rapidly grows into an adult drone.
Definitely watch the director's cut of the sequel, Aliens.
Two things - the face hugger died after it layed its egg in John Hurt. The Alien then popped out and the 'Perfect organism' quickly grew to adapt and survive.
Now I can’t wait to see your reaction to Aliens.
*gasp* "Why's it so big?" Heard this one a few times in my life
@-Officialdawnmarie Reported
The Face-Hugger laid an embryo inside Kane's (John Hurt) chest. That became the "cricket" and that grew into the full-size Xenomorph (alien creature).
21:18 "Looks like he's been jizzed on. A lot." What other movies do you watch Dawn? 🤔🤣
Aliens is worth checking out. Especially the Director's cut/Special Edition.
The cat is probably the hardest target because it’s so fast and can smell or sense it coming
1. Ripley says to Parker, "You'll get what's coming to you." is prophetic.
2. There's a COC in the civilian world too. Cooperation wanted access to the Alien.
That becomes more clear in the second one.
3. Dallas/Tom Skerritt also played in "Top Gun" as Viper and "Up in Smoke" as Strawberry to name a couple.
4. Harry Dean Stanton(RIP) He had a very deep portfolio.😎
5. The hanging bodies at the end was not in the original release
6. That was a hell of a blast😲 Better than Star Wars.
7. Now that you're in this universe you MUST do Aliens next. (More action packed)
Harry Dean Stanton didn't want to be in "a monster movie" ... but he saw that this was no ordinary B-movie monster flick, and was quite happy to be the ALIEN's first proper victim.... and decades later, reprised his role for the "ALIEN:Isolation" Nostromo DLC
Up until 1979, aliens were extremely cheesy B-movie monsters, usually accompanied by terrible B-movie actors.
Maybe I'm wrong - Close Encounters (1977) presented aliens as wonderful friends, and the human actors - like Richard Dreyfuss - were anything but terrible ... and then Star Wars, where most of the aliens were sometimes naughty-but-cute.
1977: Let's reach for the stars and make friends with whatever's out there!
1979: Let's not.
The only problem with #1 is aside from ripley, parker was the least deserving of his death.
@@jazzx251 There's all kinds of cool with that. Thanks😁
@@crankfastle8138 True. Have you seen Yaphet Kotto in "Brubaker"? Killed it.😎
@@williamjones6031 He was a wonderful actor.
Long before ALIEN, he played the one and only black super villain, Kananga, in "Live and Let Die" (1973)
His death was particularly memorable, as James Bond fought him underwater and stuffed a helium bullet in his mouth, causing him to explode ... "He had an inflated opinion of himself" quipped 007.
In 1987, he played one of the contestants on sadistic future game show "The Running Man", where 'criminals' are hunted down in a maze for the entertainment of the masses! [I would love to see Donald Trump hunted down for my entertainment, probably by "VIXEN" - a superheroine with a flamethrower that grins into the camera and flicks her hair before every killl ...]
"The Running Man" inspired "Gladiators" (or "American Gladiators") a very successful real-life primetime gameshow in which normal people took on former athletes in a contest of skill. The former athletes were styled as superheroes with names such as "Hunter", "Panther" and "Wolf" etc.
"Drama Queen" is the right name (in a good way) for Veronica Cartwright. She started being one in weird movies as early as THE BIRDS, where she played the little girl.
Her sister was in Lost in Space, the tv series
She's actually English and I think she's cried in practically every film she's appeared in😄
If I remember correctly, it was John Hurt in Spaceballs also (it's been a while since I saw it). And when he starts choking, he quotes "Oh no, not again". ? 🙂
Back in the 70’s, got word about upcoming movies reading about them in certain magazines. They were talking about alien a full year before it’s release. How it was a horror movie in space. No escaping from the haunted mansion (the spaceship). How space travel had advanced so far that it was like having “truckers” as astronauts. And how they wrote most of the characters initially as male but decided to make some women, but not really change the dialogue. Also about HR Giger (check out his art! It’s wild!) designing the life cycle of the alien and it’s various stages.
I might remind you that there were some aliens in Life of Brian.
It also makes me wonder that somewhere in the universe, if Aliens were making films about Aliens... Are we a movie monster.
Also the franchise nobody thought they needed. "Alien Vs The Knights Who Say Ni". I'd pay to see that.
There's a Japanese movie called _Aliens v/s Ninjas_ which is all sorts of silly Japanese fun. Another ridiculous one is _Battle Heater Kotatsu_ which is hilariously weird. A Kotatsu is a kind of electric heater that mounts to the bottom of those low tables you see in traditional Japanese homes to keep your feet and legs warm. This one gets possessed by a demon and runs around an apartment complex eating people. Very very weird.
Alien is my favorite movie. Aside from a few moments (such as the awkward transition from Ash’s prosthetic head to the actor) it holds up amazingly well. Please watch Aliens now. There are two versions of the movie. You can’t go wrong with either one but I recommend the special edition.
As for your question, I do believe in aliens. The universe is so massive I can’t believe there isn’t other life out there somewhere. But I don’t think we’ve been visited.
Us old timers had to wait seven years for the sequel. Give thanks that you do not wait that long.
I saw this in the movie theater in 1979 when I was 11
Boys are brave! I would never 😂
The name of the ship is Nostromo, which is an anagram for “Mort Soon.” Mort means dead in French or Italian, so the name becomes Dead Soon.
What kind of Crickets do you have over there across the Pond? I ain't going now.
There was the egg... the face sucker came out and attached itself to the guy.. the face sucker laid an egg in the guys stomach then died. The alien burst out of his stomach, and grew huge. The only unanswered alien is what laid the eggs... Great reaction. Thank you. 😊
“Maybe it’s like an ant hive”
Thank you for being one of the ONLY reactors who figured out WHY Ripley had to go back and try to deactivate the self-destruct! Everyone else is clueless.
If only she knew that she actually can just kill it with flamethrower.
It was going to hibernate in the shuttle until either Ripley went into the sleep pod or they arrived someplace where it could run amok again and build out a nest.
As for the “sucker” thing. The Facehugger dies after it completes the embryo implantation process.
Imagine seeing this in a proper movie theatre, with a massive screen and big sound system! Great film.
Some of this was filmed in my home town, where the director is from, South Shields
This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. The suspense that is growing bigger and bigger as the movie goes on. Also; The music by Jerry Goldsmith is just fantastic!
Jerry Goldsmith's music definitely doesn't get enough love. Right from the very beginning of the movie it begins to fill you with dread and loneliness, and what's great about it is that it mostly is not really what you'd call "music" but just sort of ambient little groups of notes that instill some kind of fear, or loneliness or dread, suspense, etc. The real musical parts are reserved for the really important stuff like when Ripley finally destroys the alien at the end and it becomes hopeful.
Jerry Goldsmith was a fsntastic composer. He might not have been as keen to create memorable leitmotifs like John Williams or Alan Silvestri but he was excellent in creating mood for scenes.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere The end credits music is not a Goldsmith composition but from an existing piece of classic music.
There's two music pieces in this movie that are not original compositions but reuse of Goldsmith music he had composed for the film "Freud".
@@carlossaraiva8213 No doubt about it. His 'experimental' soundtrack for 1968's Planet of the Apes won an Oscar I believe. [Just looked. He was nominated but did not win.]
@@carlossaraiva8213 That's interesting. I've never heard that before. It fits perfectly though. I wonder if he ran out of time or if it was a last minute request by Ridley Scott to have that uplifting music at the end.
That cracked me up. "Looks like he's been jizzed on, ... a lot" 😁
Xenos are one of the coolest creature designs ever. They take aspects of whatever the host is. Imagine a triceratops-xeno!
My dad got me a foot tall action figure of the alien, and I had to put it in a drawer because it scared me so much. Still boggles my mind tat they made action figures for an R rated movie.
80's/90's had a few toy lines based on R-rated movies. Rambo, Robocop, Terminator, talking Freddy Krueger dolls. I know Alien was 1979 not 80's but close enough.
I didn't even want to watch this ...
It was a Sunday night, I had school the next morning ... I flicked through the 4 channels on the TV, and my eyes lit up!
A spaceman was exploring a planet - it was like Star Trek, but done really well! I settled down into the sofa ..
... the spaceman found a derelict spaceship with "eggs" in it. He looked into one of the eggs after it opened ...
FUUUCKKK!!! - I have never been as scared in all my life!!
And the rest of the movie just got worse and worse - but my eyes were glued to the screen.
I was traumatised for life, but it was worth it! :)
Now they have plush toys of facehuggers with posable legs and tail… and the child in me wants one… to keep my face warm in the cold winter months of course… not to prank people or anything, because that would be mean 😂
I used to have most of the toys including a big alien queen🙂I always wanted the Space Jockey
The Facehugger (not sucker, it certainly wasn’t sucking), the horrific thing to think about is, when Dallas asks “what’s it got down his throat?”, and then a baby alien “births” from Kane’s chest, that’s when you realise what “it” was that was down his throat… and that it wasn’t there consensually. As I said, it was sucking, it was something that rhymes.
17:32 jazz hands 😂
You should definitely watch Aliens, but watch the special edition, it has scenes that were cut from theatrical release, but they give more depth to the story.
“Oooh, why is it sooo big..?!”
That’s what she said… 😏
The alien, there's only one at a time, goes through several life stages. Its life cycle is informed by different kinds of parasitic insects. When the egg opens the face-hugger comes out looking for a living host. It then injects a larva into the host, which bursts out after feeding on the host from the inside. This echoes several kinds of parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the bodies of other insects and after hatching the larva feeds on the live host from the inside until it metamorphoses into an adult wasp.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid_wasp
The jaws within jaws is designed after the pharyngeal jaws of the moray eel. Many fish species have pharyngeal jaws, a second set of jaws deep in the throat, which help in chewing their prey. The moray eels are the only species that have extensible pharyngeal jaws which come forward into the mouth and help in catching the prey and pulling it back into the throat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_jaw
The only thing which is never explained is how the alien grows so large so quickly after feeding on only some bits of John Hurt. Maybe there are other things on the ship it can feed on, such as space rats or leftover Chinese food, until it grows large enough to hunt people. Perhaps that is explained in the novel.
Baffled by the space rats 😂
That's easy to explain. The alien went to the Mass Bank and borrowed 800 lbs.
What everyone seems to miss is how much time has passed between the parasite bursting out of Cain and when Brettr was taken....Remember that in between those 2 events the crew had time to wrap up Cain in his burial shroud and then launch him into space and THEN for the crew to design and fabricate weapons and scanners to fight and track the alien so the alien would have had plenty of time to feed and grow to it's larger size. Maybe it broke into food stores on the ship while all that was going on.. It could have had days or even a week before they found it again and it attacked.
@@DawnMarieX My Dad was in the navy and told how the wharf rats were huge and would walk up and down the ropes tying the ship to the dock. I could see them going into space if space travel from earth becomes common. Well know Scottish actor Sean Connery was in a movie about space called Outland where he basically played a sheriff in space on a mining outpost and the miners brought all their problems with them, drug abuse, prostitution, crime. Watching the movie Outland, I realized that of course, if people were living in space they would bring all their human problems with them! (maybe even a few rats).
🎵When the jaws open wide & there's more jaws inside, that's a MORAY🎵
Actor John Hurt played Kane in both _Alien_ and _Spaceballs_ . That's why he said "Not again!" in the latter. 😂
The actor you recognised from The Green Mile is Harry Dean Stanton. He's a fantastic actor, but has a reputation of being almost impossible to work with. Many stories of huge conflicts on set when he's around, but others say he's a great guy.
It goes like this: The Egg releases the face-hugger.. The face-hugger plants an embryo in the victim's body, and that bursts out of their chest (Chest-burster/Cricket thing). After a while, the chest-burster sheds it's skin and grows into the adult alien. Watch Aliens (Alien 2) to explain more.
One of the greatest movies ever made. Genre defining. And my favourite movie of all time.
The idea we come from Aliens is what the movie and tv show Stargate theme is all about. And I think HP Lovecraft had a story theme along those lines as well.
It absolutely is a 70s movie, it just doesn’t look it because it’s such a masterpiece, hell it still looks great today, imagine how amazing this looked in 1979!
Excited to watch this tonight when all the Thanksgiving activities are over. Looking forward to the Aliens reaction as well.
Hope you enjoy! I can’t wait to see Aliens 😁
@@DawnMarieX You won't be disappointed, great sci-fi action flick by James Cameron. Don't go researching before you watch it. Love your grey hair, by the way!
Say, is that an Irish accent you're speaking with? Lovely!
@@DawnMarieX Gotta be honest -- after your prior film, now I really wish I could see an "Alien"-sequel starring the Marx Brothers (!)
@@DawnMarieX that was great, I think you're really going to love the sequel even though it's more of an action horror than pure suspense. Technically there were two aliens in this one, the face hugger and the chest burster. The shed skin was from the chest burster after it grew. I think one of the things that really makes the movie is that the monster keeps changing and growing so you never know what to expect next. Thank you for sharing, it was a great way to end the day.
@@Robert_Douglass Scottish, good sir
The fact that Dawn's sole knowledge of this movie was based on Spaceballs filled me with such deep joy when I started watching this. I was so looking forward to her expectations of the alien being subverted and she did not disappoint!
This is a great movie!! love your reaction! Great catch seeing it towards the end most people including me do not catch that. The Face hugger did die after it implanted the alien in the crew member, the skin was shed by the small chestbursting alien as it was growing into the bigger one. Now you must Watch Aliens (the sequel) which is also great!
Kane got a sea burial but in space, so that is indeed very respectful. Thry comited his body to the stars.
In the director's cut Parker and Ripley did see Brett being pulled into the airduct. This is why Parker says it was huge. Never understood why this part was ever cut. It's only a few seconds and explains how he knew how big it was.
"Why did they let Kane on the ship?" "Why didn't anybody notice the facehugger depositing a baby monster into Kane's chest on the x-rays?" "Why didn't they let Parker stab the thing with his knife as soon as it came out of Kane's chest?" "Why didn't the detectors work well enough to keep Dallas safe in the vents?" all have the same answer.
Because Ash.
ahh the power of a jump scare get's you even when you see it coming, classic
The sequel "Aliens" is a good action film worth watching.
So is Alien 3
Very nice one, ma'am. EXCELLENT editing. You left all the pertinent/important parts to best cover all the excitement and needed info. So many other reactors edit out key components.
They were able to get the same actor when the Alien burst out of his chest in 'Spaceballs', that's why he says ''not again!'
The 'face hugger' is dead, the 'chest burster' has grown massively after shedding its skin.
You wait till to see Aliens Dawn, fantastic sequel and end to the story.
"Looks like he's been 💦 on... A lot..."
🤣🤣🤣
Poor Ian Holm, getting stuffed under a table for that scene with all that goo on his face and milk leaking from his mouth 😖 with hot set lights glaring down on him... I feel bad for him when I watch that scene (but not Ash... F that corporate stooge!)
I was 15 when this flick was in theaters. I stole the movie poster out of the marquee, framed it, and it still hangs on the wall to this day.
No way! That’s awesome.
Thats a hell of a collectable!
@@Cherokeelion I dunno. Ya think? Every theater in the country prolly had 6 of them.
@@davemcbroom695 and how many survive 40 plus years later? I have two theater ones from 1977 Star Wars. Any surviving posters in decent condition of the classics are hot collectibles
@@Cherokeelion Only for as long as people are willing to pay for them though.
It’s the first time I see a first-time reaction to that ventilator jumpscare where the viewer didn’t get scared 😂😂😂
Take into account when you see the reactions of this crew about the alien, that they are supposedly the first ones encountering this alien, so everything about this creature takes them absolutely by surprise (except for one crewmember, by now you know which one).
" Make sure to get your face right up in there Morty, those face huggers are worth a fortune"
In the book, they are hunting the alien chestburster for a week, it has been eating the rats that Jones the ships cat is there to deal with, then it gets bigger and breaks into the ships stores and is eating those. That is the full story of how it gets so big.
"How did it get so big" indeed. Asked the right questions. Good reaction. Was not sure you were going to be able to handle it.
7:57 fun fact the Alien moving in the egg is Ridley Scott's hand in a rubber glove
9:10 you need kill it first 9:38 you were saying
Incase you didn't catch it,. The actor where the alian shoots out of his stomach was the late great John Hurt from the Harry potter franchise. He was the wand seller.