Aliens (1986) Is A *JAW-DROPPING* Sequel Done Right! - First Time Watching - Movie Reaction/Review
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- Get ready for jaws dropping in this reaction as Cameron and Isaiah sit down to watch Aliens (1986) on Max together for the very first time! Sigourney Weaver absolutely nails it as the female protagonist Ripley and shows more of her motherly-like instincts in this role, and James Cameron takes on this franchise and shines as such a great director! if you agree and enjoyed this reaction, show some support and leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite scene from the movie "Aliens"!
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The thing about practical effects is that when done right, they never age. This film still looks great.
James Cameron got his start as a practical special effects guy for Roger Corman in tiny-budget slasher flicks sometimes shot in a day or two, where he had to invent creative effects on a shoestring budget using whatever was lying around. The heavy machine gun harness that Vasquez and Drake use was cleverly put together from a steadi-cam rig, and the weird-looking transport vehicle was an obsolete airport tow truck.
@@charlize1253$18.5 million in 1986 money isn't exactly "shoestring." Sure it's not T2's budget but it's not Evil Dead either.
they feel more real than cgi
@@redpillfreedom6692Indeed not "shoestring", but even Fox budgeted the Aliens script for 35 mio. (which was too much, as the original Alien was 11 mio.) but Gale and James convinced them they can do it for half. So with basically 7 mio. more they pulled that spectacle off. For the most part, the effects still look phenomenal.
@@positivealignmentyup by far
Ripley is epitomy of Competence. From first film on, everything she does, smart, competent decisions and she learns skills. She doesn't magically have amazing set of skills. She doesn't cut corners but learns new stuff, adding her competence as heroine.
She's also genuinely feminine. A true mama bear.
In a cut scene, we find out that Ripley had a young daughter who aged and died while Riplay was in hypersleep. It helps explain her motherly connection with Newt.
I think that scene should have been included because literally everybody back in the day suspected Newt was "impregnated".
Definitely glad these guys watched the original cut though. There are lengthy scenes of the colony in the longer cut that are very good scenes themselves but it greatly distorts the mystery vibe of the movie. I agree with the general sentiment that the first viewing is best with the original cut but subsequent viewings work better with the cut scenes.
It is in the Director's cut that runs 150 minutes. I have it and the scene is so sad. @@silikon2
@@silikon2I miss the sentry gun scenes though, they were decent.
@@moviewatcher1127the sentry gun scenes r the best. & I feel the stuff with her daughter was needed. It’s only 20min longer.
And it explains Alien Isolation
That was a great line.."Bishop takes queen"....but then Queen takes Bishop!
Check!
Illegal move 😱
The queen is too busy having sex with her twin brother, the knight. I know! I read the rules! I can quote the entire rulebook: "Game of Thrones Chess Set rules. Part One....." I could go on, but that would just be showing off.
Besides...it's kinda hard for a bishop to take a queen unless you make a reallllllllly newbie blunder or it's part of a planned sequence of trades.
8:48 "He seems like he's actually a nice guy" lolz
😂😂😂
HE HAD ME TRICKED TOO GIRL DONT ACT LIKE YOU WERENT LMAO
Sigourney Weaver is the daughter of Sylvester “Pat” Weaver, the innovative former president of NBC Television. He was the creator of the Tonight and Today shows, among others. If you guys haven’t already done so, you need to see her in “Ghostbusters” and “Galaxy Quest.” Carrie Henn, who played Newt, only appeared in this one film. She grew up to become an elementary school teacher (aka, a normal person).
About 10 years ago I was surprised to run across a teenaged Carrie Henn in a made-for-TV movie about some kind of exclusive private school (unfortunately I can't recall the name). I recognized her immediately, she still looks remarkably similar. But it's true that she did hardly anything after Aliens.
Thank God for that!
Yup, Kevin Smith interviewed her at the 30th anniversary of the movie: ruclips.net/video/WDeW92lK4k8/видео.html
Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for best actress for Aliens. That was the first time an actress was nominated for a SciFi/action film. It was also recognition of how she dominated the film. I saw Aliens in the theater in 1986. Bill Paxton as Hudson provided the comic relief he said the things some of us in the audience were thinking. Great film.
Absolutely. He's awesome here and totally hilarious. I love all the characters in this film.
You know Sigourney Weaver's acting is good when the AMPAS nominated her for Best Actress. That was unheard of for science fiction/action movies at the time.
Sigourney shouldve won and Linda Hamilton shouldve been nominated for Best Actress in T2
Totally unprecedented, and the Oscars were already like 60 then.
@@charlesswitzer8378 Ellen Burstyn was nominated for The Exorcist. Linda Blair almost won Best Supporting Actress
@@LukeLovesRose
1. Exorcist was not Sci-Fi/Action
2. How do you know Linda Blair "almost won"? Do you have access to the secret voting records from that year?
@@USCFlash Why does this mean so much to you??
I loved seeing the extended edition of this. Really gave context to why Ripley cares for Newt, not that you don't get that in the theatrical version, but it just adds to it.
Without it, it doesn't really make sense that she would go into the Alien nest and be willing to die there (and kill Hicks, Bishop) for a girl she barely met 5 minutes before. The special edition completely removes that question, and you understand that, of course, she would do that.
@@miller-joelAs the first commenter said, it adds to the why but I don't think anyone is in doubt that she'd be willing to do it even without the scene (joking aside). Saying it doesn't make sense without it is going too far. It's fine to prefer having that extra info and scene but the movie makes it clear she has a connection to the kid.
@@TheycallmeMrWonka We'll have to disagree. Without the loss of her daughter, maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't. Knowing Ripley lost her daughter AND felt guilty about leaving her for work, she 100.000% would, no question about it.
And not just any work. Working for the Company. Let that sink in. She sacrificed time with her daughter to work for the Company that killed her entire crew to get an alien specimen.
@@miller-joel , it makes perfect sense. Ripley went back for Jones in the first movie. It did not make sense if Ripley had indeed met Newt only 5 minutes before, but that is not what happened in the movie. She had already bonded with Newt and put under her wings. Why should Ripley needed to be a mother in order for her relationship with Newt make sense? Newt was a child in danger and that is enough motivation for most normal thinking people to be protective. If you need to said something that did not happened in the movie to prove your point that means you had no argument to begin with.
@@PungiFungi Going back for Jones doesn't compare to going into an alien nest. And Ripley tried to disarm the Nostromo's self-destruct. Did you even watch the movies?
Fun fact, hardly ANY computer generated imagery “cgi” in this glorious production. Meaning real people created real life effects and imagery to produce this masterpiece ❤
Zero CGI.
One slightly dodgy back-projected shot (which looked ropey at the time) but otherwise holds up well.
Not really a fun fact. CGI didn’t exist in 1986.
@@crouchingotter Star Trek II used CGI in 1982 and Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985, but it looked like 1980s graphics. There's none in Aliens.
@@miller-joel so it did. I stand corrected. I also completely forgot about TRON in 1982 which wouldn’t have worked if not for the CGI it used.
Funny lines: One of the best ones was when the one guy asked Vasquez if she'd ever been mistaken for a man and she asks if he's ever been mistaken for a man. 😆
It's also a quote from the fabulous and feisty Tallulah Bankhead, someone actually asked her that in an interview and she replied quick as a whip. Except she added "darling" coz she was a classy dame 😉
Vasquez and Ripley = how strong female Characters should be portrayed 😍
@@toschememestation1031 Vasquez was the inspiration for the short-lived characted of Tasha Yar in ST:TNG
its clever, that's why its so good. in another context, i feel like it could translate as "sexist" or bad taste, especially nowadays... but the movie portrays vasquez as a badass who could, easily, be a better leader, or soldier than a man, or simply a better person.... its a case where mistakening her for a man would be a compliment, not criticism 🤣🤣
@@joaoluizfonseca6914 Oh, he was definitely talking smack--not to be mean, but just busting her chops. But she gave as good as she got. 🙂
You forgot to show the best scene. "it´s over man. GAME OVER MAN"
RIP BILL PAXTON, Legend 🕊
Almost everything out of Hudson's mouth is a meme ;)
"Why don't you just put her in charge!"
@@silikon2 true. Love how he played the same character in Predator 2^^
That was the first time we heard that line. And it instantly became part of the American lexicon.
Arguably the best sequel ever made; followed by T2, Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Lethal Weapon 2.
In defense of Vasquez and Drake; Gorman doesn’t tell them why they can’t fire their weapons. It isn’t Gorman’s fault either; he was a shave-tail looey with no experience thrown into a decidedly non-textbook situation.
Godfather 2
Godfather Part 2 is up there with Aliens as a sequel, albeit a totally different genre!
You can also argue that maybe none of them get out of that situation if they don't let rip and ultimately it's better to survive a little longer than to all die immediately.
I think T2 was a better sequel for the terminator than this was for alien, maybe because T2 is part of my childhood much more than alien, but still.... I'd say this one goes second, T2 goes first in my list.... but you're right, this is a masterpiece film
Nothing worse than a green Lt.
RIP to Bill Paxton. The only actor to be killed by a Predator, a Terminator, and an Alien
Lance Henriksen was too!
@@anacarolmsc COOL! Did not know that, thnx
Vasquez and Drake were mobile heavy machine gunners. Even today, a heavy machine gun crew could be 3-4 people. That steady cam rigg was fucking dope! And when Vasquez says Let's Rock!👌
For me, the end of this movie is where the story ends.
For me, it continues in William Gibson’s version of _Alien3,_ and then the Dark Horse Comics _Aliens_ series.
Alien 3 was a crime.
@@zatoichi1 I appreciate what they tried to do with Alien 3 by bringing it back to 1 alien and no weapons, but the death of Newt and Hicks at the start ruined everything. This should have been set sometime after Newt and Hicks made it back leaving it open for a grown up Newt to be in a later sequel after Ripley's death. And speaking of Ripley's death the thing that annoyed me most was that she was still alive AFTER the queen burst out of her. That was too silly and ruined what would have been a great sacrificial death.
Alien , Predator and Terminator all end after the second movie.
I enjoy Alien:Resurrection but I think of it as a parody.
@@zatoichi1 To this day I deny that Alien 3 exists.
I love the way they designed the face hugger. First it wraps its tail around the Ripleys neck and choke them until they open there mouth and then in they go.
The alien designs, all stages, were done by one man, HR Giger.
He also designed the alien form of Sil in the movie Species (1995).
Can you totally dig that the queen was ALL practical Fx?!?! 🤯😃👍❤️🎬
Practical effects made the great monster movies, Critters, Aliens, Predator, Ghoulies, The Thing, The Relic to name a few
As much as I enjoy your humorous reactions as you're watching, it's your serious, in-depth analyses afterward that are truly impressive. You two are very good at what you do.
In the directors cut / special edition there’s some interesting deleted scenes:
Hudson talking about his squad of ultimate badasses on the ride down
2 scenes of robotic turrets shooting aliens
An entire scene set in Hadleys Hope where you see Newts parents find the crashed ship with the eggs
And the most import a quick scene between Ripley and Burke where we find out Ripley had a daughter and she passed away 2 years earlier at 67. Her daughter Amanda gets her own pretty damn good survival horror video game in Alien Isolation. Highly recommended.
Dude, spoiler alert!
The Hadley's Hope scene takes place soon after Ripley's debriefing, when the company is informed of the ship's (and eggs) existence. So we know someone from the company wanted the aliens.
Everybody misses that when Bishop says "I'm the only one qualified to remote-pilot the ship anyway" Ripley gives him a look - of course, Ripley is qualified to remote-pilot that ship - she lets him do it.
That's amazing, I must have watched this movie a hundred times and I didn't cotton on to the meaning of that look! I had always assumed it was just because of Ripley's general disdain for & distrust of Bishop at that point in the story 😂
Technically shes had her qulification revoked still
"Of course"? No. There's no indication she's qualified to remote pilot a military ship 57 years in her future. She had to train to drive the power loader. She's capable and resourceful, but she's not a Mary Sue.
@@miller-joel I would guess her "look" is because that skill/education is limited to the android, and no humans in the remaining survivors could do it. Planned by the company for a reason, and we all know she doesn't trust the company.
@@w1975b Ferro was a capable pilot. But she died in the crash. Maybe Ripley was surprised Bishop volunteered.
Sigourney Weaver was a teen model. She’s shown in the audience of an early Beatles performance.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I still have the special edition laserdisc set.
Burke is played by Paul Reiser. He’s Dr Owens in Stranger Things, and did a lot of good work as a young actor.
Top tier comedian in his time 🎉
He's also in The Boys.
Didn't his mother cheer when she watched the movie at the premiere?
@@slytheringingerwitch I believe she did, yes.
He was also in Beverly Hills Cop, as Eddie Murphy’s Detroit buddy
I love how the writers made us believe in the beginning that Bishop would be the bad guy and Burk is the good guy. They then flip the script where Burk is actually the bad guy and Bishop is the good guy. First saw this at a surround sound theater in NYC. I came out with such a headache, but completely satisfied! Still one of my top 3 movies of all time. Great reaction guys - had me laughing all through the review! So glad to share this movie with you after all these years.
Something most people aren’t aware of, Lieutenant (specifically 2nd Lieutenant) is the Lowest ranking officer. ( basically the Private on the officer side).
It’s part of what makes the inexperienced Lt. Gorman the best candidate to have brought in for the mission, since Burke didn’t want to have too many surviving Marines to have to deal with on his return plan.
It's amazing that they only made 4 full xenomorph costumes and used them over and over again to depict hundreds of aliens 😯
6 they made
@@deg6788thanks yoda
There’s a great novel entitled River of Pain that covers the events during the 57 years Ripley was adrift in space. It tells how the colony is founded, it’s development, and how it eventually falls to the aliens. A bit heartbreaking, but still a good read.
I was really hoping that you guys would’ve watched the special edition, which contains 17 extra minutes of very important scenes. When I finally watched the special edition, when it came out in the 90s, I was so impressed, that I refused to watch the theatrical version ever again.
we used to play that knife game in school...class of 89
Whenever I stayed home sick from school growing up, I always made my mom go to Blockbuster or the grocery store and rent this movie. Top three action movie of all time.
Indeed
One of the best sequels ever many, among a precious few. Ripley and Vazquez are fire
The queen has an egg tube that's similar to some insects. It's generated when they're fertile and can be dropped.
Guys i was your age when i rented this movie from blockbuster and watched it with my friend and it blew our minds. I am over 50 now and it remains one of my favourite movies of all time. There is a new alien movie coming out next year and a TV series which is based on earth. Disney now owns the rights to alien and they're trying to reboot the franchise. You guys are lucky, i wish i could experience aliens for the first time all over again. So glad you enjoyed this movie. Take care from here in the UK.
"Bishop takes Queen" - Dude, why'd you had me laughing out loud with that corny joke! 😂🤣
The real plot twist is we learn that the Aliens are witches:
They turned Rebecca into a Newt.
...she got better! ;-o
XD XD XD
OMG I NEVER CAUGHT THAT
The late Bill Paxton (Hudson) was in a very good horror/suspect thriller titled, "Frailty" (2001), which also starred Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe (of Sin City).
Bill Paxton was also in Predator 2.
He almost made it into 1994’s version of Godzilla. But that sadly never happened. It’s sad that he died. He could’ve easily made a comeback in films today.
oh my god, you're silent stunned responses to the eggs scene at 39:11 is amaze-balls
I spat out my drink... I LITERALLY watched your Alien reaction earlier today and was upset that you hadn't reacted to the sequel yet 😭😂
You just had to drop this right when I was about to go to sleep.
😂
Cam & Zay… UP All Night! 😉
You know you were pretty drunk that one night when you can't even remember having spaceballs in your face.
Alien was horror. Aliens is mostly action…mostly.
Well, you can’t just expect the horror to blast itself with heavy firepower. Gotta get in there, and give it some action!
“…mostly.” 😂
Cool trivia: when James Cameron was casting the role of Newt, virtually every child actor gave a very happy, bubbly audition. Then Carrie Henn came in and gave an audition for a character dead serious as well as suffering from severe PTSD.... Cameron practically hired her on the spot.
Loved y'all's reaction! Cam, you always crack me up when you're struggling not to puke. 🤢 Sorry--I feel bad for taking pleasure in your pain. The things you do to entertain us. 🙂
After this movie came out when inwas a teen, you have NO idea how many guys tries to do the knife hand trick in my school! 😆 So many injuries!
“Game over, man…. Game over.”
Cam in any survival situation 😂
I’m a simple man. I see Aliens/T2, I click 💯💪🏼 I subbed
These classic movies that are well done look so good not because of cgi, it's the practical effects! The huge queen puppet, the alien suits look so convincing! Cgi just wouldn't do it here imo! By the way, you 2 are so funny to watch!
That is what those without do to those who have. When you're intelligent, you are mocked by those who aren't.
Not many people catch the Terminator callback when Newt bites Hicks when they first encounter her.
Recall in Terminator when Sarah Connor bites Reese and he calmly tells her, "Terminators don't feel pain...I do. Don't do that again!"
Unlike when Newt bites him he yells, "Ow!" 😁
Also in the original script, Ash was called a Cyberdyne android, ie the company that makes Skynet. This was changed to Hyperdyne in the movie.
By far 1 of the greatest sequels in movie history! Brilliant choice guys
The queen alien is still my favourite movie creature effect. No cgi, not a model but a full size crane-lifted puppet with hydraulics, pulleys, control rods and 16 handlers(2 inside it). And NO digital removal of those in post. Cameron used every trick (steam, slime, lighting, angles) to make sure that none of thise were visible on screen.
Just one of the reasons why this is my favourite movie.
James Cameron got his start as a practical special effects guy for Roger Corman in tiny-budget slasher flicks sometimes shot in a day or two, where he had to invent creative effects on a shoestring budget using scraps of whatever was lying around. The heavy machine gun harness that Vasquez and Drake use was cleverly put together from a steadi-cam rig, and the weird-looking transport vehicle was an obsolete airport tow truck.
Thank you, Cameron! Thank you, Isaiah! 👾 I'm glad y'all acknowledged director James Cameron. ෴ The little actor who portrayed 'Newt' is Carrie Henn. She grew up to be a teacher and is big on the convention circuit. She seems awesome. ෴ The extended version makes it clear that 'Ripley' had a daughter who grew old and died while she was in hibernation. That further explains her quick attachment to 'Newt'.
yea the director`s cut shows that ripley had a daughter that died at age 66. she left when the girl had 10 years old. newt took that place for ripley.
@@aagc1988 Thanks, Andres! 🍻
I'd highly recommend watching the extended/directors cut. There are some great scenes that were cut for the theatrical release. 🤟😎
Such a great sequel, and movie in general.
Man too bad you didn’t watch the Director’s cut. You find out Ripley had a Daughter that was the same age as Newt but is now dead at age 66. It changes the whole dynamic
This movie never gets old. I can watch it over and over again.
I still have part 1 and 2 on videotape.
Question: is the lighting much darker on your videotape than in the movie we see online today? I recorded my own videotape off cable when it first aired and it was much darker, which for me created even better atmosphere. Always wondered if I just had a bad recording or if they remastered and brightened the picture.
@@adoptdontshoppets Hi, thank you for your question.
I honestly can't tell you.
It has been many years ago I watched the tapes (Last time in the 90s I quess). I don't think I am able to watch and tell you cause I don't have the possibility to connect the VCR to my LED tv 🫤
@@--ilse-- You can buy SCART TO HDMI adapter...
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. My mom was not big on taking me to see R rated movies in the theater but she wanted to see it too.
I nearly crapped my pants and had nightmares for like a week but man what an unforgettable theater experence.
I was 14 and had to convince my parents to take me. They enjoyed the ride.
44:57: and so it was… the world to have witnessed the first intergalactic pimp slap!
This is my favorite movie of all time! 2nd is Terminator 2 and 3rd is Gladiator. Looooove Aliens!
And they lived happily ever after, there was never an Alien 3 or 4. Go straight into Predator, Predator 2, and Predators- then into Alien va Predator movies. (If you watch Alien 3, it will only piss you off.) Also, not sure if you noticed in Alien, Aliens- the Xenomorph does NOT immediately die in the vacuum of space. Almost like they were that way🧐. Q: how much $ would it take to have had Cam do clean up on set after the Queen uterus bursting scene?
Cam probably couldn't stop vomiting to do the work, no matter how much money offered lol.
"Bishop! You brought the Queen!"
Bishop ripped in two.
He's sorry.
Pro Tip: ALWAYS watch Cameron's films in the Director's Cut editions.
ALWAYS. 😊
The Abyss is the only one of those worth watching.
And the theatrical cut of T2 is the real director's cut.
I saw this opening night in Omaha, Nebraska, in the balcony of the since-demolished Indian Hills Cinema. Through November of 1986, I saw it in theaters another eight times. Then when it hit video in February ’87, we bought the Beta cassette for rental price-over $90.
Also: Y U NO WATCH SPECIAL EDITION 😡
Special Edition is great fun. But you and I both fell in love with theatrical cut. Special Edition is a treat for fans once you’ve seen the theatrical cut!
Cam, Your favorite movie (Avatar & Avatar 2) stars Ellen Ripley, Aka Sigourney Weaver. She is legend!
If you guys want to see what happened to the colonists and the planet you get to see partially some of that in the director's cut
You have to watch the directors cut, or at least deleted scenes, it answers so many questions. Gives more back story for Ripley.
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"We've lost contact with the colony".
This implies that they've had (presumably regular) contact with the colony since it founded 20 years ago, and nothing has gone wrong up to now. So....why have they suddenly (post corporate-Ripley meeting) lost contact? Hmmm...
Jenette Goldstein(Vasquez), Lance Henrickson(Bishop), and Bill Paxton(Hudson) are all memorable in the vampire movie, "Near Dark."
I saw this in the theater as a teen in 1986 and it was totally awesome. I saw the first movie in the theater as a young boy and it really freaked me out. Nothing like seeing good movies on the big screen. These are some of the movies that should be re-released in theaters today. I know I would go see them.
This movie was like an amusement park attraction in the theater. A remaster for IMAX with Dolby Atmos would be amazing. Especially for the fortieth anniversary.
I didn't see it in theater, but on HBO, late and by myself on a Saturday night. I was 12 in 1987. Still nostalgic for me.
Theaters do rerelease old movies now. Last year they did Jurassic Park for the anniversary. Check your theaters for which movies they are doing.
Edit to add, this summer they are also doing Ghibli movies too.
@@memyoldie They need to advertise it more and also make it an event! Some sort of giveaway or sell one-of-a-kind merch or have movie-related foods or tshirts, etc.
I went to the cinema back in 1986 as a 13-year-old with some adult friends of my family, and did not know what I was getting myself into. Pure horror and becoming a lifetime Aliens fan.
Yes it would be amazing to see Newt grown up in a sequel ... which is why you must promise to never never NEVER watch Aliens 3. Please, I beg of you ....
I still unironically love Alien 3 (and Alien resurrection-I think I have a sickness) but they did do Newt and Hicks dirty in A3.
Loved this watchalong with you two.
While it is asking a lot to repeat lightning-in-a-bottle that is the first two, especially by such master-craftsmen like Ridley and Cameron, I reeeally hope you continue with the rest.
Ripley, a strong female lead. Done right. And every man cheers her on and holds her in high esteem. Hollywood has completely forgotten how to do this.
James Cameron got his start as a practical special effects guy for Roger Corman in tiny-budget slasher flicks sometimes shot in a day or two, where he had to invent creative effects on a shoestring budget using scraps of whatever was lying around. You can see his skills in his early movies like Terminator, Aliens, and the Abyss, which had amazing practical effects for the time. The heavy machine gun harness that Vasquez and Drake use was cleverly put together from a steadi-cam rig, and the weird-looking transport vehicle was an obsolete airport tow truck.
The special edition (director's cut) is approx. 35 minutes longer and completely changes the movie for the better imho.
It's 18 minutes longer...
Another great choice!
As a teenager in 1986, I did see this on the big screen. That is an experience that is impossible to replicate these days. I am a tough guy who is hard to scare, but after this movie, anybody tapped my shoulder to get my attention up to a week after got to watch me jump-turn to see what was actually there, lol.
The game is about Ripley's daughter, the company found the black box of the og ship, but they lost contact with the ship that retrieved it. So they sent her daughter to investigate what happened with it. The game is set between the first movie and the second (the one you're watching). There's a deleted scene where Ripley asks about her daughter to Burke, that's why this movie focus on her relation with Newt. There's a new movie coming out this year, Alien Romulos. It will be about what happened to this colony
that gag reflex at the queens egg sac bleeding shows how convincing the directing in this movie was! BTW my favorite film of all time. seen it dozens of times. 47 years old now but it's been my favorite since I was 15.
When I was in junior high, my friends and I rented this and Predator together pretty much every weekend for a year and watched them over and over again.
35:24 To me, one of the best arcs and acting in the whole movie is the THOUSAND YARD STARE that Lt. Gorman develops before going back to save the injured Vasquez. His face is bathed in red light, like he's a man baptized in blood and casualties. He doesnt even look like same guy at the beginning who was scared, confused, and fresh off the combat simulator.
It's a tiny detail, but his EYES are just so different after their horrific first contact. Big props to the actor for taking his role seriously.
ALSO....Hudson was my favorite ("Game over, man!" , "Whadyou mean, they cut the power?! They're animals!" ), especially since you see that even though he's crapping his pants, he's truly a fourth quarter player when the chips are down. Surrounded, outnumbered, retreating and he's chanelling all his human terror into dealing alien death. "You want some?! You want some?! Get some some! How 'bout you!? Get some! Get some!"
Waist deep in hell, he wouldnt go gentle down into that floor. They're on his legs, on his arms, on his back, and he's still pulling a trigger and talkin' smack. Those xenomorph bastards had to drag Hudson down by the face! That's a hard man.
"It would be cool to see a sequel, like down the line where she's the main character as an adult and everything..." Remember these words, guys!
Paul Reiser's character in Aliens, Carter Burke, was so immediately hated that during the movie's premiere his sister hit him, and when Burke's death occurred, his mom's response was simply "good."
There is a book that explains Ripley's missing 57 years. There is a cut scene where Ripley comes across the cocooned body of Burke and he asks for help.
I love how when the motion tracker shows the Aliens coming in the complex, Newt has absolutely NO patience to wait around and see what happens... She's seen this routine already.
Love this movie. I play it every week when cleaning the house, which my friends tease me for. It just has the three key parts: great acting, great practical effects, and a script that does not rely on absolute stupidity from every character to propel the story forward. It makes sense that Burke’s greed made him act like he did - low personal risk crap moves. It’s understandable that the pilots didn’t realize the gravity of the situation and not be on guard from something they thought was a hallucination from extended cryo. And while Ripley was a beast in this, she showed fear and uncertainty too. Not the overly dramatized “you got this girl” crap but visceral reactions that people would actually experience. Just so good.
Fun fact about this movie...the dozens and dozens of aliens attacking was accomplished with just six stunt people in costumes. It was the camera angles and quick cut edits. If you want to check out another James Cameron sci-fi, check out The Abyss Special Edition. At the time, it broke ground with CGI effects. I say Special Edition because there's a key scene in the movie that didn't really make sense in the theatrical cut, but in the SE, the whole scene was intact and it definitely makes things a clearer. Not gonna say anymore. Thanks for the post.
Funfact: The woman who plays Vasquez is the foster mom in Terminator 2
You guys gotta watch this movie called "House" made in 1986. 3 scenes in that movie traumatized me from 5 years old and I still had nightmares about those till I was 15 (I'm 37 now). Anyone who's seen that movie knows what scenes I'm talking about
Also Rawhead Rex, Arachnophobia and The Relic
I saw this when it came out at the movie house and the theater was packed. When Burke finally got his well deserved comeuppance, the whole audience cheered. This film was revolutionary by casting Ripley as the bad-ass heroine, a role had always been played by a lead male. Things ain't been the same since, and I'm glad of it. Ripley's line "Get away from her YOU BITCH!" is iconic, and the audience cheered that too.
OMG. I've been waiting for you guys to get to this one!!! 😃👍❤️🎬
And they didn't even watch the right version?
This is one of my favorite movies, watching it for the first time on new years eve 1994 when I was 11. Such a perfect mix of action/sci fi/horror and bad assery❤
I have watched lots of Aliens reactions, honestly, your take is just the best! For such young people, you have the sense to make logical decisions and analyse the situation as is! Also.. the drama 😂😂 “at this point I would faint!”
There's a really good audio drama/book Called: "Alien: River of pain. "
It's only about 4 hours long as an audio drama...
And in that book it describes exactly what happens to this colony. Definitely worth a read/ listen. Believe it's free on audible..
without spoilers the video game takes place after the first movie and it has Ripley's daughter in it.
When you said "I wish they did the story of what happened before Ripley and the marines got there?" they did, but it's only in a book. Audible did an audio drama of it and it's an amazing story. Sounds effects, music, voice acting the whole shebang. Just no visuals. It's called" Aliens : River of Pain" directed by Dirk Maggs. Most people don't know about this hidden gem.
It's always amusing how much Cam just doesn't deal with the squelchy bits!
One of the select crop of films in which the sequel is as good as or better than the original.
You guys are so young, yet so intelligent. You're helping me to expand my vocabulary. Thanks
The funniest thing people (including myself) say when watching Aliens for the first time:
“Burke seems like a nice guy.”
At the very end of the credits, when the screen fades to pitch black ... you can hear the sound of an alien egg opening (which leads into Part III).
You guys cracked me up. Hilarious reactions. Well done.
FACTOID: The actors playing the Marine team of Vasquez and Drake, have been in other notable films. The actor playing Drake also played inmate Boggs (The head of the "Sisters" gang) in The Shawshank Redemption. The actor playing Vasquez also played the step-mother of young John Connor in Terminator II: Judgement Day.