This movie never gets old. I watch it once a year and can still feel the tension even though I always know what's gonna happen. It is a masterpiece. All the effects hold up to this day, the soundtrack is outright haunting, and Sigourney Weaver kills it! Best heroine in all of cinema.
I like the aesthetic you created by making the film footage and audio look like it's being watched on an old CRT TV. Probably helps against takedowns too.
Ripley is how you do a boss babe. She's not a bitch, not a man in woman's clothes, she's tough but still feminine, shows good leadership skills under stress, and still has a good male/female sex tension dynamic. Everything she does is either by the book or done for a strategic reason. She lays into Hudson to keep him from panicking. She doesn't try to pull rank over Hicks or tell him how to do his job as he's the soldier, not her. Everything she does comes off as believable all the way down to how they fit in her ability to pilot the loading mech. She shows some fear and vulnerability when recounting her story. It's a damn shame that they cant seem to write strong women like this anymore.
Completely and utterly agreed. Add in the legendary Sigourney Weaver (nominated for Best Actress Oscar for her work in this masterpiece) and you have not just one of the greatest female protagonists of all time but one of THE GREATEST characters, period!
I got to see this in the theater on opening weekend with my dad when I was ten years old. Still one of my fondest theater going memories from my childhood.
Well ... To my knowledge you are the only person in the world who saw "Aliens" who had a thought for the xenomorph who sacrificed himself in the explosion of the shuttle crash :) This empathy is impressive... 🤔🤣
Fun fact. The little girl kept messing up her line while sliding down the chute because she was having fun. They let her continue doing it after the scene was finished.
This is the only movie Newt (Carrie Henn) was ever in- she decided she didn't want to be an actress and became an elementary school teacher instead. Her pupils were too young to see such a violent movie, but when their parents found out their child's teacher was actually Newt, they would stick posters and CDs into their kid's bookbags for her to sign.
32:41 I gather Hicks knew Ripley was driving because she was the only one out of the three he trusted would know what the team would really need in that situation.
You should have watched the Special Edition. It reveals Ripley had a daughter, who passed away 2 years ago. She promised to be home on her 11th birthday. Hence that’s why she has a special relationship with Newt.
I remember back then, when this movie first came on cable, all of the major cable stations (which was only HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, then. Not the hundreds of cable stations they have now), would be playing this movie all day, sometimes, at the same time. I loved this movie so much I would watch it is on one station, and then flip to another to watch it again, right away, LOL.
Lol I did this too!! No matter where it was in the run time of the movie, I couldn't take my eyes off it, just wanted to relive it; at night, I'd have dreams that I was a Colonial Marine, bad ass like Hicks and Vasquez, mowing down morphs, escaping with Rip!!! 😅🙌🏻
26:25 "yeah, but it's a dry heat" is a thing people say in the American southwest. Basically, it's hot but the humidity is so low your sweat evaporates quickly, so it's less swampy than places that are hot AND humid. Also the hive is very obviously NOT dry, hence the irony.
Something that everyone misses (unless you were there) is that movies used to have tag lines. Alien had perhaps the greatest of all, In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. Predator 2 had a very good one. He's In L.A. With A few Days To Kill.
And let’s not even talk about how blatantly misleading the tagline(which we won’t mention as to not hint at anything) for ALIEN 3 was during the marketing campaign.
So glad you watched the theatrical version. The Special Edition retcons Ripley’s character in heavy handed ways and undoes her agency in some ways. It turns her into a trope. The theatrical cut maintains her independence from stereotypes and gives her better standing as a groundbreaking character.
Wrong. The theatrical removes the entire emotional spine of the story. Plus the sentry gun sequence is just BAD ASS. Typical effing D+ not at least giving you the option.
The first Aliens movie I ever saw when I was a little boy. When Ripley came out with that power work loader and said Get away from her. you b#tch. This Was the most badass moment of my childhood life.
The legendary 3rd Act is a relentless tour de force I'd put up there with ANYTHING ever filmed!!! Reactions like these are priceless as you can really FEEL how exasperated the viewer tangibly gets; Cameron is beyond a TRUE MASTER 😳
Reese in Terminator, bill Paxton first guy killed in Terminator, Mexican chica in terminator 2, Bill Paxton....the only guy ever killed by Terminator Alien and Predator! If he would have been killed by a Replicant, that would have been the ultimate Grand Slam! The droid here in Terminator Alien 3! Reese also in Terminator 2 and the Abyss! The knife trick, bill Paxton didn't know he was going to be part of it and his arm and body were held down! So for Cameron movies, bill was in Terminator Aliens, Titanic and True Lies!they started in films together, working as set builders!
I think the actor who played Bishop, the synthetic droid, was killed by all 3. I know he didn't last in Alien 3. I think we can potentially count that as a casualty from the Alien Queen in Aliens! Was also killed in The Terminator and in Alien v Predator. -OG
1 thing you were a bit wrong on was their intelligence. The implanted egg takes on some DNA of the host, so they would have human intellect. If it face planted on a dog, it would look and act more like a dog when it burst out (happens in a future movie)
If you like 'Aliens' then please consider 'Pitch Black' (2000) - it is the first movie about Riddick (played by Vin Diesel). I don't really care about the sequels, but this one - in my opinion - is very good.
The woman who plays Vasquez is also the stepmom in Terminator 2. TlAliens was the first time I’d ever seen someone in brown face on film and it not be noticed for years.
58:20 something that no one seems to comment on, but I think is neat, that's the same musical sting from the first movie, when Ripley was running for the shuttle and finds the Alien waiting around the corner between her and escape
Sera the youtube for the deleted scene where Ripley finds Burke, glued into the nest. Also interviews with Weaver, and another with Carrie Henn (Newt) who only started doing 'cons many years later. Some people complain they must have terrorized the girl making the movie, but she said it was fun hanging out and training with the actors being soldiers, and watching the SFX people. She and the stuntman & puppeteers playing the alien in the water practised and spent a lot of time setting it up, and she said it was a challenge knowing that it all came down to getting her reactions in a few seconds of screen time, for a full day's work for a lot of people.
This was the BEST reactions I've ever seen by any one !!! So happy you enjoyed this-GREAT-film,even if it's an old one. LOL. One of the greatest sci-fi/action films ever made.Never get tired of watching it or seeing others enjoy it for the first time either.
58:00 at this point in the movie, the aliens are already pretty much decimated. A scene present in the director's cut - and not in this theatrical cut - shows the Marines deploying automatic turrets (called "sentry guns") that massacre the aliens before they manage to find another path as we later see in the film. This is why Ripley managed to survive in the nest.
This looks like the original theatric release? You should definitely watch the extended or director's cut of ALIENS! There's a TON significant character moments, for Ripley and Newt especially, that didn't make it into the original cut!
The special edition *is* the original story as written and filmed by Cameron, before he cut it for time in theaters. It makes no sense to watch the mutilated version at this point.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu Completely bogus complaint. NO ONE who watches the special edition first complains about the pacing. Or anything else. And the theatrical cut introduces plot holes by removing key scenes.
Pro tip. Weyland Corp Tyrell Corp and Cyberdyne Systems all worked together!!! When she's being questioned in the board room here, they briefly bring up her old crew's resumes '. If u look closer, Dallas worked for Tyrell Corp!!!😮😮😮
I saw this when it came out in the theater, I was like 21. My take on it was that they wanted Ripley dead because she was the only loose end in their attempt to bring the organism back the first time. They were gaslighting her and trying to make it look like she didn't know what the hell she was talking about and that none of that ever happened but she knows it did and we know it did. They were trying to get her back out there so that they could get rid of her once and for all and Burke would indeed then sabotage the Marines' cryosleep chambers so that the company could then have the organism with no one who would say anything about it until they could get it under their control and patents. Burke didn't take her out there as an adviser, he took her out there as a host body to smuggle a zenomorph back in.
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11:53 I just googled what Arcturian means, it's basically the archetypal alien image. this basically implies that in this film's universe, Alien encounters are now common.
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In a deleted scene Ripley finds Burke stuck on the wall but it was too late to save him as a face hugger got him and she offered him a grenade which is used one of the scenes after the encounter with the Queen.
movies rarely create cult characters that are remembered even decades later - and this one created several, led by ripley and vazquez! you must watch the director's cut of the movie!!
During the Vietnam War, US signalers Stateside would intercept transmissions from Frontline combat missions, and Ripley, LT Gorman and Burke listening in to the fight, knowing they're getting wrecked, is quite accurate.
All the information Ripley gives at the hearing caused them to gather all the files and information from that mission which likely had been closed do to loss of contact all this time. When they realize it isn't a loss but an opportunity things go wrong and asking Ripley to go in my opinion was one way to shut her up and isolate her from the public when the colony goes silent - and she knows why.
A dry heat is not as intense as having high humidity. Some with the cold. If it’s cold and you have high humidity, it feels colder. The humidity that touches your skin delivers that cold much more directly.
For a bit of inside on the xemorphs, definitely check out the "prometheus" movie, if you want to continue this series. Its a prequel to the alien movies. Without spoiling too much its gives insight on the sub species of the xemorphs and also another ET lifeform. In alien: convent(the second prequel) the xemorphs were rediscovered by originally being extinct for a long time.
@@miller-joel I have to disagree. The origin of humans, and how the engineers bailed on the black muck for being too dangerous, then us humans messing with it which leads to mutation everywhere. Just me, but I thought it was really good
"Aliens": Third Officer Ripley has been found and taken to Gateway station with a Xenomorph-size case of PTSD. What will Weyland-Yutani Suits make of her blowing up the "Nostromo"? This looks like the theatrical version I saw in 1986, sometimes called "Ripley and the Soldiers." 14:40 Ripley shows Apone and Hicks that she's not a a "front office paper shuffler," but a working class dog, like themselves. 22:30 I noticed that Ripley was able to "get close quickly" to Rebecca, unlike the female Marines. A reviewer of the time said: "Sisterhood!" After I bought the Special Edition Laserdisc(!), I confirmed that Ripley had been a parent. The SE version had a deeper story to tell, and the "Sentry Gun Boogaloo" was an interesting extra.;)
The decade of the movie has nothing to do with how scary a movie is. The exorcist is even older than alien, came out in ‘73 and is considered to be one of the scariest movies ever made.
You might recognize the actor that plays Bishop. The synthrtic droid. He played the white police detective in the first Terminator. His partner kept telling him to call her again! Referring to Sarah Connor, but not getting an answer. You might also recognize Michael Biehn. He is Corporal Hicks in this movie. Also known as Kyle Reese from the future in The Terminator. Lastly, you might recognize Colonial Marine Hudson, played by Bill Paxton. He was the punker who had the spiked blue hair at the beginning of The Terminator film. He didn't last long. He lasts longer here in this film. -OG
The actor who played the sarge, really was in Vietnam. RIP Sarge. Btw, in the few reactions I’ve watched from you, you’ve caught things the others never saw or figured out. Good job.
He's also one of three other actors from Aliens (Counting the Special Edition) who was a voice actor on Starfleet, a British redub of a Japanese sci-fi marionet series that ran on British TV in 1980. "Sarge" was the voice of country-boy bad ass Barry Hercules and Mark Rolston (Drake), voiced the pudgy comic relief character
Hey, Reembok! This is one of the best sequels ever made! Unfortunately, you did not see the superior SPECIAL EDITION version which has the Amanda Ripley scene, the functioning colony scene, Newt's family's discovery of the derelict ship scene, the automated gun scene, the Hudson speculation about queen ants scene and the name exchange scene. Those scenes provide a great deal more context and character beats lacking in the theatrical version you saw. It is the version both James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver prefer. The future Ripley inhabits is implied to be a dystopic corporatocracy. The most pervasive and powerful corporate entity is the Weyland-Yutani Company, a 22nd-century version of the British East India Company of the 17th- to 19th-centuries. It is a multinational conglomerate involved in robotics, interstellar transport and terraforming with a stake in every colony world. The Company is the TRUE VILLAIN of the Alien universe. Ash and Burke were following a secret corporate mandate to obtain a xenomorph specimen in order to profit from research and weaponization. The colonists who venture beyond the compound like Newt's parents are prospectors who can lay a claim to any discovery they make. The Company would get a large percentage of the find but the colonist would own a piece. A valuable ore would mean a fortune! After Burke heard Ripley's story, he contacted the colony boss to dispatch someone to the coordinates Ripley had indicated in her report with no warning of danger. He must have done a little digging and found out about the Company Directive to investigate any possible sign of intelligent life and to bring back a specimen. He sent Newt's family straight to the derelict ship. Neither Hicks nor Apone were treating Ripley in a sexist manner when she offered to help prep. They regarded her as a civilian. They were both accustomed to females in their unit such as medic Dietrich, pilot Ferro and heavy-gunner Vasquez. When she demonstrates her proficiency with the loader, they were laughing good-naturedly at her bravado and their own underestimation of her abilities. Some trivia: The picture of Ripley's elderly daughter in the Special Edition is actually Sigourney Weaver's real-life mother! The late Al Matthews, who played Sgt. Apone, was a true-blue Marine who was the first black man to be promoted to Sergeant in the Corps during his service in Vietnam! The knife-trick scene was originally supposed to be performed by Lance Henriksen alone but he convinced director James Cameron to surprise Bill Paxton by involving him as they shot the scene! Paxton's wide-eyed terror is completely real! Fan favorite Vasquez is played by non-Hispanic Jenette Goldstein! She goes out like a warrior and enables Gorman to reclaim his honor. Ms. Goldstein now is the proprietress of a Los Angeles-based boutique that specializes in bespoke large-size bras! The motto of her company is, "At Jenette's, the alphabet begins with 'D'."! Bishop's programming to not harm humans or allow them to come to harm through inaction is ripped straight from Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics! Carrie Henn, who played Newt, never acted again but became a schoolteacher. She still maintains a correspondence relationship with Sigourney Weaver thirty-seven years later. The late Bill Paxton, who has the distinction of being attacked on screen by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, will NEVER be forgotten for his reading of the line, "Why don't you put HER in charge?", referring to little Newt in her oversized helmet. Lol. "ALIEN 3: ASSEMBLY CUT" is a DIVISIVE film but it's an EXCELLENT entry in the series. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU SEE IT!!! Many will try to dissuade you but it is ESSENTIAL VIEWING! It's directed by David Fincher and features Charles Dance and Charles Dutton. It's brutal, fast-paced, has a solid cast, has some extraordinary scares, provides new insight into the creature, presents a fascinating dilemma and concludes the trilogy elegantly. I strongly encourage you NOT TO SKIP IT! Make sure you see the ASSEMBLY CUT (Special Edition with longer runtime). It is available on Redbox and right here on YT. "Alien Resurrection" is the optional one because it's a hot mess except for one cool aquatic sequence. The ambitious prequels, "Prometheus" and "Covenant", mark director Ridley Scott's return to the series but they are mostly good JUST for Michael Fassbender's performances. Scott demystifies the creature and unsatisfyingly attempts to address who the elephant-headed pilot of the derelict spacecraft was. VIEWING ORDER: Alien Aliens (Special Edition) Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL] Predator (1987) Predator 2 Predators Prey Alien vs. Predator Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated) Prometheus [OPTIONAL] Covenant [OPTIONAL] The Predator (2018) [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL] INTERNAL CHRONOLOGY: 1719 Prey 1987 Predator 1997 Predator 2 2004 Alien vs. Predator 2004 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated) 2010 Predators 2018 The Predator [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL] 2093 Prometheus [OPTIONAL] 2104 Covenant [OPTIONAL] 2122 Alien 2179 Aliens (Special Edition) 2179 Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) 2379 Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]
this is by far the best sequel to any movie ever.... you should watch the special edition of Aliens, it gives you just a little more insight for why Ripley and Newt bond so closely. fun fact, when Cameron was writing the script for Aliens he had a pic of Sigourney Weaver on his desk and he dubbed the Movie the battle of the mothers. Bill Paxton was the only actor to be killed by a Alien, Terminator and a Predator in the movies. the pic of Ripley's daughter in the special edition is actually a pic of Sigourney's mother. The bit where Drake takes Hudson's hand and puts it under Bishops hand for the knife bit, Bill didn't know he was going to do that so it was a real response to what happened because he was surprised because that wasn't in the script but Cameron liked it so he left it in. Jim's mother was a very strong willed woman and she encouraged his creativity and his father was the opposite, that is why he writes good strong women rolls.
According to legend, Hudson's crack to Vasquez about "Illegal Aliens" was an improv, based on Jeanette Goldstein (Vasquez) having originally auditioned for the movie, thinking it was a legal drama about illegal immigration.
I have done a detailed breakdown before, but to simplify why Ripley doesn't encounter more Aliens when rescuing Newt; The colony only had 158 people. Minus Newt, that's 157 hosts under perfect circumstances. Less than 157 died as hosts. Some Aliens (and potential hosts) were lost fighting the colonists. MANY Aliens were lost storming the sentry guns. ( cutscene from the superior director's cut) Only a handful remain to guard the Queen when Ripley encounters her.
"How did he know Ripley was driving"? Who else would it be? Burke? Gorman? Newt? I think the soldier know who would be driving this thing. Ripley is the only answer.
57:20 - I remember back in the day, when they showed clips from this scene in the trailers with Ripley shooting the gun like a bad-arse, I knew right then and there that I had to see this movie! 😁 This movie was also groundbreaking for the time it came out. There really wasn't many female heroes in films at this time, especially like Ripley. It's more common these days, but back then, no. Women were mostly portrayed as the "damsels in distress", but never as the bad-arse who could handle herself, and do the rescuing.
Side note: I was ten when it came out and the trailers looked like the best thing I had ever seen, but some of my older friends now who were in their late teens or twenties it came out have told me they thought the trailers made it look ridiculously awful and were all predicting it would flop. When it finally came out, all of them went back and saw it multiple times. 🤣
Ripley is really something! One of the best characters ever created and portrayed so impressively by Sigourney Weaver! Even though Alien 3 and 4 aren't as good as the first two, they're worth watching just so you can see Ripley's story continuation and conclusion. As for the origin of the aliens themselves, I suggest watching Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, in that order, as they're exactly about that. basically like prequels to the Alien series.
You will likely not like the plot of A3 or A4. A lot of people, including me, consider the franchise to have closed with Aliens and ignore the events of 3 & 4. Watch at your own peril. 🙂
Just found your channel, I really enjoyed the reaction to Aliens. I have two movie suggestions. Dreed with Karl Urban. The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise.
AGREED.Cameron went thru &&&& making this film,especially with the british film crew. LOL. There's a very good documentary on the making of ALIENS on youtube,I've seen it countless times. THEY MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT,MOSTLY.
If you wanna watch another sci-fi horror try Event Horizon next. It doesn't have aliens but it's scary as hell. For comedy give The Blues Brothers or Friday a try. And drama try No Country For Old Man.
Event Horizon is a great film, I watch a small doc on it and they had to cut a lot out of the story because time and the studio said it was too over the top both in gore and money, I would have loved if they at least got the opportunity to film it as a directors cut.
The hypocrisy of Ripley saying you can’t go back to save your marines but we absolutely have to go back to save Newt even though it will take us longer to get to Newt than it would have taken to get to the marines.
This movie never gets old. I watch it once a year and can still feel the tension even though I always know what's gonna happen. It is a masterpiece. All the effects hold up to this day, the soundtrack is outright haunting, and Sigourney Weaver kills it! Best heroine in all of cinema.
i noticed the strings when Ripley woke up went silent just before the facehugger leapt. Brilliant.
For 1986.... in today's movies... excellent.
I like the aesthetic you created by making the film footage and audio look like it's being watched on an old CRT TV. Probably helps against takedowns too.
I was also wondering how she got the "reflection" effect, to the top right, where you see some like window shutters or something.
Ripley is how you do a boss babe. She's not a bitch, not a man in woman's clothes, she's tough but still feminine, shows good leadership skills under stress, and still has a good male/female sex tension dynamic. Everything she does is either by the book or done for a strategic reason. She lays into Hudson to keep him from panicking. She doesn't try to pull rank over Hicks or tell him how to do his job as he's the soldier, not her. Everything she does comes off as believable all the way down to how they fit in her ability to pilot the loading mech. She shows some fear and vulnerability when recounting her story. It's a damn shame that they cant seem to write strong women like this anymore.
Completely and utterly agreed. Add in the legendary Sigourney Weaver (nominated for Best Actress Oscar for her work in this masterpiece) and you have not just one of the greatest female protagonists of all time but one of THE GREATEST characters, period!
I got to see this in the theater on opening weekend with my dad when I was ten years old. Still one of my fondest theater going memories from my childhood.
That's so awesome! I cant imagine how hyped that must've been! When I was 10 my dad took me to AVP...we both left dissatisfied
Well ... To my knowledge you are the only person in the world who saw "Aliens" who had a thought for the xenomorph who sacrificed himself in the explosion of the shuttle crash :) This empathy is impressive... 🤔🤣
Queen takes Bishop.
Good one! Had me laughing there for a good minute
@@satyagrahaa Ihave to admit that wasn't mine. I saw it on a t shirt
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@@joek468 😂😂😂 Well, it’s still very clever nonetheless. Thanks for sharing this.
😂🤣 good one
Great Reaction and congrats on watching both Alien movies
And stop here. There's nothing worth watching after this.
Fun fact.
The little girl kept messing up her line while sliding down the chute because she was having fun. They let her continue doing it after the scene was finished.
Now, watch Sigourney Weaver again in Ghostbusters 1&2&Afterlife. Also Afterlife have Mid&Post-credits scenes don't forget to watch those too 😉.
This is the only movie Newt (Carrie Henn) was ever in- she decided she didn't want to be an actress and became an elementary school teacher instead. Her pupils were too young to see such a violent movie, but when their parents found out their child's teacher was actually Newt, they would stick posters and CDs into their kid's bookbags for her to sign.
32:41 I gather Hicks knew Ripley was driving because she was the only one out of the three he trusted would know what the team would really need in that situation.
I kind of always figured they were all on an open channel and he heard the exchange between Ripley and Lt. Gorman.
You should have watched the Special Edition. It reveals Ripley had a daughter, who passed away 2 years ago. She promised to be home on her 11th birthday. Hence that’s why she has a special relationship with Newt.
I remember back then, when this movie first came on cable, all of the major cable stations (which was only HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, then. Not the hundreds of cable stations they have now), would be playing this movie all day, sometimes, at the same time. I loved this movie so much I would watch it is on one station, and then flip to another to watch it again, right away, LOL.
Lol I did this too!! No matter where it was in the run time of the movie, I couldn't take my eyes off it, just wanted to relive it; at night, I'd have dreams that I was a Colonial Marine, bad ass like Hicks and Vasquez, mowing down morphs, escaping with Rip!!! 😅🙌🏻
26:25 "yeah, but it's a dry heat" is a thing people say in the American southwest. Basically, it's hot but the humidity is so low your sweat evaporates quickly, so it's less swampy than places that are hot AND humid.
Also the hive is very obviously NOT dry, hence the irony.
Something that everyone misses (unless you were there) is that movies used to have tag lines. Alien had perhaps the greatest of all, In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. Predator 2 had a very good one. He's In L.A. With A few Days To Kill.
And let’s not even talk about how blatantly misleading the tagline(which we won’t mention as to not hint at anything) for ALIEN 3 was during the marketing campaign.
Despite it doing poorly, AVP: Requiem had a very good one. "In space, no one can hear you scream. On earth...it won't matter."
I like Alien 3's line... "The Bitch is back!"
I think the tagline for Aliens says it perfectly: "This time it's war."
Movies still have taglines 😂
So glad you watched the theatrical version. The Special Edition retcons Ripley’s character in heavy handed ways and undoes her agency in some ways. It turns her into a trope. The theatrical cut maintains her independence from stereotypes and gives her better standing as a groundbreaking character.
I agree. It also leaves more to the imagination which really heightens the suspense in so many ways.
I Like the Theater. Cut more, like you 👍🏻
Wrong. The theatrical removes the entire emotional spine of the story. Plus the sentry gun sequence is just BAD ASS. Typical effing D+ not at least giving you the option.
@@tulinfirenze1990 "Wrong." LOL. Gotta love the internet.
The sentry gun sequence is the only sequence from the special edition worth saving. "IMHO"
Note the actress that plays Vasquez, also was John Conners foster mother in Terminator 2.
She was also on Titanic with her two little kids! 😊
@@danielwagman9794 thx. Never watched that film. But James Cameron tends to used a lot of the same people from 1 film to another.
Thanks for sharing your reaction to one of my favorite movies.
The first Aliens movie I ever saw when I was a little boy. When Ripley came out with that power work loader and said Get away from her. you b#tch. This Was the most badass moment of my childhood life.
same I watched as kid always asking to watch the bitch movie.
Big audience cheer in the movie theater in 1986!!
The legendary 3rd Act is a relentless tour de force I'd put up there with ANYTHING ever filmed!!! Reactions like these are priceless as you can really FEEL how exasperated the viewer tangibly gets; Cameron is beyond a TRUE MASTER 😳
You can say that again.
"Game Over Man!, Game Over.."🤣🤣☝
Reese in Terminator, bill Paxton first guy killed in Terminator, Mexican chica in terminator 2, Bill Paxton....the only guy ever killed by Terminator Alien and Predator! If he would have been killed by a Replicant, that would have been the ultimate Grand Slam! The droid here in Terminator Alien 3! Reese also in Terminator 2 and the Abyss! The knife trick, bill Paxton didn't know he was going to be part of it and his arm and body were held down! So for Cameron movies, bill was in Terminator Aliens, Titanic and True Lies!they started in films together, working as set builders!
I think the actor who played Bishop, the synthetic droid, was killed by all 3. I know he didn't last in Alien 3. I think we can potentially count that as a casualty from the Alien Queen in Aliens! Was also killed in The Terminator and in Alien v Predator. -OG
Also, Micheal Biehn has his hand bitten by another character in all 3 James Cameron movies he is in. The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss.
1 thing you were a bit wrong on was their intelligence. The implanted egg takes on some DNA of the host, so they would have human intellect. If it face planted on a dog, it would look and act more like a dog when it burst out (happens in a future movie)
41:27 "Hudson, stop being such a pessimist!" Yep that's exactly the word I thought you was gonna use... Pessimist!🤣🤣🤣🤣
She went and rescued Newt. Why did they not go and rescue Burke? He waz such a nice guy.
If you like 'Aliens' then please consider 'Pitch Black' (2000) - it is the first movie about Riddick (played by Vin Diesel). I don't really care about the sequels, but this one - in my opinion - is very good.
The woman who plays Vasquez is also the stepmom in Terminator 2. TlAliens was the first time I’d ever seen someone in brown face on film and it not be noticed for years.
Barely. They will cancel this masterpiece over my cold dead body.
10:30 it was called RED DWARF, It was very much inspired by movies like this, and you watched it because it was FRICKING AWESOOME!!!!
Nice reaction Reembo. Please let us know how many times you said "OH" while watching this. 😮
58:20 something that no one seems to comment on, but I think is neat, that's the same musical sting from the first movie, when Ripley was running for the shuttle and finds the Alien waiting around the corner between her and escape
The way James Cameron directed this movie is exactly how I would have XD **smirks confidently**
Fantastic reaction to an awesome action-horror movie. Thank you.
Sera the youtube for the deleted scene where Ripley finds Burke, glued into the nest.
Also interviews with Weaver, and another with Carrie Henn (Newt) who only started doing 'cons many years later.
Some people complain they must have terrorized the girl making the movie, but she said it was fun hanging out and training with the actors being soldiers, and watching the SFX people. She and the stuntman & puppeteers playing the alien in the water practised and spent a lot of time setting it up, and she said it was a challenge knowing that it all came down to getting her reactions in a few seconds of screen time, for a full day's work for a lot of people.
This was the BEST reactions I've ever seen by any one !!! So happy you enjoyed this-GREAT-film,even if it's an old one. LOL. One of the greatest sci-fi/action films ever made.Never get tired of watching it or seeing others enjoy it for the first time either.
58:00 at this point in the movie, the aliens are already pretty much decimated. A scene present in the director's cut - and not in this theatrical cut - shows the Marines deploying automatic turrets (called "sentry guns") that massacre the aliens before they manage to find another path as we later see in the film. This is why Ripley managed to survive in the nest.
You are SO astute! Yes - the ship in the British series "Red Dwarf" was intentionally based on the huge, cumbersome vessels in the Alien films.
This looks like the original theatric release? You should definitely watch the extended or director's cut of ALIENS! There's a TON significant character moments, for Ripley and Newt especially, that didn't make it into the original cut!
The special edition *is* the original story as written and filmed by Cameron, before he cut it for time in theaters. It makes no sense to watch the mutilated version at this point.
pacing is too slow. original theatric is superior movie.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu Ah, this is a usage of the word "superior" that I wasn't previously aware of.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu Completely bogus complaint. NO ONE who watches the special edition first complains about the pacing. Or anything else. And the theatrical cut introduces plot holes by removing key scenes.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu a lot of great stuff is cut out, just the part where Newt and family find the ship is a great scene.
I guess this is the original cut cos it is missing a bunch of scenes like the scenes with the auto guns that are in the special or directors cut.
"THEY cut the power? Nah, Bishop did it." It's not just hot air in those banana shaped heads ya know. XD
Pro tip. Weyland Corp Tyrell Corp and Cyberdyne Systems all worked together!!! When she's being questioned in the board room here, they briefly bring up her old crew's resumes '. If u look closer, Dallas worked for Tyrell Corp!!!😮😮😮
I saw this when it came out in the theater, I was like 21.
My take on it was that they wanted Ripley dead because she was the only loose end in their attempt to bring the organism back the first time. They were gaslighting her and trying to make it look like she didn't know what the hell she was talking about and that none of that ever happened but she knows it did and we know it did. They were trying to get her back out there so that they could get rid of her once and for all and Burke would indeed then sabotage the Marines' cryosleep chambers so that the company could then have the organism with no one who would say anything about it until they could get it under their control and patents. Burke didn't take her out there as an adviser, he took her out there as a host body to smuggle a zenomorph back in.
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I used to have Nightmares get interrupted by an armed to the teeth Ripley. Still one of my top 10 favorite characters of all time
The actor who plays " BISHOP " was in an early Al Pacino movie called " Dog Day Afternoon ". Great movie and must see.
The tv show you were thinking of was the British comedy Sci-fi series "Red Dwarf", worth a revisit as a reaction series.
The cat was taken to the shelter when Ripley left and since 57 years had passed no one who Ripley knew adopted him, so he was put down.
Nice Saxophone, the first instrument I learned to play was the saxophone in elementary school.
Favourite movie I’ve watched many many times. Ripley best character ever created and Sigourny Weaver played the part perfect
Ms. Reembok, please react to "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile", two masterpieces! Thanks.
11:53 I just googled what Arcturian means, it's basically the archetypal alien image. this basically implies that in this film's universe, Alien encounters are now common.
If that's the case, then why was it so difficult for the company to buy her story about the aliens?
36:00 Well, that specific alien was not particularly forward-thinking
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In a deleted scene Ripley finds Burke stuck on the wall but it was too late to save him as a face hugger got him and she offered him a grenade which is used one of the scenes after the encounter with the Queen.
movies rarely create cult characters that are remembered even decades later - and this one created several, led by ripley and vazquez! you must watch the director's cut of the movie!!
During the Vietnam War, US signalers Stateside would intercept transmissions from Frontline combat missions, and Ripley, LT Gorman and Burke listening in to the fight, knowing they're getting wrecked, is quite accurate.
lol .... Ok. Everytime you said you're trying to be more regular, my mind kept yelling "fiber!" into my inner ear ... It is tough being me ....😂
The show you’re thinking of is Red Dwarf, it was a British sitcom
Great reaction. You GOTTA see part 3...
My alltime favorite movie(horror).. Sigourney weaver are so badass 🎞️🎬🎥📺📼📽️🇸🇪🙏😇😃😉
great reaction, Really enjoyed it
Great reaction! And the Aliens saga ends here.
Great writing. e.g. "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"
IQs always dropping it seems
Still the most exciting movie I ever saw at the theater! Thanks
"She's got a job right away after 57 years of cryosleep..." Yeah, that just goes to show how much the world has changed since this movie was made! :P
All the information Ripley gives at the hearing caused them to gather all the files and information from that mission which likely had been closed do to loss of contact all this time. When they realize it isn't a loss but an opportunity things go wrong and asking Ripley to go in my opinion was one way to shut her up and isolate her from the public when the colony goes silent - and she knows why.
wonderful reactions lady
Happy to see you reacting to this iconic/legendary sci fi sequel.
A dry heat is not as intense as having high humidity. Some with the cold. If it’s cold and you have high humidity, it feels colder. The humidity that touches your skin delivers that cold much more directly.
For a bit of inside on the xemorphs, definitely check out the "prometheus" movie, if you want to continue this series. Its a prequel to the alien movies. Without spoiling too much its gives insight on the sub species of the xemorphs and also another ET lifeform. In alien: convent(the second prequel) the xemorphs were rediscovered by originally being extinct for a long time.
I loved Prometheus but it caught a lot of hate. No idea why, a perfect prequel to the Alien franchise
Ummm no.. no please don't ty
@@Mac1975lv why if I may ask? Its not that bad if you watch it with an open mind
@@adampare8088Lame story with idiotic and forgettable characters. The opposite of Alien and Aliens.
@@miller-joel I have to disagree. The origin of humans, and how the engineers bailed on the black muck for being too dangerous, then us humans messing with it which leads to mutation everywhere. Just me, but I thought it was really good
Ripley has reached the Easter Bunny 👽 😂😂😂
Ripley is one of the most badass characters in cinematic history!
"Aliens": Third Officer Ripley has been found and taken to Gateway station with a Xenomorph-size case of PTSD. What will Weyland-Yutani Suits make of her blowing up the "Nostromo"? This looks like the theatrical version I saw in 1986, sometimes called "Ripley and the Soldiers." 14:40 Ripley shows Apone and Hicks that she's not a a "front office paper shuffler," but a working class dog, like themselves. 22:30 I noticed that Ripley was able to "get close quickly" to Rebecca, unlike the female Marines. A reviewer of the time said: "Sisterhood!" After I bought the Special Edition Laserdisc(!), I confirmed that Ripley had been a parent. The SE version had a deeper story to tell, and the "Sentry Gun Boogaloo" was an interesting extra.;)
The decade of the movie has nothing to do with how scary a movie is. The exorcist is even older than alien, came out in ‘73 and is considered to be one of the scariest movies ever made.
Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick is also one of the scariest movies.
You might recognize the actor that plays Bishop. The synthrtic droid. He played the white police detective in the first Terminator. His partner kept telling him to call her again! Referring to Sarah Connor, but not getting an answer.
You might also recognize Michael Biehn. He is Corporal Hicks in this movie. Also known as Kyle Reese from the future in The Terminator.
Lastly, you might recognize Colonial Marine Hudson, played by Bill Paxton. He was the punker who had the spiked blue hair at the beginning of The Terminator film. He didn't last long. He lasts longer here in this film. -OG
The actor who played the sarge, really was in Vietnam. RIP Sarge. Btw, in the few reactions I’ve watched from you, you’ve caught things the others never saw or figured out. Good job.
He's also one of three other actors from Aliens (Counting the Special Edition) who was a voice actor on Starfleet, a British redub of a Japanese sci-fi marionet series that ran on British TV in 1980. "Sarge" was the voice of country-boy bad ass Barry Hercules and Mark Rolston (Drake), voiced the pudgy comic relief character
They knew how to make sequels back then, Aliens, Godfather 2, Terminator 2
Hey, Reembok! This is one of the best sequels ever made!
Unfortunately, you did not see the superior SPECIAL EDITION version which has the Amanda Ripley scene, the functioning colony scene, Newt's family's discovery of the derelict ship scene, the automated gun scene, the Hudson speculation about queen ants scene and the name exchange scene. Those scenes provide a great deal more context and character beats lacking in the theatrical version you saw. It is the version both James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver prefer.
The future Ripley inhabits is implied to be a dystopic corporatocracy. The most pervasive and powerful corporate entity is the Weyland-Yutani Company, a 22nd-century version of the British East India Company of the 17th- to 19th-centuries. It is a multinational conglomerate involved in robotics, interstellar transport and terraforming with a stake in every colony world. The Company is the TRUE VILLAIN of the Alien universe. Ash and Burke were following a secret corporate mandate to obtain a xenomorph specimen in order to profit from research and weaponization.
The colonists who venture beyond the compound like Newt's parents are prospectors who can lay a claim to any discovery they make. The Company would get a large percentage of the find but the colonist would own a piece. A valuable ore would mean a fortune! After Burke heard Ripley's story, he contacted the colony boss to dispatch someone to the coordinates Ripley had indicated in her report with no warning of danger. He must have done a little digging and found out about the Company Directive to investigate any possible sign of intelligent life and to bring back a specimen. He sent Newt's family straight to the derelict ship.
Neither Hicks nor Apone were treating Ripley in a sexist manner when she offered to help prep. They regarded her as a civilian. They were both accustomed to females in their unit such as medic Dietrich, pilot Ferro and heavy-gunner Vasquez. When she demonstrates her proficiency with the loader, they were laughing good-naturedly at her bravado and their own underestimation of her abilities.
Some trivia:
The picture of Ripley's elderly daughter in the Special Edition is actually Sigourney Weaver's real-life mother!
The late Al Matthews, who played Sgt. Apone, was a true-blue Marine who was the first black man to be promoted to Sergeant in the Corps during his service in Vietnam!
The knife-trick scene was originally supposed to be performed by Lance Henriksen alone but he convinced director James Cameron to surprise Bill Paxton by involving him as they shot the scene! Paxton's wide-eyed terror is completely real!
Fan favorite Vasquez is played by non-Hispanic Jenette Goldstein! She goes out like a warrior and enables Gorman to reclaim his honor.
Ms. Goldstein now is the proprietress of a Los Angeles-based boutique that specializes in bespoke large-size bras! The motto of her company is, "At Jenette's, the alphabet begins with 'D'."!
Bishop's programming to not harm humans or allow them to come to harm through inaction is ripped straight from Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics!
Carrie Henn, who played Newt, never acted again but became a schoolteacher. She still maintains a correspondence relationship with Sigourney Weaver thirty-seven years later.
The late Bill Paxton, who has the distinction of being attacked on screen by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, will NEVER be forgotten for his reading of the line, "Why don't you put HER in charge?", referring to little Newt in her oversized helmet. Lol.
"ALIEN 3: ASSEMBLY CUT" is a DIVISIVE film but it's an EXCELLENT entry in the series. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU SEE IT!!! Many will try to dissuade you but it is ESSENTIAL VIEWING! It's directed by David Fincher and features Charles Dance and Charles Dutton. It's brutal, fast-paced, has a solid cast, has some extraordinary scares, provides new insight into the creature, presents a fascinating dilemma and concludes the trilogy elegantly. I strongly encourage you NOT TO SKIP IT! Make sure you see the ASSEMBLY CUT (Special Edition with longer runtime). It is available on Redbox and right here on YT. "Alien Resurrection" is the optional one because it's a hot mess except for one cool aquatic sequence. The ambitious prequels, "Prometheus" and "Covenant", mark director Ridley Scott's return to the series but they are mostly good JUST for Michael Fassbender's performances. Scott demystifies the creature and unsatisfyingly attempts to address who the elephant-headed pilot of the derelict spacecraft was.
VIEWING ORDER:
Alien
Aliens (Special Edition)
Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)
Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]
Predator (1987)
Predator 2
Predators
Prey
Alien vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated)
Prometheus [OPTIONAL]
Covenant [OPTIONAL]
The Predator (2018) [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL]
INTERNAL CHRONOLOGY:
1719 Prey
1987 Predator
1997 Predator 2
2004 Alien vs. Predator
2004 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated)
2010 Predators
2018 The Predator [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL]
2093 Prometheus [OPTIONAL]
2104 Covenant [OPTIONAL]
2122 Alien
2179 Aliens (Special Edition)
2179 Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)
2379 Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]
Excellent comment!!!
This is one of the best sequels to a good original but the subsequent Alien films were a ler down.
The Trminator franchise has the same problem.
this is by far the best sequel to any movie ever.... you should watch the special edition of Aliens, it gives you just a little more insight for why Ripley and Newt bond so closely.
fun fact,
when Cameron was writing the script for Aliens he had a pic of Sigourney Weaver on his desk and he dubbed the Movie the battle of the mothers.
Bill Paxton was the only actor to be killed by a Alien, Terminator and a Predator in the movies.
the pic of Ripley's daughter in the special edition is actually a pic of Sigourney's mother.
The bit where Drake takes Hudson's hand and puts it under Bishops hand for the knife bit, Bill didn't know he was going to do that so it was a real response to what happened because he was surprised because that wasn't in the script but Cameron liked it so he left it in.
Jim's mother was a very strong willed woman and she encouraged his creativity and his father was the opposite, that is why he writes good strong women rolls.
According to legend, Hudson's crack to Vasquez about "Illegal Aliens" was an improv, based on Jeanette Goldstein (Vasquez) having originally auditioned for the movie, thinking it was a legal drama about illegal immigration.
I have done a detailed breakdown before, but to simplify why Ripley doesn't encounter more Aliens when rescuing Newt;
The colony only had 158 people.
Minus Newt, that's 157 hosts under perfect circumstances.
Less than 157 died as hosts.
Some Aliens (and potential hosts) were lost fighting the colonists.
MANY Aliens were lost storming the sentry guns. ( cutscene from the superior director's cut)
Only a handful remain to guard the Queen when Ripley encounters her.
Not to mention all the destruction and explosions going on.
Could've killed or scattered some of the remaining.
"How did he know Ripley was driving"? Who else would it be? Burke? Gorman? Newt? I think the soldier know who would be driving this thing. Ripley is the only answer.
I think you're talking about 'Red Dwarf'.
Alright, they nuked the colony, but there's still the alien space shift where it all began.
Xenomorph literally means alien or exotic form. It could refer to any species that is dissimilar to us.
57:20 - I remember back in the day, when they showed clips from this scene in the trailers with Ripley shooting the gun like a bad-arse, I knew right then and there that I had to see this movie! 😁 This movie was also groundbreaking for the time it came out. There really wasn't many female heroes in films at this time, especially like Ripley. It's more common these days, but back then, no. Women were mostly portrayed as the "damsels in distress", but never as the bad-arse who could handle herself, and do the rescuing.
Side note: I was ten when it came out and the trailers looked like the best thing I had ever seen, but some of my older friends now who were in their late teens or twenties it came out have told me they thought the trailers made it look ridiculously awful and were all predicting it would flop. When it finally came out, all of them went back and saw it multiple times. 🤣
It's not over.
Ripley is really something! One of the best characters ever created and portrayed so impressively by Sigourney Weaver! Even though Alien 3 and 4 aren't as good as the first two, they're worth watching just so you can see Ripley's story continuation and conclusion. As for the origin of the aliens themselves, I suggest watching Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, in that order, as they're exactly about that. basically like prequels to the Alien series.
I take the Hudson and Vaquez approach. Bill Paxton was so much of a God in this movie. That he actually went to Titanic with. Cameron.
If you wanna watch a scifi thriller with lots of twists and turns, try 'Moon' (2009) with Sam Rockwell.
I know I have had nightmares because of this movie. But then again, I was 12 when I saw this a year after it came out...
Made your 1k ❤
I’ve seen no country for old men mention here which I completely agree with. Nailed biting suspense. It’s a very highly regarded film.
Best film in the franchise Id stop here.
You will likely not like the plot of A3 or A4. A lot of people, including me, consider the franchise to have closed with Aliens and ignore the events of 3 & 4. Watch at your own peril. 🙂
Just found your channel, I really enjoyed the reaction to Aliens. I have two movie suggestions. Dreed with Karl Urban. The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise.
Masterpiece of a movie
AGREED.Cameron went thru &&&& making this film,especially with the british film crew. LOL. There's a very good documentary on the making of ALIENS on youtube,I've seen it countless times. THEY MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT,MOSTLY.
Stop at 2
I think the show you are talking about was Red Dwarf.
If you wanna watch another sci-fi horror try Event Horizon next. It doesn't have aliens but it's scary as hell. For comedy give The Blues Brothers or Friday a try. And drama try No Country For Old Man.
Event Horizon is a great film, I watch a small doc on it and they had to cut a lot out of the story because time and the studio said it was too over the top both in gore and money, I would have loved if they at least got the opportunity to film it as a directors cut.
The hypocrisy of Ripley saying you can’t go back to save your marines but we absolutely have to go back to save Newt even though it will take us longer to get to Newt than it would have taken to get to the marines.
Yes, Ripley was wrong for stopping them from even trying. Cameron didnt write Ripley to be perfect.
Best sci-fi action film EVER! But stop there, no need to watch the rest of the Alien saga, the series ends here.