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Oh no. No no no. You watch Alien, you have to commit to watching Aliens.
Именно так! Но только первые 4 части, ну и ещё Romulus можно.
Yes, it's mandatory.
Preferably the extended version (director's cut?) . . .
Make sure you watch ALIENS:THE SPECIAL EDITION.Too many reactors watch the theatrical version.The special edition has a story line in it that is missed by the theatrical version.I hope you get to watch that version and look forward to your reaction to it.👍😉
@@rowenatulley852Agreed.Far better than the theatrical version and you get to understand the link between the two main characters.
You absolutely have to watch Aliens next - it's such a great followup to this
And after Aliens (#2) one can skip the rest and watch the newest Alien Romulus.
One of the rare instances where a classic movie is followed by a better sequel.
The crap american sequel and odd one out.
@@atmosphere60 Inferior sequel.
@@RuddyscheeseemporiumI agree, I see it as the odd one out too.
As a mid-teenager watching this in the theater in 1979, this movie came out of nowhere, and scared the crap out of everyone. There was nothing like it up until that point, and it was so well done it blew everyone away.
Yes, I was in secondary school at the time and eagerly wanted to see this after "Star wars". Yeah, kind of different. I ducked behind the seat in the chest buster scene, but it really is a great movie. _I personally loved both the fist and second, but for different reasons._
Great reaction.
And most important, the cat made it...
Definitely true. I was 13 when I saw it on opening day. Nothing even came close to it. It became the standard by which all films were judged by me. J.C. knocked it out of the universe with Aliens in 1986. Best follow up of all time.
Yep. I was 14 and went with my dad. It was uh-mazing!
I was too young at the time, but the trailer was intense. The cracked chicken egg and green light. The trailer was more intense than the movie. But once I saw I the movie, I loved it. Strangely, I somehow got the graphic novel before seeing the movie. Remember graphic novels?
The alien fears cats because they are guardians of the underwold😁 Ohh wait wrong franchise🤣
or is it?
@@Koyotee25 Mummy v Aliens 🤔 I might watch that😀
It's a Flerkin!
@@tn_bayouwulf2949 That would be one crossover i would watch right now xD
As CinemaSins said:
7 seasons of ALF told me that cats are an aliens favourite food
Aliens is definitely next Jax. Lamby even agrees. Done by James Cameron and considered one of the best sequels of all time. Heck one of the best movies of all time. Thanks for checking out Alien.
Let's not get carried away, Skippy. Good sequel, but hardly an all-time best.
No, @davidward9737 is dead on. Whatever your personal opinion on Aliens may be it is generally regarded as one of the best sequels of all time.
Terminator 2 is the best sequel of all time.
Aliens is my favourite film of all time
@@InimicusSolitus What a sad, limited life you lead.
Remember the diner scene in Spaceballs and the alien burst out of the guys chest on the counter? That was the same actor who died first from the chest burster in Alien. John Hurt. Thats why he says, “Oh no…not again” in Spaceballs.
If I remember right they did the same gag (with John Hurt) on The Muppet Show.
I saw Spaceballs when it came out but I was 9 so I didn’t know the reference. A few years later I saw Alien and recognized the guy because Spaceballs was on constantly at our house. It made that scene so much better!
"Ash is a very interesting person."
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Aliens is a very different kind of movie, I'll just say that it was directed by James Cameron.
I like the original better but Aliens is still a great film. Also Cameron was fresh off of Terminator which is another classic. Apparently the British workers didn't like him very much and he didn't much care for them either.
21:22 In the novel and in a deleted scene the crew found a food storage locker ransacked. The creature had gorged itself, and, due to its rapid metabolism, had grown extremely fast.
That deleted scene was necessary to me. 15 seconds tops.
I never saw a deleted scene with the food locker ransacked. Link please.
@ agreed who has it?
I don't know if we needed that. All the explanation that gives the audience is "the creature is able to grow extremely fast", which we can plainly see anyway.
It also eats the dead to grow
John Hurt's horrifying squeal before the chestburster emerges is one of the most accurate depictions of extreme pain ever put on film.
The cast was purposely not told what was going to happen in that scene. So the shock and horror on their faces is absolutely real.
Ah, just a mild indigestion.... Use one or two anti acid tablets
Speaking of accurate depictions, the only truly accurate portrayal of a person in shock I've ever seen in a film was Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. The last ten or fifteen minutes of the film, after he's rescued and receiving aid from a Navy medic, he almost put me into a state of shock. He couldn't speak or articulate anything, he had to be told to breath, every question had to be asked repeatedly. He couldn't focus on anything. It's a powerhouse scene in an otherwise middling film.
@@magicbrownie1357
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Captain Phillips, but that scene did stick with me. Excellent acting from Hanks.
also, Spaceballs😊
One thing to remember about the crew of the Nostromo is that other than Ash, none of them are trained scientists or doctors. Also, zero of them are soldiers of any kind. They’re basically space-truckers trying to manage what they need to.
If you wanna see realllllly bad scientists, try Prometheus.
Aliens is a must-watch; higher action, arguably less horror. After aliens… the quality gets spotty.
You aren't kidding.....
Prometheus gets a lot of hate but it's not as bad as a lot of the haters say it is. Having said that, yes the scientists are stupid and the movie should have been a lot better than it is, but it's still not terrible IMO
It's the story rather than special effects that dictates, you MUST watch them all... including Prometheus...
Aliens, extended version, is a must, sooner rather than later. Please note, it is more of an action movie than a horror one.
I dunno. I prefer the original release version. I mean, deleted scenes are usually deleted for a reason. The scenes are ok but bloat the runtime.
@@MrWoohoo If it's not over 2.5 hrs, I feel like a movie goer today wouldn't even notice.
@@MrWoohooThe reason usually being that a shorter movie means that they can fit more showings in the movie theatre.
I think one deleted scene in particular adds so much to Ripley's motivation.
@@bankbarcomo806the point is it completely messes up the pacing of the tension, it pre spoils the gist even if overall is intuitively obvious it’s just screwy to add in earlier than necessary
@@Yngvarfoif you’re talking about the scene in aliens where she finds out the fate of her daughter then I agree. The movie (Aliens) is better with that scene restored. But then there are other scenes that don’t really add anything. In particular the robot guns scene. Doesn’t really move the story forward.
Ejecting Kane's body into space is a throwback to when they would do burials at sea.
"I'm glad this movie isn't abundantly graphic" ... after watching an alien creature burst out of a man's chest LOL.
You may not have recognized him, but Ash also played Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings.
I was waiting for her to get the connection.
And he played Napoleon 😉
He did sci-fi again for David Cronenberg in'99 in the movie eXistenZ,Shakespeare in the movie Henry V(he didn't play Henry),and Dumas' Man In The Iron Mask,1977...amongst other projects.Quite a varied career for someone who nowadays just gets recognized as a hobbit.
@@BobCrabtree-ev4rz I'd totally forgotten Holm and Dafoe were in that movie. I need to revisit that one. I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. It's funny how Holm became a comical actor later when he was so scary and creepy in Alien. I'm surprised he didn't get typecast as a villain.
“Why does Alien need to eat so many people? Is it not already full?” 🤣😂 That line gave me a proper laugh 👍🏻
Maybe it's depressed and humans are its comfort food. 🤷♂
There's a deleted scene where Dallas is cocooned and Parker are being "transformed" into an egg somehow (I think it was part of HR Giger's vision) but they cut it.
By acknowledging Ash's "death" in the memoriam, she tried to avoid tipping off the Company that she knew about their plan for Ash to bring back an alien. She was worried that the ruthless company would have her killed for knowing too much.
That's a clever observation. I never thought of that. By the same token she also left herself no proof that there was subterfuge on their part. Of course they would have denied it anyway. You'd think that the escape pod would have a transcript of Mother's computer logs but maybe not.
If you though sigourney weaver was great in this, you'll absolutely love her in the sequel. Also, the extended cut is the best version to watch!
Yes definitely. Cameron writes back stories to give the films more depth.
IT'S NOT. THE EXTENDED CUT OF THIS MOVIE IS THE ONE THAT IS GOOD! THE THEATRICAL VERSION OF THE SECOND ONE IS PERFECT! 😑😒 THE EXTENDED CUT OF THE SECOND ONE IS LAME AND COMPLETELY SPOILS THE MOVIE!! 😑😒
Hollywood has never produced another action heroine like her since. She had such imposing presence and a commanding voice. She's 6' tall and that slight underbite gave her a sort of masculine affect. Every female star in subsequent films (Prometheus, Covenant, and Romulus) were pale shadows of Ripley.
@@rexxbailey2764 NO IT DOESN'T!!!!! IT INCLUDES THE STORY ELEMENT THAT IS THE MAIN EMOTIONAL ARC OF THE ENTIRE DAMNED FILM!!!!!!
@04:21 ALIEN was released in 1979, by 20th Century Fox. The same studio that produced STAR WARS (1977). It was one of Ridley Scott's first films. He essentially wanted to evoke the feeling/normality of "truckers in space.".
18:40 Sending a dead body into space is the traditional funereal practice in lots of (fictional) space-borne cultures. It's based on how sailors used to dispose of bodies at sea as part of funerals aboard ships. The assumption is you don't have the room and/or refrigeration to be able to keep the body on your ship long enough for you to reach land (or planetfall) for burial.
I love it when people underestimate old movies just because they're old. Alien was made just before the advent of CG and practical affects STILL look better in a lot of cases. I knew Jax was in trouble from the beginning. XD
One of my favorite behind the scenes facts was H.R. Geiger, the artist who designed the Xenomorph, apparently got held up in LAX airport because of his concept art. The security didn't know what to make of it and Ridley Scott had to vouch for him that it was for his movie. Geiger had taken a lot of inspiration from phallic and yonic imagery, BDSM costumes and combinations of organic and machinery. One of the greatest reasons the horror in Alien works so well is because of how the imagery is supposed to instill discomfort in the viewer. I highly recommend watching some of the behind the scenes videos to understand how creative they got with this film.
When you said this was the closest to a horror movie that you might watch, you really went top tier.
Can't wait for her to watch The Exorcist.
Gotta complete the Trifecta of Terminator, Alien, Predator
Absolutely agree. For Bill Paxton alone it's worth it.
Predator is a cool villain. But the films are not up to par with Terminator or Alien.
I don't return to Predator the way I do to the Alien franchise. It didn't really stick with me.
You’ve just stepped into a Universe that must be experienced in its entirety. You’ll hear a lot of snobbery about the movies to follow, but they are all worth watching. Can’t wait to witness this journey with you ! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
No toy lambs were harmed in the reaction to this movie.
Jax: The radio transmission was a warning, A Warning, A WARNING!
Me: Well now, this is going to be G O O D. 😄😁😆
John Hurt was the most famous actor at the time this was made and they bumped him off first. The other guys were realy good character actors and Sigourney Weaver was almost unknown. Ian Holm played Bilbo in the original Lord of The Rings trilogy 🧐
6:49 "Mother" is just one example of the feminal theme running through this movie and it's sequels.
If you're tempted to go back for seconds and watch the sequel please make sure you watch the director's cut of Aliens.
Is that why the named it "Father" in Aliens 4?
@william_santiago never heard of Aliens 4. I've heard of Ridley Scott's Alien, James Cameron's Aliens and Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Covenant.
@@Nimzzeee
Alien3 and Alien Resurrection are both superior to Prometheus and Covenant. I don't hate those films, but the first four Alien films are still the best.
@@Nimzzeee That's funny because I've never heard of those last two. I'm sure if they existed, they'd destroy the canon and be total shite.
@@tulinfirenze1990 😂 Stick to your space pew pew movies, it's more fitting for your mental capacity.
Jax, The tag line for this movie was " In space no one can here you scream" !!! Gotta watch Aliens next.
In order to fully understand how iconic the Ripley character is, you have to experience the sequel Aliens.
Jax, you're delightful. Your expressions are pure gold, and I was half expecting you to jump out of your seat and run for cover 😛
You are the first reactor who I've seen notice how nonchalant they were about discovering alien life. I mean Ash does say something about "we've never seen a species like this before" or something, but they don't ever mention whether or not alien life has ever been detected. It's very strange. I guess when Ripley asks "(Is it) human?" about the transmission it kind of implies that there is always the possibility of alien radio signals.
In the sequel, the Marines talk about "bughunts", implying that they had to deal with other alien species before, just nothing intelligent or sapient
I watched this in the theater back in '79. I heard that the cast was not told, when the alien first popped out because the director wanted a genuine reaction, which he definitely got.
3:05 Wow, good eye...kind of...He (Harry Dean Stanton) wasn't in the "Hulk", but he WAS in the first "Avengers" movie. He's the guy that gave Bruce Banner the extra set of clothes after the Hulk had smashed through the roof and "scared the hell out of some pigeons".
He asked Bruce if he was an alien. You know, just checking.
Ohhhh please find Aliens "Special Edition", because it does have a much deeper impact regarding Ripley as a character. The theatrical cut was shorter, more like a standard action film. Less character development. But I think the extended version is so much more effective in a relaxed home viewing setting.
It's so much better. Not just Ripley's story but the Colony's story. Plus more Hicks and Hudson! Yes please!
I think, the "Special Edition" is definitely the better version, but not for the first time watching. It reveals to early what happend on LV-426.
No, it just screws up the pacing for first time viewers
@ yeah I strongly disagree with that though. Especially if someone only watches once. It’s too important, you have to have that extra storyline.
@@Basti805 I knew people would chime in on this, it's always hugely divisive anytime you have an extended cut discussion. But to your reply on my message, I will say again that some of Cameron's films got cut short as "action films", such as The Abyss, and I think it was always a mistake. I think Alien plays much better with the original cut, but I don't think the short version of Aliens is a good way to go ever. It cut out the most important part of Ripley's character. I don't really want to keep hashing this out, because we're treading too close to spoiler territory, but yeah I strongly suggest the Special Edition, always.
When the Alien comes out of Cain's chest, in the script, it just says Alien "emerges". They didn't tell the rest of the cast how that happened or what the Alien looked like. So, the reactions of everyone was genuine surprise.
This is a myth that's been told for decades. The cast was very aware SOMETHING was going to emerge from John Hurts' chest. He was all rigged up in front of them, so it was pretty obvious. What caused their genuinely shocked reactions was the amount of blood that sprayed out of the contraption.
Nonsense. Read the script. The scene is described in detail. And it's Kane.
They knew the alien was going to come out of Kane's chest but didn't know how much blood was going to splatter on them. That was the shock.
@@miller-joel Thank you. The worse ones are those that parrot the "cast didn't know what was going to happen" lie. If I had a buck for every time I've read that bullshit ...
It's all covered really well in the documentary. The actors had all toured the prop department and seen everything. The whole film was extensively rehearsed and refined as they went along, everyone knew exactly what was going on, except for the sheer amount of blood.
Weaver tells an interesting story about going to film the chest burster scene and finding Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett in the corner, both dressed in waterproof coats, and giggling like schoolboys, as they were in on the secret, that there would be gallons of blood.
On today's episode of _Reacts With Jax Commentary Taken Out Of Context_ , we are proud to present the following:
21:15 "Oh my god! It's HUGE! How is it so big?! *WHY* is it so big?! That happened so quickly! Oh, there's it's little mouth, isn't it?!"
Be sure to tune back for next week's episode when Jax discovers the existence of Lake Titicaca!
Oh yeah, this one’s a classic. Please consider doing Marvel’s “BLADE”.
It was so good to see Lamby with you and know you weren't alone for this. 😉
I loved your curiosity and your questions. You brought up things I've never given much thought to despite having seen this movie numerous times.
Regarding Kane's body being jettisoned into space, I assume the crew thought there might be more parasites in the body and didn't want to take any (more) chances.
Congrats on making it through this classic space thriller. Movies like this build up the tension and allow the viewer's fear and imagination do most of the heavy lifting. You were freaking yourself out before anything scary had even happened -- which is exactly why this movie is classic.
Aliens is less psychological thriller and more action with some humor tossed in the mix, making it faster-paced and equally as good -- just in a slightly different way. Highly recommended. I think you'll like Aliens even more than Alien.
Thanks for the good time, you two! 🤗🥰
This is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. The atmosphere is set up perfect for suspense. The Nostromo is a massive ship, but it always feels claustrophobic unless the crew are right there together. The practical effects and lighting really nurture tension and they don't waste that tension on unnecessary jump-scares. They translate the isolation of space pretty well to the interior of the ship.
One of the best comparisons I've heard for Alien is "think Jaws, but in space". I gotta agree, it's a perfect example of claustrophobic suspense and the less you see the scarier.
Jax is going to go absoluetly bonkers for the sequel! It's the movie why people were hyping Ripley to her especially.
When we went to see Alien in theatre, my sister was walking to her seat in the dark theatre when she screamed at a guy sitting very low in his seat. She set the tone for this movie. She was scared before she got there.
I watched this movie when I was seven years old, 20 years later, this movie still amazes me, my dad wanted my sister and me to watch it and of course we loved it
THANK YOU for watching THIS movie! 😁 really enjoyed the little factoids along the way 😉 your reaction was EXCELLENT and SO MUCH FUN! 👍☺
This movie is more suspense over mere 'shock effect' horror. Which is why it is very rewatchable. The real terror happens more in your own mind than on screen, which is very clever.
The sequel ("Aliens") is a very different kind of movie and probably one of the best sequels of all time.
I’m so glad you liked it. The second one really has a lot of heart. Definitely nostalgic, when me and my brother were young for some reason our grandfather had a copy of the VHS of aliens, very out of character. During the holidays when we would visit and when no one was around we would always watch it. So good!
Aliens is a requirement!
It’s a joy that you enjoyed this classic.
LOVE Lamby’s little learning moment!! 😍🤭👍🏼
7:00 The MU-TH-UR 6000, known simply as "MOTHER" was a 182 model 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe that served as the computer mainframe for the Nostromo. Mother auto-piloted the ship while the crew were in hypersleep and monitored their activities. Mother communicated with the crew through the intercom system or a special interface room only accessible to an officer at the top of the chain of command.
It's funny now to think there was a time when 2.1 terabyte sounded like much...^^
In space no one can hear sheep baaah...
But androids can dream of electric sheep.
Sheep Runner ^^
Dan O'Bannon, Chris Foss, Jean 'Moeius' Girard, and HR Giger were hired by Sir Ridley Scott to work on the film after Alejandro Jodorowsk's DUNE adaptation was cancelled in 1975. Even some of their original artwork from the cancelled DUNE film was used for ALIEN.
I know plenty of others have said it, but Aliens is absolutely mandatory. Right up there with Terminator 2 on the list of best sequels ever.
This was the first movie my parents saw together, and its sequel "Aliens" is one of my favourite movies
Something that this era of Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Legend) knocks out of the park is the production design. There’s SO much detail paid attention to in the sets and lighting that is simply unparalleled. Everything looks believably lived.
“What kind of ship doesn’t have enough lifeboats?” Welcome to the megacorp future run by the characters’ employer The Company (Weyland-Yutani)
It's strange that in their words, it's a shuttle but has cryogenic pods...
@ it’s an escape shuttle for deep space so they didn’t know how long they’d have to wait for rescue
You might want to send Lamby out for a sleepover at a friends house for this one 😂
I loved the comments you made.
"there is no traffic in space" right after it was established that the Nostromo is a commercial towing rig on return trip to earth, meaning there is commercial spaceflight happening.
And the way you were upset at Ash for saying "don't touch it" when the chest burster showed up. I mean it was just shown like 10 minutes ago what one cut can do with the acid blood of these things. :P
The sequel Aliens is also a classic, you gotta watch, then you can give a rest to the other sequels.
"Ash is like a human version of HAL". A prescient statement, and a keen observation. He truly is a human version of HAL.
"He truly is a human version of HAL" . . . except for the minor point that Ash is not a human.
Alien is a fantastic movie. It's not really my genre but I can recognize the quality of it, and I've grown to love it despite not really being a horror fan. But I'll join the others in the comment that are crying out for an "Aliens" reaction. It's one of the best sequels of all time and it's easily in my top 3 action movies of all time, and probably in my top 5 *movies* of all time.
Back when this movie was first released in theatres, my dad and my mom had just started dating. He took her to this movie on one of their first dates and she had no idea what to expect. It scared the absolute crap out of her. 😅
Btw, I laughed at your comment about there not being enough escape shuttles on the ship and how you'd never do that on a regular ship. Because the first thing that sprung to mind for me was the Titanic's lack of life boats when it sunk.
Before I start watching, I think Jax will need Lamby for (face) hugging today!
3:02 Almost right. He was in The Avengers when the Hulk fell from the sky into the building he worked at, and told Bruce "...you have a condition."
Jax, this film on the big screen, had you looking around for the exits! Leaving the theatre, my date asked "WTF did we just see"? What a ride! Filmed in 1978. If you react to "Aliens", the director's cut is a must. Enjoy!
About the crew's decisions, remember that they are not scientists but basically, blue collar workers in space.
Ripley is awesome and the sequel by James Cameron, Aliens, is also excellent though a bit more action oriented than horror.
If you watch Aliens, make sure you watch the Director's cut, there are several scenes missing from the theatrical release which explain a lot.
Loved your reaction! Had me chuckling a few times, sorry. 🙂Some very nice observations, including "Is that the alien's head?" when Ripley and Jones were getting ready to leave.
As others have said, "Aliens" is a must watch.
⭐️Fun Fact⭐️ Re: Firefly Joke. Firefly & Alien actually exist in the same universe. The Weyland Utani logo can be seen on the anti-aircraft gun Mal uses early in the 1st episode. ... Encountering a Xenomorph aboard a derelict alliance cruiser would've made for one heck of an episode.
Thanks for pointing that out. I never noticed.
Yeah, but as soon as Jayne got facehugged, Mal would just push him out the airlock.
Also linked to The Thing...
It's Joss Whedon's in-joke. He wrote Alien:Resurrection. For a Firefly fan, the Pirate crew in that movie will seem very.....familiar.
@Scyth0r yeah 🙂, but technically, it also creates a shared universe, and I like the idea/story potential of Mal & the crew going up against xenomorphs.
The key to getting through a scary movie: don't be scared until something scary happens. Once something scary happens, realize it's only a movie. Since I figured out that much, most horror movies simply make me laugh.
Oh no!. Not again!" 🤣🤣
Lamby and Jonesy will protect you.
Oh and the MU-TH-UR 6000 is their computer. :)
One more thing, they guy playing Ash...he's Bilbo Baggins (the bravest little Hobbit of them all.)
24:45 if I remember correctly no one in the cast had seen the alien yet until this scene. His jump reaction was real.. he just knew “look left and then look right and the alien will be there”
H. R. Geiger, the artist and creator of the Alien creature and other components in this movie derived his imagery from insects. If you look up his art imagery you'll notice they're an athropomorphic cross between humanoid and insects. Geiger did a lot of heroin and he had terrible nightmares that scared him and so he painted those images he had from his dreams onto cavasses using a airbrush. Dan O' Bannon, who was a co-writer of the original script for this movie knew of Geiger's paintings and had a book of them to shoe director Ridley Scott and the rest is history when Scott saw what Geiger had created on canvass.
You're almost too much of a sweetheart to watch Alien, but it's adorable to watch :D
sorry but i cant resist..
21:16 thats what she said!
The best thing about this film is that it was released a little over a year after Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ridley Scott totally reversed many people's attitude about the wonder and friendly aliens from Spielberg. Space is not always friendly. Thank you Sir Ridley.
Both options are equally likely.
I wouldn't give Scott the credit. O'Bannon and Shusett wrote the story and modeled the aliens after parasitic wasps, as Jax informed us.
@@Osprey850 Still do. Taking a story to script then producing a film capturing the horrific events that so strongly effect the audience is a skill only few directors possess. For example, Dune is the classic science fiction novel authored by Frank Herbert. David Lynch's 1986 "campy" adaptation was far different and lacked the essence of the story as compared to the recent excellent adaptation by Denis Villeneuve.
@ Yeah, but Scott didn't take the story to script or produce Alien. He only directed it, unlike Villeneuve, who was screenwriter, producer and director on Dune. Scott obviously did an excellent job directing and deserves credit for that, but the film still would've been a serious horror about scary aliens if they'd chosen another director. We can agree that it's good that they didn't, though.
@@Osprey850 O'Bannon and Shusett didn't produce or direct either. O'Bannon contributed to the script but in his script the crew was all male. Ripley was originally a man. Scott changed that character to a woman and the rest is history. It's called moviemaking. I can agree with you though, the story is great as is the film.
Super impressed you know about the wasps! I've actually seen sooo many tarantula hawk wasps around here in Vegas because I live on the north edge of the city near the Desert National Wildlife Refuge and they honestly don't want anything to do with humans. I do wildlife photography and it's so hard to get their pictures because as soon as they know you've seen them, they're gone. They're actually prey to roadrunners, so they're pretty nervous when they're out and about.
You need to watch the Sequel too!
Just by way of context, this film was loosely based on an aspect the writers College project. Dan O'Bannon teamed up with John Carpenter, (who later did the Halloween films), to do a brilliant brilliant science fiction comedy called a Dark Star.
Now, in Dark Star the alien was actually just a painted beach ball with rubber feet, but O'Bannon took that idea and expanded it into this movie.
Dark Star also features a song called Benson, Arizona, which is my very favorite country western song that deals with the problems of time dilation at new relativistic space travel
Dan O'Bannon also had Crohn's disease, which is an intestinal disorder.
Interesting where inspiration can come from...
'I hope it does not look realisitic'?
Oh, dear...
To answer your question, this film debuted in 1979 and I saw it on opening weekend in Denver, CO while I was stationed at Lowry AFB. Don't wait seven years to see the second installation, "Aliens" like we did.
10:19 In space, eggs collect you.
My friends and I saw it the first week it was out. Everyone in the theater reacting to the surprises was great. "Aliens" is a must see, but it is a very different film.
Along with The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Spider-Man 2, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Aliens is one of the rare cases where the sequel is even better than an already good original.
Don't forget The Godfather 2
No it's not.
Not even close. Alien looks way better, have more naturalistic dialogues, xenomorph looks WAY better. It is more mature and restrained. Aliens is fun, but full of cartoonish characters. Every bit of mystery was stripped down.
A popular opinion, but a wrong one. This is a horror movie. Aliens is an action flick. It's good, yes, but in no way shape or form is it better...
@@JamesDavis-sh9gh The American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Films of All Time has The Godfather at #2 and The Godfather Part II at #32.
My dad took me to see ALIEN in 1979 when I was 11, it was like a secret mission: "Don't tell your mom we saw this!" Sat there frozen for the entire movie, blew my wee mind just like Star Wars did 2 years earlier. What's funny is that Kenner had an 18" ALIEN action figure that glowed in the dark and had the jaws pop out! Marketing R-rated movie to kids, total 70s. You can find the commercial for it here on RUclips 😆
Never watching a horror movie and starting with ONE OF THE SCARIEST OF ALL TIME is ripping the band aid off for sure.
The bad/good news is now everyone is gonna want you to watch one of the greatest sequels of all time - ALIENS
34:55 In the escape pod, the alien was apparently going through a moult and/or a heavy sleep cycle which is why it was sluggish. That might be the cost of rapid growth.
No "time", watch Aliens as your next reaction, Jax.
I highly recommend watching the "Special Edition", rather than the theatrical, as it provides more context and impact to the story, imo.
The alien didn't care at the end. It thought it's work was done so it was entering hibernation mode, it just happened to pick the escape pod as it's sleepy time spot, that's why it didn't attack.
Also, it reached its arm out, hoping Ripley would hand it a beer to celebrate a hard day's work. When she didn't oblige, it had to get out of bed to get it, itself.
Thanks for the Echidna snot bubbles fact, now I have that disgusting piece of knowledge imprinted forever. 😂❤
Echidna facts is why I'm subscribed.
Hey, Jax.
Remember the order of the xenomorph. Egg. Face-hugger. Chestburster. Xenomorph. The alien is highly adaptive to any warm blooded host. So keep Lamby away in a safe place.
Ash's character really changed the dynamic of the story. It's easy for characters to make dumb decisions for the sake of moving the plot forward, but in the case of Alien, it's done a lot more thoughtfully.
Dallas and Lambert want to get Kane back onto the ship, even though it's not a good idea. We can definitely understand their desire, Kane is their friend; but Ripley is the voice of reason saying "no, this could be dangerous."
Ash opening the airlock and letting them in would typically just be a dumb decision by the character, and that's kind of what it looks like initially. But later we learn that his action was extremely intentional: his priority is the alien, not the crew. It was a simple, smart, effective choice that helps make the story that much more believable.
And once that is done, the best chance the crew have to capture or kill the alien is immediately after it bursts out of Kane’s chest. But who is it that shouts “No, don’t touch it!” and allows it to get away?
Yep. Ash again.
The sheer amount of instinctive innuendo in Jax's reaction shows that HR Giger did his work well.
21:15 that’s what she said 🤭😂🤣
21:15 That is what she said
Hi Jax. Brett played by Harry Dean Stanton did have that scene with Dr. Banner in The Avengers, asking him, “Are you an ALIEN? From Outer Space?” Theater audience I was with got that, yelling, “YEAH!!!” 2001 A Space Odyssey came out in 1968. Alien came out in 1979. “Not abundantly graphic?!” Jax, you are so jaded, and I feel old.
You also have to remember that apart from the robot, they're all basically just truckers. And the company wants to make weapons with this thing so they'll sneak it in.
📱 👀 Wait...what?!!! Jax is watching Alien?!!!🤯 Now that's a great start to the weekend!!! I always stop for reactors and this genre defining classic!!! As a classic B&W movie geek🤓 I have so much respect for the filmmaker Ridley Scott and the screenwriter for admitting in interview that the movie concept was HEAVILY...lifted from a classic B&W sci fi film from the 50's called "It The Terror From Beyond Space." With scenes shot and influnced directly fom the B&W version. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE with everyone else that the Aliens sequel IS A MUST WATCH for cinematic sake in one of those rare instances when the sequel lives up to or surpasses the original. Star Wars Empire Strikes Back...Terminator 2...Godfather 2.🙏
@21:13 That's what she said 😂
Funny you mention "Firefly". The crew of the Betty in "Alien Resurrection" is the obvious forerunner of the same crew.
So glad you did this. It was a blast watching my second favourite movie of all time with you.
My favorite reactor! Turbulence not in space, but when landing within the atmosphere of another planet. Dallas is a good leader. He trained Maverick in Top Gun and fathered Shelby in Steel Magnolias. Lambert was in Alfred Hitchcock's, The Birds.
The smartest member of the crew was Jones. He didn't trust no stupid people, he knew the threat from the beginning, and he also survived, with Ripley's help. But that ALSO makes him smart, he befriended the most cat-like human to help increase survival.
The T in t minus stands for Time. The time at that moment minus the time left. :-).
Wait till you see Alien 2. It has more action.
When this movie came out, I was surprised Ashe was a robot, but I was not surprised that his mission was to bring the Alien home for sale and use as a bio-weapon even if doing so meant killing the crew. We were just coming our of the era of AT&T overthrowing Chile's President in a bloody revolution just to turn a profit and our going to war in Vietnam just to support the French rubber tree industry and the head of the CIA showing off to Congress silenced dart pistols designed for assassinating political opponents and Karen Ann Silkwood having an improbable fatal car accident just before she could testify. Nothing evil a corporation does surprises Baby Boomers. .
2001 came first. However, all of the space movies are pretty much stuck with the realities of space travel in much the same way all sea movies, regardless of their being pirates, merchant vessels or battle ships are stuck with an ocean and the need for boats. Consequently the imagery will always be similar. BTW the best sci fi space show in my opinion (and that of many others) was The Expanse. What you see in it, may be what things will be someday.
It is important to note the crew of this freighter/refinery ship was on a voyage of months, if not years duration. Therefore the salary is probably huge and on a par received by someone accepting a six month or one year contract in a foreign country or an Antarctica work station (but with no vacation possible).
In the real world it should not be assumed any intercepted Alien life or signal is friendly. An arriving ship could be the equivalent of a Pizarro or a Cortez. Since we have announced our presence via radio waves and even by launching deep space probes that transmit radio signals back to Earth, if they are out there, they may have noticed us akin to some cats hearing baby mice squeak in their nest. If it is carbon based life both new viruses, and parasites are possible as well as other unwelcome events.
A suggested movie from the 1971, "The Andromeda Strain." (Ignore the recent 2008 TV series..) Andromeda Strain is relevant because in 2020 a Japanese probe similar to the one in the movie brought samples from an asteroid back to Earth for study. Disappointed that an Alien virus did not wipe out humanity NASA repeated the feat in 2023 and collected samples from the Asteroid called Bennu and brought them to Earth. Three days ago NASA announced that they have found in the Bennu sample 14 of the 20 Amino Acids used by life on Earth to make proteins, as well as Ammonia and all 5 of the nucleobases that life on Earth uses. In short, an' Andromeda Strain situation is quite possible.
Hi Jax, it's great you've seen this sci-fi classic, it's so good. Please react to it's incredible sequel Aliens (1986) soon.
Wish I could see you face when you realize that Ash and the company knew the signal was a warning before they were even woken up from cryo sleep or landed on the planet in the first place! I also agree with other comments. You must watch Aliens now. One of the best sequels ever. I too would also recommend the special edition version of it. Thanks for making and sharing this. I enjoyed watching it with you.