First Time Watching ALIENS Reaction... It was EVERYTHING I WANTED
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- Watching ALIENS for the first time!
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Rippley and Hicks got married, adopted Newt and lived happily ever after on Earth with kitty Jonesy as their pet. The end. There was never any other sequels after this. Dare you say anything about my headcanon? I EFFING dare you.
Also Bishop became Newt's tutor and was eventually made a Cardinal. Ripley liked to joke about the insane nightmares she had when they were all asleep on the return to earth; crazy dreams about crashing on a prison planet, dying and then being reborn hundreds of years in to future!
@@paulbrawley2595 "Also Bishop became Newt's tutor and was eventually made a Cardinal. " - LOL, that made me laugh! 🤣
Absolutely. No other sequels exist. This is the end. Everyone lives Happily Ever After.
Yes, that is the correct ending for this story.
I used to think this way too, but over time I've come to appreciate what Alien 3 could have been. The Ripley send off could have/should have closed her story.
Paul Reiser, the actor who played Burke (resident corpo douchebag) said even his own mother was happy when he died in this movie.
Now that's a good villain.
It was so weird, watching this movie for the first time after having grown up with Mad About You.
I love him on Stranger Things now
Theres a deleted scene that shows burke cocooned near the egg chamber and ripley gives him a grenade that he then sets off later and can be heard but the scene was subsequently removed.
And tell me we all weren't waiting for him to be a villain in Stranger Things?
Apparently his sister punched him while watching the movie with him for what his character did to Riley. As for his mother, when his character died, she whispered one word: “Good.”
Half of Paxton’s lines/reactions were improvised. Cinematic gold.
Yep, legendary part ... I seen a while back there was parts cut from one of the fallout games paying tribute..
"they are coming out of the walls" and "game over man"
I miss when actors could improvise their lines more. Nowadays things are controlled far too tightly by directors (or lack thereof).
CGI can't replace great story telling and top notch practical special effects
Facts.
Nor can it replace actual props and hours of makeup.
I agree that practical fx are the best but even the cgi in modern Alien movies is pretty good. Alien 3 looks so bad now
Vasquez gave one of the sickest burns in cinematic history. 🔥
Truly epic ! 😂
It was foreshadowing as well... R.I.P Vasquez!
Yep, "No. Have you?" RIP Bill "Hudson sir, that's Hicks" Paxton, but he did walk into that one.
Absolutely!!!
Jenette Goldstein is described as a chameleon. After the Jewish actress played the Latino, Vasquez, in Aliens, Director James Cameron cast her as John Conner's foster mother Janelle in T2 as well as an Irish mother in Titanic.
Fun fact, they had to keep reshooting the scene with the little girl sliding down the chute because she kept laughing instead of screaming. After they got the shot, they let her keep playing on it.
Apparently Carrie henn fubbed the take on purpose until cameron promised if she did one good take she could play on the slide all day. So she did
Lol
After realizing a multi million dollar project was being held hostage by an 8 year old, Cameron walked away mumbling something about being warned to never work with kids or animals.
Later, figuring he'd concurred that obstacle, he decided that working in water couldn't be that complicated.
@@crwydryny
Yep.
It's fun alright, can I go now?
Gorman had the best redemption Arc, him and Vasquez went out like OG”S!!!!
I love the part where Riley descends to the lower level to find Newt. Without saying a word, she conveyed utter fear, yet she overrode that fear to go get her little girl. SW earned that Oscar nomination for this role.
Great review! Subscribed!
*Ripley
That alien nest was Ellen Ripley’s worst nightmare.
And we are talking about a woman with some serious nightmares!
The queen is actually a big-ass puppet operated on a crane. Not a lick of CGI, like the good ol' days.
I know right ✌️
"The Movies That Made Us" - a Netflix show has a dedicated episode on the History behind the Aliens - movie (s3e5)
Big ass puppet...lol. Which needed a large crane and no doubt many operators/puppeteers. 😮 😂
Two midgets inside the damn thing just to operate the skinny arms in front. And just as in “The Terminator,” the main concept for the Queen was sketched out by Cameron himself, and was built by the Winston team more or less as he designed it, little people, cranes and all.
As were the power loaders. Big puppets.
Ripley emerges in the power loader.
"I hope she says something awesome right now..."
*Me grinning ear to ear*
"Bay 12, please..."
SAME
Where you want it?
"WOKE" movie
@@NateWhitehorse lol
One of the last horror movies where the characters are not complete idiots, make some actually competent decisions, just bite more than they can swallow. This movie should be the blueprint of current horror movies.
And Vasquez is an icon. Talk about strong female characters!
This movie has been copied so many times, it’s not even funny.
"Have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No, have you?" 🤣😂Glad you kept that line in!
Hudson's character arc is great. Cocky meathead to panicked mess and then goes down fighting like a hero.
Hudson is a great cowardly characters of cinema. He is pure bravado (I love his 'ultimate baddass' brag in the director's cut) that falls apart when the situation turns dire (Game over man!) and turns it around to die buying time for the others to escape. RIP to Hudson and Bill Paxton.
Most of the characters I've seen Bill Paxton played are either whiny cowards or punks.
bill Paxton was in the terminator (punk killed in the beginning "cans short of a six pack line) predator 2 and aliens
@@panowa8319 Try Frailty. Bill directs and his performance is chilling.
God bless Bill Paxton. I always wondered if he put on his tombstone, "Game over, man."
I liked Gorman. He was a lieutenant who was in over his head in the beginning. His lack of experience to a live, non-simulated operation caused him to crack under pressure and probably his rank and pride nearly cost them even more. But after being incapacitated, he returned and understood his mistake. He tried to apologize to Ripley- who I think was being gracious to him by telling him to "forget it"- and he didnt try to reassert his rank and assume control. He saw Ripley was far more qualified and stepped down.
And finally, he made his sacrifice when he went back for Vasquez.
Such a minor character, but he had such a dramatic character development
Wouldn't say minor. The character did set up the scenario where Ripley could take control and lead the team for the rest of the film. Also, the actor that played Gorman returned for the game Alien: Isolation as a different character--directing the player (Ripley's daughter) to accomplish various goals in-game. Very good actor.
Poor Gorman was a butter bar in WAY over his head. ^_^
...and a bunch of people died because of him and his west point shite. But I'm glad you "like" that he was able to move on...
There's a theory that the company pulled strings and got Gorman put in charge exactly because he was inexperienced, they knew he's mess up and the marines would get infected with Aliens.
Gorman was picked by Burke or other company execs, to make sure the mission has "casualties" (aka cocoons). A good commander might have destroyed everything and they wouldn't want that, would they...
That's how you do a bad ass female character. Ripley is unmatched until today.
Jennifer Lawrence thinks of herself as the first female action star. Has lived to regret saying that I'm sure.
Sarah Connor!!!
(But other than her, I agree. Ripley stands alone.)
"This guy knows how to impress a lady."
Accurate! Hicks is such an amazing character. His concerns and respect for Ripley are genuine, he listens to her input rather than patronize or gaslight, and he knows she can take care of herself but will run to her defense when absolutely necessary. That scene when he shows Ripley how to use the pulse rifle? He didn't have to do so, but that little training definitely helped Ripley later on in the film.
**Gives her the tracker**
"It doesn't mean we're married or anything..."
Always loved that line for them...
Also gave them one more troop. And they needed all the firepower they could get.
And they lived happily ever after.
I love when studios recognize when no more sequels are needed. Just like with Terminator 1 and 2.
lol
Why do you hurt me???
There's Aliens 3 & Aliens Resurrection. She's in all of them. There's actually 6 or 7.
yes! perfect!
@@Oldschoolnana Resurrection is good, it's just in the wrong franchise.
Replace the xenomorph with a generic space alien and Sigourney Weaver with Vin Diesel and you have a pretty good Riddick movie.
There is a rule for stories that goes something like, 'if a gun is shown in act one, it will be used in act three'. Sometimes that gun just happens to be a power loader.
Chekhov's Power Loader!
Chekov's gun
Or, in the case of The Lost Boys, Chekov's fence post.
But note the contrast between Aliens and Alien. Alien was done very "cinema verite" style, to the point where things that are important, like androids and the Company's bioweapons division, aren't mentioned until they become relevant to the plot; and unimportant things, like the damage to the Nostromo on landing, have significant time spent on them despite being irrelevant to the plot, only adding to the verisimilitude. Aliens sets up plot points like the power loader and knocks them down like dominoes. Not saying that one approach is superior to the other, just that there are times when you can break rules effectively.
@@erikbjelke4411 Absolutely agree. Still a good basic rule of thumb, but rules are made to be broken.
I saw this in the theater The Weeknd it opened. Everyone in the theater was stunned by its sheer brilliance.
This is how you write a compelling strong female character. Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor are two of the most iconic badass in movie history. They suffer, they learn, they go through hell and NEVER give up. Well written ( and brilliantly acted) characters... they are two of my childhood Heroes.
Hollywood doesn't make movies like this now. 😢
I absolutely agree. This is how you make a bad ass hero.
And yet nowaday they are forgotten, seeing many comments that the world never got strong female leads... and men cant handle female leads. These ladies killed it. They where the baddest of the baddest!
Mad Max: Fury Road
Crucially, Ripley is a real strong female character because she never sheds her femininity, she doesn't sacrifice it in order to kick ass, it isn't holding her back to be a mother above all else, on the contrary, it's what makes her strong in the first place
@@bittybaff3541 Actually the character of Ripley was written without a gender in mind. Both Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerrit auditioned for the role. Ripley only became a woman when Sigourney Weaver was given the part.
Aliens is one of the greatest sequels of all time, and James Camerons' best film.
Yeah better than T2 no matter how many articles say otherwise
Yes, yes it is!!❤❤❤
Ripley and Vasquez - hell, even Ferro - are a prime example of how you write strong female characters!!!
You forgot the most important one: Newt...
and yet had this movie been release today, the anti-woke mob would have absolutely trashed it
@@Henrik_Holst They wouldn't, considering Ripley is a motherly figure for Newt and one of very few great female protagonists. Aliens is a classic and stands above dumb american culture wars, even dumb americans know that.
For what little screentime she had, Ferro was 100% legit, gotta lovw how upon seeing the Xenomorph her immediate reaction was to grab her sidearm and try to fight.
A lot of the credit goes to Gale Ann Hurd's co-writing and producing.
There are absolutely no more alien films. None. Story ends there. Ripley and Hicks adopt Newt, they fix Bishop and everyone lives happily ever after
This.
This is the correct fact of the matter.
Only *TWO* Alien movies were ever made and, while some fans may have wanted more, you know what? I think they made the right choice stopping here, with the perfect ending.
One of cinema's great Really Good Ideas.
Yeah. Don’t watch 3. You’ll be pissed off in the first 5 minutes, and rightly so. David fincher is a good director, but it’s one of those studio interference situations
I have mixed thoughts on the 3rd and 4th ‘Alien’ films. (Like other commenters, those thoughts lean strongly negative.)
To best explain it, I see a parallel with the Christopher Reeve Superman films.
In both cases:
- each franchise produced four films with that actor/character combo;
- each franchise elevated its leading actor to major star with the first film, and rightly so;
- each franchise produced two exceptional (classic) films, followed by two that were either ‘meh’ or worse;
For each franchise, I’ve watched the first 2 films repeatedly and know them well. I’ve watched the second two films once or twice, and have vague, spotty memories of each of those.
Each of the final two films (in each set) has good and/or interesting •moments• or scenes. Since we love Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, and love Christopher Reeve as Supes/Clark, it is really, really nice to see these characters in these other movies, doing either heroic stuff or handling various bits of business.
Both Reeve and Weaver were ‘the right age’ when these later films were made; There will never be another opportunity to see these people play these characters, unless you think studios will CGI them in to future stories (I don’t; The return of Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, was the pinnacle, and it should be left there.)
So... Kat •may• watch these movies, if the expectations are clear, to begin with:
- 3 and 4 are different from 1 and 2, in both ‘flavor’ and in perceived quality
- Therefore, don’t expect to have •the same viewing experieince• going in.
- Rather, if you do watch it, do so because you’re curious: what would Ripley (or ‘Ripley’) do
in these new situations? (How did these lesser stories, by less talented directors, handle it?)
- If Kat watches these films on her channel, the audience attracted won’t be nearly as many,
because the films are nowhere near as good. That, too is OK, as long as the outcome matches the expectation (Don't EXPECT the same experience as before.)
"Alien 3" is at least as good as "Highlander 2".
If the goal is to be the worst movie of all time.
@@tjsogmcAnd Alien 3 is Citizen Cain compared to Alien: Resurrection, lol.
"I don't which species is worst, you don't see them f*cking eachother over for a goddamn percentage" 💯👌Based Ripley! 😂
You didn't seem to notice, after the Queen got launched into space & Ripley went to hug Newt, Newt called Ripley "Mommy!" 🥰❤️
"Aliens" has aged like fine wine. I saw it in theaters when I was a kid and it still kicks ass! Peak James Cameron!
And "klicks" stands for kilometres.
I was a little surprised that a Canadian didn't know what a klick was!
Cheers for that mate, i didn't know that.
"Woke" movie. Totally unbelievable
BS@@NateWhitehorse
@@NateWhitehorse What the hell are you talking about?
Apone's cigar is absolutely iconic. He just devours that thing.
"Arseholes and Elbows people, let's move em!"
"Hey Sarge you'll get lip cancer smoking those".
Look into my eye....
...and the scenery. So-to-speak.
When I was a kid i chewed on pepperoni like i was Apone and pretended they were cigars. 11 year old white kid from Canada.
Her scream when losing Newt always sent chills 😫 Probably one of the best heart felt "Mom Screams" in Hollywood
Interesting Note:
Paul Reiser starred in the TV series "Mad About You" years after this movie was made. In a later season of that show, another character asked Reiser's character: "Have you ever seen those 'Alien' movies?" Paul Reiser's character with a very straight face responded with "Just the first one." Hilarious!
Technical Note:
While no one has actually built a fusion reactor yet, the science behind man-made fusion reactions indicate that if a fusion reactor was damaged, the fusion reaction inside would stop and it would shut down, not explode.
”Milky little fellow...” Probably the best name for Bishop I've ever heard.
Fr 😂
My father and I were avid Alien fans, but especially Aliens. We watched this movie together so many times. He passed away a few weeks ago. Have some tears in my eyes during this reaction. Thanks for the upload.❤
May he rest in peace 😢
I know how you feel, I lost my Dad to Covid 2 years ago. Still broken hearted.
So sorry your your loss 💔
I will never forget seeing this in theaters. When Ripley says her iconic line,the crowd just erupts with applause. On another note, you earned a subscription after watching this reaction.
Have you watched _Paul_ ??
@@dancarter482 yup seen it several times,loved it.
@@MarkDemeo Great _Aliens_ homage at the end.
I figured out why this channel is blowing up. It's because everyone wants to go to or kick back on the couch and watch movies with Kat. She's like the girl next door who turned into a supermodel but still acts like the girl next door. Dudes want her to knock the popcorn over while she squeezes the crap out of their hands while chicks want to drink wine out of a box, laugh and yell and just be themselves again with someone who seems genuine. The authenticity here really, really shines through. I don't even like reaction channels, but this is *THOROUGHLY* entertaining. Wow.
38:30 I love this non-dialogue conversation Ripley has with "Mama". This is the way I always heard it in my brain.
Mama: My sentries are going to kill you.
Ripley (blasting the flame thrower, then aiming the thrower onto the egg): If you don't let us leave, I will kill your babies.
Mama: (to the sentries) Back away, let them pass.
Ripley (After egg opens up) Shame on you, we had a deal.
True, but still the wrong decision. Ripley knew the blast would roast them all, so no reason for squandering ammunition and further antagonizing the queen. She probably could have made a clean exit at this point w/o the queen following them to their lander. On the other hand, the boss fight in the spacecraft was just epic.
When the egg opens, it's the realisation that this is their nature and there is no negotiating with it
That's how I see it
@fraserbain6102 I saw it as merely accidental. Like the egg just opened on its own, bad timing. Who knows lol
@@lucianaromulus1408 yeah could be! I love how quiet the scene is, too
100% bad timing. But Ripley is just done with it like ... "Nuh uhh... Truce is over. Not today, Satan!" **FWOOOSH!!**
Kat has the gall to say to Newt "Leave your creepy doll"! Poor Creepy-in-the-corner must feel devastated. That's the real horror of this reaction. Congrats on the Poppie. Love the Ripley shirt, Kat.
If Tom Hanks can have a bloody volleyball I think Newt can have a dolls head.
Aliens, is one of those perfect films, with a perfect cast, which can never be duplicated.
"Alright, we waste him. No offense." 😂 Gotta love Hicks.
What I really love about this film is how effortlessly heroic everyone is (besides Burke!), as in even Gorman and Hudson show their mettle in the end. They all just step up, act smart, and cover each other. Plus the small nuances, like how OTT Hudson is killing that facehugger with so many bullets, but Vasques is super efficient and controlled... so good!
Some fun facts: as others have noted, the Alien Queen *is* an all-practical effects giant puppet, but the Power Loader was *also* a puppet: there was a puppeteer (a giant muscle-builder type, by Sigourney Weaver's description) that was behind the harness/seat that Ripley straps into, kind of built into the Loader's frame. They had to practice choreographing their movements together between takes to make everything look seamless. So the final fight is basically giant puppet on giant puppet action, all practical effects.
The mostly British film crew (many of whom had worked on "Alien") thought that James Cameron was the *worst*, and hated working with him. Some of them thought he was ruining the good name of the first "Alien" film, to the point where Sigourney Weaver (who was much more well regarded on set) had to continually placate and cajole the film crew to stay on. To be fair to the Brits, Cameron is notoriously difficult to work with as a director.
The alien nests in the film were built and shot in an abandoned power station in England, and they didn't tear down the damaged-for-the-film set when they wrapped. So when the crew of the 1989 Batman film went to use the same power station for the Axis Chemicals set, they cracked open the doors on an alien nest that had been moldering in place for 3 years... the Batman people said it was creepy and incredibly gross, and they left some of the Aliens grossness in their rebuild of the set into a filthy chemical plant.
Paul Reiser does such a good job at playing a scummy villain that his own mother cheered Burke's death at the premiere (while sitting right next to Mr. Reiser).
Sigourney Weaver's performance in "Aliens" was her first Best Actress Oscar nomination, and a milestone first ever Best Actress nomination for a sci-fi or action film.
Michael Biehn (Hicks) gets bitten by someone in every James Cameron movie he's in.
This is Carrie Henn's (Newt) only film credit.
From James Horner's soundtrack, the cue where the Alien Queen is revealed before the final fight is titled "Queen Takes Bishop," which is just top-shelf work from Horner.
The Extended Director's Cut version of the movie is definitely worth a watch (especially since you enjoyed the Theatrical Cut) because it adds a lot of background stuff that really enhances the themes of the movie but had to be cut for time.
Also please don't watch Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection.
All true and great advice
cameron had tried to have a showing of terminator so the crew would know he did know what he was doing but nobody came to it. and yeah hes hard to work with but he didnt respect how ingrained tea breaks are thinking its a waste of time when work could be done instead. netflix has a awesome making of aliens on it.
Give it a couple of years and Alien 3 is ok to watch. It has none of the sparkle the first 2 have but its not a terrible film if you want a new Alien experience in your life.
I always recommended the books as some of the stories.....especially the Alien Vs Preadator ones.....are amazing
@@Tommy-he7dx It would be a great entry in the franchise if the Ripley character wasn't in it, and we were just seeing new set of characters deal with a xenomorph. Alien 3 just wrecks Ripley's character arc, which has the perfect ending in Aliens. It's a deeply atmospheric horror movie that fits the themes of the franchise, it's just that the wrong lead character is in it. Some of the books are pretty good, as are some of the old Dark Horse comics before they created the post-Prometheus "canon."
@@brakyeller THE problem with Alien 3 is Fox trying to turn the Alien franchise into a cash cow. They'd released a teaser trailer and set a release date before they had a cast, director, script, or even a writer, so every single decision was made with the release date hanging over it like the Sword of Damocles. A dozen writers were working on scripts concurrently, often with no idea other writers were attached, the final script was a mishmash of many of those and was not complete when filming started. Fox had hired Vincent Ward to direct and a script he had worked on, and started building sets for it, then questioned whether the basic premise worked in the Alien 'Verse. Indicating either that executives greenlit the script without reading it in full, or were fully aware of the problems and intended to browbeat Ward into into fixing them during production. Given how the executives treated David Fincher, I'm inclined to believe the latter.
Seriously, you could probably do a semester of film school on the Troubled Production of Alien 3. With all that, it's amazing the movie isn't an utterly unwatchable mess. Taken on its own, its a decent film, just has the bad luck to be following up Alien and Aliens.
Ripley is just iconic. That is how a strong female character should be written.
Ripley had a daughter, Amanda, who was about 10 when she left for the job in the first movie. Amanda died in her 60's from cancer before Ripley woke back up in this movie. That's why she is so connected to Newt.
Klicks are 1km.
‘Slimy!’
‘Juicy!’
‘Oh the milky…!’
😂
I loved when she says, "She doesn't have dreams because she's a piece of plastic." Just the way she delivers that line...
Who would’ve guessed that surviving murdering aliens would mature someone that fast
My stomach hurts from laughing. Ripley to Newt: "You could just try to be like her (Casey, the doll's head)" Kat: "She's just a head!" 🤣🤣 This is the first Kat Watches Horror Movies video I've seen, but it won't be the last. Kat's comedic timing is excellent--as is her 1,000-watt smile. Sometimes the RUclips algorithm gets it right.
FUN FACTOID: The actor who plays the part of Pvt. Drake, is the same actor who played the role of inmate Boggs (Leader of "The Sisters") in The Shawshank Redemption. Also, the actor who plays the part of Pvt. Vasquez, is the same actor who plays the part of John Connor's foster mother in Terminator II.
Hudson, Hicks and Bishop were all in the first Terminator. James Cameron has actors he likes, and casts them often.
@@uncommon_niagara1581Hudson, Bishop and Vasquez were also in Near Dark, a great vampire movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron's ex-wife.
@@jthomann71So glad Kat watched one of the greatest sequels of all time,up there with the likes of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, GODFATHER 2, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.I just wish Kat had watched the SPECIAL EDITION VERSION of this film to get back stories on both Ripleys lost child and the colonists.By the way,Jeanette Goldstein who played Vasquez was John Connors step mother in TERMINATOR 2.I think she was in TITANIC as well.Bill Paxton was also in TITANIC too.
The guy that plays Hudson is the only actor whose characters have been killed by a xenomorph, a predator, and a terminator. The trifecta
@@jthomann71, gotta ask the question: does James Cameron marry and divorce people who are bound for success, or does marital relations with James Cameron impart some intrinsic qualities on his partners than then lead them to be successful?
Or is it all that exposure to blue light?
9:47 As SOON as you said that donut was unfinished, I KNEW you were gonna say that it was the "real horror of this story" LOL Love it.
Watching you watch this was almost as much fun as seeing this movie for the first time!
I watch this at least once a year, its a masterpiece.
So glad you included the little moment at 36:34, it's maybe one of my favorite bits of silent acting of all time. You can see, when Ripley closes her eyes and raises her head, that she's feeling all the fear of the moment. But once she's taken a second to accept and deal with the fear, she opens her eyes and clenches her jaw. She's pushed every ounce of fear aside and thoroughly iced her veins, so she can walk confidently into the very heart of terror and save Newt. It's absolutely incredible acting, obviously I'm the billionth to say it but Sigourney is without a doubt one of the very best of all time.
Great reaction!! Now you've gotta hit Terminator 2 -- y'know, the OTHER time James Cameron made a sequel to a modern masterpiece and ended up rewriting the entire action movie playbook in a way that's never stopped influencing other media, lol. I'm hoping you'll watch the extended edition, but that was true for Aliens as well. Either way, you're in for a ride and I'm excited to watch 😁
My favorite quote from this movie, which didn't make it into your editing process, was when Bill Paxton's character says, "Game over, man, game over!"
In a whiney voice...
I am more partially to "Well why don't you put her in charge" (whilst borderline sobbing 😆)@@jillfromatlanta427
my fav Paxton line
I only watch Directors cut... I didnt realize how many bits werent in theatrical version till reading comments..
Havent seen that version for a LONG Time... just keep watching directors cut..
GREAT line... he has a few bangeers in this one.
Yo your humor is priceless! The "Health bar is at medium" was an instant sub for me, lmao!!
I have some movie suggestions, Rawhead Rex, Masters of Horror: Fair Haired Child, Critters1-3, House (1986), The Relic & Arachnophobia
God protect this woman at all costs. You just make my freakin day with these animated reactions.
Excellent!
You absolutely must do T2 now that you've done Aliens xD
Edit: Just finished, I am begging you to do T2 with us!!!
I second this suggestion, T2 is one of the greatest sequels of all time.
@@Sol_BlackT2 is in no way, shape or form an horror movie.
@@Marcel_WendigoThis. T1 you can make the argument that it has a lot of slasher-movie DNA...this one falls on the side of action/sci-fi but still has a lot of creature feature DNA. T2 though? Straight action/sci-fi, not even remotely horror.
@@Marcel_Wendigo, I never said it was! Just seconded a suggestion to watch one of the greatest sequels of all time.
@@Sol_BlackThe channel is call Kat Watches Horror Movies...
Really wish you didn’t cut best line. When Ripley tells Hudson this little girl survived alone and with no training Hudson says “Why don’t you put her in charge”. Love your channel.
"Effective Guns but very Mid Tier plans..."
"Milky fellow."
Never change xD
Given the year this came out, you have to appreciate the visual effects, and the fact its 99% practical and in-camera. No CGI here, and it keeps you immersed.
An ageless film
Bill Paxton (Hudson) has the distinction of being killed by an alien, a terminator, and a predator. Jenette Goldstein was in Terminator 2 and Lance Henrikson was in The Terminator. All 3 were in the movie Near Dark.
Pretty sure the Terminator killed one of the other actors, not Bill Paxton.
Lance Henrikson also has this distinction. He was the Lieutenant's aide and dies when the Terminator shoots up the Police Precinct in the original film. He was killed by a Predator in the first Aliens vs Predator and was ripped in half by the Queen in this one.
Paxton was also killed by “Mimics” !
@@reptileodinson2750 Yes, the Terminator kills Brian Thompson's character.
Edit: Michael Biehn (Hicks) is also in The Terminator as Kyle Reese.
The best female action character of all time. The lengths a mother will go to protect her child knows no bounds. A beautifully written character.
Fun Fact: Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson from Halo was actually inspired by Master Sergeant Apone from Aliens as they both share the same mannerism and smoking a cigar.
Not just his character, a lot of the original halo game was based off/inspired by this movie.
"They can bill me!"
Kat: Best line in the movie!
Ripley: hold my beer.
“…well, it’s a re-gift….” Omg; I spit my popcorn out so fast it almost shot through my tv. 🤣 Well played. 👍
THAT was hilarious
Fun fact: The actor who played Bishop (Lance Henrickson) got the part to make up for James Cameron going with Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of him as the Terminator. Cameron wanted him to be an android or cyborg and he was originally supposed to play as the Terminator, but they made him one of the police detectives instead.
I can't see Lance pulling off the Terminator though, so that's probably for the best.
@@DudditsXCIIThe original concept for The Terminator was a regular guy who'd blend in anywhere, then rip people apart with his bare hands.
That went out the window when Arnie, who was meant to play Reese, wanted to play the Terminator instead.
Take a look at Robert Patrick, resembles Lance a bit doesn't he?
That's no accident, T2 is practically a remake of the original pitch.
Lance would have played it just like Patrick, and it would've rocked. Arnie would've been Reese and that wouldn't have worked nearly as well as Michael Biehn.
@@sneeson ahhhh. Yea, thatd make sense for Lance.
@@DudditsXCII This movie is so WOKE. How can a girl and a woman survive and Marines die. Woke movie. MAGA
@@NateWhitehorse are you insane?
This was my favorite movie from age 5 on. I told my mom I wanted to be a space marine and was heartbroken the job didn’t exist. I had the power loader toy, the queen, definitely Ripley, the car... I probably had all the toys. This and Jurassic Park were probably the only movies my mom let us buy all of them.
Hicks was a very early crush. Seeing Terminator 2 cemented Michael Biehn as a crush, and not just the character. Tombstone continued the trend.
I haven't watched for at least a decade though. I still found I can quote most of it.
I consider this the ultimate mom power movie. You can't help but feel for the queen, even though you are on Ripley's team 100%.
I now need to watch it 5 more times to make up for lost time.
I just found your channel. It was really a lot of fun rewatching this with you . Great reaction
The end of this movie is perfect. I'm so glad they NEVER MADE ANOTHER ONE, because they probably would have ruined everything instantly.
They should add an end of credits scene where Ripley, safely back on earth, mentioned the insane nightmares she had on the trip: crazy dreams about crashing on a prison planet, dying and being reborn centuries in the future!
@@paulbrawley2595 Brilliant!
I clone your reply.
Agreed. The greatest two-hander in cinema history and one of Hollywood's smartest ideas.
I mean, they *could* have made an absolute ton of money by making more sequels if they'd chosen to, but they showed commendable restraint in the name of art & good taste.
Just goes to show, the moral of this movie was right all along - it ain't all about making a quick buck.
Yeah, like *Highlander* (1986), they knew when not to make a sequel. Thank God Hollywood knows when to stop milking a franchise before they run it into the ground.
OMG I love how invested you are in this from the opening scene. The Alien Queen is a triumph of design and function created by the immortal Stan Winston and is mostly a miniature along with some animatronic pieces. Aliens is one of those rare films that is a direct sequel which is a completely different type of film. Cameron's take on the mythology set a bar so high the series has never reached as high again even to this day.
I love the behind-the-scenes footage of them "test driving" the Queen in the parking lot of the SFX studio. She's only like a third of the way done, but they wanted to test the movements.
Miniature? She's like a full-blown huge-@$$ puppet!
There’s a huge life sized version of it too. I saw it at a traveling movie exhibit at the Science Museum near me. It’s impressive.
"She was going to let her go." The queen set Ripley up. Giving her a false sense of trust by sending the warriors away, only to let facehuggers deal with them. She totally deserves the trip into outer space XD
OMG! You were so fun to watch. You missed it on the big screen, but you were so invested. You and Natalie Gold should watch a movie (or two) together.
I love how I can tell you're a gamer. Conserve ammo. Slinging a double weapon. Etc. Great reaction
I always find it funny when people complain about no good female protagonists, when Ripley is probably one of the most, if not the most, likable hero character in all of cinema. Smart, in control, and capable. And not because of having some stupid male trait like brutish strength, but that willpower that produces tenacity, something I think is lost in modern movies where people are just effortlessly powerful, which makes for boring stories.
Well, why is it that whenever a GUY in a movie is a “bad ass” he typically gets called a “big, dumb, macho ape” or some such ting, but when a FEMALE character is basically the same kind of thing then she gets hailed as “strong, intelligent, powerful, resourceful, independent, groundbreaking, progressive” and the sort? Bit of a double standard there.
What? Ripley, Sarah Connor Beatrix Kiddo are all beloved characters; people just get annoyed with Mary Sue’s. And you just said that male traits were stupid, so why would you care about misogyny when you’re clearly a misandrist?
@@viceversar-do1cnBig, dumb, macho apes get called that when they are that. When they're strong, intelligent, resourceful, they're called that. You don't see women in movies who are big dumb macho apes, because our society doesn't accept them, but at least tolerates men like that. Vasquez here is as close to a macho ape as movie women usually get. Except she isn't dumb.
@@mikeydubbs8565 and not to mention any other final girls. Sidney Prescott, Laurie Strode, the final girl from Youre Next are damn strong
@@main9613 Hell, I’ll throw Hello Nurse from Animaniacs in there too! A woman who not only owns the shit out of her sexuality and gifted physical features, but doesn’t let that hold her back from her career accomplishments and intellectual persists? But ya know, a Catholic conservative like myself who loves and respects women might as well not exist in the eyes of a feminist
First time watcher here! can i just say that you are the most adorable human being...ever?? I just LOVE your facial expressions and hand gestures and witty remarks! I got this video randomly recommended to me and boy am i grateful for it! You just earned yourself a subscriber!
When Ripley gave the tracker bracelet to newt and made the regift joke….that got me.😂😂😂😂
Lmao...
Vasquez: "I only need to know one thing... where they are...
Kat: "Badass"
Vasquez: "Anytime Anywhere.."
Kat: "SHE DIES FIRST."
Me: 🤣🤣🤣
That is the best!! I'm so glad that there are absolutely NO MORE Alien films. Not a single one. That's it. Aliens finishes the story. Perfection. I can rest easy in the knowledge that there are NO MORE sequels.
Same!
"Very effective weapons, very mid-tier plans"😂😂
You had me laughing at " Keep a closer eye on him, Ripley. Milky little fellow." Subbed.
I see that you're watching the theatrical cut. The Director's Cut revealed that Ripley had a daughter who died of old age shortly before Ripley was picked up and revived. This added to her maternal feelings towards Newt. It also had a scene where Newt's family found the horseshoe-shaped spaceship from Alien, ending with the dad with a facehugger.
I've seen both and don't like the extra scenes, I see why they were removed
Yes. Director's cut definitely the way to go for this film.
far superior film, just like the director's cut of Terminator 2!
@@jdhcdfdfnikki3233 You're in the minority. That's ok, you do you.
Spoilers dude. Kat may have wanted to enjoy the special edition on her own later.
When Bishop says "It must be something we haven't seen yet", he's really talking to the audience 😁
fun fact, Bishop (android) played by Lance Henriksen, Captain Hicks played by Michael Biehn, and Private Hudson played by Bill Paxton - all 3 were with James Cameron in his earlier film, The Terminator. One recurring theme in both Terminator and Aliens was a strong central female heroine rising out from an otherwise mundane life (waitress, freight driver). This is unlike the modern age where heroes are born not made (Marvel Cinematic Universe, etc). Also interesting is that great directors like James Cameron, tend to carry an orbit of actors who want to stay attached to what they do like Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorsese etc
Can I say that the room you're currently recording in is probably the most horror movie room I think I've ever seen.
There's even a creepy ass doll in the corner
“Milky little fellow……don’t trust him,” is truly the best line of this film.
I love the fact they made two perfect Alien movies then stopped. They didn't make a third movie that was a slap in the face to the second. They didn't make a fourth that was a brainless cashgrab. They certainly didn't attempt to revive the franchise with a pointless fifth and sixth movie. Just two great movies and that's it, that's all they made.
Seriously glad they never tried to cross it over with another franchise for a couple movies either.
Yep, just like the three Indiana Jones movies and six Star Wars films. I had heard they wanted to do some follow-up films but decided that they couldn't improve on perfection and went on to other projects. Smart people.
@@karl_alanto be fair the cross over movies, whilst nowhere near the level of Alien or Aliens of course, were better than Alien 3 and beyond.
I feel the same way. I'm also glad that there can be only one Highlander movie.
@davidburke2132 alien 3 is brilliant and anyone who doesn't think so needs to get over it. Prometheues is also excellent.
I have to say: I love this girl, and her enthusiam for killing bugs. Much respect ;)
Double bonus points for "moustache-twirling villain." Paul Reiser as Snidely Whiplash, tying Ripley to the railroad tracks.
The Xenomorph Queen is the largest puppet in the history of film. It's about 20 feet long and 14 tall, and is hung from a crane (part of the reason the head is so big is to hide the cables). It requires 12-16 people to operate the creature, including two stuntmen INSIDE the queen doing the arms.
Is it? Larger than Biollante, even?
"It's a re-gift, but..." OMG I am 💀💀💀
The delete scene, Burke is stuck to the wall in that resin stuff. He has one inside of him. You have to see the deleted scene.
This movie is so intense. Love the backstory that Ripley lost her daughter so she just never could leave Newt. Powerfull. Extreme but the best woman hero ever in a movie.
The Director's cut fleshes out why Ripley is so protective of Newt, it's not just blind mothering instinct. In the Directors cut you learn that Ripley's daughter, Amanda has died in the 57 years Ripley was in cryo.
Ripley is not just doing the stereotypical thing of playing the mother character. She's a grieving mother who's attached her self to Newt as a surrogate
Correct, Ripley was a single mum, with her 10yo daughter, Amanda..
Ripley wasn't pleased about having to do longer range, company runs that took her away from her daughter, but that was her job, as a company flight officer..
Ripley's last promise to her 10yr old daughter, before leaving on the Nostromo flight in the original movie..was that she'd made Amanda a solemn promise to be back in time for her 11th Birthday..
Ripley explains this to Burke, in the extended edition, shortly before her meeting with all the execs in the board room..
Newt was very much something Ellen (Ripley) needed every bit as much as Newt needed her..both of those girls had an utter void in their lives & hearts, that would never have been filled or found peace without each other..especially with their shared experiences.
Newt, and the chance to vent, and get her vengeance, let out all the hatred, hurt & horror of her entire Xenomorph experiences, when she torched & mag-dumped all her 10mm caseless, explosive tip SLAP rounds into all those Queen's nest eggs..that was her catharsis, her vengeance, and the closest thing to closure & justice she was ever going to get..
And she was NOT going to be denied that.
It was NOT that she didn't know full well the entire processing station was about to go nuke..EVERYONE already knew that..Ripley taking that few moments to eradicate them all PERSONALLY, was to finally just let it all out, in fury & rage..and in vengeance & reciprocity..and to know, for her own future peace, that the job had been done right this time..
And that her awareness of the fact that Bishop had already told them all, when he explained about the station's emergeny venting, after the famage from Ferro's rolling their dropship into it & and their APC.
In the extended version, the APC is destroyed in that destruction also, but they're able to salvage some intact robot sentry guns & a bit of ammo from its wreckage..this was cut from the scene where Hicks warns Newt not to touch the explosive ammo & grenades.
And Bishop tells her again, in the dropship, before she jumped out to go get Newt back..that the reactor's blast radius was big enough to cover not just the processing station itself, and the entire nearby 'Hadley's Hope' colony..but she also knew the co-ordinates for the original alien ship, and she checked the colony logs also, to study up on all that happened in way of backstory, that Burke & the company had left out, about how the colonists found that ship..
Also in the extended version. It's the Jordan family (Newt & her family) who are the wildcatters that get dispatched to go check out those coordinates, after Burke secretly abuses his company status, to issue that 'company order' she found in the logs..
Also, in the original canon script, Burke did not get killed by the alien..he got taken back to their hive, just as Newt, ( and Dietrich & Msgt. Apone who weren't killed outright in the fighting earlier also were)..which you do hear them arguing about in the APC.
By the time Ripley arrives later to rescue Newt, Burke has already long been cocooned & impregnated by a face hugger..and is soon to suffer the same fate as all those poor colonists his vile greed got endangered & murdered, in the same way..
Chestburster style!
Ripley comes across him first, while using the tracker to find Newt..and he's sobbing & tells her he can feel it starting to move inside him.
She is cold to him, caring nothing for his plight or his pathetic pleas..
She just hands him one of the M-40 rifle grenades from the belt of them she's carrying..(that she later throws out at the Queen alien)..and coldly leaves him with a hate filled glare, to do as Vasquez & Gorman had to..letting it be quick was as far as she was willing to go for him, and even that was only because of her powerful need to keep moving for Newt.
She was not stopping for another second on his account, well aware of the countdown..and you can hear his sobbing pitifully receding into the distance quickly behind her as she charges forward, back into her rescue mission, then a muffled Boom in the background.
If you listen very carefully, in the extended version, there's a tiny point there, where they removed that SFX blast sound, amongst all the hissing & noise of the machinery in the background, where there is just the faintest hint of where the sound is dubbed over, and doesn't quite perfectly match..but this was covered by the scene that turns into her finding the lost tracking bracelet.
This scene with Burke, (very annoyingly & dissapointingly!)..was not returned along with all the rest of the great stuff for the special edition..even though all the other stuff that was cut, was..Sigh.
It didn't even get offered in the special edition movies extras, as a deleted scene!?
The special edition is by far the better version of ALIENS, and explains & shows a lot more, and fills in much of the feels, and the depths of the character arc & backstory for both Ripley & Newt respectively.
Just delight in the ending, and never, EVER, watch anything but these first 2 movies thereafter.
It's perfect!
"Keep a closer eye on him, Ripley...milky little fellow" You crack me up! 😂
You can imagine how horrifying it was to see these Aliens on the big screen in a movie theater.
You can imagine how epic this film was when it came out.
Such a perfect ending. Glad they didn't ruin by making half a dozen more sequels and prequels.
Yes, there is an Alien 3 and Alien 4, and I like them too. The styles keep jumping around among the various sequels too, about whether it's more slow creepy horror, or fast action kind of thing.
this movie gave me ptsd... i used to have nightmares about facehuggers and would wake up screaming.
those thigs are the most terrifying monsters ever conceived by the mind of man.
Engaging (and oft-times amusing) commentary, along with excellent editing, made watching your review a pleasure. I'm now a subscriber. IMO...best line by Ripley: "They can bill me!" Best line by Kat: "It was a re-gift though."
@3:46ish... "Look, just because we go to the same hair dresser..." Ha ha ha ha =X-D I bursted out loud walking away to the kitchen!! Good line, Kat!!
This movie right here is what current movie makers obsessed with having female leads need to watch. A superb story, a lot of excellent parts (male and female) and a female that is strong without the males having to be weak. This is how it's done. And your reaction was excellent.
The reason why Ripley breaks the deal with the queen is because she realizes they’d never get out of the room with all the face huggers hatching. So she chooses to attack first before she’d be overwhelmed. I do agree though that it would have been nice to conserve some ammo. But you really can’t blame Ripley since it was really a cathartic action on her part. Just pure destruction to release all the fear and anger that built up over two movies.
I'm fairly new to your channel but "These little idiots are going to get squashed" got me pretty good.
I’m surprised no one has done a parody of newt pressing every elevator button on the way back up.
Hah, funny! Love it.
Nah, Newt was way too smart for that..only Hudson, (or maybe Vasquez just to spite Hudson! 🤣) would've done that!
I could see that happening in the scene where he's getting all jittery about the xenos maybe being in here with them already.."They're in here!"
I could just see her or Drake grinning wolfishly & sealing & locking a door or two behind him..thus making him panic & have to run halfway back around the complex just to get back to where everyone is..
Only to then realise his readings were right, and they really were coming.."oops, shit.. sorry buddy!"
Or Bishop roasting & messing with Ripley more, about her 'android issues' perhaps..
So many great parody possibilities!
A parody of some stuff like that would be kuul indeed.