Aliens movie review
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- James Cameron takes on the world of Alien by directing the sequel "Aliens". Jeremy gives you his review of the iconic (and last great) chapter of the Alien movies.
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i prefer alien for it's atmosphere it creates, but i prefer aliens for doing what a good sequel should and BUILD AND EXPAND the franchise, not just rehash the first movie. so i respect the first one for sort of being a horror in space classic, while i respect the second one for being an action film with REALLY intense moments... so i guess i can say i love them both equally for what they are
Yup, exactly. It had a reasonable and logical conclusion to the themes of terror, corporatism, Ripley, the original alien, etc. It wasn't a movie just to sell toys, although it did. It was mostly concerned about the story and realism.
My sentiment toward the first two Spider-Man movies: 1) has the origin story down 2) as an expansion of was established
The three most badass women in cinema (not in order, because choosing is impossible for me):
-Ellen Ripley
-Sarah Connor
-Imperator Furiosa
+Max D. Perfect list, is.. Perfect.
You forgot these few:
-Bella from Twilight
-Halle Berry's Catwoman
-Lisa from The Room
+Apex_Predator1998 Is deaath worse than death? Does it last longer? xD
+Max D. What about the Bride from Kill Bill??
MovieNerd_EP Good point!
Alien is an atmospheric horror film.
Aliens is an intense action horror film.
And they're both fantastic. Whether one is better depends on your flavor.
Anthony Serocco alien 3 is a big mistake.
@Om Patel they got some horror scene though
@Om Patel yeah exactly
I'd say Aliens is more of a action thriller. Thriller relies on information you know to create tension. We learned about the xenomorphs in the first movie and so we already know about them but the movie uses this knowledge to create tension. The action is self explanatory
Imagine if Ripley and Sarah Connor team up... That would be awesome!
+TheUnstoppableScythe There would be an hour long scene of the two arguing over which danger to humanity is more... dangerous.
+TheUnstoppableScythe There's a official comic (tough is non-canon) called "Alien vs predator vs terminator"
+Augusto Konrad Theres also a comic called Terminator vs Robocop in which Robocop decapitates John Connor to prevent Skynet from being created!
+TheUnstoppableScythe And add Furiosa... unstoppable 3 :D
Duet of Dream!
Aliens is not just the best Alien film, it is also one of the best movies of all time!
I prefer the thing
Hell yeah, John Carpenter's The Thing, greatest alien movie ever, imo.
+just_those_gamers 06 good call haha that ones up there too....its just too bad the animations sucked at the end haha but that movie is cool bc it has something the alien series doesn't...mystery....the first time i saw it i was seriously like...who is it!?!?! and the ending is much better then aliens considering in the 3rd movie there like oh yeah...all the people you saved and the little girl....dead! lol
The thing is more terrifying, however, its special effects, while brilliant at times, have dated in parts, unlike Alien/Aliens.
@@just_those_gamers0650 damn now that's a fucking challenge
I once had a dream as a child where I am in my bed hiding from a Xenomorph and i see from the tiny opening I made with my blanket the xenomorph standing in front of my door and then proceeding the slowly walk towards me. Upon reaching me it then opens its mouth and then I woke up. That was when Aliens became one of my favorite movies.
+comiclord I had one as well but mine was that I was Newt and the xenomorph was trying to give me drugs on a teeter totter. XD
xenomprph drug dealers are the worst,the charcge you a lot
Man I know. They drive such a hard bargain.
lol that nightmare happened to me too when i was 10 year...
I have no hesitation in calling Aliens one of the greatest movies of all time. It might be my favorite.
Agreed! this movie's not my fav but it sure is one of my favs
I know a badass woman besides ripley in this movie. VASQUEZ
***** question. do alot of people have that picture or are you EVERYWHERE
Who?
"I just need to know one thing: where they are"
Yep, that's a badass
That bitch is so annoying
Hell yeah Vasquez all the way!!!! She went out fighting til the end too!!
Jeremy Jahns: Try to think of a more badass chick in a movie than Ripley
Me: Sarah Connors from Terminator
Aliens is the best action movie ever!
Aliens is the best movie of the 80's!
Aliens is the film by which all other action/sci-fi films are measured!
Aliens is my favorite film ever!
Aliens...is...Aliens!!!
I'm an Alien guy. Aliens is pretty cool with awesome action, but Alien is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen and is one of my favorite sci-fi horror movies of all-time.
Right?
I'm with you.
creepy?? what a pussy
I honestly don't know why but I did not find alien that scary
I agree Alien is perfect
That scene with the motion tracker and the aliens in the ceiling still sends chills down my spine, as much as the original film.
"Aliens" is one of those movies you can rewatch every damn night for an entire summer break. Alien is more one of those movies you rewatch once every 3-4 years. I like both, but Aliens is the best thriller-action movie of all time in my opinion.
Oh I'm an Aliens > Alien guy, both are excellent movies though. The next two for me don't exist. She and Newt live peacefully after escaping and that's how I shall remember it.
I know people won't like the answer, but I gotta say I'm neither one over the other, they're tones are so different that I can't really pick. In the way of Sci-Fi Horror, I'm totally an Alien guy and in the way of Sci-Fi Action...I'm tied between Aliens and the first Predator movie XD
I honestly think I like them both equally. I watched Alien again about a week ago, and I came off it saying "this is the best Alien film". Then I watched Aliens last night, and now I'm thinking Aliens is better. So, I think that ends up meaning that they're equally good, because they're two different kinds of movie.
On a side note, I would say that Aliens still, to this day, has some of the most convincing special effects ever, mostly because there is absolutely no CGI, and the miniatures, suits, and puppets are of such a ridiculously high quality, you can't really tell that they're not real.
I thought you said "they found that little girl nude" and I was like
woah, Jeremy, my man
Impend Chaos same
Blocked for being a dumbass
Just rewatched this movie in honor of Bill Paxton. Went right here looking for this review. Thankfully, it exists. RIP Bill Paxton!
Aliens is one of my favorite movies of all time and I think Ripley is one of the best written film characters of all time.
i wish james cameron handles transformers franchise
Same. But I wish he'd start from the ground upand have it more like the IDW comics.
yes,from the ground because he knows how to deal with machines and make them epic
kaiplue I think we'd all appreciate a transformers reboot at this point.
I can see it know transformers mixed with avatar...no thanks
I like 'Alien' more. It is much slower but also more creepy.
It's slower, but it handles the pace really well. I always feel bored at the first half of Aliens. While at the very slow parts of Alien, I'm always interested about the scenario, informations about the alien, informations about their mission etc.
Raymond Mach I would disagree I find aliens much slower than alien it takes a good fucking minute for shit to go down in aliens in alien they wake up, message, planet, ship, shit hits the fan.
@@MechaTengu21 How in the world do you feel bored during fricking Aliens? I guess you are one of those people who want explosions in the first minute of the movie rather than actual character development...
Alien, but Aliens is magnificent, and close to topping Alien
Cobalt Falcon agree
Alien or aliens... Love them both I gotta say but if I had to choose 1 I would say alien, why? Cause in alien it was like this unknown threat that flamethrowers and stuff don't even work on this 1 thing, it's a haunted house in space pretty much, and in aliens... You just shoot them and they are dead, I mean aliens is still great but yeah
I like BOTH movies too.
But I've seen that observation made before about the comparison of the aliens in the movies.
"Flamethrowers and stuff don't even work on"
You and all those fans need to rewatch the movie.
They NEVER actually used the flamethrower on the alien. It never gets attacked by the humans. When it does get it in the end a grappling hook rips completely through its body like tissue paper.
... point being though is that the alien was a threat that no one knew how to stop or deal with, and yes technically they never directly use the flame thrower on the alien, but every time they tried to the alien outsmarted them, making it one hell of a threat
5hane9ro
Every time. ..???
They tried ONCE. And it snuck up behind him in s vent shaft and he dropped it.
The aliens in the second movie were shown to be even smarter. Getting past defense perimeters, sneaking up on soldiers with motion trackers, hiding in plain sight, cutting the power, intentionally running down their ammunition, etc.
And furthermore, you ignored my comment about the grappling hook.
Which leads into your comment about "not knowing how to deal with it".
Yeah, they didn't know how to handle it. But in the end, stabbing it with a grappling hook was fairly effective in wounding it.
So if a grappling hook can rip through it's body like tissue paper - then machine guns, grenades and a tank are more than acceptable.
Again I LOVE BOTH movies. But arguments made for alien just don't hold up to any sort of intelligent rebuttal.
Alien: awesometacular
Aliens: awesometacular
Alien 3: a good time if you're drunk
Alien 4: dog s**t
Prometheus: worth buying on blu ray
Prometheus 2, Paradise: ????????????
Predator: awesometacular
Predator 2: a good time no alcohol required
Predators: worth buying on blu ray
Noxious
Agreed.
Aliens is better, people. Absolutely no debate here. Although that Ripley vs Queen finale battle needed an epic music score to go with it...
it depends, people prefer horror movies and others prefer action movies
TBV121 ... damn it man thats exactly what i was thinking the first time i saw it, it was still a badass fight scene, but jesus jst a little track in there woulda made it 100x better IMO
I'm sure there is some room to debate that, whether that would accomplish anything is another story.
CrispyCucaracha i prefer the no music. Im not saying music wouldnt have been cool, but i just feel its no much more intense when the only sounds are the sounds of them fighting!
My rankings of the Alien Saga:
Alien: Awesometacular
Aliens: Awesometacular
Alien 3: Dogshit
Alien: Ressurection: Dogshit
I'd say that's spot-on.
Nah, Alien 3 is a good time no alcohol required.
Batman1989King agree with 3/4. Alien3 I think is pretty good. So I’d give it a good score (not quite awesometacular)
Completely agree 100%. Alien 3 was sooo fucking terrible...
Alien 3 was such a big fuck you to the audience. It was also just so dark, depressing, and dull.
Funny story: one of my professors told me the story about how she went to see this in theaters. She had her popcorn and Pepsi. During one of the suspenseful scenes, her friend tapped her on the shoulder. Cue my professor screaming, throwing popcorn and Pepsi everywhere.
LOL, my aunt did the same thing in the "bus scene" from Final Destination.
Edgar Chavez LOL does she laugh about it now? My professor said that she and her friend were laughing about it as they were leaving the theater.
I'm sure she would. It was a long time ago so it doesn't really come up anymore. But my family had a good laugh for a long time
I give Aliens a 10/10. There is never a dull moment in this movie.
Happy 30th Anniversary to one of the BEST sequels of All Time!! #Aliens30
It's impossible to compare the two. Alien is atmospheric and full of suspense and Aliens is more "Holyshitthere'salotofthemwhywon'tyoudie!" and they both play their genres beautifully. They are both wonderful movies that stand on their own.
Sarah Connor from T2.
You know what i wanna see, Ripley vs Connor
Henry Wolfie Epic Rap Battle? huh? huh? Ahhh...
I find Aliens a smidgen better than Alien
I honestly can't decide if I like one more than the other. I have a deep love and nostalgia for both since I saw these movies when I was little. To me, Alien is the best SciFi horror/thriller film and Aliens competes with Predator for the best SciFi action film.
Jeremy, you should review the last two films, and then also review Predator. Atleast the first one.
I completely agree, he already reviewed the matrix
hulk fan Resurrection isn't THAT awful, at least not compared with A3. Resurrection at least had some nice action sequences and a few fun characters. A3 was a bummer, and when you think about A3, you have to compare it to the AWESOME movie that was originally planned (Ripley and Hicks and a shit ton of soldiers fighting an army of those things on Earth) versus the crap that was eventually made.
I prefer Aliens a wee bit more, mostly because it does exactly what a sequel needed to do. The fist was claustrophbic, with everyday-people standing no chance against a killing-machine. And when its over you think: Geez, if only they had some rifles on board the Nostromo etc...
Then we get rifles, grenades, tanks etc, and those badass-marines get simpyl ripped apart by the xenos. And the movie still got that great horror-atmosphere, great characters like Vasquez, Hudson, Ghorman etc...it just puts alien on level two in every aspect...and I trly hope the new sequel-reboot (or whatever you can cool that) doesn't fuck it up like 3 + 4 did ...
i once stayed up past my parents watching tv when i was a kid (like 6 or 7 years old) Aliens was just starting so my curiosity drove me to watch it. 2 or 3 hours later my mum walks into the lounge room to go to the kitchen for a drink and she sees me there watching the credits. i turned to look at her and i swear at that moment you could just see my childhood innocence just seep out. i got to say, Aliens: best sci-fi movie ever
Yeah I'm weird. I prefer Aliens over Alien, but I prefer Predator over Predator 2. They are both the best in their respective franchises.
Agreed
Everyone prefers Predator over Predator 2
1:33, Sarah Conner.
*Connor
+dntm123 Nah
Thanks to James Cameron.
Beatrix Kiddo
I will say this about resurrection, I liked it more than alien 3
thewildcard person True for sure
HAHAHA omg your voice over at the end had me on the floor. Damn watching this made me want to crack out my aliens copy. I'm on the same boat. I am an aliens lady. I saw that one first as a kid too! Funny coincidence. Thought the queen was badass and the action was great, cool to see how the aliens functioned. Did you know that the part for Ripley was actually written for a man? But Weaver rocked it so well that Ridley said "Ok yeah we are making Ripley a woman." True story!
my favorite movie of all times ....I prefer Aliens over alien..."Game over man"
Aliens, all the way. This was just one of the numerous bangers Cameron was kickin' out in the 80's and 90's. Terminator, True Lies, Aliens, Abyss-James Cameron just couldn't miss!
Alien is one of my favourite movies, The Aliens in Aliens weren't that menacing tbh
the original alien is good and suspenseful, but aliens in my opinion was better it had more action some suspense thrown in all round great sequel. My fav line was when hicks pulled the shotty out for close encounters
The set, mechanical, and sound designs were incredible. Pulse rifles, dropships, troop carrier are still the coolest pieces of ScFi hardware ever made.
I wish Cameron was making more movies like this instead on constantly blabbing on the 3D bandwagon.
"You cant think of a more badass chick in a movie"
Umm Sarah Connor in T2?.
Imperator Furiosa
Hit-Girl?
The Bride.
Ripley is better than them all.
Aliens is one of the best Action and Science Fiction films ever. Alien, however, vies with John Carpenter's The Thing as THE best Horror and Science Fiction movie ever. I saw both in the theater as a kid, and when all was said and done I preferred Aliens. Nowadays, though, I strongly believe Alien is the better of the two (although I could sit through more repeated watchings of Aliens).
Alien and Aliens are both masterpieces and I love them both for different reasons. To me, Aliens was just as suspenseful and terrifying as the original, but with some awesome action and better characters. The characters in Alien were good, don't get me wrong, but I just liked the ones in the sequel more, especially Hicks and Hudson (Michael Beihn and Bill Paxton) and Ripley was a total badass. Even Newt was a cool character, and that's not something you say a lot about children in movies. So yeah, I'm definitely an "Aliens" guy!
1:28 Sarah Conner in Terminator 2
Looking back, In these videos from 2012 Jeremy looks so tired and in these new ones this year he looks so fresh. it's like all of these years have been a morning to him
I am definitely a more of an "ALIENS" person. It was also my favorite movie out of the Alien Anthology. :)
Alien/Aliens
Alien3
The Room
Troll 2
Alien resurrection
I am am Aliens woman. Michael Biehn was my first teenage crush lol. He is a lovely guy. I met him the same weekend I met Cary Elwes. I've also met the actors who played Fero and Drake. It will always be one of my favourite films.
i like the movie Aliens better than Alien
you need to do a alien3 review now that would be awesometacular
When I was younger Aliens > Alien. Now, Aliens = Alien.
I admire Alien for the fact that its adult rating does not just refer to violence and gore. It also refers to the sensibilities necessary of a viewer to enjoy it.
Alien!
AvP Requiem best film EVER! FACT
Fact? Ive never seen it but the Jamaican Looking Predalien. Made it look amazing.
i was being sarcastic lol its god awful!!!
Andrew Miller I know. I was too because personally having a Jamaican Alien already told me it was awful.
lol that film is just an abomination, all copies need putting in2 a rocket and shot in2 the sun!
Andrew Miller SPARE THE JAMAICAN ALIEN LET IT RUN FREE.
Finally watched both back-to-back, and I gotta say I prefer Alien. To me, the slow-burn pacing and tighter, more natural dialogue of the original makes it a far superior film. Doesn't make Aliens a bad film. Not at all. It's definitely still a 10/10.
Alien>Aliens
Aliens is just the better film.
While I do love Scott's Alien, I've always been an Aliens person myself, and James Cameron is my favourite director. The man is a maestro. He wrote and directed this film, did the storyboarding, designed the Alien Queen, hired his close friend Stan Winston to build it, and made what is still to this day one of the strongest film sequels made to date (just as he wrote and directed another, that being T2).
Aliens all the way.
Alien for me.
Great movie. I rewatched all alien/predator and avp movies lately. Alien and aliens are the best and so different to
Team Aliens-who's with me?
The problem with Newt though is that although the film establishes her to be really smart as she knows her way through the ducts, every scene with her in the finale is her just standing still screaming like every character in every horror movie ever, she is just incredibly annoying.
Wong Chris Not when the film showed that she had managed to survive by herself, all of a sudden she can't do anything.
Wong Chris That's what I'm saying though, she doesn't run, she stands there and screams, no attempt to run at all when she has clearly done it before.
Wong Chris I doubt she was in shock because when Ripley first found her I would describe that as being shock. It's certainly possible that it's her first time seeing a zenomorph up close but it's also quite possible that she had already seen what was going on which is why she was hiding.
She did mention that they come out at night which means that she has probably seen them before..
smart =/= self control when a huge ass alien is about to kill you
Kolbe i would like to point out that that place she was in at the end she had never bin in before, she dosent know the terrain or where anything leads to, so yes i think its better to scream than run away to god knows where and more than likely get lost, caught, and chestbursted ... jst saying
"I'm an Aliens guy"... I knew I liked this dude
-I like horror movies so I prefer Alien (Awesometacular).
-Aliens is a good movie but I don't like it to much because it is an action movie not a horror movie... When I see this movie I imagine James Cameron taking a shit on Ridley Scott's face and on his amazing movie Alien (good time no alcohol required)
-Alien 3 is just like going back to the original Alien style, only one alien, and no guns, but much worst than the original. (good time no alcohol required)
-Alien Resurrection I watched it once and I kinda liked it... but I don't think i'm going to watch it again...(good time no alcohol required but maybe some alcohol could help...)
When I was a wee bairn, Aliens Special Edition was on TV when Alien 3 was coming out. Now, I'd seen a bit of Alien (ran screaming from the room when we met the Chestburster and didn't go back) so I had practically no idea of what was coming. I'd set up an old VHS tape to record it (school night) so I could watch it the next day.
Insert tape, play. Almost three hours later ... Ripley is back on the ship. She's got Hicks, bandaged; Newt is sleeping. She smiles, turns to Bishop - then Bishop acts funny. Then he goes into a seizure. Milky stuff is spraying everywhere ... Ripley tries to keep her friend Bishop together ... then suddenly his top half flies to one end of the shuttle bay, the lower half flies to the other ... the Queen steps down, snarls at Ripley ....
... then my 180min VHS tape runs out.
This, kids, is why we don't pirate. Because the goddamn commercials always stretched shit out longer than your tape could record.
I'm an Alien guy!
'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of the best movies in the world. Much better than 'Predator'. Who else agrees?
umm...... good for you
GCSI - Official Channel sorry Predator is a better film than the alien franchise. Its a better deconstruction of its type of film and equal horror and action.
I consider Predator to be their spiritual successor. John McTiernan's 2nd best film after Die Hard.
And "brundlefly".
Funny how people were saying we know very little about the predator (while reviewing predator 1and2) but what do we really know about the aliens? Critics were having a problem with that issue with the predator movies. But I like that its a mystery. Keeps it more interesting.
Aliens may be one of the best sequels of all time, but you just can't beat the claustrophobic thrills of Alien
Just watched both films back-to-back (these reviews sparked my interest; don't know that I would have queued them up otherwise). Definitely an *ALIENS* person. It was awesometacular.
I´m sorry to say that - but i´m an Alien(s)-Person - i don´t prefer one of both movies, i really love them both for what they are. Alien as the Space-Slasher-Horror that it is in a really perfect way with all its slow pacing, the burst-out-action-moments and the great characters. And Aliens as the Space-Action-Horror with all its perfect actionscenes, the great one-liners and the badassness of Ripley. I just love them both.
I also love the fact that Jeanette Goldstein is in Both Aliens and Terminator 2 (the woman with the smartgun and the foster mom in T2)
One of my fondest memories was seeing the Aliens cast reunite at COMiCPALOOZA. Who knew Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser were such funny guys.
I dislike choosing between the two, because both films are extraordinary in their own right, but like you, I also watched "Aliens" first, and as such, it has a special place in my heart. I love the details and consistency of the world it creates.
Does anyone know where Jeremy's review of the first alien is? I can't seem to find it.
I'm Aliens all day, every day. I've seen it a million times over and it never gets old. I actually think I watched it everyday for a week once and I watch it every Christmas. It's basically a tradition now.
A man after my own heart. But James Cameron action movies always float my boat.
+Jeremy Jahns, I think this two movies are real lessons on how to make astonishing films. Sigourney Weaver had a performance in Aliens that only can be compared with that of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2: The Judgment Day. The fight with the alien queen is simply a piece of art. After you watch that movies you get an excellent point of reference to judge the nowadays horror movies.
Aliens person--no ? while the first one is preferable to watch first to establish the story this one takes it to another level and delves deep into the culture of the Aliens themselves. Weaver is kickass as Ripley the marines are believable and also kickass and I could recite from memory probably the entire script. Full of action for a movie made in 1986 it still stands up to anything made today (Michael Bay WTF is wrong with u) Ripleys final descent into the nest is quite possibly the best 14 minutes in cinematic history
my mom let me watch it when I was 8. sorry, Jeremy. and I got to see it tonight on the big screen. it was fantastic. truly amazing.
I'm more of an Alien dude myself, but Aliens still kicks ass.
Ripley in the first Alien movie is very similar to Ash from the first Evil Dead, where they’re not really the badass characters we know and love them as yet, when you think of Ash Williams you think of Evil Dead 2 and Army Of Darkness, and when you think of Ellen Ripley you think of Aliens, so this movie really elevated her character
my best friend once best summed up "Aliens" to me one day whilst in class...it's basically (in the most literal sense)Vietnam but in space...i couldn't help but kinda agree
No reason to pit Alien against Aliens. They're both awesome movies that are some of the best films period in their respective genres and really the only two films in the franchise worth watching.
Both, I have em on VHS and now on DVD ain't gonna stop collecting Aliens gear, but I treat Alien and Aliens as a 2 part story of terror, action and absolute badassery
The pulse rifle sound, THE PULSE RIFLE SOUND!
RIPLEY: "Hudson! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons or training".
HUDSON: "Well why don't you put her in charge"?!!
Queen killed Bishop. That's a chess reference right there!
I like both 'Alien' and 'Aliens' for different reasons. Those two are different genders of movie in my book in the same 'universe'. Which I love. The universe I mean. It's like Lord of the Rings. I'd enjoy both a plot/dialogue/lore movie about the Middle Earth, the same way I'd enjoy a full scale battle movie in Middle Earth.
That's one of the reasons 'Prometheus' was not a let down for me at all.
I completely agree.
I'm 36 and finally watched Aliens so of course I'm going to see if Jeremy ever did a review. I loved the climax but most of the film was lackluster for me. Just like the first one, sigourney weavers acting was super stiff, except in the original it made more sense because her character was built up til the end where she finally breaks out of her shell and becomes a badass. The original is definitely the best out of the franchise for me as it has great suspense from start to finish.
Why did you delete your alien review
A curiosa: two of the actors (Lance Henrikssen = Bishop, and Bill Paxton = Hudson) are the only two that have been killed by a Xenomorph, a Predator and a Terminator
Lance were killed in Terminator 1, Alien vs Predator and Aliens, and Bill were killed in Aliens, Predator 2 and Terminator 1
saw this movie back in '86 at the movie theater, LOVED IT!!!! Way better for me, then the first one.
This film was an intense action packed ride from beginning to end!