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@@thebossthusiast1960 they broke the rule: the remake tried to show the aliens to flex the special effects or whatever. the less you see the alien the better ITT
@@blakebraden21 if i had the disposable income id go rogue hipster and request something they would hate and probably refuse to do like Time & Tide, Youth Without Youth or 7 Samurai, so there meh muh
A factoid that wasn't mentioned; the sets, like the corridors, were originally supposed to stay white for the whole film. But then one morning when they were shooting the second half of the film, Scott came in and just said paint everything black. Everyone was against it because it wouldn't match the start but he wouldn't budge and made it happen. You guys should review Tremors.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 I think it was mostly the corridors, the ones that look kind of padded. Watch it again, you should see early on they're white but then when Ripley is racing around towards the end the walls will have changed to black.
Fun fact: The magazine Ash attempts to kill Ripley with is a porno...a lot of working men away from their significant others on a ship for years, but they had not developed free internet pornography quite yet.
Me too. "Hey let's do Alien again but with modern technology and make the characters in the script way less intelligent so that we don't have to think of ways for the danger to escalate beyond their own wit, completely missing the point of what made the original movie work."
I also figured the multiple explosions when the ship self destructed was the refinery the Nostromo was towing. It being a free floating facility it's bound to have its own reactor and possibly self destruct mechanism. This is one of my all time favorite movies and I will forever have "With arms wide open" pop into my head when Dallas gets it....so thanks for that. -_-
That actually makes that scene seem a lot more bittersweet, tbh. Knowing that they all shared a final (kayfabe) meal together before they finished shooting on that set... It would have been a nice way to finish things.
Awesome! You guys showed the Spaceballs reference lol. I was waiting for it during the whole vid. You lads did not disappoint! GET FOKED!!! lol "Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey!"
One of the greatest movies ever, a sci-fi horror masterclass that delivered in every category and whose influence can still be felt today. And you guys did a magnificent job covering it!
Love your review! I saw Alien when it first came out in '79 (I was 22). I've lost count of how many times I've seen in through the years. I never get tired of it. It's my favorite movie.
One of my nieces got really interested in horror movies for a while when she reached her mid teens, and I showed her this movie. She really enjoyed it, but she totally lost it in a fit of giggles when Ripley stripped down in act 4. "Why are her panties so small??" It was great.
"Why are her panties so small??" You know, now that you mention it, I recall underwear being really tight back in the 80s and I'm not sure why. I think it was a money-saving thing.
Love this series. I watched the trilogy however in reverse order. Alien 3 was the very first R-rated movie I ever watched so it always held a special place for me. Aliens I ended up watching the tv version first. Only finally watched them in order when I bought the VHS set at a Sears or something. It would be years later I'd learn about the special editions of each movie. For the first I preferred the theatrical since that's how Ridley wanted it as well. The other two were greatly enhanced by the extra scenes, including 3 which I always felt got a bad rap. All in all each movie is individually good reflecting a vision of every director. What fourth movie?
@@primepm8861 Nice. Aliens was the first one I saw. My grandma loved them and had them both on video but she loves Aliens more. I was 5 when I watched it with her and was nearly traumatized when they stumbled upon that girl that had the xenomorph about to break from her chest. NEARLY. It was startling to see that at 5, especially when she is panicking and telling them to kill her before it springs from her chest. HAHA but I just wanted to watch the movie again and again.
@NuttyBuddy I remember. Even saw that one in theaters. Not as good as the OG trilogy, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Could've been better. About the same level as Prometheus I'd say.
My first R rated movie was a woman in a fishnet shoving something between another woman legs. Then a pizza-man interrupted them. My five year old brain had no idea what it was watching. I put the cassette back behind the TV.
People shit on Alien 3 a lot more than they should, imo. Sure, it's not as great as the first two movies but it was still a well-made movie. I think a lot of folks were disappointed that the story didn't play out in a satisfying way that they thought Ripley deserved. But I just like the vibe of the movie, there's a definite sense of finality to it like you're watching the end of something grand.
This is the film that absolutely scared the shit out of me when I was younger and gave me nightmares. But it also cemented my love of horror, one of the best sci-fi/horror films ever made.
I'm glad you guys are taking time to appreciate some classics, and I hope it helps popularize them a little for younger folks who might not be exposed otherwise. Context in film is important, and y'all do a great job showing the appreciation this movie deserves! Well done!
Cheers bruddah! Do you think teens would like this film? This is one of those films where I thought it was good in my teens and Incredible in my 30s! Appreciate it so much more now
@@OSW I would HOPE that younger people would give it an honest chance. Again, context is important, and I think you guys did a good job explaining that, yes, this is amazing because a lot of this had never been done before, and so, so many things have been influenced by it. That's the true power of these classics, that I'm afraid a lot of kids just don't get. Maybe it requires a little bit of age and wisdom to really "get" it. I confess, I preferred the sequel when I was younger, because at the time I didn't really understand what Ridley Scott was doing with the original: a slasher in space. With apologies, I happened to be a film major...I could talk about this stuff forever. Oh yeah, you should have gone deeper into the whole Jodorowski story and its influence on Alien. Otherwise, great stuff, thank you.
I'm actually an Alien Resurrection defender. America's caveman Ron Perlman overracting.. Sigourney Weaver landing a blind basketball shot.. Badly CG'd olympic swimmer Xenomorphs.. The franchises stupidest chest burster scene.. the best of bollocks!
I agree with the people who say Alien was great because it was basically a haunted house/horror-suspense movie in a sci fi setting. The series then went straight action sci fi and lost what made it special imo
OMG I've waited so long for SOMEWHAT THIS lol. I've been PRAYING you would do #ALIENS but the first shall have to do. I appreciate and applaud all of you!
what you didn't know, giger in 'warren monster annual 1980' they did film for the sequence where ripley dies, the alien would speak in Dallas voice andthe final shot actually filmed according to giger, the ship drifts by the camera showing an egg attached to the outside engine panels
The fking sound of the chest burster running. đ Loved this review, hope to see the other Alien movies reviewed, thanks guys. đ Epic choices in video game music for this one. đ
@@FGHHJazz i love the slightly conspiracy theory that at the end McReady is pretending to drink alcohol but it is really antifreeze, so when Childs returns and drinks it down, it shows he is actually the alien and McReady smiles knowing they are gonna freeze to death
And then he regained that scare Factor when you learn who was behind the film and what they did and suddenly these movies seem less horror and more confessions
You know, I actually mostly liked Resurrection. The human cast other than clone-Ripley are deeply forgettable, but I really liked how it felt it was genuinely trying to do something new with the franchise, blurring the lines between human and alien, and running with the themes of disturbing cross-species sexuality that the first one had. Plus, I liked how they bought Weaver back without invalidating the end of 3, and let her do new things with the character.
Went to see the first alien trilogy at Halloween 1993 in the now gone Stoke Odeon A fabulous night starting at 10pm and finishing around 7 (they also showed exorcist 4 for no apparent reason) Best ÂŁ5 Iâve ever spent as a student
Man, what a great film to review. It's so unsettling from the get go and just a very cold, creepy film that still stands up today (bar the little running vibrator) Did it justice with the review, think this is something lost in modern film is the iconic set they had and not so dependent on CGI
I can point to three tiny things in this movie that don't hold up on a technical level: 1. The chestburster running away (it should've jumped) 2. The full body shot of the Alien when it's attacking Lambert and Parker because it looks too much like a puppet despite being a guy in a suit 3. The jump cut when they're messing with Ash's remains (that one you see in the review isn't an edit to trick the algorithm; it's really like that in the movie) For those about to point to the death hug in the vents: that was bad direction, not a crack in the budget :P Doesn't matter though, it's still my favourite movie ever.
This is probably my favourite film. I love how the Nostromo's landing lights are just poorly strung Christmas lights. Edit: Also Alien 3 is far worse than Resurrection
TV and print ads said: "In space, no one can hear you scream." I saw "Alien" in the same ex-Cinerama theater that had shown "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and "Star Wars" (1977). The slowly appearing line segments of the title and Jerry Goldsmith's music made us tense. The "Star Wars-y" look of the "Nostromo" was a relief...until we saw the tube-like interiors. Although "it takes a crew to make a movie," the director without a good screenplay is...lost. Ridley Scott, instead of taking us to the Alien Homeworld, had a slightly upgraded Bender Bending Rodriguez be the "kill all Humans" Alien maker because he's got a God complex. So the "pot-Aliens" movies are mostly dead/nonexistent for me. Sic transit gloria.
Alien & Aliens are my favorite movies! I hope that one day a game will come out that will do them justice. Isolation tried, but the ai, minigames and padding made me consider it a below average game.
@@reloadpsi by the time I encountered the alien a third time I already knew where it would show up and what it would do. And it became obvious which noises were "fake". Overall that game shouldn't have been longer than 6 hours.
Yeah, the AI got talked up so much before the game got released, but it was really disappointing (at least on PS3, maybe it was better on PS4). It didn't take too long for me to figure out that the AI can "cheat" to surprise you or increase tension; but that just ended up ruining my immersion.
@@dimitarbelchev3062 That sounds to me like you just died a lot at the start of medical, and that you "knew what it would do" was one of its few scripted moments, namely the one where you walk down that corridor and it officially enters play. There are a few scripted moments at the beginning obviously, but most games have those because you need to have it introduced to you. After you're deep into medical, there are only two moments throughout the entire game I can recall where the Alien is teleported while it's "in play," and that's just to trigger a cutscene. That or you played on Very Easy, where the AI really is garbage... because you're playing on Very Easy.
@@reloadpsi nah I played on hard. I just wasnât impressed at all. After a while not only did it seem like the alien was predictable and cheating(it can teleport to another spawn point in a microsecond I tested it), but the game was also just so fucking long. Halfway through I looked up a longplay on youtube and after I saw that I wasnât anywhere near close to finishing the game I just gave up and watched the ending. That was one of the last times I ever bought a game at full price. So much fucking paddingâŠâŠ
@@zmajodnocaja5088 After the first film the mystery of the Alien had already been revealed, so it wouldn't have had the same impact if they did the same film again, they had to go in a different direction.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 films that are that successful always get a sequel, normally itâs a terrible rehash of the first, and I appreciate that Ridley Scott did it differently. Each to their own I guess đ€·ââïž
So weird this is coming out after RLM's "Ranking John Carpenter" video where they talked about Dark Star and I know you guys have talked about them before. Collaboration when?!
thanks for vid lads ....fantastic as usual beautiful ones ...how about a review of one of the halloween movies at this time of year ? part 5 or 6 will get some laughs / enjoyable
Hasn't there already been an OSW review of this? I could swear this isn't the first time I've heard them talking about the xenomorph doing the 'jazz hands' bit.
I remember when this movie came out, I was 8 and my grandmother took my 11-year old sister to see ALIEN(cuz that's what she did, my grandmother)...when my sister came home she kept trying to tell me what the movie was about and was really worked up about it...she would start telling me about all this horrible shit that happened but she'd start crying and have to start over...
Watching movies would be a copyright nightmare! If ya didn't know, Steve live streams on twitch most days and watches an OSW episode every Sat with the missus! Check it twitch.tv/OSWreview đ
The only thing scarier than the Xenomorph? Aside from Rellik, which is "Killer" spelled backwards? The butchering of the franchise by Ridley Scott with Promethus and Covenant. Hope to see more scary movie reviews from the lads of OSW for October.
Not really Prometheus was great with a few problems which had a sequel with an interesting premise to see where it went...Where they went wrong was listening to fuckwith Alien fantards crying because stupid is better and how they just wanted shooty shooty brah so instead we get Covenant..... Covenant is what you get when you let imbeciles dictate what you should do with your story.
@@beepboop204 Yeah no...3 especially the assembly cut is good....Its hilarious when idiots cry about how sequels always to the same predictable thing. But LMFAO cried that Alien 3 did something completely unexpected in the first 20 minutes and, hilariously missed the overall narrative about how the alien took everything from Ripley.
đ Thumbs up the vid ya divvy knacker! đ
Kicking off the spookiest month of the year, we're releasing our ALIEN (1979) review! These film reviews are supposed to be patron-only but we're making it available for everyone! It's sequel ALIENS (1986) is available NOW on NoggerU! Buy us a pint and watch it now at www.patreon.com/posts/13732710 đ»
Thank you for the videos Lads! Cant wait for more horror movie reviews đ
@jabroni destroyer Mortal Kombat was schlock, Alien was a masterpiece.
As always, outstanding work, gentlemen!
I want to live in a Country where the National Currency is The "Wing-Wang"đđ
Can you please upload this theme from the beginning of the movie review videos?
I think you guys should review âThe Thingâ itâs so great
THIS. 1982 version of course.
@@thebossthusiast1960 they broke the rule: the remake tried to show the aliens to flex the special effects or whatever. the less you see the alien the better ITT
Sign up on Patreon and request it
@@blakebraden21 if i had the disposable income id go rogue hipster and request something they would hate and probably refuse to do like Time & Tide, Youth Without Youth or 7 Samurai, so there meh muh
@@beepboop204 It was a prequel not a remake
A factoid that wasn't mentioned; the sets, like the corridors, were originally supposed to stay white for the whole film. But then one morning when they were shooting the second half of the film, Scott came in and just said paint everything black. Everyone was against it because it wouldn't match the start but he wouldn't budge and made it happen.
You guys should review Tremors.
''We'll call them graboids!!!!''
So I guess you could say he wanted to "Paint it Black."
@@zmajodnocaja5088 I really liked Grabbers and influences how I refer to 'the eBay' to this day! But yes, it's no Tremors.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 I think it was mostly the corridors, the ones that look kind of padded. Watch it again, you should see early on they're white but then when Ripley is racing around towards the end the walls will have changed to black.
Ash used the iron claw on Parker's chest. Clearly had some Fritz Von Erich matches on his hard drive.
xD
This couldn't of come at a better time lads, things are rough atm. Thanks so much! O S DUB!!
Hang in there, buddy.
@@thadanzwiggler Thanks mate
it will get better mate, you can beat whatever it is, us humans are stronger than we think!
Stay strong brother đđ»
A winner is you O S DUB!!
I love jumping on youtube and seeing a fresh OSW episode about to premier for us cheapskates.
Cheers lads! Gonna stick the kettle on.
I pay my subs for the lads not the bonus stuff so donât mind when the skrubs get occasional freebies
Fun fact: The magazine Ash attempts to kill Ripley with is a porno...a lot of working men away from their significant others on a ship for years, but they had not developed free internet pornography quite yet.
V1 - I have to watch that again
Jay - no you don't
Cracked me up
Me too. "Hey let's do Alien again but with modern technology and make the characters in the script way less intelligent so that we don't have to think of ways for the danger to escalate beyond their own wit, completely missing the point of what made the original movie work."
John Hurt showed from Alien to Hellboy he is great at dying for his kids
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I popped for the "long term booking" line during the part about the space jockey.
Wrestling terminology in normal reviews will never get old hahaha
i woulda been ok if the alien had won ... thats the ultimate way of getting the Alien over. haha
"why does everything have to be wrestling?" -Mr OOC
Wow, finally a whole episode dedicated to Max Moon this should be great!
Thank you guys as anyways for bringing some laughter and joy to these crappy times we live in now. Canât wait for the next video!
Very kind of ya mate. I'll belay pearl harboring you from the front
This movie still holds up amazingly well.
Guys what other horror films would u like us to review? đ©âđđŸ
Halloween followed by the Rob Zombie remake?
Well I was going to say Aliens but youâve got that covered brahs! Off to Patreon I go âŠ
Cuties, it's fucking evil
Hereditary please
Either the Thing or Gremlins would be enjoyable to see you guys do reviews on.
I also figured the multiple explosions when the ship self destructed was the refinery the Nostromo was towing. It being a free floating facility it's bound to have its own reactor and possibly self destruct mechanism.
This is one of my all time favorite movies and I will forever have "With arms wide open" pop into my head when Dallas gets it....so thanks for that. -_-
This beginning eating scene was filmed last. This is why the cast looked so comfortable with each other.
That actually makes that scene seem a lot more bittersweet, tbh. Knowing that they all shared a final (kayfabe) meal together before they finished shooting on that set... It would have been a nice way to finish things.
Awesome! You guys showed the Spaceballs reference lol. I was waiting for it during the whole vid. You lads did not disappoint!
GET FOKED!!! lol
"Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey!"
One of the greatest movies ever, a sci-fi horror masterclass that delivered in every category and whose influence can still be felt today. And you guys did a magnificent job covering it!
This channel is so entertaining. I love the wrestling reviews, but I think you guys could branch out to whatever. Awesome vid!
Would love if they did more game reviews!
"Lands on a pebble and the ship has a stroke!" Okay that caught me off guard, spat me chips!
Alien is such an effortlessly entertaining film as well.
It doesnât try too hard to be unnerving, this is a movie that excels in everything it does.
A brilliant review for a brilliant film. One of your guys best so far.
Jay gets extra props for burying "Prometheus".
Love your review! I saw Alien when it first came out in '79 (I was 22). I've lost count of how many times I've seen in through the years. I never get tired of it. It's my favorite movie.
This was an incredible review. But where is OOC, the movie critic of the show
One of my nieces got really interested in horror movies for a while when she reached her mid teens, and I showed her this movie. She really enjoyed it, but she totally lost it in a fit of giggles when Ripley stripped down in act 4. "Why are her panties so small??"
It was great.
"Why are her panties so small??"
You know, now that you mention it, I recall underwear being really tight back in the 80s and I'm not sure why. I think it was a money-saving thing.
@@CopiousDoinksLLC Okay, your screen name is fantastic. Not to ride over your actual comment, but I had to say it. đ
One of the greatest movies ever made. Well done, guys.
The Space Jockey scene is my favorite scene in any movie, ever. The ambiguity, the "what is going on here, what is this thing?" feeling
Cosmic horror baby! đ„ž
Love this series. I watched the trilogy however in reverse order.
Alien 3 was the very first R-rated movie I ever watched so it always held a special place for me. Aliens I ended up watching the tv version first. Only finally watched them in order when I bought the VHS set at a Sears or something.
It would be years later I'd learn about the special editions of each movie. For the first I preferred the theatrical since that's how Ridley wanted it as well. The other two were greatly enhanced by the extra scenes, including 3 which I always felt got a bad rap. All in all each movie is individually good reflecting a vision of every director.
What fourth movie?
I also saw Spaceballs before any of the Alien movies so I'd been sorta spoiled
@@primepm8861 Nice. Aliens was the first one I saw. My grandma loved them and had them both on video but she loves Aliens more. I was 5 when I watched it with her and was nearly traumatized when they stumbled upon that girl that had the xenomorph about to break from her chest. NEARLY. It was startling to see that at 5, especially when she is panicking and telling them to kill her before it springs from her chest. HAHA but I just wanted to watch the movie again and again.
@NuttyBuddy I remember. Even saw that one in theaters. Not as good as the OG trilogy, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Could've been better. About the same level as Prometheus I'd say.
My first R rated movie was a woman in a fishnet shoving something between another woman legs. Then a pizza-man interrupted them. My five year old brain had no idea what it was watching. I put the cassette back behind the TV.
People shit on Alien 3 a lot more than they should, imo. Sure, it's not as great as the first two movies but it was still a well-made movie. I think a lot of folks were disappointed that the story didn't play out in a satisfying way that they thought Ripley deserved. But I just like the vibe of the movie, there's a definite sense of finality to it like you're watching the end of something grand.
Two of my favorite channels are briefly covering Dark Star.
This and RLM, what a time!
Seeing a new OSW vid in my notifications always gets me excited to get outta work
When talking about the chest burster it should be required to review the amazing spoof from Spaceballs.
Surprised they didn't splice to it
So naturally had to rewatch the Aliens review and the usual pang of need for an Alien3 review
This is the film that absolutely scared the shit out of me when I was younger and gave me nightmares. But it also cemented my love of horror, one of the best sci-fi/horror films ever made.
A masterpiece that will be preserved in a museum.
10 on 10 :)
I'm glad you guys are taking time to appreciate some classics, and I hope it helps popularize them a little for younger folks who might not be exposed otherwise. Context in film is important, and y'all do a great job showing the appreciation this movie deserves! Well done!
Cheers bruddah! Do you think teens would like this film? This is one of those films where I thought it was good in my teens and Incredible in my 30s! Appreciate it so much more now
@@OSW I would HOPE that younger people would give it an honest chance. Again, context is important, and I think you guys did a good job explaining that, yes, this is amazing because a lot of this had never been done before, and so, so many things have been influenced by it. That's the true power of these classics, that I'm afraid a lot of kids just don't get. Maybe it requires a little bit of age and wisdom to really "get" it. I confess, I preferred the sequel when I was younger, because at the time I didn't really understand what Ridley Scott was doing with the original: a slasher in space. With apologies, I happened to be a film major...I could talk about this stuff forever. Oh yeah, you should have gone deeper into the whole Jodorowski story and its influence on Alien. Otherwise, great stuff, thank you.
I think its time for an V1 Awesome counter xD
I'm actually an Alien Resurrection defender. America's caveman Ron Perlman overracting.. Sigourney Weaver landing a blind basketball shot.. Badly CG'd olympic swimmer Xenomorphs.. The franchises stupidest chest burster scene.. the best of bollocks!
@@zmajodnocaja5088 Exactly, its the best of bollocks! xD
Classic film! My favourite scene is when Kane gets pearl harboured from inside his own body.
I agree with the people who say Alien was great because it was basically a haunted house/horror-suspense movie in a sci fi setting. The series then went straight action sci fi and lost what made it special imo
OMG I've waited so long for SOMEWHAT THIS lol. I've been PRAYING you would do #ALIENS but the first shall have to do. I appreciate and applaud all of you!
One of the greatest sci films of all time.
The Xenomorph is one of my top 3 favorite monsters. It's almost impossible to kill them!
I am about to hit play. If Jay calls one of my favorite movies with wrestling terminology Iâm going to mark out.
My dad took my mom to see this in the theater in 1979. She was still angry about it twenty years later.
shame you guys didn't talk about the directors cut that shows Ripley kill Dallas
Alien, to me, was horror. Aliens was a bit more sci-fi and sexy Dana.
Edit: Great review peeps, always appreciate the content.
Guys Eddie Powell also played the Alien for a couple of scenes. He never gets any credit! The arms wide open scene is him I believe đ
Gonna have to call you out for naming Parker "Token".
Clearly he's JYD.
what you didn't know, giger in 'warren monster annual 1980' they did film for the sequence where ripley dies, the alien would speak in Dallas voice andthe final shot actually filmed according to giger, the ship drifts by the camera showing an egg attached to the outside engine panels
An OSW Halloween review? Looks like Christmas has come early
I love the use of the Super Metroid music over the opening
Thank u mate! Hopefully peeps make the link between Samus/world of Metroid and Ripley/Alien đ
@@OSW i did i just had to Google what came first as a child of the 80s 83 on
The fking sound of the chest burster running. đ
Loved this review, hope to see the other Alien movies reviewed, thanks guys. đ
Epic choices in video game music for this one. đ
The Xenomorph doing A Winner is You is a nice touch
I was the 311th like, what a band. Remember the song "down"?? Awesome, of course great show lads. Ya fookin animals!
Love all you guys! And our shared love of the film! Had the original trilogy in the black box vhs set!
A fantastic review of an excellent film. And I also enjoyed your appreciation of Final Girls. Well done, lads.
Mostly looking forward to you reviewing Aliens... mostly.
I love your videos. The amount of detail footage and effort put into these is the greatest đ€đŒ
6:50 it landed on a piece of LEGO :D
Alien is in my opinion the best horror film ever, this should be good!
Its definitely up there.
i think maybe Carpenters The Thing, but yes, i always find it amazing how well Alien holds up for a 70s film
@@beepboop204 The Thing is absolutely a shout
@@FGHHJazz i love the slightly conspiracy theory that at the end McReady is pretending to drink alcohol but it is really antifreeze, so when Childs returns and drinks it down, it shows he is actually the alien and McReady smiles knowing they are gonna freeze to death
@@beepboop204 such a good theory makes the film so much more interesting when rewatching
Still cant get over how Ian Holm (Ash) looks quite a bit like Tuco from Breaking Bad
Sigourney Weaver is awesome đ
23:15 I feel Yathet Kotto`s size was important and he had good chemistry with the rest of the crew.
In space, no one can hear you hot-dogging and grand-standing.
While watching this video I forgot I was having a bad day đ
Making me want to watch the alien series again
16:40 Exzellent Point by V1: After you See the Creeper (Not Pat Patterson) he lost all his Scare-Factor
And then he regained that scare Factor when you learn who was behind the film and what they did and suddenly these movies seem less horror and more confessions
@@KIRA-EL Uhh, fair point
You know, I actually mostly liked Resurrection. The human cast other than clone-Ripley are deeply forgettable, but I really liked how it felt it was genuinely trying to do something new with the franchise, blurring the lines between human and alien, and running with the themes of disturbing cross-species sexuality that the first one had. Plus, I liked how they bought Weaver back without invalidating the end of 3, and let her do new things with the character.
Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Dominique Pinon, Michael Wincott... Cast was lit! But yes, Resurrection was great.
Went to see the first alien trilogy at Halloween 1993 in the now gone Stoke Odeon
A fabulous night starting at 10pm and finishing around 7 (they also showed exorcist 4 for no apparent reason)
Best ÂŁ5 Iâve ever spent as a student
Man, what a great film to review. It's so unsettling from the get go and just a very cold, creepy film that still stands up today (bar the little running vibrator)
Did it justice with the review, think this is something lost in modern film is the iconic set they had and not so dependent on CGI
I can point to three tiny things in this movie that don't hold up on a technical level:
1. The chestburster running away (it should've jumped)
2. The full body shot of the Alien when it's attacking Lambert and Parker because it looks too much like a puppet despite being a guy in a suit
3. The jump cut when they're messing with Ash's remains (that one you see in the review isn't an edit to trick the algorithm; it's really like that in the movie)
For those about to point to the death hug in the vents: that was bad direction, not a crack in the budget :P
Doesn't matter though, it's still my favourite movie ever.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 That I don't mind so much actually, but it's a bit acid trippy as explosions go for sure.
Brett and Kane are in this movie, one of the great WWF crossovers.
Another quality review of a phenomenal flick...well done!
Sally Field as Norma Rae won best Actress. Sigourney wasn't nominated.
I'll leave that to sink in.
Not gonna lie, 1979 Sigourney Weaver was ridiculously hot lol
This is probably my favourite film. I love how the Nostromo's landing lights are just poorly strung Christmas lights.
Edit: Also Alien 3 is far worse than Resurrection
TV and print ads said: "In space, no one can hear you scream." I saw "Alien" in the same ex-Cinerama theater that had shown "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and "Star Wars" (1977). The slowly appearing line segments of the title and Jerry Goldsmith's music made us tense. The "Star Wars-y" look of the "Nostromo" was a relief...until we saw the tube-like interiors.
Although "it takes a crew to make a movie," the director without a good screenplay is...lost. Ridley Scott, instead of taking us to the Alien Homeworld, had a slightly upgraded Bender Bending Rodriguez be the "kill all Humans" Alien maker because he's got a God complex. So the "pot-Aliens" movies are mostly dead/nonexistent for me. Sic transit gloria.
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The Giant Gonzalez skeleton the crew comes across probably had a better work rate than the real one
I legit laughed way to hard at this.
Great film - as a kid and teen I preferred Aliens because of all the action. I appreciate the riginal more these days.
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Metroid music in this episode...I see what you did there, lads.
Alien & Aliens are my favorite movies! I hope that one day a game will come out that will do them justice. Isolation tried, but the ai, minigames and padding made me consider it a below average game.
The AI? The Alien is considered a benchmark for how to make game AI frightening.
The game itself does outstay its welcome though.
@@reloadpsi by the time I encountered the alien a third time I already knew where it would show up and what it would do. And it became obvious which noises were "fake". Overall that game shouldn't have been longer than 6 hours.
Yeah, the AI got talked up so much before the game got released, but it was really disappointing (at least on PS3, maybe it was better on PS4).
It didn't take too long for me to figure out that the AI can "cheat" to surprise you or increase tension; but that just ended up ruining my immersion.
@@dimitarbelchev3062 That sounds to me like you just died a lot at the start of medical, and that you "knew what it would do" was one of its few scripted moments, namely the one where you walk down that corridor and it officially enters play. There are a few scripted moments at the beginning obviously, but most games have those because you need to have it introduced to you. After you're deep into medical, there are only two moments throughout the entire game I can recall where the Alien is teleported while it's "in play," and that's just to trigger a cutscene.
That or you played on Very Easy, where the AI really is garbage... because you're playing on Very Easy.
@@reloadpsi nah I played on hard. I just wasnât impressed at all. After a while not only did it seem like the alien was predictable and cheating(it can teleport to another spawn point in a microsecond I tested it), but the game was also just so fucking long. Halfway through I looked up a longplay on youtube and after I saw that I wasnât anywhere near close to finishing the game I just gave up and watched the ending. That was one of the last times I ever bought a game at full price. So much fucking paddingâŠâŠ
I love the reason that Ash wasn't quick to come up with a better way to kill Ripley is because he's not programmed to kill
I binge watch OSW review just about everyday now, itâs addicting lolâŠlove ya bras â€ïž
Aliens is my favourite movie of all time, but Alien is definitely up there
@@zmajodnocaja5088 After the first film the mystery of the Alien had already been revealed, so it wouldn't have had the same impact if they did the same film again, they had to go in a different direction.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 films that are that successful always get a sequel, normally itâs a terrible rehash of the first, and I appreciate that Ridley Scott did it differently. Each to their own I guess đ€·ââïž
Put the Xenomorph, The Yet-Tay and the 1995 WCW Giant in the ring to execute the dreaded triple bumming.
Nice touch with the metriod theme!
9:35 Oh, my brother's calling me.
12:04 apparently that facehugger autopsy fucking stank something fierce under the hot lights.
So weird this is coming out after RLM's "Ranking John Carpenter" video where they talked about Dark Star and I know you guys have talked about them before.
Collaboration when?!
thanks for vid lads ....fantastic as usual beautiful ones ...how about a review of one of the halloween movies at this time of year ? part 5 or 6 will get some laughs / enjoyable
Hasn't there already been an OSW review of this? I could swear this isn't the first time I've heard them talking about the xenomorph doing the 'jazz hands' bit.
I remember when this movie came out, I was 8 and my grandmother took my 11-year old sister to see ALIEN(cuz that's what she did, my grandmother)...when my sister came home she kept trying to tell me what the movie was about and was really worked up about it...she would start telling me about all this horrible shit that happened but she'd start crying and have to start over...
34:52 holy shit it took you 4 years to do this review!
It's a Patreon review from 2017 that was never meant to be public, but we released it today for everyone! đ
@@OSW thanks! it was a great review.
Great movie. Love the sequel too.
A fun idea would be to do a "watch along" to a movie so the fans can watch with you guys. just a thought b/c I love your show.
Watching movies would be a copyright nightmare! If ya didn't know, Steve live streams on twitch most days and watches an OSW episode every Sat with the missus! Check it twitch.tv/OSWreview đ
@@OSW awesome thanks!
The only thing scarier than the Xenomorph? Aside from Rellik, which is "Killer" spelled backwards? The butchering of the franchise by Ridley Scott with Promethus and Covenant.
Hope to see more scary movie reviews from the lads of OSW for October.
III sucked too
Not really Prometheus was great with a few problems which had a sequel with an interesting premise to see where it went...Where they went wrong was listening to fuckwith Alien fantards crying because stupid is better and how they just wanted shooty shooty brah so instead we get Covenant.....
Covenant is what you get when you let imbeciles dictate what you should do with your story.
@@beepboop204 Yeah no...3 especially the assembly cut is good....Its hilarious when idiots cry about how sequels always to the same predictable thing. But LMFAO cried that Alien 3 did something completely unexpected in the first 20 minutes and, hilariously missed the overall narrative about how the alien took everything from Ripley.
@@lutherheggs451 im def that guy, Alien is the only good Alien movie and T2 is the only good Terminator movie
Glad Sigourney Weaver was Ripley, but Meryl Streep still would've knocked it out of the park.
I kind of want to see that alternate universe, as well as the one where Will Smith starred in the Matrix.