Aliens - One Of The Best Horror Sequels Of All Time (80s Horror Memories Ep 33)
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Debating sequels versus their predecessors is something all movie lovers have voluntarily gone through. While an excellent Round 2 after the knockout punch Ridley delivered, and following that film’s terrific protagonist into a new circle of hell, “Aliens” is its own beast, different enough to build on the legacy of the original while hitting some of the same crucial notes.
Is it a better movie than “Alien”? That’s a fun debate to have, but one for another day. What isn’t really up for debate is that “Aliens” is one of the best sequels released in the 80s - and hell, it may just be the best horror sequel of all time. So stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen, because we’re going to nuke the site from orbit and relive some “Aliens” in our 80s Horror Memories.
Written By: Eric Walkuski
Narrated By: Tyler Nichols
Edited By: Joseph Wilson
Produced by: Berge Garabedian, John Fallon
Co Produced: Mike Conway
Executive Produced by: Berge Garabedian
Score By: Shawn Knippelberg
Special Guests: Craig Perry (Final Destination) Doug Jones (Hellboy II) Patrick Lussier (Terminator Genisys) Matt Winston (Stan Winston Studios)
SERIES SYNOPSIS: It’s been over 40 years that the decade that shaped the horror movie industry began and having lived through most of those years personally, we at JoBlo/Arrow in the Head have decided to create a 10-part documentary series in which not only cover every nook and cranny of the biggest horror themes from 1980 to 1989 but also what was happening in the world at the time. Join us as we walk down Horror Memory Lane!
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It's pretty cool that Bill Paxton and Lance Hendrickson were the only two actors to be taken down by a alien, a terminator, and a predator.
Some say Vukovich actually survived the 1984 assault on the West Highland Police Station. Probably minus an arm and a lung, though.
@@judsongaiden9878 agreed
And by a redneck family in _Near Dark._
RIP Private Hudson and of course the great Bill Paxton ,,,,, my favourite quote from Hudson in Aliens is ''why don't we put her in charge''
@@SirHumphrey498 I always thought he said, "What?! You put her in charge?!"
It’s noteworthy that Sigourney was “controversial” casting in Alien, but was absolutely the anchor of this franchise. Tremendous actress
One of the greatest sequels in any genre full stop
Yes, definitely one of the best sequels ever made, there's so much to love about it.
One of the best films of 1986
Did IQs drop sharply while I was gone ???
It worked because it changed genres. Alien was horror, Aliens was action.
Vasquez,have you ever been mistaken for a man ??? No,have you ???
This is one of my all time favorites! A fantastic sequel
I was exposed to this movie through the arcade game in 92. I thoroughly enjoyed the action, the characters, and the alien practical effects. I even got to meet Michael Biehn at a Sci-Fi convention in 2013.
They mostly come out at night,mostly.
Easily, for me, in my top 10 favorite films of all time.
I noticed you talked about this in your year end wrap up. Please please please continue this series. I found this in maybe August watched all of them and been watching the channel religiously. Love it all. Keep it up!
First time I saw Aliens was New Year’s Eve 1992, I was in 4th grade. I think about it every NYE, easily one my favorite movies of all time it never gets old
Aliens is one of those Awsome Horror Sci-Fi Sequels that you will never gonna see something like that again 💪💯
Same here my first watch was on VHS too.
This series has been so great, I legit don't understand why you don't have subscribers in the millions! Your content is fantastic, VERY high quality, and I look forward to every new video that shows up on this channel. Keep up the fantastic work!
Wow, thank you!
Watched this in 86 and was blown away! Still watch it every year!
This was a wonderful throwback to the old days... 🥰
I remember watching this flick five times in one month in 86.
I guess I was an avid supporter of my local cinema at that time. 😉
This is my all time favorite movie. I was born in 82, and my dad let me watch it when I was around 10/11. I watch it multiple times per year. When she takes over and smashes the APC through the nest is one hell of a genius sequence. And the Queen effects done practically, the mixture of action, horror and the overall pacing is perfect. I only found out a few weeks ago that a face hugger is teased at the end credits. But Alien 3 broke up Newt, Hicks and Ripley. Vasquez is a badass, and when Hudson goes out swinging it's a sad goodbye.
As an '80s kid in the '80s, I thought Michael Biehn was the coolest guy ever. He still is, actually. He really is an everyman type of person. And he can portray heroes and villains with equal humanity. He'd already played at least two villains before he portrayed the ultimate hero, Kyle Reese (his personal favorite character of all he's portrayed). Arnie has only ever portrayed one villain, and that villain, technically speaking, had no will of its own. It was just a functionary carrying out orders. Terminators are a lot like xenomorphs in that sense.
2:55 I did that with Evil Dead 2. Other than Michael Biehn, "Bruce Campbell is the finest man to grace a silver screen." ~Psychostick
7:56 Plot twist: The xenomorphs aren't technically the villains, per se. More like a force of nature (despite it being an artificial lifeform). From their perspective, as Hudson points out, they're just an insect hive doing what comes naturally. Many real-world insect species are just as brutal (as pointed out by Seth Brundle in 'The Fly' which came out the same year), yet they don't think of themselves as "evil." Probably because that sort of thing, philosophy and ethics and whatnot, is for humans to ponder. And no, that doesn't make the xenomorph an embodiment of "nihilism." Too many people throw that word around. Ants and bees (and parasitoid wasps) don't embody "nihilism."
9:12 "Grizzly," not "gristly." 'Aliens' is all meat, not gristle. In fact, Yautja refer to xenomorphs as "hard meat." I learned that from reading the OG AvP comics back in the '90s.
10:03 The US first fielded modular grenade launchers (XM148, M-203, etc.) during the Vietnam War, which is part of what inspired the design of the M-41A pulse rifle. It's called a "pulse" rifle because it uses an electric pulse to ignite the prismatic blocks of propellant that encase caseless rounds. Caseless ammo was an idea that engineers had toyed around with during the Cold War, trying to create the next evolution in small arms, but they could never perfect it. The most successful caseless combat rifle was the HK G11K2, but it was far from cost-effective, and didn't really offer much advantage over rifles that used conventional cased ammo.
Note: The M-56 smart gun would be roughly equivalent to the M-60, but with "smart" technology. Basically, that means it has built-in auto-aim. The actual props are built from MG-42 machine guns. The M-41A props were built from Thompson M-1A1 submachine guns spliced together with subcompact Remington 870 shotguns (with Franchi SPAS-12 forearms and reworked heat-shield).
13:07 "The Dispensables"
13:18 "Biehn" is pronounced the same as "Bean." According to The Nostalgia Critic, he's the only man to have died in cinema more than Sean Bean.
13:20 As a stoic naturally would. Hicks is more of a classic stoic than Reese. Reese doesn't think twice about using his emotions as fuel.
14:10 [cue 'Spear of Justice' theme]
15:53 Did James Cameron really think "Queen takes Bishop" in his mindbrain when he was coming up with that?
17:20 There's a deleted scene that shows that he was taken alive and "impregnated" (or whatever you call it).
19:03 "Fuck 'Alien 3'." ~Michael Biehn (Yes, he actually said that.)
20:17 Did you ever see 'Lily C.A.T.'? One of the best '80s anime films ever. Wears its influences on its sleeve. It's basically 'The Thing' on the set of 'Alien'.
I love watching this movie for the first time as a kid with my mom! Every time I watch this movie I think of her reactions as the movie progressed. It’s how I keep her close sometimes.👊🏾
Aliens is easily my favorite movie of all time. I've watched it so many times I couldn't count. Just a great movie.
Oh my G... He's so right about the debate we have....even with ourselves when we are alone.... Literally goosebumps ❤️❤️❤️
One of the best sequels of all time
When I was 15 I became obsessed with this movie, I watched it so many times I could quote most of the lines.
The problem with categorizing what Alien movie is better is that they all are different kinds of movies.
1- a futuristic horror
2- a futuristic action adventure
3- a futuristic dystopian psychological thriller
4- a futuristic character driven sci-fi adventure.
(The others are just world building on the same story)
They are all good, just in different ways!🙂
I remember walking out of the theater totally drained. The ultimate action horror film for sure.
I purchased in DVD the whole Quadrilogy
Both theatrical and extended versions
At the time I got them, was a rare gem in my country, I was thrilled to be able to have them
And "Aliens" is BY FAR my favorite of the bunch
It have it ALL, in the right amount, and not enough Sigourney's Ripley... Gosh I'm still waiting that promised sequel (which would ignore 3 and 4) that would continue THIS movie.
Carrie Hen didn't continue her carrere, but I read she's happy and that made me happy
I might re-watch this one this weekend, and both versions
I confess that extended is my fave
100/10 forever!
"Aliens" is the sequel for which all sequels in the genre are measured against. I remember my dad took me (age 10) and my brother (age 7) to see it when it came out. Needless to say, we were both shaped by the experience. He took us back the following weekend to see it again! Remember, this was 1986. We watched the hell out of it on VHS and Laserdisc. This is a movie for the ages. Another amazing entry guys! Next week: David Lynch! Can't wait! Cheers!
Saw the movie when it came out at 11 years old. One of the best films of all time.
I also was 11. I went to the cinema with my dad, in secret, as my mum didn't want me to go. Wow great memories.
Love this movie since I was a kid 🤘
Vasquez is the maid in Fear and loathing in Las Vegas! "I hate dope!"
Conspicuously absent from this re-view is the name of the actress who played Vasquez. Among all the other characters listed here we hear the names of the performers, but no Vasquez. Was this done intentionally because Vasquez was played by Janette Goldstein in brown face. Yep. One of the best displays of acting talent Goldstein was instantly accepted as the hispanic Vasquez. She would later appear in Cameron's T-2 (John's Foster Mother) and again in Titanic (Irish mother who dies with her two kids in bed).
I watched it 86 at the cinema with my brother and dad!
Still my favourite sci-fi movie❤! Waiting for a 4K Steelbook!
Gawd, love the characters in this movie but what you said about Bill Paxton's Hudson makes me love Hudson and miss Paxton even more ❣😢
Aliens was so good it was the only movie I consistently went back to watch in the cinema & saw it at least 8 times. Bishop's run in with the Alien Queen reminded me so much of Fillet O' Fish sauce that I had to get one after each screening. Good times.
I think Alien and part 2 in particular was build to always keep us in the "uncanny valley" of what it feels like.
We see someone impaled but we didn't wanna have it done to us,
the facehugger that look like an animal most people don't like but not 100% like it,
The android that not 100% looks like a human,
the feeling of having power (weapons) and having no chance (amount of aliens).
All this gets in our brains I guess, if we want it or not and that's what makes the movie so rememberable...
RIP Bill 'Wildman' Paxton. Hudson is and will always be perhaps the most realistically portrayed character in what is the best sequel in sci-fi/horror history. Game over, man.
I was 7 years old and scared to death heading into the theatre (your family didn't take you to see rated R movies?) Leaving the theatre I had a new favorite movie!
Saw it at the cinema in 1986. After 40 odd minutes i said to my mate isn't this called Aliens? I haven't even seen one yet. lol
I’ve seen Aliens about 150 times. It still keeps me on the edge of my seat. I’ve seen Alien about 100 times. It also keeps me on the edge of my seat. The mix of genres is brilliant. Alien is a horror movie in space. Aliens is a scifi action movie with a bunch of other elements mixed in. Nobody has been able to do it better. When people try stupid critics claim ‘this movie doesn’t know what it wants to be.’ That’s why i never listen to them
When I am asked which is the better film between ALIEN and ALIENS I say I cant choose one over the other because in some ways they are different genres. I feel the same anout the first two TERMINATOR films. Both original and sequel films lean in different directions. Its like comparing IT the tv mini-series to IT the film, its an unfair comparison. I love them all for different reasons and have since I was a kid. If I have to pick one over the other its going to be a thin line.
This is why I'm subscribed.
Its James Cameron at his peak and considering the battles with the crew its his best movie. Classic start to finish.
Watching Aliens feels like an event.
Ripley and Hicks definitely did the deed 😂❤
Its funny cause my friend of 27 years invited me to Thanksgiving and i never knew his uncle was michael. Great guy
Sixteen year old me had a major crush on private Vasquez. What a woman.
My favorite horror sequel is Wes Craven New Nightmare, but Aliens is number 2
Creativity has been in decline since the mid 90's, and it's not getting any better. In this case, it was at a peak of quality and innovation.
The other thing you missed about why Reiser being the corporate asshóle in this movie was so effective was that he was playing against type. At the time he was pretty much the definitive "nice guy", and his acting in the beginning was right in line with that. Until he revealed his true nature.
"GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!"
They should definitely turn this into a kids book.
They turned The Toxic Avenger into a Saturday morning cartoon, so why not?!
Quite simply, Aliens kicked all of the ass!
Lol ❤️ I went through the same consideration with Aliens, in regards to feeling the same way about both films...Alien was dark and empty, great movie, but too much for my little brain at the time, which is saying a lot having been raised on horror. When I did finally see Aliens, it immediately became an obsessive favorite similar to Star Wars or Jaws...it was an instant classic I couldn't get enough of.
Alien is a suspece based horror. Slow purposeful build up and the less is more approach, which I always appreciate in horror, and movies in general. Aliens is an example of how to do a sequel. Bigger and give the audience what they want, more meat on the bone, more thrills and more depth to your hero(es), make good on that promise to the audience form the first film and the fans will reward you for it. Aliens is more action than suspense, but it works here because it is the 2nd round of Ripley vs the Aliens. The stakes must be raised. Action and horror should team up more often. They compliment each other rather well. The problem with current day is they rely heavily on nostalgia, gore and cheap twists and unnecessary retcons.
80.s Horror 😈👍
The story and pacing is better than ever in this film Cameron knows how to direct hands down and Bill Paxton was the coolest RIP to him
Best cinematic experience ever👍😎🇦🇺
Love the movie.
Aliens is one of those movies if you flick the channels and come across it. Ur watching it.
A MOVIE LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME
Absolute badasses!
These are awesome videos. I've watched every single one, and I really enjoy Tyler's editing and narration. As a side note, I need to make this observation and see if anyone else notices it. There seems to be a strange tendency on the part of Tyler (and many other young folks these days) to skip pronouncing the "T" in words that connect the t sound to the n sound such as "titan" or "written." This is becoming a trend recently, and it's sort of odd and jarring. They skip the T sound in words such as these. Listen and you'll hear what I'm talking about. It seems to be all over the place, right now. Is anyone else noticing this?
ALIENS is one of the best Movies ever made and in my personal Top5 or even Top3 of all time. Thank god there was no CGI used back then.
My nomination for best horror sequel would be Bride of Frankenstein.
😮 I didn’t know Paul Reiser’s sister punch him in the stomach because of that movie well, I didn’t know nothing about that’s what I like about this channel when I watch movies about different stuff about idea about how movies effective people I didn’t know that would happen
I collect tapes and i don't want to wear them out like Tyler's aliens tape great video and i still like tapes and i don't want to wear them out for short year like tyler here.
Where do these interviews come from?
Its sad but we dont get movies like this anymore.
2:55 nice, Polish version ❤
GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!!!!!!!!
You now have 30 seconds to reach safe minimum distance
Yeah, I agree with Patrick. I didn’t care for alien three I don’t know why it’s in any questions. The first two are the only really good ones. It’s like the first two predators one and two are better. I think those movie should’ve been left alone and the other one after that isn’t very good.
I was like 13 when this came out and saw it By Myself.... MAN DID I LOVE THIS MOVIE!.. When I got home, no one was home. Mother was at work. I get a Phone Call and thought it was my Mother... 10 Minutes of me Bragging and Loving this movie over the phone and she not getting a word in.. It wasn't my mother.. The Lady was Not Upset or anything but said "You must Really Like that movie" Then Laughed...
Still Love this Movie but do Prefer the Directors Longer Cut Version...
Aliens for me is the best in the franchise, and by some margin. Its a fantastic film, its probably the best sequel ever made? People will argue that Terminator 2 is better than Terminator 1 for me its not, T1 is the ultimate movie in that franchise too. Alien while a great movie, is not as good as Aliens for me anyway.
Game over man,game over.
Love Alien and Aliens but not the third. Love the Predator movies plus Aliens vs. Predator.
T1 > T2
Alien < Aliens
ANH < ESB
great sequel
8:45 This is not true. The platoon doesn't infiltrate the hive(the first big action scene) until 1 hour 10 minutes into the film.
No disagreements
Best movie ever made in my opinion. But I'll take the best Sci fi, drama, action, horror movie ever made.
Aliens is the greatest movie ever made
I don’t consider it horror, it’s sci fi. Alien I consider sci fi with horror elements.
Unforgivable? I think you meant unforgettable, right?
I'd like to thank Jennifer Lawrence for being the first true strong female action star which allowed Weaver to play Ripley.
For me Alien was the true Sci-fi horror, I thought Aliens moved away from that and became action adventure Sci-fi movie, I might have to rethink that now.
Newt still hide and seek queen of all time
Aliens was a fluke similar to how terminator 2 was a fluke
And to think there’s a generation of people who think Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games paved the way for strong bad ass lead actress in an action movie
I was more of alien fan ridley scott's best film, this was a good sequel it lose more horror for action adventure
120+ minute films cant keep up with tiktok brains and jump scares.
I'm compelled to defend Colonel Rhodes from Day of the Dead. Yes,he was a total dick who was running his own tiny fascist regime,but the thing all of the other characters you mentioned have in common that isn't true of Rhodes is that weasel-like quality of always trying to slither out of a situation by any means necessary. Col. Rhodes always struck me as a man who at very least would stand by his convictions to the bitter end.
Think we watched 2 different movies,bruh...
13:52 physically intimitating?LOL she's great but not physically intimitating
It’s Brooke was a creep in aliens, which is one of my favorite of the old school one’s almost more than the first one. I’m sorry, but roads takes it even just inch even worse than Berg dude yes Burke was a slimy bureaucrat you know for the company roads takes it one further dude, he doesn’t care honestly dude I even almost kind of felt bad for the people for the cronies that we’re worth roads during day of the dead I still think still to this day I wish I could’ve met George Romero and I would love to have gotten at least to Sophia holographic I love the man’s work steel he got it he took the easy way. I think you could’ve been tore apart by the zombies just like roads and some of the other guys because they are just as bad Still one of my favorite. I liked Don more but dead. There were some villains in there that really should’ve got it more but I still think steel as his prick self took the easy way out. I think Babcia wrote him apart because he was really bad. He was almost worse than roads almost
alien > aliens
tcm2 > tcm
T1 >>>>>> T2
Look at my screen name and you'll see that this movie didn't influence me in the least...
Alien is a horror movie. Aliens is an action movie, NOT a horror movie. LOL - so dumb.
Why y'all keep calling a action movie horror I don't get it thats like saying the Terminator or rambo is horror 😂😂
It's a horror, action, sci-fi flick. We can toss in drama as well if it makes you happy. Rambo has no monsters in it.
@@JoBloHorrorOriginals Rambo was the monster lol 😂
Not 57 years ago 🙄
Cameron is a leftist tool at this point unfortunately, but his imprint on the genre is absolutely incredible. Between this and the Terminator films he’s responsible for many of our nerd tendencies!
Great episode
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Aliens isn't a horror film...
Ripley is proof it is possible to make female characters both strong & hot without castrating the male characters and making them stupid - just to show that female characters are stronger and smarter than all men. Stop making them all perfect Mary-Sues because I am done with Hollywood's: substitute the man for a chick, make it lame, and make her gay,