First time watching Aliens 1986 Movie Reaction
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Queen takes Bishop.
Good one! Had me laughing there for a good minute
@@commandergree68 Ihave to admit that wasn't mine. I saw it on a t shirt
😂😂😂😂
@@joek468 😂😂😂 Well, it’s still very clever nonetheless. Thanks for sharing this.
😂🤣 good one
This movie never gets old. I watch it once a year and can still feel the tension even though I always know what's gonna happen. It is a masterpiece. All the effects hold up to this day, the soundtrack is outright haunting, and Sigourney Weaver kills it! Best heroine in all of cinema.
i noticed the strings when Ripley woke up went silent just before the facehugger leapt. Brilliant.
Fun fact.
The little girl kept messing up her line while sliding down the chute because she was having fun. They let her continue doing it after the scene was finished.
I like the aesthetic you created by making the film footage and audio look like it's being watched on an old CRT TV. Probably helps against takedowns too.
I was also wondering how she got the "reflection" effect, to the top right, where you see some like window shutters or something.
I got to see this in the theater on opening weekend with my dad when I was ten years old. Still one of my fondest theater going memories from my childhood.
Great Reaction and congrats on watching both Alien movies
And stop here. There's nothing worth watching after this.
32:41 I gather Hicks knew Ripley was driving because she was the only one out of the three he trusted would know what the team would really need in that situation.
I kind of always figured they were all on an open channel and he heard the exchange between Ripley and Lt. Gorman.
For 1986.... in today's movies... excellent.
I remember back then, when this movie first came on cable, all of the major cable stations (which was only HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax, then. Not the hundreds of cable stations they have now), would be playing this movie all day, sometimes, at the same time. I loved this movie so much I would watch it is on one station, and then flip to another to watch it again, right away, LOL.
Lol I did this too!! No matter where it was in the run time of the movie, I couldn't take my eyes off it, just wanted to relive it; at night, I'd have dreams that I was a Colonial Marine, bad ass like Hicks and Vasquez, mowing down morphs, escaping with Rip!!! 😅🙌🏻
Something that everyone misses (unless you were there) is that movies used to have tag lines. Alien had perhaps the greatest of all, In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. Predator 2 had a very good one. He's In L.A. With A few Days To Kill.
And let’s not even talk about how blatantly misleading the tagline(which we won’t mention as to not hint at anything) for ALIEN 3 was during the marketing campaign.
Despite it doing poorly, AVP: Requiem had a very good one. "In space, no one can hear you scream. On earth...it won't matter."
I like Alien 3's line... "The Bitch is back!"
I think the tagline for Aliens says it perfectly: "This time it's war."
Movies still have taglines 😂
1 thing you were a bit wrong on was their intelligence. The implanted egg takes on some DNA of the host, so they would have human intellect. If it face planted on a dog, it would look and act more like a dog when it burst out (happens in a future movie)
Well ... To my knowledge you are the only person in the world who saw "Aliens" who had a thought for the xenomorph who sacrificed himself in the explosion of the shuttle crash :) This empathy is impressive... 🤔🤣
"Game Over Man!, Game Over.."🤣🤣☝
The legendary 3rd Act is a relentless tour de force I'd put up there with ANYTHING ever filmed!!! Reactions like these are priceless as you can really FEEL how exasperated the viewer tangibly gets; Cameron is beyond a TRUE MASTER 😳
You can say that again.
Now, watch Sigourney Weaver again in Ghostbusters 1&2&Afterlife. Also Afterlife have Mid&Post-credits scenes don't forget to watch those too 😉.
If you like 'Aliens' then please consider 'Pitch Black' (2000) - it is the first movie about Riddick (played by Vin Diesel). I don't really care about the sequels, but this one - in my opinion - is very good.
The first Aliens movie I ever saw when I was a little boy. When Ripley came out with that power work loader and said Get away from her. you b#tch. This Was the most badass moment of my childhood life.
same I watched as kid always asking to watch the bitch movie.
Big audience cheer in the movie theater in 1986!!
This is the only movie Newt (Carrie Henn) was ever in- she decided she didn't want to be an actress and became an elementary school teacher instead. Her pupils were too young to see such a violent movie, but when their parents found out their child's teacher was actually Newt, they would stick posters and CDs into their kid's bookbags for her to sign.
So glad you watched the theatrical version. The Special Edition retcons Ripley’s character in heavy handed ways and undoes her agency in some ways. It turns her into a trope. The theatrical cut maintains her independence from stereotypes and gives her better standing as a groundbreaking character.
I agree. It also leaves more to the imagination which really heightens the suspense in so many ways.
I Like the Theater. Cut more, like you 👍🏻
Reese in Terminator, bill Paxton first guy killed in Terminator, Mexican chica in terminator 2, Bill Paxton....the only guy ever killed by Terminator Alien and Predator! If he would have been killed by a Replicant, that would have been the ultimate Grand Slam! The droid here in Terminator Alien 3! Reese also in Terminator 2 and the Abyss! The knife trick, bill Paxton didn't know he was going to be part of it and his arm and body were held down! So for Cameron movies, bill was in Terminator Aliens, Titanic and True Lies!they started in films together, working as set builders!
I think the actor who played Bishop, the synthetic droid, was killed by all 3. I know he didn't last in Alien 3. I think we can potentially count that as a casualty from the Alien Queen in Aliens! Was also killed in The Terminator and in Alien v Predator. -OG
Also, Micheal Biehn has his hand bitten by another character in all 3 James Cameron movies he is in. The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss.
You should have watched the Special Edition. It reveals Ripley had a daughter, who passed away 2 years ago. She promised to be home on her 11th birthday. Hence that’s why she has a special relationship with Newt.
Thanks for sharing your reaction to one of my favorite movies.
Note the actress that plays Vasquez, also was John Conners foster mother in Terminator 2.
She was also on Titanic with her two little kids! 😊
@@danielwagman9794 thx. Never watched that film. But James Cameron tends to used a lot of the same people from 1 film to another.
Ripley is how you do a boss babe. She's not a bitch, not a man in woman's clothes, she's tough but still feminine, shows good leadership skills under stress, and still has a good male/female sex tension dynamic. Everything she does is either by the book or done for a strategic reason. She lays into Hudson to keep him from panicking. She doesn't try to pull rank over Hicks or tell him how to do his job as he's the soldier, not her. Everything she does comes off as believable all the way down to how they fit in her ability to pilot the loading mech. She shows some fear and vulnerability when recounting her story. It's a damn shame that they cant seem to write strong women like this anymore.
The woman who plays Vasquez is also the stepmom in Terminator 2. TlAliens was the first time I’d ever seen someone in brown face on film and it not be noticed for years.
The way James Cameron directed this movie is exactly how I would have XD **smirks confidently**
Great writing. e.g. "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"
26:25 "yeah, but it's a dry heat" is a thing people say in the American southwest. Basically, it's hot but the humidity is so low your sweat evaporates quickly, so it's less swampy than places that are hot AND humid.
Also the hive is very obviously NOT dry, hence the irony.
Hi Reema!😊 This is my favorite of the "Alien" films. After this, it kind of goes downhill. There is an alternate version of this film "Aliens: Special Edition" you may want to see at a later date. It contains deleted scenes and more character building between Newt and Ripley. Great reactions to your first viewing of James Cameron's classic Aliens, Reema!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
It's true, the extended version is much better.
58:00 at this point in the movie, the aliens are already pretty much decimated. A scene present in the director's cut - and not in this theatrical cut - shows the Marines deploying automatic turrets (called "sentry guns") that massacre the aliens before they manage to find another path as we later see in the film. This is why Ripley managed to survive in the nest.
Fantastic reaction to an awesome action-horror movie. Thank you.
"She's got a job right away after 57 years of cryosleep..." Yeah, that just goes to show how much the world has changed since this movie was made! :P
This was the BEST reactions I've ever seen by any one !!! So happy you enjoyed this-GREAT-film,even if it's an old one. LOL. One of the greatest sci-fi/action films ever made.Never get tired of watching it or seeing others enjoy it for the first time either.
41:27 "Hudson, stop being such a pessimist!" Yep that's exactly the word I thought you was gonna use... Pessimist!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"THEY cut the power? Nah, Bishop did it." It's not just hot air in those banana shaped heads ya know. XD
Ripley has reached the Easter Bunny 👽 😂😂😂
Sera the youtube for the deleted scene where Ripley finds Burke, glued into the nest.
Also interviews with Weaver, and another with Carrie Henn (Newt) who only started doing 'cons many years later.
Some people complain they must have terrorized the girl making the movie, but she said it was fun hanging out and training with the actors being soldiers, and watching the SFX people. She and the stuntman & puppeteers playing the alien in the water practised and spent a lot of time setting it up, and she said it was a challenge knowing that it all came down to getting her reactions in a few seconds of screen time, for a full day's work for a lot of people.
This looks like the original theatric release? You should definitely watch the extended or director's cut of ALIENS! There's a TON significant character moments, for Ripley and Newt especially, that didn't make it into the original cut!
The special edition *is* the original story as written and filmed by Cameron, before he cut it for time in theaters. It makes no sense to watch the mutilated version at this point.
pacing is too slow. original theatric is superior movie.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu Ah, this is a usage of the word "superior" that I wasn't previously aware of.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu Completely bogus complaint. NO ONE who watches the special edition first complains about the pacing. Or anything else. And the theatrical cut introduces plot holes by removing key scenes.
@@Robertsmith-un5cu a lot of great stuff is cut out, just the part where Newt and family find the ship is a great scene.
movies rarely create cult characters that are remembered even decades later - and this one created several, led by ripley and vazquez! you must watch the director's cut of the movie!!
lol .... Ok. Everytime you said you're trying to be more regular, my mind kept yelling "fiber!" into my inner ear ... It is tough being me ....😂
Pro tip. Weyland Corp Tyrell Corp and Cyberdyne Systems all worked together!!! When she's being questioned in the board room here, they briefly bring up her old crew's resumes '. If u look closer, Dallas worked for Tyrell Corp!!!😮😮😮
Nice Saxophone, the first instrument I learned to play was the saxophone in elementary school.
Ripley is one of the most badass characters in cinematic history!
Great reaction! And the Aliens saga ends here.
My alltime favorite movie(horror).. Sigourney weaver are so badass 🎞️🎬🎥📺📼📽️🇸🇪🙏😇😃😉
She went and rescued Newt. Why did they not go and rescue Burke? He waz such a nice guy.
In a deleted scene Ripley finds Burke stuck on the wall but it was too late to save him as a face hugger got him and she offered him a grenade which is used one of the scenes after the encounter with the Queen.
58:20 something that no one seems to comment on, but I think is neat, that's the same musical sting from the first movie, when Ripley was running for the shuttle and finds the Alien waiting around the corner between her and escape
During the Vietnam War, US signalers Stateside would intercept transmissions from Frontline combat missions, and Ripley, LT Gorman and Burke listening in to the fight, knowing they're getting wrecked, is quite accurate.
10:30 it was called RED DWARF, It was very much inspired by movies like this, and you watched it because it was FRICKING AWESOOME!!!!
I saw this when it came out in the theater, I was like 21.
My take on it was that they wanted Ripley dead because she was the only loose end in their attempt to bring the organism back the first time. They were gaslighting her and trying to make it look like she didn't know what the hell she was talking about and that none of that ever happened but she knows it did and we know it did. They were trying to get her back out there so that they could get rid of her once and for all and Burke would indeed then sabotage the Marines' cryosleep chambers so that the company could then have the organism with no one who would say anything about it until they could get it under their control and patents. Burke didn't take her out there as an adviser, he took her out there as a host body to smuggle a zenomorph back in.
If you wanna watch another sci-fi horror try Event Horizon next. It doesn't have aliens but it's scary as hell. For comedy give The Blues Brothers or Friday a try. And drama try No Country For Old Man.
Event Horizon is a great film, I watch a small doc on it and they had to cut a lot out of the story because time and the studio said it was too over the top both in gore and money, I would have loved if they at least got the opportunity to film it as a directors cut.
Hey, Reembok! This is one of the best sequels ever made!
Unfortunately, you did not see the superior SPECIAL EDITION version which has the Amanda Ripley scene, the functioning colony scene, Newt's family's discovery of the derelict ship scene, the automated gun scene, the Hudson speculation about queen ants scene and the name exchange scene. Those scenes provide a great deal more context and character beats lacking in the theatrical version you saw. It is the version both James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver prefer.
The future Ripley inhabits is implied to be a dystopic corporatocracy. The most pervasive and powerful corporate entity is the Weyland-Yutani Company, a 22nd-century version of the British East India Company of the 17th- to 19th-centuries. It is a multinational conglomerate involved in robotics, interstellar transport and terraforming with a stake in every colony world. The Company is the TRUE VILLAIN of the Alien universe. Ash and Burke were following a secret corporate mandate to obtain a xenomorph specimen in order to profit from research and weaponization.
The colonists who venture beyond the compound like Newt's parents are prospectors who can lay a claim to any discovery they make. The Company would get a large percentage of the find but the colonist would own a piece. A valuable ore would mean a fortune! After Burke heard Ripley's story, he contacted the colony boss to dispatch someone to the coordinates Ripley had indicated in her report with no warning of danger. He must have done a little digging and found out about the Company Directive to investigate any possible sign of intelligent life and to bring back a specimen. He sent Newt's family straight to the derelict ship.
Neither Hicks nor Apone were treating Ripley in a sexist manner when she offered to help prep. They regarded her as a civilian. They were both accustomed to females in their unit such as medic Dietrich, pilot Ferro and heavy-gunner Vasquez. When she demonstrates her proficiency with the loader, they were laughing good-naturedly at her bravado and their own underestimation of her abilities.
Some trivia:
The picture of Ripley's elderly daughter in the Special Edition is actually Sigourney Weaver's real-life mother!
The late Al Matthews, who played Sgt. Apone, was a true-blue Marine who was the first black man to be promoted to Sergeant in the Corps during his service in Vietnam!
The knife-trick scene was originally supposed to be performed by Lance Henriksen alone but he convinced director James Cameron to surprise Bill Paxton by involving him as they shot the scene! Paxton's wide-eyed terror is completely real!
Fan favorite Vasquez is played by non-Hispanic Jenette Goldstein! She goes out like a warrior and enables Gorman to reclaim his honor.
Ms. Goldstein now is the proprietress of a Los Angeles-based boutique that specializes in bespoke large-size bras! The motto of her company is, "At Jenette's, the alphabet begins with 'D'."!
Bishop's programming to not harm humans or allow them to come to harm through inaction is ripped straight from Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics!
Carrie Henn, who played Newt, never acted again but became a schoolteacher. She still maintains a correspondence relationship with Sigourney Weaver thirty-seven years later.
The late Bill Paxton, who has the distinction of being attacked on screen by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, will NEVER be forgotten for his reading of the line, "Why don't you put HER in charge?", referring to little Newt in her oversized helmet. Lol.
"ALIEN 3: ASSEMBLY CUT" is a DIVISIVE film but it's an EXCELLENT entry in the series. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU SEE IT!!! Many will try to dissuade you but it is ESSENTIAL VIEWING! It's directed by David Fincher and features Charles Dance and Charles Dutton. It's brutal, fast-paced, has a solid cast, has some extraordinary scares, provides new insight into the creature, presents a fascinating dilemma and concludes the trilogy elegantly. I strongly encourage you NOT TO SKIP IT! Make sure you see the ASSEMBLY CUT (Special Edition with longer runtime). It is available on Redbox and right here on YT. "Alien Resurrection" is the optional one because it's a hot mess except for one cool aquatic sequence. The ambitious prequels, "Prometheus" and "Covenant", mark director Ridley Scott's return to the series but they are mostly good JUST for Michael Fassbender's performances. Scott demystifies the creature and unsatisfyingly attempts to address who the elephant-headed pilot of the derelict spacecraft was.
VIEWING ORDER:
Alien
Aliens (Special Edition)
Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)
Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]
Predator (1987)
Predator 2
Predators
Prey
Alien vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated)
Prometheus [OPTIONAL]
Covenant [OPTIONAL]
The Predator (2018) [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL]
INTERNAL CHRONOLOGY:
1719 Prey
1987 Predator
1997 Predator 2
2004 Alien vs. Predator
2004 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Unrated)
2010 Predators
2018 The Predator [EXTREMELY OPTIONAL]
2093 Prometheus [OPTIONAL]
2104 Covenant [OPTIONAL]
2122 Alien
2179 Aliens (Special Edition)
2179 Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)
2379 Alien Resurrection (Director's Cut) [OPTIONAL]
Excellent comment!!!
Probably a better movie than the first one…and the first one was pretty good
Still the most exciting movie I ever saw at the theater! Thanks
I think you're talking about 'Red Dwarf'.
Alright, they nuked the colony, but there's still the alien space shift where it all began.
Favourite movie I’ve watched many many times. Ripley best character ever created and Sigourny Weaver played the part perfect
The tv show you were thinking of was the British comedy Sci-fi series "Red Dwarf", worth a revisit as a reaction series.
"How did he know Ripley was driving"? Who else would it be? Burke? Gorman? Newt? I think the soldier know who would be driving this thing. Ripley is the only answer.
They knew how to make sequels back then, Aliens, Godfather 2, Terminator 2
Great reaction. You GOTTA see part 3...
Nice reaction Reembo. Please let us know how many times you said "OH" while watching this. 😮
great reaction, Really enjoyed it
You will likely not like the plot of A3 or A4. A lot of people, including me, consider the franchise to have closed with Aliens and ignore the events of 3 & 4. Watch at your own peril. 🙂
wonderful reactions lady
A dry heat is not as intense as having high humidity. Some with the cold. If it’s cold and you have high humidity, it feels colder. The humidity that touches your skin delivers that cold much more directly.
I take the Hudson and Vaquez approach. Bill Paxton was so much of a God in this movie. That he actually went to Titanic with. Cameron.
Happy to see you reacting to this iconic/legendary sci fi sequel.
Made your 1k ❤
The show you’re thinking of is Red Dwarf, it was a British sitcom
Ms. Reembok, please react to "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile", two masterpieces! Thanks.
It's not over.
this is by far the best sequel to any movie ever.... you should watch the special edition of Aliens, it gives you just a little more insight for why Ripley and Newt bond so closely.
fun fact,
when Cameron was writing the script for Aliens he had a pic of Sigourney Weaver on his desk and he dubbed the Movie the battle of the mothers.
Bill Paxton was the only actor to be killed by a Alien, Terminator and a Predator in the movies.
the pic of Ripley's daughter in the special edition is actually a pic of Sigourney's mother.
The bit where Drake takes Hudson's hand and puts it under Bishops hand for the knife bit, Bill didn't know he was going to do that so it was a real response to what happened because he was surprised because that wasn't in the script but Cameron liked it so he left it in.
Jim's mother was a very strong willed woman and she encouraged his creativity and his father was the opposite, that is why he writes good strong women rolls.
According to legend, Hudson's crack to Vasquez about "Illegal Aliens" was an improv, based on Jeanette Goldstein (Vasquez) having originally auditioned for the movie, thinking it was a legal drama about illegal immigration.
11:53 I just googled what Arcturian means, it's basically the archetypal alien image. this basically implies that in this film's universe, Alien encounters are now common.
If that's the case, then why was it so difficult for the company to buy her story about the aliens?
You asked 3 questions in your intro:
1. Where do these aliens come from?
Answer: I won't tell you. This would be major spoilers for later movies.
2. How did Ash know so much about it?
Answer: He didn't know anything about it.
Weyland-Yutani (the company) detected a signal, made by some kind of radio transmitter, that appeared not to be human.
That is literally everything they knew when they put Ash on the Nostromo and sent that crew out there.
There is a tiny chance that somebody in the company might have known about a very different kind of alien seen in other movies in this franchise and hoped to find them, but probably not.
So Ash's orders could be described as "Find out what is out there and bring it back, crew expendable."
By the time Ash is talking about "a perfect organism", he has already examined the dead face-hugger and he's seen the capabilities of the full-grown alien. He's making deductions about how awesome it is from his own observations, not from any knowledge he had before.
He was also probably lying.
It's pretty far from "perfect", though it does have some advantages that no earth creature has.
3. What's the purpose of trying to study it?
Answer: science.
And military.
Scientists always want to study things and figure out how it works.
Aside from the quest for knowledge, "applied science" is the way we take that knowledge and make new things.
Generally we sell them for profit.
A Tesla is better than a Model-T, an iPhone is better than a telephone, and an AR-15 is better than a bow-and-arrow.
Selling new and better weapons to the military is orten the biggest profit margins a company can get.
If we find any alien, anything at all, there's a high chance it has technological and or biological advantages that can be studied, applied, and marketed, likely to the military.
Huge profits.
The decade of the movie has nothing to do with how scary a movie is. The exorcist is even older than alien, came out in ‘73 and is considered to be one of the scariest movies ever made.
If you wanna watch a scifi thriller with lots of twists and turns, try 'Moon' (2009) with Sam Rockwell.
I know I have had nightmares because of this movie. But then again, I was 12 when I saw this a year after it came out...
Masterpiece of a movie
AGREED.Cameron went thru &&&& making this film,especially with the british film crew. LOL. There's a very good documentary on the making of ALIENS on youtube,I've seen it countless times. THEY MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT,MOSTLY.
Ripley is really something! One of the best characters ever created and portrayed so impressively by Sigourney Weaver! Even though Alien 3 and 4 aren't as good as the first two, they're worth watching just so you can see Ripley's story continuation and conclusion. As for the origin of the aliens themselves, I suggest watching Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, in that order, as they're exactly about that. basically like prequels to the Alien series.
The actor who plays " BISHOP " was in an early Al Pacino movie called " Dog Day Afternoon ". Great movie and must see.
All the information Ripley gives at the hearing caused them to gather all the files and information from that mission which likely had been closed do to loss of contact all this time. When they realize it isn't a loss but an opportunity things go wrong and asking Ripley to go in my opinion was one way to shut her up and isolate her from the public when the colony goes silent - and she knows why.
I have done a detailed breakdown before, but to simplify why Ripley doesn't encounter more Aliens when rescuing Newt;
The colony only had 158 people.
Minus Newt, that's 157 hosts under perfect circumstances.
Less than 157 died as hosts.
Some Aliens (and potential hosts) were lost fighting the colonists.
MANY Aliens were lost storming the sentry guns. ( cutscene from the superior director's cut)
Only a handful remain to guard the Queen when Ripley encounters her.
Not to mention all the destruction and explosions going on.
Could've killed or scattered some of the remaining.
Great reaction to an awesome movie!
This is the perfect ending to the Alien saga. Everything that steals the name after this is just half-assed money grabs cashing in on the Alien/Aliens name. I went to watch Alien3 but hated it so badly from the start that I walked out barely half an hour into the movie. I've never watched anything else from the extended series, and I suggest that other people should never do so either. That's just my opinion though, and it's worth what you paid for it: nothing.
Sigorney Weaver as Ripley is one of the best acted characters in film history. She's a believable human being who rises above when the stuff hits the fan and something has to be done. One of my favorite sci-fi actors ever. Everyone played their roles so well in this movie, and even the "disposable" marines were given enough character and personality so that they were recognizable characters. That was a great thing that these two movies in this saga did: the characters were individuals instead of tissue paper characters.
Michael Biehn as Hicks at least survived this movie, and having him survive was a nice twist on the 'everyone but one person dies' horror movie trope. And the old joke held true: If he doesn't have a mustache he's a good guy.
The actress who played Vasquez, the ultimate bad-A marine, is in three of my top twelve favorite movie series, and sadly she dies in all three. She's still awesome here though.
Paxton as Hudson was great. He was scared as crap, but when it was time for action he was right there in the thick of it, doing the best he could, no matter what. Whether it was fighting or being the top tier tech marine who got the info and opened the locks, he did his job. Even if he may have been wetting his britches the entire time.
One of my favorite stories about this movie was told by Paul Reiser who played Carter Burke. He took his mother to the premiere and told her nothing about the movie beforehand. She joined in with the rest of the audience applauding when Burke died, and from an article I read he said that for weeks afterward every time they saw each other when she first saw him she got this look of disgust on her face, this "I can't believe you did that to those people" kind of look. That's what made him really believe that he could be an actor.
The young lady who played Newt was an incredible actress on this. She played the numb and shell-shocked little girl so well that it broke your heart. But she could be as capable as anyone else in her own way. For such a young actor, she did amazingly well in this role. A side story that amused me is that she kept wanting to go down the slide (where she gets separated and then captured near the end) over and over because it was fun, so they had to keep reshooting the scene because she was so excited to slide that she'd muff the shot. Finally she was told that once they got the take they needed, she could ride the slide as much as she wanted.
The extended version adds a lot of great backstory early on in the movie about Ripley, which makes everything about Newt that much more poignant. And I'm a bitter, jaded old man with no heart or emotions to speak of (or so I'm told), but I still get teary eyed when Newt calls Ripley 'Mommy' at the end.
In spite of my past work in computers I'm absolutely a practical FX person, because digital FX are overused and rushed to the point of usually being awful. I am always amazed at the eerie but kinda sickly beautiful work that went into the practical FX for this movie. Not just the aliens themselves, though they are incredible, but all the set dressing, the puppetry/animatronics, makeup and costuming, everything.
I have my own Aliens movie story, which I think is amusing:
After I graduated high school, I became an advisor for the church youth group I had belonged to before graduating. In 1988, when I was 20, we had a lock-in one fall weekend. The high school youth were allowed to pick movies to rent for the lock in. Aliens was one of the ones chosen. I had kind of seen it before, but it was as background while hanging out with friends, so I didn't know much about it. We started watching it around 11 p.m. All of the adults and most of the teens had gone to sleep in the rooms set aside for that, while a few teens and I started watching Aliens in the High School Sunday School room in the large mostly underground downstairs of the large church. The teens all left and went to sleep before we reached the halfway point, but I was interested so I stayed up and finished the movie.
It was now around 1 a.m. All the lights were off because everyone but me was asleep. My last task before I could sleep was to go around the unlocked areas of the downstairs and make sure none of the teens had snuck off to do anything they shouldn't have. So here I am, walking through dark cinder block walled hallways with exposed ductwork overhead, and no lights except for the occasional faint red lights of the "Exit" signs. My heart is beating like a jackhammer as I carefully edge my way through the dark halls, knowing that there are no xenomorphs but still expecting some kind of jump scare that's going to make me lash out and crap myself at the same time. Luckily, everyone was fast asleep and I finished my rounds and went and lay down, but it was probably the least restful sleep I had and the most nervous I had ever been in church.
Aliens 3 is a so-so movie. I recommend jumping ahead to Alien Resurrection instead.
Absolutely loved your reaction. I also appreciate the fact that you dedicated an hour to your reaction. I will be back.
Best film in the franchise Id stop here.
Stop here, it all goes bad from Aliens 3. Just be happy to have watched this great film.
Best sci-fi action film EVER! But stop there, no need to watch the rest of the Alien saga, the series ends here.
Xenomorph literally means alien or exotic form. It could refer to any species that is dissimilar to us.
The hypocrisy of Ripley saying you can’t go back to save your marines but we absolutely have to go back to save Newt even though it will take us longer to get to Newt than it would have taken to get to the marines.
Yes, Ripley was wrong for stopping them from even trying. Cameron didnt write Ripley to be perfect.
36:00 Well, that specific alien was not particularly forward-thinking
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The actor who played the sarge, really was in Vietnam. RIP Sarge. Btw, in the few reactions I’ve watched from you, you’ve caught things the others never saw or figured out. Good job.
He's also one of three other actors from Aliens (Counting the Special Edition) who was a voice actor on Starfleet, a British redub of a Japanese sci-fi marionet series that ran on British TV in 1980. "Sarge" was the voice of country-boy bad ass Barry Hercules and Mark Rolston (Drake), voiced the pudgy comic relief character
I guess this is the original cut cos it is missing a bunch of scenes like the scenes with the auto guns that are in the special or directors cut.
I think people interpret more into the lore than the movies portray, trying to fill in the gaps. Ash didn't know about the Xenomorph specifically, someone knew about the automated beacon, sent the Nostromo there in the first movie and Ash was put there to protect whatever if something of value was found.
If you really think about it, that signal got lost in the time between the first movie and the colonists arriving, else they would have found the wrecked ship sooner. Aliens makes it clear that only after Burkes orders the Jordans went there and got infected.
There are conspiracy theorys about the colony being established to get people impregnated, but that doesn't make sense given 50+ years passed, and you can get specimens without having to build a whole colony on top of the atmosphere processor.
This is my #1 movie ever, i do not want to diminish it. But there are problems in the details. Did Newt keep feeding the Hamsters? What is the overall timeline, why was that woman getting chestbursted just when the Marines were around? How long did she evade impregnation? We know it's a matter of like a day.
How much time passed between the board hearing and Burke recruiting Ripley? That's when Burke sent the order to check out the grid coordinates of the derelic ship, and get papa Jordan impregnated. Why was there no SOS? Did they send one and we are just not told about it in the movie? That's ok.
How long did it take to prep the Sulaco and to get to LV-426? In Alien it was said the Nostromo would take over a year to get back to earth. Let's assume military vessels traver faster than commercial freighthers, that would still mean 3-4 months FTL time. And all that time Newt kept feeding the Hamsters, and that other woman was not captured and impregnated.
Cameron is a great writer, but i feel with this one he didn't go quite deep enough to avoid nitpicking.
This is one of the best sequels to a good original but the subsequent Alien films were a ler down.
The Trminator franchise has the same problem.
The scene where Hudson is teasing Vasquez- "They said alien and she thought they meant illegal alien"- was based on an incident from the casting. Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) thought the movie was about illegal aliens from Mexico, and thinking there would be part for a hooker/stripper type, showed up in a tight mini-skirt and high heels.
For a bit of inside on the xemorphs, definitely check out the "prometheus" movie, if you want to continue this series. Its a prequel to the alien movies. Without spoiling too much its gives insight on the sub species of the xemorphs and also another ET lifeform. In alien: convent(the second prequel) the xemorphs were rediscovered by originally being extinct for a long time.
I loved Prometheus but it caught a lot of hate. No idea why, a perfect prequel to the Alien franchise
Ummm no.. no please don't ty
@@Mac1975lv why if I may ask? Its not that bad if you watch it with an open mind
@@adampare8088Lame story with idiotic and forgettable characters. The opposite of Alien and Aliens.
@@miller-joel I have to disagree. The origin of humans, and how the engineers bailed on the black muck for being too dangerous, then us humans messing with it which leads to mutation everywhere. Just me, but I thought it was really good
Wait till u see the 3rd movie. Don't let anyone tell you not to watch it, it's worth watching. It's a different vibe, but it is still great.
57:20 - I remember back in the day, when they showed clips from this scene in the trailers with Ripley shooting the gun like a bad-arse, I knew right then and there that I had to see this movie! 😁 This movie was also groundbreaking for the time it came out. There really wasn't many female heroes in films at this time, especially like Ripley. It's more common these days, but back then, no. Women were mostly portrayed as the "damsels in distress", but never as the bad-arse who could handle herself, and do the rescuing.
Side note: I was ten when it came out and the trailers looked like the best thing I had ever seen, but some of my older friends now who were in their late teens or twenties it came out have told me they thought the trailers made it look ridiculously awful and were all predicting it would flop. When it finally came out, all of them went back and saw it multiple times. 🤣