Aliens (1986) | First Time Reaction
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- Grizz watches Alien (1986) for the first time!
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Paul Reiser (Burke) took his mother to the premiere - when the alien killed Burke she stood up and cheered.
I love when he says. Oh, that's cool, a forklift mech suit. And in my mind, I'm just saying, oh, just wait.
It's etched in my memory how nuts the theater went when she put it on for the climax. 💪
Wish I’d have seen it in the pictures but was too young. Bet it was absolutely amazing, if only I could watch this film again as new without any prior knowledge
In the first movie, Ash was just following his orders. He didn't really have a choice. Orders given by the company. The true antagonist of both movies isn't androids or aliens, it's Weyland-Yutani.
It's the Aliens and the Company. For different reasons.
BUILDING BETTER WORLDS
Would love to see a film or series about Weyland-Yutani and their hunt for xenomorphs.
@@extraplain2412 i would see the movie of headleys hope
I love that soldiers line when told no live rounds in the sub level. “What’re we supposed to use…harsh language.”lol
You don’t have to pick between Alien & Aliens. They’re two different genre.
One is Suspense/Horror, the other is Action. They’re the best at each!
Suspense/Horror and Action/Suspense/Horror.
I’m forever grateful that Jennifer Lawrence paved the way for women to play powerful characters like Ripley.
Ouch! Laser sharp sarcasm 😁
I know, right 😂😂
It’s like that Chuck Norris joke, that he build the hospital he was born in 😂 Jennifer was an icon for women before she was even born!
The Xenomorph Queen is the largest puppet in the history of film. It's about 20 feet long and 14 tall, and is hung from a crane (part of the reason the head is so big is to hide the cables). It requires 12-16 people to operate the creature, a combination of rod puppetry, animatronics, and two stuntmen INSIDE the queen doing the arms.
I love how you don't miss ANYTHING. It's easy to miss little details the first time seeing a movie, but nothing gets by you. Your reactions are great! Also, side note: Paul Reiser, who played Burke, took his mother to the premiere of Aliens. When Burke got killed by the xenomorph, his mother cheered. 😆
lol he seen it before. come on. his reaction is literally word for word of the "react to aliens" script every youtube reactor follows.they all copy eachother. it's about clicks.
he hasnt seen it, he already said its his first time watching
@@kingstonlor9969 😉
@@penoyer79then why did you give him a click
I love that he's handsome 😊
The Power Loader effect was created in a couple of different ways. Some were a foam exoskeleton that was actually piloted by a very large & strong stuntman, who was enclosed in the chassis behind Sigourney. Some were rod-puppeted while balanced using a large lever. Sometimes it was held up using cables, marionette-style. For background shots, stop-motion and smaller rod-puppets were used.
This movie uses no blue or greenscreen effects with actors in frame. All effects with the actors were done using a high-fidelity rear-projection screen with footage filmed using miniatures and puppetry, sort of a low-tech version of Disney's "Volume" used on the Star Wars & Marvel projects in recent years. This had the advantage of blending the lighting from the photography seamlessly and adding focal depth, making the effects look extremely realistic.
Cameron, before becoming a director, was an extremely talented special effects technician and matte painter working for Roger Corman. He supervised all of the effects for Battle Beyond the Stars and Galaxy of Terror, and also did the matte paintings for Escape From New York. He re-used many of the techniques he developed on those films for this one, as well as The Terminator and The Abyss.
Thats absolutely badass, thanks for sharing! I love knowing they used rear projection instead of process color screens, thats incredibly cool
@@grizzledwizard7129 Other unrelated fun facts: Ripley's elderly daughter is actually played by Sigourney's mom. And Carrie Henn, who played Newt, had never acted before, not even in a school play.
The casting director went to schools across the UK trying to cast the part but every kid who had acting experience would look at the camera and smile after saying their lines, which was inappropriate for a kid who was suffering from PTSD. Newt's brother was also played by Carrie's brother, who was often on-set with their mom during school breaks watching Carrie working, and James asked if he'd like a small part in the movie as well.
Another fun thing is that the background powerloader you see early on is actually the model with Ripley driving it from the end. They put a beard on her to conceal it. Why build two, right?
@@fusionaddict This is one of my favourite Fun Facts: No fewer than FOUR cast members from Aliens, were voice actors on Starfleet, a British English language dub of a Japanese Sci-Fi marionet show. Mark Rolston, who played Drake (The big, gruff blonde Marine) was the voice of the tubby comic relief character and Newt's dad is the hero. The series would also go on to inspire Queen guitarist Brian May to compose an album, with Eddie Van Halen, as a birthday present for May's son, since Starfleet was his favourite TV show.
Another reason why I loved Battle Beyond the Stars, as James Cameron had a hand in it. I couldn't name my son Auuuurnld, so I gave him the middle name Cameron.
"Yeah dude, it's called due dilligence!"
That might be the greatest clap back to Weyland Yutani, I've ever heard
Watched this so many times, I can repeat swathes of the script from memory. "Every meal's a banquet. Every paycheck a fortune. Every formation a parade-- *I LOVE THE CORPS!* "
That’s how you tell someone you just met is a good dude - the secret code of Aliens quotes ;)
Ah yes, the movie that gave us some of THE most iconic sci-fi guns ever. I absolutely adore the physical design and the sound design of the pulse rifle and the smart guns......I will seriously play any game they are in just to use and hear them. And this movie has some of the best lines in cinema history, R.I.P Bill Paxton
Just iconic aesthetic all around. We've seen variations of the Colonial Marine kit for sci fi grunts for decades now.
Indeed! Those guns were literally the thing you imagine as a kid playing pretend space warrior outside.
The Queen was actually a full sized robot operated with hydraulics.
The Colonial Marines talked about a "bug hunt" in reference to the novel "Starship Troopers" - which was one of the novels that J. Cameron gave to the actors for a better understanding of a "futuristic soldier"
Two interesting anecdotes. Carrie Henn (Newt) enjoyed sliding down the chute that they shot the scene a number of times. The day before the shoot of the water scene, the Assistant Director had the water heated ready for the next day. When they came to do the scene Newt said the water was too warm, so her and the "Alien" sat on the side bathing their feet in the water till it cooled a little. Carrie went on to become a Primary School Teacher, though Sigourney and her remained close friends.
Should also mention that the boy Timmy who played Newts brother, was actually her real brother.
It wasn't simply that Carrie enjoyed sliding down so much that they shot it a number of times. Carrie loved the slide so much that she kept on deliberately messing up the takes, so that she could go down it again. Finally, James Cameron had to promise her that if she stopped sabotaging the shot, she could then play on it for as long as she wanted.
I rather like that image, of Newt and the Xenomorph just chilling together, paddling their feet and just hanging out
@@weldonwin - Me too!
@@weldonwin I wish there was a photo! 😂
Yeah, the only reasons they had peace for 20 years was because no one knew exactly where the ship was? Until Ripley gave up the location. So, Burk Sent Newts parents out to the location.
Also, I love how that last sentry gun kept trying to track targets as the xenomorphs retreated. "I STILL GOT BULLETS!"
I've always thought that silent exchange between Ripley and the queen was Ripley indicating "I have a flamethrower. I can incinerate all these eggs. Just let Newt and me back out of the room." The queen seems to agree and orders her drones to back off. It looks like they came to an understanding. But when the egg opens up, Ripley realized the queen went back on her word, hence that "You MF'er" look Ripley gives the queen.
It will be interesting to see your reaction and insights about "Alien 3." To say that the film is polarizing is an understatement.
That's exactly what that scene is portraying.
Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in this film. Still one of the best sequels ever made! And this is one of the very rare cases where the special edition is as good or better than the theatrical cut. The Terminator got people's attention but this movie cemented both Jim Cameron's and Stan Winston's careers.
Ripley was undergoing company mandated psych evaluation at the time she was sent back. Burke went as far as to mention her nightmares to her face to try and send her back. She accepted after waking up in tear from the nightmares, and it's fairly safe to assume the company was conditioning her. On the other hand, Burke also mentions she works the docks to keep busy, which explains how she learn to operate the power loader. Small details, but it shows the finesse of the writing of this movie
This is an extremely tight script
There was also supposed to be backstory about the dock work that explained the workers would engage in loader fights during down time (like Fight Club), which is where Ripley also learned how to use it beyond just as a loader.
@@richardyoung3462 I'm glad they didn't use that. The reveal at the end works SO well without foreshadowing it. 😃
@@karlmortoniv2951 Yeah, it's also stupid that someone who is being held on a space station, while being investigated for massive destruction of property, would choose to fuck around like that, or would even be left unsupervised to do so. It also doesn't fit Ripley's character at all.
@@ashscott6068 I can explain away the company’s being lackadaisical about what Ripley got up to by figuring someone at the top knew she was telling the truth about LV426. The orders to divert the Nostromo came from someone. The company can pretty much do whatever they want, as subsequent movies indicate.
But yeah, Ripley fucking around with power loaders would have made no sense.
"It's Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf!"
Then you realize his casting on Red Dwarf was partly because of this role:
"Lister, if you've brought a pet on board..."
I'm glad you are watching this version of the movie, with the extra scenes. One of those scenes is the reveal of Ripley's daughter (in the theatrical release the viewer doesn't know she had a daughter), and that scene alone improves all of her scenes with Newt.
Isn't it mention in Alien (1979) that Riplay had a daughter? I think that she says so talking with the other female on the ship while they trying to determine where the hell they were when they got awoken at the begining of the film. But I may remember wrong.
You are 100% accurate when you bring up the Imperial Guard from 40k. The Zerg from StarCraft and the Tyranids all draw from the Xenomorphs of the Aliens franchise.
The Dropships of StarCraft even draw some of their lines from the movie directly.
I’ve read multiple Warhammer novels with Alien/Aliens Easter eggs too :)
Two deleted scenes worth mentioning. When they are discussing on how to get the second dropship down, the Aliens banging on the door can still be heard. But, after Bishop volunteers to go outside, the banging then stops. The scene continues on with Vasquez being the first to realise they've broken through the door. Hicks utters the chilling line "Their in the complex".
The other deleted scene is Ripley encountering Burke in the hive. Where he is already cocooned and has an alien inside him. She hands him a grenade before moving on. The scene was cut because not enough time had passed for Burke to already be impregnated and conscious.
However, Burke using the grenade was what caused the explosion that forced Ripley and Newt to detour in to the Queen's lair.
This movie is literally a game of chess with the two queens facing off at the end. We all know what Bishop is, hicks is a knight etc
This movie inspired much of Halo: combat evolved, from the vehicles and Pillar of Autumn design, the armor and attitude of the marines, Sergent Johnson is directly inspired by Sergent Apone, to the concept of the flood being a parasitic alien race that poses a threat to the galaxy. Doom was originally going an Aliens game until ID had lost the license to the IP, after that they pretty much said "let's give a space marine from aliens the chainsaw and shotgun from evil dead 2 and make a game out of that"
The movie inspired a lot of movies and TV.
There is an episode of Star Trek voyager obviously inspired by this movie where Jayne basically becomes Ripley to save the crew from aliens invading the ship and infecting the crew. There was even a montage scene of Janeway getting up to fight them.
yea, Doom 3 totally felt like Aliens with that base design and the stormy weather outside. Loved that game so much back in the days
Showing my age, but when I went to see this in the theater near the university, when Ripley came out in the loader to fight the queen, the whole place leapt to their feet to cheer and stayed on their feet rooting on the fight until the end. Just a fantastic film all around...
That could kind of sum-up why people don't like this movie.
Alien: psycho-sexual cosmic horror
Aliens: aforementioned horror..defeated decisively by a piece of industrial hardware
supposed to be all epic, yet renders things strangely banal. Sums up James Cameron's technological fetish perfectly. The Terminator series he created suits his sensibilities much better since it's all ABOUT machines and their relationship to humanity, the very organic body-horror of Alien doesn't suit him
The crazy thing is the nonspeciel version of this movie cut the hadley’s hope initial facehugger scene and ripley’s daughter scene. I always feel like those small scenes add so much world building to this already incredible movie
Thats so insane to me, they're so crucial to the story and Ripley's motivation!!
Yeah, gotta blame the studio for that. Studio heads wanted Cameron to cut the film down from the 2 hours and 37 minutes his preferred version was set to be.
This was Cameron before he got the leverage to tell the studios either let me have final cut on his films or he won't do them.
@@grizzledwizard7129 Fortunately, Cameron and Ray Lovejoy were surgical with their cutting and the film still works very well without them. It's just much deeper and richer with those scenes put back in. For years the only way to even see the Special Edition was on a 1991 laser disc release which was very expensive. It wasn't widely available until it was finally released on VHS in 1999.
I didn't mind those scenes being cut. It made their entering the city that much more suspenseful as you didn't know what happened there. And I'm glad that they took out the Momma Ripley scene, because then it was too predictable what would happen with her and Newt
Gorman isn't a bad soldier, just an inexperienced and overwhelmed leader. Boots on the ground he doesn't do too bad.
Alien Isolation is a terrifying game. I didn't have the balls to finish it, but it is lovingly designed and the DLC - which you have to buy - has all the actors' likenesses and some returned for the voices too. The DLC is called "Crew Expendable".
Hands down the best female protagonist in any action/sci-fi films. Ripley is as far as you can get from a woman who needs any man to save her or a woman who needs others to lead the way. She steps up from minute one in Alien and continues to be the absolute BOSS in Aliens.
This is one of the most intense, insightful, entertaining and straight up FUN reaction videos I have ever seen! I have watched "Aliens" at least a 100 times in my lifetime and you brought back the feeling of seeing it for the first time, all over again. Thank you!
My dad took me to see this in theaters when I was ten. Still one of my most vivid childhood memories.
Since im so early im obligated to share my favorite fun fact) Paul Reiser brought his mom to see this opening night and his mom gave a standing ovation when his character met his fate
The dropship's entire purpose is atmospheric flight via orbital insertion.
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The Nostromo was a commercial towing vehicle, a giant tugboat, and landing on anything was rare. Anything other than a dedicated landing pad was way beyond its design tolerances.
That's why all hell broke loose when they tried to land it on LV-426.
When I was in college I had a roommate who owned a ton of laser tag guns, but only three of the target sensors.
We invented an aliens tag game, where two people wore the sensors and were the aliens and everyone else carried a gun and was a Marine.
We used one of the University buildings at night with all of the lights except the stairwell emergency lighting turned off.
It was a treasure hunt, but there was a facehugger (third sensor) in a box that looked exactly like the prize
I was there opening night way back in 1986. The whole audience went crazy when Ripley appeared in that loader to fight the queen alien.
...and personally, anything you can imagine as to what happens to the survivors of this film is better than what A3 is.
10:50 Halo CE took a huge amount of inspiration from Aliens, such as Sgt Maj Johnson being an expy of Apone, the design of the UNSC equipment being similar to that of the Colonial Marines, almost direct dialogue references, the design of the Elites being vaguely similar to the xenomorphs (especially in Halo 2 with the councilors), etc.
The sound design is incredible in this - the scanners, the pulse rifles, the alarms, the alien noises - plus the epic James Horner soundtrack on top - perfection 🤩 my favourite film of all time
In a deleted scene (which you can find on CZcams) Ripley actually runs into Burke again when she goes looking for Newt, Burke has been captured by the Aliens and he's stuck in that Alien webbing begging for help
Fun fact: The scene with the marines being briefed about the Xenomorph in the beginning of the film was filmed last so that the actors would have bonded together shooting the rest of the film first. You can see the pool of Cameron actors he uses in all his films.
It's VERY impressive that Sigourney received a best actress nomination for this performance. That's saying a lot because they never consider such recognition for this genre film.
I read the book for Aliens before seeing either movie when i was in like, 8th grade. The medical room scene still gets my adrenaline pumping 20 years later
Alan Dean Foster absolutely killed that book. One of the best film novelizations ever.
@@JoeFF85 💯 facts
I saw the props for this movie about a year after it came out. The power loader is a suit. There’s a really big guy standing behind her. She’s standing on his feet. He controls the arms and walking but the whole thing had to be secured in case it fell forward. Same with the queen. Two guys laying back to back. Each controlling one big arm and one small arm. Brilliant costume design.
so fun to hear you notice all the greatest themes of this film and you reaction to revelations as they are revealed. so fun.
I really like the point you made about Hudson trying to make Ripley feel better on the dropship! I had never thought of it that way and always just figured he was grandstanding because that's who he was. But you're right, he's being obnoxious about it but he totally is trying to make her relax. And the sad thing is, with their training and the crazy arsenal of weaponry they had, the marines probably WOULD have been able to handle just about any foreseeable threat.
"....and that a xenomorph may be involved." The word "xenomorph" is not some kind of official term Gorman is using for the alien-it simply means that they believe there's some kind of alien life-form involved in the colony's disappearance. The Colonial Marines have been called in to kill various kinds of aliens before, and they would have used the term "xenomorph" (literally, "strange form," and technically used for any non-terrestrial animal) to refer to whatever "bugs" they were stomping. The Aliens fandom has adopted the term "Xenomorph" to refer to the aliens themselves, but when Gorman used the word, he wasn't referring to our titular Alien aliens-he just meant that there was some kind of unknown alien life down on the planet.
To add a little more to this: the line and term also add to Gormans character being a trope of pretentious military officers.
There was already a divide between him and the grunts (chow scene "looks like the new LT is too good to eat with us") and him using xenomorph as a technical term was a way for him to appear smarter than the troops.
You see right away Frost's reaction is "a what?" and Hicks has to clarify "it's a bug hunt."
So the term xenomorph that we've all adopted as a species name was just a made up term by some cherry LT trying to look smarter than his troops 😂
The practical effects are just so top notch, the over reliance on CGI these days is so noticable compared to the 80's
Fantastic Watch. Nicely done.
People hate on A3, but I love it!.
The extended version of Alien 3 is great.
Alien 3 is really underrated
My theory on why Ripley didn't crush the queen with the pincer is that the power loaders have force sensors & safetys that prevent them from applying any more force than is necessary to hold an object in place.
Plus if she crushed it there'd be fountains of acid eating through the ship
Or she didn't want to get sprayed with alien acid blood
I saw this in Leicester Square with my older brother. In the last fight scene, he lost it , and started waving his arms about, to fight off the alien. That made me very happy.
Good spot with the sulaco, halo’s marines and characters are heavily inspired by the colonial marines 😁
Ripley’s reasons for going back remind me of William Manchester’s reasons for returning to the islands he fought on in WWll. Decades after the war, he started having the same terrible nightmares he’d had when he first got home from overseas. He decided he had no closure, that he had to go back to those islands to rid himself of that terrible darkness. That trip became the amazing book “Goodbye, Darkness.”
Awesome movie which I saw at the Odeon Cinema in Nottingham back in 1986.Always remember when Hicks climbed up on to the table,lifted up the suspended ceiling,shone the torch into the void and saw the Aliens crawling through.The gasp in the cinema from the audience still remains with me to this day as it seems like everyone was holding their breath.Aliens is just one of the best sequels ever along with Terminator 2:Judgement day.Great reaction to this movie by the way.😸👍
Also, fun fact: The scene of them cutting through the door of the Narcissus (2:15) is referenced in the Clone Wars in "Eminence" when Death Watch recovers the escape pod with Maul and Savage inside.
Edit: Also, I can't bring up Aliens references in TCW without also mentioning the Geonosian queen who, as you could probably guess, took heavy inspiration from the queen Xenomorph.
I've seen a _LOT_ of people watch *_Aliens_* for the first time, but you by far and away have one of my favourite reactions in how many of the key storytelling points you nailed as it went and also how you focus on the Horror vs. Action in the two films as well as how this influenced James Cameron's later works.
“We got knives, sharp sticks.”
Whan Paul Reiser (Burke) went to the premiere, he brought his mother and sister. His sister hit him during the film. When Burke died, his mother said "Good."
When Hudson and Hicks mentioned that it was going to be another bug-hunt they meant it was going to be another alien infestation in general terms. The backstory on these Colonial Marine unit had them losing several team members on a previous mission against a different type of aliens.
Hudson is asking if it’s gonna be just another “bug hunt” (meaning a typical boring clean-up extermination mission) or if they’re finally gonna see some real action and get into a “standup fight” (an actual battle against a challenging foe.)
The most advanced form of alien life encountered so far in the ALIEN universe (not including the Space Jockey) has basically been non-sentient wildlife. Just alien animals roaming around the environment on some newly discovered worlds.
These Marines specialize in wiping out any hostile alien animals that threaten colonists or anyone else living on the planet. This probably doesn’t pose too much of a challenge for the Marines with all their advanced technology and firepower. To them, it’s just _“another bug hunt.”_ Glorified pest control.
They have never encountered anything like the Xenomorphs before. So, they did end up getting their standup fight.
Best sequel ever. Too bad they never made any more Alien movies.
Yeah, it's sooo strange how nothing ever followed this one. Guess it's a mystery why *the franchise ENDS HERE AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO SEE. EVER.*
DO NOT PASS GO. THIS WAS THE PEAK.
I mean, the Aliens did at least show up one more time in some early 2000s crossover movie which was fun. I think it was the Aliens at least... it was often very dark and close up...
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were more recent ones worth seeing. The ones after this one just didn't meet expectations. Nonetheless, I'm here for Kyle to react to all of them. He has a knack for appreciating the simple mediocrities that are always a joy to watch.
Don’t waste your time with the other Alien sequels. Except for the prequel Prometheus
One of my favorites of all time! Glad to get to see you check it out
The reason she couldn’t just crush the Queens head or shoot her is because it would bleed acid and there’d be a permanent hole in the hull of the ship.
In my opinion, Aliens is the greatest sci-fi ever made. Aliens is arguably the greatest sequel ever made. Its a tough call between this, Terminator 2 and The Godfather Part II.
Im glad you saw the Special Edition.
When some say that we don't appreciate female protagonist I always think of Ripley, Sarah Connor, Laurie and many others. We have so many amazing characters in SciFi, fantasy and horror.
I love how when you first hear the name the plural doesn't seems like something special, but when you see the motion tracker screen and see all those signals, you realize why it was a plural, those weren't just a few.
Cool movie trivia: when James Cameron was casting for the role of Newt every child actor delivered their dialogue very bubbly and with a smile at the end. Carrie Henn not only nailed the dialogue, but gave a serious realistic portrayal of a child with severe PTSD..... Cameron hired her on the spot 👍
Newt 😊 my name's Newt ❤ nobody calls me Rebecca, except for my brother! 🥰
@@classictowers668 Aliens: The Musical 😂
@@classictowers668 in her head: "...except for my dead brother"
And she also never acted again. I think she became a teacher if I recall.
Hollywood killed Hicks and Newt...
I am really impressed with your comments about the things going on in the story. You nailed all of the points. also your observation about the soldier uniforms resembling the guard in 40k is right.
In the context of this film, both "bugs" and "xenomorphs" are generic terms for "nasty space critters". Given how things play out both in and out of story, "xenomorph" quickly became the term for these aliens specifically.
A fun thing to do on a rewatch is notice the legs of the Newt puppet swinging around wildly when Ripley has to run with her.
This movie has the absolute best practical effects for its time, light years ahead of anything else in the mid 80s.
Also, Newt, GRAB THE FUCKING JACKET! NO DON'T SLIP IT OFF, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!!
I saw this at the theater when it came out. The funny thing is when Ripley, Newt and Bishop get back to the ship after the nuke goes off, two people in the theater got up and left thinking it must be the end and credits were about to roll. They missed the whole Alien and Mech Loader fight. Wonder if they ever found out what they missed.
James Cameron showed a friend of his this while it was in post productionand his friend described it as "Two and a half hours of bad road." The man is right.
Aliens is one of the greatest sequels in cinema history. As much as Alien is the gold standard for horror/sci-fi, Aliens is the gold standard for action/sci-fi.
Great, succinct, reaction.
Thanks, Grizz! 👾 I *love* this one. And the young actor who played 'Newt' is Carrie Henn. She's very active on the convention circuit.
Ah, super cool! You did a reaction to the only sequel they ever made to Alien! Such a shame nobody ever made another film associated with the franchise ever again.
One point of correction, They aren't U.S. marines. They're Colonial Marines employed by Wutani. IIRC, in this setting governments have been absorbed, the future of the aliens franchise is literally a corporate state.
I've watched almost all reaction vids to Aliens that are out there. None of them prior to you made the hair on my body stand up as your reaction as when Ripley approaches the Queen inside the powerloader from behind that door! I had absolute chills in that moment because of you. I knew what was gonna happen, you didn't until you saw it. And your wonderful, happy surprise made it so special. You reacted exactly as Cameron intended.
Hudson is great comedic relief. RIP Bill Hudson.
Honestly Loving the emotional Arms in the air moment dude!
When are you going to have live stream movie nights?
Affirmative!
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I have seen this movie DOZENS of times. It was my first Alien franchise film when I was a child (an adult took me when I was 9). I had never thought of Hudson's boasting on the drop as his way of re-assuring Ripley. It gives a whole new perspective and adds to the loss of his character.
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If you notice, Hicks actually throws Drake's fire off when Newt is first encountered. If not for Hick's Newt would have been lit up by Drake. His weapon has auto-target and tracking assist via the articulated arm. His Helmet Display will be fed IR and other sensor data and actually outline a target. The articulated arms will guide the weapon on target, though will easily respond to you manually moving the weapon and it will retarget what you move towards. As badass as Drake was, he failed to verify the target as hostile before firing, which shows how on edge he must have been. He even got angry at Hicks for misdirecting his fire. However, he quickly realized his error.
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Lieutenant Gorman is ultimately at fault for not prepping his units properly. All he had to do was explain why there could not be firing down there and trust his unit to sling the rifles with safeties on, without collecting magazines. Then there would not have been a bag full of magazines to explode. I would have likely withdrawn them and had them rearm with more flame units. Plus they could have put the rifles on single fire and CHECKED shots. Once they killed the chest burster and the movement began, they should have immediately fallen back. If he had explained to at least the Sergeant, then HE would have known to pull back to where the team COULD fire safely. Lieutenant Gorman is again responsible for the fatalities.
I feel like Gorman was "too green" to know he could lean on his noncoms. He seems to feel like any questions are undermining him even when they are just for clarification. He definitely wasn't seasoned enough to lead a team without oversight but the whole operation was FUBAR for jump since the company was in charge and not the Corps.
It's insane that they NEVER did another Aliens movie like this. US Colonial Marines against the xenomorphs. It's blasphemy!
Believe it or not the part where you learn Ripley had a daughter is only in the directors cut of this film. If you are a gamer, you should definitely play Alien: Isolation. You really feel like you’re in the first Alien film especially. You play as her daughter Amanda searching for Ripley.
that scream sends chills down the spine of anyone who's been around a dentist's drill
Great reaction for a fantastic movie. The way you watch and actually listen and observe the movie kinda makes other reactors seem stupid in comparison. Theres a real problem with how people are "watching" movies now. They get confused by everything, even basic character motivation.
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Ripley lives and works on the space station for a few months.
Probably my favorite scifi movie of all time. And remember, NO CGI. Aliens doesn't have any CGI as we would now understand the term. The special effects were achieved using miniatures, puppets, costumes, and optical compositing along with sets and matte paintings. Keep in mind this was in 1986, the technology did not exist to generate compelling imagery on computers. No modern CGI was used until Alien3. The wireframe images on the computer screen in Alien could technically be considered CGI, but the first time that was used was in 1958 with Hitchcock's Vertigo. All the aliens, the queen, the mech lifter...everything is practical effects and camera special effects. You mentioned the scene with the lifter. Those were practical suits on hydraulic lifts. And not a composite shot...that's just actually another one behind her being puppeted in the same scene. So the Marines actors all got to decorate their own armor by what they felt their character would want. So this movie is to action movies what Alien was to horror. A very different feel as this is scifi/horror/action where Alien was more scifi/horror. But the fantastic thing is although different in it's atmosphere and feel, it is more of a enhancement to the first story than a hinderance unlike some other franchises that didn't keep with the same directors and directions. Of course you can't ignore the most legendary battle of all times with that scene of the Queen and Ripley. So incredible that they could make a giant puppet attached to a forklift seem so lifelike and alive. I love that you feel that it had such a happy ending...knowing that there are two more movies for Ripley coming up. LOL.
the actress who played Vasquez, Jeannette Goldstein, also played John Connor's step-mom in Terminator 2 Judgement Day...
Androids won't get face-hugged. the Xenomorphs can literally sense them being machines and no Facehugger would waste it.
Fun fact about Hicks. He was played by Michael Biehn, who is known for playing Reese in The Terminator. However, Hicks was originally played first by James Remar, who after two weeks of filming, had to be let go due to the reveal of his drug addiction.
Biehn was then brought in, but some of Remar scenes could not be reshot. Due to the sets having been destroyed.
At least one or two shots in the film do feature Remar.
When this came out Alien was dubbed the fun house and Aliens the rollercoaster.
42:28 "I don't like water where you can't see the bottom. There's an alien in there for sure."
You and everybody else.
I saw this in a full theater in 1986.
The collective groan from 400 people is still one of my favorite movie moments ever.
I'm really glad they called it quits after this perfect sequel and didn't try to make it a franchise with ever diminishing quality...
No matter how many times I watch this movie, I'm always very nervous for Ripley and Newt😅
IKR? Seen this movie dozens of times. Yet as I was watching this review, I realized I was holding my remote really tightly.
James Cameron has admitted that this movie was primarily a story about mothers and daughters but he disguised it in a way that guys would find it interesting without realizing it.
Absolutely loved your reaction man! Aliens is my favorite movie of all time, and it's always fun seeing people's reactions to it. Can't wait for more "Alien-Universe" reactions!
I was Active Duty in the Marines, (Camp Lejeune, NC), when this movie hit the theaters. I and another Marine caught the Fri. night show, and the next weekend, every Marine in my Unit that could, swarmed the theater and sold-out that entire weekend! Absolutely worth it!
*THE BEST SEQUEL* I have ever witnessed/enjoyed, to this very day!
Trivia: When the Carter Burke character met his demise Paul Reiser's mom (who he brought to the premier with him) allegedly CHEERED.
Some of the best quotes ever:
Corporal Ferro's (Colette Hiller): We're in the pipe, 5 by 5....Move it Spunkmeir!
Ripley : You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
Ripley: Get away from her you Bitch!!
Ripley: Punch it Bishop!!! Close your eyes baby!
Hudson: Why don't you put her in charge!! Game over man, game over!
Bishop: Not bad, for a human.
Newt: Mommy! Newt, my name is Newt. Nobody calls me Rebecca except my brother.
Can I dream???
Great attention to detail...MOST reactors don't...they talk over the characters too much, and try to be funny.....the fact you paid attention to the lines about Newt playing in the tunnels.
The power loader could have crushed the queen...and completely covered Ripley in her acid blood.
The thumbnail is EVERYTHING!!! 😂
This is honestly one of my favorite scifi "horror" films. The soundtrack is so strategic.
Thanks for the reaction/review!
And they all lived happily ever after! There are no other Alien movies after this one.
Exactly. THIS^
except there and are great if you donr expect a disney movie
Grizzled: "How are you gonna kill the little girl, after she survived so much in the movie?" 😂
Powers-That-Be: "You're right, we'll do it in the NEXT movie!!!!" 😢
Perhaps a fun sidenote: The rulebook for 40k came out in 1987, one year after this movie hit cinemas. It might just be possible the marine inspiration didn't come from 40k, but 40k was inspired by this movie instead.
"Game over, man" was actually an ad-lib from Bill Paxton because he didn't want to say the same thing over and over. I don't think Cameron or Paxton knew how big gaming would become in the future, but it works so well with our culture for gaming nowadays.
*Queen*
You see that Ripley shoots her flamethrower and then _points_ the flamethrower at one of the eggs. The Queen is smart enough to understand that threat, so that's why she calls off the backup from the sides. As Ripley backs away, near the end of the eggs opens up. To Ripley (as you said, 'the expression') that's a breach of contract from the Queen. If the Queen doesn't hold up her promise, Ripley can rip away as well, which she does.
*Special Edition*
The Theatrical Edition cut out a couple of things, for instance:
- The dialogue between Ripley and Burke about her daughter's death, meaning in the Theatrical version you never get to hear Ripley has a daughter.
- Hicks and Ripley never exchange first names.
- I believe the trek from Newt with her family to the ship is also cut from the Theatrical version, because we already know what must've happened from _Alien_ .
- The scenes with the mobile sentries in the hallways were also cut because they didn't progress the story.
*Alien director's cut*
In the director's cut for _Alien_ , Ripley finds Dallas in a suspended state like the colonists in _Aliens_ which kinds of 'spoils' this first experience. Ridley Scott didn't want to include that scene because it didn't fit his movie, so he left it out for the theatrical version.