Alien (1979) | First Time Watching | REACTION - LiteWeight Reacting
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- In this video I react to the amazing Sci-Fi Thriller, ALIEN! This was an absolute blast and might've been the best game of hide and seek that I've ever seen!
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Hey friends!! Hope you enjoy this reaction to Alien!
Just a reminder that Back to the Future 2 will be uploaded next Wednesday 6/26
The following week will be Aliens!!
Hope you all have an awesome week and please came those recommendations coming!!!
Another great alien creature horror film is The Thing.
Alien: the movie where everyone but the smart lady dies because no one listens to the smart lady.
Aliens: Watch the Director's Cut if possible, it's definitely more complete than the cinema version which really misses those 18 mins.
cant wait maam
Hi, our beautiful friend. Cool, we can't wait for your reactions to all these awesome movies :) I hope you have a brill week too and yeah definitely - Alien is one of the GOAT scary movies, and another horror movie I highly recommend you react to is An American Werewolf In London (1981) Loads of terrifying scares, incredible special make up effects and plenty of funny moments too... It's essential react-to material :) You're one of my favourite reactors and you to a fantastic job :)
So an Alien Isolation game is up in coming??
"In space no one can hear you scream." The best tagline in film history.
I was 14 and saw the first trailer in the theatre. Which is amazing! When it ends on that tagline. That was it I knew this movie would change my life! Lol
I'm very excited to see ALIEN: Romulus ... it looks like they're taking it seriously again
And guess what the tagline is?
"In Space, Nobody can Hear You ..."
(clever)
But apparently one can hear the thrusters of the engines going on. 😀
maybe
Yet it is completely false. Unless one is by themselves.
3:03 "So does that mean they're basically space truckers?"
Yes.
Ridley Scott, the director, said that exact thing when explaining why this movie worked - they're not an elite team of space explorers, armed to the teeth and trained to handle anything. Just truckers in space, towing a giant refinery back to earth, in over their heads and doing the best they can.
I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact quote, but he did say "truckers in space".
Very observant of you to catch that right away.
I would call them space sailors, not truckers.
@@rogeriopenna9014 "Sailors" doesn't really help people understand what they're doing out there, which I think is the purpose of the description.
That's why they don't work as a team, smoke, have a cat and even wear everyday underware
I'm not sure that's true. Kind of a mischaracterization there.
in 1979 a lot of people smoked. More than now. It was legal in restaurants, bars, and on airplanes, at least in the U.S.
Having this crew smoke was just normal for the times.
While truckers are usually solo, or a pair, and have little need of teamwork, this is more like a tugboat. Those often have a crew between 3-10 people, and some have more, including a captain and XO, just like the Nostromo.
I bet real tugboat crews usually work as a team or the misfits get fired quickly.
Also, this crew does mostly work as a team. The 3-person team investigating the signal. The 3-person team using the tracker and the net to catch the runaway alien. The teamwork to seal the air vents and drive the alien into the airlock.
They also worked as a team when they were landing on the planet, putting out fires, assessing the damage, and making plans to investigate the signal.
The cat is likely there to deal with rats, something common on board earthbound ships and less common on trucks.
It might also be a support animal so the crew can have a pet.
As for their underwear, I have no idea what that means. I imagine most people wear underwear, including truckers, ship crews, and even astronauts.
And this is why turning Ripley into an action hero in subsequent movies was so silly.
Star Wars in 1977, and then Alien in 1979. Gosh this film is a masterpiece, and one of the truly great Horror/Sci-Fi films.
You forget in between those Classics were Close Encounters of the Third Kind Dec/77 & Superman Dec/78. Those blew everyone's minds as well. The glory days of gaming changing Sci-Fi! Then a year after Alien we got The Empire Strikes Back. In 3 years 5 Game-Changing Sci-Fi Classics!! Then the 80s OMG. 10 Classics every year.
And now Disney owns them.
@@charlesderosas5577 And graped the living sh-- out of them!
@@reesebn38 Kathleen Kennedy cough cough
Jaws 1975. The first blockbuster.
"Listen to Ripley!"
"People don't take Ripley seriously enough."
"I think she's under-appreciated."
All correct.
But!
This is also good writing.
She's young.
She's a junior officer, middle management on a space tugboat with less experience than anybody else on board.
She's not a scientist, an explorer, a military person, or even a ranking officer.
She has no expertise in anything that's happening.
Dallas should hear her advice but make his own decisions; that's what captains do. His decision to save his best friend was a risky one, but understandable - what would you do for your best friend?
Ash doesn't have to listen to anybody on this ship regarding science (Dallas tells us this is true) so he has no reason to listen to Ripley, and we find out that he has secret reasons to do what he does.
Parker, Brett, and Lambert are not officers, but they have a captain and first officer aboard and don't need to listen to Ripley, a junior warrant officer, unless Dallas and Kane are not around. Later in the movie, this is exactly what happens and Ripley becomes the senior officer and guess what? The three crew members begin to listen to her.
This is EXCELLENT writing.
This crew treats Ripley like real ship crews on earth's oceans treat new young junior officers.
Could be that's why they are all DEAD.
I really like this breakdown. Cheers.
It's a movie of course the crew are going be a bunch of fuk ups except for one. In reality there would be a quarantine area to keep potential threats isolated from the rest of the ship. It's the captains duty to protect the crew and the ship, doesn't matter if Kane is his best buddy, and it was a complete dereliction of duty to allow him into the main body of the ship with an alien stuck on his face, putting all the crew in danger. Captains have to make hard decisions and follow protocol, not take risks with the crews lives because buddies.
Excellently put. Additionally, in spite of how the terminology might make some people think about it, it's important to remember that this is a glorified tugboat. It's not a high profile job, it's not an elite crew, these are truck drivers in space. They're blue collar workers who aren't usually expected to deal with these sorts of situations, and basically get forced into it by their corporate overlords. That context explains a lot of the decisions that characters make.
@@4Kandlez - not as simple as that :) Fck ups in overall? Probably not. Not as simple as that.
I like LiteWeight response in a way (more or less along the line of): "sometimes I don't know if they work together, or hate each other".
From my personal experience: Welcome to the world of... contracting, and contracts :)
I've done a lot, from some multiple corporations spanning the globe (not just US but also UK, Hong Kong, and pretty much most of the countries in EU at this point... bla, bla, bla), public sector corpos (large organizations, more than usual 15-20K employees and so on), and short term contracts. The mentality is simply different comparing to the perm employee.
And those people in the Nostromo, yeah - I can see that kind of approach, talking to each other, in some cases not really liking each other. I would say that is to be expected. But at the end... the job will be done.
The bottom line would be:
I don't have to like the person as a contractor, but I will stil respect the person abilities, expertise, knowledge. No questions about it at some levels. Nothing personal, just the job. And personally, I can separate those approaches quite easily. Contracts? All about the job getting done, but there would be "consequences" of that appraoach (and I think anybody who has switched - or was trying to change the job from a "perm" to a contracts type of roles - would know it). Yeah, those people on Nostromo were actually a quite good representation of what can happen during the given "contract" :)
"Is the guy in the blue shIrt like HR?"
Oh the irony of that statement later in the movie
Accurate representation of HR in my opinion 😂
Well he is like H. R. in the sense that he's biomechanical.
Yup in the way that humans are a resource to him.
And the 'uncanny valley' quip earlier on, so accurate! 😂
By "HR", do you mean Giger? Lol
A lot of people will say that the actors had no idea what was going to happen during the chest bursting scene, and so their reactions of shock were real. But this simply isn't true as it was clearly in the script (and yes it said that the alien comes out of Kane's chest and quickly scurries away). The day of shooting the actors arrived on set to find the crew behind plastic shields, and actor John Hurt (Kane) with his head attached to a prosthetic body on top of the table.
What actually happened was- the actors (especially Veronica Cartwright who played "Lambert") didn't know *how much blood* was going to spray out and that it was literally going to cover everything and everyone. So yes the reactions were somewhat genuine, but the Mandela Effect has altered the reason why.
Thank you for fighting the good fight against this misinformation. I also don't know if they had actually seen the chestburster prop either beforehand.
Thank you!! I was going to type all of that, but you've saved me the finger-wear...
One of the most prevalent movie myths of all time, together with all misconceptions about the Monty Python Biggus Dickus scene.
Sorry but you're wrong. The cast had no idea what was going to emerge, how violent it would be or how messy. The cast read the script yes and knew something was going to happen but their knowledge literally only consisted of, "This thing emerges". That's it.
From an interview shortly after the film released:
Yaphet Kotto (Parker): We were all wondering what the hell was going on. Why is the crew looking at us the way they're looking at us right now? Why are they wearing plastic shields?
Cartwright:"We all start leaning forward again and all of a sudden it comes out. I tell you, none of us expected it. It came out and twisted round."
The cast had no idea what was going to emerge, how violent it would be or how messy. It's not a myth and their reactions are legitimate.
I rest my case.
Predator (1987) is a mandatory watch. And I quote, "Come on! Come on! Do it! Do it now!" You will get the reference once you watch the film.
"Get to the choppa!"
"You son of a bitch!"
The movie is full of great quotes.
@@johnsensebe3153 Absolute gems.
@@NickyByloo
“Hopper…they did the same thing to Jim Hopper.”
@@johnsensebe3153 - 'I ain't got time to bleed".
"Stick around"
"He gives me, like, uncanny-valley..." That's really on point! Good catch 😊
I've been watching reactions to this movie (this and 'The Thing' are the gifts that keep on giving) for a long time - and this is the first instance where Ash is spotted and practically named from the beginning.
Amazing observation skills!
You're right about the oysters. They used oysters and clams for the facehugger. They used haggis, or sheep innards for the inside of the alien eggs. The character design and art direction was created by HR Giger, a surrealist horror artist who chronically suffered from night terrors.
@dannyropero4216 - not much to say, but respect for mentioning HR Giger. Not many people know it. And I find his drawings, albums, art - fascinating in a way.
@tannhauser5399 BIG fan of his! Even got to visit his museum in Switzerland a few years back and I saw the Oscar he won for Alien.
What's interesting about this, and many other stories, is the real enemy wasn't the alien itself. It was dangerous, yes, but the real enemy in this entire series is the unfortunate corporate individuals who put lives at risk for money and opportunity. It's a theme that's pretty prevalent in this entire series. I mean, it's kind of the case in real life too. But I remember thinking when I was younger that the alien was the ultimate evil. In fact, it was whoever sent them out there in the first place.
“Crew expendable “. That says it all.
well it was playing to the public awareness that was dawning in regards to mega corps, during the late 1970's and continued into the 80's as many 80's movies also continue the theme of giant evil companies. Such movies as Robocop
@@DenverStarkey
Gee, I’m sooo glad we heeded their warnings 🙄
@@keefriff99 yeah , god forbid 90% of business gets controlled by 2-3 companies .. hell one bad depression could bring the whole system down if that were the case.
(that was sarcasm )
no one listened and now we are at that point , when you do the homework you find out there's really like 4-5 food companies
2-3 oil companies 5-6 entertainment companies. it's congolmerization . the new form of monopoly. and it will be the ruin of our economy eventually . much like credit based stock trading ruined the economy of the 1930's.
RIP to a great actor, Harry Dean Stanton. I recently watched his last movie, Lucky, which was released shortly after his passing.
Paris, Texas and Repo Man are 2 of my favourite HDS movies. Haven't seen Lucky yet.
@@SPAMDAGGER22 Yeah, 2 of my all time favourite movies right there..........along with Cool Hand Luke (although he only had a small part).
When you said Ashe gave you 'uncanny valley' vibes, it was such a compliment to his acting. At that point, we don't know he's an android but those are exact words we use to describe humanistic robots.
"I cannot lie to you about your chances...But you have my sympathies."
That gives me chills.
Yup no CGI in this one, it's all practical i.e. models, miniatures, matte paintings, alien suits and animatronics. Oh and some real animal parts including oysters for the gooey stuff. :)
I think they used kids in space suits in the scene when they arrive in LV-426 and are leaving the landing ship. It looked more real. They know what they are doing when they are professionals.
This one is great not just being the beginning of the Alien franchise, but also the origins of Sigourney Weaver as the beginning of one of the greatest action stars to come out of Hollyweird. Yeah, space trucker, or Merchant Marine. They were loaded, but who's gonna streal it? Yeah, no CGI in this. Yes, Prometheus was a prequel. Thisncrew gets beat up a lot for questionable decisions, but, as you say, they're just space truckers. Finally someone caught that a mask wouldn't matter....it went thru a space suit helmet. Altering the vector means she was transitioning from lifting off straight up and moving to a forward motion with nose angling upward to begin climbout. And the ending sets you up for Aliens.
If you haven’t seen these movies check them out: Halloween(1978), The Thing(1982), and Predator(1987).
Fun Fact : @7:07 these are actually kids in space suits. Ridley Scott did this, so that the Space Ship and Space Hangar looks bigger.
One of them was Ridley's son too.
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Two of them were Ridley's sons (Jake and Luke). Sorry to "ackshually" you.
That explains why the one on the right bends his body like he's Gumby. That's no 40 year old. 😆
35:51 You can thank the director Ridley Scott for that. If I remember correctly, the actors didn't know what was happening. They were not fully informed about the scene, they were just instructed to play along to what ever was going to happen, so the reactions are largely genuine confusion.
You're correct, that's the story I heard as well. The fear reaction to the infamous chest burst was 100% legit
The actress who played Lambert literally fainted.
Yes you're 100% correct, this a famous scene for the actors being completely unaware of the what was going to happen.
That's 1 of those fake or misconstrued stories that's been doing the rounds for years. Of course the actors were aware of what was going to happen. It was in the script. They just weren't prepared for how graphic and violent it was going to be and they had not seen the alien puppet yet. Several of them had the fake blood splashed into their faces. Veronica Cartright who played Lambert didn't faint either. She fell over backwards from the shock of having the blood splash into her face.
@@mojojojo6292 As though you were there. You weren't. You probably weren't even born yet, so spare us the know-it-all attitude.
7:00 "I can't tell if they like each other or not."
Here's a breakdown.
Dallas is the captain, Kane is the first officer. They've been friends for a long time.
Parker and Brett are the two mechanics and Lambert is the navigator and they've all been with Dallas and Kane for a few trips. They all know each other like employees who live and work together for a couple years.
Ripley is the new kid, a warrant officer (3rd in command) on her first trip with this crew. As far as these two mechanics, she's the new jr. manager sticking her nose into their jobs when she has no idea even how to do their jobs, so in this scene they just think she's being bossy and useless. Like a lot of middle management.
And Ash is brand new, a replacement science officer at the last moment before launch. Nobody knows why. He's not HR, but he's the smartest and most educated crew member - they all work on space ships which requires a lot of education and intelligence, but the science officer is all that and a Ph.D. in science, too. Which is why Dallas is happy to let the brainy crew member explain company policy.
So 5 members of the crew all know each other, two are good friends, and none of them really know Ash or Ripley very well yet.
An example of how brilliantly this script is written is that the writers capture all of this in a few lines of dialogue but you see these relationships all throughout the movie.
No CGI back then. It was all models, paintings and practical effects.
A vector can be many things, but it's usually connected to motion somehow. In virus investigation, a vector is a carrier, that carries the virus from one point to another. In regular navigation, a vector is usually a direction and speed. In this case it sounds plausible, but it could be many things.
The fact that you felt Ash was kind of "off" or strange in some way, but you didn't realize he was a robot until his head came off, only shows the acting quality of Ian Holm. From Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies, and Priest Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and a sociopathic robot in this movie, he is very diverse and always nailing it.
But then again, they were all great actors in this movie.
Aliens can NOT be recommended enough (together with Terminator 2, it is the top of sequels you'll ever find). MAKE SURE it's the extended version or directors cut, though! I know a few recommends the theatrical, and afterwards the extended version, but since you'll probably only make one First Time Watching of Aliens, there is a lot of background and lore in the extended cut that A LOT of us will want to see your reaction to (as well as putting more perspective to your experience).
As a USAF Major and Mission Crew Commander Air Battle Manager on AWACS, that controls all aircraft from all services from all allied nations, a vector is a direction.
Can't confirm it happened, but I remember reading something years ago stating that Yaphet Kotto really pushed Sigourney Weaver hard on set to the point where she had enough and really tore into him. He supposedly told her that now she's Ripley and the audience will believe it. You can see real tension in their scene when they talk about ways to kill the Alien. On his passing, Sigourney stated, "Every day Yaphet Kotto blew me away on the set of Alien. He just went for it in every scene, making the stakes higher and higher and giving each scene a terrifying reality. It was a nonstop master class for me and I will always be grateful to him. Rest In Peace Parker… Over and out, Ripley"
I loved your reaction!
So fun, so genuine.
So many reactors to this movie are just confused all the way.
You had questions but answered your own questions almost every time and figured out this movie better than any reactor I remember.
Awesome!
The intricate set designs of the Nostromo are stunning. The amount of thought and care that went into the design of every room of the ship is astounding.
All the switches, screens, access panels, conduits, air ducts…I could spend an entire viewing of the film ignoring the plot and just focusing on the sets design.
It just feels so used and lived in, like a 'space truckers' ship would be after however many runs they've done. It really is an incredible set design for it all
At that time, CGI was not an option. It was only used to create wire-frame model on monitors, like the plans of Death Star in Return of the Jedi. That was the best use, they could get from their computer, and film process.
The quality to obtain a suspension of disbelief about a CGI model, did not really happen before the late 80's, the early 90's.
Movies projected in theaters were still chemical films, in the 80's and early 90's. So, only big productions had the money for the complicated hand-made compositing.
You have seen Terminator 2 (1991). That was the best of its time. You will probably see The Abyss (1989).
So, you should assume that any movie older than 1990 has probably no CGI or really a few, easy to recognize.
I love it when people note that the underside of the Facehuggers look like oysters. Because oysters are part of what the used. ^_^
I respect your profile pic.
@@nthdgree5078 Mend and defend, fam. ❤️
One of the few movies I'd consider to be a perfect movie. A perfect organism. Every scene, every shot, the imagery, suspense, tension, and atmosphere is just astoundingly gorgeous.
Your look of apprehension when they're looking for the face-hugger... priceless. 😄
"The Alien Versus Predator thing that came out when I was in elementary school..." You're just coming out of the gate making me feel old.
Hey I'm in that boat too. I saw this in the theater in '79. Probably just before my 15th birthday.
the original Alien is a great Sci Fi Horror film and has an
awesome cast of actors in it thanks for watching it and
have a wonderful Wednesday LiteWeight.💞👽💞
"Why is she stopping the self-destruct?" Because the Alien was blocking her way to the escape shuttle. She must not have felt confident that the flame unit was sufficient to actually kill the alien. She wasn't ready to do battle with it, one way or the other, and she went back to kill the self-destruct.
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"Space truckers".
I never thought about it but that is exactly what they are.
I cannot believe I never made that connection especially having been an OTR trucker for over 20 years. LOL
Great assessment.
This is my favorite sci-fi movie ever. The atmospheric horror is amazing. The ship is massive, but at the same time it always feels claustrophobic and oppressively isolated. Everything is so drab and gray, and it's the perfect setting for the Alien to stalk prey in. I'm in the minority that prefers this over Aliens. Both are amazing movies, but Alien is sci-fi/horror while Aliens is more action/sci-fi oriented. It's great how they made two amazing movies with such a different setup and execution.
Also... we're here to watch *you* react, not the children who demand someone conform to what they want to watch. Stay true to yourself, because who you are is awesome and that's why we keep coming back!
Always preferred 'Alien' to 'Aliens' because of the music , the silences , etc . 'Aliens' will always be more popular in the public's minds , because it was non stop thrills , and credit to Cameron for making a different kind of movie , but my heart will always be with the original and Ridley Scott's direction .
Watching people watch these out of order is painful.
Never ever ... leave the cat behind.
Cats first, humans second.
1. Tagline "In space no one can hear you scream"
2. Best explosion EVER (including Star Wars)
3. Dallas/Tom Skerritt also played Viper in "Top Gun" and Strawberry in "Up in Smoke".
4. Brett/Harry Dean Stanton had a very healthy resume. We lost him recently.😇
5. Ridley Scott is also known for directing the original "Bladerunner".
6."Parker, you'll get what's coming to you". Unknowing prophetic.
7. BEST explosion ever.😱😱😱😱
8. Watching "Aliens" is a must now.
The original ending had the Alien kill Ripley in the shuttle by *ripping her head off.* It then sits down in the command chair, and sends a distress call to Antarctic Control *speaking in Dallas' voice* arranging for a rendezvous for pick up.
That could have been either really terrifying or really cheesy. It all depends on the execution, but if it had been done well, WOW.
@@keefriff99 Indeed- but the studio never went for it as it would have ended the franchise. Well at least as far as the main character of Ripley... The distress call ending could have left it open for a sequel where the Alien is found by the rescue ship.
That wasn't the "original ending". It was an idea that Ridley Scott threw during production and was shot down.
The original ending is what was written in the original script by the writer. In that, once Roby (the proto Ripley character) goes to sleep in the shuttle, there's an egg stuck to the outside of the shuttle. DUN DUN DUN.
During the chest burst scene the other actors were only told something will happen. They had no idea that blood would burst from his chest. They were genuinely scared.
"Is that guy in blue HR?"
Me: No he's A.I.
Absolutely love Alien and Aliens, these films will forever be masterpieces in the world of film.
The alien is with HR, HR Giger
Alien and Aliens are my 2 fav movies of all time.
I don't know if anyone else has said this ... I'm going to say this ... Like the Terminator movies, with the Alien movies you only have to see one and two ... Some may disagree I'm sure.and argue for others, but I don't think anyone will disagree that Aliens is a must watch follow up to this. A very different movie, but great as well.
... and i will also say, you react wonderfully. Smile and laugh proudly. 😄
"What makes that sound?"
That sound is part of the movie score by Jerry Goldsmith. He was very fond of using exotic and unusual instruments in his scores. His long time orchestrator, Arthur Morton, answered that exact question once with "Find out what makes that noise, then give it to Jerry."
Here, he used didgeridoo, conch shells, serpent (a renaissance brass wind instrument with a long snake-like winding body that makes those deep hollow wind noises you hear), and shawm (a medieval woodwind instrument which sounds a bit like a trumpet). I **think** the sound you noticed in the opening credits is a digeridoo simply because everything else sounds different, but I could be wrong.
It's one of those movie scores where the difference between music and sound FX is totally blurred. Goldsmith did a ton of those, in particular the late 1970s (Coma, Logan's Run and Star Trek - The Motion Picture are three examples where this happened which are all from around that time).
However, Goldsmith was very unhappy with how his music was used. He hated temp-tracking, and here they temp-tracked the workprint with some of his older scores and fell in love with a bit where they used music from his score for the movie Freud. He composed something else, but if memory serves, they still used the Freud bit in the final version. Other bits were shifted around. For instance, Goldsmith composed a main title with a big lush romantic segment, but it wasn't used (as main title). He had the idea of making the beginning of the movie very romantic and positive to make the turn to horror even more shocking (I guess Poltergeist could be a good example of this). Jerry was so unhappy with the whole affair that he refused to a score album with the recordings made for the movie. Instead, he got his friend Lionel Newman to re-record his arrangements which ended up being the only released version outside of the movie.
There was a Director's Cut DVD where you could listen to the Jerry's score in tandem with the movie's footage (albeit not without any other sound). I don't know the details of later releases on Blu-Ray.
Just for the record, temp-tracking with older scores from the composer hired was/is not uncommon. But Goldsmith preferred to get the movie raw and get his own ideas, and usually the composer is also involved in what music gets used where, but here he got shut out.
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I know Goldsmith was unhappy with how the film was scored, but to me, it's pitch-perfect. I wouldn't change a note.
@@keefriff99 I'm a big Goldsmith fan and I hate that he was so unhappy working on this film, but it's hard to argue with the results. Alien is just legendary, one of my favorite merging of music and visuals ever.
Just finished the video, and I loved your reaction! I love how introspective you are in your videos; it shows you really pay attention! Also, the way that you process your emotions with laughter and smiling as you said the end is perfectly fine, perfectly ok, and perfectly human! I'm at work and thus had to listen to most of your reactions, but I can tell you that I still inderstood basically everything you were feeling even through laughter. Going to listen to your Aliens reaction now!!
"A robot! Bilbo Baggins is a damn robot!" 😁
The guy who played the Alien was a Nigerian visual artist called Bolaji Badejo. He was 6feet 10 inches tall, and was spotted by one of Ridley Scott's casting crew, in a pub in London.
Yep, he had a build like Kevin Durant....very tall and very slim.
41:41 The laughs and smiles never threw me off, I always took it as you enjoying the moment. You never accompanied it with mocking / making fun of things, so in my opinion it's all good. Besides, you have a great smile! Also, you actually pick up on small details that many others miss, and I really appreciate that about your reactions! Keep on being you! (also, Predator is a must see as well imo).
'"Alien", "Aliens", "Predator" are must see movies
The blue lights were lasers borrowed from the Who. They were testing them and rehearsing nearby.
Prometheus is a prequel. Many failed to catch that the planet in Prometheus was a different one from this one.
‘Vector’ is a math term for an algebraic element representing a geometric concept, something with magnitude and direction. It has related meanings in the contexts of piloting/steering m aircraft and similar vehicles, such as ‘thrust vectoring’, as well as in the context of epidemiology, as a mechanism for the transmission of an infectious disease.
Vector means pathway. or a planned route.
Yeah it's a different moon than Prometheus but orbiting the same gas giant in the same solar system
Whats your vector, Victor
@@system0fadowner251 That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
7:29 Yeah practical effects are things like using puppets or animatronics for monsters and the like.
...and models, explosions and anything else that's in front of the camera with the actors, as opposed to added later on in post production (usually with computers).
Aliens & Bill Paxton's quotes are Legendary! Me and other family members still quote it to this day! Lol 😆
31:10 "Why is she stopping the self-destruct?"
The alien was right by the only escape shuttle and it was in her way.
So she either had to fight it, or wait for a safer time to try the whole destruct/escape thing later.
As for fighting it, both Dallas and Parker had flame throwers and it didn't do them any good.
She doesn't know fi they used them or not, but they died.
So maybe fire doesn't even hurt it - she has no idea.
Which means fighting it might be certain death.
Canceling the destruct, hiding for a few hours, then trying again might be less risky.
She knows 31:37, she doesn't need the whole movie explaining to her
I share your love of practical FX - the human brain KNOWS when something is real and tangible in the real world, even if it's a miniature model - to me the best CG is the CG you don't notice, that enhances what is there rather than comprising it entirely 👌
Fun fact: The instruction panel clearly states that "Failsafe system will not engage if safety interlocks are disengaged", the safety interlocks being those two big levers. She did it wrong, she was meant to put the levers back into the original position prior to putting the cooling tubes back in.
The practical effects were so good that when the little alien comes out of Kane's body, they were sprayed with real blood.
11:07 - "Don't touch it!" That's what she said...unfortunately.
Laughing and smiling is my reaction/coping mechanism, too. Totally get it, you shouldn't need to explain or apologize for it.
Besides, you got a cute smile anyway. No sane person should be bothered by that.
Very true, unfortunately internet is full of trolls who relish in tormenting others and giving mean comments.
listen, you are the best first time watching person i've seen so far. THE BEST. you are smart, observant and you empathize with the characters. don't listen the the few people that said the stuff with not taking the movie seriously enough. they weren't paying attention actually. not for a second did i get that impression, quite the opposite.
😊 made my day! Thank you!!!
@@LiteWeightReacting its the truth. you are very smart, but you know that already :D
Great reaction to this sci-fi/horror classic....The first 4 Alien movies (with Sigourney Weaver) can be summed up by saying "These things wouldn't happen if everyone just listened to Ripley in the first place", lol.
Classic horror! Everyone expects a good jump scare (and "Dallas in the airshaft" is one of the best in horror history) but.....
No one... and I mean *no one* sees the "Ash is really a robot" twist coming!
Loved your reaction!
I contend that Dallas in the airshaft is the greatest jump scare in cinema history.
The Alien face huggers underside (the parts you pointed out in your reaction) were made using Oysters.
Ian Holm , who played Ash, did a wonderful job. You nailed it with the "uncanny valley" quote. We all felt this and found ourselves wondering wtf with this guy only to get the 3rd big surprise of the movie when we find out he is an android. The 1st being the egg and facehugger jump onto John Hurt's helmet, and the 2nd the obv chest busting scene.
Phenomenal reaction video as always teegan. This was released back in 1979, insane to believe it's that old but still looks incredible. Keep being awesome
Not a diagnosis, just a lifetime of observations: Many times "inappropriate" reactions happen when the person feels embarrassment or awkwardness. Or like "happy tears" ----- Just a pressure release that took the path of least resistance.
I would love to see Star Trek reactions on Your channel. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
I second this!
At least movies, if not series.
@@thejamppa Maybe do what Cassie is doing and pick X number of episodes. Because going in blind can make you feel really left out. I am still disappointed Cassie didn't watch Balance of Terror as I feel its a must see for the Trek universe.
the crew's reaction to the chest bursting was a genuine reaction by the actors, is my understanding. Ridley Scott didn't tell them what was going to happen and they were completely caught off guard.
“I still hope I can get scared …”. Me: “Oh, you wait.”
Just as a note, "nervous laughing" and the like is not uncommon. Actual laughing is easy to see. You were laughing here whilst cringing ... body language counts too. You are not alone at the emotional laughing at fear and danger.
So since you're doing 80's and horror, are you gonna hit The Thing? Alien, The Thing, and Predator are the quintessential 80's horror movies. Hard to say which is better.
The layman’s definition of vector: a combination of velocity and direction.
If you are driving down the highway, you have a vector that describes your speed and which way you are going. When you slow down, speed up or take an exit ramp, your vector is changing. :)
The score for this movie is also one of Jerry Goldsmith's best. The switch between romantic lusciouness to total horror is just something else.
16:53 Indeed - the bodily effects of the parasite were done with oysters! It was in the DVD commentary!
People today repeatedly express their preference for practical effects, which is great.
CGI advances are fine and all, and they excel when they are done and used WELL, but movies use them far too much, or in not so impressive fashion.
Hi Teegan, I discovered your channel recently. Enjoying the reactions! It's refreshing to find someone who doesn't obsess about saving the poor, cute😊 defenseless cat!
My favorite line in the film is when Parker says "I wanna go home & party!!!" 😂
Ripley's priorities were only half right. What she SHOULD have done is ignored the food and supplies, grabbed Jones, gone to the lifeboat and bailed on the rest of the useless crew. Furkid is the ONLY priority
Your emotion processing did not detract from your reaction at all for me. I've know people who are affected in similar ways. I enjoyed watching this with you.
The reason the acting was so good during the chest burst scene was because they weren't acting. They didn't know that would happen. The chest burst was the 1st time they saw that as well, so they genuinely got startled.
The scene where the alien bursts out of the guy's chest, the cast didn't know it was going to happen, so their look of shock was genuine. The director wanted it to be a surprise.
Interesting how this idea gets repeated like a meme but many in the comments here are pointing out it's actually a myth and not true
@@danielpeckham5520the actual actors say it’s true repeatedly in interviews.
@@torpedoboy4 Using a tiny fraction of your brain would show that it's impossible for the actors not to have known that John Hurt was acting with his head through a hole in the table and a fake torso for the alien to burst out of.
@@torpedoboy4 Don't care what the actors say. The scene is detailed in the script. They didn't read the script? BS.
Yay! One of the best scifi films ever!
I loved it! Can’t wait to watch the sequel!!
Your movie reactions are great, I really enjoy how you react with smiles laughs, etc. I get that completely - I am always laughing at inappropriate moments my brain is wired the same way!
You are wonderfully expressive. It is a delight to watch your reactions to these movies. I look forward to watching many more...
Btw, "sketchy HR man" is the same actor that plays Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings, 20 years later.
I can't stop looking at your tattoo.
I think it is fascinating. What is it?
Great show, best to you! ❤
The blue laser above the eggs was borrowed from The Who, who were doing a stage show next door :)
Oh neat man this is why i read comments. Appreciated much now i have something to share with ...walls.
12:20 - "she could have saved everybody right there" Exactly! The true plot of the alien franchise is "you should have listened to the smart lady"
And yes, Timeline wise Prometheus is earlier than this.
This movie still holding up all these years later is a great testament to it, still love it.
Aliens, the Director's Cut - it's a must!
Nah, theatrical cut ftw! That scene with Newt and her family in the tractor spoils too much imho :(
@@dimanemchenko1047 Ripley gets more of a backstory which is really good giving depth and meaning to her actions. That extra stuff is very important to her character. Hell we even get her first name. The Colony working adds more depth to their story. More Hicks and Hudson is a big yes!! Those Robot Guns! So cool!! The long cut is a perfect film.
As a Fan who saw Aliens 10x in IMAX in 1986. The long is cut a must! It adds so much more to the story wise & action making a perfect film!! Who doesn't want more Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez! Stay Frosty.
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Really? Where did Aliens play on IMAX in 1986? That would have been wild.
@@keefriff99 In Toronto. At the Ontario Place Cinesphere IMAX. Also in the 70s & 80s The Park Theatre in London,Ontario had a huge wrap around 70mm Screen. You had to turn your head from side to side to see it all. I saw Empire, Raiders, The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, Top Gun, Aliens at this theatre, all 70mm prints.
Also, when you said, "The Alien vs Predator movie that came out when I was in elementary school..." don't say things like that. I cried...because it made me feel old lol
Welcome to the hurt 😂
Embrace it. It doesnt get any easier...
If your feeling old about when AVP came out..... Imagine how I feel when this one came out when I was is 6th grade.....
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Well, at least I was only one year old when Alien came out.
I remember having a bad day at work and bailing early to go see AVP. I actually went to Best Buy first and bought a special edition DVD of Predator that came packaged with a free ticket to see AVP.
"People who were alive in the last century, what was it like to watch movies like the original Jurassic Park and The Matrix in the theaters?"
"Why did you have to phrase it like THAT?!"
"Killed by jazz hands." --Patrice O'Neal
"In space no one can hear you laugh."😁Sorry, had to toss that in there. Laughing is better than needing brown pants imo.
The infamous meeting that happened that gave James Cameron the director chair for the sequel: He is meeting with the people of 20th Century Fox. He has a chalkboard. He writes the word “Alien” on it. Then, he writes a dollar sign afterwards: Alien$. That was all it took get “Aliens” greenlit.
I don't know if that story is apocryphal or not, but I can totally see Cameron doing that. He's backed up his hubris for 40 years.
Fun fact: the reaction of the cast members watching the alien chestburster coming out of the dude was 100% real, director Ridley Scott didn't tell Sigourney Weaver and the other cast members that the chestburster would come out of the dude chests so when it happened they with very good reason freaked the hell out as anyone would 😂😳
This story has been around for many years, but it's not 100% true. Several members of the cast have debunked this, because of course there was a lot of planning and setup that went into the shot. The crew knew what scene they were filming, but when the blood pack burst, it was way more than they expected, and that's where the surprise of the cast came from, particularly Veronica Cartwright.
@@keefriff99 I just looked it up on IDMB and yeah the blood splattering on them did surprise them so they were shocked and scared by this but nothing else so yeah your right, my bad i guess Lol .
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Sorry for sounding like a sarcastic jerk...I just see that anecdote told on every Alien reaction video.
I guess it persists because it IS a great story, it's just not 100% accurate. Cheers!
@@keefriff99 No Worries dude it's all good also Cheers !
@@keefriff99 Also of note is that there are at least two takes of the scene (watch how the blood stain size changes on Kane's t-shirt), and many reactions are from the SECOND take. In particular Veronica Cartwright's shocked expression is from at least the second take. She's shocked because the blood by chance hit her right in the face.
They looked disturbed cause during filming the break out scene they were not told that they would be sprayed with film blood. So it was a real reaction.
There was a scene after Kane was brought back to the ship with the facehugger that was edited out of the movie where Ripley asks Lambert if she slept with Ash during voyage and mining. She says no. Then there's the scene that was kept in the movie where Ripley is talking to Dallas about not trusting Ash and that he joined the crew midway on their tour replacing their original Science/Med officer. After the facehugger dies, I'm sure Ash ran another fMRI like device on Kane and noticed the baby xenomorph inside him but said nothing. It would explain how detached and focused Ash was when Kane was going into spasms at break room table.
The actors freaked out so much when the chest buster came out because the director did not tell them what was going to happen.
Fun fact - The Hebrew title chosen for this movie was "The Eighth Passenger". It really messed up the translations of the sequels... 😂😂😂
It's fascinating and sometimes frustrating to see translations of movie titles. One I remember from when I was in Costa Rica for a few months was "Lost in Translation" Which was translated in spanish to "Lost in Tokyo" which I found Ironic lol Especially since it could've easily been translated literally.
@@bassmunk Yeah, Lost in Tokyo was also how it is called in Hebrew. I think it's because Lost in translation in English could refer to any pronoun in English so it works on all levels, but in Hebrew (and Spanish) you have to choose and something is lost (ironically - in translation).
Couldn't they have called it נכרי or חייזר? Or did they think that because Israel is a land of many immigrants, a lot of people would be turned off by those words? 🤷🏻♂️
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I guess they could have used חייזר but its meaning way more specific than 'alien' since it refers only to extraterrestrial beings (also why no one in Israel would ever be offended by it). Plus, in Hebrew it's only a noun and not both an adjective and a noun like in English, and it doesn't have the same ominous vibe. The word נכרי is very archaic and refers to people only so no really an option.
Fun fact: Lambert is the young girl in Hitchcock’s “horror” movie The Birds. She’s the sister of the daughter in the tv series Lost in Space.
The opening title scene is very unique. Its slow, ominous and takes a long time before you realize what it is.
Its amazing, masterful and sets a tone that holds throughout the entire movie!
Alien is a masterpiece of cinema history, the second movie is good too but this one is just the absolute best!
36:07
"When It First Burst Out Of His Chest, It Panned All Of Them, And Dallas, In Particular, Looked Genuinely Distrubuted"
Well, that's because they were Genuinely disturbed, the only actor that knew about what the chest burster was gonna look like as it burst from Ashe's chest, apart from the production crew, was John Hurt, the actor that played Ashe
An amazing sci-fi horror movie. I remember my mom and her friends going to see this at the theater when I was 7 or 8. She loved this movie so much she let me watch it 3 or 4 years later. Can't wait for you to get to Aliens, even though you mention you've seen bits and pieces. It's equally as amazing, just different.
To create the 'truckers in space' feel, Ridley Scott and crew obtained permission to raid a disused air force plane storage and stripped seats, cockpit equipment and lighting from 1950s B52 bombers. Those were used in the cockpit of the Nostromo to give it an authentic aged look. The authenticity of the movie involved making the Nostromo look and feel like a run down space truck hauling materials back to Earth. AND...the actors were not told the volume of blood that sprayed around during Kane's death scene and the emergence of the chest burster was a genuine surprise to the cast. It was fortunate none had a heart attack!
Why were there decommissioned B52's in the UK?
Yeah, practical effects still seem to hold up better than "old" CGI in movies. And watching you... squirm to a what 44 or 45 year old movie was worth it.
Imagine seeing it with no prior exposure to the series... and the effects being "new" and shiny. The only thing you knew was "In space no one can hear you scream." the movies tag line.
Also fun fact the characters died in order of how popular the actor was. Sigourney Weaver was an unknown and there was no "survivor girl" trope before this came out.
This movie makes excellent use of music and silence.
To answer some of your questions... when Ash was "alive" there were only 3 pods (cryo-pods) and 4 people, with Ash "dead" the choice was to stock the shuttle for a long journey and split.
Why did she stop (or try to) self destruct? The Alien was between her and the shuttle... killing the alien only helps her is she isn't there... so... "pause" the timer and try again when it moves... but... nope too slow.
The Alien was "sluggish" because it was basically dying... but obviously not dead.
And the "chest bursting" scene... wasn't acting. The cast did not know what was going to happen. At least not in any detail.
Ridley was getting the cat so it wouldn't trigger any alarms and giving false positives.