“While you might not realise he’s an android, you should recognise he’s a dick...” - this sentence is so funny, and has an air of truth to it, especially when I look around the staff canteen where I work!!
The biggest mistake they made was breaking quarantine. The fact Dallas was ordering, "to Hell with quarantine!" proves he should never have been captain. Ripley was far more intelligent and clear headed. I think it's awesome they made this fantastic space horror film and the protagonists are basically the equivalent of transfer-truck drivers hauling a load cross country. Having such drivers in my family I can say that it's pretty accurate.
May Dallas and Kane are great friends, so I think that Dallas did not follow the rules because of that, he let his emotions get better than the crew safety.
The start of most sci-horror movie usually seems to start with someone not caring about procedure and then paying for it. But alien is one of the few movies that pull it off in a way that isn’t completely infuriating or totally unbelievable.
@@yeetsheet9537 They might have survived if Ash didn't overude the air lock entry. Ripley was the officer in command and she ordered a quarantine. And she was right, Ash should have followed that order particularly as the science officer. But well ... we all know why he didn't ...
I can honestly say I doubt The Company had space trucker "Deal with a hostile, violent, invasive, superior, alien organism course in Captain school day". Aside from that, Ash was programmed to get the alien on board and secured for the company at all costs, all crew expendable. Dallas couldn't win no matter what he did. And Ripley being in the way would have been next, as we are shown later she certainly was. If not for her crew mates, Ripley would not have made it.
I got the Platinum Trophy for Alien Isolation so I would qualify. I wasn't locked inside Sevastopol with the xenomorph, the xenomorph was locked inside....with me.
Old guy here, i saw this film when it first came to the cinema in the UK. Terrifying is the word i would use, the John Hurt scene came as a surprise to me and it had the desired effect. The only disappointment was not seeing enough of the Alien, there was a lot of hype of how the creature looked prior to the film release, but maybe that was the intention. In any case a suspenseful film with great characters.
@@filmcomicsexplained I thought that was the case. As i said there had been a lot of hype, illustrations books and models of the Alien prior to the film being released. But in any case a film which left an impression on me even to this day.
Me to Xenomorphic: "Look dude: You can't exist, you break the Laws of Thermodynamics. You can't grow like this in a few hours (or days, or months for that matter.) Matter is never created or destroyed: WHERE DID ALL THIS EXTRA MASS COME FROM?!! I'm calling bullshit." That's how I'd survive
It could possibly just be volume, and retain the original mass unti they consume a fluid or a solid. We don't truly know how dense or what mass the chestburster is it could possibly be a quarter of the host's mass at the largest. So in the case of Kane maybe 35 to 45 lbs. I mean he was complaining of ravenous hunger which would coincide with nutrient depletion caused by rapid parasitic growth.
In the script and novelization of Alien, it was described that the crew found their food stock raided by the xenomorph. That would explain where it got all the acquired mass from. Since the morphing of Brett and impending impregnation of Dallas was cut from the movie, we might assume the xenomorph ate parts of them for nourishment, too. Since none of this made it into the finished movie we are left to speculate. However, the laws of thermodynamics have nothing to do with acquiring mass. And matter can indeed be created and destroyed. This comes out of Einstein's special theory of relativity, which shows that energy and matter can convert into each other. It takes a ludicrous amount of energy to create even tiny amounts of matter, though. So I think we can safely assume that the xenomorph had to eat or in some other way assimilate other matter in order to grow. It was Giger's vision that the xenomorph looked part organic, part machine. It could very well be that the xenomorph fed on parts of the spacecraft itself in order to gain mass and grow.
You may be right, but I think the reason Ripley asked Hicks how it worked was because she is a commercial pilot not a marine, and would likely not have used a weapon like this. I wonder what weapons the Alien Covenant crew were using, as it is technically set before this movie!
I expected a discussion on strategy, so the biochem talk was a pleasant surprise, coming from a fellow nerd of physiology and film! I’m surprisingly not a huge sci-fi guy, but wow, so many commonalities in the clips you used with 2001:, Star Wars (orig 3), The Matrix, Minority Report, Terminator (2), The Fifth Element, Heavy Metal (animated movie)! Thanks!
I always imagined this Alien movie and Dark Star are in the same universe (not really the other alien movies just the first), I just see the whole Dallas talking to the computer scenes feel like what they shot in Dark Star, there isn't much to tie them together but I like to watch them all together and have my own head cannon
And if you’re basically on your own like Amanda Ripley in Alien: Isolation, best have a motion tracker on the ready and hope you can silently hide under an object as soon as you start hearing those beeps
I've been watching a lot of Nerd Explains videos which are How to Beat vids but I find them enjoyable, even with other channels especially FilmComicsExplained
Also I'm pretty sure androids are immune to cryosleep. They go in to blend in but they can "wake up" anytime they want. So locking him in hypersleep won't suffice.
The whole Alien franchise Is a PSA about workplace safety. If the crew of the movies were more cautionary, like not going to a planet without full body suits, not engaging with the wildlife and especially not sticking your head next to an egg opening, none of this would happen.
I never put 2 and 2 together on them surviving for hundreds of years in the vacuum of space. That would mean the Worker from the first movie and the Queen from the second movie could plausibly still be alive in stasis somewhere deep in space. Imagine a sequel where some hapless freighter picks one of them up and thaws it out.
The human hosted Xenomorph is deadly and would be able to survive even the space vacuum but weak to *fire* but firing inside a spaceship could be suicidal
It's always troubled me that when the crew first sets out to explore the beacon, Dallas says, "Better break out the weapons" (or similar words). Later they seem to be carrying multi-barreled weapons as they navigate towards the alien craft. So there are apparently weapons aboard the Nostromo, but they make no appearance after the chest-burster appears, requiring Parker to fabricate flame-throwers, which are of no practical use at all as the plot unfolds. Anyway, such weapons might have been useful for defense.
Those two are easy , Terminator - huge magnet Predator - just how it was killed the first time , with a stick I can't remember who wrote the first Predator movie but his name sounds so familiar
Fun fact: the novel makes it clear the Nostromo doesn't have any more lights. The crew doesn't need them since they are supposed to be sleeping 90% of the trip.
2:09 ..Dang, I didn't know they had "Grillz"..It looks like a "Sound Cloud Rapper" with those platinum teeth. His rap name could be something like "Lil' Morph"..lol
Just had a thought, if the Xeno is sensitive to vibrations....what would happen if you played a song over speakers and finagled with the bass really high could you kind of blind one? I’ve read the comics. They eventually develop a vibration weapon to stun them.
Newt was a little girl who hid for weeks in the garbage, and there was an entire colony of 200 xenos clueless...The hardware pipes have PTFE for acid shield. Asbestos and fiberglass constantan could help in use with molotov and makeshift thermite-can slow the xeno. Im sure the ship got some liquid nitrogen or coolant too...dont forget flare gun in its face , and these tactics minimize acid poo. radios are great for throwing at them for distraction- well it worked in isolation game🤪
I read an Alien novelization where a renegade Dr did experiments with adrenaline and fear suppression. He discovered that the aliens large cranial structure is necessary to their hunting, a psychic receptor picking up victim's fear. Subjects (victims) dropped into the Xenomorph maze with a fear reducing adrenaline solution given to them survived longer, with the Xeno sometimes ignoring the human altogether. If I remember right, Xenos later escaped killing the Dr and all the info was lost.
The only problem is this requires everyone involved to think logically and act rationally, and this pandemic has proven that's just not going to happen.
Have you seen the 1997 movie Mimic? It's one of my favorite movies from the 90s. The creatures in the movie would be a good subject to make a video on.
If I've learned anything from watching channels like NileRed it's that even the most potent acids known to man aren't strong enough to instantly melt through solid metal.
I thought I read somewhere that the common alien has an automatic life span of 33 years, doesn't need to eat, and just fades out like a battery at the end
Another way to beat the Xenomorph and have a 100% chance of survival is having the last name Ripley lol
Or be a cat.
If you’ve seen the sequels you might take that back... I’d say it’s more like 80% or 90% chance of survival with the surname of Ripley lol
That's why I named my kid Ripley Ripley
Writing ✍️that✍️down✍️
Alien 3?
“While you might not realise he’s an android, you should recognise he’s a dick...” - this sentence is so funny, and has an air of truth to it, especially when I look around the staff canteen where I work!!
HE'S not wrong about that 😂😂😂😂
The biggest mistake they made was breaking quarantine. The fact Dallas was ordering, "to Hell with quarantine!" proves he should never have been captain. Ripley was far more intelligent and clear headed.
I think it's awesome they made this fantastic space horror film and the protagonists are basically the equivalent of transfer-truck drivers hauling a load cross country. Having such drivers in my family I can say that it's pretty accurate.
May Dallas and Kane are great friends, so I think that Dallas did not follow the rules because of that, he let his emotions get better than the crew safety.
The start of most sci-horror movie usually seems to start with someone not caring about procedure and then paying for it. But alien is one of the few movies that pull it off in a way that isn’t completely infuriating or totally unbelievable.
@@yeetsheet9537 They might have survived if Ash didn't overude the air lock entry. Ripley was the officer in command and she ordered a quarantine. And she was right, Ash should have followed that order particularly as the science officer. But well ... we all know why he didn't ...
I can honestly say I doubt The Company had space trucker "Deal with a hostile, violent, invasive, superior, alien organism course in Captain school day". Aside from that, Ash was programmed to get the alien on board and secured for the company at all costs, all crew expendable. Dallas couldn't win no matter what he did. And Ripley being in the way would have been next, as we are shown later she certainly was. If not for her crew mates, Ripley would not have made it.
"hey look theres a creepy alien on this guys face! lets break quarantine"
Yeah i guess movies always need dumb characters to get things started
I was honestly expecting a 3 second video, black background and the words:
You can’t.
Its the only realistic version of this video I think
@@dylanmonstrum1538 Oh yee of little faith! lol
@@filmcomicsexplained I'd count myself as dead the second I realise what I'm facing against!
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Could you do one on the Predator please?
@@filmcomicsexplained I would have the faith of Hudson lol pure terror
The cat totally lured that man to the alien. Then watched him die...ensuring it's own survival.
I think that Jonesy made a deal with alien and now they bro's)))
Cats are evil
Xenomorph has cat manipulation?
@@davidbradley3227 Why do you say that?
I got the Platinum Trophy for Alien Isolation so I would qualify. I wasn't locked inside Sevastopol with the xenomorph, the xenomorph was locked inside....with me.
Jesus buddy I got an few hour in before my heart gave up
Same brother.
My favorite game of all time based on... my favorite movie of all time.
Hilarious line.
@@brettbaratheon9776 i wood surviv to...Using a ting called INTELLIGENSE!
@@kevinharkness2108 The way you spelt everything wrong is just hilarious.
Old guy here, i saw this film when it first came to the cinema in the UK. Terrifying is the word i would use, the John Hurt scene came as a surprise to me and it had the desired effect. The only disappointment was not seeing enough of the Alien, there was a lot of hype of how the creature looked prior to the film release, but maybe that was the intention. In any case a suspenseful film with great characters.
Not seeing enough of the Alien is what kept it scary. This was a deliberate choice by Ridley!
@@filmcomicsexplained I thought that was the case. As i said there had been a lot of hype, illustrations books and models of the Alien prior to the film being released. But in any case a film which left an impression on me even to this day.
Was it a silent movie and someone played piano during the screening?
Me to Xenomorphic: "Look dude: You can't exist, you break the Laws of Thermodynamics. You can't grow like this in a few hours (or days, or months for that matter.) Matter is never created or destroyed: WHERE DID ALL THIS EXTRA MASS COME FROM?!! I'm calling bullshit." That's how I'd survive
You're right. That alone makes it far more difficult to kill than this video erroneously portrays it as.
In non-canon sources, I've seen it explained that the aliens consume organic matter for energy and inorganic matter to assimilate into their bodies.
It could possibly just be volume, and retain the original mass unti they consume a fluid or a solid. We don't truly know how dense or what mass the chestburster is it could possibly be a quarter of the host's mass at the largest. So in the case of Kane maybe 35 to 45 lbs. I mean he was complaining of ravenous hunger which would coincide with nutrient depletion caused by rapid parasitic growth.
That has always bothered me.
In the script and novelization of Alien, it was described that the crew found their food stock raided by the xenomorph. That would explain where it got all the acquired mass from. Since the morphing of Brett and impending impregnation of Dallas was cut from the movie, we might assume the xenomorph ate parts of them for nourishment, too. Since none of this made it into the finished movie we are left to speculate. However, the laws of thermodynamics have nothing to do with acquiring mass. And matter can indeed be created and destroyed. This comes out of Einstein's special theory of relativity, which shows that energy and matter can convert into each other. It takes a ludicrous amount of energy to create even tiny amounts of matter, though. So I think we can safely assume that the xenomorph had to eat or in some other way assimilate other matter in order to grow. It was Giger's vision that the xenomorph looked part organic, part machine. It could very well be that the xenomorph fed on parts of the spacecraft itself in order to gain mass and grow.
Step one: Find a tracker
Step two: Get a flamethrower
Step three: Gather rifles
Step four: Don't walk in the dark alone
What difference would it make alone or with company...your both dead
Step five: Pray
Step six: realise praying is useless to your survival and go back to the first four plans.
Use flares and noisemakers
And pipe bombs and molotovs
How to survive 'ALIEN'...?
Be Jonesy, the cat!😼
Dont think pulse guns existed in Ripleys Alien 1 time since she was in hypersleep for 57 years & Hicks had to show her how it works & what it is etc.
You may be right, but I think the reason Ripley asked Hicks how it worked was because she is a commercial pilot not a marine, and would likely not have used a weapon like this. I wonder what weapons the Alien Covenant crew were using, as it is technically set before this movie!
The pulse rifles were just caseless versions of conventional firearms. So they wouldn't be entirely foreign in concept if possibly in operation.
Yeah, militaries were still using conventional firearms during the time of Alien 1.
@@filmcomicsexplained Styr AUGs and Benelli shotguns. Conventional firearms canonically.
I never felt more prepared to face a fictional enemy in my life 😂 great job
Thanks 😅
35 years of nightmares from this masterpiece....and STILLLLLL loving it!
Tip number 1...DONT SPLIT UP. Go around as a full group, keeping every angle covered with flamers and 2 guys with trackers.
The title of this video should be “How to die Well in Alien”
I expected a discussion on strategy, so the biochem talk was a pleasant surprise, coming from a fellow nerd of physiology and film!
I’m surprisingly not a huge sci-fi guy, but wow, so many commonalities in the clips you used with 2001:, Star Wars (orig 3), The Matrix, Minority Report, Terminator (2), The Fifth Element, Heavy Metal (animated movie)! Thanks!
Good to see your videos as always and I just wanna say that with Spatial Sound on in my headphones you sound heavenly. Ty for all the great content
Glad to HEAR it! haha
Honestly, these videos are just anxiously reducing with your voice and explanations. Thank you for your beautiful mind and work.
You're very welcome
i would have put Kane in a hypersleep pot with facehugger and all, let the compagny take care of it when they got back.
And possibly dooming humanity? Granted, at that point you wouldn’t know that a simple mistake with the Xeno means a complete outbreak lol.
OMG, last time I was this early, the franchise wasn't a total mess.
@@wattsnottaken1 I still contend those started as unrelated movies that got forced into the franchise.
"So how do you defeat a perfect organism?"
GOKU!!!!
Imagine a xenomorph birthed from a saiyan🤦🏽deadly
Goku would give it sinzu bean tf you talkin bout ....
You mean Gohan. :) He heat Cell, not Goku.
everyone here is wrong. He would try to eat it.
I always imagined this Alien movie and Dark Star are in the same universe (not really the other alien movies just the first), I just see the whole Dallas talking to the computer scenes feel like what they shot in Dark Star, there isn't much to tie them together but I like to watch them all together and have my own head cannon
A video came out on the same day as this titled 'Why you wouldn't survive Alien'. Enjoyed both.
Yeh I noticed that too lol 🤔
that transition into the ad segment was smooth
I love your content dude 🤘
Yours is one of the few channels that has notifications enabled ;)
Wow, thanks Arash!
honestly, your videos are all so well done and nerdy I love it
Glad you like them!
That seamless segue into the ad was golden!
Best plug at the end there. Well done!
Survive: Idk man, this seems like a hard no.
if they would lisen to Lamber when she said "let get hell out of here" nothing will hapennd.
It always bothered me that they let an unknown alien organism onto the ship without quarantine
Ashe did that on company orders. Dallas didn’t override him due to his reading between the lines on his orders.
Ripley wanted to quarantine them.
Ignore Ripley and get a outbreak, that fucking cat would be toast if I had to look for it, I mean WTF people?
This was america. How r u surprised?
@@cixlo Actually Weyland-Yutani is an Anglo-Japanese corporation.
I like how strange thoughts also came out with a video saying why you wouldn't survive the alien
Yeh I saw that lol Bit weird, but a welcome surprise
@@filmcomicsexplained yeah if anything its great because I can now compare if I will actually survive
Next episode should be: How To Survive JURASSIC PARK.
Can’t get enough of this juicy content
And if you’re basically on your own like Amanda Ripley in Alien: Isolation, best have a motion tracker on the ready and hope you can silently hide under an object as soon as you start hearing those beeps
0:30 That cat, what's with that cat, I need to know the Lore behind sinister cat.
His name is jonesy and he is far from sinister. He actually survives two alien films!
Clovis from Sleepwalkers. He’s seen some crazy shit.
That transition at the end to the sponsor was pretty good I did not see that one coming! 😂
I've been watching a lot of Nerd Explains videos which are How to Beat vids but I find them enjoyable, even with other channels especially FilmComicsExplained
I started to play Alien Isolation, and was planning to watch the two original alien movies this weekend. So thanks for the video.
"I could lie to you about your chances, but....
You have my sympathies."
The Alien isn't the only threat to survival...the company is also a threat that must be survived. So, how do we defeat that?
I say we nuke em from orbit, just to be sure
Pretty sure this is why I'm afraid of what's in the shadows at night in my room !
That might've been the best segway to a sponsor
Thanks buddy! Lol
Ash would be a problem as he had been instructed to protect the life form and return it to the company, crew expendable.
I offer a solution for Ash!
that kind of programming is so incredibly reckless it's comical.
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Ash had access to Mother and could override any locking him up in the lab. So that plan is no good.
Also I'm pretty sure androids are immune to cryosleep. They go in to blend in but they can "wake up" anytime they want. So locking him in hypersleep won't suffice.
Probably my favorite movie. It's like a mix between 2001 : space odyssey and Jaws
The whole Alien franchise Is a PSA about workplace safety.
If the crew of the movies were more cautionary, like not going to a planet without full body suits, not engaging with the wildlife and especially not sticking your head next to an egg opening, none of this would happen.
To be fair... how many times have you seen a being literally jump out of an egg? Let alone melt a spacesuit helmet...
@@qcdoomqc None... ON EARTH. In space? Anything goes.
I never put 2 and 2 together on them surviving for hundreds of years in the vacuum of space. That would mean the Worker from the first movie and the Queen from the second movie could plausibly still be alive in stasis somewhere deep in space. Imagine a sequel where some hapless freighter picks one of them up and thaws it out.
Damn cats are so impassive it just sits there, not giving 2 shytes, while it's owner gets mauled. 👌🤣
Brilliant video. Kudos, man. Didn’t think you could figure out a way. I was expecting to just say “bullshit”!
Dude that Base coated harpoon trick blew my mind. That would really mess the alien up the more I think about it. Haha.
A how to beat video in the Film Comics Explained style cool ill have to check more out as this is the first one ive seen.
The human hosted Xenomorph is deadly and would be able to survive even the space vacuum but weak to *fire* but firing inside a spaceship could be suicidal
Hey, if all else fails, put one in your own brain in these movie. Problem solved.
i like how the cat at the start was like "oh well hes dead time to move on and find another one"
lets goo. man you make videos so quickly for the quality lol
You don't live as long as I have without a healthy fear of Aliens.
“Here kitty kitty kitty”
OG Xeno: 😏😏😏
That sponsor Segway was hilarious. Nice one.
Just a suggestion for another How To Survive Series
Peter Jackson's King Kong would be a good video, both the film and it's video game tie-in.
Survival guides by FComics? IM SO ON THIS!
Awesome! Love the vids
Glad you like them!
Make Lambert get out of the way!!! RIP Yaphet Kotto.
burning a xeno will cause any open wounds to immediately cauterize, so a flamethrower is the best option for bug hunts.
The Alien franchise is so interesting one of my favorites!
I freaking love your videos
Very good and very funny! Well done!
Yesssss! Coffee and a story. Faaaaantastic!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@filmcomicsexplained , always my friend. Always.
😂😂 the sponsorship transition 👏🏼👏🏼
It's always troubled me that when the crew first sets out to explore the beacon, Dallas says, "Better break out the weapons" (or similar words). Later they seem to be carrying multi-barreled weapons as they navigate towards the alien craft. So there are apparently weapons aboard the Nostromo, but they make no appearance after the chest-burster appears, requiring Parker to fabricate flame-throwers, which are of no practical use at all as the plot unfolds. Anyway, such weapons might have been useful for defense.
That was one slick ad read
love the way of nord vpn included in the film it makes advertising clever and sufferable
I hope you do how to survive either The Terminator or Predator
Those two are easy ,
Terminator - huge magnet
Predator - just how it was killed the first time , with a stick
I can't remember who wrote the first Predator movie but his name sounds so familiar
The real question is, how we defeat the corporation.
Nuke em from orbit
You can’t but there are alternatives to fighting
Smoothest sponsorship transition I've seen all week so far.
Brilliant job.
Fun fact: the novel makes it clear the Nostromo doesn't have any more lights. The crew doesn't need them since they are supposed to be sleeping 90% of the trip.
A new video thank you so much!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Niyat could probably make frozen pizza directions interesting
Just follow the cat, she knows what to do!!!
I have seen Alien multiple times and have survived.
Like how smooth we got pushed into the nordVPN ad ,,😁
Dude that was such a good plug for Nord lmao, nice
When the world needs him most... he returns !
My plan was just to dress up as Sigourney Weaver and hope for the best
2:09 ..Dang, I didn't know they had "Grillz"..It looks like a "Sound Cloud Rapper" with those platinum teeth. His rap name could be something like "Lil' Morph"..lol
Could you do a review on sephiroth and his remants kadaj,yazoo and Loz from final fantasy and advent children
Adding it to the list now! Thanks :)
Thanks for this advice.
Just had a thought, if the Xeno is sensitive to vibrations....what would happen if you played a song over speakers and finagled with the bass really high could you kind of blind one? I’ve read the comics. They eventually develop a vibration weapon to stun them.
Newt was a little girl who hid for weeks in the garbage, and there was an entire colony of 200 xenos clueless...The hardware pipes have PTFE for acid shield. Asbestos and fiberglass constantan could help in use with molotov and makeshift thermite-can slow the xeno. Im sure the ship got some liquid nitrogen or coolant too...dont forget flare gun in its face , and these tactics minimize acid poo. radios are great for throwing at them for distraction- well it worked in isolation game🤪
Sound action plan in eliminating a xenomorph.. Glad to be early!
There's something I've always wondered, does the face hugger impregnate the lungs or the stomach?
I read an Alien novelization where a renegade Dr did experiments with adrenaline and fear suppression. He discovered that the aliens large cranial structure is necessary to their hunting, a psychic receptor picking up victim's fear. Subjects (victims) dropped into the Xenomorph maze with a fear reducing adrenaline solution given to them survived longer, with the Xeno sometimes ignoring the human altogether. If I remember right, Xenos later escaped killing the Dr and all the info was lost.
The only problem is this requires everyone involved to think logically and act rationally, and this pandemic has proven that's just not going to happen.
As a retail worker I can attest to this
The very first problem comes with deciding what is and isn't rational and logical.
id love to see an explained video about the sea monster from the foreign movie Ragnarok!!! please :)
Have you seen the 1997 movie Mimic? It's one of my favorite movies from the 90s. The creatures in the movie would be a good subject to make a video on.
I have and I loved it! It's on the to do list btw :)
@@filmcomicsexplained Awesome!
If I've learned anything from watching channels like NileRed it's that even the most potent acids known to man aren't strong enough to instantly melt through solid metal.
Notification squad!
I know the solution!
Just be a working joe/synthetic and your good as gold!
You always know a working Joe
Most important rule to survive a xenomorph...
STAY AWAY FROM THE GODDAMN VENTS
I thought I read somewhere that the common alien has an automatic life span of 33 years, doesn't need to eat, and just fades out like a battery at the end
I would love your next video whether it will be How to survive or Explained would be the disaster film Greenland. It’s my favorite Disaster by far.