Well, you are comparing one of the greatest action movies ever made to everything else. No wonder it’s better than most of them. Most of the movies that were made 40 years ago, or earlier, are nowhere as good as “Aliens” is.
Ridley Scott said with Alien that he didn't mean to transmit any message with the movie at all. I think that's what's missing from current movies, the "no message", the "this is a fiction aside from any agenda and that's it"
Even considering time constraints, the Sentry Gun scenes add so little time but are simply an incredible addition to the film. It adds so much tension, showing how relentless the Aliens are, how cunning they are to retreat and look for a new avenue, it showcases some of the really cool firepower Hudson was bragging about, etc. It also wipes out dozens of Aliens, helping to explain why we see so relatively few later on. This short set of scenes adds so much richness to the film that the film really suffers without it. It explains why the Aliens chose to move thru the ceilings. And otherwise how would Ripley just waltz in to the queen's den? It makes more sense knowing 100 Aliens were mowed down by the Sentry guns.
I’ve always wondered how many aliens were killed as the film went on. With the first hive scene and this you really get a sense that there weren’t many left at all.
I love this film but never considered this deleted scene wiped out dozens of xenos. Your right... it explains why Ripley was able to easily storm the hive.
I remember reading the novelisation before I saw the film and being confused that this scene wasn't in it. Technically it's just a bunch of robot guns firing at shadows while people look at numbers on a screen, but there's something eerie about it.
I remember seeing it in theater (in Poland in 1987) and don't remember beeing surprised at all watching it years later at home but now I don't know, maybe it's only autosuggestion?
@@davehenderson3739 You shoukd try it. I love the original AVP also, but this game is decent and fun to play. It's feels like experiencing Aliens movie by yourself :)
@@ladiesgentswegothim They have just used the vents. Vents weren't shown in the building plans so Ripley and marines couldn't seal them and were caught offguard.
Aww, this cut before my favorite line of the whole film. *Hudson* - "Maybe we got 'em demoralized!" I never saw the line until the Director's cut came out and put the sentry gun scenes back in, but Jesus, that one wisecrack makes the two scenes so worth it!!!
I saw this movie on VHS rental when I was 11. The sentry/motion gun scene was the icing on the cake for absolute suspense! I had trouble sleeping at night for a month! LOL! Years later watching the movie I thought I'd gone nuts. No motion gun scene in any of the rentals. I thought maybe I had imagined the scene. Then, finally I saw some deleted scenes and there it was! Why would they leave this gem of a scene out of the movie!
It is here on TH-cam video as Aliens Special Edition. I agree with you about the sentry gun scene. Also has a deleted scene introducing Newt as her parents discover the alien spacecraft wreck and the father finds a facehugger. But I actually find that scene was better off deleted imo.
It's too bad we didn't get to see more use of the sentry guns against the xenomorphs in future alien films because those things really know how to kick alien ass.
They really failed on so many levels to give us what we wanted after Aliens... I liked Alien 4... but the Prometheus ones were terrible and 3 was a flat out disaster.
The main reason they cut this scene was that they did not want the humans to have a glimmer of hope, pretty dark stuff in reality. I watched the movie at its theatrical release and i was very intense. Its a cracker of a scene though and i enjoy it a lot.
@@pnsmexico dude get your head out of the leftist news. Usa takes in more immigrants than any other country in the world. Republicans just want it to be legal. Illegal immigrants are second class citizens and are basically a slave class and Republicans don't like that. Democrats want a slave class always have.
This scene created my love of sentry guns and minions in general as a game concept for the rest of my life. Engineer, combat tech, necromancer, any class with disposable minions and I'm there :)
@@agentgingerman because Gorman was an inexperienced idiot. The slightest bit of caution would have led to a resounding success of the mission. He had enough information to infer the rest of the colonists were dead and that the trackers inferred a nest of some kind; he could have figured out the infiltration points and locked down the colony (and at the very very least secured the dropship's standby point with sentry guns) Remember, the basic weapon of the CM, the pulse rifle, destroys aliens with ease. Eradicating a nest of that size should have been a cakewalk, but as in Vietnam, their leadership was the worst enemy the soldiers had
Hudson's the best, he's known for freaking the hell but most of the times a character like that eats it, but Hudson is a realistic badass the whole time. Not a coward, just reasonably freaked out.
I've seen all 3 of the James Cameron films Michael Biehn was in from Aliens to Terminator to the Abyss and the 2 movies that had both Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton which were Aliens and The Terminator which was awesome.
James Cameron called it "40 miles of bad road," aka makes you experience the rough trip of the Marines and Ripley. Sentry guns are an amazing tension builder because both they stopped firing and how close they came to running empty.
One thing you have to say about the Xenos, it's impressive how much ammo is costs to hold the horde back when they are on the offensive advance. If they have numbers, you just burn through ammo at a full rate until they retreat, which takes a lot for them to do so, or they get to you. Hate them or not, you will respect them. Those who don't, do not last long.
it was not cut from the theatrical release but was cut from tv showings and DVD releases. I remember seeing it at the theater and was always upset when it was cut on tv.
@@jrpanciotti8863 The first time Aliens aired on TV actually DID include the remote senry guns scenes. I was the only one in my circle of friends that taped it. Not even my chiropractor who used to run his VCR when changing channels to find something to tape.🙃
Now this was a tense scene, because a guy said in the 1st act of the movie said 70 families lived in hadley's Hope and sentry turrets took out in total 30 or more xenomorphs but no higher than 50.
Great choice of storytelling here, instead of showing us the direct intensity of the shootout (which could also works), the scene focused on the characters pov inside the cover, holding dear life on those sentries with limited resources. This way it brings a lot of tension and suspense into the scene instead of the action packed shootout style scene.
They should have had those sentry guns set up by the drop ship to protect their dust off area. Just in case they needed a quick exit with no unexpected guests.
Im not sure, but I think Hicks says in a scene that they have some good and bad news. The good news were that they found the sentries. But still I agree that it should be standard issue to missions were you don't know what you will encounter. :)
They seemed like a experience unit, probably high off successful Ops and just became a bit too careless at the wrong time, and didn't help having their CO confiscate their ammo in the beginning.
Hicks: "Sir, incoming Xenomorphs. We are outnumbered and the sentry guns are almost dry." Apone: "SQUAD, AFIX BAYONETTS AND READY FOR CHARGE. FOR THE EMPEROR!" - Aliens 40.000: starring imperial Guard -
I remembered it from a network TV release of the movie. NBC, ABC or CBS I don't recall, but I remember being terrified of the shadows for months as a kid afterwards and confused when I saw the film again on VHS in high school why this scene wasn't there.
It made it into the director’s cut which over time has been accepted as the definitive version. For a long time you would only see these scenes when they aired the movie on TV
Its crazy to think that was 2k rounds of high powered ammo ripping through those things. Meaning one round probably ripped througb several at a time. And it was not stopping them at all! ::YIKES:: mustve been 5k-10k aliens in that hallway alone. Brilliant scene by mr camron, effective way to display the aliens relentless power but keeping it grounded/relatable for the viewer.
Theoretically as there were only just over 150 colonists to begin with there could only be around 150 aliens in total since it takes one human host to gestate one alien embryo! The queen only lays eggs, not actual aliens.
Когда пересматриваешь этот шедевр уже в 7-10й раз (вполне заслуженно), как и большинство фанатов ЧУЖОГО, звуковой сигнал о критически низком боезапасе турели даже через экран нагнетает напряжение со вкусом отчаяния и безысходности, и становится узнаваемым почти так же, как сигналы с датчиков движения. ЭХ! УМЕЛИ ЖЕ РАНЬШЕ ДЕЛАТЬ ФИЛЬМЫ! И видеоряд, и звуки, и освещение-ВСЁ БРАЛО ЗА ДУШУ! ))
If you go back to the start of the film in the court martial scene, they say there are 60 0r 70 families on the planet now. Given that the average family consists of 4 or 5 members at most, then that means there would be a maximum of about 350 hosts for the Aliens to impregnate, the marines must have wiped out 2 or 3 times that many. Just a thought...
This is the cut scene I love the most. I dunno why they cut it. Maybe some people wouldn't understand it. Maybe it cut the rythm of the film. But sure as hell I'm glad it's there.
Whats great about this scene is it gives you an idea of how many Aliens there really are, without actually Showing them on screen (because they only had 3 to work with).
I saw this version at the cinema when it came out in 1986. Later noticed it wasn't part of the video. Later had the DVD Directors Cut and it was in there, a lot better, and so was Aliens 3 Directors Cut. What did make me wonder though, even back then, was how come with all that Alien melty juice flying around the place the whole corridor didn't just melt away to nothing? Seeing as 2 dribbles can eat though like 4 or 5 levels of titanium lol
This concept is so good… it’s a wonder every movie didn’t start using sentry guns. Like, why in “Matrix Revolutions” did they have to put on those big dumb suits when they could have wired up a thousand motion-sensing sentry guns? Stole the wrong idea from this movie lol.
Wouldn't make sense in the Matrix. Zion was in a war against AI and machines. Can't blame them for not trusting a computer program with security and defense.
Sentry guns made a spectacular work. After they did their job, and vasquez and gorman blasted at least 5, there were probably less than 10 xenomorphs alive. So, if vasquez and Gorman could have made it, humans would’ve won the battle
Reminds of this, "Adendorff : Can't you see that old boy up on the hill? He's counting your guns. Testing your firing power with the lives of his warriors."
Would have been practical if they would have these sentry guns look like the MG42/MG3. Even if it is 2179 that machine gun would still be in use. It is an apex design of warfare.
As cool as that thought is, an MG3-derived Sentry would've eaten ammo like a starving man on a Christmas ham. Those things have an RoF of 1400 RPM. That's 23 bullets *per second* leaving that barrel. There's no way a Sentry with that rig would be in operation for more than a couple seconds at a time.
There's a version out there where the Xenomorphs yell 'LEROY JENKINS!' when they try and rush those tunnels. Joking aside the theatrical cut is by far the best cut. Stripped back, tense. The extra scenes don't add that much imo.
Watched the extended cut when home alone as a kid and the greatest horror moment that I took away from that was the sound of the pummeling of the door at 1:03. It's similar to the Jurassic Park water glass scene. It's a pivot point of the whole movie. Can understand that it's difficult to cut away scenes from a movie as great as this, but choosing that scene was a BAD decision!
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Truth be told, after they ran into the second pair of sentry guns they found a way around them. One of the guns still had a few rounds left when the shooting stopped.
This scene makes the ending more believable. With 158 colonist, slash / Aliens once taken, those Sentry guns brought the numbers down to a more realistic number. What Ripley did was still awesome though. To do that, knowing and witnessing what they could do to you (From Dallas being morphed to that poor woman), that was an act of extreme valor.
Love that scene.question? If the colony only had a 158 people meaning close to 150 Xenos counting a few humans killed fighting back why does the first set of guns run out? Surely every alien hit by theses powerful rounds were obliterated, how could they keep attacking with their friends being complete FUBAR, just asking .
@@minicle426 people made a good point above, with this scene kinaa cut short in the theatrical performance, it does make it seem like that. But in all honestly with the scene showing a good portion (not all) but a good portion of aliens getting iced, it helps explain the mostly empty hive. It's a fair point; they actually put thoguht into this movie maybe not so much say like Prometheus and whatnot.
158 humans, they had livestock as well, but how many and what type seems a little vague, there are a few blink and you miss it references to animals being in the colony.
Cool scene. Though I will say, 500 rounds is absolute chump change. Maybe it's all they could spare. But I don't bother going to the range with less than 1,000 rounds on my HANDGUN.
Save me from civilians that have never been around REAL weapons. Most of the current generation automatic weapons you are looking at a barrel change after 3-500 rounds. The MG-3 its 300, the M249 i`ve never seen one get off more than 400 rounds before the barrel started being an issue, the FN Minimi again about 400 and you are thinking barrel change. 500 is about right for an automatic weapon thats stuck with one barrel.
The marines went to the planet without packing any mines. As a combat engineer I can't understand that even when the lore mentions the Armat Battlefield Systems M20 claymore mine in the Colonial Marines technical manual. But as a life long fan of the movie I don't care that they didn't.
How effective would a claymore be against an opponent that has a disturbing tendency to use the walls and ceilings, the tripwire for that setup would be interesting. Given how tough the aliens are i also wonder how effective a claymore would be, i doubt you would get through more than a couple before the shrapnel slowed down enough to be useless.
I get the impression that the whole mission specifics were down to the enuii of "bug hunts" and an ineffective "Company-hired" C.O.. Like you said, tho...gotta love it, warts and all.
Similar to the hobbit, battle of the five armies. They cut out a load of scenes of the dwarves and elves actually fighting with some crazy weapons, rather than just cussing each other out before fighting the orcs together
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Kinda sad that a movie that came out 40 years ago is still better than 99% of the trash that comes out of Hollywood since.
как же я тебя понимаю...
including most of james cameron's movies
Well, you are comparing one of the greatest action movies ever made to everything else. No wonder it’s better than most of them.
Most of the movies that were made 40 years ago, or earlier, are nowhere as good as “Aliens” is.
wut you don't like barbie movie 😂
Ridley Scott said with Alien that he didn't mean to transmit any message with the movie at all. I think that's what's missing from current movies, the "no message", the "this is a fiction aside from any agenda and that's it"
Even considering time constraints, the Sentry Gun scenes add so little time but are simply an incredible addition to the film. It adds so much tension, showing how relentless the Aliens are, how cunning they are to retreat and look for a new avenue, it showcases some of the really cool firepower Hudson was bragging about, etc. It also wipes out dozens of Aliens, helping to explain why we see so relatively few later on. This short set of scenes adds so much richness to the film that the film really suffers without it. It explains why the Aliens chose to move thru the ceilings. And otherwise how would Ripley just waltz in to the queen's den? It makes more sense knowing 100 Aliens were mowed down by the Sentry guns.
Watch the extended edition.
I’ve always wondered how many aliens were killed as the film went on. With the first hive scene and this you really get a sense that there weren’t many left at all.
Totally agree
I love this film but never considered this deleted scene wiped out dozens of xenos. Your right... it explains why Ripley was able to easily storm the hive.
I’d estimate around 50-60 xenos killed by the marines, before the big explosion.
But considering there were 158 colonists…
For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why this scene was cut from the theatrical release of the film.
I remember reading the novelisation before I saw the film and being confused that this scene wasn't in it. Technically it's just a bunch of robot guns firing at shadows while people look at numbers on a screen, but there's something eerie about it.
It does explain why there were so few of them protecting the queen at the end.
I remember seeing it in theater (in Poland in 1987) and don't remember beeing surprised at all watching it years later at home but now I don't know, maybe it's only autosuggestion?
@@stilusfractus7930 Sometimes different parts of the world get different cuts.
cause it doesnt look good without Aliens...
So glad I grew up with the directors cut. This scene is just BADASS
The movie that defined the entire fuckin gaming industry. Cameron u inspirational genius!
Yeah the original AVP game was THE best.
@@davehenderson3739 the new game Aliens: Fireteam Elite is pretty good imo
@@igozi5728 No will skip it.
@@davehenderson3739 You shoukd try it. I love the original AVP also, but this game is decent and fun to play. It's feels like experiencing Aliens movie by yourself :)
You're drooling worse then a Xeno. :P
This is why there weren't many Xenomorph left when Ripley went to save Newt.
Makes sense.
Also probably how they got behind the walls. All that acid probably exposed a ton of inner workings and crawlspaces.
@@ladiesgentswegothim They have just used the vents. Vents weren't shown in the building plans so Ripley and marines couldn't seal them and were caught offguard.
I just got alien fire team. These sentry guns don’t help this well
@@bipolarspock6145 u probably got the wrong build. I know mines are putting those aliens down with np I mean straight dropping em🕹🎮💯
Aww, this cut before my favorite line of the whole film. *Hudson* - "Maybe we got 'em demoralized!" I never saw the line until the Director's cut came out and put the sentry gun scenes back in, but Jesus, that one wisecrack makes the two scenes so worth it!!!
Demoralization does not work on creatures behaving according to their instincts. 😉
@@knutritter461, true. Xenomorphs don't know the meaning of fear; they are programmed to reproduce.
@@knutritter461 that’s the joke
I also like the Hicks/RIpley exchange afterwards...
"10 rounds left, next time they just walk up and knock.
But they don't know that do they?"
@@curtvogue5720 Genius. That's a fantastic line! I love this script! It is seriously textbook-worthy!
I saw this movie on VHS rental when I was 11. The sentry/motion gun scene was the icing on the cake for absolute suspense! I had trouble sleeping at night for a month! LOL! Years later watching the movie I thought I'd gone nuts. No motion gun scene in any of the rentals. I thought maybe I had imagined the scene. Then, finally I saw some deleted scenes and there it was! Why would they leave this gem of a scene out of the movie!
I was 19, watched it in the movie theater. Still my favourite Alien movie.
It is here on TH-cam video as Aliens Special Edition. I agree with you about the sentry gun scene. Also has a deleted scene introducing Newt as her parents discover the alien spacecraft wreck and the father finds a facehugger. But I actually find that scene was better off deleted imo.
It's too bad we didn't get to see more use of the sentry guns against the xenomorphs in future alien films because those things really know how to kick alien ass.
Placing them on top of the APC would come in handy.
They really failed on so many levels to give us what we wanted after Aliens... I liked Alien 4... but the Prometheus ones were terrible and 3 was a flat out disaster.
Well, they're basically aimboted miniguns, that would kick anything's ass.
@@madquest8 Alien and Aliens, everything afterwards was one disappointment after another.
@@madquest8 alien 4 sucks, 3 is better.
The main reason they cut this scene was that they did not want the humans to have a glimmer of hope, pretty dark stuff in reality. I watched the movie at its theatrical release and i was very intense. Its a cracker of a scene though and i enjoy it a lot.
One of the best movies ever made pure class
Can I get a pair installed infront of my house?
Just a pair? Screw that, I'd like half a dozen, surrounding my house.
That law need to be repealed.
to shoot who? hope you don't mean Mexicans...{:'-(
@@pnsmexico dude get your head out of the leftist news. Usa takes in more immigrants than any other country in the world. Republicans just want it to be legal. Illegal immigrants are second class citizens and are basically a slave class and Republicans don't like that. Democrats want a slave class always have.
@@andrewsmith1735 your country has been made by immigrants...😂
This scene created my love of sentry guns and minions in general as a game concept for the rest of my life. Engineer, combat tech, necromancer, any class with disposable minions and I'm there :)
I KNOW! I am an avid lover of all things related to sentries and automated defenses because of it.
It kindled your love for tower defence games
There is no such thing as too much sentry guns lol
officer material right here
It's funny how in the scene with the C and D sentries you can hear Hudson cheering them on telling them not to give up and keep going.
2000 rounds of ammo gone in minutes. Has to be incredibly demoralizing when you think about having to survive for weeks before possibly being rescued
Those Sentry Guns are awesome
Next ship out... less marines, more sentry guns LOL
No infantry on next ship. Just Bishop, a few thousand parachutes and a few thousand sentry gun things... DROP!
They had a lot more on the APC and drop ship....
@@jadedandbitter yes well that went swimmingly didn't it
@@agentgingerman because Gorman was an inexperienced idiot. The slightest bit of caution would have led to a resounding success of the mission. He had enough information to infer the rest of the colonists were dead and that the trackers inferred a nest of some kind; he could have figured out the infiltration points and locked down the colony (and at the very very least secured the dropship's standby point with sentry guns)
Remember, the basic weapon of the CM, the pulse rifle, destroys aliens with ease. Eradicating a nest of that size should have been a cakewalk, but as in Vietnam, their leadership was the worst enemy the soldiers had
@@jadedandbitter I couldn't agree more. Gorman was definitely a REMF, one of those order generating bastards that get's men on the line killed.
Would not want to be in the receiving end of those bad boys, ammunition state counter going down always gave me chills
This scene is eerie just hearing the banging on the walls
Can't believe you cut the final ammo count, THAT MAKES THE SCENE!
Hudson's the best, he's known for freaking the hell but most of the times a character like that eats it, but Hudson is a realistic badass the whole time. Not a coward, just reasonably freaked out.
Sure. True courage is when you're scared but you fight anyway.
And lest anyone forget... Hudson was right. Every. Time. He's a whiner, but when push comes to shove, he knows his shit.
The scene with the gun counting down adds so much. They really need to keep it in the film.
I've seen all 3 of the James Cameron films Michael Biehn was in from Aliens to Terminator to the Abyss and the 2 movies that had both Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton which were Aliens and The Terminator which was awesome.
James Cameron called it "40 miles of bad road," aka makes you experience the rough trip of the Marines and Ripley. Sentry guns are an amazing tension builder because both they stopped firing and how close they came to running empty.
One of the best movies ever!!
"Corporal Hicks...." 😅😅😅😅 another underrated line 😎
One thing you have to say about the Xenos, it's impressive how much ammo is costs to hold the horde back when they are on the offensive advance. If they have numbers, you just burn through ammo at a full rate until they retreat, which takes a lot for them to do so, or they get to you. Hate them or not, you will respect them. Those who don't, do not last long.
The original Zergling rush.
The "polarized silicon" carapace is tough and bullets from Lt.Gormans sidearm are deflected.
500 rounds goes by in a blink if you only fire on full auto
Remember seeing this on cable years ago with this scene but they never show it when they run the movie now it's one of my favorite scenes
Just why why why would they cut this from theater cut??? Makes no sense. This scene is insanely awesome for numerous reasons.
Duration
Someone else mentioned that it gave the humans a glimmer of hope. Not sure I buy that.
it was not cut from the theatrical release but was cut from tv showings and DVD releases. I remember seeing it at the theater and was always upset when it was cut on tv.
@@jrpanciotti8863 REALLY??? I literally never knew that. Definitely going to have to look that up.
@@jrpanciotti8863 The first time Aliens aired on TV actually DID include the remote senry guns scenes. I was the only one in my circle of friends that taped it. Not even my chiropractor who used to run his VCR when changing channels to find something to tape.🙃
Now this was a tense scene, because a guy said in the 1st act of the movie said 70 families lived in hadley's Hope and sentry turrets took out in total 30 or more xenomorphs but no higher than 50.
Hicks hair is great
Great choice of storytelling here, instead of showing us the direct intensity of the shootout (which could also works), the scene focused on the characters pov inside the cover, holding dear life on those sentries with limited resources. This way it brings a lot of tension and suspense into the scene instead of the action packed shootout style scene.
You'd think that with all the alien blood getting blasted around that the tunnel would suffer a structural failure...
You are right. In the first movie the small cut on the
things finger burned through several floors.
Pressure door didn’t seem to be attached to pressure roof…… great scene and awesome film
One of the best scenes from the best of the alien franchise: excellent work Mr Cameron 👌👏👏👏👏👏
" I guess we can just count you out of everything. " " THAT'S RIGHT !!!!!! UNLESS YOU GO MMAANNN ." 😅😅😅😅most underrated non mentioned line 😎
They should have had those sentry guns set up by the drop ship to protect their dust off area. Just in case they needed a quick exit with no unexpected guests.
Im not sure, but I think Hicks says in a scene that they have some good and bad news. The good news were that they found the sentries.
But still I agree that it should be standard issue to missions were you don't know what you will encounter. :)
Or leaving someone in the sulaco 🙄
Thank you!
I’d give you a hundred likes if i could
They seemed like a experience unit, probably high off successful Ops and just became a bit too careless at the wrong time, and didn't help having their CO confiscate their ammo in the beginning.
"Rough air ahead..." and your teeth start chattering out of your head! I remember those old hueys back in the 70s.
This film just created scenario after scenario and we were all in them scenarios with them, fantastic film !
This movie ages like fine wine 🍷
Defo one of the greatest sagas ever i love the whole alien franchise it was awesome
Hicks: "Sir, incoming Xenomorphs. We are outnumbered and the sentry guns are almost dry."
Apone: "SQUAD, AFIX BAYONETTS AND READY FOR CHARGE. FOR THE EMPEROR!"
- Aliens 40.000: starring imperial Guard -
Astounding mash-up
lmao good luck with acidic blood
@@mimir4965
"Xenos with acidic Blood? Breakfast." - Catachan Jungle Fighter -
¡Es mi pelicula preferida y aún hoy en día me sigue gustando todavia gracias!!😊👍
I remembered seeing this scene in the theater and always wondered why I never saw it again until youtube.
I remembered it from a network TV release of the movie. NBC, ABC or CBS I don't recall, but I remember being terrified of the shadows for months as a kid afterwards and confused when I saw the film again on VHS in high school why this scene wasn't there.
Tension in this scene, makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, as others have said why did it end up on the cutting room floor ? .
It was cut for time, unfortunately. Honestly, they could have left it in because these scenes together only added up to about three minutes.
It made it into the director’s cut which over time has been accepted as the definitive version. For a long time you would only see these scenes when they aired the movie on TV
@@palmerlp no wonder I could have sworn there was a scene like this but then I never saw it again. I thought I was loosing it.
@@nunez1313 Same!
Control panel Ripley touches to open the door, are the same units used for the shoulder lamp base.
Its crazy to think that was 2k rounds of high powered ammo ripping through those things. Meaning one round probably ripped througb several at a time. And it was not stopping them at all! ::YIKES:: mustve been 5k-10k aliens in that hallway alone. Brilliant scene by mr camron, effective way to display the aliens relentless power but keeping it grounded/relatable for the viewer.
Theoretically as there were only just over 150 colonists to begin with there could only be around 150 aliens in total since it takes one human host to gestate one alien embryo! The queen only lays eggs, not actual aliens.
Когда пересматриваешь этот шедевр уже в 7-10й раз (вполне заслуженно), как и большинство фанатов ЧУЖОГО, звуковой сигнал о критически низком боезапасе турели даже через экран нагнетает напряжение со вкусом отчаяния и безысходности, и становится узнаваемым почти так же, как сигналы с датчиков движения. ЭХ! УМЕЛИ ЖЕ РАНЬШЕ ДЕЛАТЬ ФИЛЬМЫ! И видеоряд, и звуки, и освещение-ВСЁ БРАЛО ЗА ДУШУ! ))
such an iconic scene I can't watch the movie without it.
Its the only deleted scene thats any good except the part w Newts parents going into the ship but it doesnt add anything to the story
Peux être qu'ils sont démoralisé😊 , toujours dans la blague ce HUDSON. UN CHEF D'ŒUVRE CE FILM.
Je l'ai vu u moins 100 fois et ne m'en lasse jamais.
They should have included this in the movie.
Never get tired of this film
If you go back to the start of the film in the court martial scene, they say there are 60 0r 70 families on the planet now. Given that the average family consists of 4 or 5 members at most, then that means there would be a maximum of about 350 hosts for the Aliens to impregnate, the marines must have wiped out 2 or 3 times that many. Just a thought...
The sounds in the background make this scene very effective.
This is the cut scene I love the most. I dunno why they cut it. Maybe some people wouldn't understand it. Maybe it cut the rythm of the film. But sure as hell I'm glad it's there.
the control freak movie studio fox.. look what happened when they took over alien 3 filming..
Have you seen the cut scenes from hobbit battle of the 5 armies?
This scene makes Ripley storming the Queen's Chambers much more impactful to me
Missing the best lines after this. Something like "There's nothing to stop them now." and "Yeah, but they don't know that."
"Next time they walk right up and knock."-Hicks
"Yeah, but they don't know that."-Ripley
The Aliens held out a coke can on a stick and the remotes kept firing until dry. Then the Aliens moved in...
Whats great about this scene is it gives you an idea of how many Aliens there really are, without actually Showing them on screen (because they only had 3 to work with).
They had 6 suits, but correct...
I saw this version at the cinema when it came out in 1986. Later noticed it wasn't part of the video. Later had the DVD Directors Cut and it was in there, a lot better, and so was Aliens 3 Directors Cut.
What did make me wonder though, even back then, was how come with all that Alien melty juice flying around the place the whole corridor didn't just melt away to nothing? Seeing as 2 dribbles can eat though like 4 or 5 levels of titanium lol
This concept is so good… it’s a wonder every movie didn’t start using sentry guns. Like, why in “Matrix Revolutions” did they have to put on those big dumb suits when they could have wired up a thousand motion-sensing sentry guns? Stole the wrong idea from this movie lol.
They did have sentry guns in the movie 'Congo' when the white killer apes attacked the camp at night - they didn't like them much either!
Wouldn't make sense in the Matrix. Zion was in a war against AI and machines. Can't blame them for not trusting a computer program with security and defense.
Sentry guns made a spectacular work. After they did their job, and vasquez and gorman blasted at least 5, there were probably less than 10 xenomorphs alive. So, if vasquez and Gorman could have made it, humans would’ve won the battle
2 Questions, is that compatible to my Ring Camera and second does it come in Gold?
it comes with Blutooth.
design and concept of most modern games , this is awseome👍
That time James Cameron invented tower defence games.
Love the smoking gun barrels...
Reminds of this, "Adendorff : Can't you see that old boy up on the hill? He's counting your guns. Testing your firing power with the lives of his warriors."
Would have been practical if they would have these sentry guns look like the MG42/MG3.
Even if it is 2179 that machine gun would still be in use. It is an apex design of warfare.
As cool as that thought is, an MG3-derived Sentry would've eaten ammo like a starving man on a Christmas ham.
Those things have an RoF of 1400 RPM. That's 23 bullets *per second* leaving that barrel. There's no way a Sentry with that rig would be in operation for more than a couple seconds at a time.
Why isn't this scene in the normal ALIENS movie? It's only 2 minutes long and it's great
Imagine the aliens charged for a few more seconds, they wouldn't have retreated lol
I loved this scene! Them machine guns didn’t have a chance with the xenomorphs
There's a version out there where the Xenomorphs yell 'LEROY JENKINS!' when they try and rush those tunnels.
Joking aside the theatrical cut is by far the best cut. Stripped back, tense.
The extra scenes don't add that much imo.
The Golden years of Sci-fi.
The sound of them trying to get through the pressure door
Chilling
I was on some Mandela effect shit because I thought I totally imagined this scene. For years I thought that my mind had made it up.
Back when movies were good .
The antithesis of 'Short, Controlled Bursts', then.
If anyone ever asks you WHY you need a high capacity magazine…. Show them this.
thank god he read out how many rounds were left...it just wasnt possible to read them off the screen.
Love this movie!!!!!! When Hollywood use to know how to make em
Watched the extended cut when home alone as a kid and the greatest horror moment that I took away from that was the sound of the pummeling of the door at 1:03. It's similar to the Jurassic Park water glass scene. It's a pivot point of the whole movie. Can understand that it's difficult to cut away scenes from a movie as great as this, but choosing that scene was a BAD decision!
Imagine all that acid in the tunnels…..
I was saying.... Ought to be enough to sink right through the factory and into the ground.
Thank god for Ridley inventing 'Director's Cut'.
Editing of this sequence is just so good, in the whole film tbh, thanks to Ray Lovejoy
Where did all of those rounds wind up at? In the ship's hull?
Greatest film ever made. 🥰🏅🤘
Great movie.Thats it
Have you seen every film ever made to confirm that then?
"yeh but next time they just walk right up and knock!!"
Wonderful movie.
They needed about 5000 rounds each. I'd love to see this with a phased plasma gun with unlimited power and ammo.
Something in the 40w range perhaps?
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 I'm thinking that you're gonna need a 10 kW phased plasma killer for xenomorphs. Shooting lightning bolts.
@@spaceflight1019 So basically the Wonderwaffe (aka the wonder waffle) from CoD Zombies.
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Truth be told, after they ran into the second pair of sentry guns they found a way around them. One of the guns still had a few rounds left when the shooting stopped.
i still miss jones
I love the rugged military tech and 80s digital displays. Too bad the video games have over-used it so badly.
This scene makes the ending more believable. With 158 colonist, slash / Aliens once taken, those Sentry guns brought the numbers down to a more realistic number. What Ripley did was still awesome though. To do that, knowing and witnessing what they could do to you (From Dallas being morphed to that poor woman), that was an act of extreme valor.
Damn, anybody trying to do a home invasion with these guns will definitely get the business 👍👍
Love that scene.question? If the colony only had a 158 people meaning close to 150 Xenos counting a few humans killed fighting back why does the first set of guns run out? Surely every alien hit by theses powerful rounds were obliterated, how could they keep attacking with their friends being complete FUBAR, just asking .
They said about 70 families were on the planet, so if an average family was 4, then we’re looking at more like 250 Xenos give or take
There are as many Aliens as the plot requires. Hence why Ripley doesn't get swarmed by them in the Hive later on.
@@minicle426 lol hahahaha aaah so true
@@minicle426 people made a good point above, with this scene kinaa cut short in the theatrical performance, it does make it seem like that. But in all honestly with the scene showing a good portion (not all) but a good portion of aliens getting iced, it helps explain the mostly empty hive. It's a fair point; they actually put thoguht into this movie maybe not so much say like Prometheus and whatnot.
158 humans, they had livestock as well, but how many and what type seems a little vague, there are a few blink and you miss it references to animals being in the colony.
I'm still waiting for the Caterpillar walking fork lift. Next step to "Mechwarrior" technology, baby!
Wonder how this would have gone if the Aliens all behaved like Big Chap, and not Leeroy Jenkins. :P
Cool scene. Though I will say, 500 rounds is absolute chump change. Maybe it's all they could spare. But I don't bother going to the range with less than 1,000 rounds on my HANDGUN.
Save me from civilians that have never been around REAL weapons. Most of the current generation automatic weapons you are looking at a barrel change after 3-500 rounds. The MG-3 its 300, the M249 i`ve never seen one get off more than 400 rounds before the barrel started being an issue, the FN Minimi again about 400 and you are thinking barrel change. 500 is about right for an automatic weapon thats stuck with one barrel.
The marines went to the planet without packing any mines. As a combat engineer I can't understand that even when the lore mentions the Armat Battlefield Systems M20 claymore mine in the Colonial Marines technical manual. But as a life long fan of the movie I don't care that they didn't.
How effective would a claymore be against an opponent that has a disturbing tendency to use the walls and ceilings, the tripwire for that setup would be interesting. Given how tough the aliens are i also wonder how effective a claymore would be, i doubt you would get through more than a couple before the shrapnel slowed down enough to be useless.
I get the impression that the whole mission specifics were down to the enuii of "bug hunts" and an ineffective "Company-hired" C.O.. Like you said, tho...gotta love it, warts and all.
Similar to the hobbit, battle of the five armies. They cut out a load of scenes of the dwarves and elves actually fighting with some crazy weapons, rather than just cussing each other out before fighting the orcs together
Still one of my best movies the effects hold up too😊
I would have personally made sure that my super robot sentries never ran out of ammunition.