This was meant to drop on Halloween, but Disney blocked the video - I've tried multiple re-edits & this one is currently demonetized, but going through a copyright dispute. If Disney rejects my dispute, the video will get taken down, but they have 28 days to respond & I really don't want to wait 28 days to post this for you guys! Hopefully this won't be taken down; if so, I'll just have to continue to cut it down more and more. If you'd like to watch the full movie with me, that has been posted on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/cassreacts
@DrJohnnyFever. Completely false and ignorant. First of all, Cameron himself edited down the original story, and only for time. Not for creative reasons. The special edition restored those deleted scenes, it's Cameron's preferred version, it's preferred by fans 2:1, and NO ONE who watches it first complains about the "pace," the "mystery," or any of those BS excuses. No one.
The director's cut goes even deeper for the Newt/Ripley relationship. It adds a scene detailing that Ripley was a mother and lost her child to old age when she was floating in space. It gives a real extra dimension to her finding a 'new daughter'.
@@dannyjorde2677This is a movie you should own on Blu-Ray and upload the digital copy to TH-cam so you can see it whenever and not blame Disney. Like when you’re sitting around not doing anything and you feel “Man. I gotta watch some Aliens.”
@@dannyjorde2677 And that is one of the reason I have Alien quardtrilogy as a dvd box. Extended versions are good... though it does not safe Alien 4 to be a meh.
"How can he sleep through this." From what I'm given to understand, the ability to grab a bit of sleep whenever you can is the mark of a veteran soldier.
Seriously. In the army I slept every chance I could get. You always eat, hydrate, use the bathroom, sleep, shower, change socks whenever you get a chance because you sometimes don't know when that next chance will be and you're always TIRED..
While this is true, there's another aspect as well. Part of the purpose of this scene is to show how tough these space marines are (or think they are). And it does so in various ways. Drake fixes his camera by slamming his head against the seat. Hudson brags about their skills and equipment. And although anyone in that situation would have good reason to be tense and nervous, Hicks is so relaxed that he falls asleep.
@@toddhadley9002I think it's mostly this actually. It's to show these Marines really are tough and unafraid and unaffected by a mission. And then show that mission actually frighten them. It's just good visual storytelling..
I was never in the military, but I'm able to sleep at a loud party or take a nap during an MRI. I've also been on trains that bounce around a lot and can sleep through that too.
Yeah when I was in the army and we were out on week-long exercises you slept whenever and wherever basically. I even fell asleep while walking once and woke up when the ground came up and hit me in the face.
Exactly, remember, shes is an 'advisor' on this mission. A Role that has alot of negative notions to it. A smart ass, a desk jocky, dead weight, etc. She showed them she can be and will be useful.
@ Well said, definitely a scene that men tend to understand better than women, it’s not that the men are laughing at her but are laughing because she showed her utility to the team.
Yep, laughter is one of the brain's coping mechanisms for when it's surprised by something. They thought she was some skittish, tag-along civilian who was there to give her little insight at the briefing and nothing more. Seeing her proficiently and voluntarily jump into the dirty work and then throw some sass back at them for their assumptions simply wasn't something they were expecting. I love this scene because it shows how Ripley keeps getting into these leadership roles. It's more than just her rank. It's the fact that she's smart, she knows what she's doing, and she's so good at understanding and ingratiating herself with people. She's the kind of person that commands people's respect through her actions, and the kind of leader that people listen to and believe in. It's why she's one of my all-time favorite fictional characters.
I think the "where do you want it" was meant to be sort of ironically reversed crude sexual innuendo. She says it with a sly look and the smirks and laughs in return were the guys getting the joke. That said, Cameron's dialog is often a bit unnatural, particularly in this case, so it's hard to be sure.
The actress they played Vasquez is the foster mother of John Conner from Terminator 2, and Bill Paxton was in Terminator as one of the punks killed at the beginning. And Lance Hendrixsen was one of the Cops in Terminator as well.
“Fade to black and don’t come back…” Exactly… they returned to Earth and lived happily ever after. Any sequels are scenarios from an alternative universe and have no bearing on this happy ending.
At 9:19, when Apone and Hicks smirk and finally laugh out loud, I think it is because they are so surprised at how capable and really skillful Ripley is driving the loader. There's no mocking nor cruelty, nor envy or anything negative in their expressions, they are pleasently surprised at having a fully capable "passenger/advisor" with them. I've watched this film many times, and in the background you can see how one of the other soldiers handles the loader, and in a few seconds of Ripley handling her loader you can tell how proficient and skilled she is with it.
I think that scene was written so that Apone is sarcastically dismissive of her at first when she asks if there's anything she can do (and he patronizingly responds, I don't know, is there anything you can do?"), but then Ripley shows that she knows what she's doing and earns their respect, and they start laughing at her sass and their own initial underestimation of her. Note that Apone's last line is much more courteous: "Bay 12, please."
27:34 Gorman ends up being such an interesting character in this movie. It would have been so easy to have both him and Burke run from the firefight together and have them both killed off in satisfying "villain deaths." But you come to realize that Gorman isn't a villain. Not like Burke. He's just an inexperienced officer who probably isn't cut out for a leadership role. But you put him in a situation where the burden of command is taken off his shoulders (once Hicks and Ripley are giving orders), and the dude is still a Marine. Even willing to run back into danger to try to rescue an injured member of his team. This is the kind of thing that I love about James Cameron's writing. He often times manages to give these side characters, which easily could've been one-note, just a little extra depth to flesh them out a bit and make the audience care.
For some reason, after seeing this movie so many times it's become comfort food for me, the scene that still stresses me out to this day is waiting for Ripley to move her leg out of the way when the airlock door is closing.
It’s everything that makes a great sequel. It respects the original and *builds* on it instead of just giving “memberberries”. The plot is essentially the same (survive scary aliens and escape), but it doesn’t hesitate to introduce new characters that you grow to care about and further develop Ripley as we learn more about the kind of person she is (smart, learns quickly, takes no bullshit, cares about human life, and the director’s cut lets us know she was a mother). She’s my favorite scifi hero
Fun fact: Apparently, Carrie Henn (Newt) loved sliding down the slide so much (in the scene where Ripley grabs her but only gets her jacket) that she kept deliberately blowing the scene so Cameron would have to keep doing more takes and she would get to keep sliding. Finally, he had to promise her that if she got the scene right, he would let her slide as much as she wanted, and the next take was perfect.
Yeah! Cameron's got a rep for being a hard-nosed taskmaster on set, but even he seems to have a soft side. He also made sure that the water wasn't frigid cold for the scene after that, since she had to spend a good amount of time in it.
2:32 "I'm really happy this came out 7 years later than the original movie because it makes me confident that they didn't just rush into it as a cash grab". That made me smile, as the wiki entry for this movie says 'The title Aliens reportedly came from Cameron writing "Alien" on a whiteboard during a pitch meeting and adding a "$" suffix'. I guess Alien$ got the Fox executives excited.
My read on Apone & Hicks' laughing about Ripley driving the power loader is that they *are* surprised, and are laughing at how wrong their assumptions were. It's their first glimpse of how capable Ripley is.
You have to understand that in the mid 80s, there were a lot fewer women in working in blue collar jobs, so this scene showing women confront sexism in the workplace would have been especially relevant. Women in blue collar jobs was also touched upon in the late 70s/early 80s movies Norma Rae, Silkwood, and even Flashdance, among others.
@@dereknolin5986Nothing to do with being a woman. Vasquez and Ferro are capable soldiers. This is a class issue, which was also there in Alien. Parker and Bret were the lower working class.
I think the "where do you want it?" also has an implied "shove it up your a-s", and they like the directness & no bullshit attitude. In addition to respecting her game.
A subtle thing is almost every character gets a story arc. Ripley conquers her fear, Hudson overcomes his cowardice, Lieutenant Gorman goes from overwhelmed to sacrifice, Newt learns to trust again, Bishop redeems androids, Burke gets his come-uppance ♥️🤟😎♥️
24:00 No, it was just Burk. They show us, that he: - took the rifle which Ripley put on top of a bed, and put it on the table outside of a room - open two jars with facehuggers from the lab (it's what Ripley notice when awake), it's the same jars from the begining when they arrived to colony - lock the room - turn off the camera
I don't stop by very often but when I do, it's reassuring to know that you are STILL taking notes - kinda reminds me of 5 years ago when you first started. So pleased you had the nous to go with Aliens. Director's cut gives so much more depth ... but the story stays the same. Thanks Cass.🤗 Oh - LOVE the tee. Classy.
This movie is the reason that nobody trusted Paul Reiser's character when he showed up on Stranger Things, and why so many people were pleasantly surprised when it turned out that Dr. Owens was a good guy!
Paul Riser was hired for Stranger Things, and basically told to play his character as Burke, knowing that the audience would automatically distrust him. Wonderful genre specific subversion.
The directors cut is worth watching when/if you ever rewatch this - most of it is padding - apart from one really important scene which underscores much of Ripley's motivation in the second half of the film. No idea why the studio cut it - it's no more than a minute or two - and adds so much.
You really should’ve watched the extended cut in it. You find out that Ripley had a daughter that grew old and died and she promised to come back for her 11th birthday, which is the reason Ripley is so protective of the little girl.
2:55 "All that dust..." Nope. Ice. Space is cold and once all the living people and cats were napping, the shuttle turned off life support. No heat. That let the air freeze. Moisture in the air (humidity) freezes, but there would be very little of that (just like airplanes here on earth). Even the oxygen eventually freezes in the cold of space, so most of that is just frozen air.
Hey Cass! Paul Reiser doesn't always play a disgusting, money-grubbing corporate scumbag in all of his roles. In fact, he usually plays a nice guy. One of his most famous roles is in a sitcom called "Mad About You" (1992-1999), in which he and Helen Hunt play a young married couple living in New York City. It's a great show, and he's really funny in it! You should check it out! With any luck, his role as Paul Buchman will erase for you all the damage that the character of Burke did to the name Paul Reiser! 😉
My favorite fun fact about Paul Reiser is that it seems like every character he plays always answers the phone by saying "yello" instead of "hello." Burke does it in this one, so did Jeffrey in Beverly Hills Cop, and Paul Buchman on Mad About You did too.
I’ve read several of his interviews, and he “really is an okay guy”! 😄 He’s one of my favorite characters in this movie; I think his acting is on-point in every scene he’s in. 👍
@@GaryBonaducci I've heard that, too. He just seems like he would be a really nice guy! That being said, I wonder how hard it was for him to play a greedy, slimy, backstabbing snake in this movie. 🤔
There is something really nice about watching competent people do their jobs competently. The Colonial Marines are the archetype for most space Marines going forward.
Aliens is a war movie, there's a difference, would you say Band of Brothers is an action show? People always blind to the horrors of war and misinterpret marines firing big guns as being somehow a "cool" thing without grasping the context it's shown in.
I just wanted to say I adored rewatching this with you. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and seeing you react to all the big moments was great. Laughed out loud when you googled Paul Reiser and realized who he was 😂
I love how you recognized the "classic" element of the first movie and the "epicness" of the second as two separate things, making it reasonable to call them both on the same level, rather than choosing one over the other.
"Guess she don't like the cornbread either" is one of my favourite lines in this movie. Love it. For any classic Doctor Who fans, that actor playing Private Frost, Rico Ross, is the Ringmaster in Greatest Show in the Galaxy, in case you didn't know.
9:20 Because she's a former flight officer and would never do low-end manual labor, except the Company revoked her flight officer status and declared her mentally unfit, so she could only get a crappy job and a crappy apartment. Burke already made fun of her for that, and Ferro called her Snow White.
Fun reaction, but it's legit depressing that so many women misinterpret the first scene between Ripley, Hicks, and Apone, not understanding why they're laughing. It's admiration and surprise at how competent this civilian turned out to be. It's respect, not condescension. Tell us someone hurt you without telling us someone hurt you.
Absolutely! Very well said. It's grudgingly conceding that, ok... maybe she has some skills after all. She showed us.... and it served us right for assuming she couldn't do it. 😄🇬🇧
I forget whether they know she's 57 years behind the times. But in addition to being a civilian, they probably also figure she's a "suit" instead of the blue-collar worker she was in the first movie.
Indeed, I'm pretty sure the soldiers expected a civ consultant to sit back in the control room sipping cocktails while telling the grunts how they are all doing it wrong.
it can be read both ways. and frankly many women have good reason to interpret it that way from their own experience. the fact that you automatically assume their laughter is benign and not condescending is showing your own cognitive bias
[Paul Reiser on playing the corrupt Carter Burke in Aliens (1986)] I was just following the corporate manifest, but at the premiere my sister punched me in the stomach. I thought, "This doesn't bode well for the public.".
25:17 'My brain just doesnt even go to the lengths that people would do...' Like in "Galaxy Quest" with the Thermians learning the new concept of 'lies'.
Brilliant review, so glad you enjoyed it. I believe somewhere, there is actually a deleted scene of Burkes fate. I came across it on TH-cam along time ago
One of the things people don't understand about the scene where Ripley drives the loader and the guys laugh about it is look at it from their perspective. As far as they know, she was probably just a name in a personnel file a few days ago to them and that she's been asleep for 60 years. Imagine someone from 1964 waking up in 2024. Computers were really just in movies and actual computers were the size of entire bedrooms. Now she hasn't been awake that long and suddenly shows she's mastered a technology that probably wasn't even around the last time she was awake. Imagine that same person from the 1960's sitting down and starts coding after only having been awake a few months, you might laugh and be suitable impressed too.
Awesome reaction, especially when realizing that "Paul Reiser from Stranger Things" is Burke - my single fave reaction moment to this movie (and I've watched pretty much every reaction to it), ah-mazing! And love that Cass' diligent note taking is still going strong, she caught onto those names quick!
When Ripley uses the power loader as they're loading up, the reaction from Apone and Hicks is because she broke their expectation that she was, as Ferro put it, "snow white". They're impressed, and react like many people do when that happens; they laugh. But from that point on, they both have much more respect for her. It's part of why Hicks and Ripley start to connect. The motion trackers are indeed designed to sound like a heart beat. It's an amazing way to build suspense. I love that detail. The actress who played Newt has only ever done that role. She's a teacher now. She does show up at cons and such, but she decided against showbiz. Gorman was picked by Burke because he's green and Burke figured he'd be easy to control. Burke went there for a sample for the weapons division, and he knew that either it was all a broken transmitter in which case it wouldn't matter, or he'd have Ripley's creature, in which case he figured as long as he can get a facehugger or an impregnated person back, he'll be golden. Gorman's uselessness is, ironically, why he was picked. All of the effects in this movie are practical. Some are miniatures, but it's all practical. No CGI. It wasn't around. The dropship crashing into the APC was filmed from several directions, but it looked pretty hokey in all shots but the one used. You should have heard the audience in the theatres back in the day when Ripley came out in her "transformer". That cheer! Still brings me chills to remember it. Alien and Aliens are different kinds of movies. Alien is a slow burn horror movie. Cameron realized that it's not possible to make a second slow burn horror movie when the creature is, as one might put it, out of the bag. So he turned it into an action movie with horror elements. Often a discussion of "which is best" ends up being about which style of movie one prefers. Me, I love both of them, and the entire franchise. Yeah, some of the movies are kinda duds, but on the whole, I can't help but loving all of it.
The directing is genius: James Cameron only had five working alien costumes (aside from the queen), and they're only on screen for less than a minute total of the entire movie, but he makes you think there are hundreds of them using surrogates like the motion trackers and the staticky helmet camera images
First of all, your dog is freaking adorable. So cute. Anyways, I watched your Alien reaction and I'm excited to watch this one. I see you like Buffy from your other reactions. You may have already been told about this from another viewer, but the tv series Firefly is a fan favorite. My favorite show of all time. It has lots of characters that were in Buffy, Angel & other Joss Whedon shows. The show was cancelled during the first season, so they made 14 episodes. FOX aired only some of them, and out of order. So it was doomed for cancellation from the start. The show was ahead of its time. Great character development and a complex and growing story. They made a movie to answer some open questions, and it was amazing - Serenity. If you've already been recommended this show, I hope you aren't still reading my rambling comment. lol. I hope you continue to do more movie reactions in addition to the shows. There are so many hidden gems out there. Thanks for sharing your reaction (and working to get it posted on YT). Stay awesome!
There are four worthy entries in the Alien franchise: Alien, Aliens, Alien:Isolation (yes, the game) and Alien:Romulus. They all feature countdowns, by the way. They really, really like their countdowns.
...and they lived happily ever after, the end. Hicks and Apone smirking with contempt before Ripley uses the loader early on is due to their military team being saddled with a civilian who they think is going to be a hinderance and assume is another company stooge like Burke. Then laughing after she shows she can operate industrial machinery is definitely a respect thing. Not a company stooge after all. She's worked for a living somewhere before and managed to surprise them. Not sure anyone has mentioned the tale that Paul Reiser's mum cheered in the cinema when Burke died.
If you happen to react to or watch Alien 3, I highly recommend watching the 'Assembly Cut', sometimes referred to as the Special Edition, instead of the theatrical cut. Better version with alternate, extended, and added scenes.
The directing is genius: James Cameron only had five working alien costumes and they're only on screen for less than a minute total of the entire movie (not counting the queen who has more screen time), but he makes you think there are hundreds by using surrogates like the motion trackers and the staticky helmet camera images
A lot of reactors tend to think guns won't do anything to the aliens because of the first movie. What you have to remember is that these are Colonial Marines with military weapons. In the first movie it was glorified truck drivers using whatever they could come up with.
3:01 That's ice, not dust. She's been in cryosleep, they freeze them just enough to slow their biorhythms right down 6:58 Yeah only cos she was running about trying to find the darn thing last time ! 39:44 Android 40:05 You should react to the recent Alien : Romulus, it's based between the first and second. 40:27 YES ! Alien Resurrection is a MUST if you enjoyed the first movie, the music is the same (from the first movie's soundtrack with additional material) and the environment is very evocative of the first movie.
Yes. While in hyper sleep Ripley had some really awful nightmares but then she woke up and they were back on earth, whee they lived happily ever after. 👍
I was a little kid when mom took me and my younger sister to see this in the theater back in 86. I had no idea what to expect, I vaguely remembered the original movie at the time and figured it would be more in line with that movie, more of the same thing. But seeing this changed my life, I had no idea horror movies could be action packed, emotional and still keep me scared. No other horror movie at that time had did this to me.
Wonderful reaction!! The way you were clutching your blanket at the end haha, it was so tense!! A perfectly executed movie if Ive ever seen one. Sadly the 3rd one sucks and Im sure plenty are telling you to skip it. IF you decide to watch it, please lower your expectations by 100%. Alien: Resurrection isn't great, but it's fun. Well, looking forward to the next one!
Ok, Cass. The first movie in any series is designed to introduce you to the subject. Any follow-up is to expand on the blueprint. Whether it's made by the original director or another. Ridley Scott made ALIEN as a tribute to the sci-fi movies of his youth in 195o's. Which is why you have the long shots, slow building of tension by having a part of the equation. James Cameron was a young director making his name with TERMINATOR when he came aboard to write and direct the sequel. Which he made as an action movie more modern in approach. Both stand on their own merit. BLADE RUNNER was the next project Scott made after ALIEN. It stars Harrison Ford and the great Rutger Hauer. It is followed by BLADE RUNNER 2o49 with Ryan Gosling. The decision is yours to make. There is information in the directors cut of ALIENS concerning Ripley you missed as to why her relationship with Newt is important. You can watch that on your own. Keep going.
Aliens was a box office success， but some of James Cameron's settings were not recognized by Ridley Scott.James describe Xenomorphs as termite-like creatures. So we won't see Alien Queen in Ridley's Alien movies.I love Alien Series and I went to cinema for Romulus for many times.Greetings from Shanghai.
The Director's Cut is so sublime; totally worth watching even if its on your own time. 70s, 80s, and 90s movies are basically academies in human depravity; they had even more anti-corporate and anti-establishment content than today's stuff. We learned a lot about the Burkes of the world by watching them. Apone & Hicks are just used to consultants being like Burke: office drones with 2 left feet. So when Ripley was looking for something to do they were skeptical; when she showed she was competent, they respected her. It's not a gender thing, it's a job title thing. Cameron didn't know enough about the Marines when he wrote it, so he unintentionally modeled them after Vietnam-era regular Army: lots of conscripts and short-timers looking for a job and government benefits. Drake and Vasquez came from an orphanage and juvenile detention facilities. In reality Marines are *much* more disciplined and well-trained than this. However, if you notice, these frat boys--even Hudson--are actually very good at their jobs once they get on the ground.
This is a great movie, but one weird thing about it is that they obviously have not just faster than light space travel but also faster than light radio, yet it's never mentioned or alluded to in any way.
Great reaction to what is absolutely a scifi horror tearjerker! This is the perfect ending to the Alien saga. Everything that steals the name after this is just half-assed money grabs cashing in on the Alien/Aliens name. I went to watch Alien3 but hated it so badly from the start that I walked out barely half an hour into the movie. I've never watched anything else from the extended series, and I suggest that other people should never do so either. That's just my opinion though, and it's worth what you paid for it: nothing. In my mind the canon end to the story was that Hicks fully recovered from his wounds and he and Ripley got married and adopted Newt. Living comfortably off of the huge payout that the company was forced to make, they settled down to focus on being parents and giving Newt the love she needed, and getting it in return. Bishop's memories and personality were put into a new Bishop body and he lived as a butler/valet/friend with his good friends the Hicks family. Michael Biehn as Hicks at least survived this movie, and having him survive was a nice twist on the 'everyone but one person dies' horror movie trope. And the old joke held true: If he doesn't have a mustache he's a good guy. The actress who played Vasquez, the ultimate bad-A marine, Jenette Goldstein, is in three of my top twelve favorite movie series, and sadly she dies in all three. She's still awesome here though. Bill Paxton as Hudson was great. He was scared as crap, but when it was time for action he was right there in the thick of it, doing the best he could, no matter what. And once he was focused he kicked ass: cracking access to the doors on first entry, tapping into the systems to find the layout, and scared as he was he was all in for the fighting at the end, dying bravely in combat. One of my favorite stories about this movie was told by Paul Reiser who played Carter Burke. He took his mother to the premiere and told her nothing about the movie beforehand. She joined in with the rest of the audience applauding when Burke died, and from an article I read he said that for weeks afterward every time they saw each other when she first saw him she got this look of disgust on her face, this "I can't believe you did that to those people" kind of look. That's what made him really believe that he could be an actor. I really like the extended version because it adds a lot of great backstory early on in the movie about Ripley finding out about her daughter, which makes everything about Newt that much more poignant. And I'm a bitter, jaded old man with no heart or emotions to speak of (or so I'm told), but I still get teary eyed when Newt calls Ripley 'Mommy' at the end. In spite of my past work in computers I'm absolutely a practical FX person, because digital FX are overused and rushed to the point of usually being awful. I am always amazed at the eerie but kinda sickly beautiful work that went into the practical FX for this movie. Not just the aliens themselves, though they are incredible, but all the set dressing, the puppetry/animatronics, makeup and costuming, everything. The queen was basically a super sized puppet, but they did such an amazing job making it look terrifyingly real! The reveal of the queen in the movie was the first time either Sigorney Weaver or Carrie Henn (Ripley and Newt respectively) had seen it, so their stunned reactions are even more real. I have my own Aliens movie story, which I think is amusing: After I graduated high school, I became an advisor for the church youth group I had belonged to before graduating. In 1988, when I was 20, we had a lock-in one fall weekend. The high school youth were allowed to pick movies to rent for the lock in. Aliens was one of the ones chosen. I had kind of seen it before, but it was as background while hanging out with friends, so I didn't know much about it. We started watching it around 11 p.m. All of the adults and most of the teens had gone to sleep in the rooms set aside for that, while a few teens and I started watching Aliens in the High School Sunday School room in the large mostly underground downstairs of the large church. The teens all left and went to sleep before we reached the halfway point, but I was interested so I stayed up and finished the movie. It was now around 1 a.m. All the lights were off because everyone but me was asleep. My last task before I could sleep was to go around the unlocked areas of the downstairs and make sure none of the teens had snuck off to do anything they shouldn't have. So here I am, walking through dark cinder block walled hallways with exposed ductwork overhead, and no lights except for the occasional faint red lights of the "Exit" signs. My heart is beating like a jackhammer as I carefully edge my way through the dark halls, knowing that there are no xenomorphs but still expecting some kind of jump scare that's going to make me lash out and crap myself at the same time. Luckily, everyone was fast asleep and I finished my rounds and went and lay down, but it was probably the least restful sleep I had and the most nervous I had ever been in church.
Alien: Romulus, the latest movie in this franchise, is worth watching for a reaction video too. You could also add Prometheus and Covenant before that because they provide a small amount of backstory information for Romulus.
I will never understand why they cut the scene where they talk about Ripley's daughter Amanda (who happens to be the main character in the game Alien Isolation). For one, that scene makes it even more clear why Ripley gets so attached to Newt. And we get to see what happened to Newt's family. And also, without that scene, the 57 years reveal leads directly into the chestburster nightmare scene, which makes it look like the 57 years reveal is part of the nightmare, which it isn't, she really was adrift in space for 57 years. Lance Henriksen did an amazing job as Bishop, and also as Admiral Steven Hackett in the Mass Effect trilogy. Mmmm, I have to say, that wet and soggy donut looks yummy 😆 Regarding the sequels, there shouldn't be any. As far as I'm concerned, you can watch the first two movies, and leave it at that. Alien 3 is somewhat ok, I guess, but I do not like the beginning, and I have a feeling you won't either. Resurrection is also ok, but the ending made me go wtaf... Prometheus and Covenant are a bit too complicated for their own good. I haven't watched Romulus yet, so I can't really comment on that one.
I really enjoyed your reactions. It holds up so well that people are still pulled in forty years later! Please share your reactions to the third and fourth films - they are still good. It's only the modern ones that are dicey. I don't think Hicks had a crush on Ripley, he simply admired her greatly. That's one of the things I really liked about the first two films, they didn't shoehorn in romance.
You should've watched the director's cut. You missed some important plot points especially one involving Ripley's daughter, the life of the colony before the aliens took over, the sentry guns which explains why the aliens decide to use the rooftop and more interaction between Ripley and Hicks which hints on a romance between them.
This was a great movie, and a great reaction. Thanks. Side note, your hairdo is very nice! [EDIT: The small speech from Bishop near the beginning about being unable to harm a human being, or through inaction, cause a human being to come to harm are a direct reference to an author I read throughout my misspent youth, Isaac Asimov. I suspect if you look him up, it will mention the three laws of a positronic brain. They were a pivotal part of the rather poor movie from 2004 with Will Smith, "I, Robot". As a fan from childhood of the author, I was not enchanted by that movie adaptation.]
Now you HAVE to see Alien Romulus. It is supposed to play out between the first Alien movie and this one. Alien Romulus did a fantastic job at making it look like these two movies. Romulus and the first alien movie along with this is my three favourite movies in the alien series.
This was meant to drop on Halloween, but Disney blocked the video - I've tried multiple re-edits & this one is currently demonetized, but going through a copyright dispute. If Disney rejects my dispute, the video will get taken down, but they have 28 days to respond & I really don't want to wait 28 days to post this for you guys! Hopefully this won't be taken down; if so, I'll just have to continue to cut it down more and more.
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Not the special edition? Well, that was a mistake.
@DrJohnnyFever. Completely false and ignorant. First of all, Cameron himself edited down the original story, and only for time. Not for creative reasons. The special edition restored those deleted scenes, it's Cameron's preferred version, it's preferred by fans 2:1, and NO ONE who watches it first complains about the "pace," the "mystery," or any of those BS excuses. No one.
going up against The Mouse..good luck!
@@DrJohnnyFever.But an editor did recut the special edition.
@@officialcassreacts because they're owned by Disney, teeeeechnically the xenomorph is a Disney Princess 😯🤣🤣
The director's cut goes even deeper for the Newt/Ripley relationship. It adds a scene detailing that Ripley was a mother and lost her child to old age when she was floating in space. It gives a real extra dimension to her finding a 'new daughter'.
I hate that Disney plus only has the cut version
@@dannyjorde2677This is a movie you should own on Blu-Ray and upload the digital copy to TH-cam so you can see it whenever and not blame Disney. Like when you’re sitting around not doing anything and you feel “Man. I gotta watch some Aliens.”
@@dannyjorde2677 And that is one of the reason I have Alien quardtrilogy as a dvd box. Extended versions are good... though it does not safe Alien 4 to be a meh.
It's a bit on the nose.
I genuinely prefer the theatrical cut. The pacing and narrative is a LOT tighter and the extra character development for Ripley isn't really needed.
"How can he sleep through this."
From what I'm given to understand, the ability to grab a bit of sleep whenever you can is the mark of a veteran soldier.
Seriously. In the army I slept every chance I could get. You always eat, hydrate, use the bathroom, sleep, shower, change socks whenever you get a chance because you sometimes don't know when that next chance will be and you're always TIRED..
While this is true, there's another aspect as well. Part of the purpose of this scene is to show how tough these space marines are (or think they are). And it does so in various ways. Drake fixes his camera by slamming his head against the seat. Hudson brags about their skills and equipment. And although anyone in that situation would have good reason to be tense and nervous, Hicks is so relaxed that he falls asleep.
@@toddhadley9002I think it's mostly this actually. It's to show these Marines really are tough and unafraid and unaffected by a mission. And then show that mission actually frighten them. It's just good visual storytelling..
I was never in the military, but I'm able to sleep at a loud party or take a nap during an MRI. I've also been on trains that bounce around a lot and can sleep through that too.
Yeah when I was in the army and we were out on week-long exercises you slept whenever and wherever basically. I even fell asleep while walking once and woke up when the ground came up and hit me in the face.
when Paul Reiser took his mother to the premiere for this, she cheered when he finally recieeved his comeuppance.
9:26 They are laughing because they are impressed with her! She wants to get involved and jumps right in
Exactly, remember, shes is an 'advisor' on this mission. A Role that has alot of negative notions to it. A smart ass, a desk jocky, dead weight, etc. She showed them she can be and will be useful.
@ Well said, definitely a scene that men tend to understand better than women, it’s not that the men are laughing at her but are laughing because she showed her utility to the team.
Yep, laughter is one of the brain's coping mechanisms for when it's surprised by something. They thought she was some skittish, tag-along civilian who was there to give her little insight at the briefing and nothing more. Seeing her proficiently and voluntarily jump into the dirty work and then throw some sass back at them for their assumptions simply wasn't something they were expecting. I love this scene because it shows how Ripley keeps getting into these leadership roles. It's more than just her rank. It's the fact that she's smart, she knows what she's doing, and she's so good at understanding and ingratiating herself with people. She's the kind of person that commands people's respect through her actions, and the kind of leader that people listen to and believe in. It's why she's one of my all-time favorite fictional characters.
9:20
They’re admiring her. It’s a look of admiration from jarheads who usually despise or don’t take civilians seriously
Ripley could easily be a Srgt or Captain
“Bay 12, please.” 😊
I think the "where do you want it" was meant to be sort of ironically reversed crude sexual innuendo. She says it with a sly look and the smirks and laughs in return were the guys getting the joke. That said, Cameron's dialog is often a bit unnatural, particularly in this case, so it's hard to be sure.
Reactors always miss my favorite line: Hudson (Bill Paxton): "Hey Vasquez! You ever get mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez: "No. Have you?" 💀
A thousand thumbs up!!
The actress they played Vasquez is the foster mother of John Conner from Terminator 2, and Bill Paxton was in Terminator as one of the punks killed at the beginning. And Lance Hendrixsen was one of the Cops in Terminator as well.
Yep, a Jewish actress in brownface. Ah, the 80s...
“Fade to black and don’t come back…” Exactly… they returned to Earth and lived happily ever after. Any sequels are scenarios from an alternative universe and have no bearing on this happy ending.
FACT !
Agreed
Watch more at your own risk.
At 9:19, when Apone and Hicks smirk and finally laugh out loud, I think it is because they are so surprised at how capable and really skillful Ripley is driving the loader.
There's no mocking nor cruelty, nor envy or anything negative in their expressions, they are pleasently surprised at having a fully capable "passenger/advisor" with them.
I've watched this film many times, and in the background you can see how one of the other soldiers handles the loader, and in a few seconds of Ripley handling her loader you can tell how proficient and skilled she is with it.
Réaction féministe d'aujourd'hui.
She also dropped the 'where do you want it?' joke and they laughed.
I think that scene was written so that Apone is sarcastically dismissive of her at first when she asks if there's anything she can do (and he patronizingly responds, I don't know, is there anything you can do?"), but then Ripley shows that she knows what she's doing and earns their respect, and they start laughing at her sass and their own initial underestimation of her. Note that Apone's last line is much more courteous: "Bay 12, please."
38:00 "They're not gonna kill the kid"... LMAO
27:34 Gorman ends up being such an interesting character in this movie. It would have been so easy to have both him and Burke run from the firefight together and have them both killed off in satisfying "villain deaths." But you come to realize that Gorman isn't a villain. Not like Burke. He's just an inexperienced officer who probably isn't cut out for a leadership role. But you put him in a situation where the burden of command is taken off his shoulders (once Hicks and Ripley are giving orders), and the dude is still a Marine. Even willing to run back into danger to try to rescue an injured member of his team. This is the kind of thing that I love about James Cameron's writing. He often times manages to give these side characters, which easily could've been one-note, just a little extra depth to flesh them out a bit and make the audience care.
For some reason, after seeing this movie so many times it's become comfort food for me, the scene that still stresses me out to this day is waiting for Ripley to move her leg out of the way when the airlock door is closing.
It’s everything that makes a great sequel. It respects the original and *builds* on it instead of just giving “memberberries”. The plot is essentially the same (survive scary aliens and escape), but it doesn’t hesitate to introduce new characters that you grow to care about and further develop Ripley as we learn more about the kind of person she is (smart, learns quickly, takes no bullshit, cares about human life, and the director’s cut lets us know she was a mother). She’s my favorite scifi hero
Fun fact: Apparently, Carrie Henn (Newt) loved sliding down the slide so much (in the scene where Ripley grabs her but only gets her jacket) that she kept deliberately blowing the scene so Cameron would have to keep doing more takes and she would get to keep sliding. Finally, he had to promise her that if she got the scene right, he would let her slide as much as she wanted, and the next take was perfect.
True, it was a 40 foot slide and she loved it.
Yeah! Cameron's got a rep for being a hard-nosed taskmaster on set, but even he seems to have a soft side. He also made sure that the water wasn't frigid cold for the scene after that, since she had to spend a good amount of time in it.
2:32 "I'm really happy this came out 7 years later than the original movie because it makes me confident that they didn't just rush into it as a cash grab".
That made me smile, as the wiki entry for this movie says 'The title Aliens reportedly came from Cameron writing "Alien" on a whiteboard during a pitch meeting and adding a "$" suffix'. I guess Alien$ got the Fox executives excited.
My read on Apone & Hicks' laughing about Ripley driving the power loader is that they *are* surprised, and are laughing at how wrong their assumptions were. It's their first glimpse of how capable Ripley is.
Apone knows what the ladies like. Dakka
yeah thats the gist
You have to understand that in the mid 80s, there were a lot fewer women in working in blue collar jobs, so this scene showing women confront sexism in the workplace would have been especially relevant. Women in blue collar jobs was also touched upon in the late 70s/early 80s movies Norma Rae, Silkwood, and even Flashdance, among others.
@@dereknolin5986Nothing to do with being a woman. Vasquez and Ferro are capable soldiers. This is a class issue, which was also there in Alien. Parker and Bret were the lower working class.
I think the "where do you want it?" also has an implied "shove it up your a-s", and they like the directness & no bullshit attitude. In addition to respecting her game.
A subtle thing is almost every character gets a story arc. Ripley conquers her fear, Hudson overcomes his cowardice, Lieutenant Gorman goes from overwhelmed to sacrifice, Newt learns to trust again, Bishop redeems androids, Burke gets his come-uppance ♥️🤟😎♥️
Hudson was never a coward.
And Vasquez says Hudson may be right. :D
Which is more than I can say for any of the characters in Alien, including Ripley
Almost every character? 85% of the marines don’t get jack.
@Hibbs4Prez The other marines are peripheral characters
omg cass playing alien isolation would heal me
24:00 No, it was just Burk. They show us, that he:
- took the rifle which Ripley put on top of a bed, and put it on the table outside of a room
- open two jars with facehuggers from the lab (it's what Ripley notice when awake), it's the same jars from the begining when they arrived to colony
- lock the room
- turn off the camera
There is a story that when Paul Reiser's mother watched the movie, she cheered berk's death. There is a deleted scene on youtube with his fate.
Yeah Ripley gives him a grenade.
RIP Bill Paxton. Only actor to take on a Xenomorph, a predator, and a terminator.
Lance Henriksen also took on all three.
@@lazyhominid which terminator film was he in?
@@Mohegan13 AvP.
@@lazyhominid And "The Terminator". Henriksen was one of the officers in the police station.
@@Mohegan13 which Terminator was LANCE HENDRICKSON in??????????????????????????????
Knife scene: "My cousins always did this this to me." 👀
I don't stop by very often but when I do, it's reassuring to know that you are STILL taking notes - kinda reminds me of 5 years ago when you first started. So pleased you had the nous to go with Aliens. Director's cut gives so much more depth ... but the story stays the same. Thanks Cass.🤗 Oh - LOVE the tee. Classy.
This movie is the reason that nobody trusted Paul Reiser's character when he showed up on Stranger Things, and why so many people were pleasantly surprised when it turned out that Dr. Owens was a good guy!
I don't trust him in mad about you, now.
It didn't help that he called Eleven "Kiddo" in ST, just like he did with Ripley in Aliens
In their first drafts the Duffer Brothers actually referred to Dr. Owens as Paul Reiser before settling on a name for the character.
He always plays the same character, and never really acts.
Knutt calling Ripley "mommy" is the most touching moment in this entire saga
Paul Riser was hired for Stranger Things, and basically told to play his character as Burke, knowing that the audience would automatically distrust him.
Wonderful genre specific subversion.
James Cameron with two of the best sequels of all time - this and T2. Both arguably better than the originals.
3 of the best sequels ever made as far as I'm concerned
The directors cut is worth watching when/if you ever rewatch this - most of it is padding - apart from one really important scene which underscores much of Ripley's motivation in the second half of the film. No idea why the studio cut it - it's no more than a minute or two - and adds so much.
Check out the movies The Thing(1982), The Terminator(1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991), Predator(1987), and Predator 2(1990).
You really should’ve watched the extended cut in it. You find out that Ripley had a daughter that grew old and died and she promised to come back for her 11th birthday, which is the reason Ripley is so protective of the little girl.
2:55 "All that dust..."
Nope.
Ice.
Space is cold and once all the living people and cats were napping, the shuttle turned off life support. No heat.
That let the air freeze.
Moisture in the air (humidity) freezes, but there would be very little of that (just like airplanes here on earth).
Even the oxygen eventually freezes in the cold of space, so most of that is just frozen air.
Slither is a good horror comedy that not many people react to. Really good reaction.
Hey Cass! Paul Reiser doesn't always play a disgusting, money-grubbing corporate scumbag in all of his roles. In fact, he usually plays a nice guy. One of his most famous roles is in a sitcom called "Mad About You" (1992-1999), in which he and Helen Hunt play a young married couple living in New York City. It's a great show, and he's really funny in it! You should check it out! With any luck, his role as Paul Buchman will erase for you all the damage that the character of Burke did to the name Paul Reiser! 😉
Paul Reiser was so good as Burke that when Reiser's mother saw Burke die at the movie premiere, she said, "Good".
My favorite fun fact about Paul Reiser is that it seems like every character he plays always answers the phone by saying "yello" instead of "hello." Burke does it in this one, so did Jeffrey in Beverly Hills Cop, and Paul Buchman on Mad About You did too.
I’ve read several of his interviews, and he “really is an okay guy”! 😄
He’s one of my favorite characters in this movie; I think his acting is on-point in every scene he’s in. 👍
@@GaryBonaducci I've heard that, too. He just seems like he would be a really nice guy! That being said, I wonder how hard it was for him to play a greedy, slimy, backstabbing snake in this movie. 🤔
@@GaryBonaducci I'm a big fan of Paul Reiser
There is something really nice about watching competent people do their jobs competently. The Colonial Marines are the archetype for most space Marines going forward.
Wait, are you saying the Marines were competent?
"Alien" is a horror movie with action elements, "Aliens" is an action movie with horror elements".
Aliens is a war movie, there's a difference, would you say Band of Brothers is an action show? People always blind to the horrors of war and misinterpret marines firing big guns as being somehow a "cool" thing without grasping the context it's shown in.
Queen takes Bishop!
I guess somebody had to say it.
It's game over, man!
I just wanted to say I adored rewatching this with you. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and seeing you react to all the big moments was great. Laughed out loud when you googled Paul Reiser and realized who he was 😂
That James Cameron kid just might make it as a director.
I don't know... Kinda iffy.
I love how you recognized the "classic" element of the first movie and the "epicness" of the second as two separate things, making it reasonable to call them both on the same level, rather than choosing one over the other.
Great reaction!
Aliens (1986), but the director's cut (or Special Edition) is the best version!
If you can, you should at some point watch it!
"Guess she don't like the cornbread either" is one of my favourite lines in this movie. Love it. For any classic Doctor Who fans, that actor playing Private Frost, Rico Ross, is the Ringmaster in Greatest Show in the Galaxy, in case you didn't know.
As for Hicks sleeping on the dropship, combat veterans will tell you, you eat and sleep when you can.
The best, most insightful reaction to Aliens I've ever seen. Nicely done!
9:20 Because she's a former flight officer and would never do low-end manual labor, except the Company revoked her flight officer status and declared her mentally unfit, so she could only get a crappy job and a crappy apartment. Burke already made fun of her for that, and Ferro called her Snow White.
@glennjpanting2081 Same difference.
@@glennjpanting2081 No sh1t, Sherlock. The point is that Ferro and Vasquez were lower class and Ripley middle class.
At the end of the film Hicks, Ripley & Newt return to Earth and live happily ever after...The End.
🤣🤣🤣🤣Yeah ok and Kumala won the election.
LMAO
Saw it release night July 86 when I was just 5😂
Talk about a movie experience! Hudson stole every scene
The Alien duology is a masterpiece. Glad they didn't try to make more.
Quite amazing that no one has decided to do more given the long term success of these two movies
FACT !
Fun reaction, but it's legit depressing that so many women misinterpret the first scene between Ripley, Hicks, and Apone, not understanding why they're laughing. It's admiration and surprise at how competent this civilian turned out to be. It's respect, not condescension. Tell us someone hurt you without telling us someone hurt you.
Absolutely! Very well said. It's grudgingly conceding that, ok... maybe she has some skills after all. She showed us.... and it served us right for assuming she couldn't do it. 😄🇬🇧
I forget whether they know she's 57 years behind the times. But in addition to being a civilian, they probably also figure she's a "suit" instead of the blue-collar worker she was in the first movie.
Indeed, I'm pretty sure the soldiers expected a civ consultant to sit back in the control room sipping cocktails while telling the grunts how they are all doing it wrong.
Yes, note that Apone's tone changes from initially sarcastic and patronizing, to the much more courteous, "Bay 12, please."
it can be read both ways. and frankly many women have good reason to interpret it that way from their own experience. the fact that you automatically assume their laughter is benign and not condescending is showing your own cognitive bias
[Paul Reiser on playing the corrupt Carter Burke in Aliens (1986)] I was just following the corporate manifest, but at the premiere my sister punched me in the stomach. I thought, "This doesn't bode well for the public.".
25:17 'My brain just doesnt even go to the lengths that people would do...' Like in "Galaxy Quest" with the Thermians learning the new concept of 'lies'.
Can I just say, despite his failing as noob at the start, Gorman is the Goat at the end
Nope.
Redeemed slightly. I wouldn't say goat.
Brilliant review, so glad you enjoyed it. I believe somewhere, there is actually a deleted scene of Burkes fate. I came across it on TH-cam along time ago
The scene where Hicks is sound asleep during the drop foreshadows that he's the quiet one who'll turn out to be the coolest under pressure
One of the things people don't understand about the scene where Ripley drives the loader and the guys laugh about it is look at it from their perspective. As far as they know, she was probably just a name in a personnel file a few days ago to them and that she's been asleep for 60 years. Imagine someone from 1964 waking up in 2024. Computers were really just in movies and actual computers were the size of entire bedrooms. Now she hasn't been awake that long and suddenly shows she's mastered a technology that probably wasn't even around the last time she was awake. Imagine that same person from the 1960's sitting down and starts coding after only having been awake a few months, you might laugh and be suitable impressed too.
saw Aliens in cinema when i was eleven, and it blew my little star wars lovin' mind!!
love Alien but Aliens will always have a top spot.
Perfect reaction video to this iconic masterpiece of a Sci Fi sequel
They werent laughing at ripley really. She was being kind of sassy and they were getting a kick out of it. They werent being derogatory.
They laughed at Ripley because they immediately liked her.
Awesome reaction, especially when realizing that "Paul Reiser from Stranger Things" is Burke - my single fave reaction moment to this movie (and I've watched pretty much every reaction to it), ah-mazing! And love that Cass' diligent note taking is still going strong, she caught onto those names quick!
Your first impression on Burke was spot on! 🤣
It's great that you posted this just as you were getting into Season 5 Buffy.
When Ripley uses the power loader as they're loading up, the reaction from Apone and Hicks is because she broke their expectation that she was, as Ferro put it, "snow white". They're impressed, and react like many people do when that happens; they laugh. But from that point on, they both have much more respect for her. It's part of why Hicks and Ripley start to connect.
The motion trackers are indeed designed to sound like a heart beat. It's an amazing way to build suspense. I love that detail.
The actress who played Newt has only ever done that role. She's a teacher now. She does show up at cons and such, but she decided against showbiz.
Gorman was picked by Burke because he's green and Burke figured he'd be easy to control. Burke went there for a sample for the weapons division, and he knew that either it was all a broken transmitter in which case it wouldn't matter, or he'd have Ripley's creature, in which case he figured as long as he can get a facehugger or an impregnated person back, he'll be golden. Gorman's uselessness is, ironically, why he was picked.
All of the effects in this movie are practical. Some are miniatures, but it's all practical. No CGI. It wasn't around. The dropship crashing into the APC was filmed from several directions, but it looked pretty hokey in all shots but the one used.
You should have heard the audience in the theatres back in the day when Ripley came out in her "transformer". That cheer! Still brings me chills to remember it.
Alien and Aliens are different kinds of movies. Alien is a slow burn horror movie. Cameron realized that it's not possible to make a second slow burn horror movie when the creature is, as one might put it, out of the bag. So he turned it into an action movie with horror elements. Often a discussion of "which is best" ends up being about which style of movie one prefers. Me, I love both of them, and the entire franchise. Yeah, some of the movies are kinda duds, but on the whole, I can't help but loving all of it.
The directing is genius: James Cameron only had five working alien costumes (aside from the queen), and they're only on screen for less than a minute total of the entire movie, but he makes you think there are hundreds of them using surrogates like the motion trackers and the staticky helmet camera images
I guess you would love the sweetness of Mad About You, the TV show Paul Reiser starred in alongside Helen Hunt.
First of all, your dog is freaking adorable. So cute. Anyways, I watched your Alien reaction and I'm excited to watch this one. I see you like Buffy from your other reactions. You may have already been told about this from another viewer, but the tv series Firefly is a fan favorite. My favorite show of all time. It has lots of characters that were in Buffy, Angel & other Joss Whedon shows. The show was cancelled during the first season, so they made 14 episodes. FOX aired only some of them, and out of order. So it was doomed for cancellation from the start. The show was ahead of its time. Great character development and a complex and growing story. They made a movie to answer some open questions, and it was amazing - Serenity. If you've already been recommended this show, I hope you aren't still reading my rambling comment. lol. I hope you continue to do more movie reactions in addition to the shows. There are so many hidden gems out there. Thanks for sharing your reaction (and working to get it posted on YT). Stay awesome!
There are four worthy entries in the Alien franchise: Alien, Aliens, Alien:Isolation (yes, the game) and Alien:Romulus.
They all feature countdowns, by the way. They really, really like their countdowns.
Before Black Widow, Elektra, and the Wonder Woman movies came out, there was the original female action badass Sigourney Weaver and the Alien movies.
Wishing Noomi Rapace would've followed in her footsteps and rode the last trilogy to superstardom. Hardly anyone knows who she is.
My favorite movie. I vote yes for watching Alien 3 through Romulus. No AVP
One of the best action movies of all time.... plus that face of yours... plus the ac/dc shirt... I'm in. and subscribed.
Fantastic reaction. One of the very best of all time.
...and they lived happily ever after, the end.
Hicks and Apone smirking with contempt before Ripley uses the loader early on is due to their military team being saddled with a civilian who they think is going to be a hinderance and assume is another company stooge like Burke. Then laughing after she shows she can operate industrial machinery is definitely a respect thing. Not a company stooge after all. She's worked for a living somewhere before and managed to surprise them.
Not sure anyone has mentioned the tale that Paul Reiser's mum cheered in the cinema when Burke died.
If you happen to react to or watch Alien 3, I highly recommend watching the 'Assembly Cut', sometimes referred to as the Special Edition, instead of the theatrical cut. Better version with alternate, extended, and added scenes.
The directing is genius: James Cameron only had five working alien costumes and they're only on screen for less than a minute total of the entire movie (not counting the queen who has more screen time), but he makes you think there are hundreds by using surrogates like the motion trackers and the staticky helmet camera images
Still can't believe that the queen's body is 3 men wide and is like 20 feet tall.
You got to see Paul Reiser almost from the jump! He played Burke.
A lot of reactors tend to think guns won't do anything to the aliens because of the first movie. What you have to remember is that these are Colonial Marines with military weapons. In the first movie it was glorified truck drivers using whatever they could come up with.
Fantastic reaction, just subscribed!
3:01 That's ice, not dust. She's been in cryosleep, they freeze them just enough to slow their biorhythms right down
6:58 Yeah only cos she was running about trying to find the darn thing last time !
39:44 Android
40:05 You should react to the recent Alien : Romulus, it's based between the first and second.
40:27 YES ! Alien Resurrection is a MUST if you enjoyed the first movie, the music is the same (from the first movie's soundtrack with additional material) and the environment is very evocative of the first movie.
Yes. While in hyper sleep Ripley had some really awful nightmares but then she woke up and they were back on earth, whee they lived happily ever after. 👍
I was a little kid when mom took me and my younger sister to see this in the theater back in 86. I had no idea what to expect, I vaguely remembered the original movie at the time and figured it would be more in line with that movie, more of the same thing. But seeing this changed my life, I had no idea horror movies could be action packed, emotional and still keep me scared. No other horror movie at that time had did this to me.
I wouldn't classify _Aliens_ as a horror movie. It has some elements of horror, but for me it's mostly action/sci-fi.
Mostly. 😏
Wonderful reaction!! The way you were clutching your blanket at the end haha, it was so tense!! A perfectly executed movie if Ive ever seen one. Sadly the 3rd one sucks and Im sure plenty are telling you to skip it. IF you decide to watch it, please lower your expectations by 100%. Alien: Resurrection isn't great, but it's fun. Well, looking forward to the next one!
Burke is like the nicest guy at Weyland-Yutani. Very business oriented. 😄
Ok, Cass.
The first movie in any series is designed to introduce you to the subject. Any follow-up is to expand on the blueprint. Whether it's made by the original director or another.
Ridley Scott made ALIEN as a tribute to the sci-fi movies of his youth in 195o's. Which is why you have the long shots, slow building of tension by having a part of the equation. James Cameron was a young director making his name with TERMINATOR when he came aboard to write and direct the sequel. Which he made as an action movie more modern in approach. Both stand on their own merit.
BLADE RUNNER was the next project Scott made after ALIEN. It stars Harrison Ford and the great Rutger Hauer. It is followed by BLADE RUNNER 2o49 with Ryan Gosling.
The decision is yours to make. There is information in the directors cut of ALIENS concerning Ripley you missed as to why her relationship with Newt is important. You can watch that on your own.
Keep going.
Aliens was a box office success， but some of James Cameron's settings were not recognized by Ridley Scott.James describe Xenomorphs as termite-like creatures. So we won't see Alien Queen in Ridley's Alien movies.I love Alien Series and I went to cinema for Romulus for many times.Greetings from Shanghai.
Part II 😁 YES!! They are fairly equal!! Great Reaction!! 🥳 🎉
In the only movie appearance of her career Carrie Henn stood out among an all star cast. 😊
Alien is a masterpiece but Aliens is epic in every way
The Director's Cut is so sublime; totally worth watching even if its on your own time.
70s, 80s, and 90s movies are basically academies in human depravity; they had even more anti-corporate and anti-establishment content than today's stuff. We learned a lot about the Burkes of the world by watching them.
Apone & Hicks are just used to consultants being like Burke: office drones with 2 left feet. So when Ripley was looking for something to do they were skeptical; when she showed she was competent, they respected her. It's not a gender thing, it's a job title thing.
Cameron didn't know enough about the Marines when he wrote it, so he unintentionally modeled them after Vietnam-era regular Army: lots of conscripts and short-timers looking for a job and government benefits. Drake and Vasquez came from an orphanage and juvenile detention facilities. In reality Marines are *much* more disciplined and well-trained than this. However, if you notice, these frat boys--even Hudson--are actually very good at their jobs once they get on the ground.
This is a great movie, but one weird thing about it is that they obviously have not just faster than light space travel but also faster than light radio, yet it's never mentioned or alluded to in any way.
Quirky girl you have a new subscriber from Australia of all places 😁
Great reaction to what is absolutely a scifi horror tearjerker!
This is the perfect ending to the Alien saga. Everything that steals the name after this is just half-assed money grabs cashing in on the Alien/Aliens name. I went to watch Alien3 but hated it so badly from the start that I walked out barely half an hour into the movie. I've never watched anything else from the extended series, and I suggest that other people should never do so either. That's just my opinion though, and it's worth what you paid for it: nothing.
In my mind the canon end to the story was that Hicks fully recovered from his wounds and he and Ripley got married and adopted Newt. Living comfortably off of the huge payout that the company was forced to make, they settled down to focus on being parents and giving Newt the love she needed, and getting it in return. Bishop's memories and personality were put into a new Bishop body and he lived as a butler/valet/friend with his good friends the Hicks family.
Michael Biehn as Hicks at least survived this movie, and having him survive was a nice twist on the 'everyone but one person dies' horror movie trope. And the old joke held true: If he doesn't have a mustache he's a good guy.
The actress who played Vasquez, the ultimate bad-A marine, Jenette Goldstein, is in three of my top twelve favorite movie series, and sadly she dies in all three. She's still awesome here though.
Bill Paxton as Hudson was great. He was scared as crap, but when it was time for action he was right there in the thick of it, doing the best he could, no matter what. And once he was focused he kicked ass: cracking access to the doors on first entry, tapping into the systems to find the layout, and scared as he was he was all in for the fighting at the end, dying bravely in combat.
One of my favorite stories about this movie was told by Paul Reiser who played Carter Burke. He took his mother to the premiere and told her nothing about the movie beforehand. She joined in with the rest of the audience applauding when Burke died, and from an article I read he said that for weeks afterward every time they saw each other when she first saw him she got this look of disgust on her face, this "I can't believe you did that to those people" kind of look. That's what made him really believe that he could be an actor.
I really like the extended version because it adds a lot of great backstory early on in the movie about Ripley finding out about her daughter, which makes everything about Newt that much more poignant. And I'm a bitter, jaded old man with no heart or emotions to speak of (or so I'm told), but I still get teary eyed when Newt calls Ripley 'Mommy' at the end.
In spite of my past work in computers I'm absolutely a practical FX person, because digital FX are overused and rushed to the point of usually being awful. I am always amazed at the eerie but kinda sickly beautiful work that went into the practical FX for this movie. Not just the aliens themselves, though they are incredible, but all the set dressing, the puppetry/animatronics, makeup and costuming, everything. The queen was basically a super sized puppet, but they did such an amazing job making it look terrifyingly real! The reveal of the queen in the movie was the first time either Sigorney Weaver or Carrie Henn (Ripley and Newt respectively) had seen it, so their stunned reactions are even more real.
I have my own Aliens movie story, which I think is amusing: After I graduated high school, I became an advisor for the church youth group I had belonged to before graduating. In 1988, when I was 20, we had a lock-in one fall weekend. The high school youth were allowed to pick movies to rent for the lock in. Aliens was one of the ones chosen. I had kind of seen it before, but it was as background while hanging out with friends, so I didn't know much about it. We started watching it around 11 p.m. All of the adults and most of the teens had gone to sleep in the rooms set aside for that, while a few teens and I started watching Aliens in the High School Sunday School room in the large mostly underground downstairs of the large church. The teens all left and went to sleep before we reached the halfway point, but I was interested so I stayed up and finished the movie. It was now around 1 a.m. All the lights were off because everyone but me was asleep. My last task before I could sleep was to go around the unlocked areas of the downstairs and make sure none of the teens had snuck off to do anything they shouldn't have. So here I am, walking through dark cinder block walled hallways with exposed ductwork overhead, and no lights except for the occasional faint red lights of the "Exit" signs. My heart is beating like a jackhammer as I carefully edge my way through the dark halls, knowing that there are no xenomorphs but still expecting some kind of jump scare that's going to make me lash out and crap myself at the same time. Luckily, everyone was fast asleep and I finished my rounds and went and lay down, but it was probably the least restful sleep I had and the most nervous I had ever been in church.
you might be thinking about Alien Isolation, and yes, it's a fantastic game (especially since you love the tone and atmosphere of the first movie).
Alien: Romulus, the latest movie in this franchise, is worth watching for a reaction video too. You could also add Prometheus and Covenant before that because they provide a small amount of backstory information for Romulus.
You really need to watch the Director's Cut. It adds so much more to the movie.
I will never understand why they cut the scene where they talk about Ripley's daughter Amanda (who happens to be the main character in the game Alien Isolation). For one, that scene makes it even more clear why Ripley gets so attached to Newt. And we get to see what happened to Newt's family. And also, without that scene, the 57 years reveal leads directly into the chestburster nightmare scene, which makes it look like the 57 years reveal is part of the nightmare, which it isn't, she really was adrift in space for 57 years.
Lance Henriksen did an amazing job as Bishop, and also as Admiral Steven Hackett in the Mass Effect trilogy.
Mmmm, I have to say, that wet and soggy donut looks yummy 😆
Regarding the sequels, there shouldn't be any. As far as I'm concerned, you can watch the first two movies, and leave it at that. Alien 3 is somewhat ok, I guess, but I do not like the beginning, and I have a feeling you won't either. Resurrection is also ok, but the ending made me go wtaf... Prometheus and Covenant are a bit too complicated for their own good. I haven't watched Romulus yet, so I can't really comment on that one.
I really enjoyed your reactions. It holds up so well that people are still pulled in forty years later! Please share your reactions to the third and fourth films - they are still good. It's only the modern ones that are dicey.
I don't think Hicks had a crush on Ripley, he simply admired her greatly. That's one of the things I really liked about the first two films, they didn't shoehorn in romance.
You should've watched the director's cut. You missed some important plot points especially one involving Ripley's daughter, the life of the colony before the aliens took over, the sentry guns which explains why the aliens decide to use the rooftop and more interaction between Ripley and Hicks which hints on a romance between them.
This was a great movie, and a great reaction. Thanks. Side note, your hairdo is very nice! [EDIT: The small speech from Bishop near the beginning about being unable to harm a human being, or through inaction, cause a human being to come to harm are a direct reference to an author I read throughout my misspent youth, Isaac Asimov. I suspect if you look him up, it will mention the three laws of a positronic brain. They were a pivotal part of the rather poor movie from 2004 with Will Smith, "I, Robot". As a fan from childhood of the author, I was not enchanted by that movie adaptation.]
Continue being amazing, you can do it!
Cass, your eyes were so wide open the whole movie 🤣
Now you HAVE to see Alien Romulus. It is supposed to play out between the first Alien movie and this one. Alien Romulus did a fantastic job at making it look like these two movies. Romulus and the first alien movie along with this is my three favourite movies in the alien series.