@@Con5tantine Like everything you get these days where it all has to be signposted and in your face of course - where female characters don't go through struggle or adversity and are handed everything on a plate!
Fun fact: They wanted a real reaction in the alien chest burster scene. The cast had no idea what was going to happen. All it said in the script was, "This thing emerges." They did thought it was a little suspicious why everyone else was wearing rain gear and had plastic shields. But there reaction was true and genuine. Absolute horror haha.
@@AlandaParker And what's worse, they made a mistake with the blood spray. It was way too high, and Veronica Cartwright got sprayed down. They had to cut her reaction because she started having a freakout.
Alanda hilariously describing the chestburster alien as a "skinless vampire squirrel" is precisely why this channel is "streets ahead" of other reaction channels.
I was so excited when my little sister was finally old enough to share this film with her. At one point she asked "when is it [the facehugger] going to grow up?" I answered "it is grown up. Isn't it scary?" "No" she said flatly, obviously annoyed at how lame she thought the monster was. About 10 minutes later we reached the chestburster and I just hear her squeak "I take it back 😨". The next day we watched the sequel. She texted her boyfriend that she was watching a scary movie. He asked why if it's scary, to which she replied "because it's good". It was so worth the 18 year wait to share my favorite films with her 😄
Yeah, that deleted scene where she comes across Dallas (and Brett) all cocooned up is to suggest that the Alien can create eggs from putting some virus into a victim that uses the material and DNA of their body to form an egg. Thus the life cycle is just Egg> Facehugger> Chestburster> Adult> Host> Egg. James Cameron admitted that because Ridley Scott kept this scene out of the theatrical cut, it enabled him to come up with the Queen Alien in his sequel since the total life cycle of the Alien was not revealed.
It doesn’t have to be so binary. If there is a Queen with a hive to tend to her, then the Queen can lay eggs. If there is just a Warrior, then the Warrior can transform people into eggs in order to get a hive established. Even on earth, slime molds can be a moving animal or a stationary fungus due to conditions, female frogs and groupers can turn into males as needed, and a Queen-less ant hive can feed royal jelly to a worker and make a new Queen.
@@frankyhorn2475 Oh, when Aliens came out in 1986, I was a bit shocked by how much Cameron changed about the Alien! Not only with the life cycle change, but in the first movie the creature is basically indestructible. Even when it gets exposed to insane amounts of heat from the shuttle's engine, which should vaporize it, it just gets shot away from the shuttle, technically it could still be alive with how the movie presented it. In Aliens, people were dropping them with shotguns!!! It was a BIG retcon, but Cameron did it to turn it into an action movie. Basically all the resultant Alien movies and comic books are based around the lore Cameron created for it, not the lore that Dan O'Bannon created for it, so that more or less got lost, which I think is a shame in a way. I thought the Alien from the first movie was far more intriguing, scary, and ALIEN than the big squishy insects that Cameron retconned them to be.
@@Bawookles honestly still not a fan of Aliens due to how jarring the difference was to me lol. Not in terms of specific lore because sure the first alien was almost Superman levels powerful. XD But in terms of tone. The first one was so detailed and beautifully shot, it’s realism (in spite of the subject matter) turned into abject horror. The second one had little subtlety and I certainly don’t remember it being particularly scary. I know I’m in the vast minority on that opinion, but I’m sure part of my reaction was how many people loved the second one as much as the first. I was like... how?? Maybe if they were different franchises I would have liked it for what it was. The terminator movies for example weren’t as jarringly different for me in spite of the tonal shift.
@@NoelleMar I totally agree with you, Noelle. Ridley Scott's ALIEN is just art. The way he frames every shot and his attention to detail, very Stanley Kubrick. James Cameron is a great action director, but you would never confuse his stuff with being terribly artistic. You need to see Ridley's masterpiece, "Blade Runner", if you haven't already.
I remember naming a dog I got after Ripley because she was a timid dog and needed some of Ripley’s bravery.😆 Still my favorite doggo. Sigourney Weaver can do no wrong. The first sequel is epic, and she got an Oscar nomination for it.
I'm thrilled you chose to react to this one, Alanda, even as a rewatch. _Alien_ is my favorite movie. I've seen it on the big screen with an audience five times and discover something new each time that I do. Every character in this movie is someone I've worked with and to think my life could depend on getting along with them in a pinch is the scariest thing for me. There are hours of neat-o trivia you can learn in the DVD documentary, but here's something that Helen Mirren had to say about it recently in her MasterClass, Helen Mirren Teaches Acting. I don't think many fans know this. "The first time I understood what was possible was I was privileged enough to read the script of _Alien._ I was up for a role in it, which I didn’t get, sadly. But I was privileged to read the original script, Ridley Scott’s script of _Alien._ And it was brilliant, because the way it was written, all the characters had names like Ripley, or, I don’t know, Tonn, they had these weird names that could be male or female. There was not a single direction in the script that said whether this was a man or a woman. It didn’t say, ‘Ripley is a tall, athletic woman with a fierce determination in her eyes,’ that sort of stage direction which you often get. So annoying. There were no stage directions at all for any of the characters, so any of the characters could have been played by a man or a woman. And that was such a liberating idea for me. I had never thought of that before. Thought that was possible. And there it was, laid out for me in this wonderful script of _Alien._ And from that moment on, it really transformed my thinking about who could play what and why. And _Alien_ was quite a long time ago and it’s taken us all--and especially the world of producers and writers and directors--to catch up, and indeed the audience, to catch up.”
Wow. Made decades ago and genuinely some of the best written female characters were written for men or gender neutral figures. The persistent stereotypes in Hollywood show such a regressive lack of imagination.
One of the pillars of modern science fiction. Also one of the main sources of inspiration for The Expanse as the authors themselves said many times. Great movie.
Saw this movie when it came out, well I saw half of it anyway, it was one of the very few movies I ever walked out of. Don't get me wrong, I love this movie and today watch it every chance I can get, but in 1979 I was 13 years old and when the alien popped out of John Hurts chest, that was the scariest thing I'd seen at the time and I was out of there!
@@AlandaParker my dad didn’t seem to think that movie was scary (I think because he was very familiar with birds, so the idea was fantastical to him). I was surprised at how creepy it was when I watched it lol. I forget, have you reacted to older movies yet? (Er pre predator etc.)
the cinema at my college did a showing of this during my undergrad and seeing it in a theater is absolutely incredible. the movie is fantastic in any setting but seeing it on the big screen in total darkness with beautiful sound all around you is *life-changing*
Moral of this movie: always stick to proper quarantine procedures. Surely, after 2020, this is something we all can appreciate...unless you're evil robo Bilbo :p
I saw this when it first came out in '79 (I was 22). Back then you didn't have ten movies out at the same time. The trailer that played on TV was scary itself. I remember going to the theater already scared. I still love this movie and watch it all the time. Love your reaction!
RIP Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 - 19 June 2020)(aged 88), Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017)(aged 77), William Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017)(aged 61), Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 - September 15, 2017)(aged 91) and Bolaji Badejo (23 August 1953 - 22 December 1992)(aged 39) who played the alien you will truly all be missed, and thank you for entertaining us.
Jerry Goldsmith made exactly the right decision here by not creating an actual musical score (except sparingly, especially at the very end), but weaving a atmospheric ambience that fills you with dread from the very first frame. This movie really stands the test of time and holds up very well even today. The final 10 minutes or so, from the activation of the self-destruct to Ripley's final showdown with the alien is heart-pumping through and through.
Part of what made this creature so convincing was not only thanks to the amazing design but the actor behind it, without the costume the dude was 7 feet tall, with the costume he was 8 feet, on top of that he was an acrobat. They had to insist he wear a safety harness for the scene where he was hanging on the ceiling with chains cause he was confident he could do it without one XD but for everyone's peace of mind they made sure he had one, dude could legit climb up the set walls even in that insane costume.
This is probably my favourite reaction channel, always 10 out of 10 reactions! Alien is my favourite Ridley Scott movie, and in my top 10 of all times! I love his cooperation with H.R. Giger. Very interesting hidden themes in it, as well! Like the ship's AI is called "Mother", it has an umbilical cord, the main computer room is shaped like the inside of an egg/womb and has a bright warm light. Also the scary "Xenomorph" has an "interestingly" shaped head. Keep up the good work!
Someone else mentioned the similarity between the alien and the soulless organization that sent them there. O_o Similarities between the robot attacking Ripley through the mouth and the alien attacking Hurt’s character through the mouth as well. Yikes!
@@Otokichi786 Its a lot more basic with Hal ! :) He was just given improper parameters to fulfill his mission. Basically he was ordered to lie which he couldnt compute. The followup film '2010' might shed more light into it I personally would recommend reading the books!
Dat Enforced Method Acting tho. That's savage, they didn't actually tell the rest of the cast what was going to happen for the chestburster scene. Beautiful.
Alanda!!! :) Just a tidbit here. I remember reading that the casting was done on purpose without any big-name stars so there would be no foregone conclusion that so-and-so would survive. Really helped with the suspense because you wouldn't have any idea who would be killed next. Good reaction; now reward youself and go and get some raw oysters for dinner!!! Yummo!!! :)
When this came out, I wasn't born yet, but my dad and I watched it together multiple times to the point I know the catchphrases by heart. One thing I can say about the alien franchise is that it's incredible the fictional company that employs these people continued to get people to work for them, not knowing that they could potentially be expendable too if they were chosen to play host to an alien.
Finally, a reaction channel saying that they've actually watched some movies before and didn't just land on earth the day before they made their channel haha...
I just saw this in the theater for the first time in maybe in 42 years (1979). They've been showing all sorts of older classics. I was blown away especially as I was the only one in the theater with all the isolation and darkness. It was so intense I started crying. As a child I never knew how intense it really was! You can't hide in the middle of a theater all alone! And it was made so effectively!!
I think this was one of, if not the first movie where the woman saves the day at the end. Respect. It certainly threw me off at the time when I was so used to seeing all the action heroes of the late 70s and 80s.
This was fun!👍🏻 And now you're ready to watch another great film with "Bilbo", and it's, in my opinion, the second best sci-fi comedy ever made, The Fifth Element (1997)! 👌🏼🥰🤞🏻 Back to the Future is my number ☝🏼! 😁✌🏼
@@AlandaParker OH WOW! 😱😍 I'm actually jealous of you, that you can experience this movie for the first time! 🍾🎉👍🏻 Back to the Future (1985) is the perfect movie, people have to learn the script in film school and it's the movie i watched the most, at least once a year since it came out! 🥰👌🏼 This movie should be on top of your list, because people call it the best trilogy and if you put it in a poll, it will win! 😁🙄🤞🏻✌🏼
I loved your re-watch reaction to Alien. You said that you wanted some details involving the film, but first I thought that I would mention my first experience in relation to this film before I go onto other points. I saw this on a big screen when it originally was released in the UK in 1979 (showing my age here!), I managed to break a tooth watching it - although I didn't realise it at the time - I was chewing on a hard mint sweet when the face hugger exploded out of the egg and I bit down on the mint and caused a molar to break, however because the cinema was warm and I so focused on watching the film I only really noticed when I got outside into the very cold air, then I felt it - so next day managed to see a dentist to cover the broken part as a temporary measure to save the tooth, the final solution was a Gold crown which is still there to this day! There are a couple of interesting stories about the chest bursting scene apparently the cast hadn't been given the entire picture as to what was going to happen, so when it occurred those reactions are genuine and poor Veronica Cartwright managed to accidentally stand in the precise position to get covered in fake blood. Ridley Scott was always under pressure from Fox to cut costs and on one occasion when some studio executives turned up, he showed them some scenes which included the chest burster they rushed out of the screening room and threw up in the car park! The person responsible for all the alien designs is the late Swiss Artist H. R. Giger a lot of his art involves the idea of human bodies and machines in a close interconnected relationship for which he used the term "biomechanical".Having got the majority of his books, including Necronomicon which includes the image Necronomicon IV the one that Ridley Scott picked out as the basis of the Alien design, I can confirm that some of the images contained within his books can be quite disturbing. Since you are going to be watching the whole Alien series, in relation to Aliens I would certainly recommend James Cameron's extended Director's Cut, if you haven't already seen that version. Back to Alien the production design and the attention to detail is just unbelievable, which is something of trademark with Ridley Scott's films, although I suspect that you know this anyway, since you have no doubt already seen his other classic Blade Runner, if you haven't for that film you should watch the "The Final Cut" version.
Also the interior of the ship was actually built in full, so that the actors could get used to the set and always move liked they knew they were going.
This is rich from start to finish! Thank you 😄. And my roommate was reading Necronomicon and had great things to say about it. I'll have to check it out.
The end credits music (Sinfonia No 2 The Romantic) was originally just placeholder music while the main score was being written. Director Ridley Scott liked this calm piece of music so much that he used it in place of the end theme Jerry Goldsmith had composed. Goldsmith had a fit but, he and Scott later worked it out.
You are one of two pf my favorite Movie Reactionists on youtube, Alanda! You are so entertaining, thank you for all you do to keep us enthralled with your opinions and catch-phrases!!! Thank you so m,uch!!!! :)
This is such one of my favorite of your reactions, okay not just because I am a card carrying, adoring lover of the entire Alien series, but your commentary has me rotfl the entire time and it's a so on point not to mention.. " Skinless vampire squirrel!?!" Lol, 😂 nuff said!
Just found your channel and your reactions are great. You don't yap all the way through like some reactors do trying to be clever but when you do speak it is always funny or pertinent.
I randomly stumbled upon Alanda, and it's like I've struck gold. Her reaction videos are like watching a movie with your best friend. Fucking fantastic.
Actually, this works; it's good to watch a "2nd viewing" reaction to such an epic movie so props to you Alanda 😁😁😁. Also, at 15:03 "nuke the whole room" 😂😂😂
Yes - I didn't think this would work either. But I gave it a chance - and I'm glad I did. ALIEN is a film you can watch over and over and over again, and see new things every time.
The crew are part of a team that run a "towing vessel" the Nostromo. It hauls that huge multi-domed ore refinery. The ship that detached and then landed is where the crew live and holds the sleeping chambers. The refinery is so huge that it has it's own environment, like rain. @28:17 The bodies glued to the wall are Dallas, obviously, but the really fucked up one with the dead eyes looking like some kind of demon is most likely Brett, since he's the first taken and therefore the most decomposed.
I'm a 76 y.o. man who enjoys watching a lot of YT movie & music reactions. I just watched your reaction to Arrival, the goat of sci fi films for me, and moved over here to watch you do this one. Wish you hadn't seen it before; 1st reactions are always best. Mostly, I love watching younger generations discover the environs of mine (1950s, 60s & 70s). Your personality & responses charmed me -- I'll go on to suggest see what other flights you watch & maybe subscribe. Congrats on a well-done channel -- better than most*
This was awesome! I love this channel!!! I can't wait for Aliens Director's Cut - new footage to see and so much happened in that movie you might've forgotten..😀👍👍👍
I've always had a lot of love for the director's cut. As much as I love Aliens, Alien is on a whole other level, and the DC makes the concept of a Queen redundant.
Hmm let's see....do I have any interesting trivia on this movie? Well let's see....apologies if somebody already mentioned these or if I get any of the details wrong. Ripley was originally written as a character that could be played by any gender. They were open to the character being either a man or a woman, but Sigourney Weaver just nailed the audition so the part went to her. And thus cinema history was made and the world discovered one of its greatest stars ever. :) The scene where Dallas, Lambert, and Kane entered the derelict ship and went into the Space Jockey's chamber(the giant dead alien pilot), they wanted that room to be HUGE. But they couldn't quite build it to the specifications they wanted so they just made it as big as they could and then used children in little child-sized spacesuits to make the room seem that much bigger. :P One of the big sticking points for Ridley Scott about the Alien's appearance is that he didn't want it to just look like a guy in a rubber suit(even though it was totally just a guy in a rubber suit XD). So they made the suit itself as detailed and gross as possible, and never shot the whole Alien at once, just giving sparse and fleeting glimpses of it to preserve the illusion. And the person they cast to play the alien was a man named Bolaji Badejo, who one of the casting agents discovered accidentally in a bar, basically because he was 6 feet 10 inches and had very unusual proportions. You can really see his incredible height in the scene where the Alien kills Parker and Lambert, and you can tell that it just towers over them. Anyway, that's all I got! :P Great video as always Alanda! Thanks for sharing your reactions with us!
I found your channel a few days ago at the recommendation of Julia Drawfee. I love to see a reactor who is familiar with movies; who recognizes actors and knows their names. Definitely worth a sub 💜
No, it wasn't all Bilbo's fault, it was the company's doing. (It's great that you've already seen the second movie, so no spoiler warnings necessary.) One of the awesome, realistic aspects of the second movie is that the same company pins the blame for the lost ship all on Ripley, knowing they were actually at fault. Probably because they collected insurance claims on the lost ship and ore. Corporate CYA at it's best.
The crew is out of their league, it is similar to sending an eighteen-wheel trucker to clean up a nuclear reactor spill. The Company sort of intentionally sent an incompetent crew; the Company did not want the crew to actually be able to kill the Alien. I have been involved in several medical and natural disaster emergencies and it is amazing how normally intelligent people can do stupid things in such circumstances. Adrenalin interferes with thinking.
Another youtuber who reviewed this - and who didn't enjoy it at all, obviously not a horror fan - (sorry, forgot who, saw so many Alien watchalongs ^^) came up with the most wholesome commentary for the facehugger scene that totally cracked me up: "Awwww, it wants a friend!" :D
Not sure if you noticed it or if someone else already mentioned, but at 19:52 you can see the Alien hanging with the chains before it comes down and kills Brett.
There is a good reason that Ash is . Watching Kane so closely at the table. Because in a cut scene an it was cut for a good reason. When they scanned Kane wall the facehugger was attached . Ripley notices a strange object next to Kane's lung . When she asks Ash what it is he just says I don't know. So Ash know that the thing on Kane's face . Put something in him an was just waiting for. It to do something . That's why I love getting the DVDs of movies like this. In case anyone is wondering wich DVD it's on . The one that comes in the Alien Predator total destruction collection .
I saw this in the same ex-Cinerama theater that "2001: A Space Odyssey" had played. The ad campaign gave us no clue about what the tale was about or why "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" applied. Using Earth nautical themes, this is a freighter crew that's been ordered by The Company to explore Skull Island because there's been a radio transmission. Aside from, say, the doctor/Science Officer, no one has much scientific training to figure out what to do once they land on the island. Models, matte paintings, and children are superior to today's DFX, which is why it's a Classic. As I recall, "Lambert" is a stand in for us, the audience.
your reactions are hilarious and so relatable, "would you stop frothing at the mouth and answers our questions literally"😅😅cause ain't nobody got time for you glitching right now.
Let's re-cap. They come across a giant alien with it's chest blown outward like as Dallas says "like it exploded from inside". This alien is sitting on top of thousands of eggs of which the content of one has attached itself to Kane and it has a tube down his throat. So apparently Dallas & Lambert but especially Dallas are apparently so incredibly stupid they can't put a massively obvious 2+2 together.
One of my favorite horror movies of all time, but i love Aliens more. Please do reaction to Aliens. Great reaction Alanda and take care and stay safe 👍
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The movie in a nutshell "Nobody listens to the smart woman. Everybody except her and the cat dies."
Well, Parker and Brett had the right idea too. Didn't help them.
*franchise
This whole franchise is "Listen to Ripley. Always."
Notice that this was all done nice & subtley with no need for woke BS to be shoved down our throats? Funny that!
@@Paul_1971 Woke BS like what?
@@Con5tantine Like everything you get these days where it all has to be signposted and in your face of course - where female characters don't go through struggle or adversity and are handed everything on a plate!
Fun fact: They wanted a real reaction in the alien chest burster scene. The cast had no idea what was going to happen. All it said in the script was, "This thing emerges." They did thought it was a little suspicious why everyone else was wearing rain gear and had plastic shields. But there reaction was true and genuine. Absolute horror haha.
Legendary
GENIUS 🤣
@@AlandaParker And what's worse, they made a mistake with the blood spray. It was way too high, and Veronica Cartwright got sprayed down. They had to cut her reaction because she started having a freakout.
I heard about that and honestly , it’s makes that scene even more terrifying
Does anyone not know this?
Alanda hilariously describing the chestburster alien as a "skinless vampire squirrel" is precisely why this channel is "streets ahead" of other reaction channels.
If you were part of this crew, I imagine the escape shuttle leaving shortly after the opening credits.
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I was so excited when my little sister was finally old enough to share this film with her. At one point she asked "when is it [the facehugger] going to grow up?" I answered "it is grown up. Isn't it scary?" "No" she said flatly, obviously annoyed at how lame she thought the monster was. About 10 minutes later we reached the chestburster and I just hear her squeak "I take it back 😨".
The next day we watched the sequel. She texted her boyfriend that she was watching a scary movie. He asked why if it's scary, to which she replied "because it's good".
It was so worth the 18 year wait to share my favorite films with her 😄
Love that, thanks for sharing that great story 😄
My mom let me watch the whole marathon when I was a kid. Now I watch it all the time.
13:25 "If you can't get that squid off his face, just eject him into space..." 🤣☠️🤣😎 Alanda coming up with the bars
"Can I finish my coffee?" Took me YEARS to realize Parker is my favourite character and it mostly comes down to that line.
Skinless vampire squirrel, I'm dead! 😂😂😂
Alanda has the best descriptions!
I have too have passed on.
I hope she does Prometheus & Alien Covenant
Wow! I posted the same exact comment word for word and I hadn't even seen yours!!! Weird! Let's take a shot.😀👍
I want that on a t-shirt: #SkinlessVampireSquirrel
The cherry on top is that you keep referring to Ian Holm as Bilbo, and that is fabulous.
Skinless vampire squirrel, I literally LOLed!
@Leroy Porter The main character from The Hobbit books/movies. He was also in Lord of The Rings.
He know his name 😂
Well, he DID go on an adventure...
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Yeah, that deleted scene where she comes across Dallas (and Brett) all cocooned up is to suggest that the Alien can create eggs from putting some virus into a victim that uses the material and DNA of their body to form an egg. Thus the life cycle is just Egg> Facehugger> Chestburster> Adult> Host> Egg. James Cameron admitted that because Ridley Scott kept this scene out of the theatrical cut, it enabled him to come up with the Queen Alien in his sequel since the total life cycle of the Alien was not revealed.
It doesn’t have to be so binary. If there is a Queen with a hive to tend to her, then the Queen can lay eggs. If there is just a Warrior, then the Warrior can transform people into eggs in order to get a hive established. Even on earth, slime molds can be a moving animal or a stationary fungus due to conditions, female frogs and groupers can turn into males as needed, and a Queen-less ant hive can feed royal jelly to a worker and make a new Queen.
@@gordondavis6168 thankyou
Also the other dude might still be right in that people might have objected to a "retconn" such as in Aliens.
@@frankyhorn2475 Oh, when Aliens came out in 1986, I was a bit shocked by how much Cameron changed about the Alien! Not only with the life cycle change, but in the first movie the creature is basically indestructible. Even when it gets exposed to insane amounts of heat from the shuttle's engine, which should vaporize it, it just gets shot away from the shuttle, technically it could still be alive with how the movie presented it. In Aliens, people were dropping them with shotguns!!! It was a BIG retcon, but Cameron did it to turn it into an action movie. Basically all the resultant Alien movies and comic books are based around the lore Cameron created for it, not the lore that Dan O'Bannon created for it, so that more or less got lost, which I think is a shame in a way. I thought the Alien from the first movie was far more intriguing, scary, and ALIEN than the big squishy insects that Cameron retconned them to be.
@@Bawookles honestly still not a fan of Aliens due to how jarring the difference was to me lol. Not in terms of specific lore because sure the first alien was almost Superman levels powerful. XD But in terms of tone. The first one was so detailed and beautifully shot, it’s realism (in spite of the subject matter) turned into abject horror. The second one had little subtlety and I certainly don’t remember it being particularly scary.
I know I’m in the vast minority on that opinion, but I’m sure part of my reaction was how many people loved the second one as much as the first. I was like... how?? Maybe if they were different franchises I would have liked it for what it was. The terminator movies for example weren’t as jarringly different for me in spite of the tonal shift.
@@NoelleMar I totally agree with you, Noelle. Ridley Scott's ALIEN is just art. The way he frames every shot and his attention to detail, very Stanley Kubrick. James Cameron is a great action director, but you would never confuse his stuff with being terribly artistic. You need to see Ridley's masterpiece, "Blade Runner", if you haven't already.
If it wasn't already creepy enough, H.R. Giger used real babies teeth in the construction of the chest bursting alien. The late 70's were wild!
OH MY GOD 🤭😰😫🤧
Bruh 😬
Where did they get the teeth?😮
I remember naming a dog I got after Ripley because she was a timid dog and needed some of Ripley’s bravery.😆 Still my favorite doggo. Sigourney Weaver can do no wrong. The first sequel is epic, and she got an Oscar nomination for it.
I'm thrilled you chose to react to this one, Alanda, even as a rewatch. _Alien_ is my favorite movie. I've seen it on the big screen with an audience five times and discover something new each time that I do. Every character in this movie is someone I've worked with and to think my life could depend on getting along with them in a pinch is the scariest thing for me. There are hours of neat-o trivia you can learn in the DVD documentary, but here's something that Helen Mirren had to say about it recently in her MasterClass, Helen Mirren Teaches Acting. I don't think many fans know this.
"The first time I understood what was possible was I was privileged enough to read the script of _Alien._ I was up for a role in it, which I didn’t get, sadly. But I was privileged to read the original script, Ridley Scott’s script of _Alien._ And it was brilliant, because the way it was written, all the characters had names like Ripley, or, I don’t know, Tonn, they had these weird names that could be male or female. There was not a single direction in the script that said whether this was a man or a woman. It didn’t say, ‘Ripley is a tall, athletic woman with a fierce determination in her eyes,’ that sort of stage direction which you often get. So annoying.
There were no stage directions at all for any of the characters, so any of the characters could have been played by a man or a woman. And that was such a liberating idea for me. I had never thought of that before. Thought that was possible. And there it was, laid out for me in this wonderful script of _Alien._ And from that moment on, it really transformed my thinking about who could play what and why. And _Alien_ was quite a long time ago and it’s taken us all--and especially the world of producers and writers and directors--to catch up, and indeed the audience, to catch up.”
Wow. Made decades ago and genuinely some of the best written female characters were written for men or gender neutral figures. The persistent stereotypes in Hollywood show such a regressive lack of imagination.
oooooooh! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Absolutely brilliant! I would love to get my hands on that original script.
Just commented about this. Didn’t see your post. You put it much better than I did
“Why do you have time for this ‘I can’t stand the rain’ moment” I’m done with you 😂😂😂
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One of the pillars of modern science fiction. Also one of the main sources of inspiration for The Expanse as the authors themselves said many times. Great movie.
🙌🏾 and what great inspiration it is!
I was so close to doing a cartoon-style spittake when you called it a "skinless vampire squirrel" while I was sipping my coffee.
don't waste good coffee now! 😂
'Skinless vampire squirrel'....dear lord you are so epic. 😄
Interesting fact: There was a planned alternate ending, where Ripley's final log entry was the Xenomorph using her severed head to do it.
WHAT?!?!? whew! So glad they went the direction they did 🥴
Saw this movie when it came out, well I saw half of it anyway, it was one of the very few movies I ever walked out of. Don't get me wrong, I love this movie and today watch it every chance I can get, but in 1979 I was 13 years old and when the alien popped out of John Hurts chest, that was the scariest thing I'd seen at the time and I was out of there!
oh my god poor 13 year old you!!!! ☠️☠️☠️ Had a similar experience watching "The Birds" at my great aunt's house when I was a kid 🤣
@@AlandaParker my dad didn’t seem to think that movie was scary (I think because he was very familiar with birds, so the idea was fantastical to him). I was surprised at how creepy it was when I watched it lol. I forget, have you reacted to older movies yet? (Er pre predator etc.)
This is a film that maybe should have been rated NC-17.
@@trhansen3244 The rating didn't exist yet, and it's always been a kiss of death.
@@tenchraven Regarless of the rating this is one of those movies you can never unsee. A true classic ;)
the cinema at my college did a showing of this during my undergrad and seeing it in a theater is absolutely incredible. the movie is fantastic in any setting but seeing it on the big screen in total darkness with beautiful sound all around you is *life-changing*
Moral of this movie: always stick to proper quarantine procedures. Surely, after 2020, this is something we all can appreciate...unless you're evil robo Bilbo :p
This is the answer of maximum correctitude
Moral of this movie: always listen to Ripley. She is the only character who has her shit together. Ignore Ripley, and you are dead.
@22:00, the Alien "Jazz hands" moment when it grabs Dallas.
Not the jazz hands! 🤣
@@prettypinkpopsicle And with a big ole cheesy grin
I saw this when it first came out in '79 (I was 22). Back then you didn't have ten movies out at the same time. The trailer that played on TV was scary itself. I remember going to the theater already scared. I still love this movie and watch it all the time. Love your reaction!
It's truly a gem! 🙌🏾 and thank you so much!!
That jump scare at 22:13 is my favourite jump scare ever.
Alanda: "A skinless vampire squirrel"! You are a treasure girl! What an incredibly visual film. It gets better every time.
RIP Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 - 19 June 2020)(aged 88), Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017)(aged 77), William Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017)(aged 61), Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 - September 15, 2017)(aged 91) and Bolaji Badejo (23 August 1953 - 22 December 1992)(aged 39) who played the alien you will truly all be missed, and thank you for entertaining us.
"Skinless vampire squirrel." 😂
Jerry Goldsmith made exactly the right decision here by not creating an actual musical score (except sparingly, especially at the very end), but weaving a atmospheric ambience that fills you with dread from the very first frame. This movie really stands the test of time and holds up very well even today. The final 10 minutes or so, from the activation of the self-destruct to Ripley's final showdown with the alien is heart-pumping through and through.
Part of what made this creature so convincing was not only thanks to the amazing design but the actor behind it, without the costume the dude was 7 feet tall, with the costume he was 8 feet, on top of that he was an acrobat. They had to insist he wear a safety harness for the scene where he was hanging on the ceiling with chains cause he was confident he could do it without one XD but for everyone's peace of mind they made sure he had one, dude could legit climb up the set walls even in that insane costume.
his name was bolaji badejo
This is probably my favourite reaction channel, always 10 out of 10 reactions!
Alien is my favourite Ridley Scott movie, and in my top 10 of all times!
I love his cooperation with H.R. Giger.
Very interesting hidden themes in it, as well!
Like the ship's AI is called "Mother", it has an umbilical cord, the main computer room is shaped like the inside of an egg/womb and has a bright warm light.
Also the scary "Xenomorph" has an "interestingly" shaped head.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! 😊
love these lil thematic treats!
Someone else mentioned the similarity between the alien and the soulless organization that sent them there. O_o Similarities between the robot attacking Ripley through the mouth and the alien attacking Hurt’s character through the mouth as well. Yikes!
To be fair: Ash didnt know what to expect but he surely followed the companies order.
HAL 9000: "I can accomplish the mission without those &^%$! carbon-based idiots."
@@Otokichi786 Its a lot more basic with Hal ! :)
He was just given improper parameters to fulfill his mission. Basically he was ordered to lie which he couldnt compute.
The followup film '2010' might shed more light into it I personally would recommend reading the books!
Idk. Ash is David imo
"Skinless Vampire Squirrel"... I'm dead!!😂😂😂👍
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@@deiwi shot taken.😀👍
Alanda, there aren’t enough accolades I can give to you for your reactions to these classic movies. You’re simply the best! 🙏🏿
Thank you so much!! 😊
Dat Enforced Method Acting tho. That's savage, they didn't actually tell the rest of the cast what was going to happen for the chestburster scene. Beautiful.
Alanda!!! :) Just a tidbit here. I remember reading that the casting was done on purpose without any big-name stars so there would be no foregone conclusion that so-and-so would survive. Really helped with the suspense because you wouldn't have any idea who would be killed next. Good reaction; now reward youself and go and get some raw oysters for dinner!!! Yummo!!! :)
"Skinless-vampire-Squirrel" lol 😆
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When this came out, I wasn't born yet, but my dad and I watched it together multiple times to the point I know the catchphrases by heart. One thing I can say about the alien franchise is that it's incredible the fictional company that employs these people continued to get people to work for them, not knowing that they could potentially be expendable too if they were chosen to play host to an alien.
Skinless vampire squirrel is the best description of a chestbuster I have very heard 🤣🤣
Finally, a reaction channel saying that they've actually watched some movies before and didn't just land on earth the day before they made their channel haha...
I just saw this in the theater for the first time in maybe in 42 years (1979). They've been showing all sorts of older classics. I was blown away especially as I was the only one in the theater with all the isolation and darkness. It was so intense I started crying. As a child I never knew how intense it really was! You can't hide in the middle of a theater all alone! And it was made so effectively!!
In an empty theater, no one can hear you scream.
I would love to see this in the theater!!!!!!
"Skinless... Vampire... Squirrel."
absolute gold!
"The geyser of death!"
You are the most quotable reactor on youtube. 🤣
I think this was one of, if not the first movie where the woman saves the day at the end. Respect. It certainly threw me off at the time when I was so used to seeing all the action heroes of the late 70s and 80s.
"Skinless vampire squirrel" is how I will refer to the baby xenomorph from now on 😂😂😂 that had me rolling!
Undoubtedly the most insightful and sincere reaction to this masterpiece I've come across. Bravo.
Thank you so much 😊
"Skinless vampire squirrel". I'm not going to forget that one.😆
This was fun!👍🏻
And now you're ready to watch another great film with "Bilbo", and it's, in my opinion, the second best sci-fi comedy ever made, The Fifth Element (1997)! 👌🏼🥰🤞🏻
Back to the Future is my number ☝🏼! 😁✌🏼
I LOVE and i do mean LOVE The Fifth Element 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 🙌🏾!!!! But I've never seen Back to the Future. I'll put it on my list!
@@AlandaParker OH WOW! 😱😍 I'm actually jealous of you, that you can experience this movie for the first time! 🍾🎉👍🏻
Back to the Future (1985) is the perfect movie, people have to learn the script in film school and it's the movie i watched the most, at least once a year since it came out! 🥰👌🏼
This movie should be on top of your list, because people call it the best trilogy and if you put it in a poll, it will win! 😁🙄🤞🏻✌🏼
I loved your re-watch reaction to Alien. You said that you wanted some details involving the film, but first I thought that I would mention my first experience in relation to this film before I go onto other points. I saw this on a big screen when it originally was released in the UK in 1979 (showing my age here!), I managed to break a tooth watching it - although I didn't realise it at the time - I was chewing on a hard mint sweet when the face hugger exploded out of the egg and I bit down on the mint and caused a molar to break, however because the cinema was warm and I so focused on watching the film I only really noticed when I got outside into the very cold air, then I felt it - so next day managed to see a dentist to cover the broken part as a temporary measure to save the tooth, the final solution was a Gold crown which is still there to this day! There are a couple of interesting stories about the chest bursting scene apparently the cast hadn't been given the entire picture as to what was going to happen, so when it occurred those reactions are genuine and poor Veronica Cartwright managed to accidentally stand in the precise position to get covered in fake blood. Ridley Scott was always under pressure from Fox to cut costs and on one occasion when some studio executives turned up, he showed them some scenes which included the chest burster they rushed out of the screening room and threw up in the car park! The person responsible for all the alien designs is the late Swiss Artist H. R. Giger a lot of his art involves the idea of human bodies and machines in a close interconnected relationship for which he used the term "biomechanical".Having got the majority of his books, including Necronomicon which includes the image Necronomicon IV the one that Ridley Scott picked out as the basis of the Alien design, I can confirm that some of the images contained within his books can be quite disturbing. Since you are going to be watching the whole Alien series, in relation to Aliens I would certainly recommend James Cameron's extended Director's Cut, if you haven't already seen that version. Back to Alien the production design and the attention to detail is just unbelievable, which is something of trademark with Ridley Scott's films, although I suspect that you know this anyway, since you have no doubt already seen his other classic Blade Runner, if you haven't for that film you should watch the "The Final Cut" version.
Also the interior of the ship was actually built in full, so that the actors could get used to the set and always move liked they knew they were going.
This is rich from start to finish! Thank you 😄. And my roommate was reading Necronomicon and had great things to say about it. I'll have to check it out.
2021: Skinless Vampire Squirrel
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Kudos. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The end credits music (Sinfonia No 2 The Romantic) was originally just placeholder music while the main score was being written. Director Ridley Scott liked this calm piece of music so much that he used it in place of the end theme Jerry Goldsmith had composed. Goldsmith had a fit but, he and Scott later worked it out.
18:30 I thought more skinless vampire snake but squirrel had me snickering 🤣🤣🤣
You are one of two pf my favorite Movie Reactionists on youtube, Alanda! You are so entertaining, thank you for all you do to keep us enthralled with your opinions and catch-phrases!!! Thank you so m,uch!!!! :)
Thank YOU 🥰!!
Um… Miss Lady Ma’am-this caption has me in stitches! 🤣MY STOMACH!
This is such one of my favorite of your reactions, okay not just because I am a card carrying, adoring lover of the entire Alien series, but your commentary has me rotfl the entire time and it's a so on point not to mention..
" Skinless vampire squirrel!?!"
Lol, 😂 nuff said!
lol, space scorpions. Anyway, thanks for being honest & not just putting on a show. It's still a good re-reaction.
A skinless vampire squirrel!!! Funniest thing I’ve ever heard! Lol :)
Just found your channel and your reactions are great.
You don't yap all the way through like some reactors do trying to be clever but when you do speak it is always funny or pertinent.
Thanks!!! 😄
Skinless vampire squirrel 😂😂😂. Holy shit that's ended me 😂😂
13:37 I was not expecting a Whitney cover with this reaction. Well sung!
🤣🤣🤣 when the spirit moves 🤷🏽♀️
"A skinless vampire squirrel" that was so out of pocket I died
I randomly stumbled upon Alanda, and it's like I've struck gold. Her reaction videos are like watching a movie with your best friend. Fucking fantastic.
Actually, this works; it's good to watch a "2nd viewing" reaction to such an epic movie so props to you Alanda 😁😁😁. Also, at 15:03 "nuke the whole room" 😂😂😂
Yes - I didn't think this would work either. But I gave it a chance - and I'm glad I did.
ALIEN is a film you can watch over and over and over again, and see new things every time.
This movie is so good ! The first time I had a hangout with my hubby was watching this movie in college! It will forever be a fave !!!
OMG...skinless vampire squirrel. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
I love it when your face goes ): whenever a nasty scene is on screen. XD
"Skinless vampire squirrel." I'm fucking dying. XD
Not a Skinless Vampire Squirrel! Lmmfao im dying over here. You’re the best thing I’ve subscribed to this week!🤣💀👏🏼
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The crew are part of a team that run a "towing vessel" the Nostromo. It hauls that huge multi-domed ore refinery.
The ship that detached and then landed is where the crew live and holds the sleeping chambers. The refinery is so huge that it has it's own environment, like rain.
@28:17 The bodies glued to the wall are Dallas, obviously, but the really fucked up one with the dead eyes looking like some kind of demon is most likely Brett, since he's the first taken and therefore the most decomposed.
The reasons for landing on the planet and investigating are so refreshingly simple--do it, or you don't get paid.
My stomach is feeling kind of funny!!...Great reaction Alanda.
Thanks!! 😄
I'm a 76 y.o. man who enjoys watching a lot of YT movie & music reactions. I just watched your reaction to Arrival, the goat of sci fi films for me, and moved over here to watch you do this one. Wish you hadn't seen it before; 1st reactions are always best. Mostly, I love watching younger generations discover the environs of mine (1950s, 60s & 70s). Your personality & responses charmed me -- I'll go on to suggest see what other flights you watch & maybe subscribe. Congrats on a well-done channel -- better than most*
Just found your channel and loving it!! Going down the rabbit hole of your reactions!!💚🖤
Loved your high-energy reaction to Alien, your vid was a hell of a lot of fun!
haha not ''skinless vampire squirrel'' girl that made me holla so loud.
This was awesome! I love this channel!!! I can't wait for Aliens Director's Cut - new footage to see and so much happened in that movie you might've forgotten..😀👍👍👍
I'm hype for it too! I remember LOVING Aliens and being shocked that a sequel could be that good! Can't wait for the new scenes!!!
I've always had a lot of love for the director's cut. As much as I love Aliens, Alien is on a whole other level, and the DC makes the concept of a Queen redundant.
Hmm let's see....do I have any interesting trivia on this movie? Well let's see....apologies if somebody already mentioned these or if I get any of the details wrong. Ripley was originally written as a character that could be played by any gender. They were open to the character being either a man or a woman, but Sigourney Weaver just nailed the audition so the part went to her. And thus cinema history was made and the world discovered one of its greatest stars ever. :)
The scene where Dallas, Lambert, and Kane entered the derelict ship and went into the Space Jockey's chamber(the giant dead alien pilot), they wanted that room to be HUGE. But they couldn't quite build it to the specifications they wanted so they just made it as big as they could and then used children in little child-sized spacesuits to make the room seem that much bigger. :P
One of the big sticking points for Ridley Scott about the Alien's appearance is that he didn't want it to just look like a guy in a rubber suit(even though it was totally just a guy in a rubber suit XD). So they made the suit itself as detailed and gross as possible, and never shot the whole Alien at once, just giving sparse and fleeting glimpses of it to preserve the illusion. And the person they cast to play the alien was a man named Bolaji Badejo, who one of the casting agents discovered accidentally in a bar, basically because he was 6 feet 10 inches and had very unusual proportions. You can really see his incredible height in the scene where the Alien kills Parker and Lambert, and you can tell that it just towers over them.
Anyway, that's all I got! :P Great video as always Alanda! Thanks for sharing your reactions with us!
These are great!! Thanks! 😊
Everyone’s scared of the Alien’s “Jazz Hands” 👐🏼 😂
I haven’t watched this reaction yet but I already know it’s gonna be amazing just like the rest of your work!!!!
Thank you!! 😄
I found your channel a few days ago at the recommendation of Julia Drawfee. I love to see a reactor who is familiar with movies; who recognizes actors and knows their names. Definitely worth a sub 💜
Alanda: "And now you have to be on the hunt for a skinless vampire squirrel."
Me: *Bursts into laughter at work*
That was hilarious!
The directors cut of Aliens is even more of a masterpiece because it gives more context to newt's character
True. I don't like some of the extra scenes, but some are crucial to the plot. It's a mixed bag for me.
No, it wasn't all Bilbo's fault, it was the company's doing. (It's great that you've already seen the second movie, so no spoiler warnings necessary.) One of the awesome, realistic aspects of the second movie is that the same company pins the blame for the lost ship all on Ripley, knowing they were actually at fault. Probably because they collected insurance claims on the lost ship and ore. Corporate CYA at it's best.
"Skinless Vampire Squirrel". Priceless quote.
The crew is out of their league, it is similar to sending an eighteen-wheel trucker to clean up a nuclear reactor spill. The Company sort of intentionally sent an incompetent crew; the Company did not want the crew to actually be able to kill the Alien. I have been involved in several medical and natural disaster emergencies and it is amazing how normally intelligent people can do stupid things in such circumstances. Adrenalin interferes with thinking.
Lots of love for the skinless vampire squirrel line but not near enough for the
" Walk in the park!
haha Jurassic Park maybe 😂🤣
"skinless vampire squirrel" lol
Another youtuber who reviewed this - and who didn't enjoy it at all, obviously not a horror fan - (sorry, forgot who, saw so many Alien watchalongs ^^) came up with the most wholesome commentary for the facehugger scene that totally cracked me up: "Awwww, it wants a friend!" :D
Here we gooo!! One of my favorites! Your my bestie in my head!
I love how the cat survives in this
Not sure if you noticed it or if someone else already mentioned, but at 19:52 you can see the Alien hanging with the chains before it comes down and kills Brett.
There is a good reason that Ash is . Watching Kane so closely at the table. Because in a cut scene an it was cut for a good reason. When they scanned Kane wall the facehugger was attached . Ripley notices a strange object next to Kane's lung . When she asks Ash what it is he just says I don't know. So Ash know that the thing on Kane's face . Put something in him an was just waiting for. It to do something . That's why I love getting the DVDs of movies like this. In case anyone is wondering wich DVD it's on . The one that comes in the Alien Predator total destruction collection .
I saw this in the same ex-Cinerama theater that "2001: A Space Odyssey" had played. The ad campaign gave us no clue about what the tale was about or why "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" applied. Using Earth nautical themes, this is a freighter crew that's been ordered by The Company to explore Skull Island because there's been a radio transmission. Aside from, say, the doctor/Science Officer, no one has much scientific training to figure out what to do once they land on the island. Models, matte paintings, and children are superior to today's DFX, which is why it's a Classic. As I recall, "Lambert" is a stand in for us, the audience.
your reactions are hilarious and so relatable, "would you stop frothing at the mouth and answers our questions literally"😅😅cause ain't nobody got time for you glitching right now.
Let's re-cap. They come across a giant alien with it's chest blown outward like as Dallas says "like it exploded from inside". This alien is sitting on top of thousands of eggs of which the content of one has attached itself to Kane and it has a tube down his throat. So apparently Dallas & Lambert but especially Dallas are apparently so incredibly stupid they can't put a massively obvious 2+2 together.
they really chose chaos ☠️
R.I.P., Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm and John Hurt, all wonderful wonderful actors👍👍👍👍👍
Wooop woooppp! My Saturday night sorted again! Thanks Alanda! As always love your reactions 🤩
She wasn't just paralyzed with fear, she was cornered.
"Skinless vampire squirrel" 😆
One of my favorite horror movies of all time, but i love Aliens more.
Please do reaction to Aliens.
Great reaction Alanda and take care and stay safe 👍