My Aliens / Bill Paxton Story It was 1986, and "Aliens" was the summer sensation. I was so enamored with the film that I watched it three times in the theater, with Private Hudson, played by Bill Paxton, being my favorite character. One day, while I was a young man renting a paint sprayer at a local store, I had my license on the counter when I heard a familiar Texas twang say my name-"Damian"-just as only Paxton could. I turned around in surprise and found my favorite movie character, beaming with his signature grin, and he said, "Damian, like the omen!" At the time, Paxton wasn’t yet a household name, so I couldn’t resist quipping, "Express elevator to hell?!" We both laughed heartily, and ended up chatting for about 20 minutes. He was incredibly warm and engaging, asking about my life while sharing news about his new marriage, home, and upcoming film, "After Dark." I was overjoyed to be talking with him. Fast forward to the 2001 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. My brother’s company had done all the lighting, and he offered me a VIP pass. I eagerly accepted and found myself surrounded by countless stars from music, theater, TV, and film, all in a chic venue. As I marveled at my entertainment heroes, I spotted Bill Paxton again. My excitement was palpable, and before I could even greet him, he shouted, "DAMIAN!" just as he had 15 years earlier. I was utterly astonished. We talked for another 20 minutes, catching up like old friends, discussing his divorce and mine, and reflecting on the years that had passed. As we parted, he said, "I’ll see you in 15 years!" Well, Mr. Paxton, until we meet again, thank you for your incredible talent and the joy you've brought to me and the world.
I saw “Alien” once in the theater, in the UK in 1980. My anticipation level for “Aliens” was so high that I took Friday, July 18th, 1986 off from my summer job and watched it THREE times in a row. One of the best cinematic experiences of my life.
I was 16 when I saw aliens in the first week at the theatre. It was amazing and at the time it was the best film I ever seen. And I still rate it as such a memorable film and still one of the best to me
"Hey Quentin, what did you think about Aliens?" "Hold on, I gotta go take a dump." "Mind if I stand outside and record you while you're talking about it?"
Saw Aliens near the end of its theatrical run back in 1986. Me and my friend were only 14 and 13 so we couldn't get it. Purchased tickets for Top Gun instead, snuck into the Aliens theatre and let's just say my life was never the same after that. Best memory of my early teen years. Still one of my top memories to this day.
That's hilarious! I did the same thing a couple of times with friends and one of my brothers, but we just snuck into one or the other after buying tickets for the other. 3 times opening night and the next day. And at least a dozen more times that summer at drive ins too but we usually paid our way. Crazy fun times!
My mum had to go with me as you could go if accompanied by an adult and I was 13. It’s my favourite film of all time. Mum loved it too. The crowd went fucking nuts. It was a hell of a good time. Best memory from watching any media by far.
Saw Aliens opening night too, and what I remember most was the *very* audible gasp when Bishop gets torn in two. One of the people in my cinema stood up in shock.
I remember that shocking me too. It was sort of a Mortal Kombat fatality moment! Most of the violence in movie was PG13 up to that point. And yes, Bishop had become a very likeable character by that point. Innocent and sweet. "Watch your fingers."
@emperorchopchop7726 Well I thought the film was over after they returned to their ship in orbit. Complete shock when we got a second climax, basically. But afterwards I could see the foreshadowing -- we saw how awesome Ripley was operating the loader. This was the payoff.
Everything in Aliens (and Alien) was great, but what will make it immortal was the writing. Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" Vasquez: "No, have you?"
The character development on almost every last speaking character in the movie is next level. Every one of the Marines is their own person. Even the two speaking corporate types in the board of inquiry are memorable.
@@simonhibbs887 This is what puts Aliens above Alien, for me. There really isn't much characterisation in Alien. Kane, Brett, Dallas even Lambert are pretty thin characters. And there is an enormous expansion in Ripley's character in the sequel. She's a victim of trauma. She's a surrogate mother. She becomes an entirely credible action hero. And that's just the main character. As you say, virtually everyone is memorable.
This is what killed Romulus for me. There’s basically one memorable character in the entire movie. The whole core “crew” are interchangeable. No great lines. No unique personalities. Disposable.
Legitimately one of the greatest movies ever made. It took a movie that was also a masterpiece and somehow managed to expand on it in almost every way. More character, more lore, more emotion, more action. A lot of people forget that Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an Oscar. An OSCAR, for an action horror movie. That's how impressive this movie was. It still holds up today and is still looked upon as a bona-fide "film you must see before you die".
It really is one of the top movies of all time if you have any love of master class sci-fi. If you believe Romulus is even in the same class, you are sadly mistaken.
@@steveconn Personal opinion I suppose. It often makes lists of greatest action films and greatest sequels. It greatly expands upon the worldbuilding of the first film, adds a lot of depth to the character of Ripley, and brings a level of emotional depth that few action films try to touch. It's well-written, well-acted, and exciting. I can't think of a lot more that I could want from an action movie.
@murrynathan I actually enjoy them tbh. I like the character & world building of it all. As someone who absolutely hates the Marvel & Star Wars crap we are constantly bombarded with, I'd take a hundred Avatar films over that lot.
The first one looked OK from a 3-D standpoint, but I never bothered with any of the other ones. Should I have? Is there anyone worth seeing besides the first?
@@SmelOdies The second one, when compared to the first, is short on spectacle. However, its more character focused in my opinion. It needed to be as well because Cameron is asking you to jump on board for three more movies with these characters. The sequel is solid, but whether its better than the first depends on your expectations.
Masterpiece in nearly every sense, pacing, lyrical dialog, charming characters, thoughtful set design, logical believable mechanical design, the Alien queen rivals Yoda in my opinion as a masterful display in puppetry, the little subtle snarls and lip curls, an absolute clinic
My Mum watched Alien and Aliens with me when I was 9, she loved the films so much she couldnt wait until i was older to expose me to them. They were awesome, thanks Mum
My first experience seeing the movie I was seven years old. I found my dad’s VHS copy hidden behind a bunch of old boring movies in the entertainment center in the basement. As soon as Ripley had the dream of the chest burster, I knew I shouldn’t be watching it. Rather than turn it off, I sat on the floor 2 feet from the screen and turned the volume down so low no one could hear it upstairs. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest both from the aliens and the fear of getting caught. When it was over, I thought, this is the best movie ever made. I ended up having nightmares a few nights in a row, but toughed it out in my bed without going to my parents’ room because I didn’t want them to find out I’d watched it. I planned on watching it again without them knowing, and they’d change the hiding place if I told them I saw the movie. Didn’t occur to me till years later I could have just told them I had a nightmare about something else.
@MPAbsorb If she seeks it out herself, she's ready. I saw it at my grandparent's house when I was 12, when Ripley runs over that Alien's head and crushes it like a melon, I knew it was the greatest movie I'd ever seen.
@@MPAbsorb I’m sure it depends from kid to kid. I also have a ten year old daughter, and she’s definitely not ready. She couldn’t even get through the first episode of Stranger Things.
Great story! i was 9 when it came out and was a total chicken shit to watch it. lol I remember riding my bike to my friend's house who were watching it on VHS when i showed up to their front screen door but they knew i wouldn't be able to handle watching it. There's a scene where 2 marines are on that small aircraft and one of them has to go close the rear ramp and gets slime on his hand not knowing the alien is on board. The next scene is the pilot looking behind her chair for that dude who was not answering her, but before the Alien appears to kill her, my friends were like, "No dont watch!" Knowing id be too scared, so i took off on my bike back to my house after that a little freaked out. lol
@@MPAbsorb why would u have your 10 yr old daughter watch this. have some patience. let her be a kid. also this dude saying he watched it at 7 is most likely lying. ppl lie on the internet fairly often seeking attention. but really im a parent and my boy is 10 as well. i let him watch a bunch of stuff but no way im letting him watch aliens. not til hes at least 12 then i start to consider movies like that. u gona let your kid in elementary watch aliens? rather your going to make her watch it? thats just being a selfish and bad parent
I had the same experience in the theater on the Friday opening night screening of Terminator 2. When Arnold dropped the roses and pulled out the shotgun and went to work, the whole theater erupted. Everyone was on their feet, cheering, high-fiving total strangers. It was magic.
Hell yeah. I just saw Alien Romulus and they missed an opportunity to call back to this scene, when Rain gets a rifle and finally decides to let loose. My daughter and I were both anxiously asking if she’s gonna yell “Let’s rock”. And she didn’t 😢
Saw this on TV when I was in my teens.... Had no concept of who directors were at this time, just enjoyed movies. One friday night me and my mom were watching TV (I forget where my dad was at the time) and just before we were about to go to bed she changed the channel and it was just there, about to start, so we started watching. The scene where the door gets cut and the laser starts scanning the cryochamber had me hooked. And the rest was just gravy. This was a somewhat PG13 version, sanitized for TV, so my mom made it through the whole thing pretty much intact, but 14 year old me just wanted to see the uncut version, and this was pre-internet, so I went down to our local video store and grilled the guy at the counter, found out there was a prequel, saw Terminator 1 and 2, The Abyss and the rest is history. And here I am 30 years later writing screenplays because of James Cameron and a little movie called Aliens
Hicks jumping through the glass in Aliens is one of the most effortlessly heroic and cool moments in cinema history. This guy just instantly knows how to get in that room as quickly as possible, and I'm not surprised the audience popped for it.
@@stevenr6397 forever I've been saying I wish Quentin cast Michael Biehn in one of his films, I just felt he would slip right in. Hearing him talk about Michael in this makes me wonder even more why he hasn't done it by now? I know he's in Grindhouse, but he's in the Robert Rodriguez film. Which is awesome frankly. I guess I just want more Michael Biehn 😆
@@Lentrick Biehn was a significant support actor in two of the most iconic movies of all time - this and Terminator. And he superbly played the same reserved, feet-firmly-on-the-ground, level-headed character in both. I'm surprised he wasn't in more
@@gregorm93 He's had a good career. He was in The Abyss and Navy SEALs, two films which should have been big hits but didn't seem to find an audience. He was in Tombstone which was a fairly big movie at the time and of course he was in The Rock, again another big movie which has been forgotten about. He's consistently been in work for nearly 50 years, so I don't think it is correct to say he wasn't in more. He clearly was, he just hasn't done any super major movies since the mid-90s.
I love that he calls Hicks "Reese" jumping through the window. Michael Biehn's performances in this and Terminator are underrated, He plays a great supportive hero to strong female lead actors. Good call by Cameron to cast him.
The original actor cast as Hicks was James Remar. I believe he had completed just 3 days of shooting before he was replaced by Michael Biehn. If I recall correctly, Remar was fired for drug possession.
He was an (almost literal) last minute replacement for James Remar, who was cast as Hicks but got busted for drug possession in London. Cameron called up Biehn on Friday, and asked him if he had a valid passport. Biehn was on set by Monday.
I was an Active Duty Marine when this movie hit the local theater(s). I and another Marine saw the Fri. night showing, and to say it impressed us and blew our minds is a massive understatement! The following weekends, for MONTHS, every Marine that could, sold out every show, and none of us came away disappointed! If-only sequels still respected/honored the original hits!
The definition of a cinematic rollercoaster, absolutely exhilarating stuff.watching it as a kid of 10 years old, it scared the hell out of me but was so amazing, like a theatrical ghost house
What's always fun about listening to Tarantino is his passion for movies. He just loves them. You don't get that from every filmmaker out there - I'm sure most of them do love movies, but they just don't gush over them quite the same way. He's both generous with his praise and honest with his critiques. I don't always agree with his hot takes, but Aliens is Aliens.
It's called geeking out. Most people are afraid to geek out, to let people see that much of them. I have friends that look at me like I'm crazy when I'm gushing about something and I hate that. Quentin feels kindred because he allows himself this.
LOL love that line...loved Ripley's character, Sigourney Weaver perfect! I'm thinking that probably did not help her during her briefing because she basically insulted them lol., but she was telling the truth.
The great thing about Ripley, unlike modern braindead heroine depictions, is that she was the opposite of a "Mary Sue". She made mistakes, she wasn't always competant. She was scared, deeply traumatized by her original experience. She wasn't a hero, she didn't WANT to go back to that planet. But she felt she had to, so she could sleep at night. She was definitely NOT a bad ass, for most of Alien, or most of Aliens. She just did what she could to survive at the end of Alien, and in Aliens, she didn't become a bad ass until the end, when Newt was taken, and her mom drive kicked in, and she faced her fear, to save the girl. That was great. And not once did she or the film TELL you that she was a "strong, smart, capable independent woman". She just was.
Lol, true. I have a soft spot for the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 (I love how it looks and the nihilism) but you could easily cut it off at 2 films as they're near perfection.
Resurrection is a lot more fun when you realize it's the first draft of Mal and his crew from Firefly. Winona Ryder is Kaylie, their wonder girl mechanic, Ron Perlman is Jayne, the dumb muscle.
@@kev3d It's a good thing it had a perfect ending too. The Second T-800 sacrificed himself so that Skynet never came to be, so if there were a sequel it would undermine the second one's ending. Love James Cameron for understanding that and never coming back to unnecessarily revive a perfectly round duology just for money.
I saw it opening night in a crap theater in Muskogee, Oklahoma. I went with some older cousins coz I was 10. Man, that whole scene where the Marines went in with their body cams and the Aliens wake up and start killing them off as we see most of it thru the body cam monitors was the most intense thing I’ve ever seen. I white knuckled it thru that whole experience. I knew from that point that this was one special movie. It’s got every moment you want. Masterful sequel.
I was around 8 when I saw it, what was most memorable for me was the plane and the car in the movie. I still remember being in like 4th grade thinking about having the plane with me and that car at the school.
_Pulp Fiction_ exceeded all my exceptions when I first watched it back in 1994. Everyone said it was the best thing they'd ever seen, so I thought my pre-inflated expectations could never be met... I was blown away and I've been chasing that feeling since.
I’ll never forget how awesome the Pulp Fiction title sequence was. How it was larger than life, and perfectly set the stage for the awesome movie that was yet to play out. Pulp Fiction is the perfect example of another movie, like Aliens, that exceeded its hyped expectations. Sadly, Tarantino’s second best movie, Reservoir Dogs, preceded it, and nothing he’s made since has remotely lived up to the brilliance of those two movies.
Yeah, a buddy called me up and said "We're going to see Pulp Fiction. It's supposedly one of the best movies in years." "Never heard of it!" "It's by the guy who did Reservoir Dogs!" "Hell yeah, im in!" Oh man, what an experience. Everyone. I mean everyone was floored at how great that movie was.
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Reservoir Dogs surprised me - it felt like Scorsese for MY generation. Saw Pulp Fiction opening day with crazy high expectations. Had to drive 40 miles in a piece of shit car that might break down at any moment to see it...and then took that same trip the next day to see it again. The car survived those two days. It died 6 months late driving to see John Carpenter's Village of the Damned. It died for a truly crummy movie.
When i was young i used to gauge the quality of a movie based on how much i was willing to hold it in until the end. If i made it all the way through, it meant it was something special.
@@maverick5311 Sadly, I agree. I fondly remember being in college back in the late nineties and me and a mate would take a pilgrimage to the cinema every single weekend. This year alone, I 've been twice. Disappointed both times. I'm not sure if it's because I'm just getting older or films really are getting worse. Alien Romulus was semi decent, but that's only because it emulated a lot from the first film. If it was it's own thing entirely, I should imagine it would have been far more terrible.
I saw Aliens as a kid in an upper balcony of this large, old timey, somewhat opulent theatre.. the part where everyone exploded with cheers and applause was when you think Bishop abandoned her as the whole place is burning down and he flew up from below! “Bishop! God Damn youuuu!”
The whole movie is fantastic, but the big showdown at the end between Ripley and the alien queen is absolutely incredible. I love how it takes place in a well-lit environment. It allows the audience see everything and really get wrapped up in the scene. It's a wild, wild ride. Im sure that from a fimmaking perspective, it's very difficult to pull that off since you can't cut any corners anywhere, but d*mn, it's gotta be worth it. It's a scene for the ages.
A *HUGE THANK YOU* to whomever is compiling and posting these Tarantino clips. I would be very interested to hear what Tarantino has to say about 3D movies in general ie: Avatar, etc.
Aliens was a very important movie for 20th Century Fox at that time because it was the first movie released after Rupert Murdoch took over. James Cameron's talent was immediately recognized and he had a very special relationship with 20th Century Fox ever since Aliens.
I went with my father on a Thursday night showing at 10:00 in the evening. I was 14, and I was nervous about seeing it because the first one was so scary. I have a strained relationship with my father, but I remember that 2.5 hours to this day. Greatest movie experience I’ve ever had in a theater. I got past the scene where Ripley dreams about the chest-burster. After that scene, I told myself, ok, that’s not so bad, I can make it through this. When they introduces the marines, I felt safe and started to get into it. It was just a great memory.
It takes what was set by the original and builds off of it by expanding the setting and developing the protagonist even further. It is FULLY worthy of the praise it gets as one of the best sequels ever made
Me and my 14 year old son just watched the first 2 back to back. Literally this afternoon. He said right after the second film "i cant believe there was no cgi and they're the best sci-fi ive ever seen"
Watch the 3rd one and his point will be reinforced even more lol. Too much early cgi Fincher used and it doesn’t look great at all. Practical effects when done right are the absolute best!
What's funny about Aliens is most fans of Alien really loved Aliens, some loved it even more and instead of Ridley Scott being appreciative for what James Cameron was able to do with adding to the story that Ridley helped create, he instead became bitter and forever resents everything about the film. It's just funny what massive egos can do to people
The problem with Ridley Scott is that for the most part, he is all style and no substance. He is fantastic at worldbuilding and visuals, but sturggles to actually make you care for and get invested in the characters in the worlds he creates. The character of Ellen Ripley was essentially a blank slate before Aliens.
He's bitter that Cameron did his concept better than he did. Then he got the reigns back with Prometheus and Covenant and just tried to make it as convoluted as he could. He wanted HIS fingerprints on the origins of the creature so so badly.
@@killerdiva7771 Thats horseshit. Ripleys character development in Alien was first rate. Intentionally subtle showing glimpses of her clinical leadership and ability to remain calm and calculated. Scott purposely didnt allow the audience to know who the true protagonist was until the 3rd act, keeping us guessing... brilliant directing.
@@Fighter4Street the origins didn’t ruin Prometheus, they were quite interesting.it was the utterly brain dead characters and their ridiculous choices that ruined it.
It was the most intense and exciting movie going experience of my life. I watched it on campus the first year in university when they turned the lecture hall into a movie theater with a proper film projection.
Still have it on VHS because we taped it. Blew me away. Watched it 30 times or more. Aliens is the greatest Si-Fi movie of all time.
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That version actually had a couple of scenes that weren't even in the Director's Cut. I remember a scene of an alien trying to attack Bishop while he was crawling through the pipe.
I also saw Aliens on its opening night and boy what an experience! The funny thing is that I had no idea an Alien sequel was being released; in fact, I had never seen the original so I was completely oblivious to the whole thing. My friend called me 30 minutes before showtime and said "quick, there's a movie opening tonite and my friend gave me 2 tickets, can you come to X theater right now??" and I said "sure!". I raced there as fast as I possibly could and arrived just as the movie was starting. In fact, this was 'reserved seating only' so an usher escorted us to our seats right as the opening credits rolled. What transpired after that was a 90 minute roller coaster ride that blew my mind completely! Not to mention the minds of the rest of the audience who adored the movie so much they spontaneously cheered and clapped as if it was a live event. Fuck me that movie was amazing - still is - and I feel lucky I got to see it on opening night having *zero* background knowledge of any of it. A very awesome experience.
Quentin can so casually create a dramatic arc, knows what details add flavor to the story and he builds towards the climax. How can you become such a skilled storyteller?
I was 12 when I saw aliens in the theater. The single scene that absolutely scared me was the “ceiling scene”. For years afterwards, the thought of things hiding in false ceilings terrified me
That contrast he is talking about in the face hugger scene, between the slow quiet tension and the "come with me if you want to live" jump is exactly the contrast that made The Thing one of the most effective horror movies of all time, it is a slow burner, but every time the thing shows up it's complete chaos, hell on earth, shit hits the fan and you are just sitting there watching like WTF?! lol
Something to add here, these are among the best special effects you will ever see. After this CGI started making it's way onto the scene and initially out of curiosity and then due to money all directors started switching over. That means the late 80s were the pinnacle of practical effects. Given that the human eye is insanely adept at detecting the subtle ways even the best CGI is not actually real, that means the special effects of the late 80s and early 90s were the best at tricking your brain into believing it was actually real. You can put Aliens or Predator up against the best CGI of today, and the late 80s stuff beats it hands down. It's not even close.
You're totally right, it drives me nuts how bad CGI generally looks, it's the paradox of the uncanny valley: the more CGI tries to look real the more you notice it's fake. And they keep making the same mistakes. At their best old SFX were glorious, simply because they were real, and were starting to use CGI only subtlety, to refine things. But apparently nobody cares in Hollywood now, it's too expensive to do things properly, the most important thing is to keep the standard low so people just accept sloppiness as a normality.
Agree wholeheartedly. Also, budgetary restraints and available time meant that special effects were used for EFFECT. Part of the curse of CGI is that it is sprayed all over every frame. It detracts massively from the storytelling.
Well, it was Cameron's next movie (The Abyss in 1989) that started the CGI revolution in earnest. The water tentacle sequence is the first photorealistic CGI in any movie, ever. Most of the movie is practical effects, but that one five minute sequence upended the industry. ILM basically invented a whole slew of new technology to get it done. Then the tech was taken further in Terminator 2 (1991) and Jurassic Park (1993). At that point, it started to become THE core technology for visual effects in movies, for good and ill.
My father took me and my younger brother to see this in Iversen Mall, in Hillcrest Heights, Md. on opening weekend. At the end of the movie, the whole theater got up and started applauding. I have yet to have a movie experience that has matched that.
Both Alien & Aliens are excellent. I think Alien is the superior cinematic experience on the whole, however I've definitely watched Aliens more times than Alien I think simply because it's more action-packed & easier to just chill & have a good time with.
@@123612100 I think the drop-off is massive from the first two for the rest of the franchise tbh. We'll see about Romulus as I'm due to see it in less than 14 hours time.
Personally I disagree. I just rewatched Aliens and wasn’t super compelled. It lacks the horror of the original and the characters aren’t as interesting
@jacobfleming3926 Fairs. As I say, Alien is definitely superior, I appreciate its suspense & restraint which Aliens lacks, but I personally love Aliens too & quite appreciated the fact it did its own thing.
Nightmares for me as a kid when I managed to see it as an 12 yr old on TV one night …couldn’t bear to watch it again until I was an adult …an intense , visceral , relentless piece of horror action cinema …absolute masterpiece !
I love listening Tarantino talk movies because you can tell from his enthusiasm and knowledge how much he loves and respects the art and magic of making movies
I love it when someone is able to articulate what great cinema feels like. This is it. I was in 3rd grade when I first saw this movie in the theater, some of my experiences were different because i was a child and I was scared shitless. But, revisiting this movie as an adult, he is spot on. he is always spot on. This movie exceeded every expectation and showed the audience something they thought they'd seen, but in reality couldn't have imagined. That magic is gone in modern cinema. I miss that magic. Terminator, it's sequel, Alien/Aliens Star Wars, etc. Lightning in a bottle, and I am thrilled to have been around for it.
That said, When Alien 3 came out, I was older and so excited. I went with my friend. We made a day of it. The level of disappointment... It was brutal.
It's cool that he singles out this moment, because right at the end of that scene, Hicks, Ripley and Newt clinch together, and it's a de facto family moment. This was presumably intended by Cameron to be a reward for Ripley, who had almost succumbed to despair, but now has the prospect of a new family. And that had of course become her motivation.. save the daughter she had just gained, to atone for the loss of her own daughter Amanda.
Which of course os one reason so many fans hated Alien 3. Fincher just casually scrapped all of that, even adding insult to injury with that gratuitous autopsy on Newt. That just ruined everything that was good about the film for me and so many others. You don't just look your audience straight in the eye, stick a knife in their hearts and twist it. There were so many other ways he could have engineered a change of direction for the franchise.
@@TheSleightDoctor Hah! I was gonna mention that. But to be fair to Fincher, he was not to blame. At that point in his career, he didn't have the clout to make decisions about who lives or dies. Alien3 was a notoriously troubled production.
Absolutely 100 on that point: The scene boils down all the movie's chaotic elements and sets into one tiny med bay with three players: Ripley, Newt and the Hugger. What made the video game "Alien: Isolation" so successful shines in that scene too -- dark, dripping, sinister malice with one exceptionally vulnerable character clinging to an embattled lead with her life in the balance -- against an agile, alien "spider" scuttling from the corners threatening to latch on to its prey with irreversible tenacity.
@@michaelmaloskyjr In terms of quality, I think Isolation comes in right after Aliens at spot three. It nails the suspense from the first two movies perfectly. An extremely immersive experience.
Wow QT is just a master at telling a story, in any medium he chooses. He remembers every detail about that afternoon that he first saw Aliens. And he paints that picture for us for well, we can see everything he saw and feel every emotion he felt that night. How many people have you met who could tell a story like that?
Saw Aliens in an IMAX setting (70% of a true IMAX film) with my dad, who wasn't much of a sci-fi guy and he LOVED it... one of the last great shared moments I had with him before he passed away a few years later...
Same goes for Jurassic Park. If you told my ten year old self that my 40 year old self would have so little excitement for a new Alien or JP movie that I didn’t even bother seeking either out in theaters, the poor lil guy would be so baffled his brain would start leaking out his ears.
@@johng6565 I haven’t seen 65 yet, maybe that’s a better current day Dino movie? As far as I recall the last film with kickass dinosaur content was Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake. That setpiece with the multi Dino attack is pretty glorious, more memorable than most anything observed in a JP sequel.
@@bobross2346 I think I'm one of the few people who liked 65. While I was watching it though I couldn't help but think of JP and how perfectly it was done. 65 is fine but I doubt it will really scratch that itch. If I had to pick my favorite dinosaur movie after JP it would honestly be the Disney movie Dinosaur, think of me what you will
I know why Alien is held in higher regard: it was the start, the original creative masterpiece. However, I will argue to my last day on earth that Aliens is the better movie. The only thing I’ll add to what Quentin said is the Aliens is the more diverse movie (action, horror, drama, some comedy) and also had a greater cast of characters.
To me the archetypal simplicity of Alien makes it one of the most 'perfect' movie ever made. Aliens is a masterpiece, but it is so much bigger and so diverse that it necessarily became less intense, in terms of absolute perfection, even if it is more entertaining overall. Splitting hairs, though.
I find there's an element of snobbery in the people who trash Aliens and say Alien is far superior. They can't admit that a big brash action picture with wisecracking characters like Hudson in can be better than the slow, moody, atmospheric chills of Alien. I think they're both brilliant films and am happy for people to pick one over the other based on personal preference. But anyone who thinks Alien is clearly above Aliens is just being foolish. On every level of filmmaking, it's a masterpiece.
@@ravecrab aliens wasn't scary. It was an action film. Alien was genuinely scary, and still is. It was claustrophobia and dread. Trapped on a ship trying to find a Boogeyman that morphed into a giant alien you couldn't see, camouflaged in the shadows. It was lethal and quiet, didn't move fast because it didn't have to. Every movie after took it over the top and lost the scary factor that only alien has. I was way into h.r.giger and owned his book necronomicon, knew he did the artwork for brain salad surgery, and told moviegoers afterwards the Alien was giger's baby. Aliens is a great action film. It's not a sci Fi horror film like Alien
Quentin is super right about the scene where Burke tries to get Newt and Ripley infected with the face huggers. I was never more tense in a film than when that scene was going down. To see Hicks and Hudson show up to save them was insanely relieving.
Saw it in a rural town cinema in Ireland in '86. I was 14 and my brother was 12. The lady selling the tickets initially didn't want to let us in but I somehow managed to persuade her. I suppose the cinema needed the money. I knew it'd be good as I'd read ADF's novelisation. But it blew me away and is still my favourite film to this day.
I was an innocent 11 year old making my way to the midnight showing of Aliens in Ireland in 1986. I sweet talked my way in as the 3 cinema employees decided whether it was suitable for me to watch. Long story short there was no sex sceens so I got in on my own. One of the greatest cinema experiences of my life. Life long fan since then. Own all the Dark horse graphic novels.
The way Tarantino talks about movies it’s a movie itself! That face hugger scene he mentions it’s a masterclass on tension and release. Only Cameron knows how to make sequels, or at least back then he did it with perfection.
This was the very first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was faaaar too young to be watching it and I remember my dad telling the box-office cashier, "oh he'll be fine, he can cover his eyes" LOL.
Showed my 11-year-old this film just a few weeks ago... he loved it! Wasn't scared at all...kids these days are built different.
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I introduced my daughter to a lot of horror at that age. The only movie she couldn't finish was Romero's Night of the Living Dead. She only got about 20 minutes into that one before making me turn it off because it creeped her out so bad. Honestly, I was REALLY surprised.
Your daughter sounds just like me as a kid. I watched all the horror movies I could see as a young kid & Night of the Living Dead was one of the only films that actually creeped me out.
An old friend saw Alien when it came out in the cinemas. He had some time to kill one day and bought a ticket, knowing nothing about it. Maximum impact.
The high point for me in the theater was the reveal. Everyone knew what was going to happen , it was just a case of when. There was the first 'false' reveal when when they scope the base and nothing was there, but when the room/cocoons start coming to life I remember everyone sitting straight up in their seats.
From what I heard, he was working with Ridley Scott on an Alien 5 script. When he heard that Alien vs. Predator was greenlit, he threw his script in the trash as he realized at that point, the series had become a joke.
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@@milesaway1980 I'd say Resurrection had already turned it into a joke.
While I am no fan of Alien: Resurrection, it tried to be a serious movie. I think the movie sucks overall, and that it really ruined the franchise, but it did at least try to take it seriously. Which is why I think Cameron was wanting to come back and set things right. Alien vs. Predator however, was comic book movie from the start, and turned both the Alien and Predator franchises into schlock.
Great story from Tarantino, I'm jealous of the experience. I was too young to see it in the cinema so had to watch on VHS probably in the late 80s. Will forever be one of my favorite films. Strangely enough though Alien seems to be aging the better out of the two of them (if you had to nitpick). Both timeless of course.
I should add that I have seen Aliens on the big screen since (about 5 years ago) along with Predator, Die Hard and 2001: A Space Odyssey. All awesome cinema experiences.
This gave me chills. Aliens is my favorite movie of all time. I was nine when it came out, thus, didn’t get to share the cinematic experience, but doing do vicariously-especially through Tarantino’s dramatic account-is thrilling enough.
To look at this in contemporary times, he's praising Aliens for doing everything that A Quiet Place is refusing to do across its three films. Alien to Aliens is how you expand a concept, build a world on solid foundations and allow audiences to see a now familiar monster through an entirely new lens.
I was about 8 years old when this movie came to HBO, and i remember very well, the night it was to premier, my dad and my older brother where sitting down to watch it, and my brother bringing me into the living room to sit and watch with them, apparently my mom and dad had a discussion about letting me watch the movie, and my dad convinced my mom to let me, but my mom was afraid it would scare me too much. So i laid down on the floor in front of the tv and was just totally sucked into the movie, loved every second of it, and never got scared.. First rated R movie i was ever allowed to watch.
When I saw it opening night, the high point was most DEFINITELY when the door opened and she came out in the loader suit. The entire freaking theater erupted into a cheer so loud you almost had to cover your ears. It. Was. Epic.
Yup! Just did. I just watched The Terminator last weekend. Michael Bien was fast; look back at his aerobatics at Tech Noir in The Terminator when he first saves Sarah Connor from the T-100 with a shotgun.
The big change is that Alien is a horror movie, Aliens is an Action Adventure movie because Cameron realized once you see the Alien the horror cannot be replicated. My idea what the alien was changed throughout the movie. With Aliens you know the monster, but Cameron changes the whole idea with people who are able to fight back but have no idea of the scale of the problem. If they had known what they were facing the Marines could have taken them out. Ripley knew what she had faced in Alien, she had no idea and could not tell them the scale of the problem they were up against in Aliens.
aliens is still up there as one of my top tier action movies. after this the franchise died for me. alien and aliens hands down best origin and follow up . the scene with the self defence guns running out of ammo there were so many threats really showed the scale of the horror. (cut out of orginal but added for directors cut.)
I wish people would stop saying this. Just because it has action in it that doesn't mean it's not a horror movie anymore. The original was a slow-burn, haunted house horror. And the sequel is a survival, siege horror with more action elements in it. Both are horror, both are scary.
My Aliens / Bill Paxton Story
It was 1986, and "Aliens" was the summer sensation. I was so enamored with the film that I watched it three times in the theater, with Private Hudson, played by Bill Paxton, being my favorite character. One day, while I was a young man renting a paint sprayer at a local store, I had my license on the counter when I heard a familiar Texas twang say my name-"Damian"-just as only Paxton could.
I turned around in surprise and found my favorite movie character, beaming with his signature grin, and he said, "Damian, like the omen!" At the time, Paxton wasn’t yet a household name, so I couldn’t resist quipping, "Express elevator to hell?!" We both laughed heartily, and ended up chatting for about 20 minutes. He was incredibly warm and engaging, asking about my life while sharing news about his new marriage, home, and upcoming film, "After Dark." I was overjoyed to be talking with him.
Fast forward to the 2001 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. My brother’s company had done all the lighting, and he offered me a VIP pass. I eagerly accepted and found myself surrounded by countless stars from music, theater, TV, and film, all in a chic venue.
As I marveled at my entertainment heroes, I spotted Bill Paxton again. My excitement was palpable, and before I could even greet him, he shouted, "DAMIAN!" just as he had 15 years earlier. I was utterly astonished. We talked for another 20 minutes, catching up like old friends, discussing his divorce and mine, and reflecting on the years that had passed. As we parted, he said, "I’ll see you in 15 years!"
Well, Mr. Paxton, until we meet again, thank you for your incredible talent and the joy you've brought to me and the world.
After Dark..are you talking about Near Dark?
Love this story. Paxton always seemed like a great guy who was well liked by his fellow actors and directors
That’s a lovely story
What a beautiful story man ❤
I love these types of stories. Thanks for sharing!
From 1984-1994 , James Cameron released, in order, The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2 and True Lies. Thats one hell of a decade 😂
How DARE you not include Piranha 2: The Spawning!!!
And now its crapatar.
LOL He said 84 to 94
From 1958-1963, Alfred Hitchcock released, in order, Vertigo , North by Northwest , Psycho and The Birds. All this in 5 years !!!
Abyss was abysmal, True Lies was fun but underwhelming- for a Cameron Film- the other 3 are bangers- T2 is the best sequel of all time IMO!
I saw “Alien” once in the theater, in the UK in 1980. My anticipation level for “Aliens” was so high that I took Friday, July 18th, 1986 off from my summer job and watched it THREE times in a row. One of the best cinematic experiences of my life.
I took my mum to see Aliens at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. Don't remember the date but it was a couple days since the release. What a ride!
Great story
I'm so jealous of you, what a fucking experience!
I’m so jealous. 😊
I was 16 when I saw aliens in the first week at the theatre. It was amazing and at the time it was the best film I ever seen. And I still rate it as such a memorable film and still one of the best to me
"Hey Quentin, what did you think about Aliens?"
"Hold on, I gotta go take a dump."
"Mind if I stand outside and record you while you're talking about it?"
😂😂😂
I made a huge snorting sound 😂
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lol 🤣🤣 "Hand me a fresh roll bro before I talk finale! My guts are gonna fkn blow." 😄😄
This comment made no sense until it did 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Saw Aliens near the end of its theatrical run back in 1986. Me and my friend were only 14 and 13 so we couldn't get it. Purchased tickets for Top Gun instead, snuck into the Aliens theatre and let's just say my life was never the same after that. Best memory of my early teen years. Still one of my top memories to this day.
That's hilarious! I did the same thing a couple of times with friends and one of my brothers, but we just snuck into one or the other after buying tickets for the other. 3 times opening night and the next day. And at least a dozen more times that summer at drive ins too but we usually paid our way. Crazy fun times!
My mum had to go with me as you could go if accompanied by an adult and I was 13. It’s my favourite film of all time. Mum loved it too. The crowd went fucking nuts. It was a hell of a good time. Best memory from watching any media by far.
Glad you snuck in.
I was 12 back in 86. To see Aliens was a must. But the ensuing nightmares... ouch
sneaking in the cinemas is such a lost art today lol 😂
Why did Quentin think it was ok to do the rest of the interview in a public bathroom stall at 1.02
From different interviews.
This quality is in other Tarantino recordings. I assume it's the tech and space where several recordings were done. You know, it's what they got. :)
That one is definetly taken from some sort of conference interview
"When you gotta go, you gotta go"
Artistic choice?
He's right.......Aliens is an all time classic. It EXCEEDED the hype. James Cameron was a bonafide top tier sci-fi director. Hands down.
then he made avatar and now he's a trash tier nickelodeon director.
@@Bestmann3nu mean 2 movies above 2 billion… yh ok
@@Bestmann3nwhy the hate for Avatar, they're great films
@@danbh84 and that's supposed to be an argument for what exactly? there's no shortage of trash that makes lots of money.
@@Bestmann3n opinions vary, kid
Love it or zip it
Aliens & Terminator 2 are the only 2 movies I can watch on repeat all day without getting bored! James Cameron is truly a GOAT🙏
Add Goodfellas and Shawshank Redemption to that list too
@@markus_r_realiest watch shawshank redemption on a loop all day? Love the movie, but no. 3,5 hours long.
@@jptributer3.5hrs? Wtf are you watching?
@@Wallie8228 I meant 2.5 hours.
Along with The Terminator I can certainly agree
Saw Aliens opening night too, and what I remember most was the *very* audible gasp when Bishop gets torn in two. One of the people in my cinema stood up in shock.
I was 8 years old at the time, but that was what I remember from the theater as well.
It was shocking, he was such a good helper and friend, brave.
I remember that shocking me too. It was sort of a Mortal Kombat fatality moment!
Most of the violence in movie was PG13 up to that point.
And yes, Bishop had become a very likeable character by that point. Innocent and sweet.
"Watch your fingers."
Stood up? C'mon son, it wasn't that serious. Now Captain picking up Mjolnir....that shit was intense.
@emperorchopchop7726 Well I thought the film was over after they returned to their ship in orbit. Complete shock when we got a second climax, basically.
But afterwards I could see the foreshadowing -- we saw how awesome Ripley was operating the loader. This was the payoff.
Everything in Aliens (and Alien) was great, but what will make it immortal was the writing. Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" Vasquez: "No, have you?"
The character development on almost every last speaking character in the movie is next level. Every one of the Marines is their own person. Even the two speaking corporate types in the board of inquiry are memorable.
Somebody said Alien, she thought they said illegal Alien and signed up!
@@simonhibbs887 This is what puts Aliens above Alien, for me. There really isn't much characterisation in Alien. Kane, Brett, Dallas even Lambert are pretty thin characters. And there is an enormous expansion in Ripley's character in the sequel. She's a victim of trauma. She's a surrogate mother. She becomes an entirely credible action hero. And that's just the main character. As you say, virtually everyone is memorable.
This is what killed Romulus for me. There’s basically one memorable character in the entire movie. The whole core “crew” are interchangeable. No great lines. No unique personalities. Disposable.
@@kevinfishburne 'Stop your grinnen and drop your linen!' Lol Bills lines were the best 😁
Legitimately one of the greatest movies ever made. It took a movie that was also a masterpiece and somehow managed to expand on it in almost every way. More character, more lore, more emotion, more action. A lot of people forget that Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an Oscar. An OSCAR, for an action horror movie. That's how impressive this movie was. It still holds up today and is still looked upon as a bona-fide "film you must see before you die".
it really isnt tho
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia I think in terms of greatest movies that's pushing it. Just a well-made thrill ride with strong utilitarian performances.
It really is one of the top movies of all time if you have any love of master class sci-fi. If you believe Romulus is even in the same class, you are sadly mistaken.
@@steveconn Personal opinion I suppose. It often makes lists of greatest action films and greatest sequels. It greatly expands upon the worldbuilding of the first film, adds a lot of depth to the character of Ripley, and brings a level of emotional depth that few action films try to touch. It's well-written, well-acted, and exciting. I can't think of a lot more that I could want from an action movie.
@@mortystraphouse5077 Oh, it is, if you want to be culturally literate.
It’s a real cinematic tragedy that James Cameron is devoting the remainder of his film career to those Avatar movies.
@murrynathan I actually enjoy them tbh. I like the character & world building of it all. As someone who absolutely hates the Marvel & Star Wars crap we are constantly bombarded with, I'd take a hundred Avatar films over that lot.
The first one looked OK from a 3-D standpoint, but I never bothered with any of the other ones. Should I have? Is there anyone worth seeing besides the first?
@@NoirFan84My point was Avatar should’ve been one and done. Not endless sequels. He BLUE it!
@@SmelOdies The second one, when compared to the first, is short on spectacle. However, its more character focused in my opinion. It needed to be as well because Cameron
is asking you to jump on board for three more movies with these characters. The sequel is solid, but whether its better than the first depends on your expectations.
@@NoirFan84way of water was a retread.
Masterpiece in nearly every sense, pacing, lyrical dialog, charming characters, thoughtful set design, logical believable mechanical design, the Alien queen rivals Yoda in my opinion as a masterful display in puppetry, the little subtle snarls and lip curls, an absolute clinic
My Mum watched Alien and Aliens with me when I was 9, she loved the films so much she couldnt wait until i was older to expose me to them. They were awesome, thanks Mum
I first saw Aliens when I was 7 and I had nightmares about it for years.
@@erakfishfishfish way too young lol
I thought the moment the motion detector showed movement INSIDE the room would've been Quentin's favorite scene.
That scene scared the shit out of me
My first experience seeing the movie I was seven years old. I found my dad’s VHS copy hidden behind a bunch of old boring movies in the entertainment center in the basement. As soon as Ripley had the dream of the chest burster, I knew I shouldn’t be watching it. Rather than turn it off, I sat on the floor 2 feet from the screen and turned the volume down so low no one could hear it upstairs. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest both from the aliens and the fear of getting caught. When it was over, I thought, this is the best movie ever made.
I ended up having nightmares a few nights in a row, but toughed it out in my bed without going to my parents’ room because I didn’t want them to find out I’d watched it. I planned on watching it again without them knowing, and they’d change the hiding place if I told them I saw the movie. Didn’t occur to me till years later I could have just told them I had a nightmare about something else.
Love this. Thanks for sharing in great detail. I have a 10 year old and I’m just not sure she’s ready..
@MPAbsorb If she seeks it out herself, she's ready. I saw it at my grandparent's house when I was 12, when Ripley runs over that Alien's head and crushes it like a melon, I knew it was the greatest movie I'd ever seen.
@@MPAbsorb I’m sure it depends from kid to kid. I also have a ten year old daughter, and she’s definitely not ready. She couldn’t even get through the first episode of Stranger Things.
Great story! i was 9 when it came out and was a total chicken shit to watch it. lol
I remember riding my bike to my friend's house who were watching it on VHS when i showed up to their front screen door but they knew i wouldn't be able to handle watching it. There's a scene where 2 marines are on that small aircraft and one of them has to go close the rear ramp and gets slime on his hand not knowing the alien is on board. The next scene is the pilot looking behind her chair for that dude who was not answering her, but before the Alien appears to kill her, my friends were like, "No dont watch!" Knowing id be too scared, so i took off on my bike back to my house after that a little freaked out. lol
@@MPAbsorb why would u have your 10 yr old daughter watch this. have some patience. let her be a kid. also this dude saying he watched it at 7 is most likely lying. ppl lie on the internet fairly often seeking attention. but really im a parent and my boy is 10 as well. i let him watch a bunch of stuff but no way im letting him watch aliens. not til hes at least 12 then i start to consider movies like that. u gona let your kid in elementary watch aliens? rather your going to make her watch it? thats just being a selfish and bad parent
When Vazquez yells out " Lets Rock!" The entire theater went crazy. Everybody stood up cheering
I had the same experience in the theater on the Friday opening night screening of Terminator 2. When Arnold dropped the roses and pulled out the shotgun and went to work, the whole theater erupted. Everyone was on their feet, cheering, high-fiving total strangers. It was magic.
When was the last time you saw a film with such engagement with the audience, at a theatre?
Hell yeah. I just saw Alien Romulus and they missed an opportunity to call back to this scene, when Rain gets a rifle and finally decides to let loose. My daughter and I were both anxiously asking if she’s gonna yell “Let’s rock”. And she didn’t 😢
SO GOOD-And Drake yelling “YEEEAH!!” right after. Those two 🙌💪.
This happened
Saw this on TV when I was in my teens.... Had no concept of who directors were at this time, just enjoyed movies. One friday night me and my mom were watching TV (I forget where my dad was at the time) and just before we were about to go to bed she changed the channel and it was just there, about to start, so we started watching. The scene where the door gets cut and the laser starts scanning the cryochamber had me hooked. And the rest was just gravy.
This was a somewhat PG13 version, sanitized for TV, so my mom made it through the whole thing pretty much intact, but 14 year old me just wanted to see the uncut version, and this was pre-internet, so I went down to our local video store and grilled the guy at the counter, found out there was a prequel, saw Terminator 1 and 2, The Abyss and the rest is history.
And here I am 30 years later writing screenplays because of James Cameron and a little movie called Aliens
Hicks jumping through the glass in Aliens is one of the most effortlessly heroic and cool moments in cinema history.
This guy just instantly knows how to get in that room as quickly as possible, and I'm not surprised the audience popped for it.
I love how Quentin refers to Hicks as Reese 😊
@@Lentrick hes so caught up in the moment 🤣
@@stevenr6397 forever I've been saying I wish Quentin cast Michael Biehn in one of his films, I just felt he would slip right in. Hearing him talk about Michael in this makes me wonder even more why he hasn't done it by now? I know he's in Grindhouse, but he's in the Robert Rodriguez film. Which is awesome frankly. I guess I just want more Michael Biehn 😆
@@Lentrick Biehn was a significant support actor in two of the most iconic movies of all time - this and Terminator. And he superbly played the same reserved, feet-firmly-on-the-ground, level-headed character in both. I'm surprised he wasn't in more
@@gregorm93 He's had a good career. He was in The Abyss and Navy SEALs, two films which should have been big hits but didn't seem to find an audience. He was in Tombstone which was a fairly big movie at the time and of course he was in The Rock, again another big movie which has been forgotten about. He's consistently been in work for nearly 50 years, so I don't think it is correct to say he wasn't in more. He clearly was, he just hasn't done any super major movies since the mid-90s.
This movie still holds up today.
it sure does i’ve seen it many times but I watched it again last night damn great
Amazing that it cost $14m, an absolute sci-fi masterpiece.
also Tarantino "The 50's and the 80s were the worst time for movies ....EVER!"
Watched it the other day on 4k...yes..yes it does. The best sci fi/horror movie ever made.
Absolutely
When he refers to the Michael Biene character as “Reese” (Kyle Reese from “The Terminator (1)”)its absolutely correct
Reese did save the world, so it tracks.
So correct I didn’t notice he’d called him Reese.
If ya pretend that reese is from before he time travelled it could pretty much be a shared universe type deal
I love that he calls Hicks "Reese" jumping through the window. Michael Biehn's performances in this and Terminator are underrated, He plays a great supportive hero to strong female lead actors. Good call by Cameron to cast him.
The original actor cast as Hicks was James Remar. I believe he had completed just 3 days of shooting before he was replaced by Michael Biehn. If I recall correctly, Remar was fired for drug possession.
He is also excellent in the Abyss. Plays a flawed Navy Seal.
He was an (almost literal) last minute replacement for James Remar, who was cast as Hicks but got busted for drug possession in London. Cameron called up Biehn on Friday, and asked him if he had a valid passport. Biehn was on set by Monday.
I noticed he said Reese too, but I searched the comment section you are the only one mention it.
I was an Active Duty Marine when this movie hit the local theater(s). I and another Marine saw the Fri. night showing, and to say it impressed us and blew our minds is a massive understatement! The following weekends, for MONTHS, every Marine that could, sold out every show, and none of us came away disappointed! If-only sequels still respected/honored the original hits!
Agreed, they got the vibe right - the whole film just feels authentic.
The definition of a cinematic rollercoaster, absolutely exhilarating stuff.watching it as a kid of 10 years old, it scared the hell out of me but was so amazing, like a theatrical ghost house
What's always fun about listening to Tarantino is his passion for movies. He just loves them. You don't get that from every filmmaker out there - I'm sure most of them do love movies, but they just don't gush over them quite the same way. He's both generous with his praise and honest with his critiques. I don't always agree with his hot takes, but Aliens is Aliens.
It's called geeking out. Most people are afraid to geek out, to let people see that much of them. I have friends that look at me like I'm crazy when I'm gushing about something and I hate that. Quentin feels kindred because he allows himself this.
Totally agree. Scorsese & Spielberg are also great when talking about other movies. True film fans.
People like Tarantino notice things about movies we all don't see. Not just the entertainment value but also the art value
1:00 who threw Quentin down a well??
Rick Dalton did it
He was legitimately taking a dump. I’m not even joking. In a captain d’s bathroom. Effing hilarious
If it gets him to talk film 24/7... I'm good with him staying down there, indefinitely... I'm sure he can film Kill Bill 3, down there, too...
Someone should before he can make any more films like Once upon a Time or Django Unchained.
Those are great films!
That marine slaughter was so surprising. High octane horror. Great lines too 'Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?'
LOL love that line...loved Ripley's character, Sigourney Weaver perfect! I'm thinking that probably did not help her during her briefing because she basically insulted them lol., but she was telling the truth.
"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" "No. Have you?" 😂
@@RobertWF42 sombody said "alien" she though they said "illegal alien"!
The great thing about Ripley, unlike modern braindead heroine depictions, is that she was the opposite of a "Mary Sue". She made mistakes, she wasn't always competant. She was scared, deeply traumatized by her original experience. She wasn't a hero, she didn't WANT to go back to that planet. But she felt she had to, so she could sleep at night. She was definitely NOT a bad ass, for most of Alien, or most of Aliens. She just did what she could to survive at the end of Alien, and in Aliens, she didn't become a bad ass until the end, when Newt was taken, and her mom drive kicked in, and she faced her fear, to save the girl.
That was great. And not once did she or the film TELL you that she was a "strong, smart, capable independent woman". She just was.
@@RobertWF42 Don't forget "Game over, man, GAME OVER!!"
I love to hear a legend like this talk about one of our favourite movies of all time!
I walked out of that opening night limp and sweaty. Couldn't believe how good it was. The adrenaline stuck to me for about another hour.
Was anyone else expecting to hear a toilet flush when Tarantino took the conversation into the bathroom?
Yes! I was wondering if he took the mic into the crapper.
Pretty sure it's two interviews cut together.
I like how Tarantino moves into a cave one minute into the video.
Thats his bathroom ... didnt you hear him peeing?
Lol@@FreeSpirit-FreeMusic-FreeLife
Lucas invited him to use it for the remainder of Tarantino's interview- after George was finished using it for his own...
It sucks that they never made a sequel to Aliens.
Lol, true. I have a soft spot for the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 (I love how it looks and the nihilism) but you could easily cut it off at 2 films as they're near perfection.
Resurrection is a lot more fun when you realize it's the first draft of Mal and his crew from Firefly. Winona Ryder is Kaylie, their wonder girl mechanic, Ron Perlman is Jayne, the dumb muscle.
😂😂😂
Just like the Terminator series. 2 great films and nothing after that.
@@kev3d It's a good thing it had a perfect ending too. The Second T-800 sacrificed himself so that Skynet never came to be, so if there were a sequel it would undermine the second one's ending.
Love James Cameron for understanding that and never coming back to unnecessarily revive a perfectly round duology just for money.
I saw it opening night in a crap theater in Muskogee, Oklahoma. I went with some older cousins coz I was 10. Man, that whole scene where the Marines went in with their body cams and the Aliens wake up and start killing them off as we see most of it thru the body cam monitors was the most intense thing I’ve ever seen. I white knuckled it thru that whole experience. I knew from that point that this was one special movie. It’s got every moment you want. Masterful sequel.
I saw it opening night too with my parents. I was 10. A memory I'll never forget.
Saw it opening night in Edmond OK. Good times!
I was around 8 when I saw it, what was most memorable for me was the plane and the car in the movie. I still remember being in like 4th grade thinking about having the plane with me and that car at the school.
Cinema employees allowed a ten year old in to see an 18 certified movie?
@@RealOGfikey If accompanied by an adult yes
_Pulp Fiction_ exceeded all my exceptions when I first watched it back in 1994. Everyone said it was the best thing they'd ever seen, so I thought my pre-inflated expectations could never be met... I was blown away and I've been chasing that feeling since.
I put off watching Pulp Fiction for absolute years because I thought it was way too over-hyped. Imagine my total shock, surprise and elation.
I’ll never forget how awesome the Pulp Fiction title sequence was. How it was larger than life, and perfectly set the stage for the awesome movie that was yet to play out. Pulp Fiction is the perfect example of another movie, like Aliens, that exceeded its hyped expectations. Sadly, Tarantino’s second best movie, Reservoir Dogs, preceded it, and nothing he’s made since has remotely lived up to the brilliance of those two movies.
Yeah, a buddy called me up and said "We're going to see Pulp Fiction. It's supposedly one of the best movies in years." "Never heard of it!" "It's by the guy who did Reservoir Dogs!" "Hell yeah, im in!" Oh man, what an experience. Everyone. I mean everyone was floored at how great that movie was.
Reservoir Dogs surprised me - it felt like Scorsese for MY generation. Saw Pulp Fiction opening day with crazy high expectations. Had to drive 40 miles in a piece of shit car that might break down at any moment to see it...and then took that same trip the next day to see it again. The car survived those two days. It died 6 months late driving to see John Carpenter's Village of the Damned. It died for a truly crummy movie.
After seeing Pulp Fiction, I kept repeating in my head,”Now, THAT was a movie!”
I had to pee like 30 minutes in but I didn’t want to miss a second so I stayed put. What a memorable experience. Perfect movie.
When i was young i used to gauge the quality of a movie based on how much i was willing to hold it in until the end. If i made it all the way through, it meant it was something special.
@@bradleycoleman2928No doubt haha haha
Thanks for sharing
I hope you didn't spray too many other members of the audience.
Thank goodness it wasn't the director's cut.
Having just seen Alien Romulus, which is decent, I've got to say that still no other Alien movie has topped Alien and Aliens.
I've just watched Alien Romulus as well. It was crap and pointless.
@@RealOGfikeyit’s the best we are gonna get unfortunately out of newer movies today
@@maverick5311 Sadly, I agree. I fondly remember being in college back in the late nineties and me and a mate would take a pilgrimage to the cinema every single weekend. This year alone, I 've been twice. Disappointed both times. I'm not sure if it's because I'm just getting older or films really are getting worse.
Alien Romulus was semi decent, but that's only because it emulated a lot from the first film. If it was it's own thing entirely, I should imagine it would have been far more terrible.
@@RealOGfikeyit’s because you’re older. There are only a set number of story beats, and you’ve seen them all. Nothing is new for you now.
Covenant did
I'm fortunate to be the same age as Quentin. I can relate to his experiences. These are fun to listen to.
I saw Aliens as a kid in an upper balcony of this large, old timey, somewhat opulent theatre.. the part where everyone exploded with cheers and applause was when you think Bishop abandoned her as the whole place is burning down and he flew up from below! “Bishop! God Damn youuuu!”
Were you at The Met in Winnipeg?
The whole movie is fantastic, but the big showdown at the end between Ripley and the alien queen is absolutely incredible. I love how it takes place in a well-lit environment. It allows the audience see everything and really get wrapped up in the scene. It's a wild, wild ride. Im sure that from a fimmaking perspective, it's very difficult to pull that off since you can't cut any corners anywhere, but d*mn, it's gotta be worth it. It's a scene for the ages.
A *HUGE THANK YOU* to whomever is compiling and posting these Tarantino clips. I would be very interested to hear what Tarantino has to say about 3D movies in general ie: Avatar, etc.
*whoever
Aliens was a very important movie for 20th Century Fox at that time because it was the first movie released after Rupert Murdoch took over. James Cameron's talent was immediately recognized and he had a very special relationship with 20th Century Fox ever since Aliens.
I went with my father on a Thursday night showing at 10:00 in the evening. I was 14, and I was nervous about seeing it because the first one was so scary. I have a strained relationship with my father, but I remember that 2.5 hours to this day. Greatest movie experience I’ve ever had in a theater. I got past the scene where Ripley dreams about the chest-burster. After that scene, I told myself, ok, that’s not so bad, I can make it through this. When they introduces the marines, I felt safe and started to get into it. It was just a great memory.
It takes what was set by the original and builds off of it by expanding the setting and developing the protagonist even further. It is FULLY worthy of the praise it gets as one of the best sequels ever made
It also manages to change the genre while maintaining the spirit of the original. That’s no small feat.
Me and my 14 year old son just watched the first 2 back to back.
Literally this afternoon.
He said right after the second film "i cant believe there was no cgi and they're the best sci-fi ive ever seen"
Watch the 3rd one and his point will be reinforced even more lol. Too much early cgi Fincher used and it doesn’t look great at all. Practical effects when done right are the absolute best!
What's funny about Aliens is most fans of Alien really loved Aliens, some loved it even more and instead of Ridley Scott being appreciative for what James Cameron was able to do with adding to the story that Ridley helped create, he instead became bitter and forever resents everything about the film. It's just funny what massive egos can do to people
The problem with Ridley Scott is that for the most part, he is all style and no substance. He is fantastic at worldbuilding and visuals, but sturggles to actually make you care for and get invested in the characters in the worlds he creates. The character of Ellen Ripley was essentially a blank slate before Aliens.
He's bitter that Cameron did his concept better than he did.
Then he got the reigns back with Prometheus and Covenant and just tried to make it as convoluted as he could. He wanted HIS fingerprints on the origins of the creature so so badly.
@@maverick916x And he managed to ruin it with the origins, what a shame. Do you agree?
@@killerdiva7771 Thats horseshit. Ripleys character development in Alien was first rate. Intentionally subtle showing glimpses of her clinical leadership and ability to remain calm and calculated. Scott purposely didnt allow the audience to know who the true protagonist was until the 3rd act, keeping us guessing... brilliant directing.
@@Fighter4Street the origins didn’t ruin Prometheus, they were quite interesting.it was the utterly brain dead characters and their ridiculous choices that ruined it.
It was the most intense and exciting movie going experience of my life. I watched it on campus the first year in university when they turned the lecture hall into a movie theater with a proper film projection.
Awesome review from a great director 😊
Saw it on T.V. in 1990 . CBS showed the director 's cut (AKA The 40 miles of Bad Road version). I was so impressed by it!
Still have it on VHS because we taped it. Blew me away. Watched it 30 times or more. Aliens is the greatest Si-Fi movie of all time.
That version actually had a couple of scenes that weren't even in the Director's Cut. I remember a scene of an alien trying to attack Bishop while he was crawling through the pipe.
I also saw Aliens on its opening night and boy what an experience! The funny thing is that I had no idea an Alien sequel was being released; in fact, I had never seen the original so I was completely oblivious to the whole thing. My friend called me 30 minutes before showtime and said "quick, there's a movie opening tonite and my friend gave me 2 tickets, can you come to X theater right now??" and I said "sure!". I raced there as fast as I possibly could and arrived just as the movie was starting. In fact, this was 'reserved seating only' so an usher escorted us to our seats right as the opening credits rolled. What transpired after that was a 90 minute roller coaster ride that blew my mind completely! Not to mention the minds of the rest of the audience who adored the movie so much they spontaneously cheered and clapped as if it was a live event. Fuck me that movie was amazing - still is - and I feel lucky I got to see it on opening night having *zero* background knowledge of any of it. A very awesome experience.
Quentin can so casually create a dramatic arc, knows what details add flavor to the story and he builds towards the climax. How can you become such a skilled storyteller?
Born that way
I was 12 when I saw aliens in the theater. The single scene that absolutely scared me was the “ceiling scene”. For years afterwards, the thought of things hiding in false ceilings terrified me
That contrast he is talking about in the face hugger scene, between the slow quiet tension and the "come with me if you want to live" jump is exactly the contrast that made The Thing one of the most effective horror movies of all time, it is a slow burner, but every time the thing shows up it's complete chaos, hell on earth, shit hits the fan and you are just sitting there watching like WTF?! lol
Yep The Thing another good one right up there with Aliens
@@LanceyKersti legendary lol
Something to add here, these are among the best special effects you will ever see. After this CGI started making it's way onto the scene and initially out of curiosity and then due to money all directors started switching over. That means the late 80s were the pinnacle of practical effects. Given that the human eye is insanely adept at detecting the subtle ways even the best CGI is not actually real, that means the special effects of the late 80s and early 90s were the best at tricking your brain into believing it was actually real. You can put Aliens or Predator up against the best CGI of today, and the late 80s stuff beats it hands down. It's not even close.
You're totally right, it drives me nuts how bad CGI generally looks, it's the paradox of the uncanny valley: the more CGI tries to look real the more you notice it's fake. And they keep making the same mistakes. At their best old SFX were glorious, simply because they were real, and were starting to use CGI only subtlety, to refine things. But apparently nobody cares in Hollywood now, it's too expensive to do things properly, the most important thing is to keep the standard low so people just accept sloppiness as a normality.
Early 80s, it's the Thing, gore in American werewolf in London, hard to forget seeing those scenes first time.
Agree wholeheartedly. Also, budgetary restraints and available time meant that special effects were used for EFFECT. Part of the curse of CGI is that it is sprayed all over every frame. It detracts massively from the storytelling.
Well, it was Cameron's next movie (The Abyss in 1989) that started the CGI revolution in earnest. The water tentacle sequence is the first photorealistic CGI in any movie, ever. Most of the movie is practical effects, but that one five minute sequence upended the industry. ILM basically invented a whole slew of new technology to get it done. Then the tech was taken further in Terminator 2 (1991) and Jurassic Park (1993). At that point, it started to become THE core technology for visual effects in movies, for good and ill.
CGI is literally everywhere nowadays and you notice only worst examples of it.
Do your research.
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Normal people: "Queue"
Quentin Tarantino: "Human centipede"
My father took me and my younger brother to see this in Iversen Mall, in Hillcrest Heights, Md. on opening weekend. At the end of the movie, the whole theater got up and started applauding. I have yet to have a movie experience that has matched that.
Both Alien & Aliens are excellent. I think Alien is the superior cinematic experience on the whole, however I've definitely watched Aliens more times than Alien I think simply because it's more action-packed & easier to just chill & have a good time with.
Alien 3 was pretty cool.
@@123612100 I think the drop-off is massive from the first two for the rest of the franchise tbh. We'll see about Romulus as I'm due to see it in less than 14 hours time.
Agreed.
Personally I disagree. I just rewatched Aliens and wasn’t super compelled. It lacks the horror of the original and the characters aren’t as interesting
@jacobfleming3926 Fairs. As I say, Alien is definitely superior, I appreciate its suspense & restraint which Aliens lacks, but I personally love Aliens too & quite appreciated the fact it did its own thing.
haha, he says Reese jumps through the window, that's Michael Biehn's character name in the Terminator :)
at about the 1:00 mark, Quentin moves to the bathroom for the rest of the interview.
Such an awesome talk. Thanks Quentin, so enjoyed this!!!
Nightmares for me as a kid when I managed to see it as an 12 yr old on TV one night …couldn’t bear to watch it again until I was an adult …an intense , visceral , relentless piece of horror action cinema …absolute masterpiece !
I'll always treasure that I saw Star Wars, Superman, and Aliens with my father as a young kid.
0:33 nice transition 👍🏼🤩
Saw it five times in theaters. A perfect film.
I love listening Tarantino talk movies because you can tell from his enthusiasm and knowledge how much he loves and respects the art and magic of making movies
I love it when someone is able to articulate what great cinema feels like. This is it. I was in 3rd grade when I first saw this movie in the theater, some of my experiences were different because i was a child and I was scared shitless. But, revisiting this movie as an adult, he is spot on. he is always spot on. This movie exceeded every expectation and showed the audience something they thought they'd seen, but in reality couldn't have imagined. That magic is gone in modern cinema. I miss that magic. Terminator, it's sequel, Alien/Aliens Star Wars, etc. Lightning in a bottle, and I am thrilled to have been around for it.
That said, When Alien 3 came out, I was older and so excited. I went with my friend. We made a day of it. The level of disappointment... It was brutal.
That movie was the first one to give me nightmares as a child… absolutely a f-ing ride!
Those are the best!
The Thing gave me nightmares as an adult
Same here, I couldn't get that radar showing them surrounded by aliens out of my 10 year old head
Oh god you unlocked a memory of my mom having to stay up with me for night because I was scared completely shitless after watching this
It's cool that he singles out this moment, because right at the end of that scene, Hicks, Ripley and Newt clinch together, and it's a de facto family moment.
This was presumably intended by Cameron to be a reward for Ripley, who had almost succumbed to despair, but now has the prospect of a new family.
And that had of course become her motivation.. save the daughter she had just gained, to atone for the loss of her own daughter Amanda.
Which of course os one reason so many fans hated Alien 3. Fincher just casually scrapped all of that, even adding insult to injury with that gratuitous autopsy on Newt. That just ruined everything that was good about the film for me and so many others. You don't just look your audience straight in the eye, stick a knife in their hearts and twist it. There were so many other ways he could have engineered a change of direction for the franchise.
@@TheSleightDoctor Hah! I was gonna mention that.
But to be fair to Fincher, he was not to blame.
At that point in his career, he didn't have the clout to make decisions about who lives or dies.
Alien3 was a notoriously troubled production.
Absolutely 100 on that point: The scene boils down all the movie's chaotic elements and sets into one tiny med bay with three players: Ripley, Newt and the Hugger.
What made the video game "Alien: Isolation" so successful shines in that scene too -- dark, dripping, sinister malice with one exceptionally vulnerable character clinging to an embattled lead with her life in the balance -- against an agile, alien "spider" scuttling from the corners threatening to latch on to its prey with irreversible tenacity.
Someone wants to be a writer.
4 players - There were two huggers
@@mrspangles932 Ahh damn, my fixation on triangles does me in again!
@@greglr19751 I just finished "Isolation," and that game experience changes you, hah.
Plus, it's a Tarantino post -- another long-winded writer ;)
@@michaelmaloskyjr In terms of quality, I think Isolation comes in right after Aliens at spot three. It nails the suspense from the first two movies perfectly. An extremely immersive experience.
I saw this movie when I was in 4th grade and it gave me nightmares rest of my life. Best movie ever! So glad to show to my kids now!
Wow QT is just a master at telling a story, in any medium he chooses. He remembers every detail about that afternoon that he first saw Aliens. And he paints that picture for us for well, we can see everything he saw and feel every emotion he felt that night. How many people have you met who could tell a story like that?
Saw Aliens in an IMAX setting (70% of a true IMAX film) with my dad, who wasn't much of a sci-fi guy and he LOVED it... one of the last great shared moments I had with him before he passed away a few years later...
That’s a really cool memory! Sorry for your loss, but it’s great that you could share this experience.
In the bright side, he got to skip literally every other piece of shit Alien movie.
Imagine being excited for an Alien movie. You lucky bastards
Same goes for Jurassic Park. If you told my ten year old self that my 40 year old self would have so little excitement for a new Alien or JP movie that I didn’t even bother seeking either out in theaters, the poor lil guy would be so baffled his brain would start leaking out his ears.
This comment made me laugh out loud so hard. I feel the same way!
@@bobross2346 Ah man, they have driven JP into the ground so hard it's almost so bad it's good at this point. Fallen Kingdom being the standout.
@@johng6565 I haven’t seen 65 yet, maybe that’s a better current day Dino movie? As far as I recall the last film with kickass dinosaur content was Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake. That setpiece with the multi Dino attack is pretty glorious, more memorable than most anything observed in a JP sequel.
@@bobross2346 I think I'm one of the few people who liked 65. While I was watching it though I couldn't help but think of JP and how perfectly it was done. 65 is fine but I doubt it will really scratch that itch.
If I had to pick my favorite dinosaur movie after JP it would honestly be the Disney movie Dinosaur, think of me what you will
I know why Alien is held in higher regard: it was the start, the original creative masterpiece. However, I will argue to my last day on earth that Aliens is the better movie. The only thing I’ll add to what Quentin said is the Aliens is the more diverse movie (action, horror, drama, some comedy) and also had a greater cast of characters.
well said!
Same deal with Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back for me.
To me the archetypal simplicity of Alien makes it one of the most 'perfect' movie ever made. Aliens is a masterpiece, but it is so much bigger and so diverse that it necessarily became less intense, in terms of absolute perfection, even if it is more entertaining overall. Splitting hairs, though.
I find there's an element of snobbery in the people who trash Aliens and say Alien is far superior. They can't admit that a big brash action picture with wisecracking characters like Hudson in can be better than the slow, moody, atmospheric chills of Alien. I think they're both brilliant films and am happy for people to pick one over the other based on personal preference. But anyone who thinks Alien is clearly above Aliens is just being foolish. On every level of filmmaking, it's a masterpiece.
@@ravecrab aliens wasn't scary. It was an action film. Alien was genuinely scary, and still is. It was claustrophobia and dread. Trapped on a ship trying to find a Boogeyman that morphed into a giant alien you couldn't see, camouflaged in the shadows. It was lethal and quiet, didn't move fast because it didn't have to. Every movie after took it over the top and lost the scary factor that only alien has. I was way into h.r.giger and owned his book necronomicon, knew he did the artwork for brain salad surgery, and told moviegoers afterwards the Alien was giger's baby. Aliens is a great action film. It's not a sci Fi horror film like Alien
Quentin is super right about the scene where Burke tries to get Newt and Ripley infected with the face huggers. I was never more tense in a film than when that scene was going down. To see Hicks and Hudson show up to save them was insanely relieving.
Saw it in a rural town cinema in Ireland in '86. I was 14 and my brother was 12. The lady selling the tickets initially didn't want to let us in but I somehow managed to persuade her. I suppose the cinema needed the money. I knew it'd be good as I'd read ADF's novelisation. But it blew me away and is still my favourite film to this day.
We will never see a sequel like this because it was not a sequel. It was a miracle.
I was an innocent 11 year old making my way to the midnight showing of Aliens in Ireland in 1986.
I sweet talked my way in as the 3 cinema employees decided whether it was suitable for me to watch. Long story short there was no sex sceens so I got in on my own. One of the greatest cinema experiences of my life.
Life long fan since then. Own all the Dark horse graphic novels.
7:20 Hicks sir he's Reese
Spot on!
And he grew a mustache for The Abyss because they didn't want the audience saying "that's Reese" or "that's Hicks".
That's LT Coffey. He's Johnny Ringo.
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The way Tarantino talks about movies it’s a movie itself! That face hugger scene he mentions it’s a masterclass on tension and release. Only Cameron knows how to make sequels, or at least back then he did it with perfection.
This was the very first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was faaaar too young to be watching it and I remember my dad telling the box-office cashier, "oh he'll be fine, he can cover his eyes" LOL.
Aliens (Director's Cut) is 10/10.
Showed my 11-year-old this film just a few weeks ago... he loved it!
Wasn't scared at all...kids these days are built different.
I introduced my daughter to a lot of horror at that age. The only movie she couldn't finish was Romero's Night of the Living Dead. She only got about 20 minutes into that one before making me turn it off because it creeped her out so bad. Honestly, I was REALLY surprised.
Your daughter sounds just like me as a kid. I watched all the horror movies I could see as a young kid & Night of the Living Dead was one of the only films that actually creeped me out.
An old friend saw Alien when it came out in the cinemas. He had some time to kill one day and bought a ticket, knowing nothing about it. Maximum impact.
It's sitting on my DVR and I watch it every time it's played. Classic cinema, classic childhood memories.
The high point for me in the theater was the reveal. Everyone knew what was going to happen , it was just a case of when. There was the first 'false' reveal when when they scope the base and nothing was there, but when the room/cocoons start coming to life I remember everyone sitting straight up in their seats.
James Cameron was gonna do another aliens until the movie studios wanted him to do the aliens vs predator then he said absolutely not.
From what I heard, he was working with Ridley Scott on an Alien 5 script. When he heard that Alien vs. Predator was greenlit, he threw his script in the trash as he realized at that point, the series had become a joke.
@@milesaway1980 I'd say Resurrection had already turned it into a joke.
While I am no fan of Alien: Resurrection, it tried to be a serious movie. I think the movie sucks overall, and that it really ruined the franchise, but it did at least try to take it seriously.
Which is why I think Cameron was wanting to come back and set things right.
Alien vs. Predator however, was comic book movie from the start, and turned both the Alien and Predator franchises into schlock.
Watched this again last night and its too good. The new one really doesn't touch it.
Great story from Tarantino, I'm jealous of the experience. I was too young to see it in the cinema so had to watch on VHS probably in the late 80s. Will forever be one of my favorite films. Strangely enough though Alien seems to be aging the better out of the two of them (if you had to nitpick). Both timeless of course.
I should add that I have seen Aliens on the big screen since (about 5 years ago) along with Predator, Die Hard and 2001: A Space Odyssey. All awesome cinema experiences.
I saw it opening night at my local theater-
I had never come out of a film feeling that way before - just a raging internal thrum
This gave me chills. Aliens is my favorite movie of all time. I was nine when it came out, thus, didn’t get to share the cinematic experience, but doing do vicariously-especially through Tarantino’s dramatic account-is thrilling enough.
To look at this in contemporary times, he's praising Aliens for doing everything that A Quiet Place is refusing to do across its three films.
Alien to Aliens is how you expand a concept, build a world on solid foundations and allow audiences to see a now familiar monster through an entirely new lens.
Quentin Tarantino on Jumanji (1995)?
My favorite film of all time
I was about 8 years old when this movie came to HBO, and i remember very well, the night it was to premier, my dad and my older brother where sitting down to watch it, and my brother bringing me into the living room to sit and watch with them, apparently my mom and dad had a discussion about letting me watch the movie, and my dad convinced my mom to let me, but my mom was afraid it would scare me too much. So i laid down on the floor in front of the tv and was just totally sucked into the movie, loved every second of it, and never got scared.. First rated R movie i was ever allowed to watch.
I appreciate Tarrantino’s opinion on ANY film so much because he is such a great filmmaker and student of film.
When I saw it opening night, the high point was most DEFINITELY when the door opened and she came out in the loader suit. The entire freaking theater erupted into a cheer so loud you almost had to cover your ears. It. Was. Epic.
That's because it was now Wrestlemania LOL It was on like Donkey Kong ;)
Anybody else catch Tarantino refer to Michael Biehn's character as Reese as in "Kyle Reese"?
Yup! Just did. I just watched The Terminator last weekend. Michael Bien was fast; look back at his aerobatics at Tech Noir in The Terminator when he first saves Sarah Connor from the T-100 with a shotgun.
The big change is that Alien is a horror movie, Aliens is an Action Adventure movie because Cameron realized once you see the Alien the horror cannot be replicated. My idea what the alien was changed throughout the movie. With Aliens you know the monster, but Cameron changes the whole idea with people who are able to fight back but have no idea of the scale of the problem. If they had known what they were facing the Marines could have taken them out. Ripley knew what she had faced in Alien, she had no idea and could not tell them the scale of the problem they were up against in Aliens.
aliens is still up there as one of my top tier action movies. after this the franchise died for me. alien and aliens hands down best origin and follow up . the scene with the self defence guns running out of ammo there were so many threats really showed the scale of the horror. (cut out of orginal but added for directors cut.)
I wish people would stop saying this. Just because it has action in it that doesn't mean it's not a horror movie anymore. The original was a slow-burn, haunted house horror. And the sequel is a survival, siege horror with more action elements in it. Both are horror, both are scary.
Saw Aliens in the theater with my parents when I was 9. One of the best movie experiences of my life.
My dad took me to see it opening night. I was 14 years old. And it was just like QT describes. What a ride.