Alien (1979) - Ripley's Last Stand Scene (5/5) | Movieclips
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) blows the alien away and begins her journey back to civilization.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas's (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company.
CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1979)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Sigourney Weaver
Director: Ridley Scott
Producers: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ivor Powell, Ronald Shusett
Screenwriters: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
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Her fear is what makes her strong in my opinion. I liked that she wasn't invincible, she was actually frightened.
Agreed. Film writers today want to keep creating “strong female characters” without the understanding of what makes them strong and characters you want to root for. Ellen Ripley is one of the greatest film protagonists of all time because she acts like a real human with real emotions. She’s terrified of the situations she’s been forced into, but she still faces these fears head on. These are admirable and relatable characteristics that anyone can relate to regardless of gender and that’s why she’s so beloved. “Characters” like Rey or Captain Marvel are a joke in comparison to the strong female characters I grew up watching!
@@spiderleenie There’s also the fact that Ripley has an actual personality.
@@mask938 that too. The new ones have little to no personality and have no character
@@spiderleenieSame with Sarah Conner. In Terminator 2 when she tries to kill Dyson she can’t bring herself to do it, and instead of shrugging it off like the fearless hero she tries so desperately to be, she has a breakdown, an emotional collapse, and John has to help her come to her senses. Really powerful moment.
@@foolforchrist319 Yes. An amazing moment in what I consider to be a near-perfect movie. Linda Hamilton really deserved an Oscar nomination for T2; I don't care what anyone says. She was amazing in that movie.
Ripley is one of the calmest, intelligent, and bravest protagonist in cinema history. No ego, just demanded all follow the rules. protocol of their mission. The cat kept her calm, the cat's instincts became hers. The cat was her last and only link to the world she knew and needed to protect. His life , staying alive and safe, was her mission.
Aliens, the little girl, she does the same. Keeping that child alive, shielding her from watching the colonist die, she's a mother. She admired and praised her for staying alive. Truly one of the best films that show this bond
Beautifully said.
Lisa, can you do Ripley on me? And i dont even work out.
Love Jonesie
Perfect
The most interesting aspect I saw in Ripley was that she never tried to put anyone down. She was very friendly but also cautious of any dangers. And she was very responsible at her job.
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off"
Cat: Am I a joke to you?
It should go like this: 'This is Ripley, last surviving hooman of the Nostromo, signing off, meow.'
Starwarsguy19 The Cat's name is Jonesy!😾😼
@@Nicholas_Chen_ I don't know why but that hit me right lol
@@jessesands4099 Yes, not many people remember that.
Tore Lund Well they should!😾
Remember watching this at the theater and everyone cheering when she blew it out the airlock.
+bluebird Really I thought they would quite considering how scary this film is.
wow.. its nice to experience that. unfortunately i wasnt born yet when this movie came out.
You must be ancient. I was -11 at the time lol.
I heard similar stories when the shark was blown apart to kingdom come in Jaws.
Honestly wished I was alive during that time when people were actually that enthusiastic about movie climaxes!
Saw "Jaws" in the theater when it first came out. I seem to recall some rowdy response from the audience. :)
when someone's overstayed their welcome at your house and you're sick of dropping hints that you want them to leave
haha lol
And its almost fuckin midnight, lol.
Cassie Tad lol
for me I thought of when an annoying lizard is in the house
I open the airlock to the porch and then harpoon them out of the house.
When you're driving, a wasp gets into your car, and you manage to open your window at just the right time to suck them outside.
and when they hold on you grab that grappling hook you've been keeping in the back seat.
taterboob and I scream just like ripley
But not before he has his stinger embedded in your windshield out of last attempt of defiance.
Brilliant analogy. Alien taps into our primordial fears of disease, insects, parasites and predators (and even sex and death). Probably the smartest sci-fi horror film ever made thanks to the magic combination of HR Giger and Ridley Scott.
This just isn't even funny. The fact you got these likes....die unnaturally
This film was so well done. When people say Ridley Scott is overrated, show them this
If anyone said to me Ridley Scott was overrated they would leave the conversation with a black eye.
+dkwookies lol
Or show them Gladiator
Firmus Piett or Black Hawk Down, The Martian, Thelma & Louise, American Gangster, Blade Runner, Kingdom of Heaven, etc. very versatile
Those people say that James Cameron is better than Ridley Scott... I think otherwise. Even if James cameron has a very financially successful filmography, the genres of his films aren't that diverse.
James Cameron made:
-Terminator(1984)-Science fiction Horror Action
-Aliens(1986)-Science fiction-Horror
-Abyss(1989)-Science fiction-adventure
-Terminator 2(1991)-Sci fic Action
-True lies(1993)-Action
-Titanic(1997)-Historical Disaster film
-Avatar(2009)-Science Fiction
James cameron is very good at direction Sci-fi, action, horror and historical disaster films
Ridley Scott although not being always successful tried more variety of genres than James Cameron
-Alien,Blade runner,Prometheus, martian:Science fiction
-Gladiator: Roman Epic
-Kingdom of Heaven: Medieval War Epic
-Matchstick Man:Crime Black Comedy
-Thelma and Louise:Road movie
-Black Hawk Down:War film
-American Gangster: Gangster crime film
-Black Rain: Neo-noir
His filmography covers from Science fiction,Historical Epic,War film,Comedy to Gangster film. He tried more variety of genres than James Cameron and came up with masterpieces for each of these genres.
I saw this film with mom 40 years ago September 6, 1979. School didn't start yet and mom is still around. Thanks mom!
Hurray for Mom!
@@basilmarasco1975 Let me tell you.
Dad hooked me up with _The Warriors._
@@johnf.kennedy7339 You should have seen "The Wanderers." It was in the theaters the exact same time as "Alien."
@@basilmarasco1975 My other choice in the theaters was _Moonraker._ I wrote a detailed comment elsewhere on my experience in ‘79. Think I’ll try to dig it up and post it here.
When she's listing dead members of the crew, I just now noticed that little pause before "Ash"
what does that mean?
@@Lscott-fk2sn well, he made sure the crew brings the xenomorph onboard, he made sure it hatches, he tried to kill Ripley,... she is probably thinking about every crew member as she lists them and I suppose there are lots of unsaid...ehm... negative thoughts about Ash, while the whole mess was the fault of the company, he made it actually happen.
Also Ash was revealed to be a robot so Ripley probably thought about whether Ash counted as a crewmember
Guerney2000 and a bit darker in the tone
Pure scorn for Ash, who she didn’t like or trust to begin with.
The definitive female protagonist heroine of our time in cinema "Ellen Ripley" everybody.
+Chester von Doom Kill Bill? Silence Of The Lambs?
It's because they made her human instead of an unstoppable independent "empowered", female killing machine.
+Chester von Doom There was no FEMINISM in this movie at all bro . alien is about survival its not pushing any feministic messages on society . she was not discriminated against because she was a chick , also her role could have easily been played by a man . Also when has feminism ever been cool in movies ? and this is coming from a chick , go figure .
lain iwakura Well, star wars was a big hit and it had some "forced," diverse characters. I wouldn't expect anything more from Disney but it is a big name for SJWs to boast about.
Rey was a poorly written main character though.
See what I did there, he he.
Psychopath 13 It's because it wasn't conscious or preconceived. Her character was the smartest, most level-headed and resourceful of all the characters. It wasn't a feminist film, it was an egalitarian and meritocratic film. If Dallas had survived, he might have made it all the way with her, but he got egged.
This is why Ripley is the greatest female hero in cinema, and she proves it even further in Aliens. Reminds me of Ash from the first two Evil Dead films. Like Ash, she's scared at first but builds up her bravery and defeats the monster.
Unrelated but I can't wait to see Sigourney as the villain in the Defenders.
J Brick Yeah me too.
100 percent correct here.
Spidermans a better female character
The movie kind of subverts people's expectations. Ripley's no damsel in distress, for one.
This ending is so beautiful and very somber too. Ripley beat the alien, but we're unsure if she's doomed out in space, or if the network, with a little luck, _might_ pick her up. The last shot with her returning to hypersleep is perfectly ambiguous. Her fate is unknown.
Until you watch the sequel.
or even if the network WOULD pick her up at all
Fun Fact: The original ending to this movie was going to have the Alien kill Ripley and record the last message in her voice. It's weird and creepy, but most horror movies from the 70s had downer endings, so, yeah.
No, that is not true. That is what Ridley wanted to do but then Fox threatened to fire him if he did that. The original ending for the film was the Alien dies on the Nostromo when it blows up with Ripley getting away on the Narcissus. Ridley felt that the movie needed the last scene so he managed to get Fox to give him the additional funding to make the current ending of the film but with the 1 stipulation that the Alien DOES NOT WIN in the end.
It's really ridiculous to say "original" ending.
The O'bannon script had the beast blow up on the Nostromo.
Ridley's extended ending with the shuttle was very fly-by-wire depending on what accounts you read. Ridley storyboarded an ending where Ripley and The Alien were sucked out of the shuttle (Ripley tethered to it.) And she would use one of the laser guns that we see earlier in the film .This was reduced and simplified to the filming version where she uses a harpoon gun to get the Alien off the ship.
@@DarkAttackYT haha now i see what you did there
Darth Grumpy No. Throwaway Account is right. The original ending was gonna have The Alien decapitate Ripley but they scraped it and they made this scene instead. If Ripley died then we wouldn't get the sequel Aliens and the Predator movie wouldn't exist.
I actually really like that ending idea. Monsters that can mimic human voices to lure or fool prey are the absolute most terrifying concept to me.
I should reach the frontier in about six weeks.
French accent: fifty seven years later...
Love the SpongeBob reference
Love the Spongebob reference
57 years, you're luck to be alive kiddo...
I love the spongebob and Aliens(1986) reference.
Sometimes longer, but, you could get lucky.
When Sigourney Weaver will eventually pass on, which will hopefully be far into the future, this last speech of her as Ripley will most certainly be played in all the news reports commemorating her as one of the most iconic female protagonists in movie history.
que negativo como puedes hablar de la muerte😠
She most definitely is. Thank you for being part of my childhood.
At time of writing, Nostromo survivors are Tom Skerritt (Dallas) at 90 and Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) who are both 75.
Weird how David did something similar in the ending of Alien: Covenant.
This film is a god damn masterpiece.
It was DEFINITELY way ahead of it's time.
Absolutely, sometimes its hard to believe its a guy in a suit. I bet people in this time probably thought that was an actual animal lol. Everyone thought the shark from Jaws was real when it released too.
adamd664 Well my immersion is broken once the alien is flung out of the shuttle and you can see the whole body.
Mark yea true.
@@darkworld9850 I thought that just rewatching I think they could have done it at a better angle or something just looks like a guy lol
What I love about Ripley is how natural she is. No super powers, no supreme fighting abilities, no advantages, no sass. Just an intelligent, careful, honest and determined person. They don't write female protagonists like that anymore.
No sass? Are you kidding me
@@handsomehead1381 Im referring that bs snap yo fingers slay queen hollywood sass. Shes got attitude thats confidence and determination and not being a smartarse about everything.
@@tovsteh no she is kind of a smartass in the movies its just allowed bc shes right 99% of the time
I agree brother
So intense!
The fear on Ripley was so real.
Sigourney’s perfect acting.
I still remember the scene of her singing Lucky Star while trying to get into a space suit and get to the control panel without waking up the Xenomorph.
Honestly I'm just glad the cat didn't die
She put Jonesy into suspended animation for the trip back too. He still had some lives left to go.
@Eskimo Joe Me too 🐱
Right!? I always get stressed whenever I see animals in movies, I keep praying ‘please don’t get killed.’
It's dead in the DC version (Dog's Cut, released in 2016).
Jonesy is part of survivor. We need another standalone movie, just only for Jonesy 😄
This is what you call a strong woman, stronger than everyone else on board the Nostromo, the only one strong enough to survive. And she does it without super powers or having to force feed the fact to everyone that she's so strong and powerful. Ripley is strong, beautiful, modest, intelligent and a perfect role model.
Well, what I liked about it was the fact that she was a girl was 100% irrelevant. She was just Ripley.
A perfect organism
@@blockmasterscott. Well that just went right over your head didn't it, he was making a statement about the garbage they release today, trying to rub it in your face the fact that They are a man hating woman, cough "Ghostbusters captain marvel" cough!
@@tarjeimonster5634 how has nobody recognised your comment yet? It has me rolling
@@tarjeimonster5634 Makes you wonder why Weyland Corp didn't just clone Ripley, considering she beat the Xenomorph every time. (Alien Resurrection doesn't really count since Ripley was a "byproduct")
The Alien creature was never as truly terrifying as it was in this first movie. You had no idea what it was. It just kept… changing. Always lurking in the shadows. Around every corner, in every crawl space in the dark…
Not just in this movie also in the horror game Alien Isolation.
As much as i love Aliens as action movie and all its Vetnam War subtext, Xenomorph is working best in horror setting, not being downgraded to cannon fodder.
Just my opinion but everything about this movie is perfect the music, atmosphere, actors, writing, visuals simply a masterpiece. I cannot understand why anyone would not consider this to be one of the best films ever made
Agreed. Especially Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score. I was busy studio singer for 55 years and had the honor of working with Mr. Goldsmith on several occasions. While recording Poltergeist, I mentioned to him how much I loved his Alien score. He replied that it was not a pleasant experience, he didn’t like working with Ridley Scott.
Visually, this was absolutely gorgeous. That moment she turns her head and sees the alien still gives me goosebumps.
0:48 - Alien: "Geez lady!! All I wanted was to borrow a cup of milk!"
Alien: Got damn it lady! Why shoot harpoon to me when I greeting?
0:35 Geez lady, just trying to give you a kiss.
captain is that you?
All I wanted was her autograph and she blew me out the airlock.
+Steve Rogers .........He was a Mormon on a mission. Since the company had smart robots, The company would want the ship back no matter what.. The self destruct thingy really made no sense
Who's watching this after seeing Alien Romulus? 😂
Romulus was really stupid at the end. It pales in comparison to this original version.
Fun Fact: In the 2003 special edition interview for Alien, Ridley revealed that Ripley initially was supposed to die towards the end after harpooning the Alien (to no avail as it proceeded to kill her). After which, the Xenomorph would make it’s way into the cockpit of the shuttle, contact the station, and mimic Dallas’s voice to set up coordinates to earth. However, the executives at Fox threaten to fire Ridley if he didn’t change the ending as they believed it would’ve of affected Sigourney Weaver’s (the actress who played Ripley) chances of becoming a star (with them quoting that it was the “worst idea they ever heard”). Thus, Ripley was spared and later appeared in the following sequels.
Well, they weren't wrong. The alien being able to talk after nothing to set up such abilities and that level of abilities? Sounds stupid.
Ripley's final monologue is so haunting, yet inspiring. Inspiring because she managed to beat the perfect organism just by keeping her cool under pressure and luring it close enough where she could blow it out of the airlock, but haunting, because she's still alone and isolated out in space with the rest of her crew dead, unsure if help will ever arrive.
Well said. “In space, no one can hear you scream”
Alien was a horror film, but it was also a piece of art.
It's really hard to fathom how Promotheus and Covenant could have been made by the same director.
People forget that Scott, although a great director, isn't a great writer. Films are only as good as their script allows. Alien had a great script because of its writers, such as Dan O'Bannon.
On the big screen.Ridley Scotts vision shines.
Alien and Aliens were originals. Straight from the soul, no mold included.
We live in the age of reboots and remakes. The commercial glorification of derivitation.
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 True. I'm sick of seing yet another Taken being released and that flood of rainbow-flavored Meh-rvel crap.
@@michaelwestmoreland2530 Prometheus was Original ya fool
I suspected for years that this Alien survived floating around in space and I’m glad Romulus confirmed it did. 😅
When did they confirm it? I saw it Yesterday but I missed that part. Was it the dead alien on the ceiling?
@@cangri1788thats what I thought too… is it that dead alien in the ceiling that the half ai points out?
@@masteryoda9284Yes
@@cangri1788 yes that was the original Alien from the nostromo. They showed the company capturing it in the opening scene from the ship’s wreckage. Watch it again and you can see the grappling hook Ripley shot at it still in its chest.
Enough with the sequels. The Alien died in space just like Emperor Palpatine. It’s all about money with Hollywood
Grounding a protagonist like Ripley, actually giving her 3 dimensions to work with and Sigourney Weaver depth with this character is what makes this film so timeless. She is genuinely terrified for her life, and wins with the sheer will to survive.
Ripley screams once. Not as a helpless victim, but a human hero.
Everyone's talked about the director the great actor or the monster but the soundtrack is absolutely beautiful. The music gives the movie a very epic feel. I also appreciate when they don't use any music so to build up real tension. Like this clip the music gives the scene a relief valve. The word Masterpiece gets thrown around a lot these days but this movie is absolutely a masterpiece.
Can you imagine that being by yourself dealing with that Alien? ergh.
buy Alien: Isolation and check it out.
Flourence Sinaban "Hey buddy, I can't get into my cryotube while you're skulking about in the cabin, now will you please exit the shuttle? Oh, take care not to get caught behind the engines once they fire..." The Alien, heedless of my advice of course, would stick out its inner jaws and blow a raspberry...
"Ok, you were warned..."
First of all, extra underwear will be needed
If this was truly real...I would have been scared big time😒
There is the videogame "Alien:isolation"
Xeno: "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, RIPLEEEEEEEY...!!!"
😂
I can watch the movie with my eyes closed and still remember every camera shot. But then I open my eyes and still can recieve a punch in my heart because of the nostalgia that dominates the whole movie.
I could feel the anxiety in Ripley's voice so deeply... when she was singing that & trying to carefully get ready, made me feel a bit anxious too.
Can you imagine being in her place? >.>
Big Chap: You should’ve gone for the head.
Fucking Classic! Even my own mum who doesn't like sci fi horror movies or horror movies in general , she found this movie so fucking good , it a masterpiece! thank you Ridley!
Director - Ridley Scott
*Ridley
They took great advantage with the shadows to mask away seeing just a man in a costume. even though it was the effects made it seem real. which makes this movie a classic.
this movie was so good .........don't know what happened to modern movies, . CGI has ruined everything that's all I have to say this was a classic. goodbye
Its several things, the ease of abusing a computer to put together some graphics is much easier than getting a talented artist to create a prop. Then they arent given enough time to make a good end product, if you use cgi to lightly season/salt something as opposed to using it as the main course then things would be much better
yea true : ;
+Arthur Yagami This more than anything, i'm actually currently writing my dissertation and it covers the "evolution of sound design within science fiction".
It's due to human perception. Notice how a lot of Ben Burtts sound design "feels" right, it's due to working with pre-existing audio and modulating it to get the desired sound as opposed to synthesis. It's the same with visuals, everything in the old trilogy looks better than the phantom menace despite the phantom menace being newer. It's the same with recording a guitar straight into a simulated amplifier as opposed to a real one. It can sound identical but it's the minor inconsistencies and variations along with the spacial sound of something that actually exists that makes it sound real.
So yeah, that's a sort of explanation into why CGI doesn't always look good compared to props.
Films that digitally add muzzleflash and blood sprays are the worst.
+shugo541 Cg doesn't look as good as props right now, but it depicts the movement of the aliens as much less humanoid.
Love the music from 1:05 to 1:35. That last bit of tension, followed by a huge burst of relief, triumph and optimism. Must have been special to feel that in theatre watching this.
Love how Ripley is perhaps thinking 'if I don't look the Alien won't be there' then looks and it's right there with its mouth(s) open. Make or break time!
It was 40 years ago yet imagery and special effects are far better than modern day CGI
Yeah now its ONLY mass produced CGI fireworks all over the place and no proper movie. Today when you've seen the ad for a movie, you've seen all there is to see.
You think the Alien from Covenant was bad?
@@jothishprabu8 Unfortunately, the only unrealistic sight of the Alien came near the ending when the Alien is dangling like a rag doll outside the Narcissus.
@@nambelas bruh 0:53 is realistically to you
When limited budget push one's creativity to the limit to create a masterpiece. Aliens 1986 budget if adjusted today still considered small and CGI would take the bulk of the budget.
45 years later…..
The Alien is described as a perfect specimen of survival. Ash even acknowledges its “purity” for it. What’s interesting is we watched a whole movie of a character do everything she could to survive as well. Would Ash admire Ripley for this same quality?
Who would've guessed. That Alien was still alive, when they found it in Romulus.
Ripley's acting is so perfect here, it's truly amazing, it made an already great film into the masterpiece that it is
Video starts:
Alien: "Goddammit, lady! I was trying to get some sleep!! Now you've REALLY pissed me off!!!"
Ripley- the most badass, female character ever. Sigourney Weaver is an amazing actress.
The fear, panic, heavy breathing and pure terror she displayed while trying to destruct the ship had me feeling like I was there with her.
Wish I could have seen it in the theater, i bet that would have been a whole different experience.
I did see it in the theater the very first night it opened. It had the whole audience screaming and firmly in its grips.
"Alien"(1979) is a science fiction horror movie masterpiece, and probably the best movie of all time for this kind!
1:28 - Ripley: "Hey Pal, what part of 'No Soliciting' didn't you understand?!?"
Anyone came back after watching Alien: Romulus?
The thing I like most here is that Ripley is clearly determined to do what she's gotta do, but she's still scared stiff. She's clearly overcoming her fear of the Alien and Sigourney Weaver's acting was superb, here. If "Alien" had been made in this era, the woman would be the bestest ever and would finish off the Alien without batting an eye, and the scene would be unfulfilling, ultimately. It's Ripley's conquering her fear and still being able to launch the Alien into space that makes this really work.
I love seeing people's comments concerning about the cat lol
I was on the edge half the movie worrying about her him
him lol
I was worryied about " Johnsey" too. I love cat's, they are much better than dogs, but I like all animals. Poor cat got killed when the ship crashed into that prison colony. : (
Yes, it was onboard the escape vessel with Ripply. Also, the little girl "Nuit" died in the crash.
Someone hasn't watched ALIENS . . .
I admit, I was wrong about the cat getting killed, but the little girl did die a the escape vessel. My mistake.
Does anyone know why Ripley just randomly sings “You are my lucky star”? I keep thinking it’s because it helps her keep sane from how scared she is. It’s a way to try to relax. I think that’s the case. My headcanon is telling me that Ripley used to sing that to her daughter Amanda to go to bed.
The Alien is the "Lucky Star" of Ripley.
I read where neither Howard Hanson, composer of the Romantic Symphony nor
Jerry Goldsmith were happy with Ridley Scott using Hanson’s Symphony for this scene. Quite frankly, I loved it
It's _so_ good.
The alternate ending is for the alien to kill Ripley and assume her identity so that he can reach earth. That was O'Bannon's original idea. This one is obviously a more positive ending, but I have a proposed third option:
Kill Ripley. Have the cat get out of the carrier, and engage in a predatory death match w/ the Alien. Do kind of a "Home Alone" thing between Jones and the Alien, ending in the Alien's horrific "death by stupidity". Final shot, Jonesy walking over the carcass of the dead alien, licking his paws, looking at the camera and saying "meow."
"Purr, baby purrr"
Cats, they'll sell you for a pack of cigarettes and they don't even smoke
😂
Wtf
Yeah, that would have pissed people off. Good thing they kept that in the drafts. 💀
thank god the cat survive too 😭
I get so angry when I see that alien trying to hide into the engine. I'm like "Noooooooope!!!"
How does it know it's an engine? It just sees the nozzle as a possible way back into the ship.
Phillip Allen it knew it didn’t belong in a vacuum. Even a perfect organism has some kind of weakness that’s fatal and usually fatal too all sentient which are carbon based as it does need air the function. However it would last a little longer than a human since it has an exoskeleton like a spider or crab.
@@Filthy_Larry xenomorphs are silicon based
@@wilhelmu never stated in either film that they can breath or not die in a vacuum.
This is one of the best showdown sequences ever and Sigourney is one the best triumphs for women in the movies.
She was born to play that character ..😍😘😘😘❤️
The most terrifying thing is realizing it may still be alive even in deep space
Well was alive. Got shot remembered?
The music: Howard Hanson, Symphony # 2 " Romantic" Beautiful. Exhilirating.
The cat survive, that's the point.
0:51 As great as the rest of the film is, this one single shot just...kind of seems so awful it's hilarious, and the way the Alien bumps into the ship with a dull thud makes it all the funnier. 😂
It's the most clunky visuals-wise, and it's a shame, because they otherwise do such a great job.
i totally agree, the rest of the film is like 20/10 but this falls so egregiously flat, monster falls downwards into space out of a cheap looking scale model then bounces around, cheap star background with bad depth
My door banged at the exact same moment and I freaked.
Idk I actually quite like it.
I'll take that scene over CGI any day. Definitely not the alien's most graceful moment, but then it would be stunned by the grappling hook. It recovered quickly enough, though.
This film - like all truly great ones - just gets better with time. And Ripley is one of the great hero / fighters in cinema history.
Turns out after nearly 50 -60 years Big Chap survived and was responsible for the events of the newest movie Alien Romulus hell he was recovered during the films opening went on a rampage through the station before being killed for good but severing as a overarching antagonist for Romulus and having many cloned children from his Dna thanks to Wyland yutani being Wyland Yutani and even a Human/Xeno Son or GrandSon in the Newborn 2.0
I'm willing to bet if Big Chap could survive, then likely the Queen from Aliens survived.
@@PapaShango619 Don't give them ideas.
Kind of would have liked to have seen them shooting up the alien rather than being told about all the events on the station.
My all-time favorite movie heroine - Third officer, Ellen Ripley. :)
I had to revisit this after reading tons of comments from people who say this xenomorph was captured and harnessed to make the creatures in the new film due out August 2024.
so, it survived after all
Ripley Scott mentions that he had conceived the Alien having the lifespan of only a few days (which explains why it snuck aboard the escape pod), *as it wanted to find a nice quiet place for it to die alone and why it doesn't attack Ripley until she coaxes it out of its hiding spot.*
I remember sitting in the Classic Cinema (RIP), Leigh, Lancashire, UK in 1979, having just got to the end credits, thinking "This is the greatest sci-fi film I've ever seen." I watched it three more times in the same week. A lot of people say Aliens is the best film in this franchise. They're wrong!
I used to think Aliens was superior until I got a bit older and started to really appreciate Alien. The xenomorph in the first movie feels like a unique, mysterious creature. In Aliens - they're basically just space bugs.
Ripley is the best because she's relatable. Nowadays' feminist heroes are designed to be "perfect," which makes them into Mary Sues or worse. Ripley struggles and keeps us caring
Hm yes. Plus nowadays all they do is just beat up males... urg cause men are always the bad guys amirite?
@@emmamorley1836 ur right.
@@Crazylegoman3791 I also see Sarah Connor as inspirational because she is coward and scaredy at first but become the brave and courageous mother to John in T2
40 years later this movie still holds up
Fascinated by the idea of the 'frontier' in the Alien universe. The fact that Thadus, which the Nostromo departed from prior to the events of this movie, was in a highly populated and surveyed area of space, but then there's this gulf between Thadus and Earth/Sol that ships pass through, as the Nostromo did, that remains mostly unexplored.
Alien Romulus brought me here
Alien:gets thrown out of the airlock
*alien was the impostor 0 imposters remain*
This is a female hero; no cheesy speeches or shoving the fact she's a woman down the audience's throats, doesn't emulate men or put them down, she saves the day through her own ingenuity and fortitude.
I remember when we saw this in 1979 in Hollywood it was really something they had parts of the ship in the entrance of the theater and when I first saw Sigourney Weaver I new she was special she is a great actress i just luv her. Thanks for posting.
*THATS MY FUCKING REACTION EVERY TIME WHEN I SEE A SPIDER* @ 0:33
Sigourney Weaver is so hot
Joel's Boobs yah she is
Joel's Boobs yeah she is
Hey. You're a sexist perv. I just love how small her panties are. They cup and reveal all the right places....
Great legs, and she's tall, too. Like, she's almost Gwendolyn Christie tall...
No boobs though....
This movie is just a classic. Im glad I was around when the franchise started. Very few “old” movies are good, this movie isn’t good.
Its amazing.
"very few"
Jurrasic Park, Terminator, The thing, Predator, Back to the Future and many more.
Name one good new movie
Jerry Goldsmith, great composer, R.I.P. Mr. Goldsmith
rumor has it a slow sad variation of the song "you are my lucky star" sung by Ripley at 0:13 is used in the upcoming trailer for alien Covenant, but its only a rumor
It is used in Romulus
This ONE scene is STILL better than Captain Marvel. Ripley is so relatable.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go watch this masterpiece of a movie.
Jeremiah Spicer Any spare seating? I'll get the popcorn.
Ripley's first ever Xenomorph kill, and certainly not her last.
After the creature has been dispatched, we hear a bit of Howard Hanson’s Symphony No.2, the “Romantic”. Interesting!
I still find this movie damn scary when you watch it in its entirety! RIpley and Sarah o' Connor were really amazing female characters!
One of the most satisfying sci fi movie endings.....the alien 'tumbling' scene ( after the engine fired) was inspired by similar acrobatics from David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth ( 1975)
Can't believe that Alien will not give up and die.
The Predator would blow himself up along with you if you win.
Her voice is beautiful
Honestly Ripley was the only intelligent person on the Nostromo. She did not want Dallas and Lambert bringing in Kane who had the face hugger on him into the ship. And she was right "if you break quarantine we could all die."
The COVID-19 pandemic certainly helped teach me the importance of following quarantine procedures.
I remember first time I saw this, I thought the Alien was a giant ant. Ridley Scott did a good job of hiding the creature so that you never really saw what it was until the end of the film. Gives you an open interpretation of what you think it was and what you think you saw.
Oh well Ash. It turns out the Alien isn't the perfect organism after all.
Somebody go back in time and tell David that!
To this day I'm surprised we never got a sequel or a tie in about where the Alien went. What if he landed on another ship or something?
Really odd choice of what they did in Alien Romulus
Is this a joke?
@@jakebiomask maaaybe
It was clearly meant to have died here
0:34 - 0:47 - When a bee comes into your car while you're driving and you're allergic.
No one talking how natural Ripley's screams here and when she fell with the Queen in Aliens.
Big chap returns in romulus
0:45 just making sure if it was the same harpoon from Alien Romulus
Was it?
@@DuendeCaughtOnTape Yeaaa it was
That'll do Ripley... That'll do
0:49 gotta love how the gun is still there 57 years later