The fact that the Xenomorphs knew how to cut the power to the facility was always so terrifying to me, it added this extra layer of fear to know they could be not only mindless killing machines, but smart and coordinated enough to know exactly how to cut them off from everything.
The thing is there is possibility I thought many years later that it was not intention of Xenoes. Think of it like this they have moved in shafts and conduits and where the wires usually are? They may have interrupt the wires by accident. The lights going off let the marines prepare for their coming at least to some deegree. If the warning did not happen the slaughter could have been fatal. But since it is much more cool to think they have done it by choice I consider this theory only a distinct possibility.
@@Lukas-zd9wn Its a cool idea for sure and it could still work, they cut cables while traveling through vents and ceilings and learned what that it would affect the environment and then they used that knowledge.
I never cease to get a laugh at 6:12 when Ripley grabs the papers "this this bullshit you think is so important" and the hand comes up from the bottom left of the frame to try and grab papers back. I gotta think that was at Cameron's direction, and it's both hilarious and seals the realism of the moment.
So was Lance Henriksen but everyone forgets about that. Killed by a Terminator in Terminator, killed by a Predator in AVP, and torn apart by the Queen in Aliens, crash landed in Alien 3 due to facehugger, leading to him being shut down permanently.
@danielpeckham5520 @jameshall7366 Henriksen technically didn't get killed by a Xeno. Ripley killed him when she switched him off permanently. Henriksen also wasn't seen dying in Terminator. AvP isn't canon, so doesn't count.
When Ripley is shooting inside the hive, and its just quick cuts of the ammo going down, aliens exploding and her determined angry face flashing from the gun is such a great scene. The absolute pure rage in her face is crazy.
@@SmolAndAngyyy yeah, Im latino myself. But after loving this movie for so long, I have pretty much learned to ignore it (but i still think it should not be done anymore)
@@JoeFF85 Indeed - I can completely understand cutting the robot gun sequence for length reasons - but removing the core of Ripley's motivation in the second half of this movie makes no sense to me at all.
James Horner was in peak form on this soundtrack. The score definitely gives many of the same vibes as his awesome 'Wrath of Khan' score and it works perfectly with every scene. Side note : the ping of the motion detector is the single most anxiety-inducing sound effect in movie history.
I've always loved that subtle motif when they first discover the room full of facehugger vats - dunno what it is, some weird tensionish string pluck, but its freaky as all heck
Well he ended up pulling passages whole cloth from his WoK score to get it done in time, because Cameron was so behind schedule. So definitely has some same vibes. Like the music when they're zooming away from the nuclear explosion is nearly note for note with one of the action pieces in WoK.
But the extended cut starts off showing that there are settlers on the planet and that they are being attacked by aliens which messes up the tension in the early acts. There needs to be a version that cut out that one scene but includes the good content about Ripley's daughter.
To this day, no other film franchise has ever started off in pure horror, then become almost pure action in the sequel, and both of them are considered widely as two of the greatest films ever made.
_"To this day, no other film franchise has ever started off in pure horror, then become almost pure action in the sequel"_ Well, there's the first two _Species_ movies. Some might argue _The Descent_ and _The Howling._ _28 Days Later_ and _28 Weeks Later_ is almost an inversion.
Also explains why there's so few show up at the end most got wiped by turrents and when they made their assult thru the vents the rest were taken outish
"Assholes and elbows!" - An idiom for "GET TO WORK!" When your team is digging ditches, all you want to see is rear ends and elbows = everyone is looking down and DIGGING!
I had no idea this was coming. This film is one of the true long standing greats of cinema. With the ultimate "final girl" blind wave...You've made me a happy man today ❤
This is still one of the greatest sequels ever. Easily on par with he original, IMO. Tons of great new characters, fantastic lore additions, and a truly epic final battle.
The influence of this film cannot be understated, pretty much 60-70% of the first Halo game most notably was inspired by, or a direct reference to this. But nothing, NOTHING builds tension like the steadily increasing pitch of the motion tracker in this film.
It’s funny, I just saw this movie for the first time last week and was thinking the same thing. I was getting mad Sgt. Johnson vibes from the Sgt in the movie
Eric, about Burke: “I’m so Mad About You!” To those who don’t get the reference, Eric was talking about the show ‘Mad About You’ starring Paul Reiser (Burke) 😊
Hell yeah! I love that there are so many great sequels. Others I love including in the list are Toy Story 2, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Across the Spiderverse.
'Just give me a whole lot of guns and send me in' Fun fact, Sigourney Weaver was doing a lot of anti-gun advocacy at the time she agreed to this film and when they handed her a gun on set she went 'uh. What'. Had to have a lot of talks to get her to agree to use weapons in the film.
The way me and my siblings were clenched when we saw the walls move. My little brother was like 10 at the time and he said with fear, “they ARE the walls 😱”
So much reactors dont watch tge extended cut and it sucks. The acknowledgement that ripley had a daughter who died a few years before she awakens adds a super huge layer to this story
In their defense, Aaron thought he had that edition queued up. He mentioned he expected to see the auto gun sequence killing a bunch of aliens but it was missing as well. I agree, the Ripley daughter reveal adds so much more to her relationship with Newt.
Crazy thing about that knife scene. Nobody told Bill Paxton. The decision to use his hand was either a secret or a last minute impulse(I can't remember). So his reaction to the game was completely real. Lmao
This movie is why casting Paul Reiser in Stranger Things was so perfect. You instantly distrust him as an authority figure, and when he actually turns out to be a good guy, you are genuinely surprised.
"With a lot of modern sci-fi, the actors look like they don't know what they're looking at." I understand the Star Wars prequels aren't "modern" sci-fi now, but this was a huge problem on those films. Not only was basically everything CGI, but the actors were given very little direction on what they were doing, what they should be looking at, some of them didn't even know _where_ to look. Behind the scenes shots of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith show actors on crash mats totally surrounded by greenscreen and filmmaking tech, and they have to act like it's an immersive environment with basically no direction and no idea what it'll look like or where anything is.
Wait, wtf?!?! Oh Gods, we are in for an awesome ride. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think Sigourney got nominated for an Oscar for this film and was the first person to get one when it came to action/sci-fi.
Easily one of the best sequels ever! Some fun facts: So this never was explained in the film but the original script revealed why the colonists never detected the derelict before being told to investigate it. When LV-426 was being terraformed, the atmospheric processors installation ended up causing the ship go underground or sink into a valley and weakened the warning signal. Another fun fact is during the knife scene, Bill Paxton didn't know he would get involved and was genuinely terrified. His finger ended up getting nicked and they actually had to re shoot it. Finally, James Cameron actually wrote the first template for this film's script simultaneously while working on The Terminator. Not only that but he was also writing the screenplay for Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and ended up dividing the amount of time he had in each day and dedicated it to each script. He ended up completing both screenplays in 3 months at about 120 pages each.
In the supposedly cannon game Alien Isolation you find out that a salvage crew finds the Nostromo’s black box and it leads them to LV-426. There’s a great interlude in the game where you get to explore the derelict Engineer ship and see the Space Jockey just like in Alien. During that section of the game you turn off the warning broadcast that brought the Nostromo. The salvage crew wanted to prevent anyone from finding their claim. This happens 15 years after Alien because Ripleys daughter from the deleted scene in Aliens is the protagonist of the story and she’s 26. So it happens before Hadleys Hope is founded Without the broadcast the colony would never have found the ship on their own.
I'm always amazed at how so-called sci-fi fans (Star Wars doesn't count, it's basically fantasy films ripped off from Kurosawa films) have gone there whole lives without seeing stuff like Alien, The Thing, Outland, Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Predator, The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Live etc. Damn you kids, get off my lawn.
To be fair, it is almost 50 years old (which is mind blowing in itself) which is the equivalent of someone in 1989 saying "What! - you've never watched The Blue Angel!"
I don’t know what Aaron read, but the Special Edition is 2 hours and 34 minutes. I wish that’s what they watched. It elevates a great film into a perfect film.
@@RandomNPC001 so the uniform is the only thing remotely similar and even then they look like military uniform used in both real life and other Sci fi at the time. The guns there are TWO that are similar. The AR and the flamethrower, one was cut from the original game anyway and the AR is a push at best. The ships? You mean the one human ship you see in halo CE that looks like all human ships at the time that are just big blocks?
The "It's game over man, it's game over." Line is one of my favorites, I always flash back to Zoey from Left 4 Dead saying it in the elevator in No Mercy.
There’s a deleted scene where Ripley is looking for newt in the hive and she comes across a cocooned Burke. He begs her to kill him, and Ripley gives him a grenade and walks away.
The cool thing that’s crazy about Hudson’s character is that he’s never wrong. He’s stressed out and freaking out most of the movie, but he is never wrong.
Fun fact: The steadicam was actually invented based off of the gun support arm used for this movie. They saw how well it worked and made it for camera rigs. I believe I heard that once but it was a while back.
I really like the idea of using the vulnerable little kid as also like the harbinger of the movie. Like yeah she’s there for them to save, but she also basically confirms impending doom with her presence and all the creepy things she says.
Eric might be thinking of the 'Community' Halloween episode (Troy wears the exo-suit). Says a lot about James Cameron that's he's competing with himself for "Arguably the Best Sequel of All Time" ('Aliens' vs 'Terminator 2').
Should have watched the Special Edition. Even James Cameron says it's the intended version. Also there is a deleted scene where Ripley discovers Burke cocooned in the hive and she gives him a grenade to kill himself.
The cinema experience for this was on another level - even the opening with the endless void of space & the phenomenal sound effect of the ship being cut open & 1k of steel hitting the deck reverberating around the theatre... - did this win awards for sound design? - because it should have.
According to a panel i saw a few years ago; lance henricksen’s knife trick was real but had to be slowed down slightly for the film because he was so fast with it, it looked fake.
Aliens is an absolute fucking masterpiece, from the soundtrack, practical effects, sound effect, story, one-liners, cast, it has aged amazingly well. I will never get tired of it. great to relive it again vicariously through this reaction
I've seen both the original and this at least 3-4 times each, and I still can't decide which film I like more! So I just smile and accept the fact that they're both perfection.
Aw man i wish you saw rhe extended cut since it adds lots of character for Ripley with the stuff with her daughter, also stablishes Newt earlier. Also that amazing Turret sequence
The Alien Queen is to this day still the largest puppet ever created for a movie. Stan Winston is a genius. The colony building was filmed at Acton power station in London and after the movie finished filming they left it all set dressed. It wasn't until Batman started filming in 88 that they took all the alien hive down to put up the Jokers warehouse.
I'll be real....after speaking to my 12 and 11 year old cousins...I really needed the explanation in the beginning because I had no damn clue what they were saying and definitely didn't care enough to look it up.
The 20th-c Fox theme is a funny thing. It was originally just the opening brass fanfare. The original composer (can't remember his name) added the rising string phrase in the 50s, but the use of the theme was dying out by the 70s. Lucas loved it as a piece of nostalgia, so John Williams re-orchestrated and re-recorded it, *and* wrote the Star Wars fanfare in the same key so the music would transition seamlessly from one to the other. Not sure how long it was before the Williams version became the standard, but both Alien and Aliens used the original truncated recording.
28:30 For some reason this tunnel just made me picture Danny Devito crawling out of the couch. This movie would have been VERY different if Devito was the synth! 😄
Troy and Abed cosplayed as Ripley in the Fork Loader and the Alien Queen in a Halloween episode of Community (the one with the zombie ration outbreak).
There was a scene in the screenplay where she finds Burke while she's looking for Newt and he's cocooned up but still conscious. She leaves him a grenade, and then the grenade goes off in the background when she's moved on to find Newt. I don't remember if it was ever filmed, or if it's in the Director's Cut? It was in the novelization though.
Aliens is a terrific film, a great expansion of the first film’s lord that keeps the faithful horror while also doing something new so as to not try to fruitlessly try to recapture the original’s magic.
You're talking about the special edition, which adds some interesting details to the story. There is a little more with Ripley learning about her daughter's life, and as you mention, there was the auto gun scene, which, in my opinion, should have been in every version of this film. So good. Years ago I worked in a museum that featured a Hollywood FX traveling exhibit. It included the Alien Queen and the Mech suit. These were full-sized puppets basically made of foam. One of the benefits to working in a museum is you can be in these exhibits well after closing. So, of course, we went in there with our cameras and shot pictures. I have a great shot of the alien queen eating the back of my head and being in the mech suit. I will never forget one of my buddies throwing the pincher arm at me, and I thought it would knock me over. It looks so realistically metal. But it weighed almost nothing. It was pressed and sculpted foam. The way it works is the actor (Sigourney) gets buckled into place, but there is an unseen operator in the structure behind the actor helping walk and manipulate the suit while the whole thing is suspended with two cables from above. Oddly enough the Alien Queen was operated similarly. A main performer facing forward operating the main head and arms. But then a second operator actually in the puppet backwards so the other limbs operate in an alien way. Not in a human way. It was all so cool.
The RTS game for PS2 Aaron was thinking of is called Alien vs Predator: Extinction. It was my first introduction to both the Alien and Predator series actually, rented it from a Hollywood video on a whim because the cover looked cool
I'd seen this loads on TV and VHS/DVD but last year I finally got to see it at a cinema and it is absolutely fantastic seeing Ripley in the Power Loader fighting the Alien Queen on a huge screen. :D
a lot of the older "B" slasher horror movies would have one survivor that escaped, and then that survivor came back at the beginning of the sequel, only to be the first victim of the slasher... I think that's what James Cameron was going for with the beginning of this, only to be fooled that it was really just a dream Ripley was having.
😃 the ripley hicks gun scene is my ghost pottery scene 😂 Also if you played the avp game from 2013 and you played the marine campaign you have the ptsd of the motion sensor 😃 least I do.
45:45 In AVP was an equally impressive animatronics. Graphics were used only in those moments where puppet would not work. In principle, there was a great emphasis on practical effects in the film.
For the genre, the era and the franchise. The best sequel of the Alien Legacy. James Cameron's next film after The Terminator (1984) in a continuous reign of phenomenal features for which he would change the game in every film he did. The first film was horror/suspense. But this one was a hardcore war movie with elements of the first film. Good cast, direction, sets, special effects to make it feel not too scientific and somewhat grounded. Ripley going back to face her fears and become the toughest there is to eradicate the Xenomorph horde by becoming one of the most bada** action heroines ever. This won 2 Oscars and even garnered an unprecedented Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver. Most films like this get honored for something other than acting. There was an 'Aliens' arcade game in 1990 from Konami, creators of Contra and it's one of the best games of the franchise. The next 2 films are very different as sequels, however the effort in making them doesn't quite fade. Decent sequels, but different reception from ALIENS. The Special Edition aka director's cut makes the film more superior. RIP to 4 of the castmembers and the film's composer James Horner with a truly legendary score. William Hope (Gorman) was involved with 5 video games set between the Alien and Predator franchises as well.
"Smoking or non-smoking?" :) Now 38 years old, flipping heck. I wasn't old enough to see it in the 80s but watched it a lot in the 90s, later bought the soundtrack on CD. The Special Edition adds a few extra scenes and is worth watching. Alien 3 Assembly Cut is the better version of that film btw.
Been watching this movie almost once a week recently, pretty sure its my autism doing its thing but I'm so deeply fascinated and in awe of this film. Easily in my 3 top movies of all time.
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The fact that the Xenomorphs knew how to cut the power to the facility was always so terrifying to me, it added this extra layer of fear to know they could be not only mindless killing machines, but smart and coordinated enough to know exactly how to cut them off from everything.
They're just animals man, game over man.
The xenomorphs, face huggers etc were definitely not mindless.
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The thing is there is possibility I thought many years later that it was not intention of Xenoes. Think of it like this they have moved in shafts and conduits and where the wires usually are? They may have interrupt the wires by accident. The lights going off let the marines prepare for their coming at least to some deegree. If the warning did not happen the slaughter could have been fatal.
But since it is much more cool to think they have done it by choice I consider this theory only a distinct possibility.
@@Lukas-zd9wn Its a cool idea for sure and it could still work, they cut cables while traveling through vents and ceilings and learned what that it would affect the environment and then they used that knowledge.
I never cease to get a laugh at 6:12 when Ripley grabs the papers "this this bullshit you think is so important" and the hand comes up from the bottom left of the frame to try and grab papers back. I gotta think that was at Cameron's direction, and it's both hilarious and seals the realism of the moment.
YOU CAN JUST KISS ALL THAT GOODBYE.
Of all the ways for this video to start, Aaron explaining rizz and mewing to Eric was not what I expected
😂😂😂
Sad reality
Now that I know that they partake, I am prepared to believe all kinds of shenanigans on this channel.
@@Tao_Tology it’s not that deep😭😭😭
Same lol
Bill Paxton, the only man who has been killed by the trifecta: Killed by a Predator, killed by a Terminator and killed by an Alien.
Shame about his stress related incontinence issue whenever in fear for his life.... (True Lies)
So was Lance Henriksen but everyone forgets about that. Killed by a Terminator in Terminator, killed by a Predator in AVP, and torn apart by the Queen in Aliens, crash landed in Alien 3 due to facehugger, leading to him being shut down permanently.
You forgot about Lance Henricksen.
@danielpeckham5520 @jameshall7366
Henriksen technically didn't get killed by a Xeno. Ripley killed him when she switched him off permanently.
Henriksen also wasn't seen dying in Terminator.
AvP isn't canon, so doesn't count.
@@danielpeckham5520 Never considered him, but I forgot about AVP
This is up there of one of the greatest sequels of all time.
This, empire and T2 I think are the 3 sequels better than the originals.
And the story behind the making of Aliens is just as amazing!
This is up there as one of the greatest movies of all time!!
Shrek 2 has entered the chat.
And intros cause wtf 😂
When Ripley is shooting inside the hive, and its just quick cuts of the ammo going down, aliens exploding and her determined angry face flashing from the gun is such a great scene. The absolute pure rage in her face is crazy.
"Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No, have you?"
The best 80s movies burn ever
Blew my mind finding out that Vasquez is portrayed by a white woman in brown face. Pretty messed up if you ask me.
@@SmolAndAngyyy yeah, Im latino myself. But after loving this movie for so long, I have pretty much learned to ignore it (but i still think it should not be done anymore)
Eric’s righteous anger at Gorman’s incompetence and hypocrisy at the start and then Burke’s soulless treachery was a big highlight of the reaction 😂😂
The Special Edition version of this film is one of my all-time favorite films.
Thr fact that they cut the backstory about Amanda's death for the theatrical cut blows my damn mind
@@JoeFF85 Indeed - I can completely understand cutting the robot gun sequence for length reasons - but removing the core of Ripley's motivation in the second half of this movie makes no sense to me at all.
James Horner was in peak form on this soundtrack. The score definitely gives many of the same vibes as his awesome 'Wrath of Khan' score and it works perfectly with every scene.
Side note : the ping of the motion detector is the single most anxiety-inducing sound effect in movie history.
I've always loved that subtle motif when they first discover the room full of facehugger vats - dunno what it is, some weird tensionish string pluck, but its freaky as all heck
Well he ended up pulling passages whole cloth from his WoK score to get it done in time, because Cameron was so behind schedule. So definitely has some same vibes.
Like the music when they're zooming away from the nuclear explosion is nearly note for note with one of the action pieces in WoK.
“Game over, man! Game over!” - Bill Paxton
Missed oppertunity by not watching the extended cut. Its so much better.
Absolutely
Ripley's daughter not being mentioned in the theatrical cut completely ruins it for me. That detail is SO important for her relationship with Newt.
@@seiakaI enjoyed this in its theatrical release, but I also prefer the extended version for the mention of Ripley's daughter.
Sigourney Weaver was reportedly *furious* that the scene about Ripley’s daughter was cut from the theatrical release.
But the extended cut starts off showing that there are settlers on the planet and that they are being attacked by aliens which messes up the tension in the early acts. There needs to be a version that cut out that one scene but includes the good content about Ripley's daughter.
To this day, no other film franchise has ever started off in pure horror, then become almost pure action in the sequel, and both of them are considered widely as two of the greatest films ever made.
This one's pretty scary.
_"To this day, no other film franchise has ever started off in pure horror, then become almost pure action in the sequel"_
Well, there's the first two _Species_ movies. Some might argue _The Descent_ and _The Howling._ _28 Days Later_ and _28 Weeks Later_ is almost an inversion.
Paul Reiser was SO good in this. The scummy sales person role was such a nice departure from his loveable "Mad About You" role.
He was so good in fact, that he`s mom called him after watching the movie to yell at him for being so evil to those people! 🤣🤣
The only movie I saw him in besides Aliens was One Night at McCool's where he played a slimy lawyer, a character quite similar to Burke.
@@RandomNPC001 She is quoted as cheering in the cinema when he got his comeuppance xD
@GergelyTari Never seen Beverly Hills Cop 1 or 2?
Is it only the extended edition that has the turrets? They are basically iconic to aliens at this point and it sucks to miss them.
Also explains why there's so few show up at the end most got wiped by turrents and when they made their assult thru the vents the rest were taken outish
"Egg pooper" is a brilliant description.
"Assholes and elbows!" - An idiom for "GET TO WORK!"
When your team is digging ditches, all you want to see is rear ends and elbows = everyone is looking down and DIGGING!
Oh my. Eric has not seen this. This is a disturbance in the force. That has now been corrected. :D
15:49 We have come full circle. Community had the Aliens Halloween reference and now we have the Community reference in Aliens.
I had no idea this was coming. This film is one of the true long standing greats of cinema. With the ultimate "final girl" blind wave...You've made me a happy man today ❤
This is still one of the greatest sequels ever. Easily on par with he original, IMO. Tons of great new characters, fantastic lore additions, and a truly epic final battle.
you guys shoud have watched the extended version/edition!
Definitely.
Do extended versions ever make movies better?
@@flaggerify Yes, snyder cut being one of them. it made a meh movie into a good one even if it was a bit long.
@@Jimusmc The Snyder Cut is not an extended version. Some are like in a grey area, the Snyder Cut is not.
@@Jimusmc That was almost remade, not just extended.
The influence of this film cannot be understated, pretty much 60-70% of the first Halo game most notably was inspired by, or a direct reference to this.
But nothing, NOTHING builds tension like the steadily increasing pitch of the motion tracker in this film.
It’s funny, I just saw this movie for the first time last week and was thinking the same thing. I was getting mad Sgt. Johnson vibes from the Sgt in the movie
Its its literally unbelievable how Alien & Aliens inspired so many stories & worlds
Eric, about Burke: “I’m so Mad About You!”
To those who don’t get the reference, Eric was talking about the show ‘Mad About You’ starring Paul Reiser (Burke) 😊
Aliens is still one of best sequels next to The Godfather 2, The Dark Knight, Terminator 2 and Shrek 2.
And Highlander 2🙃
Hell yeah! I love that there are so many great sequels. Others I love including in the list are Toy Story 2, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Across the Spiderverse.
'Just give me a whole lot of guns and send me in'
Fun fact, Sigourney Weaver was doing a lot of anti-gun advocacy at the time she agreed to this film and when they handed her a gun on set she went 'uh. What'. Had to have a lot of talks to get her to agree to use weapons in the film.
James telling her would be like, you're not shooting at people, you're shooting Aliens
now she’s completely fine with guns. she says she plays gta with her family and let fortnite use her likeness. lol
That is a fun fact. Makes me wonder more about the reactor stuff now.
LoL
"See when things got rough Hudson stepped up... OH NO! HE STEPPED UP!"
“They _seethe_ with hatred!” Yup! To quote Ash from the first movie: “Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.”
The way me and my siblings were clenched when we saw the walls move. My little brother was like 10 at the time and he said with fear, “they ARE the walls 😱”
Ha! When Eric freaked out about the "small hole" when they found Newt, I knew he was just gonna love Bishop crawling through the pipe
So much reactors dont watch tge extended cut and it sucks. The acknowledgement that ripley had a daughter who died a few years before she awakens adds a super huge layer to this story
In their defense, Aaron thought he had that edition queued up. He mentioned he expected to see the auto gun sequence killing a bunch of aliens but it was missing as well. I agree, the Ripley daughter reveal adds so much more to her relationship with Newt.
And that's the end! No more movies. Ripley and Hicks and Newt live happily ever after with uncle Bishop as the nanny.
Post credit: They all rush home to Earth because Jonesey is hungry and needs to be fed.
James Cameron really knows how to make a Sequel better than the First movie
I can't wait for Titanic 2.🙃
@@Dystopia1111 LMAO
Crazy thing about that knife scene. Nobody told Bill Paxton. The decision to use his hand was either a secret or a last minute impulse(I can't remember). So his reaction to the game was completely real. Lmao
Now this should be FUN!..... Aliens! one of those rare occasions when a sequel is as good if not a little better than the first!
Romulus is actually really, really good. You guys need to complete this series and watch it eventually.
This movie is why casting Paul Reiser in Stranger Things was so perfect. You instantly distrust him as an authority figure, and when he actually turns out to be a good guy, you are genuinely surprised.
I still quote this movie endlessly with my buddies to this day. "Yeah, but it's a dry heat..."
"With a lot of modern sci-fi, the actors look like they don't know what they're looking at."
I understand the Star Wars prequels aren't "modern" sci-fi now, but this was a huge problem on those films. Not only was basically everything CGI, but the actors were given very little direction on what they were doing, what they should be looking at, some of them didn't even know _where_ to look. Behind the scenes shots of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith show actors on crash mats totally surrounded by greenscreen and filmmaking tech, and they have to act like it's an immersive environment with basically no direction and no idea what it'll look like or where anything is.
Wait, wtf?!?! Oh Gods, we are in for an awesome ride. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think Sigourney got nominated for an Oscar for this film and was the first person to get one when it came to action/sci-fi.
Correct, she got nominated for Best Actress
Now we need Eric or Aaron to play Alien Isolation
I think Aaron has already played it on stream.
Easily one of the best sequels ever! Some fun facts: So this never was explained in the film but the original script revealed why the colonists never detected the derelict before being told to investigate it. When LV-426 was being terraformed, the atmospheric processors installation ended up causing the ship go underground or sink into a valley and weakened the warning signal. Another fun fact is during the knife scene, Bill Paxton didn't know he would get involved and was genuinely terrified. His finger ended up getting nicked and they actually had to re shoot it. Finally, James Cameron actually wrote the first template for this film's script simultaneously while working on The Terminator. Not only that but he was also writing the screenplay for Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and ended up dividing the amount of time he had in each day and dedicated it to each script. He ended up completing both screenplays in 3 months at about 120 pages each.
In the supposedly cannon game Alien Isolation you find out that a salvage crew finds the Nostromo’s black box and it leads them to LV-426.
There’s a great interlude in the game where you get to explore the derelict Engineer ship and see the Space Jockey just like in Alien.
During that section of the game you turn off the warning broadcast that brought the Nostromo. The salvage crew wanted to prevent anyone from finding their claim.
This happens 15 years after Alien because Ripleys daughter from the deleted scene in Aliens is the protagonist of the story and she’s 26. So it happens before Hadleys Hope is founded
Without the broadcast the colony would never have found the ship on their own.
😃 fun fact vasquez (probably misspelled it) has her own novelization before the events of this film.
I'm always amazed at how so-called sci-fi fans (Star Wars doesn't count, it's basically fantasy films ripped off from Kurosawa films) have gone there whole lives without seeing stuff like Alien, The Thing, Outland, Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Predator, The Fly, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Live etc. Damn you kids, get off my lawn.
It still shocks me how so many people still haven’t seen this movie.
To be fair, it is almost 50 years old (which is mind blowing in itself) which is the equivalent of someone in 1989 saying "What! - you've never watched The Blue Angel!"
I don’t know what Aaron read, but the Special Edition is 2 hours and 34 minutes. I wish that’s what they watched. It elevates a great film into a perfect film.
You can tell Bungie took "heavy inspiration" from this movie when they designed Halo.
No they didn’t 😭
@@jyrxz4945 The uniform, the guns, the ships... 🙄
@@RandomNPC001 so the uniform is the only thing remotely similar and even then they look like military uniform used in both real life and other Sci fi at the time. The guns there are TWO that are similar. The AR and the flamethrower, one was cut from the original game anyway and the AR is a push at best. The ships? You mean the one human ship you see in halo CE that looks like all human ships at the time that are just big blocks?
@@jyrxz4945 Sure thing bud. Have a good day!
@@RandomNPC001 bro hasn’t played halo at all lmao
The "It's game over man, it's game over." Line is one of my favorites, I always flash back to Zoey from Left 4 Dead saying it in the elevator in No Mercy.
Not a bad thought about using a team of synthetics... they did that in one of the Dark Horse Comics stories.
They did it in one of the new Marvel ones recently too. It's definitely an interesting concept that I think could be more fully explored.
There’s a deleted scene where Ripley is looking for newt in the hive and she comes across a cocooned Burke. He begs her to kill him, and Ripley gives him a grenade and walks away.
Why would you put the air lock controls on that side? That’s what happens when you’ve got a society of Burke’s in charge.
The cool thing that’s crazy about Hudson’s character is that he’s never wrong. He’s stressed out and freaking out most of the movie, but he is never wrong.
Fun fact: The steadicam was actually invented based off of the gun support arm used for this movie. They saw how well it worked and made it for camera rigs. I believe I heard that once but it was a while back.
I really like the idea of using the vulnerable little kid as also like the harbinger of the movie. Like yeah she’s there for them to save, but she also basically confirms impending doom with her presence and all the creepy things she says.
Thanks to Eric and Aaron! 👾 The actor who played 'Newt' is Carrie Henn. She's very active in the convention circuit... seems very cool.
Eric might be thinking of the 'Community' Halloween episode (Troy wears the exo-suit). Says a lot about James Cameron that's he's competing with himself for "Arguably the Best Sequel of All Time" ('Aliens' vs 'Terminator 2').
Should have watched the Special Edition. Even James Cameron says it's the intended version.
Also there is a deleted scene where Ripley discovers Burke cocooned in the hive and she gives him a grenade to kill himself.
The cinema experience for this was on another level - even the opening with the endless void of space & the phenomenal sound effect of the ship being cut open & 1k of steel hitting the deck reverberating around the theatre... - did this win awards for sound design? - because it should have.
According to a panel i saw a few years ago; lance henricksen’s knife trick was real but had to be slowed down slightly for the film because he was so fast with it, it looked fake.
Reaction over, man.
RIP Bill Paxton.
Aliens is an absolute fucking masterpiece, from the soundtrack, practical effects, sound effect, story, one-liners, cast, it has aged amazingly well. I will never get tired of it. great to relive it again vicariously through this reaction
I also love the in universe links to Blade Runner
Fun fact: there is a (canon?) audio series story that is set between Alien and Aliens.
Yes, it includes Ripley and it's pretty great. 😏
I've seen both the original and this at least 3-4 times each, and I still can't decide which film I like more! So I just smile and accept the fact that they're both perfection.
"Game over, man" is also the reason the workaholics named the movie that. Their love for Bill Paxton.
Aw man i wish you saw rhe extended cut since it adds lots of character for Ripley with the stuff with her daughter, also stablishes Newt earlier. Also that amazing Turret sequence
Game over man, game over!!!
So... Alien3. Taken on it's own it's a an interesting film, but as a sequel to this film, it's one of the biggest misfires in Hollywood history.
Aaron teaching Eric Gen Z Slang is something I never knew I needed
Watching for Aaron's poker face/deflection when Eric makes guesses. Not disappointed.
Far too many reactors are missing out watching this theatrical version instead of the far superior Special Edition
Hey Aaron your missing scene is in the movie. It's from the extended version. As well as the famous line "they mostly come out at night. mostly"
The Alien Queen is to this day still the largest puppet ever created for a movie. Stan Winston is a genius. The colony building was filmed at Acton power station in London and after the movie finished filming they left it all set dressed. It wasn't until Batman started filming in 88 that they took all the alien hive down to put up the Jokers warehouse.
I'll be real....after speaking to my 12 and 11 year old cousins...I really needed the explanation in the beginning because I had no damn clue what they were saying and definitely didn't care enough to look it up.
Oh my god this intro is amazing lmao
The 20th-c Fox theme is a funny thing. It was originally just the opening brass fanfare. The original composer (can't remember his name) added the rising string phrase in the 50s, but the use of the theme was dying out by the 70s. Lucas loved it as a piece of nostalgia, so John Williams re-orchestrated and re-recorded it, *and* wrote the Star Wars fanfare in the same key so the music would transition seamlessly from one to the other. Not sure how long it was before the Williams version became the standard, but both Alien and Aliens used the original truncated recording.
"Pinch the head!... Ah ha! Take this in your mouth!" Some... interesting commentary on that last fight.
28:30 For some reason this tunnel just made me picture Danny Devito crawling out of the couch. This movie would have been VERY different if Devito was the synth! 😄
"Pinch her!"
"She's forklift certified!"
God I love this channel.
Show Eric the deleted scene where Ripley finds the cocooned Burke so he can enjoy watching him squirm a bit.
I remember having the Lift Suit toy along with Ripley and her flamethrower.....what a time...
Troy and Abed cosplayed as Ripley in the Fork Loader and the Alien Queen in a Halloween episode of Community (the one with the zombie ration outbreak).
There was a scene in the screenplay where she finds Burke while she's looking for Newt and he's cocooned up but still conscious. She leaves him a grenade, and then the grenade goes off in the background when she's moved on to find Newt. I don't remember if it was ever filmed, or if it's in the Director's Cut? It was in the novelization though.
Drake met a much worse fate in this film than he did in "The Shawshank Redemption". He could still drink through a straw there.
Aliens is a terrific film, a great expansion of the first film’s lord that keeps the faithful horror while also doing something new so as to not try to fruitlessly try to recapture the original’s magic.
You're talking about the special edition, which adds some interesting details to the story. There is a little more with Ripley learning about her daughter's life, and as you mention, there was the auto gun scene, which, in my opinion, should have been in every version of this film. So good. Years ago I worked in a museum that featured a Hollywood FX traveling exhibit. It included the Alien Queen and the Mech suit. These were full-sized puppets basically made of foam. One of the benefits to working in a museum is you can be in these exhibits well after closing. So, of course, we went in there with our cameras and shot pictures. I have a great shot of the alien queen eating the back of my head and being in the mech suit. I will never forget one of my buddies throwing the pincher arm at me, and I thought it would knock me over. It looks so realistically metal. But it weighed almost nothing. It was pressed and sculpted foam. The way it works is the actor (Sigourney) gets buckled into place, but there is an unseen operator in the structure behind the actor helping walk and manipulate the suit while the whole thing is suspended with two cables from above. Oddly enough the Alien Queen was operated similarly. A main performer facing forward operating the main head and arms. But then a second operator actually in the puppet backwards so the other limbs operate in an alien way. Not in a human way. It was all so cool.
I always love Eric's laughs. They're just so hearty. Great reaction guys.
The RTS game for PS2 Aaron was thinking of is called Alien vs Predator: Extinction.
It was my first introduction to both the Alien and Predator series actually, rented it from a Hollywood video on a whim because the cover looked cool
I'd seen this loads on TV and VHS/DVD but last year I finally got to see it at a cinema and it is absolutely fantastic seeing Ripley in the Power Loader fighting the Alien Queen on a huge screen. :D
a lot of the older "B" slasher horror movies would have one survivor that escaped, and then that survivor came back at the beginning of the sequel, only to be the first victim of the slasher... I think that's what James Cameron was going for with the beginning of this, only to be fooled that it was really just a dream Ripley was having.
Ah, you should have watched The Special Edition version. It is the superior cut of the film. "We nuked, we got knives, sharp sticks..." - Hudson
😃 the ripley hicks gun scene is my ghost pottery scene 😂
Also if you played the avp game from 2013 and you played the marine campaign you have the ptsd of the motion sensor 😃 least I do.
Aliens is the perfect movie. Watching it with you guys is like watching it for the first time.
"Hudson stepped up!... Oh no, he stepped up."
45:45 In AVP was an equally impressive animatronics. Graphics were used only in those moments where puppet would not work. In principle, there was a great emphasis on practical effects in the film.
For the genre, the era and the franchise.
The best sequel of the Alien Legacy.
James Cameron's next film after The Terminator (1984) in a continuous reign of phenomenal features for which he would change the game in every film he did.
The first film was horror/suspense.
But this one was a hardcore war movie with elements of the first film.
Good cast, direction, sets, special effects to make it feel not too scientific and somewhat grounded.
Ripley going back to face her fears and become the toughest there is to eradicate the Xenomorph horde by becoming one of the most bada** action heroines ever.
This won 2 Oscars and even garnered an unprecedented Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver.
Most films like this get honored for something other than acting.
There was an 'Aliens' arcade game in 1990 from Konami, creators of Contra and it's one of the best games of the franchise.
The next 2 films are very different as sequels, however the effort in making them doesn't quite fade.
Decent sequels, but different reception from ALIENS.
The Special Edition aka director's cut makes the film more superior.
RIP to 4 of the castmembers and the film's composer James Horner with a truly legendary score.
William Hope (Gorman) was involved with 5 video games set between the Alien and Predator franchises as well.
Dark Horse Comics deserves more recognition for the amount of lore they added to the franchise.
Get Eric to play Alien Isolation for Halloween!
Fun Fact: The Alien Queen was the biggest animatronic used in a movie until the T-Rex for Jurassic Park.
I saw the oil painting that Cameron made of the queen and was even more impressed that he was the one who designed the queen.
Wow.
"Smoking or non-smoking?" :)
Now 38 years old, flipping heck. I wasn't old enough to see it in the 80s but watched it a lot in the 90s, later bought the soundtrack on CD.
The Special Edition adds a few extra scenes and is worth watching.
Alien 3 Assembly Cut is the better version of that film btw.
Been watching this movie almost once a week recently, pretty sure its my autism doing its thing but I'm so deeply fascinated and in awe of this film. Easily in my 3 top movies of all time.