Fun fact about when Newt falls and slides down the chute. The child actor enjoyed the slide so much she kept messing up the take so she could go again. James Cameron wised up to it and told her “If we get this shot done I will let you ride it the rest of the day”. So the kid did it right and Cameron kept his word.
Paul Reiser (Burke) attended the "Aliens" premier with his mother, when his character DIED she cheered and told him "He deserved it". He played the villain so well that his OWN MOTHER wouldn't sympathize with him.
@@GraniteOwlBear Given what's known about 'the company' from the first movie the audience already knows they're slimey and not to be trusted. It was also the way he was low key patronizing her.
What I like about Burke as a villain, is that he's not some evil genius with grand plans. He is, to quote Futurama "A monkey of medium intelligence who wears a suit." He's just a yuppie, angling to get his key to the executive washroom and is just about smart enough to be a schemer, but not smart enough to actually think through what he's doing and nearly everything he does in this movie, is him trying to salvage a situation he's created and making things worse in the process. He's Cerci Lannister, without the fabulous dresses.
No one ever recognizes Michael Biehn, the most famous unrecognized actor. Hicks in Aliens? Johnny Ringo in Tombstone? Kyle Reese in The Terminator? Lt Coffey in The Abyss? Etc, etc.
I'm glad you saw this version of the film. The scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died was cut from the theatrical release, but it really adds so much context to the relationship she develops with Newt. Miranda: "Maybe they should blow the entire place up." Literally everyone watching: "IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE." 😄
It's a little too obvious for my taste. The only deleted scene worth keeping was the sentinel guns, because it showed the xenomorphs' learning capabilities. Everything else deserved to be cut
Finding out the daughter dies is fine, but I think the film works better and does a much better job using suspense without the colonist footage from before the xenomorph takeover. Where you just hear about losing contact and then seeing the state of things when they arrive. I mean, yeah, it's a sequel so you still know what the monster is, but having your imagination try to provide the details of how it went down is so much better and the appearance of Newt works so much better as well.
Sometimes those decisions by pruducers aren't the best ones as I do understand about the worries of a film beeing too long, but even this full versions felt packed.
What I always loved about this movie is that you end up knowing all the Marine's names and personalities from sometimes just a few lines. They are not just cannon fodder like in a lot of movies. A masterclass in how to handle a cast. Not to.mention that every single one of them was well acted.
I wonder how much better 3 would have been if they just never mentioned what happened to Hicks or Newt. Or even better, that the two of them lived happily ever after, that Ripley's efforts and the entire plot of Aliens weren't in vain. Leave everything else the same, just add a couple lines. I bet it would have improved the movie a lot.
Actor Al Matthews who played Gunnery Sgt Apone, was a real life soldier and Vietnam Veteran. In an interview he once said "I spent six years in the United States Marine Corps; I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant; I served with Kilo Battery, Fourth Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, of that I am very proud."
Bishop getting a reverse of Ash's role, where he starts cold and somewhat menacing to become the rescuer of our heroes, is A+ sequel writing. Lance does a great job with Bishop. The evolution of the artificial people of the WYV (Weyland-Yutani-Verse) has become one of my favorite parts of the series over the years.
To be fair that was something they changed during production. In the original script bishop was just as seedy as ash and even flat out told ripley she was right about him
Bill Paxton (Hudson) actually had a nervous breakdown after filming this movie. He thought that he would never work in film again, he thought that he had done so poorly that his career was over. He died a couple years ago, and to this day I am saddened that I never managed to meet him at a con to tell him that Hudson's death was the only one that pissed me off in this movie. I was rooting so hard for Hudson, dangit....
Bill Paxton, John Ritter, Rodney Dangerfield and I all had the same thing - ascending aortic aneurysm. Few survive. Lucky for me I'm not a beloved comedic actor 😊, I lived. RIP great ones
Almost any other actor wouldn't have been able to pull off Hudson, other than Bill Paxton. If it had been played badly, he would have been nothing more than an annoyance that the audience would have cheered when he died. But Hudson's fear and panic come across as relateable, and despite it all he goes down like the Bad Ass motherfucker he claimed to be. RIP Bill, He was a fantastic talent.
"This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training." "Why don't you put her in charge?" That's exactly what you said just before.
Yes. Just like Terminator - there are ONLY. TWO. MOVIES. No - shut up. Don't listen to anyone trying to convince you to see anything more - they do not exist. They never existed. ONLY TWO FILMS.
You hit the nail on the head with the mother theme, the reason the studio made them cut the scenes was for more theatre run time (more showings) Sigourney should have won an Oscar for this performance.
Seeing this movie on the opening weekend in 1986, in a packed 70mm theatre with 6-track Dolby surround, with an audience that had no idea what was coming was one of my top 10 all-time moviegoing experiences.
"We've got knives, sharp sticks..." I love Hudson's brag in the dropship and the way it winds down is so funny to me. The special edition really gives Hudson a full arc from bold braggart to "Game over man!" cowardice to heroic last stand. RIP to Bill Paxton and his particular brand of loveable obnoxious A-hole 😇
Hudson was never a coward. He was a guy very used to winning, to being the biggest badass around, and he and his team got slapped down hard. His reaction is a catastrophic coming to terms with a horrible new reality, not cowardice. When he is called on to act, he does so immediately and without thought for himself. Hicks trusted him for a good reason - behind all his swagger is a reliable soldier.
@@theaikidoka Agreed. They were used to being the most badass guys around and what we saw was not just overconfidence. These guys were good, they just weren't prepared for this. And let's think about it. Up to now humanity hasn't found any aliens and then they hear Ripley's story. Would you believe her? Thanks to the different focus, the original 'Predator' could do that part better. We had time to see that Dutch's team are the best of the best, before they were confronted by the Predator, something they couldn't be prepared for.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg In Predator, do any of them break down to a whining mess when they start getting picked off? No? A coward with a big gun backing them up is still a coward, and Hudson doesn't step up to the plate of courage until his last stand.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg Mac disassociates, shaves too hard, and then 'has him some fun' chasing after the Predator while still being cogent enough to try and coordinate a flank attack with Dylan. Hudson has less bravery than a little girl, as pointed out in the film, until he has to fight to survive.
I saw ALIENS opening night in 1986 in England where I live. To this day, its the best movie I have ever seen with an audience. It was an old theater converted into a cinema that could hold a thousand people on three tiers. So when the laughs and screaming from the audience started, it vibrated right through the building. It was amazing, to be on such a roller-coaster ride of a movie with such a big audience.
Yeah,I saw it when it came out in 1986 at the Odeon Cinema in Nottingham (now sadly gone).I always remember when Michael Biehns character HICKS,stands on that table,lifts up the suspended ceiling panel and we see the Aliens crawling through the void.The gasp from the audience,and it was a packed Friday night so you can imagine the noise.This film still holds up even after 38 years.An absolute classic.
When Ripley stomped out in that loader mech that audience went nuts. (Many of us were Anime fans there in Texas where I lived, and we were already WELL VERSED in mecha - and that loader - while more forklift than combat mecha - was satisfying. But MORE satisfying was that it put Ripley on nearly the same physical level as the Queen Alien and we knew there was gonna be a KNOCKDOWN DRAGOUT FIGHT. Then that line - that FAMOUS line! "Get away from her, you BITCH!" THAT. THEATER. *EXPLODED!!!!* The only energy that came close to that - but never topped it - was a theater full of Trekkies at the end of Star Trek IV seeing the Enterprise-A reveal. And that only briefly.
@@logandarklighter I remember people walking out of the theater after Bishop saved them in the dropship, because they thought the movie was over and probably wanted to beat the traffic. They completely missed the loader scene.
Even back when Aliens was released there was often an inverse relation between scores given by critics and audiences: high critic scores matched with low audience scores and vice versa. This movie got a 9/10 with critics and a 90+% from audiences. It's a very special movie.
Well, critics try to be "influential", in a way which is very psychotic. 'Let us do the thinking' vibes. But they also worry about losing their impression of authority. So when they got burned on the first movie, and saw that this would definitely be popular, they gave it a good rating to maintain some semblance of appearing to "be right about things". I honestly think they didn't _want_ to give this a good rating. They just knew it would be futile to try to review bomb it. They're really not very likeable people. If I found out a blind date was a movie critic, I'd call a cab on the spot.
James Cameron still knew how to use low-budget tricks to make a mid-budget movie look epic. He only had six Alien costumes for the whole movie; and I think the most you ever see in one shot is when Hicks goes up into the ceiling. But between the editing, the use of the motion trackers, and the storytelling, you constantly believe that there's 100 of them out there.
He also used a VERY old trick - Back Projection. Basically you set up a big movie screen behind the actors and run a piece of film you've already made and they react or run away from it. It's actually most commonly used in interior vehicle shots. You know - like the old movies that would show a pair of people talking as one of them is driving the car. A common mistake on low budget versions of this would be that they don't reproduce the wind effects and the actors hair stays remarkably unruffled. In Aliens it was used for the Dropship crash. They filmed the model and the explosion effects for it, then ran that footage on the rear projection screen behind the actors and the debris in the foreground. There are a couple of very brief shots where you can sort of spot the effect. But you have to have a REALLY sharp eye and know what to look for. Cameron already knew never to hold a shot for too long during a Back Projection gag. The longer it goes on - the more obvious the trick gets. He even used this trick for the scenes with the Terminator, Sarah and John in the car right after they get away from the T-1000 at the Mental Hospital. But he went all out with the wind machines and the lighting effects to make the shots more convincing than normal - plus the scene takes place at night, further obscuring details that would give it away. Cameron was truly at his best when he combined high tech and low tech tricks - when he used ALL the tools and didn't depend entirely on CGI.
He still knew how to use low budget tricks to stretch the funds at this point in his career. ...That wouldn't last, he'd lost touch with his low budget sensibilities by the time the 90s rolled around,but Aliens lands in an awesome sweet spot where it combines the best of Hollywood with the best of B-movies.
Also the shot where the facehugger runs and jumps over a bit of depris to get to ripley was actually 3 shots, but stitched together to look like one. Part of it was even reversed and the camera operater said the water falling could ruin it. James Cameron said "Nobody will see that" and he was right.
Here is a little hahaha….Fox owned the Alien movies which was sold to Disney….so being born from A QUEEN the the aliens(called Xenomorphs) are Disney Princesses
You joke, but I'd bet someone has written a story with this exact basis, if Fallout: Equestria is any indication it's probably genuinely horrifying too
MLP:FiM literally has changelings. Pony/insectoid-like creatures that can change their appearance to anything (the aliens' ability to hide?) who are ruled by their queen-mother, born from her eggs and live in a hive - as I am sure you are aware. Just explaining for passers by.
"Game over, man!" When Sigourney Weaver hosted SNL in 1986, they did a fun sketch titled "Alienses." Dana Carvey did a great Hudson: "We're shredded wheat, man!"
This movie is timeless. I mean truly timeless. I still watch TH-cam first time reactions of Aliens which were made by people who were born way later this movie was filmed and have not got a single negative reaction. Everyone who watches it , is awed and loved it and considering that it was filmed in 1985 , James Cameron the director , found a way to immortalize himself.
New viewer of the channel. I really like how you pause and speak about scenes for a few minutes. It adds to your reactions. Most people will never pause and process things.
I went to a comic-con about six months before this came out, and there was a panel about this movie…the moderator said, “The sequel to ALIEN is called ALIENS…and it’s not because there’s just two.”
@@FrankJReynolds I'm familiar with those. They used to advertise in comic books, particularly in Marvel. I wanted to go to those when I was in grade school, but my dad was a firefighter and he had sporadic work hours. We also didn't get along for personal reasons. I asked about San Diego Comic Con because it's been around since 1970.
With all due respect to Arnold, Sly, Clint, Chuck, Bogie, the Duke, Jesse "The Body", Mel... Ripley's "Get away from her you BITCH!" is THE most badass line ever uttered in movie history.
Are you sure that the sergeant did not perhaps have something QUITE DIFFERENT in mind? He basically told Hudson "I'm going to tear you a new one" that way, very non-figuratively. In military culture, leaders often use harsh language to get their point across and rein in soldiers who are not taking things seriously. So while the phrase itself commonly refers to working hard, in this context, it could definitely carry an extra layer of "shape up or face consequences." It’s like saying, “Get your act together, or I’m going to make your life very difficult”-which could mean anything from verbal dressing-down to physical tasks like push-ups.
The hive sequence was shot in the decommissioned Acton power station. A friend of mine was involved in asbestos surveying the site a few years later. He said that the alien hive set-dressing was still in situ. He said it was actually fairly creepy working down there on his own.... 😳
Your joke about bishop being Newts new doll.. Holy cow!!! I had never thought about the possible symbolism of that moment at the end when Bishop the android saves Newt. Her doll kept her safe on the colony, and in the end Bishop (another doll) kept her safe again!..
BTW - The original theatrical release did not have the initial scenes with Newt and her parents and the discovery of the Alien. And, the scenes where Ripley finds out her daughter was dead and her scene in the "park" were also not included until the director's cut release years later. So, Ripley's maternal instincts were developed with Newt and not because she had lost a child. Shows how editing influences a storyline.
The long cut makes it the perfect movie. I liked seeing the Colony people at work because it gave a bigger impacted when they get there and the place is a ghost town.
@@reesebn38personally, I think the scene with Newt and her parents discovering the ship and the resultant facehugging of Newt’s dad could have been cut, but otherwise I agree, the rest of the footage enhances the film greatly.
@@LMoftheCoast I do think the extended cut does add such great detail, but it isn't quite as well paced as the cinema release. Someone once told me if you skip the newt and her parents scene it does pace better. So i think they agreed with you. I must get round to trying it out.
I like the scene with Ripley finding out she had outlived her daughter. That definitely helps the movie by explaining why she feels so connected to Newt. I think they were right to cut the early scenes with Newt though. The impact of the surprise that a little girl survived the aliens is much greater if it's the first time we meet that girl.
This is definitely one of the best sequels to a movie ever made. It's so well crafted in so many different ways. Every trick in the book is used to perfection.
One of my favorite parts about this movie is the attention to detail in the intro scene. When the door to the pod is opened, if you look at the floor at the bottom of the door, you can see the rappel gun that Ripley used to shoot the first alien out of the pod.
Saw this at the now-demolished Indian Hills theater in Omaha the night it opened, July 18, 1986. I was 15. We got to sit in the balcony, which the theater only opened when the crowd was huge. When it ended, I was so amped my hands were shaking. I went on to see it in theaters that summer and fall _nine_ times. We bought the Beta cassette at rental pricing, over $90 in February 1987. Then I watched it four times that weekend.
Didn't get to see it in theater, but late on a Friday or Saturday night on HBO by myself when I was either 11 or 12 (in 1986 or 1987...when it would have been airing on the cable movie channels).
Interestingly, the set actually WAS used as a haunted house like experience! Much of the filming was done at Pinewood Studios in the UK. After filming, they used the set and props to create Alien War, an interactive experience attraction which started in Glasgow but eventually found a permanent home at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, London. I was actually living in London at the time and was lucky enough to go - I thought it was absolutely amazing :) There are a few videos here on TH-cam that go into detail about it and definitely worth a look.
Glad you're watching the Extended Cut. The Theatrical Cut removed all of the mentions of her daughter, removed the scenes from Hadley's hope and Newt when her parents went to the ship and the exchange of first names between Hicks and Ripley (we've never heard her first name in the first movie) amongst other things, like actually _naming_ the Company (Weyland-Yutani) which wasn't mentioned in the first movie. Many of those things resonate with the theme of Motherhood throughout this movie, and the Theatrical Cut removed much of that theme's scenes. Also, the only reference to her having a daughter in the first movie is when she was in the escape shuttle when she was chanting 'You are my lucky star', which is something that you might sing to your children. Cameron noticed that and built a movie around that idea, resulting in the theme. He also kept the theme 'gaslighting' from the first movie. Both in the first and second one, nobody believes Ripley and they all play it down until they get confronted by the creature. The striking resemblance of the photo of her old daughter is because it's a picture of Sigourney Weaver's mother ;) So now the question is ... are you going to watch Alien 3 (a rather frustrating and boring movie, but with interesting concepts) and Alien: Ressurrection (rather hated, but a pretty _entertaining_ movie that builds upon Alien 3) or are you willing to play the game _Alien: Isolation_ ? That one actually bridges the gap between _Alien_ and _Aliens_ and it's just as terrifying (and immersive) as the first two movies. The best part of it is that the game's actually canon to the franchise, because it still features Ripley. Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley. This family has such bad luck, having to encounter the aliens for two generations. Also, in case you want more sci-fi horror, why don't you check out _Event Horizon_ , _Pandorum_ and _Pitch Black_ ?
Very informative notes, but I would add that Prometheus (5th movie in the canon of the franchise), is excellent and is much better than 3 or Resurrection.
@@stevenscharmer1765 it's better, but it suffers from the slasher principle: smart people doing utterly dumb stuff they shouldn't do based on their intelligence and competence. That really made the movie a lot worse and frustrating than it should be.
@@stevenscharmer1765 It bothered me so much that I can't go over 6 or 7 out of 10. And that's saying something from someone who actually likes slashers ;) It could've been such a good movie. It just suffers from the writing. When you can't get a scene without making someone do something they should never do, that's simply bad writing.
You actually play as Amanda (Ripley's daughter) in the game 'Alien: Isolation'. It's set between the first and this movie. I highly recommend playing it.
And I think they're obligated to use Sigourney Weaver's mother's likeness in the character design of Amanda Ripley in any and all ALIEN entries involving her.
As a kid we got to go to a traveling exhibit of movie props and such. Along with Johnny 5, a Terminator arm, a Whale model from Star Trek III, and some of the California Raisins, they had full scale models of the Queen and Ripley's Loader. It was amazing!!
0:35 Apparently adding the 'S' was how James Cameron pitched the idea for the sequel. He walked in to the meeting with the studio execs and wrote the word "ALIENS" on the board but replaced the 'S' with a $ symbol!
@@Theomite What do you mean, 'or used to'? The ONLY movie Cameron made that could reasonably be called 'weak' is the most recent Avatar movie, and even that one got tons of critical and audience love. Not as much as the first, but it was hardly panned. He might be a smug jerk, but he can back up his smugness with actual performance.
Alien and Aliens are both among the greatest of all time in their respective genre, sci-fi horror and sci-fi action (with some horror). Just iconic both of them.
@@UNSCPILOT Absolutely! 😃 Have you seen Hardware Wars? It was made soon after Star Wars Episode IV was released and it's been said that it's George Lucas' favorite parody of that movie.
This was such a phenomenal reaction video. I loved every moment of it and I'm glad you loved the movie too! It's such a good movie and it's my favorite movie in the Alien franchise. There are too many awesome reactions in this video to talk about them all, but a few standouts for me included you saying "If we don't see Ripley in a mech, I will, in fact, riot!". That cracked me up. You called it! 🤣🤣 Plus I've never thought about Apone instantly having that cigar ready to go right out of the cryopod in that way before. You're right! He knows what's important. 😂😂😂 Plus your reactions every time Casey the doll showed up were hilarious. I do agree with you that Casey is truly the scariest thing in the movie. Give me a rampaging horde of nightmarish alien monsters any day! 🤣🤣🤣
Ricco Ross ("Frost") only had a few lines in there, being the first to die... but goddamn if just about every line he did have was a banger. My favorite is still "What the hell are we supposed to use, man, harsh language?"
One of my favorite lines. I work in a medical lab & whenever we run out of supplies or reagents I'll say "What are we supposed to use man, harsh language?" No one gets it, but I think it's hysterical.
Ha, seen this movie so many times, but was thinking the same, Frost is the comedian extrodinaire in this! I think Miranda keeping all of his bangers in cemented that for me!
Miranda! I watched this movie with other reactors a couple-dozen times, but I never enjoyed it as much as your reaction. I love your sense of humor. I have to make a point about how you left in the edit a lot of Hudson's funny lines. (Played by Bill Paxton, who's the only guy who could've played that role.) I can't tell you how many people not only didn't leave in any of his lines, but actually were miffed by his lines. I think they're one of the highlights of this movie. Where other dense reactors were upset, you laughed. Loved it! Again, your sense of humor is terrific. You're a lot of fun to watch a movie with. :)
Here's a fun fact I've heard: in the scenes with the Alien Queen, Sigourney Weaver made a point of not going on set until the puppeteers were out of sight and they had the Queen in character so that her fear would be authentic.
That last shot of the 3 of them, Hicks, Ripley, and Newt is awesome. I like to pretend the other movies didn't happen, and they got rescued and lived as a family. But, if you want that whole idea destroyed, keep watching the rest of them.
@@jwalk74 As accurate as your description is, it's that even with Olympic levels of mental gymnastics, the events that precipitate that loss are simply impossible. They went out of their way to slap the audience in the face. And do it as thoughtlessly as possible.
I took an intro acting class during my junior year of high school. Our instructor asked us to name a movie or TV character we idolized most. I said Ripley. I'm a guy, and I got some "but that's a woman" feedback from my classmates. My response: "Yeah, so? She's strong, calm in the face of fear, and kicks a lot of butt." Shut them right up.
When I saw this movie at 12, it was a formative experience. I already loved Ripley, but in the final act where she duct tapes a machine gun to a flame thrower? Ungh. Strong women have been my type ever since.
The "Game Over Man" quote is a personal favourite. In the 90's there was an Alien 3 console game for MegaDrive/SNES. The gameplay was a mix of the Aliens and Alien 3 films. Whenever you died a screen would come up with a grinning Alien and "GAME OVER" text. But it also had the sample of Hudson saying "It's game over man, game over!" 😂
So many great one-liners in this film. What I love about this one is that it maintains a lot of the horror elements of the first, but puts more of an action movie spin on it, with a lot of humorous moments.
The woman who plays Pvt Vasquez is Jeanette Goldstein. Despite appearances, she isn’t hispanic but jewish American. In fact, she has a very freckly face; it was hell for the makeup crew to cover that up.
Jeanette thought she was auditioning for a kitchen-sink drama about the hispanic population and turned up dressed accordingly and using the accent. the line "She thought they said illegal alien and signed up" was added later :D
Paul Reiser later became famous as the lead of a sitcom called "Mad About You". I still remember watching Aliens years later and realizing it was the same actor.
The guy who plays Sergeant Apone. Al Matthews. I swear they modeled that character after my Platoon Sergeant. 82nd Airborne infantry '85-'89. My Platoon Sergeant was named "Smiley." No kidding. Toughest SOB I ever met. Edit: And Matthews was a Vietnam era vet as well. Marines.
Great note to end the Alien franchise on! And they never made another! They. Never. Made. Another. Yeah, this is Cameron showing off what a great action director he is plus getting some good Do Not F With The Female archetype in too. And I admit I tear up at Newt’s “Mommy.” at the end. And cannot tell you how much audiences loved Burke getting his comeuppance. Actor Paul Riser AP saw the movie with his mom and his MOM was cheering watching her son get it. Shows you how well he nailed the part. Good times, good reaction!
agree. Alien 3 sucked because of the scriptwriting. They should have bought James Cameron back. You know when he's writing and directing it's going to be a blockbuster.
The phrase "assholes and elbows" is a military saying, leadership saying "all I want to see is assholes and elbows" is saying I don't want you standing around or looking at me, move and be ahead of me.
@@Krucifus I mostly heard it in Basic Training (Army) during our morning PT runs or during road marches. Basically saying don't let me catch you, stay ahead. Didn't hear it outside of basic until deployment and then I started hearing it again.
@@Atari26 If the general is close enough to see their elbows without using some 80X optics while staying safely hidden in some bunker, then he should be leading like an honorable leader...Theodore Roosevelt with the Rough Riders!
Great reaction like always, i love this movie and there are some fun-facts about it. Some of the movie’s most memorable sequences are when we meet the team of marines after they awake from hypersleep. Despite them coming early on in the film, Cameron shot all of these scenes last because he wanted there to be a lot of camaraderie between the marines, and thought this would come across more strongly if the cast had spent the last 14 weeks working together. The cast were also trained by SAS professionals and learned drills, how to handle weapons, and work as a platoon. In the first act, loudmouth marine Hudons (Bill Paxton) asks tough Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein), “Vasquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replies “No, have you?” A funny line, and Cameron took it from a classic Hollywood story about Talulah Bankhead, the 1930s acting icon. A newspaper columnist said to her in an interview, “Have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replied, “No, darling. Have you?” One of the most memorable parts of the movie is when android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) performs a trick by moving a sharp knife between the fingers of Hudson’s hand. Lance Henriksen as Bishop performed it at a slow speed, and the footage was sped up. You can tell because if you take notice of Apone, who’s next to Hudson, he’s laughing and his head is moving far more quickly than looks normal. The knife trick scene was actually not in the original script. Cameron had the idea on the set. He discussed it with everybody except Bill Paxton (who plays Hudson) as he wanted to get real surprise and shock from Paxton. Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley is the lynchpin and main lead character from the whole Alien series, but she might not have appeared in Aliens as Weaver was very hesitant about returning at first. She’d already rejected offers from Fox to do Alien sequels, thinking Ripley would be poorly written, and she was rightly proud of Alien and didn’t want to harm its legacy. There is an interesting deleted scene around Burke, Carter Burke is killed towards the end of the movie when he sneaks away during a gunfight, and comes across a lone alien. That’s the last we see of him in the movie but Cameron did shoot a scene (later removed) that tells us what happened to Burke. The scene takes place during the sequence where Ripley visits the alien nest to rescue Newt. She comes across a cocooned Burke and, having been fertilised by a facehugger, he says to her, “I can feel it inside me.” Ripley gives leaves Burke with a grenade and moves on. And the only two actors to be killed by a Predator, Terminator & Xenomorph. Are Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen (Bishop) They are the only actors to have faced off against all three of these iconic sci-fi killing machines. Keep up the good work.
This is my favorite movie of all time!I loved how you picked up on so much of the finer details so quickly. Favorite characters (besides Ripley): Vasquez and Hudson.
Fantastic reaction! I knew you'd love this movie. None of the rest of the franchise can live up to the first 2 (though Alien: Romulus was easily my favorite since Aliens), but they're all worth watching and unique in their own ways. If you can get a hold of the Special Edition for Alien 3, that is the THE one to watch (looks like you can buy it digitally). It's a huge improvement over the theatrical edition, which is what's on most streaming services.
I don't know what you are talking about. The two best movies are yet to come. Alien & Leatherface vs. Freddy & Jason is my favourite; and who can forget the Weyland-Yutani holiday special?
The android didn't malfunction in the first movie, it was following company orders, orders that superseded those of the crew. It's the same side plot issue in this movie with Burke.
In a way Ash was malfunctioning, and it shows in his obvious discomfort from having to hurt and ultimately kill Ripley. As an android he's programmed with some variant of the three laws of robotics. But when the company overrides those laws through the special orders he must comply with them, but it seems to initiate some kind of syntax error creating somewhat erratic behavior.
There is a companion book that explains the missing 57 years. The actress who played Newt is now a teacher and stays in contact with Sigourney. See a new side of "Ripley" in Galaxy Quest.
Awesome you got to enjoy Aliens - such an iconic piece of cinematic history. My wife and I go back and watch it at last once ever few months. After the tight, close up psychological and claustrophobic horror of the first, this one was quite a bit different but in all the best ways. I hope you get a chance to react to the third movie because it goes in a different direction yet again!!
One of the best Sci-fi Action Horror movies ever made! Nominated for 7 Oscars: Best Actress,Sigourney Weaver Best Original Score, James Horner Best Film Editing, Ray Lovejoy Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Production Design, Peter Lamont Best Visual Effects, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Robert Skotak. It won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing. It was a box office and critical success, making $190 million dollars against an $18 million dollar budget.
@@TheMirandalorianReactsWatch 3 anyways. There are good things in it despite the 'fan' dislike. 4 is also entertaining, as are the prequels Prometheus & Covenant. Romulus is a midquel (set between other movies) and works best if you've seen all the previous entries.
So many amazing moments in this film. But I think my fave might be that head tilt and look that Ripley does when facing down the mama alien and one of the eggs opens. It’s like ‘oh no you didn’t!’
I Like the Fact that 15 Minutes in and Miranda has called out a few things that're going to happen later. Can't wait to see her expressions when they do. XD
Glad you're enjoying this movie. Now do yourself a favor: Do Not, I repeat NOT see the third film, or any Alien movies. As far as you're concerned, Ripley adopted Newt, Hicks got a medical discharge, Bishop got himself fixed,and they all lived happily ever after. my story and in sticking to it.
Many, many years ago, there was an Aliens Experience in the basement of the Trocadero Centre in Piccadilly, London. You got escorted through a replica of the base by a Colonial Marine, whilst being stalked by an Alien. So much fun, so many jump scares.
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And then Ripley, Hicks and Newt went back to Earth and lived on a farm and they all lived happily ever after!
they did buy the farm!
And there was never another Alien move ever! =)
The company directors even apologised for being silly about the Nostromo
@@munkyphunkableAllow me to compliment this comment.
Or you follow the comic book which continues Ripley, Hicks, and Newt's story including a Xenomorph invasion of Earth.
Fun fact about when Newt falls and slides down the chute. The child actor enjoyed the slide so much she kept messing up the take so she could go again. James Cameron wised up to it and told her “If we get this shot done I will let you ride it the rest of the day”. So the kid did it right and Cameron kept his word.
That's both awesome and adorable.
She left acting graduated from college and became a teacher
If you don't want to be unhappy, skip Alien 3 and 4.
Which given how he tends to treat his actors is surprising he was nice about it.
@@balrog92000 Wrong. It`s time to see not all fairytales have good endings.
"The resemblance is striking" - Yep, that's a picture of Sigourney's mom.
That's cool, I didn't know that.
I came here to say this too 😊
Oh really? I never knew that. Thats a fun little tidbit of trivia
I was just coming here to say that.
I love that this scene was the basis for the isolation game
Paul Reiser (Burke) attended the "Aliens" premier with his mother, when his character DIED she cheered and told him "He deserved it".
He played the villain so well that his OWN MOTHER wouldn't sympathize with him.
He's such a corporate slimebag. He acts like a friend while he stabs everyone in the back. People in 1986 were already sick of yuppies.
I love how you identify from the first moment that Burke cannot be trusted.
@@GraniteOwlBear Given what's known about 'the company' from the first movie the audience already knows they're slimey and not to be trusted. It was also the way he was low key patronizing her.
What I like about Burke as a villain, is that he's not some evil genius with grand plans. He is, to quote Futurama "A monkey of medium intelligence who wears a suit." He's just a yuppie, angling to get his key to the executive washroom and is just about smart enough to be a schemer, but not smart enough to actually think through what he's doing and nearly everything he does in this movie, is him trying to salvage a situation he's created and making things worse in the process. He's Cerci Lannister, without the fabulous dresses.
No one ever recognizes Michael Biehn, the most famous unrecognized actor. Hicks in Aliens? Johnny Ringo in Tombstone? Kyle Reese in The Terminator? Lt Coffey in The Abyss? Etc, etc.
He's just such a good actor, that viewers don't see him - they see person he's playing ;P.
Commander Anderson in The Rock, "I cannot give that order!" "I will not give that order!" - LEGEND
The Guard Captain in The Mandalorian, Sargent Rex "Power" Colt from Blood Dragon
"If we don't see Ripley in a mech, I will, in fact, riot!"
You're up for a treat! :D
Can confirm that no riot has occurred.
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I'm glad you saw this version of the film. The scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died was cut from the theatrical release, but it really adds so much context to the relationship she develops with Newt.
Miranda: "Maybe they should blow the entire place up."
Literally everyone watching: "IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE." 😄
It's a little too obvious for my taste. The only deleted scene worth keeping was the sentinel guns, because it showed the xenomorphs' learning capabilities. Everything else deserved to be cut
Finding out the daughter dies is fine, but I think the film works better and does a much better job using suspense without the colonist footage from before the xenomorph takeover. Where you just hear about losing contact and then seeing the state of things when they arrive. I mean, yeah, it's a sequel so you still know what the monster is, but having your imagination try to provide the details of how it went down is so much better and the appearance of Newt works so much better as well.
Sometimes those decisions by pruducers aren't the best ones as I do understand about the worries of a film beeing too long, but even this full versions felt packed.
I much prefer the theatrical. The early scenes at the colony completely ruins the setup.
@@disembodiedspiritsagreed completely
Michael Biehn gets to play opposite Sarah Connor AND Ripley. Epic.
and Lindsey Brigman.
And he gets his hand bitten in both movies!!
Hudson is even more epic. He got killed by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator!
He outdid Hicks/Reese!
@Heegaherger "Why, Johnny Ringo! You look like somebody just walked over your grave."
What I always loved about this movie is that you end up knowing all the Marine's names and personalities from sometimes just a few lines. They are not just cannon fodder like in a lot of movies. A masterclass in how to handle a cast. Not to.mention that every single one of them was well acted.
Who wants to see Miranda get about 10 minutes into Alien 3 and yell, “Fuck that! No reaction this week!” And the video just ends. 😂
That movie never happened. Not for me. 🫡
@@jacob_dcdn I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was probably the first ten minutes for you.
10 minutes? As long as that?
@@nigeldepledge3790 yep more like 2
I wonder how much better 3 would have been if they just never mentioned what happened to Hicks or Newt. Or even better, that the two of them lived happily ever after, that Ripley's efforts and the entire plot of Aliens weren't in vain. Leave everything else the same, just add a couple lines. I bet it would have improved the movie a lot.
Actor Al Matthews who played Gunnery Sgt Apone, was a real life soldier and Vietnam Veteran. In an interview he once said "I spent six years in the United States Marine Corps; I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant; I served with Kilo Battery, Fourth Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, of that I am very proud."
He’s a Master Sgt, top is a nickname for a Master Sgt, Gunny is the nickname for a Gunnery Sgt. You demoted him in the flick.
He was also in the Richard Gere movie YANKS.He was the African American soldier who’s attacked at the New Years Eve dance.RIP🙏Al
Absolute badass!
as well he should be proud! Semper Fi!
Thirteen combat awards and decorations,plus 2 purple hearts.Impressive resume,very impressive.
Bishop getting a reverse of Ash's role, where he starts cold and somewhat menacing to become the rescuer of our heroes, is A+ sequel writing. Lance does a great job with Bishop.
The evolution of the artificial people of the WYV (Weyland-Yutani-Verse) has become one of my favorite parts of the series over the years.
Love how it's the same universe as Blade Runner.
@@o0pinkdino0o I like the idea that WY is biased against the competitor's replicants and use inferior androids in similar roles 😉
Too bad the new movie kind of ruins them by turning them into literal robots whose personalities can change instantly.
@@patrickflanagan3762 Any computer can be reprogrammed... just because no one thought to do it before doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
To be fair that was something they changed during production. In the original script bishop was just as seedy as ash and even flat out told ripley she was right about him
Bill Paxton (Hudson) actually had a nervous breakdown after filming this movie. He thought that he would never work in film again, he thought that he had done so poorly that his career was over.
He died a couple years ago, and to this day I am saddened that I never managed to meet him at a con to tell him that Hudson's death was the only one that pissed me off in this movie. I was rooting so hard for Hudson, dangit....
Bill was an underrated actor. I love him.
Bill Paxton, John Ritter, Rodney Dangerfield and I all had the same thing - ascending aortic aneurysm. Few survive. Lucky for me I'm not a beloved comedic actor 😊, I lived. RIP great ones
I really loved his performance in Edge of Tomorrow, and if I'm not mistaken that was his last film
Almost any other actor wouldn't have been able to pull off Hudson, other than Bill Paxton. If it had been played badly, he would have been nothing more than an annoyance that the audience would have cheered when he died. But Hudson's fear and panic come across as relateable, and despite it all he goes down like the Bad Ass motherfucker he claimed to be.
RIP Bill, He was a fantastic talent.
@@nyghtmoon He was great in Frailty, too.
"This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training." "Why don't you put her in charge?" That's exactly what you said just before.
Congrats on finishing the entire Alien set. The ENTIRE set. JUST THESE TWO.
Yes. Just like Terminator - there are ONLY. TWO. MOVIES. No - shut up. Don't listen to anyone trying to convince you to see anything more - they do not exist. They never existed. ONLY TWO FILMS.
No. The alien 3 is part of original trilogy.
@@gabrielgabriel5177 Alien 3 lost all right to exist in its first 2 minutes.
@@gabrielgabriel5177no.
There is No Alien 3 in Ba Sing Se...
Aliens ... or "Everyone dies, because they don't listen to Ripley Part 2"
Amazing reaction, Miranda!
Back when the franchise plot was, "All you had to do was listen to Ripley. Now look" 😆
We get one more movie with that premise. Then we finally get "Ripley no longer cares if they listen or not."
You hit the nail on the head with the mother theme, the reason the studio made them cut the scenes was for more theatre run time (more showings) Sigourney should have won an Oscar for this performance.
Newt's "mommy" line gets me every time.
It breaks my heart
And that was it! Best Alien film ever! Like the Terminator films, they NEVER made any more after the second film!
James Cameron is the MAN at writing and directing. That's why his films are the BEST at the box office
Seeing this movie on the opening weekend in 1986, in a packed 70mm theatre with 6-track Dolby surround, with an audience that had no idea what was coming was one of my top 10 all-time moviegoing experiences.
"We've got knives, sharp sticks..."
I love Hudson's brag in the dropship and the way it winds down is so funny to me. The special edition really gives Hudson a full arc from bold braggart to "Game over man!" cowardice to heroic last stand.
RIP to Bill Paxton and his particular brand of loveable obnoxious A-hole 😇
Hudson was never a coward. He was a guy very used to winning, to being the biggest badass around, and he and his team got slapped down hard. His reaction is a catastrophic coming to terms with a horrible new reality, not cowardice. When he is called on to act, he does so immediately and without thought for himself. Hicks trusted him for a good reason - behind all his swagger is a reliable soldier.
@@theaikidoka Agreed. They were used to being the most badass guys around and what we saw was not just overconfidence. These guys were good, they just weren't prepared for this. And let's think about it. Up to now humanity hasn't found any aliens and then they hear Ripley's story. Would you believe her?
Thanks to the different focus, the original 'Predator' could do that part better. We had time to see that Dutch's team are the best of the best, before they were confronted by the Predator, something they couldn't be prepared for.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg In Predator, do any of them break down to a whining mess when they start getting picked off? No?
A coward with a big gun backing them up is still a coward, and Hudson doesn't step up to the plate of courage until his last stand.
@@LordVolkov Mac has a bad breakdown in Predator. He doesn't become a whining mess, but I'd say his breakdown is just as bad.
@@Dreamfox-df6bg Mac disassociates, shaves too hard, and then 'has him some fun' chasing after the Predator while still being cogent enough to try and coordinate a flank attack with Dylan.
Hudson has less bravery than a little girl, as pointed out in the film, until he has to fight to survive.
I saw ALIENS opening night in 1986 in England where I live. To this day, its the best movie I have ever seen with an audience. It was an old theater converted into a cinema that could hold a thousand people on three tiers. So when the laughs and screaming from the audience started, it vibrated right through the building. It was amazing, to be on such a roller-coaster ride of a movie with such a big audience.
Yeah,I saw it when it came out in 1986 at the Odeon Cinema in Nottingham (now sadly gone).I always remember when Michael Biehns character HICKS,stands on that table,lifts up the suspended ceiling panel and we see the Aliens crawling through the void.The gasp from the audience,and it was a packed Friday night so you can imagine the noise.This film still holds up even after 38 years.An absolute classic.
When Ripley stomped out in that loader mech that audience went nuts. (Many of us were Anime fans there in Texas where I lived, and we were already WELL VERSED in mecha - and that loader - while more forklift than combat mecha - was satisfying. But MORE satisfying was that it put Ripley on nearly the same physical level as the Queen Alien and we knew there was gonna be a KNOCKDOWN DRAGOUT FIGHT.
Then that line - that FAMOUS line!
"Get away from her, you BITCH!"
THAT. THEATER. *EXPLODED!!!!*
The only energy that came close to that - but never topped it - was a theater full of Trekkies at the end of Star Trek IV seeing the Enterprise-A reveal. And that only briefly.
@@logandarklighter I remember people walking out of the theater after Bishop saved them in the dropship, because they thought the movie was over and probably wanted to beat the traffic. They completely missed the loader scene.
I watched Event Horizon with one other person in the cinema. That was awesome for a different reason. Damn creepy.
Even back when Aliens was released there was often an inverse relation between scores given by critics and audiences: high critic scores matched with low audience scores and vice versa. This movie got a 9/10 with critics and a 90+% from audiences. It's a very special movie.
Well, critics try to be "influential", in a way which is very psychotic. 'Let us do the thinking' vibes.
But they also worry about losing their impression of authority. So when they got burned on the first movie, and saw that this would definitely be popular, they gave it a good rating to maintain some semblance of appearing to "be right about things".
I honestly think they didn't _want_ to give this a good rating. They just knew it would be futile to try to review bomb it.
They're really not very likeable people. If I found out a blind date was a movie critic, I'd call a cab on the spot.
James Cameron still knew how to use low-budget tricks to make a mid-budget movie look epic. He only had six Alien costumes for the whole movie; and I think the most you ever see in one shot is when Hicks goes up into the ceiling. But between the editing, the use of the motion trackers, and the storytelling, you constantly believe that there's 100 of them out there.
He also used a VERY old trick - Back Projection. Basically you set up a big movie screen behind the actors and run a piece of film you've already made and they react or run away from it. It's actually most commonly used in interior vehicle shots. You know - like the old movies that would show a pair of people talking as one of them is driving the car. A common mistake on low budget versions of this would be that they don't reproduce the wind effects and the actors hair stays remarkably unruffled.
In Aliens it was used for the Dropship crash. They filmed the model and the explosion effects for it, then ran that footage on the rear projection screen behind the actors and the debris in the foreground. There are a couple of very brief shots where you can sort of spot the effect. But you have to have a REALLY sharp eye and know what to look for. Cameron already knew never to hold a shot for too long during a Back Projection gag. The longer it goes on - the more obvious the trick gets.
He even used this trick for the scenes with the Terminator, Sarah and John in the car right after they get away from the T-1000 at the Mental Hospital. But he went all out with the wind machines and the lighting effects to make the shots more convincing than normal - plus the scene takes place at night, further obscuring details that would give it away.
Cameron was truly at his best when he combined high tech and low tech tricks - when he used ALL the tools and didn't depend entirely on CGI.
He still knew how to use low budget tricks to stretch the funds at this point in his career. ...That wouldn't last, he'd lost touch with his low budget sensibilities by the time the 90s rolled around,but Aliens lands in an awesome sweet spot where it combines the best of Hollywood with the best of B-movies.
Also the shot where the facehugger runs and jumps over a bit of depris to get to ripley was actually 3 shots, but stitched together to look like one. Part of it was even reversed and the camera operater said the water falling could ruin it. James Cameron said "Nobody will see that" and he was right.
Here is a little hahaha….Fox owned the Alien movies which was sold to Disney….so being born from A QUEEN the the aliens(called Xenomorphs) are Disney Princesses
It's always the little things. When Newt finally calls Ripley "mommy" after the Queen goes out the airlock just starts the waterworks.
"Why are there sparkles everywhere?"
Aliens: Friendship is Magic
After all, they just want to hug you
@@TheUndeadFish or kiss you
You joke, but I'd bet someone has written a story with this exact basis, if Fallout: Equestria is any indication it's probably genuinely horrifying too
MLP:FiM literally has changelings. Pony/insectoid-like creatures that can change their appearance to anything (the aliens' ability to hide?) who are ruled by their queen-mother, born from her eggs and live in a hive - as I am sure you are aware. Just explaining for passers by.
"Game over, man!" When Sigourney Weaver hosted SNL in 1986, they did a fun sketch titled "Alienses." Dana Carvey did a great Hudson: "We're shredded wheat, man!"
"We're cheese toast!"
Such a great skit.
This movie is timeless. I mean truly timeless. I still watch TH-cam first time reactions of Aliens which were made by people who were born way later this movie was filmed and have not got a single negative reaction. Everyone who watches it , is awed and loved it and considering that it was filmed in 1985 , James Cameron the director , found a way to immortalize himself.
New viewer of the channel. I really like how you pause and speak about scenes for a few minutes. It adds to your reactions. Most people will never pause and process things.
I went to a comic-con about six months before this came out, and there was a panel about this movie…the moderator said, “The sequel to ALIEN is called ALIENS…and it’s not because there’s just two.”
That is cool man
Was it San Diego?
They got the funding by writing alien, then adding a S with 2 vertical lines in it
@@Madbandit77 No, back in the 80s, New York City had these pop-up comic-cons called Creation cons…this was way before the New York Comic-Con.
@@FrankJReynolds I'm familiar with those. They used to advertise in comic books, particularly in Marvel. I wanted to go to those when I was in grade school, but my dad was a firefighter and he had sporadic work hours. We also didn't get along for personal reasons. I asked about San Diego Comic Con because it's been around since 1970.
With all due respect to Arnold, Sly, Clint, Chuck, Bogie, the Duke, Jesse "The Body", Mel...
Ripley's "Get away from her you BITCH!" is THE most badass line ever uttered in movie history.
Oh, how the movie audience cheered at that line!
Yeah. "All right HAL, I'll go in through the emergency airlock." isn't quite as badass, now that I think of it.
@@AlanCanon2222 What is that even from? Lol. I'm 39 and I know most references but not this one.
@@AdoreYouInAshXI Just going by "HAL". I'm guessing '2001 A Space Odyssey'?
Who's Bogie, the Duke and Mel? I managed to look up Jesse on YT because you added his nickname.
The scene where the alien rises above Newt is one of the most iconic in the entire series.
If you haven't played it, "Alien Isolation" follows Ripleys daughter. Phenonimal game!
Thanks to the success of Alien Romulus, after 10 years we're finally getting a sequel to Alien Isolation too, can't wait!
Miranda's IMMEDIATE distrust of Burke is LEGENDARY! 🤣❤
"Assholes and elbows" = working on a task expeditiously. It's what you see from behind when someone is busily doing something.
Well in the Marine's cases its hunched over swabbing the floors with small tools,
toothbrushes like in FMJ and Forrest Gump
Yup, I thought it was from ye olde chain gangs, as whenever I heard it my first thought was ‘Cool Hand Luke’.
Are you sure that the sergeant did not perhaps have something QUITE DIFFERENT in mind? He basically told Hudson "I'm going to tear you a new one" that way, very non-figuratively. In military culture, leaders often use harsh language to get their point across and rein in soldiers who are not taking things seriously. So while the phrase itself commonly refers to working hard, in this context, it could definitely carry an extra layer of "shape up or face consequences." It’s like saying, “Get your act together, or I’m going to make your life very difficult”-which could mean anything from verbal dressing-down to physical tasks like push-ups.
Exactly. Go do what I just told you all to get done so that that is all I see of you. Get out of my face and get busy. Military slang from 60s on.
The hive sequence was shot in the decommissioned Acton power station. A friend of mine was involved in asbestos surveying the site a few years later. He said that the alien hive set-dressing was still in situ. He said it was actually fairly creepy working down there on his own.... 😳
Did he mostly work at night
@HistoritorJimaldus Mostly.... 😅
The true horror was the asbestos
Batman filmed there as well
@stalefurset9444 They had to remit all the asbestos and crap. After they were done, the air quality was better than in the studio..
One of the greatest sequels of all time. Ellen Ripley is such a badass.
Not many good movies manage to get an even better sequel
One of the greatest **movies** of all time
@@EnwaiyreAlien, The Terminator, A New Hope, Top Gun
@@stalefurset9444mad max
@@Enwaiyre I wouldn't say Aliens is better than Alien. Its a lot of fun, but the original remains supreme.
“When they put the S on the end of ‘aliens’, they meant it!“
My favorite line from this reaction 😂
Your joke about bishop being Newts new doll..
Holy cow!!! I had never thought about the possible symbolism of that moment at the end when Bishop the android saves Newt. Her doll kept her safe on the colony, and in the end Bishop (another doll) kept her safe again!..
"I don't think I can handle more than two" Hard belly laugh
As a person with incredibly curly Italian hair, I can confirm that we do hide all of our lies up there.
Hey ciao!! Curioso di vedere i tuoi capelli! 😂 Anche le tua bugie.😂😂
...PAUL REISER'S ITALIAN??!!!!
@@Theomite No, he's Jewish. They have curly hair occasionally too.
@@Theomite no, She didn't Say this. Read It again.
😂😂😂
BTW - The original theatrical release did not have the initial scenes with Newt and her parents and the discovery of the Alien. And, the scenes where Ripley finds out her daughter was dead and her scene in the "park" were also not included until the director's cut release years later. So, Ripley's maternal instincts were developed with Newt and not because she had lost a child. Shows how editing influences a storyline.
The long cut makes it the perfect movie. I liked seeing the Colony people at work because it gave a bigger impacted when they get there and the place is a ghost town.
@@reesebn38personally, I think the scene with Newt and her parents discovering the ship and the resultant facehugging of Newt’s dad could have been cut, but otherwise I agree, the rest of the footage enhances the film greatly.
That was in the Canadian release as I recall.
@@LMoftheCoast I do think the extended cut does add such great detail, but it isn't quite as well paced as the cinema release. Someone once told me if you skip the newt and her parents scene it does pace better. So i think they agreed with you. I must get round to trying it out.
I like the scene with Ripley finding out she had outlived her daughter. That definitely helps the movie by explaining why she feels so connected to Newt. I think they were right to cut the early scenes with Newt though. The impact of the surprise that a little girl survived the aliens is much greater if it's the first time we meet that girl.
"Don't know that name. Don't know that name either."
Me: "Ugh, I'm old."
That saddened me when she said that. =(
We're not old, we're experienced. :)
We're not old, we're well seasoned. 🤣
Has she seen Terminator?
We're normal, she's just a kid...
This is definitely one of the best sequels to a movie ever made. It's so well crafted in so many different ways. Every trick in the book is used to perfection.
One of my favorite parts about this movie is the attention to detail in the intro scene. When the door to the pod is opened, if you look at the floor at the bottom of the door, you can see the rappel gun that Ripley used to shoot the first alien out of the pod.
"Since it's AlienS, that must mean there's two. If there's more than two..." Oh dear.
Later: "If I don't see a queen alien, I'm going to be so upset."
@@AtomicBuffalo Funny how expectations change.
to be fair the humans had machine guns and grenade launchers. So yes they needed a LOT of aliens to even the fight!
Saw this at the now-demolished Indian Hills theater in Omaha the night it opened, July 18, 1986. I was 15. We got to sit in the balcony, which the theater only opened when the crowd was huge.
When it ended, I was so amped my hands were shaking. I went on to see it in theaters that summer and fall _nine_ times. We bought the Beta cassette at rental pricing, over $90 in February 1987. Then I watched it four times that weekend.
"Beta cassette at rental pricing" You just confused 95% of the average TH-cam commenters with that phrase.
Didn't get to see it in theater, but late on a Friday or Saturday night on HBO by myself when I was either 11 or 12 (in 1986 or 1987...when it would have been airing on the cable movie channels).
@@csurampower All part of the plan lol 😎
Now Miranda gets to play Alien Isolation for her gaming channel!
Interestingly, the set actually WAS used as a haunted house like experience!
Much of the filming was done at Pinewood Studios in the UK. After filming, they used the set and props to create Alien War, an interactive experience attraction which started in Glasgow but eventually found a permanent home at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, London. I was actually living in London at the time and was lucky enough to go - I thought it was absolutely amazing :)
There are a few videos here on TH-cam that go into detail about it and definitely worth a look.
The Atmosphere Processor sets were also reused for the 1988 Batman movie, where they get used for the Axis Chemical Factory scenes
Glad you're watching the Extended Cut. The Theatrical Cut removed all of the mentions of her daughter, removed the scenes from Hadley's hope and Newt when her parents went to the ship and the exchange of first names between Hicks and Ripley (we've never heard her first name in the first movie) amongst other things, like actually _naming_ the Company (Weyland-Yutani) which wasn't mentioned in the first movie. Many of those things resonate with the theme of Motherhood throughout this movie, and the Theatrical Cut removed much of that theme's scenes.
Also, the only reference to her having a daughter in the first movie is when she was in the escape shuttle when she was chanting 'You are my lucky star', which is something that you might sing to your children. Cameron noticed that and built a movie around that idea, resulting in the theme. He also kept the theme 'gaslighting' from the first movie. Both in the first and second one, nobody believes Ripley and they all play it down until they get confronted by the creature.
The striking resemblance of the photo of her old daughter is because it's a picture of Sigourney Weaver's mother ;)
So now the question is ... are you going to watch Alien 3 (a rather frustrating and boring movie, but with interesting concepts) and Alien: Ressurrection (rather hated, but a pretty _entertaining_ movie that builds upon Alien 3) or are you willing to play the game _Alien: Isolation_ ? That one actually bridges the gap between _Alien_ and _Aliens_ and it's just as terrifying (and immersive) as the first two movies. The best part of it is that the game's actually canon to the franchise, because it still features Ripley. Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley. This family has such bad luck, having to encounter the aliens for two generations.
Also, in case you want more sci-fi horror, why don't you check out _Event Horizon_ , _Pandorum_ and _Pitch Black_ ?
Very informative notes, but I would add that Prometheus (5th movie in the canon of the franchise), is excellent and is much better than 3 or Resurrection.
@@stevenscharmer1765 it's better, but it suffers from the slasher principle: smart people doing utterly dumb stuff they shouldn't do based on their intelligence and competence. That really made the movie a lot worse and frustrating than it should be.
@@TheRemyLeBeau Yeah, that bothered me too. Without that, I was ready to place it with the first 2. But I still have it at 9 out of 10.
@@stevenscharmer1765 It bothered me so much that I can't go over 6 or 7 out of 10. And that's saying something from someone who actually likes slashers ;)
It could've been such a good movie. It just suffers from the writing. When you can't get a scene without making someone do something they should never do, that's simply bad writing.
You actually play as Amanda (Ripley's daughter) in the game 'Alien: Isolation'. It's set between the first and this movie. I highly recommend playing it.
Absolutely amazing game. Utterly terrifying, but amazing!
And I think they're obligated to use Sigourney Weaver's mother's likeness in the character design of Amanda Ripley in any and all ALIEN entries involving her.
It’s as close to experiencing the events of the first film as you can get
Aline Romulus is set between Alien & Aliens(roughly 20 years before aliens) that`s why the tech looks closer to Aliens....
Burke was played by actor Paul Reiser, and if I recall correctly when his mother watched the movie, she enjoyed it when his character was killed.😂
LOL she literally said "Good!"
@@soraboveHis sister also punched him in the arm during one of his character’s more heinous moments.
@@Arxane lemme guess, when he turned off the screen
Yes. Paul was also in Beverly Hills Cop, and Mad About You with Helen Hunt.
@@markmorningstar5374 Mad About You was hilarious
The definition when the audience knows something when the characters don’t is called ‘dramatic irony’.
Foreshadowing?
@@detritus8095 That's when a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
@@Madbandit77 You're right.
We just call it irony in my country but I guess dramatic irony makes it more clear.
@@lystic9392 There are many types of irony, so it does help to specify.
LMAO! I’ve watched every Aliens reaction on TH-cam, and this is the first time someone cheered when Newt gets xenonapped. Bravo!
As a kid we got to go to a traveling exhibit of movie props and such. Along with Johnny 5, a Terminator arm, a Whale model from Star Trek III, and some of the California Raisins, they had full scale models of the Queen and Ripley's Loader. It was amazing!!
0:35
Apparently adding the 'S' was how James Cameron pitched the idea for the sequel.
He walked in to the meeting with the studio execs and wrote the word "ALIENS" on the board but replaced the 'S' with a $ symbol!
But of course, he did it the James Cameron way: he first wrote “Alien,” then added the “S,” then turned the “S” into a “$.”
Or so the legend goes.
The man knows his shit. Or used to.
@@Theomite What do you mean, 'or used to'? The ONLY movie Cameron made that could reasonably be called 'weak' is the most recent Avatar movie, and even that one got tons of critical and audience love. Not as much as the first, but it was hardly panned. He might be a smug jerk, but he can back up his smugness with actual performance.
@@TheomiteHe always had the dumbest ideas about home video releases.
That’s an urban legend. Watch Aliens Expanded for the true story from Cameron, himself.
Alien and Aliens are both among the greatest of all time in their respective genre, sci-fi horror and sci-fi action (with some horror). Just iconic both of them.
"Ducts. Why is it always ducts?" (Gwen DeMarco)
Galaxy Quest for those who don't know :)
@@w1975b "That episode was poorly written!"
@@ElroyMcDuff "Whoever wrote this episode should ***!"
Spaceballs and Galaxy Quest are such good parodies, absolute favorites
@@UNSCPILOT Absolutely! 😃 Have you seen Hardware Wars? It was made soon after Star Wars Episode IV was released and it's been said that it's George Lucas' favorite parody of that movie.
Thank god Ripley had a daughter, great set up for the Alien : Isolation game which was by far one of the best horror game out there
This was such a phenomenal reaction video. I loved every moment of it and I'm glad you loved the movie too! It's such a good movie and it's my favorite movie in the Alien franchise.
There are too many awesome reactions in this video to talk about them all, but a few standouts for me included you saying "If we don't see Ripley in a mech, I will, in fact, riot!". That cracked me up. You called it! 🤣🤣
Plus I've never thought about Apone instantly having that cigar ready to go right out of the cryopod in that way before. You're right! He knows what's important. 😂😂😂
Plus your reactions every time Casey the doll showed up were hilarious. I do agree with you that Casey is truly the scariest thing in the movie. Give me a rampaging horde of nightmarish alien monsters any day! 🤣🤣🤣
I believe the term is "dramatic irony."
Bingo!
Yep 21:55
Ricco Ross ("Frost") only had a few lines in there, being the first to die... but goddamn if just about every line he did have was a banger. My favorite is still "What the hell are we supposed to use, man, harsh language?"
"Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!"
Frost got burned, man...😎
One of my favorite lines. I work in a medical lab & whenever we run out of supplies or reagents I'll say "What are we supposed to use man, harsh language?" No one gets it, but I think it's hysterical.
Ha, seen this movie so many times, but was thinking the same, Frost is the comedian extrodinaire in this!
I think Miranda keeping all of his bangers in cemented that for me!
@@poop_knife Nice! When someone recognizes the line, you'll know you just made a friend!
"Why am I finding joy in this?"
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Miranda! I watched this movie with other reactors a couple-dozen times, but I never enjoyed it as much as your reaction. I love your sense of humor. I have to make a point about how you left in the edit a lot of Hudson's funny lines. (Played by Bill Paxton, who's the only guy who could've played that role.) I can't tell you how many people not only didn't leave in any of his lines, but actually were miffed by his lines. I think they're one of the highlights of this movie. Where other dense reactors were upset, you laughed. Loved it! Again, your sense of humor is terrific. You're a lot of fun to watch a movie with. :)
"Dramatic Irony" is when the audience knows something the characters don't.
Here's a fun fact I've heard: in the scenes with the Alien Queen, Sigourney Weaver made a point of not going on set until the puppeteers were out of sight and they had the Queen in character so that her fear would be authentic.
That last shot of the 3 of them, Hicks, Ripley, and Newt is awesome. I like to pretend the other movies didn't happen, and they got rescued and lived as a family. But, if you want that whole idea destroyed, keep watching the rest of them.
Yes, the next film begins with an incredible betrayal of audience goodwill.
@@jwalk74 The next film is just a horrible nightmare.
they should've stop here. maybe do the AvP series later but definitely finish Ripley's story arc right here.
Jones lives a long happy life on Gateway Station. OG Alien survivor.
@@jwalk74 As accurate as your description is, it's that even with Olympic levels of mental gymnastics, the events that precipitate that loss are simply impossible.
They went out of their way to slap the audience in the face. And do it as thoughtlessly as possible.
I took an intro acting class during my junior year of high school. Our instructor asked us to name a movie or TV character we idolized most. I said Ripley. I'm a guy, and I got some "but that's a woman" feedback from my classmates. My response: "Yeah, so? She's strong, calm in the face of fear, and kicks a lot of butt." Shut them right up.
And rightly so. In my opinion, Ellen Ripley is one of the greatest cinema heroes of all time.
@@tailkinker1972 Absolutely. I always have liked strong women, especially in media. BTW that class story took place in late ‘86/early ‘87.
When I saw this movie at 12, it was a formative experience. I already loved Ripley, but in the final act where she duct tapes a machine gun to a flame thrower? Ungh.
Strong women have been my type ever since.
Simp
The "Game Over Man" quote is a personal favourite. In the 90's there was an Alien 3 console game for MegaDrive/SNES. The gameplay was a mix of the Aliens and Alien 3 films. Whenever you died a screen would come up with a grinning Alien and "GAME OVER" text. But it also had the sample of Hudson saying "It's game over man, game over!" 😂
So many great one-liners in this film. What I love about this one is that it maintains a lot of the horror elements of the first, but puts more of an action movie spin on it, with a lot of humorous moments.
god, the sets and atmosphere of movies from around the mid 80s is just something else
The woman who plays Pvt Vasquez is Jeanette Goldstein. Despite appearances, she isn’t hispanic but jewish American. In fact, she has a very freckly face; it was hell for the makeup crew to cover that up.
I love that James brings her back for T2, and that she, Lance and Bill are all in Near Dark together 😎
Jeanette thought she was auditioning for a kitchen-sink drama about the hispanic population and turned up dressed accordingly and using the accent. the line "She thought they said illegal alien and signed up" was added later :D
@@severindraxIt was ad libbed, wasn't it?
As an actress she's quite the chameleon. I didn't recognise her in T2.
@@richardscratcher6075 I only learned it was the same actor a few days ago!
Now that you've done the only 2 'Alien' movies ever made, you should do the only two 'Terminator' films to ever be made.
That image of Ripley holding Newt in one hand and the flamer in the other is so iconic 👍
Paul Reiser later became famous as the lead of a sitcom called "Mad About You". I still remember watching Aliens years later and realizing it was the same actor.
53:50 Just as Miranda was getting attached.... Bishop was getting very much detached! 😮🫣
Thanks for the awesome entertaining watch along, Miranda! 😊
I believe the phrase that sums up that sequence is "Queen takes Bishop".
The guy who plays Sergeant Apone. Al Matthews.
I swear they modeled that character after my Platoon Sergeant.
82nd Airborne infantry '85-'89.
My Platoon Sergeant was named "Smiley." No kidding. Toughest SOB I ever met.
Edit: And Matthews was a Vietnam era vet as well. Marines.
Great note to end the Alien franchise on! And they never made another!
They. Never. Made. Another.
Yeah, this is Cameron showing off what a great action director he is plus getting some good Do Not F With The Female archetype in too. And I admit I tear up at Newt’s “Mommy.” at the end.
And cannot tell you how much audiences loved Burke getting his comeuppance. Actor Paul Riser AP saw the movie with his mom and his MOM was cheering watching her son get it. Shows you how well he nailed the part.
Good times, good reaction!
Fake fan. Alien 3 is good for several reasons, even if it trashes the happy ending (like Aliens does to Alien...)
"Are there any more Alien movies I should check out?" NOOOO!! No matter what anyone says, there is no Alien 3. DO NOT LOOK INTO IT ANY FURTHER!!!
It is hard to not agree with that. In my mind, the franchise ended successfully w/ Aliens.
I'd go straight to Prometheus, and leave it at that.
agree. Alien 3 sucked because of the scriptwriting. They should have bought James Cameron back. You know when he's writing and directing it's going to be a blockbuster.
14:43 "If we don't see Ripley I will in fact riot." God bless you, girl!
The phrase "assholes and elbows" is a military saying, leadership saying "all I want to see is assholes and elbows" is saying I don't want you standing around or looking at me, move and be ahead of me.
So then, what you're saying is "I lead from behind!"?
@@markmorningstar5374 You thought they put generals on the front line?
@@Krucifus I mostly heard it in Basic Training (Army) during our morning PT runs or during road marches. Basically saying don't let me catch you, stay ahead. Didn't hear it outside of basic until deployment and then I started hearing it again.
Exactly. My brothers were USN and Army, and me USMC enlisted. All of us heard that from the 60s thru the 80s. We were told not to use it to our kids.
@@Atari26 If the general is close enough to see their elbows without using some 80X optics while staying safely hidden in some bunker, then he should be leading like an honorable leader...Theodore Roosevelt with the Rough Riders!
Batman would be proud of that detective work on display during that intro there Miranda!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@EatinPaste Batman was also filmed there...
Great reaction like always, i love this movie and there are some fun-facts about it. Some of the movie’s most memorable sequences are when we meet the team of marines after they awake from hypersleep. Despite them coming early on in the film, Cameron shot all of these scenes last because he wanted there to be a lot of camaraderie between the marines, and thought this would come across more strongly if the cast had spent the last 14 weeks working together. The cast were also trained by SAS professionals and learned drills, how to handle weapons, and work as a platoon.
In the first act, loudmouth marine Hudons (Bill Paxton) asks tough Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein), “Vasquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replies “No, have you?” A funny line, and Cameron took it from a classic Hollywood story about Talulah Bankhead, the 1930s acting icon. A newspaper columnist said to her in an interview, “Have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replied, “No, darling. Have you?”
One of the most memorable parts of the movie is when android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) performs a trick by moving a sharp knife between the fingers of Hudson’s hand. Lance Henriksen as Bishop performed it at a slow speed, and the footage was sped up. You can tell because if you take notice of Apone, who’s next to Hudson, he’s laughing and his head is moving far more quickly than looks normal. The knife trick scene was actually not in the original script. Cameron had the idea on the set. He discussed it with everybody except Bill Paxton (who plays Hudson) as he wanted to get real surprise and shock from Paxton.
Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley is the lynchpin and main lead character from the whole Alien series, but she might not have appeared in Aliens as Weaver was very hesitant about returning at first. She’d already rejected offers from Fox to do Alien sequels, thinking Ripley would be poorly written, and she was rightly proud of Alien and didn’t want to harm its legacy.
There is an interesting deleted scene around Burke, Carter Burke is killed towards the end of the movie when he sneaks away during a gunfight, and comes across a lone alien. That’s the last we see of him in the movie but Cameron did shoot a scene (later removed) that tells us what happened to Burke. The scene takes place during the sequence where Ripley visits the alien nest to rescue Newt. She comes across a cocooned Burke and, having been fertilised by a facehugger, he says to her, “I can feel it inside me.” Ripley gives leaves Burke with a grenade and moves on.
And the only two actors to be killed by a Predator, Terminator & Xenomorph. Are Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen (Bishop) They are the only actors to have faced off against all three of these iconic sci-fi killing machines. Keep up the good work.
Except Bishop is still functional in the last scene of Aliens, he's in a cryo tube.
This is my favorite movie of all time!I loved how you picked up on so much of the finer details so quickly.
Favorite characters (besides Ripley): Vasquez and Hudson.
This is probably the best Alien movie out there.... masterpiece
Fantastic reaction! I knew you'd love this movie. None of the rest of the franchise can live up to the first 2 (though Alien: Romulus was easily my favorite since Aliens), but they're all worth watching and unique in their own ways. If you can get a hold of the Special Edition for Alien 3, that is the THE one to watch (looks like you can buy it digitally). It's a huge improvement over the theatrical edition, which is what's on most streaming services.
Only one good sequel is possible.
Loved Romulus
I don't know what you are talking about. The two best movies are yet to come. Alien & Leatherface vs. Freddy & Jason is my favourite; and who can forget the Weyland-Yutani holiday special?
1d ago on a video that's 3 hours old, witchcraft? I'm genuinely curious
@@davepresley4689 Haha, her videos release 1 day early for Members!
The android didn't malfunction in the first movie, it was following company orders, orders that superseded those of the crew. It's the same side plot issue in this movie with Burke.
In a way Ash was malfunctioning, and it shows in his obvious discomfort from having to hurt and ultimately kill Ripley. As an android he's programmed with some variant of the three laws of robotics. But when the company overrides those laws through the special orders he must comply with them, but it seems to initiate some kind of syntax error creating somewhat erratic behavior.
There is a companion book that explains the missing 57 years. The actress who played Newt is now a teacher and stays in contact with Sigourney. See a new side of "Ripley" in Galaxy Quest.
Every now and then Carrie Hein calls Sigourney Weaver “Mommy.” They both laugh..
The series mostly peaked with the first two films, but I understand the desire for more after these, both remain iconic all these decades later.
Awesome you got to enjoy Aliens - such an iconic piece of cinematic history. My wife and I go back and watch it at last once ever few months. After the tight, close up psychological and claustrophobic horror of the first, this one was quite a bit different but in all the best ways.
I hope you get a chance to react to the third movie because it goes in a different direction yet again!!
53:34 queen takes bishop lol
Brutal 😥
Mongo only pawn in game of life
... check.
Snow-White takes Black Queen.
checkmate.
In the Romulus movie the new android is called Rook too
@@TheMule71 I love it bro!!!!! I love blazing saddles lol
One of the best Sci-fi Action Horror movies ever made!
Nominated for 7 Oscars:
Best Actress,Sigourney Weaver
Best Original Score, James Horner
Best Film Editing, Ray Lovejoy
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Production Design, Peter Lamont
Best Visual Effects, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Robert Skotak.
It won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing.
It was a box office and critical success, making $190 million dollars against an $18 million dollar budget.
Both Jim Cameron and Stan Winston create magic in practical effects back in the day
Do not watch the next Alien movie if you want to not be depressed. Just take the happy ending and smile it gave you.
Noted! Thank you! Any other recent ones that are worth the watch? Romulus for example?
@@TheMirandalorianReacts Of the sequels, only Romulus is good.
@@TheMirandalorianReactsWatch 3 anyways. There are good things in it despite the 'fan' dislike. 4 is also entertaining, as are the prequels Prometheus & Covenant.
Romulus is a midquel (set between other movies) and works best if you've seen all the previous entries.
3 is great, don't listen to the haters.
@@TheMirandalorianReacts Nope, ignore what others say. There are only two Alien films and there will only ever be two Alien films.
So many amazing moments in this film. But I think my fave might be that head tilt and look that Ripley does when facing down the mama alien and one of the eggs opens. It’s like ‘oh no you didn’t!’
It was a blast watching you enjoy this. Came out when I was six years old. What a movie!
Deleted scenes make more sense of how Ripley is attached to Newt
I Like the Fact that 15 Minutes in and Miranda has called out a few things that're going to happen later.
Can't wait to see her expressions when they do. XD
Glad you're enjoying this movie. Now do yourself a favor: Do Not, I repeat NOT see the third film, or any Alien movies. As far as you're concerned, Ripley adopted Newt, Hicks got a medical discharge, Bishop got himself fixed,and they all lived happily ever after. my story and in sticking to it.
Best practical effects, the way rhe aliens hop from wall to wall is so cool
Many, many years ago, there was an Aliens Experience in the basement of the Trocadero Centre in Piccadilly, London. You got escorted through a replica of the base by a Colonial Marine, whilst being stalked by an Alien. So much fun, so many jump scares.