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  • @Dillpicks95
    @Dillpicks95 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Crazy how two years ago you guys started with this movie and look how far you’ve come since then. One of the best movie channel reactors ever.

  • @SokolRock
    @SokolRock ปีที่แล้ว +2

    26:54 This room is the "landing leg compartment" (you can see it folded, over Brett's head) and I think it's so wet there because these legs are being washed after the ship takes off from the planet.

  • @rlg2926
    @rlg2926 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In the book the crew did not know about the Alien. The company did because they deciphered the message before shipping the crew out and knew it was a warning not a sos and replaced the science officer and warrant officer with Ash and Ripley respectfully so it would seem less suspicious to have just the science officer replaced suddenly.

  • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553
    @promnightdumpsterbaby9553 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    It actually makes sense to use older tech in these types of ships. It's cheap,reliable,and it lasts.

  • @jaymanuel3396
    @jaymanuel3396 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That huge room with dripping water where Brett is killed, is the claw room. Those are the giant landing struts or legs that the ship stands on when it lands. I was 11 when this came out, has been one of my favorites since 1979. While I liked the Director’s Cut, it was dumb to put the cocoon scene after she set off the destruction system. It should have been placed immediately after she found Parker & Lambert’s bodies. Makes no sense with only 10 minutes to destruction.
    I am a huge fan of Veronica Cartwright, who had just appeared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the year before. She was also in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and many other movies and tv shows. I remembered her at the time, from The Birds and the Daniel Boone tv series.

  • @scorp77snake
    @scorp77snake ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Jonesy is probably on board as homage to ships that used them as vermin control as well as a pet.

  • @Scallycowell
    @Scallycowell ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fun fact: Behind the xenomorph's semi-translucent head we can see a humanoid skull. Inside of that skull there was meant to be live maggots to make the skull more noticeable from the movement of the maggots squirming around under the see-through skin. This was immediately scrapped when the crew realized that the heat from the studio lights actually made the maggots sleepy, (yes, maggots sleep), hence rendering them immobile.
    File that one under: 'ha ha gross'

  • @brianmurphy8811
    @brianmurphy8811 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Why's it so wet in there" - I never actually found out precisely why, but I can posit an answer. The size of the ship is so vast, it has it's own weather. An example of this would be NASA's VAB facility, which is so big that on humid days rain clouds can form at the ceiling. And requires a bonkers amount of AC to clear up.

    • @Wagoo
      @Wagoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it's a condenser room for part of the ship's cooling systems, you can see the floor in that area has a shallow recess with drainage grills.
      The water there must have made it an attractive place for the xenomorph to focus on its growth. There must be a phenomenal amount of energy in each egg>facehugger>implanted xenomorph to feed its rapid growth cycle.. but still needs water

  • @yaburnt9754
    @yaburnt9754 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The robot was just being an "Ash" ..
    *insert drum roll*

  • @lisamaitland157
    @lisamaitland157 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well, the DOS computers never had the blue screen of death lol. A crash just brings you back to the DOS screen, no rebooting needed :).

  • @BjoernarEricSven
    @BjoernarEricSven ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Your interactions are pure gold.

  • @AnthonyMartin-k8m
    @AnthonyMartin-k8m ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Little piece of trivia a saw recently is that Sigourney wasn't warned that Veronica would attack her when she joined everybody watching Cain. Scott wanted a genuine reaction. You can tell that Sigourney is about to jump her ass for a split second. LOL

  • @clayjohanson
    @clayjohanson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There’s a scene in the novelization and in the script (but it wasn’t filmed), after Kane’s death, where the crew discover that the chestburster has gotten into the ship’s pantry and had a go at all of their food. That’s where it got the calories to get so big so quickly. (It also puts pressure on them to do something about the situation quickly - they are almost out of food and they have limited “awake” time anyway due to limited oxygen.)
    Ten months to Earth, but they would have spent all of that time in hypersleep. Jones sleeps with them (Ripley, usually).
    Ash wasn’t on the Nostromo on its trip from Earth to Thedus. He was a last-minute replacement, obviously because The Company was going to use the Nostromo for SO 937.

  • @LiveFromThePorcelainPalace
    @LiveFromThePorcelainPalace 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    FUN FACT!
    The scene where Ripley finds Dallas and Brett... if there is no Queen to lay eggs, a lone xenomorph can use living or dead beings to make eggs until it can spawn a queen. You don't "turn into" the eggs, but you do feed them!

  • @janstan8407
    @janstan8407 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 27:08 you can see the Alien nice and big, slowly swinging in the forefront.

  • @kevinshea7547
    @kevinshea7547 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One fun thing about this is thinking about other films the cast was in. Ian Holm in The Lord of the Rings, Yaphet Kotto and Live and Let Die, John Hurt being in the first and final Harry Potter films, and Tom Skerritt playing Viper in Top Gun.

    • @LiveFromThePorcelainPalace
      @LiveFromThePorcelainPalace 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What about John Hurt winning the Oscar for Best Actor the year after this came out when he played The Elephant Man?

    • @Silly81
      @Silly81 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LiveFromThePorcelainPalaceI don’t believe he won the Oscar, he was definitely nominated. I believe that was the year DeNiro won for Raging Bull.

  • @jamielandis4308
    @jamielandis4308 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fun reaction! It’s like Mrs Movies’ first time all over again. It is nice watching this in HD. I noticed that you can catch a glimpse of the Alien when Brett enters the landing gear bay. He’s hanging up with the chains. I went back and looked at some of the original reaction. I forgot how much y’all have leveled up. I do miss the little MST3K figures! It’s remarkable how well this holds up to modern fx standards.
    The cat is for rodent control. Mice get on the ships so cats are used to get rid of them. I don’t know if the cat gets frozen or not. The room where Brett dies is a landing gear bay. The big thing in the middle is one of the ship’s retracted landing legs. The water is condensate from the engines.
    I saw this in the theater in 1979. After 43 years and dozens of watches this is still a fantastic flick. The trailer told people almost nothing about what to expect so my 14 year old brain was totally blown.
    My favorite scare is when the screen lights up in the first scene in the empty bridge. The first time I saw this, I was wound up, expecting the alien to pop out at every little noise and rustle. When that screen lit up and made that noise all of us almost crapped our pants. Master film making there!

  • @darrenrunning5415
    @darrenrunning5415 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In the novelization, Ripley asks Dallas if he's ever flown with Ash before and Dallas says that Ash was a last minute replacement for their regular science officer. When Dallas tried to get more information about why his science officer was replaced, the company shut him down. So, the company knew their was an alien signal/ship. What the Company might not have known is what the alien was.

  • @1dancy
    @1dancy ปีที่แล้ว +21

    In space, no one can hear ice cream.

  • @MRC_5000
    @MRC_5000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is a pretty awesome reaction. i appreciate the context of this being the first movie, you guys having seen the other ones since then and especially the fact that mrs. movies has watched alot of movies for the first time since then. it's really special in a way and i like it alot.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    22:07 "Artificial gravity. That's one of those things, like, movies are always about it."
    "Yep."
    "Reality, not so much."
    Yeah. And it's one of those things we're gonna have to make some _serious progress_ on if we're truly going to become _spacefaring._

  • @kenernestnation
    @kenernestnation ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Scott once said the creature may have been slowly dying. After all, it wasn’t hunting them, they were hunting it.

  • @santiago451
    @santiago451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ripley walks in on Ash looking at sonogram of implanted chestburster.
    "It's almost like he knew something was going to happen."

  • @johnmason9655
    @johnmason9655 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The guy playing the Alien was a six foot ten Nigerian graphic design student called Bolaji Badejo. He was spotted in a London pub, and recommended to Ridley Scott to cast him. Nice reaction guys. Loving your stuff from the UK.

  • @seancain2216
    @seancain2216 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you guys, thanks for letting us be a part of your life. "At least you showered today."

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My early "Alien Quadrilogy" DVD set didn't include the Special Edition version, as far as I know, so I only saw Lambert slap Ripley on TH-cam. In the ex-Cinerama theater in 1979, "Alien" was an iconic experience. I saw it with married friends; she took the "it's only a movie" stance and he later commented on my "Kill It! Kill It!" reaction to the Xenomorph with amusement. Speaking of roller coaster ride movies, how about "Train To Busan" (2016)? 11:20 Sharp-eyed viewers viewed Ash's "calisthenics" as suspect.

  • @victorsos100
    @victorsos100 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love it when the baby comes in and asks for something!! It's always fun and adorable 🥰🥰!

    • @karkajouautomaton4882
      @karkajouautomaton4882 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Now it just needs that Seinfeld slap bass every time it happens.

  • @RaefonB
    @RaefonB ปีที่แล้ว

    24:52 Lol at Mrs Movies pulling a flask out of the dude's jacket and popping it back into Ripley's! xD

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark ปีที่แล้ว +21

    22:05 Just wait until you guys eventually get to The Expanse, no artificial gravity in that show, just the constant horrors of living and traveling through space. This remains my favorite reaction channel for the humor and chemistry between the two reactors.

    • @mcentepede
      @mcentepede ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good chemistry.. . I think they're married or something

    • @julius-stark
      @julius-stark ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mcentepede hey, just because two people are married doesn't mean they always have good chemistry 😂

    • @Hal2718
      @Hal2718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I suppose spin gravity and thrust gravity don't count in your mind?

    • @julius-stark
      @julius-stark ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hal2718 that's not the same as the artificial gravity from Star Trek or Star Wars that's 1to1 Earth gravity with no consequences from g-forces or stopping too fast.

  • @vtastek
    @vtastek ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for revisiting these. Looking forward to Aliens.

  • @theoneandonlyoni
    @theoneandonlyoni ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Parts of the ship are so large that they create their own atmosphere, like a rain forest.
    That’s all condensation dripping, so it’s kind clean, but it’s probably not the best to wash your face with, like Harry does...

    • @davidanderson1639
      @davidanderson1639 ปีที่แล้ว

      Correct!!! The area that we see Brett in is one of the housings for the massive landing gear.
      The size & scale of Nostromo is deceptive, due to the exterior shots. Also, it’s worth noting that when it’s hooked up to the refinery, the Nostromo’s engines slot into housings that funnel the exhaust through the under side of the refinery.

  • @jamiesalmonsculpture8599
    @jamiesalmonsculpture8599 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Her reaction to the chest burster scene, even the second time around, says it all. She looked really traumatized! Such a powerful scene. Never to be topped

  • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553
    @promnightdumpsterbaby9553 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love how if you look real hard, you can see the Alien tucked away in that space as Ripley is entering the shuttle. I've seen this film litterally hundreds of times, and I had to watch a reaction video to notice that lol

    • @davidanderson1639
      @davidanderson1639 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The scene where Parker & Lambert die was originally much longer & Veronica Cartwright has even stated in interviews that what you see is a lot different. Basically, if you notice, as the tail goes between Lamberts legs, it isn’t actually Lambert; her costume featured cowboy boots…& the feet we see are actually Brett’s.
      Also, there’s a little know cut of the film that features Ripley finding Parker dead & Lambert naked from the waist down, suspended. Cartwright went on record & said that she spent part of the shoot suspended in a harness; but the scene was cut down to what we see in the theatrical cut.

  • @OrangeApocalypse
    @OrangeApocalypse ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The egg effects in this are so much more superior to the eggs in Aliens. I remember how silly i thought they looked in Aliens, with their rubbery texture look and looking like the Facehugger was crawling out a big bowl of snot 🤣

    • @boboboy8189
      @boboboy8189 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      agree

    • @Wagoo
      @Wagoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same for the close up shot of the xenomorph's face before it strikes

  • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553
    @promnightdumpsterbaby9553 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The heavy machinery room, Brett, went into has a coolant tank. The water was run off from said tank. And probably some condensation.

    • @kenernestnation
      @kenernestnation ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was the landing gear. Moisture from the planet, condensation, etc.

    • @Youcannotfalter
      @Youcannotfalter ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kenernestnation Exactly.

  • @RH1812
    @RH1812 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And a themed t shirt! Ever watch Dark Star? With Dan O’Bannon fighting a beach ball.

  • @iandism
    @iandism ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, just looked back and I remember watching you react to Alien, I kinda forgot it was your first upload. Anyway, I enjoyed it so much I subscribed and been watching ever since. Movie wise, you are my favourite channel and I always look forward to seeing you. Your beautiful children causing technical difficulties always makes me smile, as it shows what a lovely family you are. Keep up the great work, and happy anniversary

  • @michelleangers342
    @michelleangers342 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think I watched all of your Alien videos today and I just love Mrs. Movie's reactions!🤣🥰

  • @RedHeadKevin
    @RedHeadKevin ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brett wasn't in an engine room. That was the compartment for the ship's landing gear. It's just folded up.

  • @CamillaDrakenborg
    @CamillaDrakenborg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jonesy is simply there to work, aka catch mice/rats. Where there are humans, there are usually rats cause of trash/food

  • @soundofmetal
    @soundofmetal ปีที่แล้ว +2

    37:40 the drone will cacoon and absorb his captures into an egg to create a queen facehugger so a queen chestburster can be born and lay eggs.

  • @Sam1point2
    @Sam1point2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favourite channels. I also watched Alien for the first time at the weekend! It’s great seeing the channel grow. Keep ‘em coming!

  • @MahlerHolic1860
    @MahlerHolic1860 ปีที่แล้ว

    The uplifting music when Ripley kills the Alien was taken from the great American composer Howard Hanson's second symphony known as the "romantic".

  • @douglascampbell9809
    @douglascampbell9809 ปีที่แล้ว

    The funny thing is that operating system AIS is still used in manufacturing.
    I used to work in a factory a few years ago. All the production stuff was AIS.
    Inventory, blue prints, bills of material were all in computers with AIS.

  • @crombajaa
    @crombajaa ปีที่แล้ว +2

    lol, Did you know that there was no female lead in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence?
    She said "she was the first female lead in an action film and no woman played the lead in an action movie before her "Hunger Games" role.
    "I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work "

  • @MechaDot1
    @MechaDot1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cocoon sequence was meant to be part of the original life cycle of the Alien. In original script the self destruct sequence isn't started until the last survivor is left so it's strange why it was misplaced in the movie which led to its' removal. Because of that Cameron was able to use his queen idea and even then, he knew about the original reproduction process but thought it was stupid. Cameron's idea just makes Alien system into regular bee/ant hive. For me the original way is better and makes it more alien. It's far worse to be turned into egg than be killed by the Alien, considering it doesn't matter if you're alive or dead in order to be turned into egg.
    You're right about the adolescent behaviour, that's how the original backstory would've depicted it. It would've "calmed" down later. Sadly, the most fascinating aspects of it haven't survived to live media.

  • @christopherleodaniels7203
    @christopherleodaniels7203 ปีที่แล้ว

    That huge room with the swinging chains and water is where the landing gear retracts. In fact the landing gear is in the middle, hanging from the ceiling, folded up. It’s probably wet from when it was on the planet, or it’s dripping from hydraulic fluid.

  • @arifeannor9573
    @arifeannor9573 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's wet in certain parts of the ship because space is cold, they heat the air and you have to have some humidity in the air of the ship because you need it and it happens naturally anyways a bit. But cold metal walls from space freezing the outside of the ship, warm humid air touches metal, water condensates and drips off.

    • @4Kandlez
      @4Kandlez ปีที่แล้ว

      The ship would be at least double skinned with various layers of anti ballistic materials and insulation in-between to protect from radiation and particles travelling at hyper speed. The inner wall of the ship will be insulated from the coldness of space outside. At a guess I'd say the 20,000,000 tons of mineral ore the ship is carrying would have a substantial water content and that's where its coming from

    • @arifeannor9573
      @arifeannor9573 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@4Kandlez Possible. But either way I do believe it is condensation the way it just rains down. Whatever the reason would be is a guess really, they could of just wanted it for the scene and didn't worry about the why that would make sense in the film. Double insulated or not, with a huge ship fighting the cold outside, walls are bound to be colder than the air in some parts due to the variance of all the space in the ship. If it was from the ore, it still leads to figure the walls are still colder than air it evaporated in. Or even maybe it was a coolant section of the ship for engines and it was just cold in those specific spots.

  • @WolfHreda
    @WolfHreda ปีที่แล้ว

    My theory for why they sent Ash with a bunch of miners instead of a dedicated expedition is this: corporate espionage. The Company (later revealed to be Weyland-Yutani) has competitors who would love to get their hands on anything W-Y might be working on. So if you sent out a plant on the crew of a normal mining excursion, it probably wouldn't raise any interest at all, whereas a dedicated expedition would pique the interest of any worthwhile competitor W-Y has.

  • @kinokind293
    @kinokind293 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice to see you revisit it. I saw it when it first came out, and I think it ages well. I always assumed the drippy water in the hold was from some kind of condensation from the atmosphere being turned back on when they awoke. Why maintain temperature and atmosphere, especially in a storage space, while the crew is asleep? I think we also are meant to assume that Jones is originally in suspension with one of them, like he is with Ripley at the end. Avoiding suspension of disbelief for a moment, though, how did the alien get so big? Where did the additional mass come from? It had nothing else to eat. Or is it like the Transformers, which magically become many times larger than a car even though they should theoretically still occupy the same volume of space? Better to just sit back and enjoy.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 ปีที่แล้ว

    32:57 Ian Holm demonstrated the most _incredible_ acting, here. I could _honestly_ believe he's a robot.

  • @vtastek
    @vtastek ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dallas at the vents. It is such simple jump scare but super effective! I love AvP 2 video game(1999) using the proximity sensor, it is as terrifying.

  • @arifeannor9573
    @arifeannor9573 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Artificial gravity is a way to sound more advanced and also save money on explaining why nothing or noone is floating in space. Saves time by just saying we have gravity especially if you don't want to use the centrifugal force ship design in the movie(big round circles like 2001 Space Odyssey).

  • @JimboBeeso
    @JimboBeeso ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Like you put a lot of effort into (your appearance) now."
    You guys are funny and cute! Lol

  • @joerenaud8292
    @joerenaud8292 ปีที่แล้ว

    The repair station within the Nestromo has to be extremely large in order to drydock the shuttle craft they took to the planetoid which implies it has to be hundreds of feet tall and likely just as wide to store parts and equipment to do repairs which means a lot of condensation would take place in a large cavity like that. Condensation equals water accumulation and thus you end up with a lot of water dripping everywhere.

  • @dsrtsnw
    @dsrtsnw ปีที่แล้ว

    you two just make me smile. thank you for sharing your spirit with us. :)

  • @keithjohnson5232
    @keithjohnson5232 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Been watching you guys since the original Friday the 13th first watch. Love this channel. You should watch Ice Prirates... Sci fi with some comedy, kind of a fun movie ;)

    • @emilywilhite5807
      @emilywilhite5807 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll put in another vote for Ice Pirates!

  • @wickamo
    @wickamo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We should probably try to remember how many now common movie terror mechanics this movie established...for instance that these days when we see a scifi or horror movie where there is an unknown egg, we are immediately scared or suspicious of an alien or monster bursting out of the egg...but when this movie came out, that wasn't a movie trope until after this movie established it as a common plot point. Back then an egg was still just a thing that a helpless baby animal was birthed out of. We weren't afraid of dangerous monsters bursting out and attaching itself to our faces. Also answering a distress beacon often led to an adventure in those old space action movies, but not necessarily a lure into a dangerous alien situation. I always think it's funny when people watch this how they so easily say "No...don't bring him inside, leave him out", and say how stupid they are for for trying to save him...yet this is a crew that cares about each other. So if this was you and that was your close friend or a family member that someone was saying "no...leave him out and let him die", they would probably be ready to fight to save their friend that they loved. By the way Jonesy the cat was in hibernation with the crew so it wasn't using a litterbox that had to be cleaned while they were sleeping obviously. The novel makes it more clear, but when Ash starts acting so weird when he tries to kill Ripley, it's because his default programming which is to not cause harm and even protect the crew is now in conflict with this new order he's been programmed with the protect the alien and treat the crew as expendable. His programming conflict is causing him to malfunction. You can see it especially as he rolls up the magazine and begins to shake as if he's fighting his own actions. In the second movie Bishop even comments on how this model could be glitchy. So the original plan of the director was to give the creature the ability to turn a lifeform into an egg to then spawn more facehuggers to then create more creatures and so on. This would have probably meant that all of the eggs in the ship on the planet were originally the crew of the ship. However when the sequel came out they added the plot mechanic of the Queen and the Hive structure, so that now they ability of a soldier alien having the ability to change a lifeform into an egg is sort of the pre process to create a new Queen who could then take over the egg laying process. Will always be one of my favorite movies.

  • @trytrading4103
    @trytrading4103 ปีที่แล้ว

    alien is my favorite movie franchise. I love you guys for doing this reaction.

  • @InjuredRobot.
    @InjuredRobot. ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Of course the cast knew about the chestburster scene because it was in the script and they read it. What the chestburster looked like was a surprise because Ridley Scott wanted their reactions to be genuine. Unfortunately on the first take the puppet didn't make it through Kane's (John Hurt) T shirt so they had to reshoot and the surprise was ruined because they all saw that Hurt was under the table with a fake body and torso. And even though they all knew there was going to be lots of fake blood because all the cameras, crew, lighting, etc. was covered in plastic it is still one of the best scenes in Scifi history.

  • @jeremystevens5312
    @jeremystevens5312 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am writing this to help out these two goofballs and this video and this channel with the algorithm ♥️✌️😘😊

  • @lexsidious
    @lexsidious ปีที่แล้ว

    I laughed for 10 minutes strait with the comment about Ash checking out his own robot pewbs...lol

  • @system3008
    @system3008 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you imagine what this was like in 79?

  • @brijouxsolo7942
    @brijouxsolo7942 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The thumbnail 😂 She’s so beautiful she looks pretty even making a face of disgust!

  • @AmartharDrakestone
    @AmartharDrakestone ปีที่แล้ว

    2:44 "Alen" - in space, nobody can hear you in space.

  • @jinjerjunkie
    @jinjerjunkie ปีที่แล้ว

    24:52 it looks like she pulls the water bottle out of that guys jacket lol.

  • @Zallerquad
    @Zallerquad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What the drippy wet room with the hanging chains is where the Nostromo's landing gear stows when she is in flight. I'ts hard to see but hanging in the middle of the room, it's so big you mistake it for support structure, is the landing claw. It is very hard to see. It took me thirty years to finally see it. Cheers. P.S. I would love to see you guys do the original Battlestar Galactica. So say we all!

  • @ilikeknives1000
    @ilikeknives1000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i think it's wet in certain portions of the ship due to condensation from heat from the reactor cooling could be wrong though

  • @AtomicVampire1
    @AtomicVampire1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think production on the next prequel “Alien: Romulus” may be starting soon. I hope they connect these movies sometime before I croak.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BTW, this isn't a real director's cut. Scott preferred the theatrical cut and this version was the studio's idea.
    Many years ago, the SciFi Channel aired an extended cut of the film that had many deleted scenes added back into the movie, including a lot of extra shots of the alien. Like when it attacks Parker and Lambert, there's a scene of it on the floor, crab-walking toward them that just looks silly.

  • @MrEthan80
    @MrEthan80 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can’t wait for Insidious!!Ya’ll are gonna FREAK!

  • @raymondgilbert1341
    @raymondgilbert1341 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have been watching this movie since it came out and it never gets old. It still beats a lot of what is out these days.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 ปีที่แล้ว

    It didn't occur to me to look it up until you guys talked about it. I mean, I grew up with MS-DOS, but my first computer was an Apple //c, so I am familiar with early computer systems that don't _have_ it.
    So I looked it up. MS-DOS first came along in 1981. So, yes, you have to look back a _ways_ to find technology and art that predates it, but this movie is from 1979, so this movie clears the hurdle.

  • @KennethSorling
    @KennethSorling ปีที่แล้ว

    #31:07 It makes me unreasonably happy that you're using the term Parker Square! With that hat on, you don't come off as a fellow who would have heard of it.

  • @Reactordrone
    @Reactordrone ปีที่แล้ว

    You don't see them much because of the quick cuts but the effects shots for the deaths of Brett and Parker are interesting with prosthetic heads to get the shots of the Alien rapidly extending its small jaws into their foreheads (through the peaked cap in the case of Brett).

  • @personatodo
    @personatodo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The director's cut also removed a lot of footage from the original version for pacing purpose. The best version would be a fanedit that combines both cut into one. The superior extended cut for Aliens on the other hand is a longer version of the original without anything been edited out. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection also have their own extended/alternate cut but still not a fan of those movies.

    • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553
      @promnightdumpsterbaby9553 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This franchise ends at Aliens.

    • @harrymarshall
      @harrymarshall ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@promnightdumpsterbaby9553,, I still feel Alien⁴ is a real good stand up film,, though ultimately they did to this franchise same as die hard,, playing for the appeal of differing crowds w each film, like everytime a comicbook story has a new artist &exploiting contemporary box office thrills

    • @personatodo
      @personatodo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 💯 agree

    • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553
      @promnightdumpsterbaby9553 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Harry Marshall That,and letting Ridley scott,who thinks he owns Alien,even though he didn't write it ,indulge his Android fettish. Then hire the writer of fuqing "lost",who everyone hates,to write the sequel to the totally not prequel...

    • @personatodo
      @personatodo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrymarshall just like any cult movies there will be a fanbase for them. The movie went through production hell. It's just the treatment of Hicks and Newt in the 3rd movie that made a lot of people including myself turn away from the movie. I can still watch it but it's not canon in my headcanon.

  • @shawbros
    @shawbros ปีที่แล้ว +1

    32:56
    Ripley: "ASH! What was your special order?"
    Ash: "Take 100 facials in a porno shoot."

  • @janstan8407
    @janstan8407 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ridley Scott borrowed the laser system off of the group The Who to make the blue layer over the eggs. You can see the same laser system used in The Who's live video of "Won't Get Fooled Again".

  • @davidanderson1639
    @davidanderson1639 ปีที่แล้ว

    Alien is one of the greatest films of all time; regardless of genre. I’ve written several pieces on the design of Alien. Had Dan O’Bannon & Ridley Scott not found HR Giger’s book ‘Necronomicon’, who knows what we could’ve ended up with. Scott was familiar with Giger’s work due to him being hired to work on Scott’s failed adaptation of Dune.
    Nothing will beat the time I got to see a special 70mm IMAX print of Alien…it looks absolutely stunning!!
    Having seen both cuts of Alien multiple times, I have to say that the directors cut has some worthy changes; although the Dallas & Brett cocoon scene breaks the tension too much for my liking.
    Fun Facts: The scene where Parker & Lambert die was originally much longer & Veronica Cartwright has even stated in interviews that what you see is a lot different. Basically, if you notice, as the tail goes between Lamberts legs, it isn’t actually Lambert; her costume featured cowboy boots…& the feet we see are actually Brett’s.
    Also, there’s a little know cut of the film that features Ripley finding Parker dead & Lambert naked from the waist down, suspended. Cartwright went on record & said that she spent part of the shoot suspended in a harness; but the scene was cut down to what we see in the theatrical cut.
    The Nostromo set was all connected; as it would’ve been had the craft been real. That combined with the fact it had a really low ceiling helps add to the hot, claustrophobic atmosphere & this helped drive the performance’s.
    There’s not much to say about Aliens other than it’s just perfect. Alien 3 however is something of a flawed masterpiece. It was David Fincher’s directorial debut & due to studio meddling, rewrites etc, we were left with a semi coherent film that to this day Fincher refuses to talk about.
    The assembly cut, fixes a lot of problems & several cast members returned to record enhanced dialogue for the reintroduced scenes. Alien 3 still divides fans due to its bleak, post apocalyptic look. But it’s the perfect ending to an excellent trilogy of films.
    Fun Fact: The Nostromo model was restored a few years back & sold at auction to a certain NZ director for $500’000!!!

  • @TheGeeMan
    @TheGeeMan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Apparently that wet room with the chains is one of the landing gear rooms.

  • @nevrogers8198
    @nevrogers8198 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nerdy bit: as rightly spotted, Alien predated DOS. The OS in the movie looks similar (though more graphical) to the ones I used in the mid 80s on mainframes and minis, which more closely resemble what a 1979 audience (who didn't know what PC stood for) would expect to find on a future spaceship.
    “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
    Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

    • @Wagoo
      @Wagoo ปีที่แล้ว

      UNIX had been around for ages by the time Alien came out, though. CP/M, too. The wireframe computer graphics are kind of the only CGI in the movie :)

    • @nevrogers8198
      @nevrogers8198 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wagoo that's what I was saying. Although my background was IBM, it's all a 1979 audience would have ever seen.

  • @kylederry5031
    @kylederry5031 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A bit of a deep cut but I've never seen anyone react to
    Dead Alive 1992 one of Peter Jackson's first films. This is one of the goriest films in existence. Eli Roth (the bat guy in inglorious basterds, director of cabin fever and hostel) once said this film quenched his blood thirst. Practical effects are amazing.

  • @robertwiegman1
    @robertwiegman1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You guys have one of the best reaction video channels...I would like to see a reaction to The Hidden. Nobody's done one yet.

    • @jay1hi547
      @jay1hi547 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Hidden is one of my favorites.

  • @johnj4471
    @johnj4471 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how mother doesn’t know ensure vs insure.

    • @Wagoo
      @Wagoo ปีที่แล้ว

      That typo by some company goon is probably what drove Ash nuts, he had insufficient data to take out an insurance policy XD

  • @jay1hi547
    @jay1hi547 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys have the BEST reaction channel. I love it!

  • @miketocci
    @miketocci ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With zillions of different movies to watch, rewatched seem superfluous

  • @robertoprestigiacomo253
    @robertoprestigiacomo253 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:10 - If you look at real space ops or space walks, everything move very slowly relative to each other though they move really fast relative to a point on Earth, and they are absolutely coordinated, so it's realistic ;)
    11:30 - I don't think it's that weird, some people do that as self-soothing. The real question is why would an android do that when nobody is watching?
    13:07 - I'd rather have Prometheus and Covenant removed from my memory to be honest... With a ban against watching them ever again.
    34:03 - That's a reasonable crew to operate a ship that size for a mission that long without ground support. I'd say it's even tight, it'd consider more believable to have a few more technicians and/or at least 2 more engineers, and a doctor who only does medic work.
    36:38 - This creates a problem with Aliens: in that movie Ripley makes a whole argument to guess who lies the eggs, but here she saw the eggs being formed so as far as she knows that's how they produce the eggs and she shouldn't be asking that in Aliens.

    • @Fardawg
      @Fardawg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      11:30 It was meant to be him correcting a glitch or stiffness in his joints (possibly due to the cold temperature since you also see him blow in his hands right after to warm them). It is supposed to be the first hint to the audience that something isn't right with the guy. It was also Ian Holms's idea to do it.

  • @timbola
    @timbola ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fun Fact. It was planned for Lambert to slap Ripley for not letting them in. But each time they did, Sigourney Weaver kept flinching. So Ridley Scott told them to forget it. Then, he told "Lambert" to slap the shit out of her. Sigourney wasn't expecting it.

  • @michaelschwartz8730
    @michaelschwartz8730 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Parker/Lambert death scene is one of my favorites in all of cinema. Absolutely terrifying

  • @user-vc5rp7nf8f
    @user-vc5rp7nf8f ปีที่แล้ว +2

    in addition to the size and way it looks, what's also scary is the rate of growth. for an organism to get into a host body and pop out at that size is an incredible growth rate. then for it to attain full size in that short of a time is crazy fast. there are micro organisms that multiply super quickly, but for a mammal-like creature that apparently sheds, it's a bit of a stretch. though it you suspend disbelief, i guess it would be pretty terrifying if an organism like that existed.

    • @My-Name-Isnt-Important
      @My-Name-Isnt-Important ปีที่แล้ว

      There is also no consumption of anything to achieve the growth too. If anything grew at a rate like that, it would very likely have to feed almost constantly.

    • @clayjohanson
      @clayjohanson ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a scripted but unfilmed scene in which it’s discovered that something (the cheatburster) has been into the ship’s pantry and eaten nearly all of their food. That’s where the calories for growth came from.

  • @tyslaseelo
    @tyslaseelo ปีที่แล้ว

    This movie should have scared me much more than it did. I saw it for the first time in 1980, when I was eleven, at a dollar cinema. It was one of my birthday presents. I begged my parents over and over to let me see it because it was the talk of the playground and everything about it looked so cool to me. Thing is, I was also VERY easily scared by horror films at that age, so my parents' reluctance was commendable. Finally they relented though, and my mom took me to see it with the warning that if I lost sleep I brought it on myself. (My other big present was the big Alien action figure, BTW. I was really into Alien even before I saw it.)
    Yet somehow, despite my being such a scaredy-cat, it didn't scare me at all. To the contrary, I thought it was one of the coolest movies I had ever seen, and it remains an all-time favorite to this day. I totally get why it's considered a horror film. It's pretty obvious, after all. But I've always related to it as a sci-fi film first, albeit with horror elements. I think it's the space setting. Even at that age, I had no fear whatsoever of encountering a xenomorph. And even then, the sheer beauty of Giger's designs blew me away. I've been an avid artist my entire life, and Alien is a feast of artistry.
    Anyhow, love these reaction vids. It's great revisiting old favorites with you. Keep up the fantastic work, and thanks. :)

  • @knight4iam
    @knight4iam ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome. I normally hate rewatch reactions. But I gotta see if Mrs Movies hits Mr Movies again and says "I can't believe you made me watch this." Lol like she did 2 years ago.

  • @Perfectfun369
    @Perfectfun369 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like the visual of Ash keeping it as a pet

  • @effinjamieTT
    @effinjamieTT ปีที่แล้ว

    First time you’ve appeared in my feed for ages

  • @AxelHjort
    @AxelHjort ปีที่แล้ว

    Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright and Tom Skeritt are the only actors alive today, time passed too fast, but what a great crew of actors all of them.

  • @parker469a
    @parker469a ปีที่แล้ว

    According to some sources you're supposed to be consuming three glass of milk or milk products each day. Low or Non-fat milk can help with acid reflex. I'm guessing why you see it in media is the person is trying to calm their stomach since anxiety can make acid-reflex worse. It's to symbolize that the person may look calm but internally they are very nervous sometimes.

  • @Secondcityreyn
    @Secondcityreyn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Little Movies: *Exists*
    Me: *Applauses*

  • @robocad
    @robocad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You asked about why is there a cat aboard. It is an old, time honored naval tradition/superstition that having a cat on a ship is good luck.

    • @4Kandlez
      @4Kandlez ปีที่แล้ว

      Did the space shuttle have a cat on board?

  • @gordon861
    @gordon861 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Need to get her play Alien Isolation on stream next.

    • @Scottie_S
      @Scottie_S ปีที่แล้ว

      What a great and terrifying game!

  • @todderickson2435
    @todderickson2435 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you please guarantee a surprise adorable toddler cameo in every video from now on? Thank you. 😊

    • @YouMeTheMovies
      @YouMeTheMovies  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wouldn't be a surprise if I could guarantee them 😉