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Bill Bowron

Awesome! Love when you watch the classics! Brings back so many memories for me. The chest bursting scene is one of the most iconic horror scenes of all time! Gotta watch Aliens now! I actually liked that one even more than the original. And if you’re interested in watching any more classic 70s movies, Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind are two to definitely see if you haven’t already. Enjoyed watching this one again with you! Take care ✌🏻🙂

Adam Walker

This is awesome thank you so much for choosing this series! Woot! Woot! If you wanted to make a go of it like you did for the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I would recommend watching Aliens-Alien Resurrection then do Predator-The Predator than cap it off with both Alien Vs Predator and Aliens Vs Predator Requiem....I suppose you could include Prometheus and Alien Covenant in the "Alien" Section, but they're not all that necessary.

Jason Dolan

Oh good, you're watching the Director's Cuts... I like that a lot. Hopefully you'll do the same with ALIENS.

Alex Vazquez

Ridley Scott kept the entire cast in the dark about the famous chestbursting scene except for John Hurt. Their reactions were absolutely genuine and mirrored the audience's response! Squeamish Veronica Cartwright got sprayed by fake blood and fell over backward. They only filmed the scene twice. It remains one of the most famous in cinema history. Some answers to your questions: 1. Radio transmissions are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and are not dependent on air molecule movement to be perceived. Therefore, they can be transmitted through the vacuum of space. We've been sending radio transmissions into space and listening for replies for decades as part of SETI. 2. It is a mandate of all space travelers to search for extraterrestrial life. The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence project has been doing it for decades. It's part of the Star Trek's crew mission statement. NASA is always on the lookout for even microscopic life. The sad twist in the Alien franchise is that THE COMPANY (Weyland-Yutani) is an evil corporation looking to exploit or weaponize their find for profit regardless of the negative consequences. 3. This crew is not a group of explorers, scientists or colonists. They're just space truckers hauling rocks. This was a First Contact situation they were wholly unqualified for. Hence, all the bumbling and bad judgment calls. Their chief concerns were company policy and pay inequity. 4. Ripley tried to deactivate the self-destruct sequence because the alien was blocking her way to the escape shuttle. She needed to buy time for it to wander away or to fight through it if necessary. 5. The pacing is deliberately slow at the beginning to acquaint the audience with the ship's geography, to demonstrate authentic looking take-offs, landings and space travel, to familiarize the audience with the crew, to establish the threat posed by the creature and to generate suspense with the mystery of the derelict craft. There's a lot of rich character humor and foreshadowing in those crew interaction scenes as well as a subtext about corporate classism. 6. The giant elephant-headed alien pilot of the derelict spacecraft is one of the great mysteries of the franchise. Was he a zoologist, a biowarfare specialist, an exterminator, a trader in exotic organisms, a waste disposal tech or a trucker like Ripley's crew? No one knows. The prequels attempted to unsatisfyingly answer the question claiming his species designed the alien. The elephant head was just a helmet. 7. I hope you recognized Ian Holm who played Ash as Bilbo Baggins from LOTR! Alien 3 is a divisive film but it's an excellent entry in the series. It's directed by David Fincher and features Charles Dance and Charles Dutton. It's brutal, fast-paced, has some extraordinary scares and concludes Ripley's story nicely. Judge for yourself but definitely DON'T skip it. You can pass on the fourth which is garbage and the prequels which are only good for Michael Fassbender. A good companion science fiction monster movie is Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger which would enable you to see the Alien vs Predator crossovers! The second one, Requiem, is especially lean and mean. Your viewing order would be as follows (special editions wherever applicable): Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Predator, Predator 2 [optional], Predators, Alien vs Predator, Alien vs Predator: Requiem If you want a change of pace and would like a fun space adventure, I recommend John Carter. The best adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars and a prime example of sword-and-planet fiction. Dejah Thoris is a strong female lead and the inspiration for Princess Leia. Hugely underrated film!

Pierce Juston

the company and the robot wanted to the alien life at all costs. In the beginning ripely denied the 3 members to come back in because one was infected. the Robot opened the door anyways and broke the law. The robot was so carless about the quarantine because he wanted to see the full extent of the infection. He was using the crew to see what this alien life could do to them.

Alex Vazquez

As for your not understanding how Parker and Lambert died: Lambert was paralyzed by fear when she saw that horrific Giger-beast. The Swiss artist, H.R. Giger, who designed the xenomorph tapped into insectoid and reptilian features that evoke primal fear. Parker couldn't blast it with the flamethrower because he would have roasted Lambert so he heroically threw himself at the creature to allow her to escape. Unfortunately, for them both, she was too terrified to take advantage of his sacrifice. Parker is the BEST character! He's the blue collar EVERYMAN who just cares about payday and who enjoys deliberately antagonizing his superiors but ends up sacrificing himself for a fellow employee.

Alex Vazquez

The Weyland-Yutani Company is the true villain of the Alien franchise! Ash represents the lengths to which they'll go. The alien itself is just adapting to its environment as an apex predator.

Alex Vazquez

By the way, the reason Ash does that little running-in-place bit was to loosen his mechanical servos in his joints after months of being in stasis.

Kaleb

Great reaction Alyce, I'd recommend Aliens and definitely Alien 3 as I feel it is highly underrated. Avp is also a cool film

Scott Hanafee

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Alex Vazquez

Yes. You have to watch the film in a separate window shrunk down alongside her reaction. Clone Wars is on DisneyPlus. I put my DVD of Alien in the laptop for this one or you can find them on some streaming service.

Sören Höglund

Yay, I finally got a chance to watch this one. Alien is on the short list of my favourite movies of all time, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. And definitely watch Aliens - it's a stone cold classic, and a lot of people prefer it to Alien (I don't, but it's undeniably great). You can stop after the though. There are things to recommend in Alien 3 - it's David Fincher's first movie and even when the movie's not good, he's worth watching. After that though, the only worthwhile bits are in games. (The original AvP1 - not the disastrous remake - AvP2, and Alien Isolation.)

Sören Höglund

Also, if you do watch Aliens, go for the theatrical cut. The director's cut adds one neat sequence, and a lot of flab, flab that in one case critically deflates the suspense it's building.