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Alien FULL LENGTH Movie Reaction

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Wedge

One of my favorite behind the scenes bit of trivia is that the designer of the alien refused to let the actors see it until it was in a scene with them. That was their way of capturing a genuine first reaction to the creature

Nathaniel Castle

awesome sauce! looking forward to watching this with you tonight

Paul Mix

Excellent! One of my favorites! For those wondering, this appears to be the theatrical release.

Wedge

Now that you've watched Alien, you gotta see Aliens! Also...you never saw Jaws? I know what I'm voting for on the next poll!

Andy

One of the trivia/behind the scenese things I like is that when the crew discovers the dead alien with a hole in it's chest, the people in the suits are kids of cast/crew so that the alien engineer would look larger.

Sean

😆"Oh this is the scene [...] wait, I remember there being a lot of white." Instantly, I knew the exact moment that traumatized little Angela. And yes, that was Bilbo.

ButtercupsTrueLove

After "Aliens", the bulk of the later films was uneven in how they were received by the movie-going audience. One interesting development was director Ridley Scott's return to the franchise that began with him, with "Prometheus" (2012) and "Alien:Covenant" (2017) so many years later. The pacing of his later films is different but also his success with so many film genres following "Alien" came a much larger studio budget for visual effects. The "Alien" franchise is fortunate to have its entire catalog of films and TV shows on Hulu. There is some pretty good "Alien"-related stuff that has come out of it more recently. I remember Tom Skerritt for his leading role in TV's "Picket Fences" - an early David E. Kelley production that earned Skerritt an Emmy, and for his role as the commanding officer in "Top Gun". The darkly lit corridors in later scenes as the crew struggles to survives is a contrast to earlier when every room together is well lit. When we think it couldn't become any more claustrophobic, Ripley finds herself in the tight confines of the shuttle with the alien.

Joel Palenychka

I first saw this film when it was released in 1979. I was 13 at the time. My friend and I saw it half a dozen times. It took me that many tries to actually watch the whole thing through. I kept hiding my face during some of the scarier scenes. It still remains one of my scariest memories.

Joel Palenychka

The second film isn't necesarily better but it's a much more action focused film. Alien is suspenseful horror, Aliens is more action horror.

Saga Mackenzie

The fate of Dallas and Brett is covered in a scene that was cut then later inserted back into the directors cut and has since been canonically inserted into Xenomorph XX121's life cycle. Not sure if you want more of an explanation than in case you want to watch the directors cut at some point, but if not the scene's probably on youtube somewhere!

djKENTO

Which cut is this?

Dale Smith

Great reactions as always! Hope you end up watching more of these, they're not all gems but some are really good. The second is my favorite Sci-Fi Horror/action. I'm sure you already have a LOT of movie suggestions and some on a backlog, sorry to add to the pile, would you consider watching Stephen King's The Long Walk? It only just came out on digital and I consider it one of the better King adaptations. I'm sure you already have lot planned out so again I'm sorry for adding to the pile. Either way can't wait to more :)

Nathaniel Castle

Alien is one of the all-time greats. loved this reaction. I think I remember hearing that the actors weren't told that John Hurt was gonna have a fit at the dinner table, so their reaction to him spasming and the blood pack bursting, I believe, is all genuine, just a funny factoid I heard about. The Alien franchise is a fun ride. Aliens is a great movie, and number 3 has really grown on me in my old age

David

I think when you see the white fluid on his forehead it's supposed to be him "bleeding" from some minor damage. Ripley has a bloody nose for no apparent reason, so I think there was supposed to be some violence between them before that point that got left on the cutting room floor.

Geoffrey T. Blackwell

A) You *need* to watch Jaws! B) People seem to like Aliens. I don't get why. Alien is, IMO, far superior. The second one is fine, and worth watching at least for the cultural understanding, but don't get overhyped. You might be let down.

Aaron Duenas

I disagree about Aliens. Alien already set the tone brilliantly, and I think Aliens upped the ante. Even the title alone “Aliens” is an amazing title, because we already know what one can do, but making it plural is beyond terrifying. I understand if someone doesn’t get into it, but to me, it’s one of the best sequels ever

Paul Mix

Ooh, thanks for the reminder (and recommendation) for The Long Walk! It's been on my radar as it's one of my favorite works by him, and I was half-anticipating/half-dreading it as any given King adaptation can be a coin-toss in its quality. Good to hear it's turned out, so looking forward to it!

Paul Mix

Great reaction! Funny you should mention The Thing and watching movies as a kid. The early 80's for me was a VHS-binge of great, classic sci-fi & horror movies a fourth-grader probably shouldn't have watched but loved: The Thing, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Videodrome, The Shining, An American Werewolf in London, and especially Alien. Also funny you should mention Predator… another iconic extraterrestrial and great film series (though much different in tone). While developed independently, the lore between the franchises actually began to overlap in interesting ways (even up to the new Predator movie coming out soon).

Nathan Jasper

If you'd like a full chronology with in-universe dates, I'd be happy to oblige!

Rime Pendragon

I prefer Alien over Aliens myself, but I wouldn't call one movie better over another. But then again I also like Alien 3.

Patrick Waldeck

I JUST finished playing a 3-session long Alien tabletop RPG game yestserday where we played Marines on a planet infested with Xenomorphs...long story short, 2 of us made it out, and I had to sacrifice some good men and a lot of grenades to ensure my survival. We even cured a player's character of an implanted chestburster...before he got torn apart by a pack of Aliens immediately after.

Michael G. Munz

Alien 3 was the first of the franchise I saw. I still remember the theater experience. I rather love that movie, even mostly preferring the theatrical cut. (Mostly because of the dog vs cow question.)

Michael French

When is this going to be on YouTube to the public? I mainly just want to put in the comments quote yes Angela, you were precious if you’re enormous heart is anything to go by”

funnylilgalreacts

I believe Xander is editing it down now so hopefully by the end of the week

Airwolf515

In space, no one can hear you scream.

Airwolf515

About 3 months before the release of Alien: Romulus (sorry Star Trek fans no Romulans here), AMC theater did a special theatrical release of Alien. Since I was born after the release of the movie, I finally got to experience watching it in theater. There was an interesting 30 minute interview/discussion between Ridley Scott and Fede Alvarez, the director of Alien: Romulus. At one point of the conversation, Ridley had to be creative in creating the illusion of the alien spacecraft being enormous with a "film budget that was much smaller than Star Wars." The first trick he did was using his own kids to play the three astronauts when they explored the spacecraft. With the oldest kid being 6 years old (I believe) and using wide angle lens, a 7 feet spacecraft hull would look very tall when placed next to the little kids. The 2nd trick was using a two cameras of making the scale model spaceship to be bigger than it was. I do not know the scale of the model, but Ridley described the cliffs and butte of the landscape where the ship crashed landed of being slightly higher than his knees. He had one camera looking at the scale model ship. A 2nd camera would look through the eye piece of the first camera.

Richard Higgs

If you want a cat from outer space then you should watch the movie The Cat from Outer Space (1978) on Disney, it only got a 6 on IMDB, but it was a movie I really liked as a kid.