That _is_ wonderful, and I pray she is full of life, still! I'd love to hear what she thinks in retrospect about the idea of Americans becoming "more and more immune to excessive behavior."

❤

and she dont like alien at all

@@ivan4087.. prob look like one now

what is wonderful in this case? Her age? Or her negative views?

In the insect world, Alien would be child's play.

Must have been a pretty badass upbringing when dad is prepping you for fighting acid bleeding aliens. You just know he got to do awesome things like throwing axes and building booby traps.

The same reason I made my son watch The Terminator.

yes son... be prepared... LIBERALS can exist and they will come for you!

Dad sounds like a Republican in 2023. So stupid yet so self assured. Scaring their Children with complete nonsense, Playing Right field but there's no Ball Game, etc.

People say we re getting smarter, but social media is rotting our brains

Yes we were. Disrespect from us was simply not tolerated.

Those days are over

It's amazing that we are now at a point where normality has become something that people consider to be amazing.

Yeah now their spoiled, entitled and uncultured swine

Agreed. 💯👍🏻

It's so true. And I feel the same way about Aliens as well. Both films are masterclasses in film making, of two different yet adjacent genres. I love them both so much.

Still scary

There isn’t too much to the story, but the set designs, art design, and special effects are groundbreaking, just like Star Wars that only came out two years prior. Unlike Star Wars, Alien had really good acting. It still looks modern somehow. The only clue to the film’s age is the cast.

Well It is Just a great movie.

Well said

Minimalism but also remastered

I just had that as a passing thought, then scrolled down and saw this comment.

Videotape picture quality was lower than cinematic quality even when the tape was new, some of the color cinemas by the end 1960s had already excellent quality. And most probably the tape was lying somewhere in archives and deteriorating before it was digitized.

Video look likes it's from 1970s 😂😂

idk, reinforcing false ideas of science, nature, and reality seem more like brainwashing to live in fear, than fun.

that was absolutly the worst possible answer to give. how about "No mem, it's science FICTION."

He must have believed that the moon landing was fake or had a bomb shelter with unlimited supplies of dried food.

I mean, it could be a true story

@@BallparkHunterthe moon landing is fake

Surely you can't be serious.

​@@steriopticon2687Don't call him Shirley 😂😅

​@@steriopticon2687 They're trying to do a funny.

OK, that made me laugh.

​@steriopticon2687 /// 🤔...well if U replace ALIEN with THE EXORCIST 👁 could believe it!!! HELL!!!(???pun intended) I'm still 2 🐔 2 read the BOOK ✔️ it out 1x from library along xago 📚 read maybe the 1st chapter was 2 afraid 😨 2 go further returned it & never ✔️ it out again & i sure as HELL!!!(lol) don't want 2 own a copy and have it laying around my home 4 an over extended length of x, don't want a certain type of SCOTTISH PLAY oops...BOARDGAME(with letters/#s/yes-no) either laying around giving off any sinister visual vibes 😮

It's great that your sister was such an excellent story teller. I had someone describe a film to me I'd never seen in that level of excellent detail. And it was exactly as you said... When I finally saw it, it felt like a rewatch. Cheers!

Oh lol 🙈😄

@@fermatichebellosei1595 Thats right :c In the past there was done much more love to movies, stories, games, books, music etc

your sister is one of the Grey Ones.

The real life in Alien is the company (Weiland Yutani) using the crew of the Nostromo to obtain a dangerous organism for weapons on earth and beyond. History and present day shows that corporations have raped entire countries for their resources using taxpayers lives to kill the populations for resources. I always felt bad for the crew of the ship, and in real life have felt bad for those who fought and died in WARS for bank cartels and multi-national companies.

But he really shoudn't be making more 'adorable' people.

@@PeBoVision 34 years late on the sterilization there Klause.

That's how indoctrination works. Look at the insane news stories that have come out this year about aliens! Did you hear about the situation that allegedly just took place in Peru? The villagers there are convinced they were attacked by aliens, and I'm pretty sure they don't even have a movie theater in their village! 😄 Hollywood has always been there to push the UFO-alien propaganda, and it started well before 1979. Crazy times we're living in. Things were actually pretty quaint in 1979.

Yes! Just this morning, an alien cracked open my ribcage and popped out! The little bugger...

This is in texas. Thats why the "yes mam" and manners

That's the GENX generation (my generation). We saw R rated movies and turned out fine. We aren't snowflakes and we were raised right!

@@pepethepatriot7524 the "R" rating is very different today, don't you think?

@@pepethepatriot7524I raise my children the same way : they watch 80’s cartoons and mangas and already saw Terminator, Last action Hero, jaws and a bunch of action and science fiction movies at the age of 6-10 😅 next one will be John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing”

Yes ma'am they are

Awesome

That wouldve been a sight.

It is straight-out horror. All sense of hope in the audience is intentionally snuffed. Beautifully shot though. But I choose the more rollicking adventure type of space fare like Star Wars or Star Trek any day. Close Encounters of a Third Kind is still one of my all time sci-fi favorites.

@@celestepalm6949Alien is more realistic than close encounters.

@@jamescarter8311 Yes, that's exactly what they want you to think.

its basically a warning about booking cheap holidays where the food prep isnt up to scratch, you could get sick n ruin the holiday for everyone, valuable lesson. 😂

Noooo I wouldn't 😂😂... I bet you would not. ..Poor boy ..you surely didn't expect the hell of a nightmare that screen would throw at you...

You have a nice father.

Didn't you hear the dad in the video? You needed to see this because something like this could happen to you!

​@@MarcillaSmithHa ha ha! 😂

Yeah I remember when I was a kid my parents let me watch Robocop and ever since I was hooked on rated R movies

@@fazum He's been gone a few years now but I realize that he not only loved me, he respected and thought highly of me and he enjoyed my company. And I thought then and still think the same of him. My Dad was a great man.

🤣🤣🤣

Tbh this is probably his first sci fi and people were often new to the special effects back then

I hope never!

there are more stars in the universe then grains of sand on earth. The man is speaking sense! No one knows whats lies hidden and waiting out in the vast abyss of space...

@@Josh-fp2qn Best Comment Ever!

Dumbphones

Well, let's educate our children with more quality horror-sci-fi moviews then!

its cookie cutter movies now. assembly line movie making. real films are going away.@@omnivorous65

For the most part, yes. However that one dad probably won't be joining Mensa anytime soon.

@@omnivorous65 😄

🤣🤣🤣

such a privilege. i envy you.

They probably left horrified. I remember seeing it the first time.

It wasn't a classic then. It was new.

​@@TheListenerCanon it wasn't classic because it was set in 2104

​​@TheListenerCanon I even don't know what is a classic today. In fact, today I even don't know -- no more -- what cinema is to be!!! GRIN Brasil

The kids did.

Yep, those were the good old days when parents could decide for themselves, and it was not the nanny state who told you what was ok and what wasn't.

@@nicomeier8098 Good news for you. Parents can still take minors to R-rated movies.

​@@nicomeier8098well damn when did that change? I rem 21 years ago i went with my friends to an R rated movie. Usually, they just let you in but that time the guy required an adult to accompany. Lucky for everyone, i had just turned 18 so we got to see it.

I watched Aliens in theathre when I was 7 and nobody said anything lol

@@nicomeier8098oh shut up

something tells me you looked back more than you looked ahead.

@@otdosa It didn’t help that my sister was with me trying like hell to make it worse. 😉

The original trailer that didn't show any scenes with the creepy siren-like music and the egg cracking scared the SH!T out of me as a kid. I didn't see it till years after, and _after_ buying the "Book of ALIEN" (the making of) and the Graphic Novel. I now put this as my Top 5 Sci-Fi Films and Top 10 movies of all time. I now own 2 newer making-of books and a few magazines that came out over the years (including the more recent "Making of ALIENS"). All the work that went into this film, conceptual art, special fx, cinematography were all fascinating to a teen that was awaken by Star Wars (1977) and decided to pursue being a concept designer. - This wasn't just a Sci-Fi/Horror Film, it was a piece of Art.

@@mvunit3 well said ! i love all the BTS stuff of alien(s) movies. I like to dable in VFX and film making my self but seeing the makings of the practical stuff that was the way back then and how they approached ideas is very fascinating and motivating

And the trailer voice overs were amazing

Another twat pining over a time that never existed. Movies had leaks, trailers just like today and always spoiled everything (a practice that was industry standard since before the talkies) and not only trailers, many movies spoiled everything in the intro on purpose. Watch old movies and you'll see, the most egregious example that comes to mind is Zorro (1957), Disney used to spoil absolutely EVERYTHING before every short, movie and TV episode. As the saying goes, La distancia no hace moco.

And I watched one video that said that *Predator* and *Alien* were undersold or 'wrongly' marketed as *Predator* subverted expectations as people expected it to be another testosterone filled movie the Schwarzzenegger had to survive and fight for his life and people were hooked like a suspenseful bedtime story with a cliffhanger... *Alien* was supposed to be a sci fi then turned horror and Ripley being a mother figure protecting Newt and willing to go into the depths of hell to save or protect her was captivating like nothing they had seen before that...

It was a better time when people were so much less jaded. Now literally nothing on TV or film can affect us much at all

Sounds like a great experience!

​​@@flutebasket4294I almost wholeheartedly agree with you but to be fair, there were plenty of amazing films that were way ahead of their time and received negative criticism at the time they were received. 1 particular example of this would be John Carpenter's "The Thing". Which many would hail as a cinematic achievement of horror, yet when it was released it nearly ruined John Carpenter's career as it flopped so hard. Audiences at the time were put off by the gore and preferred E.T., another alien genre film released at the same time.

Must have been amazing, people had yet to see anything quite like it and so well done. Nothing like it before and nothing to match or surpass it since!

The most frightening thing I ever saw in a movie was the final scene in the movie Carrie, when the hand reaches out of the ground to grab Carrie’s arm. Completely unexpected, I think I nearly fainted.

Sounds like you want to talk about all the mass shootings. I doubt it, but I'll explain, even though you will likely just blank out and move on. The military was concerned that the American people were hesitant to slaughter other human beings in the world wars. The military solved that problem with the help of Hollywood and psychologists. Mission accomplished. The psychologists were snitching, not being prophetic. Those school / market / mall / church shooters don't hesitate a bit, and really run with those military morals. But being fully honest, the truth is that the idea of running into a school / market / mall / church and killing all of the innocent men, woman, and kids came from the military. What some proof? Military marching song(cadence). Sing a few. "I Went to the Market" I went to the market Where all the families shop I pulled out my Ka-Bar And started to chop To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will I went to the church Where all the families pray I pulled out my machine gun And started to spray To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will. "I Went to the Mall" I went to the mall Where all the ladies shop I pulled out my Ka-Bar And started to chop To the left right left right left right kill Left right left right you know I will I went to the mosque Where the motherfuckers pray I kicked in the door And threw in a grenade I went to the park Where the kiddies like to play I pulled out my SAW And started to spray To the left right left right left ight kill Left right left right you know I will "Napalm Sticks to Kids" We shoot the sick, the young, the lame We do our best to kill and maim Because the kills all count the same Napalm sticks to kids Flyin' low across the trees Pilots doing what they please Droppin’ frags on refugees Napalm sticks to kids It made us feel so good inside When the strong men wept and the women cried But what we really like is the children fried Napalm sticks to kids See that family over there? Watch me get 'em with a pair Blood and guts just everywhere Napalm sticks to kids CIA with guns for hire Montagnards around the fire Napalm makes that fire higher Napalm sticks to kids Children suckin' on a mother’s tit Gooks down in a 50 pit DOW Chemical doesn't give a shit Napalm sticks to kids Attack some kids when you go downtown By throwing some candy on the ground Then grease 'em when they gather 'round Napalm sticks to kids A squad of 'Cong in the grass But all the fighting's long since past Crispy critters in a mass Napalm sticks to kids Loaches out to have a blast Drop some peon, kids en masse Send the remains to the Chief of Staff Napalm sticks to kids Oxcars rollin' down the road Peasants with a heavy load They're all V.C. when the bombs explode Napalm sticks to kids Shootin’ women’s lots of fun Try killin' one that’s pregnant, son You'll get two for the price of one Napalm sticks to kids Flyin' low and feelin' mean See that family by the stream? Drop some napalm, hear ’em scream Napalm sticks to kids. See that gook down on his knees? Launch some flechettes in the breeze Find his arms nailed to the trees Napalm sticks to kids N.V.A. are all hardcore Flechettes nail 'em to the jungle floor Throw them psyops out the door Napalm sticks to kids Eighteen kids in a no-fire zone Books under arms and goin' home Last in line goes home alone Napalm sticks to kids Chuck's in a sampan sittin' in the stern But he don't think his boat will burn Them fuckin' gooks will never learn Napalm sticks to kids See the little kids jump and shout Drop some napalm without a doubt Watch 'em try and put it out Napalm sticks to kids I've been around, some things I've seen But the people who are mighty mean The gooks you kill, they make you clean Napalm sticks to kids. I've only seen it happen twice But both times it was mighty nice Shootin' peasants plantin' rice Napalm sticks to kids Napalm, son, is lots of fun When dropped from a bomb or shot from a gun It gets the gooks when they're on the run Napalm sticks to kids Some people say it's not so neat To watch gooks burnin' in the street But burnin' flesh smells mighty neat Napalm sticks to kids Gooks in the open, makin' hay But I can hear them gunships say "There'll be no Chieu Hois today" Napalm sticks to kids Shoot some civilians where they sit Take some pictures as you split All your life you'll remember it Napalm sticks to kids They'se in good shape for the shape they'se in But they'se no way that they can win With napalm rollin' down their skin Napalm sticks to kids Later made into a song, laughter included. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qp-VrMWKnteqlo0.html

in retrospect "immune" doesn't seem to be the right word. it's tolerant, and not in a good way. numb-like tolerant

Is that a doctor who removes aliens?

​@@d.b.1176Yes.

@@d.b.1176😂

so you grew up to become a faux doctor

how many of those babies came out screeching and running? _

I was on the edge of my seat

I saw THIS when it first opened AND it was not a hit yet! We live in the burbs and we had to drive like a half hour away to see it ! Like STAR WARS ; it had not opened everywhere - at first. Then it was like WILDFIRE . But to be honest with you : NOTHING but NOTHING blew me away as when I had first seen "Dawn of the Dead" that Spring !! OMG - you have no idea - one lady ran out of the theatre and vomited. LOL.

it was crazy, i was 7 years old.. i also watched star wars opening weekend, ET, close encounters of the third kind and many other 80’s classics

@@DjLou82 I was 10 when I saw Aliens in 1988. Still soviet union and at that time, we had what we called 'video saloons' - small room with a tv, a vhs player, and chairs, the first branches of private business. Being a 10yo boy, I didn't realize that these kinds of movies even existed; it was the first non-soviet, or 'allowed' non-soviet movie for me. And... it was a SHOCK! Really... I couldn't sleep for a couple of days.

I saw it Melbourne Australia back then. After getting home after the movie, I was entering my home through a leafy side lane, when a possum up in the tree started hissing at me. I almost passed out in shock. it was an amazing movie

@@jacobgrafstrom1917 if you think people act this nicely to each other nowadays then you better revisit your special ed classes,…it’s not anywhere close, nor would anyone care to be bothered for an interview or even look up from staring at their phone

That’s Texas. You can STILL find people that respectful here believe it or not.

@@jakelee7639 People use their phones to avoid eye contact, or interaction in person.

@@jacobgrafstrom1917most kids nowadays wouldn’t say “yes ma’am” like the kid did in this, so I think there is some falseness to your statement.

@@jacobgrafstrom1917 Dude. We were THERE. We know that people were polite not just during interviews.

I didn't at the time. So much the better.

... and lack of a Mary Sue, woke politics, even though it had a strong woman lead character (progressive for it's time? I don't know.. I just through she kicked ass).. I mean, I wouldn't want to trade with her.. That shit gave me nightmares all throughout my early teens 🤣

Yes, it was insanely progressive for its time. No woman protagonist (hero) ever kicked ass in any movie -- especially alone without the help of men. Women were depicted as victims and damsels in distress. It was pretty effen woke. @@hvanmegen

Very few movies are perfect. Alien is a great & very effective SF horror movie, but #KramerVsKramer won Best Picture that year.

@@jamiejoygattoI assume you are joking or your movie going experience started in 2020.

​@@jamiejoygattothat's not woke just because its a female protagonist. U don't know what woke means. Woke is forced meaningless time consuming bs liberal politics overtaking the plot and scriptwriting. And usually accompanied with hack garbage actors that nobody cares about, usually diverse.. And WITH a horrid hack script. A good movie is not woke. Alien is not woke. EVERYTHING worked and was cohesive to make that masterpiece. Good acting, great actors, great script.

If you grew up in that era in DFW Bobbie was the one to listen to for movie reviews and celebrity interviews.

@@Blink-jt1nb She did ruin the ending for 6th Sense for me by saying everyone would LOVE the twist ending. 10 minutes into I turned to my date who had already seen it and said, “He’s dead isn’t he?”

She’s hot

Thanks for ruining the ending of it for me… : / @@TheJeffro451

@@TheJeffro451 wow you ruined it for your date.

That is adorable, and such a dad moment 😄.

Yeah, parents (especially dads) really know how to build HYPE around a movie, especially non-PG movies.

@@jjrj8568 Right? The same happened with Jaws and Excalibur, hahaha

I bet. It was the first of its kind. I saw Terminator 2 at that age in theaters opening weekend. It blew my mind

I was also 11 when I first saw it in the theater. My friend's older college age sister took us to see it. I loved it but it scared the hell out of me!

Yep, it's a scary movie for sure.

I saw it age 29 and it scared the crap out of me!

Especially the last one has been broken so often and with so disastrous consequences in some cases recently by people who rather believe in fever dreams and gobblygook than facts and science...

@@joergmaass Idk, I think that particular problem was more because people were selfish and they wanted to travel and/or they craved human interaction. Or they simply found it inconvenient. A lot of people understood the reasons for quarantine but thought, "I'm special, these rules don't apply to me."

​@@scotti16apeor because it was bullshit!

@@joergmaass science as a religion makes for a poor religion.

​@SuperSpecies any religion is a poor religion. But luckily science is not one, it is a process.

Definitely creepier for adults. All the rape stuff kind of goes a bit over the kiddies' heads.

Well he IS Superman

He's going to have so much clout at school that it makes the nightmares worth it.

The thing, saturn 13 and alien. I was a preteen digging every scary minute of them!

Sorry, never thought much of that meatball spider. Honestly, the best actors in 'The Thing' were the _dogs._

Shh

That's because most of them were Brits, Shakespeare and all that you know🤗

​@@jamesbomd3503 Apologies but the Bard was not with them in this movie. I blame Kurt Russell mostly. But the kennel scene truly deserves an Oscar.

It creates stronger participation as we use our own fears to paint the canvas. Why I prefer movies like The Others. Suggestion is more powerful than depiction.

Don't ruin the movie for me I haven't seen it yet 😉😅

But your mind fills in the gaps. And everyone has different gaps at those scenes. Definitely an awesome movie.

Ugh. Someone always needs to tell everyone what they saw and heard themselves, on KZfaq.

Spoilers!

She was looking good at 53.

the murder rate was way higher in the 70's so your theory is false.

In space no one can hear you scream...

They were in a movie theater tho

I saw it mid week and the theater was 20% full at most. After a few scenes a lot of the singles viewers there literally got up and moved closer to talk and break the tension. Great movie.

Um it was more fake and controlled back then LmAo

i am sorry you feel that way feelings aren’t facts

Soooo True.

@@kylerstorm9260 Neither is your 2-cent opinion.

Yeah it’s hard to be yourself these days, everyone wants to pretend to be someone else or fit in. We’ve become very conformist.

I worked there too but years later I remember the quality and detail of how that old art deco building was built all the brass everywhere and those doors that probably weigh at least 800 lbs each, its kinda sad compared to modern building's now everything's made to look like quality its all just laminated particleboard, cheap metal dipped in chrome and pre fab doors

I am deeply, deeply envious of all who watched ‘Alien’ in the 70’s on the big screen when first released and had absolutely no idea of what was to come!!!❤

@@zacetto Hard to describe the impact. I'm old, I was an adult when it came out and my friend walked in looking like he'd seen a ghost. I've never forgotten his expression. And even more never forgotten the feeling of watching it myself. The only warning I had was him telling me I had to see it, and the movie poster when I got to the theater. Still gives me shudders thinking about it. :)

​@@zacettoThat's something that is missing in entertainment today, there are no surprises. In the 70s there were no lengthy trailers or leaked videos of upcoming films or music recordings. Everything today is exposed before we get to see or hear it. There's something to be said for the element of surprises.

@@coachafella Roger Ebert described the feeling after seeing Alien as more akin to mind rape. Alien is not a roller-coaster thriller, it is straight horror where all good feelings are sucked out of you.

@@coachafella I envy you so much, buddy. I wish to Hell I could have been there. I would like you to imagine a six year old me, on the U.K. release. My best mate’s dad, came home shaken, describing how a monster burst out of a man’s stomach; upon him telling me, the whole class were transfixed. Cue endless bull5hit stories of how it happened. My brother managed to convince me Kane ate a space plant.

Both are great movies, each with a very good director.

yep, those movies never get old... you can re-watch them over and over and still find little easter eggs hidden.

don't forget Alien 3 - it is an underrated classic, i even like it a slightly bit more than Aliens & it is a good conclusion of the trilogy

@@tiphares2355 yep ,gotta love those guys. It was nice seeing Sigourney Weaver cancel herself in her underwear in the end.

I mean that was still expensive back then im sure

​@@whispersmusic6173not really.

adjust 4 inflation.

That's 16 dollars in 2023. $4 was pretty high for 1979, $3 was typical. It must be a fancy theater in the city.

@@xandror if you apply inflation $4 is not even close to $16 today. Are you living in Venezuela?

Funny that the editor of Alien had just come up fresh from editing *_Watership Down_* a year or so before. That bloody bunny movie is arguably the 'Bambi' for all movie-going generations that came afterward...

@@celestepalm6949 Watership Down is probably my absolute favorite Animated film along with Heavy Metal.

@@chewey3rd Yes, that is one family film that does _not_ talk down to kids. Nature can be as brutal as it is beautiful.

I saw it when I was 9 yrs old. We went in at dusk but most of the time I saw it, it was nightime. Mostly it was at night, mostly.

@@BrucknerMotet Mostly 🤣

I was older when I saw it thought it was cool. The Hammer horror movies are top shelf!

Of course Alien was also influenced by the classic Universal horror pictures of the 30s and 40s too

I always wanted to watch ‘Hammer House of Horror’ when it was first screened on ITV, but was turfed off to bed. I had to ask all the spoiled kids what happened, Monday morning.

corny though they were, the hammer horror dracula films have some of the most iconic moments. that shot of van helsing crossing the candlesticks to make a giant crucifix and backing dracula into the sunlight, and the following turn to ash sequence is just amazing.

​@@gourdguru. I was born in 1968..my dad let me and my brothers stay up in the late 70s and early 80s to watch the BBC horror movie double bill.......I know exactly what you mean....watching Peter cushings van helsing defeat Christopher Lees dracula..was mind blowing...Happy (but scary 😂) memories ...before video and dvd came out

Wouldn't hear that kind of respectful and polite response nowadays.

Wow. That is young. But that's awesome you can say you saw it in theaters.

They were just preparing you for the real world.

@@Druffmaul a real world that is not insignificantly shaped by violence in movies, vicious cycle.

​@@humans.from.earth.Nah, we aren't influenced by movies! That's why all the woke movies flop! Hollyweird really thought people were influenced by movies! Not us!🤷🏿‍♂️👋🏿🫨

Some films become scarier the older you get. When you're that young, it's difficult to understand some of the implications or even remember what is happening scene to scene.

Rock Chalk! I’m curious to see whether Timberlake or Furphy will get more playing time this year.

@@ajpend That’s a tough call. We need shooters, and it appears we’ve got at least two of them.

@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 maybe on occasion, Timberlake could play the 2 and Furphy the 3; then surround them with DuJuan, KJ, and Dickinson or Braun, depending on what you need from the center.

@@ajpend I think we’ll see combinations like that. This appears to be a deep team. I’ve heard great things about Arterio Morris and Elmarko Jackson too. This team will quite possibly have a 9 or even 10 man rotation. I’m really excited to watch Johnny Furphy develop. Hopefully he’ll stay at least two years. I think he may turn into a big time star.

@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 I agree on all that. We’ll see a lot of Arterio and Elmarko.

4 dollars back then was worth about 17 today. If I paid 17 just for a ticket yeah I’d probably stay.

A time for overrpriced tickets, I guess. That is like $16.84 now, more than an evening ticket on a weekend now.

It's like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," where the scalper is selling Van Halen tickets for $20. "Those tickets are only twelve-fifty...."

LOL Bidenflation is real. Speaking of change, its so interesting, in all these old videos you see white people in all the stores and movies and what not, now you rarely see them anymore.

If you made $20k then you were doing really well. It's all a matter of perspective.

Did you know what was coming when Kane started thrashing around and choking on the dinner table? Here's the thing, 'Alien' is a pop culture icon. My generation watched that movie knowing full well where it was going so it's difficult to imagine people who went in blind and were shocked by it, sort of like people who went to see 'The Empire Strikes Back' and were like "He IS his father?! No WAY!!" 😮

Alien isnt nearly as shocking as The Exorcist IMO. To see what they did with / to Reagan again and again is truly traumatizing

“Corporation” lol

Damn straight. Aliens _was_ a good sequel though. Not a common thing. The rest, pretty much meh or flat out garbage. Tbh, with some thought and creativity I think they could make another one now though. 44 years since the masterpiece. Just have to ditch 3, 4, Prometheus and that last junker. Clean slate. Haha

@@danbaumann8273 3 was decent though

Probably did some sort of programming on you.. those movies are not meant for kids. Kids need sleep more than most people. Sad your dad did that to your programming. I speak from the same experience.

(!) ?

So like a great Dad..

@@rodfrancis9160 the fool is lying. 6 years old? If the dad did it he's on his way to hell

@@nocternbemsi5619 nah, he's probly legit. i remember one of my earliest memories from around that time is being fascinated with the "Scary rabbit movie", a 1970's B-movie horror film about giant carnivorous rabbits overtaking a small town, called "Night of the Lepus". real Drive-In movie theater kinda film. my parents let me watch B-Movie shlock that featured giant rabbits chewing through people's jugular veins. i remember seeing "The plague dogs" when i was real little, an animated film about 2 escaped abused laboratory test dogs, that ends with both of them swimming into the ocean trying to reach an island that isn't there, hoping for peace, only to drown.

Right on.

Tbf Jurassic Park isn’t really an R-rated horror movie like Alien was. It’s more of an adventure-thriller.

To this day, if I can't see the bottom of (any body of water), there is a shark with his mouth open waiting for me. Lake, swimming pool, doesn't matter.

I still have trouble taking a cr@p on a toilet to this day…..

Jaws is the scariest movie of all time.

@@redrick8900: Jaws is scariest because the story is based on something that happens in reality, shark attacks. Aliens cheat bursting is just not as frequent.

@@David35687 Alien isn't really that scary. It's just really gross.

WOW! That's sounds amazing!

Wow, that’s fucking crazy

So ridiculous.

did you like it though? 😆

America

Inflation

with inflation tickets cost roughly the same now. Nostalgia is a powerful thing

Man I remember back in the late '80s when I was seven or eight years old probably, some of my friends and I would stay up late watching nightmare on elm Street, Friday the 13th, stuff like that. We loved it. Although I did have trouble going to sleep some nights haha

Did you also torture small animals? Ahh the 70's eh, fun times.

You're lucky. I saw Alien after seeing Spaceballs and I couldn't stop laughing...

Look for and watch the Alien documentary. I believe I watched it here on youtube.

Totally agree . Salem Lot mini series gave me nightmares for weeks after!

I was nine, also. My stepdad took me and my stepbrother (who was a few years older and had already seen it) and a friend of the family. I loved every second of it. My mom had not shielded me from horror, and I loved scary movies. This was a bit more intense than I had experienced (except for maybe Halloween, which I had seen just a few months before), but I was there for it. We saw it in a packed theater. The audience loved it. They screamed and cheered, and it's one of my favorite theater memories.

My Parents wouldn't let me watch Salems Lot but they took me to see Alien. LOL

To be fair, that's about $16 today.

Now it's $40 for a ticket and a small popcorn

@@gator9339 LOL, no, it definitely does not cost that where I live. Half that maybe.

My local theater sells tickets for 5.50 and has screens as big as AMC. It's is great

@@gator9339 It’s $16 where I live

Yes.

Sure is.

now to cleanse(?) yourself with some tik/toks or YT shorts, lol.

They were wholesome before they saw a bunch horror films and the like.

They are both classic in their own way but have very different stylistic tones. Alien is the proper tense horror movie. Aliens, a great roller coaster action movie. It goes to show how well visual effects could be done in-camera before the CGI takeover.

VHS made it better in a weird way though. Almost like you were watching a documentary rather than a movie. I wonder what year was the last time any of us watched a VHS? If we knew that would be the last time we ever had to rewind one LOL.

@@TheMosinCrate Yeah true, I remember it looking pretty grainy and terrible looking (in a good way). But I have to say watching this in 4K on a 65" OLED TV is just magical. Last time I watched a VHS would have been in 2001 I think! Saving Private Ryan from memory. My mate's VCR wouldn't eject any tapes (broken button) so you'd have to hold a cigarette lighter in front of a sensor.

$4 back then is $17 today, so quite a bit of an expenditure for a normal family.

@@YeeLeeHaw yeah, $4 seems expensive for 1979. prices must've JUST jumped with the oil shock.