Paul Reiser's own mother cheered when Burke was killed by the Alien.

Amelia seems like a grown up Newt. Those facial expressions! You can tell she was really invested in the movie.

"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" "No, have you?"

Game over, man. Game over! - RIP the great Bill Paxton

Amazing to think that Carrie Henn as Newt only acted in this one film, and became a school teacher in later life.

Aliens is, IMHO, the single best military science fiction movie ever made. The actors who played the Marines went through actual marine boot camp.

I met Paul Reiser (Burke) in Liverpool, England when he was filming a movie there *Strange Relations* aka *My beautiful Son* in the early 00's. He was very friendly and down to earth. Of course we talked ALIENS. He said he had a great time on the movie, and that his own mother cheered when he came to his end. And she said *"You deserved that!"* LMAO!! 🤣😂🤣

Now you have seen ALL the Alien movies. Good job! :)

“Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?” "No, Have you?" Best burn in movie history lol

21:19 On the one hand, it's sad to see Amelia being so stressed. On the other hand, it's gratifying to see a KZfaq reactor get so genuinely invested in a movie.

"They mostly come at night,....Mostly" alway's loved that line

The most impressive thing about this movie is there was no CGI. The aliens, including the Queen, were done by practical effects. Amazing!

Amelia and Coby are two of my favorite reactors. They actually think about things. A lot of others just talk through everything and miss half the story.

Ripley gearing up in the elevator is such an an amazing sequence. Truly was an express elevator to hell. Sigourney Weaver should have won the Oscar that year. Such a powerhouse! Side note.. The power loaders were a practical suit. There was a bodybuilder inside the suit. Sigourney stood on the tops of his feet and they worked in tandem to make it move.

James Cameron's The Abyss is a great watch as well. It will really make you feel clostrophoic & unlock a fear you may not have had before.

Not gonna lie, 38 years since I saw it, I still get a wave of goosebumps when Ripley opens the loader's bay door and steps out to fight the Queen My humble opinion: "Get away from her, you BITCH!" Is easily one of the most badass exclamations and moments in movie history

Most intense reaction video of Aliens I have ever seen.

Yep Ellen Riley has been in space in her hypersleep with Jonesy for 57 years. She was very lucky to be found. And her daughter was 66 years old when she passed. And Ripley felt & dealt with a whole lot of emotions especially ptsd. Fun fact: Ripley's daughter picture was her real life mom. ❤

"Leave it to Ripley." You're absolutely goddamn right.

OMG Amelia is a-dor-able. Could watch her do taxes all day. That face, those sighs and gestures!

One of the producers, David GIler, has stated that Alien was the "Haunted House," and Aliens was the "Roller Coaster." Love that analogy! And thank you for watching the Director's Cut. The whole scene about Ripley's daughter was cut from the theatrical, so you don't get that additional motivation for her character to save Newt. You also don't get her and Hicks exchanging first names, a nice tender moment (you never knew her first name until that scene, again cut in the theatrical). And finally, in both versions, at the end when Newt calls Ripley "Mommy..." It gets me every time.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this masterpiece of a film!

Practice effects are the GOAT. I have watched this film scores of times since 1986.

Ripley's scream when Newt gets taken always makes me cry. What a moment.

Ripley is an absolute badass.

When Ripley offered to help by operating the loader, the Sarge and Hicks laughed because they were impressed with her initiative and competence (especially for a civilian). She gained their respect. It's just a little episode, but I always enjoyed it and what it showed about the characters.

They said the planet’s name, LV426. It’s not in our solar system. And that’s why April 26th (4/26) is “Alien day”

The actress who played Newt, Carrie Henn, never acted in another movie, She went on to be a school teacher.

Ripley is a better Battlefield commander. Look how she instantly took charge. She's definitely the leave no man behind type of soldier even though she said she wasn't one.

11:40 The film crew were contacted by construction and freight companies like Caterpillar, wanting to know where they could get some of the power-loader units. It was so realistic the professionals were fooled.

Bill Paxton who plays Hudson was also in the original Terminator and Predator 2. Paxton has been killed by a Terminator, an Alien, and a Predator.😅

First and second Alien films, to me, complete Ripley's arc perfectly. There are no more after this one for me.

Props to H.R Giger. What a fantastically twisted artist!

Your nervous energy is hypnotic. I have never seen someone writhe their hands around, twist, contort and generally look as uncomfortable as you. Do not get me wrong, it is an attribute to have such visceral reactions, however I saw this movie when I was 10 years old when it came out. Movies are a remarkable source of stories that impact you on an emotional level. I appreciate you exposing your fears and recording your angst, it is a breath of fresh air to a jaded mind.

Aliens was a great sequel, I miss Bill Paxton, he was an awesome actor, and it's a shame he's gone. His movie quote still resonates with me..."What the 'F' are we gonna do now"?

There's the prequel trilogy with Prometheus, Alien Covenant and the upcoming Alien Romulus that will be in theatre's August and next year there will even be a series so this universe has exciting places to go.

Aliens along with Terminator 2 are some of the most relentless action movies ever made.

I adore your reaction Amelia! Too wound up in the action to even consider talking, just muttering occasional prayers for them to be okay. ❤ This is the perfect ending to the Alien saga. Everything that steals the name after this is just half-assed money grabs cashing in on the Alien/Aliens name. I went to watch Alien3 but hated it so badly from the start that I walked out barely half an hour into the movie. I've never watched anything else from the extended series, and I suggest that other people should never do so either. That's just my opinion though, and it's worth what you paid for it: nothing. In my mind the canon end to the story was that Hicks fully recovered from his wounds and he and Ripley got married and adopted Newt. Living comfortably off of the huge payout that the company was forced to make, they settled down to focus on being parents and giving Newt the love she needed, and getting it in return. Bishop's memories and personality were put into a new Bishop body and he lived as a butler/valet/friend with his good friends the Hicks family. Michael Biehn as Hicks at least survived this movie, and having him survive was a nice twist on the 'everyone but one person dies' horror movie trope. And the old joke held true: If he doesn't have a mustache he's a good guy. The actress who played Vasquez, the ultimate bad-A marine, Jenette Goldstein, is in three of my top twelve favorite movie series, and sadly she dies in all three. She's still awesome here though. Paxton as Hudson was great. He was scared as crap, but when it was time for action he was right there in the thick of it, doing the best he could, no matter what. From overriding security and opening the doors on first arrival to tapping into the systems to get blueprints of the facility to setting up the perimeter guns to going down fighting and taking as many as he could with him at the end, once he was focused on a job he more than made up for all his whining when scared. The three actors named above, plus Lance Henriksen who played Bishop, were also in the Terminator series. Henriksen played Detective Vukovich, Michael Biehn played Kyle Reese, and Bill Paxton played the leader of the punks who appeared briefly in the opening scene of the first Terminator movie. Jenette Goldstein played John's foster mother in Terminator 2. One of my favorite stories about this movie was told by Paul Reiser who played Carter Burke. He took his mother to the premiere and told her nothing about the movie beforehand. She joined in with the rest of the audience applauding when Burke died, and from an article I read he said that for weeks afterward every time they saw each other when she first saw him she got this look of disgust on her face, this "I can't believe you did that to those people" kind of look. That's what made him really believe that he could be an actor. I really like the extended version because it adds a lot of great backstory early on in the movie about Ripley finding out about her daughter, which makes everything about Newt that much more poignant. And I'm a bitter, jaded old man with no heart or emotions to speak of (or so I'm told), but I still get teary eyed when Newt calls Ripley 'Mommy' at the end. In spite of my past work in computers I'm absolutely a practical FX person, because digital FX are overused and rushed to the point of usually being awful. I am always amazed at the eerie but kinda sickly beautiful work that went into the practical FX for this movie. Not just the aliens themselves, though they are incredible, but all the set dressing, the puppetry/animatronics, makeup and costuming, everything. The queen was basically a super sized puppet, but they did such an amazing job making it look terrifyingly real! The reveal of the queen in the movie was the first time either Sigorney Weaver or Carrie Henn (Ripley and Newt respectively) had seen it, so their stunned reactions are even more real. I have my own Aliens movie story, which I think is amusing: After I graduated high school, I became an advisor for the church youth group I had belonged to before graduating. In 1988, when I was 20, we had a lock-in one fall weekend. The high school youth were allowed to pick movies to rent for the lock in. Aliens was one of the ones chosen. I had kind of seen it before, but it was as background while hanging out with friends, so I didn't know much about it. We started watching it around 11 p.m. All of the adults and most of the teens had gone to sleep in the rooms set aside for that, while a few teens and I started watching Aliens in the High School Sunday School room in the large mostly underground downstairs of the large church. The teens all left and went to sleep before we reached the halfway point, but I was interested so I stayed up and finished the movie. It was now around 1 a.m. All the lights were off because everyone but me was asleep. My last task before I could sleep was to go around the unlocked areas of the downstairs and make sure none of the teens had snuck off to do anything they shouldn't have. So here I am, walking through dark cinder block walled hallways with exposed ductwork overhead, and no lights except for the occasional faint red lights of the "Exit" signs. My heart is beating like a jackhammer as I carefully edge my way through the dark halls, knowing that there are no xenomorphs but still expecting some kind of jump scare that's going to make me lash out and crap myself at the same time. Luckily, everyone was fast asleep and I finished my rounds and went and lay down, but it was probably the least restful sleep I had and the most nervous I had ever been in church.

I heard the lady in the picture as Ripley daughter was actually Sigourney Weaver mom in real life.

Such a joy watching you young people experience this thrilling ride of a movie,..your gasps, your absolute terror, and laughter, and horror, all what we experienced in theater,..and your absolute investment in the characters, and of course your empathy for Newt, poor darlin, giving Ripley the low down of how the aliens mostly come out at night, could tell that just broke your heart, as it did ours, this poor little girl, having that terrible knowledge,..and someone said in the comments that you kinda look like a grown-up version of her, you do!,..and so love the relationship that developed between her and Ripley,..Sigourney got an Oscar nomination for this role, well deserved, and I so was rooting for her to win when I heard she'd been nominated, endearing performance, truly, so loved all the actors, and their characters, the women, all the females in this were badass,..Vasquez was holding it down baby,..you were on the edge of your seat, like we were, and you kept saying how gross, how nasty, girl, I so wanted to tell you, wait,.hmmpf, just wait till you not only see what's laying these eggs, but how they're being dropped,..I was too grossed out, my friend who went with me to see it, she looked like she wanted to puke,..and the sounds, the squishy wet nastiness, and when the face hugger stood up on all those legs, scurrying across the room chasing Ripley down,..like a big spider, just makes your skin crawl,..hmmpf and once again the countdown to oblivion by the computer,..in such an elegant voice, "you have 2 minutes to reach safe minimum distance ", so elegantly telling you, you have 2 minutes to live,..there's a movie, The Andromeda Strain, 1971, and they have an automated computer, giving scientists info, one of the scientists flippantly says the computer voice is so sexy, he wants a meet up, or something to that effect, and the soldier on duty told him to stop the nonsense, that the voice used for the computer was a 62 year old grandmother from I can't remember Iowa,..lol been so long ago, can't remember what state she was supposedly in,..every time I hear these computerized voices I think of that movie, it's funny,..and the fun in Aliens, amid the horror, Hudson I swear has to be the comic relief,..him and Apone, trust, in the theater, the audience was cracking up over him,..and in just the opposite situation, when Ripley and Newt stumble into the, huh birthing chamber, theater was stone cold silent, we were like you just barely breathing, not a sound, edge of our seats, eyes peeled to the screen,..was quite the adventure, just to sit in a theater and watch this movie,..this is a movie you go see, along with the outrageous theater cost, food, tickets, it's worth it,..so very glad you enjoyed, so enjoyed watching it with you, there are 2 more movies with Sigourney Weaver, not as good as this one, it's up to you, I liked the 3rd, knew a lot of the actors, and I did go see it,..Charles Dance from Game of Thrones, Godzilla King of the Monsters, is in it, Brian Glover, from American Werewolf in London is in it,..Charles S. Dutton, the later movies like Promethus, and Alien Covenant are extremely good,..AVP, is good, Aliens face off with Predator, Alien Resurrection, again I knew a lot of the actors, Winona Ryder, Ron Pearlman, from Hellboy, and Dominique Pinon from Amelie, and Michael Wincott, from original The Crow movie,..so enjoyed, Godspeed, Peace ✌

Stan Winston was the master. He made make believe very real. I think this is my favorite Cameron film. Just like the frist movie, no one listens to Ripley and everyone dies. Except the cat, Hicks, Bishop (well half of him anyway), and Newt. They listen to her and survive with extreme PTSD. This movie is an allegory for the Vietnam War.

There is a deleted scene where Ripley is searching for Newt in the hive and she comes across Burke who's still alive and cocooned. He begs her to help him and she just hands him a grenade and keeps walking without a word.

One of the best sequels ever

Hi Amelia!😊 Stan Winston is a legend as a special make-up effects artist!🏆 He is in a small group considered masters in the art. Here are a few things people haven't mentioned about the differences between this edition and the theatrical edition. The whole scene with Newt and her family going out to the derelict ship is only in this edition. There are extended scenes with Ripley and Newt, like when Ripley speaks about her daughter. The scenes with the guns automatically firing in the tunnel when the Aliens attack is added. I believe in the theatrical we just hear the guns. Great reactions to this very well made action sequel, Amelia!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏

looking forward to your reactions. One of my all time favourite films.

I've yet to see a reactor see that Ripley & the Queen had a momentary truce until the egg hatched. Riley's head tilt was her saying "Game over!" 😉

I've seen a lot of Aliens reactions and Amelia looked the absolutely most stressed I've ever seen.

While in a hyper sleep capsule, you do continue to age but at one tenth the normal rate so both Ripley and Jones did age 5.7 years since the events of the original Alien movie. Thanks for watching this all time classic movie!

The planet is the same one the crew in the first movie landed on to investigate the transmission only its 57 yrs later, enjoy the movie Amelia. 😊

I was about 8 years old when my dad let us rent this, probably 1990, it scared the 💩 out of all of us. Its been my favorite for 30yrs, and introduced me to HR Gigers amazing vision.

Great reaction Amelia like always, i love this movie and there are some fun-facts about it. Some of the movie’s most memorable sequences are when we meet the team of marines after they awake from hypersleep. Despite them coming early on in the film, Cameron shot all of these scenes last because he wanted there to be a lot of camaraderie between the marines, and thought this would come across more strongly if the cast had spent the last 14 weeks working together. The cast were also trained by SAS professionals and learned drills, how to handle weapons, and work as a platoon. In the first act, loudmouth marine Hudons (Bill Paxton) asks tough Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein), “Vasquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replies “No, have you?” A funny line, and Cameron took it from a classic Hollywood story about Talulah Bankhead, the 1930s acting icon. A newspaper columnist said to her in an interview, “Have you ever been mistaken for a man?” and she replied, “No, darling. Have you?” One of the most memorable parts of the movie is when android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) performs a trick by moving a sharp knife between the fingers of Hudson’s hand. Lance Henriksen as Bishop performed it at a slow speed, and the footage was sped up. You can tell because if you take notice of Apone, who’s next to Hudson, he’s laughing and his head is moving far more quickly than looks normal. The knife trick scene was actually not in the original script. Cameron had the idea on the set. He discussed it with everybody except Bill Paxton (who plays Hudson) as he wanted to get real surprise and shock from Paxton. Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley is the lynchpin and main lead character from the whole Alien series, but she might not have appeared in Aliens as Weaver was very hesitant about returning at first. She’d already rejected offers from Fox to do Alien sequels, thinking Ripley would be poorly written, and she was rightly proud of Alien and didn’t want to harm its legacy. There is an interesting deleted scene around Burke, Carter Burke is killed towards the end of the movie when he sneaks away during a gunfight, and comes across a lone alien. That’s the last we see of him in the movie but Cameron did shoot a scene (later removed) that tells us what happened to Burke. The scene takes place during the sequence where Ripley visits the alien nest to rescue Newt. She comes across a cocooned Burke and, having been fertilised by a facehugger, he says to her, “I can feel it inside me.” Ripley gives leaves Burke with a grenade and moves on. And the only actor to have enconter a Predator, Terminator & Xenomorph. Bill Paxton is a cult and genre legend; he's one of the few actors to have faced off against all three of these iconic sci-fi killing machines. Keep up the good work.

One of the best sequels ever made and still the best Sci Fi Horror Action movie.

Aliens is one of the Top 3 most perfect sequels ever made. Camerons own T2 is another. Id also go so far as to say that Aliens is the best sci-fi film I've ever seen

Hi Amelia hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

I recently learned that Bill Paxton holds the singularly unique position among actors, as the person to have been killed by a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator.

One of my fave moments was when Vasquez and Gorman decide to suicide to save the others, and Vasquez - who really despised Gorman previously - called him an asshole - but you just knew that at THAT MOMENT, Gorman had finally earned her respect.

Yeah, so the idea behind hypersleep or cryosleep is that the crew sleeps through long voyages, slowing or stopping the ageing process.

Reactor looked terrified lots of deep sighs nervous looks 😂

Idk if you already know this but here's a fun fact for u if you haven't: There is a game in 2014 called 'Alien: Isolation' where we play as Amanda, looking for Ellen. While the ending of the game gives no closure of what happened to her, I felt like this movie already did it. She was rescued, brought back to Earth, got married, and died without ever seeing her mother.

One of the most bad ass and most widely regarded sequels ever made. Aliens is a tour de force backed by an Academy Award nominated performance by Sigourney Weaver.

Nice reaction. Your heavy breathing and body language are fitting for this epic classic.

I always liked the ship design as it mimics the assault rifles used. I'm of the personal belief after Ripley's outburst at the hearing, the company opened the old records and continued with the order previously created during the first film. Conveniently there was a colony on the planet to investigate. When the colony went quiet there would have been a lot of questions from family members, etc. This would have made the news and Ripley was in a position to blow the whistle - so they asked her to go as an advisor. After watching it so many times this idea came to mind and it works for me.

A mother's love for her child is probably the strongest power in the universe and that also applies to mother Alien.

The fact you felt the need to blur the synthetic Bishop torn in half is hilarious.

miniatures, animatronics, human suits, mat paintings .. no cgi. Like we know it.. like that nuke at the end. That's a whole Lotta cotton balls with lighting...

In the video game Alien Isolation you play as Ripley's daughter. It's real good you should check it out.

Very cool that you liked this movie too! I advise you to watch parts 3 and 4 in the director's cut, these films are also interesting. And as for Prometheus (2012), it’s quite a good film to watch (director’s cut). Alien Covenant turned out to be ambiguous, but you can watch it once for reference.

The exoskeleton loaders were specially made for this movie

James Horner wrote the infamous climatic music cue in one night. They were out of time.

18:35 wow having subtitles sure helps....all these years, I thought Hicks was screaming "WHERE'S VASQI?" (like a nickname for the cool girl, Vasquez) over and over, because he thought she was hit or lost, because then she gets up and screams "LET'S ROCK!" so i thought, well, there she is and everyone follows her up and out. Turns out Hicks is screaming for the guy named "Wierzbowski"....over and over....I actually think it is much cooler the way I thought it was. 😎😎😎😎😎😎 So I am just going to incorrectly stay with it....since it is much cooler to hear him scream "WHERE'S VASQI" and then she rocks it....instead of just hearing someone say "Wierzbowski" over and over

I was 12 when this came to cable and I saw it. While I still love the movie to this day, it's one of the few movies to ever give me nightmares, that I still occasionally get every few years...

This epicness remains No1 sequel ever together with T2: Judgment Day. Meanwhile and nowadays we deal with Lego movies and Barbie...

It's nice to forget yourself for a couple of hours and enjoy a first time viewing of one of the most iconic sci-fi action masterpeices ever!

It is incredible to think that this was all physical props and effects (save, maybe electrical arcing) and that it will always sell the terror, regardless the year seen in. We're almost never again going to see dedication to this degree, as they'll just CG everything. (Granted, Star Trek CG'ed the Gorn and it was super convincing.) You wouldn't even know that behind the scenes, those power loader suits were animated by two body builders to make them work. Truly a masterpiece that earns that rare category of the sequel outdoing the original. (Also a masterpiece.)

Awesome reaction! Looked like you were having a panic attack the whole time 😂😂😂

Christopher Golden wrote a great novel called River of Pain -it is about what happened on Hadley's Hope and how the Aliens took it over. Very well written

Speaking of Aliens, watch The Faculty. Besides Robert Patrick (T1000) is in that movie.

Also god, that dropship was the coolest thing in the ENTIRE WORLD to me when I was 11.

I don't know if Amelia plays games at all but it would be fun seeing her play Alien Isolation. It tells the story of what Ripley's daughter was doing while she was in cryosleep. Very tense game and would make for a fun reaction to her playthrough.

You asked about the location of the planet.. I always figured it was in a different Solar system.

The only film where the villain is despatched with a space forklift. ;P

This was a fantastic reaction, your stress levels were palpable. ♥👍👍👍

After the credits end, you can hear....an egg...open

Amelia, I felt bad you were stressing so much watching this. I remember that I was like that when it first came out in theaters (I was a teenager), in fact, everyone in the theater was on edge from what I could tell. Of course, I've seen it many times by now. Great reaction!!

One of the greatest movies ever made.

i thought this poor girl was gonna have a heart attack watching that lol..i remember watching this in 86 at 17 and its still as good today as it was back then.

I love watching reactions to this movie. Such a classic.

"I never got a chance to find out what part of space they're in." The Earth is one of 8 planets circling the sun, which is a star called Sol. We say that this is our solar system. The movies take place on a planet called LV-426 circling a star somewhere in space. There are a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy. LV-426 presumably circles one of the closer ones. I should add for thoroughness that it's possible, for all I know, that instead of LV-426 being a planet circling another star, it might be a moon circling a planet circling another star.

This movie is a masterpiece, atmosphere, action, horror, one of my favourites ❤️💯👍

When they were cutting out the shuttle door at the start of the movie the little harpoon/grappling gun Ripley used on the 1st alien was still at the bottom of the door. I admittedly missed it myself eons ago. I and so many others missed it because the shower of sparks from the cutting commands your attention. Did you notice it?

When it skewered the bot ‘ Bishop ‘ , it probably said : hmmm … that one didn’t taste so good … .

this movie is GOAT on so many levels.

Rip Bill

Great reaction, Thanks.

Masterpiece ever. The best sequel ever. Great

*Alien half way out of her chest* Amelia: "Oh is the Alien inside her?..." O.o

There is an Alien book that explains Ripley's missing 57 years, and there is a cut scene that shows Ripley coming across a cocooned Burke.

Amelia is a grown up Newt.

Three of these actors are also great in "Near Dark." Jenette Goldstein(Vasquez), Lance Henrickson (Bishop), and Bill Paxton(Hudson) all worked together again in that film.

Definitely one of the most beautiful reactors. She seems to have a beautiful mind for the movies.