😂😂😂😂lol yeah wat a thing she sed. No account for who came before🤦‍♂️😅

Yeah, J Law really stepped on her dick with that statement.

today we live in a fake work trying to relive something the never lived through. there are so many fakes women trying to PROJECT SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT.

😂😂😂😂 She needs to stop the drugs and drink and wake up! Lol

Jennifer Lawrence is a pathetic joke, haha

He knows his stuff man. Dude is probably a literal genius, love him.

Yeah, the fear felt so real, so primal. There was true panic. Not superheroes going out of their way to fight the monster, but just cargo shippers who want to make it home alive.

Most males are devoid of some fear..real life, not fairy tales.

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Yeah, always took issue with ppl calling it “Ridley Scott’s” Alien, the introduction of Giger, the original script, the whole concept was O’Bannon

Just a little bit of interesting insight here, Giger did some initial designs for the Chestburster which he and Ridley didn't feel satisfied with. Giger once said, no matter what he did it always looked like a deformed turkey or something. So he was really not happy with it. I don't remember who it was but someone suggested at some point to simply use the "orignial" design of the adult creature as base and simply making it smaller.

Yeah, Dan O'Bannon doesn't get nearly as much credit as he deserves, just look at the Alien movies Ridley Scott made without him. From what I remember Scott actually came in pretty late in production and the human side was designed by Moebius (another Jodorowski's Dune alumni). Even his involvement in solid movies like Screamers, Total Recall, Return of the Living Dead, Dead & Buried and Life Force shows he's more than just a fluke.

Did it really happen like that? Because I know that their other artist and set designer (forgotten his name, but he designed the Nostromo and many other practical sets) did an alien design also. It was a great design, artistically, but didn't capture what they were going for. I'm just wondering if it really played out the way you described it. I mean it could very well have, and they still asked their artists to all submit an alien concept design despite already being confident that they would go with H.R. Giger's style of art. I can't even remember whom the final decision fell upon.

@@Aquascape_Dreaming Ron Cobb is the fellow you're thinking of, and yeah his designs for the human tech are some of the best in the history of Sci Fi. I think whether by plan or by accident, having two designers one for the humans and one for the xeno's really paid off .

He loves everything that's GOOD, regardless of genre. His taste is impeccable.

His director credits on Barry are almost all fantastic.

He already is.

His directing on Barry is phenomenal

Barry essentially becomes as unhinged as anything before it and it really was a let down as far as building scenes up only to tear them down with no care other than the exact moment on screen. Surface level, he's a good director. But honestly rewatching anything hader has worked on is a bit like seeing the wires, it's just too played out for a good shot.

I agree. It's so good goes hand in hand seamlessly with the epic terror it helps create

Well said 👏

Yep! So mysterious and unsettling! 💜

The story goes that the music Jerry Goldsmith initially wrote was too uplifting and Ridley Scott rejected it. As they wanted to use some existing music by Goldsmith that they thought was a better fit and Goldsmith wasn’t particularly happy about this. I don’t remember what the eventual outcome was whether he wrote new music as a result of this or they did reuse an older work.

@@nickdinnen4667 ahh ok! Interesting

Aliens is a great popcorn action movie, but the the first Alien is more atmospheric and terrifying. I prefer the first one too.

Aliens is a Kiddy movie joke compared to Alien. Alien has a timeless quality to it whereas aliens looks like the 80s threw up. I’ll never understand it’s hype.

Agreed. Just guessing, but I think the hype for Aliens may have been an attempt to pacify the horror created by the original.

@@allthingsclassicrock I saw Alien in 1980. The hype I've seen has usually gone to the 1st film. The 2nd film is praised, too. It's a good action film.

@@barryschwarz Aliens is a well made movie for sure. I just don’t get why some call it the greatest sequel ever, a masterpiece, etc.

That's quite a mnemonic way to experience it, for sure.

That describes the failure of so many Marvel movies lately, they don't do character development, the characters are just flat, they have no heros journey.

I always felt that was shown best by Alien vs Alien 3. In Alien, you knew every character. You knew people like them, and could relate to them. You'd remember their names at the end of the film. In Alien 3, even though I've seen it probably 10 times, I can barely remember half of them, and couldn't have cared less when they died, since they were just alien fodder. It makes a difference.

I loved seeing how Roger Corman dealt with this in his very low budget horror movies. It takes a lot to make you care about a character and want them to survive but not much at all to make them such terrible characters that you love seeing them get the horrible death they deserve.

This applies to all movies and tv shows.

@@prv2182about to say that, most modern movies have no characterisation.

Jealous of that experience. I was born in '81 and If I could have experienced any movie for the first time, at the time it was first released, I'd pick Alien. I mean seeing it today for the first time would just not be the same, there's been so much stuff since that have been influenced by it, it wouldn't have the same impact, but man, in '79 seeing that shit must have been mind blowing.

I was only 6 at the time. I did see it about 4 years later at age 10 or 11 at an older neighbor kid's house who had it on a reel to reel projector! It was crazy.

Yes, me too! Except I was 15 and we saw it Memorial Day weekend with my mother and my poor 8yo brother lol.. My experience was identical to yours. It was incredibly intense, consciousness expanding, almost spiritual. An experience I will never forget. I am turning 60 soon and it has stayed with me my whole life. It became a part of me.

I sometimes wish I were old enough to have seen movies like Aliens or Star Wars or etc. in theatres. I don't think I've ever seen something I was blown away by. Maybe Mad Max: Fury Road or Bladerunner 2049 but something tells me it isn't the same haha

I was also 13, going on 14, in the summer of '79, and my dad took me to see this amazing film! My mom was NOT at all for him doing this, and even said so. He assured her, the 'R' rating was probably for some language, and not "boobies", or excessive "nudity". She was convinced it was going to be some "shlock" film with lots of nudity! Well, when we got home after this horrifying experience of a movie, she took one look at me, with my hair plastered to my head, white as a ghost, salami stains on my under arms and chest, and looked right at my dad and said, "I KNEW it! I KNEW it!" He assured her, there was no nudity what-so-ever. The bad language was really only a few words, and not even that bad. So she asked him, then why the heck does he look like that? All he could say, at the time, was that this was one VERY scary movie, and one scene in particular, which he tried to explain to her, was what really did it for us.....not to mention the "alien" was nothing like we'd ever seen before! She had that look, like, un huh....and just walked off shaking her head! To this day, I have always loved "Alien", and consider it to be second ONLY to 1971's "The Andromeda Strain", which is my most favorite movie of all-time!

Interesting bit of trivia - they weren't entirely acting. From an old interview the cast did: Sigourney Weaver: All it said in the script was, "This thing emerges." Everyone was wearing raincoats - we should have been a little suspicious. And, oh God, the smell. It was just awful. Ron Shusett (executive producer/ screenwriter): Veronica Cartwright - when the blood hit her, she passed out. I heard from Yaphet Kotto's wife that after that scene he went to his room and wouldn't talk to anybody. Yaphet Kotto: Oh man! It was real, man. We didn't see that coming. We were freaked. The actors were all frightened. And Veronica nutted out.

​@@Blackhoodie85similarly to the audience, even the actors hadn't seen anything like it on screen ever before. I just wonder if that scene had made such a profound impact on them all, that it set the mood for the actors for the rest of the film. It perhaps helped them to appreciate how special a project this was, and they wanted to do it justice.

She was also great in Philip Kaufman's 'Body Snatchers' remake, just a year earlier, with another stellar ensemble cast.

If you’ve seen Halloween they used blue lights shadows to hide Michael Myers; ie the scene at the end with Laurie and you see his face.

Check out Pandorum. I'm sure it's not in the same stratosphere as Alien, but it's still a good time, especially the beginning and the ending. Lots of very, very dark scenes with bright flashlights. Apparently on set his crew was like, "Are you sure you want it _this_ dark?" But _man_ does it look beautiful and have a great blu-ray transfer.

@@Selrisitai I liked it. They really stretched a dime to a dollar with the budget. Plus I’ve been a fan of Ben Foster forever. I’ll watch anything he’s in.

@@micahclawrence Oh. :(

Ridley is a master of lighting. Blade Runner may be the best lit film ever and this is a close 2nd

I also think the facehugger is a terrifying concept. When I watch the scene of them assessing John Hurt with it on his face in the lab, I always feel they are not scared enough 😂 like they are comfortable walking around it when, in theory, it could just jump off Hurt and onto one of them. Just the visual of it is so iconic.

Wow. Same. I watch a lot of horror, but to this day the Alien is the only creature I have nightmares even as an adult. In my nightmare, I'm being stalked. I hear the alien more than I see it. It crawls in vents, or through windows. I can hear the thumping of its footsteps. The dread of waiting and unknowing in my dreams is perfectly incapsulated by Ridley's Alien. A testament to the haunting power of this film.

That's a terrifying dream. The implacable violence you have no hope of outrunning.

It makes sense considering Giger got inspiration from his nightmares. Its a true nightmare creature and its presence in dreams is something that can't truly be replicated on screen. But if you know it from you dreams then then you know it on the screen.

I have had at least 3 dreams that I can remember about Xenomorphs. Every time I am with a group of people and we are armed to fight them but I always know that it was a losing battle. I wake myself up before they get me. The setting is usually in or around ancient structures made of megalithic stone.

Cinematographers and REAL directors with an eye for the bigger picture are what we're really missing... Great directors can do magical things with CGI, there's a reason why ILM is a keystone in the history of cinema regardless of your opinion of the literary quality of the media it produced over the decades. Take the guy who did Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that was all modern RED cams and CGI effects. but it looks wonderful because it's well implemented, whereas The Hobbit uses the same tech of the same era but looks absolutely ridiculous by comparison.

Yeah, like Mac & Me, Solarbabies, and Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. 🤨

They're not tho

@@capndallas4918that’s why he said his list. It’s called an opinion.

@thewalrus8396 no it's a list which isn't to do with him. You need jesus

@@capndallas4918 you are not making sense...

@emillyyelen5169 what is this gang up on the Christian day? I'm right and you know it.

Alien: *jazz hands*

@@DoctorNemmo I never considered Alien might be the one horror sci-fi film to be 100% approved by Bob Fosse. Mind now blown.

At least in the beginning where other humans are shooting at you, not so much. Maybe it gets better?

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The first time you meet the alien in-game is amazing. It's stalking you most of the game. The stuff up to that is a mild tutorial.

Tried playing it in VR once but nope nope, too much

I love that game, so realistic, the first game I ever played where sounds in your environment are heard by the characters in the came. I remember someone walking in on me playing sand aid something and the alien killed me, they didn't believe the game was listening.

@PBRatLord my friend as a kid I saw both Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott and The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter on TV in the 1990s as a kid and Alien (1979) well I would always check the air vents to make sure the Alien wasn't crawling in them and The Thing (1982) winter became not my favorite season anymore after watching The Thing (1982) so I wouldn't go outside for a couple of weeks after watching The Thing (1982) during the cold winter weather only as well:).

Ha, true, yet also it was awesome.

@@TheGeneralDisarray That fight was crazy awesome!

The idea was way off the tone of original movie. But somehow it totally works.

That’s why Aliens is the best action movie lol along with Predator and Mad Max Fury Road.

Honestly I think the only way Cameron could make a followup with a shot at being considered an equal was to take it in a completely different direction--make it a completely different *genre* of movie. The subsequent chapters tried to take it back to one or the other or some mixture and never got the respect. So Alien is probably the greatest SF horror movie, and Aliens is one of the great SF action movies (and two of the other contenders were also made by Cameron).

That scream she let's out

I was taken to Return of the Jedi aged 9. Jabba the Hutt was scary as hell.

15? Just a guess. I'd base it on your kid.

Yeah, I'd give it a couple of years. While his generation is more prepared for weird things, as Hader says, Alien was designed to surprise and frighten viewers, specifically by *not* falling into the usual horror movie cliches. As such, it gets past your expectations and can genuinely scare you in ways you don't expect. As Weremoogle says below, though, you know your kid best. Thirteen at minimum, maybe?

Alien barely beats out Aliens for my all time favorite. I love every second of both.

Yeah, I've thought about that, too... I think a more aggressive move like an attack motion / movement would have been better than "Surprise!!!!!!" hands

me too! jazz hands is what i think everytimr😂

Spaceballs

Same haha

A director’s first few films are always their best

@@Njbear7453 - Not to shit on Cronenberg's first few films, but I don't think they're nearly as good as Videodrome, the Fly, and Dead Ringers. Other apparent counterexamples are Hitchcock, Kieślowski, and Kubrick.

@@fdsfsdfsd1552 I like Rabid, but I understand what you mean; The Brood and Scanners are decent but get boring at times.

@@fdsfsdfsd1552 funny my favorite Kubrick is “The Killing” haha

Wrong. They knew about it. They read the script, were given direction and were on the set as it was all being put together. It’s nonsense to think they had absolutely no clue what was going to happen. The only thing that was a surprise was the amount of fake blood and gore used. They didn’t expect it to violently shoot out at them as much as it did. That’s all.

Like the other guy said this is a bit of an urban legend. They knew what was going to happen. However, Ridley Scott had the pressure increased on the fake blood and none of them expected to get it splattered all over them.

It was still pretty effective on home video I can assure you, lol. When choosing what to see we'd hear 'oh thats a good movie' from friends, but much of the time we rented vids by cover alone because trailers were to be found only before other movies or sometimes on the telly (late night for a horror) so yea - nobody knew what to expect when they put it on. Just that it was a sci fi horror-- probably like a timid Hammer movie. How wrong we were.. I still tease my little bro with how he screamed and hid behind the couch watching Alien, and couldn't even get through the entire movie until he was about 15