since NOBODY wrote anything about this im just gonna say it there is no need for a space ship to be aerodynamic

"aerodynamic" in the only place where air has little-to-no impact.

From the Alien’s perspective, this movie is “Die Hard”

The "space cat" is a play on the old naval traditions of having a "ship's cat" partly to control rats, partly as a good luck charm/mascot.

4:00 Our stomachs can hold acid by there being a layer of mucus that regenerates ever 2 weeks, maybe that's how

>aerodynamics in space Good lord.

I love how they spoofed "Alien" in "Spaceballs" by bringing John Hurt back and having him say "Not again!" when the alien bursts from his chest.

I saw this movie when it debuted. I was literally shaking when I left the movie theatre. No movie before or since has done that to me.

Complaining about a spaceship not being aerodynamic even though it flies through space where there is no air and where aerodynamics are pretty much pointless. [DING]

Dude in space making your ship streamlined doesn't make a difference.

Actually, I think the cat on the ship is a tribute or homage to the old tradition that sailors used to have of keeping a cat on the ship to hunt bilge rats and keep food stores preserved longer.

7:31 "aktually" if you listen close to that scene you hear the door opening very quietly while ripley is typing

According to CinemaSins spaceships should look like submarines or airplanes. Because how else would they move through all that air in space? Maybe they should have headlights too, otherwise they won't be able to see where they are going since it's so dark. And a horn in case another ship gets too close.

It should be a sin that the special effects are better then modern day effects.

It's sad to think we've lost more then half of this iconic cast just in the last 5yrs. Holm and Hurt died in 2017 and Kotto and Stanton in 2021 😣

Dont hate on Jonsey! That cat is a national treasure.

I love how most of the comments are people jumping on the aerodynamic 'sin', as if they feel the pressing need to inform the one person that somehow missed all the other comments about it.

Nothing. There is no sin for this film

The level of mastery in every aspect of this film never ceases to astound me. The insane level of realism in everything. The incredible sets alone, its astonishing to think it was made in 1979, its aged so well. No sci fi film before or since has ever really come close to it. The space jockey scene alone. The sense of wonder, mystery and just pure alieness of it. The sets have an organic, lifelike nightmarish quality. The Star Wars franchise by comparison has aged badly and just seems so amateur. Alien is peerless. Even modern sci fi can't hold a candle to it. Take Avatar for example. It just looks ridiculous and cartoonish, with terrible clunky dialogue and dull, uninspiring acting. Prometheus is still painful to talk about... The acting and screenplay in Alien is a masterclass. The cast are just playing average, working people. It's all so believable. There are no loud stereotypes. Even making a cat a part of the crew was a masterstroke not to mention the brilliance of making a woman the hero of the story. The sound and editing is flawless. The pacing of the film, the slow build up, the sheer sense of dread and impending doom, the intelligent , sparing filming of the alien itself, not revealing all until the end. Its hard to describe just how brilliant the score is too. Without a doubt one of the greatest and most terrifying soundtracks ever committed to film and imho Goldsmith's best work. So many aspects came together so perfectly for this film. The amazing level of creativity and originality despite being inspired by so much from the past. The nightmarish, twisted genius mind of the late great H.R Giger. Will we ever truly see a more terrifying alien design? Alien is a landmark of film that truly stands the test of time. TLDR: Alien is a fucking work of art.

"This hallway looks like ribs...I should keep going" lmao

My face when he says the ship isn't streamlined when it's space and there's no air 😂

The cat has the highest authorization on the ship because he's a cat

Just a space cat!? Just a space cat? Jonesy is a survivor just like Ripley! In fact I think they should do a reboot from the cats POV! Maybe Jonesy even aided in the overall survival!

I love this movie, watch it every year on 4/26 (Alien day)... this year I noticed something new. When the facehugger fell on Ripley seemingly on its own, it was not an accident! Ash pushed the already dead alien onto her from the other side. He probably hoped it was still alive. Then he rushed over to pretend to help.

“I don’t know s*it about space” Yes, clearly.

I do recall H.R. Giger designed the face huggers to specifically target the male audience subconsciously. Something about reverse impregnation...

The "Nostromo" the towing vehicle is the ship that could and did land on the planet, it could land on any planet with a surface, the giant automated ore refinery it towed was built in space never to land or enter any atmosphere. The refinery was probably loaded with ore via large ore carrying shuttle crafts. once the the automated refinery is fully loaded it is towed back to Earth or wherever by a vehicle like the "Nostromo,"during the journey the ore is being processed and refined automatically to save time , and when it arrives at that destination you have a fully refined product ready to be unloaded and taken down by the shuttles waiting for it. think of it as a automated unmanned steel factory and refinery in space

For some of us, that first sight of the Nostromo in all its un-aerodynamic glory was the moment we realized we were watching a mature sci-fi film that actually had some basic understanding of how space works. Heck, they even knew that in space no-one could hear you scream ... although Cameron forgot that at the end of Aliens ;)

Apparently that chestburster scene was pretty traumatizing for the actors. They weren't told what the alien would look like or that blood would spray all over the place. The actress who played Lambert genuinely freaked out.

In space , no one can hear cinema sins nitpick.

Jones was the ship's cat Its tradition Keeps the space mice away

"How fired are these people?" Me: "Well, considering property damage, disregard for protocol, endangerment of the crew, failure to retrieve the alien... I'd say the likeliness of them getting their last paycheck is imperceptibly small. Except the cat. The cat did his job impeccably. I didn't see a single rat this whole movie."

Hey man,stop dissing the cat! That cat is one if the most important cats in cinema history. The members of the crew loves their beloved kitty so much they risked their lives to save him. If I was in that situation, I would do the same thing. So don't diss on Jonesey.

4:58 - Actually, there was a deleted scene after the facehugger's acid blood dripping on the floor. In it, the whole crew arrives to check if nothing has happened to Kane due to the acid spill, only to find that nothing has happened to him. However, Ripley takes a look at Kane's X-ray scan and notices a stain on his lungs, which gets dismissed by Ash. Nevertheless, this scene was cut out so as not to ruin the suprise of the chest penetration. And boy, it surely fucking worked! Although yes, that still deserves a sin.

Watch the scene where ripley talks to mother. You can clearly hear the door open as mother explains special order 937.

The fact that he takes off five sins in the beginning was the best part of this video

We were laughing so much because of the cats face when the guy died. He's a cat, he doesn't care

This movie is fantastic but the shots outside the ship during space travel really make you appreciate how a head of it's time Star Wars was 2 years earlier.

Should make a video called 'Everything Wrong With Plan 9 From Outer Space'. I've noticed a couple of things wrong with that movie.

Ships have ALWAYS had cats. There are still rats in the future.

RIP John Hurt :'( This was the first movie I saw him in. We lost a true movie legend.

dunno if they said it in the movie, but I believe in some part of the alien franchise they do acknowledge that the blue field you see over the eggs is keeping them in stasis with presumably technology more advanced than earth's. also aerodynamic? AERO is in the word. and it means air. which isn't in space. cmon man. as far as I'm concerned this movie gets -5 sins just for you sinning that

The scene where Parker sees the alien kill Brett is in the Director's Cut, and so is the scene where Ripley burns Dallas to death to put him out of his misery

A "true" spaceship is never meant to land or take off and does not have to be streamlined. The lunar landing module is an example.

my question has always been how does the face-huger get through the helmet without melting his face off

in all the movies no alien ever, ever dared to mess with a cat

"Why don't you guys just freeze him?" "They ain't no doctors!" Case dismissed.

I'm looking and I'm surprised that the the third and fourth installment of the franchise has yet to receive a well deserved sinnin'. On a personal note; my heart will always belong to the first two entries in this franchise.

4:00 - 40 years and I never realized the floor was made of styrofoam and the "acid" blood was probably just acetone...

The sin for how it isn't streamlined doesn't count because there is no friction in space

It occurs to me that the reason the crew of the Nostromo was picked over, say, a trained military unit might be because their main goal was to trick them into getting it past quarantine. Weyland-Yutani could just pin the whole thing on a crew unprepared for what they were facing. Whereas if they'd sent a highly qualified team of soldiers or whatever, there would be a lot more questions

That about the eggs being there and suddently opening is the entire thing that you didn't seem to understand, the distress call was made to lure humanoids over there and into the basement where the eggs were layed to "sleep' in some icelike fog that you can even see in the video and movie, by entering that place they had activated the entire ship's mechanism to unsleep the eggs...

@9:52 She starts the self destruct sequence then runs for the shuttle. She's stopped because on the last stretch before the shuttle her path is cut off by the alien. So she runs back and attempts to disable the self destruct sequence, which conveniently can't be stopped when the counter's half way expired. (Implying that she has exactly enough time to get back to the shuttle as it should take her to run there). Since it's her last shot regardless of where the alien might be, she runs straight back to the shuttle. The alien was in the hallway in front of the shuttle, and gone missing 5 minutes later. The alien simply walked into it the same way she did. Based on the havoc in the hallway, you could assume its animalistic impulse was to run to where it was calm and quiet and tuck in a corner (a notion subtley introduced by Jonesy the cat), or it was intelligent enough to realize that's where Ripley was headed the first time, or both. tl;dr -- it makes perfect sense within the context of that scene for the alien to be in the shuttle when she arrives.

9:57 - The Alien literally walked onto the escape pod before it took off. It was guarding the escape pod door when Ripley saw it, prompting her to try and turn off the self-destruct system. It crept on board when she wasn't looking and hid until she startled it.

the title should read "Everything wrong with you!"

I can't believe I forgot how awesome Sigourney Weaver is

Clearly the cat was a Flerken. The alien knew it was outmatched.

You have a horror movie called "Alien"? That's offensive! No wonder you keep getting invaded!!

That tail tightening on his neck was an incredible touch in '79. Freaked me the f*** out. 😅

In the novelization, the alien found the ship's food container and that's how it was able to get sustenance to grow larger.

An explanation was given in the comic books (or one of their novelizations). The mission to get the xenomorph was thrown together last-minute. The Company had already deciphered the message and just needed a crew to check things out. There was a mission that was near the area, so they swapped science officers out and added a few directives to the mission profile. They were worried about another firm possibly getting there first, which is why The Company was willing to sacrifice the crew to get the xenomorph. The projected profit of the bio-weapons division would've easily eclipsed the loss of the ship, cargo, and crew.

Why would a ship be aerodynamic when there isn't any air?

(1:05:55) Can water dripping inside a spacecraft ever be a good thing? Brett acts like its a light rain on a warm summer day. Refreshing.

1:58 It was a maritime tradition to have a cat on board to bring good luck to a ship and keep the rats down. so think that's where they got this idea of cat in space.

You guys made a mistake... When Ash opens the door from outside the ship, it's because he has higher level clearance than Ripley. No one on the ship is aware that Ash is a robot, and he is there to ensure that the company's orders are carried out, and to bring back the alien specimen. Crew is expendable. I think Ripley is aware that Ash has a higher clearance than her, but was expecting him to observe the quarantine protocol. That would have contradicted his mission though.

Dude, you're telling me you wouldn't fuck around and investigate mankinds first discovery of an alien ship?? Cmonnnnnn.

also, the cat slept in one of the tubes with one of the crew members, as you see in Aliens, so another sin should be removed. lol

"do these eggs just live forever until a host walks by" yeah, pretty much

lmao im still laughing at how the cat just was looking at that guy getting killed by the alien. he had that "better him than me" look

SPEAKING OF RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. COME ON BRO. GIVE IT TO US. HITCHHIKERS GUIDE.

Ripley repeatedly going back into danger for the cat is one of my favorite bits of characterization in the movie. Is it stupid as fuck on her part? Of course. Is it something most cat lovers would do in this situation? I think I would. It greatly humanizes the character. Nobody acts on cold, calculated logic 100% of the time, especially not in a panic.

I was not prepared for that “do androids dream of electric sheep” reference XD

Complaining about the skin being cut by metal yet it holds acid. Ever heard of your stomach?

I would have went back for the cat.

Heretical tripe! As I've aged this is one of the few films I've never tired of watching again

"Death by rolled up magazine" is a thing in the future, won't ya know?

Even with flaws. This is the best movie of all time. I can't ever get over it or tired of it.

Dude chill out, in space no one hears you sins.

Love that “do androids dream of electric sheep” reference The opposite of an SOS is an OSO

Every time I get a cold and I start coughing I'm always scared that I have a chestburster in me.

People need to realize first that the Nostromo was a towing vessel and the four tower looking thing is the refinery and the payload. The nostromo is actually a quite nice looking ship.

The xenomorph was more intelligent than it let on. It was in the escape pod with Ripley so it could escape too. It must have a sort of adaptability, considering how well it could even hide in the spaceship.

CinemaSins apparently doesn’t know anything about cats. As if you can contain them in a certain part of a living quarters.

When in space, you don't have to worry about aerodynamics because there's no air...

9:12 there's a button called "Yoni" - sanskrit for "Vagina". I'm pretty sure they had lot of fun making this movie.

3:58 their skin doesn't need to be tough, just highly basic to neutralize strong acids inside. {DING}

0:30 Aerodynamics only matter when there’s air; there’s no drag in a vacuum. That’s why it works to have Borg ships (Star Trek) that are literally just massive cubes.

How DARE you question the space cat!

no air in space means no need for aerodynamics...

6:06 Actually it's supposed to have taken at least 3 days, since (if I remember correctly) that's how long it took Cane to make the motion tracking device. Minus one sin.

You do realize the aliens are killing machines (not literally but you get my point) and if you look at what they said in AvP they made them grow really quickly to be able to hunt them down sooner right? So the rapid growth isn't that ridiculous

Watched this film with a friend for the first time last week. Even knowing a couple of the plot twists (the dinner scene, a certain “imposter”) I was holding onto her for dear life for a good while. Terrifying. So exciting though! My first proper horror movie.

'Painful movies afterwards' ? Sure, the third and fourth were....ehh, But Aliens was a fucking masterpiece.

I think the cat is part of the "space is an ocean " theme that is common on every single sci-fi ever. It's common to bring a cat for a long voyage on a ship, so he can catch mice and provide a feeling of homeliness. Is it really that far fetch to think mice will invade a space ship?

4:43 ceiling console was inspired for or reused by "Red Dwarf" :)

A ship's cat is the maritime equivalent of a house spirit. Jonesy has a much greater role in this movie than 99% of fans realize. Notice that he detects the presence of the alien ship right before the away team actually sees it.

Real talk... the cat scene where he just watches the guy get killed is honestly one of the greatest shots of all time... it just.... you just know the cat has no ability to tell people about it, but it sees it all and just... it's such a good and well shot scene.

Aerodynamic space ships? Fucking really?

I love you CinemaSins, but this movie outta be exempt. It’s perfect.

6:26 The extended version.. They came running up just as the alien was taking Brett up the chain