19:43 I don't think I realised that sound was a Xenomorph hiss, if I noticed it at all. I think I did notice two Xenomorph sounds when Dallas is in the vent, right after he finds the Alien's spit (one that makes Dallas flinch and fire the flamethrower, another right after Lambert says "Oh God. It's moving right towards you!").

Bring back life form, all other priorities…..Rescinded ☠️ CREW EXPENDABLE ☠️

six "foot"? It is not the dark ages anymore, use standard units of measurement.

Ah the joys of finding a new channel worthy of a binge watching session when the house has fallen silent in the evening. Good move leaving the link here👍

@@guderian557 Six foot is fine and stop telling people what to do.

Xenomorphs eat flesh and shed when they grow

@@Spectrefox1313 But what flesh was it eating before it killed Brett? How did it get from Chihuahua-sized to bigger than a man in one day?

Mind blown

DAMN DUDE! They definitely never give any other explanation as to why the ship components start suddenly failing, I think you nailed it!

In the novel it finds the ships food store

I don't think I noticed that it was Ash giving Kane the water until I watched this video and I agree that it does seem out of character. Kane is the only crew member I can think of that Ash APPEARS to care about.

He wanted the Xeno baby to stay hydrated.

Ash knows.

But warns Ripley "No! Not in the corner!" when looking for its remains earlier.

@@uburtono be fair, Ash is the science officer - when do we see other crew mates being sick or injured, and directly under his care? Saying he’s nurturing the alien is a bit of a leap. It’s like saying “the nurses only bring patients water.. the rest of us have to buy it for ourselves from the vending machine.. they must a have a nefarious purpose!”

I think the cast complained about the original scripted dialogue being too geeky and this was never satisfactorily resolved by the writers. Instead the cast used a lot of improv and the results are really grounded and a great fit for the characters and the mockumentary style of the movie.

I can't stand it when some people crap on Alien for the dialogue. Do they prefer the cringy cheesy '80s dialogue from the middle finger follow up Aliens? Come oooooon! The dialogue in Alien feels natural and downplayed, as dialogue in films should be during the down time!

MASH or Altman movies in general. Which Scott was emulating here. (Ask him.)

Lake Artifact...

@@casesoutherland4175 yeah most people actually prefer the 80's cheese of Aliens for some reason. I personnaly find that this movies shits on everything Alien 1 built, and especially the creatures itself, now reduced to just a big ant.

Imagine being conscious and aware of the metamorphosis 😨

Yup very scary!

That scene inspired James Cameron to make Aliens.

@@nicksterj That is accurate. And with an engineering staff of two! I sure hope those guys got a full share

@@versebuchanan512 they’ll get what they’re contracted for, just like everybody else.

@@jekw23 "Yeah but everybody else gets more than us, our time is there time, that's the way they see it. Same old shit man!"

Yup. And the Nostromo isn't s mining vessel. It's a tug.

I always thought of the nostromo as the tractor unit of a lorry/truck and the refinery as the trailer it's been contracted to tow.

Kane. Cain is the villain in RoboCop 2.

​​@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch His name in the film is Kane, but in the Abrahamic bibles, the name is Cain. Cain famously killed his brother Abel, and had children who were evil. Cain himself is often seen as the originator of evil, you can see how this relates to the film and to the line Ash says. That's why OP brought it up and used the spelling of Cain.

@@no-barknoonan1335 Tom NOONAN plays the aforementioned Cain, interestingly 😉

@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch I'm dead, reality be stranger than fiction it seems

@@no-barknoonan1335 How's this for strange: the financial success of Star Wars was the impetus for Fox to make Alien in the first place - look up who directed RoboCop 2... 🤯

I love how you forget to mention how pissed your mom and your cousin were for making them watch such a scary film lol

I was 10 in 1979 so we both grew up in the BEST era for movies ! Alien, Road Warrior, E.T., Star Wars, and so on....

Omg so devious we were never supposed to know he's a robot!

Lambert's death made me cry out of fear, making Alien the only horror film to ever make me do so. The implications of what it was doing to her with its tail was horrifying! I had to pause the movie to get composure! It's moments like that in Alien that make me love it more and make me despise its completely unnecessary follow-ups WAY more. To hell with the Alien follow-ups! None of them are remotely comparable to the original!

Lamberts breathing and sounds implied she was getting raped

​@@casesoutherland4175no movie scene made me cry out in fear

I'm at the shaft scene where Dallas holding a flamethrower with his back against a sealed door. That's the best place to kill the alien since it only can run toward Dallas facing. Lambert should tell Dallas to go back up the stairs once she picked up the alien signal and held his position, but she panicked and told Dallas to move causing him to climb down the stairs where he meet face to face with a loud screeching Alien. What's the point of running when you're out there to kill the alien? Lambert causes Dallas to die.

Bilbo

No one can beat a British actor. NO ONE.

@@tiffsaver we have our share of rubbish actors. One Mr Danny Dyer comes to mind

@@jekw23 Danny WHO??

@@tiffsaver Dyer. He’s an (I use the term loosely) actor. Check him out…..or better yet don’t. We have a lot of good actors and a good number of rubbish ones.

I'm not sure if Ian knew this, but serial killers blink much less often than most humans. An unblinking human can be unnerving, like a wild animal that stalks it's prey. I heard Anthony Hopkins talk about this in an interview when he was prepping to play Hannibal Lector the first time.

I've looked and looked, are you sure?

The alien walking past the shuttle windows? There's no such scene.

@@johnnichols8553 Watch it again, when she goes back to turn the cooling unit back on, there's a two second external shot of the shuttle, and you can just see a figure moving off to the right of the window. Blink and you'll miss it.

hi, yes it is a unique movie and what i would call an intelligent and realistic looking film which has some great surprises throughout the story.

They had the same happy accident as Jaws. They had problems with the alien suit (Jaws had problems with the mechanical shark). So they were forced to reduce its time on camera. And in both movies that had the effect of heightening the tension, since you never really got a good look at what they were up against (until the very end). It's now a staple of horror movies. This was also one of the early grungy, realistic, dystopian sci-fi films (which culminated with Blade Runner). In contrast to the more sterile, idealistic universes portrayed in Star Trek and Star Wars. That helps it age better since you're not expecting everything to be perfect in "the future." (Star Wars tries to hang the lampshade by saying the ship sucks, but never actually shows why it sucks. So to our eyes it might as well be a perfect.)

Just watched it tonight. Looks fantastic still.

​@@solandri69constrains create creativity.

FILMS ENDING IN 2023 ACCORDING TO SCRIPT: "But then everyone is suddenly run over by a truck. THE END".

The Thing remake comes a very close second in my opinion.

@@MrChippiechappie a rare example of a remake that is better than the original.

@@MrChippiechappie John Carpenter's The Thing is my favorite movie of all time and its for all the same reasons the first Alien film is my favorite in its own franchise. The characters are just normal people doing their job when something extraordinary happens. The reason I like The Thing better is because the enemy isnt a giant standalone monster. It could be any person in that base at any time. It takes all that tension you felt in Alien and cranks it up to 11. In the Alien franchise the number one priority of the protagonists is preventing the xenomorph from getting to Earth where it could quickly overrun the entire population. In The Thing the stakes are much higher because that worst-case scenario has already occurred. It's here and it has to be stopped at all costs. Plus I love the ending that resolves literally nothing.

@@brucewayne7838 Are you fucking kidding? Rofl kids these days

​@@brucewayne7838I would have agreed with you last year, but I watched both the 1951 original and the 1982 remake back-to-back. Although both are very different, both are great in their own ways! The original has better pacing and funnier characters, while the remake has better effects and scarier moments!

Holy shit Someone else who thinks like me I actually think that’s the best and scariest death in the whole film for that reason

i thought it sounded funny

@@neglectfulsausage7689 🤣🤣huglokglokok **choking sounds

@@cyrusvail yas

Gaeeee

Great points you made. I think Parker just liked women, and a great guy to have around in critical situations. When Kane was convulsing before the alien erupted from his chest, Parker was right there to help assist Kane. When Ash was trying to murder Ripley, Parker flew into his ass.

It still actually works that way to a degree. Any lone xenomorph can morph into a queen and lay eggs. Also the ovomorph thing has been used in comics and novels multiple times so it's not like it was removed from the canon. Basically it can all be handwaved away as the xenomorph being designed to survive and spread whatever it takes.

@@xKinjax yea but when the regular alien turns into the queen alien, and he wants to make some more aliens eggs, then where does he get the come from? he will need some alien come to make a baby? maybe he just makes some his own come while still a regular dude alien, and saves it , then when he turn into the queen version of a alien, that’s when he put the come inside his brand new queen alien ovaries and then maybe THAT turn into new alien baby egg? not sure..

@@AwesometownUSA you're thinking about this all wrong. The eggs are just a part of the reproduction cycle. The facehugger that grows inside them would be the equivalent of a sperm and the victim, be it humans or any random animal they can catch are the ovaries. The queen doesn't need anyone to fertilize anything. Technically she doesn't even need drones to bring her new prey. This wasn't really something they had to delve into in the movies but In books and videogames it was shown that all that is required for a massive infestation is a single queen that can hide and lay eggs. If there is prey around the facehuggers will get out of the eggs and go look for it. You need to keep in mind that the process doesn't need to work like life works in our world. These aren't creatures that evolved, they're creatures specifically bioengineered to spread easily and kill on a massive scale.

All aliens have the ability to molt into a queen

@@thedarthflagger Not according to the "assembly cut" of Alien 3! In one of the extra scenes they find a dead "Queen" facehugger that looks different than a regular one.

There was a TV shopping channel I Norway, this was the early to mid 90s where they sold the vhs trilogy, and to advertise the box they showed the chestburster scene.. Several times, during the day, with just a warning that the scene was graphic 😂 I was probably somewhere around between 5-8 when this aired.. So for a long time all I knew about the alien movies was that scene

I had a model of the Alien when I was about 10 but my brother broke it...around 1980?...and had the Alan Dean Foster book taken off me by the teacher when I was In junior school, I hadn't seen the film then and I was kinda disappointed the Alien didn't get its arm chopped off, only for it to regrow, like it did in the book....ha ha I can't believe I can rember that , its 40 odd yrs ago....its possibly my favourite film, it was so groundbreaking and I loved science-fiction and horror

@@davedennison7386 WAS your book returned? I certainly hope so.

@rjampiolo32 ha ha, yeah, I did, I think it was at the end of the week?

I was 10 years old when my Dad takes me and my 13 year old Sister to a drive in triple feature in the summer of 1979. 1st movie- Helter Skelter The Manson Murders. 2nd movie- George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. 3rd movie - Alien. In the back of a station wagon - EVERYONE can hear you scream. Lol

The video games (and to a limited extent, the Dark Horse comics) addressed this; a lone Alien, under the right circumstances, will morph into a Queen if separated from its Hive. Once a suitable habitat and source of sustenance has been located, she will begin laying eggs and establish a Hive of her own

That's kind of like situation in Jurassic Park. Scientists didn't have complete DNA, so used frog's DNA fill in gaps genetic code. They thought if produced only females the Reptiles couldn't reproduce forget that some species have male/female reproductive systems.

The original screenplay for Alien mentioned spores several times. Scott eventually used this in his sequels.

No, simply no.

one two ash is coming for you three four better lock the door

@@christophersayrs907 one two ash is coming for you three four better lock the door

There are so many times throughout the movies where the xenomorphs just kill people when there are eggs nearby and it annoys the hell out of me, like what is the rhyme and reason

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People be sleeping on the Prometheus Trilogy tho, sucks we aren’t getting that third movie.

@@patrickk___ Covenant is OK But Prometheus is good.

@@louisberry4403 yeah I feel the same way but I still would’ve liked for them to end the trilogy with the third movie. I’m glad we’re at least getting a new Alien Movie going to Hulu.

@@patrickk___ Yeah. Hope the new captures of the magic of the first 2.

You lucky f*ck!

Sure…

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The opening scene, reflected in the helmet on the crews workstation, shows the computer picking up the signal, and bringing the ship to life. Mother's programmed to do that should certain situations occur.

I've thought about that: it's also the last physical remains of the Nostromo crew and the xenomorph encounter!

The on screen soundtrack is great sleep music

Look what ash does when the alien bursts out, he has his arm and smashes it down brutally on the table, at the same time the alien is Born. Ash is its birthmother. He just nails his crewmate to the cross. In deleted scenes Dallas asks ash during the Cramps what they should do, uterly weak and helpless. Ash just says "HOLD HIM DOWn!" Just after Kane eats his last supper, there is a faint alien scream on the soundtrack. So, it is coming out of the Embryo inside him, and from this little scream on kane is DEAD.

Subtle Insights

I want to know how Ash knew what was going to happen to Kane.

I caught that, as well.

​@@SalveRegina8Because he saw the embryo growing inside Kane and saw the burst chest from the space jockey. He probably put two and two together.

Yes, Nostromo even disconnects from the rafinery in order to land on the planet. Thought it was clear for everyone.

@@VRGamercz Its not the first time the refinery tug has been labelled the actual Nostromo, on this vid and a couple of others

@@kanedaku Guess it was not clear to everyone after all :D

It's not a mining rig, it's a refinery, a blast furnace station. They are carrying a mobile smelter / blast furnace with x millions tons of ore to be refined automatically.

@@Xingmey Yeh, I misnamed it.

Got that coming In our upcoming aliens breakdown, really excited to talk about the movie

Can't beat a bit of Conrad, it has to be said.

Well said hence why Jonesy spent so much hiding from the Alien as his heightened awareness helped keep him alive.

I think the fact that they are space truckers helps explain the fact that they don’t cope very well with the alien. After all, they’re not professional, soldiers, or officers of the law

Exactly, even this remote little reminder of my work environment puts me in the right state of anxiety to start off the movie

@@brycesuderow3576 Right. They're not marines...I don't think there's one single weapon on board. They have to make do with makeshift cattle prods and other improvised stuff. They are completely out of their ....wochuma call it.....DEPTH (my brain is frazzed! no sleep...)

what do you mean, its "underrated". Alien is officially rated as one of the greatest movies of all cinema history. Ye...they're all more or less completely identifiable as fellow next-door-types. Makes it easier to live (and die) through their senses. Great typecasting. Weaver is exquisite with her balance of vulnerability and enormous courage. Lucky someone saw sense and switched her from "Lambert" to "Ripley" during typecasting otherwise we would have got a crybaby Ripley pooing her pants at every turn of the ship's corridors instead of a six foot plus kick ass Amazonian heroine...

Yep they really dropped the ball on every Aliens since then. Aliens is not only the best "Alien" film, it is probably the best sequel of all time.

"...because, at the time, I knew none of the actors... " Weaver had already appeared in a number of films before "Alien." I was very familiar with her and I think the audience was too..

@@Gertyutz I was only 15 at the time and I had never seen any of her movies until then.

​@@robertmaybeth3434 I agree. Aliens and Terminator 2 are the best movie sequels of all time. It's probably not a coincidence that both were directed by James Cameron.

@@luisdireito Terminator 2, pretty much although compared to "ALIENS" the level of Cameron's mastery is a bit less in this one and suffers a bit in comparison to Cameron's master-work. "Aliens" is amazing and full of astounding surprises to the very end, perfectly paced, with masterful use of every story element there is. The exquisite attention which Cameron lavished on every element from sets to story to choice of actors, and Cameron's complete mastery of every detail in this movie shows him at the high water mark of his sheer genius in film-making, at least for "Aliens". Probably why nobody has made an Alien sequel nearly as good, and why 40 years, and 5 lack-luster films later they all look like cheap satires of what they ought to be...

I agree. Imo it goes against the idea if one of themselves sacrificing itself to seed earth way back when. Are they benevolent/curiosity driven creators or psychotic barbarians fighting anything they see? But I guess maybe that's our fault for assuming they're all the same. Maybe there's different factions and moralities between them.

I think the Engineer in Prometheus was supposed to be a soldier of some sort,@@benwilliams3539? But that still implies that a nontrivial polity of Engineers were in favour of committing genocide against their creations.

Even though they weren't in any scenes with it and saw Space Jockey exactly the same way we did?

I am proud to say that I have never seen Prometheus or Alien Covenant and that I never will. Just like the three Alien sequels, they're all about making money and ruining the mystery and suspense of the first film to cash in big.

@@casesoutherland4175 Almost everybody that saw those two movies was hoping that SOMEHOW Ridley Scoot might recapture the excellence of the first two masterpiece movies, only to be doomed to complete disappointment by the final product, AGAIN, which was why when they were released I had no excitement... sadly, my being disappointed in advance was justified

It blew my mind when I saw it the first time. It is the only movie I’ve ever seen that left my stomach tied in knots after I left the theater. I really think Ridley Scott is under appreciated. It’s too bad Tod Browning and James Whale didn’t live to see how far Ridley Scott was able to take the genre they pioneered. The special effects and story are really standing the test of time, that’s for sure. 28:54

How did it change u?

Thanks, I’ve loved going back through em so I appreciate the comment, hope you have a good weekend

Great trio of creepy flicks!

The thing is still amazing.

Literally my top three horror movies and I like horror movies..

Those 3 and Road Warrior! All 1979-1982

I think you'll find, Leland Gaunt is not a man at all.

We are in a world where space travel for commercial reasons has become common place. The crew are like the crew of a modern cargo vessel. Perhaps waited more towards the Officer class, but the grease monkeys in the engine rooms, are a familiar type, and realistic in terms of real human beings, which is one of the reasons why the film works.

I've also watched this (and Aliens) ad nauseum, and I had never noticed the A, B, C, D android thing either! Or the alien hissing at Brett as he lets the water drip on his face. Dunno how I missed that...

Just ignore W for Walter in Covenant 😉

@@pneumaz They broke the pattern 😔

@@pneumaz The 3 producers in the original Alien film were David Giler, Walter Hill and Gordon Carroll. So if there is a 3rd prequel expect the android to be called Gordon.

But his name is Walter in Covenant

I can't believe I found someone else that has seen Event Horizon! It's horrifying.

@@adopequeenatyrantkingaboss8057 It’s probably in my top 5 horror movies ever. Own 2 copies of it on Blu-Ray: Scream Factory release with every special feature I could want (except the cut scenes that few outside of the editing team have seen) & the 4K Steelbook that was limited issue last year.

Back when spoilers were rare the chest buster scene was mind- blowing.

Everyone’s seen Event Horizon man. While it’s not terrible I don’t think it holds a candle to Alien. Look how many sequels Alien had: the monster is so unique and visceral that everyone has such a primal reaction. It’s an incredible work of imagination. Event Horizon was kinda freaky till we find out it’s the ship itself harboring a portal to hell if you will. Meh.

Event horizon is Hellraiser in space

That would explain why they _all_ went down. I always hated that. Thanks.

That is explained right at the beginning of the film, and actually shown in detail in the actual film.

I'm sure if you wandered around a modern cargo vessel, below decks, engine room, kitchens, you'd come across lots of humid conditions, steamy places, damp corners. Crew comfort is not the highest priority on commercial vessels, functionality and profit is.

I wish people did this in 2020 instead of running off to roll up their sleeves!?!?

"Learn to think for yourselves" too often morphs into "embrace the info that reinforces your current beliefs, ignore or belittle the rest." Might as well be, "I've got access to the internet now and I'll get my own answers." Except there's a thousand different answers and 990 of them are dead wrong. And those are the ones that get the most attention because there are so many of them. Was Ripley thinking for herself or was she relying on Mother's thinking? Maybe the most important thing is to determine which sources to trust and which not to. Ripley's eventual solution was the same as Monty Python's King Arthur: "Run away!"

​@@cgbleak well said

If you scour around YT you may find the RM scene.....it burns through a bunch of floors before becoming inert.

Started watching "The Intruder Within" (1981) on KZfaq, which is a Basically; ALIEN on an Oil Rig TV Movie.

Pls the first Scream movie.

Grandads are the best, mine you to do that, saw Legend when I was about 6 cause he recorded it for me..... and then saved all the dairy milk sweets from a tin of Roses cause he knew they were the only ones I ate then.... best day ever!

Definitely one of the best ever Sci fi films are you a fan of Alien 3.

It really fills my pants every time to see a new video from you. I wish you good fortune with your legal battles. Let me know what size jean shorts you wear and I'll hook you up with a fresh pair son.

Hell yea. Still are … probably cause they seem TOTALLY plausible.

Same, add in The Thing. Those transformations still hold up today.

Predator had us running around in camo face paint and stuff lol. Aliens was scary.

​@@chrisprysok7634, Same As Commando lol

You'd almost have to have been raised on a steady diet of 1970's movie and TV productions to not feel it was "boring". Because aside from Star Wars and a couple other movies (Apocalypse Now) the 1970's was not a great time for movies. And along comes Alien at decade's end with cinematography and story telling done a way we've never seen it before. To a modern audience, raised on a million different movies of wildly varying quality and with instant audience pay-off scenes, I get why they'd think it was "boring".

"Why didn't it translate the message as a warning if she could do it so quickly?" It originally was. Mother was hacked / directed to a false response by the Company to report the message when detected as a garbled distress call so the Nostromo would get diverted from its original flight path back to Earth. Think Google Translate: if enough people "correct" a translation to the same wrong thing, that's what it will return. Ripley ran the translation program herself and only got as far as realising it was a warning. She was interrupted before the whole of it was translated by the return of face-hugged Kane, Dallas and Lambert. In the novel, there is more about this: Ash knows the content of the warning and reveals that it was detailed and specific about the threat the Xenomorph represented. This explains his impassive manner when things go sideways as he _knows_ what is going to happen and wants to see it for himself, also knowing he is not going to be targeted by it so long as he doesn't interact with it. "When the alien is "born" he holds Parker back from stabbing it immediately" Yeah, well, after the tiny squirt of blood from the face-hugger burned through three decks, stopping someone about to stab something also likely to compromise the hull integrity when you're travelling at supra-light speed is naturally precautionary. "The scanners he makes for the crew to track the alien often malfunction" He knocked them up quickly from stuff lying around. You make a perfectly working scanner that detects micro variations in atmospheric density out of spare parts in an hour, complete with a screen and distance meter. Then make another one. If anything, he would have preferred they didn't malfunction as he knew the whole idea of running at the thing with just a flamethrower was suicide, and the quicker they are all dead, the quicker he can fulfil his mission and get back to Earth. As it was, that was an engineering feat only matched by Tony Stark being able to secretly build a flying metal suit out of scrap in the middle of the desert while being held prisoner.

Kane just acts like an idiot ) And the breakfast scene itself is the most stupid moment since the captain put his head in the egg. No quarantine, no worries, even Kane

Child abuse.....? 😂

We time travelling right now

But why does it make me nervous? It feels like a curtain call.

Would you say you love them, very much?

If you read the screen text at the beginning @ 03:35 people are told the nostromo is a towing vehicle - guess people dont read lol

The creature would lay eggs, which when hatched, the face huggers would lay their parasite in the cemented in crew, to realise more aliens, and essential for survival.

Concur, who wouldn't? Also it is the only example I know, of the sequel film actually topping the original.

Yeah such a good game

nyes

I think you have to be British to understand. He is a posh boy, public school educated, but gone down in the world through some bad choices made as a young man, and serving as first officer on a tug boat is rock bottom for him. the traits you notice are the reflexes of his class

What if he gets arrested and put on some kind of offender list? Do you think he'll be anle to maintain consistency of quality as a registered sex offender or is it imortant that he remains an unregistered offender?

They are doing an amazing job revisiting these classics. Every one has been awesome so far and I love all the choices!!

Gonna do Aliens and then probably jump onto another franchise so might put Contact on the list, got a lot of requests after interstellar

@@heavyspoilers awesome! There wouldn’t be an Interstellar without Contact. Love your videos Paul and team. You and Grace are my absolute favs in the space.

@@hollywooda111 Nope, that occurs much earlier in the film. The deleted airlock sequence was meant to happen right before Ripley discovers the truth about Ash, hence her nosebleed from the brief de-pressurisation.

oh yes. That scene is what lifts the movie from mere texas chainsaw massacre in space to a bona fide sci fi classic. NO ONE can watch the crew checking out that thing that's "been dead for a long time" along with that eerie music, and not wonder for at least a moment on the story behind it. Too bad they blew that narrative all to pieces in "Covenant".