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[@andrewhelmer6853]

Sigourney Weaver actually made that one handed basketball throw .

[@brucewilson5829]

First try too

[@brucewilson5829]

Pearlmans reaction was genuinely shocked from the shot too lol

[@tylerfoster6267]

@@brucewilson5829 Don't know if it's in this full length but while it was claimed to be the first try, it actually took many tries. But she had the clout to use the time to get it right!

[@awesimo4684]

@@brucewilson5829 I heard the director gave her X goes to do it, can't remember how many X was, and she made it on attempt X. I remember that X wasn't that many, like 5 or something.

[@danielkinn782]

Yup! First try. Everyone's reaction is genuine. She's a bad ass

[@sanayatau]

About Sigourney Weaver coming back just for the money, I'm reminded about what Michael Caine said about Jaws: the Revenge, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

[@earnestmb2]

Not just the money. Weaver heard Fox was developing AvP and thought it sounded awful so she came back to stop it.

[@zxbc1]

I think this movie did Alien series some justice, it would have been fine with this being the final piece. It's still more Alien than all the sequels after this. And Romulus was just really sad and features a much worse and sillier "final boss". This one is just, as some said already, a "French take" on the Alien series. Maybe I'm just too much a fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

[@politicalmoderate190]

"The first movie was a horror movie. The second was an action. The third was a thriller; what's the fourth?" French. The fourth one was French.

[@agyagasztal]

It's definitely the movie that you can imagine when hearing "Alien, but Jean-Pierre Jeunet" Like, what else did they expect to receive?

[@politicalmoderate190]

@@agyagasztal the best part of French cinema: even if you know it's French and using established IP, you never know what it's going to be.

[@user-lz5vh9bb5w]

The fourth would be a joke.

[@newfate26]

​@@user-lz5vh9bb5wWhedon has gone on record saying that the original script was meant as a comedy. It explains a lot about the film when you know that the director stated he doesn't "get" horror as a genre. Makes me wonder why he was hired in the first place for this project specifically.

[@frenchie_leguminati]

At least in France, we know answering to the question : What is a woman, what is a man ? lol

[@80Jay71]

"He's got a great voice!" Yeah... Give him a full mane and you'll remember him from "The Crow" and "Nope".

[@blackraven85_1]

Exactly. I was about to say the same thing

[@HistoritorJimaldus]

And Prince of Thieves (Guy of Gisbourne)

[@80Jay71]

@@HistoritorJimaldus Never seen it. Good?

[@scorp77snake]

@80Jay71 Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is one of those you'll love it or hate it films.

[@80Jay71]

@@HistoritorJimaldus Btw, In Howard Pyle's "Robin Hood" Guy from Guisborne is the second person Robin kills, and after more than 25 years of lamenting the first one he is not sorry to have rid the british isles of that creature. (His own words). Just one chapter in the whole story, but it led to the all out war between the Sheriff, King John and Robin's men where they all suffered)

[@alanhilton7336caradventure]

Simone's reaction to the alien getting sucked through the hole in the window was absolutely priceless.

[@80Jay71]

There's so much wrong in that sentence! ;)

[@Alvaro89Rus]

Yeah, text book example "it's so gross it became hilarious" effect.)

[@alanhilton7336caradventure]

@@80Jay71 🤣😂👍

[@clarkness77]

Cant help but watch her reaction more than his. She's just better for it imo

[@marquiscarr3114]

@@80Jay71😂😂

[@gabedamien]

Simone cackling "TOO MUCH MAN, IT'S TOO MUCH" was worth you peeps reacting to this crazy movie. I always had a soft spot for how silly it is and "Creeply" (Creepy Ripley) as Simone called her is one of my favorite aspects of it.

[@80Jay71]

I think that the encounter with 1-7 should have been written totally different. It is very essential to the story, and as it turned out, weak.

[@riveraharper8166]

Simone made my day w that laughing.

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Simone went full Sarah Lynn.

[@oldguysrule5895]

People sometimes use a lighter to heat shoe polish on their shoes to help the wax soak into the leather. This technique is known as "fire shining"

[@jasonturner2206]

I was taught it in the army to bring out a gloss on your parade shoes, it’s called, ‘spit polishing’..😬

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@jasonturner2206It works, but it takes some time to really get the polish in there. I was so good at (spit) shining shoes that during inspections, I’d get guys who were good at folding t-shirts, underwear & making the beds & I’d trade em for doing their boots. It was a win-win for everyone🤣

[@patrickbateman7369]

It's basically spit shining and it's NEVER to let the wax soak in it's to help with the shine

[@j.f.fisher5318]

Others say burning off the volatile oils is bad for the wax. Dunno always just used spit as it makes a film on the wax instead of beading the way water does.

[@cameronhermann9400]

Good to know

[@motorcycleboy9000]

*thermonuclear explosion the size of a country* "Maybe they were all bad guys." 😂

[@WolfHreda]

8:53 I fucking love Brad Dourif. He always gives 100%. And he's akways one of the best parts of anything he's in. I think the only reason Grima Wormtongue wasn't quite so impactful as a character is because he was constantly acting opposite of Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, and Christopher Lee

[@ThreadBomb]

I first saw him in Dune (1984) - another standout performance.

[@drakocarrion]

The only Chucky.

[@HermanVonPetri]

One of his earliest roles is also arguably his most acclaimed, as Billy Bibbit in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." It's a pity that he's usually typecast as a creepy psychopath, because his role in that movie is adorable, sensitive and endearing. He was nominated for an Oscar for the part. The man has _range._

[@chrispeel3123]

he's great in the TV series "Deadwood" as the town doctor.

[@alistairrobinson3865]

“Earth….what a shit hole” 😂

[@KA24DERACER]

"Id rather stay here with the things man"

[@Dark__Thoughts]

I bet WY transformed it into a complete dystopian nightmare.

[@slimmccoy8863]

George: "Actors do other roles in other things?!?!?!" The victim who's begging "What's inside me?" was also one of John Doe's victims in Se7en. He plays panic really well.

[@davidconway6874]

Played pretty much the same character in Saving Private Ryan as well.

[@tehawfulestface1337]

Actor Leland Orser, married to the beautiful actress Jeanne Tripplehorn. When he ‘cleans up’ and with Jeanne on the red carpet, he looks nothing like the character he plays. Would like to see him play a character in control of the situation.

[@B355Y]

​@davidconway6874 the bone collector as well

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

@@tehawfulestface1337 He was great in the short lived MGM+ TV series Berlin Station. But yes, he's pretty typecast as the tightly wound panicking person. Much like Veronica Cartwright is typecast as the woman who scream/cries so much her face gets all red and blotchy. When you're so good at something like that you're bound to get work.

[@Tchika]

Oh, true!

[@somthingbrutal]

Dominique Pinon the actor in the wheelchair is in a couple of great French movies well worth a watch, La Cité des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) and Delicatessen

[@foljs5858]

also the jealous lover cafe client in Amelie

[@toddhill7483]

A couple of excellent films.

[@pete_lind]

Hes in that (city of lost children) with Ron Perlman , thats why Jean-Pierre Jeunet got them to do this . Dominique Pinon was also in his latest movie BigBug from 2022, he has used him in nearly everything he has done .

[@rabid_si]

He's also in Amelie, which, along with the movies you named (and this movie!) were directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

I had come to know him from his JPJ film appearances. But I had completely forgotten that he was in one of the first French films I had ever seen back in the early '80s while I was in college. I recently re-watched Diva (1981) and was amused to find out he features prominently in that film as the thug who doesn't like anything (except apparently accordion music).

[@babalonkie]

The drool is how they make nests, it creates a thermal acid proof barrier for their Queen, hosts and eggs, It's also pheromonal. They wipe it over walls and it goes hard over time creating a "Resin".

[@jennoscura2381]

So the drool is the secreted resin in Aliens.

[@babalonkie]

@@jennoscura2381 Yup. In Alien you see it start to make a nest on the life boat at the end, it starts to wipe the drool on the ship consoles. In the extended cut it starts to make a nest out of the same stuff, merged Brett and Dallas to the wall and tried to craft eggs out of them. It's basically explained in the films bit by bit and the comics show it more and explain that like ants, the drool leaves pheromones for the rest of the colony.

[@AnonEyeMouse]

It also part of the extreme maturation process. When Ash is discussing the chest burster he talks about it replacing its cells with silica. Basically growing incredibly quickly and generating a lot of tougher flesh. The other end of the process is the vast amount of secretive resin. The drones probably don't live very long, maybe weeks or months. Once the nests are built, eggs are laid and any hosts exhausted, the drones probably hibernate and/or die, forming part of the walls of the hive. On Hadley's hope, that seems to be what is happening. The nest formed and all the colonists were taken and the aliens were in a fairly dormant state until the marines breached the nest. The entire engineer ship was styled by the alien resin but there were no drones left. Only eggs and, presumably somewhere, a queen.

[@w415800]

That is a huge amount of material, what do they eat?

[@LiberPater777]

​@w415800 Food

[@ic5319]

A rag-tag crew of criminals and smugglers? You can see the genesis of Firefly in this movie, clearly the idea stuck in Joss Wheadon's head

[@morphman86]

Sigourney Weaver wasn't meant to make that basket, she was just gonna throw the ball behind her and someone would catch it. When she actually made it, Ron Perlman started cheering, which is why it cuts before the ball even hits the floor.

[@CoffeeMatt10]

She had a few takes to try and make the shot, then they said give it one more and if you miss we will just cgi fix it. That’s the one that she sunk. That’s why the reaction… it was the last chance and she hit it.

[@reconsoldier135]

I don't care what anyone says I like this movie

[@nefethrul]

6:30 "What a great voice" Same actor that played the main antagonist in The Crow. He had somewhat longer hair in that :) 8:15 Shoe polish. If you light it, it becomes better viscosity and easier to spread, so you get better shine easier.

[@Rocket1377]

He also played Guy of Gisbourne in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

[@chefskiss6179]

"THIS time, Sigourney is the Alien. Thun Thun Thuuunnn!" 😂

[@dwightlee4315]

it is a military trick to lite the polish on fire, learned that in boot camp, can make the toes like mirrors

[@TheWebcrafter]

8:00 - BULLING ONE'S BOOTS - Bulling is a technique (used mainly by British military forces) for polishing leather boots or shoes to create a shiny, mirror-like finish. It's also known as spit polishing or mirror shining. The process involves applying multiple thin layers of polish and buffing the boots until they reach the desired shine. Melting the polish allows each layer to be applied thinly and evenly.

[@greenbeans5127]

Well now its time for you guys to watch Amelie, Delicatessen & The City of Lost Children! All great films by the same director of Alien Resurrection.

[@Pengi_SMILES]

Mic Macs and A Very Long Engagement too. I feel like they've seen Amelie?

[@MrYin90210]

They've seen Amelie

[@misterlobsterman]

​@@wolfofthewest8019Agree whole heartedly. Great movie.

[@ptittannique5621]

Exactly what I was going to comment--Delicatessen and City of Lost Children are FANTASTIC!

[@donkfail1]

@@ptittannique5621 I think if you have seen them and know Jeunet directed this one, you'll expect exactly this.

[@ryandineen3655]

6:25 The guy with the “Great Voice” is Michael Wincott. He had an awesome tear in the 90’s, usually as the bad guy lol Some of my favorites include the Kevin Costner Robin Hood, and The Three Musketeers

[@OmegaSoypreme]

And he did the voice of Death in the Darksiders games!

[@sanaksanandan]

He was the crazy cinematographer in Nope.

[@drakocarrion]

The Prophet of Truth in Halo 2

[@chrispeel3123]

Don't forget "The Crow" as the main bad.

[@christopherjensen3034]

And 1494, and Black Sails.

[@KevinBrown-lv2fk]

Ripley is technically the Queen mother in this movie. or grandma ripley

[@meadmaker4525]

Igniting the shoe polish is an old military trick. The polish becomes liquid, allowing it to more easily move into the grain of the boot, thus achieving quicker build of shine on the boot. Using spit or water is also a thing (thus the term spit-shine).

[@ridleysaria]

I read somewhere that the body getting sucked through a small hole in the hull was actually an unused idea from the original Alien. Allegedly that was supposed to be how Lambert dies. The Alien gets wounded, its blood crates a small breach in the hull and Lambert dies horribly.

[@munkeypantsman]

The problem is that the pressure differential between any human spacecraft and hard vacuum is only going to be about 15psi or less. If the hole is small and structurally stable, it's not really a threat at all.

[@Redfern42]

@@munkeypantsman That was the point at which I simply threw my hands in the air. True, it was the end of the film, but you know what I mean. Seriously, either the pressure inside that chamber was equivalent to what crushed that OceanGate sub or that hybrid creature had flesh composed of gelatin and bones of moistened graham crackers! 🙄

[@adriansue8955]

@@Redfern42 This is all true, the difference between 1 and 0 atmosphere is about 15psi. I do wonder though, could the atmospheric reentry timing change the situation? Instead of vacuum on the other side of the hole, its air rushing past at supersonic speeds; what kind of pressure differential does that create?

[@benguensche]

now imagine its a "fetus" and the small hole is a vacuum

[@adriansue8955]

@@benguensche abortion abortion I say borty, something to do when you're feeling sporty

[@inlpwetrust]

"Ripley, you weirdo!" is a great summary of her character in this movie.

[@TheWebcrafter]

18:10 - IS FIRE THE WISEST CHOICE? I can understand Ripley putting the malformed clone out of her misery. However, why use fire when a bullet to the brain would suffice, be more expedient and immediately stop the pain. Also, by using a flame-thrower, there's more risk of the vessel to catch fire.

[@praetulitautemodium5847]

The underwater scene took 3 weeks to film Ron Perlman almost drowned and Winona Ryder had a panic attack because she almost drowned when she was twelve and hadn’t been in water since.

[@russfoulkes5490]

RE: The drool. Ridley Scott said it was inspired in part by the biomechanical aspect of the creature, more specifically the inner jaw. It was supposed to be like the cooling/lubricant you see sprayed onto industrial machinery as it's working.

[@antonycharnock2993]

That looks more like the white fluid what comes out of the Androids which I think is meant to be hydraulic for biomechanical muscle operation but I don't think that's white normally.

[@satricon]

I really love simone for liking this!! she had the same experience i have with it! Ripley being cool creepy and almost scary, The newborn its absolutely terrifying, but also has human qualities that can make you feel empathy! The clones and newborn design is pure nightmare fuel! Also the mix of absolute horror and some humor just works for me. Cool characters, maybe a couple of jokes too many. i could have done without it. But all the amazing physical effects are awesome! im also glad to hear simone stand up for her opinion against george that it works! You're awesome simone! Much respect.

[@leighb3243]

Agreed! The new ‘baby’ was almost too human & likeable for my taste. I saw this in theaters & think I cried when it died. lol. I still have to fast forward through that every time.

[@daviddori7265]

It's better than Alien 3.

[@ThreadBomb]

@@daviddori7265 Disagree, but it's definitely less uncomfortable to watch.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Indeed.

[@mikerhodes8454]

In the original Alien, one of the scripts had Lambert sucked out through a hole in the Nostromo, but scrapped that plan due to effects limitations in the late 70s. They resurrected the "sucked into space through a tiny hole" plan for this movie.

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Give City Of Lost Children (1995,) a watch. Jean-Pierre Jeunet working with Ron Perlman & Dominique Pinon two years earlier. it's French Sci-Fi meets American cinema, performing at the highest level. With French Sci-Fi, (à la Heavy Metal Magazine,) you can be certain it will be weird, (and maybe gross,) silly or fun, and nuanced.

[@dnllrnt]

We need to see Simone and George play Alien Isolation.

[@TT-Rex]

There was an alternate ending to this film where the crew lands on earth near Paris and find it destroyed. Either way it's interesting to consider that this is the "endpoint" of the films, with every other film (including Romulus) taking place beforehand in the timeline

[@richardb6260]

It looked like it hit Africa.

[@TT-Rex]

@@richardb6260 Yep, but the deleted scene has the Eiffel tower in the background, which is why I said they landed their tiny ship in France (which was nowhere near the crashed ship)

[@Carstein666]

22:30 I believe in Alien 3 the first guy who died, the one who got into the fan, died because the Alien spit acid at him.

[@em17jayvee]

This is my favorite Alien movie. The shift back and forth of who is good or bad is strong.

[@warrenpowers108]

I actually think this one is severely underrated.

[@vickyvind]

And overhated

[@jimjames6074]

1,2,4,3. 3 was boring, 4 is stupid and fun. 1 and 2 classics.

[@jarls5890]

@@jimjames6074 I'm not sure I would call it stupid. The characters act and react fairly believable and rationally to what is happening. It makes it somewhat believable. Unlike Prometheus and Covenant where most decisions the characters do just not make sense.

[@tigrisparvus2970]

It's a lot of campy fun and it all holds together plot wise with fun characters. Sigourney gets to be badass personified and I love it.

[@brooklynnewyork23]

​@@vickyvindoverhated is perfect. There really isn't any bad Alien movies IMO. They're just kind of sandbagged because the first 2 are classics and took away the mystique and fear of the unknown. This movie leaned into it and might have the most xenomoprh screen time out of all the franchise and they really knocked it out of the park with the creature design I feel

[@vidcunttheunbroken4704]

Winona Ryder has been hot for 35 years. I saw her in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and thought, if she’s this hot at 52, how hot was she in the past? Yep. Very pretty

[@fastertove]

I agree. I can recommend "Girl, Interrupted", if you haven't seen it. Probably her best movie. Atleast imho

[@robertcampbell8070]

​@@fastertoveOh, I don't know. Girl, Interrupted is a good movie but I feel like Ryder is out acted badly by just about every other member of the cast. I think she's much better in Reality Bites, Little Women, and A Scanner Darkly.

[@Dularr]

​@@robertcampbell8070that movie is right at the beginning of her bad years.

[@robertcampbell8070]

@@Dularr I mean, I don't even think she's bad in it. I just think she gets blown away by Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, and even Brittany Murphy, and I am no fan of Brittany Murphy as an actress.

[@fastertove]

@@robertcampbell8070 She comes out of realistic in my eyes. She is acting out of the ordinary, as a troubled normal girl, but without overacting like is the case with Jolie's character. She fit the role perfectly in my eyes. Not saying Jolie did a bad job, far from it, but it wasn't as relatable. I've had a girlfriend who's bipolar, so maybe I'm being somewhat biased. Ryder seems very familiar to me in her portration. Any way. Those are also fine movies :)

[@mikedignum1868]

There was an alternate ending where you see them on Earth just outside Paris-it's total devastation. Signorney only went into the test lab once, so her reaction to seeing the other clones was real.

[@williamrosmer8381]

ah proto firefly. also best line about the company "they were bought out by walmart"

[@awesimo4684]

It's a perfectly good film IMO. It's not a timeless classic, but not every film needs to be. The scene with the failed clones is a classic bit of horror that gets referenced a lot.

[@riveraharper8166]

After AvP:Requiem this IS a timeless classic...

[@thomasmartin8227]

I agree! Its not Oscar bait but a good entertaining time all the same. All it needs to be.

[@ThreadBomb]

Although, when you think about it, burning the clone alive rather than putting a bullet in it was NOT the right decision!

[@cobrallama6236]

I like it a lot too. Campy and underrated!

[@theendistheend123]

its garbage

[@van8ryan]

When the AMELIE director (CANNOT even spell his name) was suggested for ALIEN RESURRECTION, the producers actually went to Ron Perlman to hear about his directing abilities. Perlman had worked with him in THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (one of the few 90s movies Perlman enjoyed working on, alongside his films with Guillermo Del Toro) and gave nothing but praise for his directing style. As a thank you to Perlman, the director gave him his role in the film. Joss Whedon claims ALIEN RESURRECTION was one of his best scripts and it was destroyed by the director's "mistranslation", although Whedon always complained about projects he had little control over (even the film version of BUFFY, which made him a household name even before the tv series).

[@scottguffey2455]

Yes, she made the shot. Someone had filmed it on set and was pulled further back so you could see the shot entirely. It looked very much like the pulled back shot of Michelle Pfifer as catwoman making the three whip strokes taking the mannequin heads off from Batman Returns. It even goes a few more seconds and shows Perlman losing his mind after Sigourney made the basket.

[@ulvsbane]

Yeah, Ron Perlman said in an interview that he almost ruined the shot because of his reaction.

[@jhornacek]

The Newborn being sucked out into space through a tiny hole was a proposed idea of killing off an alien from one of the previous films that could not be done then because of the limits of technology. But they were finally able to do it with this film.

[@danielp1080]

Just a fun movie, really. Not a great film per se, but I very much enjoyed it as a kid.

[@godzillaprime]

"Oh no! The alien is following us up the ladder! And there's nothing to ricochet off" Rip Warrick

[@rexmundi2986]

Never understood why people hated the hybrid alien so much. Like Simone, I was completely creeped out by it.

[@ThreadBomb]

SPOILERS And it was better than the version in Romulus.

[@ColinTedford]

Like George says, it looks kind of goofy. I agree with both of them - it's kind of goofy, but also very creepy, and the goofiness contributes to the creepiness. It's so dreadfully *in between* - and so is the mix of feelings when it's killed.

[@UlysseLaarwall]

The First One was Horror. The Second was Action. The Third was a Survival Drama/Thriller. This One is a Dark Comedy. The main thing that most of it's haters dont realise is that all the things you found funny and goofy, you were supposed to.

[@Cadinho93]

Fun Fact: That backwards basketball ball shot was real and done on one take. The intention was for her to mime the action and they would digitally insert the ball later. Sigourney Weaver said, "We'll let me try it at least once." So they did. Cameras rolling. She made the shot, then Ron Perlman almost ruined the shot cause of his reaction. There's behind the scenes footage of the full shot. Also, the hosts DNA is not changed, Ripley's DNA is changed because she died while carrying the Queen, the cloneing process merges their DNA as there is very little left of Ripley and the Queen to clone from, they basically clone a hybrid.

[@moondog3056]

Not true at all. She had several tries before making it.

[@jobbo_]

She said she'd do it in 5 takes and got it on the 5th take. it cuts away fast because Ron Perlman shouted "Holy Sh*t!"

[@xen0bia]

Except, it's entirely false, it took FOREVER for her to get it. They were about to give up and Sigourney said one more time and did it. Ron Perlman almost blew the scene laughing and cheering.

[@richardb6260]

The director told her the basketball went out of frame and the audience will think they faked it. Weaver said she didn't care because she knew she made it.

[@Brian-qn7fn]

Was not done in one take.

[@jim1771]

Simone young lady the guy who's voice you liked is Michael Wincott who also played Rochefort in Disney's Three Musketeers with Charlie Sheen, and Top Dollar in the Crow with Brandon Lee.

[@slimmccoy8863]

Also memorable as the Warden of Chateau D'If in "Count of Monte Cristo". Gives a great villain performance every time I've seen him.

[@timhibbard4226]

My favorite part of this movie is the quirky band of space pirates that we get and how reminiscent they are of ANOTHER band VERY beloved space pirates. The script for this was written by Joss Whedon himself and it predates his show Firefly. If you watch this movie with that in mind, it starts to become clear that the characters in this are almost prototypes of Mal and his crew. You have Chistie, a badass with a name usually used for women. Combine him with Perlman’s character and you basically have Jayne. You have a Captain that is both smarter and more noble than he seems at first meeting. Then you have Wynonna playing the pretty brunette waif who is more than she seems and Ripley as a neurodivergent genetically engineered superhuman. Combine them and you have a pretty good blueprint for River. THIS above all other reasons is the best reason to not hate on this movie too too much, at least if you are a Firefly fan. lol

[@lexij2497]

should also be noted that Whedon basically disowned the movie as well, since the final part of the movie was completely rewritten

[@TheDemonicPenguin]

​@@lexij2497 I thought he more disowned it because of the direction and acting, which wasn't in keeping with his style. He acknowledge they changed the ending but he seems more annoyed with the general changes: Whedon: "It wasn’t a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending, it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines…mostly…but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There’s actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script…but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable." I think the movie is pretty fun anyway, although not really "good".

[@catterwall9595]

@@TheDemonicPenguin I think Whedon is way too hard on this movie which I still think is pretty entertaining despite some obvious shortcomings. And not to defend Whedon in general (because he's obviously problematic in a lot of ways), but I think that happens sometimes with his scripts because the delivery is key in a lot of his dialogue. Even Storm's infamous "What happens to a toad..." line from the first X-Men movie would be kind of funny if it was delivered as the throwaway joke it obviously is, but the way she says it without a hint of humor makes it fall totally flat.

[@kirshkro]

In The Avengers, Joss Whedon referenced the Alien universe in a scene where Banner crashes through the roof of a warehouse after falling from a height. A security guard, played by Harry Dean Stanton, repeatedly asks Bruce Banner, "Are you an alien?"

[@aeneasfate]

And his other attempt at the prototype firefly crew, Titan A.E.

[@classictowers668]

The boots that the costume dept came up with for each character are ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@fusiliers]

The breath ID is actually pretty clever. Even at the time this was released, defeating retinal scans, facial ID, fingerprints, and voice recognition was an established trope. Why not blood or DNA? Remember the blood sachets in Gattaca? Assume the breath reader identifies some unique characteristic but also has parameters for temperature, moisture content, and whatever other elements that would be exceptionally difficult to dupe. Just as important, it totally compliments the weird French Sci-fi aesthetic of the movie.

[@ColinTedford]

Breath just seems like it would vary too much to be useful (but whatever, I enjoy it as an oddity of the movie).

[@theluckytwig]

Excited for your Prometheus/Alien Covenant reactions. I think you'll both really enjoy them. They expand the Alien lore well and are cinematically beautiful. Georges ranking feels pretty spot on for most people. 2, 1, 3, 4.

[@lucasdolding6924]

Yeah everyone agrees the first two are the best and then 3 is third and Resurrection is fourth, the discourse is usually over whether Alien or Aliens is better. Personally I prefer Alien but they're both perfect at what they're doing they just do different things.

[@lionhead123]

you didn't actually like those movies did you? my god.

[@DchanZockt]

You could perhaps react to the other movies the director has made (Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children). Which actually makes you much more confused as to why he of all people had made an Alien movie.

[@viralmedia]

Fun Fact! Take the rag-tag crew delivering the "package" and apply the character seeds of "Firefly". This movie had Josh Wheedon's complete script re-tooling without credit and the space cowboy crew seemed to carry over into his "Firefly" pitch.

[@Tommieboy2009]

There is a drmorectos cut where there is an endscene where they land on earth and yoi can see that earth is notbpopulated anymore and everything is just destroyed. There are books and comics showing that humanity is living on space stations and colonies and earth is just lost.

[@davidcroucher6262]

The Earth that was...

[@ColinTedford]

The Isle of Dr Morecto

[@aidanfarnan4683]

Oh i love that facehugger hat! Also there are four things everyone remembers about this film "What the hell was with the breath-doors? "What the hell was with the space wiskey?" "what the hell was with lighing the boot polish on fire?" and "Oh sweet basketball shot!"

[@TerbInYourFace]

Was in the Navy and can confirm that's how some use shoe polish. I did on occasion, but since I was an engineer, I didn't do it often

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Didn't De Niro do that in Taxi driver?

[@ColinTedford]

Why do engineers only occasionally use that technique?

[@MyargonautsJason]

Yes, the director Jean-Paul Jeunet made the move Amelie after he made this film, but for those of us watching movies actively in the 90s, it was no surprise he was chosen to make this movie given his first two films - 1991's Delicatessen and 1995's City of Lost Children. Both are French films and both are fantastic! You owe it to yourselves to watch them - they are weird and wonderful and very much up your alley. Enjoy!

[@philshorten3221]

You guys should do "The Name of the Rose" Ron Perlman Sean Connery Christian Slater and more

[@Smileybeeblevrox]

Yes, the igniting shoe polish is an old standard when dealing with the hard polish, burn it , quickly extinguish, then apply more like a liquid, better coverage when applying

[@oldguysrule5895]

tight, tight, tight

[@dionysiacosmos]

The Betty is a proto Serenity. The only holdover type of character is Ron Pearlmans's tough guy. Adam Baldwin in the series. But yes, it's the germ of Joss Weadon's eventual series. Which means it's part of the Buffyverse.

[@robertwilliams4486]

"Thats too much man" BoJack (Sarah Lynn) reference?

[@BasilOnatopp]

The guy in the wheelchair is actor Dominique Pinon who also play Joseph (the obsessive/jealous guy) in Amelie.

[@Subbacultcha]

Underrated movie. Fun as hell.

[@justinriley]

Very much so.

[@Paul_1971]

Would watch any of the Sigourney ones any day over those awful black goo/engineer prequels and yes I'm including Romulus.

[@justinriley]

@@Paul_1971 I actually enjoy the prequels and loved Romulus. Go figure.

[@TheDemonicPenguin]

@@justinriley Yeah, I like all of these movies to varying degrees. 1 and 2 obviously in a different league at the top.

[@dan_hitchman007]

More like dumb as hell.

[@thedragonlee76]

I read the original script and well..There were alot of things ommited from the shooting script.Originally the newborn alien(thats whats its called in the script) would kill people by sucking the blood from its victims and would see the red blood flow through the newborns white skin,there was a big action sequence in the part of the ship,where the marines/crew grow crops,there was a big climax fight/action scene on Earth with the newborn alien and in a deleted scene, you'll see Ripley and Call are on Earth talking.And oh yea,actor Chow Yun Fat was offered a part and the part was specifically written for him by Joss Whedon,because Whedon was a big fan Chow Yun Fat and he turned it down,so the character was written out.

[@illam9500]

The acid spit we actually see in Alien 3. The guy who fell backward into the giant fan did so cause the Xenomorph shot acid spit at him. They just didn't do a good job of illustrating that. Also, I love Ron Perlman and just like every actor who plays a dumb jackass...I have heard nothing but good things about him in real life. He's actually regarded as a very kind and intelligent man. Idk why that always seems to be the case but it's a stereotype I will never tire of cause it's so ironically wholesome

[@Bill-v6f]

When Ron P dropped the knife he reminded me so much of his role in Quest For Fire

[@aeneasfate]

The downside to watching all the older films to 'prepare' for Romulus is that... well now you've already seen Romulus.

[@MrYin90210]

Yeah pretty much

[@scorp77snake]

Would be interesting to see how much of Romulus' script is just taken from the other films , I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 70%

[@grandotaku2501]

@@scorp77snake It has more in common with the Alien graphic novels, Thaw and Descendant

[@edinalewis4704]

Low IQ take. Lots of cool new stuff in Romulus.

[@Shiny7054]

I'm deeply considering doing my own edit exercising all the dumb references and callbacks

[@selenawolf2466]

The one with Winona ❤ her and Creepy Ripley were the best parts. Honesty i would've LOVED seeing more of this Ripley - so many possibilities.

[@badhidingplace9558]

George: "Oh, that's disgusting!" Yep. An apt summary of this entry in the series.

[@foljs5858]

it's not for American mass audiences, for them there's also Cameron's Aliens or some run of the mill sci-fi thing

[@tonyyul703]

I should mention..... The TWISTED UP VERSION OF RIPLEY 07 ...was also played by Sigourney Weaver ....

[@nvp8191]

There are 12 types of alien with of them that can spit acid. The acid one in this movie is praetorian which protects the eggs and can replace the queen .

[@brom00]

I enjoy each of the Alien films because all have the distinctive stamp of each director. You have already reacted to the film Jean-Pierre Jeunet did after this one , "Amélie". I's also recommend his first two, "Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children".

[@BakesKamuari]

Also need Prometheus

[@dubiumguy]

I believe they're going to watch those next.

[@tylerfoster6267]

It's actually up now on Patreon and will be on the channel within a week or so.

[@MichaelSTaylor]

Joss Whedon saw it: “Yes, I did see Pro-meaningless,” he joked. “In all seriousness, Alien: Resurrection was, I thought, the lowest I could ever feel. And then they cancelled Firefly. ‘Yup, there you go. That’s me feeling even lower.’ Let me quote King Lear - ‘The worst is not, so long as we can say, ”This is the worst.” So, not so big a fan, lol.

[@PChazman1]

"Need" and "Prometheus" are not two words I would ever use in that order. 😂😂😂

[@AdamKaplan-g3q]

Why do people keep saying you need to watch these other movies to see the new Alien movie? You don’t need to see any other than Alien and Aliens

[@morphman86]

Between the ship and space, there's less than 1 atmosphere difference. There wouldn't be any explosive decompression from such a small hole. To put in perspective, when you open a can of pop, you're letting out about 3 times that pressure, and your drink is not spraying all over you when you do that.

[@stevenhenry9605]

Well, if you shake it first...

[@morphman86]

@@stevenhenry9605 If shaking the can makes ALL the content come out, I think you got yourself a can of gas instead of a can of pop 😀

[@ThePorpoisepower]

The good trivia you missed... 1 The crew of the Eureka was a prototype of Firefly 2. Sigourney actually made the no look/behind the back basket in that shot. Hence Ron Perlman's amazed look.

[@drakocarrion]

There's no ship called eureka. The military ship is the Auriga & the pirate ship is the Betty

[@SgtSandflea]

8:10 It's an old army technique to polish boots. It helps with giving them a shiny glossy appearance if done right. I used to do this when I was in the army before they switched from BDUs to ACUs.

[@llocarydoline9738]

Brad Dourif starring in his own movie, Alien Hiserection 😂

[@TJMiton]

Highly underrated entry. It's just a goofy good time :)

[@kebernet]

That's not Tuco. That's Ding Chavez.

[@MrMarioski]

Caught that Clear and Present Danger/Rainbow Six reference 🫡

[@agp11001]

Still bummed as fuck we never got a proper Rainbow movie.

[@thenungzo]

The "Kill Me" quote with RIpley using flamethrower is actually a throwback to the earlier films.

[@dubiumguy]

Not a great movie, but one thats needed before Romulus for full context.

[@GetMeThere1]

Ron Perlman plays the meatiest of meatheads in the unique Quest for Fire. A must see -- and WHAT a reaction video it would make!!!!

[@RMBittner]

Totally agree with George’s ranking of 2, 1, 3, 4.

[@TRHardware]

I would have rated it 2,1,4,3. But I only saw the crappy theatrical release of the third movie! If I would have seen this one, that Simone and George reacted to, then indeed my choice would be in order of 2,1,3,4.

[@TheDemonicPenguin]

Alien, not Aliens crew here. So 1, 2, 3, 4 for me.

[@rexmundi2986]

Contrarian view; 1, 3, 2, 4.

[@rgallitan]

The problem with a simple ranking is that it obscures the gulfs in quality. I prefer a bar graph approach.... ))))))))))))))))))))))))) Alien )))))))))))))))))))))))))) Aliens ))))))))))))))) Alien3 (theatrical) )))))))))))))))) Alien: Resurrection ))))))))))))))))) Alien3 (assembly) ) Prometheus

[@Rocket1377]

​@rgallitan I definitely agree about Prometheus. People give Ridley Scott way too much credit for creating Alien. Without the original writers, he doesn't know what he is doing with this franchise.

[@mr.d.8121]

The actor playing the scientist with the ponytail who kisses the window also plays Grima Wormtongue in LotR : The Two Towers.

[@Bonjurro]

Who knew you were gonna see a goryhole

[@batbrick3949]

8:13 heating the polish reduces the amount of wax, increasing the amount of oil, proportionately. It can make the polish shinier.

[@Newspin]

To me, this film is like Deadpool and Wolverine: the film (story) is bad but it is so utterly entertaining throughout, that I really like watching it every other year.

[@leoffdagrate]

Yes, heating boot polish is a thing. Depends on the type of boots you're putting it on, though.

[@eddiebirdie1545]

H R Geiger hated this movie he said "they took my beautiful creation and made it into a turd".

[@Rocket1377]

He hated the Human-Alien Hybrid design (the turd he was referring to), not necessarily the other Xenomorphs or the movie itself.

[@davidanderson1639]

It’s H.R Giger…..but it’s pronounced gee-gah……not Geiger as in Geiger Counter.

[@eddiebirdie1545]

@@davidanderson1639 Wow i didn't realise that i was being monitored by the spelling police 😯 please accept my most humble apologies 😂.

[@KA24DERACER]

"Whats the fourth?" The fourth is a parody of itself (as ALL franchises eventually become). I actually LOVE Resurrection, its probably my favorite after #2. I love the comedy, I love how it still manages to make the aliens deadly/scary and I LOVE how self-aware it is.

[@Ithro-Ithrozovich]

I remember watching this movie as a teenager with my buddy and his dad in the theater. I was bored to tears, my friend looked confused most of the time and his dad fell asleep. I am still envious that he got a 1½ hour long nap and we got a movie where the script seems to have been written by a drunk AI. Joss Whedon was the early death of cinema.

[@n0tk0sher]

Captain of the merc ship (guy with the cool voice) is Michael Wincott). Great actor. He was recently in Nope, but you should check him out in Talk Radio and Strange Days.

[@karkajouautomaton4882]

George asked about why the aliens are so droolie. In the old Aliens TTRPG, the drool and other secretions form the resin for their hive walls. The xenomorphs can send electrical impulses through the resin to communicate with the rest of the hive by touching the resin walls. PS. Nice hat in the intro.

[@AdeboFunkyVoodoo]

The shoe wax/polish: to polish boots to ceremonial standard takes weeks and lots of work and different processes involving sand, heat and lots and lots of polish. This is called bulling. A short cut is to just melt the polish and apply that. The liquid polish fills in the texture of the leather, which would normally disperse the light and soften the shine. Creating a more level surface which when polished, gives a brighter more mirror like result. Bulling your boots is a bloody pain in the arse. For day to day, hot wax gives a similar result, with a fraction of the effort.

[@Clarence62190]

Prometheus and Alien Covenant are prequels, decades before Alien Alien Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens I love Alien Resurrection, the movie has fun with its creatures

[@noneya3635]

The crash was the ship hitting the atmosphere, it never reached the ground. Well... not in any solid pieces.