Reaction To Alien Part 2 [The Making Of A L I E N]

Reaction To Alien Part 2 [The Making Of Alien]

[@MarkArandjus]

"I'll only do another science fiction if I've got a really good script." Oh god Ridley, I wish you kept true to that, because the only bad thing about Prometheus was the script.

[@caitlinjane92]

I loved the part about Jack Nicolson and Warren Beatty screaming like little boys at every scare, LOL!

[@genuinesaucy]

It's funny, they talked about "Bringing the franchise full-circle back to claustrophobic horror" at the end of the video, and Alien: Isolation just came out, which from what everyone's telling me sounds like the real Alien/Aliens follow-up we've spent almost 30 years waiting for. Guess they called it.

[@LUCKO2022]

+genuinesaucy Yeah it is a awesome game. It's a bit too long in certain places because it almost seems like they couldn't make up their mind on how to end the game. But it is intense when you are just going along minding your own business then the fucking Alien shows up out just no where, scared the shit out of me several times throughout the game.

[@gokin239]

man this movie was and still is one of my favriot classics

[@Imaculata]

A few years ago they showed the special edition again in theaters in Holland. I immediately went to see it. Teens were laughing and making fun of it... but then the lights went out, and those very same teens became very.... very... quiet. The movie still terrified people who had never seen it.

[@BartSzczepanski76]

"It's all about the story" - I cannot agree more, Mr. Ridley Scott. One of the greatest movies I have ever seen in my life (and believe me, I've seen a lot).

[@acledfloyd]

It is so cool that a movie with only one alien is so much scarier than the later movies with armies of them.

[@DVincentW]

Yes indeed!

[@mattmassie2530]

Alien 3 had one creature as well, and for as many flaws as the movie has it did a pretty good job of going back to that gloomy claustrophobic atmosphere

[@7783DEATH]

its a strange feeling listening to Ridley's thoughts at the end of this with Prometheus on the horizon...

[@JozannaHanawalt487]

Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty screaming like little boys? I wish I could've been there to witness that! XD

[@pennydaytreasures8173]

I still remember seeing this movie when it first came out. It was like nothing I had seen before. I was horrified and captivated at the same time. I can still feel the “trauma” of the chest burst scene. It was a scene that sticks with you.

[@NickyTimeMagic9]

i will never forget seeing " Alien " at the Egyptian in Hollywood.. i think we may have even seen it on opening day... it was the most intense,amazing group experience i've ever had watching a film.. it scared the living fuck out of us but at the same time it was so much FUN.. like spending 2-something hours in the best haunted house in the world.. and to see a woman be the Last One Standing! i love this movie and watch it at least every month.. i love all 4 Ripley films..forget AVP/Prometheus

[@americanliberal09]

Alien will always shit over Aliens. :-)

[@FunkMastaMegaFlex]

Exactly! And now they are doing Prometheus which is a prequal to Alien, and what makes it really cool is that its directed by Ridley Scott. He will do it justice, but its hard to say though sometimes. Ridley is one of my favorite directors, maybe my favorite he has directed some of the best movies ever made like ALIEN, Gladiator, Blade Runner, but with producers always trying to posion an original idea these days where artistic freedom is getting more rare, I'm not sure how amazing its goin 2 be

[@neilthompson3275]

Still easily the best film of the franchise ..... by a huge margin

[@playasadonejoe]

What? No no, Aliens is OK.

[@austenpowers]

Love this movie so much ❤

[@jjobie]

Yep! So glad they're finally doing it.

[@Mr_BenPrime]

I feel that we, the fans should share some of the blame for Prometheus. For decades we asked for more about the jockey and to elaborate on the origins of the xenomorph, and scott who hadn't touched sci fi since Blade Runner was probably too distanced from his original vision at this point... the old saying "careful what you wish for" comes to mind.

[@TravelingTal]

Number 3 on my All time greatest movies ever made list.

[@MoveOverCasanova]

like the beatles anthology, i can watch these alien making of´s in an endless loop - it eases my nerves like others a massage does

[@Aeschlimann1]

"It's all about the story" "I'll only do another science fiction with a great script" ;( sniff

[@Bl4ckM4gic037]

I totally agree. I did enjoy the first SAW movie because it had suspense and the point that people were ungrateful to be alive. But the first one is all I cared for.

[@beatmunga]

8:17, regarding a sequel: "I would have gone before, because THAT'S what I find interesting. I wanna know who that Space Jockey is" If only James Cameron had thought the same.

[@PapagenoJuan2]

When the chestbuster came out of John hart the first time, I was 6, and it gave me night mares for years and years :))) ha ha

[@retrocny5625]

I honestly don't think anything is going to top the original Alien as far as the sci-fi horror genre goes, and it's been 40 years so far. Event Horizon is a cult classic and it's freaky but I just don't put it on the same pedestal as I do Alien. I really don't know what else you can do with the franchise at this point though. I mean, a video game(Alien Isolation) did the franchise more justice than the prequel movies directed by the man himself, Ridley Scott. Not knocking Ridley, I really do love his style but I think his vision for the franchise has just shifted too far from what it originally was. There's only one thing in my mind that could potentially rival and even top Alien as a sci-fi horror film, and that's a film adaptation of the game "Dead Space". The first game in the trilogy specifically. If for some reason you're a fan of sci-fi horror but either haven't heard of that game or even played it, you REALLY owe it to yourself to play it. I think if they made a faithful recreation of that game in movie format, it'd be absolutely incredible.

[@Mr_BenPrime]

Ah, that is a good point... I'm inclined to agree.

[@SomeGuysGaming]

i wish they made original thrilling movies like this now a days but 75% of movies now are sequels and not a single original idea. I love Aliens always have always will

[@OpenMawProductions]

The last few minutes of this particular featurette. That basically tells you what Ridley is thinking for this Prequel. The End of One, will be the begining of This One.

[@twodoortwo]

My dad laughed at the chestburster creature when it popped out. He thought it was funny when it sneered and ran off.

[@Bl4ckM4gic037]

@42Johney The horror and sci fi genre has changed. We're used to gore in movies now days. But years ago people haven't seen anything like an alien breaking out of the rib cage of a human being.

[@KaitainCPS]

@MaxPayne19146 Oh, for sure. The late 70s were absolutely transformative. Star Wars and Alien changed science fiction utterly. (The battered, lived-in look of much of the SW universe was very influential on Alien.) And the production values and quality of workmanship on "Alien" is just stellar. Barring one of two minor moments, that film still looks like it could have been made yesterday. It's shot and lit beautifully, the script is great, the performances are excellent and it all feels REAL.

[@vubevube]

i watched it on video at a similar age, watched it through my fingers if you know what i mean. but a week later i was already going with my buddy to rent Aliens and got so much into the series.been a fan ever since

[@Zidana123]

We will never have another movie like this T_T

[@RDdaNINJA]

I wish I had a time machine that can beam me to the very first theatrical showing of Alien.

[@mrbriscoe2001]

saw this movie in an OLD community theater;the bathrooms were in a dark basement;that was a long trip...

[@jjobie]

Yes! I experienced the same thing when I went to see a revival of "The Exorcist" back in like 2000 or something. Pretty amazing experience.

[@twodoortwo]

My parents took me to see this film when I was ten, and I had a chocolate malt. Well, we were wearing the malt when the film was over.

[@OpenMawProductions]

@LXQUICKJUSTICE Sorta. From some of the reports coming from the set, there are in fact Giger style aliens, and a space jockey. Its an Alien prequel, minus the Alien name. Its still of the "DNA of that film" as Sir Scott put it.

[@MaxPayne19146]

I knew it was a great movie, but had no idea it was a game changer until now.

[@tackyman2011]

"I'll only do another science fiction if I've got a really good script." 'Prometheus' will NOT be a stinker !

[@socue521]

When i was small, the other children was afraid of ghosts and witches while i was afraid of aliens in vents xD

[@budwhite1]

In reality, the crew would all lock themselves in the main room and make sure every door and entry point was covered and then wait. it would like.... Alien : *knock knock* "Who is it ???" .... Alien: "Pizza delivery" ..... "oh great!! .... wait a minute !!!!!!!" lol

[@AudieHolland]

Remember, these were not military crew but just ordinary 'spacetruckers.' And they didnt know what they were up against to begin with.

[@playasadonejoe]

Yeah, if you were in charge of this super expensive mission you would definitely hire the first random 'space truckers'

[@ArtofLunatik]

they actually did alot of practical effects on that movie, but they did mix em with CGI.

[@P0V3RTY09]

@jesus89vald If I am not mistaken, what I had heard was that humans had engineered the aliens by what will be later be known as Weyland Industries. They planned to use them to clear out indigenous lifeforms on planetary scales. The Space Jockeys were inter-stellar travelers. I am very interested how these space jockeys are involved with the xenos. The fossilized jockey in that "chair" seems massive. I hope we get to see his complete story.

[@menegox]

I beg to differ...the acting was convincing. Nothing in the realm of an Oscar performance, but still convincing. Not every creature scene was consistently well done, but some scenes are just incredible (Norris head detaching from the body and walking of is still one of the most terrifying and memorable scenes in all of horror). If Alien is an A or A+ movie, than the Thing is at least in a B to B- range...it's not bad, it's just not as well crafted and consistently convincing as Alien.

[@efsq]

lol I just posted the exact same thing. I can't beleive this contradiction between what he says here and the SHIT HE MADE with prometheus.

[@KaitainCPS]

@LXQUICKJUSTICE I'm actually pretty intrigued by the idea of a slightly tangential story set in the same conceptual universe. I'm really hoping that it's a "first contact" science fiction story involving the Space Jockey race but barely touching on the classic xenomorph aliens at all. We'll have to wait and see.

[@B1GP3T3]

Exactly what i was thinking i dont wanna build it up because the fall might be huge but i cant wait..........i did read that they where trying to tone down the violence to make it availible to a wider audience "15" but i really hope not

[@RobTunes]

ME TOO.

[@mikelitorus6638]

Half of Alien's established visceral terror was raped by Prometheus' over use of CGI. Good premise, poor execution.

[@sonnyroy497]

Exactly!! Prometheus was a huge disappointment.

[@awebreeze1]

I'm a forever nerd. I watch this stuff, read the books over again and still love it. I wish they'd make a movie off one of the books. They are truly horror, Aliens rock. Shesh, was that nerdy?

[@bfg1996]

8:17 that guy just stated why Prometheus was made.

[@bradwatson7324]

The sequel, Aliens, doesn't hold a candle to Alien. There's almost no primal fear element about it. It's just an action movie with quite a bit of cheesy dialogue.

[@Nexus2Eden]

And so we wait ... in breathless antica....(say it!) pation!

[@JiveTurkey12MOFO]

I really think alot of very important scenes were lost because of the 3 hours that were cut out of the film. The story seemed like it was missing things.

[@Bl4ckM4gic037]

@42Johney Lol. Oh jesus. I don't know if they would have shown it. People would of lost their minds! lol

[@firstmusic00]

Somehow I ended up seeing this movie...not sure how I got in. But damn....not something that a 11 year kid needed to see. Not sure I slept for the 6 next months!!!

[@MoveOverCasanova]

ripleay cannot "sit through" 2001? i guess she just doesn´t get what the film is about,- to me every word of it is a revelation, a perfect portrait of humanity

[@FunkMastaMegaFlex]

Everyone has their own opinion. Its not the worst sci-fi or horror movie ever made, nothing like From Beyond, that was really horrible! It was laughably bad, and really just disgusting. If you like sci-fi/horror movies a really strange one that was pretty cool was galaxy of terror. Some of the people who made Aliens also worked on Galaxy Of Terror. Really cool and strange movie.

[@Drachenhannes]

Was it really Scott's vision to begin with? As far as i know he didn't write a single word of story. In my opinion directors just put pictures over the stories of other people thus making it their vision. In this case these people were Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. None of them had anything to do with Prometheus. Scott is a great director but as far as i'm concerned Alien never really was his creation.

[@beatlesloversprims]

Prometheus was so fucking cool

[@DVincentW]

Jack Nicholson? In the audience.. lol

[@42Johney]

@Bl4ckM4gic037 LOL. Had something like SAW came out early 70's that would have been HUGE.

[@000FireRainHavoc000]

Yes what were those Engineers doing with all those eggs to bad we'll never find out cause of the fans not knowing themselves what they wanted.......

[@DylanPenev]

Prometheus. :)

[@Landmarqueboy]

The times I've seen this and I leaped out of my fucking skin at 1:00 XD

[@devxc]

@Tigerlilly0777 In AVP, Predators ware God for humans and there was never said were the Alien came from they just say they were enemies. AVP have no relation to Alien and have to be treated as a 2 different stories. AVP was made because of the game and that’s it.

[@RD19902010]

@ElAlexxis please keep that a secret!!!! i have my own theories, and i want it to remain a mystery...

[@k1ngdragon411]

SPACE JOCKEY

[@SambabaL]

Great movie. Not because it's supposed to be horror but just because as a film it's genius, especially for it's time. And seeing the making of made me understand and appreciate it even more, as making of's often do. The only thing that i kept rolling my eyes at though were all the references to people fainting and throwing up and crying and not being able to leave rooms for a day. Okay, women being slapped in the face and getting squirted in the face with fake blood who then break out in tears, sure, i believe it. A grown man balling his eyes out because his baby is being watched by millions on the big screen, yeah, i get that. But movie go'ers walking out of the movie to throw up outside, ushers fainting in the isles , honestly, the movie isn't that scary. Maybe it was something new back then compared to what we are used to now, although the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't all that pleasant either, but come on, really, spewing out your dinner again because an alien is lurking in the shadows and bursting out of people? Surely people have seen worse things than that. It just sounded to me that people in the 70's were a bunch of pussies. I'm sorry.

[@terrypierson5427]

+SambabaL I saw ALIEN on opening night back in 79 I was eighteen years old at the time. The show was sold out and the only seats my friend and I could get were in the front row center. We joked about being too close to the screen, and how much more close to the monster we would be when it popped out at us. We laughed about how fake the Alien would look, Thinking this was a low budget film. The laughter stopped about five minutes in realizing this was no low budget movie at all. By the time the face hugger jumped out of the egg we knew we were in for a scary ride. My friend turned to me and said "This is hectic man!" "I don't know if I can take much more than this!" I was on the edge of my seat as well. The chest bursting sequence had loud screams from the audience, and many people got up and left the theater. About a third of the people were gone by the end of the film. A few dozen people also left the theater after Ripley blew up the ship, Missing the last encounter with the creature. By today's standards Alien is pretty tame to watch. But back then it was the film everyone was talking about. It haunted me for years, and makes me wish I was not as jaded about movies today. The main reason this movie remains my favorite film of all time is that when I first watched it all those years ago I did not know what to expect around that next corner. Artistically the most perfect monster movie ever made.

[@LUCKO2022]

+Terry Pierson Damn I am envious. I wasn't even born when Alien came out. I had a chance to see it in theaters a few years back when they decided to play it for 1 night only but I got really sick that day and couldn't go. I have seen it dozens of times on VHS and DVD and also TV but I have never gotten the theatrical experience for any of the Alien films (well the good ones anyway, Alien vs Predator doesn't count).

[@timmacarthur7076]

+Terry Pierson I agree, though my favorite movie is Return of the King.

[@Zatzzo]

sadly, i think, they're probably gonna demystify it

[@JiveTurkey12MOFO]

Ya the script wasn't the best but I still really enjoyed the movie. If anything the visuals were amazing!

[@MarkArandjus]

How I wish that was the only problem the script had :/

[@Marauder1981]

@KaitainCPS I think you´ll get what you hope for

[@SuperiFox]

Is better, that is.

[@rahul18348]

Waiting for Prometheus

[@sonnyroy497]

I was very disappointed with Prometheus.

[@RDdaNINJA]

I'm sorry, but I have to diagree with you.

[@FunkMastaMegaFlex]

Yes and no. The movie is always made great by its actors, story, and set. The thing is a good example. It had bad acting, characters that weren't very interesting, and the story a lot of people couldn't get into. The creatures were just imagineless blobs of gore and blood and people hated it with a passion. I know the movie kind of has a cult following but that's why it never came close to meeting ALIEN's success or level of accomplishments.

[@SuperiFox]

8:17

[@socue521]

loolololololololo

[@Moosenogger]

No, Prometheus really was a bit of a turd. A pretty turd, but still a turd.

[@devxc]

@Tigerlilly0777 hmmm maybe but still they fucked the time line so much it's impossible to get this films serious. AVP1 was ok but have no sens. AVP game have more in common with the actual Alien films.

[@AudieHolland]

That movie went downhill from the moment those two stupid 'characters' meet the mutated worm. From that moment on I knew they were dead meat it just took incredibly long before they were killed off. And nobody cared because those idiots were clearly written into the script as nobodies. Like the 'redshirts' in the old Star Trek tv-series.

[@efsq]

god how can a direcctor make such a great movie, and then come up with the SHIT that prometheus is, which has exactly what he Ridley Scott said here was important: A GOOD SCRIPT. Yet, prometheus' script is pathetic

[@42Johney]

Why were people such pansies back then? Like, omg hundreds of people fainted during The Exorcist. i watched it a few years ago when i was 14 and i was like, "Huh?" and people gagging over this cchest bursting scene. i dont get it, PANSIES I TELL YOU!

[@sonnyroy497]

Not pansies, just not as de-sensitized to violence

[@lanedek]

Even Sigourney admits that 2001: A Space Odyssey is shit. I love her even more now.

[@DrJones20]

I dislike her for saying that

[@Princescyther]

I liked Prometheus : /