FIRST TIME WATCHING: Alien...the tension is TANGIBLE

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Ninetailebrush and James tackle yet another classic horror movie and wow does it pay off. Watch them watch Ridley Scott's Alien. Enjoy!
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[@judeless77]

Tom Skeritt was supposed to be the one who lived but Sigourney was such a strong actress that Ridley Scott decided to give her the lead.

[@wickamo]

The thing to remember about this movie is that its not only a legendary classic of scifi horror, but it was the first of it's kind. This was the blueprint that all following movies of this kind were fashioned from. So when you were saying why are they doing that, or don't go near that egg, or why didn't they kill it.....and so on, remember that you've seen this scenario many times before, but when we first saw this in the theater, we had never seen all of these scifi horror standards. An egg was just an egg...that you didn't necessarily expect something horrible to come out of. And a little baby alien was just that...and you didn't expect that it would be 9 feet tall in a few hours. The only alien movies we were used to was Star Wars and E.T. No one had ever even thought of the idea of an alien parasite that could burst out of you so, this was ground breaking horror that blew our minds.

[@faz0482]

The fact that this movie, which is 42 years old (!). is still capable of generating strong reactions, even in the younger generations, speaks volumes about its craft. The birth scene is still shocking to this day to a first time viewer, even with all the gore and blood we are used to nowadays. Imagine seeing something like that on a big screen in '79.

[@Rmlohner]

The actors had a vague idea from the script of what would happen in the chestburster scene, but didn't know any details about how the effect would actually be done or what it would look like. So all their reactions are totally genuine, which especially shows in Veronica Cartwright's slurred "Oh my god!" One of the crew members was so disturbed that when shooting ended for the day, he tried to get in the wrong car. It wasn't even the same color.

[@JockScrapDraws]

It's difficult for me to fathom why some people haven't seen this classic. It blows my mind, but then you guys are young and I'm ancient. So there's that lol.

[@captainbryce1]

The reason the ship looks and feels so "realistic" is because Ridley Scott wanted it to be as claustrophobic as possible and as functional as possible. The set was built with long, tight corridors leading into large rooms, which could not be accessed by the cast/crew without actually walking through the "ship". The buttons and lights were all functional as well, giving it a very "usable" look and feel. That combined with the background hum that James noticed makes this ship feel much more grounded than in most sci-fi movies.

[@shainewhite2781]

RIP John Hurt (Kane), Ian Holm (Ash), Yaphat Kotto (Parker) Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), HR Giger ( VFX), Carlo Rambaldi ( VFX) Jerry Goldsmith(Composer). Thank you all for making this film possible.

[@perytas]

It always makes me laugh when everyone always yells, "Why didn't you kill it?!?!" during the chest burster scene. I always yell back, "Acid for blood, remember?" Lol

[@195511SM]

Those sets are REAL. No CGI. To make them look even larger....( like when you see the astronauts walking out of the ship...) they had kids wearing spacesuits.

[@flmlvr]

I have told this story on other comments regarding the reaction to "Alien", but damn, I like telling this story. I'm now 63 years old and saw this movie on opening day, last showing. I had waited in line for nearly 2 hours, and the people I spoke to in line had no idea what this movie was about - some THOUGHT it was a horror movie, but we definitely knew it was Sci Fi. As you probably know by now, the trailers revealed nothing - and I was fortunate enough to NOT see any trailer before the movie opened. So skip to the chase: 50 or so minutes into the film is when the BIG SCENE occurs. I don't recall any particularly loud scream coming from the audience, but I can assure you this: my eyes were wide as saucers and my mouth was probably on the ground, and I think that is probably how the rest of the audience was too. Alls I knew from that point forward, I was scared to death. When the second jolt hit, I can remember it being the first time saying to myself "It's just a movie. It's just a movie." And I would go see it something like 6 times in the theater. It still remains one of my favorites to this day. And seeing you guys react to it shows the movie has aged very very well. And that was despite the fact that the movie took it's time building up suspense and such. Glad you guys liked it.

[@kingscorpion7346]

in 1979, before the movie came out, the trailers revealed absolutely nothing! not who was in it, what it was about. anything! just a picture of the egg with earie green light spilling out of it as the title spelled out above it, with the caption, "In space, no one can hear you scream..."

[@tonyyul703]

You guessed right at that being their truckers in space because that's actually the log line for the whole movie "a bunch of space truckers encounter something on the road." that is basically the entire movie

[@tonyyul703]

An artist you need to definitely Google up is H.R Giger... He's a surrealist who has tons of paintings that are nothing but otherworldly. And it's his art in the book Necronominon that Ridley Scott found his Xenomorph.

[@uniquelyme3581]

"You just let it go"?

[@Short_Round1999]

Fun fact: The first scene with the chest-burster. None of the cast knew what exactly was gonna happen, they knew what the thing looked like, but not how they were gonna do it. So, Langley and everyone’s reaction is genuine

[@brockbaby]

Ridley Scott said the computers were purposefully made to look archaic and old because those mining ships get the crap technology.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

The original trailers for this movie gave nothing away except that it happened in space and was intense. Imagine watching it in a big old-fashioned theater packed with excited people who had absolutely no idea what they were about to see. It was one of the most exciting shared movie-going experiences of my entire life. At the time, we didn't know who Sigourney Weaver was and had no idea who, if anyone, would survive. When I got my first VCR in 1981 this was the very first thing I ever recorded, when it came on HBO that night. I couldn't believe I actually owned my own copy of it that I could watch any time I wanted to.

[@keijunen]

I got to see this in a movie theater a few years back and one thing about this: The SETS. PRACTICAL SETS. No CGI.

[@JoyfulOrb]

Do the Quadrilogy! Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection! There are mixed responses to 3&4, but Sigourney Weaver is astonishing the WHOLE TIME! Ripley's character arc is mind expanding, and for decades women who loved Science Fiction and Horror could stand tall because of her.

[@cursivelyric3694]

One of my favorite horror movies! A couple years ago, a New Jersey high school even did a play adaptation with an impressive set and costumes; it went viral and Sigorney Weaver came to their third performance!