ALIEN MOVIE REACTION!! | First Time Watching! | Sigourney Weaver | John Hurt | Ridley Scott

It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, it made $200 million dollars against an $11 million dollar budget, it put Sigourney Weaver on the map, it spawned 3 Sequels, 2 spinoff films, 2 crossover films, video games, comics, novels, toys, board games, novelizations, and an upcoming live action TV series, it's now considered to be one of the scariest motion pictures ever made.

I love the sequel, “Aliens”, but “Alien” is the perfect organism.

This is why Ellen Ripley has reached legendary status as a character, you can see she has real fear but she is a survivor, able to make the tough decisions in an overwhelming situation. She is easily my favorite movie character, shes not some stoic unkillable hero with an ego but a character that is very human.

"In space, noone can hear you scream." Best movie tag line.

At 20:46 when you asked why didn't they "scan him before you broke bread again?" ACTUALLY. If you go back to that scene where Ripley questions Ash about breaking quarantine and looks into his microscope, notice how he turned off all his little monitors and stretched like he was sleepy? There was an embryo on the monitors! (It was an actual chicken embryo because they look rather alien-ish!) Ash knew about the embryo implant all along! He wasn't surprised when it birthed! He was excited, not scared! lol

This movie is a masterpiece. The set design and sound design created the perfect creepy environment and really heightened the edge-of-your-seat tension. And even now over 40 years later it still feels like futuristic sci-fi. I loved your reactions and I'm really looking forward to seeing you react to Aliens!

So a bit of clarification that may help, the crew of the Nostromo aren't astronauts or scientists as we would know them. They are basically space tow-truckers that were contractually obligated to investigate anything the company found interesting. You are correct in your assumption that the company put Ash there as the science officer to make sure the alien was brought back for study. Also, this movie was written with no gender or race in mind for any of the characters. All characters were just listed by last name so that they could cast the best person in each role regardless of any other factors. Most people originally assumed Ripley would be a man. Sigourney knocked it out of the park and is one of the best examples of a strong female lead ever in my opinion.

One of the reasons why this movie holds up well today is because each character was written based on their role in the initial script, "Pilot," "Captain," "Science Officer," etc. They didn't even know if they would be casting men or women at first and didn't let that form a bias in how they portrayed the characters.

"How is he so calm?" Oh, you'll find out. I'm old, but I had to get my mother to take me to a showing when it came out. The suspense was UNREAL in a theater.

classic movie, the scene where the Chestbuster comes out, none of the actors except John hurt, know fully what is happening, the script they got just said the alien emerges or something. None of them where expecting to get squirted with blood or how detailed it would be, so the reactions are pretty genuine.

Ripley tried to stop the self-destruct sequence not to find Jones but because the Alien had gotten between her and the shuttle, but it was too late for that. That's when the Alien hid himself in the shuttle. Ripley was forced to run to the shuttle regardless of the obvious danger, and she initially thought she had gotten lucky that the Alien decided to go elsewhere (but obviously he didn't--surprise!).

If they haven’t seen it yet I’d love to see them watch The Thing (1982 of course)

"You had to bring a therapy pet onboard" killed me. Of course, it doesn't look like it was working....

“Take a sample, you guys are scientists, right,” Achara Kirk. Actually, no, they’re not scientists, but so many people make that mistake because it’s so rare to follow people in space stories who are just working class and not military personnel or scientists, (maybe Dead Space and that Outland movie from ‘81.) Same thing happens with The Thing, the men in The Thing are mostly support staff for the station, (see Antarctica: A Year On The Ice.) If they’d only listened to Ripley. “He could be very sick, and contagious,” that’s correct, and hence quarantine procedures.

in those times they thought more at the film than the sequels, alien wasn't suppose to be a franchise but just a beautiful movie, a thing that maybe today is missing

Your timing for "there's no baby monitor in here?" Was perfect 😃 😂😂

The Android didn't listen to Ripley about the quarantine procedure not because she was a woman, but that she was counter to his mission. He was always going to retrieve the subject onto the ship at all costs, even to human life. Ripley was fighting the creature half naked in the escape ship, and was impossible to sexualize because it tapped into some caveman survival shit in all of us. For 1979, this movie was KING of universal concepts, and Ripley remains my favorite heroine, and top 3 HEROES ever.

Originally,the actress Veronica Cartwright who plays Lambert was suppose to play Ripley but Sigourney Weavers audition was so good,she got the part of Ripley.

One thing that people seem to miss is that Ash is the only science officer ... the rest are just basically truck drivers who have to investigate because their bosses say so. They mostly just want to get on with it and get home ...

This is my all time favorite horror movie. There are very few classic movie reactions I look forward to as much as Alien. Especially from people who have absolutely no idea what the Xenomorph’s are or what they can do. I saw it when I was WAY too young at age 11. The Xenomorph was literally the embodiment of my nightmares throughout my childhood. Fun/Scary Fact: The Xenomorph is actually based on a real life insect, the Tarantula Hawk which is a wasp from the southwest United States. It reproduces by hunting tarantulas, paralyzing them with it’s stinger, dragging them into the spiders hollow, laying an egg on the spiders belly, then the egg hatches and the larvae devours the spider from the inside out.