Alien (1979) | Full-Length Reaction
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βUnclouded my conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.β Decades later, it was elected to high office.
Susan B
2025-06-07 17:06:00 +0000 UTCTrue true
Franklin
2025-06-07 17:03:37 +0000 UTCThat time a woman warned everybody about Armageddon and got overruled.
Susan B
2025-06-07 15:51:32 +0000 UTCA favorite thing about this film is that space travel by their time has become a blue-collar job. These astronauts arenβt explorers or adventurers; they are long-haul truckers. That gave Alien a sense of realism.
Susan B
2025-06-07 15:28:10 +0000 UTCNo doubt. We'll see. Thank you for watching
Franklin
2025-06-06 16:08:54 +0000 UTCfinally got to see this reaction and did not disappoint!!! hope you do the more recent films in the aiien franchise sometime down the line bc despite the mixed rep they get, i think tney're def crafted in a meaningful way. more lore, but also risk that i think you'd appreciate!!
Latte
2025-06-05 19:30:34 +0000 UTCππ weird ass robot
Franklin
2025-06-01 13:22:22 +0000 UTCβSquirting out milk?!β lol
Devon Michelle
2025-06-01 01:49:00 +0000 UTCWith teethπππ You describing the environment just took me back to simpler days
Franklin
2025-05-31 16:08:43 +0000 UTCThat is so interesting. The subtext
Franklin
2025-05-31 16:07:25 +0000 UTCThanks Kim
Franklin
2025-05-31 16:06:14 +0000 UTCOh shit. I love when directors do that
Franklin
2025-05-31 16:05:32 +0000 UTCThe funniest part about the chest burster scene is that none of the other actors were told what would happen to Kane. So their reactions are actually real, very cool.
Devon Michelle
2025-05-30 22:25:08 +0000 UTCYour comments and reactions...perfect!. No matter how many times I see this movie, I really enjoy it. The character Kane who you see rise first from the pods...is actor John Vincent Hurt, may he rest in peace, 2017. He is noted to be one of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents. Can easily recognize his slightly gravel-voice as well when he is in disguise. He has a rich film history. Be sure to check out his role in the film The Elephant Man -1980. It is based on a true story which is gut-wrenching. Another powerful film he is in is Midnight Express-1978...it is definintely worth a watch.
KimM
2025-05-30 19:04:14 +0000 UTCI love scifi for how it allows art to explore social topics. It is impossible to watch this movie without dealing with gender politics. It is, after all, a "pregnant man" story! So you weren't off at all when you talked about unsolicited dick pics and how necessary the underwear scene really is. Even when people try to only focus on the action, they end up actually talking about gender dynamics. It is also a movie conceived and filmed at the height of second-wave feminism, so having a dick-looking alien(*) that secretes dangerous bodily fluids, stalking and assaulting a predominantly male crew, and using their bodies to breed, is trying to contribute to that conversation, for sure. (*) Except in the facehugger stage, that one is decidedly vulva-coded! π I had never seen the Director's cut, I found it slower than the theatrical. Definitely watch Aliens (one of the legendary best sequels of all time), and then Alien Romulus!! Skip the rest, honestly.
Lola Lirola
2025-05-30 11:23:30 +0000 UTCThe only thing that bothers me about it is, why are the panties so SMALL? It gives me anxiety, lol. Like imagine going through all the shit she's going through and her underwear isn't even covering her butt. That's the REAL horror.π³
Alva
2025-05-30 02:57:59 +0000 UTCMy man! When you referred to the chest explosion scene with βis this like getting an unsolicited dick pic?β, I about lost it! π It absolutely isβ¦with TEETH!!! π€£ Alien, imho, has aged well. I was 21 when it came out and about to graduate from college with an engineering degree. No one owned a computer that wasnβt room-sized. Phones were still corded and plugged into the wall. And you had to get out of your chair to change the channel to one of the other 4 choices on the tv. There was no cgi, the director had to feed suggestions to your imagination to fill in the horrorβ¦ Alien is the OG. Aliens is even better. I hope it makes the cut soon!
Kendall P
2025-05-30 02:25:28 +0000 UTCMy interpretation of the clothes situation is vulnerability and having your guard down; it's a visual way of saying "and now that part is done", or signaling "the threat is not here and I am alone". Which is interesting to me because 1) it's not particularly sexy, in movement or in style like it often is in gratuitous ways in media and 2) the changing of it can inform the understanding of the emotion of the character before and after.
Charlie Ito
2025-05-30 01:56:38 +0000 UTCπ₯
Franklin
2025-05-30 01:04:52 +0000 UTChaha thanks for sharing that story. The way he described it I can see how that poster terrified you
Franklin
2025-05-30 01:04:38 +0000 UTCMuch love. I like me a good video essay, just added it to my watch later playlist
Franklin
2025-05-30 01:03:32 +0000 UTCππΎ
Franklin
2025-05-30 01:01:59 +0000 UTCThanks for dropping all this dope info James
Franklin
2025-05-30 01:01:49 +0000 UTCRight... and you saw who lived the longest...he would have made it if he wasn't stuck with cry baby Lambert!
Lailah Johnson
2025-05-30 00:45:15 +0000 UTCNo one listening to the brother and no one listening to the woman. Hello, 1979.
Melissa
2025-05-30 00:25:39 +0000 UTCWhen other sci-fi tries to be scary or grounded they are basically biting off of Alien (1979, Dir. Ridley Scott) and Aliens (1986, Dir. James Cameron). There are some other influences but those 2 kind dominated what folks thought for grounded alien movies. Slide in some Silent Running, Star Wars, Kubrick's 2001, and The Thing (1982), and even a sprinkle of Bladerunner and you can see how they still influence stuff now. You aren't being to hard on them but something to keep in mind is that these folks aren't "Astronauts" the way we have them now. Astronauts now have to be pretty exceptioonal. The crew of the Nostromo are just a bunch of corporate employee for a mining operation. They have no training in first contact and I don;t think extraterrestrial life exists in this world on a meaningful level. They are more like merchant marine or oil rig workers than astronauts; highly skilled at their job but in not necessarily tight mentally or socially. Dead Space doesn't exist without Alien pretty much. There is a whole tone and viisual style that comes from Alien and Aliens. The first one had to lean more an atmosphere because they didn't have advanced enough even make up effects to have teh alien not be super cheesy. I like that they show it very little and they do it is very stylized. By modern standards it may seem bad but I think much of the heavy CG stuff that has come out over the last 30-40 years looks bad and it doesn't even have an excuse of not having the tech; just no style and kind of artless spectacle. The background when the ship was landing wasn't computer graphics, at this point CG was too primitive for even that. Most likely a practical model was comped into a blue screen shot where they had a matte painting done to replace the background star field. I think that still classifies as an "in camera effect" because they basically combining the information in 2 film cells into one frame to create a complete image. 2001 (1968), Silent Running in (1972) has similar effects which were used for years, and eventually Star Wars (1977) came in and advanced it way more with their motion control camera rig where they could replicate the shots much easier. Star Wars ina way made Alien a possibility. Just liek movie studios now, when some hits it big, tehy want to replicate it so they can cash in and for a time, it will open up funding and mindset. There were a lot of films like Alien that go greenlit in the wake of Star Wars, some hist but so many misses. Lucas founded ILM out of the work they did on Star Wars and spun it off into it's own entity that persists nearly 50 years later. ILM changed teh FX game, and many folks who spun off from ILM created the FX houses that made every cool movie since.
James W.
2025-05-30 00:23:10 +0000 UTCwoooooooooooooo
Franklin
2025-05-30 00:22:03 +0000 UTCYeah I think I saw some of the marketing for Romulus and that shit looked good
Franklin
2025-05-30 00:21:40 +0000 UTCI love this film so much. Excited to watch it again for the first time in years.
Melissa
2025-05-30 00:16:28 +0000 UTCI'm a fiend for this movie and I highly recommend you watch this companion guide for the film to learn about some truly fascinating aspects of this film. https://youtu.be/Qjju9VFeAgs?si=d54rIHxLuRdQPXcZ Its a 1.5 hour video essay that truly elevates the genius of Alien (1979). I It discusses the social context of the 1970s including how feminism, sexual liberation, the civil rights movement, science and technological advancements all tie into the construction of the story. Its a 1.5 hour video essay that truly elevates the genius of Alien (1979). No pressure, but if you ever need some background noise, I recommend tapping into this , because I think you would genuinely enjoy it. Or maybe it could even be a fun Patreon react exclusive!
Lailah Johnson
2025-05-30 00:05:39 +0000 UTCOmg, what a cool surprise!! Gonna have to enjoy this tomorrow, because it's 2 am here now, but I remember when this movie opened I was a kid, and I never saw it, but they had the poster of it at a family restaurant we used to go to, and just the poster *terrified* me! It was on the staircase that went down to the toilets in the dark, and there was just an egg beginning to crack, and then the movie tagline written on it was "In space, nobody can hear you scream" π±π«£π± I was so scared to go near it! I finally saw the movie when I was 28. It's a great movie!
Lola Lirola
2025-05-30 00:03:34 +0000 UTCPLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE WATCH ALIEN:ROMULUS NEXT. You dont need to watch the whole franchise but please at least watch Alien Romulus. It came out last year and is the chronological sequel to this movie. It was phenomenal and I think you in particular would appreciate the story!!!
Lailah Johnson
2025-05-29 23:56:58 +0000 UTCIM GONNA CRY IM SO EXCITED!! I HAD NOTHING TO WATCH TONIGHT NOW O GET TO WATCH ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME WOOOO
Lailah Johnson
2025-05-29 23:55:22 +0000 UTCLETS GOOO
Elizabeth D
2025-05-29 23:50:20 +0000 UTC
