The Reel Rejects - ALIEN (1979) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: July 28, 2024

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do all the juice you guys know it's up church your family yeah wow I mean just editors if you find the jump scare feel free to add it in again right now that sums up

my experience in this movie from the beginning to the end I was tense kind of like I mean I could say on the edge of my seat but I was like I just was like staying still to like take it in

this was a brilliantly written the camaraderie that we saw that the cast had I've seen other movies don't have chemistry like that and they don't it's literally one big scene when they're eating dinner they're talking over each other

massive chemistry I don't know if they met up months before but I thought it was brilliant. I thought the cinematography obviously is great, but the things that stand out to me, music-wise, was like, great. Like, what was that heartbeat? That was great.

But also, mainly for me, special effects, set deck props. With his head, amazing when he's talking. I mean, the amount of, like, imagination put into this is just, it makes this movie so much fun. It's from freaking 1979 and it blows out other movies made today literally out of the water

and I realize they are doing practical effects I wish we could go back to it and not have it all CGI so I just think what they did with this was amazing and I love it. Yeah

I also loved it I loved every second of it because something about this movie is that it was extremely well-paced. The music was incredible. The imagination on display with its set designs

and the way that it constructed its story and mythology, at least the beginnings of the mythology. We know this is the franchise. And everybody's acting was on point. You know, I really believed them as actual people. No one was hamming it up. No one was made, nobody felt like they were in a movie.

They just felt like they were people on this mission. And the movie's ability to have this slower building pace and you just because a lot of the time you don't really see the aliens just the tension around what's going to happen

as well it makes it scary and when it does finally happen it only hits that much harder and the fact that we're able to still feel that in a movie that came out in 1979 is only a testament to the quality of the filmmaking on display by Sir

Ridley Scott so yeah this is this is a really fantastic film and I understand why it's so well beloved because it just really encapsulate what it means to be a sci-fi horror movie and I don't know if I've seen a lot I have not seen a lot of sci-fi horror movies but it definitely succeeds in that fact because yeah you saw you saw the tension she was still I was squirming she was getting scared a lot I was deflecting my fear on her

and it was crazy it was wild great script great script great dialogue great time yeah really great dialogue I love the fact

that we got so endeared to Ripley over the course of the film because all of the not the odds were stacked against her yeah that too but the fact that no one would listen to her and she was right every step of the way

and then her being the only survivor at the end and even when we think she's safe at the end we're still not safe which only just adds to the tension and building of this movie because it just excels on all levels and I'm I'm thoroughly to entertain and yeah this is one of the better movies we've watched here so I agree you guys love this movie because well I'm sure the fans of this are watching it but yeah I'm happy I've had the experience to experience with you and her and yeah it's great and I think there it's a testament to see when a producer also writes a script and obviously the producer I forget his name right now probably had a good relationship with Ridley Scott because I think all the decisions that were most likely on the page as well as the script and the descriptions of the way the set's going to look and the tone of it that was married together exceptionally and I think that that's where you can get

not great movies. If you guys ever look at it, pay attention to like, is the producer also the writer and if they direct it, sometimes it can be crap, but most of the time it's good because that person is bringing their vision to life and there's not somebody up here going, I think you should add this in

and make it funnier or whatever the requests are. And I just think this movie is just fantastic. I'm going to take a second and look up some IMDBC if I can find some trivia. But I thought Sigourney Weaver was just I mean she's amazing and she's just like

such a boss bitch in this and it takes very few words to have us feel that from her right it's just in her character when she walks on to set and she's just there you just feel the immediacy of her when she's going to take charge

we know that we trust her and I thought that was just played really well and I also agree with you. All the actors, I did not believe a single one. And it was the one thing that I thought was such a great bait and switch was that he is a robot. Yeah. And the main thing that I thought that I went, oh, that was a good choice to write that in is when she goes to look at his telescope. And he goes, please don't do that. I thought it was weird because she just went to look in his telescope. And it's like they're on the crew. I can get how someone can be picky. but she was just looking at it. And like that to me, I know that the writer was thinking, we have to write in some things.

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Or did she call me Stephen? That was gross. That was my father's name. He was very stoic the entire time. Absolutely. Yeah, even like going back to him drinking the milk and then you see like, oh, that's not milk. It's probably his like oil or his fluid that he's just like consuming to keep himself like loose. Yeah, I agree.

Oh my God. The blue laser lights that were used in the alien sheet. Egg Chamber were borrowed from the Who. The band was testing out lasers for their stage show in the sound stage next door. That's insane trivia

you guys. That's wild. The chess bursting scene was not filmed in one take. The scene was filmed twice. On the first take, the chess buster was able to cut through Kane's shirt, so the crew needed to reset and shoot it again. Yikes. The failed attempt

is visible in the finished film since Director Ridley Scott thought it made it look like the creature was struggling to push its way out and made this scene more violent. See the Beast Within documentary, this is discussed. According to designer Rob, Ron Cobb, the two takes of the scene were shot from multiple angles and about 40 minutes of footage was available for screening. Wow. 40 minutes of that.

Damn, that's wild. Oh, my God. Okay, just take a guess as to what? What was used to create tendons of the beast's ferocious jaws, stuff that's used during sex. Take a guess. Interesting. Wow. Okay.

Yeah, take a guess. You got a guess. It's a thing used in sex. This thing used in sex. Yep, I want you to take one guess. They were, it was used. Shredded condoms. Wow.

We're used to create tendons of the beast's. ferocious jaws. Wow. Isn't that amazing? That's cool. That's wild. Okay. According to Yofet Koto, Sir Ridley Scott told him to annoy Sigourney Reaver off

camera, so there would be genuine tension between their characters. Cato regretted this because he really liked Weaver. Oh. That probably would have been hard to get. Oh, this, I was curious about this. To get Jones the cat to react fearfully to the descending alien, a German Shepard was placed in front of him with the screen between the two, so the

cat would see it at first. The screen was then suddenly removed to make Jones stop advancing and start hissing. I was curious how they got the cat. It was a great when they have the light on it, and we see the alien, we see the cat. And it's very real. It is not CGI. So it was very curious how they

did that. That's interesting. I'll read one more. Let's see if I can do a spoiler. It was a conceptual artist Ron Cobb, who came up with the idea that the alien should bleed acid. Great idea. This came about when Dan O'Bannon ran into a wall with the screenplay and how to handle the last half of the movie.

He needed a good reason for why the crew members don't just shoot the thing and kill it, but not make it an indestructible monster that can't be killed. The acid blood was the idea that solved the problem. That's perfect. Because it's like, as you guys know, I'm watching Friday 13th with Roxy, and I mean, Jason Voorhees does not die. He's like the term, but he's like, fom, and I also think, like, in movies like this when you're like, wait, why are they always just running away? Kill them.

Don't just shoot them once. Kill them 15 times. Bat him over the head. Stuff like that. So I think that what makes this a really great thriller and horror movie is they give you a good reason why we're not doing that. And I love that. I think it's brilliant.

And I like smartly written things and good acting, which makes this put it put it to the top of my list of a great film, Alien, done and done. done and done done and done you got any last words for them or more things you want to say yeah no I thought it was great the fact that this was made in 1979

and it's something that can still hold up as a quality horror movie because we've seen movies far and few between since 1979 up until 2004 that don't hit his horror movies but the fact that this knows what horror is what knows what tension is

what quality scares are is only a testament to the filmmaking and like kudos to Ridley Scott for achieving that. Because, yeah, this was great. And yeah, if you guys like this, I look forward to watching the other ones because I'm so invested now.

Me too. We would absolutely love to watch the rest. So make sure that you like this video, share it. Please share it with your friends. Let's get those views up. Leave a bunch of comments for us. Tell us how much you like it. What was your favorite part? What was your jump scared?

Did you fly out of your seat like me? I mean, I lost control, obviously. We love you guys, and we will see you on the next one. Bye. David Gandy. I think you would make a great one of the replicants or whatever they call them in the alien universe. You would be one of the good ones, though.

Not one of the ones that has some nefarious scheme up his sleeve. You would just be calm and methodical, well-thought-out, and an asset to the team. Unusually horny. Unusually horny robot. But hey, I mean, that's what makes you human, all right? We need those flourishes so that we feel comfortable to express ourselves romantically in front of you, which is what you need from a proper cyborg, you know, assistant companion, replicants, et cetera.

Surprise you didn't go with the fact that there's already a replica named David. There is a replica name David, but that was too obvious, all right? I don't think you're saying it's too obvious, but I think you thought of it. It was so obvious that I couldn't think of anything else. I don't think of it. I think most things through David Gannie. You know, if I was a replicant, I would have thought of that first thing. And this would have been a way more efficient shout out with way better joke to reference ratios in the movie.

So, hey, I've failed you this month, David. So, you know, now it's up to you to come out and punish me. however you see fit. So, you know, I'll be waiting. Yeah, very thematically in line. I love it. Oh.