The Reel Rejects - ALIENS (1986) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:39 I'm ready to get my alien on. Oh, that's a new alien voice that I'm hearing from him. What would my alien voice make? That was weird. That's a voice. All right, we found it. Shall we do it? Let's get it.

Starting point is 00:02:00 Oh my gosh, we just got done watching aliens. If you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, give us a five-star rating. Leave all the comments. Leave all the likes. Also, don't forget to go to rejectnation shop.com. We got shirts. The she-jacks have the cult of she-jacks. Yes.

Starting point is 00:02:20 Nice comfy sweaters. That's so great. We got T-shirts coming for you soon, too. Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Yeah. Wow. Oh, my gosh. I feel like we both loved it, right?

Starting point is 00:02:32 That was great, yeah. Like, it's so good. It was awesome. And there was jump scares in it. I mean, like you were saying in the beginning, like it had a different tone to it, obviously two different directors, James Cameron and this one.

Starting point is 00:02:47 And it did feel more military-ish. Like, we're really shining a light on the Marines here, which I thought was great. But, like, adding new to the story, how heartfelt was that at the end? end like give me a break and she calls her mommy and like she's has newt now and I just I love that but also wow we we killed the mom did like just when you think that this movie is going to end you're like oh mama hung on to the plane and came back this was a wild ride it was great great

Starting point is 00:03:22 like practical effects like and great aliens as you said they look bigger and more advanced And obviously I say no wrong about any actor in this. I always am like, if you have good actors and a good script, which this was, like when she goes, what does she say to it? When she's like, get away from her, you bitch. Yeah, that's great. You're like, I can't imagine what the theater would be like if all of the years hooting and hollering. I love this movie, 10 out of 10, give me a break. What did you think?

Starting point is 00:03:52 I thought it was great. I really thought a really good time with it. I thought it was the perfect example. of a successful sequel. It up the ante in every way. You know, we really got to be inside of Ripley's head as far as what she was feeling when the movie started

Starting point is 00:04:06 because of the events of the first movie and then just finding a way to up the stakes in every single capacity, whether it be from the action, from the sets to the character drama. Everything was just, was upped and done extremely well. You can tell that this was a different director in James Cameron

Starting point is 00:04:25 just because of how stylistically different it was, get it still kept things that were core to what that made the first one so good, but just changing it and almost changing genres in a little bit because I feel like the first one was very much claustrophobic sci-fi horror, and this was very much action horror, action sci-fi horror, which I thought was definitely added to the excitement of the movie for sure, because I felt like the lot of the first time I spent most of it just very tense. And though this movie had moments of tenseness, I think it was a lot more more explorative and had a lot more heart to it because of the connection of between Ripley

Starting point is 00:05:03 and Newt and I thought that was like the nucleus of the movie and I feel like adding that only amplified the effect of like her being so protective only endears you to Ripley more because you understand what she's fighting for and initially her reasoning for being there was to help them but then as soon as she ran into New he was like okay this is our new reason. And without spelling it out for you, it kind of gives you an idea of like the kind of person she is from the get go. She is someone who's very protective, who's very tough, who's very smart, who's very nurturing. And I think being able to see all of that in action, like it was a perfect example of show, don't tell. And I thought it was, it was great. You know, we also had

Starting point is 00:05:48 a very good and, I think, well-written supporting cast, you know, and I think we, having people like Bill Paxson in there with some of his lines like I know I've heard like the game over man thing like I'm I didn't know that was from this movie specifically but I was like okay yeah I've definitely heard that line in like film cinema and um in um cinema quotes and whatnot yeah and I just had a really good time with it I think that I'm what I vaguely do know about these movies I think there's like a debate and you guys correct me from wrong between like what you like more alien or aliens and I think I really really enjoy this. movie I think I like the first one a little bit better personally just because I think the

Starting point is 00:06:31 uniqueness of the slow pace in that build and I feel like there's a very very modern look to it but this movie what James Cameron did was it was great in its own right as well I think this is the perfect sequel in elevation of not only scope scale story but also concept and also we learn a little bit more about the mythology of the the aliens as well we learned there's aenomorph in this movie and we had they come in different shapes and sizes, not only the face huggers, I think that's what they're called, but the, you know, the

Starting point is 00:07:03 different, there's like the fast ones and the mom ones and obviously we have like the chest buster ones. So I think getting to see just how many different types of aliens are only added to the intrigue and the suspense of it. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:07:19 I absolutely agree. And it was great to see in the end started to give us this huge, massive visual of her like, birthing her eggs and now we have found the mother which we didn't find that before we just saw eggs that were like asleep for a long time and um I like that of course we still have we send up these these colonies that it's it's 57 years later but Burke is like obviously going up there they send the colonies out there it's a bad move but knowing full well after all of this time

Starting point is 00:07:55 that their goal is obviously to bring one back to Earth and make money on it, right? I mean, because when we go into that scientific lab, we're seeing that that's what they're doing there. They're actually studying the aliens. There was a full-on lab there. That's what they were there for. So I thought that was really, really great script writing.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Free script writing, dumb on their part. Very dumb. Very, like, what were you guys doing? Obviously, your colony is not going to survive. But I mean, I really did agree with you that the first one was more horror. I felt just way more. My asshole was clenched more in the first one. I will tell you that.

Starting point is 00:08:37 This one still nervous, still on the edge of my seat, especially with those silences. But it was, and there was still a lot of jump scares. Totally. But there was more of that fun energy sometimes with the way the characters were written in the comedy, like with Bill Pat with Bill Paxton and with Vasquez's character I love seeing all of them

Starting point is 00:09:00 interact and I just thought like when she gets in that loader that is like wow right that's just a fun ride now we're getting more into just a more of a fun aspect of the film rather than it being horror all the time

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Starting point is 00:11:20 the movie wasn't shot in sequence. Obviously, films never are, but for added realism, James Cameron filmed the scene where we first meet the Colonial Marines, one of the earliest scenes, last. This was so that the camaraderie of the Marines was realistic because the actors had spent months

Starting point is 00:11:38 filming together. That is so smart. Because when you open up on a movie, and if you don't read that chemistry right away, we're not going to be on board. And I felt that chemistry right away from the first one. I told you that when they were around that the table, we felt it almost immediately.

Starting point is 00:11:57 I think that's really smart in James Cameron's part. When filming the scene with Newt in the Ducks, Carrie Hen kept deliberately blowing her scene so she could slide down the vent, which she later called a slide three stories tall. James Cameron finally dissuaded her by saying that if she completed this show, shot. She could play on it as much as she wanted. She did, and he kept his promise. That is

Starting point is 00:12:22 adorable. That's such a wholesome fact. That is so cute. Bill Paxton continuously apologized to Carrie Henn, the little girl, throughout filming every time Hudson had to square in front of her. Carrie later admitted that she didn't mind, mainly because she really didn't know what any of the words meant. That's so great. Lance Henriksen had previously pledged to quit acting. if this part didn't work out for him after years of journeyman roles, it proved to be one of his most successful films. I love that. I love stories like that.

Starting point is 00:12:57 Me too. Let's see. Oh, the knife trick scene was originally going to be done by Bishop Alone. According to Lance Henriksen, he suggested to James Cameron to have Hudson hand put on top of his, to which Cameron agreed, as Henrickson felt the scene needed something extra. This change was discussed with almost everyone except Bill Paxton. What, Henrickson also remembers a long night of drinking after shooting the scene,

Starting point is 00:13:29 followed by a reshoot of the scene, as it looked too fake when they sped the footage up. He accidentally caught Paxton's pinky with the knife on the reshoot. What? You guys. Oh my God. I will read one, one spoiler. Let's see.

Starting point is 00:13:46 Hey, we don't want to get too spoiled. What? What? In both, let's just see, I'm just, I'm still living on, he caught a pinky. That's, I felt that, I felt that fact. In both the standard and the special edition versions, the 15 minute countdown at the end of the film is indeed 15 minutes. Oh. It's exactly 15 minutes.

Starting point is 00:14:06 That's cool. Okay, that's really smart. Okay, real time. This is what I like about smart films that are well written, and there's not. not a lot of exposition. It is just like, here you go. You're smart people. We have smart people in our film.

Starting point is 00:14:20 That's what I love. Great job, James Cameron. And obviously, everyone in the cast. I got no complaints. No notes. You got any last things to say? No, it was brilliant. I had a great time with it.

Starting point is 00:14:32 It was a lot of fun. This is the perfect theater movie. And yeah, I look forward to let us know if you guys want to watch the third one. Because, yeah, I'm in. This looks great. Yeah. Leave your likes. Type in your comments.

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The Reel Rejects - ALIENS (1986) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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