Alien (1979) MOVIE REACTION | Their FIRST TIME WATCHING | Theatrical Cut 

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“This sounds like an old movie…” It’s only OH MY GOD IT TURNED 45-YEARS-OLD THIS YEAR!!! 😱😱😱

You have to remember that, when this came out in 1979, the tropes of a final girl and a 4th act were not yet a thing. So Ripley being the lone survivor and the "Big Chap" showing up on the shuttle were totally new things for audiences back then.

I always took the scene where the alien sees Jones the cat in his carrier and leaves him be as the alien recognizing another alpha predator.

I HIGHLY recommend watching the director’s cut for the next film, Aliens. They leave out a big part of Ripley’s backstory which makes the whole story better.

You have to remember that when this was made, there was nothing else like it. So many movies have tried to emulate it and it set the standard for so many movies that it inspired

"Listen to Ripley." And right there, you've hit the nail on the head. Absolutely goddamn right.

To me, the three major ratchets of the fear in this movie are, 1) the eerie soundtrack as they explore the crashed ship, 2) the first leap of the facehugger from the egg into the helmet, and 3) Veronica Cartwright’s fast panting and abrupt scream as Ripley hears this in the hallway. These generate a ton of dread that for instance, the chest bursting can’t because the creature is too puppet-like and well lit at that point. The best scares are overheard or implied in the shadows.

The xenomorph takes on certain traits from the host it bursts out of. If its host body is on 4 legs then it will be on 4 legs.

That was a space version of a burial at sea. Contrary to what you assumed OT IS an act of respect to their fellow crew member.

Seeing Prometheus first i think ruins a little of mystery in Alien. When i first saw Alien, i see the Space Jockey as an actual alien, not some giant Mime with spandex tights.

Recently saw this in theaters for its 45th anniversary & it was a whole other experience...I love this movie but that made me so envious of those who first saw it in '79. This, Predator & The Thing are still the best alien movies all these years later...just iconic in every way

Fun little trivia, apparently when they did the chest burster scene, they didn't want to do multiple takes, so they went over kill on the blood and didn't warn Veronica Cartwright that she was going to be in the blood firing line... Her reaction of terror was genuine fear and shock, no acting. I kinda feel bad for her.

It's about time, well BTTN. Welcome back, Better Late Than Never!!!

Great to see your admiration for the great Jerry Goldsmith, his score to Alien is so brilliant and threateningly atmospheric.

Distinctly remember this having the best jump scare ever! Awesome reaction as always!

When they first start searching for it they're expecting the little thing that came out of Kane. They had no way of knowing how fast it would grow.

Glad you watched the original theatrical cut on this one. Ridley Scott has said that this is actually his preferred version. The so-called "director's cut" was put together mainly for a DVD box set that was going to include alternate versions of all (at the time) four Alien movies. For ALIENS, it's a bit of a toss-up for me. The "Special Edition" does restore a bit of backstory for Ripley that makes the story more resonant, but it also adds some frankly unnecessary scenes that bog the pace down a bit. The theatrical cut moves a little better, IMO.

That's a classic. Alien is an epic movie. #SigourneyWeaver is a beast in it! 👽

OK! You all are my favorite "Alien" reaction. And, that's over (10) years of looking at Alien Reactions. Good job.

Vanessa im surprised youve never seen Alien before! Well, now you have. Fantastic reaction. Btw, when they 'shot' Kane out of that chamber, they didnt really shoot him out. It's just that the moment the door was opened that chamber depressurized really quickly, pushing the body out really fast - it was unexpected though lol

Old movie? I think of 1920s haha

I think Ripley includes Ash in the dead list because she doesn't want the Company to know that she knows what's going on, in case a Company ship picks up the shuttle while she's asleep.

The Aliens movie should be seen with the extended version b/c it will answer the questions you will have if you don’t. (FYI: highly recommend watching the Alien franchise and Predator franchise (together) IN ORDER OF RELEASE to avoid spoilers

Never seeing the original is wild……

I remember watching this movie for the first time long before there was any thought of what was to come in the years that followed. An amazing movie experience that still more than holds itself even today.

I've seen this movie more times than any other-even the movie from where I got my username. First saw it on Feb. 7, 1981, on Showtime; had three friends spend the night and my folks watched with us. All six of us were _terrified_ for the last hour. We didn't dare watch it again when it re-ran at 4 a.m. Also: Sabriena's hair is amazing. Love it. 😎👍

Every time I see the chest burster scene I can't help but sing "Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal!" I swear Spaceballs has destroyed all horror and tension in that scene for me. I keep expecting it to put on a top hat! 😂

The chillest vibes, hope you have them on more

This Ridley Scot first "Alien" movie is more suspense horror while David Cameron directs the more action orientated second movie "Aliens".

Allow me to channel my inner Chief Brody when I say, "You're gonna need a bigger TV screen..." 😉😉

I thought I was the only one who laughed when they launched Kanes body into space. Idk why it’s so funny to me. Like she said, you expect a nice slow, soft send off but what you get is they just chucked him out the airlock. Even though that is probably how it would look it’s still funny

Alien is an absolute masterpiece. There's never been a fim like it in science fiction. It's gothic and sexual themes I've never seen anything like it in any other film. The practical effects are incredible. And for more than 40 years it's held it's place in Science Fiction film.

I'm so glad yall watched the theatrical version. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to experience it like day one movie goers did.

This movie is a perfect storm! Casting, music, design, cinematography...and I'm also thinking of the diagetic sound (the water with the chains; the opening and closing hatches, etc.) Just perfect!

When I first watched that scene of the baby alien ripping through his stomach, many years ago, I was just about to have a meal. It was the only time in my life that I lost my appetite and couldn't eat a bite lol.

Dallas gets jazz hands!😂

At many classic theaters, near anyone reading this comment, they will screen a classic film series. If you get a chance to watch "Alien" and "Aliens" as a double-feature, be sure to take the opportunity, they are both incredible on the big screen.

Ripley was right all along

My _ONE_ criticism with this movie is that having the Nostromo blow up THREE times was perhaps a bit over the top. Yes, three times.

I think the cooling system was damaged in the crash landing so the raining was condensation from the cooling system.

some fun facts most of the alien gross bits believ it or not is actually edible. or least when cooked. The part where Kane looks into the open egg and there's that wet fleshy bit with the white gooey bit that's actually raw chicken breast with I forget what it's called but it's a white substance that looks like fat but it's something else its like a fleshy webbing that was also added. And the face hugger when they find it dead and Ash is picking at it what your looking at is actually clam meat that's been lightly doctored up with a bit of food coloring... also in the 80's a fill called Spaceballs would bring the actor who played Kane for a cameo to relive his chest popping scene he even does an ad lip where he's liken" Oh no not again!" hinting his character is the same Kane that we saw in alien who somehow survive to have another alien baby once more lol.

Her shoes look like chucks, but I think she’s actually rocking PF flyers. They were another brand that looked a lot like chuck taylors

I was 12 years old when my older brother took me along with his girlfriend to see this in the cinema

Supposedly, the way the sequel got made was that James Cameron was pitching a movie to the studio (I think it was something related to "Spartacus") and the studio rejected him. But on his way out he struck up a conversation with the receptionist and they talked for a while about movies. When he was finally leaving, she blurted out, "Well, you could always do a sequel to Alien!" and this stuck in his head longer than he thought it would and worked on a treatment for it which eventually led to the movie getting greenlighted.

The tag line for this movie was "In space no one can hear you scream" but it then goes on to have sound of rocket boosters and other noises OUTSIDE of the ship in a frigging vacuum. A big mistake that few movies get right, the main exception being Kubricks 2001.

Absolutely fucking adore this film!! Although I do often struggle to decide which is truly better, Alien or Aliens? Subjective, of course, and two VERY different films too. Love em both. Ps Watching this reaction video from London, whilst thoroughly baked on a Thursday night, was also an experience in itself as Sabriena and Ilias were even more stoned than I am! 😂 Nice one 👌 Love from 🇬🇧

Thanks to Vanessa, Sabriena and Ilias! 👾 For what it's worth, I really appreciated seeing more of *the* *Engineers* in PROMETHEUS and COVENANT.

Better Late Than Never is back, jack!!! Yeah!! 💪

that boi alvin cooked

Yeah! Another one who appreciates Goldsmith! He was the GOAT.

Vanessa & Robert, thank you for bringing this to us. Always enjoy your film reactions. The production & YT edit is great. Sabriena & Ilias seem cool and a nice bonus. Two amazing heads of hair, I have to say! Plus we got to hear Vanessa’s wonderful laugh when Kane’s body was ejected. 😂 Again, thanks!

Such an horror Sci-Fi masterpiece. Love this franchise.

There were some nods to the Alien Isolation game as well- that may between Romulus and Aliens.

The Aliens movie should be seen with the extended version b/c it will answer the questions you will have if you don’t. (FYI: highly recommend watching the Alien franchise and Predator franchise (together) IN ORDER OF RELEASE to avoid spoilers Also, the sound on movies before 2000, can be a little wonky. Suggest using subtitles.

“That’s some strong acid.” I haven’t said that since the 90’s😅

45 years ago, this movie freaked the world out. Sci-fi horror wasn't even a genre when this came out.

(1.) It's a horror movie. Not a "thriller." (2.) No mention in your conclusion of how creepy/scary it is or the jump scares that I did see got you. (3.) You didn't even ask your daughter what she thought of the movie. Does she not get to have an opinion?

ripley survives largely by being a by-the-book officers. but she would have died in this movie if dallas hadnt overridden her and gone into the vents himself. it was the one time when going by the book would have gotten her killed.

I remember the first time I saw this I literally pissed and shat myself at the same time

Would recommend watching the theatrical version of ALIEN, the directors cut of ALIENS and then the theatrical cut of ALIEN 3.

The last ten minutes of this movie is one of the best in film history, IMO. And whomever came up with that highly detailed self-destruct sequence should get a bonus. It seems plausible because a real self-destruct sequence probably WOULD be intentionally convoluted to make absolutely SURE that you INTEND to do it.

You watched the sequel to Alien BEFORE watching this one? I guess some things were spoiled for you, but luckily they are both 5 star movies (for different reasons). James Cameron has done two of the best sequels of all time: One for his own movie (Terminator 2) and one for somebody else's (Aliens). Both excellent!

OH KIDS, watched ir with the lights on. BACK in the day, we all watched it all with the lights OFF, to get the full effect of the movie...

Can't believe this movie is that old absolutely amazing sci fi horror and the chest burst scene is classic

When you watch Aliens, I highly recommend the extended (Director's Cut?) version. It adds something important to the plot that's left out of the theatrical version . . .

Homeboy said my excuse. Everyone stop being mad. Thing he said.

It was actually the same actor who got his chest busted in both Alien and Space balls

The War Doctor!

If you reacto to the second one, please watche the extended cut, is much better than the teathrical version, and it makes more sense some scenes.

I would love to be able to watch this movie again for the first time 😭 I'm definitely gonna enjoy Alien Romulas without taking it for granted. I've heard it's a really good movie that's faithful to the original 😊

Awesome movie saw at the drive in when it came out!

Their space truckers on a refinery. They didn't think they'd need weapons.

They couldn't pull out weapons because it bled acid. That's why they had to rig the flamethrowers

Alien is Forever Ripley is Legend prometheus provided the story to the space jockey and alternate origin But nothin can touch the the original and Aliens thank the creator they made these movies when they did ... can never be replicated stay Awesome ⭐️

See Aliens !!!!!

Prometheus is not the worst one. Resurrection is the worst or the prime franchise, and Requiem is the worst of the Alien vs Predator movies.

19:00 - that's a naval tradition ... yeeting the body out in the middle of the ocean I'm guessing Captain Dallas attended a seminar on "How to perform a yeeting-out ceremony in deep space" - a compulsory requirement for all Weylan-Yutani space captains Back in the day, it was very necessary ... several weeks from land, a fallen crew member would decompose and spread disease very quickly ... so commiting the body to the deep was turned almost into a better version of a regular burial ... but its true purpose was to make sure none of the other crew members got sick, which would be terminal for everybody - as they had no antibiotics, and one ship's surgeon who knew how to saw off limbs quickly, but f-all else! These days, having a "burial-at-sea" is actually considered to be a nice way to go, probably costs a fortune! I bet you any amount of money that Elon Musk has already made plans to have his body sent up in a rocket and ejected deep into space - to be the very first person to have their body deliberately yeeted into space! (such is his ego)

Vanessa looks really excited and so pretty in red

Yes - this is the forerunner of Siri! ... Siri, How do I kill an alien? "I'm sorry - I don't understand that question. Please try again."

Bilbo!!! Ian Holm looks exactly the same, guy aged very well! Same with Sigourney Weaver!

On to the sequels!

A bit of a lore dump and commentary for your commentary on the world of Alien... By the time of the movie, 2122, humanity has ventured out roughly 70 lightyears from Earth. The Nostromo was returning to Earth from a mining colony called Thedus that was 59 lightyears away. They awakened just outside the Zeta-2 Reticuli, 39 lightyears from Earth, so only about 1/3 of the way into their trip and making it possible that a human vessel could be stranded or in distress since it was roughly along their course between two points of civilization. 7:15 There is no "other ship". The Nostromo herself went down and what was left in orbit of the planet was just a refinery. 10:20 Engineers. 12:45 At no point did she tell them not to go. 10:46 I don't understand why people get mad about Ash telling them not to touch the chestburster when they have no idea what it's capable of, especially after messing with the facehugger had its acid blood melting through through two decks. 19:18 They didn't "shoot" Kane and it wasn't disrespectful. The airlock instantly depressurizing when it opened just jettisoned him. 20:25 They did have the prod. 38:48 Yep. Xenomorphs take on attributes of whatever host species. If you do delve further into the Alien and Predator franchises you'll see that at work. 39:10 Alien is in 2122, Romulus is set 20 years after, so 2142, and Aliens takes place in 2179. Romulus has lots of good Easter eggs for the whole Alien franchise that fans will notice.

Yeeted Kane out into space triple fast! See Ya!

It’s good that you guys say who’s watched what because so many disingenuous people on RU-vid.

Damn! Y’all high af! Well, at least 2/3 of you! Hehe 🙃

Living critters - monsters - made their way back to the silver screen in 1979 after a hiatus of about 17 years or so . The producers of this film decided in 1979 to scare the living Jesus out of audiences when they made this film .

Spoiler, but but really... It's is that ship. And that is the warning from Shaw.

You guys should react to The Substance. The official trailer just came out and it looks wild!! Maybe the best trailer I’ve seen this year. It also premiered at Cannes and won best screenplay.

Great reaction! It is very interesting to see your joint detailed reaction to the film Robocop 1987. This is a cool classic movie 🦾🤖🔥

and where did blair witch get the idea?

I’m in the minority I guess…i loved “Prometheus” Maybe more so for Michael Fassbender 🤷🏾‍♂️

Although the correct order to watch these films is the same as their presentation, the proper order to understand them is "Prometheus", "Alien", and "Aliens". And to hell with the rest

I like Prometheus. it's not great , like the orig or maybe 2 nd > but it is far far better than the rest. NEW Alien flick came out yesterday - I think it's timed to between # 1 &. # 2 ?

I personally Loved Prometheus, but whatever. It’s a prequel. Even though the director kept saying it wasn’t a prequel. The WORST Alien movie would have to be Alien Resurrection.

19:26 You've never heard of a burial at sea? What do you think sailors did when someone died? Keep the corpse around?

Prometheus the worst one!? They clearly haven’t seen Alien 3 or 4.

Treat yourselves to a better experience watching these movies. Darken the room and get a bigger screen. Thank me later! :)

1 movie watched 8 more to go 🙃

Alien is also considered the #1 Horror Film of All Time. (in terms of horror)