Alien - LV-426 Approach [HD] 

good point, even decades or century taking into account hyper sleep

I'm a 2005 baby and I can agree that the older movies are way better og Halloween slumber party massacre Texas chainsaw massacre Friday the 13th scream And nightmare on el street are all superior to majority of the near movies that's insane

Some people don't like the pacing, especially in the first half of that movie, but I love it. You just get to absorb this world they created, the atmosphere, slowly building tension, and get to know these characters a little bit.

@@gordons-alive4940 Exactly. There's enough visual information to take in and the careful pacing makes you feel like this is a real ship and crew, that just happen to be being filmed. Everything feels natural. The excellent camera work, production design and music all re-enforce this and the actors all behave like people going about their work professionally, despite some tensions and carping.

My thought exactly.

@Chad Mower That's what practical effects are. Not computer generated.

yeap; the landing part alone was a mini-masterpiece in itself, easily beating Kubrick's 2001...

He had greater control in the first movie, not any more.

It's also the unknown. I really didn't wanna know exactly how the aliens came to be. If you know Exactly what's in the shadows. It's just not scary anymore. Take away the unknown. What's that leave. One thing is for sure. If we don't leave it to the large corporations. We are never going to get off this rock. We will never get a man past dark side of our own moon again. As our fathers did. Unless we just leave it up to the corporations and give up on the government doing it. Too many wars to fight.

He's a bizarre filmmaker these days. Too busy trying to inject some silly christianity/mythological undertones into everything, he can no longer create a realistic yet wondrous atmosphere or story. Most of his ideas for the prequels are just bad.

Star Trek TOS also had a lot of that background chatter. Despite the cheap sets, it made the Enterprise feel like a real submarine or aircraft carrier.

@@erentheca The miniature work on this film is inferior to STMP and yet Alien won for best visual effects. Makes no sense. IT WAS MORE POLITICAL. Alien should have won for ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN not Visual Effects. This miniature work is on par with Space :1999, which had below average miniature photography. Shallow depth of field. STMP special visual effects and miniature work was top notch!!! John Dykstra's Klingon sequence and Doug Trumbull's Enterprise shots are masterful and top of the line. There is no comparison.

Why would it be undervalued? ... The movie-go audience and the profession alike agree that it’s the best sci-fi horror in the entire Galaxy!

@@belabaksay-roka900 I am talking in terms of when it was first released and how critics and the awards systems gave it little recognition. Now, of course, it is known as a classic, but in its time, it was underappreciated.

It's awesome that the ringed gas giant was given the name 'Calpalmos' later on, I believe this is the same gas giant in Prometheus, with the planetoids LV-223 & LV426(egg carrying derelict)orbiting around it.

I am not sure that is underrated. This movie generally features in most critics top 20 or even top 10. It's considered a sub-genre defining movie (horror-sci fi) and is often cited as the movie that launched Ridley Scott into the big leagues in Hollywood.

@@SaigonBrit Alien is officially number 3 in the Top 100 greatest SF movies ever made...

It completely mesmerizes me as a viewer. It has everything that is needed and more.

I don't know why but the computer-generated display of their descent to the planet always made me feel nervous.

is it really? all I'm hearing is nostalgia.

You do not have to explain it, just show them the movie! And by the way... They do not only just look better!

@@MastaFista it is. But it has nothing to do with nostalgia. Good movies are timeless. The problem comes when people think something is better only because it's recent.

Yes ok nostalgia plays a part for sure but also movies like Alien are objectively better in almost every regard. I mean Alien was made on a fairly low budget but the universe is utterly immersive and almost all the effects are in camera/optical and look superb. There are only a couple of moments (such as the nuke at the end) that look a little dated but the rest is magical. Also the quality of the writing, characterization and plot development are superb. This is an example of so-called 'subverting expectations' done in a subtle and finessed way. There is no clear protagonist until late in the movie when Ripley (shock horror a lead action female protagonist) is suddenly thrust into being the hero of the moment. There is no fanfare, no 'look at me I'm a strong independent wahman' moment, it's just a kick-ass character who happens to be the 3rd officer of the ship and happens to be a woman. This is how it should be done. Modern movies are so cack handed and full of SJW propaganda as well as horrible CGI effects that makes everyone look waxy and fake. So, aside from a health dose of nostalgia, this movie is objectively better than 99% of the movies made in the last 10 years.

@@MastaFista Yes ok nostalgia plays a part for sure but also movies like Alien are objectively better in almost every regard. I mean Alien was made on a fairly low budget but the universe is utterly immersive and almost all the effects are in camera/optical and look superb. There are only a couple of moments (such as the nuke at the end) that look a little dated but the rest is magical. Also the quality of the writing, characterization and plot development are superb. This is an example of so-called 'subverting expectations' done in a subtle and finessed way. There is no clear protagonist until late in the movie when Ripley (shock horror a lead action female protagonist) is suddenly thrust into being the hero of the moment. There is no fanfare, no 'look at me I'm a strong independent wahman' moment, it's just a kick-ass character who happens to be the 3rd officer of the ship and happens to be a woman. This is how it should be done. Modern movies are so cack handed and full of SJW propaganda as well as horrible CGI effects that makes everyone look waxy and fake. So, aside from a health dose of nostalgia, this movie is objectively better than 99% of the movies made in the last 10 years.

🤣I thought I was the only one addicted to this scene.

It's very clever the way the scene minimizes the special effects needed by focusing on the Nostromo and the apparent atmosphere hurtling over it.

I just love the time (echo) difference between the countdown of the nostromo and the cargo ship.

who is going to argue what your favourite scenes are, lol? Who is the argument with, yourself? You can just say which your favourite scenes are, I won't argue lol But I get your point, it's a gorgeous scene. A perfect movie of its genre, like Goodfellas

Totally agree my friends...!

Is it true that they would keep accelerating as long as the engines were lit?

@@visionist7 That is true, yes. In reality, a spacecraft engine is fired until the desired velocity is reached, then the engine is shut down and the ship coasts. In the vacuum of space, there is essentially nothing to act upon the ship to cause drag and slow it down. The only way to slow down is to rotate the ship 180 degrees, then fire the engine again to decelerate, unless the ship has another engine at the front pointing forwards. The first way is of course far more economical.

I always liked the way it handled the descent. Just a little trust was needed.

Good, but actually the burn should have been retrograde to start the descent...

@@fabiorezzonico4426 True. Theoretically, there might have been a retro-burn which we didn't see. If you look at a model of the Nostromo, it actually has forward-facing engine outlets as well as its rear ones. It could be argued that it used those off-screen to "brake" for re-entry.

Aliens production designers actually used old cockpit parts from a Vulcan bomber to dress the Nostromos bridge, which is why it looks so claustrophobically convincing...🤔

I thought it was Horner that did the score?

​@@TheWPhilosopherthat was Aliens

@@eq1373 ah cheers.

The Company appered first in blade runner

Despite advancement over the years, I think this kind of technology is still being used in space stations, thus making this film so relevant after 40 years.

​@@2600BC.where's your proof?!

@@2600BC. Some old technology is still used, because it's reliable. For example electronics used in the spacecraft doesn't have to be state of the art processors and chips since old ones are enough for the job and they are proven to be immune to space radiation and conditions, because of their less sophisticated structure compared to modern ones.

I know. The way things appear on screen and the physical display monitors and all the clicking sounds are so primitive compared to what we have now, and yet this film still pulls it off with this ship and its components. It just takes a little suspension of the imagination. And we just have to keep the inventory on Prometheus out of our minds if we watched that. I suppose we could argue that the purposes behind the missions were different in the two scenarios: one was a scientific expedition, where they could use all kinds of fancy stuff and supposedly be relaxed while they studied with their tools; the other involved picking up mineral ore from some mine, and involved more grit.

What does it mean?

I hope in the 3 years since you posted this comment your math has improved...

It's "Prime to port."

When he was young and hungry for glory... and he sure covered himself in the stuff here

Too bad he lost his touch

​@@user-lq2nu6cn7yindeed, he's unworthy at present.

Fully agree. Enchanting.

It is just a painting, Ridley said so himself.

@@craigsimons817 Uhm, have you watched Ridley Scott's commentary on the whole film? Though I am not sure if this particular scene is a painting on the background with a moving toy but Ridley said , on the scene of Derelick where Kane was going down on the cave and Nostromo's explosion, those scenes are paintings.

@@2600BC.Thank you for that. Painting or not it is still a great scene, regardless of it’s origins.

Halloween? Texas chainsaw massacre?

In the midst of that it makes the humanity of the crew (except for Ash) even more salient.

I think what they left in orbit was the refinery they were towing home. They parked it in orbit, detached and took the Nostromo down to the surface. I suspect Jonesy the cat was with them on the Nostromo.

@@fourthhorseman4531 This makes sense. The Nostromo is the ship that is towing the huge cargo.

To make sure to secure the food 😜

That cat was smarter than all of them. He was flying the mothership, While he played solitaire with mother.

@@BillHawkins0318 There you go 😁

Where's the Goddamn beacon?

Oh I see it. We're picking up some hull ionization... Got it. ROUGH AIR AHEAD, WE'RE IN FOR SOME CHOP.

That female Marine pilot in the aviator shades. Was hotter than 5 gods.

"Somebody wake up Hicks."

Well she is in her comfort ZOne here.

It certainly did. I was 18 and it's been my favourite movie ever since.

I still remember seeing body parts of innocent moviegoers in my local cinema. So much blood.. all they wanted to see was a sci-fi movie and their lives tragically ended that day.

What

... Hmmm ... Don't mind that "Blade runner" was made 3 years later ...

That's because Blade Runner and Alien are set in the same universe.

"Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"