Amelia discovers ALIEN (1979) & ALIENS (1986) Movie Reactions FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Lol Amelia -looks- like an older version of Newt

She might look familiar, but Carrie Henn who played Newt didn't do any other films after Aliens. She only did this one iconic role and later on she became a school teacher.

In Aliens, Paul Rizer took his mom to the premier. When Burke is taken down by the Alien, he said his mother clapped louder than the rest of the audience.

The ping of the motion detector might be the most anxiety-inducing sound in movie history. It's just a simple little thing, but so effective.

Along with Terminator one and two, I think Alien and Aliens is the greatest sci-fi duology ever made.

The fact that Hicks is asleep shows his experience in combat. Hicks is sleeping now because due to the mission you never know when you might get a chance to sleep again so he is resting while he can.

My favorite line in ALIENS is "What are we supposed to use?? Harsh language??". 😂🤣😂🤣

Jones the cat. OG survivor of the Alien franchise. He lived out a full happy life on Gateway Station.

I still love Hudsons line when the Aliens turn the power off. "THEY cut the power?! What do you mean THEY cut the power man! THEY'RE ANIMALS!"

In our desensitized current world, it's important to remember this was the first horror of its kind. I saw this as a teenager the day it opened, and when Ash gave them his sympathies, droves of people got up and left the theatre to either get out of there or watch from the lobby doors, lol. When Ripley was on the shuttle, alone with the Alien, it was the most hopeless feeling ever.

I'm so glad you watched the extended version of Aliens. The background info about Ripley outliving her daughter added a lot to the story, and made Newt's cry of "Mommy!" at the end all the more endearing . . .

Two of the best movies EVER. I have to shake my head when people say men don't like movies with a strong, female lead. A lot of us watched "Alien" and "Aliens" (and "Terminator" and "Terminator 2") DOZENS of times as kids and young adults, and no one EVER complained that Ripley was the lead and carried the show. We like well-crafted movies, regardless of whether the lead is male or female. Sigourney Weaver was PERFECT for the role, and the added character nuance in "Aliens" was really well done. I always feel bad that everyone hates on Hudson. Among Bill Paxton's (RIP) many talents was the ability to convincingly portray REALLY obnoxious characters... but even as annoying as he was at points, Hudson went out like a HERO.

I love that it is not a slick, clean white spaceship. It also needs repairs to keep it going.

Sigourney Weaver said : In ALIEN 1 we had no CGI. So when then we were at the dinner table , his acting was so good that we actually thought he was dying. Then we saw the creature pop out & were left in shock ." What you saw in 1 was the Real Reactions😮.

The scene with Bill Paxton (Hudson) at the table, during the knife trick? That was actually real. Lance Hendrickson (Bishop) was supposed to do the trick by himself but the cast decided to prank Paxton by having him participate. So when you see his face grimace in terror, that was actually real. He had no idea he was going to participate until the cast forced his hand onto the table. Then he just went with it. What a great actor and a good sport!

Sigourney Weaver was unknown to everyone outside of theater back in '79 and since Tom Skirritt was given top billing we had no clue that she would end up being the hero. She was just another random member of the crew.

They didn't make Newt carry anything. She was being a kid, making herself apart of the job. That screen went off because Burke turned it off.

When they did the first chestburster scene in Alien, the rest of the cast didn't know there was gonna be so much blood. They're reactions, especially the one who got squirted in the face, were genuine shock.

I like how in the rolling end credits of Aliens that Newt comes second after Ripley, it sort of adds gravitas and importance to their relationship. Even though Newt appeared much later, and the actor playing her was completely unknown, over shadowed by the many larger-than-life characters throughout the film. I've never noticed that before.

38:55 That child (Carrie Henn) is an American teacher . She is the sister of Christopher Henn, who is also her brother in the film. She is now married and has two children. She had no experience in film before shooting this film. Since then, she has never played in another film or any other audiovisual production. However, she continues to appear in documentaries, television shows or specialized conventions, where she looks back on her only film experience.

In the book for 2010, as they are first going aboard the derelict Discovery, they mention how creepy the dark, cold ship is. One says to the other, "Watch out for the cat." The other says, "Who thought that movie would be good to send on a real spaceship?" Clarke has confirmed it was a reference to Alien.

The loaders in Aliens were so convincing, businesses wanted to buy them. They’re actually a suit built around a stuntman.

Yes, she really was in adrift in that escape pod in hypersleep for 57 years. The way those sleep chambers work is to place the sleeper in a state of suspended animation (kinda like cryostasis), basically a special comatose state in which the subject doesn't age (or does so at such a dramatically reduced rate) and can be safely revived without even having felt the lengthy passage of time. This is why it's employed on those deep space cargo transport missions wherein the transit times are so long and tedious.

1:09:04 I love this non-verbal conversation between Ripley and the Queen: Queen: You have no way to escape. Ripley (Blasting the flame thrower and poising it on the egg): If you don't let us out, I'm going to kill all your babies. Queen (To her sentries): Back away, stand down, let her go. Ripley (After seeing the egg open up): Shame on you, we had a deal.

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." One of the best lines in any movie ever.

45 years now and it's STILL one of the most frightening movies ever!!! Unbelievable!

They paid close attention to detail on this one. When the salvage team is cutting the door to the escape shuttle, you can still see Ripley's gun that got caught in the door.

Alien is one of the greatest horror movies of all time and Aliens is one of the greatest action movies of all time. I do not think there has been two movies with the same subject matter that have accomplished this. Amelia does look like Newt as other commenters have also noticed :). Amelia, fantastic reactions, I love how involved you get.

While you were watching the first movie, you were dressed like you could have been IN the movie. I love that. Also. Have to add. The most hair-raising line in the second film is when Ripley says the people there to help Newt are soldiers and Newt, with a thousand yard stare, replies. "It won't make any difference." Chills!

Queen takes Bishop! 😭

Legend says that when Cameron had a meeting with the investors to convince them to sponsor a 2nd movie, he didn't say a single word. Instead he went to a drawing board, wrote the word "Alien", added an "S" at the end and drew a vertical line through it forming a $.

In the old days ships used to have cats on board to deal with mice problems. Cold be in that vain.

"I love sleeping in confined spaces" My immediate thought - Amelia climbs into a coffin each night! She's just a cute vampire.

This is best Iconic role for Sigourney Weaver.

Please bear with me, as there are some important points to be made. Many reviewers react the same way about the hearing; thinking all the company people are idiots, and why doesn't anyone listen to Ripley? Well think it through like real life for a moment. You're a manager in a company, and you have an employee that has destroyed a very expensive asset, the rest of the crew is missing, and she has some fantastic story about a monster. 1) There is no evidence of any such creature that she claims was in the shuttle. 2) There have been people on that planet for over 20 years that have never seen such a creature. 3) Nobody has ever seen anything like that creature, even after studying over 300 planets. 4) There is no evidence that the rest of her crew died the way she said they did. 5) Most importantly, you (the manager) did NOT just watch a movie about what happened to this employee 57 years ago! What the hell vas Van Leuwen supposed to think? A person who is quite obviously psychologically impaired claims she blew up her ship because an unknown monster killed her crew. It's far more probable that the crew was alive until she blew up the ship for some personal reason. If it didn't conflict with the plot line, I'd be amazed that she wasn't arrested and confined, and I think Van Leuwen was actually acting irresponsibly as a manager for letting Ripley loose on her own recognizance. How was he to know that she wouldn't have some psychotic episode and find a way to blow up Gateway Station to kill imaginary monsters? And the exact same principle applies to the Marines.They are well trained and they have fought alien life forms before. Why should they blindly follow the words of some civilian that has seen an alien ONE time? And even that is NOT for certain! Until they actually see the face huggers in the colony lab, there is still no proof that Ripley has experienced what she claims, and she may very well be a dangerous nutcase as outlined above. Why did Lt Gorman order them into the nest? Well, that's WHY they are there. That is their JOB, to go in and try to rescue civilians, even at great risk to themselves. Why didn't Lt Gorman explain why they needed to give up their ammo? Because he is the officer. He is in command. He is under no obligation to explain any or all of his orders to anyone. In a combat situation he does not have time to explain his orders to anyone. They are military personnel and they are expected to follow orders. This was not an illegal order to commit a war crime, or obvious reckless negligence that would cause casualties for no purpose. The survival of a unit in combat depends on everyone doing what they are supposed to be doing, which means following the orders of their superiors who are presumed to have a better understanding of "the big picture". Did the face huggers in the colony lab prove that the company had evil intentions? Of course not! We only know that Burke had evil intentions because we are watching a movie. The colonists encountered a dangerous organism. Like Van Leuwen, they have NOT just watched a movie about what happened 57 years ago. They have no idea what these things can turn into. It makes perfect sense to keep specimens for study, so they can find a way to protect themselves from further harm.

Good! You’re watching the directors version, it’s one of the few, if only, directors versions I recommend to people instead of the theatrical version. So well done, no major story or character changes, just additions that make it better.

Imagine being 10 yrs old, defying your parents and sneaking downstairs late at night to watch it........

Such an expressive face. it was a joy taking this emotional ride with you.

I'm glad you're watching ALIENS: SPECIAL EDITION or THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, depends on how you pronounce the movie title.

There would be no way I'd go back for the ship's cat when an eight-foot acid-drooling alien is after me. It is the best Truckers in Space film made...There is a companion book for Aliens that explains Ripleys missing 57 years.

Two Classic Movies for Different Reasons, one is a Slow Build up to Critical Mass and the Other is Kinetic Energy for the Win, Awesome Movies

I'm not generally a fan of "bug hunt" horror movies, but Aliens is such an excellent film on every level. The characters and their development and interactions, the sets, the effects on the xenomorphs (adult, facehugger and eggs, and of course the 'queen'), etc. Amelia was so invested, but she seemed so stressed and anxious through a lot of it that she looked like she needed a hug! A testament to the power of the drama, pace and suspense in this classic movie though.

Oh wow! It's SO COOL that you could get Carrie Henn (Newt herself) to react to her childhood role in "Aliens." What? That's not Newt? That's Amelia? Well, you have to admit it's an understandable mistake!

NICE!! LOVE THESE MOVIES!! ALIEN changed the horror film genre forever. ALIENS is one of the best Sci-fi Action movies ever made! Robert Altman, Robert Aldrich, Peter Yates, John Boorman, Jack Clayton and Richard Donner were considered for directing. Harrison Ford was going to play Captain Arthur Dallas until Tom Skerritt was picked. Meryl Streep, Katherine Ross, Veronica Cartwright, and Helen Mirren were considered for Ellen Ripley, until Sigourney Weaver was picked to play the character while Cartwright was picked to play Lambert. Jon Finch was hired to play Thomas Kane, but it was revealed to be a diabetic as he fell ill during filming and John Hurt took his place. Jean 'Moebius' Girard, HR Giger and Chris Foss were hired to do the art direction for the movie after the 1975 version of Jodorowsky's DUNE adaptation was cancelled. Some of the original DUNE art concepts were used for the spaceship design and costume design. It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. I It made $185 million dollars against an $11 million dollar budget.

Im realy missing a «wrap up» on this chanel… every time, when the movie is over: its only «thank you for watching»… Where is the evaluation afterwords? And all the stuff you ask us to comment on in the comments… where is the folow-up on that?

Nope. No camera people go “No!”. This is natural because it’s a real set and not CGI. Real sets reign supreme. So much more realistic.

I've only ever watched Amelia watching comedies. I had no idea there'd be so much wide-eyed breath holding and hand wringing! Wonderful lol

The blue haze over the eggs in Alien was actually a stage laser borrowed from a live concert by the rock band The Who being filmed on the soundstage next door at Shepperton Studios. Some of the Alien crew managed to get into the show, told Ridley Scott about the lasers, and he asked if they could borrow one. Some of the film from the concert is up on RU-vid and they're well worth watching, in fact some have become a staple of music-reaction channels. The one with the lasers is a song called Don't Get Fooled Again.

Disney says people dont like their new stuff because people hate "Strong Female Leads", totally ignoring all the movies like Alien that people liked, because it was well written

I saw Aliens in the theatre when it first came out. That line from Ripley when she came out in the exo-suit.. the whole movie theatre went nuts. Everyone stood up and cheered.

The theatrical release of Aliens is much tighter. The scenes with the sentry guns are the only ones that should have been added imo.

can't believe the Special Edition won the poll. The pacing in the Theatrical, as well as the unknowns, make it the much better version

45:35 So, the Facehugger and the Alien were designed by a man named HR Giger, a Swiss artist known for his disturbing bio-mechanical horror art, frequently incorporating sexual aspects. His aim was to create something that was not ugly, but strangely elegant, but deeply DEEPLY disturbing and yes, he succeeded

I watched Alien as like 13-14 year old, and thought I'd never have a normal life again. I was so beyond myself.

Either she's the best actress in the world, or she's really captured what it feels like to see Alien for the first time

There's a deleted scene where Ripley, while tracking Newt, discovers a cocooned and implanted Burke, who begs Ripley to kill him. She hands Burke a grenade and continues on her way. Soon after she hears the grenade explode. More mercy than he deserved.

Just a little fun trivia. The Hacksmith Industries Actually made a Real Working Powerloader. Hen Bishop said there was nineteen minutes left, it was very accurate at being close to 16 minutes left.

Poor crewman (woman) Lambert. She was worried from the moment she learns that they are outside their solar system. Great actor. Her face says it all like she knew it was going to be bad.

Bolaji Badejo, who played the alien, was a Graphic Design student in London. After this movie he moved back to his home country of Lagos and opened an art gallery. Sadly, he died of Sickle Cell Anemia in 1992

I'm So 💯Happy you did a double feature ! Alien is iconic Aliens is timeless Ripley is Legend 🙌 Great React! stay Awesome ⭐️

Amelia, this film was so incredibly visual, that I saw it in theatre many times. The big screen experience was the medium for this Ridley Scott masterpiece - IMAX was over the top, both audio and visually. Fun fact - the actors appearing on the platform descending to the surface, and around the "space jockey", are Ridley's children, dressed in smaller costumes. This trick gave the backdrop a much larger appearance. This was the world of practical effects, much more realistic than CGI.

Amelia, you look like you needed a hug while watching this movie.

Ship’s cats are a millennia old tradition, used to catch rats that stow away on ships. A ship as big as the Nostromo has lots of places for rats to hide, so it would need a cat to control their numbers. The alien was probably feeding on rats as it grew to full size.

Amelia looks like a younger version of Annette Benning.❤

When Alien came out in 1979 I was working for United Artists Theaters as a manager. My wife and I were living in Pasadena at the time and we had yet to see the movie. We went to a midnight screening of Alien in the old single screen UA theater on Colorado Blvd. All of the showings had sold out and the staff was too small to handle the business. We were ankle deep in trash in the auditorium but no one really cared. We were sitting next to another couple on my left. Both my wife and the lady next to me each gripped one of my arms for most of the movie. She didn't even introduce herself afterward.

There is a small shot in the elevator, when she is done arming herself and there is a moment when you can see her fear and doubt, then she takes a deep breath, shakes her head and puts herself together. Fear to determination, doubt to focus, I'm here not for myself but for her. Sigourney, writers and director crafted perfect thriller action movie character. This movie is 40 years old and very few woman characters come close in that genre.

Great reactions, Amelia! I saw both movies in the theater. The tension was so palpable that during Aliens, I was anxiously sitting on the edge of my seat for most of the film.

Did you see the way Lambert was hanging there naked ? I think if I'm correct , the script was more brutal.The alien was to rape her & get pregnant . Although they took that out . That's why you just saw her hanging naked.

I initially thought this was the actress that played Newt all grown up. Of course, I overlooked the obvious, film release year of 1979 that makes it impossible since the actress that played Newt is at young grandmother age range by now.

Hi, Amelia. This is my first time seeing your reaction. I love it and subscribed to your channel. I am looking forward to seeing your reaction again from Japan . Thank you.

I wish I had stopped the series after these two. Sequels either messed up the established material or became so cerebral that I felt I had to do research to understand them. And that's not what I watch movies for.

I've never seen anyone suffer so much watching one of these movies before

Some people wonder what happened to her brother Timmy. I read the original novel to alien's. Timmy was not very good at hiding, he did not play in the air shaft tunnels. Newt also snuck to see her father in a vent inside the wall because no one was allowed to see him. She saw him die from a chest burster.

"Is that a cat?" - Of course, it's Jones!

This is the best Aliens reaction I've seen so far (and I've watched some). Amelia, you rock!

Both movies are top quality movie horror but especially the 1st because the atmosphere and set-up is beyond creepy. It was so early for such creepy realistic monsters. The suspense, the quiet and even betrayal by the robot science officer. Such a perfect batch of creep-fulness!

I'm glad you did the double-feature, Amelia! 👾 Another twofer I hope you'll do is PSYCHO (1960) and PSYCHO II (1983). RU-vid reacters rarely do the sequel... and it adds so much to the lore, develops characters in a creative way. I think you'd very much enjoy them as a set.

Aliens was something so far ahead of its time. Possibly the best part of the Alien movie franchise, matched only by the retro+horror+lore values of Alien 1. Alien 1 was the horror face, while Aliens was the action one.

19:05 "I wouldn't let that drip onto you. You don't know what that could be. Just because it's dripping doesn't mean it's water." Your mistake here is that YOU don't know what is so you assume he doesn't know either. It's called "projection" when you project YOUR knowledge, assumptions, or behavior onto other people. But he does know exactly what that water is. He is the ship's mechanic. He knows how everything works on this ship - it's his job to know what it is and how to fix it. If he thinks that water is safe to stand in it, then it is.

The camera movements and shots in Alien (1979) are textbook and exactly what they should be. Technical film history books covering the early years maintain that pretty much every type of shot was tried way back when. The types of shots that work were established long ago and they still work the best, even today.

THE QUEEN !!!! 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 😱. When I was a kid , I had large Alien Xenomorph in the 70's and the eggs opened & closed , plus all the crew.

9:13 the most intriguing question Ridley Scott just HAD to answer with "Prometheus", didn't he. The old man just couldn't leave it alone.

You gotta remember it's an late 70s movie and all that special effects they want to show off that's why there is long scene of the ships interior and exterior. It also is supposed to build immersion when you are following the crew routine quite closely for long scenes.

Those who saw both movies in theatres when they came out know that even if Alien was a masterpiece, Aliens is a totally different beast. Because even if it's on par with Alien, the sequel changed videogames and cinema forever. For years (maybe a decade) there were countless videogames like Doom where you were basically a marine in space. Also the movies were much more action oriented than before. Cameron has changed the entertainment world more than once in his career

Another awesome reaction Amelia, your the reason I watch Popcorn Roulette, thanks for being awesome.

ALIEN and ALIENS both back to back in one shot? OMG! Lady, you just got a LIKE and a Sub right then and there!

i love how hudson was the techie and super mart but he had a smart mouth too.. and how ripely was understood his intelligence and as a show of great leadership she was able to help him calm down by getting him to focus on the computers looking at blueprints it was a perfect example of why she was second in command of the nostromo. people always discount 2nd in command but real ships crew know how important it is to have a strong 2nd in command cuz if the captain gose down for any reason you need the 2nd to step up and in some case they need to out shine the captain...

45:30 - props to whomever designed the things (facehugger) - his name was H.R. Giger (that's gee-ger as in eager, NOT g-eye-ger as in g-eye-ger counter) - and he's thoroughly messed up - he designed the original alien and a lot of the Alien canon visuals, and he's basically a sociopath/serial-killer that decided to make art instead of actually murdering human beings (good for him, btw) - but yah, check out his art portfolio and you'll start to see a "theme" that will make you eminently grateful that he decided to be an artist instead of murdering people and wearing their skins

People (and cats!) do slowly age while in a hypersleep chamber but only at about 1/10th the normal rate so Ripley (and Jones the cat) would each be about 5.7 years older than the last time we saw them.

These movies will still be watched for the next 100 years

I really enjoyed your reaction to these. Your commentary was minimal because you became so engrossed in the stories. ❤😊

18:40 "Why are they smoking in space?" It was 1979. Half the country smoked. In restaurants, in airplanes, everywhere. Smoking was not banned on planes until 1990 and not in restaurants until 1995 (California was first, other states took even longer). Back in 1964 the Surgeon General declared smoking as unhealthy. Before that, it was actually thought, by doctors, to be a good way to relax. I heard that in the 50s-60s some companies refused to hire non-smokers; they wanted relaxed employees that smoked to reduce stress. (this is hard to verify because every search I do turns up modern arguments about discriminating against smokers) Those bosses didn't just turn off their belief systems or hiring practices in 1964 because of a Surgeon General warning. Regarding the movie, filmed in a time and by people who probably smoked, or sat in restaurants and airplanes full of smoke, this didn't seem too strange. As for the air quality on the ship, the smoking isn't the problem. Breathing is the problem. Every time a human exhales, they put CO2 into the air. The next time a human inhales, they get a little of that CO2 mixed in with their air. More breathing, more CO2, less air, and eventually they breathe so much CO2 and not enough air and they all die. It's why people suffocate in mineshaft collapses, or even putting a bag over their own head. To solve this problem, NASA uses air "scrubbers", filters that clean the air, removing the CO2 and replacing it with new fresh air from storage tanks. I'm sure the Nostromo does the same thing to keep the crew alive. Using those same scrubbers to take a little smoke out of the air would be super easy. They just need to change the filters a little more often. So for the small cost of a few extra air filters, the company can have a relaxed, stress-free crew AND they can sell the cigarettes to the crew to offset the cost, maybe even turn a profit. Is it unhealthy? Yeah, but the company doesn't care, and neither do the smokers on the crew, just like the smokers here on Earth don't care too much about their own health.

To answer your question, this takes place on LV-426. (AKA: Acheron) A small "planatoid" or moon orbiting Zeta II Reticuli. Zeta Reticuli is a real binary star system about 39 light years from Earth. ... The Nostromo is/was returning to Earth from Thedus, a planet rich in minerals located in the Epsilon Reticuli system (also a real system) approximately 59 light years from Earth.

Ok, but... Let's discuss about the bonus situation!

I've never seen a double reaction to these two. Reminds me of the 40th anniversary event I went to where they showed the first four films in a row. Well done!

Amelia is so FREAKIN' CUTE! 😍😄 I almost cant handle her cuteness. 😄 The little mannerisms she does with her entire face....😄....she is so adorable. 🥰😄

Always gets me. "Only in molecular acid". All acid is molecular molecularity is in the definition of acid

For those who don't know, Queen are very smart. If someone threatens the hive, the Queen will stand down. She will protect the hive at all costs

38:12 first colony chief on Hadley's Hope, then Captain of the doomed Jupiter Mining Corporation ship "Red Dwarf": this guy has some of the worst luck in sci-fi :D

Cat makes all the difference. 🐱🖤👍