Exploring Galaxy of Terror - The 2 Million Dollar Alien Ripoff That Changed Cinematic History 

@Dominique Hardie Good Bad Flicks should do an Exploring video on Freaked - the Tom Stern/Alex Winter dark fantasy comedy; 20th Century Fox gave $13 million for that film and before it was prepare to move into post-production, Rupert Murdoch (CEO of Fox) and Peter Cherin cut almost all of the funds of marketing for Freaked because they claimed it was "too weird".

Dominique Hardie it’s funny what happened to Fox now that they were bought by Disney.

Really video games are non stop sequels...

More corrupt than a military junta

Plus as well, for video game companies, I hear in the UK alot of the bigger publishers while not paying their fair share of tax, they are also are stealing tax payer money that is supposed to be set aside for smaller developers and publishers who are looking at trying to make a go of it. So basically if you're in the UK and you don't plan on giving the likes of EA or Activision your money, due to their greedy lootboxes and mircotransactions too bad because we've got it already! I would say that the UK government should do something about this, but considering that it's the Tories in charge they don't give a shit about stuff like this, as after all its only tax payer money, and they'd sooner burn it themselves rather than actually use it to help the country. metro.co.uk/2019/10/02/sony-sega-warner-took-110-million-tax-breaks-meant-indie-developers-10850083/

Nah, they studied Fox's fuckery as a template for how they do business.

Fox's buyout at the hands of Disney feels karmic.

It beat Rocky 2!!!!

@@LinkMarioSamus Disney is even worse with this shit.

They were no different than the record companies, legally stealing the money from their artists

I loved Piranha... thank you!

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Because of video rentals. When he started, VHS rentals were new and movie critics were never really accountable. When it became easier for the public to rent, or even watch movies on cable, he had to update his more obviously stupid reviews.

Probably like many critics it starts with trying to appear picky and get attention.

That's why you never trust critics see the movies for yourself don't read reviews

Roger Ebert was a narrow minded hack right to the moment he thankfully kicked it. Good riddance.

@@diverguy3556 He's just giving his opinion. And BTW, Siskel was the better of the two.

Haha Scorsese, Coppola, Ron Howard as well. Wow. And then Coppola financed George Lucas's first two films, and Tarantino claims inspiration from Corman, oh my. Thank MST3K for exposing Corman's films for a new audience. A shame he doesn't feel the same way.

Fuck yeah

Same as with Troma. Some of the industry giants right now started slinging fake blood for Lloyd Kaufman. James Gunn, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Samuel L. Jackson, JJ Abrams, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Marissa Tomei, Michael Jai White... It's pretty crazy how many careers that goofy old man has launched.

I wonder if any studios still do this apprentice style hiring?

@@ManScoutsofAmerica Kathleen Kennedy/ Rian Johnson? Ow my balls.

@Thomas Emilio He passed away due to complications from open heart surgery in 2016.

@@shainewhite2781 No way!?! ... I'm sorry but I gotta... ...game over, man! GAME OVER!

Frailty is outstanding

"Well why dont you put her in charge" ~Bill the fucking man Paxton

@@shainewhite2781 murdered

I guess it’s all made up.

@@kittenburger_prime 😆

Wow evil ted! Small world 👍🏻

lol no

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LMFAO!

"Now let me close with that old 20th Century Fox saying - Get the fuck out of my building!"

@@bobbyb6053 😂

john carpenter came from space in the enterprise with PALE captain kirk and jamee lee curtis

With his famous white mask blue jumpsuit and butcher knife

...six cigarettes dangling from his mouth

... and a hangover that could kill a Kennedy

The DVD comments section of GALAXY OF TERROR never mentioned Carpenters name!

Hollywood has been run by the mafia for decades.

And/or, he had such low standards. I think you could find many more failures and flops, it's just no one cares what happened to them. A stopped clock still tells the right time, twice a day.

@@squirlmy you are simply wrong,what you have said in no way disproves the original commenters point

​@@squirlmy Not low standards, just low budget. The same amount of care and effort went into these movies as they would for a major Hollywood feature.

Always a favorite little self aware line from Freakazoid, "...always ask for a piece of the gross. The. Net. Is. Fantasy."

This was standard practice at the time and most studios did it. James Garner famously fought battles with "creative accounting" studios.

"Obfuscation protects the Vig."

@‘The Faustmeister’ Rest Roddington You can't say one of the biggest movies of the year was a financial failure if you're talking gross, that strategy only works if you're talking net and using "creative accounting" to make the profit invisible.

...and residuals. Like Yogurt said in Spaceballs, "Moichendising, moichendising, moichendising!"

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@@shawnarthur5921 Whats more disturbing is that the lawsuits didn't find any fraud. Weird.

@@MrBottlecapBill the lawyers, accountants, and executives were all probably related.

Oy vey

It happens in the music industry as well.

He is slinging his Crystal Pepsi throwing stars in heaven.

also, woah, he looked iconic now, but he was DEFINITELY ruggedly handsome back then too. RIP 💫 i didn’t recognize him at first! 😄

Dragos was the man.

Wait WHAT? Are you kidding? NOOOOOO! JFC no. If you didn't mention it here I never would've known. Well, not really "never"but you know what I mean. Sorry. So weird And thank you, random person. I gotta go make some phone calls.

he did indeed live and die, BY THE CRYSTALS. i LOVE that line, i'm glad they made him say it, even though he was still a little bitter about it on the DVD special features when he recorded them all those years later.

@@kowaigaijin8880 And Star Wars was a remake of the Samurai movie the Hidden Fortress by Kurosawa. Some next degree circle of life shit going on here!

dafuq

@@kowaigaijin8880 And "Seven Samurai" is a Japanese reimagining of Shakespeare's MacBeth. There are no new stories, just new retellings.

@@searcherfortruthlayton1665 Have you ever watched Hidden Fortress? It's not a whole lot like Star Wars.

@@kowaigaijin8880 Kurosawa acknowledged that 7 Samurai was influenced by the Western genre so again circle of life...

I personally think studios still do this.

Same Fox Execs that said, "Star Wars isn't going to go anywhere so let Lucas keep all the merchandising rights."

"Bad at math" is code for "flat out stealing".

That's how Hollywood works.

All studios do this. They transfer losses from flop films to hit films and cook the books.

He didn't. Film critics like Ebert are paid to basically tell people their own opinions on the film based on standards that they may or may not apply to every film they review. Though, in fairness to them, when you see so many movies so often then the formulas and tropes quickly become old hat and while something maybe refreshing to audiences the truth is you'll be so jaded that you'll only see the underlying said formulas and tropes.

@@DrForrester87 Yes. Although when Ebert mentions that sci-fi films at the time were basically retreading themes from the 50's he was on point-- Alien's basic plot is clearly "inspired" (to put it mildly) by "It! The Terror from Beyond Space". Leonard Maltin was another popular and prolific film critic who infamously trashed Alien on release, only to recant his views in later years.

@@DrForrester87 Ebert was semi-famous in critic circles for passing off scifi and fantasy films to his underlings and interns, then basing his review off his own opinions of what they wrote. Worse, at time's he'd make a show of attending, but then sneak out during previews or shortly into the credits. Siskel routinely jabs at him over it by trying to discuss details he knows Ebert doesn't have. Fun fact, Ebert's one contribution to actual film is writing Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, an X-rated rock opera Russ Meyer film.

@JDH87 _"you'll be so jaded that you'll only see the underlying said formulas and tropes"_ Good point, but I would not or only partially agree. I love movie as a medium, my guess is that I have watched more (and more obscure) movies than the average moviegoer over the decades and when I quite often I can tell right from the start what the plot twist will be, who is the murderer or who will stay alive. And this can be immensely annoying, quite entertaining or, in the best case, of no concern at all, depending on the quality of the script and the direction and acting, but I don't feel annoyed per se. Sure, I am not a movie critic, but then again, it's not that those people are forced to watch _that_ (bad) many movies.

He did, then he didn't, then he did again lol

Correct. This is why I didn't listen to them ripping the Twilight films a new one. Wait a minute... I think one of the greatest things about the internet is how regular people always are masters at displaying their unashamed confirmation bias. Funny how they also never praise critics for loving the same movies they love (again negative confirmation bias). But short-sighted fools always sound the same. Internet gives them a voice.

@@paulallen8109 lol that was one of the saddest comments i have ever had the misfortune to read. I actually feel sorry for you.

Now ever neckbeard and spastic thinks they are a critic, it's the worst thing about the Internet, any moron can have a platform to be an insufferable pos with an inflated ego

Well, a professional critic is an insufferable dweeb with an inflated sense of worth from big words that matter not to anybody who did not major in the arts, while neckbeards can provide a more common sense approach, even if it is crude. For most , lets say not so cerebral films that are today's favoured style, the neckbeard is the correct choice. This is because most moviegoers have the neckbeard's taste, and don't exactly care about artistic tools and such, they just want a fun popcorn flick. Indeed a lot of films that became successive franchises got nailed by critics for being "too crude." The problem is, after a decade of fart sniffing most critics forgot the whole idea of "dumb fun" and think every film must absolutely be an arts festival social commentary with all the subversions and zero fun. Which most people find boring, snobbish and preachy.

@@rocoe9019 Lol. Ok boomer.

James who?

I’m really sad that this James Cameron never continued in this Movie Business. I feel like his talent could be used on a Actual Aliens movies. Or even a movie about a sinking ship.

jgfjgfify Both Cameron and Miller have given interviews, and only said they disagreed on whether the humans should be winning in the future. Cameron wanted the humans to be winning. Since it’s an alternate timeline/future created, why not switch it up. Cameron said Poole was stubborn and difficult, but that never was reported when in production, and Poole seemed very happy with it in prerelease press. Other than some much more minor issues, both talked about the film as if they just didn’t understand why people didn’t love it. I just watched it thinking, “are they really making a movie so close to how T3 turned out?....Yep they did.” And they add the “enhanced” character, who is too reminiscent of the worst part of Salvation. Add the overdone CGI, and it’s another letdown. I liked it better than Genysis and most of Salvation, but not by a lot.

Im our timeline, he was Terminated in a bar in Mexico, wearing a terrible shirt.

@@jgfjgfify In all seriousness Jim Cameron's involvement in the new Terminator movie reminds me of George Lucas and the prequels.

that scene was originally longer and gave it an X-rating

I know right? I only masturbated twice

Still less of a monster than Harvey Weinstein.

Good I wasn't the only one.

Sure. It inspired so many......animes.

I love Dead/Alive, one of my favorite B movies growing up and I still watch it every now and then. I couldnt believe the same guy directed the LotR movies

Jackson should have gone back to making stuff like Braindead IMO. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a case of 'lightning in a bottle'. The Hobbit trilogy and those crappy Kong movies were just embarrassing following TLotR.

A lot of directors normally have that path, also look at Steven Spielberg.

I loved Jackson's movie Bad Taste.

If you don't have an already famous relative or big connections, but you have talent, you have to start way at the bottom and prove yourself to the industry, basically

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James Cameron said if he hadn't worked on this movie. Then he would have had a hard time with the Queen in Aliens.

Thank god it did. We wouldn’t have had two of my favourite movies, Aliens and Terminator 2.

It's cursed

Yes, but she would LIE on the floor. She was LYING on the floor! Where was something to lay on the floor? Peace.

Not sci-fi horror by the sounds of it.

NO

@@Vaultboy101 guess it was a really misunderstood genre

No

Gene was right about "Blue Velvet," but Roger gave it a thumbs-down. And if I'm not mistaken, they thought "The Terminator" was a routine action flick. And Roger said "Aliens" exhausted him. There were great films they liked, of course, but they missed out on some of them like "Reservoir Dogs."

Yup, which is what they almost always use instead of real maggots and the real ones are tiny and boring.

@Florian Held RULE OF ACQUISITION # " NEVER MAKE FUN OF A FERENGI'S FOOD "

@@andrewblanchard2398 as long as they are "pre-chewed" it's fine. lol

@@mbrando4403 😂

True, I used to feed them to my pet-lizard. Also even WHEN they use real maggots (Event horizon for example) they use the white maggots (green flies) instead of the red maggots (meat flies) that are actually found on corpses.

I feel like whoever came up with that was clearly watching Hentai at the time.... The late 70s were around the time when Japan's laws started censoring everything and tentacles became a way to avoid that since no one could say an octopus was being kinky.

I did a similar turnaround on Big Lebowski and Fear and Loathing. I HATED those on first watch, but fell in love with them on the rewatch. Can you believe my MOM wanted to see Fear and Loathing, and was willing to take a 12 year old me to see it? I didn't dodge a cringe bullet, but a cringe GRENADE there.

Well, I mean, the entire theory was clearly stated and all the info was completely laid out in front of you, so if you couldn't piece this together, you must be brain damaged.

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@@231mac tldr... No shit

@@sticky4158 Damn you're lazy, lol

@@231mac efficient... Not lazy lol

No way!? Hahaha I gotta look that up, that's cool.

Still painting Mickey's wood.

The reactions were caution, puzzlement and fear. Assuming you’re talking about Alien, they knew the transmission may not be human in origin, and if you’ve seen the extended cut they actually listened to the message which is thought to be an Extraterrestrial Voice. At no point in the movie is it ever suggested that Extraterrestrial Life had previously never been encountered. Granted it would be safe to assume that the “Space Jockey” Species and the Alien/Xenomorph Species had yet to be encountered.

Screw what anyone else says... it WAS an awesome film! Great actors, great script! I loved it. A bit cheesy but that's ok. I mean, it's no Alien.... but it sure as hell kept me entertained and engrossed in it and that's all that counts.

I'm amazed how rare it was when I first watched it. Had to get an imported bootleg before they released it on Blu-ray.

Fox is Disney now.

@@maxant4285 Doesn't refute his statement

Every Hollywood major studios are...

The clip where he called Alien a haunted house in space - he wasn't really calling it a bad movie. It's fairly accurate if you think about it 🤔. He was probably better able to express and articulate his criticism about the movie as time went on and with subsequent viewings.

Especially now being owned by Disney

shoesncheese “Whoa, this is a weird lumber yard. Hey, what’s that car-sized maggot doing to that poor woman?”

Thank you! If you would like to see more like this you should check out my videos on The Black Hole, The Thing and Mortal Kombat.

Some think that James Cameron not being popular would have benefited the industry.

they're calling it "Picard" though and it's a series on a failing pay access streaming service. Alex Kurtzman developed the concept so good luck.

This unfortunately made me think of Alan Rickman and I got sad. But that's cause Galaxy Quest is fucking awesome.

Would that mean the giant worm tries to tickle the woman to death?

@@stegwise you take that back

that actually sounds pretty good :D

Apparently the Xenomorph looks like a bat after bad taxidermy 🤷

IKR... not sure how that is supposed to resemble a xenomorph.

Thanks!

It would be hard to with his inflated ego now

@@blackgold63 He was actually much worse in the 90s compared to today

I was thinking ... Dear Jim, introduce the warm KY then spray with the cold. The reaction ... cmon

The tree may have raped but what was the girl doing in the woods at night anyway? Haha

One word. Splinters.

There was only a "Book of the Dead" showing when this was released in '81..."The Evil Dead" was released in 1983.

It was a big time for inanimate objects like trees and oversized insects, like maggots sodomizing young women in movies.

Actually had a real horrible death eventually

Phil Dawson yes...so said 😔

Why did she agree to this!? :-0

Sounds kinda like Sphere in a way

Sounds like a lot of movies.

I remember you could punch a hole in those containers with your thumb :D