How The Genus Alien Nearly Destroyed Humanity in EVOLUTION

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Directed by Ivan Reitman, Evolution is a 2001 sci-fi comedy, starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, and Sean William Scott, about a rapidly evolving alien life-form that wreaks havoc on a small town in the desert of Arizona.
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@thedoruk6324 2 года назад

I remember this one! It was amongst the most underrated classics out there! I wish some speculative evolution project would have actually make full blown cover of this alien bioterraformer

@roberttail1676 2 года назад

So true...

@TrangleC 2 года назад

Yes, very underrated. It kind of is the unofficial sequel to the Ghostbusters franchise we never got. Has the same feel and humor as Ghostbusters 1 and 2, just with different characters in a different setting.

@JBX07 2 года назад

It was like The Ghostbusters of the early 2000s.

@TrangleC 2 года назад

@@JBX07 Well... It should have been. Unfortunately it was a flop and nobody noticed it.

@damianstarks3338 2 года назад

True on the underrated part of your comment.

@enjolireyes643 2 года назад

“Ice cream… I’d like an ice cream please.” “Okay what flavor?” “It doesn’t matter. It’s for my a$$” A quote that roamed around my group of college friends for months! Thanks for covering this Niyat!

@ericokonkwo7771 2 года назад

Imagine what would happen if the Aliens in this Film encountered the Chaotic Shimmer Being from the Annihilation film, interesting fight/battle or cross-breed-mutations going on!!

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

I'll pay to see that movie!

@williamcastillo2312 2 года назад

This is one of my guilty pleasure movies

@yaldabaoth2 2 года назад

"Nitrogen based lifeform" Three words that already show that no scientist worked on this movie.

@Lurkai 2 года назад

Well im sure there was scientific input somewhere lol tho the basis of nitrogen based life is highly improbable But not entirely impossible 👽 Just probably would only exist for a fraction of a moment or something like that in our world

@xironevarus576 2 года назад

@@Lurkai theoretically when the universe was younger and more condensed. time was a bit faster as well. Leaving a sort of temporal goldilocks zone for possible nitrogen based life. But then again we are putting arbitrary limiters. If there are hundreds of billions potential earth like planets. If nitrogen based life is possible. It's just as comman as us at least. Albeit we may have missed the timeframe for them to exist.(unless closer to galactic centers could still act like a SafeZone for these types of life

@calebdonaldson8770 2 года назад

@@xironevarus576 Not to mention that our atmosphere contains PLENTY of nitrogen, allowing this creature to thrive like it never could. As far as we know, the essential requirements & conditions for life may be different on different planets. We are trying to project the same qualities of Earth-based life to the entire Universe, and that's just not probable.

@xironevarus576 2 года назад

@@calebdonaldson8770 exactly. The only real problem is we base it on how open carbon is to binding to other elements. Where nitrogen can't hold as many bonds . Making it easier for carbon based life. But not impossible for nitrogen based life

@xironevarus576 2 года назад

@@calebdonaldson8770 being said though we could make some assumptions. Like nitrogen based life being more akin to underwater life only. I mean more base animals like sponges,jellyfish, and maybe corals. But they may be unable to collect calcium so chordates and possibly arthropod like animals may be non existent in those branches of life

@Dinotology 2 года назад

Dimetrodon was a synapsid reptile and more closer to Mammals. Dinosaurs were archosaurs like crocodiles and later birds.

@conanhighwoods4304 2 года назад

I am pretty sure crocodilians were not dinosaurs though.

@Dinotology 2 года назад

@@conanhighwoods4304 Archosaur is the clade that all three are apart of. Its more of a taxonomic description.

@DarthLego46 2 года назад

I enjoyed this movie and watched it a lot as a kid. I loved the creature designs.

@michaelhowell2326 2 года назад

I had to rewatch thus movie the other week when the poll came up. It is such a classic. Another awesome movie that couldn't be made today.

@jonmurphy4889 2 года назад

I remember being so excited to see David Duchovny in something other than the X-Files not that I didn't enjoy The X-Files. Fuckin love them. That's one of the few shows / movies that I could watch over and over and over and never get sick of it. I actually feel a little special that I got to watch those as they aired every week on FOX as I grew up. But this is definitely an underated gem!!!

@chronicnightmare. 2 года назад

5:47 Mozzeltov, It's a Boy. Still my favorite line. that just came out of nowhere

@maxo963 2 года назад

Great memories watching this when I was younger. Uncle had it on CD it was like a ritual to watch it anytime I was over lmao

@SkaiCyan 2 года назад

I loved this movie and series and X-Files and yet I somehow completely forgot Duchovny was even in this.

@zombyjano 2 года назад

When I was really young I saw some parts of this movie on TV but didn't remember any of it save for the dragons laying on the ground. Years later I casually watched this movie on Netflix and that scene came up and I did the DeCaprio pointing at the TV meme irl.

@xarievans7978 2 года назад

i literally just rewatched this movie last night !

@damianstarks3338 2 года назад

This is a blast from the past it has been a long time since I have seen this movie.

@carolynallisee2463 2 года назад

Oh, dear, Neant, I never thought I'd have to do this! DIMETRODON WAS NOT A DINOSAUR! You are right in saying it was a synapsid, but Dimetrodon was also a pelycosaur, and is considered to be a branch on the line from which us mammals come from. Dinosaurs and birds are diapsids- the difference may not seem that significant to most people, but for biologists and paleontologists its fundamental! Despite that, I enjoyed the video. Evolution was/is a good film but we don't hear much about it these days. Even so, it's a good romping mood lifter!

@mrdumbfellow927 2 года назад

"That's the kind of trunk space you want in a modern car" 😆

@ConsolasEight 2 года назад

This was an excellent movie and I love to watch it over now and again. My mom HATES the scene with the dog-alien that suddenly attacks the woman's hand and can't bear to watch it every time it comes up :)

@fgjjdgb3949 9 месяцев назад

Yes, this is an abomination, a ridiculous mistake of nature.

@sylvananas7923 2 года назад

As a kid I would watch the VHS and the blue primates scared the hell out of me.

@HuskyType 2 года назад

Bro you beat me to it! Hahaha, just saw this video and your comment after I posted mine, had same quote float around for years! This movie doesn’t get enough respect!

@RÅNÇIÐ 2 года назад

Best Head & Shoulders commercial in existence.

@joshmcintyre5868 2 года назад

Thank you! I remember watching this when I was little but I could never remember it’s name

@snuffywuffykiss1522 2 года назад

I had no idea there was a cartoon. Guess I have some binge watching plans this weekend...

@professor_lembach 2 года назад

I have never heard of this movie. Amazing.

@Salted_Fysh 2 года назад

Correction: Evolution is a 2001 Sci-Fi Head abd Shoulders advertisement masquerading as a feature length comedy.

@mattmetawolf8634 2 года назад

I’m so glad you reviewed this because man I remember this shit for my childhood mainly because of those blue monkey things and I remember the black dude saying someone’s been a bad monkey or at least I’m thinking of that from some other film but I do remember this and most of the scenes in this movie this was just like Ghostbusters and away except instead of busting goes you’re busting aliens that are trying to live on our planet kind of like a weird Mix of the men in black meets Ghostbusters if I had to choose two movies if this film represents that would be it is a shame it never got a sequel.But an animated TV show that most likely went unnoticed

@Harri927 2 года назад

I really love this movie. It's really underrated but it's really lovable and very funny.

@GollumBeetus 2 года назад

I watched this constantly as a child

@johntheechidna1 2 года назад

Another case of "military intelligence" being a contradiction in terms.

@xironevarus576 2 года назад

I mean when civilians hear military grade they think top of the line. When vets hear military grade they immediately know it's shit

@johntheechidna1 2 года назад

@@xironevarus576 That, and using napalm to wipe out an alien genus that rapidly evolves and grows when exposed to heat is just plain stupid. Good call on that one, General Dumbass (the idiot in the movie who made that call, I mean).

@dallasmawlawi4895 2 года назад

My favorite scene was when he said there's always time for lubracant

@ProfessorZelko 2 года назад

The three eyed smiley has been a brain bug for me for over a decade. Finally resolved

@wilsonbrazeal6708 2 года назад

I was literally wondering what the name of this movie was yesterday I remember watching it as a kid with my dad

@Ricardo-kv5tk 2 года назад

One of the best movies of all time

@Dim4323 5 месяцев назад

Yeah this movie is one Head and Shoulders advert

@peterrobson9920 2 года назад

The unofficial Ghostbusters 3

@kayak0000 2 года назад

This is the movie that introduced me to Selenium. 😅

@ubzSS 2 года назад

from paranormal to extraterrorestrial. who you gonna call... 👍👍

@jackychang9148 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH! This was the orange suit bug going up someone's ass movie I saw as a kid. Thought it had to do with Eddie Murphy so I could never find it.

@chuckp1506 2 года назад

Is this the one where one of the dragons farts as it learns to fly? I remember some movie like that and been hoping one of the recap pages bring it up. Saw it when i was liiiittle

@dominiquehebert4903 2 года назад

Maybe Tremors 2? I think they have a creature there called an a$$blaster that does something like that and they kind of look like dragons I guess.

@cyborgzloth 2 года назад

Oh my favorite!

@anubusx 2 года назад

Do The Ancient Enemy from The Phantoms.

@Blyegh 2 года назад

The bit where the Genus bug crawled up the biologist’s ass scared me as a kid, but also got me to laugh super hard lmao

@drunkenhobo64 2 года назад

"Don't let them take my leg!" "Is there anything else you can do?! He thinks he's an athlete!"

@iloveanothermanswives4278 2 года назад

Don't forget the part where the nurse had to shove the grabber tool deep in his ass to take the alien insect out. This movie is peak comedy. Lol

@Jim_WoodPike_Gherkin_WangWick 2 года назад

I felt so much sympathy for the poor man, I still wince every time I am reminded of it

@ermonski Год назад

TAKE THE LEG!!!!!!!!

@pokemonfanmario7694 6 месяцев назад

It would've horrifying in the original script. SPOILER The bug would've infested a red-shirt who would panic at it burrowing into his leg. The scene plays out roughly the same until they get him to the surgery table, where the surgeon panics as the bug reaches his bone - here's the kicker, instead of just going to the guys arse for extraction, it starts *eating his bones* while moving further up the leg. The scene would've shown a CAT scan of the bug slowly making its way up the leg, devouring bone like nothing, with the MC commenting that it eats calcium. Eventually, the bug splits in two at the tibia, and its offspring starts devouring the spine, eventually killing the poor red-shirt.

@NCHProductions 2 года назад

the ghostbusters spinoff about busting alien lifeforms. love the movie back when it came out.

@peza. 2 года назад

Alien hunter world

@Dreadwing20 Год назад

WHATS UP!!! I really enjoyed your monster hunter videos 👍

@Rodeo_Wizard 2 года назад

I remembered this sci-fi comedy when I was young, just started college. The critics are totally wrong & doesn't deserve that much hate. David Duchovny, Orlando Jones and even Sean William Scott were terrific in the film. I had a total blast & fun time. Too bad it wasn't a box office hit to justify a sequel.

@lopiklop 2 года назад

They at least made their budget back. I don't think this movie was a failure. Maybe only to critics. There is huge dissonance between what critics respect and what the audience enjoys. I don't think this movie needs a sequel.

@superbananas7792 2 года назад

A sequel would have ruined it.

@igorlukyan206 2 года назад

This video unlocked a childhood memory that I didn’t know I had

@c.Orange 2 года назад

Mission started: lost memories - chapter 1

@theflashgordon193 2 года назад

me too man. I completly forget it now but I enjoyed the movie a lot as a kid. I have watched it multiple time

@dylanfrancis5996 2 года назад

No clue why the Genus are getting attention lately, but not complaining in the least!

@drasticbread249 2 года назад

I used to watch this movie all the time, the story was so interesting and the actors performances really elevated the script they were given. The special effects looked pretty bad even back when it came out, but it worked with the silly tone of the movie. It's too bad Orlando Jones hasn't acted much for the past ten years, he really was hilarious in Evolution.

@ALC2550 2 года назад

I loved this one growing up! Best mix of science fiction and comedy out there. Can you cover The Core?

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

Absolutely. The core is a guilty pleasure of mine!

@darknessleaderzero 2 года назад

god i love this movie they shot this in my home town of page arizona

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

That’s so awesome!

@theflashgordon193 2 года назад

that cool !

@reishiki 2 года назад

An underappreciated gem of a movie. Orlando Jones's character was really funny.

@TheMrsmartass13 2 года назад

I loved this movie ever since my childhood friend put it on during one of our sleepovers, I just stayed up watching this wild film that both scared me (the spider like creatures freaked me out of my skin back then) and just kept me watching.

@rockspoon6528 2 года назад

I read "genius alien" and had to know...

@kavvi9605 2 года назад

i spent years trying to find this movie. i forgot the name of it, as i´ve seen it like when i was a child. thanks for bringing it back to my memories

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

My pleasure!

@cloroxbleach6673 2 года назад

I loved this movie as a kid. Got me interested in sci-fi

@ChrisWilliams-zz1kt 2 года назад

Both the film and the animated series are good for once thanks I give the late Ivan reitman good pointers

@Lurkai 2 года назад

Almost forgot there was a series on this, it was pretty good too

@mediocri5y 2 года назад

Animated series?

@Lurkai 2 года назад

@@mediocri5y not sure of your age but there was a limited animated series back in like 2005 or something

@mediocri5y 2 года назад

@@Lurkai yeah I searched it it seems more aimed towards children

@ThereBeGoldInThemTharHills 2 года назад

I loved how dandruff shampoo was the ultimate weapon against the aliens.

@jonbranch710 2 года назад

Wow i forgot about this movie

@dracodracarys2339 2 года назад

It just bothers me how the first aliens looked really bizarre and alien and then...they just turned into lizards and apes. The animated series had more interesting monster designs even regardless of show quality

@danielm.595 2 года назад

Maybe they have some sort of subconscious hivemind, whom noticed that the best form to evolve and thrive on this now world would be a form similar to its dominant species.

@alecLogan 2 года назад

They hyperevolved to their environment, and their environment was somewhere in Arizona, on Earth. From the fauna based there, we can gather that those sorts of evolutions honestly tracks decently.

@zionleach3001 2 года назад

Could you do a video on the vampires from John Steakly's Vampire$ or the Rugaru of Supernatural.

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

Sure!

@josephlight349 2 года назад

thoroughly enjoyed this as a kid and recently had the joy of watching it again with my daughter who also found it highly amusing, still an awesome movie today!

@DrMuFFinMan 2 года назад

A overall great movie especially with David Duchovny and Orlando Jones. The casting for the movie was spot on.

@raphses6871 2 года назад

I have watched this movie many times when I was a kid. You gave me a literal blast from the past with this one.

@lordfrostdraken 2 года назад

Still one of my favorite sci-fi comedies of all time.

@ashleightompkins3200 2 года назад

I remember almost throwing up every time I watched that creature reach a new evolutionary stage. It all looked so fucking gross! But I fucking loved TV series that came from it

@zephalon 2 года назад

They where really over their head and shoulders in this.

@ahardworker2154 2 года назад

Love this movie as a kid and still do

@wonkothesane8691 2 года назад

I love this movie! Orlando Jones is hysterically funny, he absolutely dominated every scene he was in!

@panchora99 2 года назад

I enjoyed this movie when it came out. And its nice to see that the special effects still hold up after 20 years.

@TheRealsemaJ 2 года назад

My work played this in rotation with 3 other movies for 6 months in a row, I never felt the need to watch it at home naturally.

@michaeljf6472 2 года назад

Say what you want about the movie, but besides the speed, it showcases the principles of evolution by natural selection right.... Which is a rare thing in cinema

@hotstreek52 2 года назад

Man you just do all my old favorite movies

@Alteringrealitystudios 2 года назад

This movie was like watching a cartoon made into a movie and it was awesome. I think they should have expanded the universe should have been pretty good with the right writers and actors.

@RedVelvetUnderground333 2 года назад

Right here is a cult classic, this movie is brilliant, it has laughs, actions, scares, romance. Perfection

@CouragePope 2 года назад

I thought this movie was good when I was a kid

@indyspotes3310 2 года назад

This movie was mostly mindless fun. The biggest flaw was the lead. I like Duchovny's stuff in general, but his performance in this movie was jarring. He sure seemed like he had someplace else to be because he mailed that part in. I wonder if Reitman approached Bill Murray for the part.

@DWSP101 2 года назад

Once again you pick a nostalgic movie out of nowhere just wondering if you had a chance to look back over one of the comments I left on your other video. I was wondering if you would do Soma the video game I know it's not a movie but I feel like the Lord would be rich?

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

It's on the list champ! :)

@DWSP101 2 года назад

@@filmcomicsexplained Ahhhh YESSS THANK YOU

@compatriot852 2 года назад

I think they made a fundamental flaw in trying to capture what made Ghostbusters great as the creatures simply behave as agressive and generic animals, while with ghosts they have their own unique characteristics/abilities and can be very expressive. There's simply a lot more that can be done and worked off with

@glittch135 2 года назад

This was a huge movie for the guys in the family. Super underrated and highly recommended when doing anything with the guys.

@mattmatt2323 2 года назад

EVOLUTION is one of those movies that gave me a little bit of a fear of whats out there while at the same time laughing about it

@grex951 2 года назад

God this movie was so good! It was one of my childhood favorites and still a great film to this day.

@SwagbitoUchiha 2 года назад

Oh wow I had memories of seeing this movie as a kid but never had a name to apply to it, and thought until now maybe I just made it up lol. Thanks man, that’s some closure I never knew I needed.

@west1875 2 года назад

First. Keep up the great work 👍

@Colejones9505 2 года назад

I really love this movie I remember seeing it as a kid and being kinda confused but now watching it, it's both funny and very interesting with the creatures. I love all the designs of the various creatures and it is a cool idea a form of organism that continuously evolves based of it's environment in a matter of days so coo. Also I didn't know this got it's own cartoon show so thank you for that interesting bit of information.

@wiikillsu2535 2 года назад

After all this years his finally doing this one ☝️

@MrGeekFreek 2 года назад

Wayne: You are so beautiful....to me. Harry: It's working. Rub some funk on it. Wayne: You're everything that I hope for *starts doing hip thrusts* and you're everything I need.

@corwin32 2 года назад

Unfortunately, _Evolution_ will always be overshadowed by “There’s always time for lubricant!” for me

@centralscrutinizer6108 2 года назад

I never realized Ivan Reitman made this film, I understand now why I liked it so much this movie was a blast. I just remember how the comedy was intelligently done it worked so well.

@gokugoma3258 2 года назад

It just goes to show you how stupid Hollywood is.. they didn't think this movie was good enough for a sequel? I saw this in the theaters and I loved it! I was waiting for a sequel and the years just went by and pretty much by 2005 I knew there wasn't going to be a sequel to this classic 😐

@SirChubblesSteen 2 года назад

This movies awesome, I dont know why it didnt get a better reception. Its really funny and has a great cast.

@miguelperez9906 2 года назад

One of the first movies I watched in English what fond memories.

@kirbymarchbarcena 2 года назад

Those who hated this movie probably never used any anti-dandruff shampoo.

@inkblotCrisis 2 года назад

This was the longest commercial for shampoo ever. I love it!

@filmcomicsexplained 2 года назад

I love how it ends with them actually doing a commercial for Head and Shoulders haha

@louiemercado5595 2 года назад

Good work on the Genus Aliens from Evolution my friend! I really watch this movie and the Alienators Evolution series when I was young. It's cool and very fantastically awesome to watch.

@lynch6642 2 года назад

In 2000 this movie was mediocre... in 2021 it would win an Academy Award

@S15ken 2 года назад

Omfg ive been searching this movie for ages bcoz i cant remember the title...thankyou

@robertagu5533 2 года назад

Yeah... Remember this movie.. that time when Mulder took on an alien threatening the planet an Skully was nowhere to be seen or heard

@godhasabandonedme1643 2 года назад

Bro i was terrified of this movie as a kid

@WhiskerDooz 2 года назад

SWS doing the "Caw C-caw" bit was my fsvorite scene

@darthjacobynum573 2 года назад

Oh god!! That mosquito getting inside the suit traumatized me as a kid. Whenever I felt itchy I immediatly thought one of those had gone under my skin!!😖