The Rewatchables: ‘Alien’ | The Best Sci-Fi Movie of All Time? | The Ringer 

Wow. They actually posted the entire video! Please do this on every Rewatchable!

If these three ever stop doing pods together I’m going to cry. I spend a lot of time alone during my work day and I listen to Ringer pods constantly and I love it.

I love this podcast so much, it’s on top right now for me. No politics, no bs, just friends talking about movies we love.

Chris is a national treasure 😂😂😂

CR's Wayne Jenkins moment is at 1:31:40

The part where Bill says "the cat lures people to the alien and seems kind of into it" is so dam good 1:06:14

Yes. Yes. Yes. I’m so happy you’ve uploaded the whole video. A whole new dimension to the podcast. The face-to-face synergy is so good.

Hope they start uploading regular again on RU-vid. My favorite podcast, always really inciteful and somehow not pretentious.

love when rewatchables are put up on youtube

Alien is a perfect movie. What a masterpiece.

One of the most influential movies for me as a child. Rewound the cassette to death conditioning myself to not look away at the scary scenes. Got a facehugger tattoo with it crawling up my shoulder with its tail coiled around my arm. so glad this got on rewatchables.

I can't wait until they do Aliens 2 on the Rewatchables.

More video podcasts please! It's been sorely missed from the Rewatchables. Alien is an incredible film.

Ripley did not ”go back” for the cat. She dropped the cat when the Alien blocked the way to Narcissus and went back to try to stop the selfdestruct. When that failed she had to return to Narcissus, picking upp Jonesy on the way, right where she left him. The Alien seemed to be gone so she just moved on to the shuttle.

These three could talk about ANY movie and I'd listen and watch

I will pay for for these videos. Please keep them coming

"Found" the rewatchables podcast last year, and I've been listening too every podcast in the series along with most of the "The Big Picture" podcasts. That must bee at least 300 podcasts in the last 12 months. Its been the soundtrack of me rennovating our new "old" house. I've never seen your faces before seeing this video. This is SO weird. And SO SO great. You guys look absolutely nothing like I imagined HAHA!

Can we get a rewatchables for 'The Thing'? One of the most rewatchable movies ever for me

I love that when Bill is envisioning himself as a talking head, he's still talking about Trey Young and Mahomes. So he needs to become an animated head within 10-15 years

YES! Do this for every pod, especially rewatchables!

the best podcasting trio there is, please upload more vids!

i have listened to every Rewatchables ever. I will listen to some of them again because they are relistenables. Now. now they are rewatchables. amazing and genius Bill.

1:31:22 a high school in New Jersey did a stage play of the whole film. They did an encore performance of it introduced by Sigourney Weaver herself. Should still be here somewhere.

My intro to Alien was my dad telling me about the chest burst scene and how he had never felt the air leave a theatre like it did as the audience collectively gasped. I saw it for the first time a year or two after its release at age 8 and i was traumatized but i can remember that it seemed to be only regarded as a good horror film by adults. i truly believe my generation put it on its pedestal. There were a list of films we obsessed over as kids and Alien was one of them….as much as it scared the living shit out of us there was an inherent understanding of the beauty of it, it was art to many of us.

You should do a rewatchables draft to set the play list for the year. I would watch the hell out of that.

My favourite Wayne Jenkins impression!

Wayne Jenkins bit hits EVERY time 😂😂

Bring these full video pods back. So much more enjoyable.

CR going full-on Eagles play-by-play at 33:35 is amazing

The only thing that ever bothered me was how quickly the alien got big enough to lift Brett in the short time after it's "birth".

Always hilarious to hear Bill refer to his belief that Game of Thrones is set in a real period of history and not a fantasy world. Love ya Bill. Also "Aliens 2"

Bill. You need to a rewatchables discussing Tom Hanks career from 92-02. Only hits. Unprecedented

Please keep the videos coming!! I will also pay to watch whole videos moving forward ☝🏻🫶🫡💪

I love these episodes. Please keep doing and uploading them.

Seeing the full pod is really dope, please do this more often!

A note about the scene of the crew waking up: in the novelization it's explained that professional dreaming is a thing and that people go to watch them the same way we watch movies. The best dreamers are able to control them while also allowing for random improvisational elements and then it talks about some of the crew and how they dream. While this idea is abandoned in the film version it's picked up in Prometheus when we see David watching Shaw's dreams while she's in hypersleep.

Bill saying “Alien 2” is hilarious

1:05:47 He gets it. This had me rolling. Thank you for surmise great the truth about cats in life and film.

Yes to more video Rewatchables! I listened to the pod and STILL watched the whole thing, and not just because I love ALIEN. I love the interplay, it's comedy gold.

It's a film that has an atmosphere unmatched in any other film. I remember when I first watched it (maybe I was about 12) what struck me most was the sense of isolation and loneliness of deep space.

It's AMAZING that we get the full video!

They should do this for every Rewatchable.

You inspired me to rewatch this. I watched it originally with my high school girlfriend and have to admit I was preoccupied with other things…. When I finally paid attention to it I was sucked into the claustrophobic and hopeless horror that the crew was experiencing. Harry Dean and Yaphet reminded me of the 2 coolest grownups I worked with at the time. Always funny and complaining but they bought me alcohol and had great Mary Jane.

Ringer pods and office work go together like peanut butter and jelly.

We went as a family to see this, I was 13, I think, might have been the first weekend it opened. What a theatre experience! We got our tickets, and started lining up in the foyer to wait for the previous screening to conclude --- WHOA. We started hearing screaming, then more screaming, and then, the quiet. The doors opened. The previous audience filed out, pale and sweaty, looking distinctly ill. Wow. What a film.

Gotta keep doing the videos man this makes it so much better imo. It's obvious they record em all visually why not put them all on RU-vid

Saw it in the theater when it first came out. I was 17. The chestburster scene I will admit was through my fingers once he was on the table. It took me years to finally watch without blinking or looking away. S. Weaver was just great, I am pretty tall and I admit I really fell for her once I found out she was 6ft tall. The computer countdown has become the standard for all future SCI-FI films. I thought she was in the clear once she got on the escape pod. Once the aliens arm moved I thought for sure she was dead. What a wonderful film.

Not that it matters, but there was something in the ether at the time Alien came out; TV was showing re-runs of Star Trek and it was insanely popular with teenagers of the time.

New studio lacks the character of your old studio but very happy to see full uploads again - thank you 🙏

WHT was Wometco Home Theater. It was a single channel cable TV service that mostly played films. It only operated in the north east US. There was a west coast version called ON TV. You screwed a two prong switch into the back of your TV. The same one used for early game consoles. That switched you from antenna to auxiliary. Then you had a box with one knob that turned the unit on and off. Good times.

I love Alien for many reasons, but #1 - it was the first movie I had ever seen where the woman vanquishes the bad guy. The woman is the hero. Thanks for reviewing this amazing movie!

The cat in "Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key" is great.

Alien is my personal all-time favorite movie. So phenomenal and impactful

The cat Jonesy is one of the many great elements in the movie.

Regarding the conversation at 16:55 about Sigourney not being nominated for an Oscar and how no one got nominated for these parts back then: she was actually later nominated for Aliens! One of the all-time cool noms. But the point remains true that most great performances in films of this genre were not, and are not, respected.

I would say this movie and The Thing are my picks for best sci-fi movies.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World rewatchable is needed!

This was amazing. Really took me back to old Grantland long form content. Loved it.

1:05:46 - Bill setting off the internet with cats is amazing content (full disclosure: I am a cat person)

Agreed on Exorcist 3 having the best jump scare ever, and "Catrick Perkins" is 👌🏻

1:06:53 “that darn cat” with Doug E. Doug

god damn i love this show. this is the perfect lineup for the rewatchables.

Had the pleasure of watching Alien on the big screen this week. Even my wife that doesn't like horror movies loved it.

Thank you for posting this. Couldn’t be grateful!

Such great takes. Spent pretty much the entire video nodding and saying "true" to myself lmao.

Picking nits: How did the alien go from a little chestburster to a full-size, 7-foot tall monster in a day or two? What did it find to eat before it got big enough to start picking off the crew?

Alien is my GOAT of sci-fi movies. Look forward to the Aliens episode down the road.

Love these Rewatchable discussions! This is in my top 5 now, with Escape From NY being the absolute best!

Please post video versions of more Rewatchables! Seeing the reactions to CR's Wayne Jenkins is pure gold content

Bill Simmons: "not a fan of Joseph Conrad... got a few tough titles in the old archive." Lolllll

Why did y’all stop posting these !?!?!? I fucking love the pod and the video versions are gr8

Glad that they're doing Rewatchables again, need to make this a regular thing again.

Meanwhile, Mallory Rubin is staring unremittingly at the horizon. Gently caressing Halo upon her lap, she begins to actualize the imminent oral defenestration of Bill Simmons' cat-takes.

John Hurt had just co-starred in “Midnight Express” WHICH he had a beloved pet cat which got hung by that Turkish rat prisoner. You’re welcome for that 2 for 1, lol. LOVE your guys podcast, it gets me through work most days!!!! Keep it up…

It's always interesting to see these guys whose voices I've personified for the first time...

Finally we are back with videos!!!!!

I saw "Aliens" first in the theater with Dad and my little brother. Dad was the only one of us 3 that saw the first movie. He was an artist, and loved H. R. Giger's work in these films. I remember him coming home with a big coffee-table sized book called "The Art of Alien", and placing it on our actual coffee table in the living room. Then later when Grandma and Grandpa visited, I distinctly remember being there when dear old Grandma casually started paging through that book. I actually was holding my breath. She flipped through quite a few pages with no reaction whatsoever, not even making a face, then carefully closed the book and folded her hands in her lap and listened to the conversation that was going on about something else. Great lady. I miss her. I suppose I should have asked her about it, but I was a kid.

never clicked on a video so fast

So I expect you'll be doing ALIENS sometime in the near future? Greatest film ever made.

When is the rewatchable on The Town rewatchable. One of the best episodes. I want Bill, Chris, Sean, and rusilleo in every ep

Chris’ Wayne Jenkins was at its absolute best in this episode.

God damn Bill! I didn't know you were gonna post the whole video.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers- the 1979 one- is FUCKING AMAZING. Please do it on here!

They should not only upload on RU-vid but also have the video on spotify!

Gotta see rob ager / collative learning material on this movie - I had no idea it was that good until rob ager

Take a shot every time he says "Aliens 2"

Did not expect this upload at all. The dream team

All-time cat movie moment is the apartment scene in Boondock Saints. Fight me.

Thank God I went to my RU-vid app before I went to my podcasts app

The Thing is the best si-fi movie ever.

It isn't a sci-fi movie. It's a monster movie set in space.

They haven't posted the outtake of Chris doing the Xenomorph as Wayne?

We need more videos but I do like listening while I do my gig work

I’ve never noticed the ABSOLUTE UNIT of a dumper Magic Johnson had in that “choose your weapon” poster behind Bill.

Wayne Jenkins 1:31:43

Veronica Cartwright also plays freakout chick in the latest version of Snatchers - The Invasion with Nicole Kidman

Bill Simmons cat hot take had me dying of laughter at 2:00 am. Hoping I didn't wake up my sleeping wife

Bill doesn’t get the retroactive reviews yet does Re-draft pods. 😂

Best film of all time.

Cats used to be on sailing ships to eat the rats and mice, protecting the sailors from disease and from having their food eaten. Why was the cat on the Nostromo? Superstition? Tradition? To eat space vermin? To keep the crew company? All of the above? And when she takes it at the end - I can't remember the timeline but if she's saving the cat from the alien - apart from being a good character note for Ripley's mother arc, and of humanity (arguably) being the best alien in the universe, removing the cat also protects Earth from having a cat-xenomorph turn up with its xenomorph-mum at some point. Maybe Ripley wasn't saving the cat. She was saving us.