Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: I'm Rosie Knight, and today we are diving deep into
Speaker 2: the Alien franchise in anticipation of the newest entry alien formulas.
Speaker 2: Now join me as I jump into the airlock where
Speaker 2: Jason has been busy grinding tape preparing a recap.
Speaker 3: Of all of the previous Alien movies.
Speaker 4: So here we go, Alien Franchise recap in chronological order. Wow,
Speaker 4: fictional chronological order.
Speaker 1: Chronological fictional order, which is our favorite way to do recap.
Speaker 4: We begin with nineteen nineties Predator two. That's right, Predator two.
Speaker 3: Wow, the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's precede this by saying that both Jason and
Speaker 1: I shed a deep love for this movie when we
Speaker 1: with children.
Speaker 3: We love this movie, but it is.
Speaker 1: A very problematic movie when you watch it Agenheim.
Speaker 4: Watching it in the modern day, there's it definitely raises
Speaker 4: some red flags. We open in Los Angeles. The year
Speaker 4: is nineteen ninety seven. Los Angeles is slightly furturistic. Los
Speaker 4: Angeles is racked by hyper violent gang violence between two yes,
Speaker 4: very racially problematic depictions of Columbian and Jamaican gangs that
Speaker 4: are at each other's necks. And this violence attracts the
Speaker 4: attentions of a predator who's like, oh, I love violence. Yeah,
Speaker 4: these guys are killing each other, that I will kill
Speaker 4: the ones who are killing the most because I'm a predator.
Speaker 4: That's what I love to do is kill the most dangerous.
Speaker 1: One and yeah, and then I'll be like the best
Speaker 1: killer in downtown LA specifically.
Speaker 4: So the alien, just as racking up bodies, cuts a
Speaker 4: bloody swath through both of these gangs. LAPD Officer Mike
Speaker 4: Harrigan played by Danny Glover.
Speaker 3: Huh, why were you cost in this movie?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I love it. He is too
Speaker 1: old for this shit in this movie.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to be able.
Speaker 4: To ashier suits in this than you would expect from
Speaker 4: the Lethal Weapons series. So he's investigating the gang violence
Speaker 4: and he finds himself in pursuit of the predator, and
Speaker 4: of course nobody believes, you know, he's getting all these reports,
Speaker 4: all this like invisible Killer. It's weird. It wasn't a man,
Speaker 4: it was a monster or whatever. Towards the end of
Speaker 4: the film, as Harrigan is in pursuit of this predator,
Speaker 4: the predator goes to its ship that it's hidden and
Speaker 4: as it you know, goes in there to like restock
Speaker 4: on ammo et cetera, and like treat its wounds, and
Speaker 4: we see among the predator's trophies is a xenomorph skull
Speaker 4: on the wall. And let me tell you, in the
Speaker 4: pre Internet era, when I saw this as a kid
Speaker 4: and saw the alien skyll, I was like, my mind
Speaker 4: literally exploded. But it's all I could talk about. You
Speaker 4: don't understand the aliens exist in the Predator universe. I've
Speaker 4: never heard of such a cross This game truly was yeah.
Speaker 1: Literally I think for me this was probably also my
Speaker 1: first crossover movie. And then I think the second one
Speaker 1: was like I don't know, Freddy in Hell.
Speaker 3: If Freddie goes to Hell and at the end he
Speaker 3: like pulls down, I mean that.
Speaker 1: I guess those are the two memories I have of like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: like something's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So Harrigan kills the predator with its own like little weapon,
Speaker 4: it's a frisbee weapon. And then a group of predators
Speaker 4: who I guess have been like observing, appear and they
Speaker 4: take their fellow predator's corpse back with them that put
Speaker 4: it on the ship, and they give Harrigan like an
Speaker 4: old Revolutionary War pistol.
Speaker 3: As a good job, all right, shot you peace.
Speaker 4: Next movie Alien Versus Predator two thousand and four of
Speaker 4: the Year is A Year is two thousand and four.
Speaker 4: Charles Whaland played by Lance Henrickson that you played Bishop,
Speaker 4: the synthetic humanoid Bishop in Aliens and other roles which
Speaker 4: we will get to in the Alien franchise, is the
Speaker 4: CEO of Whalen Industries, and he sends a crack team
Speaker 4: of international scientists and mercenaries to a recently discovered pyramid
Speaker 4: which is under the Antarctic ice. Now, the pyramid turns
Speaker 4: out to be a predator like hunting temple, and it
Speaker 4: turns out how they build it because they're the spacefaring
Speaker 4: highly advanced hunters. And it turns out they're just like
Speaker 4: especially the predators. Now, it turns out the predators taught
Speaker 4: human beings how to build pyramids because I guess people
Speaker 4: couldn't like figure out the triangle shape like.
Speaker 3: They were like they were like, this is a two complex?
Speaker 3: What woo baby, I barely just got the wheel going.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going.
Speaker 4: So predator culture apparently considers the xenomorph like the ultimate prey,
Speaker 4: like like the most dangerous thing you can hunt. Right,
Speaker 4: So every one hundred years, the predator contestants come to
Speaker 4: Earth to hunt the xenomorphs specifically hatched from sacrificial human beings,
Speaker 4: and this alien queen that they have like frozen in
Speaker 4: the pyramid. And this is like the predator version of
Speaker 4: the Olympics, right, It's a big deal. And the scientists
Speaker 4: and the mercenaries get all caught up in this competition
Speaker 4: and they're like, we have to help the pre dators
Speaker 4: win because the aliens if they overrun, you know, the predators,
Speaker 4: they'll like wild on Earth and just kill everybody or
Speaker 4: use them as you know, egg hatching incubators. The predators
Speaker 4: give Arctic guide Lex played by Snale than a spear
Speaker 4: is a gift. And after this is after the predators
Speaker 4: defeat the aliens, uh, they then get in the ship
Speaker 4: with one of their fallen comrades named Scar and they
Speaker 4: take off, and then soon after they take off, an
Speaker 4: alien predator hybrid bursts from the dead predator's chest. Now
Speaker 4: you would after several centuries of dealing with these creatures,
Speaker 4: that the predators would like x ray everybody that they
Speaker 4: decide to take back.
Speaker 1: On with that, I feel like to make sure they
Speaker 1: don't really think, yeah, let me know what these things.
Speaker 4: Do, and you're still like, yeah, yeah, don't even check it.
Speaker 4: Just bring it right on, just.
Speaker 3: Put them on the shed. I definitely didn't get that.
Speaker 4: Brings us to two thousand and sevens Alien Predator Requiem,
Speaker 4: which occurs in the same year as Alien Versus Predator
Speaker 4: thousand four, happens in fact immediately following the events. So
Speaker 4: right after the Predators get in their ship and take
Speaker 4: off to fly back to their home planet, the pred alien,
Speaker 4: which is now hatched, it grows at a fantastic rate,
Speaker 4: as we often see that these creatures do, and immediately
Speaker 4: fucking goes ham and it causes the Predator home ship
Speaker 4: to crash into Gunnis in Colorado. Ah, yes, Gonnis in
Speaker 4: Colorado's poor town doesn't know what it's in for. The
Speaker 4: Xenomorphs then go fucking crazy and they start reproducing using
Speaker 4: humans as hosts. They're fucking going nuts. A Predator champion
Speaker 4: back on the Predator home world, it gets the distress
Speaker 4: signal and is like, fuck this, I'm going there alone.
Speaker 4: He's like, if you want to jump and I'm going
Speaker 4: to wipe out all the xenomorphs on Earth. Now things
Speaker 4: get really chaotic and crazy, so much so that the
Speaker 4: military like immediately gets involved and they decide, we can't
Speaker 4: we can't let this spread any further. Let's nuke Gunnison,
Speaker 4: a thing you've seen in a million movie outbreak, the Blob,
Speaker 4: et cetera. So, but I think it's actually like quite
Speaker 4: a reasonable thing to do in this particular case.
Speaker 3: Jason's like, in this case, then you go to do
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like they're.
Speaker 1: They're not thinking about the fact that in the canon
Speaker 1: of these kind of movies, if you nuke, some creature usually.
Speaker 3: Just becomes giant.
Speaker 1: So I would definitely be thinking of the Godzilla potentials
Speaker 1: of the mutation.
Speaker 3: But I still understand the intention.
Speaker 4: It's pretty like you must imagine like the president would
Speaker 4: have had to have been briefed. Okay, mister President. So
Speaker 4: what we've got is a parasitic alien race species that
Speaker 4: is reproducing very quickly, and they are also being uh
Speaker 4: fought by a humanoid alien race of hunters. Are you
Speaker 4: getting this, sir.
Speaker 3: To alien species you didn't know about until this.
Speaker 4: The military nukes Gunnison, killing the predator in the Xenomorphs.
Speaker 4: The predator's gun is then gifted to miss Utani, who
Speaker 4: does not have a first name in the movie, who
Speaker 4: is the CEO of a Japanese cybernetics and robotics company,
Speaker 4: the Utani Corporations. Now we have Whyland and Utani in
Speaker 4: the universe.
Speaker 3: Dude, I have to say the movies that are essentially
Speaker 3: like so derived.
Speaker 4: Both these movies are dumb?
Speaker 3: Should I to enjoy? Yeah? They are like so dumb,
Speaker 3: It's so funny. How dedicated they have to say?
Speaker 4: They worked really hard, like can't casting Lands Hendrickson, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, being like and they're.
Speaker 3: Like, we're gonna make a cannon manly, you're gonna kid,
Speaker 3: You're gonna care about this. People will be talking about this,
Speaker 3: and it's like, people, these movies are.
Speaker 1: So dumb, But I gotta they commit really hard to
Speaker 1: every single movie having a twist ending that is somehow
Speaker 1: connectionally in law.
Speaker 4: These reveals do have an interesting effect on the overall cannon,
Speaker 4: which we will discuss as we get there. Next up
Speaker 4: twenty twelve's Prometheus. The year is twenty eighty nine. Archaeologist
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Shaw and her boyfriend Charlie discover that many ancient
Speaker 4: human cultures have a very similar foundational myth that involves
Speaker 4: very tall aliens from a distant star system. And these
Speaker 4: tall aliens are the engineers, who I guess so life
Speaker 4: across the galaxy or something. Peter Whyland, who is very
Speaker 4: very very very very old and about to die, like
Speaker 4: any second, he's about to die, about to go. It's
Speaker 4: happening as his like video recording is being played to
Speaker 4: this science team that he's put together. He's like, I'm
Speaker 4: not by the time you watch this, I'm gone. So
Speaker 4: heros an ambitious mission to a moon in that particular
Speaker 4: star system that they matched to the cave paintings and
Speaker 4: different pieces of art from all those human cultures, and
Speaker 4: so they're going to this moon called LVY two twenty
Speaker 4: three because he thinks the engineers are there, and mister
Speaker 4: Whalan wants the engineers to tell him how he can
Speaker 4: like avoid dying.
Speaker 3: Which is such a fucking come on, just asassin thing
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: Like so many of the decisions in these movies are
Speaker 1: so terrible, and it's really funny because once we you know,
Speaker 1: we are doing this in fictional chronological order. So at
Speaker 1: this point, by the time you get to Prometheus. The
Speaker 1: movie is essentially like an MCU filled easter egg for
Speaker 1: the previous alien movies that were released. But at this
Speaker 1: point chronologically, you're just like, my friend, what are you doing,
Speaker 1: Like you.
Speaker 3: Have to spend this much money.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could just find a side I mean
Speaker 1: to hear this instead of going in the real world.
Speaker 4: PayPal founder Peter Thiel, you know, investor in tech and
Speaker 4: all around right wing nut job, has It's been credibly
Speaker 4: reported that he injects himself with like the human blood
Speaker 4: of like young healthy people.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: They're doing crazy shits in the real world, So yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: The journey take to LV two twenty three takes them
Speaker 4: four years. They're in cryo sleep the whole time.
Speaker 3: Cash.
Speaker 4: While they're in cryo sleep, they're watched over by David,
Speaker 4: who is a synthetic uh humanoid that was designed by
Speaker 4: mister Whyland. On LV two twenty three, the team finds
Speaker 4: like a ton of artifacts from the engineers, including all
Speaker 4: these jars of like black goo that turns out to
Speaker 4: be a bio weapon.
Speaker 1: David takes like a drop played very creepily by Michael
Speaker 1: Fastbat takes a drop of the.
Speaker 4: Black goo, and he infects Charlie with it. Charlie then
Speaker 4: has sex with Elizabeth and impregnates her unknowingly with this
Speaker 4: very fast growing alien fetus, just as David wanted. She asks, yeah,
Speaker 4: as it's growing, like she's in more and more physical distress,
Speaker 4: and they do a scan and he's like says, very creepy,
Speaker 4: oh you've got this alien in you. And she's like, well,
Speaker 4: let's get it out. He's like, well, we don't have
Speaker 4: the stuff, we don't have any way to do that here, and.
Speaker 3: We yeah, yeah, yeah, bat, let's just see take you home. Okay,
Speaker 3: seems like nothing.
Speaker 4: Instead, Elizabeth breaks into Charlie's thron's cabin on the ship
Speaker 4: and uses her advanced like medical machine of which only
Speaker 4: a dozen were made, and she does like an abortion
Speaker 4: on herself. Moving cz this like wriggling squid like Alien.
Speaker 4: It's really gross, it's really great.
Speaker 3: It's super So can we just say you mentioned Shaly's
Speaker 3: there on.
Speaker 1: This movie has like a wild cast Idris Elba, Charlie's
Speaker 1: then Michael Fassbender, like wem Ridley Scott said he was
Speaker 1: coming back, the original director of Alien.
Speaker 3: Everyone was like, I'm jumping on that ship. Like, there's
Speaker 3: some very.
Speaker 1: Iconic images from this movie, like Idris Alba smoking a
Speaker 1: Christmas tree that I feel actually have almost more longevity
Speaker 1: than the movie.
Speaker 3: It did inspire many important memes.
Speaker 4: So we learned that LV two twenty three was an
Speaker 4: engineer like bioweapon facility, they were making this bioweapon, and
Speaker 4: that they had planned to release it on Earth. Non
Speaker 4: canon sources, namely Ridley Scotty, directed this film says that
Speaker 4: in his mind, they wanted to send the goo. They
Speaker 4: made the decision to send the good to Earth like
Speaker 4: two thousand years ago, and it was because the humans
Speaker 4: had killed their emissary, the engineer emissary that sent to
Speaker 4: Earth to tell them to like chill out and stop
Speaker 4: being so violent, and that was Jesus. So Jesus was
Speaker 4: an engineer, but then he didn't really put it in
Speaker 4: so that credible kind of like the under that's the
Speaker 4: subtext man. That's straight from Ridley scott The movie is
Speaker 4: very heavily invested in the religious and God, and part
Speaker 4: of the reason that Elizabeth even goes on it is
Speaker 4: because she's religious and she wants to meet God.
Speaker 3: She wants to understand faith and where she comes from.
Speaker 1: That is incredible and I had no idea that was
Speaker 1: part of the canon, So thank you for that one,
Speaker 1: Redly Scott and Jason.
Speaker 4: And now we mentioned that mister Oylan was like really
Speaker 4: really old and about to die, and by the time
Speaker 4: they land on LV tw twenty three, everbody thought he
Speaker 4: was dead. But surprise, he's actually alive, and David goes
Speaker 4: to get him from wherever he was. He was like
Speaker 4: hiding in the in the ship the whole time.
Speaker 3: He had like a secret cabin, a secret at.
Speaker 4: A false bottom, like in a desk or something. So
Speaker 4: they get him out and David, you know, goes with him,
Speaker 4: and Charlie's then sorry, Meredith Vickers, I'll call him very
Speaker 4: character name, and Elizabeth and I go to the engineership
Speaker 4: and then David wakes up an engineer and he can
Speaker 4: talk to them because he's been studying proto into a
Speaker 4: European this ancient language, and so he translates for mister
Speaker 4: Whyland and basically says, hey, I know we just woke
Speaker 4: you up, but like my boss wants to know how
Speaker 4: he cannot die, And the engineer is like, you came
Speaker 4: all the way here for this, and he goes crazy.
Speaker 4: He rips David's head off. He's so passed off. He's like,
Speaker 4: he rips David's head off. He bashes mister Whyland in
Speaker 4: the head with David's head and then you know it goes.
Speaker 4: He tries to take off, but Elizabeth, you know, radios
Speaker 4: to Adris Elba and is like, we need to crash
Speaker 4: the ship or else, like he's gonna send the blackpoop
Speaker 4: to Earth. The ship crashes. Now the engineer is like
Speaker 4: chasing Elizabeth. It chases her through the human ship, where
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, Elizabeth's xenomorph baby that looks like
Speaker 4: now like a huge squid math subdues the engineer and
Speaker 4: impregnates it, like puts its like egg overpositor into the
Speaker 4: Engineer's mouth, which is like super super gross. Elizabeth then
Speaker 4: recovers David's head and body and is like, Hey, I
Speaker 4: want to go to the engineer homeworld. I need answers.
Speaker 4: I want to find out why they're going to wipe
Speaker 4: out humanity with the black goo and will you take me?
Speaker 4: And David's like, you know what, fuck it, let's do it.
Speaker 4: After this a xenomorph not a full alien as we
Speaker 4: know from like alien and aliens, but like more kind
Speaker 4: of like certainly one that looks like it's getting there.
Speaker 4: It bursts out of the engine Year's chest and then
Speaker 4: later off. This is kind of like this is not
Speaker 4: in the movie, but it's part of like the off
Speaker 4: Cannon and other fictional materials. Whaland Industries goes bankrupt because
Speaker 4: mister Whalen put all his money. They flopped back to
Speaker 4: just Comedia's mission and it is then acquired by the
Speaker 4: Utani Corporation, creating the Whaland Utani Corporation that brings us
Speaker 4: too Alien Covenant. The year is twenty one oh four.
Speaker 4: The Whaland Utani ship Covenant, carrying several thousand space colonists,
Speaker 4: is on its way to Oregie six. Walter and Advanced
Speaker 4: Synth using the David format but with all of David's
Speaker 4: like creative abilities that human beings found like really disconcerting
Speaker 4: removed manages things during the long cryo sleep of the
Speaker 4: crew and all the colonists. But then tragedy strike. There's
Speaker 4: this neutrino burst and Walter has to wake everybody up
Speaker 4: to get them out of their tubes because the ship
Speaker 4: is damaged. But Captain James Franco sadly dies in his
Speaker 4: cryo tube.
Speaker 3: Rip to that, captain, Rip to him.
Speaker 4: Now, the crew, while it's fixing the ship, gets a
Speaker 4: distress signal from a nearby planet called planet four, and
Speaker 4: the new captain, Captain Orum, is like, let's go investigate.
Speaker 4: So they investigate and they find out that this distress signal,
Speaker 4: which came in the form of take Me Home, Country
Speaker 4: Roads by John Denver in Christ, is from a planet
Speaker 4: planet four that is like completely like earthlike it can
Speaker 4: it's got like water. They could live there. And so
Speaker 4: the whole crew is like, you know what, we just
Speaker 4: saw the captain like get burned alive in his tube.
Speaker 4: Nobody wants to get back on sleep for seven years?
Speaker 4: What if this is the answer to all our problems?
Speaker 4: We just like do this, We just like stay here. Daniels,
Speaker 4: who is James Franco's widow now and is the second command,
Speaker 4: is like, wait, wait, wait, it seems a little too perfect,
Speaker 4: doesn't it, Like why didn't we ever we do all
Speaker 4: these scans, which is how we found six, But now
Speaker 4: there's this closer planet and we never saw it and
Speaker 4: it's like perfect, Like this doesn't seem any weird anybody
Speaker 4: and everybody's like shut up, no. So they go to
Speaker 4: investigator and these are the dumbest fucking scientists ever. So
Speaker 4: they go down to investigate this earth like planet and
Speaker 4: they go with like literally no ppe, no helmets, no breathers,
Speaker 4: nothing that we can just breath. Well, I guess they're
Speaker 4: just like sitting on stuff and touching things, and like
Speaker 4: you don't see them drink the water, but they might
Speaker 4: as well be because they're just like breathing the air.
Speaker 4: They're raw dogging this fucking planet and shocking Goose because
Speaker 4: what they get infected by like sports the black goo, right,
Speaker 4: and of course they then become hosts for xeno morphs.
Speaker 3: Yeh.
Speaker 4: By the way, we also see that this there's a
Speaker 4: city here and it's full of like dead engineers. This
Speaker 4: is like the engineer home World. So one of the
Speaker 4: infected team members gets taken back aboard the ship the Covenant,
Speaker 4: which is crazy. You just bring him back on he's
Speaker 4: got he's sick with why.
Speaker 1: Would you do it?
Speaker 3: Every time they are not following. It's kind of a
Speaker 3: theme like just keep him in quarantine. They were not prepared.
Speaker 1: Whoever put together this team of colonists and they were
Speaker 1: not prepared to be colonizrable.
Speaker 4: The rest of the group like remains on the planet's
Speaker 4: surface with another infected guy. They then get attacked by
Speaker 4: the xeno morphs that were one of which was born
Speaker 4: from the infected person. But then they're saved by David.
Speaker 4: David's here Dun dun du. It turns out he's David
Speaker 4: wiped out all the engineers by like dropping their black
Speaker 4: goo bombs on them, and he's spent all the time,
Speaker 4: like whatever it is eleven years later or something, trying
Speaker 4: to perfect the perfect because he loves making things.
Speaker 3: He just loves making you get some deeply wild moments.
Speaker 1: I remember sitting in the movie theater in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: where I believe I went with people from my old
Speaker 1: comic shop that used to be on the waterfront at
Speaker 1: Long Beach, and we went there and there is like
Speaker 1: a five minute scene in this movie where one of
Speaker 1: the Michael Fastbenders is like playing yeah and then they're
Speaker 1: like gonna kiss and like it is legitimately one of
Speaker 1: the weirdest movies. Jason's Fantastic Recap has always is just
Speaker 1: zooming through this, making it seem far more action packed
Speaker 1: than it is.
Speaker 3: This is like such a weirdly.
Speaker 1: Long, atmospheric like gothic movie, and the two Michael fastbenders
Speaker 1: are just having the wildest part.
Speaker 4: So David then kills Walter in the scene that Rosie
Speaker 4: was just talking about. Yeah, the flute scene basically tricks
Speaker 4: and like rips something out of his neck and fucking
Speaker 4: drops him dead. But Walter is a significantly upgraded model
Speaker 4: and he like fixes himself somehow off camera and comes
Speaker 4: back and he takes out David Walter Daniels again. James
Speaker 4: Franco's widow then flee back to the Covenant ship. But
Speaker 4: then it turns out that the xenomorph hatched out of
Speaker 4: the sick guy that they brought into the fucking ship
Speaker 4: is now loose on the ship. So David Daniels and
Speaker 4: Danny McBride worked together to kill the alien. Hey, and
Speaker 4: as Daniels is being put back into cryo sleep by this.
Speaker 1: Bit is actually genuinely terrifying and I still think about
Speaker 1: how impact this and.
Speaker 4: Was fucking great. So Daniels has been put back into
Speaker 4: cry sleep by Walter and she says, hey, will you
Speaker 4: help me build my log cabin? Earlier in the movie
Speaker 4: of building a log cabin and he doesn't get the reference,
Speaker 4: and she realizes with horror that it's actually David, that's
Speaker 4: not Walter, and she but she can't do anything now
Speaker 4: because the go to sleep gases are filling the tube,
Speaker 4: and she goes to fucking sleep. David then throws up
Speaker 4: to face huggers like in little plastic cash pill capsules,
Speaker 4: puts them in the human embryo freezer, and then radio's
Speaker 4: mission control back on Earth and says, hey, sorry, everybody died,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to carry out the machine on my own.
Speaker 4: We'll be back in just a moment after a word
Speaker 4: from our friends at whalen Utani. Whalen Utani making the
Speaker 4: galaxy better, and we're back. That brings us too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Alien nineteen seventy nine's Alien, the movie that's started at
Speaker 4: all here. The year is twenty one, twenty two. The
Speaker 4: Wayland Utanni mining ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from
Speaker 4: planet LV four twenty six. They go to investigate. They
Speaker 4: find an alien ship. On the ship. There is a
Speaker 4: long dead engineer still in a jump seat with like
Speaker 4: the trademark burst out of its chest. A face hugger
Speaker 4: hatches and attaches itself to the face of one of
Speaker 4: the crew members named Kane, who is then taken back
Speaker 4: aboard the ship by the fucking Captain Dallas played by
Speaker 4: Tom Scarrett. I will say this is the most effective
Speaker 4: like breaking quarantine scene because Ripley Ellen Ripley played by
Speaker 4: Scourney Weaver, the hero of the film, is like, you don't.
Speaker 3: It's like hard no, she has the safety office, that doesn't.
Speaker 4: She says, I'm not letting you in. You have to
Speaker 4: be there for you have to stay in quarantine for
Speaker 4: twenty four hours. But it's Ash the who then turns
Speaker 4: out to be said with a human who, as we
Speaker 4: will learn, has other motives, lets them aboard. Anyway. They
Speaker 4: get a board, and it's horrific. You know, everybody's horrified
Speaker 4: by this face ogre on Kane. But then eventually the
Speaker 4: face oger lets go and dies and everything seems fine, Yeah,
Speaker 4: until they're all having a wonderful dinner before going back
Speaker 4: and cry to sleep, and Kine is all of a
Speaker 4: sudden in immense distressed, and that happens the xenomorph purse
Speaker 4: out of his chest to general screen runs horrifying moment
Speaker 4: and certainly one of the most just an iconic cinema moment.
Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah, this is still just like after watching all
Speaker 1: these movies in this order, when you get here, the
Speaker 1: practice fautful, the gorgeous set, the production designed by H. R. Geige,
Speaker 1: you can just feel how tactile and terrifying it really
Speaker 1: is compared to some of the more modern versions. And
Speaker 1: this scene is still so iconic and so.
Speaker 4: Said enough like this movie. Obviously there's some dated things
Speaker 4: about it, but overall, seen the scene, just like looking
Speaker 4: at them walking through hallways and stuff, it looks as
Speaker 4: good as anything made today.
Speaker 3: It looks absolutely Yeah, and it's also a movie about
Speaker 3: like working classes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, literally about work. It's about blue colors on.
Speaker 3: The ship, like it's about blue collar guys.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting in so many different ways that you
Speaker 1: know this many years last still feel really relevant and cool.
Speaker 4: So the Zenomore quickly grows to this to the size
Speaker 4: of a very large human being, and it begins off
Speaker 4: crewmembers one at a time, including the captain, who volunteers
Speaker 4: himself to go like try and flush this thing out
Speaker 4: of the air ducks because clearly he's feeling like shit
Speaker 4: because this is all his fucking fault. Like he broke
Speaker 4: cort me.
Speaker 3: Just listened.
Speaker 4: Now, Ripley discovers that Ash, the science officer, plans to
Speaker 4: return to Earth with the Xenomorph and had in fact
Speaker 4: been kind of directed to steer them towards this distress signal.
Speaker 4: And because the company Wail and Utani that they all
Speaker 4: work for, really, really, really wants this xenomorph ip for
Speaker 4: like their weapons divisions or like their healthcare division, for
Speaker 4: all sorts of divisions that they have under their banner,
Speaker 4: it really.
Speaker 3: Is a killing machine. And also, I want to say this.
Speaker 1: Is leads to another one of the most terrifying scenes
Speaker 1: when Ash attacks Ripley.
Speaker 4: It's so simple, but I remember being so disconcerted. First
Speaker 4: of all, I saw this scene. I was not allowed
Speaker 4: to watch the movie. I was probably like five, and
Speaker 4: my parents had it on VHS and they were watching it,
Speaker 4: and I watched it from the top of the stairs.
Speaker 4: I watched the whole fucking thing. This scene really bothered
Speaker 4: me because there's something so weird about the way he tries,
Speaker 4: like he rolls up a magazine and tries to stuff
Speaker 4: it in her mouth. And to this day, I've never
Speaker 4: seen somebody try to kill somebody like that. And it
Speaker 4: really just really bothered me. The imagery was so disturbing. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Ash tries to kill Ripley, but then is stopped by
Speaker 4: the surviving crew members, and we discover that Ashes this
Speaker 4: synthetic human with like milky blood.
Speaker 3: Oh so creepy.
Speaker 4: Eventually it gets down to just Ripley because the alien
Speaker 4: kills all these crew members. She and the ship Cat.
Speaker 4: Jones said, the stromo is self destuck, and they get
Speaker 4: on a lifeboat and they launch and the stromo explodes
Speaker 4: and everything's fucking fine. No, it's not because the alien
Speaker 4: is hiding on the lifeboat. They're really smart, these aliens.
Speaker 4: Ripley gets into a spacesuit, she opens the airlock, shoots
Speaker 4: the alien in the chest with a harpoon, sending it
Speaker 4: out of the airlock, and then when it tries to
Speaker 4: to crawl back onto the hull of the ship, it
Speaker 4: ends up like inside one of the engines of the ship,
Speaker 4: and she hits the thruster and it burns up, and
Speaker 4: then she goes in a cry of sleep with Jones
Speaker 4: and everything is happily ever after.
Speaker 3: Right, of course, no problems. She escaped with the cat.
Speaker 3: That's all she needed.
Speaker 4: That brings us to coming to a theater near you. Romulus,
Speaker 4: set between the events of Alien and the next movie
Speaker 4: in the series, Aliens from nineteen eighty Aliens, Now Aliens
Speaker 4: takes place in the year twenty one to seventy nine.
Speaker 4: Ripley has been asleep for fifty seven years when she
Speaker 4: is discovered by a salvage ship. She returns to Earth,
Speaker 4: but all hope of like restarting like a normal life
Speaker 4: are scuttled because her credit score is absolutely fucking shit
Speaker 4: housed because Waylan Utani considers her financially liable unbelievable for
Speaker 4: the destruction of the now Trauma, which she had to do.
Speaker 4: And she tries to tell them, well, there's this fucking alien,
Speaker 4: there's a cenomorph. It killed the whole crew and the
Speaker 4: like shot whatever. We've never heard of anything like that. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: we know, yeah, what are you talking about? Utani company,
Speaker 4: And separately, both the Whyland and you Tani sides of
Speaker 4: the company have been aware, well aware of the existence
Speaker 4: of xenomorph saying no since that twentieth century, they've known
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: They've been trying to make one.
Speaker 1: Also, I just want to say, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a huge change from Ridley Scott, the original director. Now
Speaker 1: you've got James Cameron. That's two of the biggest directors
Speaker 1: of all time. But I love that James Cameron respected
Speaker 1: that this needed to at least begin by being a
Speaker 1: movie about a blue collar worker getting sucked over by
Speaker 1: a corporation. He was like, that part is really important,
Speaker 1: even if the rest of the movie is going to
Speaker 1: be totally different.
Speaker 3: I just need people to know I remember that that
Speaker 3: is what made that movies.
Speaker 4: And I got to say, you gotta love James Cameron
Speaker 4: for the Avatar movies before this complete CG revolution that
Speaker 4: he undertook, because here's another movie with the production design,
Speaker 4: the practical effects, the sets that looks so tactile and
Speaker 4: real and lived in and it looks again, it looks
Speaker 4: as good as any movie that will come out like
Speaker 4: it just looks fucking great. Anyway, When Wayland loses contact
Speaker 4: with their colony Hadley's Hope on LV four twenty six.
Speaker 3: Why did they stuck Callingy that guy?
Speaker 4: Well, I think they knew it.
Speaker 1: I think they did that.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think they did this. They did so they
Speaker 4: strong armed Ripley into going back because she's the only
Speaker 4: person with experience with Xenomorphson. She's like, you'll be a consultant,
Speaker 4: and by the way, you'll be completely safe because we're
Speaker 4: sending you with a squad of heavily armed colonial marines.
Speaker 4: These these men and women are fucking bad ass. They're
Speaker 4: so buff and they go they're fucking professions.
Speaker 3: There's nothing that can happen to them.
Speaker 4: They've kill, kill, kill, and there's nobody better galaxy than them. Well,
Speaker 4: yes there is, because as soon as they land, the
Speaker 4: aliens wipe out the fucking marines like quick, like ten minutes.
Speaker 4: There's only a handful of marines and this thrust Ripley,
Speaker 4: a surviving colonist, this little girl named Nude, and a
Speaker 4: rag tag James collection of marines and one company hack
Speaker 4: named Carter Burke into a struggle to survive. They come
Speaker 4: up with a plan to nuke the There's just like,
Speaker 4: let's get back on our ship.
Speaker 3: And fucking nuke it.
Speaker 1: Like what you know.
Speaker 4: Now, Company Hack Burke disagrees in Gunnisan, Company hack Burke
Speaker 4: is like, now, hold on. This installation holds a significant
Speaker 4: dollar value to the stockholders, not to mention the potential
Speaker 4: gains to be made from the alien ip They're like,
Speaker 4: shut the fuck up, bitch, shut up where nuked.
Speaker 3: They're like, this is the problem. This is where the
Speaker 3: problem comes from. You're not taking an alien home. It's
Speaker 3: not Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4: Again, it must be said they've been trying to take
Speaker 4: an alien back to Earth for like one hundred years
Speaker 4: at this point anyway, So they ignore him and they
Speaker 4: proceed with nuke from orbit plan, which requires them to
Speaker 4: escape back to their ship. But the aliens fucking go crazy.
Speaker 4: They kill company Hack, Carter Burke, and a bunch of others.
Speaker 4: Ripley eventually escapes with Newt and a Bishop the new
Speaker 4: Synth played by Lance Henrickson, who you know Ripley has
Speaker 4: been struggling to kind of trust up until this time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they get back on board their ship and they are
Speaker 4: gonna nuke it from orbit. But then guess what. It
Speaker 4: turns out that the alien queen who Ripley had previously
Speaker 4: burned up all the eggs, all the alien and face
Speaker 4: hugger eggs in front of the queen. It made the
Speaker 4: queen super angry. Now she's so pissed she attached herself
Speaker 4: to their jump ship and like was hiding in the
Speaker 4: wheel well and now she appears. She tears Bishop in half,
Speaker 4: but then Ripley in one of the most iconic scenes
Speaker 4: in movies. Yeah, legendary scene, puts on a loader suit
Speaker 4: basically a mech suit and beats the shit out of
Speaker 4: the queen get away.
Speaker 3: Ye bitch, how you bitch? Also just need to say, like,
Speaker 3: the Queen design is so sick.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to come from a movie like Alien
Speaker 1: where you have someone's literal nightmares. In hl Gey Goot
Speaker 1: coming to life as the x Anomorph, it shocked people.
Speaker 1: We had no idea of what an alien could look
Speaker 1: like before that. Before it had always been the you know,
Speaker 1: the the Gray Men kind of trope. And then to
Speaker 1: have to find a new way to scare people in
Speaker 1: the new movie is so well done. Even though this
Speaker 1: is definitely more of an action than a sci fi horror,
Speaker 1: I do think the Queen design goes.
Speaker 3: Down as like one of the most badass designs.
Speaker 4: And it must be said Cameron has created two of
Speaker 4: the greatest sequels of all time T two and Aliens. Ever,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like Godfather too of T two Aliens,
Speaker 4: that's like the triumvirate of the greatest sequels of all time,
Speaker 4: and James Cameron has made two of them. So Ripley
Speaker 4: Jettison's the queen out into space. She puts Hicks into
Speaker 4: cryo sleep, she puts Nude into cryosleep, she puts herself
Speaker 4: into cryo sleep. And they won. That's it, that's it,
Speaker 4: we've won.
Speaker 3: We're going back to the problems. She's got a nice
Speaker 3: little baby when everything would do that. She's a kid
Speaker 3: like nude.
Speaker 4: That brings us to Alien three from nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4: The year is twenty one seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Dun Dun Dum.
Speaker 4: After a fire aboard the marine intergalactic ship causes the
Speaker 4: lifeboat to be launched, which contains the cryo tubes of Hicks, Ripley, Newt,
Speaker 4: and Bishop. The lifeboat then crashes on a prison planet
Speaker 4: inhabited by all male inmates. Only Ripley survives no scratch.
Speaker 4: That a face hugger, a face that was aboard the
Speaker 4: ship also survives. The face hugger then hug wild one
Speaker 4: of the inmates dogs, and the dog quickly gives birth
Speaker 4: to a really bad looking xenomorph Alien hybrid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really ugly dog xenom of hybrid.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just want to stop us that because in
Speaker 1: one of the original scripts this movie was written like
Speaker 1: four or five times before it was made.
Speaker 3: It was originally going to be a cow instead of
Speaker 3: a dog, which I would have loved to see.
Speaker 1: Also, this movie is one of my favorite almost movie scripts,
Speaker 1: which was the original Alien three script was that it
Speaker 1: was going to be set on a planet of monks,
Speaker 1: and the planet was entirely wooden, and inside the wooden
Speaker 1: planet were all these tunnels, and you kind of get
Speaker 1: to see a little instead of monkst you get the
Speaker 1: prisoners who are religious fanatics, and you get some of
Speaker 1: those tunnels still going through the prison planet. But it's
Speaker 1: not in any way as wild as that would have been.
Speaker 1: This movie had true production hell it went.
Speaker 4: Through And this is David Fincher's feature film debut. David
Speaker 4: Fincher was by this time a very accomplished music video
Speaker 4: and commercial director, some really like iconic music videos for
Speaker 4: Madonna and many many other notables, and you did a
Speaker 4: lot of ad campaigns for like Levi's Nike, et cetera.
Speaker 4: But this is his first movie and he has since
Speaker 4: he disowned the movie.
Speaker 3: Yes all three.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like the work print, he doesn't like the
Speaker 1: theatrical print. He doesn't like the special edition, he said,
Speaker 1: not for me. I find that also, this movie really
Speaker 1: feels like it was heavily influenced by like a French
Speaker 1: cinema at the time, like The City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4: You Have Lost Children, kind of like the breakout film
Speaker 4: of the director who directed Alien Resurrection in the next film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it really feels to me like this was
Speaker 1: influenced I agree with you by that by Delicatessen.
Speaker 3: It has this kind of weird it's incredibly.
Speaker 1: Monotone like the Yeah, it has like these monotone kind
Speaker 1: of like and it's very slow compared to you know, Aliens.
Speaker 1: And yes, the Dog's animal hybrid is notoriously bad in
Speaker 1: this and it actually has there's a very famous scene
Speaker 1: with it's just Hans and some black leather gloves and
Speaker 1: they just come down on the screen and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: no human acts.
Speaker 4: CG for it. And this is nineteen ninety two, and
Speaker 4: you know, by this point it's like the state of
Speaker 4: the art for this kind of CG was again probably
Speaker 4: T two And what's the James catn.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way was also at the time the
Speaker 3: most expensive.
Speaker 4: Underwater Oh, the Abyss so you know, at this time,
Speaker 4: the state of the art for this kind of effects
Speaker 4: was probably like T two and The Abyss, both by
Speaker 4: James Cameron. By the way, the Dog.
Speaker 3: Alian Dog alias Let's go with them were.
Speaker 4: They gave it this kind of green machen which I
Speaker 4: think what they were intending to do was to make
Speaker 4: it stand out from these very gray Stone Hallway backgrounds
Speaker 4: and stand out from the shadows. But the issue is
Speaker 4: it made it look completely not realistic to the way
Speaker 4: light works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in any way, so it just looks really anyway,
Speaker 3: I will say as well.
Speaker 1: Another interesting thing I learned because I watched this on
Speaker 1: laser disc, so I was like, oh, maybe the laser
Speaker 1: disc version is a different cut, because I've seen many
Speaker 1: different cuts of the first Alien movie because there were
Speaker 1: just so many. No, But what I did learn is
Speaker 1: that how they did the CG on this so they
Speaker 1: could see what it looked like was they would take
Speaker 1: a laser disc version of the dailies and.
Speaker 3: Then overlay the cig on top of the movie see
Speaker 3: what it would look like. Yeah, that's how they were
Speaker 3: making it. So laser disk actually very important part and
Speaker 3: making of this movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it does look like the CG was done
Speaker 1: with laser disc so that did not actually surprise me.
Speaker 4: Ripley forms a bond with Clemmens. The prison doctor played
Speaker 4: by Charles Dance aka Tywon.
Speaker 3: Lanister Taiwan Lannie.
Speaker 4: Dog alien goes on a fucking hot streak like killing Spury,
Speaker 4: it's just killing. He kills the warden while the warden
Speaker 4: is giving kills the warden while the warden is giving
Speaker 4: like a speech about how no one should be worried
Speaker 4: about like the people who have been dying recently in
Speaker 4: any rumor that there's like a dragon running around the
Speaker 4: killing people's nature. The dog alien like reaches down from
Speaker 4: the fucking ceiling and cling and just like choose him up.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't kill Ripley because guess why, huh, oh man,
Speaker 4: I wonder why it could be with an alien The
Speaker 4: face hugger got her in the oh man so and
Speaker 4: so remember it bummed out about this and she's like, well,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna kill myself. I want to die. And the
Speaker 4: inmates are like, no more, you die. You have to
Speaker 4: help us beat this thing because you've one. You've done
Speaker 4: it twice. Now we can't. We need you, We need
Speaker 4: your help, you say, and then you can kill yourself.
Speaker 4: And she's like okay. So that she comes up with
Speaker 4: a plan to like lure it, because they have no
Speaker 4: weapons on this prison facility, lure it into it like
Speaker 4: a furnace facility that they have where they can dump
Speaker 4: like molten metal on it and kill it. And so
Speaker 4: they managed to do that. They dumped the molten metal
Speaker 4: on it, and then just like Terminator Too, they like
Speaker 4: spray it with water which has this like rapid temperature
Speaker 4: shift and it it like shatters. Okay again, just you
Speaker 4: think this must be one of the things that bothers.
Speaker 4: Fincher too is like, but they did. They did it
Speaker 4: in Terminator too, and then we're doing it at the
Speaker 4: end of the MOE. So then Ripley is about to
Speaker 4: jump in a furnace mission accomplished. She wants wants to
Speaker 4: kill this turns out she's an alien queen in her chest.
Speaker 4: But then a whaling Utani rescue team arrives, led by
Speaker 4: mister Bishop, the human creator of Bishop the Synth. He's
Speaker 4: Hendrick is back and there and whaling Utani must be thinking, finally,
Speaker 4: this is it. We've got it, We've it actually did
Speaker 4: w it's we've been trying to do this for two
Speaker 4: hundred years, and now we finally got a human with
Speaker 4: a with the aliens, and it's an alien queen. We
Speaker 4: got to get this thing back to Earth. But it
Speaker 4: doesn't work. And even though mister Bishop is very very
Speaker 4: I might have been persuaded by mister Bishop, he really
Speaker 4: puts the charm on. He's like, Ripley, what are you?
Speaker 4: Don't you want to go home? It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4: You think we could great part of the whalen Utani.
Speaker 1: Family, Like, don't do that, And she's like, well, my
Speaker 1: adopted door is dead and I'm pregnant with the alien baby, so.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna jump into this CG molten metal like.
Speaker 4: Jumps into the CG molten metal just like Jesus Christ,
Speaker 4: just as the alien queen burst out of her chest
Speaker 4: like and she's like, ye like a baby, and they hit,
Speaker 4: they hit the metal and they burn up, and that's it. Happily.
Speaker 4: Ever after that's it.
Speaker 1: We just have to take a break to go and
Speaker 1: insert the alien eggs into our human sacrifices so we
Speaker 1: can have xenomorphs ready for you after this message.
Speaker 3: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Finally, Ripley is free from the aliens, nothing else could happen.
Speaker 4: Alien Resurrection nineteen ninety seven. It's been two hundred years.
Speaker 4: Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunette.
Speaker 3: I still haven't done it. They still haven't.
Speaker 4: Directed by French weirdo Jean Pierre Jeanne of Omily fame
Speaker 4: and the.
Speaker 3: City of City of Lost Children, City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4: Super weird, really fun movie. I'm not sure he was
Speaker 4: the correct choice for this film, but regardless, Rail and
Speaker 4: Utani scientists aborder ship named the Ariga clone Ripley from
Speaker 4: a blood sample and they combine it with xenomorphine Clone
Speaker 4: Ripley and then grows up to like adult Ripley in
Speaker 4: a very short period of time, because you know how
Speaker 4: the aliens do that, They just grow up and Clone
Speaker 4: Ripley yeah, super strong, has acid blood and also has
Speaker 4: a very weird psychic link to the aliens. And also
Speaker 4: because I guess the xenomorphs have like a genetic memory,
Speaker 4: they chair the memory of like other I don't know
Speaker 4: how it works, but whatever, Ripley also somehow she has
Speaker 4: memories of herself, but they're from the perspective of the
Speaker 4: aliens that like fought her wild so are the aliens psychic? Like,
Speaker 4: how do they get the memory is?
Speaker 3: I think maybe it's like a hive mind.
Speaker 4: This is very venerable.
Speaker 3: They all are experience, very very very this is the
Speaker 3: next video, I say, how Alien Resurrection shaped.
Speaker 4: Okay, So mercenaries arrive on the Arega. They're here to
Speaker 4: deliver prisoners that are going to be used as incubators
Speaker 4: for the alien eggs for to create more aliens. Annelie
Speaker 4: Call played by Winona Ryder, decides like, Hey, this is
Speaker 4: a really fucked up thing that's happening here. They're using
Speaker 4: humans to get they're using aliens. And also the aliens
Speaker 4: are like a super weapon and if they get out,
Speaker 4: it would be really crazy. We can't let this happen.
Speaker 4: But of course, eventually the aliens escape from where they're
Speaker 4: being research and actually this way, I thought, this is
Speaker 4: kind of like my favorite part of the movie is like,
Speaker 4: so they've got these two aliens, they were running tests
Speaker 4: on them, and then the aliens can't get out because
Speaker 4: like every time they approach the glass or approach the walls,
Speaker 4: like they get shot with this like very very cold
Speaker 4: like gas. And so one of the aliens. The aliens
Speaker 4: are really smart guys, how often do we have to
Speaker 4: say it? They're like, wait a second, we have acid blood,
Speaker 4: and they one of the aliens kills the other one
Speaker 4: who just like lets itself get killed, and the blood
Speaker 4: builts the floor and then it jumps through the floor
Speaker 4: and gets out into the of the facility. Now we
Speaker 4: should mention again, whalen u Tani has been researching these
Speaker 4: aliens for two centuries.
Speaker 3: They know about acid blood. I feel like it should
Speaker 3: be like having a guy the acid blood melted.
Speaker 4: Guys, you know about the acid blood, really, you definitely know. Anyway,
Speaker 4: a queen alien containing some of Ripley's human DNA gives
Speaker 4: birth human like birth because it has like a uterus
Speaker 4: like a human to a almost funny looking human alien
Speaker 4: hundred that looks like Rosie.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with me on this looks like Pumpkinhead.
Speaker 4: I do agree Pumpkinhead from the titular villain from Pumpkinhead,
Speaker 4: the film, which also stars alien star Dun Dunn Lance Henrickson.
Speaker 3: He's back.
Speaker 1: He's connected six degrees of Lance Emrickson in the alien universe.
Speaker 1: It does look like Pumpkinhead. They did not deliver the
Speaker 1: new cool Alien design when it came to that little guy. Also,
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe this is one of those like
Speaker 1: weird social Internet constructs, but I swear to God, Like
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I thought when Ona Ryder
Speaker 1: was like her door or something in this movie, or
Speaker 1: her or something, And then when I rewatched it, I
Speaker 1: was like, that is definitely so like if you get
Speaker 1: fire five vibes from the Mercenaries and from like the design.
Speaker 4: That might be because Joss Whedon wrote this terrible fucking
Speaker 4: script this movie. It's so bad, but it's the worst
Speaker 4: looking of the Alien movies by far.
Speaker 3: At least Alien three.
Speaker 1: Every few years with Alien three, hence why I own
Speaker 1: it on bloomin laser disc that I just bought recently
Speaker 1: from a meeba in la It's like every few years
Speaker 1: I reconsider it because there's it's like a visual, there's
Speaker 1: a visual, a choice that David Fincher made. It's very strange,
Speaker 1: it's very dreary, it's slow burn. It has this weird
Speaker 1: religious kind of subtext to it. But it is, I
Speaker 1: have to say, sadly, quite a boring movie. But at
Speaker 1: least it has vibes. Alien four Resurrection does not have
Speaker 1: vibes and does not live up to a movie that
Speaker 1: has both Gorney Weaver, and.
Speaker 4: It looks sadly like a very cheap film. It does
Speaker 4: not look expensive or good at all. It does have
Speaker 4: what I consider to be one of the most iconic
Speaker 4: basketball scenes in movies in which the Mercenaries.
Speaker 3: This is the Mercenaries encounter with the cat super Ripley.
Speaker 4: So super Ripley again, remember has the alien DNA, and
Speaker 4: she's like practicing basketball and her game is like Peau
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley, Like she just like drives to the hoop
Speaker 4: of dunks, that's what. And then of course there's this
Speaker 4: really amazing shot where she's like walking away from the
Speaker 4: basket and she shoots a basket over her head and
Speaker 4: it goes in and she actually made that shot. That's
Speaker 4: like the take that's in the ideas for actually.
Speaker 3: Making the shot is so good you can't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's like that Catwoman scene with Michelle Pipa where she
Speaker 1: gets all the heads off with the whips. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things where it just becomes a legendary scene
Speaker 1: that you never believe was done without cg And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Sigourney Weave. I continue, you can go queen,
Speaker 1: I'm the queen.
Speaker 4: Go on YouTube and see like the outtake. It's not
Speaker 4: an outtake, it's Ron Perlman like reacts the way any
Speaker 4: person would react to that by just going, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And he thought for a second that he had ruined
Speaker 4: the take because he says it like right after it
Speaker 4: goes in, But there was enough space there for them
Speaker 4: to like cut anyway, go watch it on YouTube. It's
Speaker 4: really funny.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 4: So Ripley manages to launch the alien queen into space
Speaker 4: by melting a window with her acid blood.
Speaker 3: Of course, again Acid.
Speaker 4: Thought about, like, we gotta ask improve this entire facility.
Speaker 4: The mercenaries and Ripley escaped the Orega, which crashes into Earth.
Speaker 4: Oh but it does explode, so maybe like all the
Speaker 4: aliens and alien research are fine. And then the mercenaries
Speaker 4: are like, where should we go? And then Ripley is like,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know. I'm like two weeks old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't, like, I don't know anything, and then the
Speaker 4: movie's over. The movie is so fucking dumb. It's so dumb,
Speaker 4: and that brings us to the chronological end of the
Speaker 4: alien universe. As we know it now again. Alien Romulus
Speaker 4: coming to theaters near you soon coming takes place between
Speaker 4: Alienen and Alienens, So that'll be very interesting to see.
Speaker 3: Yes, very interesting.
Speaker 1: And it's Fetti Alvarez, who's like a don't Breathe the
Speaker 1: Evil Dad remake. That man knows how to make a
Speaker 1: scary movie. So I'm excited to see what happens.
Speaker 4: One question I have for you that I think is,
Speaker 4: listen this to your point, they did do a surprising
Speaker 4: amount of like lore building in this and specifically in
Speaker 4: like the Alien versus President, really wild. Yeah, the overall
Speaker 4: like world building is quite spotty. Like there's a lot
Speaker 4: of un answered questions, and there's a lot of things
Speaker 4: that don't line up. And here's one of my biggest ones,
Speaker 4: and we don't really ever get the answer. Why were
Speaker 4: the engineers gonna wipe out Earth other than the Jesus?
Speaker 3: Other than Jesus.
Speaker 1: Well, I do think you make a good point. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that Ridley Scott was planning to make the Jesus
Speaker 1: think canon for some reason. These old directors from this
Speaker 1: error of Action, they love Jesus.
Speaker 3: Poor Verhoven's the same, he loves Jesus.
Speaker 1: If you watch his very entertaining lesbian nonsplitation movie Benedetta.
Speaker 3: It's about like a nun.
Speaker 1: In eighteenth Centuary Rome, you know, who begins having these visions.
Speaker 1: But when she has visions of Jesus, she's having visions
Speaker 1: of like Hunky like Action Star honest Watch, Neega Jesus.
Speaker 1: It's like some of the most outrageous stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they love Jesus, but why were they gonna
Speaker 1: wipe us out? Probably, you know, some kind of like
Speaker 1: Godzilla esque. The engineers saw that we were destroying the Earth,
Speaker 1: and they decided the best thing to do, or they
Speaker 1: wanted to terraform Earth and take it over and use
Speaker 1: it as a breeding ground for these aliens, which would
Speaker 1: become like weapons if they wanted to take over other planets.
Speaker 1: But I think Prometheus kind of messes us up because
Speaker 1: Prometheus adds in the lore of like they are the creators,
Speaker 1: they are where the god mythology comes from. So then
Speaker 1: that takes on a lot of a heavier weight of
Speaker 1: kind of why they would want to destroy us.
Speaker 4: I guess part of me wonders so that you find
Speaker 4: out that the planet that they go to in Prometheus,
Speaker 4: like or at least, the supposition from our science friends
Speaker 4: in the story is that this is like a bioweapons facility,
Speaker 4: so maybe like, yeah, maybe it's like the two ingredients
Speaker 4: of the weapon, like Earth is where the incubators are human,
Speaker 4: they have the actual weapons stuff. Honestly, that would be
Speaker 4: the smartest way to do it, seeing how Ireland this yeah,
Speaker 4: these this weapon is is to like have them separate
Speaker 4: and then combine them later at some other place somewhere.
Speaker 4: Would they be fighting? Yeah, why would they need this weapon?
Speaker 4: I guess that's the other thing, Like who were they
Speaker 4: scared of? Like the predators, But like the predators don't
Speaker 4: really feel like that's big a threat, not really a
Speaker 4: formidable threat killing one engineer, Like the engineers could just
Speaker 4: like step on or like kill like one engineers like
Speaker 4: big fucking deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also as well, the predators, I feel like they're
Speaker 1: always just willing to like team up with someone thanks
Speaker 1: to the later law. So I feel like the energy
Speaker 1: engineers could have just been like, let's not be beefing, bro, Like,
Speaker 1: let's just be cool. I won't make a bioweapon to
Speaker 1: kill you if you just chill out a bit. But
Speaker 1: you know what, that's the interesting thing. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: a lot about prequels because of House the Dragon, which
Speaker 1: I believe is currently up there for me for like
Speaker 1: one of the greatest prequels that we've ever gotten, the
Speaker 1: way that the TV series decided to adapt Fire and Blood.
Speaker 1: And actually, like, prequels are so complex because you do
Speaker 1: start to build in all this law that was never
Speaker 1: intended in the original films, you know, so with Alien
Speaker 1: versus Predator, in these movies that are so far away
Speaker 1: from really being connected to like the original Alien, but
Speaker 1: because they start technically before you are watching a prequel,
Speaker 1: and if you're a nerd like us, you can't help
Speaker 1: connecting those things together. So you do start asking these
Speaker 1: questions about how these things all connect. And I do
Speaker 1: still think with Alien and Predator now both under the
Speaker 1: Disney banner after the twentieth Century Fox acquisition, I do
Speaker 1: think that we will probably get another Alien Predator movie
Speaker 1: in our time that is more concerned with the Ridley
Speaker 1: Scott style law, because it's just such an enjoyable matchup.
Speaker 3: But you make a good.
Speaker 1: Point that really, in general, the Predators, I think the
Speaker 1: reason they focus on humans is because they're not actually
Speaker 1: that good peoples like they could go to the engineers,
Speaker 1: but in that they're like, oh, I'll just see what
Speaker 1: happens if I kill a human, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sure that's so far? Are they like the predators trophies
Speaker 4: that they give like humans? It's always like a flintlock pistol,
Speaker 4: a spirit? Can I get something from elsewhere in the
Speaker 4: get like give me an alien weapon?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Could I have?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, like, could you get something like a
Speaker 4: gun or something? This is what I could fucking go
Speaker 4: to a museum.
Speaker 1: But no, they dude, they don't want to give it
Speaker 1: to you because then you could kill them because they're
Speaker 1: not that good they're gonna give you Like they're like,
Speaker 1: make sure you give them up and that's at least
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years old, or he might be
Speaker 1: able to take us out.
Speaker 4: See well, Alien Romulus comes out August sixteenth. Will be
Speaker 4: covering that movie.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, os Enamo if we continues tomorrow when I'm
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