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Speaker 3: In today's episode, we are re releasing a classic episode.
Speaker 3: Last year, when Alien Romulus arrived in theaters, we did
Speaker 3: speed recaps of the entire franchise, but with Alien Earth
Speaker 3: around the corner, we thought everyone could use a quick
Speaker 3: refresher course, so enjoy this classic episode.
Speaker 4: So here we go, Alien Franchise recap in chronological order.
Speaker 5: Wow, fictional chronological.
Speaker 1: Order, chronological fictional honor, which is our favorite way to
Speaker 1: do recap.
Speaker 4: We begin with nineteen nineties Predator two. That's right, Predator two.
Speaker 2: Woo 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 2: We love this movie, but it is.
Speaker 1: A very problematic movie when you watch it again.
Speaker 4: Hid watching it in the modern day, there's it definitely
Speaker 4: raises some red flags. We open in Los Angeles. The
Speaker 4: year is nineteen ninety seven. Los Angeles is slightly faturistic.
Speaker 4: The Los Angeles is racked by hyper violent gang violence
Speaker 4: between two, yes, very racially problematic, depictions of Colombian and
Speaker 4: Jamaican gangs that are at each other's necks end. This
Speaker 4: violence attracts the attentions of a predator who's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I love violence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these guys are killing each other.
Speaker 4: That I will kill the ones who are killing the
Speaker 4: most because I'm a predator. That's what I love to
Speaker 4: do is kill the most dangerous one.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and then I'll be like the best killer
Speaker 1: in downtown LA specifically.
Speaker 5: So the alien, just.
Speaker 4: As racking up bodies, cuts a bloody swath through both
Speaker 4: of these gangs. LAPD Officer Mike Harrigan played by Danny Glover.
Speaker 4: Huh that, Glover, Why were you cost in this movie?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I love it. He is too
Speaker 4: old for this shit in this movie.
Speaker 2: He does you don't want to be able.
Speaker 4: To ashier suits in this than you would expect from
Speaker 4: the Lethal Weapons series.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 4: So he's investigating the gang violence and he finds himself
Speaker 4: in pursuit of the Predator, and of course nobody believes,
Speaker 4: you know, he's getting all these reports, all this like
Speaker 4: Invisible Killer.
Speaker 5: It's weird.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a man, it was a monster or whatever.
Speaker 4: Towards the end of the film, as Harrogan is in
Speaker 4: pursuit of this predator, the Predator goes to its ship
Speaker 4: that it's hidden and as it you know, goes in
Speaker 4: there to like restock on ammo et cetera, and like
Speaker 4: treat its wounds, and we see among the Predator's trophies
Speaker 4: is a xenomorph skull on the wall. And let me
Speaker 4: tell you, in the pre internet era, when I saw
Speaker 4: this as a kid and saw the alien style, I
Speaker 4: was like, my mind literally exploded. But it's all I
Speaker 4: could talk about.
Speaker 6: You don't understand the aliens exist in the Predator universe.
Speaker 6: I've never heard of such a.
Speaker 2: Cross this game. 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, Frandy in Hell Freddie goes
Speaker 1: to Hell and at.
Speaker 2: The end he pulls down I mean that.
Speaker 1: I think those are the two memories I have of like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, like something's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So Harrigan kills the predator with its own like little weapon.
Speaker 5: It's the Frisbee weapon.
Speaker 4: And then a group of predators who I guess have
Speaker 4: been like observing, appear and they take their fellow predators
Speaker 4: corpse back with them to put it on the ship,
Speaker 4: and they give Harrigan like an old like revolutionary war
Speaker 4: pistol as.
Speaker 5: A good job. All right, do you peace?
Speaker 4: Next movie Alien Versus Predator two thousand and four.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 5: How do they build it?
Speaker 4: Because they're the space faring highly advanced hunters And it
Speaker 4: turns out.
Speaker 5: They're just like SPC the predators. Now, it turns out.
Speaker 4: The predators taught human beings how to build pyramids because
Speaker 4: I guess people couldn't like figure out the triangle shape.
Speaker 2: Like they were like they were like, this is a
Speaker 2: two complex. What wo baby, I barely just got the
Speaker 2: wheel going. I don't know what's going.
Speaker 4: So predator culture apparently considers the xenomorph like the ultimate prey,
Speaker 4: like the most dangerous thing you can hunt.
Speaker 5: Right, So every one.
Speaker 4: Hundred years, the predator contestants come to Earth to hunt
Speaker 4: xenomorphs specifically hatched from sacrificial human beings, and this alien
Speaker 4: queen that they have like frozen in the pyramid. And
Speaker 4: this is like the predator version of the Olympics, right,
Speaker 4: It's a big deal. And the scientists and the mercenaries
Speaker 4: get all caught up in this competition and they're like,
Speaker 4: we have to help the predators win because the aliens
Speaker 4: if they overrun, you know, the predators, they'll like wild
Speaker 4: on Earth and just kill everybody or use them as
Speaker 4: you know, egg hatching incubators. The predators give Arctic guide
Speaker 4: Lex played by snal A than a spear is a
Speaker 4: gift and after this is after the predators defeat the aliens, uh,
Speaker 4: they then get in the ship with one of their
Speaker 4: fallen comrades named Scar and they take off, and then.
Speaker 5: 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 designed.
Speaker 5: Take that does with that, I.
Speaker 4: Feel like to make sure they don't really think, y
Speaker 4: know what these things do.
Speaker 5: And you're still like, yeah, yeah, don't even check it.
Speaker 5: Just bring it right on.
Speaker 2: Just put him on the ship. He's fine. Definitely didn't
Speaker 2: get that.
Speaker 4: Brings us to two thousand and sevens Alien Predator Requiem,
Speaker 4: which occurs in the same year as Alien vers Predat
Speaker 4: two thousand and four, happens in fact immediately following the events.
Speaker 4: So right after the predators get in their ship and
Speaker 4: take off to fly back to their home planet, the
Speaker 4: pret alien, which is now hatched, it grows at a
Speaker 4: fantastic rate, as we often see that these creatures do,
Speaker 4: and immediately fucking goes ham and it causes the predator
Speaker 4: home ship to crash into Gunnis in Colorado. Ah, Yes,
Speaker 4: Gunnis in Colorado's poor town doesn't know what it's in for.
Speaker 4: The Xenomorphs then go fucking crazy and they start, you know,
Speaker 4: reproducing using humans as hosts, going nuts. A Predator champion
Speaker 4: back on the Predator homeworld gets the distress signal and
Speaker 4: it's like, fuck this, I'm going there alone.
Speaker 1: If He's like, if you want to jump and I'm.
Speaker 5: Going to wipe out all the xenomorphs on Earth.
Speaker 4: Now things get really chaotic and crazy, so much so
Speaker 4: that the military like immediately gets involved and they decide,
Speaker 4: we can't we can't let this spread any further. Let's
Speaker 4: nuke gunnison, a thing you've seen in a million movie Outbreak, the.
Speaker 5: Blob, et cetera.
Speaker 4: So, but I think it's actually like quite a reasonable
Speaker 4: thing to do in this particular case.
Speaker 2: Jason's like, in this case.
Speaker 1: You go to do I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: they're they're not thinking about the fact that in the
Speaker 1: canon of these kind of movies, if you nuke some creature,
Speaker 1: it usually just becomes giant. So I would definitely be
Speaker 1: thinking of the Godzilla potentials of the mutation, But I
Speaker 1: 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 Sally, Okay, mister President.
Speaker 4: So what we've got is a parasitic alien race species
Speaker 4: that is reproducing very quickly, and they are also being
Speaker 4: fought by a humanoid alien race of hunters. Are you
Speaker 4: getting this, sir.
Speaker 2: To alien species you didn't know about until this.
Speaker 4: The military nukes Gunisen, killing the predator and 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 Wayland and Utani in
Speaker 4: the universe.
Speaker 1: Dude, I have to say the movies that are essentially
Speaker 1: like so derived.
Speaker 5: Both these movies are dumb.
Speaker 1: Try to enjoy they are like so dumb, it's so funny,
Speaker 1: how dedicated they have to.
Speaker 4: Say they worked really hard, Like can't casting LANDA Hendrickson, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I got you know, being like and they're like, we're
Speaker 4: gonna make cannon manly, You're gonna kid, You're.
Speaker 2: Gonna care about this.
Speaker 1: People will be talking about this, and it's like, people,
Speaker 1: these movies are so dumb, but I gotta they command
Speaker 1: really hard to every single movie having a twist ending
Speaker 1: that is somehow connectically 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.
Speaker 2: He is about to go. It's happening as his.
Speaker 4: Like video recording is being played to this science team
Speaker 4: that he's put together. He's like, I'm not by the
Speaker 4: time you watch this, I'm gone. So hes an ambitious
Speaker 4: mission to a moon in that particular star system that
Speaker 4: they matched to the cave paintings and different pieces of
Speaker 4: art from all those human cultures, and so they're going
Speaker 4: to this moon called LVY two twenty three because he
Speaker 4: thinks the engineers are there, and mister Whaland wants the
Speaker 4: engineers to tell him how he can like avoid dying,
Speaker 4: which is such a fucking come.
Speaker 2: On, just assassin thing 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 have to spend this much money, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you could just find.
Speaker 2: A sign to do this instead of going in the
Speaker 2: 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 2: So yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Know they're doing crazy in the real world.
Speaker 5: 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. Cash
Speaker 4: While they're in cryo sleep, they're watched over by David,
Speaker 4: who is a synthetic a 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. David takes like a drop played
Speaker 4: very creepily by Michael 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.
Speaker 5: Creepy, oh, you've got this alien in you.
Speaker 4: And she's like, well, let's get it out. And he's like, well,
Speaker 4: we don't have the stuff, we don't have any way
Speaker 4: to do that here, and we yeah, yeah, yeah, Bat,
Speaker 4: let's just seeze you take you home.
Speaker 2: Okay, seems like nothing.
Speaker 4: Very 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, removing this like wriggling squid like alien. It's
Speaker 4: really gross, it's really great super so can we just
Speaker 4: say you mentioned Shaly's there on This movie has like
Speaker 4: a wild cast is Yourselba Charlie's then Michael Fastbender, like
Speaker 4: Wembridley Scott said he was coming back the original director
Speaker 4: of Alien.
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, I'm jumping on that ship. Like there's
Speaker 2: 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 2: 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 Scott, who directed this film, says
Speaker 4: that in his mind, they wanted to send the goo.
Speaker 4: They made the decision to send the good to Earth
Speaker 4: like two thousand years ago, and it was because the
Speaker 4: humans had killed their emissary, the engineer emissary that sent
Speaker 4: to Earth to tell them to like chill out and
Speaker 4: stop being so violent, and that was Jesus. So Jesus
Speaker 4: was an engineer, but then he didn't really put it
Speaker 4: in so that credible kind of like the under that's
Speaker 4: the subtext, man, that's straight from Ridley Scott.
Speaker 1: The movie is very heavily invested in the religious and God,
Speaker 1: and part of the reason that Elizabeth even goes on
Speaker 1: it is just because she's religious and she wants to meet God.
Speaker 1: 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: Ridley 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 LVT twenty three, everybody thought he was dead,
Speaker 4: but surprise, he's actually alive, and David goes to get
Speaker 4: him from wherever he was high.
Speaker 5: He was like hiding in the in the ship the
Speaker 5: whole time.
Speaker 2: He had like a secret a secret.
Speaker 5: False bottom, like in a desk or something.
Speaker 4: So they get him out and David, you know, goes
Speaker 4: with him, and Charlie's then sorry, Meredith Vickers, I'll call
Speaker 4: it very character name. And Elizabeth and I go to
Speaker 4: the engineership and then David wakes up an engineer and
Speaker 4: he can talk to them because he's been studying proto
Speaker 4: into a European this ancient language, and so he translates
Speaker 4: for mister Whyland and basically says, hey, I know we
Speaker 4: just woke you up, but like my boss wants to
Speaker 4: know how he cannot die. And the engineer is like,
Speaker 4: you came all the way here for this, and he
Speaker 4: goes crazy. He rips David's head off. He's so pissed off,
Speaker 4: He's like that, he rips.
Speaker 5: David's head off.
Speaker 4: He bashes mister Whyland in the head with David's head,
Speaker 4: and then you know, it goes. He tries to take off,
Speaker 4: but Elizabeth, you know, radios to Adris Elba and is like,
Speaker 4: we need to crash the ship or else, like he's
Speaker 4: gonna send the Black pep to Earth. The ship crashes.
Speaker 4: Now the engineer is like chasing Elizabeth. It chases her
Speaker 4: through the human ship, where all of a sudden, Elizabeth's
Speaker 4: xenomorph baby that looks like now like a huge squid yeah,
Speaker 4: math subdues the engineer and impregnates it, like puts its
Speaker 4: like egg overpositor into the Engineer's mouth, which is like
Speaker 4: super super gross. Elizabeth then recovers David's head and body
Speaker 4: and is like, hey, I want to go to the
Speaker 4: engineer Homeworld.
Speaker 5: 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 xenomore, 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 right, it's getting there.
Speaker 4: It bursts out of the Engineer's chest. Uh, 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 that to
Speaker 4: just Coromedia's mission, and it is then acquired by the
Speaker 4: Utani Corporation, creating the Whaland Utani Corporation that brings us
Speaker 4: to Alien Covenant. The year is twenty one oh four.
Speaker 4: The Whaland Utani ship Covenant, carrying several thousand Space Columnists,
Speaker 4: is on its way to Orgie 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 just
Speaker 4: concerning removed manages things during the long cryo sleep of
Speaker 4: the crew and all the colonists. But then tragedy strikes.
Speaker 4: There's this neutrino burst and Walt tries to wake everybody
Speaker 4: up to get them out of their tubes because the
Speaker 4: ship is damaged, but Captain James Franco sadly dies in
Speaker 4: his cryo tube.
Speaker 2: 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 live there, and so the
Speaker 4: whole crew is like, you know what, we just saw
Speaker 4: the captain like get burned alive in his tube. Nobody
Speaker 4: wants to get back for seven years. What if this
Speaker 4: is the answer to all our problems? We just like
Speaker 4: do this, We just like stay here. Daniels, who is
Speaker 4: James Franco's widow now and is the second in 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: investigation 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 bring. 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 error.
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 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 would you.
Speaker 2: Do it every time? They are not following.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like just keep him in quarantine. They
Speaker 1: were not prepared whoever put together this team of colonists,
Speaker 1: and they were not prepared to be colonizing the.
Speaker 4: Rest of the group like remains on the planet's surface
Speaker 4: with another infected guy. They then get attacked by the
Speaker 4: xeno morphs that were one of which was born from
Speaker 4: the infected person. But then they're saved by David Damon's
Speaker 4: here dun dum.
Speaker 2: It turns out he's.
Speaker 4: David wiped out all the engineers by like dropping their
Speaker 4: black 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 zenomorph because he loves making things.
Speaker 2: He just loves this. 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 Fassbenders 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 2: This is like such a weirdly long.
Speaker 1: Atmospheric like gothic movie, and the two micro fast mendez
Speaker 1: are just having the wildest thought.
Speaker 4: So David then kills Walter in the scene that Rosie
Speaker 4: was just talking about after the flute scene, basically tricks
Speaker 4: him and like rips something out of his neck and
Speaker 4: fucking 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.
Speaker 5: Walter Daniels again.
Speaker 4: James Franco's widow then flee back to the Covenant ship,
Speaker 4: but then it turns out that the xenomorph hatched out
Speaker 4: of the sick guy that they brought him to the
Speaker 4: fucking ship is now loose on the ship. So uh,
Speaker 4: David Daniels and Danny McBride worked together to kill the alien. Hey,
Speaker 4: and as Daniels is being put back into cryo sleep by.
Speaker 1: This bit is actually genuinely terrifying, and I still think
Speaker 1: about how impact.
Speaker 5: This and is was fucking great.
Speaker 4: So Daniels has been put back into cry sleep by Walter,
Speaker 4: and she says, hey, will you help me build my
Speaker 4: log cabin earlier in the movie of building a log cabin,
Speaker 4: and he doesn't get the reference, and she realizes with
Speaker 4: horror that it's actually David, that's not Walter, and she
Speaker 4: but she can't do anything now because the go to
Speaker 4: sleep gases are filling the tube, and she goes to
Speaker 4: fucking sleep. David then throws up to face huggers like
Speaker 4: in little.
Speaker 5: Plastic cash pill capsules, puts.
Speaker 4: Them in the human embryo freezer, and then radio's mission
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 5: That brings us too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alien nineteen seventy nine's Alien. The movie that's started
Speaker 4: all the year is twenty one twenty two The Wayland
Speaker 4: Utanni Mining ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from planet
Speaker 4: LV four twenty six. They go to investigate. They find
Speaker 4: an alien ship. On the ship, there is a long
Speaker 4: dead engineer still in a jump seat with like the
Speaker 4: trademark burst out of its chest. A face hugger hatches
Speaker 4: and attaches itself to the face of one of the
Speaker 4: crew members named Kane, who is then taken back aboard
Speaker 4: the ship by the fucking Captain Dallas played by Tom Scarrett.
Speaker 5: I will say this is.
Speaker 4: The most effective like breaking quarantine scene because Ripley Ellen Ripley,
Speaker 4: played by Sigourney Weaver, the hero of the film, is
Speaker 4: like you come, don't is like hard.
Speaker 2: No, She is the safety officer, don't you.
Speaker 5: Says I'm not letting you in.
Speaker 4: You have to be there for you have to stay
Speaker 4: in quarantine for twenty four hours. But it's Ash the
Speaker 4: who then turns out to be Sayna, a human who,
Speaker 4: as we will later learn, has other motives, lets them
Speaker 4: aboard anyway. They get a board, and it's horrific. You know,
Speaker 4: everybody's horrified by this faceoger on Kane. But then eventually
Speaker 4: the 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 burst
Speaker 4: out of his chest to general screen runs across the
Speaker 4: horrifying moment.
Speaker 2: Hilarious and certainly one of.
Speaker 5: 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: pice's fautiful, the gorgeous set, the production design hr guyget
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Just feel how tactile and.
Speaker 1: Terrifying it really is compared to some of the more
Speaker 1: modern versions.
Speaker 2: And this scene is still so iconic and so.
Speaker 5: Like this movie.
Speaker 4: Obviously there's some dated things about it, but overall seen
Speaker 4: the scene, just like looking at them walking through hallways
Speaker 4: and stuff, it looks as good as anything need today.
Speaker 1: It looks absolutely Yeah, and it's also a movie.
Speaker 2: About like working classes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, literally about work. It's about on the ship, like.
Speaker 2: 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 later still feel really relevant and cool.
Speaker 4: So the Zeno Mooreph quickly grows to this to the
Speaker 4: size of a very large.
Speaker 5: Human being, and it begins.
Speaker 4: Off crewmembers one at a time, including the captain, who
Speaker 4: volunteers himself to go like try and flush this thing
Speaker 4: out of the air ducks because clearly he's feeling like
Speaker 4: shit because this is all his fucking fault, like he
Speaker 4: broke corts me.
Speaker 2: 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 whyl and Utani that they all
Speaker 4: work for, really, really really wants this xenomorph ip for
Speaker 4: like their weapons divisions, sure like their healthcare division, for
Speaker 4: all sorts of divisions that they have under their banner.
Speaker 2: It really is a killing machine. And also, I want
Speaker 2: 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 5: I watched the whole fucking thing.
Speaker 4: This scene really bothered me because there's something so weird
Speaker 4: about the way he tries, like he rolls up a
Speaker 4: magazine and tries to stuff it in her mouth, And
Speaker 4: to this day, I've never seen somebody try to kill
Speaker 4: somebody like that, and it really just really bothered me.
Speaker 4: The imagery was so disturbing. Anyway, Ash tries to kill Ripley,
Speaker 4: but then is stopped by the surviving crew members, and
Speaker 4: we discover that Ash is this synthetic human with like
Speaker 4: milky blood.
Speaker 2: Oh 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 then Stromo explodes
Speaker 4: and everything's fucking fine. No, it's not, because the alien
Speaker 4: is hiding on the lifeboat.
Speaker 5: They're really smart, these aliens.
Speaker 2: They are very clever.
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: crawl back onto the hull of the ship. It ends
Speaker 4: 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 at Jones
Speaker 4: and everything is happily ever after, right.
Speaker 2: Of course, normal problems. She escaped with the cat. That's
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 5: She returns to Earth, but all hope of.
Speaker 4: Like restarting like a normal life are scuttled because her
Speaker 4: credit score is absolutely fucking shit housed because whyland Utani
Speaker 4: considers her financially liable unbelievable for the destruction of the
Speaker 4: now Stroma, which she had to do, And she tries
Speaker 4: to tell them, well, there's this fucking alien, there's a cenomorph.
Speaker 4: It killed the whole crewude, and the shot whatever, We've
Speaker 4: never heard of anything like that.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we know, yeah, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Utani company, And separately, both the Whyland and Utani sides
Speaker 4: of the company have been aware, well aware of the
Speaker 4: existence of xenomorphs, saying since the twentieth century, they've known about.
Speaker 2: It, 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 fucked 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. I just need people to know I
Speaker 1: remember that that is what made that movie.
Speaker 4: And I have to say, you gotta love James Cameron
Speaker 4: before 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 2: Why did they stock Alanya Guy? Well, I think they
Speaker 2: knew it. I think they did that.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I think they did this.
Speaker 4: They did so they strong armed Ripley into going back
Speaker 4: because she's the only person with experience with Xeno Morrison.
Speaker 4: She's like, you'll be a consultant, and by the way,
Speaker 4: you'll be completely safe because we're sending you with a
Speaker 4: squad of heavily armed colonial marines. These these men and
Speaker 4: women are fucking badasses. They're so buff and they go
Speaker 4: they're fucking professionals.
Speaker 2: There's nothing that can happen to them.
Speaker 4: They've kill, kill, kill, and there's nobody better Baby Galaxy
Speaker 4: than them. Well, yes there is, because as soon as
Speaker 4: they land, the aliens wipe out the fucking Marines like quick,
Speaker 4: like ten minutes. There's only a handful of marines, and
Speaker 4: this thrust Ripley, a surviving colonist, this little girl named Nude,
Speaker 4: and a rag tag 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're just like,
Speaker 4: let's get back on our ship.
Speaker 5: And fucking nuke. Like what you know, now, Company hack.
Speaker 4: Burke disagrees in Gunnissan Company hack Burke is like, now,
Speaker 4: hold on, this installation holds a significant dollar value to
Speaker 4: the stockholders, not to mention the potential gains to be
Speaker 4: made from the alien ip They're like, shut the fuck up, bitch,
Speaker 4: shut up where nuke.
Speaker 2: They're like, this is alway the problem.
Speaker 1: This is where the problem comes from. You're not taking
Speaker 1: an alien home. It's not Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4: It's again, it must be said, they've been trying to
Speaker 4: take an alien back to Earth for like one hundred
Speaker 4: years at this point. Anyway, this so they ignore him
Speaker 4: and they proceed with nuke from orbit plan, which requires
Speaker 4: them to escape back to their ship. But the aliens
Speaker 4: fucking go crazy. They kill Company Hack, Carter Burke, and
Speaker 4: a bunch of others. Ripley eventually escapes with Newt and
Speaker 4: a bishop the new Synth played by Lance Henrickson, who
Speaker 4: you know Ripley has been struggling to kind of trust
Speaker 4: up until this time. Yeah, they get back on board
Speaker 4: their ship and they are gonna nuke it from orbit,
Speaker 4: but then guess what. It turns out that the alien
Speaker 4: queen who Ripley had previously burned up all the eggs,
Speaker 4: all the alien face hugger eggs in front of the queen.
Speaker 4: It made the queen super angry. Now she's so pissed.
Speaker 4: She attached herself to their jump ship and like was
Speaker 4: hiding in the wheel well and now she appears. She
Speaker 4: tears Bishop in half. But then Ripley, in one of
Speaker 4: the most iconic scenes in movies, Yeah legendary scene, puts
Speaker 4: on a loader suit basically a mech suit and beats
Speaker 4: the shit out of the queen get away from Yeah bitch.
Speaker 2: How you bitch? Also just need to say, like, the
Speaker 2: 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 Guy Got
Speaker 1: Coming to life as the xenomov, it shocked people. We
Speaker 1: had no idea of what an alien could look like
Speaker 1: before all that.
Speaker 2: Before it had.
Speaker 1: Always been the you know, the the Gray Men kind
Speaker 1: of trope. And then to have to find a new
Speaker 1: way to scare people in the new movie is.
Speaker 2: So well done.
Speaker 1: Even though this is definitely more of an action than
Speaker 1: a sci Fi horror. I do think the Queen design
Speaker 1: goes 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 off T two Aliens.
Speaker 4: That's like the triumvirate of the greatest sequels of all
Speaker 4: time and James Cameron has made two of them.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Ripley Jettison's the Queen out into space.
Speaker 4: She puts Hicks into cryo sleep, she puts Nude into
Speaker 4: cryo sleep, she puts herself into cryo sleep.
Speaker 5: And they won. That's it. That's it, We've won.
Speaker 2: We're going back to Thema problems. She's got a nice
Speaker 2: little baby.
Speaker 7: Norm She's a kid likenw no young mute.
Speaker 4: That brings us to Alien three from nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4: The year is twenty one seventy.
Speaker 2: Nine 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 hug that was aboard
Speaker 4: the ship also survives. The face hugger then hug wild
Speaker 4: one of the inmates dogs, and the dog quickly gives
Speaker 4: birth to a really bad looking xenomorph alien hybrid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really ugly dog xenom off 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 2: It was originally going to be.
Speaker 4: A cow instead of a dog, which I would have
Speaker 4: loved to see.
Speaker 2: Also, this movie is.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite almost movie scripts, which was the
Speaker 1: original Alien three script was that it was going to
Speaker 1: be set on a planet of monks and the planet
Speaker 1: was entirely wooden, and inside the wooden planet were all
Speaker 1: these tunnels, and you kind of get to see a
Speaker 1: little Instead of monks, you get the prisoners who are
Speaker 1: religious fanatics, and you get some of those tunnels still
Speaker 1: going through the prison planet. But it's not in any
Speaker 1: way as wild as that would have been. This movie
Speaker 1: had true production hell, it went through.
Speaker 4: And this is David Fincher's feature film debut. David Fincher
Speaker 4: was by this time a very accomplished music video and
Speaker 4: commercial director some really like iconic music videos for Madonna
Speaker 4: and many many other notables, and did a lot of
Speaker 4: ad campaigns for Levi's Nike, et cetera. But this is
Speaker 4: his first movie, and he has since he disowned the movie.
Speaker 2: Yes, all three cups.
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.
Speaker 2: I find that also, this movie really feels like it.
Speaker 1: Was heavily influenced by like a French cinema at the time,
Speaker 1: like the City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4: We Have Lost Children, kind of like the breakout film
Speaker 4: of the director who directed Alien Resurrection, the next film
Speaker 4: in it. Yeah, and it really feels to me like
Speaker 4: this was influenced I agree with you by that by Delicatessen.
Speaker 2: 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 hands and some black leather gloves and
Speaker 1: they just come down on the screen and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: no human adds.
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 Cameron.
Speaker 1: Which, by the way was also at the time the
Speaker 1: most expensive underwater deep the Abyss.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 5: By the way, the.
Speaker 8: Dog Allian Dog alias Let's go with them, they like
Speaker 8: gave it this kind of green sheen, which I think
Speaker 8: what they were intending to do was to make it
Speaker 8: stand out from these very gray stone hallway backgrounds that stand.
Speaker 5: Out from the shadows.
Speaker 4: But the issue is it made it look completely not
Speaker 4: realistic to the way light works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in any way, so it just looks anyway, I
Speaker 1: will say as well. Another interesting thing I learned because
Speaker 1: I watched this on laser disc, so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe the laser disc lasion is a different cock because
Speaker 1: I've seen many different cots of the Alien movie.
Speaker 2: Because there were just so.
Speaker 1: Many no, But what I did learn is that how
Speaker 1: they did the CG on this so they could see
Speaker 1: what it looked like was they would take a.
Speaker 2: Laser disc version of the dailies and then.
Speaker 1: Overlay the CIG on top of the movie to see
Speaker 1: what it would look like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how they were making it.
Speaker 1: So laser disc actually a very important part of the
Speaker 1: making of this movie. But yeah, it does look like
Speaker 1: the CG was done with laser disc, so that did
Speaker 1: not actually surprise me.
Speaker 5: Ripley forms a bond with Clemens.
Speaker 4: The prison doctor played by Charles Dance aka Tywon Lanister
Speaker 4: Taiwan landis dog alien goes on a fucking hot streak
Speaker 4: like killing Sbury. It's just kill Ay, kills the warden
Speaker 4: while the warden is giving kills the warden while the
Speaker 4: warden is giving like a speech about how no one
Speaker 4: should be worried about like the people who've been dying
Speaker 4: recently in any rumor that there's like a dragon running
Speaker 4: around they.
Speaker 5: Killing people's nature.
Speaker 4: The dog alien like reaches down from the fucking sea
Speaker 4: and just like.
Speaker 5: Choose him up. But it doesn't kill Ripley because guess why.
Speaker 2: Huh, oh man, I wonder why it.
Speaker 4: With an alien the face hugger got her in the
Speaker 4: oh Man so and so remember it bummed out about
Speaker 4: this and she's like, well, I'm gonna kill myself.
Speaker 5: I want to die. And the inmates are.
Speaker 2: Like, Noah's more, you die.
Speaker 5: You have to help us beat this thing because you've
Speaker 5: you've done it twice. Now we can't. We need you.
Speaker 5: We need your help, you see, and then you can
Speaker 5: kill yourself. And she's like okay.
Speaker 4: So that she comes up with a plant to like
Speaker 4: lure it because they have no weapons on this prison facility,
Speaker 4: lure it into it like a furnace facility that they
Speaker 4: have where they can dump like molten metal on it
Speaker 4: and kill it.
Speaker 5: And so they managed to do that.
Speaker 4: They dumped the molten metal on it and then just
Speaker 4: like terminated too. They like spray it with water which
Speaker 4: has this like rapid temperature shift and its it like shatters.
Speaker 4: Okay again, just you think this must be one of
Speaker 4: the things that bothers Fincher too.
Speaker 5: He's like, but they did.
Speaker 4: They did an interminator too, and then we're doing it
Speaker 4: at the end of the So then Ripley is about
Speaker 4: to jump in the furnace. Mission accomplished she wants wants
Speaker 4: to kill this turns out she's an alien queen in
Speaker 4: her chest. But then a whalen Utani rescue team arrives,
Speaker 4: led by mister Bishop, the human creator of Bishop the Synth.
Speaker 4: He's glens Hendrick is back and there and whaling Utani
Speaker 4: must be thinking, finally, this is it. We've got it,
Speaker 4: We've it actually did it's We've been trying to do
Speaker 4: this for two hundred years and now we finally got
Speaker 4: a human with a with an alieness and it's an
Speaker 4: alien queen. We've got to get this thing back to Earth.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: And even though mister Bishop is very very I might
Speaker 4: have been persuaded by mister Bishop.
Speaker 5: He really puts the charm on. He's like, Ripley, what
Speaker 5: are you? Don't you want to go Homely, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be great.
Speaker 2: You think we couldn't be great. And then she's like
Speaker 2: part of.
Speaker 5: The whale of you family like don't do.
Speaker 1: That, and she's like, well, my adopted daughter is dead
Speaker 1: and I'm pregnant with the alien baby, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna jump into this CG molten metal like.
Speaker 5: Jumps into the CG molten metal just.
Speaker 4: Like Jesus Christ just as the alien queen burst out
Speaker 4: of her chest and she's like like a baby, and
Speaker 4: they hit they hit the metal and they burn up
Speaker 4: and that's it.
Speaker 5: Happily. Ever, after that's.
Speaker 1: It, we just have to take a break to go
Speaker 1: and insert the alien eggs into our human sacrifices so
Speaker 1: we can have xenomorphs ready for you after this.
Speaker 7: Message, and we're back.
Speaker 2: Finally, Ripley is free from the aliens. Nothing else could happen.
Speaker 5: Alien Resurrection nineteen ninety seven the year, but it's been
Speaker 5: two hundred years, directed by Jean Pierre Jeunette.
Speaker 2: Still haven't done it. They still haven't.
Speaker 5: Directed by French weirdo Jean Pierre Jeanne of Omily fame
Speaker 5: and the City of City of Lost Children, City of
Speaker 5: Lost Children. Super weird, really fun movie.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure he was the correct choice for this film,
Speaker 4: but regardless. Whalen Utani scientists a border ship named the
Speaker 4: Ariga clone Ripley from a blood sample and they combine
Speaker 4: it with xenomorphtine clone Ripley and then grows up to
Speaker 4: like adult Ripley in a very short period of time.
Speaker 4: Because you know how the aliens do that. They just
Speaker 4: grow up and clone Ripley Ye super strong, has acid
Speaker 4: blood and also has a very weird psychic link to
Speaker 4: the aliens. And also because I guess the xenomorphs have
Speaker 4: like a genetic memory, they chair the memory of like
Speaker 4: other I don't know how it works, but whatever. Ripley
Speaker 4: also somehow she has memories of herself, but they're from
Speaker 4: the perspective of the aliens that like fought.
Speaker 5: Her wild So are the aliens psychic? Like how do
Speaker 5: they get the memory?
Speaker 2: I think maybe it's like a hive mind.
Speaker 5: This is very venerable.
Speaker 2: They all are experience. This is the next video essay
Speaker 2: how Alien Resurrection shaped the.
Speaker 4: Okay, so mercenaries arrive on the Arega. They're here to
Speaker 4: deliver prisoners. They are going to be used as incubators
Speaker 4: for the alien eggs for to create more aliens. Evil
Speaker 4: Annilie Call played by Winona Ryder decides like, Hey, this
Speaker 4: is a really fucked up thing that's happening here. They're
Speaker 4: using humans to get the aliens. And also the aliens
Speaker 4: are like a super weapon and if they get out
Speaker 4: it would be really crazy.
Speaker 5: We can't let this happen.
Speaker 4: But of course, eventually the aliens escape from where they're
Speaker 4: being researched, 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're running tests on them,
Speaker 4: and then the aliens can't get out because like every
Speaker 4: time they approach the glass or approach the walls, like
Speaker 4: they get shot with this like very very cold like gas.
Speaker 4: And so one of the aliens, the aliens are really smart, guys,
Speaker 4: how often.
Speaker 5: Do we have to say it?
Speaker 4: They're like, wait a second, we have acid blood, and
Speaker 4: they one of the aliens kills the other one who
Speaker 4: just like lets itself get killed, and the blood builts
Speaker 4: the floor and then it jumps through the floor and
Speaker 4: gets out into the the facility. Now we should mention again,
Speaker 4: whaleen U Tani has been researching these aliens for two centuries.
Speaker 2: They know about it acid blood. I feel like it
Speaker 2: should be like having a guy the acid blood melts. Guys.
Speaker 4: You know about the acid blood.
Speaker 2: Really, you definitely know.
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.
Speaker 5: To a almost funny looking human alien that looks like Rosie.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with me on this looks like Pumpkinhead.
Speaker 4: I do agree Mkinhead from the titular villain from Pumpkinhead,
Speaker 4: the film which also stars Aliens star Dun Dunn Lance Henrickson,
Speaker 4: He's back. He's connected six degrees of Lance Ericksen in
Speaker 4: the Alien universe.
Speaker 2: It does look like Pumpkinhead.
Speaker 1: They did not deliver the new cool alien design when
Speaker 1: it came to that little guy. Also, I feel like
Speaker 1: maybe this is one of those like weird social and constructs.
Speaker 1: But I swear to God, like when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I thought when on a Ryder was like her door
Speaker 1: or something in this movie, or her clothes or something,
Speaker 1: And then when I rewatched it, I was like, that
Speaker 1: is definitely not what it's like.
Speaker 4: If you get fire five vibes from the mercenaries and
Speaker 4: from like the design. That might be because Joss Whedon
Speaker 4: wrote this terrible fucking script. This movie is like, it's
Speaker 4: so bad, but it's the worst looking of the Alien
Speaker 4: movies by far, at least Alien three. Every few years
Speaker 4: with Alien three.
Speaker 1: Hence why I own it on Bloomin Laser disc that
Speaker 1: I just bought recently from Amba in La. It's like
Speaker 1: every few years I reconsider it because there's it's like
Speaker 1: a visual, there's a visual, a choice that David Fincher made.
Speaker 1: It's very strange, it's very dreary, it's slow burn. It
Speaker 1: has this weird religious kind of subtext to it.
Speaker 2: But it is, I have to say, sadly quite boring movie.
Speaker 2: But at least it has vibes.
Speaker 1: Alien four Resurrection does not have vibes and does not
Speaker 1: live up to a movie that has both Sigourney Weaver,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 4: Looks sadly like a very cheap film.
Speaker 5: It does not look expensive or good at all.
Speaker 4: It does have what I consider to be one of
Speaker 4: the most iconic basketball scenes in movies in which the Mercenaries.
Speaker 2: This is the Mercenaries encounter with the cat super Ripley.
Speaker 5: So super Ripley.
Speaker 4: Again, Remember has the alien DNA, and she's like practicing
Speaker 4: basketball and her game is like Peau Charles Barkley, like
Speaker 4: she just like drives to the hoop of.
Speaker 5: Dunks, that's what he is.
Speaker 4: And then of course there's this really amazing shot where
Speaker 4: she's like walking away from the basket and she shoots
Speaker 4: a basket over her head and it goes in, and
Speaker 4: she actually made that shot. That's like the take that's
Speaker 4: in the movie is for actually making the.
Speaker 2: Show is so good you can't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's like that Catwoman scene with Michelle Biba where she
Speaker 1: gets all the heads off with the whips.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things.
Speaker 1: Where it just becomes a legendary scene that you never
Speaker 1: believe was done without cg And yeah it was Sigourney.
Speaker 2: Weave a continue you can go Queen and the.
Speaker 4: Queen go on YouTube and see like the outtake, it's
Speaker 4: not an outtake, it's Ron Perlman like reacts the way
Speaker 4: any person would react to that by just going, oh
Speaker 4: my god. And he thought for a second that he
Speaker 4: like hauld ruin the take because he says it like
Speaker 4: right after it goes in, but there was enough space
Speaker 4: there for them to like cut anyway, Go watch it
Speaker 4: on YouTube.
Speaker 5: It's really funny.
Speaker 2: It's very cool.
Speaker 5: So Ripley manages to.
Speaker 4: Launch the alien Queen into space by melting a window
Speaker 4: with her acid blood.
Speaker 2: Of course again acid be.
Speaker 4: We should have thought about it, like we gotta ask
Speaker 4: to prove this entire facility, the mercenaries and Ripley escape
Speaker 4: the Orega, which crashes into Earth.
Speaker 5: Uh oh, but it does explode, so.
Speaker 4: Maybe, like all the aliens and alien research are fine.
Speaker 4: And then the mercenaries are like, where should we go?
Speaker 4: And then Ripley is like, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm like two weeks old. Yeah, I don't, like, I
Speaker 4: don't know anything, and then the movie's over.
Speaker 5: The movie is so fucking dumb.
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 5: Alien Romulus coming to theaters near you soon takes place.
Speaker 4: Between alien and aliens. So that'd be very interesting to see.
Speaker 2: 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 specifically in like
Speaker 4: the Alien Verse Presator Really why Yeah, The overall like
Speaker 4: world building is quite spotty, Like there's a lot of
Speaker 4: un answered questions and there's a lot of things that
Speaker 4: 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 going to wipe out Earth other than the.
Speaker 2: Jesus in 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.
Speaker 2: For some reason.
Speaker 1: These old directors from this error of action, they love Jesus.
Speaker 2: Poor Verhoven's the same, He loves Jesus.
Speaker 1: If you watch his very entertaining lesbian nonsplitation movie Benedetta.
Speaker 1: It's about like a nun in eighteenth Centuary Rome, you know,
Speaker 1: who begins having these visions. But when she has visions
Speaker 1: of Jesus, she's having visions of like hunky like action,
Speaker 1: start nuts, watchenegga Jesus. It's like some of the most
Speaker 1: outrageous stuff. I don't know why they love Jesus, but
Speaker 1: why were they gonna wipe us out? Probably, you know,
Speaker 1: some kind.
Speaker 2: Of like Godzilla esque.
Speaker 1: The engineers saw that we were destroying the Earth and
Speaker 1: they decided the best thing to do, or they wanted
Speaker 1: to terraform Earth and take it over and use it
Speaker 1: as a breeding ground. For these aliens, which would become
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 4: and then they have the actual weapon stuff. Honestly, that
Speaker 4: would be the smartest way to do it, seeing how
Speaker 4: violent this these this weapon is, is to like have
Speaker 4: them separate and then combine them later at some other
Speaker 4: place somewhere. Would they be fighting? Why would they need
Speaker 4: this weapon? I guess that's the other thing, like who
Speaker 4: were they scared of?
Speaker 5: Like the predators, but like.
Speaker 4: The prenators don't really feel like that's big a threat.
Speaker 1: To not really a formidable threat killing one engineer, like
Speaker 1: the engineers could just like step up or like.
Speaker 5: Can they kill like one engineer years like big fucking deal. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also as well, the Predators, I feel like that always
Speaker 1: just willing to like team up with someone thanks to
Speaker 1: the laylo, So I feel like the Energy Engineers could
Speaker 1: 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 cause of House of the Dragon,
Speaker 1: which I believe is currently up there for me for
Speaker 1: like one of the greatest prequels that we've ever gotten,
Speaker 1: the way that the TV series decided to adapt Fire
Speaker 1: and Blood. And actually, like, prequels are so complex because
Speaker 1: you do start to build in or this law that
Speaker 1: was never intended in the original films, you know, so
Speaker 1: with Alien versus Predator in these movies that are so
Speaker 1: far away from really being connected to like the original Alien.
Speaker 1: But 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.
Speaker 2: And I do still think with Alien.
Speaker 1: And Predator now both under the Disney banner after the
Speaker 1: twentieth Century Fox acquisition, I do think that we will
Speaker 1: probably get another Alien Predator movie in our time that
Speaker 1: is more concerned with the Ridley Scott style law because
Speaker 1: it's just such an enjoy ball match up.
Speaker 2: 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 instead they're like, oh, I'll just see what happens
Speaker 1: if I kill a human, Like, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: That's so far?
Speaker 5: Are they?
Speaker 4: Like the predators trophies that they give like humans, it's
Speaker 4: always like a flintlock, pistol, a spirit? Can I get
Speaker 4: something from elsewhere in the get like give me an
Speaker 4: alien weapon?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Could I have?
Speaker 5: I mean anyone?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Like could I get something like a gun or something?
Speaker 5: This is what they can fucking go to.
Speaker 4: But no, they dude, they don't want to give it
Speaker 4: to you because then you could kill them.
Speaker 2: Because they're not that good.
Speaker 4: They gotta give you, like they're like, make sure you
Speaker 4: give them weapon that's at least one hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: years old, or he might be able to take us out.
Speaker 2: See and that's our show. Join us Thursday when we finally.
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