Finding out if the Sequel is BETTER | First Time Watching ALIENS

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to everyone that showed so much support and watched my video on the first film 🙌🏼❤ My plan after this (in terms of films between my regular TV show videos) was to cover both Predator and Blade Runner, though please do put below if people want me to cover additional Alien films. I want to cover Romulus when it releases outside of theatres, too.

I appreciate that this video is a little longer than the first video. Truthfully, there’s simply more parts to this film, in my opinion, that makes it succeed as a sequel and this meant that there was simply more to break down, more to talk about, and with my style this of course means some long ass pauses 😂 I considered cutting down more off the final edit but I figured considering the comments made beneath my Alien video and how I was made aware that so many folks hold this movie in such high esteem, I wanted to give all the time and care to giving my full opinion and breaking down why I think this movie hits so many people the way it does. While the length of this may ultimately impact the performance of the video, I felt it was appropriate to keep it as is. Hope you enjoy!

I really appreciate your thoughtful commentary…thank you! Good journey…Peace!

There is a deleted scene where Ripley finds Burke cocooned with egg inside him. She gives him a grenade.

Unfortunately, as good as Alien and Aliens were…it's all downhill from there. 3 is *okay*, but the rest of the series is just bad. At least until Romulus, I've heard that one's actually pretty good, but haven't seen it myself.

also if you do 3 do theatrical not directors. and this is the only movie i can think of i recommend that for

if you haven't seen it already I'd recommend the movie "Tremors" it's widely considered to have a perfect script and a horror movie that doesn't rely on people being absolutely stupid.

I would say that the Xenomorphs don't lose anything by being susceptible to firearms. In the first movie it was untrained miners and the aliens had the upper hand but, still had a weakness.

The Marines being a much more powerful force balances things out more.

I think it's different but, the number and acid becomes more of a guffin than the horror. We know the Aliens now and they had to shift gears. The horror aspect would be missing that was front and center in the first film.

I think the Aliens using numbers in the standard for them based on gathering the humans into one incubation room so, this would have established that this is how they typically operate vs the first film where it was only one.

Love your analysis and I will def be looking into your backlog.

Cheers!

The actor who plays Vasquez is Jenette Goldstein. She's also in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and looks totally different.

Really liked this reaction video. James Cameron movies were known for having strong female characters (like, for real) and the way he expanded the Alien universe and Ripley was fantastic.

I would not recommend Alien 3. It definitely has more of the 'horror' elements, but it kind of takes a dump on all of what was accomplished for the characters in this movie.

If it wasn't for the different accent I'd have thought you were Kevin Pollak's son!

There's a lot of talk about 'woke' characters, and some female hero backlash. I think Ellen Ripley & Sarah Connor show it's not about female heroes, but audiences crave well written protagonists – male or female. We have Ripley who is a badass. But she is femine, tough and even motherly. But she is clearly traumatised and has PTSD. But she knows the extreme danger and does the right thing anyways — that's bravery. She faces her fear multiple times, and risks herself to save others. And she's smart. She is saying what the audience is thinking. The powerloader fight, I get chills every time. Such a great movie.

This movie had to have action scenes because it is a continuation of the story. The first was the discovery, the second is the fight, the third… well, you have to make up your own mind.

I saw both the first and second movies in the theater when they came out. Excellent and suspenseful! The rest I wasn't impressed with.

18:14 Would you like a room with Bishop?

Just gotta say, I really think the theatrical cut is superior. It was so tight, not a second out of place. This one feels slightly bloated to me. But worse than that, the inclusion of the colony and newt before they arrive (while neat to see after you’ve watched the movie), to me, almost ruins the movie. Keeping the audience in the dark along with Ripley provides so much more intrigue, suspense, and connection to the characters. And meeting newt after the fall of the colony makes her character a lot more interesting.

FYI this is the directors cut… the theatrical cut didnt have that whole colony intro and some other scenes. Honestly, I prefer the brevity of the theatrical. Its leaner and meaner.

Note that when she called Burke on a video call, it was all pre-recorded. Two-way video calling did not exist then.

Can I just say, you are brilliant! I'm an old writer, (old enough to have watched Alien when I was too young to watch it) – of sci-fi mainly, and it is great hearing your mind as you watch these. It's making me almost cast you as 'the audience'. I'm working on something right now and doing an edit – so it's now a case of 'how do I surprise that youtuber who's gonna be watching this?' If it ever gets prouced, (and that is always the difficulty) look out for something called Blakeseven.

A great movie to be sure, the suspense is superbly done but it still doesn't have the same visceral feel of the original. I'd recommend you stop with the Alien movies now to be honest as the following sequels just go downhill from here. Once you've done Predator (and Predator 2, which again is a decent sequel but not quite as good as the first) and then maybe watch AvP but you shouldn't miss Prey… it's brilliant and haven't seen Romulus yet so I can't comment on that one.

If you're a star trek TNG fan, Tasha Yar's character was meant to be a Vasquez like character

I loved your reaction to Alien. I'm back for Aliens! Just recently found your channel. Love what you do. Since you are a Whedon fan, have you watched Firefly? 1 season of a show followed by a movie called Serenity. If you like Whedon, it's essential in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your reaction! Stay awesome.

Does he read the comments?
Tyler, you are not doing this right. At all, just the opposite.

Every time I watch this movie it always hits me how well the characters are written and portrayed specially all those who survive the hive incursion.

The one that I feel always gets the short end of how people perceive them is Lieutenant Gorman. Yes he was very inexperienced and its made well aware in the movie, but even during the hive incursion he is being level headed and tries to adapt to the situation when he is informed that explosive rounds would not be a good thing to use in the area the nest was located in. When the Aliens finally reveal themselves and attack the marines he still tries to order them to retreat orderly with the flame units covering but nobody is listening in the confusion and comms getting cut out randomly. This is where people think he fails because he then goes into apathy of not being able to help his soldiers who were not listening/hearing him anyway. Ripley then takes charge and moves the APC to pick them up. Gorman reacts to this totally normally in anger because Ripley is not a soldier and on its own decide to operate a military vehicle. He gives up stopping her after Burke pulls him off of her and most likely knows it the right thing to do to go save the soldiers. Then next time we see him putting out the fire inside the APC next to the door that was caused by Drake accidentally shooting the flamethrower through the door after getting hurt by the acid from shot alien. He then gets knocked out by some containers when they escape with the APC. Later when he wakes up he tries right away apologize to Ripley who tells him to forget it. Rips one of the medbay facehuggers off Ripley's throat with Hicks. Condemns Burke with the rest and guards him during the attack until Burke uses the confusion to run the medbay and lock the door. He goes through the medbay door after Hicks cuts it open second last Vasquez coming last as she was holding the Xeno's off. He follows Hicks in the vents while yelling to Vasquez to move faster. He then tells Hicks to go on while he goes to get Vasquez who gets hurt by acid and can't move. They get surrounded and Gorman pulls out grenade and they blow themselves up before the Xeno's get them.

For me his actions are totally inline of good leader even if he was inexperienced originally. After the hive incident he does realize that listening to the more experienced Hicks and Ripley is not wrong and shows real leadership after in every scene we see him. He is not afraid to fight and does not let apathy or panic to consume him second time. He could have easily send Hicks to go get Vasquez even ordered him but he tells him to go on and goes himself.

The photo they used for her daughter is actually a photo Ms. Weavers mother :)