Watching Aliens for the First Time (Reaction)! - bunnytails

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  @FlorianD30 · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Ripley, &quot;Is that the only flamethrower?&quot;<br>Hicks, &quot;Yeah. It&apos;s only half full, but it&apos;s functional.<br>Hudson, &quot;What do you mean half full?! That damn thing is half empty...GAME OVER MAN!&quot;

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  @jjsdad4952 · 3 years ago

  Saw this in the theater at 14 with a bunch of friends. <br>When the door lifts and she’s in the loader, ready to fight?!..the loudest cheer and shout of expletives I’ve ever heard in a theater. <br>It’s still the best movie theater experience of my life.

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  @zairac2564 · 2 years ago

  You know it&apos;s a dark universe when Ripley&apos;s first date in over 57 years is a murder-suicide pact... but they are cute together.

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  @FireTiger941 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6IDVTS8Zs&amp;t=3030">50:30</a> &nbsp;When the reactor says &quot;You now have 14 minutes&quot; it is EXACTLY 14 minutes in real time! &nbsp;That is incredible filmmaking!

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  @MrSporkster · 3 years ago

  Ripley is a powerful and believable hero because she screams. She shows weakness and fear, but rises above it. That&apos;s why she&apos;s such a relatable role model.

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  @rob7953 · 3 years ago

  The first Star Wars (later called Episode 4) was released in 1977, and the first Alien in 1979, so Leia and Ripley were available as role models at more or less the same time. And the first Terminator movie was released in 1984 I think, so Sarah Connor wasn&apos;t too far behind. They&apos;re all three much better examples of the strong female archetype than so many others who are essentially women playing male parts. In this film in particular, Ripley&apos;s mother&apos;s instinct and &quot;angry mama bear&quot; mode show that feminine traits are just as strong as masculine ones.

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  @losmosquitos1108 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6IDVTS8Zs&amp;t=2883">48:03</a> Newt going down the long slide into the water pit. Carrie Henn (Newt) loved that so much, she found ways to sabotage the scene only to get retakes and do it again. Finally, the scene where an alien is emerging behind her from the water: a psychologist and Cameron himself were a bit afraid of the traumatic effect the scene could potentially have. What they didn‘t know, Carrie and the stuntman who was in the alien costume, were already good friends. What happened? Carrie saw him coming out of the water in his frightening costume and… she laughed and giggled…. 🤭

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  @bluebirdsigma · 3 years ago

  The big ships travel faster than light, so the travel time from LV426 to Earth is 3 weeks according to the script (It was 10 months in the first Alien, obviously FTL tech got better in the 57 years, plus the Nostromo was already an old ship). It was just that the little shuttle Ripley was unable to do interstellar travel, Ripley herself said that she expected to be close enough to be hopefully detected by &quot;the network&quot; after six months of slow travel in the shuttle. Unfortunately she just drifted undetected all these years.

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  @ebashford5334 · 3 years ago

  The ending with Ripley donning the loader is brilliant because nothing is as satisfying as physically beating the crap out of the main villain who is 5 times her size. &nbsp;You can imagine Cameron&apos;s thinking process, that he wanted an old fashioned brawl as the final confrontation, but how do you do that with a giant deadly alien?

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  @johnschrieber1270 · 3 years ago

  Aliens is my all-time favorite movie. &nbsp;The character development is great. &nbsp;It&apos;s long but it pays off as you get invested in the characters. &nbsp;The story is full of tense moments and action. &nbsp;There&apos;s a bad ass female taking no prisoners, soldiers thinking they are all that but end up fighting for their lives, a child survivor who replaces Ellen&apos;s own daughter, a synth who actually didn&apos;t do anything wrong but you felt something would happen because of the prior synth in Alien, and lots of stuff getting blown up. &nbsp;It&apos;s everything anyone would want in a space sci-fi action/horror movie.

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  @stuffyouotterlistento1461 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Why aren&apos;t they attacking?&quot;<br><br>Because Ripley threatened the queen&apos;s eggs. It&apos;s a &quot;one step closer and I shoot this hostage&quot; kind of situation.<br><br>&quot;Wait! What? Where? How? What!?&quot;<br><br>I think the implication is that the queen grabbed a hold of the landing gear as the shuttle was taking off, and climbed up into the compartment it retracts into, effectively hitching a ride <br><br>Lol at your excitement over Bishop getting torn apart and absolute glee over the loader fight with the queen.<br><br>As far as &quot;five by five&quot; goes, I&apos;m too lazy to look it up right now, but I think its military slang for &quot;a-okay&quot;. If you&apos;ve ever seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith uses the phrase.<br><br>Okay, I lied. I&apos;m apparently not too lazy, as I just looked it up after all, and apparently it comes from World War II, where it originally referred to a radio signal&apos;s strength and clarity on a scale from one to five. So five by five is basically &quot;loud and clear&quot;, and came to be slang for &quot;fine&quot;, &quot;good&quot; or &quot;great&quot;.<br><br>You&apos;re not the only one who thinks Hudson is the most awesome character in the movie.<br><br>What should you watch next? Have you seen The Terminator? Aliens was James Cameron&apos;s second film. The Terminator was his first. Cameron apparently had trouble with the British crew on the Aliens set being uncooperative, because they didn&apos;t trust that he knew what he was doing, as The Terminator hadn&apos;t been released yet.<br><br>Anyway, The Terminator had a much lower budget ($6.4 million compared to Aliens&apos; $18.5 million), but it really showed what Cameron could accomplish with limited money. It&apos;s just as much of a classic as Aliens is—arguably even more so, because it kicked off its franchise. Terminator 2 is also worth watching. Most people think it&apos;s better than the original, but while it does drastically improve on some elements (especially the special effects, as it&apos;s a high-budget blockbuster, instead of a low budget production), it&apos;s also more commercial, with less integrity, in my opinion. So I prefer the first, but I&apos;m in the minority. Interestingly, the movies somewhat parallel the Aliens series, with the first having more of a horror feel, and the second being more of an action flick.

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  @losmosquitos1108 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6IDVTS8Zs&amp;t=3344">55:44</a> the scene where the queen throws Bishop‘s upper torso and it slides over the floor took hours! The rubber puppet was thrown by a guy and it always landed in the most awkward positions. They had a solid laughter on the set…

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