10 Things You Didn't Know About A L I E N (1979)

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  @bingerz237 · 4 years ago

  Along with John Carpenter's The THING, ALIEN is one of the best Lovecraftian movies ever made. It goes above and beyond meeting all the necessary elements required for telling the best possible "weird tale".

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  @WilAdams · 4 years ago

  I remember the day this film opened.  I was walking in the mall near my home one night, and as I came up to the theater, I started reading over the movie posters.  The way this theater displayed its posters, they had the posters for older films first up, and Dawn of the Dead was still playing--I remembered instantly that it was the tag line on that poster 'When there is no more room in Hell the dead will walk the earth' that had mad me go and see the film. So, as I came up to the Alien film poster, and saw the tag line 'In Space No One Can Hear You Scream', that got me instantly interested.  It was the cracked egg that made me check the show times.  I saw that a new showing was going to start in 5 minutes.  I paid and went it.  I bought my popcorn, and a soda and made my way to a seat in the middle near the top (back) of the rows of seating.  I will never forget this because I had set my soda down, and was munching my popcorn when the chest burster appeared, and I jumped so hard I slung my popcorn all across the people in the rows in front of (below) me.  One guy looked angerly back at me, and I shrugged and said, 'Hey, sorry, but at least it was not my coke.'.  He laughed, nodded and we went back to watching the film.

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  @johnnym7904 · 4 years ago

  my mom took me to the movies when i was 7, she thought we were going to see close encounters of the 3rd kind. boy, she was wrong....scared the shit out of me, and gave me a life long love of sci fi. Thanks Minty, this one was great!!!

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  @knowone4080 · 4 years ago

  I was 6 years old when this movie came out.  My Dad took me to go see it because that's what cool Dad's did back in those days.  It was beyond awesome even though I had nightmares for the next few weeks.  I even had the toy which I still have to this day.  Good times.

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  @TheBeardedDr · 4 years ago

  It’s crazy that this movie is more than 40 years old! The special effects still look amazing to this day!

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  @susandemetry7158 · 3 years ago

  There is nothing in the movie that makes it seem dated. Not the sets, the clothing or hairstyles. That's what makes it timeless.

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  @DeltaEcho303 · 4 years ago

  The works of H.R. Giger are beautifully unsettling. Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune probably would have flopped at the time, but go on to be a sci-fi masterpiece like Metropolis and 2001.

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  @vandalfinnicus1507 · 4 years ago

  What a beautiful nostalgiacave! I saw Alien for the first time as six year old, in 1987, when mum wasn't home and dad with his friends wanted to drink beer without me buzzing around, so they put me in front of the tv, and put Alien in the vcr. Naturally, I sat right there transfixed for 100 minutes. Ash scared me more than the xenomorph, because a monster I could understand, but this fake human thing I could not.

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  @habovay3 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Great presentation but a truly golden nugget of trivia was overlooked.  "Alien" was shooting at Shepperton Studios the same time as The Who were on a neighboring soundstage filming live performances of "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" for their documentary feature, "The Kids Are Alright" (1979).  The "Alien" crew wound up borrowing the band's laser beam-splitter for the bowels of the derelict craft (where Kane becomes impregnated).  The laser served as the electronic "thin layer of mist" blanketing the alien egg farm.

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  @Thanthalos · 4 years ago

  As a 10 year old in '79 I didn't get to see it back then, but my mom bought me the movie comic that came out at the same time. I remember seeing the first pic of the Alien and I was even afraid of that. I kept opening and closing the comic at the page with the creature, facinated and scared at the same time. As a 53 year old I love this movie and it is in my top 10 of best movies ever. The design of the Alien is just so iconic.

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  @The-Artless-Gallery · 4 years ago

  My parents went to see this when it first came out. My dad said this was the only movie that scared the monkey outta him. He loved it.

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  @thisguyrightherenowswhatsup · 5 months ago

  The way I read the title of your video lol.<br>all slow &quot; A lie - N&quot;?? Oh alien! &quot;

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