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#344: Alien (1979) · What's Your (Least) Favorite Scary Movie?

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Hello, what's your least favorite scary movie?
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I admire its purity, a survivor uncluttered by conscience,
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remorse, or delusions of morality.
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Welcome to What's Your Lead favorite scary Movie?
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The podcast where we talk about the good, the bad, the ugly and
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the absurd and all of our favorite.
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Family's favorite? Scary movies.
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Because we believe every horror movie rifely has his fan base.
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Even if we don't always get it. My name's Travis.
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My name's Jesse and we we're starting a new franchise, y'all.
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Yes, we are. Here we are.
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Yup, we're in space. Yup, we're in alien territory.
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That's right, we doing some sci-fi horror shit up in here.
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We're changing it up. We're shaking things up a tad
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bit. It's going to be good.
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And hey, you know what? Just as a little bonus thing, in
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case you aren't aware, we are doing Predator alongside this
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too. So that way, when we get to
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Alien versus Predator, it has meaning.
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Yeah, we have a. Proper crossover going on.
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We've already covered the first Predator movie, so you know, you
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can go ahead and listen to that now.
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But that's all going to start alongside this.
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But I'm excited. This is going to be cool.
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So excited. Can't wait for it.
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All right, just a couple quick announcements.
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We did do our final destination wrap up over the weekend, so
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long weekend. So go ahead and go check that
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out where we did our final rankings.
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We also did our to be or not to be on Dance of the Dead, so go
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check that out as well. Yeah, and that pretty much
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wrapped up our prom month coverage right there, because
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there's nothing prom about this movie at all, unless you just
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consider it a gathering of people.
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No dancing. Yeah, that I remember.
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Yeah, I, I don't, I don't know. Yeah.
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So, OK, are we ready to get into this?
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Thing we are. We are so ready.
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Let's fucking do it. Okie dokie.
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So Alien premiered May 24th, 1979.
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We are like a date. It is today we're recording.
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We are recording on the day that it premiered on so.
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Damn, how many years ago was? That 47. 47 years.
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Happy birthday, Alien. It's crazy.
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Yeah. It premiered at this Seattle
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International Film Festival and it had it's that wide release
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June 22nd, 1979. We watched it on our DVD.
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If you would like to watch it, you cannot stream it anywhere
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right now. It got removed from streaming
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services like it was just recently because I remember it
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was on HBO. It might show up in June.
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Don't know about that exactly. Yeah, but as of this moment, it
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can't be streamed. You have to rinse it if you
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don't own it. And you can rent it on Amazon,
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Apple TV, YouTube or a Fandango at home.
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Written by Dan O'bannon, who did the screenplay in the story, and
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also Ronald Shusset, who also did the story.
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Directed by Ridley Scott, music by Jerry Goldsmith and special
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effects team. We got a slew of people here to
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acknowledge. So off the bat, we have HR
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Geiger who did the alien design. Fucking crazy that they got
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Geiger to do it. Makes a lot of sense.
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Yeah, Carl Rambaldi, as he, he, the guy that did the alien, he
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brought it to life. Nick Alder and Brian Johnson
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were also special effects supervisors on there.
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And we had Christian Wolf Flamoy, who did the models.
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All right, because we did a lot of miniature stuff for the ship
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and all that, and it's all really cool.
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Starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, Tom Skerritt as Dallas,
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Ian Holm as Ash, John Hart as Kane, Veronica Cartwright as
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Lambert, Harry Dean Stanton as Brett, Yafik Kato as Parker and
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Bellagi Badajo as Alien. OK.
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Time for our favorite game on the show, Budget or bug Ted?
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I feel like this is 1. I should know, but I don't know.
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It's gonna be an interesting one.
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I'm gonna go with budget. Budget, this does meet the
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budget criteria. So new franchise feel like we
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need this and every time we start a new one, we have to go
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over what this means, yes. If you're tuning in for the
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first time because you're like Alien, anything that is under a
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$10 million budget, we refer to as Bug Ted.
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It was just a fun little typo we read online that we ran with.
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So Bug Ted is $1.00 to $999,999 and budget is 10 million and up.
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Yep. And this movie meets that
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criteria. It is an $11 million budget.
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Yeah, pretty big in 1979. Always opening box office was
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3.5 million, OK, worldwide gross 109 million.
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Yeah, OK. Yeah.
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IMDb score 8.5. Fuck yeah.
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Fucking big fuck yeah. One of the biggest ones we've
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had. So I have three other movies
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from 1979 that released that we're going to compare it to.
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I have a theme and it is Curiosity Killed did not kill
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the cat, but it killed a lot of other people.
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I. Like that theme?
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So First off, we have Phantasm. OK?
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That is all you know about Little Boise, Old man being
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creepy in the graveyard and being like, what's that about?
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Yeah, what's? Going on there.
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Why? Where, How?
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When? So that came out March 28th,
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1979 with a $300,000 budget, 11.9 million gross and a 6.6 on
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IMDb. All right.
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Movie #2 tourist trap. A lot of people go over there
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and be like, hey, what's this museum doing, doing over here?
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What's this? And they get killed.
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That movie, that movie. Jesse and I have made our
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thoughts on that pretty well known at this point.
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We don't care for it. It's OK it's fine I understand
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why people love it it's fine. I don't but it came out March
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16th, 1979. Three $150,000 budget worldwide
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gross of 4 million. Perfect. 6 out of 10 on IMDb
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all. Right.
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People like it and the final movie zombie 2 or just zombie
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the Uchio Fauci movie all right came out it premiered August
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25th 1979 curiosity in that one is where the fuck is my dad yeah
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I got to go to this island and get my.
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Dad Island full of zombies? Yeah.
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So that came out like I said, August 25th, 1979 budget of 410
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million lira dollars. Oh, it's Italian.
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Yep, worldwide gross 3 billion three billion lira, which
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translated to $1.9 million. It's funny that you, you know,
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the The thing is, where is my dad?
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What happened to my dad? And I'm wearing my Halloween 3
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shirt. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, my guys were recording this. Yeah, the IMDb score for that
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6.8 All right, I love that movie.
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So. Fucking I know you do.
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All righty, so got tagline. The one on the poster.
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Super iconic one. Oh yeah, in space, no one can
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hear you scream. That is a terrifying sentence.
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It is. Don't like it.
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I love it, but I don't like it. Yeah, it it makes me
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uncomfortable. It makes me feel things.
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And from there, it's like with the rest of the tagline, I got
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three others here. This one's OK.
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Sometimes the scariest things come from within.
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I, I thought that that was pretty good.
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Right now it's Alien, the 8th Passenger and a word of warning,
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dot dot .0. OK, yeah, Yep, that's it for
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taglines. OK, so it's time for us to do
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Fun Facts. Yeah, fun facts.
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There was so much shit about this movie, I can't talk about
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everything, so I'm going to talk about some things.
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OK, the facts you found the funnest, Yes.
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So this is really cool. I, I like the story of how this
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movie came to be. And we're going to take it all
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the way back to USC college where a little Dan O'bannon was
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working with another movie with a little John Carpenter.
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They made a movie called Dark Star, which this is perfect
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because I didn't know this, I was watching this movie thinking
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to myself, this is a movie that John Carpenter wanted to make.
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I I could, I could just feel it, you know.
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But yeah, so they made that movie together.
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It was a student film. It involved like an alien thing
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there to, in the case of that movie, they use a spray painted
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beach ball and they just attach some claws on it.
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It was used for comedic effect. So it wasn't serious, but you
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know, low budget stuff like that.
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It left Dan O'bannon really wanting to make something with
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an alien that actually looked real.
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So that's where this all started.
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Started working on the script then and there.
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Then we had Mr. Shasik come along, who was at that time
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currently working on a movie that would become Total Recall.
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He was impressed with Dark Star, so he reached out to Dan O
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Bannon and he wanted to team up on the project together.
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So they ended up working on that.
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But midway through this right here, Dan O Bannon got contacted
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to work on a Dune adaptation that was being filmed over in
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France, I think it was Paris or whatever.
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So he went over there and he did that for six months.
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Unfortunately, the project fell through and this left Dan
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O'bannon homeless. Oh no.
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So he went back to LA and he started crashing on chess it's
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couch and they just continued to work on the script because he's
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like, I got to sell a spec script to get some money.
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So I'm going to do this. Let's do this right here.
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He had a problem though. He didn't know what to do with
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the second-half of the movie. He knew that he wanted to have
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the crew wake up in like the middle of mid flight or whatever
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and like have like the computer telling them to go do something,
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but they didn't know what exactly or what all was going to
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happen from there. And she also actually suggested
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that he take a movie that he was working on also and just use the
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plot of that for the second-half of the movie, which was
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basically it was like a war thing where like some gremlins
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with infiltrated a bunker. So they're like, let's just take
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that and move it to space. OK.
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And it's interesting. So like, they were having a hard
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time making this all like work, but then they made it quick
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here. I got a quote from Shustad on
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that right there, says Dan put his finger on the problem.
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What has to happen next is the creature has to get on the ship
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and in an interesting way. I have no idea how we could
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solve that. It can't be that it just snuck
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in. Then I think the whole movie
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will come into place in the middle of the night.
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I woke up and I said, Dan, I think I have the idea.
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The alien screws one of them. It jumps on his face and plants
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at seed. And that said, Oh my God, we've
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got it. We've got the movie.
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What dream? Was he having, You know, that's
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fucking crazy. So they were going around, they
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were pitching at the studios. They pitched it as Jaws in space
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because Jaws was a huge hit at the time.
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And, you know, yeah, you're trying to get your movie sold to
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as many people as possible. Now that I can see that Jaws was
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huge at the time. That could be Jaws.
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In space, yeah. I I could see it too.
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They nearly signed with Roger Corman, almost became a Roger
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Corman. Oh.
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Shit. Could have been a completely.
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Different movie. But they had a friend like,
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look, I think I can get you some better deals.
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So they shopped it around a little bit, had a connection
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with old 20th Century Fox over there and Fox really, really in
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the market for a sci-fi movie because we had another big movie
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that hit and run. This time it's Star Wars.
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Everybody's willing to capitalize on that right there.
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And Fox, they had no sci-fi scripts in there like on them
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right there on the table. So they're like, fuck it, let's
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roll the dice on this right here.
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Let's do it. Worked out well.
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Yeah, it did, and they nearly had Spielberg direct this, but
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he was already busy with other projects.
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Kind of glad it wasn't Spielberg.
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Yeah, me too. Again, it wouldn't have had the
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same. Horror effect that this one has.
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Although he has, you know, Jurassic Park, you know, and
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Jaws, obviously, obviously. So he's he's got some experience
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in that genre. They're just, they're more
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actiony horror as opposed to like, this.
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This is the most like, purely distilled horror.
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Yeah, version of this movie. I agree.
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So in the search of directors, they looked over at Ridley
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Scott, who had only made one film at this time, but they
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really liked it and they're like, hey, let's give him a
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chance. So that's how he got there.
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He got so bored waiting for them to finalize the budget for the
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movie that he storyboarded the entire movie, including like
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designs of costume, like the space suits and all kinds of
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shit like that. And like he sent that to them
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while they were doing that and they saw that and then they
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ended up doubling the budget just based off of his
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storyboards alone. So Scott actually wrote several
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pages of back story for the each character to help the actors
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actually have an understanding of them and get in character for
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everything, which I thought was kind of cool.
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I would be interested to read that and wonder if it's
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available. I did not do any searching of
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that myself. Now, I don't know if you found
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this in your background, but I swear I read somewhere that the
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script didn't specify if any of these characters were male or
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female. And so they just had folks read
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for the roles that they got, and that just ended up being, you
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know. I have a house cast.
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I've heard that too, specifically about Ripley.
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Like it was like a generalist role.
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I I didn't see that myself. And in fact, something that may
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contradict that is like they brought in pretty much
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exclusively women to read for Ripley.
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Interesting. Yeah, 'cause like they were.
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I was reading a thing that like Sigourney Weaver's like her
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screen test for that, like really, really stood out to
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them. But yeah, it was it was just
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women that they had for that right there.
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OK. I guess Speaking of that, this
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is a one thing that I was going to, like share later, but it was
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between her and Meryl Streep for the role.
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Dude, I know. Again, completely different
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movie right there. But yeah, they didn't give it to
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Meryl Streep because she was mourning, though, like, death of
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her husband or partner at the time, too, which I think it's
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kind of like, you know, maybe she needed a win, man.
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You know, like give her. Like Meryl Streep's doing fine
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without having. She's doing OK.
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She's doing OK. OK.
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So if you were wondering why did Travis not credit Jonesy in the
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cast here, it's because they had four cats play Jonesy.
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How did they get 4 orange cats into a space and not have the
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Dum Dums just constantly bonking heads together like coconuts?
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Movie magic. I have no idea how they made it
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happen, but they did. So I don't have one cat to point
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to for that role right there. All right, I do have an
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interesting thing. So as they were working on the
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movie, so Corny Weaver learned that she is allergic to cat.
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Oh. No, and she's also allergic to
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the glycerin that was used to make the fake sweat.
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Oh no. So this really sucks because her
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whole thing is she's saving the cat.
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And she's really sweaty while she's.
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Doing that, Yep. So instead they're like, she
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braved it, she toughed it out with the cat, but they went with
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a different thing for the sweat. Good for that.
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Yeah, wasn't a pleasant experience, but she made it
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through. Originally, it was going to end
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with Ripley escaping, and nothing was going to happen.
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Like it was going to, like, they get on the escape pod, That's
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it, It's over. But really, Scott really, really
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wanted there to be a fourth act in which she, like, has a
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confrontation with the alien on the space pod.
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So he negotiated a budget increase and a extra set of days
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to film that right there. And, you know, he won.
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He wanted it to end with the alien biting her head off and
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then recording the final log with her voice would have been
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really, really creepy. But the producers did not want
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that. They wanted the alien to die.
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So they vetoed that. OK, OK.
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Sorry, I have a thought, but I like that'll be better when we
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start. Discussing, OK.
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And just some final thing, just some additional cast.
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So I already talked about Meryl Streep being considered for the
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role. But another thing Harrison Ford
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could have been Dallas, but he turned down the role.
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He got really annoyed really quickly being like pushed into
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the the Hon hole. True, but he ended up, I think,
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regretting it because he ended up working with Ridley Scott on
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another sci-fi movie, Blade Runner, just like a few years
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later at that point. So you know, he made it.
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He made it work. I think that guy's OK, too.
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I think he did OK. I think he's fine, yeah.
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I think he's OK with that alien. All right.
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And that's all I had room for on my sheet.
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There is so much more to go over with this right here, but we
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don't have the time or the resources to do so.
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So we're just going to get into it and share our thoughts of the
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movie now. And Jesse, that means you kick
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it off. What did you like?
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I mean, this movie is just damn near perfect.
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Like it's just so solid. It gets tense right from the
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beginning. I like that.
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This is not like we've got the scientist on board.
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He is a robot and we don't know that yet.
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So I like that we have plausible reasoning.
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I forgot that that was a twist, that even to the characters in
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the movie, I thought that they were aware that he was like a
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robot. Like, no, I, I remembered that
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that was a twist. I just like, because that's
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something that would come up in the later movies.
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It's like, why are scientists behaving this way?
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And I have thoughts about that, that we'll get to months down
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the line. But for this, it makes sense.
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They they have to do this. They have to do it as part of
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their contract. Nobody really wants to do it,
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but they've got to go investigate what appears to be a
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distress signal. And then things are happening.
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People are panicking. The science officer is okaying
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this. We don't know at this point that
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he's got nefarious, you know, motivations like just
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everything. The story.
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I like that they didn't force a way to get the alien on board.
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They let it come to them. They did that in a really,
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really like, well thought out way.
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Yeah, like. It's kind of insane that it came
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from him. Having a dream is like the alien
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fucks its face. Yeah.
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And like, I, I've read some really good articles like that,
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you know, are kind of dissecting this as like, like, like a
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metaphor for sexual assaults. Oh, OK.
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So those are if I remember, I'll try and find some of the
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articles and put them in the show notes, but if they're not
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there, don't be mad. Interesting.
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Yeah, I. Forgot, but yeah, I I thought
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that was really interesting. It's so tense.
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I like that the cat lives and I like that it's a whole, like
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it's a main thing. Everybody's trying to keep the
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cat alive. Yeah, yeah.
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And I think that's great. I like, it's just such a good.
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And you've got such a different cast of characters there.
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They all have personality traits, but they're subtle.
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Like we don't get them shoved in our faces.
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It's there in a way that a crew that has been working together
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for months. There's a cool thing that I was
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reading that like a lot of people appreciate about this
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movie, like Roger Ebert commented on it, but it's like
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that the crew felt real. And the reason that it felt real
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is because they cast it like age appropriate is, you know, like
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made a point that like I hadn't even really considered that kind
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of is like a thing for future movies of this too.
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But like a lot of these movies like thriller type movies tend
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to cast younger actors and. Or people that can pass as
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younger. Yeah, exactly.
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And, you know, like with this right here, I think like having
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that older crew, like Dallas is a dude in his 40s.
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So Courtney Weaver is the youngest one, and she's 28.
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Yeah, and it makes sense. Like that's this is, you know,
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it's it's, you know, a commerce job, but you know, it still
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requires specialized skills. I like the arguments that
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they're having about the bonuses and the pay structure.
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And you know, we've got a little bit of like that woven into
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this, which is great because this whole thing, spoiler for my
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Ugly is just kind of a fuck you to capitalism.
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It's weirdly grounded for a sci-fi.
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Yes, and it's just it, it isn't trying to be a space movie.
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It is just a horror movie set in space.
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And I think that is part of what makes this movie so good.
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It is tense throughout. You never know what's going to
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happen next, which keeps you on the edge of your seat and it
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ends in victory. But it's scary.
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And this is the thing I was going to say, 'cause I saw
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somebody talking about how the Xenomorph is like very playful.
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And I like that. That kind of mirrors Jonesy.
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Like he's got, like they're foils to each other, almost like
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Jonesy is a sweet little baby, but he needs protection because
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again, he's an orange cat. They've got it.
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They've got to get him. They've got a resume.
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He's got his special space cat carrier.
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And then you've got the Xenomorph, on the other hand,
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who is also like playful and conniving, but is mean and
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doesn't need anybody to look out for it.
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And it's trying to take these people out.
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And I find that just so fascinating to make the foil to
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our bad guy. A dumb cat.
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And it's great because like somebody was talking about the
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way it's like curled up in the escape shuttle at the end, very
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cat like. It is, yeah.
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You're. Right, very playful and it just
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like the way it pops out at her. Like God, how many times have
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our cats done that to us? You got to think also in the
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context here, this is your morph's a kitten.
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It's got kitten energy, you know, It's running around just
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playing with shit. That shit is Cordelia who is
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screaming at our door right now and.
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I'm sure y'all can hear it's, you made a comment last night.
21:55
Like, like, you're like the cat. Like xenomorph is kind of like a
21:58
cat. I'm like, Oh my God, Cordelia is
22:00
kind of like a Xenomorph. Yeah.
22:02
The way that she operates and runs around and just, like,
22:05
attacks shit just out of the blue.
22:06
You like that is like a fucking xenomorph for Cordelia.
22:10
In this case, yeah, it's pretty. Cordelia But yeah, I just, I
22:16
could go on all day about how excellent this movie is, but it
22:20
it's just great. Yeah, For me, like this movie is
22:25
it's so good at building tense moments and it's just a lot of
22:30
slow dread. And it's that thing that you can
22:33
relate to, like, but also like, it's very like extraordinary
22:38
things. Like I love whenever they do the
22:41
thing like where they like land on the planet and like they
22:44
breakdown and the way that they handle it's all very like
22:46
grounded and like realistic response.
22:48
They're all like, well, it's just like fucking fix in there.
22:50
Like we got a job to do type mentality, stuff like that.
22:53
But like when the. Bonuses are on the line that is
22:56
really the motivator for. That exactly, Yeah, yeah.
22:59
And but when they're on the planet and the scale of
23:02
everything, when they see that ship and they enter that ship
23:05
and like they are so tiny next to that like skeleton that's
23:09
sitting in the chair that is like.
23:11
That has exploded from the inside out.
23:14
Yeah, it is just fucking crazy. And the interesting thing I was
23:18
reading about that is like to make that stuff look bigger that
23:22
they actually use, I think is Ridley Scott's children, like in
23:25
the space suits to like make them be smaller, you know?
23:29
But it is so effective. It's like, I can't, I don't know
23:35
what the phobia is, but it's like, it's like that phobia of
23:38
like, you know, just like you see something like in the
23:41
distance and it's like gigantic and like, guy, what is that?
23:45
Come on, you're gonna look it up, OK?
23:49
The fear of big things is called megalophobia.
23:52
Megalophobia, an intense, irrational anxiety triggered by
23:54
massive structures like skyscraper statues or dams,
23:57
large vehicles, ships and planes, or vast natural
23:59
phenomenon such as mountains, oceans and giant animals.
24:04
It triggers that in me whenever I see that stuff right there I.
24:07
Didn't see that. Yeah, it's just really, really
24:09
horrifying. But I just, I like the whole
24:13
crew here. Like it's a fun team of people
24:16
to like follow for this. And it's just scary.
24:20
Like I, I like that the alien stalks, you know, like it is
24:25
such an effective horror movie character.
24:27
Changing. Yeah, changing as it's going
24:30
through. It's just such an interesting
24:32
concept, man, like and it was so well executed, the design of
24:36
everything. Also one of my favorite things.
24:38
I love the retro futuristic tech and I feel like this is the
24:42
movie that people try and emulate when they go for it.
24:44
Like back then, like when people were trying to do that like
24:49
this. Like this movie has had like a
24:50
lot of influence on like Dragon Ball designs for like futuristic
24:53
stuff, you know, It's really, really cool and they did a great
24:57
job. Like this movie is just so well
25:00
put together, do you have anything bad to say?
25:04
Nitpick OK, just a nitpick. And again, I understand that
25:08
this becomes a challenge because the crew is supposed to feel.
25:12
I guess lived in is the word you could use for it, but it makes
25:15
it really hard to get the character name.
25:17
Intros might not bother you as much if you're not taking notes,
25:21
but. I didn't know Lambert for a long
25:23
time. Yeah, and I only got half the
25:25
names because of the captions. If they weren't on the captions,
25:29
like showing somebody was seeing something, I wouldn't have known
25:31
who it was. It took a while before anybody
25:33
referred to people by their name.
25:35
So that that's just a little little gripe that I know I've
25:39
shared on the show before. And what do you do about it?
25:42
It's kind of hard because you need to make those feel natural,
25:45
like you don't want it to be, you know, you don't want it to
25:50
feel forced. Yeah, And it definitely doesn't
25:52
feel forced on this. But it also takes a while before
25:54
we have like, set, OK, this is who this person is.
25:58
This is who this is so. OK, I I'm struggling to think of
26:04
anything myself to say that's bad about this movie.
26:07
I I can't find anything that I would nitpick.
26:11
I I hate that. I wish I had something I could
26:13
say, but I I don't have anything I can say.
26:15
It sucks. So what's the ugly?
26:19
Capitalism, the the the mission. They're literally like anybody
26:24
can be sacrificed, it's fine, just bring back the alien life.
26:27
Expendable. It's that's fucked.
26:30
Yeah, I know that. Is fucked.
26:32
Yeah, that was the. Thing, and it's for the big war
26:34
machine too, so there's an extra layer of a key to it.
26:39
Yeah, that was a thing for me too.
26:40
Just the fact that they forced them to like, do this shit.
26:43
Like it was so calculated and they're so deceived by the whole
26:48
thing because they just think, oh, just check out this random
26:51
thing over here, you know? I think there's also something a
26:53
little bit icky about the system being called mother.
26:56
Like I feel like there's a psychological bit to it to make
27:01
you not want to disobey the program.
27:04
Maybe. Ship.
27:05
Yeah, you could be on to something with that, I think.
27:09
Like the whole fucking face hugger thing is just ugly.
27:12
Holy shit. I I can't imagine a worse way to
27:16
go. That is horrifying.
27:18
Just the fact that they like, oh God, it's like it's spider like
27:22
how did? He how did he not get glass all
27:25
over his fucking face? That's.
27:27
A great question. I have no idea.
27:29
He didn't even. Maybe he did and the the face
27:33
over just cleared it all off for him.
27:34
He doesn't remember shit. Yeah.
27:37
All right, absurd. At the end when she can't
27:42
override the self detonation so she's just like fuck it, got to
27:47
run to the shuttle, just got to hope that I can get past the
27:49
alien and she takes Jonesy's cat care and just chucks it across.
27:54
The Room. I'm like I get it but also damn.
27:58
Yeah, I mean, we got to get out of here.
28:00
Yeah, I get it too. For me it was when Ash called
28:05
the as like the alien Kane's son.
28:08
That's Oh my. God.
28:10
You got hung up on that for a little bit.
28:12
Kane's son. Like for the next few scenes,
28:15
whenever it would pop up, you'd be like, there's Kane's son.
28:17
Shut the fuck up. You're a robot.
28:18
You don't know. You don't fucking know.
28:22
I don't know, maybe mother is Ash's mother.
28:26
I maybe, you know, maybe you're right yeah, I guess he probably
28:30
does see it that way. Yeah.
28:32
Also, Speaking of ash, ashes, sweat.
28:35
What was that shit? I thought he was melting.
28:38
I thought I like, I forgot I thought like the aliens like
28:40
dripping like the acid on him and he was like coming on apart,
28:43
but it's like fucking like fucking clay just rolling down
28:47
his face. I'm.
28:48
Not going to say what the sweat looks like, but I think we all
28:51
know what it looks like. I think we all know.
28:56
And that's, you know, not beating the allegations of the
28:59
metaphor theory that I brought up.
29:00
Really. I guess you're right.
29:02
Yeah. And then the fact that on the
29:06
ship they just spray fire with the flamethrower all Willy
29:10
nilly, all over the walls, all over everything.
29:12
But no, like, regard for the ship's well-being.
29:16
And it it's fine, it doesn't hurt anything.
29:19
I'm surprised that it doesn't create like an explosion in and
29:24
of itself because. All the technology and shit.
29:27
And like the, the pressurization and whatnot that must exist in
29:31
the ship, you know, that's not, that's not fresh air, that's
29:34
just moving about. Yeah, I just, I was really
29:37
shocked that they're just so liberal with their flame usage.
29:41
So it's a little shocking. And you know, it's funny because
29:44
you mentioned John Carpenter earlier, but like, I really got
29:48
so many thing vibes I did from it up to and including the
29:53
flamethrower. Yeah, maybe he saw that.
29:55
This movie, He's like, shit, I wanted to do that.
29:57
I can't make it in space. Space is coming to Earth then
29:59
God damn it made a good movie out of it at least.
30:04
I think I know what we're both going to rate this.
30:06
Yeah, me too. It's a 10.
30:07
Of course. This is a fucking fantastic
30:09
movie, man. How do you give it anything
30:11
besides A10? I'm sure people do.
30:14
Obviously the IMDb is only 8.5. Yeah, I've had to pull a
30:18
negative review for this, so you know I'm.
30:20
Interested to see what you were able to find.
30:21
All right. So we have a 10 starting
30:23
average. OK.
30:25
Here we go. Let's fucking do it.
30:28
So we start off, we get the THX logo which we just.
30:35
It is the sound of so many, like childhood traumas, like all of
30:43
the scariest movies I watched when I was younger that THX.
30:47
And it's so weird. It's like it's a flex before the
30:50
movie starts. It's like we can get this loud,
30:52
OK? Like this is how big we can get.
30:55
OK, I gotta tell this story real quick.
30:57
So when IMAX first came around, it was getting real popular.
31:00
We went to one during some downtime when we were away for a
31:05
dance competition and Carolyn was super afraid of storms at
31:09
the time. And IMAX used to love to flex
31:11
their sound system but like playing a thunderstorm and
31:15
Carolyn lost her fucking shit in the theatre.
31:18
She was so scared of the fake storm.
31:21
So IMAX, I guess it's pretty realistic.
31:23
Yeah, I've never been to an IMAX movie, so I've never experienced
31:27
that. I'm sure it'd be cool A.
31:28
Lot of my dance competitions were in Nashville, so yeah.
31:32
So OK, we have commercial towing vehicle, the Nostromo Nostromo.
31:38
Nostromo. Nostromo, we have a crew of
31:40
seven people. Cargo is refinery processing.
31:44
We got 20 million tons of minerals.
31:47
Mineral ore. Mineral.
31:48
Ore, of course, returning to Earth.
31:51
On the way to Earth. Yep, Yep, Yep.
31:53
So a message comes through on the computer and we, we don't
31:56
know what the message means just yet, but all of the sleep pods
32:00
open and everybody gets out and they have what apparently is a
32:03
terrible breakfast. Yeah, they're they're
32:05
complaining about it, but man, I love some breakfast food so.
32:09
Too, man. Some of it was just cereal.
32:11
I was like, did the cereal get stale?
32:13
I like some cereal. Cereal's great.
32:15
And then they, they start talking about the bonuses cause
32:18
Parker and Brett are making less than everybody else because
32:21
they're quote UN quote, just like the service guys, the
32:25
maintenance guys. Their job?
32:27
Is just as important, Yeah. They're the only reason they get
32:30
back in the yeah. So I'm, I'm on their side, but
32:34
they're like, well, you should have negotiated it in your
32:36
contract. Yeah.
32:38
So so Dallas goes and he chats with interface 2037.
32:42
Is that the year that the 6th place I can't?
32:44
I'm not sure I I don't know. It's probably further in the
32:47
future I think. But he says, what's the story,
32:49
mother? I like how he can be so casual
32:51
getting the you get the. Details.
32:54
Yeah, And so everybody else is logging into their systems.
32:58
They're trying to contact traffic control because they're
33:01
they were in hypersleep. You know, they're supposed to be
33:03
woken up when it's getting close to being home.
33:06
So that's why they're all excited and talking about their
33:08
payday. They're all feeling good.
33:11
Parker and Brett are downstairs. They're only getting half the
33:14
bonus that is. Yeah, that's some shit.
33:17
That is some shit and. Then Dallas gathers everyone and
33:21
he's like, so I'm sure you guys realized we're we're not, we're
33:25
not home. Oh, I don't know if you caught
33:27
this, but they were trying to get your traffic control in
33:29
Antarctica. Oh yeah, I think.
33:30
So yeah, the thing, the thing. More, the thing intensifies.
33:35
Yeah, the thing in thingifies. So mother intercepted a
33:40
transmission. It sounded like like an SOS,
33:44
Yeah, woke them up to check it out.
33:47
And they all start arguing. So like, dude, we're fucking,
33:49
we're towing ship, we're not rescue services, we're not
33:52
anything like that. And the contract states that if
33:56
they don't check out any kind of a transmission that mother deems
34:00
important to check out, they don't check any kind of distress
34:03
signal that qualifies as forfeiture of their shares.
34:07
That's fucking sickening. Fuck fucked.
34:12
Up. So they're like, we got to do
34:15
it. Yeah, so they have a really
34:17
rough landing. Three of the four cells are
34:18
gone, the secondary loading units out.
34:20
It's going to take about 25 hours to fix for Brett and
34:23
Parker, who are getting half the amount of money that everyone
34:26
else. The terrain of that area on the
34:28
planet is so fucking bad. That's winds.
34:31
It's cold. It's like also hot.
34:33
I don't know because like the floor is lava.
34:36
Well, not lava, but made from lava.
34:40
And there's also like a bunch of shit in the air that makes it
34:42
pretty much like unsustainable, like.
34:45
Bretton Parker are downstairs. They're really unamused because
34:48
Ripley comes down to check them out.
34:49
She's third in command, I think. So she's, you know, doing what
34:54
she's doing because the other, the two in front of her in line
34:58
are going out on foot. So we have Lambert, Dallas and
35:03
Kane that decide they're gonna go out 'cause the signal is
35:06
within walking distance. So that's why they make this
35:09
decision. They suit up and they go out,
35:11
they find the ship and they are talking to Ash as they're going
35:16
through. But they end up losing
35:18
connection with him like it's going in and out and they do
35:22
lose that that transmission link with him inside we find like we
35:27
were talking about before. Big old skeleton.
35:29
Big old skeleton kind of exploded from the inside out.
35:33
That's creepy. It's.
35:35
Fossilized too, so it happened a long time ago, whatever went
35:37
down here. Meanwhile, on the ship, Ripley
35:40
has looked at the transmission and how Mother has started
35:43
translating it. It's not completely done, but it
35:45
looks less like an SOS and more of a warning, which I think you
35:53
know, when you were reading the tag lines, one of them said
35:56
something about a warning. Yeah, I feel like that almost
35:59
gives it away a little. Bit probably, yeah, a little
36:02
bit. But you know something bad is
36:03
going to happen in this movie, I guess.
36:06
So Kane in the in the ship that they're looking through, he
36:11
finds an area filled with eggs and it's kind of shrouded by a
36:15
mist. And he says the mist appears to
36:16
react if you like, touch it, get through it in any way.
36:19
And then he immediately eats shit and falls through.
36:24
So he he continues to walk around, he sees the eggs there
36:27
and he goes over to 1. He these.
36:29
Eggs are so creepy. The shells are like translucent
36:32
so you can see the creatures. They're in there moving around.
36:34
Yeah, it's really unsettling, but he's super fascinated by it
36:38
and he's just like, checking it out.
36:40
One of them opens up from the top.
36:42
I would get the fuck away from there, but he's like, what's
36:45
inside that? And it's a fucking facehugger.
36:49
It just jumps out and attacks him, and I like that we're
36:52
watching this in 2026 when we have the language to describe
36:55
these creatures. Yeah, right.
36:57
Yeah. So Dallas and Ash bring him back
37:00
and they're demanding that Ripley open the the chamber and
37:05
she's like, he's got a quarantine for 24 hours.
37:07
And Dallas is saying this is a direct order, open the door, he
37:11
won't make it if we can't get him to the Infirmary.
37:13
And she says no protocols to quarantine him for 24 hours.
37:17
Ripley was right. Ripley was goddamn right.
37:20
Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a harsh call to make.
37:22
It's harsh, but she was correct. Yeah.
37:25
But Ash does it anyways. Yeah, so we got Kane on board
37:31
and they've got him in the little first response area or
37:35
whatever. They're tending to him.
37:37
They can't get the thing off his face.
37:39
It's. Just like stuck on there.
37:40
It's stuck on there and they're worried it's going to kill him
37:42
if they try and pull it off. They put him into like a
37:44
scanner, X-ray, cat scan, whatever type of thing and they
37:48
see that it seems to be feeding him oxygen.
37:51
It's almost got him like intubated.
37:52
It's in his throat. It's so fucking.
37:56
I hate that so much. And they try to like cut it off
38:01
or like try and get it but. Dallas says he'll take
38:03
responsibility if something goes wrong.
38:05
Yeah. And they try to, like, cut it
38:07
and like, it just bleeds acid. And when that happens, it starts
38:11
eating through the forest. So they're like having to track
38:14
the acid. They're like, fine.
38:15
What's? Their plan because they're like,
38:16
he's going to get through the. Hole I thought that they had
38:18
like a bin or something like catcher that was like, you know,
38:21
something that like can like actually it was stand acid like
38:24
things can and they they didn't. They're just, I don't know what
38:27
the plan. Was.
38:28
That's a whole plot line and Breaking Bad, right?
38:31
Yeah, yeah. It's like a well, yeah, yeah.
38:37
But it stops on its own. Yeah, it eats through a floor
38:40
slash ceiling, but it doesn't get to the hole.
38:43
Ash Ripley confronts Ash and she's like, why did you open the
38:47
door? He goes well, as a direct order
38:49
from Dallas. And then he says that the
38:52
facehuggers went tough. Little son of a bitch.
38:54
Yeah, well, it's really interesting here because like
38:56
he's like, wow, I was just following an order.
38:58
It's like, whoa, she's like, well, technically I was in
39:01
charge because I was on the ship and you, you ignored my direct
39:05
order and. She's also quarantined as part
39:08
of policy and procedure. Yeah, this is interesting.
39:11
After you know what happens because, like, he shouldn't be
39:14
able to ignore those commands. Yeah, he should be programmed to
39:17
know, like. But he's like, oh, I forgot you
39:20
were in charge, like. And this is one of those things,
39:22
you know, some movies, like when you find twist, it doesn't work
39:25
as well on a rewatch. This just opens up more and more
39:29
questions. Yeah, right.
39:30
And it makes you appreciate so many little things so much.
39:33
Better. So Ash calls Dallas.
39:37
He's like, he need to come see Kane.
39:39
And he's like, what's the update on him?
39:41
He's like, it's just easier if you come see him.
39:43
And so Dallas calls for a blue to come up, too.
39:45
Face hacker's gone. It just left his body.
39:48
I hate that. Yeah.
39:49
That's terrifying. Nope, It's like when when you
39:53
find a spider in the house and you go to go get a shoe to
39:56
squish it and you come back and it's.
39:58
Gone don't say that I don't want.
40:02
That so they're looking around for it and it falls on Ripley.
40:08
It seems dead. Ash wants to bring it back.
40:13
He's like, it's clearly not a zombie.
40:16
Like it's obviously dead and Ripley's like it bled acid.
40:20
So I don't think you know if it's a zombie or not.
40:23
Ash, maybe calm down. Also, this isn't goddamn
40:25
protocol. We weren't even supposed to let
40:27
Kane back on the ship for another like 20 hours.
40:32
So yeah, they're they're just checking and examining the
40:35
corpse. He he really wants to bring it
40:37
back. He's like, this is like a chance
40:39
to, you know, examine alien life form, like for science's sake.
40:44
And the scientist in me is like, I get it.
40:47
I get it too. Maybe wait until you're back on
40:50
Earth. Yeah, but also like the rule
40:53
follower in ME is like protocols exist for a reason.
40:57
Yeah, yeah, I get it. Yeah.
40:58
So they take off. They're returning back to the
41:01
mothership and the quarantine cane.
41:04
Yeah, but it's kind of too late. Dallas, OK, is bringing the
41:08
body, the supposed body, the shell, whatever, back.
41:12
And when Ripley's like, dude, what the what the fuck?
41:15
Like, why? This is not how any of this is
41:17
supposed to go. Goes well, this is a science
41:20
thing. I'm referring to the science
41:22
officer, I guess. So like you trust your trust
41:26
your cruise specialties. Like I get that.
41:29
And she goes well. How well do you even know Ash
41:31
and goes well, I've done five other trips with a different
41:33
science officer. They replaced him two days
41:35
before this one went out. So I don't know Ash at all
41:39
basically. Sketchy.
41:41
Yeah, should should make you go. Ship is fixed, they take off and
41:48
then as they're flying about, they argue about what they're
41:51
going to do with Kane and Lambert's like we are 10 months
41:55
from Earth, like it's going to take us a while to get there.
41:58
We need to figure something out. And Ash once again calls to come
42:02
see Cain and he's like, it's just, it's just easier if you
42:05
come see it just. Fucking say it.
42:06
Just say. He's.
42:07
Awake. Yeah.
42:08
Why? Like you got to see this shit.
42:10
Like he's just yeah, he's awake. He's the one to talk about Ash.
42:13
For a Robot is pretty fucking theatrical.
42:16
He really is. Yeah, guys.
42:18
Man, man, Can you imagine if they had like written an AI
42:23
movie back in 1979? If this team had written that,
42:26
they would have been like AI, so creative, so great.
42:29
Well, I mean, shit, look at 2001, A Space Odyssey, like
42:32
giving AIA lot more credit than what we currently have going on.
42:37
Yeah. This guy stinks.
42:40
Kane is awake, he's talking. He can't remember anything that
42:43
happened to. Him.
42:44
He just dreamt that he was being smothered.
42:47
He's hungry though. He hungry?
42:51
Are we hungry? I guess fuck the quarantine.
42:55
Yeah, so I mean, they're like, whatever, let's eat and let's
42:58
get some cryosleep because we got 10 more months.
43:00
So they start eating and everything is going pretty
43:03
smooth, but then all of a sudden Kane starts to get tummy ache.
43:07
He's like coughing, seems like he's seizing.
43:10
They lay him out on the table and they're trying to figure out
43:12
what to do and then. It's a little baby in.
43:18
There and Ash says don't touch it and it runs off.
43:22
It just scoots across the table. Yeah, it's so funny looking.
43:26
Yeah, it's Cordelia. It is incredibly Cordelia coded.
43:30
I just I wanna like do videos like little shots of Cordelia
43:34
now and make like an artsy. Yeah.
43:37
The quasi horror movie of her. Yeah, you could do it.
43:41
So like they got that to deal with, but they're also.
43:44
They have a space Viking funeral.
43:46
Yeah, they got to deal with Kane's body, so they just shoot
43:49
him out into space. Yeah, like anybody want to say
43:50
any words? Nobody says anything.
43:53
This man's last hours were being.
43:56
Horrifying. Smothered by an alien, argued
44:00
over by his crewmates if they were going to quarantine him or
44:03
not, and then shot out without ceremony.
44:07
What a rough way to go. Now they're like, we got to find
44:09
this thing, it's on a ship somewhere.
44:12
It's fucking freaky. So they split into two teams to
44:15
go catch it. They have a little prod.
44:18
They figure that the alien is going to want to defend itself
44:21
because it's got so many defense mechanisms.
44:22
So they're like, this should be effective enough that we can,
44:25
you know, scooch it. Ash made a tracking device that
44:28
detects micro changes in the air density.
44:31
So they want to get it into an airlock and basically release it
44:33
into space. That's their plan.
44:36
Ripley, Parker and Brett get close to it.
44:39
They are getting a feed on the tracker that it's in the locker
44:46
and we have this whole build up. It's fucking Jonesy in the
44:51
locker. Jonesy jump skater.
44:54
I love it. Sweet little dummy.
44:57
And he runs off, which because like they've got the net ready.
45:00
Like their plan was they were going to catch the thing in the
45:02
net and then get it towards the airlock.
45:05
And instead Brett steps back in room.
45:07
He's like, don't let Jonesy get away.
45:09
And because he let Jonesy get away, he's the one that's got to
45:12
be responsible for going and finding him.
45:14
Yeah, so he's off on his own. He goes into a room where he
45:17
thinks he is, but he finds some shed skin there.
45:21
Yeah. So that tells us that the face
45:23
hugger is not the first form that it comes out as, because
45:27
clearly this thing went from the little baby that came out,
45:30
turned into a face hugger and molted that skin.
45:32
Yeah. So he continues his search and
45:38
we've hear Jonesy hissing and he's hissing at the scene of
45:43
Morph, which is fucking huge. It's it's just hanging down from
45:47
behind Brett. Now.
45:48
Brett doesn't realize that that's what the cat's hissing
45:50
at. And he turns around and he looks
45:53
up and that's a big motherfucker right there.
45:55
And it grabs him and takes him away.
45:57
So the rest are like, he could be alive.
46:00
And I'm like, no, he couldn't. But then again, I've seen this
46:03
movie a million times, so. Yeah.
46:06
So they're like, all right, let's drive the Xenomorph into
46:09
an airlock. It's already in the airlock and
46:12
the airlock the the OR no, it's, it's in the vent, which they're
46:16
like, OK, so the vent only has like another exit, which is the
46:19
airlock. So let's go ahead and close off
46:21
the entrance and we'll just kind of like push it that direction
46:26
and then we'll ship it off into space.
46:28
And this is where Ash refers to it as Kane's son.
46:30
Kane's son. That's so fucking weird.
46:33
In Dallas, he's trying to make sure that this plan seems
46:37
reliable and mother has insufficient data to evaluate
46:40
the plan. Yeah, All of a sudden, this
46:42
computer's like, I don't know, can't compute.
46:44
And I wonder if that's tied into like Order 937 or whatever the
46:48
fuck it is. It was definitely intended.
46:50
Like it was like it could have answered any of these questions,
46:52
it just chose not to. So Dallas goes into the air
46:56
shaft with the flamethrower, the lock is open, and everybody else
47:00
is in position. Lambert tracks the Xenomorph
47:04
into the third junction. Dallas goes in, but then the
47:07
signal's lost. And this is so tense, like
47:10
because how did the signal get lost?
47:12
They don't know where it went. And then all of a sudden it
47:14
reappears and it's so fucking close to Dallas.
47:17
Yeah. And Lambert's like, you got to
47:19
get out of there, you got to go. So he like, climbs down to the
47:22
third level and turns around and yeah, it's right there.
47:26
His signal's cut off, and all they find in that area is the
47:30
headset and no blood, no sign of Dallas sucks.
47:37
So Ripley says that they're going to carry on Dallas's plan.
47:39
Lambert doesn't like that, and she's like, well, the shuttle
47:41
won't hold for people, so we got to do something.
47:44
Yeah. Ripley asks Mother what this
47:48
order is about it and she it's the science officer special
47:52
order. It's not for Captain's vision
47:54
and she goes override that shit and finds out that the science
47:59
officer had a special order to land and collect this Organism.
48:02
The crew was considered expendable.
48:04
This is the number one priority was to bring it back to Earth.
48:09
So Ash realizes that she has found this out and he closes the
48:13
door and they're fighting. They're going at it.
48:17
And guess what? He is a really intense fighter.
48:20
He's a weird fighter. He rolls up a magazine and tries
48:25
to shove it down her throat. Like what the fuck is that?
48:28
It's. Really effective.
48:29
She's having a hard time breathing.
48:30
You know what have been more effective?
48:31
Snapping her neck. He's a fucking robot.
48:34
He's got the strength to do it. Clearly he's super strong.
48:38
Parker comes in and intercepts before anything can happen,
48:41
though, and he knocks Ash's head off.
48:45
And there's not blood. And they're like, holy shit, Ash
48:49
is a robot. And so they figure out that the
48:53
company sent them basically, they, you know, they got their
48:57
mineral war, but they're also collecting this alien for the
49:00
weapons division. So they talked to Ash's
49:03
disassembled body. They asked how to kill.
49:05
He's like, you can't kill. It's a perfect Organism.
49:08
That's why the company wants it so badly.
49:11
He was like, I find it fascinating.
49:12
I find it admirable in its purity.
49:16
You know that opening quote that I read and he was like, And
49:19
while I don't think you can kill it, you all do have my sympathy.
49:23
No, no, it's a little bit extra because before he was, Ripley
49:26
was trying to get like, OK, like what's our chances with this
49:29
thing? And they're like, I we can't
49:30
compute that. But like he's like, oh, and
49:32
Ripley before I go because they were about to determine.
49:34
I was like, I can't say for sure, but like regarding your
49:39
question about like your all's chances, I won't say for sure,
49:42
but you have my sympathies, I guess.
49:44
An extra little fuck year before he knows he's about to get
49:47
turned off. Dramatic fucking robot I have
49:49
ever seen on the screen. Yeah, yeah, like.
49:51
Well, besides C3PO. Yeah, that guy.
49:54
'S a fucking drama queen. Yeah.
49:58
So the plan? Blow up the ship, take their
50:02
chances in the shuttle. Fuck it if it can only fit.
50:05
Well, there's only three of them now.
50:06
They're not bringing Nash's robot body with them.
50:08
No. No, they don't need that.
50:11
So they'll have 10 minutes. Once they pull the trigger,
50:13
Parker and Lambert are gonna go get as much coolant as they can
50:16
carry while Ripley preps the shuttle.
50:19
And while she's doing that, she hears Jonesy.
50:21
Jonesy. Jonesy.
50:22
Yay, he and he really does scare her and she gets this carrier.
50:26
You know what? Our cat should be grateful we
50:28
got them these like fancy bougie lined and stuffed carriers so
50:34
they can be nice and comfortable.
50:35
They're ventilated. Even put their little initials
50:37
on them. Yeah, I monogrammed them.
50:40
Like they're so extra. And Jiangxi gets put into
50:44
basically a large Tupperware. Like our cats don't know how
50:48
good they have it. No, they're spoiled.
50:51
So yeah, so she gets Jonesy into the Cat carrier.
50:55
The Xenomorph is right in front of the Lambert, and this is a
50:59
good example of flight fright Fight or freeze 'cause she
51:03
freeze. Yeah, well, they've updated it
51:06
to fight or flight or freeze. Oh, really?
51:07
Yeah, there's developments. Yeah, yeah, that's been around
51:12
for a while, all right. Should have learned about it in
51:15
college. I just filled out with your
51:16
psychology degree. Fuck that.
51:20
But yeah, so she's frozen and Parker's like move and she's not
51:24
moving. So basically the Xenomorph gets
51:26
both of them. Yeah, 'cause he's trying to
51:28
flamethrower and she won't get out of the way.
51:31
Just get them both at that point, man.
51:33
Like, I'm sorry, but like if she's choosing the, I mean,
51:35
she's not necessarily choosing it, but you got she.
51:37
Might move if she starts to get singed.
51:39
Yeah, maybe a little bit. So Ripley, you know, she's like,
51:42
well, guess we're just doing this then.
51:44
So she pulls the switch to self destruct.
51:46
She's got t -, 10 minutes, 5 minutes until not no longer be
51:51
overridden. And that is going to be very
51:54
important because like it mentions that and I was like,
51:56
that's going to be, that's going to be a thing.
51:58
Yeah, so she starts to make her way through, but she spots the
52:01
Xenomorph and she backs away. It's basically blocking her from
52:04
getting to the shuttle. Yeah, so she runs to go override
52:07
the self destruct and she gets it just under the 5 minutes.
52:11
That's frustrating. Yeah, it's then she's like
52:15
trying to tell mother and mother's just like no, it's it
52:18
was it took me a longer 5 minutes to override.
52:20
Sucks to suck so she. She grabs A flamethrower and
52:24
she's going to go get Jonesy. So she gets Jonesy and she makes
52:29
her way to the pod and she like gets there with one minute to go
52:34
and she makes the escape just in time before the in the.
52:38
Strong mode ship explodes. She's a huge fucking explosion.
52:43
That's like a galactic explosion.
52:44
You know, we joke around about people being way too close to
52:47
explosions. She was way too close to the
52:49
explosion in space. Yeah, I just, I can't believe
52:52
that thing exploded that hard. Like why?
52:54
Why was it the like maybe it was the minerals that they were
52:56
transporting like. I think it's also has something
52:59
to do with, you know, the way space is like it doesn't have an
53:02
atmosphere like Earth's. You know it's not going to
53:04
travel the same way. Yeah, I guess it could be.
53:06
Yeah. Well, anyway, she's relieved
53:09
it's over with. She gets Jonesy out.
53:10
And Jonesy, because he's able to wander around the ship now.
53:12
Well, no. She's put them into the crowd
53:14
chamber. Oh, that's right, they're.
53:15
Going to go sleep, they're going to go night, night together.
53:18
She's prepping herself when she like up against the wall,
53:21
there's like all of this machinery and it's all like
53:24
black and hard shelled and everything.
53:26
And she's nearby pushing some buttons and oh hey, some of this
53:31
machinery isn't machinery. Doesn't react to that.
53:38
So she puts on a suit, quietly buckles herself into seat John
53:43
Z, still in the cryopod. So he's good.
53:46
And she opens up the door to the pod, opens it up, and does
53:53
anymore of his whole 9. Because, again, tough little son
53:56
of a bitch. And she prods it, you know, like
54:00
they had planned. Yeah, yeah.
54:02
Shoots it. And then once it's out, she
54:04
closes the thing, uses the propellers because it's trying
54:07
to hang on to the side and dislodges it from that.
54:11
And she records a report she's the last remaining crew member
54:15
of the Nostromo. Yeah, six weeks to arrive, and
54:19
then she puts herself to cryo sleep and that's the movie's
54:23
ending. Oh my God, I have chills.
54:26
Yeah, talking about it. It's a really good.
54:28
It's so scary. It's so scary.
54:30
It's still a 10 out of 10. Like you.
54:34
You can't get much better than this movie.
54:36
No, no, it's a perfect. Well, it's not a perfect movie,
54:38
but it's like like a fucking great movie.
54:41
It is an amazing movie, so no changes what is how you rate it.
54:47
Oh man, she was messing with the cats at the beginning.
54:50
It was close to dinner time. And Talia like at one point
54:53
jumped down from the couch. And usually when she does that,
54:55
it's close, it's dinner time, so it's time to fed, get fed.
54:59
And the cats ran to the kitchen and Talia turned around and
55:00
jumped back over on the couch and she was fucking with them.
55:03
Hardcore it was. Really funny.
55:04
She liked the playful nature of the Xenomor.
55:06
She's like, I can do that. Yeah, she then she sat on the
55:09
couch and she, she washed it with us until it seems like
55:12
maybe they're going to be she's with Jonesy and then she threw a
55:15
tantrum cuz she's got cat sisters.
55:17
She cared about them. So I think Talia also gives us a
55:21
10. She likes it a lot.
55:24
Zoe, who was her ultimate warrior.
55:27
Jonesy, of course, you gotta choose a cat in this situation.
55:31
Gotta be. Yeah, This is a hoot for
55:34
Cordelia. Because Cordelia.
55:36
She saw herself in that movie, yeah.
55:38
She said that's me. Wait, or is it a holler?
55:40
Holler's the good one. Holler's bad.
55:42
That's in the holler. It's a hoot because it's a hoot.
55:44
OK, Yeah, yeah, no, she, she sat next to me and just like watched
55:49
the whole movie. She was like.
55:51
She watches things, man. She really gets like she gets
55:53
caught up in movies. Yeah, she like, she will just
55:56
pop herself between us or like next to one of us and then
55:59
cushion on the other side. She likes to be like enveloped
56:02
when she's watching stuff. Maybe going over her head, maybe
56:05
too advanced for her. A little kind of kid.
56:06
She's a baby, yeah, But she's soaking it in.
56:09
Yeah. Yeah.
56:13
Who did you relate to? Let's see, I think I related to
56:18
the fucking guy like Parker and then for like being concerned
56:23
about the like the money, like I'm doing this.
56:25
I'm I'm getting paid for this shit.
56:27
I'm putting just as much on the line as them.
56:31
OK, I think I probably related to Ripley because I'm a rule
56:34
follower. You are.
56:35
And I would also make it a priority to get the cat.
56:39
Yeah, I. Get it?
56:40
It wouldn't like I would be like, no, get the fucking cat.
56:42
Get the cat, Yeah. Yep, if anybody's making it
56:45
back, it's the cat you guys are. Yeah.
56:47
Like extra all right. What would Dom do?
56:54
Man Dom against Xenomorph. Dude, Can you imagine him just
57:00
like flying the spaceship super fast?
57:02
Yeah, like that's not going to get him out of this jam.
57:05
He would have fixed, he would have fixed the ship so much
57:08
faster than Parker and Brett. Yeah, he would have.
57:11
Yeah. I mean, he fucking knows this
57:12
shit. He would have also ordered
57:14
Ripley to fuck quarantine. He wouldn't have accepted the
57:18
quarantine. So I think, you know, they
57:20
figure out something bad is going on.
57:22
But he he's fast, he goes fast. He found a way to make a tiny
57:27
car that fits in the spaceship, so he's able to just track down
57:30
the Xenomorph. You know what I think happens
57:32
here, because this is how a lot of Fast and Furious movies go,
57:35
because it's basically an anime at this point.
57:38
It's a shonen. Yeah, Dom would see that the
57:44
Xenomorph is Kane's son. That's family.
57:47
That's family. You can't fuck with family.
57:49
You. Can't turn your back on family?
57:50
He accepts the Xenomorph, molds the Xenomorph into a fine young
57:55
fellow and the Xenomorph. It ends with them having a BBQ
57:59
back on Earth. You know what?
58:01
You're right. That's what I mean.
58:02
That's how that would go. Because I mean, enemy becomes
58:04
friend. Yeah, he may have killed Kane,
58:07
but you know what? Unfortunately, that's just the
58:10
break sometimes. Sometimes.
58:11
And nobody's really done in a Fast and Furious movie, except
58:14
for Jesse. Yeah, that guy died.
58:20
OK, so we don't do dream sequel for our franchise movies, but we
58:24
are going to have a segment that I want to call What's the Story
58:28
Mother? Because as I said, my mom, this
58:32
is one of her favorite franchises and she was so
58:34
excited when she learned that we were doing this.
58:37
And she says she has thoughts on all of them.
58:39
So it's like, what's your thought on this one?
58:40
And she said, I'm completely blocked.
58:43
It's one of my best, one of the best movies ever in any genre.
58:46
That's it. Short and sweet.
58:48
She was just so excited. She couldn't even get all of her
58:51
words out. So it's just a perfect movie to
58:54
her. I mean, yeah, it's one of the
58:56
best movies. It's so good at being horror
58:58
sci-fi like. It's just it's so strong all the
59:02
way around, yeah. Man, they they did it with this
59:06
one for sure. You really did.
59:07
Really. Ridley Scott has this movie, I
59:09
think for his career, yeah, he's put out some movies that people
59:12
don't really care for. But he did Alien, Yeah.
59:16
You know, So you can't, you can't argue that.
59:18
Part of my problem with Ridley Scott is The Office, because
59:22
Michael Scott's production company that he made for
59:24
himself, Chris Scott. Yeah, yeah.
59:27
All right. There's one thing we haven't
59:29
done yet. We did not do a tackling.
59:31
You got to do a tackling. In space, no one can hear you
59:36
meow. Curiosity saved the cat.
59:46
I liked that. Oh yeah, curiosity saved the
59:50
cat. I like it.
59:51
OK, All right, so now we got reviews.
59:56
OK, so unfortunately we didn't get listener reviews for this
59:59
one because we I've still been working on the announcement
1:00:03
thing at this point. So, you know, I'm sorry.
1:00:07
You all can jump in on the other movies whenever we get to them.
1:00:11
So for this I had to pull a negative again, went to Reddit
1:00:16
for this also, and this is somebody from three years ago
1:00:19
said Alien was a disappointment. So this is what they have to
1:00:23
say. So after years of postponing, I
1:00:26
finally sat down and watched Ridley Scott's Alien.
1:00:29
Now let me preface this by saying I'm not a old movie
1:00:32
equals bad movie type of guy. Rear Window, Dracula 31, not the
1:00:36
31st, 1:00, but 1931, The Godfather, and It's a mad mad
1:00:41
mad Mad world are all in my top ten favorite films of all time.
1:00:45
Furthermore, I like me a slow burn flick, something that takes
1:00:47
its time, and while Alien has tremendous practical effects and
1:00:52
the outshine much of what's being done in Hollywood today, I
1:00:55
found the movie utterly boring. What most people seem to view as
1:00:59
building atmosphere and tension I found sleep inducing.
1:01:02
What was supposed to be tense was annoying, annoyingly slow,
1:01:06
and what was supposed to be thrilling and hearth pounding.
1:01:09
Hearth heart pounding had me yawning.
1:01:12
I'm not trying to be mean, I suppose I simply don't get the
1:01:14
hype after finally seeing this apparent masterpiece.
1:01:17
He introduces far too many iconic movie staples to count.
1:01:20
I'm not taking that away from him, but purely as an atmosphere
1:01:24
LED horror movie I found out unremarkable.
1:01:27
It also weirdly enough has some pretty baffling sound editing.
1:01:31
Am I alone in feeling this way? What do you guys think of Alien?
1:01:34
There was somebody like the first comment below was somebody
1:01:37
agreeing. I didn't necessarily read that
1:01:39
one, but apparently some people just don't really care for it.
1:01:41
Find it, you know, not tense, but boring.
1:01:44
I mean, I guess that's fair. I think the concept of space has
1:01:47
always freaked me out a lot. Me too.
1:01:49
Yeah. Well, not only that, but like, I
1:01:51
like the like, where the fuck is this thing?
1:01:54
And like, you don't know where it's at.
1:01:56
And it's just kind of like hiding and it's tense and
1:01:58
they're all looking for it. And, you know, like, those are
1:02:01
things that I like about like, you know, Michael Myers, when
1:02:04
he's like stalking, you know, it's just like, where is he?
1:02:06
Where's he going to get him from this time?
1:02:08
Like, you know, he's there. You know, he's watching.
1:02:10
It's just like the looming threat.
1:02:12
Just kind of like just knowing that that thing is there and it
1:02:16
could pounce at any time is like, it gets me stressed out.
1:02:21
Yeah, it works for me like that. That's a good formula for me
1:02:24
with horror movies. Yeah, I think there's different
1:02:26
things that trigger people's, like spooky sensor, so to speak.
1:02:31
And, you know, for some people, like lizard brain tells you,
1:02:34
like, threat is looming, be aware, you know, but that's not
1:02:38
going to be necessarily the same for everybody.
1:02:41
Yeah, some people are like, threat is looming, bring that
1:02:43
shit on. Yeah, like some people are like,
1:02:45
I want boom, boom, boom, go, go, go.
1:02:46
That's scarier. No chance to breathe.
1:02:49
Lizard brain wants rest. Yeah.
1:02:51
So, you know, I mean, I definitely disagree, but I can
1:02:57
see their perspective on it. Yeah, I can get it too, you
1:02:59
know, like different strokes. And you know, it's not going to
1:03:02
be for everybody, but it's for most people in this movie is
1:03:06
just based off of what I've seen from everything else, you know?
1:03:10
But you know, don't feel bad if you don't like it.
1:03:12
Totally understand. All right, so that's going to do
1:03:16
it for our first one of the Alien franchise.
1:03:19
Yeah, it was a good time. I'm looking forward to doing
1:03:21
Aliens. We're going to go James Cameron.
1:03:23
More actiony, still a little horary, but you know, it'll be
1:03:26
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So we're signing off. We will see you guys next month
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in June. We have another theme month
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coming up. Yeah, it's going.
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To be Brad month, we will be donating all of our Patreon
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funds for the month of June. So just definitely TuneIn.
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Yeah, so we do. This every year, we're very
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excited about it. Yeah, gonna be fun.
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Looking forward to it. So we will see you guys then.
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Until then, bye. Jesus, did you hear that?
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Yeah, what was that? Cordelia screaming.
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Yeah.