August 13, 2024 • 58 mins
Don’t have time to watch every Alien film in preparation for Alien: Romulus? Not to worry! Jason and Rosie recap every Alien movie in the franchise in fictional chronological order, from the numerous crossovers with Predator to the Ripley/Xenomorph clone in Alien Resurrection.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm Rosie Knight, and today we are diving deep into
the Alien franchise in anticipation of the newest entry alien formulas.
Now join me as I jump into the airlock where
Jason has been busy grinding tape preparing a recap.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Of all of the previous Alien movies.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
So here we go, Alien Franchise recap in chronological order. Wow,
fictional chronological order.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Chronological fictional order, which is our favorite way to do recap.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We begin with nineteen nineties Predator two. That's right, Predator two.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow, the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, let's precede this by saying that both Jason and
I shed a deep love for this movie when we
with children.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We love this movie, but it is.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
A very problematic movie when you watch it Agenheim.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Watching it in the modern day, there's it definitely raises
some red flags. We open in Los Angeles. The year
is nineteen ninety seven. Los Angeles is slightly furturistic. Los
Angeles is racked by hyper violent gang violence between two yes,
(01:39):
very racially problematic depictions of Columbian and Jamaican gangs that
are at each other's necks. And this violence attracts the
attentions of a predator who's like, oh, I love violence. Yeah,
these guys are killing each other, that I will kill
the ones who are killing the most because I'm a predator.
(02:00):
That's what I love to do is kill the most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
One and yeah, and then I'll be like the best
killer in downtown LA specifically.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
So the alien, just as racking up bodies, cuts a
bloody swath through both of these gangs. LAPD Officer Mike
Harrigan played by Danny Glover.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Huh, why were you cost in this movie?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know, but I love it. He is too
old for this shit in this movie.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He doesn't want to be able.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
To ashier suits in this than you would expect from
the Lethal Weapons series. So he's investigating the gang violence
and he finds himself in pursuit of the predator, and
of course nobody believes, you know, he's getting all these reports,
all this like invisible Killer. It's weird. It wasn't a man,
it was a monster or whatever. Towards the end of
the film, as Harrigan is in pursuit of this predator,
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the predator goes to its ship that it's hidden and
as it you know, goes in there to like restock
on ammo et cetera, and like treat its wounds, and
we see among the predator's trophies is a xenomorph skull
on the wall. And let me tell you, in the
pre Internet era, when I saw this as a kid
(03:09):
and saw the alien skyll, I was like, my mind
literally exploded. But it's all I could talk about. You
don't understand the aliens exist in the Predator universe. I've
never heard of such a cross This game truly was yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Literally I think for me this was probably also my
first crossover movie. And then I think the second one
was like I don't know, Freddy in Hell.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
If Freddie goes to Hell and at the end he
like pulls down, I mean that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I guess those are the two memories I have of like, oh, ship,
like something's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So Harrigan kills the predator with its own like little weapon,
it's a frisbee weapon. And then a group of predators
who I guess have been like observing, appear and they
take their fellow predator's corpse back with them that put
it on the ship, and they give Harrigan like an
old Revolutionary War pistol.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As a good job, all right, shot you peace.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Next movie Alien Versus Predator two thousand and four of
the Year is A Year is two thousand and four.
Charles Whaland played by Lance Henrickson that you played Bishop,
the synthetic humanoid Bishop in Aliens and other roles which
we will get to in the Alien franchise, is the
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CEO of Whalen Industries, and he sends a crack team
of international scientists and mercenaries to a recently discovered pyramid
which is under the Antarctic ice. Now, the pyramid turns
out to be a predator like hunting temple, and it
turns out how they build it because they're the spacefaring
(05:00):
highly advanced hunters. And it turns out they're just like
especially the predators. Now, it turns out the predators taught
human beings how to build pyramids because I guess people
couldn't like figure out the triangle shape like.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They were like they were like, this is a two complex?
What woo baby, I barely just got the wheel going.
I don't know what's going.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So predator culture apparently considers the xenomorph like the ultimate prey,
like like the most dangerous thing you can hunt. Right,
So every one hundred years, the predator contestants come to
Earth to hunt the xenomorphs specifically hatched from sacrificial human beings,
and this alien queen that they have like frozen in
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the pyramid. And this is like the predator version of
the Olympics, right, It's a big deal. And the scientists
and the mercenaries get all caught up in this competition
and they're like, we have to help the pre dators
win because the aliens if they overrun, you know, the predators,
they'll like wild on Earth and just kill everybody or
use them as you know, egg hatching incubators. The predators
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give Arctic guide Lex played by Snale than a spear
is a gift. And after this is after the predators
defeat the aliens, uh, they then get in the ship
with one of their fallen comrades named Scar and they
take off, and then soon after they take off, an
alien predator hybrid bursts from the dead predator's chest. Now
(06:35):
you would after several centuries of dealing with these creatures,
that the predators would like x ray everybody that they
decide to take back.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
On with that, I feel like to make sure they
don't really think, yeah, let me know what these things.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Do, and you're still like, yeah, yeah, don't even check it.
Just bring it right on, just.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Put them on the shed. I definitely didn't get that.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Brings us to two thousand and sevens Alien Predator Requiem,
which occurs in the same year as Alien Versus Predator
thousand four, happens in fact immediately following the events. So
right after the Predators get in their ship and take
off to fly back to their home planet, the pred alien,
which is now hatched, it grows at a fantastic rate,
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as we often see that these creatures do, and immediately
fucking goes ham and it causes the Predator home ship
to crash into Gunnis in Colorado. Ah, yes, Gonnis in
Colorado's poor town doesn't know what it's in for. The
Xenomorphs then go fucking crazy and they start reproducing using
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humans as hosts. They're fucking going nuts. A Predator champion
back on the Predator home world, it gets the distress
signal and is like, fuck this, I'm going there alone.
He's like, if you want to jump and I'm going
to wipe out all the xenomorphs on Earth. Now things
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get really chaotic and crazy, so much so that the
military like immediately gets involved and they decide, we can't
we can't let this spread any further. Let's nuke Gunnison,
a thing you've seen in a million movie outbreak, the Blob,
et cetera. So, but I think it's actually like quite
a reasonable thing to do in this particular case.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Jason's like, in this case, then you go to do
I feel like I feel like they're.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They're not thinking about the fact that in the canon
of these kind of movies, if you nuke, some creature usually.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Just becomes giant.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So I would definitely be thinking of the Godzilla potentials
of the mutation.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But I still understand the intention.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's pretty like you must imagine like the president would
have had to have been briefed. Okay, mister President. So
what we've got is a parasitic alien race species that
is reproducing very quickly, and they are also being uh
fought by a humanoid alien race of hunters. Are you
(09:14):
getting this, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
To alien species you didn't know about until this.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
The military nukes Gunnison, killing the predator in the Xenomorphs.
The predator's gun is then gifted to miss Utani, who
does not have a first name in the movie, who
is the CEO of a Japanese cybernetics and robotics company,
the Utani Corporations. Now we have Whyland and Utani in
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the universe.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Dude, I have to say the movies that are essentially
like so derived.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Both these movies are dumb?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Should I to enjoy? Yeah? They are like so dumb,
It's so funny. How dedicated they have to say?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
They worked really hard, like can't casting Lands Hendrickson, Yeah,
you know, being like and they're.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Like, we're gonna make a cannon manly, you're gonna kid,
You're gonna care about this. People will be talking about this,
and it's like, people, these movies are.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So dumb, But I gotta they commit really hard to
every single movie having a twist ending that is somehow
connectionally in law.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
These reveals do have an interesting effect on the overall cannon,
which we will discuss as we get there. Next up
twenty twelve's Prometheus. The year is twenty eighty nine. Archaeologist
Elizabeth Shaw and her boyfriend Charlie discover that many ancient
human cultures have a very similar foundational myth that involves
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very tall aliens from a distant star system. And these
tall aliens are the engineers, who I guess so life
across the galaxy or something. Peter Whyland, who is very
very very very very old and about to die, like
any second, he's about to die, about to go. It's
(11:01):
happening as his like video recording is being played to
this science team that he's put together. He's like, I'm
not by the time you watch this, I'm gone. So
heros an ambitious mission to a moon in that particular
star system that they matched to the cave paintings and
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different pieces of art from all those human cultures, and
so they're going to this moon called LVY two twenty
three because he thinks the engineers are there, and mister
Whalan wants the engineers to tell him how he can
like avoid dying.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Which is such a fucking come on, just asassin thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Like so many of the decisions in these movies are
so terrible, and it's really funny because once we you know,
we are doing this in fictional chronological order. So at
this point, by the time you get to Prometheus. The
movie is essentially like an MCU filled easter egg for
the previous alien movies that were released. But at this
point chronologically, you're just like, my friend, what are you doing,
(12:05):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Have to spend this much money.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I'm sure you could just find a side I mean
to hear this instead of going in the real world.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
PayPal founder Peter Thiel, you know, investor in tech and
all around right wing nut job, has It's been credibly
reported that he injects himself with like the human blood
of like young healthy people.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
They're doing crazy shits in the real world, So yeah, okay.
The journey take to LV two twenty three takes them
four years. They're in cryo sleep the whole time.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Cash.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
While they're in cryo sleep, they're watched over by David,
who is a synthetic uh humanoid that was designed by
mister Whyland. On LV two twenty three, the team finds
like a ton of artifacts from the engineers, including all
these jars of like black goo that turns out to
be a bio weapon.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
David takes like a drop played very creepily by Michael
Fastbat takes a drop of the.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Black goo, and he infects Charlie with it. Charlie then
has sex with Elizabeth and impregnates her unknowingly with this
very fast growing alien fetus, just as David wanted. She asks, yeah,
as it's growing, like she's in more and more physical distress,
and they do a scan and he's like says, very creepy,
(13:32):
oh you've got this alien in you. And she's like, well,
let's get it out. He's like, well, we don't have
the stuff, we don't have any way to do that here, and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We yeah, yeah, yeah, bat, let's just see take you home. Okay,
seems like nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Instead, Elizabeth breaks into Charlie's thron's cabin on the ship
and uses her advanced like medical machine of which only
a dozen were made, and she does like an abortion
on herself. Moving cz this like wriggling squid like Alien.
It's really gross, it's really great.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's super So can we just say you mentioned Shaly's
there on.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
This movie has like a wild cast Idris Elba, Charlie's
then Michael Fassbender, like wem Ridley Scott said he was
coming back, the original director of Alien.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Everyone was like, I'm jumping on that ship. Like, there's
some very.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Iconic images from this movie, like Idris Alba smoking a
Christmas tree that I feel actually have almost more longevity
than the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It did inspire many important memes.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So we learned that LV two twenty three was an
engineer like bioweapon facility, they were making this bioweapon, and
that they had planned to release it on Earth. Non
canon sources, namely Ridley Scotty, directed this film says that
in his mind, they wanted to send the goo. They
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made the decision to send the good to Earth like
two thousand years ago, and it was because the humans
had killed their emissary, the engineer emissary that sent to
Earth to tell them to like chill out and stop
being so violent, and that was Jesus. So Jesus was
an engineer, but then he didn't really put it in
so that credible kind of like the under that's the
(15:18):
subtext man. That's straight from Ridley scott The movie is
very heavily invested in the religious and God, and part
of the reason that Elizabeth even goes on it is
because she's religious and she wants to meet God.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She wants to understand faith and where she comes from.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is incredible and I had no idea that was
part of the canon, So thank you for that one,
Redly Scott and Jason.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And now we mentioned that mister Oylan was like really
really old and about to die, and by the time
they land on LV tw twenty three, everbody thought he
was dead. But surprise, he's actually alive, and David goes
to get him from wherever he was. He was like
hiding in the in the ship the whole time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He had like a secret cabin, a secret at.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
A false bottom, like in a desk or something. So
they get him out and David, you know, goes with him,
and Charlie's then sorry, Meredith Vickers, I'll call him very
character name, and Elizabeth and I go to the engineership
and then David wakes up an engineer and he can
talk to them because he's been studying proto into a
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European this ancient language, and so he translates for mister
Whyland and basically says, hey, I know we just woke
you up, but like my boss wants to know how
he cannot die, And the engineer is like, you came
all the way here for this, and he goes crazy.
He rips David's head off. He's so passed off. He's like,
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he rips David's head off. He bashes mister Whyland in
the head with David's head and then you know it goes.
He tries to take off, but Elizabeth, you know, radios
to Adris Elba and is like, we need to crash
the ship or else, like he's gonna send the blackpoop
to Earth. The ship crashes. Now the engineer is like
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chasing Elizabeth. It chases her through the human ship, where
all of a sudden, Elizabeth's xenomorph baby that looks like
now like a huge squid math subdues the engineer and
impregnates it, like puts its like egg overpositor into the
Engineer's mouth, which is like super super gross. Elizabeth then
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recovers David's head and body and is like, Hey, I
want to go to the engineer homeworld. I need answers.
I want to find out why they're going to wipe
out humanity with the black goo and will you take me?
And David's like, you know what, fuck it, let's do it.
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After this a xenomorph not a full alien as we
know from like alien and aliens, but like more kind
of like certainly one that looks like it's getting there.
It bursts out of the engine Year's chest and then
later off. This is kind of like this is not
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in the movie, but it's part of like the off
Cannon and other fictional materials. Whaland Industries goes bankrupt because
mister Whalen put all his money. They flopped back to
just Comedia's mission and it is then acquired by the
Utani Corporation, creating the Whaland Utani Corporation that brings us
too Alien Covenant. The year is twenty one oh four.
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The Whaland Utani ship Covenant, carrying several thousand space colonists,
is on its way to Oregie six. Walter and Advanced
Synth using the David format but with all of David's
like creative abilities that human beings found like really disconcerting
removed manages things during the long cryo sleep of the
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crew and all the colonists. But then tragedy strike. There's
this neutrino burst and Walter has to wake everybody up
to get them out of their tubes because the ship
is damaged. But Captain James Franco sadly dies in his
cryo tube.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Rip to that, captain, Rip to him.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now, the crew, while it's fixing the ship, gets a
distress signal from a nearby planet called planet four, and
the new captain, Captain Orum, is like, let's go investigate.
So they investigate and they find out that this distress signal,
which came in the form of take Me Home, Country
Roads by John Denver in Christ, is from a planet
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planet four that is like completely like earthlike it can
it's got like water. They could live there. And so
the whole crew is like, you know what, we just
saw the captain like get burned alive in his tube.
Nobody wants to get back on sleep for seven years?
What if this is the answer to all our problems?
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We just like do this, We just like stay here. Daniels,
who is James Franco's widow now and is the second command,
is like, wait, wait, wait, it seems a little too perfect,
doesn't it, Like why didn't we ever we do all
these scans, which is how we found six, But now
there's this closer planet and we never saw it and
it's like perfect, Like this doesn't seem any weird anybody
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and everybody's like shut up, no. So they go to
investigator and these are the dumbest fucking scientists ever. So
they go down to investigate this earth like planet and
they go with like literally no ppe, no helmets, no breathers,
nothing that we can just breath. Well, I guess they're
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just like sitting on stuff and touching things, and like
you don't see them drink the water, but they might
as well be because they're just like breathing the air.
They're raw dogging this fucking planet and shocking Goose because
what they get infected by like sports the black goo, right,
and of course they then become hosts for xeno morphs.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeh.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
By the way, we also see that this there's a
city here and it's full of like dead engineers. This
is like the engineer home World. So one of the
infected team members gets taken back aboard the ship the Covenant,
which is crazy. You just bring him back on he's
got he's sick with why.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Would you do it?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Every time they are not following. It's kind of a
theme like just keep him in quarantine. They were not prepared.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Whoever put together this team of colonists and they were
not prepared to be colonizrable.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The rest of the group like remains on the planet's
surface with another infected guy. They then get attacked by
the xeno morphs that were one of which was born
from the infected person. But then they're saved by David.
David's here Dun dun du. It turns out he's David
wiped out all the engineers by like dropping their black
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goo bombs on them, and he's spent all the time,
like whatever it is eleven years later or something, trying
to perfect the perfect because he loves making things.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
He just loves making you get some deeply wild moments.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I remember sitting in the movie theater in Long Beach,
where I believe I went with people from my old
comic shop that used to be on the waterfront at
Long Beach, and we went there and there is like
a five minute scene in this movie where one of
the Michael Fastbenders is like playing yeah and then they're
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like gonna kiss and like it is legitimately one of
the weirdest movies. Jason's Fantastic Recap has always is just
zooming through this, making it seem far more action packed
than it is.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
This is like such a weirdly.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Long, atmospheric like gothic movie, and the two Michael fastbenders
are just having the wildest part.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So David then kills Walter in the scene that Rosie
was just talking about. Yeah, the flute scene basically tricks
and like rips something out of his neck and fucking
drops him dead. But Walter is a significantly upgraded model
and he like fixes himself somehow off camera and comes
back and he takes out David Walter Daniels again. James
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Franco's widow then flee back to the Covenant ship. But
then it turns out that the xenomorph hatched out of
the sick guy that they brought into the fucking ship
is now loose on the ship. So David Daniels and
Danny McBride worked together to kill the alien. Hey, and
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as Daniels is being put back into cryo sleep by this.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Bit is actually genuinely terrifying and I still think about
how impact this and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Was fucking great. So Daniels has been put back into
cry sleep by Walter and she says, hey, will you
help me build my log cabin? Earlier in the movie
of building a log cabin and he doesn't get the reference,
and she realizes with horror that it's actually David, that's
not Walter, and she but she can't do anything now
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because the go to sleep gases are filling the tube,
and she goes to fucking sleep. David then throws up
to face huggers like in little plastic cash pill capsules,
puts them in the human embryo freezer, and then radio's
mission control back on Earth and says, hey, sorry, everybody died,
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and I'm trying to carry out the machine on my own.
We'll be back in just a moment after a word
from our friends at whalen Utani. Whalen Utani making the
galaxy better, and we're back. That brings us too.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Alien nineteen seventy nine's Alien, the movie that's started at
all here. The year is twenty one, twenty two. The
Wayland Utanni mining ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from
planet LV four twenty six. They go to investigate. They
find an alien ship. On the ship. There is a
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long dead engineer still in a jump seat with like
the trademark burst out of its chest. A face hugger
hatches and attaches itself to the face of one of
the crew members named Kane, who is then taken back
aboard the ship by the fucking Captain Dallas played by
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Tom Scarrett. I will say this is the most effective
like breaking quarantine scene because Ripley Ellen Ripley played by
Scourney Weaver, the hero of the film, is like, you don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's like hard no, she has the safety office, that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
She says, I'm not letting you in. You have to
be there for you have to stay in quarantine for
twenty four hours. But it's Ash the who then turns
out to be said with a human who, as we
will learn, has other motives, lets them aboard. Anyway. They
get a board, and it's horrific. You know, everybody's horrified
by this face ogre on Kane. But then eventually the
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face oger lets go and dies and everything seems fine, Yeah,
until they're all having a wonderful dinner before going back
and cry to sleep, and Kine is all of a
sudden in immense distressed, and that happens the xenomorph purse
out of his chest to general screen runs horrifying moment
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and certainly one of the most just an iconic cinema moment.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Honestly, yeah, this is still just like after watching all
these movies in this order, when you get here, the
practice fautful, the gorgeous set, the production designed by H. R. Geige,
you can just feel how tactile and terrifying it really
is compared to some of the more modern versions. And
this scene is still so iconic and so.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Said enough like this movie. Obviously there's some dated things
about it, but overall, seen the scene, just like looking
at them walking through hallways and stuff, it looks as
good as anything made today.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It looks absolutely Yeah, and it's also a movie about
like working classes.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, literally about work. It's about blue colors on.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
The ship, like it's about blue collar guys.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's so interesting in so many different ways that you
know this many years last still feel really relevant and cool.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
So the Zenomore quickly grows to this to the size
of a very large human being, and it begins off
crewmembers one at a time, including the captain, who volunteers
himself to go like try and flush this thing out
of the air ducks because clearly he's feeling like shit
because this is all his fucking fault. Like he broke
(27:53):
cort me.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Just listened.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now, Ripley discovers that Ash, the science officer, plans to
return to Earth with the Xenomorph and had in fact
been kind of directed to steer them towards this distress signal.
And because the company Wail and Utani that they all
work for, really, really, really wants this xenomorph ip for
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like their weapons divisions or like their healthcare division, for
all sorts of divisions that they have under their banner,
it really.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Is a killing machine. And also, I want to say this.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Is leads to another one of the most terrifying scenes
when Ash attacks Ripley.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It's so simple, but I remember being so disconcerted. First
of all, I saw this scene. I was not allowed
to watch the movie. I was probably like five, and
my parents had it on VHS and they were watching it,
and I watched it from the top of the stairs.
I watched the whole fucking thing. This scene really bothered
me because there's something so weird about the way he tries,
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like he rolls up a magazine and tries to stuff
it in her mouth. And to this day, I've never
seen somebody try to kill somebody like that. And it
really just really bothered me. The imagery was so disturbing. Anyway,
Ash tries to kill Ripley, but then is stopped by
the surviving crew members, and we discover that Ashes this
synthetic human with like milky blood.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh so creepy.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Eventually it gets down to just Ripley because the alien
kills all these crew members. She and the ship Cat.
Jones said, the stromo is self destuck, and they get
on a lifeboat and they launch and the stromo explodes
and everything's fucking fine. No, it's not because the alien
is hiding on the lifeboat. They're really smart, these aliens.
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Ripley gets into a spacesuit, she opens the airlock, shoots
the alien in the chest with a harpoon, sending it
out of the airlock, and then when it tries to
to crawl back onto the hull of the ship, it
ends up like inside one of the engines of the ship,
and she hits the thruster and it burns up, and
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then she goes in a cry of sleep with Jones
and everything is happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Right, of course, no problems. She escaped with the cat.
That's all she needed.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
That brings us to coming to a theater near you. Romulus,
set between the events of Alien and the next movie
in the series, Aliens from nineteen eighty Aliens, Now Aliens
takes place in the year twenty one to seventy nine.
Ripley has been asleep for fifty seven years when she
is discovered by a salvage ship. She returns to Earth,
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but all hope of like restarting like a normal life
are scuttled because her credit score is absolutely fucking shit
housed because Waylan Utani considers her financially liable unbelievable for
the destruction of the now Trauma, which she had to do.
And she tries to tell them, well, there's this fucking alien,
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there's a cenomorph. It killed the whole crew and the
like shot whatever. We've never heard of anything like that. Meanwhile,
we know, yeah, what are you talking about? Utani company,
And separately, both the Whyland and you Tani sides of
the company have been aware, well aware of the existence
of xenomorph saying no since that twentieth century, they've known
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about it.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been trying to make one.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Also, I just want to say, you know, this is
a huge change from Ridley Scott, the original director. Now
you've got James Cameron. That's two of the biggest directors
of all time. But I love that James Cameron respected
that this needed to at least begin by being a
movie about a blue collar worker getting sucked over by
a corporation. He was like, that part is really important,
even if the rest of the movie is going to
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be totally different.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I just need people to know I remember that that
is what made that movies.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And I got to say, you gotta love James Cameron
for the Avatar movies before this complete CG revolution that
he undertook, because here's another movie with the production design,
the practical effects, the sets that looks so tactile and
real and lived in and it looks again, it looks
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as good as any movie that will come out like
it just looks fucking great. Anyway, When Wayland loses contact
with their colony Hadley's Hope on LV four twenty six.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Why did they stuck Callingy that guy?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Well, I think they knew it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I think they did that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Honestly, I think they did this. They did so they
strong armed Ripley into going back because she's the only
person with experience with Xenomorphson. She's like, you'll be a consultant,
and by the way, you'll be completely safe because we're
sending you with a squad of heavily armed colonial marines.
These these men and women are fucking bad ass. They're
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so buff and they go they're fucking professions.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There's nothing that can happen to them.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
They've kill, kill, kill, and there's nobody better galaxy than them. Well,
yes there is, because as soon as they land, the
aliens wipe out the fucking marines like quick, like ten minutes.
There's only a handful of marines and this thrust Ripley,
a surviving colonist, this little girl named Nude, and a
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rag tag James collection of marines and one company hack
named Carter Burke into a struggle to survive. They come
up with a plan to nuke the There's just like,
let's get back on our ship.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And fucking nuke it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Like what you know.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Now, Company Hack Burke disagrees in Gunnisan, Company hack Burke
is like, now, hold on. This installation holds a significant
dollar value to the stockholders, not to mention the potential
gains to be made from the alien ip They're like,
shut the fuck up, bitch, shut up where nuked.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
They're like, this is the problem. This is where the
problem comes from. You're not taking an alien home. It's
not Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Again, it must be said they've been trying to take
an alien back to Earth for like one hundred years
at this point anyway, So they ignore him and they
proceed with nuke from orbit plan, which requires them to
escape back to their ship. But the aliens fucking go crazy.
They kill company Hack, Carter Burke, and a bunch of others.
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Ripley eventually escapes with Newt and a Bishop the new
Synth played by Lance Henrickson, who you know Ripley has
been struggling to kind of trust up until this time. Yeah,
they get back on board their ship and they are
gonna nuke it from orbit. But then guess what. It
turns out that the alien queen who Ripley had previously
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burned up all the eggs, all the alien and face
hugger eggs in front of the queen. It made the
queen super angry. Now she's so pissed she attached herself
to their jump ship and like was hiding in the
wheel well and now she appears. She tears Bishop in half,
but then Ripley in one of the most iconic scenes
in movies. Yeah, legendary scene, puts on a loader suit
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basically a mech suit and beats the shit out of
the queen get away.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Ye bitch, how you bitch? Also just need to say, like,
the Queen design is so sick.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
It's really hard to come from a movie like Alien
where you have someone's literal nightmares. In hl Gey Goot
coming to life as the x Anomorph, it shocked people.
We had no idea of what an alien could look
like before that. Before it had always been the you know,
the the Gray Men kind of trope. And then to
have to find a new way to scare people in
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the new movie is so well done. Even though this
is definitely more of an action than a sci fi horror,
I do think the Queen design goes.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Down as like one of the most badass designs.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And it must be said Cameron has created two of
the greatest sequels of all time T two and Aliens. Ever,
you know, it's like Godfather too of T two Aliens,
that's like the triumvirate of the greatest sequels of all time,
and James Cameron has made two of them. So Ripley
(36:27):
Jettison's the queen out into space. She puts Hicks into
cryo sleep, she puts Nude into cryosleep, she puts herself
into cryo sleep. And they won. That's it, that's it,
we've won.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We're going back to the problems. She's got a nice
little baby when everything would do that. She's a kid
like nude.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
That brings us to Alien three from nineteen ninety two.
The year is twenty one seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Dun Dun Dum.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
After a fire aboard the marine intergalactic ship causes the
lifeboat to be launched, which contains the cryo tubes of Hicks, Ripley, Newt,
and Bishop. The lifeboat then crashes on a prison planet
inhabited by all male inmates. Only Ripley survives no scratch.
(37:16):
That a face hugger, a face that was aboard the
ship also survives. The face hugger then hug wild one
of the inmates dogs, and the dog quickly gives birth
to a really bad looking xenomorph Alien hybrid.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, really ugly dog xenom of hybrid.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Okay, I just want to stop us that because in
one of the original scripts this movie was written like
four or five times before it was made.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It was originally going to be a cow instead of
a dog, which I would have loved to see.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Also, this movie is one of my favorite almost movie scripts,
which was the original Alien three script was that it
was going to be set on a planet of monks,
and the planet was entirely wooden, and inside the wooden
planet were all these tunnels, and you kind of get
to see a little instead of monkst you get the
prisoners who are religious fanatics, and you get some of
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those tunnels still going through the prison planet. But it's
not in any way as wild as that would have been.
This movie had true production hell it went.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Through And this is David Fincher's feature film debut. David
Fincher was by this time a very accomplished music video
and commercial director, some really like iconic music videos for
Madonna and many many other notables, and you did a
lot of ad campaigns for like Levi's Nike, et cetera.
(38:41):
But this is his first movie and he has since
he disowned the movie.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yes all three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
He doesn't like the work print, he doesn't like the
theatrical print. He doesn't like the special edition, he said,
not for me. I find that also, this movie really
feels like it was heavily influenced by like a French
cinema at the time, like The City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
You Have Lost Children, kind of like the breakout film
of the director who directed Alien Resurrection in the next film.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, and it really feels to me like this was
influenced I agree with you by that by Delicatessen.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
It has this kind of weird it's incredibly.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Monotone like the Yeah, it has like these monotone kind
of like and it's very slow compared to you know, Aliens.
And yes, the Dog's animal hybrid is notoriously bad in
this and it actually has there's a very famous scene
with it's just Hans and some black leather gloves and
they just come down on the screen and everyone's like,
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no human acts.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
CG for it. And this is nineteen ninety two, and
you know, by this point it's like the state of
the art for this kind of CG was again probably
T two And what's the James catn.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Which, by the way was also at the time the
most expensive.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Underwater Oh, the Abyss so you know, at this time,
the state of the art for this kind of effects
was probably like T two and The Abyss, both by
James Cameron. By the way, the Dog.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Alian Dog alias Let's go with them were.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
They gave it this kind of green machen which I
think what they were intending to do was to make
it stand out from these very gray Stone Hallway backgrounds
and stand out from the shadows. But the issue is
it made it look completely not realistic to the way
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light works.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, in any way, so it just looks really anyway,
I will say as well.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Another interesting thing I learned because I watched this on
laser disc, so I was like, oh, maybe the laser
disc version is a different cut, because I've seen many
different cuts of the first Alien movie because there were
just so many. No, But what I did learn is
that how they did the CG on this so they
could see what it looked like was they would take
a laser disc version of the dailies and.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Then overlay the cig on top of the movie see
what it would look like. Yeah, that's how they were
making it. So laser disk actually very important part and
making of this movie.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
But yeah, it does look like the CG was done
with laser disc so that did not actually surprise me.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Ripley forms a bond with Clemmens. The prison doctor played
by Charles Dance aka Tywon.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Lanister Taiwan Lannie.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Dog alien goes on a fucking hot streak like killing Spury,
it's just killing. He kills the warden while the warden
is giving kills the warden while the warden is giving
like a speech about how no one should be worried
about like the people who have been dying recently in
any rumor that there's like a dragon running around the
killing people's nature. The dog alien like reaches down from
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the fucking ceiling and cling and just like choose him up.
But it doesn't kill Ripley because guess why, huh, oh man,
I wonder why it could be with an alien The
face hugger got her in the oh man so and
so remember it bummed out about this and she's like, well,
I'm gonna kill myself. I want to die. And the
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inmates are like, no more, you die. You have to
help us beat this thing because you've one. You've done
it twice. Now we can't. We need you, We need
your help, you say, and then you can kill yourself.
And she's like okay. So that she comes up with
a plan to like lure it, because they have no
weapons on this prison facility, lure it into it like
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a furnace facility that they have where they can dump
like molten metal on it and kill it. And so
they managed to do that. They dumped the molten metal
on it, and then just like Terminator Too, they like
spray it with water which has this like rapid temperature
shift and it it like shatters. Okay again, just you
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think this must be one of the things that bothers.
Fincher too is like, but they did. They did it
in Terminator too, and then we're doing it at the
end of the MOE. So then Ripley is about to
jump in a furnace mission accomplished. She wants wants to
kill this turns out she's an alien queen in her chest.
But then a whaling Utani rescue team arrives, led by
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mister Bishop, the human creator of Bishop the Synth. He's
Hendrick is back and there and whaling Utani must be thinking, finally,
this is it. We've got it, We've it actually did
w it's we've been trying to do this for two
hundred years, and now we finally got a human with
a with the aliens, and it's an alien queen. We
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got to get this thing back to Earth. But it
doesn't work. And even though mister Bishop is very very
I might have been persuaded by mister Bishop, he really
puts the charm on. He's like, Ripley, what are you?
Don't you want to go home? It's gonna be great.
You think we could great part of the whalen Utani.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Family, Like, don't do that, And she's like, well, my
adopted door is dead and I'm pregnant with the alien baby, so.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I'm just gonna jump into this CG molten metal like.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Jumps into the CG molten metal just like Jesus Christ,
just as the alien queen burst out of her chest
like and she's like, ye like a baby, and they hit,
they hit the metal and they burn up, and that's it. Happily.
Ever after that's it.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
We just have to take a break to go and
insert the alien eggs into our human sacrifices so we
can have xenomorphs ready for you after this message.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Finally, Ripley is free from the aliens, nothing else could happen.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Alien Resurrection nineteen ninety seven. It's been two hundred years.
Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunette.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I still haven't done it. They still haven't.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Directed by French weirdo Jean Pierre Jeanne of Omily fame
and the.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
City of City of Lost Children, City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Super weird, really fun movie. I'm not sure he was
the correct choice for this film, but regardless, Rail and
Utani scientists aborder ship named the Ariga clone Ripley from
a blood sample and they combine it with xenomorphine Clone
Ripley and then grows up to like adult Ripley in
a very short period of time, because you know how
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the aliens do that, They just grow up and Clone
Ripley yeah, super strong, has acid blood and also has
a very weird psychic link to the aliens. And also
because I guess the xenomorphs have like a genetic memory,
they chair the memory of like other I don't know
how it works, but whatever, Ripley also somehow she has
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memories of herself, but they're from the perspective of the
aliens that like fought her wild so are the aliens psychic? Like,
how do they get the memory is?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
I think maybe it's like a hive mind.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
This is very venerable.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
They all are experience, very very very this is the
next video, I say, how Alien Resurrection shaped.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Okay, So mercenaries arrive on the Arega. They're here to
deliver prisoners that are going to be used as incubators
for the alien eggs for to create more aliens. Annelie
Call played by Winona Ryder, decides like, Hey, this is
a really fucked up thing that's happening here. They're using
humans to get they're using aliens. And also the aliens
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are like a super weapon and if they get out,
it would be really crazy. We can't let this happen.
But of course, eventually the aliens escape from where they're
being research and actually this way, I thought, this is
kind of like my favorite part of the movie is like,
so they've got these two aliens, they were running tests
on them, and then the aliens can't get out because
like every time they approach the glass or approach the walls,
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like they get shot with this like very very cold
like gas. And so one of the aliens. The aliens
are really smart guys, how often do we have to
say it? They're like, wait a second, we have acid blood,
and they one of the aliens kills the other one
who just like lets itself get killed, and the blood
builts the floor and then it jumps through the floor
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and gets out into the of the facility. Now we
should mention again, whalen u Tani has been researching these
aliens for two centuries.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
They know about acid blood. I feel like it should
be like having a guy the acid blood melted.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Guys, you know about the acid blood, really, you definitely know. Anyway,
a queen alien containing some of Ripley's human DNA gives
birth human like birth because it has like a uterus
like a human to a almost funny looking human alien
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hundred that looks like Rosie.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Do you agree with me on this looks like Pumpkinhead.
I do agree Pumpkinhead from the titular villain from Pumpkinhead,
the film, which also stars alien star Dun Dunn Lance Henrickson.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
He's connected six degrees of Lance Emrickson in the alien universe.
It does look like Pumpkinhead. They did not deliver the
new cool Alien design when it came to that little guy. Also,
I feel like maybe this is one of those like
weird social Internet constructs, but I swear to God, Like
when I was a kid, I thought when Ona Ryder
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was like her door or something in this movie, or
her or something, And then when I rewatched it, I
was like, that is definitely so like if you get
fire five vibes from the Mercenaries and from like the design.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
That might be because Joss Whedon wrote this terrible fucking
script this movie. It's so bad, but it's the worst
looking of the Alien movies by far.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
At least Alien three.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Every few years with Alien three, hence why I own
it on bloomin laser disc that I just bought recently
from a meeba in la It's like every few years
I reconsider it because there's it's like a visual, there's
a visual, a choice that David Fincher made. It's very strange,
it's very dreary, it's slow burn. It has this weird
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religious kind of subtext to it. But it is, I
have to say, sadly, quite a boring movie. But at
least it has vibes. Alien four Resurrection does not have
vibes and does not live up to a movie that
has both Gorney Weaver, and.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
It looks sadly like a very cheap film. It does
not look expensive or good at all. It does have
what I consider to be one of the most iconic
basketball scenes in movies in which the Mercenaries.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
This is the Mercenaries encounter with the cat super Ripley.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
So super Ripley again, remember has the alien DNA, and
she's like practicing basketball and her game is like Peau
Charles Barkley, Like she just like drives to the hoop
of dunks, that's what. And then of course there's this
really amazing shot where she's like walking away from the
basket and she shoots a basket over her head and
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it goes in and she actually made that shot. That's
like the take that's in the ideas for actually.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Making the shot is so good you can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
It's like that Catwoman scene with Michelle Pipa where she
gets all the heads off with the whips. It's one
of those things where it just becomes a legendary scene
that you never believe was done without cg And yeah,
it was Sigourney Weave. I continue, you can go queen,
I'm the queen.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Go on YouTube and see like the outtake. It's not
an outtake, it's Ron Perlman like reacts the way any
person would react to that by just going, oh my god.
And he thought for a second that he had ruined
the take because he says it like right after it
goes in, But there was enough space there for them
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to like cut anyway, go watch it on YouTube. It's
really funny.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
So Ripley manages to launch the alien queen into space
by melting a window with her acid blood.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Of course, again Acid.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
Thought about, like, we gotta ask improve this entire facility.
The mercenaries and Ripley escaped the Orega, which crashes into Earth.
Oh but it does explode, so maybe like all the
aliens and alien research are fine. And then the mercenaries
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are like, where should we go? And then Ripley is like,
you know, I don't know. I'm like two weeks old. Yeah,
I don't, like, I don't know anything, and then the
movie's over. The movie is so fucking dumb. It's so dumb,
and that brings us to the chronological end of the
alien universe. As we know it now again. Alien Romulus
(52:29):
coming to theaters near you soon coming takes place between
Alienen and Alienens, So that'll be very interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Yes, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
And it's Fetti Alvarez, who's like a don't Breathe the
Evil Dad remake. That man knows how to make a
scary movie. So I'm excited to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
One question I have for you that I think is,
listen this to your point, they did do a surprising
amount of like lore building in this and specifically in
like the Alien versus President, really wild. Yeah, the overall
like world building is quite spotty. Like there's a lot
of un answered questions, and there's a lot of things
that don't line up. And here's one of my biggest ones,
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and we don't really ever get the answer. Why were
the engineers gonna wipe out Earth other than the Jesus?
Speaker 3 (53:16):
Other than Jesus.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Well, I do think you make a good point. I'm
sure that Ridley Scott was planning to make the Jesus
think canon for some reason. These old directors from this
error of Action, they love Jesus.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Poor Verhoven's the same, he loves Jesus.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
If you watch his very entertaining lesbian nonsplitation movie Benedetta.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
It's about like a nun.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
In eighteenth Centuary Rome, you know, who begins having these visions.
But when she has visions of Jesus, she's having visions
of like Hunky like Action Star honest Watch, Neega Jesus.
It's like some of the most outrageous stuff. I don't
know why they love Jesus, but why were they gonna
wipe us out? Probably, you know, some kind of like
Godzilla esque. The engineers saw that we were destroying the Earth,
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and they decided the best thing to do, or they
wanted to terraform Earth and take it over and use
it as a breeding ground for these aliens, which would
become like weapons if they wanted to take over other planets.
But I think Prometheus kind of messes us up because
Prometheus adds in the lore of like they are the creators,
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they are where the god mythology comes from. So then
that takes on a lot of a heavier weight of
kind of why they would want to destroy us.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
I guess part of me wonders so that you find
out that the planet that they go to in Prometheus,
like or at least, the supposition from our science friends
in the story is that this is like a bioweapons facility,
so maybe like, yeah, maybe it's like the two ingredients
of the weapon, like Earth is where the incubators are human,
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they have the actual weapons stuff. Honestly, that would be
the smartest way to do it, seeing how Ireland this yeah,
these this weapon is is to like have them separate
and then combine them later at some other place somewhere.
Would they be fighting? Yeah, why would they need this weapon?
I guess that's the other thing, Like who were they
scared of? Like the predators, But like the predators don't
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really feel like that's big a threat, not really a
formidable threat killing one engineer, Like the engineers could just
like step on or like kill like one engineers like
big fucking deal.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Yeah. Also as well, the predators, I feel like they're
always just willing to like team up with someone thanks
to the later law. So I feel like the energy
engineers could have just been like, let's not be beefing, bro, Like,
let's just be cool. I won't make a bioweapon to
kill you if you just chill out a bit. But
you know what, that's the interesting thing. I've been thinking
a lot about prequels because of House the Dragon, which
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I believe is currently up there for me for like
one of the greatest prequels that we've ever gotten, the
way that the TV series decided to adapt Fire and Blood.
And actually, like, prequels are so complex because you do
start to build in all this law that was never
intended in the original films, you know, so with Alien
versus Predator, in these movies that are so far away
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from really being connected to like the original Alien, but
because they start technically before you are watching a prequel,
and if you're a nerd like us, you can't help
connecting those things together. So you do start asking these
questions about how these things all connect. And I do
still think with Alien and Predator now both under the
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Disney banner after the twentieth Century Fox acquisition, I do
think that we will probably get another Alien Predator movie
in our time that is more concerned with the Ridley
Scott style law, because it's just such an enjoyable matchup.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
But you make a good.
Speaker 1 (56:50):
Point that really, in general, the Predators, I think the
reason they focus on humans is because they're not actually
that good peoples like they could go to the engineers,
but in that they're like, oh, I'll just see what
happens if I kill a human, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Sure that's so far? Are they like the predators trophies
that they give like humans? It's always like a flintlock pistol,
a spirit? Can I get something from elsewhere in the
get like give me an alien weapon?
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Yeah? Could I have?
Speaker 4 (57:17):
I mean yeah, like, could you get something like a
gun or something? This is what I could fucking go
to a museum.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
But no, they dude, they don't want to give it
to you because then you could kill them because they're
not that good they're gonna give you Like they're like,
make sure you give them up and that's at least
one hundred and fifty years old, or he might be
able to take us out.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
See well, Alien Romulus comes out August sixteenth. Will be
covering that movie.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Stay tuned, os Enamo if we continues tomorrow when I'm
joined by super producer comment to that about a time
before Rickley, Whilon Utani, and David.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
The origins of the Alien franchise.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Bye X ray Vision is hosted by Jason Concepcion and
Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcasts. Our
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Speaker 1 (58:20):
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Speaker 3 (58:25):
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Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm Rosie Knight, and today we are diving deep into
the Alien franchise in anticipation of the newest entry alien formulas.
Now join me as I jump into the airlock where
Jason has been busy grinding tape preparing a recap.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Of all of the previous Alien movies.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
So here we go, Alien Franchise recap in chronological order. Wow,
fictional chronological order.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Chronological fictional order, which is our favorite way to do recap.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We begin with nineteen nineties Predator two. That's right, Predator two.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow, the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, let's precede this by saying that both Jason and
I shed a deep love for this movie when we
with children.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We love this movie, but it is.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
A very problematic movie when you watch it Agenheim.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Watching it in the modern day, there's it definitely raises
some red flags. We open in Los Angeles. The year
is nineteen ninety seven. Los Angeles is slightly furturistic. Los
Angeles is racked by hyper violent gang violence between two yes,
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very racially problematic depictions of Columbian and Jamaican gangs that
are at each other's necks. And this violence attracts the
attentions of a predator who's like, oh, I love violence. Yeah,
these guys are killing each other, that I will kill
the ones who are killing the most because I'm a predator.
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That's what I love to do is kill the most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
One and yeah, and then I'll be like the best
killer in downtown LA specifically.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
So the alien, just as racking up bodies, cuts a
bloody swath through both of these gangs. LAPD Officer Mike
Harrigan played by Danny Glover.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Huh, why were you cost in this movie?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know, but I love it. He is too
old for this shit in this movie.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He doesn't want to be able.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
To ashier suits in this than you would expect from
the Lethal Weapons series. So he's investigating the gang violence
and he finds himself in pursuit of the predator, and
of course nobody believes, you know, he's getting all these reports,
all this like invisible Killer. It's weird. It wasn't a man,
it was a monster or whatever. Towards the end of
the film, as Harrigan is in pursuit of this predator,
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the predator goes to its ship that it's hidden and
as it you know, goes in there to like restock
on ammo et cetera, and like treat its wounds, and
we see among the predator's trophies is a xenomorph skull
on the wall. And let me tell you, in the
pre Internet era, when I saw this as a kid
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and saw the alien skyll, I was like, my mind
literally exploded. But it's all I could talk about. You
don't understand the aliens exist in the Predator universe. I've
never heard of such a cross This game truly was yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Literally I think for me this was probably also my
first crossover movie. And then I think the second one
was like I don't know, Freddy in Hell.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
If Freddie goes to Hell and at the end he
like pulls down, I mean that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I guess those are the two memories I have of like, oh, ship,
like something's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
So Harrigan kills the predator with its own like little weapon,
it's a frisbee weapon. And then a group of predators
who I guess have been like observing, appear and they
take their fellow predator's corpse back with them that put
it on the ship, and they give Harrigan like an
old Revolutionary War pistol.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As a good job, all right, shot you peace.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Next movie Alien Versus Predator two thousand and four of
the Year is A Year is two thousand and four.
Charles Whaland played by Lance Henrickson that you played Bishop,
the synthetic humanoid Bishop in Aliens and other roles which
we will get to in the Alien franchise, is the
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CEO of Whalen Industries, and he sends a crack team
of international scientists and mercenaries to a recently discovered pyramid
which is under the Antarctic ice. Now, the pyramid turns
out to be a predator like hunting temple, and it
turns out how they build it because they're the spacefaring
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highly advanced hunters. And it turns out they're just like
especially the predators. Now, it turns out the predators taught
human beings how to build pyramids because I guess people
couldn't like figure out the triangle shape like.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They were like they were like, this is a two complex?
What woo baby, I barely just got the wheel going.
I don't know what's going.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So predator culture apparently considers the xenomorph like the ultimate prey,
like like the most dangerous thing you can hunt. Right,
So every one hundred years, the predator contestants come to
Earth to hunt the xenomorphs specifically hatched from sacrificial human beings,
and this alien queen that they have like frozen in
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the pyramid. And this is like the predator version of
the Olympics, right, It's a big deal. And the scientists
and the mercenaries get all caught up in this competition
and they're like, we have to help the pre dators
win because the aliens if they overrun, you know, the predators,
they'll like wild on Earth and just kill everybody or
use them as you know, egg hatching incubators. The predators
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give Arctic guide Lex played by Snale than a spear
is a gift. And after this is after the predators
defeat the aliens, uh, they then get in the ship
with one of their fallen comrades named Scar and they
take off, and then soon after they take off, an
alien predator hybrid bursts from the dead predator's chest. Now
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you would after several centuries of dealing with these creatures,
that the predators would like x ray everybody that they
decide to take back.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
On with that, I feel like to make sure they
don't really think, yeah, let me know what these things.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Do, and you're still like, yeah, yeah, don't even check it.
Just bring it right on, just.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Put them on the shed. I definitely didn't get that.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Brings us to two thousand and sevens Alien Predator Requiem,
which occurs in the same year as Alien Versus Predator
thousand four, happens in fact immediately following the events. So
right after the Predators get in their ship and take
off to fly back to their home planet, the pred alien,
which is now hatched, it grows at a fantastic rate,
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as we often see that these creatures do, and immediately
fucking goes ham and it causes the Predator home ship
to crash into Gunnis in Colorado. Ah, yes, Gonnis in
Colorado's poor town doesn't know what it's in for. The
Xenomorphs then go fucking crazy and they start reproducing using
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humans as hosts. They're fucking going nuts. A Predator champion
back on the Predator home world, it gets the distress
signal and is like, fuck this, I'm going there alone.
He's like, if you want to jump and I'm going
to wipe out all the xenomorphs on Earth. Now things
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get really chaotic and crazy, so much so that the
military like immediately gets involved and they decide, we can't
we can't let this spread any further. Let's nuke Gunnison,
a thing you've seen in a million movie outbreak, the Blob,
et cetera. So, but I think it's actually like quite
a reasonable thing to do in this particular case.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Jason's like, in this case, then you go to do
I feel like I feel like they're.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They're not thinking about the fact that in the canon
of these kind of movies, if you nuke, some creature usually.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Just becomes giant.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So I would definitely be thinking of the Godzilla potentials
of the mutation.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But I still understand the intention.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's pretty like you must imagine like the president would
have had to have been briefed. Okay, mister President. So
what we've got is a parasitic alien race species that
is reproducing very quickly, and they are also being uh
fought by a humanoid alien race of hunters. Are you
(09:14):
getting this, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
To alien species you didn't know about until this.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
The military nukes Gunnison, killing the predator in the Xenomorphs.
The predator's gun is then gifted to miss Utani, who
does not have a first name in the movie, who
is the CEO of a Japanese cybernetics and robotics company,
the Utani Corporations. Now we have Whyland and Utani in
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the universe.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Dude, I have to say the movies that are essentially
like so derived.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Both these movies are dumb?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Should I to enjoy? Yeah? They are like so dumb,
It's so funny. How dedicated they have to say?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
They worked really hard, like can't casting Lands Hendrickson, Yeah,
you know, being like and they're.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Like, we're gonna make a cannon manly, you're gonna kid,
You're gonna care about this. People will be talking about this,
and it's like, people, these movies are.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So dumb, But I gotta they commit really hard to
every single movie having a twist ending that is somehow
connectionally in law.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
These reveals do have an interesting effect on the overall cannon,
which we will discuss as we get there. Next up
twenty twelve's Prometheus. The year is twenty eighty nine. Archaeologist
Elizabeth Shaw and her boyfriend Charlie discover that many ancient
human cultures have a very similar foundational myth that involves
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very tall aliens from a distant star system. And these
tall aliens are the engineers, who I guess so life
across the galaxy or something. Peter Whyland, who is very
very very very very old and about to die, like
any second, he's about to die, about to go. It's
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happening as his like video recording is being played to
this science team that he's put together. He's like, I'm
not by the time you watch this, I'm gone. So
heros an ambitious mission to a moon in that particular
star system that they matched to the cave paintings and
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different pieces of art from all those human cultures, and
so they're going to this moon called LVY two twenty
three because he thinks the engineers are there, and mister
Whalan wants the engineers to tell him how he can
like avoid dying.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Which is such a fucking come on, just asassin thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Like so many of the decisions in these movies are
so terrible, and it's really funny because once we you know,
we are doing this in fictional chronological order. So at
this point, by the time you get to Prometheus. The
movie is essentially like an MCU filled easter egg for
the previous alien movies that were released. But at this
point chronologically, you're just like, my friend, what are you doing,
(12:05):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Have to spend this much money.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I'm sure you could just find a side I mean
to hear this instead of going in the real world.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
PayPal founder Peter Thiel, you know, investor in tech and
all around right wing nut job, has It's been credibly
reported that he injects himself with like the human blood
of like young healthy people.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
They're doing crazy shits in the real world, So yeah, okay.
The journey take to LV two twenty three takes them
four years. They're in cryo sleep the whole time.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Cash.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
While they're in cryo sleep, they're watched over by David,
who is a synthetic uh humanoid that was designed by
mister Whyland. On LV two twenty three, the team finds
like a ton of artifacts from the engineers, including all
these jars of like black goo that turns out to
be a bio weapon.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
David takes like a drop played very creepily by Michael
Fastbat takes a drop of the.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Black goo, and he infects Charlie with it. Charlie then
has sex with Elizabeth and impregnates her unknowingly with this
very fast growing alien fetus, just as David wanted. She asks, yeah,
as it's growing, like she's in more and more physical distress,
and they do a scan and he's like says, very creepy,
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oh you've got this alien in you. And she's like, well,
let's get it out. He's like, well, we don't have
the stuff, we don't have any way to do that here, and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We yeah, yeah, yeah, bat, let's just see take you home. Okay,
seems like nothing.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Instead, Elizabeth breaks into Charlie's thron's cabin on the ship
and uses her advanced like medical machine of which only
a dozen were made, and she does like an abortion
on herself. Moving cz this like wriggling squid like Alien.
It's really gross, it's really great.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's super So can we just say you mentioned Shaly's
there on.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
This movie has like a wild cast Idris Elba, Charlie's
then Michael Fassbender, like wem Ridley Scott said he was
coming back, the original director of Alien.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Everyone was like, I'm jumping on that ship. Like, there's
some very.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Iconic images from this movie, like Idris Alba smoking a
Christmas tree that I feel actually have almost more longevity
than the movie.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It did inspire many important memes.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So we learned that LV two twenty three was an
engineer like bioweapon facility, they were making this bioweapon, and
that they had planned to release it on Earth. Non
canon sources, namely Ridley Scotty, directed this film says that
in his mind, they wanted to send the goo. They
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made the decision to send the good to Earth like
two thousand years ago, and it was because the humans
had killed their emissary, the engineer emissary that sent to
Earth to tell them to like chill out and stop
being so violent, and that was Jesus. So Jesus was
an engineer, but then he didn't really put it in
so that credible kind of like the under that's the
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subtext man. That's straight from Ridley scott The movie is
very heavily invested in the religious and God, and part
of the reason that Elizabeth even goes on it is
because she's religious and she wants to meet God.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
She wants to understand faith and where she comes from.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is incredible and I had no idea that was
part of the canon, So thank you for that one,
Redly Scott and Jason.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And now we mentioned that mister Oylan was like really
really old and about to die, and by the time
they land on LV tw twenty three, everbody thought he
was dead. But surprise, he's actually alive, and David goes
to get him from wherever he was. He was like
hiding in the in the ship the whole time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He had like a secret cabin, a secret at.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
A false bottom, like in a desk or something. So
they get him out and David, you know, goes with him,
and Charlie's then sorry, Meredith Vickers, I'll call him very
character name, and Elizabeth and I go to the engineership
and then David wakes up an engineer and he can
talk to them because he's been studying proto into a
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European this ancient language, and so he translates for mister
Whyland and basically says, hey, I know we just woke
you up, but like my boss wants to know how
he cannot die, And the engineer is like, you came
all the way here for this, and he goes crazy.
He rips David's head off. He's so passed off. He's like,
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he rips David's head off. He bashes mister Whyland in
the head with David's head and then you know it goes.
He tries to take off, but Elizabeth, you know, radios
to Adris Elba and is like, we need to crash
the ship or else, like he's gonna send the blackpoop
to Earth. The ship crashes. Now the engineer is like
(17:03):
chasing Elizabeth. It chases her through the human ship, where
all of a sudden, Elizabeth's xenomorph baby that looks like
now like a huge squid math subdues the engineer and
impregnates it, like puts its like egg overpositor into the
Engineer's mouth, which is like super super gross. Elizabeth then
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recovers David's head and body and is like, Hey, I
want to go to the engineer homeworld. I need answers.
I want to find out why they're going to wipe
out humanity with the black goo and will you take me?
And David's like, you know what, fuck it, let's do it.
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After this a xenomorph not a full alien as we
know from like alien and aliens, but like more kind
of like certainly one that looks like it's getting there.
It bursts out of the engine Year's chest and then
later off. This is kind of like this is not
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in the movie, but it's part of like the off
Cannon and other fictional materials. Whaland Industries goes bankrupt because
mister Whalen put all his money. They flopped back to
just Comedia's mission and it is then acquired by the
Utani Corporation, creating the Whaland Utani Corporation that brings us
too Alien Covenant. The year is twenty one oh four.
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The Whaland Utani ship Covenant, carrying several thousand space colonists,
is on its way to Oregie six. Walter and Advanced
Synth using the David format but with all of David's
like creative abilities that human beings found like really disconcerting
removed manages things during the long cryo sleep of the
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crew and all the colonists. But then tragedy strike. There's
this neutrino burst and Walter has to wake everybody up
to get them out of their tubes because the ship
is damaged. But Captain James Franco sadly dies in his
cryo tube.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Rip to that, captain, Rip to him.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now, the crew, while it's fixing the ship, gets a
distress signal from a nearby planet called planet four, and
the new captain, Captain Orum, is like, let's go investigate.
So they investigate and they find out that this distress signal,
which came in the form of take Me Home, Country
Roads by John Denver in Christ, is from a planet
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planet four that is like completely like earthlike it can
it's got like water. They could live there. And so
the whole crew is like, you know what, we just
saw the captain like get burned alive in his tube.
Nobody wants to get back on sleep for seven years?
What if this is the answer to all our problems?
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We just like do this, We just like stay here. Daniels,
who is James Franco's widow now and is the second command,
is like, wait, wait, wait, it seems a little too perfect,
doesn't it, Like why didn't we ever we do all
these scans, which is how we found six, But now
there's this closer planet and we never saw it and
it's like perfect, Like this doesn't seem any weird anybody
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and everybody's like shut up, no. So they go to
investigator and these are the dumbest fucking scientists ever. So
they go down to investigate this earth like planet and
they go with like literally no ppe, no helmets, no breathers,
nothing that we can just breath. Well, I guess they're
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just like sitting on stuff and touching things, and like
you don't see them drink the water, but they might
as well be because they're just like breathing the air.
They're raw dogging this fucking planet and shocking Goose because
what they get infected by like sports the black goo, right,
and of course they then become hosts for xeno morphs.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeh.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
By the way, we also see that this there's a
city here and it's full of like dead engineers. This
is like the engineer home World. So one of the
infected team members gets taken back aboard the ship the Covenant,
which is crazy. You just bring him back on he's
got he's sick with why.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Would you do it?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Every time they are not following. It's kind of a
theme like just keep him in quarantine. They were not prepared.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Whoever put together this team of colonists and they were
not prepared to be colonizrable.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The rest of the group like remains on the planet's
surface with another infected guy. They then get attacked by
the xeno morphs that were one of which was born
from the infected person. But then they're saved by David.
David's here Dun dun du. It turns out he's David
wiped out all the engineers by like dropping their black
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goo bombs on them, and he's spent all the time,
like whatever it is eleven years later or something, trying
to perfect the perfect because he loves making things.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
He just loves making you get some deeply wild moments.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I remember sitting in the movie theater in Long Beach,
where I believe I went with people from my old
comic shop that used to be on the waterfront at
Long Beach, and we went there and there is like
a five minute scene in this movie where one of
the Michael Fastbenders is like playing yeah and then they're
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like gonna kiss and like it is legitimately one of
the weirdest movies. Jason's Fantastic Recap has always is just
zooming through this, making it seem far more action packed
than it is.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
This is like such a weirdly.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Long, atmospheric like gothic movie, and the two Michael fastbenders
are just having the wildest part.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So David then kills Walter in the scene that Rosie
was just talking about. Yeah, the flute scene basically tricks
and like rips something out of his neck and fucking
drops him dead. But Walter is a significantly upgraded model
and he like fixes himself somehow off camera and comes
back and he takes out David Walter Daniels again. James
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Franco's widow then flee back to the Covenant ship. But
then it turns out that the xenomorph hatched out of
the sick guy that they brought into the fucking ship
is now loose on the ship. So David Daniels and
Danny McBride worked together to kill the alien. Hey, and
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as Daniels is being put back into cryo sleep by this.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Bit is actually genuinely terrifying and I still think about
how impact this and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Was fucking great. So Daniels has been put back into
cry sleep by Walter and she says, hey, will you
help me build my log cabin? Earlier in the movie
of building a log cabin and he doesn't get the reference,
and she realizes with horror that it's actually David, that's
not Walter, and she but she can't do anything now
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because the go to sleep gases are filling the tube,
and she goes to fucking sleep. David then throws up
to face huggers like in little plastic cash pill capsules,
puts them in the human embryo freezer, and then radio's
mission control back on Earth and says, hey, sorry, everybody died,
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and I'm trying to carry out the machine on my own.
We'll be back in just a moment after a word
from our friends at whalen Utani. Whalen Utani making the
galaxy better, and we're back. That brings us too.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Alien nineteen seventy nine's Alien, the movie that's started at
all here. The year is twenty one, twenty two. The
Wayland Utanni mining ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from
planet LV four twenty six. They go to investigate. They
find an alien ship. On the ship. There is a
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long dead engineer still in a jump seat with like
the trademark burst out of its chest. A face hugger
hatches and attaches itself to the face of one of
the crew members named Kane, who is then taken back
aboard the ship by the fucking Captain Dallas played by
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Tom Scarrett. I will say this is the most effective
like breaking quarantine scene because Ripley Ellen Ripley played by
Scourney Weaver, the hero of the film, is like, you don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's like hard no, she has the safety office, that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
She says, I'm not letting you in. You have to
be there for you have to stay in quarantine for
twenty four hours. But it's Ash the who then turns
out to be said with a human who, as we
will learn, has other motives, lets them aboard. Anyway. They
get a board, and it's horrific. You know, everybody's horrified
by this face ogre on Kane. But then eventually the
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face oger lets go and dies and everything seems fine, Yeah,
until they're all having a wonderful dinner before going back
and cry to sleep, and Kine is all of a
sudden in immense distressed, and that happens the xenomorph purse
out of his chest to general screen runs horrifying moment
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and certainly one of the most just an iconic cinema moment.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Honestly, yeah, this is still just like after watching all
these movies in this order, when you get here, the
practice fautful, the gorgeous set, the production designed by H. R. Geige,
you can just feel how tactile and terrifying it really
is compared to some of the more modern versions. And
this scene is still so iconic and so.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Said enough like this movie. Obviously there's some dated things
about it, but overall, seen the scene, just like looking
at them walking through hallways and stuff, it looks as
good as anything made today.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It looks absolutely Yeah, and it's also a movie about
like working classes.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, literally about work. It's about blue colors on.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
The ship, like it's about blue collar guys.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It's so interesting in so many different ways that you
know this many years last still feel really relevant and cool.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
So the Zenomore quickly grows to this to the size
of a very large human being, and it begins off
crewmembers one at a time, including the captain, who volunteers
himself to go like try and flush this thing out
of the air ducks because clearly he's feeling like shit
because this is all his fucking fault. Like he broke
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cort me.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Just listened.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now, Ripley discovers that Ash, the science officer, plans to
return to Earth with the Xenomorph and had in fact
been kind of directed to steer them towards this distress signal.
And because the company Wail and Utani that they all
work for, really, really, really wants this xenomorph ip for
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like their weapons divisions or like their healthcare division, for
all sorts of divisions that they have under their banner,
it really.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Is a killing machine. And also, I want to say this.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Is leads to another one of the most terrifying scenes
when Ash attacks Ripley.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It's so simple, but I remember being so disconcerted. First
of all, I saw this scene. I was not allowed
to watch the movie. I was probably like five, and
my parents had it on VHS and they were watching it,
and I watched it from the top of the stairs.
I watched the whole fucking thing. This scene really bothered
me because there's something so weird about the way he tries,
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like he rolls up a magazine and tries to stuff
it in her mouth. And to this day, I've never
seen somebody try to kill somebody like that. And it
really just really bothered me. The imagery was so disturbing. Anyway,
Ash tries to kill Ripley, but then is stopped by
the surviving crew members, and we discover that Ashes this
synthetic human with like milky blood.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh so creepy.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Eventually it gets down to just Ripley because the alien
kills all these crew members. She and the ship Cat.
Jones said, the stromo is self destuck, and they get
on a lifeboat and they launch and the stromo explodes
and everything's fucking fine. No, it's not because the alien
is hiding on the lifeboat. They're really smart, these aliens.
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Ripley gets into a spacesuit, she opens the airlock, shoots
the alien in the chest with a harpoon, sending it
out of the airlock, and then when it tries to
to crawl back onto the hull of the ship, it
ends up like inside one of the engines of the ship,
and she hits the thruster and it burns up, and
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then she goes in a cry of sleep with Jones
and everything is happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Right, of course, no problems. She escaped with the cat.
That's all she needed.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
That brings us to coming to a theater near you. Romulus,
set between the events of Alien and the next movie
in the series, Aliens from nineteen eighty Aliens, Now Aliens
takes place in the year twenty one to seventy nine.
Ripley has been asleep for fifty seven years when she
is discovered by a salvage ship. She returns to Earth,
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but all hope of like restarting like a normal life
are scuttled because her credit score is absolutely fucking shit
housed because Waylan Utani considers her financially liable unbelievable for
the destruction of the now Trauma, which she had to do.
And she tries to tell them, well, there's this fucking alien,
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there's a cenomorph. It killed the whole crew and the
like shot whatever. We've never heard of anything like that. Meanwhile,
we know, yeah, what are you talking about? Utani company,
And separately, both the Whyland and you Tani sides of
the company have been aware, well aware of the existence
of xenomorph saying no since that twentieth century, they've known
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about it.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been trying to make one.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Also, I just want to say, you know, this is
a huge change from Ridley Scott, the original director. Now
you've got James Cameron. That's two of the biggest directors
of all time. But I love that James Cameron respected
that this needed to at least begin by being a
movie about a blue collar worker getting sucked over by
a corporation. He was like, that part is really important,
even if the rest of the movie is going to
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be totally different.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I just need people to know I remember that that
is what made that movies.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And I got to say, you gotta love James Cameron
for the Avatar movies before this complete CG revolution that
he undertook, because here's another movie with the production design,
the practical effects, the sets that looks so tactile and
real and lived in and it looks again, it looks
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as good as any movie that will come out like
it just looks fucking great. Anyway, When Wayland loses contact
with their colony Hadley's Hope on LV four twenty six.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Why did they stuck Callingy that guy?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Well, I think they knew it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I think they did that.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Honestly, I think they did this. They did so they
strong armed Ripley into going back because she's the only
person with experience with Xenomorphson. She's like, you'll be a consultant,
and by the way, you'll be completely safe because we're
sending you with a squad of heavily armed colonial marines.
These these men and women are fucking bad ass. They're
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so buff and they go they're fucking professions.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
There's nothing that can happen to them.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
They've kill, kill, kill, and there's nobody better galaxy than them. Well,
yes there is, because as soon as they land, the
aliens wipe out the fucking marines like quick, like ten minutes.
There's only a handful of marines and this thrust Ripley,
a surviving colonist, this little girl named Nude, and a
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rag tag James collection of marines and one company hack
named Carter Burke into a struggle to survive. They come
up with a plan to nuke the There's just like,
let's get back on our ship.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And fucking nuke it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Like what you know.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Now, Company Hack Burke disagrees in Gunnisan, Company hack Burke
is like, now, hold on. This installation holds a significant
dollar value to the stockholders, not to mention the potential
gains to be made from the alien ip They're like,
shut the fuck up, bitch, shut up where nuked.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
They're like, this is the problem. This is where the
problem comes from. You're not taking an alien home. It's
not Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Again, it must be said they've been trying to take
an alien back to Earth for like one hundred years
at this point anyway, So they ignore him and they
proceed with nuke from orbit plan, which requires them to
escape back to their ship. But the aliens fucking go crazy.
They kill company Hack, Carter Burke, and a bunch of others.
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Ripley eventually escapes with Newt and a Bishop the new
Synth played by Lance Henrickson, who you know Ripley has
been struggling to kind of trust up until this time. Yeah,
they get back on board their ship and they are
gonna nuke it from orbit. But then guess what. It
turns out that the alien queen who Ripley had previously
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burned up all the eggs, all the alien and face
hugger eggs in front of the queen. It made the
queen super angry. Now she's so pissed she attached herself
to their jump ship and like was hiding in the
wheel well and now she appears. She tears Bishop in half,
but then Ripley in one of the most iconic scenes
in movies. Yeah, legendary scene, puts on a loader suit
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basically a mech suit and beats the shit out of
the queen get away.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Ye bitch, how you bitch? Also just need to say, like,
the Queen design is so sick.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
It's really hard to come from a movie like Alien
where you have someone's literal nightmares. In hl Gey Goot
coming to life as the x Anomorph, it shocked people.
We had no idea of what an alien could look
like before that. Before it had always been the you know,
the the Gray Men kind of trope. And then to
have to find a new way to scare people in
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the new movie is so well done. Even though this
is definitely more of an action than a sci fi horror,
I do think the Queen design goes.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Down as like one of the most badass designs.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And it must be said Cameron has created two of
the greatest sequels of all time T two and Aliens. Ever,
you know, it's like Godfather too of T two Aliens,
that's like the triumvirate of the greatest sequels of all time,
and James Cameron has made two of them. So Ripley
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Jettison's the queen out into space. She puts Hicks into
cryo sleep, she puts Nude into cryosleep, she puts herself
into cryo sleep. And they won. That's it, that's it,
we've won.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We're going back to the problems. She's got a nice
little baby when everything would do that. She's a kid
like nude.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
That brings us to Alien three from nineteen ninety two.
The year is twenty one seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Dun Dun Dum.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
After a fire aboard the marine intergalactic ship causes the
lifeboat to be launched, which contains the cryo tubes of Hicks, Ripley, Newt,
and Bishop. The lifeboat then crashes on a prison planet
inhabited by all male inmates. Only Ripley survives no scratch.
(37:16):
That a face hugger, a face that was aboard the
ship also survives. The face hugger then hug wild one
of the inmates dogs, and the dog quickly gives birth
to a really bad looking xenomorph Alien hybrid.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, really ugly dog xenom of hybrid.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Okay, I just want to stop us that because in
one of the original scripts this movie was written like
four or five times before it was made.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It was originally going to be a cow instead of
a dog, which I would have loved to see.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Also, this movie is one of my favorite almost movie scripts,
which was the original Alien three script was that it
was going to be set on a planet of monks,
and the planet was entirely wooden, and inside the wooden
planet were all these tunnels, and you kind of get
to see a little instead of monkst you get the
prisoners who are religious fanatics, and you get some of
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those tunnels still going through the prison planet. But it's
not in any way as wild as that would have been.
This movie had true production hell it went.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Through And this is David Fincher's feature film debut. David
Fincher was by this time a very accomplished music video
and commercial director, some really like iconic music videos for
Madonna and many many other notables, and you did a
lot of ad campaigns for like Levi's Nike, et cetera.
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But this is his first movie and he has since
he disowned the movie.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yes all three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
He doesn't like the work print, he doesn't like the
theatrical print. He doesn't like the special edition, he said,
not for me. I find that also, this movie really
feels like it was heavily influenced by like a French
cinema at the time, like The City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
You Have Lost Children, kind of like the breakout film
of the director who directed Alien Resurrection in the next film.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, and it really feels to me like this was
influenced I agree with you by that by Delicatessen.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
It has this kind of weird it's incredibly.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Monotone like the Yeah, it has like these monotone kind
of like and it's very slow compared to you know, Aliens.
And yes, the Dog's animal hybrid is notoriously bad in
this and it actually has there's a very famous scene
with it's just Hans and some black leather gloves and
they just come down on the screen and everyone's like,
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no human acts.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
CG for it. And this is nineteen ninety two, and
you know, by this point it's like the state of
the art for this kind of CG was again probably
T two And what's the James catn.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Which, by the way was also at the time the
most expensive.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Underwater Oh, the Abyss so you know, at this time,
the state of the art for this kind of effects
was probably like T two and The Abyss, both by
James Cameron. By the way, the Dog.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Alian Dog alias Let's go with them were.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
They gave it this kind of green machen which I
think what they were intending to do was to make
it stand out from these very gray Stone Hallway backgrounds
and stand out from the shadows. But the issue is
it made it look completely not realistic to the way
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light works.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, in any way, so it just looks really anyway,
I will say as well.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Another interesting thing I learned because I watched this on
laser disc, so I was like, oh, maybe the laser
disc version is a different cut, because I've seen many
different cuts of the first Alien movie because there were
just so many. No, But what I did learn is
that how they did the CG on this so they
could see what it looked like was they would take
a laser disc version of the dailies and.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Then overlay the cig on top of the movie see
what it would look like. Yeah, that's how they were
making it. So laser disk actually very important part and
making of this movie.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
But yeah, it does look like the CG was done
with laser disc so that did not actually surprise me.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Ripley forms a bond with Clemmens. The prison doctor played
by Charles Dance aka Tywon.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Lanister Taiwan Lannie.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Dog alien goes on a fucking hot streak like killing Spury,
it's just killing. He kills the warden while the warden
is giving kills the warden while the warden is giving
like a speech about how no one should be worried
about like the people who have been dying recently in
any rumor that there's like a dragon running around the
killing people's nature. The dog alien like reaches down from
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the fucking ceiling and cling and just like choose him up.
But it doesn't kill Ripley because guess why, huh, oh man,
I wonder why it could be with an alien The
face hugger got her in the oh man so and
so remember it bummed out about this and she's like, well,
I'm gonna kill myself. I want to die. And the
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inmates are like, no more, you die. You have to
help us beat this thing because you've one. You've done
it twice. Now we can't. We need you, We need
your help, you say, and then you can kill yourself.
And she's like okay. So that she comes up with
a plan to like lure it, because they have no
weapons on this prison facility, lure it into it like
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a furnace facility that they have where they can dump
like molten metal on it and kill it. And so
they managed to do that. They dumped the molten metal
on it, and then just like Terminator Too, they like
spray it with water which has this like rapid temperature
shift and it it like shatters. Okay again, just you
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think this must be one of the things that bothers.
Fincher too is like, but they did. They did it
in Terminator too, and then we're doing it at the
end of the MOE. So then Ripley is about to
jump in a furnace mission accomplished. She wants wants to
kill this turns out she's an alien queen in her chest.
But then a whaling Utani rescue team arrives, led by
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mister Bishop, the human creator of Bishop the Synth. He's
Hendrick is back and there and whaling Utani must be thinking, finally,
this is it. We've got it, We've it actually did
w it's we've been trying to do this for two
hundred years, and now we finally got a human with
a with the aliens, and it's an alien queen. We
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got to get this thing back to Earth. But it
doesn't work. And even though mister Bishop is very very
I might have been persuaded by mister Bishop, he really
puts the charm on. He's like, Ripley, what are you?
Don't you want to go home? It's gonna be great.
You think we could great part of the whalen Utani.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Family, Like, don't do that, And she's like, well, my
adopted door is dead and I'm pregnant with the alien baby, so.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I'm just gonna jump into this CG molten metal like.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Jumps into the CG molten metal just like Jesus Christ,
just as the alien queen burst out of her chest
like and she's like, ye like a baby, and they hit,
they hit the metal and they burn up, and that's it. Happily.
Ever after that's it.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
We just have to take a break to go and
insert the alien eggs into our human sacrifices so we
can have xenomorphs ready for you after this message.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Finally, Ripley is free from the aliens, nothing else could happen.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Alien Resurrection nineteen ninety seven. It's been two hundred years.
Directed by Jean Pierre Jeunette.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
I still haven't done it. They still haven't.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Directed by French weirdo Jean Pierre Jeanne of Omily fame
and the.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
City of City of Lost Children, City of Lost Children.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Super weird, really fun movie. I'm not sure he was
the correct choice for this film, but regardless, Rail and
Utani scientists aborder ship named the Ariga clone Ripley from
a blood sample and they combine it with xenomorphine Clone
Ripley and then grows up to like adult Ripley in
a very short period of time, because you know how
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the aliens do that, They just grow up and Clone
Ripley yeah, super strong, has acid blood and also has
a very weird psychic link to the aliens. And also
because I guess the xenomorphs have like a genetic memory,
they chair the memory of like other I don't know
how it works, but whatever, Ripley also somehow she has
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memories of herself, but they're from the perspective of the
aliens that like fought her wild so are the aliens psychic? Like,
how do they get the memory is?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
I think maybe it's like a hive mind.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
This is very venerable.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
They all are experience, very very very this is the
next video, I say, how Alien Resurrection shaped.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Okay, So mercenaries arrive on the Arega. They're here to
deliver prisoners that are going to be used as incubators
for the alien eggs for to create more aliens. Annelie
Call played by Winona Ryder, decides like, Hey, this is
a really fucked up thing that's happening here. They're using
humans to get they're using aliens. And also the aliens
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are like a super weapon and if they get out,
it would be really crazy. We can't let this happen.
But of course, eventually the aliens escape from where they're
being research and actually this way, I thought, this is
kind of like my favorite part of the movie is like,
so they've got these two aliens, they were running tests
on them, and then the aliens can't get out because
like every time they approach the glass or approach the walls,
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like they get shot with this like very very cold
like gas. And so one of the aliens. The aliens
are really smart guys, how often do we have to
say it? They're like, wait a second, we have acid blood,
and they one of the aliens kills the other one
who just like lets itself get killed, and the blood
builts the floor and then it jumps through the floor
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and gets out into the of the facility. Now we
should mention again, whalen u Tani has been researching these
aliens for two centuries.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
They know about acid blood. I feel like it should
be like having a guy the acid blood melted.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Guys, you know about the acid blood, really, you definitely know. Anyway,
a queen alien containing some of Ripley's human DNA gives
birth human like birth because it has like a uterus
like a human to a almost funny looking human alien
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hundred that looks like Rosie.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Do you agree with me on this looks like Pumpkinhead.
I do agree Pumpkinhead from the titular villain from Pumpkinhead,
the film, which also stars alien star Dun Dunn Lance Henrickson.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
He's back.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
He's connected six degrees of Lance Emrickson in the alien universe.
It does look like Pumpkinhead. They did not deliver the
new cool Alien design when it came to that little guy. Also,
I feel like maybe this is one of those like
weird social Internet constructs, but I swear to God, Like
when I was a kid, I thought when Ona Ryder
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was like her door or something in this movie, or
her or something, And then when I rewatched it, I
was like, that is definitely so like if you get
fire five vibes from the Mercenaries and from like the design.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
That might be because Joss Whedon wrote this terrible fucking
script this movie. It's so bad, but it's the worst
looking of the Alien movies by far.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
At least Alien three.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Every few years with Alien three, hence why I own
it on bloomin laser disc that I just bought recently
from a meeba in la It's like every few years
I reconsider it because there's it's like a visual, there's
a visual, a choice that David Fincher made. It's very strange,
it's very dreary, it's slow burn. It has this weird
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religious kind of subtext to it. But it is, I
have to say, sadly, quite a boring movie. But at
least it has vibes. Alien four Resurrection does not have
vibes and does not live up to a movie that
has both Gorney Weaver, and.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
It looks sadly like a very cheap film. It does
not look expensive or good at all. It does have
what I consider to be one of the most iconic
basketball scenes in movies in which the Mercenaries.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
This is the Mercenaries encounter with the cat super Ripley.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
So super Ripley again, remember has the alien DNA, and
she's like practicing basketball and her game is like Peau
Charles Barkley, Like she just like drives to the hoop
of dunks, that's what. And then of course there's this
really amazing shot where she's like walking away from the
basket and she shoots a basket over her head and
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it goes in and she actually made that shot. That's
like the take that's in the ideas for actually.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Making the shot is so good you can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
It's like that Catwoman scene with Michelle Pipa where she
gets all the heads off with the whips. It's one
of those things where it just becomes a legendary scene
that you never believe was done without cg And yeah,
it was Sigourney Weave. I continue, you can go queen,
I'm the queen.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Go on YouTube and see like the outtake. It's not
an outtake, it's Ron Perlman like reacts the way any
person would react to that by just going, oh my god.
And he thought for a second that he had ruined
the take because he says it like right after it
goes in, But there was enough space there for them
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to like cut anyway, go watch it on YouTube. It's
really funny.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
It's cool.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
So Ripley manages to launch the alien queen into space
by melting a window with her acid blood.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Of course, again Acid.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
Thought about, like, we gotta ask improve this entire facility.
The mercenaries and Ripley escaped the Orega, which crashes into Earth.
Oh but it does explode, so maybe like all the
aliens and alien research are fine. And then the mercenaries
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are like, where should we go? And then Ripley is like,
you know, I don't know. I'm like two weeks old. Yeah,
I don't, like, I don't know anything, and then the
movie's over. The movie is so fucking dumb. It's so dumb,
and that brings us to the chronological end of the
alien universe. As we know it now again. Alien Romulus
(52:29):
coming to theaters near you soon coming takes place between
Alienen and Alienens, So that'll be very interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Yes, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
And it's Fetti Alvarez, who's like a don't Breathe the
Evil Dad remake. That man knows how to make a
scary movie. So I'm excited to see what happens.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
One question I have for you that I think is,
listen this to your point, they did do a surprising
amount of like lore building in this and specifically in
like the Alien versus President, really wild. Yeah, the overall
like world building is quite spotty. Like there's a lot
of un answered questions, and there's a lot of things
that don't line up. And here's one of my biggest ones,
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and we don't really ever get the answer. Why were
the engineers gonna wipe out Earth other than the Jesus?
Speaker 3 (53:16):
Other than Jesus.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Well, I do think you make a good point. I'm
sure that Ridley Scott was planning to make the Jesus
think canon for some reason. These old directors from this
error of Action, they love Jesus.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Poor Verhoven's the same, he loves Jesus.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
If you watch his very entertaining lesbian nonsplitation movie Benedetta.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
It's about like a nun.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
In eighteenth Centuary Rome, you know, who begins having these visions.
But when she has visions of Jesus, she's having visions
of like Hunky like Action Star honest Watch, Neega Jesus.
It's like some of the most outrageous stuff. I don't
know why they love Jesus, but why were they gonna
wipe us out? Probably, you know, some kind of like
Godzilla esque. The engineers saw that we were destroying the Earth,
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and they decided the best thing to do, or they
wanted to terraform Earth and take it over and use
it as a breeding ground for these aliens, which would
become like weapons if they wanted to take over other planets.
But I think Prometheus kind of messes us up because
Prometheus adds in the lore of like they are the creators,
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they are where the god mythology comes from. So then
that takes on a lot of a heavier weight of
kind of why they would want to destroy us.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
I guess part of me wonders so that you find
out that the planet that they go to in Prometheus,
like or at least, the supposition from our science friends
in the story is that this is like a bioweapons facility,
so maybe like, yeah, maybe it's like the two ingredients
of the weapon, like Earth is where the incubators are human,
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they have the actual weapons stuff. Honestly, that would be
the smartest way to do it, seeing how Ireland this yeah,
these this weapon is is to like have them separate
and then combine them later at some other place somewhere.
Would they be fighting? Yeah, why would they need this weapon?
I guess that's the other thing, Like who were they
scared of? Like the predators, But like the predators don't
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really feel like that's big a threat, not really a
formidable threat killing one engineer, Like the engineers could just
like step on or like kill like one engineers like
big fucking deal.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Yeah. Also as well, the predators, I feel like they're
always just willing to like team up with someone thanks
to the later law. So I feel like the energy
engineers could have just been like, let's not be beefing, bro, Like,
let's just be cool. I won't make a bioweapon to
kill you if you just chill out a bit. But
you know what, that's the interesting thing. I've been thinking
a lot about prequels because of House the Dragon, which
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I believe is currently up there for me for like
one of the greatest prequels that we've ever gotten, the
way that the TV series decided to adapt Fire and Blood.
And actually, like, prequels are so complex because you do
start to build in all this law that was never
intended in the original films, you know, so with Alien
versus Predator, in these movies that are so far away
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from really being connected to like the original Alien, but
because they start technically before you are watching a prequel,
and if you're a nerd like us, you can't help
connecting those things together. So you do start asking these
questions about how these things all connect. And I do
still think with Alien and Predator now both under the
(56:33):
Disney banner after the twentieth Century Fox acquisition, I do
think that we will probably get another Alien Predator movie
in our time that is more concerned with the Ridley
Scott style law, because it's just such an enjoyable matchup.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
But you make a good.
Speaker 1 (56:50):
Point that really, in general, the Predators, I think the
reason they focus on humans is because they're not actually
that good peoples like they could go to the engineers,
but in that they're like, oh, I'll just see what
happens if I kill a human, Like, I'm.
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Sure that's so far? Are they like the predators trophies
that they give like humans? It's always like a flintlock pistol,
a spirit? Can I get something from elsewhere in the
get like give me an alien weapon?
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Yeah? Could I have?
Speaker 4 (57:17):
I mean yeah, like, could you get something like a
gun or something? This is what I could fucking go
to a museum.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
But no, they dude, they don't want to give it
to you because then you could kill them because they're
not that good they're gonna give you Like they're like,
make sure you give them up and that's at least
one hundred and fifty years old, or he might be
able to take us out.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
See well, Alien Romulus comes out August sixteenth. Will be
covering that movie.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Stay tuned, os Enamo if we continues tomorrow when I'm
joined by super producer comment to that about a time
before Rickley, Whilon Utani, and David.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
The origins of the Alien franchise.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
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